120: The monk's discovery

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Abby Cox, Matt Gray and Iszi Lawrence face questions about availability apps, nitpicking nightclubs and handy hairspray. 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: Ashleigh West, Matthew Sherlip, Danny, Karnan Sembian, Jordan. 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	In the UK, who were the intended users of an app called Tudder?
0:05.2	The answer to that at the end of the show.
0:07.0	My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:15.8	Welcome to the show, and you join us at a landmark event,
0:19.6	as the producer's Word document for all these scripts
0:22.7	is about to reach the 300,000 word mark. And we are all wondering if it's going to crash
0:29.2	before we can finish the recording. Put it this way. If I stop speaking, then you know...
0:35.6	Here to troll through the backup directories of their mind.
0:40.3	First of all, we have returning to the show, Matt Gray.
0:44.3	Welcome.
0:45.3	Hello, thank you for having me back. I'm glad I didn't disgrace myself the first time.
0:48.3	Not in a metaphorical sense or in a literal sense.
0:52.3	Exactly.
0:53.3	I'm always wondering what to introduce you
0:55.7	as, because I've known you for so long and over so many things. What are you right now, Matt?
1:01.5	Yeah, start off with something very existential to a podcast. Yeah, why not? What is a Matt Gray? Well,
1:07.8	I split my time between making YouTube videos and doing broadcast engineering, fixing
1:13.3	radio stations and TV stations. But the best place for you all to find me is on the internet,
1:17.6	on the YouTube, where I'm making stuff with electronic 3D printing or having a nosy around
1:22.2	people having their cool jobs. Now, it was your first episode of Lateral last time. How did you
1:26.7	feel about it? It's so much. I've listened to a few of these episodes, and it's much more different when you're, you know, in the line of fire rather than yelling at your car radio.
1:37.8	Well, very best of luck to you on your second show. We are also joined by a player back for their second time.
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