42: Giant concrete balls
Lateral with Tom Scott
Lateral with Tom Scott
4.9 • 736 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Which key can often be seen in between F and G on a keyboard? |
| 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. |
| 0:15.0 | On today's show, we have three guests who are uniquely qualified to make you laugh, think and question your life choices. |
| 0:21.1 | And I will let you decide which one of them is which. |
| 0:23.8 | We start with, from his own YouTube channel, Transport and Train Expert, Jeff Marshall. |
| 0:29.3 | Hello, Tom. Thanks for having me. Yes. Hi. How are you? |
| 0:31.4 | Thanks for being back on the show. |
| 0:34.0 | Last time I accidentally referred to train station instead of railway station in this introduction. |
| 0:39.8 | What's the difference? Why will nerds get angry about that? They're going to get angry about that |
| 0:45.6 | description as well, aren't they? No, we're on nerds. That's fine. Nerds are great. If you're in a pub |
| 0:50.9 | full of nerds and you bring up the, is it a train station or a railway station, |
| 0:54.3 | that's pretty much the discussion gone for the whole evening. It's just, it's a, it's a thing. And I'm, I'm on the railway side. It's either you're on railway station or it doesn't matter. Words are just words. And some people are like, no, it must be railway. So I would, I would go with railway station if you want to look cool and credible. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm not sure I want to look cool and credible, Jeff. |
| 1:16.8 | I'm not sure I've ever looked cool and credible in my life. |
| 1:19.6 | No. |
| 1:21.4 | Sorry. |
| 1:21.8 | You're not meant to agree. |
| 1:23.4 | You're not meant to agree with. |
| 1:25.2 | Well, next up, next on the list, next on the list to roast me, we have from the depths of Wikipedia, |
| 1:33.3 | which is her Twitter and Instagram and TikTok and a lot of other places. |
| 1:39.5 | We have Annie Rowder. |
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