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@@Naedlus The Beach Boys also performed. She may have judged that mentioning them and "60s music" may have been more meaningful to a British audience.
Little surprised neither Matt nor Tom apparently know The Little Old Lady From Pasadena. She drives real fast and she drives real hard. She's the terror of the Colorado Boulevard.
I am some 3-6 years younger than them and I never heard that song either (I checked it, if it's just something I haven't paid attention to lyrics... no, haven't heard it at all) (shrug)
@@panda4247 I grew up with Beach Boys playing on the radio. Intellectually I understand not everyone's childhood was like that, but on a kneejerk level still find it surprising
@@DonkeyYote True, but typical of the music industry in those days, occasionally a different artist's version is more popular than the original and the 1964 Beach Boys Concert recording got a lot more radio play around my parts.
Quite a rare episode (as of late) where they actually got the answer without question-giving person answering it themselves (after everyone else only vaguely circles around it).
Hey, for further 60's embarrassment, dear Tom, Matt and Iszi - Pasadena is near where Deadman''s Curve is, and Jan and Dean - The Beach Boys best friends/friendly rivals - sang "Deadman's Curve" - and I'm a UKist, so I'm not supposed to know that!
The song "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" is best known via the hit version by Jan and Dean from 1964 who first recorded it. While the Beach Boys help Jan and Dean in its creation during the studio sessions they didn't write the song. They did however do a live cover version for their 2864 live album "Beach Boys Concert". The song deals with a old from Pasadena, CA who drives a souped up Dodge car and impresses all the younger folks. It was based on a Dodge car ad from the era about a old lady going to a race track with her Dodge car and showing why car enthusiasts should by a Dodge.
The two things that popped into my head when I heard the question were "computers" and "space" and I didn't really have a solid justification for either of them
I'm all for thinking laterally, but man trying to keep track of the two discussions at once is doing something wild to my mind. Inter-universal lateral with toms scott?
It uses condiments - tomato ketchup for red, brown/fruit sauce for brown and mustard for yellow. I'm not going to be correct but that was my first thought.
Jan and Dean. Which is close enough for Brits. Same area, similar sound, they knew each other. Jan and Dean did more songs about cars (Dead Man's Curve, Little old Lady).. "Little Honda" was written one of the Beach Boy brothers, but made by a thrown-together studio band, and eventually became the basis for "Skeet Surfing" from the Movie "Top Secret".
For those who don't get Abby's "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" reference at 4:49 (it's a song by the classic US rock band The Beach Boys) here's a recording of a live performance of it: ruclips.net/video/CxXFEt0grRo/видео.html
Yes, JPL is in Pasadena, Calif., but most remote images are downloaded by NASA to The Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS Data Center) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
0:24 I know this one! Its the first picture of mars. They received binary data representing the relative brightness of each pixel. and then assigned each 5-point range one of the colours. Knowing the width and height of the picture. It was faster to do by hand then by computer.
My first thought was the colorblindness, than algorithmic proof of the 4-collor theorem. Though I do remember that actual story the moment they mentioned it.
Matt: "Space!" My brain: "The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise..." Me: Hang on, why am I hearing that in Chris Joel's voice?
Before I watch further I am going to suggest a space probe. I think I will go with it being Mars based on the colors. 1965 seems too early somehow but that is what I am going to guess.
My guess... it's an example of the 3 color theorem for map coloring and Richard is the mathematician that proved it? EDIT: Nope, but that is so cool. I'm going to Google this now!
Gonna guess it's a drawing representation of Mars or something from super old space data. I'm still finding i get 75% of the answers within the first 10 seconds and getting a bit cocky now
It looks like the wrong file was attached to this upload. The tile, thumbnail, and captions match. The video doesn't. Did someone misread a spreadsheet?
Titles and subtitles is one question but the audio and video is from a different question, so I'm guessing the uploaded a different video file to the one they intended. To be fair it could be unintentional genius as I want to rewatch muted now and just read the subtitles, so getting two separate legitimate views per user from one single upload is certainly an exploit worthy of The Spiffing Brit.
Phew I must have just finished watching the Anguilla subtitles in time, and the answer was exactly what I guessed from the original video title alone (although I didn't know specifically which one Anguilla used so didn't know precisely why their specific one was in demand).
Dont think Tom would want to bring in someone that got caught doing over 90 in a built up area, and then remove the clip saying that there was no reason to leave it in or have it there in the first place. Rather than apologising for putting people lives at risk and saying he would never do it again.
i wouldn't say weird, bet she reminds me of something and I can't quite put it.... Kind of reminds me of Olive Oyl, or Kate Micucci, or something else, not sure... I suppose it's the headphones which are the same colour as her hair and make it look like one shape of the head which is weirdly round then...
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He's so funny, I feel like sometimes we forget just how smart Matt really is.
Matt Gray - competent
@@Gulliolm And he knows Latin.
@@asina6352 gcse in latin!
And he provides most of the bounce!
"Oh, he's so good at this!
How come he's so good at-
Oh.. Wait. Off course, he had lots of training! That's how I know him!."
I'll just say it's very on brand for Matt to just exclaim "SPACE" out of nowhere.
if if was Will (and given these colours) it would have been TIGERS?
It made me think of that clip of Tim Curry damn-near corpsing whilst filming a cutscene for (IIRC) and old video game.
@@panda4247 Lovely call back.
And as soon as he did i realised the answer... I knew it sounded familiar.
All I could think of was Portal 2.
Having both visited JPL, I suppose there is a non-zero chance that Matt and Tom have actually seen this piece of art before.
Thanks for mentioning the Little Old Lady from Pasadena!!
If only she remembered Jan and Dean performed it.
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The Beach Boys also performed. She may have judged that mentioning them and "60s music" may have been more meaningful to a British audience.
3:59 "There are Americans named Richard."
Can confirm.
Little surprised neither Matt nor Tom apparently know The Little Old Lady From Pasadena.
She drives real fast and she drives real hard. She's the terror of the Colorado Boulevard.
Everybody's saying that there's nobody meaner.
I am some 3-6 years younger than them and I never heard that song either (I checked it, if it's just something I haven't paid attention to lyrics... no, haven't heard it at all)
(shrug)
@@panda4247 I grew up with Beach Boys playing on the radio. Intellectually I understand not everyone's childhood was like that, but on a kneejerk level still find it surprising
@@ecchikitty1395 But Little old Lady from Pasadena was Jan and Dean, not the Beach Boys.
@@DonkeyYote True, but typical of the music industry in those days, occasionally a different artist's version is more popular than the original and the 1964 Beach Boys Concert recording got a lot more radio play around my parts.
Quite a rare episode (as of late) where they actually got the answer without question-giving person answering it themselves (after everyone else only vaguely circles around it).
"Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy." - Richard
Hey, for further 60's embarrassment, dear Tom, Matt and Iszi - Pasadena is near where Deadman''s Curve is, and Jan and Dean - The Beach Boys best friends/friendly rivals - sang "Deadman's Curve" - and I'm a UKist, so I'm not supposed to know that!
I very much hope that they got an explanation of why Pasadena is known for its little old lady traffic issue.
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Traffic issues are when things are down. She was a traffic terror.
The song "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" is best known via the hit version by Jan and Dean from 1964 who first recorded it. While the Beach Boys help Jan and Dean in its creation during the studio sessions they didn't write the song. They did however do a live cover version for their 2864 live album "Beach Boys Concert". The song deals with a old from Pasadena, CA who drives a souped up Dodge car and impresses all the younger folks. It was based on a Dodge car ad from the era about a old lady going to a race track with her Dodge car and showing why car enthusiasts should by a Dodge.
Don''t worry, Abby! I got the reference!
Matt Gray needs to meet my father. Then he would know an artist named Richard, AND an American named Richard. Two birds with one stone.
Florence nightingale didn't invent the pie chart, but she did invent the polar area diagram.....
I've seen that and completely forgot about it. Thanks for the teminder about this cool thing. 😎
Woah this is the first question I actually knew the answer to. I even guessed it from the title alone! Thanks Joss and Adam from Howtown!
Oh my, well i gotta download the episode now so i can imagine the entire game taking place on a park bench
Wonderful question! And I am so glad the answer did not directly connect with Iszi's comment of "colours from the human body".
The two things that popped into my head when I heard the question were "computers" and "space" and I didn't really have a solid justification for either of them
seems the subtitles are from a different episode!
Different riddle from the same episode.
The title, too.
Fixed now
I'm all for thinking laterally, but man trying to keep track of the two discussions at once is doing something wild to my mind. Inter-universal lateral with toms scott?
It uses condiments - tomato ketchup for red, brown/fruit sauce for brown and mustard for yellow.
I'm not going to be correct but that was my first thought.
"Space!" - makes me want to look up the Portal 2 ending. 😆
nah, earn it, play it through
Trivia: JPL is NOT in Pasadena! It’s in the City of La Cañada Flintridge.
I figured it out when Tom said it was displaying data.
The Little Ol' Lady from Pasadena. Beach Boys?
Jan and Dean, though the Beach Boys did perform it on their first live album.
Jan and Dean. Which is close enough for Brits. Same area, similar sound, they knew each other. Jan and Dean did more songs about cars (Dead Man's Curve, Little old Lady).. "Little Honda" was written one of the Beach Boy brothers, but made by a thrown-together studio band, and eventually became the basis for "Skeet Surfing" from the Movie "Top Secret".
Jan & Dean, but the Beach Boys did cover it live for decades. It's on their first live album recorded in 1963/4.
For those who don't get Abby's "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" reference at 4:49 (it's a song by the classic US rock band The Beach Boys) here's a recording of a live performance of it: ruclips.net/video/CxXFEt0grRo/видео.html
i feel like color by numbers would be a universal thing
I knew what that was immediately but only because I've been thinking about it a lot lately!
Yes, JPL is in Pasadena, Calif., but most remote images are downloaded by NASA to The Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS Data Center) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
I got this as soon as Matt said algorithmic art, this question was phrased so difficultly haha
Thank you for the episode! But the video references a different question than the title/description :D
My first guess was that it was a crecration of the Lascaux Cave Paintings, which are among the oldest known cave paintings.
My first thought was about the Tournament of Roses Parade, but 1965 was 75 years too late for that.
1:30 color by number for colorblind people?
4:30 OOooh, that's interesting
0:24 I know this one!
Its the first picture of mars. They received binary data representing the relative brightness of each pixel. and then assigned each 5-point range one of the colours. Knowing the width and height of the picture. It was faster to do by hand then by computer.
We're the Ricks in America, woah! We're the Dicks in America, woah! Everybody's name here is Richard-go-round!
...dammit, Matt, now it's in MY head.
Hey it's that guy from Matt Gray is Trying.
It was the first 1970s painting !
My first thought was the colorblindness, than algorithmic proof of the 4-collor theorem. Though I do remember that actual story the moment they mentioned it.
The youtube algorithm spoiled this for me by recommending @Howtown's video on this exact 'painting' for me earlier today.
I think you mixed up the questions and titles!
Initial thoughts: blind through Braille?
Damn, I wanted to know about Anguilla
Immediately thought mars but discounted it because there's no way it could be that (too early etc.)
Matt: "Space!"
My brain: "The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise..."
Me: Hang on, why am I hearing that in Chris Joel's voice?
Nothing like getting a space nerd to guess a space question.
Matt Gray :)
Before I watch further I am going to suggest a space probe. I think I will go with it being Mars based on the colors. 1965 seems too early somehow but that is what I am going to guess.
I suppose it was the first "photo" of mars, let's watch the rest of the episode
Iszi lawrence you have a new follower. :)
My first thought on hearing the colours was: bodily fluids…
Spoilers…
I am so glad that I was wrong.
less of a lateral question more like tom going, hey matt remember when we went there did that?
Smug as I knew this one. 😂 6:28
4:46 😭😭
My guess... it's an example of the 3 color theorem for map coloring and Richard is the mathematician that proved it?
EDIT: Nope, but that is so cool. I'm going to Google this now!
And here we have some delicious food for the algorithm ;-)
The algorithm is predicting the future now, I got a short explaining this by Howtown on the Tuesday just gone….
I got it at 3 minutes in.
Gonna guess it's a drawing representation of Mars or something from super old space data. I'm still finding i get 75% of the answers within the first 10 seconds and getting a bit cocky now
My initial guess was Excel Spreadsheet
Immidate guess: it spawned the map colour theory, i.e. any map 4 colours, or somehign like that.
Your titles seem to have developed a Mars bar . . . : )
La Canada Flintridge is where JPL is. Not Pasadena
Get it right Tom!
Nothing matches titles thunbnail and subtitles are all random
It looks like the wrong file was attached to this upload. The tile, thumbnail, and captions match. The video doesn't. Did someone misread a spreadsheet?
The first paint by numbers done by a former vice president, Richard Nixon (later president of course).
Abby is cute.
Tom's weird pronunciation of "pastels" was a bit annoying.
hmmm how would you pronounce it? sounds OK to me
(genuinly interested, English is not my first language)
Titles and subtitles is one question but the audio and video is from a different question, so I'm guessing the uploaded a different video file to the one they intended. To be fair it could be unintentional genius as I want to rewatch muted now and just read the subtitles, so getting two separate legitimate views per user from one single upload is certainly an exploit worthy of The Spiffing Brit.
Phew I must have just finished watching the Anguilla subtitles in time, and the answer was exactly what I guessed from the original video title alone (although I didn't know specifically which one Anguilla used so didn't know precisely why their specific one was in demand).
Aha!
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I got it soon as Matt went "Space!"
Bro bring Linus from ltt and mkbhd and do an episode and use tech questions
Dont think Tom would want to bring in someone that got caught doing over 90 in a built up area, and then remove the clip saying that there was no reason to leave it in or have it there in the first place. Rather than apologising for putting people lives at risk and saying he would never do it again.
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Is it just me, or is Abby really weird looking?
i wouldn't say weird, bet she reminds me of something and I can't quite put it....
Kind of reminds me of Olive Oyl, or Kate Micucci, or something else, not sure...
I suppose it's the headphones which are the same colour as her hair and make it look like one shape of the head which is weirdly round then...
@@panda4247 yeah maybe. She's just one of those people who has a unique appearance I guess. Not nessacarily a bad thing, obviously
Let me go look in the mirror and double check - I’ll get back to you 🫡