The elevator where you're "born again"

[@lateralcast]

Here's the new show! In future, full episodes will be available in audio form on your podcast player; highlight clips will be on this channel. Enjoy the show!

[@callmeenvi3135]

Yass im excited

[@charliemanual9832]

Lateral season ; series to didn’t expect that!

[@derpykiwi2968]

This show is great 👍

[@Zogerpogger]

Overall amazing, only problem was that everyone's favorite Garry Brannon, Gary Brannon, was absent.

[@vintagerevival391]

is this on spotify?

[@Azeria]

I do enjoy that Tom’s career consistently trends towards making 90s/00s British TV but without having to make it for British TV

[@jm40004]

At this point it's a crime the BBC has not commissioned something from him.

[@AMTunLimited]

He's actually talking about this elsewhere, it's sort of his goal to make the kind of 90s casual interest show

[@alistairbell3935]

Or British radio since about 1940... it's a lot like Round Britain Quiz (but not quite so obscure!)

[@errantalgae]

Toms Late 90s Trivia show

[@TwatMcGee]

@@AMTunLimited i believe he talked about that in his interview with mkbhd

[@PH4RX]

The advantage of having beef with the bishops is that they can only approach diagonally.

[@Reverend_Salem]

so if i have beef with a bishop i should do it directly in front of them.

[@NeilStudd]

This is also why Charles is going to carry significantly less weight than Elizabeth.

[@muhammadzidnii2577]

9:20 this part from Dani knowing an obscure fact to accidentally finding the answer was GOLDEN

[@OrigamiMarie]

That was a solid backing-into-the-answer!

[@OldFartingMan]

The newspaper with that article is also in The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)

[@kalleguld]

It deserves a Mystery Biscuit.

[@veggiet2009]

It's almost the definition of lateral thinking

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Props to both her and to the question's creator for such good game design.

[@mattc2327]

CGP Grey has succeeded in making "hexagons are the bestagons" the most memorable thing he's ever said

[@AlRoderick]

I'm still partial to "we're top chicken".

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

It's a rallying cry.

[@QemeH]

@@AlRoderick "but that's a story for another video"

[@JosephDavies]

Except that everyone knows Hexaflexagons are the bestagons.

[@Kyrelel]

but not everyone knows who CGP Grey is ..... me beibg one of them

[@theanyktos]

About the GM naming struggles: 1) Keep a list of generic names that fit your setting behind the GM screen and just glance down when the need arises. 2) The detective based on the water bill should obviously be named Bill Waters. Nickname Deep, because still waters run deep.

[@oscarcacnio8418]

And here's a bit of a deep reference from one of Tom's other shows/podcasts: Bill Waters, often goes undercover as Lady Wawa.

[@Nightshade-Aurora]

A couple months ago, someone designed a character sheet for towns. It's called the Towninator and has all the things you need to make a good town.

[@hopin8krzys]

Nickname Deep, because he has a octopus fetish

[@a_guy_in_orange7230]

The section with Matt's question is solid proof that a special episode of Citation Needed where Tom is not the host but a participant would absolutely work

[@ferretyluv]

There is one audio episode where he is.

[@Gilagr26]

@@ferretyluv There is?? Where can I find it?

[@ferretyluv]

@@Gilagr26 The Technical Difficulties website.

[@Gilagr26]

@@ferretyluv Awesome, thanks a lot!

[@Tara-fo2gx]

Tom, thank you so much for putting captions on your podcast video.

[@Mega_Umbreon]

I can't tell whether the bridge question was just easy or if I'm a genius but "the bridge didn't used to be there" was my first thought and I was kind of surprised it took them so long to arrive at that!

[@adamsbja]

I immediately remembered one of Jay Foreman's videos about the topic and came to the same conclusion.

[@DrZaius3141]

The answers seemed rather obvious to me (apart from "doubt fire"), but you have to keep in mind that when being put on the spot, it's a lot harder to keep thinking flexibly.

[@jvgreendarmok]

@@DrZaius3141 I might have got the "doubt fire" one if it hadn't been for the wording of the question, which implied that the words were removed from later copies of the film. I thought maybe it was too similar to a real event that happened a few years later, or something (like someone's death, maybe).

[@starfish258852]

@@adamsbja right on! I thought of map men

[@kevinmartin7760]

I wasn't sure what was so special about a bridge with a church at either end. I live in a town of about 1000 just outside a city of 1/2 million+ and we have three churches in town (because the other two closed). The names "All Saints" and "St.Mary's" made me think they were Anglican and Catholic so having them next to each other would be as ordinary as having McDonald's next to Burger King.

[@rmsgrey]

Fact check: Mrs Doubtfire was actually named after the book it was based on, "Madame Doubtfire" ("Alias Madame Doubtfire" in the US), so that, at least wasn't Robin Williams improvising on the set. My theory on the Danish supermarket prices was that the question had been carefully worded and the equivalent of $6 was in Kr, while the $150 was priced in US dollars, and it was an example of tourist pricing - one price for locals (in the local currency) and another for tourists (in foreign currency)

[@retrogiftsuk4812]

Regarding the Mrs Doubtfire being made up I was getting a nervous twitch when that was said... Also several cities in the UK have multiple cathedrals. I knew this as I live in Portsmouth which has 2, as does Liverpool, Newcastle and Norwich (though I had to look up those places) (this podcast could do with a corrections bit at the end) Apart from that I like it.

[@CamboPlays]

@@retrogiftsuk4812 i believe they meant only one cathedral per denomination, Liverpool has a Protestant one and a catholic one

[@rin_etoware_2989]

@@retrogiftsuk4812 yea, but that's because different sects need different cathedrals. it is very much normal to see in cities the One Big Cathedral for the established Church of the place, then a multitude of other cathedrals for smaller sects. even then, the rule is the same: a sect shouldn't have two cathedrals in the same city. a few exceptions exist, but they only serve to prove the rule-Dublin's two Church of Ireland cathedrals only came about as the result of a weird dispute, Warsaw's two Catholic cathedrals is a significantly newer arrangement to deal with rapid urban expansion, same with London's two* Anglican cathedrals.

[@TomekSmykowski]

@@rin_etoware_2989 There are also some weird cases. Generally in catholic church a cathedral is a main seat of bishop (for this discussion I am using wider meaning of word bishops to include archbishops) and the main seat is only one. In case of Warsaw everything is according to this rule - there are two dioceses, one on each side of Vistula river, and cathedrals are in each of them, but happen to be in one city. Sometimes bishop has additional seat that is officially a co-cathedral but people call it also a cathedral. Co-cathedrals often are in different cities than cathedrals but sometimes an old cathedra gets to be a co-cathedra e.g. in Salamanca, Spain. And then there is diocese of Zaragoza also in Spain which has two cathedrals in one diocese.

[@XaleManix]

Sad to hear that full episodes won't be going up on youtube. I really enjoyed watching everyone's faces!

[@comeberza]

Why does tom have more projects going on than things I do in a whole year 😭😭😭😭 good luck with this tooo. Your obsession with quiz shows not fading throughout the years is true inspiring

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Tom Scott is rivaling Hank Green for the title of KZbinr with the most projects going on.

[@FairbrookWingates]

Simon Whistler has them both beat, I'd say.

[@MilesLabrador]

I don't know what it is about your gameshows, but I love your hosting style Tom! The investigative feeling reminds me of a sort of drawn out Jeopardy and it really allows space for a lot of humor and fun. Excited for this new series :)

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Okay, how about a very slowed-down version of the Jeopardy theme music, indicating that contestants have as much time as they'd like for the answer.

[@adamsbja]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 light jazzy version for an office waiting room.

[@homicidal_duck]

This is kinda the defining feature of most UK quiz shows. It's about the banter and interactions as much as it is the quiz (or often moreso)

[@stephenwilliams163]

So happy for a Tom Scott/CGP Grey crossover

[@ODISeth]

Robert LeGendre sounds like he would have made a fantastic topic for an episode of Citation Needed. His life story just feels like a less violent version of Jack Churchill

[@usernameusername4037]

Unfortunately, his Wikipedia article is a mere stub :(

[@arthurjohnson9982]

@@usernameusername4037 Different person, the one you are talking about is a section of the Iowa State Penitentiary article.

[@usernameusername4037]

@@arthurjohnson9982 I'm talking about the pentathlete. A stub refers to a very short article on Wikipedia that typically doesn't have any sections (and you can see this by all of the sorting templates on the bottom)

[@DrZaius3141]

It's certainly special, but nothing on Julie d'Aubigny levels of bonkers. Any polyathlete (decathlete, heptathlete, etc) already has some alround athletic ability. Back when I did it in my youth, I could pick up any other sport and be instantly good at it, because of that base line of athleticism. This is also a time where there was much less specialization and much fewer people that went into sports. In essence, he went to university (because he was well off), uni allowed him to pursue sports which made him fit enough to do different things with it - and also fit enough to look good so they wanted him in one movie. Ultimately, he wasn't great enough at anything, so he kept with university and became a dentist. He also barely made it past 32, so I guess he did have something in common with Julie d'Aubigny after all.

[@MrSmithwjosh]

My internet crashed immediately after Tom's "not two bees" joke. Fun to listen to in the background. Thanks Tom!

[@charlie-jay]

Thankyou for the captions, and transcript! Podcasts are generally inaccessible to people with hearing and auditory processing impairments unless there is a transcript.

[@MrGhostTheBigRoast]

Love to see it

[@Radar_of_the_Stars]

It's so weird hearing Tom describe something, say "you're absolutely right" and then not hear a ding

[@Oba936]

:O How did I miss this so long?! Tom's Game Shows are so amazing! Yay So much to binge!

[@arcanics1971]

Highly enjoyable. I confess I was expecting- and looking forward to- lateral thinking puzzles and logical riddles, but this is fun too! One might even call it... quite interesting! Good work!

[@dk14929]

Too wordy. I'd go with "QI" for short

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I would like to be updated when someone inevitably makes an artistic depiction of a cowboy bee drawing a gun. That can only be adorable.

[@myladycasagrande863]

Four guns! The cowboy bee would only need two legs to stand on, leaving four free to shoot.

[@zyaicob]

​@@myladycasagrande863 well he needs to hold his lasso

[@jasonremy1627]

I absolutely can't WAIT for the Tech Difs to appear on this show.

[@flicsmo6838]

This is pretty cool! I like the relaxed format, although Tom tries to put points on everything as usual lol. I'm hoping we get some tougher / more out of the box questions in future installments.

[@Archarian]

The died-in-the-bath thing is mixing Archimedes up with Seneca, who was absolutely metal: Seneca preached stoicism, so when he was ordered by the emperor to kill himself, he just went and cut his veins. But the blood came out very slowly, as he was very old, so he decided to take poison instead. He did, but the poison wouldn't work because it needed a certain temperature and Seneca was really cold because of all the blood loss. So he went and made himself a bath to warm up, got in there and then died. Edit: fact checked the last part, he probably wanted to warm up not for the poison to work but to increase his blood flow, and the poison was simply non-fatal

[@This_is_my_spout]

It was just a joke about Archimedes having his "Eureka" moment in the bathtub. Art -> Marat -> Death of Marat -> bathtub -> Archimedes

[@SlightSmile]

I'm pretty sure it was just Jean-Paul Marat, mentioned earlier, who was assassinated in a bathtub.

[@joebremer1722]

Oh my gosh!!! I absolutely adored the original lateral show, and cannot *wait* to see it kinda come back in this new format

[@trevbrunnen]

Tom: "I know there's a CGP Grey video about this." Also Tom: Apparently doesn't know there is also a Stand-up Maths video about it.

[@ragnkja]

@@ThomasWinget And he was the one who brought it up!

[@pasco71]

I appreciate this video for letting me know that Tom Scott remembers "put a banging Donk on it".

[@Johan323232]

Bill’s Marat-Archimedes joke is 10/10 classic Bill.

[@ThePixel1983]

"Pointing sideways" was the moment I guessed the creation painting! 😮😂

[@connor1586]

Tom going back to his student radio days

[@ethanwagner]

Was just rewatching your WVFRM podcast and was telling my friend how quickly I'd subscribe to a Tom Scott podcast and now here it is!! Super pumped! Getting long-form content from you is always pleasant with your main content being so well scripted- your riffing talent is top notch. Can't wait to watch this one and hopefully many more to come!(:

[@TheShattubatu]

24:07 On how would a bee hold a gun: The answer is a single bee couldn't, the gun is too large and unwieldy. It takes at least 2, making it a Bee Bee Gun.

[@EyalBrown]

Well that was the best thing I've seen in months and I am SO EXCITED for more

[@theanyktos]

I was convinced the answer to the first question was the birth of Venus painted around the elevator as a mural and the part where she stands on the elevator doors, and the back of the elevator is the same piece of the painting but without Venus so when the door open it looks like the person stepping out is Venus. Possibly with a big mirror on the opposite wall so the person getting out of the elevator can see themself.

[@Hrafnskald]

19:45 Funny it was Walpole. Extra Credits has a running joke tying nearly everthing back to him :)

[@jacksondoughty]

I love this! I wish you were more full episodes available to watch

[@onetruetreetree]

Was wondering how I was already subscribed, then I realised this was the secret project! Good to see some new things Tom, and I wish you all the best with this

[@critically.panned]

Intensely annoyed that, outside of this episode, only highlights exist on KZbin. Sure I’m not the only one who has said this.

[@jayayeonetoo3335]

i've rewatched the original Lateral series quite a few times now so it's nice to see a 2022 revamp of Tom's quiz game show format :o

[@kated442]

this is wonderful. The same sort of nerdy banter that made me watch Citation Needed countless times. Looking forward to more!

[@ApparentlyShane]

It makes me so happy that Tom Scott knows what Put A Donk On It is.

[@luketurner314]

12:34 reminds me of Jeff Dunham's passwords routine with "ICantTellYou", "IDontRemember", and "WhosAsking"

[@ps1hagridoufofcharacter]

its fun to hear Matt Parker talk because his accent is as pliable as beeswax, he gets really British on certain words and i love it

[@ethanjohnstone6797]

I love this so much, thank you Tom

[@EVguru]

This sent me down memory lane to "Radio Active" on Radio 4, with characters like, Mike Flex, Anne Adaptor and 'Uncle' Mike Stand.

[@SplendidFellow]

This is very entertaining, to the point that I wish it was 10x longer! Can't wait for the next episode!

[@MeNowDealWIthIt]

29:00 I'm disappointed that Matt Parker's favorite dodecahedron isn't the Great Stellated Dodecahedron. That's a damn good dodecahedron.

[@ladylilithparker]

Fun fact, brought to mind by the bridge question! There's a town in Vermont, USA, called Westminster. It has a few wee villages surrounding it, one called Westminster Station (because there was a train station there way back when), another called North Westminster, and yet another, off to the west, that... *isn't* called West Westminster, as one might anticipate, but rather, Westminster West. Locals refer to it as West West, and it's so small that if you blink when you're driving through, you might just miss it.

[@ragnkja]

And yet no minster anywhere in the area, right?

[@doughalbrooks954]

Put the full episodes on KZbin!

[@PaulJimenez3]

Another vote for this, maybe delayed by a few weeks to keep your podcast audience 'special' ? The video is so fun to watch too that audio-only seems a bit of a disservice.

[@Ewr42]

I thought I heard "if people were more honest, this thing would sell LESS" so I went straight to "Apology gift cards"

[@NatVoisey]

Enjoying this podcast Tom; light hearted and fun puzzles.

[@mollimomartini]

as a pedestrian, I always love watching Tom and his intellectual friends break down humor. Fun episode, love the long-form uploads!

[@Arisaka99]

Super excited to see where this goes! I've enjoyed all of your features on other podcasts like Safety Third and WVFRM so I'm stoked to see this! Also, it's great to see what this channel turned into since your hint about it in the newsletter back in July.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Up until recently, I wouldn't have thought Tom to be a podcast guy, but he has been great in his appearances. It's great that he's got such a neat podcast himself now.

[@ragnkja]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 You’ve never listened to the reverse trivia podcast?

[@rwolfheart6580]

What a fun concept! My instinct with trivia is always to think laterally/outside the box like this, so this was super satisfying.

[@squidsbizarreadventure]

I've been waiting for this since seeing you as a guest on Safety Third!!! Let's go folks!!!

[@evanc.1591]

Once again, Tom Scott indulges his game-show hosting addiction.

[@Toulou_]

Thank you so much for these subtitles

[@zandra7966]

It's midnight in LA. I was surfing youtube and came upon this video and your channel. I got the answer at 1.50. I guess I'm not going to sleep anytime soon, I have to check out more videos! Great channel.

[@aliciacarr9014]

22:53 Now I have to listen to that song again. Thanks Tom.

[@skypig]

This was really fun to watch, looking forward to seeing more of it, and hopefully at some point an episode of this with the tech diff guys

[@Zevonfan524]

“Bees are the best cowboys in the animal kingdom” is my new favorite collection of words.

[@andreaharthorn4327]

I've been watching the highlights videos on youtube and facebook and I was glad to find this full episode. Personally, I prefer to consume podcasts here on youtube, so I would love it if more full episodes were posted!

[@lateralcast]

KZbin Podcasts isn't setting the world on fire right now, but we're actively looking at other options to provide full video next year.

[@johndododoe1411]

Also in Denmark, there was a famous TV episode where a lady lied about her age, thus getting a cake with _more_ candles. Lots of situational comedy ensues.

[@PS10111]

I only watched the game show a few months ago and loved it. Very excited to see it making a comeback as a podcast.

[@1224chrisng]

19:40 Maybe there's no bridge because the Jay Foremen were unionized. If they had had a Jason Subcontractor and a James Engineer it'd be even worse.

[@skyclaw]

WRT the two churches on either side of Putney Bridge, the Diocese of London still doesn’t extend south of the river-it’s the separate Diocese of Southwark.

[@ThePixel1983]

The churches one was easy, but I also follow Jay Foreman 😁

[@rin_etoware_2989]

crossing the Thames was enough of a bother back then that the Diocese of London never included anything in the south bank. Anything there's the Bishop of Winchester's problem.

[@swarnamoti]

Same

[@VeraDragon]

Being from the Southern US. Two churches being that close together is not an unusual sight that I probably wouldn’t have thought a church on each end of the bridge is odd. My first guess, which seemed obvious to me was that naturally the bridge was built after the churches. But I could have easily thought it’s because of different denominations too

[@Poldovico]

Being Europe, back when most churches were built, the only two denominations available in any given place were "the correct one" and "dead".

[@tomwatts703]

22:47 once again, Tech Dif proves that you can improve anything by adding COVERED IN BEES

[@themarvel2004]

@MattParker - toilet paper products were equally expensive in Adelaide too. Also the factory is about 5hrs from Adelaide - it's about 1/2 way to Melbourne!

[@artemisSystem]

i feel so good about getting the elevator one immideatly when they mentioned the button, and then the satisfying feeling when they got the answer a couple minutes later

[@TallinuTV]

12:20 "I set my Wi-Fi password by looking for things in the room." My very first BBS password was of the form "adjective noun" from an item on my desk, and I still remember it to this day. 🤣

[@chrismartin8212]

I had paused the video for a moment and restarted just in time to hear "McJesus". 🤣

[@TylerGH]

new podcast??? lets go gents this is gonna be a good one

[@PhiNickGaming]

The after show should be the reverse lateral podcast with the techdif crew

[@jesarablack1661]

Re- the Mrs Doubtfire newspaper, it is the same Headline, but different formatting and differently named papers, between the Movie (The San Francisco Chronicle and half-page on the left) and the Charmed episode (something Gazette and full front page headline)

[@insertgenericusernamehere2402]

Such a shame full episodes aren't put up as VOD's

[@voodootrois]

9:40 🎵 Unusual Cookies! 🎵 Uh huh!

[@zyaicob]

That rhombic dodecathlon line of thinking was brilliant

[@brianshilling]

15:05 The good news is, they can only attack you diagonally.

[@thewpbard]

So, apparently, in 2015, there was a suspected arson attack on the home that was featured in "Mrs Doubtfire". And a local feature website actually used the headline "At 'Mrs. Doubtfire' House, Police Doubt Fire Was Accidental".

[@crundle2855]

McJesus is now a permanent part of my vocabulary. Thanks Matt.

[@m.s.5370]

I figured out the bridge question immediately because I live in Berlin, which used to be two small villages, seperated by the river Spree. They were called 'Berlin' and 'Cölln' and someday, they were unified into a single town. As to why they chose one name and tossed the other, I'm not entirely sure, but it might be due to the fact that Berlin was bigger than Cölln at the time or something. 🤷‍♂️

[@Zwiezwerg92]

Love this format! Might be my favourite of all the times Tom Scott started a new online game show.

[@taahasiddiqui1071]

when Tom recalled the video, but didn't remember a single word, I felt that

[@dragonboyjgh]

40:38 MYSTERY BISCUIIIITS!

[@fafnir242]

Oh yeah

[@samsr2887]

Love this show! Glad youre back

[@samsr2887]

Wait this isnt the game show :'(

[@IsaBella-ir4rf]

Lmao

[@awballard]

This whole episode just makes me happy!

[@tsotate]

I really appreciate that you always have subtitles and color code them based on the speaker. Bill's green (that you also use for Toast on TechDiff videos) is very hard to read.

[@StrokeMahEgo]

But why is Chris called Toast?

[@tsotate]

@@StrokeMahEgo Never happened.

[@farrenlee3314]

I love this podcast idea! And I really hope that points are added and prizes are awarded (eg $100 donated to the winner's charity of choice)Anyways, hope this goes far

[@Mega_Umbreon]

This was very entertaining, I'm a fan of Matt & Tom anyway but the other two guests were great. Will definitely keep this in my podcast rotation.

[@tiadeets]

I find it interesting that this question about churches was considered sort of difficult and even a question because the answer was so obvious to me from the start 😂 We have so many churches in France and some are very close for the exact same reason.

[@davimurph]

Mrs Doubtfire was based on a novel called Madam Doubtfire. It wasn't a coincidence.

[@Jonathan.B]

Just came here to find out if anyone else knew this after seeing the short clip go up!

[@AkiSan0]

The creation came to my mind within seconds. so interesting how they get nudged towards that. i love the way Tom paints a rubble path for them to walk on! very stimulating for people to home in on the clues!

[@krell.1415]

I just got TimTams from my brother, sitting down to watch Tom run a game with these Aussies, life is good...

[@jordansean18]

I'm used to the opposite answer of why two neighboring things are disconnected because there's a now a highway cut between them

[@countertony]

My other guess for the Danish one was that there was some service attached to the product that was in short supply - like you could buy your solar panel and get it installed inclusive in six months, or pay to jump the queue. Trouble is, I can't think of something where that would be necessary where the product is so cheap.

[@heather2493]

You are absolutely a joy to watch Tom ✌️❤️ thank you thank you for being awesome

[@tomwatts703]

This was a great introduction to the show, especially since I was able to answer some of the questions 😁looking forward to future episodes!

[@loganpraz2566]

Wish more of these were on KZbin! I also wish they kept the question up on the screen when it zooms out to show all of them