Why fly to Japan and back in a day?

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  • From 'Jet Lag: The Game', Sam Denby, Adam Chase and Ben Doyle face a question about a return journey with a difference.
    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
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    HOST: Tom Scott.
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    RECORDED AT: The Podcast Studios, Dublin.
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  • @adamplace1414
    @adamplace1414 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3176

    Anyone else get the feeling that once Tom finishes his continual run of Monday videos next year that he'll have the time to be Sam's teammate on a season of Jet Lag?

    • @benjaminanderson1014
      @benjaminanderson1014 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +245

      That would be so cool

    • @joebleasdale5557
      @joebleasdale5557 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +130

      😮😮😮😮😮 MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

    • @azuradawn5683
      @azuradawn5683 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

      THAT WOULD BE SO COOL! Ugh I hope this happens..

    • @telotawa
      @telotawa 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      TOM PLEASE! DO IT!

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I'm wondering whether Tom is really going to stick to that date for finishing his Monday videos!

  • @ihathtelekinesis
    @ihathtelekinesis 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1020

    Of course it’d be Ben who suggests getting drunk.

    • @Water-dnfu
      @Water-dnfu 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@georgeprout42As a Gemini, I love this

    • @dom718
      @dom718 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      zodiac signs mean nothing
      @@Water-dnfu

    • @gingeridot
      @gingeridot 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Now that I've watched all of Jet Lag, I finally get that reference

  • @sarahmacintosh6449
    @sarahmacintosh6449 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +982

    In 1985, my dad flew from Sydney to Honolulu, had lunch and flew back 😮 His US green card would expire if he didn't set foot on US soil at least once every 12 months. Since all of our green cards were linked to his, it would have made moving the family to the US a few months later quite a bit more challenging 🤔😂

    • @WyvernYT
      @WyvernYT 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

      My uncle once heard his workplace was getting VIP visitors from Japan and so tried to get the job of liaison by pointing out that he was the only person there who'd ever been to Japan. It was technically true; when his time in Viet Nam was done the US Army flew soldiers home, his plane stopped for refueling, and he got to see a few parts of Japan from his window seat - and even more of it as they flew over. His bosses did not buy this.

    • @gpglicious
      @gpglicious 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I thought for sure this was the reason.

    • @kanedaku
      @kanedaku 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I initially guessed it was something along those lines!

    • @sophiamarchildon3998
      @sophiamarchildon3998 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      That was my guess: a visa expiring on that day. He had to prove being outside the USA, "more than a day"/"before the visa ran out", so he could get a new visa once he returned home.

    • @WTFBOOMDOOM
      @WTFBOOMDOOM 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought he wanted to brag about having made a trip around the world. If the same plane was used to fly from Tokyo over Asia, Europe and then New Jersey, it's a world trip of sorts. It would take longer than 14 hours though.

  • @Michael75579
    @Michael75579 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +850

    Douglas Adams was quoted as saying "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go past." On the original Hitch Hikers Guide radio series, he was writing scenes and taking them down to the cast while they were in the studio recording the episode.

    • @joebleasdale5557
      @joebleasdale5557 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Any excuse Tom gets to use a reference to the most famous alum of his uni (besides him ofc 😂)

    • @anttibjorklund1869
      @anttibjorklund1869 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I love that specific quote from DA.😂

    • @caltheuntitled8021
      @caltheuntitled8021 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Douglas Addams understands me

    • @PiersDJackson
      @PiersDJackson 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      There is another spurious tale of Doctor Who in the late 1970's, at the time the Producer was Graeme Williams, and Douglas Adams was either the script editor or a contributing writer.... the story goes that a writer was locked in a room with the producer, script editor, their notes and a typewriter, then threatened with a cactus being inserted as a suppository, unless they could produce a completed teleplay script for the upcoming story, scheduled to be recorded the following day.... that is not the rehearsal, but filming.

    • @losthor1zon
      @losthor1zon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This seems to be an ongoing thing among creatives. Mozart and Rossini, among others, wrote music for some as yet unfinished operas getting the parts to the performers piecemeal as the rehearsal was taking place.

  • @kaneto88
    @kaneto88 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    Well, the "much relieved" part and the fact it was a trip to Japan made me think that he was just really committed to using one of those high-tech Japanese toilets at least once.

  • @mikdu1
    @mikdu1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    Just a note from an audio engineer incase Sam and Adam happens to see this: Adam, you are speaking into the wrong end of the mic, you are supposed to talk into the front, where the logo is. Sam: that mic is designed to not have proximity effect (the addition of low frequencies when you talk close to it) which means, you can speak way closer to it, meaning you don't have to keep the gain that high, so the resulting sound would be less echoey

  • @fademejake
    @fademejake 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +236

    The 'only phone and laptop' part of the clue had me thinking that maybe it had something to do with the international dateline and what date showed on his devices when he performed some action. I was thinking that he needed something he did to be timestamped with the previous day's date, but then I realized that crossing the dateline going west would move him forward one calendar day.

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Still, nice lateral thinking!

    • @NikitaOsito
      @NikitaOsito 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I think that would have been possible back when Concords were still flying. Neat idea.

    • @fademejake
      @fademejake 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Then when he said that it was something that you could only do on a plane my mind went straight to the "mile high club". 🤣 I could not figure out why he needed that long of a flight, but it did explain his sense of satisfaction afterward!

    • @misterbobEA
      @misterbobEA 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I thought international dateline too- specifically that you could skip an entire date by crossing the right part of the international dateline at the right time of day (there are small sections where the bordering timezones are 25 hours apart). It doesn't work with Tokyo, though.
      I thought maybe he wanted to skip a day because of the end of the world that was supposed to happen on a particular date.

    • @fademejake
      @fademejake 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@misterbobEA lol. Skipping the end of the world. I guess if someone thinks it's going to happen it would be worth a shot! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @livfuji
    @livfuji 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +267

    I always envision what I think the guests look like in my head when I listen to an episode, then I watch the highlights and I’m never right.

    • @UnconventionalOne
      @UnconventionalOne 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

      To be fair, I don't know if anyone ever pictures Sam's face properly. I mean, I still generally picture him as a disembodied voice.

    • @benjaminanderson1014
      @benjaminanderson1014 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

      The fact that you didn't know what these guys look like means that you don't watch Jet Lag: The Game which I consider to be a great disappointment

    • @UrbanPanic
      @UrbanPanic 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      This goes doubly for Sam. He... just doesn't look like he sounds on the Wendover videos.

    • @stevepittman3770
      @stevepittman3770 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@benjaminanderson1014 Heartily seconded. It's a great show.

    • @vincenttt8289
      @vincenttt8289 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@UrbanPanic As they say, he's got a face for the radio

  • @hadinossanosam4459
    @hadinossanosam4459 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +348

    Perfect question for this cast xD Well done from the production crew to coordinate that

    • @lateralcast
      @lateralcast  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +170

      We don't just throw this show together... :)

    • @hadinossanosam4459
      @hadinossanosam4459 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@lateralcast Still a level of attention to detail better than many, even professional channels, hence the compliment :)

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sorry for being stupid, but I don't understand why this question is perfect for this particular cast. What's the reason?

    • @Greg-oc7dj
      @Greg-oc7dj 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@ajs41I assume they’re referencing the jet lag game that they never actually explained 😂

    • @myladycasagrande863
      @myladycasagrande863 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      ​@@ajs41the three guests have a channel called Jet Lag: The Game, in which they play various travel games. The current season is playing capture the flag all over Japan, previous seasons have included going around the world in 100 hours, playing tag across Europe, and racing to claim the most US states by going to the capitals and completing challenges.

  • @AndrewKay
    @AndrewKay 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +141

    My first idea was that he had made some kind of commitment to visit every country in the world before a certain date, then realised he had missed Japan with only two days left on the deadline, but couldn't spend longer there because he had to work the day after.
    Then I remembered a charity event that university students used to do, where it was a contest to get as far away from the starting point as possible in 24 hours starting with no money. There were legends of students who had made it to other countries by blagging plane tickets or getting a company to sponsor them. I don't remember what the event was called.

    • @joshuawan7004
      @joshuawan7004 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      RAG Jailbreak Hitchhiking Challenge

    • @EcceJack
      @EcceJack 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@joshuawan7004that's the one! I remember a couple of my uni friends doing this

  • @countertony
    @countertony 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

    I'd assumed it was to comply with a poorly-worded deadline that didn't specify time zone, but which was trivially doable from the airport (email or fax a document - so it's timestamped locally - before midnight on such and such a date). So you get off the plane, connect to cell service, hit 'send', and go straight to the departure lounge. Until I realised you'd be a day *ahead* in Tokyo.

    • @kevinschultz6091
      @kevinschultz6091 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, he obviously wanted to get it done ahead of everyone else, then!
      ...or something. Time zones throw me for a loop.

    • @88porpoise
      @88porpoise 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I read the questionultiple times to make sure I had the right direction.
      Then I wondered how geolocation would work on an airplane's internet for that reason. Could you submit something via the plane internet when over the westernmost time zone and meet a deadline?
      I do taxes on the west coast, there have been multiple instances where someone back east on the deadline day messaged me asking me to file something as they missed their cut off.
      In one case I said "too late, do you know someone in Hawaii?" And the other person phoned up someone in Hawaii and got it filed on time.

  • @scottcampbell96
    @scottcampbell96 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

    Tom, with one of your 26 weeks left of the weekly videos, you should visit Walden Pond.
    Edit: now that I have thought about it some more, this should be your final video in the ten year streak. It would be fitting to go to Walden to take some time off.

    • @DavidNitzscheBell
      @DavidNitzscheBell 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Agreed.

    • @austin_hooker4164
      @austin_hooker4164 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's perfect. One could say, trancendent....

  • @adamplace1414
    @adamplace1414 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    I get a warm feeling anytime I hear fellow Americans praise Taskmaster.

  • @edwardrocca
    @edwardrocca 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Dear Adam Chase regarding sound quality; The Blue Yeti is a front facing microphone, and in your environment you should be talking to the Blue logo at the front of the microphone. This will mean that your voice will be picked up properly rather than mostly the reflection from your room. I hope you read this and can improve your sound quality for future recordings! :)

    • @edwardrocca
      @edwardrocca 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's possible you're not using the microphone in this setting to be honest, as the sound quality sounds like it may as well be from your earphones haha. If so, I'm sure you already know that you're not using the microphone as intended :p.

  • @woodneel
    @woodneel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    Tom not knowing something is always a surprise - especially when I had to study that very subject matter in high school haha

    • @azuradawn5683
      @azuradawn5683 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      A nice reminder that we're not born knowing all these things - we had to learn them - and there's an infinite number of things any person hasn't learned yet!

    • @woodneel
      @woodneel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@azuradawn5683 helps keep one humble and grateful for the privilege of being privy to knowledge, eh? ;)

    • @MichaelMoore99
      @MichaelMoore99 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I was surprised that he had no idea what the Hagia Sophia was on Two of These People Are Lying.

    • @WyvernYT
      @WyvernYT 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      That a British person shouldn't have heard of an American book isn't that surprising. That he didn't know about Hagia Sophia still boggles me.

    • @Heksu99
      @Heksu99 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I still believe that he knew what Hagia Sophia is, but didn't either just connect it or did it for the show

  • @twitchysparrow
    @twitchysparrow 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    Yes!!!!! This crossover is everything

    • @azuradawn5683
      @azuradawn5683 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Have you seen their tag in London video??

  • @Alsadius
    @Alsadius 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    And here my first thought was some sort of immigration check-in - "If you don't set foot in Japan for five years, you lose your citizenship!", something like that.

  • @Erikaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    @Erikaaaaaaaaaaaaa 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Adam might actually be the best guest you guys have had on lol. He's so funny and really thinks about it the right way

    • @Henry_Red
      @Henry_Red 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Quite the opposite. He's so aggressive and pretentious.

  • @Lyarrah
    @Lyarrah 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    well, i looked up Peter's books and I think it's fair to say the ACTUAL reason was a massive PR stunt/purely advertising, given that either that book or his next one was titled "Faster Than Normal: Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain" and he also wrote, a decade earlier, "Can We Do That!: Outrageous PR Stunts That Work"

    • @Ceruleanst
      @Ceruleanst 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      An even better comparison with Walden, then. Thoreau's writings about the experience of being self-sufficient in nature were essentially a chronicle of play-camping in his back garden while his mom literally brought him cookies and sandwiches and did his laundry.

    • @lateralcast
      @lateralcast  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      He runs an ADHD podcast and has written many books on flights. So, while it's also a neat story, it isn't just invented for the sake of it.

    • @Lyarrah
      @Lyarrah 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@lateralcast definitely not saying it didn't happen, just that he might have chosen something that extreme on purpose as a marketing stunt. I was curious as to what book he wrote that was worth the cost of that flight since I had never heard of him, and thought the answer was actually really relevant to the overall question - after all, it's a big ADHD coping action taken to finish a manuscript about ADHD!
      so I'm sorry if it came across as negative towards him in any form - I was just trying to add interesting bonus info I found after this episode sent me down a rabbit hole :D

    • @columbus8myhw
      @columbus8myhw 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@CeruleanstAlso, from what I can tell, Walden Pond isn't _particularly_ isolated.

  • @telotawa
    @telotawa 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    i love these guys' personalities, i thought it was just a bit when they were doing it on jet lag but it's just them, amazing

  • @adamwatson.1848
    @adamwatson.1848 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Even jet-lag the game wasn’t crazy enough to do this!

  • @mebamme
    @mebamme 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    This is by far my favorite episode yet! Sam, Ben and Adam make for great contestants and funny moments.

  • @thattigercat
    @thattigercat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    0:38 in I'm gonna guess he had a relative living in that area, and had somehow or other been given the impression that relative was in very serious danger of being dead, dying soon, or something similar. Guy books an emergency flight, finds out on arriving it was either mistaken identity or something similar, is very relieved, and goes back home to tend to business that was otherwise being put off but no longer can because there's no longer an emergency.

    • @Volt64bolt
      @Volt64bolt 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      But they booked a return ticket, you have to schedule the return flight before hand usually

    • @thattigercat
      @thattigercat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Volt64bolt Was it a return? Missed that. Would have been a better, less wasteful reason than the actual answer at least. Can't imagine paying 5k because of lacking the willpower to put the damn phone down voluntarily.

    • @anttibjorklund1869
      @anttibjorklund1869 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@thattigercat According to his Wikipedia page the author has ADHD. So yes, he "lacks the willpower to put the damn phone down voluntarily" as you "so eloquently" put.

  • @slightlykooky
    @slightlykooky 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I have a friend of a friend who is head of lounges for an airline. Flying half way around the world to check a lounge and going straight back again is a standard thing for him.

  • @YoungBalegdeh
    @YoungBalegdeh 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is my question! Cool to hear the bloke from HAI answer it

    • @lateralcast
      @lateralcast  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Thanks for submitting it! You should be name-checked on the audio version and in the podcast notes too.

  • @Gzeebo
    @Gzeebo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    It's taken me a few years, but I think I may finally be getting accustomed to seeing Sam's face.

  • @AngelWedge
    @AngelWedge 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    I am very disappointed in myself for not getting this one; having taken the train to London 3 times in the last year for the exact same reason.
    (The internet doesn't distract me too much, even if the train wifi occasionally works; but I need a space where I can't start pacing around the room while I'm thinking)

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Why travel so far or so much? Just leave all your computers and devices at home and go somewhere else nearby. It could be just down the road. That's what I do occasionally.

    • @bosstowndynamics5488
      @bosstowndynamics5488 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@ajs41I don't have this form of experience but also need external force to be productive, so speaking from loosely related experience:
      Popping down the road means the inherent ability to just pop back home. A prolonged travel time leaves you no real option, and the monetary expenses is a further motivator.

    • @ferretyluv
      @ferretyluv 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A train is the perfect environment for that.

  • @Ealsante
    @Ealsante 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +147

    If anyone was wondering what the 'personality trait' was, Peter Shankman has severe ADHD. So he's even more sensitive to outside stimuli and distractions from the vast majority of us, which might have made the flight worth it.

    • @geraldineelizabeth151
      @geraldineelizabeth151 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      As someone with ADHD, I instantly thought it would be a great idea for someone with such a brain.

    • @Xiph1980
      @Xiph1980 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I'd still find solitaire too much of a distraction for this to work. Or organizing "my documents", cleaning up the desktop...

    • @cannot-handle-handles
      @cannot-handle-handles หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@geraldineelizabeth151 As someone with ADHD, I got this almost immediately after I heard "laptop". As someone in academia, I thought it was a thesis, though, but close enough.

  • @TomOConnor-BlobOpera
    @TomOConnor-BlobOpera 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Gosh, that guy must have loved 2020.
    Also,
    Walden is *not* well known in the UK, sadly. And it was Massachusetts, not Maine

    • @cannot-handle-handles
      @cannot-handle-handles หลายเดือนก่อน

      Interestingly, I know Walden, despite living in Europe (though not in the UK). The reason I have read it is also an interesting coincident - I had sort of the opposite problem described in the video: I found myself on a long train ride without anything to do, because I had forgotten to bring a book, so my girlfriend at the time lent me her copy of Walden.

  • @punt3rplays
    @punt3rplays 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    5:25 I love how it’s BEN who mentions the guy getting drunk

  • @scottydude456
    @scottydude456 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Adam making fun of Tom for not knowing about the great American authors is even funnier now that Adam is officially part of American literary cannon

  • @BleuSquid
    @BleuSquid 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Walden Pond, is in Concord, MA. It's now a public swimming area, and currently is having a bit of an environmental crisis due to being subject to a century of excess human urine (because everyone swims when they pee, whether they admit to it or not)

    • @petertaylor4980
      @petertaylor4980 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I assure you that I have urinated many times without swimming.

    • @BleuSquid
      @BleuSquid 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@petertaylor4980 D'oh! I meant "everyone pees when they swim," of course 😂

  • @IvanaV_
    @IvanaV_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing episode!

  • @conanhong
    @conanhong 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The collab I never knew I needed.

  • @jonasstringer8699
    @jonasstringer8699 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I thought quite a good possibility was that he bought the tickets as a cheap way to see the aurora borealis, as a lot of flights in and out of Japan fly very close to the north pole and, if it's dark and the right time of year, give you an opportunity to see something most people spend thousands of dollars to go and see anyway. And I wondered if the relief therefore came with ticking something off his bucket list...

  • @hummingmostbird
    @hummingmostbird 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    My thought was that this was one of those situations where a part to repair a machine needs to get to that machine as fast as possible. "I need a seat on the very next flight to x location"
    "That will be $1,500"
    "Yes and it leaves in 40 minutes hurry up printing it pls"

    • @apveening
      @apveening 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I know somebody who spent a weekend (Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon) flying from Amsterdam to Rio de Janeiro and back to deliver some documents. To put the icing on the cake, those documents were printed airline tickets (it happened around 1998, before the e-tickets).

  • @baguettegott3409
    @baguettegott3409 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I suspected that one (which is rare for me on lateral). I had a history teacher in high school who always booked really expensive high speed train tickets to travel through all of Germany and then back, just so she had an environment free of distraction to grade our exams.

  • @liningpan7601
    @liningpan7601 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Suitable question for wendover production and jet lag

  • @cooledcannon
    @cooledcannon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I love the jet lag crew!

  • @yarone5960
    @yarone5960 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    There are curriers that do this for you, if you need something urgent they fly someone to get it, usually not even exiting the airport

  • @JosephParker_Nottheboxer
    @JosephParker_Nottheboxer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My first guess was something about meeting a partners family but could only do it at a specific time...
    My second guess was some bizarre fear or phobia of February 29th so flew out and landed on the 28th, and then returned passing the international date line and lands on the 1st March.

  • @almostfm
    @almostfm 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I did a mileage run once. California to London, spent about a day and a half there, and flew back. I didn't actually need to go to London-Atlanta would have been far enough. But the cost of the ticket to London, plus not having to rent a car, made the trip significantly cheaper.

  • @soundscape26
    @soundscape26 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow... Tom managed to get Erling Haaland on the show.

  • @feedtheflameforfacts
    @feedtheflameforfacts 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rarely do I click so fast - what a great episode!

  • @ckq
    @ckq 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:00 lol that's what I was thinking from the start, time to get work done

  • @yourewrong154
    @yourewrong154 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man if this show was full episodes on video I would be watching all the time. Might have to go listen just for the jet lag boys

  • @odbhut424
    @odbhut424 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    *up in Concord, Mass. I just drove past it this evening. Lovely pond and greenery, apparently Emerson owned the entire estate and let Thoreau conduct his experiment there.

  • @MikaelLevoniemi
    @MikaelLevoniemi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Awww i was thinking he had to travel to yesterday over the international date line to do something he forgot to do in "time", but it really doesn't work like that as deadlines are tied to location and time zone.

  • @angelrobles7201
    @angelrobles7201 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:53 That "voluntarily" reminded me of the story behind my country's national anthem:
    In 1853, there was a competition to write an anthem for Mexico.
    Francisco González Bocanegra, a talented poet, wasn't really interested in it, but his fiancée Pili thought he was good enough to win.
    However, he kept on refusing to participate. Pili started getting displeased, so much that she took matters into her own hands.
    Pili filled a room in her parents' house with pictures depicting several events of Mexico's history, then lured González Bocanegra into it, and locked him. She then told him he would only be let out of it until he had produced an entry for the competition.
    Four hours later, he slipped a ten-verse, one-chorus poem. Once Pili and her father read it, they let him out and entered the poem to the competition... which González Bocanegra won by unanimous vote.

  • @dcltdw
    @dcltdw 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I live near Walden Pond! It's in Massachusetts, not Maine. And wasn't Tom looking for video ideas for the last 26 episodes? :) Alas, I feel like Walden pond fails the "and" test, though.

    • @BleuSquid
      @BleuSquid 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Are they actively doing anything about the urine problem? The last I heard they were just asking people politely to stop peeing in the pond.

    • @WyvernYT
      @WyvernYT 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BleuSquid Tom did do a video about this Electric River gadget that might be persuasive...

  • @digitalhen
    @digitalhen 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I did NYC to Singapore then turned around and went straight back to NYC. A lot more than 24 hours non-stop flying.

  • @Izzy-Maurer
    @Izzy-Maurer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I was convinced it was going to turn out that this guy could only poop on planes and I cant believe none of them guessed that.

    • @user-sl6gn1ss8p
      @user-sl6gn1ss8p 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      like, does he need 28 hours to poop?

    • @jennifercroome1549
      @jennifercroome1549 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was exactly my thought too!

    • @DonPaliPalacios
      @DonPaliPalacios 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same! We took the "much relieved" too literally haha

  • @Queleb1
    @Queleb1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love Sam Ben abd Adam!!!

  • @MichaelBerthelsen
    @MichaelBerthelsen 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    But... What was the manuscript FOR?!😅 We need to know!

  • @dancingtiger577
    @dancingtiger577 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Henry David Thoreau lived in a cabin in Concord, Mass(home of the old north bridge) and wrote on walden pond.

  • @protocol6
    @protocol6 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." -- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

  • @alphaomega6023
    @alphaomega6023 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can't believe it but I got this one right almost instantly. Not kidding.

  • @TTVJDPlays
    @TTVJDPlays 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hope this brings more viewers to JLTG

  • @bethrisidore3225
    @bethrisidore3225 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    got this right at the start, knew it would be a deadline work task lmaoo

  • @derekschinke2512
    @derekschinke2512 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was just on a 16 flight that had wifi the whole time, so times have changed

  • @Santiago-in1xf
    @Santiago-in1xf 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've had to do a last minute mileage run luckily only needed a short trip, so I flew from Maryland to Ohio and back in the same day.
    Damn, Adam breaking out a deep cut from high school English Lit.

  • @spyridon7669
    @spyridon7669 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The biggest surprise in this video is Tom's knowledge hole on Walden given the breadth and depth of his knowledge in general

  • @savgottanned
    @savgottanned 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Writing this at the start of the video, i believe it has something to do with time zones and kind of going back in time to get the time to finish a task before it’s deadline

  • @maybeapacifist
    @maybeapacifist 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    WOW! I NEVER thought I'd see Tom Scott HUMILIATED on his own podcast!
    Good show lol

  • @Keenath
    @Keenath 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yeah, Thoreau went to Walden Pond to be all on his own. Except for his mother who did his laundry and brought him home cooked meals because he was about a 20 minute walk from his parents' house. Puh-leeze.

  • @diamonddave2622
    @diamonddave2622 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I flew from Europe to Japan on a mileage run a few years ago. Stayed a few hours and flew back...

  • @sethland
    @sethland 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One could fly to the “far east” (preferably Kiribati) to experience their birthday from the stroke of midnight and at some point fly to Hawaii (the far West) for something like 46-47 hrs.

  • @ambrosenuk
    @ambrosenuk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've just realised I knew this answer because he wrote it in the book of his that I read. Now that makes sense.

  • @Zack_Wester
    @Zack_Wester 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    and here I thought it was a case of I want this document done by Friday.
    its Saturday now when I got this document done but if I take this flight its will be Friday where I land (so I sent them in thoes I be in time).
    and then return kind of deal.

  • @rmsteutonic3686
    @rmsteutonic3686 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I guessed pretty quick as my Dad told me this story recently. Interesting story

  • @bob_._.
    @bob_._. 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Since you'll presumably be having more time on your hands soon Tom, by all means put Thoreau on your reading list. It's not a big investment in time, basically just a journal and an essay or two. Philosophy both personal and sociopolitical, one of the foundations of American thought. Standard fare in high school literature and/or civics classes.

    • @Dave_Sisson
      @Dave_Sisson 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But he is not American. Would you expect an American person to know all about an obscure British writer? Or a writer from another country like Australia? Of course not. Every country has authors who write about that country, but whose work is not relevant elsewhere.

    • @Detson404
      @Detson404 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Dave_SissonCalm down. I didn’t see Bob criticizing Tom, just suggesting that he read the book.

    • @WyvernYT
      @WyvernYT 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Nature is nice." Okay, there, now you know what Thoreau said. He used more words and was much more eloquent.

  • @bukwok
    @bukwok 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i was thinking maybe something about time zone , like in New York today is 12/08/2023 , some how 10 hours later the plane landed in that country , in that local time the day is 11/08/2023 something like that , by the way is possible..? is can happen if the plane fast enough , if can be done , so technically is time travel right..?

  • @cheeseparis1
    @cheeseparis1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Lateral" popped up in my recommendations. Immediate subscribe...
    I can imagine the dude, sitting in his $5000 cabin, telling to himself "There. I'll just watch one episode of Dexter, then I start my work."

  • @ChuckConnNYC
    @ChuckConnNYC 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I fly JFK to LAX or JFK to SFO and back same day alllll the time. My statuse is high enough that I almost always get upgraded to a lay flat...and I have lounge access. I work, I sleep, I watch TH-cam, and I drink lots of champagne
    It's my kinda spa day😂

  • @olanmills64
    @olanmills64 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Before watching beyond 30 seconds or reading the comments, here are my guesses:
    picking up an organ for transplant
    My other thought was a mileage run to maintain airline loyalty status, but typically you'd look for a flight that has a better value in terms of cost:distance

  • @thetrueglasses
    @thetrueglasses 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:14 real ones know that taskmaster mn is the real taskmaster USA and that it was INCREDIBLE

  • @coachpeterwilliam
    @coachpeterwilliam 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It’s funny, watching this, and knowing the answer, because I read it in a book already

  • @marblestoday4526
    @marblestoday4526 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Alternative solution: He lives in Kyoto and was visiting New Jersey. The plane stopped to refill, then he went back home

  • @sophiamarchildon3998
    @sophiamarchildon3998 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My guess was a visa expiring on that day. He had to prove being outside the USA, "more than a day"/"before the visa ran out", so he could get a new visa once he returned home.

  • @blondeandconfused
    @blondeandconfused 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would love to see this made into a game you can buy, because i would play this

  • @swumbles
    @swumbles 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    some people do this for immigration reasons, just so that they don't have to apply for long-term residency. my grandma used to do this because she found the US consulate such a pain to deal with

  • @cggc9510
    @cggc9510 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I tried this once to work on school work. It worked great up until the invention of in seat entertainment. Now, I spend 14 hours, sleeping and watching movies. For some reason, I still take my laptop though.

  • @mashtatoueful
    @mashtatoueful หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:01 "We'll fill that in at the end."
    Will we though?

  • @PaulJaYmes
    @PaulJaYmes 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm humoured by the attitude that Tom is expected to know about American literature.
    Like Tom, I'd never heard of "Walden" before seeing this. It's not widely known in the UK.

  • @dianabuck7310
    @dianabuck7310 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was pretty nuts. But not as nuts as Tom not knowing Walden.

  • @andrerenault
    @andrerenault 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Between “he can only do a certain thing on a flight” and “much relieved”, I was wondering if it had to do with using the lavatory

  • @inwalters
    @inwalters 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Since it was 2015, the book Shankman was working on must have been "Zombie Loyalists: Using Great Service to Create Rabid Fans", since it came out that year.

  • @Infarlock
    @Infarlock 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Anddd they were just in Japan filming their latest season

  • @kyh148
    @kyh148 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wait, I can't recall that Ben and Adam flew from NY to LA and back
    Was this an earlier season? Or did they already film next season?

  • @emanminus
    @emanminus 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I mean...got it within 30 seconds. Surprised it took them ages.

  • @zaaxi7424
    @zaaxi7424 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I thought that the reason was going to be that he could watch the films on the screen, in flight entertainment that they give you. 28 hours is a lot of films

  • @emoharalampiev1590
    @emoharalampiev1590 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This reminds me, one time like 30 years ago or so, my uncle went to throw out the trash and then called the next day from Moscow. (For context that happens in Bulgaria, and he lives in a small/mid sized town, so like not a world away, but still half a continent or so) and I dunno if he's ever shared the details, but from what my folks have gathered and told me (as I wasn't born at the time) most likely he was approached by some mobsters and they offered him some money to help sorta bodyguard some dancers (strippers probably) but they had to leave like right then.

  • @Glamb1089
    @Glamb1089 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was thinking he was trying to avoid his birthday by crossing the international date line at just the right times

  • @PeterShankmanOfficial
    @PeterShankmanOfficial 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That would be me. Hi there. 😁

    • @lateralcast
      @lateralcast  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi Peter! Hope you are well.

  • @ryan_kun
    @ryan_kun 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    as a Taskmaster fan, I'm surprised that they brought that up out of the blue 😹😹

  • @solace6700
    @solace6700 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    serial killers and narrators 🤝

  • @rieskame
    @rieskame 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My dad took a day trip to Vegas one December to keep his delta diamond status

  • @eduardomoser2823
    @eduardomoser2823 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ok Tom has to be in the next season of jet lag

  • @doubleslashkarma
    @doubleslashkarma 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like how they never ended up actually explaining what Jet Lag: The Game is

  • @kestag2110
    @kestag2110 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I’d prefer a cabin in the woods