Cormac McCarthy and Werner Herzog on Science Friday (In Case You Missed It (Like We Did))

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Cormac McCarthy and Werner Herzog, along with physicist Lawrence Krauss on NPR’s Science Friday with Ira Flatow, in case you missed it. Which I did.

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4 thoughts on “Cormac McCarthy and Werner Herzog on Science Friday (In Case You Missed It (Like We Did))”

  1. This was one of those moments that I found hard to believe. When I recieved word of this program, i figured my friend was a mistaken. Cormac McCarthy doesn’t do stuff, let alone hang in a room with Werner Herzog and talk science. I’d love to hear Cormac speak more often, his controlled demeanor and laid back tone has a thunderous intelligence about it. His deflections of complements of his own work onto Laurnce Krauss was interesting. The idea of him working with Krauss, only if he gets rid of all those exclamation points, was an amusing one. Eat it punctuation.

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    1. Yeah, I was kind of amazed too! It was also weird for me to see this, because I listen to at least some of Science Friday at least 2 or 3 weeks of a month, so I was flabbergasted that I missed this. I’d read before that McCarthy is deeply interested in science (particularly geology) and that he is close friends with scientists, so this kind of made sense.
      Also, Herzog should do The Orchard Keeper!

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      1. “…I was interested in science, at that time…. particularly physics” McCarthy’s delivery of that line seemed to imply for a moment that he was no longer interested science. Like he had mastered that realm and moved to another. His interest in either physics or geology doesn’t shock me, just the fact he came out of his vast library to discuss prehistoric art aesthetics. His display of intellect on the program was comparable to The Judge’s musings on science in Blood Meridian, except I wasn’t terrified or feared to cross paths with McCarthy….Can’t comment on Orchard Keeper, since I’ve yet to read it. But Herzog could direct a “real house wives of where ever” documentary and I’d watch it.

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