

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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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.

Feb 2, 2024 • 41min
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 • 43min
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 • 52min
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 • 44min
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.

8 snips
Jan 5, 2024 • 46min
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.

4 snips
Dec 29, 2023 • 45min
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 • 48min
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.

Dec 15, 2023 • 49min
62: The lifesaving blackout
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.

6 snips
Dec 8, 2023 • 51min
61: Instruments made by insects
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.