121: Elbow your brother

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tom Crawford, Evan Heling and Katelyn Heling face questions about supervising saints, totalled towns and reversed roles. 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. SPONSOR: https://lateralcast.com/emdash/ (use code 'LATERAL' for 10% off first 3 months). 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: Joey Kerschnert, AAA, David Turner, Hayden LeMaster, James, Brian J. Devine, Lachlan C.. 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 game, Fallout New Vegas, what type of building caused a small town to be re-christened Novak?
0:08.1	The answer to that, at the end of the show.
0:09.5	My name's Tom Scott, and this is Latry.
0:18.5	Welcome once again to the show that's all about one thing.
0:23.6	Sideways thinking. And if you're wondering what that little pause was, let me tell you about today's sponsor, the M-Dash. For a long while, I've been using commas and hyphens to put pauses into my words, but they never quite give me the silence I need. And as for semicolons,
0:38.5	who knows what those are for? When the team at MDASH asked me to try out their punctuation,
0:43.2	it made my sentences so much more poignant. And if you act now, you can get 25% of your first
0:48.4	month of M-Dashers using the code Alt-0151. All right, back to the show and hoping that their hopes will not be dashed
0:55.7	today, we start with a mathematics fellow at the University of Oxford and the University of
1:00.5	Cambridge, and from his own YouTube channel, Tom Rocks Maths, Tom Crawford, welcome back to the show.
1:05.2	Pleasure to be back. It's a lot of fun last time, so I'm excited to see if I can keep the run
1:10.4	going. This is your second time on how was it last time? so I'm excited to see if I can keep the run going.
1:13.8	This is your second time on how was it last time?
1:21.2	It was very, very enjoyable, and I think the sense of achievement on getting anywhere near an answer was unmatched with anything in my life.
1:25.1	That's also how I feel about mathematics.
1:28.1	I realize it's a cliche to just go, I'm bad at maths,
1:32.5	but you're someone who has to deal with that kind of expectation from folks that
1:37.3	the math is something that they're just not good at.
1:40.3	How do you get around that?
1:41.5	How do you get people to pay attention to a thing they think they're not good at?
1:45.7	Two things.
1:46.5	First of all, I try and emphasize to them they are good at it.
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