Riding by bus... and helicopter

[@hcblue]

Lizzy, the not sports-fan, proceeds to hit the ball out of the uh… baseball building. Brilliant!

[@MadCatPerson1977]

'Football building' is a phrase I am going to use much more often! 👍

[@dryued6874]

Yes, of course. Football building, where they make football.

[@Zadster]

It sounds very Matt Gray.

[@radagastwiz]

My first guess was that the road had become impassable - but I thought it was some kind of disaster, like a washout after a flood.

[@teemusid]

Yeah, I was thinking mudslides .

[@empath69]

I was thinking they were on a tour and the bus had taken a ferry ride to an island, and the *ferry* broke down.

[@daerdevvyl4314]

To tie in all the loose ends, it was a rabies outbreak causing football players to eat 4 million monkeys. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen!

[@brontewcat]

Yep that was my thought, I am not finished the video yet, but can I assume the blockage is people.

[@greensteve9307]

Ditto!

[@leenhouse217]

The 'football building' is where the athlete gang run on the sports pasture and try to get the competition sphere into the points nets

[@Snowshowslow]

Competition sphere 😂😂 You have a way with words 👏

[@vikyara6504]

As an Argentinian, it took me about a minute to remember because the World Cup feels so near, I had forgotten it happened a year and a half ago! Living here in Argentina at that time was such an experience. Thanks for reminding me of that wonderful time 💕

[@SolarLiner]

As a French, it also took me a minute to remember... 😂

[@John73John]

I feel like "Do buses stop on Christmas?" should be a holiday song.

[@leumas75]

There’s a song by Allen Damron called “Is There a Heaven for Balloons?” and I think this work in the same vein.

[@ElukeNL]

@jayforeman “Do buses stop on Christmas” potentially needs to be a song

[@purple4395]

"I'm not gonna get it if it's a football thing" > proceeds to be the main factor why they do get ir

[@privatesolofoe]

The "back to where they started" in the question made me think the bus could go down some slope but couldn't go back up or something along those lines

[@voidify3]

Same!

[@pthelo]

1:46 "RABIES IN THE BUTT!!"

[@liefwerk]

My guess: it was the national team of Argentina riding the bus (or at least the most famous players) - I remember seeing them riding a tour bus around Buenos Aires and it got quite difficult to move around because there was a lot of people following them.

[@fonburg]

Thank God, finally! First time I knew the answer immediately! Cheers!

[@michaelocyoung]

"Alive" involved a Uruguayan rugby team.

[@michaelocyoung]

And this will teach me not to comment until the end of the video.

[@milovaalafacu]

Also last year they made another movie about the incident, the society of the snow, it was nominated for an oscar and apparently it is more based on reality than alive

[@RFC3514]

8:22

[@mathisgilsbach116]

@@milovaalafacu It is a great movie! Very respectful in the way it portrayed the more gruesome aspects of the whole ordeal and their choices about either dying or eating the corpses

[@wave1090]

And the Spanish/Uruguayan film "the society of the snow" from last year is a much better film than alive and also a lot more accurate to the actual story

[@dkfood]

Finally a question that make me scream the answer at my screen before they figure it out.

[@ulixo1132]

They were so bad at this :D

[@nbartlett6538]

My immediate thought was the ending of the Italian Job... nothing actually wrong with the bus *yet*, but there is about to be.

[@ta-theoadonis465]

The moment I heard the date and place, I had to sit it out LOL Even if you're not a football fan nor live in Argentina, just by sheer social media osmosis you could see what an event it was!

[@hannahk1306]

My first thought was rockfall or something blocking the road, so I was close but probably wouldn't have gotten the specifics of what was blocking the road and why.

[@TarunoNafs]

I was surprised no one suggested "Covid!" when Tom reminded them the date is important. Kind of post-Covid, but still.

[@KernelLeak]

In this case, "cannibalism" surely beats "covid"... :D

[@poja82]

As an argentinian this is so funny. The thing in the Andes was in the 80s, it was a rugby team from Uruguay.

[@nariu7times328]

I got this one right off the bat, pretty happy about it. I like this show so much

[@isaacbobjork7053]

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes on Friday the 13th of October 1972 with the Old Christians rugby team on board

[@PianoKwanMan]

I like the idea that it was like Speed and the buses had to be sky lifted out, using a sikorsky S-64

[@keir92]

Pretty close, but the Andes disaster was a rugby team from Uruguay.

[@aixtom979]

Reminded me of Tim Traveller's journey on the rail replacement helicopter. ;-)

[@Alsadius]

I saw the Toronto Raptors victory parade about five or six years ago, and it was almost this bad - you couldn't get cell service because the networks were totally overwhelmed, you could barely move, people were sitting on traffic lights twenty feet in the air for hours at a time because that was the only space left, and the team themselves was stuck in traffic to a ridiculous extent (like they moved about a foot per minute, if even that much). And Toronto is not really *that* big a basketball city - it wasn't like it was the Leafs winning. So yeah, I believe it.

[@wta1518]

3:57 Last night I forgot the word for "glass cleaner" so I called it "window sauce".

[@RFC3514]

Surely, window sauce is something you get _from_ windows. I once tried squeezing some with my bare hands and some sauce definitely came out.

[@timothymclean]

@@RFC3514 Ah yes, glass ketchup.

[@RocketSlug]

The fact that the date was so close to the winter solstice made me think that they buses might've gotten trapped on treacherous terrain in the dark and that was why the passengers needed to be airlifted out

[@nooneyouknow1706]

December in Argentina would be the summer solstice.

[@RocketSlug]

@@nooneyouknow1706 Fair enough! North American brain lol

[@5paulo]

I remember this whole thing being reported on the news. It was wild!

[@blindleader42]

Like predicting rain in Seattle, if it's Argentina - 70% chance it's sports or mobs or both.

[@GryphLane]

They mob over anything though - it wasn't that long ago they mobbed over a random number plate

[@blindleader42]

@@GryphLane That's what I said.

[@timothymclean]

That's 210%?

[@timothymclean]

Unless this is an algebra question, in which case it's 50% sports and 50% mobs, assuming the two events have independent probabilities, and now that I say that it sounds unlikely.

[@TophTheMelonLord]

From the date being so close to the summer solstice, I thought the road melted or experienced some other heat-related obstruction.

[@sabsab9126]

3 million people go to see the 4th of July fireworks in Chicago every year. It takes about 6 hours to get home.

[@lmpeters]

The podcast "You're Wrong About" has an episode about what really happened to the Uruguayan rugby team that got stranded in the Andes, including the challenges the survivors faced when they finally came home.

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

I got myself derailed thinking about the Winter solstice (or Summer solstice, from a less northern-hemispherical point of view).

[@lucbloom]

Society of the Snow is a new movie about the rugby team. It’s quite good.

[@PaudyalArjun]

I knew the answer before Tom even finished the question. As soon as I saw Buenos Aires and the date, I knew it was about World Cup. Will never forget that date. The guests were really bad at this. Or I feel that because I knew the answer. haha

[@Yupppi]

If it was Finland it'd be really easy guess "totally stuck in snow". Except there's no mountains worthy of helicopter trip in Finland, they could just be collected by another bus or so. It's just that Christmas should be summer time in the southern hemisphere, am I wrong? Edit: I've never seen this fancy captions. But also never seen a UK person that doesn't know football of soccer kind.

[@yurisei6732]

Is this crossing one of those flooding land-bridges, the bus crossed to the island and then couldn't get back?

[@criticalevent]

Guessing mud slides or flooding.

[@ShapelessMonstrosity]

That monkey story is definitely a candidate for including as a question on a later episode. Not sure exactly how the question would be structured though.

[@milovaalafacu]

Pregunta argentina en lateral, nunca lo hubiera pensado, ahora quiero hacerme amigo del luciano que mandó la pregunta

[@johntaggart979]

"Alive" is such a powerful and wonderful movie.

[@currykingwurst6393]

Not if you've watched Society of the Snow (2023). Also, I wouldn't call either of them "wonderful".

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

@@currykingwurst6393 Society of the Snow is so well made. I love how VFX have come far enough to make small movies like that so utterly believable and show so many details.

[@ArifRWinandar]

And then the fans ate each other

[@turbochargedfilms]

*out

[@CountFab]

Fans (of the helicopters) vs fans (of the football team)

[@taniakrause9253]

🤣

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@turbochargedfilms Well, damn, 4 million people doing that in public? .....I can't finish this comment, I'm busy booking a trip to Argentina...

[@KernelLeak]

I love a happy ending...

[@ihathtelekinesis]

It’s always fun watching non-sports people trying to answer a sports question.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

20.12.2022 was a Twosday, er, Tuesday

[@pauldaplayfulpanda3042]

It's gotta be the world cup celebrations right?

[@pauldaplayfulpanda3042]

Hell yea

[@robertjarman3703]

I thought this was because the summer and winter are mirrored in the Southern Hemisphere, this was the last day of Spring and so there was a landslide on a hill due to the Spring thawing out things.

[@vikyara6504]

Good guess! but, just so you know, there are basically no hills on Buenos Aires; it's a very very big city in a region of mostly plains and grasslands

[@robertjarman3703]

@@vikyara6504 It's where the Paraguay River ends in a delta, isn't it?

[@Ken_King]

2 days after the world cup final....I wonder what the Answer is gonna be... also 30 people in the bus seems close to a WC squad size?😂

[@NickWrightDataYT]

My wife guessed a flood right at the start, and turns out she was MOSTLY right...?

[@erictaylor5462]

The bus was working fine, so how was the road working.

[@DenisSolaro]

Immediate guess: winter solstice for us, so summer for them? and maybe it has to do with the tides and the bus got stuck on an isthmus ?

[@Joeseanag24]

My first outlandish guess is there's a tsunami that blocked their paths both ways while they were on a hill, and needed helicopters to take them back

[@sandwich2473]

First thought was ski trip or something, then tides, then volcano Well off :P

[@Pikachu0071000CS]

Tom's pronunciation of Lionel Messi... :P

[@socialismandrevolution8299]

Really should've gotten that, I watched the game and a bunch of videos with Argentinians celebrating. A little counter-intuitive though, given that the World Cup is usually a summer event when it's not being held in the desert.

[@57thorns]

It was a summer event in Argentina.

[@jackdriffill2394]

When he said Argentina my mind immediately went to top gear, I figured England must have won and had gone to Argentina

[@dynad00d15]

Always play every opponent like they are GMs. :)

[@bob_._.]

So my first thought was 'bridge collapse' but theirs was 'did the numbers in the date spell out something?' smh

[@KieronTaylor]

My recollection of Argentinian buses suggests the driver wouldn't take them because they lacked precise coinage.

[@SuicV]

How the hell did it take them this long? 😅

[@ismaelarvizu4191]

Some sources say 6 million people were there.

[@RFC3514]

Some sources say 7 billion people were there. Or at least close enough, on a cosmic scale.

[@jonathan_60503]

Can't believe they missed making the obvious "rabid fans" rabies callback.

[@CineSoar]

So, when do the "Amazonian Butt Rabies" drop their first album "Monkey Finger"?

[@diegosanchez894]

I'm not even a big football fan and I was yelling at my screen.

[@12SailorLover21]

KAREN CHU!!!!!! I CLICKED SO FAST

[@mikejburns]

My immediate thought was, bus went up a road.. road gets washed out.. they need to be evacuated.. let's see how this pans out..??

[@tonypang83]

Thank you for not calling it "soccer" this time, unlike a previous video 🤣

[@zork999]

The term Soccer, short for Association Football, originated in England.

[@tonypang83]

​@@zork999 Maybe so, but it isn't in common usage anymore in the UK 🤷

[@LaPingvino]

@@tonypang83 still, not completely gone either! several things consistently use the term soccer in the UK!

[@anirudhsreekumar]

​@@zork999 Maybe, but the international self-regulatory governing body for the sport is FIFA (Fédération internationale de football association or International Association Football Federation) and not FISA. So it's officially called football, not soccer. 🤷‍♂️

[@RFC3514]

@@zork999 - And your point is...? The term "ruggers" also originated in England, but most people know it as "rugby". And can you guess where the term "football" originated?

[@Zevonfan524]

I got the date immediately, but had no idea this nonsense happened lol

[@shaunhouse8469]

When I heard the monkey story I thought "she married him". In "Alive" they were a rugby team

[@ausgruenden1590]

I was sure this was about traffic congestion before the football thing came up. Sent from the European country where "Verkehrswende" is a word but not a thing.

[@Rollermonkey1]

Flooding wash out a bridge? Cruise ship passengers miss their boat?

[@romainsavioz5466]

4 millions of 40 millions

[@Slikx666]

Football gets everywhere. 🤨

[@Becky_Cooling]

My first guess: it's some kind of sports team who got stuck in a traffic jam on the way to a game.

[@cybergeek11235]

blind guess: something weather or sports-related

[@EpiDot52]

Finally some representation. "Rabies in the butt!" and people eating are realistic quiz show contributions.

[@leumas75]

Tom should have (sarcastically?) explained to Lizzy who Messi is, in the easiest of non-footballer terms.

[@sorrynotsorry8224]

You know Tom's not a football fan purely based on his pronunciation of Lionel Messi's name.

[@WyvernYT]

This is of course the secret reason Tom Scott had to stop making his regular videos, and why he departed in a helicopter at the end. :-)

[@pookhahare]

Oh yes not surprised this is what happened

[@daerdevvyl4314]

I don’t think you’re going to get rabies from a monkey sticking its finger up your butt. It’s spread by bodily fluids, primarily saliva. I mean, I guess it’s possible the monkey had a wound on its finger so it’s blood is getting into the girl’s butt, but even then there would have to be a wound in her butt, or the finger would have to cause one, in order for the virus to reach her bloodstream. And all this is assuming the monkey was rabid in the first place. Possible I guess, but it strikes me as unlikely.

[@tinoyuff]

My dumbass thought by the title it was about Fortnite...

[@scbtripwire]

20/12/2022... hmm... dunno

[@pookhahare]

Saw someone mention covid. So this waz nasty winter outbreak.

[@lmpeters]

The omicron variant started to spread in December 2021, about a year earlier.

[@epiendless1128]

"The football building".. this is the level of sporting ignorance to which I can only aspire.

[@Koooo4]

From butt-monkey to messi isnt that far of a jump really.

[@opinionomated]

This is too obvious. Five helicopters were needed because each helicopter could only carry six passengers. Simple math!

[@pookhahare]

Obstruction roads

[@erictaylor5462]

I call it "pointless football" because a soccer ball is round while an American football has a point on each end.

[@ernestoyepez5103]

This question would be difficult only for American