118: The wrong way wheel

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Karen Kavett, Francis Heaney and Sam Meeps face questions about corporate coincidences, language lapses and overfamiliar organists. 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: Jagannath, Yong, Jeff, Azure Fennec, Scott O'Brien, Sangwang. 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	What type of products are you almost certain to find at a modern supermarket and a Disney store?
0:06.3	The answer to that, at the end of the show.
0:08.0	My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:15.1	Bonjour, mes amis, and be it vanu at Latral.
0:20.8	Sorry, I really should stop that.
0:22.6	I come out in a rash if I say French numbers.
0:25.2	I've got a really bad wheat allergy.
0:29.0	I appreciate France's laugh and Sam's entirely silent laugh there, which just...
0:33.7	You can't hear me, that's all. I was laughing boisterously.
0:37.5	Just me more. Hoping that's all. I was laughing boisterously. Assuming more.
0:39.8	Hoping that joke sank without trace. First of all, we have puzzle writer and editor extraordinaire
0:45.7	from many puzzle books, including Lateral's puzzle book. You edited that. And from AVCX,
0:52.3	we have Francis Heaney.
0:54.1	Hello, delighted to be here.
0:56.3	Welcome back to the show. How was it first time round?
0:59.3	Oh, it was great. I, uh, you know, I hoped to not utterly embarrass myself as someone
1:04.3	who has just edited 100 lateral thinking questions, you know, hopefully not be bad at them.
1:10.0	I think I did all right. I did fine.
1:13.6	You have quite a long history of writing puzzles and questions. What's the most sort of fun
1:19.3	project you've worked on for something like that?
1:21.7	Fun and torment sort of go hand in hand. Like I had a very great time writing my last
1:26.8	book in collaboration with my
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