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Lateral with Tom Scott

25: A deliberately bad program

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9742 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Brian McManus from 'Real Engineering', Sarah Renae Clark and Nicholas Johnson face questions about sincere symbols, shrewd signage and silly stickers. 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: Podcasts NZ Studios. EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at The Podcast Studios, Dublin. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com). ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Eglė Vaškevičiūtė, Nicholas Johnson, Adrian Miguel, Adam Austerberry. 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

In which films end credits are four specific letters printed in a different typeface throughout?

0:06.8

The answer to that at the end of the show, my name's Tom Scott, and this is lateral.

0:16.7

Welcome to the show where we prove that,

0:18.8

ah, they think laterally, is not just a euphemism for being clueless. Joining us today from the YouTube channel Real Engineering, Brian McManus. Hey, thanks for having me, Tom. Oh, thank you for being on. Does this feel a little outside your wheelhouse? Because you're concentrating 100% on engineering and everything I see. I'll be honest, I don't see many engineering questions

0:38.1

in front of us at the minute. No, and being on camera and everything else feels outside of my

0:43.2

wheelhouse, so hopefully I'll do okay. All right, well, have all the confidence you want, because this

0:49.2

is about finding the answer, even if it might seem to be a long way away. So good luck to you.

0:55.6

Next up, we have magician, author, podcaster, and professional conman, Nicholas J. Johnson. Hello there.

1:01.7

Thank you. I'm probably more of an amateur con man. I'd really just do it for the love of the con.

1:07.8

I should say this is on stage professional. You do pickpocketing, you do education about scams,

1:14.4

things like that. Yeah, yeah. All of my work is about promoting critical thinking and scam,

1:19.9

deception and detection through magic, comedy, sideshow stunts, anything to get people's attention.

1:26.9

And finally, we have artist, YouTuber and creator of the Color Cube, Sarah Renee Clark.

1:32.2

Hello there.

1:33.1

Hi, how you going?

1:34.7

I'm going well.

1:35.5

I have to ask about the Color Cube, because you said that a lot of folks are going to know you

1:39.8

from YouTube, but also a load of folks seem to know you from the Color Cube?

1:43.7

Yes, I have one,

1:45.8

but that doesn't really work for your listeners, though he doesn't. It's a box. It looks like a

1:51.3

giant Rubik's cube, but it's full of colour palettes that people can use to help them find

1:55.4

colours that work well together. So it's made for art, but it works for so many other genres as well.

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