One of the greatest stage routines I've ever seen.
27th October 2025
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Hello!
To use the fancy industry term: principal photography has wrapped on the road-trip project! There's still a couple of pick-ups to film, but it's pretty much all there. Now all that remains is the massive amount of work getting it ready for a launch sometime next year.
To use the fancy industry term: principal photography has wrapped on the road-trip project! There's still a couple of pick-ups to film, but it's pretty much all there. Now all that remains is the massive amount of work getting it ready for a launch sometime next year.
But in the meantime, Lateral continues as usual! And in this week's
episode, Jack Chambers, Manu Henriot and Alex Bell from QI's 'Lunchbox Envy' podcast face questions about rider ridicule, bountiful beef and crunchy comparisons.
Now, on to the good
stuff I've found on YouTube this week:
- Can you judge music? Backstage at the world's biggest brass band competition, by The Story of The Sound. This is an interesting, and well-produced, insight
into a world that I'd never heard of. (Thanks to Joost for the suggestion!)
- Larry Griswold was a gymnast, a tumbler, and one of the inventors of the modern trampoline. He was also a physical comedian: I don't want to spoil this for you in detail, other than to say that this clip of him on the Frank Sinatra show in 1951 is one of the greatest stage routines I've ever seen, and the audience reaction is absolutely justified.
- The ephemeral pools of Moab: a microscopic alien landscape in the Utah desert. (Thanks Alice for sending this over!)
And around the rest of the web:
- "A 'Death Train' is haunting South Florida" is one heck of a title for a story. Kaitlyn Tiffany, for the Atlantic, dives into why so many people are being hit by the new high-speed US rail line. "If the people of Florida were uniquely stupid in a way that made them more susceptible to being hit by trains, you would expect them to be hit uncommonly often
by all trains. This is not the case."
- I thought I knew about a lot of weird, old types of audio, video and data storage, but I was wrong: there are a lot of things in the Museum of Obsolete Media that I've never heard of, and you probably
haven't either.
- Lateral's producer David sent over puzzle called Omiword, describing it as a "nice little daily word game". I'd recommend turning sound on: the user interface is much more pleasing than many of these games.
And finally: the Flight of the Bumblebee, on piano and soprano recorder.
All the best,
— Tom
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