154: Beware: falling house

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ali Spagnola, Evan Heling and Katelyn Heling face questions about criminal capers, rapid records and perplexing percentages. 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: David Lever, Julian, Nick, Adam Reiner, Jeroen, Patrick, Tijs. 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	Where can you be employed as a model citizen?
0:03.3	The answer to that, at the end of the show.
0:05.1	My name's Tom Scott, and this is Latry.
0:14.3	Welcome to the show, and it's time for the next part of our cryptic crossword challenge.
0:18.8	The clue for 27 across is next answer left on the side,
0:23.0	seven letters. And if you can't work out the answer to that, the next 40 minutes might be a
0:27.4	tough listen. Luckily, our returning players are as clued up as ever. First of all, joining us
0:33.1	and in the same room as usual, Evan and Caitlin, welcome back to the show.
0:37.4	Thanks for having us, yay! I just realized I did a British-style cryptic crossword clue to a call full of Americans there, and I do apologize for that. It went straight over my head. I was just going to pretend. Yeah. I was just going to smile. Yeah. How are you two doing? How is your world?
0:55.3	What are you doing at the moment?
0:56.6	We're doing great.
0:57.3	We are having a lot of fun with our second channel videos recently.
1:01.1	Oh, okay.
1:01.7	Yeah.
1:02.8	Yeah.
1:03.0	It's just like lower pressure.
1:04.0	It's really fun.
1:04.7	Right?
1:05.2	It's lovely.
1:06.7	Yeah.
1:07.4	We tried just seeing how thick we could make resin for science.
1:12.3	For science reasons.
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