20: The rigged JFK election

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

William Osman, Dani Siller and Bill Sunderland face questions about statesmanly statues, parking perks and bountiful birthdays. 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: Matt Jones, Ben Tedds, Jake Ng. 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	Students listen up.
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0:25.9	The answer to that, at the end of the show.
0:27.7	My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:36.1	Our three guests returning to the show today have been chosen because they've developed a reputation with fans for creativity, quick wits and calmness and depression.
0:44.7	All of which will end in the next few minutes.
0:46.9	First up, we have from Escape This Podcast, Bill Sunderland.
0:50.5	I'm back. Did you miss me?
0:52.6	We missed your character work.
0:56.8	Yeah, good. You're all been sitting there waiting for the return of Detective Mike Paper from episode one. Yeah, absolutely. And also
1:04.2	from Escape This podcast, Danny Siller. Hello, I'm going to win. Just, I know that's not how the show
1:10.0	works. I'm going to find a way. You've come in with so much energy in this show. It's lovely. Thank you. Energy. Hostility. Hostility. I'm against all of you. Lateral. The only game show where everybody loses. And finally, either keeping the energy up or about to deliberately destroy it, we're not sure,
1:28.0	from his own YouTube channel and from the Safety Third podcast, William Osmond.
1:31.7	I still can't leave you, invited me.
1:35.2	To be fair, that's what I thought about your podcast when you invited me on as well.
1:38.9	So, you know, it's done well for both of us.
1:42.1	This show is all about answering some tricky lateral thinking questions,
1:45.3	so thank you if you've sent some into us via lateralcast.com. We do enjoy reading them all,
1:49.7	except for the one about the whoopee cushion and the cactus. With that in mind, here's question
1:53.7	one. This is a listener question. It's been sent in by Matt Jones. A US TV network for young
2:00.0	children had a daily feature to wish viewers happy birthday.
2:03.3	Their names and ages would appear on a crawler text banner at the bottom of the screen.
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