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40: Swimming without water

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Man With the Briefcase

The only entertainment was watching men throw briefcases out the window. It was all they could do back then. There was not, there wasn't much going on. Not even podcasts. Nothing's happened until Vietnam. So he throws a briefcase out of window. And then he walks back into the door and everyone's shocked and they raucously applauds. That's the man with the briefcase. Oh my God. We saw him jump to his death. But now he's arrived at the brief case. A masterpiece. Everybody give him 10 pounds, 10 pounds each. And that's how he made his money. Are we close? I guess back then they didn't have like

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