A high-risk volleyball match

[@SweenyLand]

Tom not thinking Mexico could be significant is really making his British ancestors proud

[@georgelloydgonzalez]

Nah, Mexico and Britain have had relatively good diplomatic relations (other than that brief stint during the 1860s). But British soldiers never walked, let alone pillaged, Mexican soil

[@SweenyLand]

@@georgelloydgonzalez exactly, and if the British didn't pillage it you know they didn't think it was significant XD

[@Anolaana]

The wheel spins, and lands on Mexico!

[@OneOfTheLoveless]

Isn't Mexico rather considered part of central america?

[@OneOfTheLoveless]

Technically he was the one proposing it being about the border between Mexico and the US, so he did think it was significant but not as significant as Canada and the US, because mostly sad things happen in the south of the north. :(

[@explorepaul]

Devin looks like he’s about to address the nation on this subject.

[@basementdwellercosplay]

He is always addressing the nation in his videos

[@Qermaq]

It's his own resolute desk.

[@hcblue]

I assume the question producer writes these questions? They're so well worded, and I think it's lovely that it plays off a lot of the participants biases ("North American"). Also, double love for the captioning team for capturing the _pronunciation_ differences of Naco multiple times in the Rubi text (idk what you call it in English).

[@alexrobinson8146]

Had a quick Google, and it's also called Ruby or Rubi text in English. Honestly though, whoever does the subtitles is awesome, the different colours make it so much easier to follow along!

[@kalosdakalos6102]

There's also just books full of puzzles exactly like these. A producer is probably still be picking the questions and checking the wording, but there's been a few of these I've recognized simply because they were in a book of lateral thinking puzzles I've read before.

[@m4rcyonstation93]

@@cmmartti same david as the david in the game garage keep or dump ep?

[@___echo___]

@@cmmartti I thought the questions were viewer submitted?

[@56independent]

Well, what do you think a lawyer would come up with? Obviously they've been trained to word things in a very specific manner.

[@GuanoLad]

This is a perfect example of the way the game is played. Every wrong path was logically considered, then narrowed down to the truth, all without a random guess accidentally stumbling upon the answer.

[@MarylandFarmer.]

"Make volleyball great again" gave me a nice chuckle at the end there. Good one Devin

[@WLivi]

Shoutout to the subtitling team for using ruby characters to capture the Naco pronunciation clarification at 1:26

[@evanbelcher]

As an American, it does feel shocking that it wasn't immediately assumed to be a southern American or Mexican town based on the name. No way it would have anything to do with Canada.

[@beth12svist]

As a Czech interested in languages, same. Although to be fair to Tom, naming conventions in North America are so much all over the place that from the European perspective it's harder to zoom in on them.

[@teamcoltra]

I instantly knew it was Mexico but it made me realize I would love another question phrased like this but about Greenland which is also part of North America.

[@dilbert719]

I can understand people not from the US having no frame of reference, but Devin's pronunciation immediately drew a parallel to Nacogdoches, so that put my mind straight to the southern border.

[@beth12svist]

@@dilbert719 As a Czech: What the heck is Nacogdoches? (ETA: I did look it up, but it's a great example that yes, we do have very different frames of reference over here in Europe.)

[@HopUpOutDaBed]

I could see how they might think naco could be an Inuit word. what really gave it away was him correcting tom's pronunciation to be more spanish sounding.

[@alexandrel3804]

Devon said it was not Canada: "we like to share our continent with other people in other countries", plural. In context, it was a way to say "no" to Tom. Very lawyer of him.

[@MakooWallinen]

My sarcastic thought of: "Is Mexico not a part of North America?" proved entirely justified!

[@Chrnan6710]

2:22 This pun was underappreciated

[@goldstargloww]

i find it funny that they accidentally uploaded the wrong video file and had to private it

[@arcanics1971]

I think it was because the subtitles were out of sync.

[@arcanics1971]

Ah, now I see this episode you're right, it was the wrong episode with the subtitles for this one. Sorry. I am a fool.

[@Furiends]

@@arcanics1971 yep. the subtitles weren't just out of sync they were wrong. I was quite confused haha.

[@jasonshere]

They did that again? They did the same thing about 2 days ago.

[@Koushakur]

@@jasonshere 2 days? More like 2 weeks

[@komiteunofficialaccount9224]

Probably one of the best questions of the show.

[@Furiends]

If I had to guess the other video is yet to be released AND does not yet have subtitles. So simply swapping the subtitles wasn't a fix for the incorrect upload. They had to switch it to this one.

[@Rioraku]

Tom Scot and Legal Eagle. How does this not have more views?

[@DerMarkus1982]

Devin (to Tom): "You are very close." My brain: "Border? Volleyball? Was the `net` made of barbed wire? 😂"

[@Squant]

I too, arrived at the very obvious answer once the very revealing clues had been determined.

[@flutechannel]

What a handsome and beautiful bunch! Love the show!

[@onelegout]

I legitimately guessed this immediately 😆

[@BodyMusicification]

I was screaming BARBED WIRE at the TV 😅

[@darklajid]

I love this show and Devin is my favorite guest by far.

[@Megan-hu5is]

Hmm, I'd love to have visuals for all of the podcasts! Sometimes y'all reference people's faces, and I think it does add a lot to the experience!

[@thesmithersy]

We're going to play a volleyball game, and it's going to be a big beautiful volleyball game. And America will pay for the net!

[@markblacket8900]

that sword joke was hilarious!

[@b33thr33kay]

I saw you... 😉 EDIT: great episode, I love the guests!

[@lifeisboss7097]

shhhh

[@vibingwithvinyl]

Yup

[@annaczgli2983]

Good catch, hehe

[@fltchr4449]

My mind went to playing across a stream of magma. It's probably difficult to stand that close to magma and dangerous to be bounding around near it.

[@coyraig8332]

I thought about a volcano but I don't think Hawaii counts as north america

[@PabloEdvardo]

i had no idea this channel or podcast existed. I don't listen to audio podcasts anymore but more video clips would be great.

[@nacoran]

Canada Goose, not Canadian Goose, unless it's a Canadian citizen.

[@egerlachca]

Tom: "But I forgot about Mexico... which does feel like a metaphor for something..." Colonialism? 🤣

[@munjee2]

I don't think that's just it I'm not sure what it would be but closer to classicism

[@robertjarman3703]

@@munjee2 That would be classism. Classicism is a liking for the Greeks and Romans, IE the classics.

[@jacktattersall9457]

You can know it's not Canada because we have a library that we share with the US that's on the border and we're all perfectly calm about it (unless you're passing guns or drugs in said library).

[@sophiamarchildon3998]

Blind guess: The mention of a specific year period makes me think about a now-considered-protected-made-ball. It could burst because of the public outrage. What if they played with a ball with the picture of their "Leader" and it became outlawed to "hit" an image like that?

[@sophiamarchildon3998]

In retrospective: swing and a miss.

[@punksci6879]

Swords literally split people apart.

[@WillBinge]

Oh nice I got to see a video that is no longer here.

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

Sorry I had this on in the background and hadn't realized the question was from freaking legal eagle lol

[@ChathuraNuwanga]

Hey Tom, this week's episode is not uploaded yet?

[@Brainreaver79]

my first idea was playing over a prison fence and the barbed wire on top bursting the ball....

[@shavranotheferanox7809]

Why dont they just build a platform on either side so the wall is the correct hight again? Its their land

[@questioner1596]

Not exactly. It's likely government owned land, similar to a roadway. If you build a platform without approval, especially where border patrols are, you'll be made to stop construction.

[@steeljawX]

You should have gone with the "Canadian-Mexican boarder." That basically encompasses all of the contiguous USA and you could wouldn't have been wrong either way. That's a way to mention the USA in context next time you want to take a dig at us. "You know, the Canadian-Mexican boarder has really fallen apart. It used to be a decent place, but now it's just trashy." "Did you see the Mexican-Canadian boarder patrol is making another aircraft carrier? How much money does that place need?" And to take the cheap way out, I can say those jokes because I'm an American.😅

[@AndyGneiss]

🤣

[@beth12svist]

*border A _boarder_ is someone who pays for living in a place they don't own. A _border_ is the division line between two places (or the edge of something, like the border of a tablecloth). This is a Czech making a dig at you for not knowing how to spell your own language. 😛

[@shaunhouse8469]

I'd class the Island States of the Caribbean (apart from Trinidad & Tobago) and central America as North America so Tom takes out at least 20 countries when he said "North America, so not the US - Canada!"

[@Dave_Sisson]

I've always thought of Central America and the West Indies as their own subcontinent spanning both North and South America, with North America usually just used for Canada, USA and Greenland.

[@micah_wong]

I swear a Mobius strip is non-Euclidean geometry

[@56independent]

"that's a well-worded question" what do you expect from a lawyer? We all know how slimy some of them get.

[@seizan88]

I love this :'D

[@kTHElidd]

Green man gang, where you at?

[@feldspar1000]

red word gang I'm afraid

[@lillianb8762]

Awww, the end of that one just makes me sad and embarrassed for my country

[@Quokkat7]

Is this the mexico special?

[@lillianb8762]

Sword volleyball!

[@KineticPassion]

Tbf, I thought Canada over Mexico simply bc Mexico is Central America rather than North America

[@markusklyver6277]

Exit signs tho

[@jannepeltonen2036]

Borders could be like that.

[@erictaylor5462]

The United States of America is not the only country in North America, it is not even the only United States. The country to the south of the USA is the United States of Mexico.

[@ciaramc29]

Great way to smuggle contraband....not that I'd condone that sort of carry on.

[@OneOfTheLoveless]

Us Americans are just tea-hating British, but that's not enough of a crime to be talking like an old landseaer.

[@MadMaxGyver]

This is sad AF...

[@usmh]

I would've been ticked off by calling Mexico North American. Since when is Mexico not Central American?

[@varana]

Since forever. Most of Mexico is part of North America, only the southern end (from the Tehuantepec Isthmus (= the narrowest bit) southward, i.e. mostly Yucatan) is Central America. I've met Mexicans who were _very_ adamant about being from North America.

[@brandonm8901]

Even if you want to be awkward and consider Mexico part of Central America, that is still just a subdivision of the continent of North America? Given that the continents are North and South America, are you trying to say that Mexico is part of South America??

[@ronchappel4812]

What,no drugs involved? I thought for sure someone would have used this as an opportunity to move cocaine😆

[@danoconnell1833]

Tom didn't think of Mexico because it's *Central* America, not North.

[@ttww1590]

False. Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

[@danoconnell1833]

@@ttww1590 Thank you for that correction!

[@DonPaliPalacios]

​@@Nazuiko That's indeed the traditional view in the English-speaking world. To complicate things, in the Spanish-speaking world North America and Central America are seen as two different regions of a single continent "América". The border between the two is either the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southeastern Mexico, or the Mexican-Guatemalan border. To complicate things even further, the United Nations Statistics Division classifies all of Mexico as part of Central America.

[@ClovzeLeFernandezMatthews]

I guess the show was talking about their geographical aspects, not other cultural or political stuff 😅