In 2020, why was there a sudden surge in adverts for jobs based in a small town in Coos County, Oregon?

The answer to that at the end of the show.

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

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You are in Q position 1, which sounds impressive, but you're the only one who somehow found our phone number.

Our guests today are jamming up their number keypad in frustration,

but it is no use because you are still here and you will still, unfortunately, only get me.

First of all, welcome back to the show. Wine critic for The Guardian, among many

other wine-related things, Hannah Crosby. Hello, hello, thank you so much. I think this is my,

one, uh, one, two, for a fifth time. Fifth show, yes. Whoa, that was flown fast. We have

regular guests here. It's a lovely little community with sort of steadily building. Um,

welcome back. Um, back. I am always slightly

wary of asking, what are you working on? Because the answer may well be wine, but what are you

working on? Yeah, wine, I think that's totally fair, wine, wine-related things. Funnily enough,

today, I just got a haircut, so I'm going to pretend it's for the purposes of lateral. So, yeah, for those listening along at home you might not be able to see. And if ever there was a reason to switch to YouTube, that would be it. Spotify! It's Spotify! Sorry! Sorry, shillate, shillip it. How are you finding it being back here after a while away? Because the questions seem to steadily be getting harder. They do, don't they? I feel like you were kind of easing me in, because I remember the first episode that I was on, I did really well. You did? Wow, I'm really good at this. And then the last time I was on, I didn't get anything. So I think that it's a real, it's a real ego shave.

Let's try and thread the needle on this one.

Let's do about as well as our other two players today,

joining us again, Evan and Caitlin, welcome back to the show.

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