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Lateral with Tom Scott

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Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9742 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Rowan Ellis, Jarvis Johnson and Jordan Adika face questions about missing money, medical manoeuvres and mangled magazines. 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: Kate, Mac, Forest Davis, Corey Dabrowski, Toni Kovačić. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In 2016, Henry saved a woman's life with the Heinlech manoeuvre, even though he'd never been taught this special technique.

0:08.4

How?

0:09.3

The answer to that at the end of the show.

0:11.1

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

0:19.2

Tonight, we reopened the file on a case that has baffled investigators for years.

0:24.3

Who and Earth booked these three guests together?

0:27.5

Experts agree it could only be the work of a criminal mastermind,

0:30.6

one who struck without warning, leaving behind nothing but a spreadsheet,

0:34.2

labelled guest list final final V7 brackets, use this one, close brackets.

0:38.9

But now, with new testimony and the best reenactments $100 could buy, we may finally

0:44.6

uncover the truth as we interrogate our three suspects, as we interrogate our three guests.

0:49.8

First, hoping to get her alibi straight, video essayist about sociology and social justice.

0:55.0

Rowan Alice, welcome back to the show!

0:57.0

Thank you for having me once more!

0:59.0

My crime spree was not enough to stop you, booking me again.

1:04.0

It is always a delight to have you back on.

1:07.0

I note that description has changed.

1:08.0

Have you found yourself doing wider subjects lately?

1:11.4

Yeah, it turns out there are, there are so many fascinating ways in which the world is messed up,

1:16.6

and I love to talk about them.

1:19.6

What have you been covering lately?

1:21.3

I had a video around the ways that the alt-right in America is using food as a method of

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