Lateral with Tom Scott

Hannah Witton, Mike Boyd, and Geoff Marshall tackle questions about versatile voting, clever creatures, and brick buildings. They discuss the mystery of a repurposed building, a bizarre arrangement with chickens and prisoners, a hijacking incident with a clever landing strategy, a silent show of support for the Civil Rights Act, an anti-smoking charity's clever message campaign, and Scottish people and lottery tickets.

The hosts discuss creating impractical things and odd bus timetables, explore the issue of objectivity with robots in specialized jobs, delve into the origins and construction of the didgeridoo, unravel a puzzle about a watch's complications, analyze a mystery involving a cleaner and a cat, and discover the transformation from 20 to 32 is about the number of teeth humans have.

Topics include injecting fillers and tattoos for advertising, nostalgia tastes and the correlation between COVID and the inability to smell Yankee candles, creating custom smells with Scratch and Sif cards, limitations of Roman numerals, the ethics of psychology experiments, and the effects of costume incentives on motivation.

Guests Corry Will, Luke Cutforth, and Jack Chesher discuss topics such as designer drinks, basketball business, festival flyers, Kevin's wedding request, flight diversion to Glasgow, making money through residuals and royalties, and William Shatner's musical performance.

Fashion historian Bernadette Banner, Emily Graslie from the Field Museum, and Dani Siller discuss jogging jobs, textual T-shirts, dangerous dogs, hidden messages in clothing, 90s fashion nostalgia, innovative museum technology, peculiar bird behavior, unusual golf challenges, Australian bank note riddles, fire-saving techniques, and a Parisian Newfoundland dog mystery.

The podcast discusses topics such as the human fascination with the number seven, the use of rear projection in filmmaking, forensic techniques used to identify stolen CCTV camera systems, and the psychology behind fake Craigslist ads.

Caroline Roper, Ella Hubber and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything!' face questions about eccentric earrings, dawdling deliveries and cattle calculations.LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com.Join the Producer's Club via https://members.lateralcast.com for ad-free episodes and bonus content.HOST: Tom Scott. QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe. RECORDED AT: The Podcast Studios, Dublin. EDITED BY: Julie Hassett. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com). ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Sayan Chaudhry, Georgi, Jaime Nufio. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast discusses topics such as a miraculous basketball shot, a mysterious gate and sign, a Las Vegas restaurant for overweight people, the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus hoax, a mysterious phone call on a flight, a joke about speeding tickets, and decoding the phonetic alphabet.

Podcast guests discuss topics such as navigating international grocery stores, photo cell light controls, observing children's signals, the history of the stethoscope, track rail expansion, using honey to smooth glass, and the mystery of a brass contraption.

Topics discussed include deciphering numbers on steps in Japan, a criminal caught by a child's toy, unconventional methods of evading security systems, armed policemen in perspex boxes, dangers of dropping phones on roller coasters, the invention of Cheesy Bites pizza, and a playful conversation about corn and water varieties.