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Lateral with Tom Scott

180: A curved bridge

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9736 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Rowan Ellis, Jarvis Johnson and Jordan Adika face questions about Disney decorations, cartoon casts and birthday backs. 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: Rex S., Jacob Star, Bryan, Ayasa, Alex, Hugh. 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

For what purpose does Disney use colours called go-away green and blending blue?

0:06.6

The answer to that at the end of the show.

0:08.4

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

0:16.7

Welcome to Lateral, or as it's known in France, Le Ponce en Zig-Zag.

0:21.8

In Italian, it's called Il Quiz de la Curva Improvisor,

0:25.6

which means the quiz that takes a corner sharper than a Vesper on cobblestones.

0:29.4

But of course, the most precise translation comes from Germany,

0:32.5

where it is officially titled,

0:34.0

De Zondafragan den Sport Show.

0:37.2

Rolls right off the time. And appearing in every

0:39.8

version are a wonderful guest. Firstly, it is a goodentag to one half of the Sad Boys podcast,

0:46.1

and on Jarvis Johnson Gold, Jarvis Johnson, welcome back. Yeah, I'm now going by Jarvis Johnson

0:52.9

Gold as my YouTube channel is my identity. And there's

0:56.2

nothing more than the man on the screen. It was a while back when I was on, uh, on the podcast,

1:01.0

I was on Sad Boys with you, with a Z, with a Z. And at some point I would love to come back on

1:06.4

because I did not know that like the Patreon bonus we did was weird game show clips.

1:12.9

Yeah.

1:13.6

Yeah.

1:14.0

And, like, if I ever come back, I have so many clips to prepare to send you.

1:18.3

Like, prepare for an entire 90-minute deep dive on obscure European game shows.

1:24.2

Complete, completely improvised.

1:26.8

Tom just had so many, like, joke privately that Tom just randomly knows, like,

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