28: An 'out of this world' lecture
Lateral with Tom Scott
Lateral with Tom Scott
4.9 • 742 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brown can help you think, white can help you work, and pink is soothing. What is it? The answer to that |
| 0:06.8 | at the end of the show. My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral. Welcome to the show that provides you |
| 0:17.5 | with all the useless information you never knew you needed to forget, sort of like the internet, but with more personality and fewer cat videos. |
| 0:24.3 | Today, I am joined by some returning players who all know each other, who all run a big project together. |
| 0:29.6 | It is the team from Answering Progress. |
| 0:31.9 | And I never know which order to introduce you in. |
| 0:35.1 | I try and mix it up every time. |
| 0:36.7 | So I'm just going to go with the order that you appeared on my screen. We start with Melissa Fernandez. Hello. How are you |
| 0:42.8 | doing? I'm good. I'm nervous to be back though. You're obviously coming back on the show. How was it |
| 0:47.7 | last time? How do you feel about being back? It was fun last time. I realized my trivia knowledge |
| 0:53.3 | or my puzzle knowledge is not very good, |
| 0:56.6 | but I'm still here to compete and win against these two. It's a competition, right? |
| 1:00.0 | Because it is a competition. Absolutely. I love it when the players are up against each other. |
| 1:05.1 | I'm not just gang up on me. This is great. Also, from Answering in Progress, and clearly getting |
| 1:10.6 | into the competitive spirit immediately, Sabrina Cruz. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm here to win. I have never shut up about getting it in one on that first question, and I'm going to do it again. |
| 1:22.2 | You came in and said, I have never shut up, and then you paused for just a moment. And I was like, that can't be where the sentence is ending. |
| 1:28.7 | It can't be. |
| 1:30.2 | Oh, Taha and Melissa wish. |
| 1:33.8 | And thus rounding out the team from another continent entirely, Taha Khan. |
| 1:39.3 | I'm just happy to be here. |
| 1:43.8 | I'm playing the moral high ground here. I'm just happy to be here. I'm playing the up moral high ground here. I'm just happy to be here. So, |
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