On Roblox, why are there a surprisingly large number of games with sea creatures in the title?

The answer to that? At the end of the show, my name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

Today, on Lateral, we have a triple shot of folks from Morning Brew, who I must add did not sponsor this podcast. We just invited them on anyway. They take steaming hot news from the world of business, grind it up into small sips, and add a load of oat milk and caramel syrup to make it digestible, though I'm not a huge fan of coffee myself, if I may. Espresso and opinion. First to spill the beans, we have Macy Gilliam. Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here. I mean, you were, I think the person who wrote in and asked, can we be on lateral? I am a huge fan of the show. So I'm just literally so happy to be here. It doesn't even matter if I get any questions right.

How does it feel now staring down the barrel of a webcam and realizing that this time,

the answers have to come from you? It is scary. I hope that I'm good at it. I feel like some

episodes, I know all the answers in some episodes. I'm like, I would not get those at all. So we'll see.

Well, very best of luck to you. You are joined by two other people from Morning Brew, who are

the, Toby, you are one half, I think, of the sort of breakfast news podcast of Morning Brew. So your

job is to analyze and distill and pull out just the facts. How are you feeling right now?

I'm feeling good because I have my other half of the podcast with me, Neil. We co-host Morning

Brew Daily, which is just a 25-minute business news podcast that makes you insufferable in your office

because you have all the fun facts from the news cycle. You can just drop by the water cooler.

So very excited for this.

Macy turned us on to it. And I am also a little bit nervous staring down the barrel of a webcam.

The last person dragged by Macy into the show. It may not be true, but that's the narrative we're

going with. Neil Frayman, welcome to the show. Thank you. Super excited. I feel much better than those two. I'm ready to go.

I'm just going to let them cook because I'm going to know the answers off of that every single time.

Oh, you've got to be careful with that. There is a chance you set yourself up as the villain of the show there.

I think that's what we're going with. Well, good luck to all three of you. Let us percolate your thoughts about question one.

Thank you to Brady Joyce for this question.

The Parks and Recreation Department of Mobily, Missouri, put up a sign saying,

Xylophone, you're welcome.

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