155: The missing whiskey

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Tom Lum, Ella Hubber and Caroline Roper face questions about skull schemes, nicked notes and perilous plasticine. 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: Jeffrey Harris, L.P., Nicolas Meunier, Ryan Neary, Robert Grundulis, Ciarán Cooling. 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 sort of competitors might employ strategies such as avalanche, bureaucrat or toolbox?
0:07.2	The answer to that at the end of the show.
0:09.0	My name's Tom Scott, and this is Latry.
0:17.9	Before we begin, I want you to select a playing card.
0:21.3	Not one of the obvious ones, like Queen of Hearts or Ace of Spades.
0:24.6	Pick one that you don't think I'll get.
0:27.6	So I think it is a low card.
0:33.1	It's a black suit.
0:35.6	And I'm going to say four of clubs?
0:40.2	Yep, thought so.
0:41.9	And now 1.9% of our audience thinks that I can read their mind.
0:46.6	Speaking of not quite having a full deck, we welcome back today.
0:50.2	The folks from Let's Learn Everything, I'm going to start with someone who, at the end of the last show they were in, said that they were going to hold their breath until the next episode. Tom Lum, welcome back to the show. Oh my God. Oh, my God. Hey! It's so good to be back on. Thank you. Thank you. How are you doing, Tom?
1:11.6	Hi, good. I'm doing great.
1:14.0	What else is going on in your life other than let's learn everything at the minute?
1:17.6	I do YouTube stuff.
1:20.3	You can drop the shtick. I'm feeling exhausted just listening to you.
1:26.5	But yeah, love the podcast and love Caroline and Ella.
1:30.3	I sure wish they were here right now.
1:32.1	Wow, okay.
1:33.8	As if by magic, the next member likes to learn everything appears.
1:38.1	Ella Hubber, welcome back to the show.
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