
Lateral with Tom Scott
Comedy panel game about weird questions with wonderful answers. Each week, Tom Scott is joined by three guests to ask each other questions with a sideways twist. There's no points or prizes - just reputation and bragging rights on the line. For business enquiries, contestants applications and question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com.Join the Producer's Club at https://members.lateralcast.com for ad-free shows and bonus content.
Latest episodes

Jul 12, 2024 • 51min
92: Inverted guitars
Comedy panel game contestants Jenny Draper, David Bennett, and Annie Rauwerda discuss repetitious races, thankful towns, and natural nourishment. The podcast features quirky questions and witty answers in a fun and engaging format.

Jul 5, 2024 • 52min
91: A secret base, revealed
Guests Robert Llewellyn, Bill Sunderland, and Dani Siller face quirky questions about mud mounds, circling canines, and valuable printers. They discuss mysterious escalator labels, historical burial practices, and decoding canine reactions to hit songs. Podcast is a comedy panel game hosted by Tom Scott.

Jun 28, 2024 • 47min
90: Manhole Easter eggs
Guest Karen Chu from 'Good Job Brain' joins in discussing Rubik's Cube speed records, manhole cover designs, NFL whistle mysteries, and the impact of food names on consumer perception. The podcast also delves into Latin species names humorously connecting knitting to a gory process.

Jun 21, 2024 • 45min
89: Smashing products
Simon Clark, Alec Steele, and Rowan Ellis discuss red resources, radioactive readings, and unconventional marketing strategies. Topics include high altitude training, Minecraft pig design errors, and historical incidents like the USS Los Angeles flip.

Jun 14, 2024 • 48min
88: Rolling a 7
Join Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper, and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything' as they tackle questions about devious designs, historical trivia, deciphering codes, and humorous misunderstandings. The podcast also explores intriguing maritime salvage tales and a clever strategy in Australian Rules football, ending with a discussion on Singapore's chewing gum ban.

Jun 7, 2024 • 52min
87: Rory McIlroy's (blank)
Sabrina Cruz, Melissa Fernandes, and Taha Khan from 'Answer in Progress' discuss solar solutions, cinema accessibility, debate doors vs. wheels, historical bird tactics, whiskey recreation with chestnut wood, and golf prizes in a lively and entertaining conversation on 'Lateral with Tom Scott'.

May 31, 2024 • 46min
86: Tricycles that lean
Creators from 'Kids Invent Stuff' and Daniel Peake join Tom Scott to discuss corporeal cells, tricycles, fantastic frying pans, multilingual filming challenges, physicists causing havoc at meetings, guessing European capitals, innovative tricycle design in Pagadian City, quirky Frying Pan Park, and exploring the microscopic ecosystem within us.

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May 24, 2024 • 48min
85: Pyromaniac novelties
Comedian Stuart Goldsmith, actress Sophie Ward, and mathematician Katie Steckles discuss helpful hangers, location lines, cohabiting coordination, Laser Jesus, fire-starting water bottles, historical wrecker tactics, and cedar wood clothes hangers on the 'Lateral with Tom Scott' podcast.

May 17, 2024 • 53min
84: Leftover contraptions
Comedy panel game guests Sam Reich and Ashley Hamer, along with contraption expert Adam Savage, discuss police paperwork, tiny text, judicial jobs, accumulated items, mysterious ingredients, dueling practices, fines on social media, and a name change prank.

May 10, 2024 • 48min
83: The user un-friendly library
Abigail Thorn, Annie Rauwerda, and Jordan Harrod discuss book buying, cancer care, and studio symbols in a comedy panel game podcast hosted by Tom Scott. The episode explores the influences of Lagrange points, French Revolution time innovations, animal intuition, and the mysterious one-time borrowing rule at a library.
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