Why did a company design an especially resilient font called Bell Gothic?

The answer to that at the end of the show. My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

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And Sharon, clean up an aisle three, please.

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First of our returning guests for this show, we have from MythBusters, from Tested, from so many other things.

Please welcome back, Adam Savage.

Hello!

Thank you for being back on.

The question I always ask guests on the second appearance, which will inevitably be a few months down the line from when we record, is what are you working on now that will be out and available to see by the time

people hear this? I am actually currently taking apart half of my shop and turning it into more

of a shop. So I'm completely rebuilding my entire persuasion in my shop right now. It's a take a few weeks.

So just all the stuff that has accumulated over time, because I remember from Washington,

Tess, there's like a, there's a Star Trek captain's chair in there somewhere. There's a lot of

stuff. There's a huge display area that is about to stop being display area and is about to

become more shop space because I have

run out of room. Also joining us today, we have from the taboo science podcast, we have writer and

saxophonist Ashley Hamer. Hi, I'm so excited to be here. Yeah. I'm going to ask you the same question.

We've got more taboo science coming up. I think you said last time you were here, what sort of episodes are we going to see?

We do. So I wanted to do an entire themed episode on a themed season on fetishes and kinks. It's a little racy. But I just did finish some interviews about furries that I'm really excited about.

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