13: A glassware tax affair
Lateral with Tom Scott
Lateral with Tom Scott
4.9 • 742 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Why does the University of California, Berkeley, have parking spots marked NL reserved? |
| 0:05.7 | The answer to that at the end of the show. |
| 0:07.4 | My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral. |
| 0:16.8 | I've been joined by three people who we've recruited from a fertile ground for guests, |
| 0:20.7 | a support group for procrastinators. |
| 0:22.9 | Ready to avoid editing their next video for 45 minutes or so, we have, Devin Stone, from the YouTube channel, Legal, Legal. |
| 0:29.8 | Happy to be here, easy for you to say. |
| 0:32.8 | You try saying support group for... See, it's impossible. Support group for procrastinators. It's |
| 0:38.5 | impossible. How are you doing? Well, I'm just happy to be here. Thanks for having me, Tom. |
| 0:42.9 | Thanks for being on the show. Also, Simone Yetch, inventor, maker. How do you describe yourself |
| 0:48.4 | these days? Board member of the support group for procrastinators. Yeah. Also known as S-F-P. Sure. That works for me. |
| 0:59.8 | I'll see you at the meeting. And finally, booked by complete coincidence onto the same show |
| 1:07.0 | as the person she's making a nuclear fusion reactor with Cleo Abram. |
| 1:12.9 | Hello. |
| 1:13.6 | How do I describe you? |
| 1:14.8 | Video journalists? |
| 1:15.7 | What's the best way for someone who is literally making a fusion reactor with Simone? |
| 1:20.0 | Video journalist, amateur, want to be engineer. |
| 1:24.8 | It all works. |
| 1:25.9 | All around, amazing, solid human. Well, thank you very much to all of you |
| 1:30.1 | for being on the show. Good luck for the next 40 minutes or so. Our show is like an epic quest with three |
| 1:35.0 | intrepid adventurers trudging through uncertain terrain to find the Yeti. But the only things |
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