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Lateral with Tom Scott

141: The world's longest poem

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9736 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Matt Gray, Daniel Peake and Charlotte Yeung face questions about slovenly sales, mystery meat and risky rabbits. 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: Leo Taanila, Daniel Peake, Stefan Teffy, Mitchell Lapham, Hugo Bouma, Ben Kitchen, Elena and Alessandro.. 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 Finland, what food item is sometimes jokingly called mumin meat?

0:06.1

The answer to that, at the end of the show.

0:07.9

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

0:15.0

Before we start, we'd like to thank the dozens of you who sent in so many kind comments in

0:21.8

response to episode 125. They weren't for me or the show, but for the picture of the producer's

0:27.9

dog. But have no fear, we are not desperate enough to attempt that trick twice. Unrelatedly, here's

0:34.9

some music.

0:43.8

And if you're listening to this show and audio, don't worry, you missed nothing.

0:46.9

Hoping they're not going to have a rough time with the questions.

0:51.3

First, returning to the show, working on a PhD in drug delivery systems,

0:56.8

and one of the players, hopefully still on ITV's The Genius Game.

0:58.4

Charlotte Young, welcome back.

0:59.2

Thank you very much.

1:02.5

You cannot talk about the details.

1:05.9

This will be going out about six weeks after the first episode we recorded with you.

1:08.5

So you may still be in, you may be out.

1:10.2

We cannot talk about this.

1:14.6

What I will ask is, what was it like being on The Genius Game? I think the genius game was one of the most exciting points in my life. It really brought together all the knowledge that I wanted to put out there, and I wanted to put myself out there as well.

1:26.2

And we've made a really great collective group of friends. We still taught to each other. I attended weddings. I've attended like puzzle meetups. We've done a lot together. So if nothing else, regardless of whether I'm still in the show or not, I'm just really happy to have met everyone there. Oh, that's just really lovely to hear. Because presumably, like, we're going to be a few weeks into the season when this airs.

1:48.3

We will have seen all sorts of arguing and fighting and things like that, and it is lovely to hear that you're all getting along.

1:55.2

Also joining us, someone who owns a pillow with the face of Li Sang-min from the original Korean genius game.

2:01.6

A joke that I'm now going to try and ask him to explain.

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