When exactly the world will end has been prophesied again and again for centuries.
When things are not when things are anxiety-producing then apparently we go watch disaster films.
It’s a new dual structure.
And more of an optimistic take on it.
It’s all optimism with science.
Seth is the guy who said conservative media are successful.
Everybody watches conservative media because they scare people.
We got to scare people.
That was Seth MacFarlane’s vision, so we’re scaring people in the first half hour.
Well, I’m not joking that they’re all grim, just some disclosure.
At the end of the first half hour in each of the six episodes, I get killed …
Somehow I come back, and there we are.
The one that really has me thinking is the coronal mass ejection.
This is a solar flare.
All the electricity in the world would shut down.
We had a big one of these events you probably don’t remember in 1859: the Carrington Event.
[In] 1859, we had hardly any electrical infrastructure, some telegraph lines running here and there.
Now, there are so many wires running everywhere all the time.
No more refrigeration, no more cars, no more virtual movie interviews.
It would be a drag really fast.
One of the big topics that you’ve discussed over the last few years is climate change.
Is that what is going to be seen throughout the whole series?
The first episode is about this scenario, which apparently is mathematically possible.
That would be a disaster related to climate change.
The corona mass ejection or the comet impact aren’t climate change.
We’ve got to avoid that, people.
Turn it up loud!
You’re down in the mud, and you’re being almost blown away in a scene.
Was there something that was the most challenging to work on while making “The End is Nye”?
Running around in the rain is kind of fun.
I got blown over onto some wrestling mats, but that was no big deal.
The only thing that went wrong is in the open.
I pulled a muscle in my leg.
Oh, the humanity.
Did I get my head blown off in Ukraine?
Wah, wah, wah.
But no bring those things on.
You want me to jump off the building?
Looking back at the course of your career, what’s been your proudest achievement so far?
You’re a productive member of society.
That’s pretty cool.
It’s amazing to me.
We did the show in a warehouse in Seattle, the 13th television market.
They had excellent senses of humor.
That’s pretty cool.
What’s been your most memorable or meaningful fan encounter that you’ve had?
There have been many, but it’s when people say, “I became a doctor.”
Hardly any women in engineering.
Now there are many.
Where I went to school, Cornell University, I was there for my 45th reunion …
These students are taking this forklift apart.
With mechanical engineers, a forklift is the greatest thing.
It’s got motors and belts and chains and the weight balance and the steering in the back.
It’s fabulous … Racks and pinions, and oh, my goodness.
That never used to be the case when I was in school.
That’s our objective now.
What have you not done yet that you would like to achieve still?
There’s a movie I want to make a real theatrical release movie.
You have to have a screenplay, or they give you a ticket.
That’s a joke, everybody!
[Laughs] But where I live, everybody has a screenplay.
I have a screenplay about Nathaniel Bowditch, who was born in Massachusetts before the U.S. was the U.S.
He found a new way to compute your longitude without a clock, using the moon.
It’s a cool story, and I want to make a movie about it, since you asked.
I don’t know the details of that story.
I’d love to see it.
Well, that’s why we got to make this movie.
This interview was edited for clarity.
