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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Brian Cox and Robin Ince preview the new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, which includes a fascinating episode about eels!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | Hello, I'm Kimberly Wilson. I'm a psychologist, and in my new podcast, Complex, I'll be your guide |
| 0:14.4 | through all the information and misinformation that's out there about mental health. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm joined by expert guests covering topics |
| 0:21.8 | from people pleasing to perfectionism, |
| 0:24.2 | burnout to empathy, |
| 0:25.9 | to find tangible advice |
| 0:27.3 | so we can understand ourselves a little better. |
| 0:30.5 | Complex with me, Kimberly Wilson. |
| 0:33.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox, and with Robin Ince on the new series of Infinite Monkey Cage, |
| 0:41.8 | we're going to be talking about eels. |
| 0:43.9 | We're going to be talking about other things, though, aren't we? |
| 0:45.4 | Not just eels? |
| 0:46.2 | Primarily eels. |
| 0:47.4 | No, we're not. |
| 0:48.1 | We're talking about brain computer interfaces, aren't we? |
| 0:51.5 | And eels. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah, but also timekeeping and fusion and monkey business. Yeah, and eels. The eels really, I did not know how fascinating eels are. We're doing the North Pole, we're doing clouds, we've got Marcus Briggs.com, we've got, I mean, amazing. There weren't any eels at the North Pole, I don't think. No, there weren't any eels. |
| 1:12.3 | Oh, to be quite honest. |
| 1:13.7 | And I don't think they'll live in the clouds. |
| 1:24.9 | And they've yet to discover timekeeping. Well, we don't know that. We don't know. Eels do have a sense of timekeeping. It's like you weren't even listening during the Eels episode. Time corrected. Well, I hope you people at home are going to listen during the Eels episode because Brian might be obsessed with Eels, but he's also an eel idiot. |
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