140: Tuvalu's lost star

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper and Tom Lum face questions about financial fish, biased battles and temperamental temperatures. 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: Guy, James Morris-Wyatt, Fernando S., Nate, Carson Lo, Bruce, Bob Weisz. 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 role did preserved fish have in the creation of the New York Stock Exchange?
0:06.8	The answer to that, at the end of the show, my name's Tom Scott, and this is Latry.
0:15.4	Welcome to the show where we asked some very difficult questions to some lovely guests.
0:22.9	Sorry, we ask some lovely questions to some very difficult guests.
0:27.9	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fair.
0:30.5	You'll see that one coming a mile off.
0:32.5	Yeah.
0:33.2	Today we welcome back the gang from the Comedy Science podcast.
0:37.1	Let's Learn Everything.
0:38.9	And at this point, my script simply says, guest chats, good luck.
0:44.6	Caroline, how have you been doing lately? What's up?
0:47.7	So good, thanks. I just, I feel like that good luck is specifically towards Tom Scott, like
0:53.2	for himself.
0:54.3	Absolutely.
0:55.2	Good luck.
0:55.8	Deep breaths.
0:56.5	It's going to be okay.
0:57.6	I can get through this.
0:59.3	It's not going to be okay, Tom Scott.
1:02.0	Hey, Caroline Roper.
1:03.7	Aren't you glad we host a podcast with me, Tom Lum, called Let's Learn Everything?
1:07.9	I sure am Tom Lum.
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