When free lollipops are win-win

[@MrDannyDetail]

I went clubbing one night, and woke the next day to find myself in posession of a unwrapped lollipop that I didn't recall gaining, so I was worried I had drunkenly robbed it from someone or somewhere. Now it becomes clear that either the club or a police support officer in the street outside the club probably gave it to me to shut me up, only for me to pocket it instead of consuming it right away.

[@MelvinGundlach]

Can we quickly appreciate that Tom used color coding in the subtitles to distinguish the speakers? Love it!

[@lateralcast]

The clever sausages at twitter.com/caption_plus do that magic for us.

[@terranovarubacha5473]

​@@lateralcastClever sausages, is this a thing people are saying in Britain of late?

[@stevesmith2044]

@@terranovarubacha5473 opposite of silly sausages

[@harrodharrod5239]

I'mma fix that one for you: Tom paid professionals to color code the captions. He does this for all of his videos with multiple speakers.

[@snuffysam]

@@harrodharrod5239”’Oh look at me, I’ve bought a Lamborghini-‘ buy some damn subtitles!” - Tom Scott

[@1draigon]

Honestly this podcast is so good for us people that really would like Tom to colab with more people, and now he can do things with marquess and wren!

[@FoxDren]

The thing about the 'could have nicked your laptop' stickers reminds me of something the police actually did. They had officers who were putting cards in open bags saying "a pickpocket could steal your stuff"

[@PianoKwanMan]

Instead, we have people doing reverse pickpocket and putting rocks into people's backpacks when hiking

[@peperoni_pepino]

I was thinking of smoking. I vaguely recall that maybe my local police did that once, but I'm not a smoker so not sure. I think there was some space where smoking was forbidden while it used to be allowed, and the first few months the police would force people to stop smoking or leave, but if they stopped they got a lollipop. But I might be making this up in a mixture of some other action and the fact that there was a large campaign to switch from smoking to lollipops. That campaign was before vapes came around.

[@nadamuchu]

I would love to see the full episodes please. If there are other perks, I would even pay for it on Patreon or something

[@David_K_Booth]

The description says exactly where you can see them.

[@Eclyptical]

@@David_K_Booth You mean where you can HEAR them.

[@joshuacheung6518]

​@@David_K_Boothdid the description get edited, because i don't see that information there.

[@timothymclean]

3:15: "You've got to remember, this is British community support police. So it's not necessarily investigating a crime." American police don't investigate many crimes either.

[@TasieDJ]

This was my immediate thought. The night club I used to go to did this. Not sure how many people realised the reason but I literally used to call them shush pops! This was definitely before 2011.

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

When I started clubbing in South London in my late teens I genuinely thought those lollies had acid in them or something. I had no idea they were from the police 😂😂😂😂

[@IceMetalPunk]

"Is that a bubblegum lollipop?" "No, it's a shuthefuckup-a-pop."

[@ShadowDrakken]

40C is 104F, and I'm here in Nebraska still just thinking that's a Summer Tuesday, not a heat wave.

[@Brainreaver79]

it wasnt the police handing them out, but in the nightclubs i went to in the 90s when you would pay your bill while leaving, there was always free lollipops at the door you could take, and most did take them

[@colour_bloo]

MKBHD x Corridor x Tom Scott is by NO means the collab I expected to see, and most certainly NOT one I am disappointed by!

[@subinmdr]

I hope we get the previous (Hayley's) question on video as well.

[@WillFealey]

Full episodes on somewhere please Tom.

[@DonPaliPalacios]

We'd all love to see Tom's extremely frustrated face during the Metallica segment 🤪

[@markusklyver6277]

Full episodes, Tom! You're teasing us.

[@kavyavijay4953]

Video clip for the car one would be nice

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

I got this one quickly because I once lived in the bar district of Hamilton. I could hear from my bed when it turned 2am because all the bars closed and everyone started shouting in the street.

[@radovansvarc1927]

Great episode!!

[@DemonPete]

I remember a Kebab van had the same effect 😀

[@emeraldbonsai]

Could you guys at least upload the full version with no video to KZbin. Since you guys seem stuck on not uploading the full video

[@alexrowaan7326]

Why not just listen to it on a podcast platform?

[@emeraldbonsai]

@@alexrowaan7326 youTube is a podcast platform…… it’s where I listen to trashtaste, hello internet, cortex, safety third, simply podlogical. Why would I use a separate app for just 1 of the many podcasts I listen to

[@alexrowaan7326]

@@emeraldbonsai I'd argue that KZbin is a video platform and podcasts are an audio medium, and that some podcasts just happen to have a video component as well. But I do see your point

[@Budsport_TV]

@@emeraldbonsai how hard is it to open up a podcast app and search for the show vs opening up the KZbin app and searching for the show? Takes the Same amount of effort.

[@SeralyneYT]

@@Budsport_TV I get ads in a podcast platform. I don't here. Also I don't see why I should leave this app for one podcast in general.

[@TheOnlyBobE]

Full episodes on KZbin please. I'll keep bothering.

[@JusticePreyHDM]

NO

[@hairyairey]

Here, have a 🍭😂

[@SamuraiGuy]

I've heard of kids getting ice cream cone coupons from cops for wearing helmets while biking, so I assumed that was the reason.

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

Wren is such a funny guy. I love him

[@bonelesswatermelon420]

I thought it was some unorthodox investigation technique where they'd give out lollipops and try to obtain DNA from the saliva on discarded sticks in order find a match on an ongoing investigation.

[@edwardlees4585]

So did I and think it would be a superb method. You could nick them if they drop the stick on the ground too!

[@TomOConnor-BlobOpera]

My mind immediately said "Did those lollipops contain lidocaine?"

[@undeniablySomeGuy]

wait there's a way to make people do what you want them to without threatening them with martial force? as a US citizen, I think this is simply Preposterous

[@panda4247]

Sugar and stick

[@maruftim]

well it helps that the other party complies with it

[@guitar1790]

Wren!!! Love to see him haha

[@RobFerrer]

I'm fairly sure I experienced this from nightclub staff around the year 2001. Maybe I imagined it!

[@abracadabra8501]

I knew this right away as my godmother is a street pastor

[@darklajid]

MKBHD is so fun to watch. Seeing well rehearsed tech videos is one thing, but guessing about random stuff? So much more relatable and nice! Now I want an episode with MKBHD and Legal Eagle please! :)

[@George_vv]

I'm just trying to imagine Tom with his long hair matching Penn Juliette, going to a nightclub in 2011.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

My guess : they were recruiting for lollipop men / crossing guards

[@mitchellbarnow1709]

When did Continental Europe adopt the metric system and why didn’t England also adopt the Metric System at that time?

[@korakys]

Napoleon spread the metric system around with his conquests, but of course he never conquered Britain. A lot of countries rejected the metric system as soon as Napoleon was defeated but by then they already had a taste for it and soon readopted it. Napoleon didn't take control of every country on the continent but it was enough for a critical mass to get the others to switch. Britain was also already far more standardised at the time while other countries still had very wonky systems that absolutely had to be tightened up, may as well just switch to metric instead as it was a ready-made system. He also spread the modernised French legal code style at the same time, much of the continent uses it as a base to this day.

[@WakarimasenKa]

I thought this was going to be about handing out equipment for "school patrols" or "X-ing guards", also known as lollipop men/ladies

[@CheyenneRose]

Spoiler.... Can we have lollipops in more places for people to be quiet? 🤣😂

[@lucbloom]

It’s also a great public image booster. Police here to keep the peace and assist when in need. This is the way.

[@ecchikitty1395]

My guess had been to lure kids towards police officers. In the best of ways. Kids get told 'be good or the police will get you!' and so are scared of the police. That's not a good situation when a kid is lost and alone, you want them to be willing to approach a police officer. Well if the police are the guys handy out candy, no hesitation going to one when you've got a problem.

[@still_guns]

I thought this would have been to give to children who got lost or were in car accidents or soemthing.

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

4:00 Surely it must be to make drunk people yelling in the streets late at night shut up?

[@sophiamarchildon3998]

Initial thoughts: either had drug detection in them (that licker got a blue tongue from a red lollipop, thus drugged), or a "free ticket to superbowl" scam thing (could be simple as people parking illegally just to get that free-ness, and be scolded about). But in a more current way, they could have to give up some freedom/privacy, just for a treat.

[@sophiamarchildon3998]

Hayley's guess at 1:45 is so good.

[@sophiamarchildon3998]

After the "to shut-up" revelation of 2:35: it was a protest against the police. And they wanted to calm down (silence?) the protesters. So they paid dealers to freely hand lollipops out. And they got a moment of quiet for a public/recorded presence.

[@sophiamarchildon3998]

Results: my first guess was too optimistic on the cunning ability of the police. My second one, I was too stuck on police "police" aspect of it, but still very on track for the reason. And then a miss.

[@Zelmel]

Oh hey, it's Wren!

[@Slikx666]

Only a baseball bat would work here in Plymouth. As soon as someone sniffs alcohol they're all shouty. 😆👍

[@MercenaryPen]

Clearly you mean that a baseball bat is the minimum that would work- I guarantee that if you used a flamethrower they would only be "all shouty" the once, and then never again

[@knowmatter5503]

It's been kind of fun watching the view counts on these tank as Tom stubbornly argues against uploading full episodes.

[@lforlight]

I listened to the full episode. It was oddly easy, compared to the others. I would have sat out for half the questions. And given how Tom, Marques and Wren all had the chance to sit out questions, it feels like I did as well. 3 weekend days starting with T was really a non-brainer. At the level of a grade school riddle.

[@an3ssh]

Free Donuts then

[@cannot-handle-handles]

Spoilers: … And here I thought they were giving out signs like the ones used by crossing guards (because they are lollipop ladies/men/people in the UK). … Well, the real solution was better and they should start doing this here.

[@avsgriffy]

In 2012 when texting and driving became illegal in my area, there were stories of cops rewarding drivers who pulled over on the highway with free pizza. I honestly thought that's where the lollipop thing was going.

[@b1646717]

US cops would have used pepper spray.

[@teeje8205]

can you make that question that got solved within one minute as a highlight? xD

[@PVempati]

I remember something similar i heard about like a nightclub in canada or something where they had a horse outside the nightclub and told the srunkpeople that they had to be quiet to pet tthe horse so they wouldnt spook it or somethjing like that

[@BrianHurry]

Or they were trying to collect dna

[@123tobiiboii123]

Can you stop uploading these clips, I want it to be a purely audio experience only

[@fullfungo]

?

[@mistknight2243]

It can be just don't watch the highlights this is just for people who like watching it too.

[@JusticePreyHDM]

Listen to it on their website