Why did the British electro-pop duo, the Pet Shop Boys, call their first album, please?

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

Time is a flat circle, or so I'm told by people who understand time zones, which is nobody.

So welcome to Lateral, the podcast for those who think the international date line is a premium rate phone number.

That's a joke that's just not going to land for anyone under 30, and I'm fine with that.

If you would like to schedule a call, then you can prepare for everyone to become a

time zone guru, armed with vague hand gestures and confident misinformation. But at least you know

what time zone you're in right now, unless you're currently orbiting around the Earth, in which

case, please call us. We'd love to have you on the show. Joining us to navigate this temporal

minefield, first of all, from Escape This Podcast and many other

things besides. Welcome back to the show, Bill Sunderland. Thank you for having me back. I'm excited

to do another great episode of Lateral. And you are in a much later time zone than me. How are you

doing late-night recording? Time zone-wise, I have the extra thing of being Southern Hemisphere. So all the people I work with online, there's like, oh, we're doing a daylight savings change, but they go one way, and I go the other way, and we end up with a two-hour change, and it destroys every... And then everyone's going at different times. Don't get me started. It's a bad time of the year. Yep. And North America and Europe

are going at different times the year as well. There's like three weeks apart this time. It's

infuriating. But that has given away how far in advance we've recorded this episode.

Hey, that's good. Makes you seem cool. Well, very best of luck on the show today. You are also

joining from Escape This Podcast and many

other things, Danny Siller, welcome back. UTC Plus 10 represent. You should probably at some point

plug all the stuff you're working on. I just kind of skip past that with Bill. No, I think it's fine.

We've been on here a few times. People know where to find us with our podcast and things like that. I think it's fine. We've been on here a few times. People know where to find us with our

podcast and things like that. I think it's time for petty personal gripes this time.

You know what's going on in my life right now? I've got a pimple on my chin. They assured me

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