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Lateral with Tom Scott

44: TV directing in reverse

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9736 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

From 'Jet Lag: The Game', Sam Denby, Adam Chase and Ben Doyle face questions about food fakery, coat calamities and vaccine verses. 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: The Podcast Studios, Dublin. EDITED BY: Julie Hassett. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com). ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Thanh Nguyen, The Fullest Circle, Emil, Jarvis. 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

Albert Saban's polio vaccine inspired which famous song?

0:04.0

The answer to that at the end of the show.

0:06.0

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

0:12.0

These are the voyages of the Starship Lateral.

0:17.0

It's continuing mission to explore strange new trivia,

0:20.0

to seek out new questions

0:21.7

and new answers, and to boldly go where no panel game has gone before. Joining us to explore

0:26.6

the final frontier of lateral thinking, we have the team from Jetlag the game returning. Last

0:33.4

time I tried to introduce them one at a time and it devolved into chaos. So please welcome Ben Doyle,

0:40.4

Adam Chase and Sam Denby, and one of you, say hello.

0:45.2

Hi.

0:46.2

Thank you, Ben. We're coming to you. How are you doing?

0:49.1

I'm good. I'm good. I'm happy to be back.

0:53.6

Are we allowed to reveal that we recorded the last one 10 minutes ago?

0:59.6

Or does that destroy?

1:01.2

I mean, I think if the audience haven't figured out that we record these in blocks by now,

1:05.7

there's something wrong.

1:07.1

I am so glad to be back.

1:09.0

That 10 minutes was the worst 10 minutes of my life, and now I'm living again.

1:14.3

I'm so happy. Adam, how are you doing?

1:16.9

Well, actually, a fun fact about me, Tom, is that I'm quite sick right now.

1:20.9

Oh, thank you for turning up and not leaving us with two-thirds of jet lag and a gaping hole where you would have been.

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