Wet signatures versus electronic signatures

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If there's a theory that needs dismantling or a confident answer that needs to be gently exploded, that's your department. I'll be running point, asking the questions, watching the clock and pretending this was all meticulously bland. No one panics, no one googles, and if things go sideways, we regroup and say I know, I'm sitting out like we meant it Let's meet the gang who are hoping to make a clean getaway with the questions today. It is the team from Answer in Progress. Welcome back to the show. We will start with Sabrina Cruz. It has been a while. How are you doing I'm just in awe of that intro. I'm so hyped. What are you working on the minute? because it's been a while. It has been a while I'm currently working on a video about toothpaste. I have brushed my teeth so many times. Is it possible to brush your teeth too much? Well, you'll find out Good teaser. Excellent teaser. Also from Answer in P prorogress, Taha Khan, welcome back to the show. What have you been working on in your side of the channel Well, I've been working on a bank heist, but now. I feel like I've been rumbled Bank Heist as YouTube channel. just the number of things you can convince people to do by just pointing a camera at them and saying it's fulfilming. ye, sorry, this is a production while you're putting money in the bank Melissa Fernandez. Welcome back to the show. Hello. What have you been doing for answering progress the last few months? Guys, I've been unemployed, so it's okay. I'm a lateral host now She hired herself Have I been usurped? I feel like I've just been usurped And welcome Tom Scott, the new member of Answer in Progress. Yeah What have you' been up to lately? I've been filming an enormous amount of videos that are now going out on my own channel. I never get to plug that. I'm the host. Thank you for asking. Nice Well, very best of luck to all three of you. We haven't even said what the channel's about. You all did a bit. You all Well except for Sabrina. There we go. because I'm a professional Allright, well positions, everyone. Let's drill through the door of the vault that holds question one Thank you to Liza Bird for this question During odd moments, Liza pututs a button on a string into her mouth pulls on the string while keeping the button pressed against her teeth I'll say it again. During odd moments, Liza puts a button on a string into her mouth pulls on the string while keeping the button pressed against her teeth This sounds like something to do with sewing. No, right? That's just what I assume Odd moments. It feels like odd is a charged word in that sentence. I'm going full quiz bowl here. What's an odd moment Is it hourly? Could it be a cuckoo collock I don't know why I said that way Is Les a person Well, Liza has a mouth. Well, this question was sent in by someone with the handle Liza Bird. So my suspicion is that either Lizar is a person Or Lizer is a bird But do birds have teeth I think if it were a bird, we would be using the word And whatever you call those ridge things that some birds have instead of teeth So my suspicion would be that Lesar is humans. Human lies a person. Okay, okay I just want I just want all of us to be on the same page as to what Liza is doing, which is. button on a strink in the mouth And then pulling And then the button is On the other side of the mountain. Yeah button behind the teeth on the back of the teeth. Oh Rnt gettinging out is what I'm imagining. Oh, okay, not like button Horizontal. like a chip Mm See, this is why we need to be on the same page. Which one is correct? Is it the chip Okay, well, one sounds more painful. It's a button. how painful could it be? So they're like pulling on your teeth. Words say immediately before disaster Are they trying to get a tooth out With a button. This lies a child No You ain't But you just tie around the teeth. What What does the button do None of you have the correct placement of the button yet It is not and it is not behind the teeth. On the tongue, under the tongue. On the roof of the mouth. Where else do you put it in the cheek? I just listed all the places frront of the teeth But how do you keep it pressed? I guess you could do it with your finger Okay, I'm assuming it has something to do with sewing. 'causeuse like you do a weird amount of mouth stuff with sewing. Do you? That's what I thought, but is that weird? But is that though? is that an like the strring to put it You have to you have to wet the thread. There's a lot of like guilt, you could bite stuff to cut it. Yeah. There's a lot of It's a lot of mouth stuff. Yeah. I'm with you, I'm with you. But is that odd Do people have button devices? So by odd moments, it's whenever she has some spare time A hobby? I love to put buttons and strings in my mouth. Oh God a vet's worst nightmare. How are you How are you imagining that she's holding this in? Because like I said, button on string, button in front of teeth Either her lips are closed or she's using her fingers to keep the button pressed against the teeth. Or a string is attached to the back of the throat Oh no. Oh. Quick loop aroundound the dangly bit at the back there Oh no. Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second We're waiting. What if this time this string is as a safety precaution, okay? What if you need to put the button on the strings that you don't accidentally swallow the button. okay? There's holes in the button, right What if it's a breathing exercise? That is lose, Melissa, not wait forhead. What a whistle? Oh my gosh. What was that about whistling? Who said that? like I said like is it like a whistle It's like they're like holes. That's close Again a musical instrument.'s somethingomet to do with the music. you know how like Whenind wind instruments have those that you have to like suck on a little bit of wood for some reason You know the reeds Yeah. It's like You just got to do some weird stuff to play instruments sometimes. And this is just one of those things. So is it a harp? You were so close other than harp. Why would it be a harp, tahar? Why do you play the harp with your mouth? I don't listen, I'm not a harpist. Any other brass? Is it a brass instrument? Yes, it is a brass instrument L like a clarinet or a A tuba saxophone. I mean Liza iss actually a French horn player. okay? A French horn? Yes. No no, no. No, no. She is French and she's a horner So why would a French horn player Put a button between their lips and teeth and pull on the string while trying to hold it in Lp strengthening. Oh is she training her lip strength to be able to hold Wow. Wow, So it's like weightlifting for the Yes, it is. What? Is the string attached to weights? That would be crazy. str The string she's just pulling on it andenting weight. I think you can probably use the strength of your hand She's fighting her own lips by pulling the string away and trying to strengthen her ammbushher. That's so which is the mouth shape that woodwind players, brass players, floutis will use to play their instruments. That's so cool. That is so cool. And you asked adult or child, this is question seer Liza says, I trained this way when I was learning French horn in middle school Wow dedicated. That is the most committed twelve year old. She did ammbersure training during performing seasons as a break from actual playing or as a way to get my lip back after taking some time off from playing. I didn't know that you had muscles in your mouth Like like a muscle that you can strengthen, you know Do you have muscles in your hands that you strengthen? Every muscle you can strengthen L Can you strengthen your fingertip pad? Yes Rck climbing Yeah. This is a thing to train your f to strength. No., I don't like this. What's that, Sabrina? You're holding another thing. I'm need you to like audio describe that. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm holding I think it's called the an rgo pill and it's like basically a portable hangboard A portable mini hangboard that you use for rock climbing. This is used for rehab for your finger strength. So it's like it's wood with stuff carved into it and you can just it's a grip hold for wherever you happen to be Yes, exactly. So you can rock climb performatively Anywhere you go. You have a grip then you can could be like there's a little piece of string attached to it. I could wrap it over a door frame just hang out. Wow. So yes, woodwind and brass players may sometimes put a button on a string into their mouths pull on the string. to strengthen their umbusho Let's go to the first question from our players. We will start with Melissa This question has been sent in by Patrick Schranz Why is it important that an employee in Stuttgart, Germany walks around with the billiard ball particularly because he works at a hospital? One more time Why is it important that an employee in Stickert, Germany walks around with a billiard ball particularly because he works at a hospital Okay, particularly German man. Hospital. We are saying words in the question Exactly A billion b Think laterally. Specifically a billiard ball, not snooker or pool. and I don't know what the difference is. They're different colors, I think The billards and pool were the same thing. Oh no Very different That was intense. What? It wasn't meant to be intense? You just got things called R slash billiards. And R slash pool A pool is a body of water Is it Is it are we in the modern day? Can you give us that Yes, it is modern day. I can't remember the colors billions And I feel like if this was Snooker You would have all sorts of colors Yeah They thought it was yellow and red Yeah, I think Paul has either es or dots or yellow and red depending on which side of the Atlantic you're on. but I think billiards is like a couple of specific colours I think I can tell you that the color of it doesn't matter Home alone if there are people attacking the hospital home alone style, you throw the billiard ball underneath their feet so they triick and fall. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. one they generate more business or the nationalized Health Service Yeah. Yeah. that's Everyone knows Germany, they love their I actually don't know anything about the German healthare system, but like I assume I think I think it's a single payer system, but I'm not sure on that. I'm also not sure that the billard ball would be covered by anyone's insurance Well I can throw you one small bone here is at another ball work doesn't have to be a billiard ball Ball can work and this ball can work. Is it a medical device? is what a medical device. The ball The bowl. No. It's actually very functional Well, because I found out recently that in some places in the modern world, they still use maggots So like, well Wait to what makes sense. And by the modern world, sorry in the Western world, I mean like Some places in the NHS from my friend's accounting of it, Wound cleaning. They go specifically for necrotized or dead tissue So it's awy. Yeah. Yummy. Are you a magic? Okay, you were like magic feel like yumm gross. Yummy. The thing that's throwing me off is that it's particularly in a hospital. So they can be in other areas and still be it still be important Out of nowhere, I am gonna say the words pneumatic tubes Oh God, you put a billard ball in a pneumatic tube. that's going high velocity. Is that the thing that like sucks the Yeah Be it unstuck things? That's what I just becausecause hospitals tend to be one of the places that still use those because they need to send samples around big campuses at speed. So I'm like, okay, The systems blocked. Here we go, Fomp high speed billiard ball Can you imagine if it's like a urine sample? send Billy c hurling. Now now you say it like that, actually terribly, terrible plan, not medically safe You know, that's a Creative use case Creative use Creative use case, but you know what? The ball is doing something It's doing something But the ball is not going vertically I'm kind of going off scriptty. There is a clinic in London that uses pneumatic tubes for like delivering samples. There is a specific thing that says Please ensure the sample that's inside the carrying case before I know I've mentioned that on this show before, but rarely has there been a better time to use a urine based pneumatic tube anecdote, you know? I wasted that one on whatever a previous show it was Okay, so you said N vertical, Melissa. Not vertical. So they are rolling the billiard ball Mm. testing the level Oh Of a floor So they are rolling the ball and you're right. All make sure the floors are level, but nicely die because If a scalpel flying across and slices somebody. Oh know, if it drops, you don't want it rolling around, I guess. Okay, what else shouldn't be moving around? Hospital beds Patients on stretchers. A, hospital Yeah. Hospital. Oh. Rollly feet. Yeah. Roly feet? Wheels ne more. Everyone knew what I was talking about. Yeah, yeah, to be fair, we did.. too ensure the floors are level so that the beds with the rollly feet don't move 't split Hold wait a dang second. Why specifically does this need to be in Stutgart, Germany? Did they not invent the level there So D Ane clin the Day Acne Clinic undergoes regular renovation and reconstruction work. and so to inspect the construction sites, the head of the buildilding services uses a billiard ball to check whether flat surfaces have been constructed correctly. They also check if the floors in the older part of the hospital, which dates back to mid nineteenth century Since the building has subsided in places over the years due to Stuckart's hilly terrain, level ws are extremely important in hospitals so that anything that runs on casters such as patient beds Testers That's the rollly thing That' the roll. Let not roll uncontrollably across corridors Because danger. 'cause danger. canan I say that the reason I thought of this is I learned that the floors in my apartment aren't level because I dropped a stress ball and then it rolled out of my reach Oh my, I was just distressful No stress school we're just like, allright, I've actually done this. sorry, too much stress This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome, that's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web, like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a fifty page restoration block or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks. Gemini and Chrome is here for it. Ready to make anything online makes sense? There's no place like Chrome. Check responssees set upp required compatibility and availability varies eighteen plus Study and play. Come together on a Windows eleven PC. And for a limited time, college students get the best of both worlds. 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In twenty thirteen, a body was suddenly found twenty miles from Cheelyabinsk, a small city in Russia As a result One thousand five hundred injuries. were caused soon afterwards Even though no one was blamed, it inspired reform worldwide What happened I'll say that again. In twenty thirteen, a body was suddenly found twenty miles from Cheelyabinsk, a small city in Russia. As a result, one thousand five hundred injuries were caused soon afterwards Even though no one was blamed, it inspired reform worldwide. What happened Worldwide I weirdly know about the things that you need to do when trying to bury a body at sea I was curious one day And there's like a lot of global regulations about like What to do with our bank heist Of course, what do we do with Anyway, so I gave up on the thing along with the joke Anyway, u Like a body cannot be altered in any way Like it can't be embalmed, it can't have any like diseases before you try and bury it at sea because like there are health ramifications Like if you might You're basically polluting the ocean with your body. So you can't do that And I wonder if like we have like the body that appeared potentially human, potentially not because we didn't say it. something super gross going on with it Like wasn't an irradiated body that like It ended up poisoning somebody fifteen hundred somebodyodies But it was injuries, right? It wasn't like Yeah, injur illness I'm not sure why you've gone with the ocean here other than burial at sea. Unfortunately, Chllyibins is very much inland a long long way in all Wow, my North American geography skills showed up there. Okay So body was found and then lots of people took damage Yes, now that we are playing a video game This is like permafrost stuff toooo far south for that. It's near the Kazakhan border. Okay, now we're getting there. We're getting the geography of the place But why are people getting injured? Some people with very specialized occupations have been looking for this body very specialist of skills William Neson filming taken to Okay, wasas this person, this person must have been wereere people like upset that this person had died or were they like And it was like a big thing when they found the body and then they revolted. It's giving like the race for King Cut, you know Like everyone was trying to find this body Hm, but also we found Ka There's a lot of words in here that you haven't really drilled down on. and this is one of those lateral questions where I think you may have some issues with how it's phrased. Okay, wait one more time, canan we hear one more time? Yeah, we'll start with the first bit. In twenty thirteen, a body was suddenly found twenty miles from Cheelabinsk Suddenly It's not it's not entirely clear that the body is dead. It's not entirely clear that a body was a living being Mm Keep thinking that way, Sabrina. Oh A body of wow Lava B the e of notot lava Sabrina, but again ose I don't know what a body of lava, but whatever it is, it's kind of like this thing Gas, natural gas. I don't know, fracking Ruaul, I'm doing a full work cl. Okay, so Oh, this this would make a lot more sense. Whatever this body is It then interacts with people who get injuries from the body, not directly. Is this the sinkhole? No, it's probably not the sinkhole It's not, but you're starting to think moreore outside the idea of human body here. Oh Geological body Yes, I would say that's a fair This is actually the correct term. L this isn't just an obscure word that the question writers come up with. this type of thing is called a body The only bodies I know is body of water And and no. But no body. ay. Oh You fell right into my trp. Allright, Odysseus Body suddenly found what's the next sentence in the question As a result, one thousand five hundred injuries were caused soon afterwards. Is it a geological injury? Not directly, but I think you can call it that. It's not a medical injury, is it Oh no, it's absolutely a medical injury. All of them pretty miga U But also seven thousand two hundred buildings damaged ty Wha, whoa, whoa! You information. thirty three million dollars worth of damage. I don't know what that translates to in rubles. That's the estimated cost. This is not a meteor. This is a meteor. Where did that come from I was thinking of, well, I was like if it's not a human body, what other bodies exist in nature? I have never once actually called a meteor a body, but I'm like Maybe just let me let me just Let me just say it. That really is our strategy on lateral. Let me just say it. An asteroid, a celestial body. So was suddenly found So was suddenly found twenty miles from Celabinsk That's the next bit of the question. how are people injured? Wa I swear I've radiation YouTube videos. of this happening. Yeah It's twenty thirteen I don't think it's not necessarily radiation. It's just when something comes hurtling out of the sky around the city It causes damage. Yeah, it does. There's a shotw. That's where the injuries came from. Wow. So we had like a mini dinosaur moment twenty miles from. I keep drilling down on that. there's one other thing you haven't spotted where. It was suddenly found. twenty miles from Chelibins. that's absolutely true You haven't quite got The direction twentyw miles from The sky twentyw miles up, Sabrina, yes, absolutely right. What? W what? What does that mean? Oh, they looked up. Wait, so it was just doing a flyby and it caused damage This shockwave came from the asteroid entering the atmosphere and exploding twenty miles above Celabinsk. One thousand five hundred injuries, seven thousand two hundred buildings damaged. So no one was blamed, as I said, it inspired reform worldwide. Why might that have been Because they're like, to we need to shoot the meteorors earlier. Yes. It way what. I attend Melissa, you and I attended like this talk with Chris Hadfield where we were like, I wonder what he's gonna talk about. And then his talk was like, we need to point more lasers at space to blow up the space garbage. Yes The meteor path was so close to the glare from the sun that it was not detected earlier And so there is this worldwide rethink in how do we detect stuff coming at us? that we can't yet see. That's amazing. I used to wear eclipse glasses Taha, we will do over to you for your question please All right, so this question was sent in by Joshua and Hannah Elmer C A. Berger patented his rear view mirror in nineteen twenty one wasn't promoted as a safety device. Why did drivers originally want it I'll say that again Elmer C. A. Berger patented his rear view mirror in nineteen twenty one. It wasn't promoted as a safety device Why did drivers originally want it Look at themselves That' it. You know. Beside your mirrors, right? Why did look at the eyebrows? Well I was gonna to say for makeup mirrors and things like that, but I'm not convinced that there were many female drivers in nineteen twenty one Wow, so unprogressive of you No, No Ta. so unprogressive of nineteen twenty one. I'm not taking the blame for nineteen twenty one. I wasn't born then H It was so easy to go. Are you sure about that? Yeah, no, I set my z up for that one. that that was fine, It's fine. Okay, ye. Okay wait, if it's not for safety, Itsbe maybe it makes the car go faster. Maybe it's like abe it's an aerodyynamic Interesting. I'd love to get a lesson. I need an Ant in progress episode where there is no research It's just Melissa explaining, physics Oh boy. There were a lot of odd rules for cars in the early days. like in Britain, for the first few years that cars were a thing, someone had to walk in front of your car with a red flag to warn people that the car was coming Like that law didn't last long, but they were so strange and they moved at walking pace. So you also had to have someone say, lookook out, a car is coming. So I' wonder if if it's something strange that they had to do for that. The review mirror was something that drivers Want it They had it like drivers were interested in having it Drivers definitely found value in it The rules weren't mandating rear view mirrors for some reason Okay, so it's not a check your blind spot. It's it's so you can Actually I say I was going to say this is a joke, but I'm going to put this forward as a serious answer. It's so you can maintain a conversation with your passenger in the back and you can keep eye contact A Light Because you are going to be sat up in the front of your vehicle as the stagecoach driver. Do doesnn't even have to be a car. It could be stagecoach driver or something like that. Wait I hope I hope this is It's so you can talk to your passenger in the back and maintain eye contact Tom You are brilliant , you are wrong. Oh! I found the fakeout. A two layer fakeout, a three layer fakeout. I really thought it. You guys all were like, it's the one.. Okay it's fantastic. It's the kind of stupid thing that people in the pass of careing about buuying one could save you money in some way All right. I'm I'm going for a second big swing It's not to try and spot the passenger behind you. It's to spot the thief with a siphon who's gonna try and nick your petrol Out of the side Tom You are sure you weren't born in nineteen twenty one Okay, I will say there is a there is a piece of what you said That is correct You have to look through the mirror You have to look through the mirror and you are looking out of the car Somet it We're looking through it. It's not for safety. We're trying to look at something outside of the car And it's going to save us money. If we see it unless Iillness. They see you first. Collies Yes. The original use was to see police cars behind them. Oh it's like the it's like the what's the ways? It's waze. It's like we Oh. Yeah, because it pops up. there's a you slow down. you make sure you're doing the exact speed. I mean, I don't, but but you might you might be doing a little bit over the speed limit and get a notification that there's a police car coming and I'm surprised there were even like traffic laws in nineteen twenty one. Exactly This is so unintuitive Wow, wow And I guess was that the only way we were able to tell? They had to behind you if they're already behind you? Didn't you see or hear So When Elmer CA Berger patented the rearview mirror in nineteen twenty one, it was marketed as the Copspotter, a device that allowed drivers to detect if police vehicles were behind them Because at the time there were no radar guns. so to catch a speeder, an officer had to follow the car and match their speed using a speedometer or using their own speedometer. So it was it about not getting tickets the speed in order to know you're speeding? Oh no, that that still happens sometimes. see likees dashcam footage from police chases on like highways the police officer will be like, I'm doing eighty and it's on the dash know, on the GPS thing and he's still accelerating faster than me So we know that he's doing at least eighty So if a driver spotted the patrol car early enough, they could reduce their speed before the officer had gathered the evidence And the mirror, therefore, functioned less as a safety innovation and more as an early warning system. w like ways Thank you to Fraser Marshall for this question. At the Green Lakes Endurance Run fifty K in august twenty nineteen, Ultra rununner Richard Ellsworth finished ahead of everyone in his category Yet he still didn't receive a prize Ill say that again. at the Green Lakes Endurance run fifty K in august twenty nineteen, Ultrarunner Richard Ellsworth finished ahead of everyone in his category, yet he still didn't receive a prize either didn't run fifty K O There are no prizes. Ultra endurance running is just 's a mental battle. I think I know this And tellell us the answer I think I know this. alright. Here's the thing s up after that fakeout earlier. we could just go for this And I'll just run you through a gauntlet of yeses and nos Do do you want me to just I could I mean, I think I know it. I have a good guess. My guess is cheating, so Your guest is probably better than mine. He followed every rule Should I try umfer. There is in the edges of my brain of knowledge There is a vague Memory of there is an ultraamarathon race that you have to complete within a certain time in order to complete it within the timeframe and be considered a finisher So he could have been the first person to finish the race, but still outside of the time window that's acceptable for the race Tu Yeah Not even close. The reason he beat everybody else is because he fought them. He knocked them out.'re all And then Oh, I just said he knocked them out. And then he finished the race and then he was like, can I have my medal? And they were like, you just punched a bunch of people. You can't do that. Wait, no, they followed the rules. They forgot to write a rule that says don't punch people Like the airbud thing, there's no rule that says you can't punch them. I'm pretty sure there is a rule that says you can't punch the other runners somewhere in there. Was it a I'm just trying to continue to configure new rules that could be in this ultra marathon? Could it be a team average and so he was first, but his team H that. No, it's a fifty K run It is just a very, very long ultra marathon. Is that a long ultra marathon? I'm sorry to say this, fifty K is the baseline of what an ultramarathon is that's fair. I think I wasm just describing anything over about two miles as very, very long, to be honest, Sabrina. Yeah. because there are like these monstrosity ultramarathodons that's like run until you can't run anymore. for people who are very good at running. But so He runs the race, finishes ahead of everyone else in his category. Y doesn't get a prize And they did hand out prizes. One runner even got two of them Wit wait Cool, okay. Melissa first. Okay, wait, maybe Maybe mayaybe it's not that he didn't get one or that they didn't offer him one, but maybe he didn't want to accept it because he donated it to like somebody else. Tah what were you going to say I was going to say maybe his category was not like allowed to win because it was like He was in the life Positive for doping category or something. Okay, not quite, but that's getting closer. The organizers had made an assumption Did he use them robot legs I think that might count as doping But you True. It made an assumption. Have a think about what the categories might be. I ass Oh, wrrong age. lied about their age. Okay, so there's there's the groups There's the over twenty Fes B That's the X factor. I was like, how long do I have to do that? before someone realizes, sorry. So T you have registered for the London Marathon. Haven't run it yet But you have registered. Probably why. What group W you have been in I didn't know there were groups. Maybe I Wait I registered as like a, you know, just like inccompetent, right? So like I registered not as like, I They don't assume I'm going to You actually got a place in the London marathon because that're really difficult to get. Yeah, but I'm injured so like I don't think I'm after all Okay I registered in the general just like I'm just running as just a normal gazer. I don't plan to win the marathon But maybe he wasasn't running competitively and then just won. I think out of all those words, Taha I think Giza is the correct one to go in on Is this like a gender thing? Yes. Wait, who who won the race? Do we have their name? Richard Ellsworth I was going to say, there's a there's an ultra marathon That was won like a mixed ultraamarathon that was won by a woman That would be this ultra marathon. Oh, so it was this one. Okay, so She won the ultra marathon and so No no, Richard, I'm just read the question again Ultraunner Richard Ellsworth finished ahead of everyone in his category Yet he didn't receive a prize. Is that because It was like first second, third And They were all women The winner of the entire marathon was Ellie Pell Yes, three hours, fifty eight minutes for fifty kilometers. Yeahang Richard Ellsworth, four hours, six minutes. Did Richard start with the wrong group? Well there's no gendered start, S as far as there are for this These categories were gendered So did Richard start with the wrong group? Noope. you should have noticed. Nope, he was faster than every other person in his category. But his category were all slow Yes. So what might the prizes have been? First, second and third. No And. Participation Participation marks So so the organizers have made a mistake because they assumed that a man was going to win the award. Y. So they did they do like Man of the Year or something. Oh you were you just You would on the for the correct. Not quite, Sabrina. Ultrist, ma'am They had a first place prize and then they had first Woman to finish. Yes they did did not have a first man to finish because they assumed that the first place would be a man. Yes, they did.. The organizers had prepared trophies for overall winner and first female and had just assumed that those would go to different people Ellie Pell qualified for both those prizes And Richard Ellsworth fastest man won neither of them It's an L. I mean, listen. Wow Shout up to Ellie Pell This episode is brought to you by State Farm You know those friends who support your preference for podcasts over music on road trips? That's the energy State Farm brings to insurance. With over nineteen thousand local agents, they help you find the coverage that fits your needs. So you can spend less time worrying about insurance and more time enjoying the ride. Download the State Farm app or go online at statefarm dot com like a good neighbor State Farm is there Tomorrow morning is knocking. Stock your fridge now. How about a creamy moocha raappuccino drink? or a sweet vanilla? Smooth caramel maybe, orr white chocolate mocha. Whichever you choose, delicious coffee awaits. Find Starbucks Rappuccino drinks wherever you buy your groceries Sabrina, whenever you're ready, your question, please Let's do it. This question has been sent in by Arissa Nusbomb According to an old local folklore, why is it illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket in Georgia on a Sunday I'll say it again accccording to an old local folklore, Why is it illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket in Georgia. on a Sunday Well, that just seems like a bad idea. It's gonna get everywhere, you're gonna sit on it. It's gonna be sticky. I mean, most laws are made to stop bad things from happening But it usually like to stop it from happening to other people Is it because if you sit down, it will get on a seat and then someone else will have to sit on the seat afterwards? On your church seat, this is Georgia on a Sunday. I'm assuming it's the state of Georia not the country of Georgia about a cone. It's cone of ice cream, right We don't know whether it's just the wafer cone or whether it's like a full ice cream. If you're carrying a full like scoop of ice cream on top of a cone in your back pocket bes like a L feels like a villain from a Saturday morning cartoon series who's trying to tempt kids away. You know what's funny, Tom You're not far off, W W With the church or the Saturday morning villain, Sabrinna, thoseose are two very different things. Which one would be weirder the villain, the villain would be weirder And it wouldt be that one that you're closer with. Right, Okaykay. Whats? Okay I'll say this, like this is an old timey thing, right? It's not a problem that currently people are facing now which is why this law feels so outdated. But at the time, back in the olden days, It kind of made sense Okay, so we're thinking like old style clothing as well I'd sure No oldld style clothing is nuts st. I mean, it still has still have like back pockets, I guess. I don't know. pockets. So there were still trousers. What happened to the pockets There's the pock. We still have pockets now Okay, wait, I'm trying to fig out how to get us back on track. Maybe it's not pulling kids away. Maybe it's because it would tempt dogs or something like that, but I don't know why that wouldd be a Sunday I think that you did mention that Sundayays in the South in Georgia would have something going on. Yes, church Church? Yes Church and Luring, that's what you've got so far. Not luring children. I'll even give you that Okay. Luring the devil With ice cream. You go to a crossroads at midnight with an ice cream cone in your back pocket. Yeah, that's the ye, that's it, right You're laughing as' right? That's what people do when you're wr. Ling the devil into church was the craziest sentence. With ice cream there is something about it being a little bit like low key. like you don't really want people to see the ice cream cone becauses they're not using it for good Like I said, there's some luring going on I was sayang lururing so wed And it's not children It's not children. Is it something in the physical world? Can I see it Can I see the thing that they are luring? Yes. Tom was kind of getting there when he mentioned Animals Bees I was gonna say bees as well. Would you like to bring a swarm of bees to your church? Well, have I got a method for you reallyally we're not trying to bring the things into church guys. We're trying to get people out of church. You're alluring W people leaving church early to go to the ice cream truck that doesn't exist in the eighteen hundreds. And that is in someone's back poumet How about this, when people go into the church to do church stuff, What are they leaving outside? What are you leaving outside in the eighteen hundreds Horse. O course I don't know. I just everyone was getting excited and yelling horse and point at the screen, so I thought of join You leave your horse outside in Georgia, which is cowboy town Maybe I don't Okay Sure, What does this have to do with the ice cream? Again, the luring Think of the luring. Imagine a this is a comically villainous scenario. A whole horse. You could rustle horses People would go to church, they would leave their horses outside. If you would like a horse to follow you, you would need to tempt it with something sweet in your back pocket and then simply walk and the horse will follow you and you have rustled a horse Boom, Nail the I know how to steal a horse. Exacton, little chocolate. You're really focused on the specifics of the ice cream. Well yes, I think it's important. Is the law about ice cream or is the law about anything sweet in your back pocket I think it's specifically an ice cream cone. So like you said, to prevent rus we this law exists According to old local folklore. to prevent wrestlers from luring the horses away On Sundays, horse riders would be in church for part of the day, and it's said that would be horse wrestlers would put ice cream in their pockets to attract the horses and then lead them away Other weird laws in Georgia include U in Marietta, it is illegal to spit unless you're in a truck In Gainesville, it is illegal to eat fried chicken with a fork. And in ququipman, it is illegal for chickens to cross the road. He Wow Thank you to Katie Warning for the question I asked at the start of the show, When is wet the opposite of electronic? Now when I asked that question, every single one of the answer in progress team just went What? So before I give the audience the answer, does I want to take a quick shot at that when you really misspell the word wet I wouldd say Is it something to do with the way music sounds? Sometimes they use words like dry and I assume wet and electronic. They do, but it's not that industry, I'm afraid. The wet version is often considered more important or trustworthy File name. It's not like a file name It's some sort of name Yeah, electronics become more popular than wet in recent years as well. Tom, what are you talking about? I haven't enough of this sense. Itt makes so much sense When might your name be electronic versus when might your name be wet Written ink versus a digital signature. Correct, Sabrina. Absolutelyolly right. a wet or wet ink signature is a physical one with pen and paper. and in some circumstances you may still need to use that Thank you very much to all our players. You are all part of Answer in Progress. Ta, what is Answer in prorogress Asw and Progress is a wonderful YouTube channel where the three of us ask questions about the world and then document our hijinks as we try to figure out the answer Sometimes we do it Sabrina, what sort of hijinks have you been up to We have looked into a lot of toothpaste. We have looked into We haven't made a lot of videos actually. What a tooth face. And Melissa, where can people find Answering prorogress? You can find us at YouTube dot com Forward slash at Answer in Progress And if you want to know more about this show, you can do that at lateralcast. com where you can also send in your own ideas for questions and join the Lateral prodroducers Club. We are at Lateralcast basically everywhere. and there are full video episodes every week on Spotify. Thank you very much to Melissa Fernandez Bood Bye, bye. Sabrina Cruz. Chahaka. The heist. I've been Tom Scott and that's been Latal