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Which movie did James Cameron pitch by writing the letter S and two lines? The answer to that

at the end of the show.

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

A very special welcome to this celebratory episode of Lateral, which I can confirm is the 100 billionth podcast that anyone has put on the internet. So

slices of celebration cake are on our way to the guests right now. And they are from SuperSaf TV.

It is Saf. Hey. How are you doing today? Good, good. Jet lag, but looking forward to this,

I'm not sure how well I'll perform, but I'm here. I'm here. It's fine. Get the excuses in early.

I'm glad you've been out having a good time. Also, from Electroboom, it is Medi. Hi, how are you doing?

Doing well, thank you. What have you got going on at the minute? I was just filming before I joined

the podcast and some things blew up. You'll see my next video.

And from her own YouTube channel, artist and musician Alice Spagnola.

Hello. Hello. How are you doing? What are you working on these days?

Well, I slept really well last night, and I'm still not sure how I'm going to perform.

It's absolutely fine.

There are no points other than bragging rights, no competition here other than working together

to find the answers to some interesting questions.

Questions that are full of precarious statements built like a house of cards.

So let's see who's going to be the ace and who's going to be the Joker.

We'll start you off with this.

Why is this a sequence?

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