Lateral with Tom Scott
Episodes
70: Holding up a desk lamp
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Fry, Lily Hevesh and Brian David Gilbert face questions about Tokyo text, state symbols and copyright clauses. LATERAL is a comedy panel game p...
69: A very speedy spider
02 Feb 2024
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Evan & Katelyn Heling and Emily Calandrelli face questions about satellite sizes, shirt selections and salt sales. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podc...
68: Bright green icing
26 Jan 2024
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Molly Edwards, Becky Stern and Jenny Draper face questions about fancy flowers, shirt selections and car coordination. LATERAL is a comedy panel game ...
67: The colour sequence secret
19 Jan 2024
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Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything' face questions about confectionery companies, Covid conditions and culinary choi...
66: The lock-breaking pencil
12 Jan 2024
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Adam Ragusea, Vanessa Hill and Stuart Ashen face questions about stationery stories, secret shapes and sporting sites. LATERAL is a comedy panel game ...
65: Air-conditioned pilots
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sabrina Cruz, Melissa Fernandes and Taha Khan from 'Answer in Progress' face questions about telltale tapes, rigorous registrations and troublesome to...
64: Black and white bowties
29 Dec 2023
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Daniel Peake, Lizzy Skrzypiec and Bill Sunderland face questions about shoe safes, safety signs and sinuous streets. LATERAL is a comedy panel game po...
63: Upside-down riches
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Fry, Lily Hevesh and Brian David Gilbert face questions about desperate decrees, crowded ceremonies and rebalanced records. LATERAL is a comedy...
62: The lifesaving blackout
15 Dec 2023
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Hannah Witton, Mike Boyd and Geoff Marshall face questions about versatile voting, clever creatures and brick buildings. LATERAL is a comedy panel gam...
61: Instruments made by insects
08 Dec 2023
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Evan & Katelyn Heling and Emily Calandrelli face questions about growing gains, wrong watches and cat calamaties. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podca...
60: The world's longest ship
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Molly Edwards, Becky Stern and Jenny Draper face questions about pet permutations, infant images and rope ruses. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcas...
59: The player on both teams
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Corry Will, Luke Cutforth and Jack Chesher face questions about designer drinks, basketball business and festival flyers. LATERAL is a comedy panel ga...
58: Straight-line sports
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bernadette Banner, Emily Graslie and Dani Siller face questions about jogging jobs, textual T-shirts and dangerous dogs. LATERAL is a comedy panel gam...
57: Computers that love '7'
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Toby Hendy, Matthew Schuchman and Julian O'Shea face questions about celebrity stars, film foul-ups and security systems. LATERAL is a comedy panel ga...
56: World-famous battery packs
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Roper, Ella Hubber and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything!' face questions about eccentric earrings, dawdling deliveries and cattle calcula...
55: Octopodes in trees
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rowan Ellis, Katie Steckles and Dani Siller ('Escape This Podcast') face questions about periodic poles, silly signs and iconic icons. LATERAL is a co...
54: Smearing honey on doors
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jacklyn Dallas ('Nothing But Tech'), Beryl Shereshewsky and Alec Watson ('Technology Connections') face questions about charity costs, goofy greetings...
53: The criminal caught by a toy
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Corry Will, Luke Cutforth and Jack Chesher face questions about Chinese curios, perilous Perspex and dynamic drinks. LATERAL is a comedy panel game po...
52: Square-eyed dogs
06 Oct 2023
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Michelle Khare, Kip Heath and Joe Hanson face questions about far-flung flights, rapping records and odd opposites. LATERAL is a comedy panel game pod...
51: Snap! Hacker! Pop!
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Toby Hendy, Matthew Schuchman and Julian O'Shea face questions about superlative streets, marine mutinies and blacked-out books. LATERAL is a comedy p...
50: Undercover sunburn
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Roper, Ella Hubber and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything!' face questions about story studies, Disney descriptions and pictorial publicity...
49: Completely inedible eggs
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rowan Ellis, Katie Steckles and Bill Sunderland ('Escape This Podcast') face questions about martial arts mastery, boating back stories and motoring m...
48: Increasingly impressive plays
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jacklyn Dallas ('Nothing But Tech'), Beryl Shereshewsky and Alec Watson ('Technology Connections') face questions about martial arts mastery, boating ...
47: Apples for General Lee?
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Roper, Ella Hubber and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything' face questions about condiment condition, reverse roaming and strobing satellite...
46: Mr. Kill Gun Die
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Ploszajski, Scott Manley and Bill Sunderland face questions about stately stands, letter lists and silver streaks. LATERAL is a comedy panel game...
45: Mission to nowhere
18 Aug 2023
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Ruth Amos and Shawn Brown ('Kids Invent Stuff') and Dani Siller ('Escape This Podcast') face questions about bread balls, maligned musicals and profit...
44: TV directing in reverse
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From 'Jet Lag: The Game', Sam Denby, Adam Chase and Ben Doyle face questions about food fakery, coat calamities and vaccine verses. LATERAL is a comed...
43: Six unopenable letterboxes
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Fielding, Estefannie and Inés Dawson ('Draw Curiosity') face questions about sporting sobbing, bad breakfasts and shorn sweethearts. LATERAL i...
42: Giant concrete balls
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Rauwerda ('Depths of Wikipedia'), J. Draper and Geoff Marshall face questions about rumbling roads, sacred snacks and keyboard quirks. LATERAL i...
41: Barefoot job applications
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Roper, Ella Hubber and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything' face questions about diamond dealing, disorganised diners and dodgy documents. L...
40: Swimming without water
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Ploszajski, Scott Manley and Bill Sunderland face questions about cheffy shortcuts, red ropes and pricey papers. LATERAL is a comedy panel game p...
39: Dare you brave this shopping mall?
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Amos and Shawn Brown ('Kids Invent Stuff') and Dani Siller ('Escape This Podcast') face questions about slapdash squiggles, poster positioning an...
38: Edward's buried paint
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From 'Jet Lag: The Game', Sam Denby, Adam Chase and Ben Doyle face questions about copyright chicanery, microstate melodies and fruitless flights. LAT...
37: Keep left at the quarry
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Fielding, Estefannie and Inés Dawson ('Draw Curiosity') face questions about treaty texts, shirt sequences and practical photocopies. LATERAL ...
36: The no-show French king
16 Jun 2023
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Annie Rauwerda ('Depths of Wikipedia'), J. Draper and Geoff Marshall face questions about sporting schemes, misty mirrors and Boston billboards. LATER...
35: Selfies with number 57
09 Jun 2023
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Emily the Engineer, Wren Weichman and Kip Heath face questions about benefit bonuses, stationery sales and plummeting platforms. LATERAL is a comedy p...
34: Six unnecessary doorknobs
02 Jun 2023
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Melissa Fernandes, Sabrina Cruz and Taha Khan from 'Answer in Progress' face questions about generous grades, delayed days and spacious sidewalks. LAT...
33: Crooked camel competitions
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Sunderland and Dani Siller (from 'Escape This Podcast') and Amelie Brodeur face questions about colour-coded kindness, curious keypads and cosmic...
32: Losing golf balls for fun
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Xyla Foxlin, Jordan Harrod and Becky Stern face questions about cable cutting, baking brilliance and ska band shenanigans. LATERAL is a comedy panel g...
31: The genius of cheese slices
12 May 2023
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Brian McManus from 'Real Engineering', Sarah Renae Clark and Nicholas Johnson face questions about timely treatments, perceptive painters and bisected...
30: The orchestrated in-joke
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Rober, Virginia Schutte and Jabrils face questions about rigorous racing, perceptive photography, and vexatious vexillology. LATERAL is a comedy ...
29: The passenger going nowhere
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emily the Engineer, Wren Weichman and Kip Heath face questions about right-handed roads, tea taxonomy and broken bikes. LATERAL is a comedy panel game...
28: An 'out of this world' lecture
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Fernandes, Sabrina Cruz and Taha Khan from 'Answer in Progress' face questions about crafty clocks, remunerative records and veiled video game...
27: Extra-green cat trees
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Sunderland and Dani Siller (from 'Escape This Podcast') and Amelie Brodeur face questions about troublesome tower blocks, bonkers bookings and fa...
26: The car crash 'dummy'
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Xyla Foxlin, Jordan Harrod and Becky Stern face questions about cheapo chicken, problematic passwords and bountiful bananas. LATERAL is a comedy panel...
25: A deliberately bad program
31 Mar 2023
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Brian McManus from 'Real Engineering', Sarah Renae Clark and Nicholas Johnson face questions about sincere symbols, shrewd signage and silly stickers....
24: The coins buried with Sinatra
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Rober, Jabrils and Virginia Schutte face questions about football faults, soil secrets, and educational eats. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podc...
23: Naval gazing
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'Karen Puzzles' Kavett, Rebecca 'Dr Becky' Smethurst and Stuart 'Ashens' Ashen face questions about medical methods, musical murders, and McDonald's m...
22: A carousel's little secret
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'SuperSaf' AhmedMia, Ali Spagnola and Mehdi 'ElectroBOOM' Sadaghdar face questions about rigging research, dating dwellings and exploiting extras. LAT...
21: The bandit that gives back
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sabrina Cruz, Melissa Fernandes and Taha Khan from 'Answer in Progress' face questions about deceptive dates, brick buildings and baseball baiting. LA...
20: The rigged JFK election
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
William Osman, Dani Siller and Bill Sunderland face questions about statesmanly statues, parking perks and bountiful birthdays. LATERAL is a comedy pa...
19: 315,000 obsolete index cards
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cleo Abram, Simone Giertz and 'Legal Eagle' Devin Stone face questions about confusing conveyors, flooded fields and bad-faith baseball. LATERAL is a ...
18: Making cosplay worthwhile
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Foreman, Kip Heath and Jason Slaughter ('Not Just Bikes') face questions about awkward animals, Indian ingenuity, and a Peter Pan problem. LATERAL...
17: Some 3-D movies from 1903
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'Karen Puzzles' Kavett, Rebecca 'Dr Becky' Smethurst and Stuart 'Ashens' Ashen face questions about political powercuts, red rectangles, and astonishi...
16: The 2-year-old newborn
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'SuperSaf' AhmedMia, Ali Spagnola and Mehdi 'ElectroBOOM' Sadaghdar face questions about scientific statues, slashed screens, and a silly sequence. LA...
15: Elfrida, dog detective
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sabrina Cruz, Melissa Fernandes and Taha Khan from 'Answer in Progress' face questions about baffling bans, Australian emblems, and stamp sales. LATER...
14: A flaming good flight
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dani Siller & Bill Sunderland ('Escape This Podcast') and William Osman face questions about crooning tunes, morning mishaps and enigmatic elevators. ...
13: A glassware tax affair
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cleo Abram, Simone Giertz and 'Legal Eagle' Devin Stone face questions about colossal chains, prudish paintings, and golden goblets. LATERAL is a come...
12: The most-kissed woman in history
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trace Dominguez, Nahre Sol and Jordan Harrod face questions about crafty candidates, protective parking and goofy glasses. LATERAL is a comedy panel g...
11: Who uses the 10-08-42 rule?
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rowan Ellis, Vanessa Hill and Grady Hillhouse face questions about diehard disease, pill-popping performers, and ridiculous room numbers. LATERAL is a...
10: The day that cost $700m
16 Dec 2022
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Marques Brownlee, Wren Weichman and Hayley Loren discuss questions about clever communications, ridiculous registrations and distant destinations. LAT...
9: The purple seats mystery
09 Dec 2022
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Corry Will, Luke Cutforth and Jade Tan-Holmes face questions about mysterious medicines, calamitous currency and dodgy dealings. LATERAL is a comedy p...
8: What Liechtenstein shares with England
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brady Haran, Mary Spender and Eric Johnson face questions about an unwanted win, a gruesome graveyard and a lucky performance. LATERAL is a comedy pan...
7: The brilliant burger chain ruse
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland and Matt Parker face questions about plastic plates, academic awards and creative cereals. LATERAL is a comedy panel game...
6: Solve a 13th Century murder!
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trace Dominguez, Nahre Sol and Jordan Harrod face questions about profitable collisions, familiar flags, and knotty problems. LATERAL is a comedy pane...
5: When time goes up to 30 o'clock
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rowan Ellis, Vanessa Hill and Grady Hillhouse face questions about logo longevity, Kodak complaints, and perplexing playgrounds. LATERAL is a comedy p...
4: The currency that cuts crime
04 Nov 2022
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Marques Brownlee, Hayley Loren and Wren Weichman face questions about crime-busting currency, a sporting crisis and night-inspired combat. LATERAL is ...
3: Why did 1959's album charts vanish?
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jade Tan-Holmes, Corry Will and Luke Cutforth face questions about missing album charts, an evasive painter and a flaw in 'Lord of the Flies'. LATERAL...
2: What was measured in 'gillettes'?
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brady Haran, Mary Spender and Eric Johnson face questions about a creative fire, bloodless hitmen and partly-useless products. LATERAL is a comedy pan...
1: The elevator where you're "born again"
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Parker, Bill Sunderland and Dani Siller face questions about a 'born again' elevator, a bronze medal failure and a very expensive Danish supermar...
Lateral: Trailer
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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