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Lateral with Tom Scott

159: It's raining lemons

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9736 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Jack Chambers, Manu Henriot and Alex Bell from QI's 'Lunchbox Envy' podcast face questions about rider ridicule, bountiful beef and crunchy comparisons. 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: Beaulieu, Sebastian Cuttlefish, Isaiah, Zilland, Chris Dickson, Annabel Couzijn, Stine. 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

Joe Wix is on a mission.

0:02.0

I want to make this and sell it.

0:04.0

He's creating a protein bar.

0:06.0

This is ultra-processing.

0:07.0

That could potentially kill you.

0:08.0

I want the maximum amount of each harmful ingredient while staying within the legal limit.

0:12.0

So just how ridiculous the food system really is.

0:15.0

Joe Wicks, Licensed to Kill on Channel 4.

0:18.0

Stream now.

0:20.0

What does Mrs. Crunch have that Mr. Crunch does not?

0:24.9

The answer to that at the end of the show.

0:26.6

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

0:36.0

Welcome to the Lateral Cafe. We're out of quinoa and oat milk, but I can do your trivia

0:40.8

porridge, a factoid sandwich, or an omelet that's as eggy as this introduction. Thank you. I appreciate

0:48.1

the laugh, and so is our producer who wrote the script. Let's see if our guests today are

0:53.1

full of beans. They are the team from

0:56.0

Lunchbox Envy. We start with Jack Chambers. Welcome to the show. Hello, thank you for having me.

1:01.9

Tell us a bit about Lunchbox Envy. So it's the QI approach to food. It's a podcast comes out

1:08.2

weekly and every week we come up with all the sort of interesting

1:12.0

historical stories and scientific backstory behind different ingredient or food stuff.

1:19.3

And we have a lot of fun making it. We each bring a lunchbox and we sort of compete to find

1:25.0

the best one. And meanwhile, you know, tell the world all about it.

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