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Lateral with Tom Scott

137: Straw vehicles

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9736 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sabrina Cruz, Melissa Fernandes and Taha Khan from 'Answer in Progress' face questions about sage sayings, suspicious swatters and shrill sounds. 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. 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: Nova, Mike Canter, Josh Mott, Ruby, Aaron Lurie, Riz. 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

Complete this wise saying. Better to be alive and late than...

0:06.0

The answer to that at the end of the show, my name's Tom Scott, and this is Latin.

0:15.4

One of Agatha Christie's famous whodunnits was Dial M for Murder. What a lot of people don't know is that you could use the adjacent button to dial L for lateral. Apparently it was a really handy model of a telephone. You could dial C for caviar, T for taxis, and J for a jacuzzi. So if you do have one of those phones, feel free to order in a zebra or an x-ray, just leave the M alone, please.

0:39.4

Hoping that they will slay you the questions today, we have back, and it is a joy to have them as ever.

0:45.8

The trio from Answer in Progress are here for another episode.

0:49.4

Let's start this time with Melissa Fernandez.

0:51.3

Welcome back to the show.

0:52.7

Hello, excited to be here. Let's

0:55.9

answer some questions. Why do you sound like an athlete? Excited to be here. I was going to

1:06.0

cry and yes and that. And then you just sort of got heckled by your compatriots. How are you doing,

1:10.2

Melissa?

1:18.2

I'm good. I'm excited. That's all. The thing is we always talk about what you're working on recordings, on the channel, everything like that. What else are you up to at the minute? What

1:22.8

else is going on in your life, Melissa? Besides work? My whole life is, no. I am...

1:28.9

What am I...

1:29.5

What, actually, what am I doing right now?

1:31.8

Sorry, actually, your past two months have just been work.

1:35.2

Outside of work, I've been hanging out with my little dog and playing in the snow with her,

1:41.0

and life's good.

1:41.8

That dog is not little.

1:43.4

She is little.

1:44.2

It's the size of like two sacks of potatoes and shape just like it.

1:49.1

Why did you sound like a Chicago mobster when you said that?

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