Lateral with Tom Scott

Comedy panel game podcast guests, Daniel Peake, Lizzy Skrzypiec, and Bill Sunderland discuss shoe safes, safety signs, sinuous streets, connections between buildings and New York City's history, misinterpreted theme and toga costumes, unnecessary bends and roundabouts in Perth, and deer separation in Richmond Park.

Mathematician Hannah Fry, domino artist Lily Hevesh, and comedy writer Brian David Gilbert discuss topics such as flying planes upside down, improving inventions like ketchup bottles, the existence of two javelin events in the Olympics, the mystery of a man-made water trough, and the challenges of organizing a massive funeral scene in a movie.

Hannah Witton, Mike Boyd, and Geoff Marshall tackle questions about versatile voting, clever creatures, and brick buildings. They discuss the mystery of a repurposed building, a bizarre arrangement with chickens and prisoners, a hijacking incident with a clever landing strategy, a silent show of support for the Civil Rights Act, an anti-smoking charity's clever message campaign, and Scottish people and lottery tickets.

The hosts discuss creating impractical things and odd bus timetables, explore the issue of objectivity with robots in specialized jobs, delve into the origins and construction of the didgeridoo, unravel a puzzle about a watch's complications, analyze a mystery involving a cleaner and a cat, and discover the transformation from 20 to 32 is about the number of teeth humans have.

Topics include injecting fillers and tattoos for advertising, nostalgia tastes and the correlation between COVID and the inability to smell Yankee candles, creating custom smells with Scratch and Sif cards, limitations of Roman numerals, the ethics of psychology experiments, and the effects of costume incentives on motivation.

Guests Corry Will, Luke Cutforth, and Jack Chesher discuss topics such as designer drinks, basketball business, festival flyers, Kevin's wedding request, flight diversion to Glasgow, making money through residuals and royalties, and William Shatner's musical performance.

Fashion historian Bernadette Banner, Emily Graslie from the Field Museum, and Dani Siller discuss jogging jobs, textual T-shirts, dangerous dogs, hidden messages in clothing, 90s fashion nostalgia, innovative museum technology, peculiar bird behavior, unusual golf challenges, Australian bank note riddles, fire-saving techniques, and a Parisian Newfoundland dog mystery.

The podcast discusses topics such as the human fascination with the number seven, the use of rear projection in filmmaking, forensic techniques used to identify stolen CCTV camera systems, and the psychology behind fake Craigslist ads.

Caroline Roper, Ella Hubber and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything!' face questions about eccentric earrings, dawdling deliveries and cattle calculations.LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com.Join the Producer's Club via https://members.lateralcast.com for ad-free episodes and bonus content.HOST: Tom Scott. QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe. RECORDED AT: The Podcast Studios, Dublin. EDITED BY: Julie Hassett. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com). ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Sayan Chaudhry, Georgi, Jaime Nufio. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast discusses topics such as a miraculous basketball shot, a mysterious gate and sign, a Las Vegas restaurant for overweight people, the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus hoax, a mysterious phone call on a flight, a joke about speeding tickets, and decoding the phonetic alphabet.