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Lateral with Tom Scott

18: Making cosplay worthwhile

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9742 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Jay Foreman, Kip Heath and Jason Slaughter ('Not Just Bikes') face questions about awkward animals, Indian ingenuity, and a Peter Pan problem. 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://www.lateralcast.com. Join the Producer's Club via https://members.lateralcast.com for ad-free episodes and bonus content. 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: Ben Tedds, Lewis Tough. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.8

What can have a blood pressure of 300 over 180? The answer to that at the end of the show.

0:35.3

My name's Tom Scott and this is lateral.

0:37.5

Okay. The answer to that at the end of the show. My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

0:47.4

I invited three likable, well-known people onto the show today to answer some questions, but Green Day weren't available.

0:51.5

So instead, we have from the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, Jason Slaughter.

0:52.4

Hello.

0:53.8

How are you doing today?

0:55.4

I'm doing great, thank you very much.

1:28.1

It's a rainy evening here in Amsterdam, but that's pretty typical, I guess. Thank you very much for joining us. Next, it's musical comedian and from his own YouTube channel with Unfinished London and Map Men, Jay Foreman. I should explain that I'm in a car. I'm not normally in a car, especially not when I do podcast, but the story is there's a sleeping baby in my house. And this is genuinely the only room in the house, if this counts as part of the house, where the baby won't be working up by podcasting. But also, it turns out, the car's got really good acoustics. I might just go in here from now on, baby or no baby,

1:31.7

even though it's really off-brand for my channel that talks about sustainable travel.

1:35.7

Yeah, we have two sustainable travel channels here. So it's fine. The engine's not running.

1:42.0

No, it's fine, Jay. It's fine. I'm fine. I'm over it. And our last guest, virologist and science communicator, Kip Heath. Hello.

1:46.7

Thank you so much for joining us. How are you doing?

1:51.1

I'm good. And taking some time out between pandemics to have fun.

1:55.2

Oh, oh, don't phrase it like that. Please don't phrase it like that.

1:58.3

Just put us in a lovely mood for the quiz.

1:58.8

Yeah, right.

2:02.9

Our questions have as many twists and turns as a pretzel,

2:06.0

so let's hope our players won't be quite as salty as that when they hear the answers.

2:08.3

We start with the first question, which is,

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