75: Annoying Chad
Lateral with Tom Scott
Lateral with Tom Scott
4.9 • 742 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | According to their letterhead, who lives at 1928 Steamboat Lane? |
| 0:04.6 | The answer to that, at the end of the show. |
| 0:06.2 | My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to the show where we open tiny windows into little-known places |
| 0:18.5 | and hope to find something surprising inside. |
| 0:23.4 | Think of it like an Advent calendar filled with Durian. |
| 0:24.7 | But better. |
| 0:30.7 | Hoping not to kick up stink today, we start with actress, writer, and producer and creator of Philosophy Tube. |
| 0:32.0 | Abigail Thorne, hello! |
| 0:34.7 | Hi, hi, it's wonderful to be here. |
| 0:35.7 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:40.4 | You are a first-time player here, with a lot of announcements that as we record this have just come out. Congratulations on everything you're currently doing. |
| 0:45.2 | Thank you. Thank you so much. What is in store for the next few months for you? |
| 0:48.9 | I had just written a film called Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend, which has just been greenlit. |
| 0:53.3 | We'll be filming it and I will be starring in it in early next year. And so will some other people, I'm not allowed to tell you who they are yet. But yes, I'm going to be making a fun vampire movie in the new year. Well, very best of luck on the show today. We also have returning to the show, artificial intelligence expert, and still working on her PhD in medical |
| 1:12.3 | engineering. Jordan Harrod, how are you doing? |
| 1:14.7 | I am good. I am still working on the PhD. It feels like it will never end, but it should end |
| 1:19.6 | by the end of next year. |
| 1:21.9 | Knowing my friends who've done PhDs, like, how confident are you in that end date at the |
| 1:27.1 | moment? How's it looking? |
| 1:28.3 | I would say the window is closing. So my confidence is increasing over time. But as with all PhD |
| 1:36.1 | things, like, who really knows? If we have another pandemic, that would definitely change my |
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