A COSMOS Conversation with Ann Druyan

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🗓️ 15 August 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Go behind the scenes of the Emmy® Award-winning science show COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey when Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews its creator, writer and executive producer Ann Druyan. Read more and listen to the full podcast at http://www.startalkradio.net/show/a-cosmos-conversation-with-ann-druyan/

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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.
0:22.0	Welcome to Star Talk Radio.
0:23.3	I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:26.6	My day job is as director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
0:31.6	Today, we'll be listening to my interview with Anne Drian.
0:36.0	She was Carl Sagan's wife and collaborator on many of his works and projects, including
0:40.8	the original cosmos.
0:43.0	She's also co-writer, director, and executive producer, and by many people's measure the
0:48.2	soul of the new Cosmos series that's Cosmos a space-time odyssey, that I have the privilege
0:54.4	of serving as host and narrator.
0:57.2	In this first interview clip, Anne tells me about her background and how she first met
1:01.7	Carl Sagan.
1:03.9	I was a college drop-up, something of which I used to be ashamed of, and now I feel tremendous
1:10.4	pride.
1:11.4	The awesomeness people in the world were college drop-outs.
1:13.2	There's a growing list of the Bill Gates and the two jobs and the girls.
1:17.6	Michael Dell.
1:18.6	Are they all on the tech world or are there other people?
1:21.0	Oh, maybe they're all tech people.
1:22.5	Yeah.
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