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Lateral with Tom Scott

130: Disappearing toffees

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9736 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sam Denby, Adam Chase and Ben Doyle from 'Jet Lag: The Game' face questions about animal accidents, severed signage and baby birth rates. 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: Gregor, LWChris, Jon Sweitzer-Lamme, Brady Joyce, Jonathan Cooke, Karthick. 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 what way are giraffes 30 times more vulnerable to injury than humans?

0:06.2

The answer to that at the end of the show.

0:07.9

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

0:16.8

We are joined today by three people who have recently been running around Europe while ripping

0:21.8

open a bunch of envelopes. And one day the tax authorities are going to catch up to them.

0:26.0

For now, they are sheltering in the safe harbour of doing a podcast from Jetlag the Game on

0:30.9

Nebula. We have, first of all, Sam Demby. Hello. Welcome back to the show. How are you doing?

0:36.7

I, I, it's had, in the recent seconds, uh, it's, it's, it's, it's, Sam Denby. Hello. Welcome back to the show. How are you doing?

0:45.2

In recent seconds, it's become clear to me, or I've remembered that unlike our podcast,

0:49.1

we actually have to think on this show, which is, I don't know why we agreed to this.

0:50.2

We have to apply ourselves.

0:55.4

Yeah, we're doing two episodes of this back-to-back, and then immediately going into recording the last episode of the layover.

1:00.2

But that's the correct order, because, look, the layover, you don't need to apply yourself much.

1:02.5

All you have to do is defend.

1:11.7

This is the companion show for Jetlag the Game, which last time you were on, I was merely a viewer of, and now we're at the end of the season.

1:16.7

Like, there's one episode to go on YouTube, I think, as this goes out. It's been a strange few weeks. I came onto this call directly from editing the finale of the season.

1:23.3

Have you figured out who wins yet? No, but I'm excited to see the end.

1:27.0

Adam Chase, second member in chronological order in the order of which I've introduced you

1:31.1

today of Jetlag the Game. Welcome back. Yes, thank you so much, Tom. I think I've told you

1:36.0

this before, but I am a genuine fan of the lateral podcast. I listen to this podcast, and I am sort of, I'm excited to do the thing where when you

1:48.3

actually have to do it, it's a lot harder than it seemed like it would be when you're listening.

1:52.6

Definitely know that feeling. Well, good luck on the show today. We also have the third member,

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