Lateral with Tom Scott
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The multi-million dollar tugboat
Caroline Scott, Ella Scott and Tom L. Scott from 'Let's Learn Everything!' face a question about a boat's bumper bonus.
LATERAL is a weekly podcast about interesting questions and even more interesting answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit www.lateralcast.com
GUESTS:
Caroline Scott: CarolineTheBug
Ella Scott: EllaHubber
Tom L. Scott: TomLumPerson
Let's Learn Everything podcast: www.letslearneverythingpod.com/
HOST: Tom Scott.
QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.
RECORDED AT: The Podcast Studios, Dublin.
EDITED BY: Julie Hassett.
GRAPHICS: Chris Hanel at Support Class. Assistant: Dillon Pentz.
MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com).
FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott.
© Pad 26 Limited (www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2024.
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Відео

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Playing from the sidelines
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Cornering the market for wheels
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The out-of-town Roman temple
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A city with a visible difference
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When 4,000 guests were banned
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This bird solved a major mystery
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The world's worst lighthouse
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Why refuse to answer a quiz question?
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The Batman joker
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How to be a confident duellist
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A most incredible phone call
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Playing 100 instruments at once
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Praying 30% less often
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Why were frogs in the Arctic?
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Why were frogs in the Arctic?
Why swap equipment every two minutes?
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Why swap equipment every two minutes?
Riding by bus... and helicopter
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Riding by bus... and helicopter
The queens wearing green in 2024
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The queens wearing green in 2024
A number you'll never need again
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A number you'll never need again
The 'bestselling' book about lichens
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The 'bestselling' book about lichens
How traffic lights help footballers
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How traffic lights help footballers
A statue to Squidward
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A statue to Squidward
Why publish "ceiiinosssttuv"?
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Sneaky SpongeBob speedrunners
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Sneaky SpongeBob speedrunners
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The three-time 'Hall of Famer'
A parent-approved computer game
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A parent-approved computer game

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @WayneKitching
    @WayneKitching 44 хвилини тому

    In the words of Frog Leap Studio: Mary, Spender.l, Mary Spender, Mary Spender!

  • @brandurell
    @brandurell 2 години тому

    This happened in the faroe Islands as well. One crawled on its knees over, and the rest of the flock learned from her

  • @maxvanbalgooy
    @maxvanbalgooy 3 години тому

    When I worked in an office in the 1980s, our phones had three lines and the numbers were issued sequentially so if the first line was in use, the incoming call would roll over into the the next available line. Realizing this, I developed a code with my girlfriend to call my office after hours using the third number so I would know it was her and not someone else. So in your case, a person could have misdialed the last number but still reach their friend.

  • @Zombie-lx3sh
    @Zombie-lx3sh 4 години тому

    I'm surprised some people still don't know about this behavior. I've heard about it so many times from so many different sources.

  • @Alucard-gt1zf
    @Alucard-gt1zf 6 годин тому

    What was the plan for this question if nobody knew how to decode hex colours though?

  • @fourtrifiveo4350
    @fourtrifiveo4350 11 годин тому

    why is everyone wearing red

  • @ronchappel4812
    @ronchappel4812 11 годин тому

    Before clicking on this my train of thought was of a certain russian aircraft carrier 😆

  • @luketurner314
    @luketurner314 13 годин тому

    East of Florida, I was thinking Bermuda Triangle

  • @geoffroi-le-Hook
    @geoffroi-le-Hook 14 годин тому

    I thought it might have been part of the 1986 shuttle launch

  • @denniswood6791
    @denniswood6791 15 годин тому

    a knife fight has more understandable rules than Australian rules football.

  • @TheRubySpider
    @TheRubySpider 15 годин тому

    If make enough jokes about forming a heist team, then they can actually carry out one of their heists, and no one will suspect them. It’s all part of the plan 😎

  • @test74088
    @test74088 15 годин тому

    They got the colors wrong though, Tom Scott's shirt is "Cardinal" and they all wore red. If nothing else this show demonstrates that details matter!

  • @Zombie-lx3sh
    @Zombie-lx3sh 15 годин тому

    The Brits call it lee-cure?

  • @Zombie-lx3sh
    @Zombie-lx3sh 16 годин тому

    This one was way too easy. Never heard of it and I figured it out before the end of the second repeat.

  • @Zombie-lx3sh
    @Zombie-lx3sh 17 годин тому

    My nearest pharmacy here in Montreal sells so much food and at such a low prices that I buy most of my food there. So for me, it could be anything.

  • @katiemiller8313
    @katiemiller8313 17 годин тому

    I love that Tom Scott adopted these three small children that were not alive in 1994! (Yes, I know they're all adults)

  • @adamengelhart5159
    @adamengelhart5159 18 годин тому

    I'm calling it: if we get another clip from this episode, two of the contestants will be Tom Roper and Tom Hubber. I don't know what'll become of Tom Lum's moniker. Maybe they'll call him Scott Thomas.

    • @katiemiller8313
      @katiemiller8313 17 годин тому

      Maybe Ella Caroline, or Scott Lum, or Nottom Lum

  • @PMX
    @PMX 19 годин тому

    Is rescuing a person in the middle of the sea considering "salvage"? Do they get to keep 12.5% of that persons worth? 👀

  • @MrDannyDetail
    @MrDannyDetail 19 годин тому

    The only mid-nineties tugging I could think of was Monica Lewinsky, but apparently that only started in 1995.

  • @TophTheMelonLord
    @TophTheMelonLord 20 годин тому

    3:24 Repo and salvage are not remotely the same thing.

  • @PMX
    @PMX 20 годин тому

    Great Scott!

  • @antispeedrun
    @antispeedrun 22 години тому

    Tom Lum almost saying "I'd like to publicly apologize for Florida"

  • @michaelwisniewski6047
    @michaelwisniewski6047 22 години тому

    That’s my favourite episode!

  • @joshconfer209
    @joshconfer209 22 години тому

    So coordinated today

  • @PianoKwanMan
    @PianoKwanMan 22 години тому

    4:08 None of us where alive, Mate xD

  • @victoriazhu2067
    @victoriazhu2067 23 години тому

    When tom asked "who was chris?" I instinctively said out loud "Chris Hadfield" and was suprised i was actually right

  • @DoRullings
    @DoRullings 23 години тому

    I love tugboats.

  • @GoErikTheRed
    @GoErikTheRed 23 години тому

    “Both Tom’s chuckle” got me good

  • @DJR000
    @DJR000 23 години тому

    Before I watch, I want to see if I got it. I once heard something about boats salvaging shipwrecks, as you cannot legally charge to rescue someone on the ocean. Might have been a reward from the owners.

    • @DJR000
      @DJR000 23 години тому

      Well not right, but close enough

    • @adamengelhart5159
      @adamengelhart5159 19 годин тому

      @@DJR000 Well, if you take a broad enough view of the word "shipwreck" to include *space*ships . . . 😄

  • @pattheplanter
    @pattheplanter 23 години тому

    What a cute polycule.

  • @Becky_Cooling
    @Becky_Cooling День тому

    The last names... It's Oscar Piastri-Leclerc all over again

  • @gustavgnoettgen
    @gustavgnoettgen День тому

    TomScottland

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter 23 години тому

      Not Scotts, only Scottish.

    • @gustavgnoettgen
      @gustavgnoettgen 23 години тому

      @@pattheplanter They all look quite tomscottish

  • @Qermaq
    @Qermaq День тому

    I thought the one named Scott in the red shirt was the funniest.

  • @IlTrojo
    @IlTrojo День тому

    At 0:41 I definitely expected Tom to semiquote Monty Python: "My tugboat is full of sea lions".

  • @route2070
    @route2070 День тому

    I can't remember which channel now, but there was a recent video that discusses maritime salvage laws. So when Tom mentioned that, i am like I know the laws just not this specific story.

    • @Becky_Cooling
      @Becky_Cooling День тому

      Half As Interesting? I don't watch the channel fyi

  • @outbakjak
    @outbakjak День тому

    MORE TOM, ELLA AND CAROLINE, I love them! 💜🐝💜🐌💜 (but mostly Ella, Ella is bae)

  • @ecchikitty1395
    @ecchikitty1395 День тому

    I got salvage, I got it wasn't the tugboat itself, but what the tugboat in turn was tugging. But did not guess the cargo.

  • @henrikericsson
    @henrikericsson День тому

    You did it you beautiful nerds.

  • @YourBuddyDinec
    @YourBuddyDinec День тому

    I wanna join that discord 💔

  • @princecharon
    @princecharon День тому

    To be fair to Tom L., I live in Florida, I've been to Cape Canaveral several times, and I *still* thought something like 'barge piled with bricks of cocaine' would be part of the story.

    • @TomLumPerson
      @TomLumPerson День тому

      Hahahah okay good I'm glad

    • @IceMetalPunk
      @IceMetalPunk 18 годин тому

      There were 50% fewer alligators and/or exotic drugs for it to be a true Florida Man story.

    • @test74088
      @test74088 15 годин тому

      I wonder if salvaging a barge full of illegal drugs gets one a share of the value or arrested? It probably depends on whether it's being salvaged before or after the police get to it …

    • @alveolate
      @alveolate 12 годин тому

      i don't live in florida, and all i thought was old retired white dudes and alligators >.<

    • @WyvernYT
      @WyvernYT 10 годин тому

      It's Florida, in the '90s. What do you expect to find moving off the coast?

  • @59withqsb12
    @59withqsb12 День тому

    Totally the wrong shade of red tho.

  • @pookhahare
    @pookhahare День тому

    Thanks!

  • @jackdog06
    @jackdog06 День тому

    The fact they went to “Queen Victoria Top Trumps” first is wild.

  • @CineMiamParis
    @CineMiamParis День тому

    Please tell me the money went to the tanker crew, not to the uber-rich oil company. What? Can’t one dream anymore?

    • @empath69
      @empath69 День тому

      Oh yeah, the award mentioned was for the crew; the owner of the salvaging vessel got a similar award from the court (since the rescue wouldn't have been possible without the tanker itself existing and operating - the crew couldn't have done it on their own). But that's how salvage law works: you rescue a ship that was going to sink without your help, you are entitled to a % of that ship's value (including cargo) since it would have been COMPLETELY lost if not for you; the owner of the rescued vessel is lucky you acted. Some of the oldest laws in the books.

    • @CineMiamParis
      @CineMiamParis 15 годин тому

      @@empath69 Glad to hear that. Crews on supertankers are not exactly billionaires. Frightful job. Glad they saw some of that dough.

  • @Hanakooh
    @Hanakooh День тому

    I completely understand that Lateral has to be a podcast instead of a vodcast. But still being able to have snippets of the podcast in video form allows us to see this precious gem of Tom Scott, Caroline Scott, Ella Scott and Tom Scott Lunior.

    • @prince_julius
      @prince_julius День тому

      Why does it have to be a podcast? Genuinely curious, I don't know too much about this. I just really enjoy these videos more.

    • @lateralcast
      @lateralcast День тому

      When our podcast platform supports video (currently in beta), we hope to offer full video as well. The two mediums are slowly merging together.

    • @gabagoul67
      @gabagoul67 День тому

      @@lateralcast isn't spotify already offering video streaming?

    • @prince_julius
      @prince_julius День тому

      @@lateralcast Thank you for the fast reply!

    • @alexgreen2747
      @alexgreen2747 День тому

      @@lateralcast This is nail-bitingly exciting news!

  • @DanielSolis
    @DanielSolis День тому

    What a great gag this was. :D

  • @jasonbhunt
    @jasonbhunt День тому

    Nice that an oil company was able to make a little extra money, they struggle so much...

  • @epiendless1128
    @epiendless1128 День тому

    I got "Salvage law" immediately, but never guessed WHAT they were towing.

  • @derekehlmann2126
    @derekehlmann2126 День тому

    I think "(wheezes bewilderedly)" might be my new favorite subtitle of all time.

  • @darrenmorby4753
    @darrenmorby4753 День тому

    Was the tugboat named Theodore Tugboat? (Think "Thomas the Tank Engine", but it's in Canada, and with boats in a harbour, and with Denny Doherty instead of Ringo Starr.)