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Lateral with Tom Scott

31: The genius of cheese slices

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9742 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Brian McManus from 'Real Engineering', Sarah Renae Clark and Nicholas Johnson face questions about timely treatments, perceptive painters and bisected badges. 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: Sam, Andrei Tuch. 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 chess, what is White's first move in the ammonia opening?

0:05.2

The answer to that at the end of the show.

0:06.9

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

0:15.5

Hello, and welcome to the podcast, where we turn conventional wisdom on its head,

0:19.4

shake it up, and see what comes out.

0:21.3

Personally, I'm expecting two nickels and a bubblegum wrapper. On today's show, we have magician,

0:27.0

author and podcaster, Nicholas J. Johnson. Thank you very much. I love that introduction.

0:32.1

Welcome back. This is your second time on the show. How are you doing? How did you feel about the last

0:36.6

episode? I felt okay. I was worried about embarrassing myself and I feel like I may have, but I did it in a way

0:43.9

that was true to myself, so that's okay. Next up, we have artist and YouTuber Sarah Renee Clark.

0:51.2

Hi, nice to be here again. Welcome back. I know this won't work in audio.

0:55.5

I'm just really impressed by the background behind you, which I assume is your own drawings and work?

1:01.4

It's, yes, it is, but it's actually all stickers.

1:06.2

It took two full days to make and cut out with a machine and put up like a jigsaw puzzle.

1:14.9

And it was a nightmare and I'm never doing it again.

1:17.6

And if you'd like to see that, you can go to a YouTube channel.

1:20.7

And lastly, today, but definitely not leastly, we have from Real Engineering, Brian McNanus.

1:26.4

Thank you. It's Good to be here again.

1:28.5

I feel like I need to add a few titles onto my name, just YouTube.

1:33.1

I mean, I get to say YouTuber and podcaster now,

1:35.9

but I got introduced as broadcaster and presenter a while back.

1:39.6

I'm like, oh, I like that.

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