63: Upside-down riches
Lateral with Tom Scott
Lateral with Tom Scott
4.9 • 742 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In 1981, why did 300,000 people turn up for a funeral ceremony when no one had died? |
| 0:07.4 | The answer to that, at the end of the show. |
| 0:09.1 | My name's Tom Scott, and this is lateral. |
| 0:18.0 | Right, take 5 factorial. |
| 0:20.2 | I integrate that with respect to X, add Graham's number, divide by |
| 0:23.5 | pi equals three. Yeah, we've got three guests, we are good to go, and those three guests are, |
| 0:29.6 | first of all, someone who in the pre-game chat suggested that he should be described as |
| 0:35.1 | writer and YouTuber and whatever, I guess. |
| 0:38.3 | Please welcome Brian David Gilbert. |
| 0:40.1 | Hello. |
| 0:40.9 | Welcome to the show. You are one of three first-time players today. |
| 0:44.7 | How are you feeling about being on the show? |
| 0:46.9 | I'm going to crush it. I'm going to absolutely destroy and I'm here to win and nothing else. |
| 0:51.9 | Not be entertaining, not be fun, just very competitive and angry the entire time. Aren't you doing some appearances on Dropout right now? I feel like, I feel like it's more of a competitive vibe than I'd normally get from you back. Yeah, you're right. I think it's just, it's slowly been seeping into my psyche over the course of however many game shows things I've been doing. Well, thank you very |
| 1:11.8 | much for joining us. Good luck today. Next up, we have professional domino artist and YouTuber. |
| 1:17.4 | Lily Havash, how are you doing? I'm doing amazing. I'm so excited. I don't know the most about |
| 1:23.5 | tribute, but, you know, I think we're going to work together and get some good stuff, so it's |
| 1:27.5 | going to be fun. |
| 1:27.9 | Yeah, this is absolutely a show where if you think of an answer that might be completely off-based, |
| 1:33.5 | completely ridiculous, say it anyway, because if it's wrong, it probably will set something off |
| 1:38.3 | in someone else's head. |
| 1:40.6 | I have to ask, like, Domino Artist, there aren't that many people who can claim to have that level of success with what you're doing. |
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