The queens wearing green in 2024

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
  • Karen Chu, Lizzy Skrzypiec and Bob Hagh face a question about a verdant vintage.
    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.lateralcas...
    GUESTS:
    Karen Chu: ‪@goodjobbrain‬, / momopeche
    Lizzy Skrzypiec: / lizzyskrzypiec
    Bob Hagh: ‪@BuzzerBob‬, / buzzerbobtv
    HOST: Tom Scott.
    QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.
    RECORDED AT: The Podcast Studios, Dublin.
    EDITED BY: Julie Hassett.
    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. 2024.

Комментарии • 91

  • @lexistential
    @lexistential 5 месяцев назад +319

    i love that the captions use british english for the british guests and american english for the american guests

    • @Alexis-lt3zy
      @Alexis-lt3zy 5 месяцев назад +53

      Caption+ pays so much attention to detail, they are the best captions I think I've ever seen.

    • @brontewcat
      @brontewcat 4 месяца назад +1

      Unfortunately I am in Australia, and the captions are using the American spelling not the British spelling which is the standard for Australia.

    • @andrewf8366
      @andrewf8366 4 месяца назад +11

      ​@@brontewcat they're saying within the same episode it depends on the speaker. Not on who's listening.

    • @brontewcat
      @brontewcat 4 месяца назад +1

      @@andrewf8366 Ohhh.

  • @wta1518
    @wta1518 5 месяцев назад +77

    I like how the whole conversation for the last minute was about how yellow and black weren't the colors, when yellow was one of the colours.

  • @stevepittman3770
    @stevepittman3770 5 месяцев назад +25

    2:59 Holy shit, I just noticed that when Tom said the word the CCs spelled it 'colours', and then when Bob said it the CCs spelled it 'colors'. That's insane, mad props to whoever did the CCs and their incredible attention to detail.

  • @actionguy95
    @actionguy95 5 месяцев назад +18

    As a new beekeeper, I got this immediately as I had to mark my two queens green a couple weeks ago.

  • @mekkio77
    @mekkio77 5 месяцев назад +54

    I love quickly Bob got it from thinking outside of the box. I would have never thought of queen bees.

    • @JelMain
      @JelMain 5 месяцев назад +3

      It took me exactly 1 second. But then I've been a beekeeper.

    • @Leafsdude
      @Leafsdude 5 месяцев назад +2

      Strictly speaking, he was thinking ON TOP of the box. XD

    • @Squant
      @Squant 5 месяцев назад

      @@JelMain Took me about the same amount of time and I'm not a beekeeper. It was just so obviously not going to be royalty and my mind went to the next thing.

    • @VojtaJavora
      @VojtaJavora 26 дней назад

      I didn't get it immediately, but once they mentioned bees I knew that's it and that it must by to identify when they got hatched after a migration or something.

  • @teamcyeborg
    @teamcyeborg 5 месяцев назад +40

    I was sure it would be queens in a deck of playing cards, with a casino swapping out the colors of the backs of the decks so that it's harder to cheat cards in. So in 2024, you'd find the casino using green decks, and anyone who visited last year and is trying to cheat in a red-backed Queen would be unable to do so

    • @mr.gentlezombie8709
      @mr.gentlezombie8709 5 месяцев назад +6

      Giving people 1 year to get used to the new color seems like a long time. People could go in January 1st, identify the color, and be able to cheat unimpeded for the next 364 days.
      It would be slightly more effective if the colors were just random and varied day to day, but even then, it could be circumvented by bringing in one fake card of every color.

    • @littlemisspipebomb4723
      @littlemisspipebomb4723 Месяц назад

      @@mr.gentlezombie8709 I assume if casinos were to ever do something to mark their decks on the basis of days etc, they'd most likely feed the decks through a machine that stamps the date on the front of each card. But it feels like a ton of extra money and effort when things like cards being added or removed are monitored by the pit boss via camera already. Maybe back in the 60s or something before CCTV but I'm not aware of it happening.

  • @kedrak90
    @kedrak90 5 месяцев назад +48

    When I first heard that question I was thinking about currency being replaced one type of bill at a time.

    • @retrogiftsuk4812
      @retrogiftsuk4812 5 месяцев назад +1

      I considered currency or possibly stamps in some country with a queen.

    • @Gogoglovitch
      @Gogoglovitch 5 месяцев назад +4

      That was my thought, as well - that British banknotes were going to be cycled out for new ones with King Charles instead of Queen Elizabeth on them, shifting the balance of what colors they were. But when he mentioned that the cycle would repeat, that made it seem less likely to me.

  • @GarfyUK
    @GarfyUK 5 месяцев назад +26

    Does the Queen just enter the hive or does she have to be buzzed in first?

    • @evah4431
      @evah4431 5 месяцев назад +2

      Oh, booooo :D

    • @HotelPapa100
      @HotelPapa100 5 месяцев назад +6

      Hate to be THAT guy but she actually HAS to be introduced according to a protocol. The hive has to be made accustomed to her smell.

    • @danielpapania6117
      @danielpapania6117 5 месяцев назад +4

      only if its an Air Bee and Bee

    • @GarfyUK
      @GarfyUK 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@HotelPapa100 Thank's for being THAT guy, I didn't know that

  • @geoffroi-le-Hook
    @geoffroi-le-Hook 5 месяцев назад +2

    And here I was thinking about Emerald and Sapphire anniversaries.

  • @FrizFrizzle
    @FrizFrizzle 5 месяцев назад +96

    I'm a stand-up, and I do a routine about how we still envisage Elizabeth II as "the actual Queen", so thank you for the validation

    • @Zadster
      @Zadster 5 месяцев назад +13

      Similarly, I keep calling the King, King Prince Charles. because I have only ever known him as Prince Charles, so in my brain, that is his name.

    • @EinDose
      @EinDose 5 месяцев назад +3

      Elizabeth living for several decades longer than we expected did kinda break us, huh?

    • @petertaylor4980
      @petertaylor4980 5 месяцев назад +7

      ​@@Zadster I heard an American talk about the king's English a month ago and immediately mentally corrected to the queen's English. And then I realised, hang on, he's right and I'm wrong.

  • @andrewgrant6516
    @andrewgrant6516 5 месяцев назад +21

    Maybe there IS a white letter in the Google logo... AND IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THERE!

    • @TomOConnor-BlobOpera
      @TomOConnor-BlobOpera 5 месяцев назад

      It's actually nGoogle but it's a silent, transparent N

    • @andrewmartin3671
      @andrewmartin3671 5 месяцев назад +4

      You mean the Googlej logo?

    • @SmallBlogV8
      @SmallBlogV8 5 месяцев назад +3

      It should be a white 'd' on the end and then when you click Search the background goes black so that it appears as 'Googled' above the search results.

  • @grakkal
    @grakkal 5 месяцев назад +21

    Today I have fulfilled a deep desire which I've had for almost a decade. Which is to actually SEE Karen Chu go "Ooooh?!"
    Thank you Tom Scott. 😆

  • @davimurph
    @davimurph 5 месяцев назад +7

    I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure that, as of the start of 2024, there are no queens reigning over any UN member states (Elizabeth II died in 2022, Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated in 2013 and Margrethe of Denmark abdicated in 2024). This is the first time since the 1830s that there hasn't been a queen reigning somewhere in Europe. I haven't got the time or inclination today to see if I can go any further back by including the rest of the world.
    Although there are, so far as I know, no reigning queens at a national level anywhere in the world, there are a number of monarchies where the next in line is a woman.

  • @SlyPearTree
    @SlyPearTree 4 месяца назад +1

    What I love the most about this is that it seems to indicate cooperation amongst beekeeper.

  • @RFC3514
    @RFC3514 5 месяцев назад +3

    5:14 - They already have a built-in barcode, silly. 🐝

  • @noyopacific
    @noyopacific 5 месяцев назад +22

    Note to Tom ! at 4:49 you mentioned that if a wild queen has flown over you could identify its age by the color of it's spot. Since these color spots are applied by beekeepers a wild queen would not have a spot. The color of the spot helps the beekeeper identify when a queen bee is due for replacement, typically after two years. New queen bees are typically supplied by a bee breeder.

    • @empath69
      @empath69 5 месяцев назад +7

      Semantic pedantry - in this sense 'wild' would mean "not a bee of my hives"

  • @kainpwnsu
    @kainpwnsu 4 месяца назад +1

    It's Karen! I've listened to Good Job Brain since episode 3!

  • @HotelPapa100
    @HotelPapa100 5 месяцев назад +5

    Being a bit of a beekeeping nerd thanks to RUclips, I got this one right away.

  • @Beanedict_C
    @Beanedict_C 5 месяцев назад +3

    Yes! I nailed this one with no prior info other than reading the question, finally!

  • @KlayJones
    @KlayJones 5 месяцев назад +1

    This is the first question that I knew the answer to straight away

  • @viperhalberd
    @viperhalberd 4 месяца назад +1

    Another great day of saving the bees.

  • @nariu7times328
    @nariu7times328 5 месяцев назад +1

    These are so fun to follow along and try to guess!

  • @osmia
    @osmia 4 месяца назад

    What an interesting system

  • @luketurner314
    @luketurner314 5 месяцев назад +1

    The solution/answer reminds me of the color coding of twist-ties on things like loafs of bread in grocery stores to denote what day of the week that item was made/delivered (or something like that)

  • @adriansrealm
    @adriansrealm 5 месяцев назад +1

    The queen is huge compared to the other bees. She's not hard to miss and surely doesn't need a dot to ID her.

  • @George_vv
    @George_vv 5 месяцев назад +3

    Both Lateral and Corridor making bee themed videos on the same day? Am I missing a holiday or something?

  • @dryued6874
    @dryued6874 5 месяцев назад

    Bob just carried the whole question.

  • @R-Tex.
    @R-Tex. 5 месяцев назад +9

    We will we will rock you.

  • @kayleighlehrman9566
    @kayleighlehrman9566 5 месяцев назад +1

    Love the prospective fashion choices of Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon.

  • @benjaminepstein5856
    @benjaminepstein5856 5 месяцев назад +1

    The colors used are the same colors as the bundle of wires that Harrison Ford needs to splice in order to dump fuel from the plane in Air Force One. Why do I know this?

  • @Jemima1377
    @Jemima1377 5 месяцев назад

    As I watched two RUclipsrs who do this, I immediately knew the answer. Which is a rare occurence... ^_^

  • @Tahgtahv
    @Tahgtahv Месяц назад

    Somehow they all understood the question correctly, but I went in a totally different direction. I thought green was 2024, blue was 2025, and then 2026 and beyond were a combination of white, yellow, and red.

  • @SpyrosKoronis
    @SpyrosKoronis 5 месяцев назад

    Knew this one thanks to Scott's Miscellany, a thoroughly enjoyable book series of assorted trivia.

  • @widicamdotnet
    @widicamdotnet 5 месяцев назад

    I know nothing about beekeeping, EXCEPT the fact that the queen is the one with a brightly colored spot on the back. Didn't know the color encodes the year... that's like moped insurance plates over here? (I know nothing else about mopeds either...)

  • @ecchikitty1395
    @ecchikitty1395 5 месяцев назад

    I was thinking license plate registration stickers and the drivers of Queens New York.

  • @GospelOfIHM
    @GospelOfIHM 5 месяцев назад

    my initial thoughts was "bees or ants?"

  • @olympiawa
    @olympiawa 5 месяцев назад

    When he first said queen bees I thought there could be no way that was the answer. I was thinking it had something to do with their natural colours. I didn't even consider that it was an identifying mark.

  • @CineSoar
    @CineSoar 5 месяцев назад +1

    OK, as a soon to be beek, this one I had during the initial question.

  • @samuelmellars7855
    @samuelmellars7855 5 месяцев назад

    Heh, knew this one straight off!

  • @audreyprewett8076
    @audreyprewett8076 5 месяцев назад

    I'm sorry, all I could think of was the fact that it's a date identifying system, like putting stickers on your leftovers in the fridge so you know what day to toss them 😅

  • @hannahk1306
    @hannahk1306 5 месяцев назад

    My first thought was drag queens and my second thought was queen bees, so when Tom didn't deny "non-human" I knew that it was queen bees. I couldn't work out the reason though and thought it perhaps had something to do with plant colours.

  • @galacticmechanic1
    @galacticmechanic1 5 месяцев назад

    how do you put a dot on a bee that doesn't wash off?

    • @lateralcast
      @lateralcast  5 месяцев назад +2

      It's either water-based paint or even a sticker.

  • @jordanbrosch5378
    @jordanbrosch5378 5 месяцев назад

    Why does Tom say at the beginning one of the colors is yellow, but then at the end they have a whole conversation about it not being black or yellow?...

  • @nanardeurlambda
    @nanardeurlambda 5 месяцев назад +1

    00:19 this sound like a trick question. those queens are not litteral queens, Am I wrong?
    I'm guessing animals, or a trend drag shows?
    4:40 bees can be so accepting of the nonsense humans put them through. try to do that to a cat and see how they react!
    I was in the right direction, but I didn't specify enough.

  • @kyjeong
    @kyjeong 5 месяцев назад

    Good Job Brain in MY Lateral!?!?

  • @ericvaninwegen6384
    @ericvaninwegen6384 5 месяцев назад

    I'm terribly sorry, but I have to protest this question. I only recognize one Queen Bee and her name is Beyonce!

  • @stapler942
    @stapler942 5 месяцев назад

    "On Wednesdays we wear green."

  • @sandeshpokhrel9231
    @sandeshpokhrel9231 5 месяцев назад +3

    So confused about the title , what number?

    • @davidbevan71
      @davidbevan71 5 месяцев назад +4

      It's the title of the video before this one, Someone goofed.

    • @rajdeepbiswas8912
      @rajdeepbiswas8912 5 месяцев назад

      What was the original title?

  • @jordanhass
    @jordanhass 5 месяцев назад

    HEY, IT'S BOB HAGH!!!

  • @lucbloom
    @lucbloom 5 месяцев назад +1

    It’s not easy being queen.

  • @sophiamarchildon3998
    @sophiamarchildon3998 5 месяцев назад

    Initial thoughts: some playing card deck/game where the suites (clubs, diamond, spade, heart) can also have colours (e.g. german, venetian). And as a rule, the prevalence of a suite (trump and colour) could rotate year to year. So the Queen is the queen that trumps the others.

  • @lauxmyth
    @lauxmyth 5 месяцев назад

    Impersonators of Freddie Mercury may be involved.

  • @caedis_
    @caedis_ 5 месяцев назад +1

    I blame Alex for knowing the answer straight away

    • @JasperJanssen
      @JasperJanssen 5 месяцев назад +1

      Technology connections Alex? I don’t remember a bee story in there.

    • @hobby30plus
      @hobby30plus 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@JasperJanssenCaptain Disillusion

    • @caedis_
      @caedis_ 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@JasperJanssen That is Alec, I am talking about Just Alex, a youtuber who has bees (and recorded from day 0)

  • @walkingpizza1796
    @walkingpizza1796 5 месяцев назад

    i knew that :)

  • @wave1090
    @wave1090 5 месяцев назад

    I thought it was going to be about queen Camila wearing colors in a repeating pattern for some nonsense British monarchy tradition. Since she's technically the queen of all commonwealth countries, you could make the argument that she herself is *most queens on earth*.

    • @petertaylor4980
      @petertaylor4980 5 месяцев назад

      Only 16 commonwealth countries are monarchies, although that's still a reasonable proportion of all monarchies.

  • @JelMain
    @JelMain 5 месяцев назад

    Ever got the answer in 1 second?

  • @FrizFrizzle
    @FrizFrizzle 5 месяцев назад +2

    I only clicked this to learn about a number! You tricked me >:(

    • @rajdeepbiswas8912
      @rajdeepbiswas8912 5 месяцев назад

      What was the original title?

    • @PerihelionSummer
      @PerihelionSummer 5 месяцев назад +4

      Go to the previous video on this channel: “A number you’ll never need again”.