Why is Waldo up there?
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Simone Giertz, Cleo Abram and 'Legal Eagle' Devin Stone discuss a question about a world-famous Waldo.
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Simone Giertz: @simonegiertz / simonegiertz
Cleo Abram: @CleoAbram / cleoabram
Devin Stone: @LegalEagle / legaleagle
HOST: Tom Scott.
QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.
EDITED BY: The Podcast Studios, Dublin.
EDITOR: Julie Hassett.
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott.
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Devin's "is he fully clothed" is the winning question by far. Thank you, Tom! This was so much fun.
My youngest son, about 6 at the time, had to have blood tests, and the nurse handed him an open Wally/Waldo book.
He just turned to look at her and went, "you're trying to distract me, aren't you?"
This is as adorable as it is terrifying
@@MysterySteve Idk, the distraction isn't a bad thing. Needles aren't as bad when you don't know they're coming, idk the psychological reason but it does. When I had to get additional vaccines for a volunteer work placement in Africa, they just stuck me in the middle of a conversation and it didn't hurt as much
"Your Jedi mind tricks don't work on me!"
@@archerymidnight3422 I mean even ever I go and donate blood in Sweden.
the staff are almost encureding me to take up my phone and browse what ever while they stick me and then draw blood.
@@archerymidnight3422 As someone with a needle phobia: lies! 😝 The second I feel it, just *knowing* the needle is inside me is enough to make me lightheaded and nauseated. If it's a quick prick sometimes it's not too bad, but if it has to stay in for a bit -- for instance, to draw blood, or certain intramuscular injections that need to be administered slowly -- then no amount of distraction will help me 😓
Well, if he's naked it'd be neither Waldo or Wally, it'd be Find Willy.
It really is Willy in Norwegian publications, and Willie in Afrikaans.
And if he was wearing one rain boot and you had to find the other it’d be Find Welly
🤣🤣
he's called Wildo in the US
Caption at 1:47 should be "most lawyerly phrasing" not "most loyally phrasing".
Thanks, now fixed!
In an unbelievable twist, this video has just caused us to discover our boiler was leaking by causing us to look at our own ceiling and see water damage that wasn’t there yesterday.
That's very believable.
Actually Simone Giertz was originally from Sweden, where Willy/Wally/Waldo was also Hugo.
5:15 TV screens to watch movies while dentist works on you are actually a thing.
Yep, my dentist has TVs (securely) mounted on the ceiling. We also don't get earthquakes in my area...
My dentist has a tv on the ceiling, which has been playing the same Tom and Jerry dvd on loop for at least the last 10 years
I'm Swedish and I didn't know about Hugo!
but the dentists having Where's Waldo or similarly detail-rich illustrations in the ceiling, isn't that the norm? the one's I went to as a kid had that.
Having screens as distractions goes for getting cardio/thorax ultrasounds, blood pressure measuring etc I've been to with my kid in the last few years. Probably makes the nurses jobs way easier.
Here in Europe we're used to these books having all sorts of titles... since after, all besides the title and the instructions page (which I never noticed as a child anyway); theres basically no text, so it's one of those books that you can buy in any language while on holiday. And I'm not quite sure if he's called one thing in the Norwegian editions consistently.. I think different editions might have used all of the W names at some point.
I was gonna ask, is this not a thing in the UK? My dentist has had a TV mounted on the ceiling for at least the last decade, its hooked up to the cable. They ask if you want the TV before starting anything and let you choose the channel.
Can wait for the algorithm to change and make it worth it to upload full videos. I tried listening to the podcast but it just doesn't work for me
It's not a matter of the algorithm I think, if I'm not wrong it's a matter of exclusivity from the production company for the podcasts. Why? I guess it's a matter of each Spotify listen bringing in more revenue than each UA-cam view.
I think the reason is that all the guests are all very visual personalitys
Same!
You could have the podcast on audio, but a Where’s Wally on the screen?
It isn't the algorithm changing necessarily it is the audience changing. The algorithm just shows viewers what keeps them on platform. The algorithm doesn't just decide short videos are better, it notices that when it gives you a long video you are more likely to leave the platform, so it stops showing you long videos.
If you want the algorithm to show you longer videos all you have to do is watch longer videos, and leave youtube whenever it shows you a short video.
First clip I wanna rewatch because I did wonder how Devin looked in the Zoom call.
EDIT: He's at his usual background, all formal dressed up, and I'm not disappointed
Full library background, leather chair, green-and-gold lamp and all, the sharpest dressed guest in the series yet, I think.
When I heard Devin I was like "HE GOT THE LEGAL EAGLE?"
And then he said Simone and I was like "Hes really gonna have every youtuber on here isn't he. Only a matter of time before adam savage is on."
@@Khronogi Adam would 100% be down for this, no shot
@@Khronogi Wish granted.
Where's Waldo kind of has the same problem as Tom pointed out with the celebrity smiles pictures. Once you've found Waldo, you remember where he is next time.
True, but at least you have the rest of the illustration to look for details in, rather than the ceiling just smiling at you with its 6 mouths
If it's anything like the point that _Where's Waldo_ books have gotten to, the illustration likely also has Wenda, Wizard Whitebeard, Odlaw, and Woof to search for.
I had a Where’s Wally advent calendar one year, and each day had its own little thing to find, which helped solve that particular issue.
(On the flipside, it did mean I had to close and reopen all the doors each time so the image would be entirely visible again!)
That was what clued me in that the picture had to be for visitors. If the art is there for actually being looked at, it couldn't be for the owner (who'd have found Wally years ago) but for others. That in turn made me wonder who had lots of visitors who'd look at their ceiling, and that let me guess he was a dentist.
There is a simple solution for this, don't put Waldo in.
5:16 My dentist office has this, and I've never been worried about the screen falling until now. Thanks Tom!
My dentist from around 25 years ago had a headset with earphones that you would wear for long appointments, and you could bring VHS tapes to watch. I brought The Birdcage with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, and watched most of it during a root canal. The problem was, at one point I was laughing too hard for them to work. But it was an extremely helpful distraction.
Mine had a movie theater in front for kids waiting for their appointment, and little video screens / DVD players that hung down playing disney movies for you to glance at.
All my childhood dentists had large posters of "Hidden Pictures" seek-and-find puzzles from the Highlights kid's magazine on the ceiling.
Simone is actually from Sweden who just lives in US
3 days ago I was at the dentist (same dentist office I’ve been visiting since 1981) and I was very distracted by a silverfish (or perhaps some other arthropod, hard to tell from several feet away) crawling across the ceiling. As I stared at the silverfish I realized that I usually close my eyes while having dental work done, as the ceiling is (absent any creepy-crawlies) completely blank. When I go back in two weeks I will ask my dentist if she has ever thought about posters or TVs for the ceilings.
So what'd your dentist say? Got any new tvs up? 😂
Jan van Haasteren might have been the designer of the funny details poster, whereas Jeff Carlisle's "Another Night at the Warp Core Cafe" is the very detailed poster of the space bar.
Hey - Simone - one of my fave makers! Tom knows all the best people.
I imagined that it was a single, human-sized, overly detailed waldo. It is of course so you can look up at the Waldo, acknowledge that they are in fact there, and become overwhelmed by the feeling that you alone know where waldo is. It is exquisite.
"Waldo has found you."
My dentist (until he retired) had a TV screen on the ceiling showing BBC news 24 with subtitles on. Sadly the new folks took it down and I had a very long 2hrs in the chair on my last visit.
Have to confess I got it almost immediately. I usually spend the time lying there mentally dismantling the fancy light fitting.
At my dentist, the contraption on the celling of each room that holds the mirrors and lights also has an arm with a television for the patient. Although I have never asked for it to be on, I always thought it seemed fancy.
What a great collection of guests! Love it!
Between Simone’s Butt Tubes and the Personalized Water Bottle rant this has turned out to be one of my favorite episodes.
I'm quite surprised that they didn't get it immediately. Because every dentist I've been to (two) have a Jan van Haasteren poster in the ceiling
If you really want to distract your patients, put up a 'Where's Waldo' picture with no Waldo in it anywhere. That'll show 'em.
"TV Screen of Damocles" has entered my vocabulary
My dentist has a set of TV glasses that you watch movies and TV on while they work. Its great!
As soon as I heard it I said dentist. My dentist has tvs on the roof.
My mom is a dental assistant and she's worked at a lot of places. The most common things on the ceiling are motivational posters and pictures of random locations. There was one place I had to go to once to get x-rays and a crown which my mom didn't work at and they had random posters of celebrity headshots. Not even like posed ones just their face and it was like a 20 inch poster. It was pretty strange.
Tom got LEGAL EAGLE on his podcast?!!
Yes
My dentist has a slide show of kittens and puppies projected on the ceiling for the same reason. It works really well.
I should have got this one. (It's the first one I've watched so far that I haven't got before the contestants.)
Devin could have added that the upstairs bedroom was on the "first floor". 🙂
You spend the entire time at your dentist trying to find Wally on the ceiling. It's getting near the end, and you know its gonna frustrate you if you can't find him until your next appointment. Your dentist tells you he's almost finished.
"Oh, looks like you've got something stuck in here"
He grabs some tweezers, and pulls a tiny statue of Wally out of your mouth.
"there he is!"
fun fact: my dentist has a tv on the ceiling for this exact purpose! the tv of damocles does exist!
I was once in a public bathroom where they put one of these on the inside of the door. But after spending a good half hour on there, I decided to look up this same picture on my phone. Only to find out that they had cropped the picture to make it fit. And they actually cut off the part with Waldo 🤦♂️
The dentist I went to as a kid also did that thing as well. Though usually it was butterflies or something.
Our dentist just put a tv on the ceiling. More variety.
SIMONE!
My dentist has had TVs mounted on the ceiling forever. I just assumed it was a common thing.
Right from the start, I knew what it was because my dentist had one on their ceiling.
First time I instantly knew the answer. All dentists I've ever been to (for any age) always had paintings like this resp. TV screens in the ceiling for that purpose
I was immediately 100% certain that the reason was to say "gullible is written on the ceiling" to guests, forcing them to see waldo.
I'm extremely surprised that nobody guessed this, even in the comments(??)
Would be genius if the waldo clothes were stickers so he can change it up
Should have had the yellow chain question for the highlight video. Before Tom even said the word "why" I was shouting the answer. Then it took the panel nearly five full minutes to come up with the answer....
Spoiler alert:
Oh, the humanity!
I have a dentistry where we have TV's and watch movies. The kids that need surgeries get to pick the movie
I was thinking that he's a game designer trying to demonstrate the design principal that players will rarely look up unless prompted
I've been trying to figure this one out while waiting at the dentist.
My dentist has a TV on the ceiling. So does my son's pediatric dentist. And the main kids emergency room in town has a TV on the wall of at least the room we went in to do stitches. What's really cool is that our pediatrician's office has an interactive projector. I'm a little foggy on how it works, but the projector is mounted into the ceiling, projecting onto the wall, and the kids can touch objects projected onto the wall to interactively play little video games. My dentist didn't even have a poster on the ceiling growing up. I thought it was pretty cool just getting the balloon animals he gave us
Never mind Waldo and his striped shirt. If Tom wears something other than a red tee, is he still Tom?
I guess we'll never know
My childhood dentist had a TV in the ceiling. A big 90s CRT exactly the size of the removed ceiling tile, right above your head...
That sounds... terrifying!
It's Waldo's hat and glasses that can't come off. Everything else can be changed as long as what he has is on theme. See Waldo beach scenes. Just red/white striped trunks.
my locak dentis has a tv mounted above every chair, and the have most streaming services, its nicer than you would think
These videos give so much insight into who the guests are! Love it!
Can we get an audio track where it replaces everything with Where's Wally
Got it at the start as I have personally experienced dentists with where’s Wally on the ceiling. I thought it was common. It is a good distraction.
I probably am one of the strange ones who spends their time in the dentists office tracking what they are doing and how they are doing it without visual information (I also look at my xrays and stuff when they are out of the room to see if I can spot any issues using untrained eyes). I also occasionally makes mental note of any relevant science/news/technology articles I've read to get a professionals opinion.
I have wondered however if the general idle chit-chat between doctor and hygienist while working over a patients mouth is a trained skill, practiced skill, or just organically grown method of relieving patient tension. Because physiologically all people have a natural tendency to listen in on conversations between strangers, and thus provide a distraction for the mind.
If it’s the picture with lots of things that look like Wally, the insomnia suggestion made me think of that Mr Bean episode where he tries to get to sleep by counting the sheep on a photo.
securely mounting a screen overhead would be so trivial that i don't feel that would be an issue, and i have actually been at a dentists office (some sort of specialist where they did my root canal) where they had a tv screen actually, and since you are not lying flat it's would not fall on your face.
2:03 Agree, I don't see any problem with this so why would it need a justification. 😂
(It's certainly something Simone would just do)
TV built into the ceiling with a controller for the patient would be cool
Wouldn’t need to be a TV, could be projected onto the ceiling? Maybe an ever changing ‘where’s Wally now?’ Setup?
Huh. I’ve gone to eight different dental practices over the years and none of them have had anything on the ceiling. Odd that so many folks’ experience seems to be otherwise.
I've actually been to a dentist that had a TV on the ceiling, but it wasn't directly over the table; instead, it was slightly "above" you (from the lying-down perspective), which not only meant it wouldn't crush you if it fell, but also that the view wouldn't be blocked by the dentist's hands in your face.
Spoiler for the answer but...
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An enormous TV is exactly what my dentist has. I shall henceforth think of it as The TV Of Damocles.
For many years it showed The Pink Pather. Someone mentioned The Pink Pather yo me last week and I immediately flashed back to the dentists!
Funny, my dentist does have the television of Damocles on the ceiling. He plays Spotify on it.
This was very easy because my dentist also has a Waldo on the ceiling!
I got this as soon as I saw the title because they literally had this at my dentist haha
Semi-relevant: a café I used to frequent had _Where's Wally?_ on the wall outside the toilet, which I guess you would search while waiting for someone to finish their business.
I've been to dentists with TV screens in the ceiling but they're always showing like, the news or the weather forecast of some soap opera I don't care about. Worse, there's usually no sound and no captions so it's not much better than a blank ceiling.
I needed to have periodontics done as a kid to fix some gums and I wore a headset that played vhs tapes. It was probably early 2000’s.
I thought dentist, but it seemed too easy. My dentist has TVs mounted from the ceiling, and I guess I've taken that for granted...
Um, so gynae was one suggestion, and you call the video "why is Waldo up there?" Yup...
ngl, my thought was "dentist" immediately because my dentist has a Where's Wally picture on his ceiling as well.
Speaking of hidden things, there is a hidden shark in Vauxhall Corsa car gloveboxes.
Why did they call him Waldo in America? What's wrong with wally
I have been to dentists that have tvs in the ceiling.
Was it established that Waldo was for sure in the illustration? Because of he isn't, that diabolical and brilliant.
A dentist I went to used a camera and the inside of your mouth and what he was doing in it were shown on the screen! (I think that only happened once).
In the hospital where I got radiation treatment for cancer they had paintings of Escher on the ceiling.
Cleo reminds me of a celebrities but I can't think of who.
i feel like figuring out why it's waldo in the US is more interesting...
My guess was there wasn't actually a Waldo and it was just there to confuse people
Not necessarily to confuse them, but does allow repeat visits to the same dentist chair over the years. :P
I think Tom should have stuck with Wally!
Wow, it's four of my six favorite UA-camrs!
My sons' dentist has the "tv screen of Damocles" above each chair.
I was gonna say so his wife has something to pass the time during lovemaking
I knew this immediately from like a Reddit post ages ago.
I was at a dentist who had tvs playing tom&jerry on his ceiling
You said there where 3 americans on the show - Simone is swedish...
Dental chairs with projectors in them.
The dentist I went to as a child here in Denmark also got that in the ceiling.
My orthodontist had that TV of Damocles.
Nice seeing you play "Genial Daneben" 😁
Only works for the first (maybe 2nd) visit, though. 😂
And I swear @Tom Scott has hacked my subscription list; this is based on his show’s guests over the past several weeks.
My dentist has a TV mounted on the ceiling and gives you the remote. Then proceeds to block your view with their light.
They didn’t even address the really important question: Why do the British call him Wally, instead of Waldo?
The author is British. The real question is why do Americans call him Waldo?
I had this from the beginning, since I remember our school dentist had something like that too. Might have been Waldo, but I think it was the similar characters of " los Xunguis".
Beats staring at a blank ceiling, and they should have something like it at dentist for adults too.
I had a dentist with TVs. It wasn't directly above you but you could see them lying down in the chair. They originally installed them for displaying xrays etc. But then decided to hook it up to cable.
My dentist's ceiling is covered with newspaper clippings with stories of teeth-related crimes and vengeful dentists. There's a surprising number of those.
Yep TV while in the dental chair is already a thing. My dentist has a monitor mounted on an arm above the chair... just like the light they like to blind you with lol. Great distraction!
Solution to tv problem: projection tv would just need a regular flat ceiling in place, and would be able to do anything, even video games.
My dentist also has a where's Wally on the ceiling but with the protecting goggles and without my glasses it's a bit hard to see clearly. On the other hand it takes longer to find Wally.