The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: Los Angeles

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Science Goes to Hollywood: Science Fact V Science Fiction

Brian Cox and Robin Ince continue their tour of the USA, as they take to the stage in LA. They are joined by cosmologist and science advisor on movies such as Thor and Tron Legacy, Sean Carroll, comedian Joe Rogan, The Simpsons' writer and Executive Producer of Futurama, David X Cohen, and Eric Idle. They ask why so many movies now seem to employ a science advisor, whether scientific accuracy is really important when you are watching a film about a mythical norse god and whether science fact can actually be far more interesting than science fiction.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Robin Inz and I'm Brain Cox.
0:02.2	And welcome to the podcast version of The Infinite Monkey Cage,
0:05.3	which contains extra material that wasn't considered good enough for the radio.
0:09.0	Enjoy it.
0:10.5	For the first time live in Los Angeles, this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:15.3	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:17.8	What are we having?
0:18.8	Full.
0:21.9	What a beautiful thing that across Hollywood at the moment,
0:25.0	some people are going to see a new Will Ferrell film,
0:27.7	some people are going to see live, new girls,
0:30.3	and some people are here to see a lecture on the spherical matter distribution in the universe.
0:34.9	That's...
0:35.4	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:36.4	Yes.
0:38.4	So, being in LA, we've been in LA for four days,
0:41.5	and you get to meet a lot of people,
0:43.6	go, oh, can I go on? Can I come on? Can I come on?
0:45.5	You'll show.
0:46.3	And sometimes you meet a kind of young band that you think,
0:49.2	ah, well, they might be all right.
0:50.9	Yeah, I sort of apologise for this,
	...

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