Lateral with Tom Scott

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

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