In which sport do veteran participants try to score less than their age?

The answer to that at the end of the show.

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

Three contestants, seven questions, 40 minutes, no prizes.

This is lateral.

Welcome to the show.

First, we have from the Comedians, Comedian podcast, and comedian, Stuart Goldsmith.

Hello, hello, thanks for having me.

It's lovely to meet you. I keep being told online that I sound like you, but I think it's by Americans who can't tell the difference between Caucasian English men. I mean, there are a lot of us around on the internet. Oh, we absolutely clutter up the internet, 100%. How is life? How is the podcast going? How is everything? Oh, it's great. Thank you. How is everything? Huge question. I'm very happy. I'm very happy. Life's great. And the podcast is going from strength to strength. I do in-depth interviews with comics about their creative process, been doing it for years and years. And I probably had a little kind of bump about a year ago when I hit

episode 400 and thought, am I just going to do another 400 of these? And then I thought, yes.

And so I'm doing that, and I'm really enjoying it. And in the meantime, I do stand-up comedy

and I do keynote speaking and comedy about the climate. That's my new thing. I'm trying to

combat the climate crisis and instill people with hope

and doing that via comedy. So that is a huge, fresh and infinite challenge.

Well, our listeners will be happy that no one else on today's show sounds like we do.

There is a suitably different set of voices, so you do not just...

Take the Tom and Stu Challenge and listen to the show or watch the YouTube show with your eyes closed

and see if you can tell who's talking. Is it Tom? Is it Stu? Is it Peter Dixon?

Next up we have from her own channel Sof's Notes and from BBC Radio 4's 7 Deadly Psychologies,

Sophie Ward. Hello.

Hello, I feel like I should try and speak like you now just to keep this running.

Oh, don't.

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