117: Dull white powder

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sophie Ward, Julian Huguet and Tina Huang face questions about peculiar pirouettes, popstar pages and passport problems. 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: Adam, Jane Doe, Nate, Oscar, Ghrian. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why does Graham regularly go to Beyonce's Wikipedia page, even though he's not a fan of her music?
0:06.9	The answer to that at the end of the show.
0:08.8	My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:17.6	Welcome to our patissary of puzzles, where our clever chefs have been baking up a fresh
0:22.1	batch of brain teasers. Our questions are like croissants, twisted, multi-layered, and sometimes
0:27.8	pretty flaky. But the more puzzles you try, the more you'll get butter and butter. Here to brush
0:33.3	away the crumbs. We start with data scientists talking about AI, tech and self-learning
0:40.3	on her own YouTube channel. Welcome back to this show, Tina Wong. Thank you so much for having me.
0:45.0	Welcome back. This is your second appearance. How was the first one? The first one was in the
0:49.6	beginning. I was like, what are these questions? No, I think I'm kind of getting the hang of it.
0:54.8	Maybe.
0:55.4	I don't want to say that now.
0:57.5	Not know what's happening.
0:59.6	I think last time we talked to Sof, who's also on this show, about setting expectations low and exceeding.
1:06.5	Yes, yes, yes.
1:07.9	I think what I've expected to unexpected.
1:10.5	Always.
1:14.8	What sort of stuff are you working on at the minute? What can people expect to see from you?
1:26.1	I'm just continuing on talking about AI and tech stuff, basically how to self-learn, using AI technologies, and how to help people get careers that they love.
1:28.0	All into YouTube channel.
1:30.1	Very best of luck on the show today.
1:34.5	Also joining us, we have Science Communicator from her own channel, Sof's Notes.
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