2025-07-31
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Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
And I'm Robin Ince, and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage.
Now, Douglas Adams has been a great influence on many of us,
and in fact, for instance, you'll rarely find Brian without a towel.
He always has a towel, sometimes little more, as subscribers of his OnlyFans site will know.
Quantums, quarks, quips, and sometimes nips.
You didn't go for the obvious pun, then.
No, originally I was going to say OnlyFansite,
where he answers the most difficult questions about physics, and it's known as hard...
But anyway, so the...
The art of flying is one of my favourite Douglas Adams philosophy.
The art of flying is throwing yourself to the ground and missing.
The ship's hung in the sky in much the same way as bricks don't.
And most importantly, it is a mistake to believe you can solve any problem just... with potatoes.
But tonight we're asking, is that really a mistake?
Finally, at episode 204, we deal with the potato.
More specific, the science of the potato.
Well, they'll know it's going to be there.
We don't.