10: The day that cost $700m

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Marques Brownlee, Wren Weichman and Hayley Loren discuss questions about clever communications, ridiculous registrations and distant destinations. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com. Join the Producer's Club via https://members.lateralcast.com for ad-free episodes and bonus content. HOST: Tom Scott. QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe. RECORDED AT & EDITED BY: The Podcast Studios, Dublin. EDITOR: Julie Hassett. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com). ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Josh Halbur, Ben Justice, Lewis Tough, Arun Uttamchandani, Eglė Vaškevičiūtė. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One weekend, I noticed that there are four different days in the week that begin with the letter T.
0:05.3	What are they? The answer to that, frustrating question, at the end of the show. I'm Tom Scott,
0:10.7	and this is Lateral.
0:16.6	As always, I brought with me an orchestra of three people, and we're going to see if they can think their way to making beautiful problem-solving music together. Joining me are from the Fearless STEM careers podcast and BBC Earth. How did they build that? Haley Loren. Hello. From Corridor Digital Corridor crew and the Corridor cast, Ren Weikman. How's it going? Thanks for having me. And from the MKBHD channel and the Waveform podcast, Marquez Brownlee.
0:41.3	Hello, hello.
0:42.0	Thank you very much for joining me, folks.
0:44.4	We are going to go straight into question one.
0:46.8	Our questions are lateral thinking.
0:49.2	They're like crabs.
0:50.3	They move sideways, and once you crack them, they're quite tasty.
0:54.5	Sorry.
0:56.2	I love it.
0:57.8	I was going to try and say that with a straight face.
0:59.9	I just didn't quite get through it.
1:03.2	You had no hope.
1:04.2	Did you write that?
1:05.3	Did you write that one?
1:06.6	No, of course. I did it.
1:07.9	Our producer wrote that and I'm sure he's very proud of himself.
1:12.5	As always, no prizes, no points, it is just for bragging rights and reputation.
1:18.1	So, with the best of luck to you, here's the first question of the day.
1:22.1	According to the Stress Management Centre in North Carolina, USA,
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