103: Polo pitch invaders
Lateral with Tom Scott
Lateral with Tom Scott
4.9 • 742 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In 1949, what did the residents of Mole Hill, West Virginia, change the community's name to? |
| 0:06.9 | The answer to that, at the end of the show. |
| 0:08.6 | My name's Tom Scott, and this is Latry. |
| 0:17.9 | Nigel Nittlebottom was a perfectly, perfectly, perfectly, perfectly normal boy, completely regular and bog standard in every way, from his mud-brown hair to his papery toes. |
| 0:27.8 | But then one mighty, glorping morning, Nigel awoke to find his dad, pet gerbil, and even dull Grandma Ethel had all gone stark raving bonkers, barking, babbling and burbling, utter nonsense. |
| 0:38.8 | Nigel sproinked over to the kitchen drawer and snuffled a small notepad and a purple crayon. |
| 0:43.4 | He scribbled and scrawled as much as his nine-year-old brain could comprehend. |
| 0:47.3 | And if you ever wanted to know where we get our questions from, now you do. |
| 0:50.4 | First, to tackle our tall tales today, we are joined by creator-consultant, and honestly, |
| 0:55.9 | I do not know how to describe you these days. Hannah Witten, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:00.0 | Thanks. Yeah, me neither. Me neither. I'm figuring it out, and I'm enjoying the process of figuring |
| 1:05.5 | out. You are kind of slightly ahead of me in this position, in that I've taken the break, |
| 1:12.1 | and I don't know how I'm coming back yet? And how are you feeling now you've got this new project going |
| 1:18.4 | and you're just kind of concentrating on second channel stuff and consultancy? |
| 1:22.3 | Oh my God. I feel so much lighter, so much more chill, like a a weight has been lifted. And, like, you might |
| 1:29.2 | be feeling this, too, like, on sabbatical. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. Best decision ever. |
| 1:36.3 | And having, I mean, having a good time. And I'm feeling challenged in new ways. It's great. |
| 1:41.2 | Well, thank you for taking the time away from both that and from family life to come play on a podcast. It's great to have you back. My pleasure. Also, joining us, |
| 1:49.1 | we have someone whose content is difficult to sum up because you cover so many different |
| 1:54.5 | things. Evan Eddinger, what are you working on at the minute? Wow, you know, I can never tell. |
| 1:59.9 | Got to open up the notion here. It depends on what day |
| 2:04.1 | of the week. It looks like, according to this, I'm working on some video about public transit in Berlin |
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