146: Christopher Wren's side hustle

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Luke Cutforth, Corry Will and Hannah Crosbie face questions about feather farmers, B-52 blinds and moist municipalities. 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: Pascal de Vries, Steve Dee, Michaela Wheeler, Peter Scandrett, Matthew Yong, Arthur Reis, Yakir Forman. 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 Kentucky, what is a moist county?
0:04.1	The answer to that at the end of the show, my name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:14.6	It's a special episode of Lateral today, which I will now prove with maths.
0:19.4	We normally do seven questions in every show.
0:22.2	This is the 143rd lateral to be recorded.
0:26.5	That means, at some point during this episode,
0:29.4	I will have asked a 1,000th question.
0:33.4	Whoa!
0:33.8	Oh my goodness!
0:35.0	What an honour!
0:37.0	My script says,
0:38.1	Waits for rapturous applause from guests, I'll take it.
0:41.1	That is, of course, assuming that you don't count the shiny bonus questions.
0:45.7	And of course, there was the pilot run that we did before the podcast,
0:49.2	that we didn't really do much.
0:50.8	Anyway, let's celebrate question 1000, which probably happened about two months ago.
0:55.7	At least our guests have arrived right on schedule. First, we have returning to the show,
1:00.2	wine critic for The Guardian, Hannah Crosby. Welcome back.
1:02.9	Hello, I'm so guest to being invited back. I can't believe it. Did I really do that well first time?
1:08.2	Well, thank you very much for coming back on the show. Last time we
1:11.1	talked to you, you were in South Africa having sampled just a huge number of sparkling wines in
1:16.2	one day. How are you feeling? What are you doing today? Today, I am in Waltham Stowe,
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