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Lateral with Tom Scott

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May 3, 2024 • 51min

82: Cattle at the office

Karen Chu from 'Good Job Brain,' along with Bob and Lizzy, discuss quirky topics like vinyl records with hidden messages, regal colors for queen bees, and unravel the mystery of 40 live cattle delivered to a Chicago office. They also engage in a fun movie guessing game and explore the unique sport of chess boxing.
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Apr 26, 2024 • 46min

81: Women in red

Join Tom Scott as he discusses creative calibration, Canadian cities, crafty cataloguing, and more with Simon Clark, Alec Steele, and Rowan Ellis. Explore the innovative sensors in NFL facilities, quirky petitions in small towns, and strategies for enhancing debit card security. Delve into poetry terms, system conversions, and fictional library characters in this entertaining and informative podcast.
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Apr 19, 2024 • 51min

80: The identical trainers

Ella, Caroline, and Tom from 'Let's Learn Everything' discuss forgetful fumbles, Chinese gadgets, and unique time zones. Topics include identical trainers in Singapore, speedrunning glitches, and deciphering cryptic messages. A fun and informative podcast episode!
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Apr 12, 2024 • 48min

79: Deliberately faulty rulers

Guests from 'Answer in Progress' explore universal units, vocational voices, and quizzical questions on a comedy panel game podcast hosted by Tom Scott. Topics include mnemonics for memory recall, innovative gameplay of Boktais for Game Boy Advance, sports mascots, and an ownership dispute over Mont Blanc's summit. Legal case on copyrights, measuring rulers, faulty rulers, wood expansion, and manufacturing shrinkage are also discussed.
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Apr 5, 2024 • 47min

78: Sneaky statutory statues

Ruth Amos & Shawn Brown from 'Kids Invent Stuff' and Daniel Peake discuss play programmes, dreary drives, and captured caps. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast with weird questions and wonderful answers hosted by Tom Scott.
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Mar 29, 2024 • 50min

77: Experiments by bus

Stuart Goldsmith, Sophie Ward, and Katie Steckles discuss gaming goals, street signs, Parisian peddlers, bus safety, medical research on public transit, mysterious disappearances, legal loopholes, and unraveling the mystery of Anita Street in a funny panel game podcast hosted by Tom Scott.
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Mar 22, 2024 • 50min

76: The man who ate snow

Join Tom Scott and guests as they discuss visual vistas, ridiculous running, film phobias, rocket mail, unusual marathons, enigmatic viewfinders, color perception through special lenses, and trivia on Vertigo. Delve into artistic rivalries, statue alterations, and the mystery man behind strategic actions in the Winter War. Explore innovative circus contraptions and the Pink Panther sculpture rivalry. Discover the beauty of Tennessee's Grand Canyon and uncover the emotions evoked by a specific viewfinder.
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Mar 15, 2024 • 43min

75: Annoying Chad

Annie, Abigail, and Jordan talk about political plaques, coin collection, and suitcase sections in a comedy panel game podcast hosted by Tom Scott. They debunk Lysol misconceptions, discuss puppet character evolution, explore animal rights tattoos, and unravel the mystery of the number 37. The episode also covers baggage claim chaos, Disney animatronics, and trivia games.
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Mar 8, 2024 • 46min

74: 122,667 miles

A comedy panel game podcast covers topics like cycling coercion, hoovering hacks, and disproportionate drinks. Delve into mysteries like an unfinishable swimming race, cost dynamics of rum and coke in the Philippines, and numerical puzzles. Explore an unexpected bike ride, cycling race disqualifications, and quirky promotions by a Chinese warlord.
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Mar 1, 2024 • 41min

73: Resurrecting mammoths

Discussion on resurrecting mammoths through genetic engineering, origins of Salad Dressing Day and marketing tactics, psychology of inconsequential buttons, child safety lock innovations, and a police box trademark dispute.

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