Tom's £1 safety coins

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Жыл бұрын

Mark Rober, Jabrils and Virginia Schutte face a question about Tom's low-budget safety measures.
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:
Mark Rober: ‪@MarkRober‬, / markrober
Jabrils: ‪@Jabrils‬, / jabrils_
Virginia Schutte: ‪@vgwschutte‬, / vgwschutte
HOST: Tom Scott.
QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.
RECORDED AT: Podcasts NZ Studios.
EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at The Podcast Studios, Dublin.
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. 2023.

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@RFC-3514 Жыл бұрын

When Mark said "Tom is alone. _Completely_ alone." I thought it was going to be Major Tom (sitting in his tin can, far above the world). Considering the actual Tom it turned out to be, I'd argue that, while the _character_ was indeed alone, Tom was there with a huge crew.

@Micwong025 Жыл бұрын

Yup. For the sake of argument though, it still makes sense about alone "in context", as in he does not share the risk of getting hit with other people on set, he was "alone" in the sense that only him is getting dangled by the wire, alone in the experience of the actual stunt.

@JennaGetsCreative Жыл бұрын

My mind went to an astronaut situation, too. Didn't think of the song, though, which disappoints me because I'm a big David Bowie fan.

@bigphatwalrus102 Жыл бұрын

I thought it was a reference to the game Thomas was alone haha

@Ephoros Жыл бұрын

Same, thought about major Tom, and couldnt figure out why heavier shoes would matter in microgravity.

@EthanMiguelScott Жыл бұрын

"Tom is a human." "Is it Tom Cruise?"

@woodfur00 Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the additional, crucial clue that it's not Tom Scott

@robspiess Жыл бұрын

I immediately assumed it was Tom from MySpace. He's everyone's friend!

@wave1090 Жыл бұрын

@@robspiess I assumed it was Major Tom from David Bowie's Space Oddity. Don't know why

@KirkWaiblinger Жыл бұрын

Tom cruise is a superhuman

@BodyMusicification Жыл бұрын

I thought Tom Cruise was a Scientological Lizard Person 🤷‍♂️

@rdaysky Жыл бұрын

“To prevent hitting his head, Tom put a few UK one pound coins in his shoes. Why?” Because Tom doesn’t like hitting his head obviously

@imightbebiased9311 6 ай бұрын

Damn. Got it in 1. Next show.

@b33thr33kay Жыл бұрын

I hope Mark finds a better microphone next time he comes on. Considering that this podcast is audio-only for the most part, audio quality seems pretty important.

@MrMartinSchou Жыл бұрын

It might not be a microphone issue - to my untrained ears this sounds more like a compression issue which seems like internet problems.

@invention64 Жыл бұрын

@@MrMartinSchou yeah but that is a solved problem. Just record locally and merge the audio files together.

@ScopeSource Жыл бұрын

@@MrMartinSchou It's definitely a microphone issue. The microphone on the airpods/airpod pros sound awful. If you ever listen to a friend, or anyone speak to you using the airpods it's so difficult to understand.

@lateralcast Жыл бұрын

That *is* the locally recorded file, through Riverside.fm. We tend to find AirPods don't have great mics - we'll probably ask guests to use their laptop mic in future.

@V-DTAJ Жыл бұрын

@@ScopeSource AirPods are generally the worst thing you can wear. Sound quality is average for most in-ears, they have an open end which makes every person in public transport hate you, as mentioned - the mic quality is awful aswell and for the price you can get way better. Just me dropping my 2 cents/pennies

@andrewrockwell1282 Жыл бұрын

My brain went to "ground control to major Tom".

@SlyPearTree Жыл бұрын

Mark made me feel old, he's thinking of the 1996 movie when he says "original Mission Impossible", not the 1966 tv series. Not that I saw it that year as I was only two and not American but I did watch it a few years later on a black and white tv (my parents did not get a colour tv till the 70's) dubbed in French (my first language).

@ava_lavender Жыл бұрын

My mind immediately went to weight distribution but I was thinking about space / zero gravity instead. To be fair, I've never seen any of the mission impossible movies.

@scottcampbell96 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking Tom Hanks in Apollo 13

@AICommentator2.0 Жыл бұрын

In Space there is still gravity. In order to achieve 0 gravity you would have ro be in constant free fall like the ISS.

@danielf3623 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was thinking Major Tom in Space Oddity

@SixOThree Жыл бұрын

I loved this question and I was 100% along for the ride with the guests and their line of questions.

@Zelmel Жыл бұрын

Gonna take this opportunity to point out that Tom Scott has full actual subtitles on all his videos across several channels and Mark can't be bothered to put them on his one channel that has way more subscribers.

@alveolate Жыл бұрын

rober just strikes me as someone who doesn't really care, whereas tom might just care too much sometimes xD

@dryued6874 Жыл бұрын

Well to be a bit fairer, Tom doesn't seem to be doing it himself. There's a link to the caption service at the outro, if you have subtitles on. Though they do do a good job.

@Zelmel Жыл бұрын

@@dryued6874 I've mentioned that in comments on Mark's channel. Of course Tom or Mark or similar are not going to do the subtitling themselves but there are many affordable services that do it.

@alveolate Жыл бұрын

@@dryued6874 tom made a choice to pay for the good subs tho, i remember him saying it in a comment somewhere.

@anarfox Жыл бұрын

@@dryued6874 I would guess Mark could afford hiring a caption service as well. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oah6fM9eyLO7p3k.html

@boy638 Жыл бұрын

The inconsistent microphone quality among everyone is slightly distracting and hard to listen to when it's a long podcast. I'm sure it's tricky to arrange these, but surely guests like ex-NASA Mark Rober have a better mic setup than just using his ear buds ;)

@whatusernameis5295 Жыл бұрын

i mean earbuds are good. the mic is a potential issue though

@OntarioTrafficMan Жыл бұрын

@@whatusernameis5295 The implication is that Mark is using the microphone in his earbuds.

@j7m7f Жыл бұрын

That was amazing! The story, the way that it was told and lead. And this aha moment when you understand! And of cours the boxing Tom's idea :) So much fun!

@panda4247 Жыл бұрын

Major Tom in space, has magnetic floor, uses metal objects in his shoes to stick to the floor. Mic drop and it is obviously wrong and I can pick up my mic again :)

@terriblej6107 Жыл бұрын

It’s weird being the person that knows the answer ahead of time

@sayanghosh6996 Жыл бұрын

0:56 that subtitle threw me off for a minute. its gait not gate

@lateralcast Жыл бұрын

Thanks, now fixed.

@wilfriedklaebe Жыл бұрын

Now, if they had shown him do that in character, that would be cool.

@WyvernYT Жыл бұрын

I see no reason not to suspent Tom Scott from a hardness to see what would happen. He could get Matt to help. "Hi! In the movie, Tom Cruise hacks the CIA like this, so I've got a dangle-thingy harness for my friend Tom and an old PC running Windows 98. Let's see how long it takes him to pull up some files."

@KBRoller 7 ай бұрын

As someone who has never seen any Mission Impossible movies (and frankly, isn't much interested in doing so): I still don't know what kind of balancing they're talking about 😂

@RFC-3514 Жыл бұрын

6:37 - I suspect Tom wasn't even born when "the *original* Mission: Impossible" aired.

@rob-c. Жыл бұрын

How young do you think Tom is???

@RFC-3514 Жыл бұрын

@RobtheMod2 - Wait, knowing that Tom Cruise's films were based on an older TV show counts as being a "pedant" now? You used to have to work hard to be a pedant. Now it seems just having watched some old-ish TV shows is enough. Pedantry really needs to raise its bar.

@tonypang83 Жыл бұрын

I kept thinking "Tom" was in space... even though you're weightless in space 😂

@dryued6874 Жыл бұрын

Well, you're weightless, but not massless. The balancing thing may still be a factor in some specific tasks.

@jeppegeer Жыл бұрын

i was totally thinking "Major Tom" using coins in his shoes, to control his orientation as he traveled through a magnetic field...

@rafaelmarkos4489 3 ай бұрын

The moment he said 'you've all seen this', I got it. To be fair, given the number of videos I have watched about the M:I series, I should have gotten it earlier.

@8Rincewind Жыл бұрын

This is the 3rd lateral question that I knew from the beginning

@ManMang0 Жыл бұрын

Haha my head went to Tom and Jerry at the same time as Tom.

@mehershrishtinigam5449 Жыл бұрын

aaaa figured it out!!

@kiro9291 Жыл бұрын

I'm so proud of him

@amandasunshine2 Жыл бұрын

Oh I know this one! I'll sit out 😅

@nijjijjion204 Жыл бұрын

I think like Tom does!... My brain went to Tom and Jerry as well before he mentioned it haha

@brycemw 11 ай бұрын

With the mention of the gait recognition cameras I was like I read about this is a sci-fi book, surely it’s not become a reality yet

@justandy333 5 ай бұрын

Its strange, my head went in exactly the same directions as Tom's at the exact same time when he thought about Tom and Jerry!

@4crafters597 Жыл бұрын

I fail to understand how coins could help in that Situation

@zangcheye Жыл бұрын

When Tom was hanging from the ceiling in the harness and horizontal, he was probably a little top heavy with his head hanging down too low so they added the coins in his shoes to balance him out like an old style balance scale.

@akino_germany Жыл бұрын

Slight error in the subtitles at 0:56 where it should be "gait" not "gate"

@lateralcast Жыл бұрын

Thanks, now fixed.

@ethkatzy Жыл бұрын

they started talking about tom and i really thought it was going to be tom daley the diver

@natesmith1694 Жыл бұрын

I think the coins in the shoes are just so Tom doesn’t forget the current amount of cash to rent a helmet at some sort of event/activity

@rob-c. Жыл бұрын

As soon as Mark said ‘yes, it’s Tom Cuise’, that exact scene came to mind. It’s TC’s most famous scene ever - how is that a mic-drop! 😅

@timothymclean 10 ай бұрын

I have no idea what scene they're talking about.

@pflasterstrips7254 5 ай бұрын

my guess was: The metal will trigger a metal detector, usually this isn't necessary because they wear steel reinforced safety shoes.

@gamesetmatt23 Жыл бұрын

That was a great question!

@joshaaye Жыл бұрын

My brain went to Tom and Jerry as well

@littlechalkie8030 Жыл бұрын

"original mission impossible" it's not wrong but it's not right 😂

@MD-pg1fh Жыл бұрын

I'd say it mattered a lot which small dense item it was. Any other coin weighs a few grams tops but this one is one pound.

@ckq Жыл бұрын

I'm guessing something about a pun with pound

@Surfinite Жыл бұрын

Aaargh! The # is misaligned behind Mark!

@whynotanyting Жыл бұрын

I mean, how else are you supposed to balance when tied at the hip? Especially when a male's center of gravity tends to be higher than the hip.

@vendettacarcass6017 Жыл бұрын

hehehe tom is so goofy i luv him

@Sam_on_YouTube Жыл бұрын

"I just thought Tom Cruise was a very balanced man..." So did all 3 of his ex wives. They were VERY wrong about that.

@v2joecr Жыл бұрын

There was another Tom & Jerry that was a cartoon with two humans named Tom & Jerry from the 1930s.

@traeyboy529 11 ай бұрын

Ah, yes. The series that had to be renamed for reissue *due* to the cat and mouse duo.

@lucbloom Жыл бұрын

Major Tom; I seem to have lost my balance… Ground control: put some coins in your shoes?

@erictaylor5462 4 ай бұрын

Are we just assuming these a coins with a value of 1 pound Sterling, or do the coins weigh one pound?

@sweex8523 Жыл бұрын

Grreetings from Poland 🤗

@holgerchristiansen4003 Жыл бұрын

My first thought was that it had something to do with a magnetized floor. Also: Why is Mark Robers sound quality so awful in this one?

@berandomisme Жыл бұрын

Magnetic

@thecaptainnoodles Жыл бұрын

i went to tom and jerry too!

@RFC-3514 Жыл бұрын

Also, coins in your shoes will allow you to not hit your head on barrier gates by tricking the magnetic sensor into thinking that you're a car. No, they probably won't, but I don't think that technical detail was the reason why they rejected my Mission: Impossible script. Something about lack of excitement and also the fact that there's plenty of space under the gate for Tom Cruise to run through.

@bigsarge2085 Жыл бұрын

😄

@KernelLeak Жыл бұрын

Ami Yamato: "Damn you, Tom Cruise!!1!one"

@elisam.r.9960 24 күн бұрын

Surprised no one said anything about the thumbnail.

@RobertSzasz Жыл бұрын

Tom cruise, mission impossible. Stealing something that weighs as much as (a few?) 1£ coin(s) and gets weighed in and out?

@devilsadvocate1597 Жыл бұрын

Rumour has it Cruise kept all the £1 coins after the shoot. Glued them to the bottom of his shoes so he could match then wife Nicole Kidman in height!

@sophiamarchildon3998 8 ай бұрын

Initial thoughts: the ferromagnetic properties of the coins was enough to be detected by sensors to keep a gate raised, or some such (similar to mopeds adding on a big magnet so automated traffic lights get triggered). To remind him, and have cash on hand, to pay for some mechanism (e.g. gates), and/or having to reach down to pay reminds him to stay low and safe?

@sophiamarchildon3998 8 ай бұрын

3:43 To make noise and scare away nearby wildlife away from him?

@sophiamarchildon3998 8 ай бұрын

5:16 M:I That was a good one. But my mind was far from it; I thought "Tom" was a placeholder for generic guy.

@shavranotheferanox7809 Жыл бұрын

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@shaunhouse8469 Жыл бұрын

12 sides Tom

@mogaming163 Жыл бұрын

Jabrils :D

@bukwok 11 ай бұрын

fun fact : F1 driver Sebastian Vettel he like to put a coin in his racing shoes , did that in every single races in his whole racing careers.

@hermeticsense8805 Жыл бұрын

This is phrased as a riddle, but it isn't because riddles don't required trivia knowledge.

@alucide Жыл бұрын

In a world that sat at home having online meetings for two year, how do people still use this bad mics.

@cybergeek11235 Жыл бұрын

My headset's mic is sufficient for every conversation I need to have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@myladycasagrande863 Жыл бұрын

For the same reason that people haven't learned to mute themselves if they're not speaking and have something noisy going on around them.

@alucide Жыл бұрын

I've heard many colleagues via €15 headsets sound fine, hence my surprise of people still using such bad mics. Just using one that is somewhat close to your mouth, in stead of in your ear or on your chest, is more than fine.