2: What was measured in 'gillettes'?

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Brady Haran, Mary Spender and Eric Johnson face questions about a creative fire, bloodless hitmen and partly-useless products. 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. RECORDED AT & EDITED BY: The Podcast Studios, Dublin. EDITOR: Julie Hassett. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com). ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Josh Halbur, Ben Justice, Lewis Tough, Arun Uttamchandani, Eglė Vaškevičiūtė. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In which specific sport do you not cross the finish line, nor cross the start line either.
0:06.4	My name's Tom Scott, this is Lateral, and we'll tell you the answer to that at the end of the show.
0:14.7	Three people are joining me today to hopefully show off their lateral thinking skills to some rather unique questions.
0:20.1	Joining me today from Numberphile and 60 Symbols and from Hello Internet and just a lot of things. Brady Haurin, how are you doing? I'm very well. Thank you for having me. I'm a bit worried, though. You've got me with a newborn baby in the house. I don't know how well having a newborn baby meshes with
0:38.1	lateral thinking. We're about to find out. I mean, get your excuses in early. You'll be absolutely fine, I promise. I've got more. I've got more if you need them. Musician, YouTuber, singer and songwriter, Mary Spender. Hello. How are you doing? I'm doing really well. Really excited to be here, So thanks for having me.
0:53.3	And from the Follow Friday podcast, Eric Johnson.
0:56.9	Hey, how's it going?
0:57.8	I mean, I'm doing really well. Really excited to be here, so thanks for having me. And from the Follow Friday podcast, Eric Johnson. Hey, how's it going? I mean, I'm going well. How about you? Doing well. I'm just, I'm in the middle of planning my own wedding, so I hope you're all ready for every bit of my lateral thinking to be somehow wedding adjacent. That is all my brain is occupying right now. Lateral's the name and also the game. We have some lateral thinking questions and we're
1:13.3	going to have fun trying to find the answers. There are no prizes other than the bragging rights
1:17.6	and the reputation. So, if you're already, here's your first question. In 1988, white t-shirts
1:24.6	with a single black stripe diagonally across them
1:27.5	began to be sold in Italian markets.
1:30.3	Why?
1:31.2	I'll give you that again.
1:32.1	In 1988, white t-shirts with a single black stripe diagonally across them
1:36.2	began to be sold in Italian markets.
1:39.1	Why?
1:40.3	That's right, we are starting you off with a fashion question.
1:43.2	Good luck.
1:46.5	I'll tap out now.
1:48.7	Do you think it's sport-related?
1:51.6	It could be sport-related, couldn't it? Because, you know, the Italians like their sport.
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