166: A severed sleeve

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Caroline Roper, Ella Hubber and Tom Lum face questions about restaurant reportage, banned bulbs and opportunistic operations. 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. VOICEOVER: John Lumapas. EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at The Podcast Studios, Dublin. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes'), Andreas Dahlbäck ('See You in the Rear View'), courtesy of epidemicsound.com. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Aaron Weber, Simon, Amir Sarid, Alex Dzurick, Stijn. 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11am.
0:18.1	Price and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:20.2	On the 8th of May,
0:21.5	2025,
0:22.8	which US fast food company
0:24.6	wrote a post on X
0:26.2	that contained just the company's name
0:28.7	spelled out?
0:30.5	The answer to that,
0:31.2	at the end of the show,
0:32.2	my name's Tom Scott,
0:33.1	and this is Lateral.
0:42.3	Music This is Lateral. Lateral is Filled before a live studio audience.
0:46.3	Honey, have you seen where I put my left shoe?
0:49.3	Isn't it right next to your right shoe?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lateral with Tom Scott, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Lateral with Tom Scott and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.