Season 5 Time Capsule (Part 1)

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🗓️ 28 December 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As Season 5 draws to a close, join astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in looking back at the brightest moments of a year brimming with science, comedy, urban legends, the COSMOS and even God.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.8	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.4	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.1	Welcome to Star Talk Radio, a Neil deGrasse Tyson, your host.
0:18.8	I'm an astrophysicist and director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium.
0:22.6	The following show is our annual time capsule, a collection from our fifth season selected
0:28.2	by you, our audience, as your favorite shows of the year.
0:31.9	First up, a conversation that won and only Seth McFarland.
0:36.4	In addition to being the writer and director of the hit TV series Family Guy and of the
0:40.9	movie Ted, he was an executive producer for Cosmos, a space-time Odyssey.
0:47.3	The continuation of the original journey begun by Carl Sagan back in 1980, and which I had
0:52.8	the privilege of hosting this time around.
0:57.2	Do you remember when we met?
0:58.7	It was at that seafood.
0:59.7	Well, we met at the...
1:00.7	That's when we discussed Cosmos.
1:02.7	But we met at the Science and Entertainment Exchange.
1:05.9	Now, evidence that there's a science thread running through Family Guy is that you're
1:11.2	like a founding advisor to the Science and Entertainment Exchange.
1:15.7	This is crazy.
1:16.7	Which one makes crazy good?
1:17.7	It's an honorary title of sorts, but...
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