148: Cheese and laser

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Tom Lum, Ella Hubber and Caroline Roper face questions about special substances, street squabbles and sporting stakes. 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: Florence Bourgeois, Mike Sylvia, Jean, Harry Niall Levinson, Conall K., Aurélia Duchamp, Richard Sanderson. 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 is the only food that humans regularly eat that isn't produced by a living organism?
0:06.7	The answer to that, at the end of the show.
0:08.5	My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:18.0	I've got some good news for those of you who are looking to complete their collectible miniatures set of lateral guests.
0:23.9	Let's take a look at their stats with Charisma 21, Constitution 18 and inside leg 30.
0:29.6	It's Tom Lum.
0:31.0	As a visual joke, I'm in my miniature pose.
0:33.6	Visual gag on a podcast.
0:34.8	Visual gag on a podcast that's still a lot of people listen to an audio.
0:39.0	And I shrunk down to miniature size.
0:41.1	Help, I'm so tiny.
0:42.6	Incredible skill demonstration there.
0:44.3	How are you doing, Tom?
0:45.3	Doing wonderful.
0:46.2	It's so nice to be back on.
0:47.9	Next with Dexterity 23, Wisdom 19, and Platform 7.
0:52.7	It's Caroline Roper.
0:53.8	Oh, it's me. That's exciting. Thank you.
0:58.1	I did worry that perhaps David the producer had made these stats try to make sense,
1:02.4	and I'm happy to report that they don't.
1:04.1	Boo.
1:04.8	Well, let's see what you say for me.
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