This furniture tasted great
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- Sabrina Cruz, Melissa Fernandes and Taha Khan from 'Answer in Progress' discuss a question about some luscious lumber.
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
GUESTS:
Sabrina Cruz: @answerinprogress, / nerdyandquirky
Melissa Fernandes: @answerinprogress, / mehlizfern
Taha Khan: @answerinprogress, / khanstopme
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. 
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"He's committing to the bits" is such a grt throwaway pun from Tom and no one else even registered it as such heh
Was gonna say this. Tom, we see your puns and appreciate them!! Take heart.
As good as two bees, or not two bees
I saw that too!
The title is a spoiler for the answer! Please don't do this.....
not me clicking so fast that I didn't even read the title before reading this comment
Not really. Chestnut wood roasting on an open fire does not taste great
I dont think the title is meant to be a spoiler here... The fungus EAT the chestnut trees; the fungus eatin the trees is bcuz they taste grt. The wine barrel association is unrelated to the fact that the wood itself tastes grt to the fungus that was feedin on it
Tbh I thought he was gonna eat the table so kinda not really
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But the barrel changes the taste of the wine, in a show like LATERAL that is totally a hint for the answer.
I heard your joke, Tom. Committing to the bits. *chuckle*
It's okay, Tom - *I* liked your "he's committing to the bits" quip.
"he's committing to the bits" ahaha
I'm sad he got no reaction for that one
Criminally under appreciated
That deserved at least a golf clap.
I am mad that no one laughed at Tom's "he's committing to the bits" line!
I scrolled down fully expecting to find everybody remarking on Tom's pun and that's exactly what I got. You bright apples, you.
Why did you put the information about the flavor in the title of the video? Please don't give information from outside the question in the title
I dont think the title is meant to be a spoiler here... The fungus EAT the chestnut trees; the fungus eatin the trees is bcuz they taste grt. The wine barrel association is unrelated to the fact that the wood itself tastes grt to the fungus that was feedin on it
@@SylviaRustyFae It's used for whiskey barrels though, which changes the taste of said whiskey. Even if the title wasn't consciously pointing towards the answer, it definitely makes you think more towards food/drink and the actual answer.
@@SylviaRustyFae Whether or not it's *meant* to be a spoiler, it does somewhat spoil the answer.
@@JohnDoe-ti2np Yeah, i just think it was a gaffe; and that they didnt think about the connection btwn question and answer when titlin this
The title made me think of smoking meat over wood chips, and I got so stuck on that idea I barely processed the real answer.
I got into 'chestnuts roasting on an open fire' and was thinking smoked meats with chestnut wood or some such.
5:15 no reaction to that one? tough crowd
yea i dunno... the AIP trio always feels like they're "too young" to latch onto tom's jokes... alternatively, they just gaze at him in awe.
I think he just said it with too serious of a voice
Yeah, I was laughing until I realised I was the only one.
@@alveolate Committing to the bit(s) is universal.
I think Tom's humor is a bit dry for them lol I had a good chuckle though!
The video being just outside the 8-minute midroll ad mark preventing the joke at 6:56 from becoming a reality
I imagine in the original podcast there might be an ad there
"He's committing to the bits" is a line that should not have been passed over like that. :D
Comitting to the bits at 5:10 went totally unnoticed?
Tom's line "He's committing to the bits" was really slept on by the other panelists
This is such a brilliant quiz format, the way it leads the audience to work out the answer as well, instead of it just being you know or you don't know. I'd love one day to see some of your classic panel show circuit guests appear on it, your David Mitchells and the sort.
You raise me up
So I can make accurate meters
Boxes of knives
I understood that reference
Elsewhere in the episode (in the question about McIlroy) Tom said 'and there's also a prize' and I felt a little sad there weren't Mystery Biscuits.
*Spoiler alert*
Ok so we have chestnut trees in the UK... is there a reason why the people couldn't use some UK chestnut trees for the barrels instead and save the antique furniture?
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...because then it wouldn't be "Authentic American Chestnut that has been lost to time" and the name of the company (Lost Spirits) wouldn't make any sense. He's not so much creating artificial scarcity, but specifically monetizing an existing scarcity.
I know that there are different kinds/species of chestnut trees, might have something to do with that. Also: just because it was old furniture doesn't mean it was valuable or high quality or otherwise worth saving.
Unfortunately you can't take that tour anymore, they shuttered earlier this year after relocating to Las Vegas several years ago.
I checked on lline and found that Lost Spirits is now out of business. It was founded in Salinas, moved to Los Angeles, and then moved to Las Vegas. It's too bad your question writer did not provide those details.
My answer was he was probably making veneers out of them.
always love these videos! I hit like before watching, and usually comment too haha
1:15 IIRC that's not why old steel is lower-radiation - it's because before the need for low-radiation steel was recognized, people would totally just toss neutron-activated scrap and old Co-60 and such into scrap furnaces, with the logic that the solution to pollution was dilution.
... it didn't work out great. Lead's another material with similar weird material recovery industries, though there they tend to look for sunken Roman-era ships and old roofing.
Wouldnt that mean that the old stuff is worse? As in, pre-need for low rad steel, they didnt care and tossed radioactive stuff into scrap furnaces, so steel came out radioactive, vs now they would care and not do that?
@@muffininacup4060 Not really, as pre nuclear there were not that much radioactive material around to contaminate the iron and steel.
@@57thorns But what would then mean that that is the reason why old steel is lower-radiation...
@@mementomori5580 It is probably a combination. Nuclear power, nuclear weapons and radiology in general (in this case I mean man made radioactive materials) did come from the same basic research.
One reason I heard was that nuclear testing did increase the amount of C-14, making radiodating usless after about 1950.
As for the steel, general radioactive contamination might be a thing for extremely sensitive thing, but both avenues are likely part of it.
I think Tom pretty much nailed it. One of the common sources of pre-1945 steel is the sunken German fleet at Scapa Flow. They need it for MRI machines and/or CT machines (I forget exactly). Basically very sensitive medical equipment where it doesn't take much contamination to throw off important results.
Funfact, while listening to the podcast I did *not* get an mid-roll advert after this question.
Ah, I thought that's what Tom was referring to.
My guess was he wanted to see the color and grain of bare, old growth chestnut. In BC (and other places) pine beetles have become an infestation that discolors the wood. Also old trees have denser grain. He could sell the chunks as swatches to companies trying to replicate the color with a stain or pattern on printed faux wood (laminate floor, melamine cabinets, etc).
@2:45 It's not mutations Sabrina. I think you can do an @answerinprogress video about this.
we need a class in plant propagation for them.
Funny, how my mind went to that exact same exaple about iron.... X-D
The "bits" was not a good clue because "bits" has a specific definition in America for wood parts, because they're usually smaller than wood chips. If the word was "parts", it would've been more clear.
Why did you make the title completely spoil the answer?
I 'd be willing to try that
Unfortunately it closed down in April
I was thinking he was getting the DNA from the wood to make new trees that don't have the fungus.
Well again I'm wrong. 😆
Before I get to the answer, I’m going to guess he’s trying to Jurassic Park some new chestnut trees.
1:27 and big boxes of knifes
"You raise me up, so i can make accurate meters"
I came here looking for that. Thank you 🎶🎶🎶
I'm going to need a citation XD
I want a post-radiation knife.
Cooks the steak while you eat it!
Initially i thought they might be doing a Jurassic Park on the wood
Everyone missing Tom's "He's committing to the bits" line must have been so disappointing.
I can only find these clips or just the audio. Is there a full video version?
Full show currently audio only. We're looking to do full video when our podcast platform supports it (currently in beta).
Oh, man... I just looked up the distillery, and they closed in Apr 2024. They built up too much debt during COVID and couldn't climb out from under it. 😢
I figured he had a source of chestnut to make new ‘antique’ chestnut furniture, and he was destroying antiques to destroy and pump up the price.
What happened to the Podcasts? Used to listen to them on Google Podcasts but they haven't been transferred over to RUclips Music??
They're available everywhere else. We are not fans of how podcasts have been implemented on RUclips Music. For example, they do not support 301 redirects. If the situation improves, we'll migrate there too.
"committing to the bits" ... crickets
I know right?
1:08 ♫You raise me up so I can make accurate meters!♫
What would Brian botany do? Is all I could think. South Park brain.
You raise me up... So I can make accurate meters...
Well, on the topic of Horrible Business Ideas and Chestnut Fraud, that's certainly a possibility, just the other way around from what Tom thinks. Buy old chestnut furniture, cut it into veneer, glue on new wood, produce fake antiques that you sell via roadside stores. I'm not sure about the legality of this, but it is an option.
My first guess was art fraud. Using the wood to create canvas frames for copying 19th century paintings that he could then sell.
1:25 accurate meters and boxes of knives‽
Did he try and graft the wood onto something as a cloning technique?
Recreating a smell?
You raise me up,
So I can make accurate meters
Boxes of knives...
bad title 😤😤😤😤
Hansel and Gretel moment
Damn I can't remember the ladt time I was this early 😅
I guessed it was being burned to smoke something.
The word "bits" makes me think of something MUCH smaller than a barrel. I spent this whole question thinking he made wood chips out of it to grill burgers with. I guess the actual answer was a better business model but I'm lowkey mad that no one floated the idea of wood chips. Grr. *shakes fist*
Well, could be that he made wood chips to throw into steel barrels instead of turning the furniture into barrels. He'd definitely get more whiskey out of the wood that way.
@@rolfs2165 Oh, excellent!
Why in the world would you spoil part of the answer in the title?
I was thinking it was from like a termite's perspective ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hmmm i wonder if the wood tasted great?
POTENTIAL SPOILER COMMENT IGNORE UNTIL WATCHING:
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I live in Los Angeles and wanted to look into visiting and good news it wasn’t an ad technically because bad news they had to close because of covid
I'm surprised no one asked if it had to do with recovering the DNA to regrow the trees (though I don't think the tree went completely extinct). Seemed like an obvious question to ask.
Isn't a podcast just an old time radio show but people pay for it?
He chopped it up to plant the wood and let it take root? That's my guess.
Edit: Nope
Spoiler in the title!
Aaaaaand it closed in April. >_
Is a barrel not furniture? Chopped into bits, but then made a tall barrel? Doesn’t compute.
This essentially boils down to: I want to my poison to taste like the olden days.
My first though was reasearch, and then I though of him maybe trying to fake pieces of the cross of gzus.
The title (This furniture tasted great) is still a spoiler imo :/
Youuu raaaise meee uuuup
So I can make accurate meters
I made sure to watch exactly 15 seconds of this video, towards the middle of the video, and will now be explicitly leaving RUclips, after disliking the video.
Thanks for the spoiler title, I'll do this again next time.