

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.
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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!

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.