Professor Brian Cox

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.8 • 57.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Professor and physicist Brian Cox has no idea how to feel about being Conan O’Brien’s friend. Professor Brian Cox sits down with Conan to discuss feeling insignificant at the size of the universe, doing sketch comedy with Stephen Hawking, starting out as a rock musician, and his new show Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey. Later, Conan and his team desperately try to get themselves in sync. Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (323) 451-2821. For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com.

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Brian Cox.
0:05.0	And I feel, I have no idea how I feel about being a cone of friend.
0:13.0	I'm sorry, that's disheartening because you're a brilliant man and for you just to go,
0:17.0	I don't know.
0:18.0	Feels like a huge letdown for me.
0:21.0	It's not, it's the key to science.
0:23.0	So the key to science is not to guess.
0:25.0	So that's how we acquire reliable knowledge about nature.
0:28.0	I'm just behaving in a way that I was trained by saying I hadn't thought about it deeply
0:33.0	enough to give a considered answer.
0:35.0	And so I thought that therefore I should do what Newton would have done or Stephen Hawking
0:40.0	would have done.
0:41.0	Or any of the great scientists and just say I actually have no idea.
0:46.0	Follow school here and now back to school ring the bell, brand new shoes, walking loose, climb the fence, books and pens.
0:56.0	I can tell where we are going to be friends.
1:01.0	I can tell where we are going to be friends.
1:05.0	Hey there and welcome to Conan O'Brien needs a friend.
1:08.0	So far this is my best intro ever.
1:10.0	This confidence.
1:11.0	It was good.
1:12.0	And to the point that was good, right?
1:14.0	It wasn't in my head and then you called attention to it and ruined it.
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