162: Brown noise

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Fernandes, Taha Khan and Sabrina Cruz from 'Answer in Progress' face questions about secret squares, adapted accessories and sleb-spotting sirenians. 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: Katie Waning, Luke V., Alyson, Scott, Trevor Cashmore, Dani, Triscal Islington. 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	In 2021, in what way did Lady Gaga, Zendaya, and Prince Harry helped to cheer up a dugong?
0:07.0	The answer to that at the end of the show.
0:09.0	My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:16.0	There are an infinite number of possible questions out there.
0:20.0	How long can you survive on vibes alone?
0:22.9	Are mirrors just lying to us in reverse?
0:25.2	Is soup just a conspiracy?
0:27.9	Thankfully, we have three people here who investigate much better questions than any of those.
0:32.1	It's the gang from Answer in Progress.
0:33.6	Welcome back to the show.
0:35.1	I was worried...
0:35.9	Hello.
0:36.8	For a second. Are these questions we've done? I was like, these are bad questions. Is soup a conspiracy? I could follow that. How is it a conspiracy? I don't know what's in it. Why are you trying to hide? When you blend it, every time a soup asks me to blend it, I'm just like, what are you trying to hide? Asks you to? Well,
0:54.5	you know, the recipe. We don't talk about the voices. Sorry, I've just realized that my script
1:02.1	here says, introduce the players. I should probably do that at some point. From answering progress,
1:06.4	Ta-ha Khan, welcome. Hello. How are you doing after the last few months since you're on the show?
1:13.3	I'm doing great. I still haven't uploaded a video.
1:17.7	The research phase is really getting to me.
1:20.6	I feel like I'm in a battle with the research and it's winning.
1:25.8	It's going well.
1:28.0	Can you say what you're researching, or is it a secret from the others and it's winning. It's going well. Can you say what you're researching?
1:29.8	Or is it a secret from the others and from the world?
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