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Seth MacFarlane’s Scientific Influences | StarTalk


Seth I called you into my office yes I I
gotta talk if you want me to help you
clean up
I read really nothing office I got it at
some point I had to find you and talk to
you about the science and Family Guy
yeah yeah you just have to watch a few
shows and it’s in there it’s in there
deep when I was a kid I was you know I
was I was in a church choir I went to
Sunday school and I went to a regular
school and you know my parents believed
in exposing me to everything and letting
me figure it out for myself and
eventually I said oh well these guys are
you know making these assertions and
these guys are making these assertions
but these guys are backing it up with
something these guys are offering
evidence and so that seems a little more
trustworthy
um and and so I was kind of drawn to to
to science because it seemed that if you
arrived they’re derived from your own
curiosity yeah yeah interesting I
actually wasn’t a great science student
mm-hmm school I think you don’t it’s not
that you don’t have to be you just have
to enjoy it yeah whether or not you’re
good at it and people try to equate the
two but I don’t think that’s a
prerequisite yeah it’s it’s and then you
know obviously I discovered the original
cosmos and Carl Sagan and uh and at the
time you saw the original cosmos do you
have any idea that you would one day be
executive producer on the next cosmos
didn’t didn’t occur to me didn’t occur
with me it was was not something that
ever crossed my mind during your early
flatulence humor with Peter Griffin
you’re not thinking I’m gonna executive
produce cosmos one day yeah I was
wonderful yeah so Seth MacFarlane so he
created Family Guy which started as like
a college project that wrote on with
School of Design and also he’s the
creator of Ted one and two and many
people don’t otherwise know or is hard
for them to imagine that he was
co-executive producer of cosmos it’s 1/2
base x ii yes what Seth was saying
there’s just a perfect example of how we
should approach life and knowledge in
general fart jokes berkemer jokes
there is a scientific paper written by
someone for you to
in Michigan that claims that farts make
everything funnier well Jules was
another nurse
I was with how did you and by the way
that’s wrong okay I’ve been to dinner
with some people yeah well but look Seth
as he described in that understands the
difference between scientific and
non-scientific knowledge because he was
exposed to it and he uses it all both
the scientific part and the
non-scientific
artistic part it’s the best way to live
life
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