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Lateral with Tom Scott

29: The passenger going nowhere

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9742 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Emily the Engineer, Wren Weichman and Kip Heath face questions about right-handed roads, tea taxonomy and broken bikes. 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: Raz Binyamin. 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 the Afrikaans language, what is known as a Papia vampire?

0:05.0

The answer to that, at the end of the show.

0:06.7

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

0:14.8

Welcome to today's episode, where the first question my six guests have to answer is whether I've had my eyes tested recently.

0:20.7

First of all, we have, from the corridor crew, I was going to introduce you as Ren Whiteman,

0:26.6

but you have put your name on the call we're all sharing here as just,

0:30.4

Wren, with an exclamation mark at the end. So please welcome from the corridor crew,

0:34.9

Wren!

0:35.9

That's me, what's up?

0:38.3

Welcome back to the show.

0:39.9

Since you were last on, you have made the ants video.

0:43.5

How did that go?

0:44.6

Because you visualised every ant in the world in one ball and then showed that to the researchers

0:50.6

who'd written the paper counting the ants.

0:52.9

Yeah.

0:53.4

How was that, like, actually working with scientists this time?

0:56.2

It was great.

0:57.1

I was, I realized with the types of videos that I want to do, the important things to make

1:01.6

the nerds happy.

1:02.8

And so that was like what I wanted to do for that video.

1:04.7

So I actually reached that before I even started and just to get some collaborative

1:07.9

information from them so I can actually like kind of do it accurately.

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