A Conversation with Seth MacFarlane

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🗓️ 8 June 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week, Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Seth MacFarlane, the brains behind Family Guy, A Million Ways to Die in the West and an executive producer of COSMOS on FOX.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:21.9	Welcome to Star Talk Radio.
0:22.9	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:25.7	I'm an astrophysicist and director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium.
0:29.8	I'm the American Museum of Natural History.
0:32.1	You're all invited.
0:34.1	Our show today features an interview with Seth McFarlane.
0:37.8	Many of you know him as the creator and voice town for the Fox animated series Family Guy.
0:43.4	He's also the co-creator of the TV show's American Dad and the Cleveland Show.
0:48.3	And in recent years, he's turned his skills to movies, co-writing and directing the hit
0:53.3	2012 film Ted.
0:55.3	He also wrote directed and starred in his latest movie, a comedy western called A Million
0:59.9	Ways to Die in the West.
1:02.4	But my connection to Seth comes from the TV series Cosmos, which I hosted.
1:08.6	And will he or later in the broadcast that he's an executive producer of the series and
1:12.8	was instrumental in bringing the show to Fox Television.
1:16.8	But in this first part of the interview, I spoke to Seth about Family Guy.
1:20.9	For those who haven't watched the series, it's centered on a family.
1:24.4	Vince, Peter and Lewis, their children, Meg, Chris and Stewie and their pet dog, Brian.
1:30.7	The cartoon originally premiered on Fox in 1999, but was canceled in 2002.
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