189: Sleep-inducing hangers
Lateral with Tom Scott
Lateral with Tom Scott
4.9 • 736 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Changes in sexual performance are more common than most people realize, and support doesn't need to feel awkward. |
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| 0:21.8 | dot UK slash podcast to learn more. How do cats die twice when traveling from the UK to Spain? |
| 0:29.5 | The answer to that at the end of the show, my name's Tom Scott and this is lateral. |
| 0:43.4 | Modern computer science works on a backbone of binary data. |
| 0:50.6 | Every image, every video, every podcast, every piece of music can be turned into true or false, on or off, one or zero. |
| 0:55.7 | Let me introduce you to three other people capable of turning everything into a bit. |
| 1:01.3 | They are all taking shows to the Edinburgh fringe this year. They are all well-known figures on the professional comedy circuit. We start with Stuart Laws. Welcome back to the show. |
| 1:06.1 | It's a pleasure to be back here, and I will be aiming to provide gigabits. Oh, that's good. That's good. |
| 1:13.6 | That's my aim. Or what, one point, what was it, 1.21 gigawatts? I cannot remember the reference |
| 1:22.6 | the specific amount. But it was fun to hear it pronounced jigger. It was. You should plug the show, |
| 1:28.2 | because it's rare that I don't have to improvise as much banter because everyone here's got a show to plug. Do you know what you're doing at the fringe yet? Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm doing a show called Late Night with Stuart Laws, and it's different every single night. Who knows what will happen. Do we have dates and times for it yet? Or is it? It's the first 12 days, basically. I don't really |
| 1:47.6 | remember. It's at 11.30. It's at the drone. |
| 1:50.0 | And, you know, one of the knights will be, Stuart Laws correctly identifies 100 Rebels or your money back. |
| 1:57.0 | That is definitely locked in. We don't know what the others are going to be yet. |
| 2:05.2 | I have no idea of revels come up in the questions today, but I suspect they won't. Good luck to you on the show today. You are joined by two brand new players to lateral. Devena Bentley, |
| 2:10.7 | will go to you first. Welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me. I'm terrified, |
| 2:15.3 | but excited. This is not really the kind of standard comedy panel show |
| 2:19.8 | that comedians get invited on, but thank you for braving it anyway. You're very welcome. |
| 2:25.0 | Yes, I also have an Edinburgh show coming to The Pleasance. It's going to be on every day at |
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