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I got it at 2:32. On a related note, I've been watching way too many Jago Hazzard videos lately.

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So currently round the 30 second mark... Im gonna say he bought the bullets in BULK. So the clerk was like "well isnt that pessimistic, thinking you're gonne get into 50 shootouts" and he said "well but im expecting to survive at least 49"?

French Duels were mostly for show (ESPECIALLY pistols) by that era, Sword duels were sometimes catered, and almost always had press on hand. The German (and Russian) duels were the literal killjoys, and had fatality rates an order of magnitude higher (the Germans and Russians WOULD use rifled pistols, one shot at a time only even if automatics, for duels). Clemenceau had his favorite sword buried with him.

I like how Tom adapts his accent to the people he's speaking with, since he pronounced clerk correctly instead of saying Clark.

Once we got to trains, I guessed, go by train and come home on the other guy's horse.

Adam would definitely be doing duel reenactments in tophats if just one part of his career went a little different 25 years ago.

you know how you could buy life insurance at airports in like the sixties? well here's my startup idea for 1750-1890's france---

Worth noting there's all kinds of funky traditions, unrifled dueling pistols were common in Britain but not actually in continental Europe. In continental Europe they were often seen as a mark of cowardice (since both parties would use the same pistols, and rifled pistols were much better at hitting their target), but in Britain they were seen as more sporting, and the reduced accuracy was seen as allowing God's judgement to decide the encounter given how religious Britain was at this point. There were naturally a great many ways of cheating by introducing rifling and then hiding it, which is evidence that we still find in pistol barrels being dragged out of attics to this day. Presumably swapping out ostensibly identical pistols would be a more common method of cheating, but this doesn't leave the same physical evidence behind as very faintly rifled barrels (that conveniently have the rifling stop at the furthest point that someone could reasonably see into).

I thought it was an umbrella! Like he was so confident about the duel this exchange was about the weather.

Me as a history nerd after hearing the question: Hey, isn't that the guy who was prime minister during WW1 and the main reason why Treaty of Versailles was so harsh on Germans?

If you don't know the answer, give it a shot anyways...

I sometimes wonder where maths would be today if only in 1832 a 20 year-old Frenchman were to disregard honour and desert his duel.

5:48 he could have said "nah I'd win"

One way train ticket? (2:50)

50 Duels - that's a lot of money he saved! :D

I am shocked that Tom Scott, a Brit, is pronouncing 'clerk' in the American way, instead of the British pronunciation that sounds like 'clark.'

Me, looking at thumbnail: there's no way that's Adam. Edit: the fact that french were allowing duels in 1890's is wild.

Were they all guys? Maybe they were using the bathroom. Was it the pee que?

Haven't used landline telephone for more than 10 years.

I'm sure this was in the book Beyond Coincidence

"Santa Claus", said Santa Claus

4:30 You know who else rode a wrecking ball to break traditions? Miley Cyrus! And she did it naked. She dose a lot of things naked.

My brother and his friend dialed each other simultaneously and it connected without ringing at all. I assumed that was a part of the answer.

William Riker? The joy of learning Tom Scott is a Star Trek geek is indescribable.

I was on the phone when an Earthquake hit. The person I was talking to felt it, but there was only a few seconds from her feeling it to me feeling it.

Berkely and San Jose are about 4 to 6 hours apart! (driving time)

The answer is Eeither Francium or Ouagadougou or Solzhenitsyn.

I mean, I'm only in my mid twenties, but I remember my mother being advised by a doctor to use olive oil prior to having ears cleaned out, but also the North East is probably a bit behind on medical advancements

Now that I've discovered calls on Discord I have definitely found a new enjoyment of interacting via voice with my friends long distance. Cell phone calls and Skype calls are hard to hear, cut out a lot, small sighs and chuckles don't come through well, and the delay makes exchanging a back and forth difficult. So I think they may totally be on to something saying that the delay in telephone calls today discourages people from calling that way.

Ah, yes broadcast lag. The early adopters of digital TV where somewhat pissed, that the whole neighborhood cheered before they knew there was to be a goal on TV.

Stopping at 0:40, I guess William has had a power cut and doesn't realize that it doesn't affect phone landlines.

This is so nerdy and I'm all for it!

Adam, thank you for bringing up Trudeau and Prince William. That was immediately where my brain went.

These three need to be on this show as much as possible

1:25 got me roling on the ground lmao

Ulster Bank in Northern Ireland also have portrait notes (£). The different colours for different values doesn't work here because because different banks have made different notes the same colour. There are green £10 and £20 notes. (I had someone point out that they're different shades of green once, but that's not really helpful for anyone with a lower sensitivity to that sort of thing). Bank of Ireland has a green £20. Danske bank has a green £10.

Depending on where the dialing mistake was, it's not quite AS impossible as it sounds. If the misdial was in the area code, it's almost a miracle, as in the guy meant to dial New York and got LA. if it was in the exchange, it'd mean they called a different part of the city. But if it was in the last four digits, then it meant they dialed in the same general area, so it's marginally more possible, like they dialed a neighbor's house and the guy was visiting.

It is so true that analogue land lines were more satisfying. I would go further than just the lack of delay. To be clear, when we did radio progs with telephone calls, if we accidently fed the signal back, the delay was so short, it phased slightly. With the digital network, we got an echo. It could be distractingly long too! Enough that if you heard yourself coming back, it made talking almost impossible. But the other thing about old analogue phones were the handsets. Especially the nicely curved ones. The big round earpiece sat warmly over your ear, and the mouthpiece was close to your mouth. Everything sounded so much more intimate. And no delay, of course. It made conversations easy and pleasant. More so than with mobiles which are uncomfortable to hold and where the mic is often some distance away, making it all annoyingly roomy. It is a huge headache in recording studios too. I am constantly fighting with "latency" - the delay caused by the computer and other digital converters. Nothing is truly instant. We have to find clever workaround which are far from instinctive. With old analogue studios, we never had latency. The word never came up. Don't get me wrong, digital is better in so many ways, but the delay is a constant problem.

i feel so bad i was like.. ermergawd Adam Savage and Sam Reich! ..and.. well her face doesn't look _completely_ unfamiliar 😥 👉👈

I also once called a number, surpirsed someone and we were amazed, but not in the same way. I was at uni and we were learning about a PABX phone exchange, I told the teacher I could call another phone on that PABX by fiddling with the button that hangs up the phone, he was sceptical... Sure enough, I typed on that button the number I wanted to call and the other phone rang! We had "modern" landline phones with those beeping keypads (DTMF) and what I just did there was simulating a call from an old rotary dial phone, by interrupting the line in rythm

The closest I ever came to this was when someone called our house and asked for me, and we got to talking but I didn't know them and they didn't know me, because it turns out they were calling someone else, got the number wrong, but they had the same name as me. And then, futhermore, it turned out we had mutual friends, so we had things to talk about, and had a long conversation anyway.

It's not the case any longer. But my mobile phone had almost the same number as my work phone for a while. Different dialling code, but then only two numbers were interchanged. That would have meant a person should misdial two factors but still. I picked that number out of 5 random ones that the vendor had because it was so much easier to memorize.

So the question really is, was William in a totally random place or did Justin dial the number from muscle memory and William was at home or work?

"I could talk about this for a long time with everyone on this call." Please do 😅

awesome.. i remember something that kind of happened to me like that in the 90s.... i wanted to call a friend of mine... so i picked up the phone, and i didnt hear the beep the phone makes.. and i heard my friend on the other side... apparently he had just called me and i picked up the phone before it rang...

I thought it was gonna be something similar to that other story where a guy called his friend who was at work who has a landline next to him, but for a plethora of reasons they (Company X) had to disconnect the landline at almost all times, and just by pure luck and chance the landline was connected for a few minutes after almost 2 years of not being online, and the phone got the call from the guy to his friend.

I thought it was gonna be that William was having a power outage and was very surprised that his phone rang

Dammit, now I have 'Banana Phone' stuck in my head!

First thought is a scenario like this: Justin misdialed William's number, but the incorrect number just so happened to be the same as the number of the house William had moved into just that day. (Alternatively, William's phone plan lapsed, the number went back into the system, and coincidentally he moved into the very house that contained the brand-new landline that had received his number.)