

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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Apr 12, 2024 • 46min
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.

Apr 5, 2024 • 46min
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.

Mar 29, 2024 • 48min
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.

Mar 22, 2024 • 48min
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.

Mar 15, 2024 • 41min
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.

Mar 8, 2024 • 44min
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.

Mar 1, 2024 • 39min
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.

Feb 23, 2024 • 47min
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 • 47min
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 • 47min
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.