i dont understand this one ☹

I thought it was going to be that the stranger was a child on their first flight and the parent wanted to talk to the person sitting next to the child to let them know the situation

Gotta give a shoutout to Virgil Reality for being the reason I knew the answer to this. 😆

The clock in Bristol is on the Corn Exchange ...

What's wrong with KZfaq that it waited 9 days to recommend this?

I think the think with subway in ireland was more of a tax thing, where it wasn't afforded some of the tax advantages bread might get as a staple food

A fun footnote to this, they did the entire trip there and back without stopping the engine.

was convinced for a while in this that it was about all the unique designs on the 20,50 and 1 compared to the 2.....(well the 2 has gotten some cool ones recently but still - old question maybe?)

reverse gear all the way - wouldn't the engine have heated up like and caught fire

In NZ we also like receiving Australian $2 coins, because people accidentally give them to us thinking they're paying $1 (their $2 is similar to our $1, free money!)

Don't say that too loud. We don't need this to become an internet trend.

Okay, but, like, is there any reason at all *why* they did this?

So when is Tom going to get his video feed sorted out? Not hating but all of his guests have had noticably smoother video feeds in recent videos.

And here I thought Pat McCurdy's song "Drive In Reverse" was fiction... silly me.

This Scott guy has a future on you tube. I'm calling it here, he's going to be big.

US $.20 coins do exist but they’re from the mid-1800s.

It doesn't take close to a week to drive NY to LA, unless you're taking your time.

My great grandfather took his family on a trans continental road trip in the 1920's and he kept a detailed journal. It took quite a long time. They had several breakdowns and many many flat tires, due in large part to the nails spread on the road by mechanics.

2:49 Ah, someone's listened to The Dollop...

Wow, I was SO sure it was gonna be related to Benford's Law, and that his newspaper (or some other printing business) had a glut of nines that they had to use up.

My mind locked into the "at the event" portion of the question - I assumed someone elsewhere beat him and they decided to give the gold medal to that technical non-competitor instead.

My first thought was they were very dumb. Got there in 4 days, amazing, very fast car for that era. Then they come back, 38 days. "What happened?", ask their friends. "Well, it doesn't go as fast going backwards"

I must spend way too much time on the internet because I have known the answers to the last 8 or so episodes even before any clues were given.

Interestingly and coincidentally, see how long google maps estimates how long this would take to walk.

And here we have some delicious food for the algorithm ;-)

They could prove they went, would the odometer prove they hadn't done so going forward? Not sure how the odometer would be affected.

There is a tradition on the continent of backwards car racing. There had to be a separate class for the little DAFs because they went just as fast backwards.

Initial thoughts: they went the long way around, perhaps through the new Suez canal?

Its about 40 hours driving so if you have multiple drivers then you can do it in about 2 days of non stop driving.

My immidiate guess was that he was driving in reverse the whole way.

Dad, what did people do before the internet was invented?

Now imagine them driving into a narrow cul-de-sac by accident, where turning the car round would have been impossible... :D

I loved Evan's *SayWhatNow?* face after Ólafur's answer! 😄

Beep beep beep - 'Warning - this vehicle is wrong headed' - beep beep beep beep beep . . : )

When they said it'd take a week to drive across the U.S., obviously I looked it up and b/c that didn't seem right and saw it was about 41 hours. Then I looked to see what the longest route starting and finish in the U.S. would be (Key West, FL to Prudhoe Bay, AK at 90 hours). But then it occurred to me that maybe as an American there is something defective about me to think that these drives should take less than a week. Like, obviously if you're driving across the U.S. you do it in shifts so you get there as soon as possible. But that's kind of insane. Who wants to actually spend 41 hours straight on the road? Like, honestly 5-6 hours a day is a bit much, so I could see where the idea that it should take a week would come from.

My guess This is like the early days of EVs where a cross-contry trip is a feat. I suspect they proved the trip with receipts from chemists (pharmacies).

I thought the dead insects were all on the rear side of the car

Alaska became a state in early 1959 ; Hawai'i was in late 1959.

My guess was that they removed the engine and rigged up a sail. Felt like the 30s was early enough they could have got away with that

Shoulda done that in a DAF.

The weird thing is these days there are cars that we can buy that are made the same front and back for cost cutting. Just swap the lights around and your driving backwards. 😆

Ólafur is awesome, you should have him on again!

“Hawaii was 59 and Alaska was before then” wow, that’s so off

I bet that dude had a crick in his neck like never before

The ‘might they have been arrested’ line of thought reminded me of the Van Buren sisters cross country motorcycle ride, which was slowed by arrests in southern towns, for wearing pants. I made the drive, from Orlando to San Jose, by the northern route while towing a large-ish boat, in under 4 full days, with sightseeing stops.

My guess was an electric car, but backwards is cooler and way more dangerous.

Four of my favourite creators in one show? Jackpot.

Fun extra on transcontinental trips: When the army set off from east to west before the interstate system they quickly had to change their time estimate because they hit so many problems with having a large convoy. Along with enough minor problems on just the 2nd day they had to go around several covered bridges in PA and MD and in one instance where they tried to fjord the river they got a 10 ton truck stuck and it took 3 others to pull it out.

Ow, my neck hurts just thinking about this feat...

If you’re driving with a partner or three, it doesn’t take a week to drive coast to coast legally. It takes about two days of continuous driving.