After incidents in 2000 and 2021, which two Olympic events no longer involve horses?

The answer to that at the end of the show.

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral. It's a grey day on Geometry Street.

All the shapes are indoors, staring at some right angles.

Wait, who's this sliding in slowly from the left?

Why, it's Mr. Square.

What's that, Mr. Square?

You think the show's run out of budget?

How rude! This show has never had a budget.

And look, wobbling down from the top of the screen because the settings are broken,

it's Miss Dodecahedron. Oh, no. Oh dear. Miss Dodecahedron says she feels artistically compromised.

Maybe someone shouldn't have signed that contract allowing her likeness to be used on crypto coin.

Now, let's look through the parallelogram window.

What do you see?

It's our friends, the podcast guests.

One, two, three.

And they all look really confused by this introduction.

Hoping that their brains are going to be in great shape,

first we have someone who, when I asked before the show,

what you want to be introduced as,

just said, quote, history, whatever, I don't care at this point.

Abby Cox, welcome back to the show.

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