Why were customers disappointed when Steve Commissar sold them a solar-powered clothes dryer for $49.95?

The answer to that, at the end of the show.

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

Welcome to the podcast. That is the perfect antidote to boredom.

Sorry, boron. That should have said boron.

Which is entirely appropriate since our questions are rated 9.3 on the hardness scale.

Joining me for the next few Moes, we have the Answer in Progress team. Welcome back to the show.

Sabrina Cruz, I'm going to go to you first because you appear to be unable to speak right

now, and I feel like putting you on the spot's a good thing.

The additional puns, just time after time, I was wracking my brain like, do I participate in

this or should I shun it entirely?

Hello, thank you for having me.

Welcome back to the show.

This will be going out a few months after record.

So, what is Answering Progress working on now?

What can we expect me over the next few months?

Oh, Tom.

We don't know what we're doing in January.

Expect videos.

Also, please welcome another third of Answering Progress, Melissa Fernandez.

Hello, happy to be back. I nearly introduced you as the second third there, and first

all, I'm pretty sure there's no hierarchy. And second, that's just a confusing term of

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