156: Newspaper espionage

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Karen Chu, Colin Felton and Daniel Peake face questions about longer lyrics, inconvenient injuries and gainful glasses. 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: Kell, David Sansom, Ian B., James Tween, Robert Matte, Isaiah, Juli. 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	Why have several people added an extra verse to a 1959 song that was already difficult to perform?
0:07.6	The answer to that at the end of the show, my name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:17.2	We are big fans of the legendary actor Brian Blessed here at Latterl. So it was a joy to invite onto the show the hosts of the fan podcast, Good Job Brian. Unfortunately, due to quite an understandable administrative error, that didn't quite happen. So please welcome two of the hosts of the wonderful podcast, Good Job Brain. We start.
0:39.6	Colin Felton, welcome back to the show. Delighted to be back. I made the cut. Yes. Well, it was your
0:45.6	first time on the show last time you were here. How are you feeling this second time through?
0:50.5	I've had a lot less caffeine this time, so I'm going to keep the same energy, but keep the heart rate down.
0:57.8	That's my goal.
0:59.4	Well, that is very much appreciated. Tell us about Good Job Brain.
1:02.4	Good Job Brain is a seasonally weekly podcast. It's a little bit of pub quiz-style questioning,
1:09.1	some trivia, some random stories, and we just try and keep each other entertained and informed.
1:14.5	And we are joined again by one of the each others from Good Job Brain.
1:18.3	Karen Chu, welcome back to the show.
1:19.9	Hello, I'm Karen.
1:21.4	Guess what?
1:22.0	We also own the domain, good job Brian.
1:25.9	You do.
1:27.8	Absolutely.
1:29.0	Because this is a very common error.
1:33.0	People would listen to, you know, they would write in and be like, oh, my name
1:37.2	is Brian.
1:37.8	I thought this was a podcast about Brian's.
1:41.1	And then it turns out it was brains and it's pretty good. But yes, yes. We also own
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