Riding by bus... and helicopter

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Karen Chu, Lizzy Skrzypiec and Bob Hagh face a question about a high-flying bus journey.
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:
Karen Chu: ‪@goodjobbrain‬, / momopeche
Lizzy Skrzypiec: / lizzyskrzypiec
Bob Hagh: ‪@BuzzerBob‬, / buzzerbobtv
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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@hcblue 2 месяца назад

Lizzy, the not sports-fan, proceeds to hit the ball out of the uh… baseball building. Brilliant!

@MadCatPerson1977 2 месяца назад

'Football building' is a phrase I am going to use much more often! 👍

@dryued6874 2 месяца назад

Yes, of course. Football building, where they make football.

@Zadster 2 месяца назад

It sounds very Matt Gray.

@vikyara6504 2 месяца назад

As an Argentinian, it took me about a minute to remember because the World Cup feels so near, I had forgotten it happened a year and a half ago! Living here in Argentina at that time was such an experience. Thanks for reminding me of that wonderful time 💕

@SolarLiner Месяц назад

As a French, it also took me a minute to remember... 😂

@radagastwiz 2 месяца назад

My first guess was that the road had become impassable - but I thought it was some kind of disaster, like a washout after a flood.

@teemusid 2 месяца назад

Yeah, I was thinking mudslides .

@empath69 2 месяца назад

I was thinking they were on a tour and the bus had taken a ferry ride to an island, and the *ferry* broke down.

@daerdevvyl4314 2 месяца назад

To tie in all the loose ends, it was a rabies outbreak causing football players to eat 4 million monkeys. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen!

@brontewcat 2 месяца назад

Yep that was my thought, I am not finished the video yet, but can I assume the blockage is people.

@greensteve9307 2 месяца назад

Ditto!

@John73John 2 месяца назад

I feel like "Do buses stop on Christmas?" should be a holiday song.

@leumas75 2 месяца назад

There’s a song by Allen Damron called “Is There a Heaven for Balloons?” and I think this work in the same vein.

@ElukeNL 2 месяца назад

@jayforeman “Do buses stop on Christmas” potentially needs to be a song

@buttergeek9985 2 месяца назад

Tom saying “I’ll give you a point for blocking roads” seems like a bit of his Citation Needed muscle memory sneaking through

@mirzaahmed6589 Месяц назад

Mystery Biscuits (oh yeah)!

@privatesolofoe 2 месяца назад

The "back to where they started" in the question made me think the bus could go down some slope but couldn't go back up or something along those lines

@voidify3 2 месяца назад

Same!

@purple4395 2 месяца назад

"I'm not gonna get it if it's a football thing" > proceeds to be the main factor why they do get ir

@leenhouse217 2 месяца назад

The 'football building' is where the athlete gang run on the sports pasture and try to get the competition sphere into the points nets

@Snowshowslow Месяц назад

Competition sphere 😂😂 You have a way with words 👏

@liefwerk 2 месяца назад

My guess: it was the national team of Argentina riding the bus (or at least the most famous players) - I remember seeing them riding a tour bus around Buenos Aires and it got quite difficult to move around because there was a lot of people following them.

@michaelocyoung 2 месяца назад

"Alive" involved a Uruguayan rugby team.

@michaelocyoung 2 месяца назад

And this will teach me not to comment until the end of the video.

@milovaalafacu 2 месяца назад

Also last year they made another movie about the incident, the society of the snow, it was nominated for an oscar and apparently it is more based on reality than alive

@RFC3514 2 месяца назад

8:22

@mathisgilsbach116 2 месяца назад

@@milovaalafacu It is a great movie! Very respectful in the way it portrayed the more gruesome aspects of the whole ordeal and their choices about either dying or eating the corpses

@wave1090 2 месяца назад

And the Spanish/Uruguayan film "the society of the snow" from last year is a much better film than alive and also a lot more accurate to the actual story

@dkfood 2 месяца назад

Finally a question that make me scream the answer at my screen before they figure it out.

@ulixo1132 2 месяца назад

They were so bad at this :D

@TarunoNafs 2 месяца назад

I was surprised no one suggested "Covid!" when Tom reminded them the date is important. Kind of post-Covid, but still.

@KernelLeak 2 месяца назад

In this case, "cannibalism" surely beats "covid"... :D

@nbartlett6538 2 месяца назад

My immediate thought was the ending of the Italian Job... nothing actually wrong with the bus *yet*, but there is about to be.

@isaacbobjork7053 2 месяца назад

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes on Friday the 13th of October 1972 with the Old Christians rugby team on board

@wta1518 2 месяца назад

3:57 Last night I forgot the word for "glass cleaner" so I called it "window sauce".

@RFC3514 2 месяца назад

Surely, window sauce is something you get _from_ windows. I once tried squeezing some with my bare hands and some sauce definitely came out.

@poja82 2 месяца назад

As an argentinian this is so funny. The thing in the Andes was in the 80s, it was a rugby team from Uruguay.

@pthelo 2 месяца назад

1:46 "RABIES IN THE BUTT!!"

@ta-theoadonis465 2 месяца назад

The moment I heard the date and place, I had to sit it out LOL Even if you're not a football fan nor live in Argentina, just by sheer social media osmosis you could see what an event it was!

@blindleader42 2 месяца назад

Like predicting rain in Seattle, if it's Argentina - 70% chance it's sports or mobs or both.

@GryphLane 2 месяца назад

They mob over anything though - it wasn't that long ago they mobbed over a random number plate

@blindleader42 2 месяца назад

@@GryphLane That's what I said.

@RocketSlug 2 месяца назад

The fact that the date was so close to the winter solstice made me think that they buses might've gotten trapped on treacherous terrain in the dark and that was why the passengers needed to be airlifted out

@nooneyouknow1706 2 месяца назад

December in Argentina would be the summer solstice.

@RocketSlug 2 месяца назад

@@nooneyouknow1706 Fair enough! North American brain lol

@PianoKwanMan 2 месяца назад

I like the idea that it was like Speed and the buses had to be sky lifted out, using a sikorsky S-64

@keir92 2 месяца назад

Pretty close, but the Andes disaster was a rugby team from Uruguay.

@nariu7times328 2 месяца назад

I got this one right off the bat, pretty happy about it. I like this show so much

@lucbloom 2 месяца назад

Society of the Snow is a new movie about the rugby team. It’s quite good.

@Alsadius 2 месяца назад

I saw the Toronto Raptors victory parade about five or six years ago, and it was almost this bad - you couldn't get cell service because the networks were totally overwhelmed, you could barely move, people were sitting on traffic lights twenty feet in the air for hours at a time because that was the only space left, and the team themselves was stuck in traffic to a ridiculous extent (like they moved about a foot per minute, if even that much). And Toronto is not really *that* big a basketball city - it wasn't like it was the Leafs winning. So yeah, I believe it.

@PaudyalArjun 2 месяца назад

I knew the answer before Tom even finished the question. As soon as I saw Buenos Aires and the date, I knew it was about World Cup. Will never forget that date. The guests were really bad at this. Or I feel that because I knew the answer. haha

@hannahk1306 2 месяца назад

My first thought was rockfall or something blocking the road, so I was close but probably wouldn't have gotten the specifics of what was blocking the road and why.

@sabsab9126 2 месяца назад

3 million people go to see the 4th of July fireworks in Chicago every year. It takes about 6 hours to get home.

@lmpeters 2 месяца назад

The podcast "You're Wrong About" has an episode about what really happened to the Uruguayan rugby team that got stranded in the Andes, including the challenges the survivors faced when they finally came home.

@ihathtelekinesis 2 месяца назад

It’s always fun watching non-sports people trying to answer a sports question.

@ArifRWinandar 2 месяца назад

And then the fans ate each other

@turbochargedfilms 2 месяца назад

*out

@CountFab 2 месяца назад

Fans (of the helicopters) vs fans (of the football team)

@taniakrause9253 2 месяца назад

🤣

@IceMetalPunk 2 месяца назад

@@turbochargedfilms Well, damn, 4 million people doing that in public? .....I can't finish this comment, I'm busy booking a trip to Argentina...

@KernelLeak 2 месяца назад

I love a happy ending...

@aixtom979 2 месяца назад

Reminded me of Tim Traveller's journey on the rail replacement helicopter. ;-)

@TophTheMelonLord 2 месяца назад

From the date being so close to the summer solstice, I thought the road melted or experienced some other heat-related obstruction.

@5paulo 2 месяца назад

I remember this whole thing being reported on the news. It was wild!

@milovaalafacu 2 месяца назад

Pregunta argentina en lateral, nunca lo hubiera pensado, ahora quiero hacerme amigo del luciano que mandó la pregunta

@Schmidtelpunkt 2 месяца назад

I got myself derailed thinking about the Winter solstice (or Summer solstice, from a less northern-hemispherical point of view).

@criticalevent 2 месяца назад

Guessing mud slides or flooding.

@NickWrightDataYT 2 месяца назад

My wife guessed a flood right at the start, and turns out she was MOSTLY right...?

@ShapelessMonstrosity Месяц назад

That monkey story is definitely a candidate for including as a question on a later episode. Not sure exactly how the question would be structured though.

@pauldaplayfulpanda3042 2 месяца назад

It's gotta be the world cup celebrations right?

@pauldaplayfulpanda3042 2 месяца назад

Hell yea

@johntaggart979 2 месяца назад

"Alive" is such a powerful and wonderful movie.

@currykingwurst6393 2 месяца назад

Not if you've watched Society of the Snow (2023). Also, I wouldn't call either of them "wonderful".

@Schmidtelpunkt 2 месяца назад

@@currykingwurst6393 Society of the Snow is so well made. I love how VFX have come far enough to make small movies like that so utterly believable and show so many details.

@tonypang83 2 месяца назад

Thank you for not calling it "soccer" this time, unlike a previous video 🤣

@zork999 2 месяца назад

The term Soccer, short for Association Football, originated in England.

@tonypang83 2 месяца назад

@@zork999 Maybe so, but it isn't in common usage anymore in the UK 🤷

@LaPingvino 2 месяца назад

@@tonypang83 still, not completely gone either! several things consistently use the term soccer in the UK!

@anirudhsreekumar 2 месяца назад

@@zork999 Maybe, but the international self-regulatory governing body for the sport is FIFA (Fédération internationale de football association or International Association Football Federation) and not FISA. So it's officially called football, not soccer. 🤷‍♂️

@RFC3514 2 месяца назад

@@zork999 - And your point is...? The term "ruggers" also originated in England, but most people know it as "rugby". And can you guess where the term "football" originated?

@yurisei6732 2 месяца назад

Is this crossing one of those flooding land-bridges, the bus crossed to the island and then couldn't get back?

@Dave062YT 21 день назад

It was an Argentinian rugby team that crashed in the Andes and ate the dead btw

@Pikachu0071000CS 2 месяца назад

Tom's pronunciation of Lionel Messi... :P

@12SailorLover21 2 месяца назад

KAREN CHU!!!!!! I CLICKED SO FAST

@robertjarman3703 2 месяца назад

I thought this was because the summer and winter are mirrored in the Southern Hemisphere, this was the last day of Spring and so there was a landslide on a hill due to the Spring thawing out things.

@vikyara6504 2 месяца назад

Good guess! but, just so you know, there are basically no hills on Buenos Aires; it's a very very big city in a region of mostly plains and grasslands

@robertjarman3703 2 месяца назад

@@vikyara6504 It's where the Paraguay River ends in a delta, isn't it?

@DenisSolaro 2 месяца назад

Immediate guess: winter solstice for us, so summer for them? and maybe it has to do with the tides and the bus got stuck on an isthmus ?

@socialismandrevolution8299 2 месяца назад

Really should've gotten that, I watched the game and a bunch of videos with Argentinians celebrating. A little counter-intuitive though, given that the World Cup is usually a summer event when it's not being held in the desert.

@57thorns 2 месяца назад

It was a summer event in Argentina.

@sandwich2473 2 месяца назад

First thought was ski trip or something, then tides, then volcano Well off :P

@KieronTaylor 2 месяца назад

My recollection of Argentinian buses suggests the driver wouldn't take them because they lacked precise coinage.

@geoffroi-le-Hook 2 месяца назад

20.12.2022 was a Twosday, er, Tuesday

@ausgruenden1590 2 месяца назад

I was sure this was about traffic congestion before the football thing came up. Sent from the European country where "Verkehrswende" is a word but not a thing.

@diegosanchez894 2 месяца назад

I'm not even a big football fan and I was yelling at my screen.

@Ken_King 2 месяца назад

2 days after the world cup final....I wonder what the Answer is gonna be... also 30 people in the bus seems close to a WC squad size?😂

@dynad00d15 2 месяца назад

Always play every opponent like they are GMs. :)

@erictaylor5462 2 месяца назад

The bus was working fine, so how was the road working.

@bob_._. 2 месяца назад

So my first thought was 'bridge collapse' but theirs was 'did the numbers in the date spell out something?' smh

@Joeseanag24 2 месяца назад

My first outlandish guess is there's a tsunami that blocked their paths both ways while they were on a hill, and needed helicopters to take them back

@shaunhouse8469 2 месяца назад

When I heard the monkey story I thought "she married him". In "Alive" they were a rugby team

@romainsavioz5466 2 месяца назад

4 millions of 40 millions

@CineSoar 2 месяца назад

So, when do the "Amazonian Butt Rabies" drop their first album "Monkey Finger"?

@SuicV 2 месяца назад

How the hell did it take them this long? 😅

@cybergeek11235 2 месяца назад

blind guess: something weather or sports-related

@mikejburns 2 месяца назад

My immediate thought was, bus went up a road.. road gets washed out.. they need to be evacuated.. let's see how this pans out..??

@pookhahare 2 месяца назад

Oh yes not surprised this is what happened

@Rollermonkey1 2 месяца назад

Flooding wash out a bridge? Cruise ship passengers miss their boat?

@Slikx666 2 месяца назад

Football gets everywhere. 🤨

@ismaelarvizu4191 2 месяца назад

Some sources say 6 million people were there.

@RFC3514 2 месяца назад

Some sources say 7 billion people were there. Or at least close enough, on a cosmic scale.

@WyvernYT 2 месяца назад

This is of course the secret reason Tom Scott had to stop making his regular videos, and why he departed in a helicopter at the end. :-)

@Becky_Cooling 2 месяца назад

My first guess: it's some kind of sports team who got stuck in a traffic jam on the way to a game.

@leumas75 2 месяца назад

Tom should have (sarcastically?) explained to Lizzy who Messi is, in the easiest of non-footballer terms.

@sorrynotsorry8224 2 месяца назад

You know Tom's not a football fan purely based on his pronunciation of Lionel Messi's name.

@jonathansmith6050 2 месяца назад

Can't believe they missed making the obvious "rabid fans" rabies callback.

@daerdevvyl4314 2 месяца назад

I don’t think you’re going to get rabies from a monkey sticking its finger up your butt. It’s spread by bodily fluids, primarily saliva. I mean, I guess it’s possible the monkey had a wound on its finger so it’s blood is getting into the girl’s butt, but even then there would have to be a wound in her butt, or the finger would have to cause one, in order for the virus to reach her bloodstream. And all this is assuming the monkey was rabid in the first place. Possible I guess, but it strikes me as unlikely.