Tom's £1 safety coins
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Mark Rober, Jabrils and Virginia Schutte face a question about Tom's low-budget safety measures.
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GUESTS:
Mark Rober: @MarkRober, / markrober
Jabrils: @Jabrils, / jabrils_
Virginia Schutte: @vgwschutte, / vgwschutte
HOST: Tom Scott.
QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.
RECORDED AT: Podcasts NZ Studios.
EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at The Podcast Studios, Dublin.
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. 2023.
"Tom is a human." "Is it Tom Cruise?"
Don't forget the additional, crucial clue that it's not Tom Scott
I immediately assumed it was Tom from MySpace. He's everyone's friend!
@@robspiess I assumed it was Major Tom from David Bowie's Space Oddity. Don't know why
Tom cruise is a superhuman
I thought Tom Cruise was a Scientological Lizard Person 🤷♂️
When Mark said "Tom is alone. _Completely_ alone." I thought it was going to be Major Tom (sitting in his tin can, far above the world).
Considering the actual Tom it turned out to be, I'd argue that, while the _character_ was indeed alone, Tom was there with a huge crew.
Yup. For the sake of argument though, it still makes sense about alone "in context", as in he does not share the risk of getting hit with other people on set, he was "alone" in the sense that only him is getting dangled by the wire, alone in the experience of the actual stunt.
My mind went to an astronaut situation, too. Didn't think of the song, though, which disappoints me because I'm a big David Bowie fan.
I thought it was a reference to the game Thomas was alone haha
Same, thought about major Tom, and couldnt figure out why heavier shoes would matter in microgravity.
“To prevent hitting his head, Tom put a few UK one pound coins in his shoes. Why?”
Because Tom doesn’t like hitting his head obviously
Damn. Got it in 1. Next show.
I hope Mark finds a better microphone next time he comes on. Considering that this podcast is audio-only for the most part, audio quality seems pretty important.
It might not be a microphone issue - to my untrained ears this sounds more like a compression issue which seems like internet problems.
@@MrMartinSchou yeah but that is a solved problem. Just record locally and merge the audio files together.
@@MrMartinSchou It's definitely a microphone issue. The microphone on the airpods/airpod pros sound awful. If you ever listen to a friend, or anyone speak to you using the airpods it's so difficult to understand.
That *is* the locally recorded file, through Riverside.fm. We tend to find AirPods don't have great mics - we'll probably ask guests to use their laptop mic in future.
@@ScopeSource AirPods are generally the worst thing you can wear. Sound quality is average for most in-ears, they have an open end which makes every person in public transport hate you, as mentioned - the mic quality is awful aswell and for the price you can get way better.
Just me dropping my 2 cents/pennies
Mark made me feel old, he's thinking of the 1996 movie when he says "original Mission Impossible", not the 1966 tv series. Not that I saw it that year as I was only two and not American but I did watch it a few years later on a black and white tv (my parents did not get a colour tv till the 70's) dubbed in French (my first language).
My mind immediately went to weight distribution but I was thinking about space / zero gravity instead. To be fair, I've never seen any of the mission impossible movies.
I was thinking Tom Hanks in Apollo 13
In Space there is still gravity.
In order to achieve 0 gravity you would have ro be in constant free fall like the ISS.
Yeah, I was thinking Major Tom in Space Oddity
Gonna take this opportunity to point out that Tom Scott has full actual subtitles on all his videos across several channels and Mark can't be bothered to put them on his one channel that has way more subscribers.
rober just strikes me as someone who doesn't really care, whereas tom might just care too much sometimes xD
Well to be a bit fairer, Tom doesn't seem to be doing it himself. There's a link to the caption service at the outro, if you have subtitles on. Though they do do a good job.
@@dryued6874 I've mentioned that in comments on Mark's channel. Of course Tom or Mark or similar are not going to do the subtitling themselves but there are many affordable services that do it.
@@dryued6874 tom made a choice to pay for the good subs tho, i remember him saying it in a comment somewhere.
@@dryued6874 I would guess Mark could afford hiring a caption service as well.
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Major Tom in space, has magnetic floor, uses metal objects in his shoes to stick to the floor.
Mic drop
and it is obviously wrong and I can pick up my mic again :)
That was amazing! The story, the way that it was told and lead. And this aha moment when you understand! And of cours the boxing Tom's idea :) So much fun!
0:56 that subtitle threw me off for a minute. its gait not gate
Thanks, now fixed.
The inconsistent microphone quality among everyone is slightly distracting and hard to listen to when it's a long podcast.
I'm sure it's tricky to arrange these, but surely guests like ex-NASA Mark Rober have a better mic setup than just using his ear buds ;)
i mean earbuds are good. the mic is a potential issue though
@@whatusernameis5295 The implication is that Mark is using the microphone in his earbuds.
It’s weird being the person that knows the answer ahead of time
My brain went to "ground control to major Tom".
I loved this question and I was 100% along for the ride with the guests and their line of questions.
Now, if they had shown him do that in character, that would be cool.
I see no reason not to suspent Tom Scott from a hardness to see what would happen. He could get Matt to help. "Hi! In the movie, Tom Cruise hacks the CIA like this, so I've got a dangle-thingy harness for my friend Tom and an old PC running Windows 98. Let's see how long it takes him to pull up some files."
"I just thought Tom Cruise was a very balanced man..."
So did all 3 of his ex wives. They were VERY wrong about that.
In a world that sat at home having online meetings for two year, how do people still use this bad mics.
My headset's mic is sufficient for every conversation I need to have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For the same reason that people haven't learned to mute themselves if they're not speaking and have something noisy going on around them.
I've heard many colleagues via €15 headsets sound fine, hence my surprise of people still using such bad mics. Just using one that is somewhat close to your mouth, in stead of in your ear or on your chest, is more than fine.
I fail to understand how coins could help in that Situation
When Tom was hanging from the ceiling in the harness and horizontal, he was probably a little top heavy with his head hanging down too low so they added the coins in his shoes to balance him out like an old style balance scale.
6:37 - I suspect Tom wasn't even born when "the *original* Mission: Impossible" aired.
How young do you think Tom is???
@RobtheMod2 - Wait, knowing that Tom Cruise's films were based on an older TV show counts as being a "pedant" now?
You used to have to work hard to be a pedant. Now it seems just having watched some old-ish TV shows is enough. Pedantry really needs to raise its bar.
My first thought was that it had something to do with a magnetized floor. Also: Why is Mark Robers sound quality so awful in this one?
Slight error in the subtitles at 0:56 where it should be "gait" not "gate"
Thanks, now fixed.
I kept thinking "Tom" was in space... even though you're weightless in space 😂
Well, you're weightless, but not massless. The balancing thing may still be a factor in some specific tasks.
i was totally thinking "Major Tom" using coins in his shoes, to control his orientation as he traveled through a magnetic field...
As someone who has never seen any Mission Impossible movies (and frankly, isn't much interested in doing so): I still don't know what kind of balancing they're talking about 😂
Rumour has it Cruise kept all the £1 coins after the shoot.
Glued them to the bottom of his shoes so he could match then wife Nicole Kidman in height!
Tom cruise, mission impossible.
Stealing something that weighs as much as (a few?) 1£ coin(s) and gets weighed in and out?
Are we just assuming these a coins with a value of 1 pound Sterling, or do the coins weigh one pound?
The moment he said 'you've all seen this', I got it. To be fair, given the number of videos I have watched about the M:I series, I should have gotten it earlier.
dun dun dundun dun dun dundun dun dun dundun tududuuuuuuuu tududuuuuuuuuuu tududuuuuuuuuuuuu tudu
my guess was:
The metal will trigger a metal detector, usually this isn't necessary because they wear steel reinforced safety shoes.
Surprised no one said anything about the thumbnail.
This is the 3rd lateral question that I knew from the beginning
I think like Tom does!... My brain went to Tom and Jerry as well before he mentioned it haha
they started talking about tom and i really thought it was going to be tom daley the diver
I'm guessing something about a pun with pound
I think the coins in the shoes are just so Tom doesn’t forget the current amount of cash to rent a helmet at some sort of event/activity
i went to tom and jerry too!
As soon as Mark said ‘yes, it’s Tom Cuise’, that exact scene came to mind. It’s TC’s most famous scene ever - how is that a mic-drop! 😅
I have no idea what scene they're talking about.
Major Tom; I seem to have lost my balance…
Ground control: put some coins in your shoes?
Haha my head went to Tom and Jerry at the same time as Tom.
Also, coins in your shoes will allow you to not hit your head on barrier gates by tricking the magnetic sensor into thinking that you're a car.
No, they probably won't, but I don't think that technical detail was the reason why they rejected my Mission: Impossible script. Something about lack of excitement and also the fact that there's plenty of space under the gate for Tom Cruise to run through.
Its strange, my head went in exactly the same directions as Tom's at the exact same time when he thought about Tom and Jerry!
I mean, how else are you supposed to balance when tied at the hip? Especially when a male's center of gravity tends to be higher than the hip.
Oh I know this one! I'll sit out 😅
With the mention of the gait recognition cameras I was like I read about this is a sci-fi book, surely it’s not become a reality yet
12 sides Tom
"original mission impossible" it's not wrong but it's not right 😂
😄
Aaargh! The # is misaligned behind Mark!
hehehe tom is so goofy i luv him
My brain went to Tom and Jerry as well
I'd say it mattered a lot which small dense item it was. Any other coin weighs a few grams tops but this one is one pound.
There was another Tom & Jerry that was a cartoon with two humans named Tom & Jerry from the 1930s.
Ah, yes. The series that had to be renamed for reissue *due* to the cat and mouse duo.
Ami Yamato: "Damn you, Tom Cruise!!1!one"
aaaa figured it out!!
Jabrils :D
Magnetic
I'm so proud of him
That was a great question!
fun fact : F1 driver Sebastian Vettel he like to put a coin in his racing shoes , did that in every single races in his whole racing careers.
This is phrased as a riddle, but it isn't because riddles don't required trivia knowledge.
Grreetings from Poland 🤗
it's more like a thick quarter. A nickel is a smaller thick coin.
Initial thoughts: the ferromagnetic properties of the coins was enough to be detected by sensors to keep a gate raised, or some such (similar to mopeds adding on a big magnet so automated traffic lights get triggered).
To remind him, and have cash on hand, to pay for some mechanism (e.g. gates), and/or having to reach down to pay reminds him to stay low and safe?
3:43 To make noise and scare away nearby wildlife away from him?
5:16 M:I That was a good one. But my mind was far from it; I thought "Tom" was a placeholder for generic guy.
feedback for Mark: terrbile mic (or you are too far away from it and have some boost on) - please fix it