78: Sneaky statutory statues
Lateral with Tom Scott
Lateral with Tom Scott
4.9 • 742 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In 2011, which organisation ran a full-page advert in Playbill programmes? |
| 0:05.7 | Headlined, Our version is slightly different. |
| 0:09.7 | The answer to that at the end of the show. |
| 0:11.3 | My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral. |
| 0:19.1 | In a world that's constantly changing, how can we stay grounded? |
| 0:23.2 | My advice is always touch a metal doorknob. |
| 0:25.7 | Joining me today are three very down-to-earth individuals. |
| 0:28.4 | We start with a puzzle editor from The Telegraph. |
| 0:31.6 | Dan Peake, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:33.4 | Hey, thank you very much for having me again. |
| 0:35.3 | Welcome back. How was it last time? |
| 0:37.5 | I slid from forgetting important words at important times. |
| 0:41.1 | I got very excited when I realised an answer and then didn't know any of the words to tell you with. |
| 0:45.1 | It was really good fun. |
| 0:48.3 | Your questions are tricky. |
| 0:50.5 | You do tricky questions. |
| 0:51.7 | You write puzzles and clues and such for a living. Is this the sort of thing you write? What do you work on at the minute? I'm more general knowledge. I do, I write the pub quiz for the telegraph. I do a lot of general knowledge crosswords. A couple of my colleagues, they tend to do, like the cryptic crosswords and that sort of thing. I do check them as |
| 1:10.8 | well, but I'm slightly more, you know, straight down the line. So I'm, lateral thinking is always |
| 1:16.5 | that one step removed and I love that I get to exercise my brain muscle like that for a change. |
| 1:22.2 | Good luck to you. We have three returning players on the show and the other two really do know |
| 1:27.1 | each other quite well. |
| 1:28.0 | We will start with one half of kids invent stuff. Ruth Amos, how are you doing? |
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