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Lateral with Tom Scott

110: A very 'odd' race

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9742 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything!' face questions about concealed clocks, unique units and sneaky shoplifting. BOOK OUT NOW: https://www.lateralcast.com/book 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://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. EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at The Podcast Studios, Dublin. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com). ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Nate, Joseph Gallear, Adam Matthews, Sam Walsh, Matthew, Martijn Pennings, Chris Shenton, Ólafur Waage, Chopin, Katie Waning, Ondrej. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

What used to be measured in kilo girl hours?

0:04.8

The answer to that at the end of the show.

0:06.5

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

0:15.2

Welcome to Lateral, your cozy retreat for the next 40 minutes.

0:19.2

To access the podcast, please go to the KeySafe and enter 1701 and then turn your brain 90 degrees to the left. The Wi-Fi password is outside the box one, two, three, but feel free to invent your own if you don't like ours. Uh, please note that the oven only runs on non-sequiters, and the bathroom is equipped with a quantum toilet that may or may not flush depending on whether you observe it.

0:38.5

And the bed in the loft is actually a thought experiment, so you can sleep on that.

0:43.2

Here to load up the dishwasher and put the garbage out, please, we have the team from Let's Learn Everything.

0:49.9

Welcome back to the show.

0:51.3

You are favourites of our listeners.

0:53.0

It is wonderful to see you all back.

0:56.1

Let's introduce yourselves one at a time. Ella Hubber, how are you doing?

0:59.5

I'm so good. I'm so happy to be back always. We've never left.

1:06.8

Actually vaguely worrying, to be honest. It should be. Help us.

1:10.9

We do make sure all our guests get thorough enrichment exercises and time away from the recording.

1:18.9

What has Let's Learn Everything been learning recently?

1:21.9

We recently have just learnt why Queen Ants don't have babies with their offspring

1:32.5

when we learnt this from Hank Green,

1:35.0

who came and joined us to teach us a lovely little incest story.

1:39.4

So...

1:40.3

Insect incest.

1:42.4

Insect incest.

1:43.4

It's going gonna sound weird

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