

Lateral with Tom Scott
Tom Scott and David Bodycombe
Award-winning 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. Enquiries and question submissions: https://www.lateralcast.com.Ad-free shows and bonus content: https://www.lateralcast.com/club.
Episodes
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Jun 21, 2024 • 42min
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 • 45min
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 • 49min
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 • 43min
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 • 45min
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 • 50min
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 • 45min
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.

May 3, 2024 • 48min
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.

Apr 26, 2024 • 43min
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.

Apr 19, 2024 • 48min
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!