Why is Second Street, the most common street name in the US? The answer to that at the end of the show.

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

As usual, I'm going to be orchestrating some lateral thinking problems, and we'll see if our

three guests today will work in harmony or end on a bum note. We start from the Overdue Rentals podcast. Matthew Shugman, how are you doing? I'm great. Thank you so much for having me. We've got three first-time players on Lateral today. How are you feeling about it? I'm going to try not to be too competitive, trying to, you know, I get very excited about

these things. It's not that I want to be right, but I want to figure it out. All right. Tell me a little about overdue rentals, because I'm pretty sure I'm going to be on this show at some point soon. Yeah, and we look forward to having you. We like to talk about films that were like really big at one point, like you couldn't avoid them, but for some reason, people just don't talk about

them anymore. They could be good, they could be bad, we don't care, we just want to talk

about him again. Well, good luck on the show today. Over on the other side of the planet, we have from the YouTube channel Tibby's Toby Handy, how are you doing? Hello, I'm good, thank you. How about you? Doing well. Thank you for asking. Tell the audience a little bit about what you do, what they can find on your channel as well.

Yeah, so I make math and physics videos over on my channel Tibbies. And I've been making a lot of videos lately about four-dimensional shapes, including the Tizeract.

So I hope that will help me to think outside of the

box today. Oh, nicely done. Was that on the spot? Did you, did you rehearse that lines? It was very good.

I come prepared, Tom. Well, also, hopefully, arriving prepared. We have also from the other side

of the planet. Hello from Australia, Julian O'Shea.

Great to be here. And I do not have a zinger in my back pocket. So thank you for, yeah,

standing me up, Toby. The last time I saw you, I think we were talking about the Montague Street

bridge. Yes, indeed. So this is a iconic piece of Australia for those that have never been.

This is a bridge that gets hit by trucks on a bit of a

regular basis. And you've done the definitive video on it to the extent that I did not do a video

on it because you just kind of covered it. Yeah, I actually quite close to it. So the point where

when it gets hit by a truck, if I'm on Twitter fast enough, I can get from my house to the bridge

and pick up souvenir pieces of truck smashes

to give out as gifts when people come to Melbourne.

Good luck to all three of you on the show. Remember, there's no points or prizes here.

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