56: World-famous battery packs

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Caroline Roper, Ella Hubber and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything!' face questions about eccentric earrings, dawdling deliveries and cattle calculations. 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: Sayan Chaudhry, Georgi, Jaime Nufio. 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	Why does the Austrian music group Das Ersta Vina Gamus Orchestra give their audience soup after every performance?
0:07.0	The answer to that at the end of the show. My name is Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:15.0	Take half a pound of creativity, five ounces of playfulness and a teaspoon of creative
0:21.7	flair. And what do you get? If it's anything like in my cooking, it'll be burnt and taste of cardboard.
0:26.2	But luckily, our guests today are a surefire recipe for success. Joining us again,
0:30.8	we have the crew from Let's Learn Everything, the podcast. And we start today. Let's go with Ella. How are you doing? I'm excellent.
0:40.8	Thank you for asking.
0:43.9	What are you working on right now? What is going to be in the future as we record this, but in
0:48.8	the past as people listen to this episode? I cannot tell you because every time we do a
0:53.3	topic on the podcast, it's a surprise
0:56.1	to the other two guests. Oh, okay. You have to go in completely cold. There's no...
1:02.1	Caroline Roper, second person of Let's Learn Everything. Have you ever come up with a topic and then
1:07.7	found out that one of the other members of the team is also doing
1:11.0	that topic? We've not, well, we've had something very, very close before. So we have people
1:17.4	outside of the three of us to check our topics for us so that we still don't know what each
1:23.2	other's topic's going to be, but they like make sure we don't have too much overlap.
1:27.2	Part from one time, well, me and Ella were both like, you know what, we're not going to check our episodes today. Who needs to do that? And what was it? We both ended up talking about, Ella. I did, you did the pill. I did do the pill. And I did menstrual products. And the overlap between those are surprisingly
1:45.7	similar historically. But then it just becomes a themed episode. Yeah. And the third member
1:54.1	of the team, honestly, I've got no segue that leads in from the pill and menstrual products
1:59.6	into this introduction. So please welcome the third member of the team. Tom,
2:03.0	well, let me tell you, Tom, my question for that did not smoothly transition between this.
2:07.7	I think my question for there was, what are the two highest mountains on the world on earth?
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