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Lateral with Tom Scott

144: Let's visit Greenland!

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9736 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Iszi Lawrence, Dani Siller and Bill Sunderland face questions about miniature marines, technical techniques and prudent procedures. 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: Jordan Cook-Irwin, Katherine Q, Nick Huntington-Klein, Alex Rinehart, Hendrik, James Bailey. 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 Warhammer 40K, what is the name of the group of space marines that paint their armor blue?

0:07.2

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

0:15.3

Hello, dear friends. Are you ready to unlock your inner puzzle-solving potential? Are you ready to

0:24.4

embrace the power of positive lateral thinking? You are, because here at lateral, we believe in you.

0:31.2

We know that deep down, inside each and every one of you, there's a genius just waiting to break free.

0:37.9

It's time to banish those negative thought patterns, to silence that inner critic that says you

0:42.8

can't, and to say, yes, I can, probably, maybe, solve this weird question about Korean banknotes

0:50.4

here to let their mind wander, but hopefully not too far. First of all, we have from the

0:55.2

Terrible Lizards podcast and author of The Cursed Tomb, which is now out in bookstores. Welcome

1:01.3

back to the show, Izzy Lawrence. Thanks very much for having me back. I am here to be as

1:06.9

lateral as possible. I've been copying crabs since my last appearance. I'm getting there.

1:11.8

The last time I saw you was at the book launch for the cursed tomb. And what I remember was

1:16.6

someone from the British Museum looking through one of your books and looking at an illustration

1:20.6

going, wait, are those are naming an incredibly specific bit of clothing from history? And you

1:26.8

go, yeah, yeah, we've got the illustration to do that.

1:29.5

Yes, yes.

1:30.2

That was for a different one of my books, that was for the Time Machine Next Door.

1:34.1

And I did, because Iron Age Britain, that was famous for their selling Rome,

1:39.5

their slaves, their dogs, and their duffel coats.

1:43.7

So the duffel coat was a big export from Britain because

1:46.5

it was very waterproof clothing back in the turn of, you know, in 1 AD was a big deal. So yes,

1:52.6

that is, that's the sort of level of pedantry that I bring to children's literature.

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