7: The brilliant burger chain ruse

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland and Matt Parker face questions about plastic plates, academic awards and creative cereals. 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 & EDITED BY: The Podcast Studios, Dublin. EDITOR: Julie Hassett. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com). ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Josh Halbur, Ben Justice, Lewis Tough, Arun Uttamchandani, Eglė Vaškevičiūtė. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Which American TV show has a version in Azerbaijan called 61?
0:05.1	The answer to that at the end of the show.
0:06.9	My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.
0:14.0	Joining me today are three people who are hopefully going to enjoy this workout of their mental muscles
0:18.6	from Escape This Podcast, Danny Siller and Bill Sunderland.
0:22.0	Hello.
0:22.6	My mental muscles are all stretched.
0:26.1	And from stand-up maths and the festival of spoken nerd and the podcast of Problem Squared, Matt Parker.
0:32.8	Thank you very much. I have not mentally limbered up.
0:36.5	You're just going into this cold, your brain's going to ache tomorrow. Going in cold. I fear not. I fear, I don't feel strains or cramps. You've got to be careful. You're going to pull your hippocampus. That's, that's a, that is a solid joke. I feel like I didn't, I didn't laugh, but I'd like to acknowledge the good fundamentals of that joke.
0:55.3	I call those golf. Everybody wants when they tell a joke.
0:57.5	I call those golf clap puns.
0:59.0	It's that well done.
0:59.6	That's solid.
1:01.1	Yeah.
1:01.9	Just neatly on the green.
1:03.4	Yeah.
1:04.4	All right.
1:05.5	In this game, the questions might sound tricky at first, but there are very straightforward answers once you know what they
1:12.0	are. Your job is to make the mental leap from A to B without necessarily going through
1:17.1	JQ, X and Gamma. So if we're all ready, here's your first question. In 1998, many people
1:23.8	bought tickets to the Brad Pitt film Meet Joe Black. Handfuls of people walked out of the cinemas across America before the film even began.
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