
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

Feb 23, 2024 • 49min
72: Billy Joel's 'Kohuept'
Topics range from bricked-up buildings to money misunderstandings and transmuted text. Discussions cover static electricity, disruptive smartphone companies, cloning, aviation mishaps, and the mystery of Billy Joel's 'Kohuept'.

Feb 16, 2024 • 49min
71: The sushi blockbuster
The podcast discusses topics such as bonus bunkers, fitness fanatics, incidental insurance, puzzles, Twitch streams, Limericks, deciphering codes in electronic music, license plates, NordVPN ad, confusion about hammers, the word 'NOT', digital rain in The Matrix, and vegetable stock distribution.

Feb 9, 2024 • 49min
70: Holding up a desk lamp
Topics discussed include Tokyo Narita Airport signage, the story behind the Columbia Pictures logo, confusing terms in a Dungeons and Dragons book, navigating a cruise ship under a low bridge, copyright infringement in Roosevelt's campaign, and a postal service change in Nebraska.

Feb 2, 2024 • 43min
69: A very speedy spider
In this podcast, they discuss topics like preserving a carved pumpkin in a resin cube, test anxiety relief, flying with Blue Angels, the symbolism behind the Morton Salt logo, debating souvenir t-shirt color for the Evil Dead musical, blood splatter at a haunted house, and the largest satellite orbiting the Earth.

Jan 26, 2024 • 45min
68: Bright green icing
Comedy panel game contestants Molly Edwards, Becky Stern, and Jenny Draper discuss fancy flowers, shirt selections, car coordination, genetic manipulations, banknote designs, wall-mounted books, Clear Petra's Wikipedia page views, identifying smart shirts for twins, and police methods for solving hit-and-run cases in this entertaining episode of 'Lateral with Tom Scott'.

Jan 19, 2024 • 54min
67: The colour sequence secret
Host Tom Scott and the team from 'Let's Learn Everything' discuss topics such as a controversial traffic light in Syracuse, color-changing items, the influence of a competitor's wife on telephone technology, deciphering a scoreboard sequence, the mysterious 'Raoul Batela', and struggling to remember the name of a candy company.

Jan 12, 2024 • 46min
66: The lock-breaking pencil
The podcast discusses topics such as stationery stories, secret shapes, and sporting sites. The hosts also delve into cooking, food history, driving customs, computer pranks, and security breaches. They explore unique areas and discuss the use of pens for security breaches. The speakers express gratitude to the players and provide information on their online platforms.

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Jan 5, 2024 • 48min
65: Air-conditioned pilots
The podcast discusses unconventional episode numbering systems, the connection between restaurants and hairstylists, a mystery job involving physical contact, Disney cast member training, mobile phone tower health issues, and places named like other places.

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Dec 29, 2023 • 47min
64: Black and white bowties
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.

Dec 22, 2023 • 50min
63: Upside-down riches
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.
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