149: Sea 26

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Karen Chu & Colin Felton from 'Good Job, Brain!' and Daniel Peake face questions about fame films, right-angled rails and bountiful births. 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: Tom Donnelly, Ali and Jenny, Der König, Daniel, Simon Lombart. 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 profession is the subject of the documentary film 20 feet from stardom?
0:05.5	The answer to that, at the end of the show, my name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:16.0	You find me in something of an unfortunate position on this episode of Lateral,
0:19.9	because due to a technical hitch, I genuinely do not have the introduction script in front of me. I just have a piece
0:26.0	of paper that says improv. So, in the style of an improv game, could someone please give me some
0:32.8	prompts in a style with which to introduce lateral. Any of our guests today?
0:37.6	Shakespeare!
0:38.9	Ah, forsooth!
0:40.5	Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
0:42.6	I must speak in iambic pentameter,
0:45.4	and I'm not able to do that off the cuff,
0:47.9	but welcome to lateral.
0:50.3	Not in close. Give me another one.
0:51.9	A very happy vegetable.
0:53.6	I'm going to need a specific type of vegetable here.
0:57.2	A very happy pee.
1:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Lateral. I'm enjoying to be here.
1:03.4	See, if it was a potato, would have been a bass voice.
1:06.0	But you said pee. That's definitely...
1:07.4	A little tiny pea, yep.
1:09.2	Colin, give me something.
1:10.6	All-timey gangster. Well, see, we're here at last year all today, and I'll bet you know trouble, all right? I can't do that accent, but you know what? That's clocked up enough of an intro that I can go to our guests. Last time that we had good job brain on here, we had one person from the crew, and this time we have two. We'll start. Welcome back to the show, Karen Chu.
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