Lateral with Tom Scott

Tom Scott and David Bodycombe
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.

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