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27: Extra-green cat trees

Lateral with Tom Scott

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Who's on First Routine?

The who's on first routine is an old Aberdeen Costello bit about baseball, where the players are called who. Bill: I even deliberately set up how I read that question to really de-emphasize the name Sanchez Watt. He says he can only remember the parody version of it that someone did where all the names are swearing. But in this case, a question that was sold very quickly by the first person on what I thought was a joke and the referee took as insubordination.

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