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Lateral with Tom Scott

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Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9736 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

'Map Men' Jay Foreman & Mark Cooper-Jones and Mithuna Yoganathan face questions about accurate aircraft, cute churches and notable names. 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: Dave Cartwright, Sidney Allison, Steve O’Neill, Daniel Peake, Michael J., Nick Huntington-Klein. 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 did the comedian Dino Wilson do?

0:03.0

Because he wanted to see his name in lights.

0:06.0

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

0:14.0

Today's episode is brought to you by Gravity, bringing things together since the Big Bang.

0:21.3

Gravity, if life gets too heavy, that's our fault. Sorry. Joining me on the show today, there are three other fundamental forces of nature. First, we have, from The Mat Men. Jay Foreman, welcome back to the show. Hello, thank you for having me back on the show. You are, I have to point this out, and I apologize for pointing this out.

0:38.8

You are in a studio today.

0:40.6

You have a backdrop. show. Hello, thank you for having me back on the show. You are, I have to point this out,

0:37.5

and I apologize for pointing this out. You are in a studio today. You have a backdrop. You are not

0:42.2

in your car trying to find something that works. The last time you had me on the show,

0:48.0

it was really bad timing with my home life because I had a sleeping baby and the only place

0:52.7

to record a podcast from that was perfect for soundproofing in internet was my car.

0:58.0

But it looked awful, and I was so cold, but I'm now in the comfort of my own studio

1:02.0

with maps on the wall behind me. It's good to be back.

1:04.0

And for those not watching in video, there is a large prop by you with an arrow pointing to it.

1:10.0

I'm going to ask the other of the map

1:11.7

men to talk about that. Mark Cooper Jones, welcome to the show. Oh, thank you very much. Yeah,

1:16.3

okay, so the audio description here of Jay's screen, which I had the pleasure. I was on a,

1:21.5

I was on a meeting with him earlier and he decided to set up, well, we've got a book coming out

1:25.9

in October and you may be able to guess if you're looking at this, that it is called This Way Up,

1:32.3

and you probably won't be able to read. It's also called When Maps Go Wrong and Why It Matters.

1:36.3

Jay has also then made a rudimentary cut-out arrow.

1:41.3

It's like I'm watching a YouTube thumbnail in real life.

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