Which 1958 film should have been called Acrophobia?

The answer to that at the end of the show.

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

In my secret lab each night, I've been perfecting the formula for the panel show lineup,

and I've finally cracked it.

Let me introduce you to

the greatest assembly of brains since Frankenstein's monster. We start with someone from

tested, formerly of Mythbusters. How do you want to be introduced, Mr. Adam Savage?

Maker, permission machine, science communicator. That is a really good lineup. Thank you for being part of the show. How are you doing? How is stuff out at the workshop? Stuff at the workshop could not be better. The tested team is firing on all cylinders. We have just had a really, really great year, and it has been a real delight. Can you give us a hint what you're working on?

It's going to be a month or two before this comes out. What's in the works for you at the moment?

Currently, I have just received the sort of most important model-making racks in history for me,

and now will be a whole set of videos around that. These were 50 years old and they're part of a storied franchise.

And I've just received them and have to integrate them into the shop.

And on the side, I'm also repeatedly replicating the British crown jewels for some reason.

Because I can't stop.

For a heist.

That must be for a heist. Are you going to participate in a heist?

It's got to be a heist.

I find them both compelling and appalling at the same time, and that's my favorite kind of object.

I don't know.

This sounds like the beginning of an Ocean's 11.

Next up, we have podcaster, writer, saxophonist, and host of taboo science, Ashley Hamer.

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