The stranger said "It's for you"
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2023
- Rowan Ellis, Katie Steckles and Dani Siller ('Escape This Podcast') face a question about a mysterious messenger.
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
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Rowan Ellis: @HeyRowanEllis, / heyrowanellis
Katie Steckles: @KatieSteckles, / stecks , www.finitegroup.co.uk
Dani Siller: @consumethismedia, / escthispodcast
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.
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For those wondering, the prank Tom is talking about is the second greatest prank he ever pulled, and he talked about it more on an episode of the Park Bench.
What's the best then?
@@Haecairwenwe will never know..
Not yet atleast
@@Haecairwen His shirt is actually blue and he's had it edited to red in every single video he's ever been in.
@@Haecairwen INo idea. But, I think I remember there was a prank where everyone bought the same red Tshirt as Tom and Stood in this pub with him. He found it incredibly weird
@@Haecairwen That romantic soul of mine thinks it was career-ending, or at least illegal. More than flying a kite in a public place.
A few years ago an airline (I think RyanAir?) was caught using software to split up families/groups - they were charging extra for assigned (instead of random) seats and intentionally split people up as an incentive to pay more. Brady Haran had a similar experience he shared on his podcast: he and his wife took a flight and ended up seated in different rows, but it turned out the man he was sitting next to was married to the woman his wife was sitting next to... so they were also able to swap seats.
I think they got in trouble for splitting up kids and parents which is where this all came to light.
Can you imagine getting your tickets and realising they expect a 5 year old to sit on their own far away from the rest of the family. It's just dumb.
I believe at least in Europe the law now says kids must be in a near by seat to an adult travelling with them, but I believe that does also mean you could be on the seat in front or behind the kid rather than always next to them.
The only problem is that it messes up the death and injury maps if the plane crashes. (I wonder if that explains the few outliers you always see.)
It would be a way to do it pair up two adult bookings and swap.
That happened to us, our 3 year old was seated with strangers. To make matters worse, those strangers had paid to be seated close as a group so we had to make a rather complicated swap with other passengers.
@@scragarYou are partially correct. By European law, one family member that is capable to taking care of the child has to sit next to them. So even an 18 year-old sibling would be sufficient. Also only until the child is 15 years old. Children 15 and older can sit alone.
Check-in agents will usually try to seat family together. If it's not possible, children then are seated next to women.
"Hello, this is your captain; I've asked to talk to you because you're in a window seat, if you look down from your side, can you see a little orange dingy & someone waving? . . . Yes?
Well, that's me . . . Now, I don't want to worry you unnecessarily, but . . ." : )
"No thank you, I'm fine." 💀
"Hello, I’m calling about your car’s extended warranty"
My sister and I have very similar voices. Back in the 90s, I once was at work and had something important I needed to remember to do once I got home, so I rang home and left myself an answering machine message. After a long day, I got home, checked my messages, and couldn't figure out how on earth my sister knew I needed to do x 🤣
Yhen i was younger my dad and me sounded almost the same. i answered the landline with xxxxx and person in the phone beguins speaking of things i don't understand.😄
Here i thought for a moment that Chris had left his phone at the ticket desk or something, none of the staff on the plane could be reached for some reason so the person who noticed his phone was missing got some supervisor to check the details of the person next to them and called their number to let Chris know he was missing his phone
i remember tom’s friend-voice-double story!
I think the description needs updated, unless I just don't see how this is a "vexatious piece of vandalism."
A similar thing happened to me last night! I accidentally sat in the wrong seat on a plane (we are a family of 4, and sat in the middle row with them on an A330, without realising I was allocated a window side seat, not the centre aisle seat). The gentleman asked me if I was sitting in the wrong seat, if we were a group of 4 and which was my correct seat. When he realised what my correctseat was, he was happy to take that instead, as it was the seat next to his wife!
my thought was that chris had forgotten his phone at the airport so the staff at the airport went over who's on the plane, matched the seats and phone numbers and called the person sitting next to chris to say "the person next to you forgot their phone at the airport, can you tell them to come back and get it?"
Very logical, but this is considering Chris left his phone number on his lock screen?
@@harrry4052 There are quite a few people who don't have passwords on their phones
@@harrry4052 yeah but they'd have his number on record from the booking potentially
My initial guess was Chris's profession is identifiable by sight and the caller needed someone of that profession. E.g."Is there a doctor in there?"
Edit: Pretty wrong tho
Last year on a family holiday, my family and I were split up because we were late checking in to the flight. It ended up that I and my sister were going to be sitting on separate rows next to strangers, but the people who were meant to be sitting next to me, didn't show up. So I had a row completely to myself, and invited my sister to also sit in my row.
I don't mind swapping seats if it's the same type of seat. But sometimes if I've specially booked an aisle seat (which has sometimes necessitated me getting up in the middle of the night in order to do it at the earliest possible time), and then someone has asked me to move from an aisle seat to a middle seat, I'm not going to move. Also sometimes someone is sitting in your seat in a plane and they just refuse to move, because they want the aisle seat so badly. That happened to me last time.
This sounds like that joke Tom Scott pulled when he found a stranger with an exact voice match for his friend. Edit: Ha!
Thomas, this is you from the future, whatever you do, don't comment....DAMNIT I WAS TOO LATE!
It is, the full story is on the Tom and Matt channel on the park bench.
I thought it was gonna turn out that Chris ended up marrying his new seat-neighbor, but this was also sweet.
This is one of the few solutions I had a pikachu WAO face when revealed, especially about the wife =)
That was an awesome question!!!
This is one that happened to me, personally. I am the stranger in this story.
I guy drives to the grocery store, grabs some stuff than as he reaches for his wallet he realizes that he'd left it at home.
He explains that he'd forgot his wallet and would have to drive home to get. He would be back in about 15 minutes.
As he pulls into his driveway he sees another car park in front of his house on the street.
This is not all that unusually, the guy across the street runs a small business out of his home and strangers are always coming and going. He doesn't really care, the callers never bother him. Only this time, it turns out that the caller is there to see him.
As he climbs out of his car the stranger gets out of his car. The stranger, who he'd never seen before calls out his name then says, "Let me guess. You just came from (grocery store's name) but you had to come home because you forgot your wallet.
Astonished he asks the stranger, "How the hell do you know that?"
How did I know the stranger's name, that he had gone to (grocery store's name) and forgot his wallet?
Scroll down.
I answered his question, "Because you didn't for get your wallet. You dropped it getting out of your car."
The look on the guys face as I handed him his wallet is something I will treasure forever.
I'd found the wallet in the parking lot, sitting on the ground under the driver's door. I'd recognized his car as the one next to the wallet.
Inside the wallet was about $250 and his driver's license, where I got the name and address of the owner of the wallet. I recognized him from his driver's license picture, so I called out his name and, as he was coming home without his wallet, I knew he'd think he'd left it at home.
He did offer me a reward ($100) and though I could have used that money I turned it down. I said if he rewarded me, it wouldn't be a good deed. I said, "Just pay it forward."
The part about about the small business was made up to give the guy a reason not to be concerned about a stranger parking in front of his house. He was ignoring me until I called out his name.
I reached that conclusion so early on that when you all continued discussing I thought I had missed something :,) awesome video 🎉
1:51 "well i have to set that up now" please tell me that you will set that up 😂
He already did years ago, I believe! He tells the whole story on the Matt and Tom channel
He has actually
He did, you can hear the full story on an episode of The Parkbench, titled something like "the second greatest prank I ever pulled"
@@Haddletondoes that involve time machine?
Didn't really occur to me until towards the end, that was a good one
think I got it about 6 and a half minutes in (the "Chris's flight is about to be much improved" was a nice confirmation/addition to this theory)
oh, I just assumed it was about first class, but that's great!
Chris answers the phone and a voice on the other end says "We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."
My first guess was that Chris had forgotten his ID and the airport staff couldn't contact him so they found his flight and the person who was sitting next to him on the plane, and called them instead. It was a silly idea but that's the first thing that came to mind. The actual answer was super wholesome though.
I thought it might have been Captain and First Officer.
Anyway, .. anyone know the title of the US Navy manual mentioned in the episode?
Even if you purchase the tickets together, check-in the day prior together, they'll still split you up on purpose so they can charge you to move seats and sit together. It's disgustingly greedy
The description is for a different episode.
Out of curiosity, which one is that? I don't remember one about vandalism.
3 minutes in and my guess is this happened decades ago before mobile phone was a thing, Chris is some famous head of state figure, and the stranger is an on board satellite phone operator that relays important calls to him
I think I heard about it a while ago, but it was like just brain teaser and not a real story
I was thinking was Senator Chris and the guy next to him was Security Guard of The Day.
My guess: a pickpocket artist (the honest kind who do it as a trick to entertain others as opposed to dishonest intentional thieving), who picked Chris' pocket to entertain his seatmate (Chris) and strike up conversation.
Edit: Aw, the real answer was very sweet though!
I wonder how do i send in stories, since i just remembered one, that if i can work out the wording mat work well.
Initial guess is that it’s an air marshal and was just told the seat number of the passenger.
It’s also interesting that Chris and his seat partner weren’t talking but their significant others were
This question was a winner
I have, apparently, inherited my father's voice (and some of his vocal mannerisms).
I was visiting Dad one day when my daughter (interstate, nowhere near) called to speak to Dad on his landline (old people!).
The conversation carried on for a short while when Dad realised that he had to pick up something in the next room, and, without saying anything, gave the phone to me.
My daughter who had been speaking then asked a question.
Given that I'd heard Dad's side of the call, I simply carried on the conversation - whereupon I realised that she didn't realise that it wasn't Grandpa that she was talking to.
We conversed for a few more minutes when Dad came back into the room, whereupon I burst out laughing, handing the phone back to him.
He then had to explain what had happened to a mildly confused (and disgruntled) granddaughter.
Fun times. 😄
My first thought was "well, it must be one of the famous Chrises, but that doesn't narrow it down much"
ok that's amazing and wholesome and cute.
My guess: Chris had to be informed about something, urgently. Maybe he forgot/lost his passport and phone, maybe a family emergency, whatever. The person who wanted to contact him (friend, family, finder of the lost items) got the booking agent look up the phone of the person seated next to Chris (they have seats and contacts of all passengers) and call them. (obv. Chris doesn't have his phone or he already switched it to airplane mode)
I was so sure that Chris was going to be a celebrity.
"We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty"
Makes you wonder why the airline could not accomodate their wish to sit next to each other in the first place.
My first thought was the film Red Eye
ok, that is an awesome story :D
That is so cute
Pretty cute story
Okay, my initial thought is pilots sometimes go on holiday as well as normal passengers is Chris the pilot and is the person sitting next to him being a copilot. I’ve been asked to pass a message on the phone to him even though they don’t know each other.
My first instant thought was: It was Ghostface!
👍👍
My first thought I’d Chris is the pilot and the co-pilot answered the phone from the airport
But are you allowed to swap seats? How do they identify your burnt torso if you're in the wrong seat?
I haven’t watched much of the video yet, but my immediate thought was that the ground crew found something wrong with Chris’ luggage, and Chris has already turned off his/her phone, so they tried calling the guy in the next-over seat.
My take was about someone who knew Chris as well as the phone owner and recognized him on the backdrop of the first guy's selfie or some social media shenanigans
Chris is a pilot?
It was a Jehovah's Witness cold call.
"We are calling to update your car's extended warranty "
2:35 You know, the pilot and copilot sit in seats on the plane, they sit next to each other, and it is quite possible the two are strangers. Most airlines don't keep flight crews together.
If someone at the company needed to speak to the pilot, but had failed to reach him, you'd try calling the copilot.
Is there no assigned seating on the flight? I’m confused about why the couples are not seated together. O guess they could have booked last minute.
About half way though I thought someone, swaying towards Chris, was a translator. Yes, you could book them then know who you're looking for, a name, etc but I'd still say they would be a stranger beyond that.
And to the partner who booked the tickets and intentionally made them not sit together: sorry!
Some airlines upcharge for that, apparently. Because they can.
Initial thought: the person on the other end wanted to speak to the man's "seatmate" to warn/explain/advise/ask about a condition of his (ticks, anxieties, autism, snoring, "if he starts talking about X just stop him with Y, ...). Chris could very well be the subject of that condition, like "forget-faces-itis", and the "stranger" is a relative or some such.
Otherwise, Chris/stranger could be a crew member, and the other was a last minute replacement, and the caller is the boss making sure everything is kosher (or similar about an "Air Marshall" or some such).
That's cute. And Tom's enthusiastic fancy ideas brought a smile to my face.
i got the wife part correct cause I was thinking the guy's wife was ensuring that the person next to him was not some hot girl lol
1:15 Tom recites this from the park bench
Guess at 2:38
Was it a phone that was part of the seat and Chris was in the wrong seat?
Guess at 4:04
was the flight booked by Chris's employer, they were colleagues?
Plot twist, Chris intentionally booked the seats seperate from his wife only to have his dastardly plans dashed by those pesky kids.
My guess: Chris is the pilot and the unfamiliar man was his co-pilot, whom he is flying with for the first time.
Early guess: they are strangers that still know the same person.
I thought the personen next to Chris was a call girl that somebody had arranged for Chris to enter the mile high club 😂
The way my former colleagues used to talk about marriage, "having" to sit next to their wives the entire flight would have made it more unbearable for them 😅
1:14 Interesting. Apparently there's a lot of british voice doubles, because I keep getting called by headhunters, all with the same voice and English accent, but they all say they have different names, different company names, and different phone numbers, and they all just waste my time and always insist they haven't called me before when I insist it's the same annoying dude who's been calling me for years now... (Or maybe it's just a scammer...)
Why are couples flying in separate classes on the same plane? Can someone please explain what might be the reason behind it? If I were to fly anywhere with my partner, I'd make sure we get to sit next to each other in any class
Its Chris Joel, he reads books.
my guess is the person calling was a friend of the guy sitting next to chris who found chris attractive
Funny if the dude laughed and said nah I am good
The truth about phones on planes has nothing to do with aircraft safety. Phones and airplane radios work an vastly different frequencies.
You want to put your phone in airplane mode, for two reasons. In the climb out and decent the airplane is going so fast it moves into and out of range to cell towers very rapidly. This means your phone will be switching from one cell tower to the next ever few seconds. This can damage your phone.
Eventually the plane climes high enough that it is too high for your phone to connect with any tower. It keeps trying to find a signal, and this will rapidly drain the batter.
I thought it'd turn out that either Chris was some sort of minor celebrity or content creator or sth and the person next to him had a friend who was, like, his biggest fan. Or the person sitting next to him had a friend on the flight who had seen Chris and had the hots for him and they ended up essentially having a plane date xD. (Well, I guess he did have a "plane date" with his wife in the end, haha).
But was it more pleasant? Could have been a relaxed 8 hour flight if it didn't happen
Funny how people use the term "partners" when "husbands" would have been much more obvious and useful.
It still sounds weird why would the wife want to talk to Chris? She could just say to her husband, hey just come back to my seat you will switch places with girl next to me and we can fly together...
But doesn't this mean that either Chris, or the other couple, had reserved seats that are far apart even when there had been empty adjacent seats on the plane? They can't have both reserved the only free seats right? Sounds bit fishy.
Someone may have cancelled their ticket, or moved their reservation.
What if Chris was just looking forward to a few hours of alone time because his wife talks a lot all the time?
I was thinking it was some famous chris like chris evans or Chris Hemsworth Or Chris rock (there are a lot of famous chris') and the person calling just said bro let me talk to Chris I've always wanted to talk to him
you're a big guy
Unless... And this is just me being cynically funny. Chris intentionally booked a seat separate from his wife bc he wanted a break from her while on the plane. Lol😅
Ladies asdumed that this call made Chris's flight more pleasant. Who knows if it ruined the flight of Chris and the stranger who was in the next seat.
Just sayin. 😁😁
I'm not the Chris from the question, but I have the same name, and I have another possible answer for you: Chris doesn't own a phone. :) I've had some bizarre situations caused by someone desperately trying to contact me (funnily enough, I usually don't care so much about being contacted... that's why I don't have a phone in the first place), and it wouldn't even surprise me if someone handed me a phone like that.
Side note: The question was very carefully worded so we don't know whether Chris is a guy or a gal. No pronouns. Was that at all significant?
And so Chris and stranger's nice quiet flight to Italy was ruined because they now had to sit next to their wives. Chris and stranger were going to talk about mountain biking and hunting and fishing and cars, but it wasn't to be.
I thought it was a creative form of proselytizing where some religious person would get on a plane, get a phone call, and then hand it to a stranger and the caller would be someone saying: "Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?"
Katie's energy is really making me want to not watch the video.
Chris better be somewhere here in the comments! @Chris ! @ChrisOnAPlane ! @ChrisAndHisWife Where are you?!?!