26: The car crash 'dummy'

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Xyla Foxlin, Jordan Harrod and Becky Stern face questions about cheapo chicken, problematic passwords and bountiful bananas. 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: Marion Halim, Tom Hartley, Marcus Cameron Bent, Marian. 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	On the 21st of August, 2017, one NASA Twitter account blocked another for two hours.
0:06.5	Why?
0:07.2	The answer to that at the end of the show.
0:08.8	My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:16.8	Three brave pilots are going to send their starships of truth through the asteroid field of pitfalls and red herrings to reach the planet of answers.
0:25.8	I regret writing that joke.
0:27.6	Please welcome our guests.
0:28.8	We start with Maker and YouTuber Becky Stern.
0:32.1	Hello, great to be here.
0:33.6	How are you doing?
0:34.1	This is your first time on the show.
0:36.2	How are you feeling about it?
0:37.3	First time guest, not first time on the show. How are you feeling about it?
0:43.6	First time guest, not first time watching. I'm super excited. This is my kind of jam.
0:47.9	And I have to ask, this is going to go out maybe a month or two after recording. Is there anything you're working on right now that you can tell the world about that you're excited about?
0:51.9	I have a new craft video out on my YouTube channel.
0:55.7	All right. You know what? I was going to ask for more specifics, but we're going to just
0:59.2	leave it there and people can find it out for themselves. Also joining us, AI expert currently
1:05.1	working on a dual university PhD returning to the show despite clearly not having time for this, Jordan Harrod.
1:13.7	Thanks for having me again. I know nothing about space. So your joke went completely over my head.
1:19.8	To be honest, I had less confidence in that joke the more time went on.
1:25.6	Since we last talk, like chat GPT has come out.
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