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Lateral with Tom Scott

111: The life-changing drink

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9742 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Karen Kavett, Francis Heaney and Sam Meeps face questions about audacious accessories, cunning cricketers and digital designs. 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: Jerry Depew, Emily Sparks-Welch, Alex Bowen, Luke Mackenzie. 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

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0:00.0

In a T20 Blast cricket match on 8th of July 2022, what was amusing about the dismissal of

0:07.7

Batsman Mike Pepper? The answer to that at the end of the show, my name's Tom Scott, and this is

0:13.4

Lateral. A question for the audience at home. How can you tell that the producers writing my introduction

0:24.7

at 2 o'clock in the morning? This. Hoping they still have some reserves of midnight oil,

0:30.5

we are joined by three players, one of which has been here before, two are brand new. We are

0:35.6

going to start with our returning player.

0:38.8

Karen from Karen Puzzles.

0:40.0

Welcome to the show.

0:45.8

Last I saw you were after the World Puzzle Championships in Spain.

0:49.6

Yeah, I just got back from the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships.

0:53.0

My team did pretty well.

0:58.1

We are the third fastest puzzle team in the world. Oh, wow. Congratulations.

1:04.8

Thank you. So I'm assuming you're now just knee-deep in editing all the footage. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. It is so much footage. I'm going to have so many videos out. So hopefully by the time this episode comes out,

1:12.6

that'll be available to watch,

1:18.0

I hope, or else, you know, I'll have been editing for a really long time. Well, very best of luck to you on the show today. You are joined by two new players, the first one of which,

1:23.2

anime maker and cosplayer, Sam Meeps, welcome to Lateral. Happy to be here. We just sort of missed each other at open source out in San Francisco. So I guess for the audience who don't know you, what do you make, what's going on in your world? Yeah. So I'm working on a Demon Slayer coffee table right now, which if you aren't in anime, that'll mean something to you. And if not, that'll mean nothing to you. What sort of things do you make? Make a lot of cosplay. So, of course, Halloween's coming up. So that's like Olympic time for cosplay people. So, yeah, working on something, hopefully will be done in time. Well, good luck on the show today as well.

2:01.3

And the last member of our panel today,

2:03.1

Puzzle writer and editor extraordinaire with puzzle books out,

2:06.5

including, I do have to say,

2:08.7

they are the executive editor for Puzzle Right Press,

2:12.6

who might have a book out soon.

2:15.1

That's something to do with this.

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