In what game might you be frustrated if you draw an old McDonald's.

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

Hello and a special welcome to any new listeners.

If you're not familiar with the format of Lateral, let me sum it up like this. It's like a quiz where the most obvious answer is usually

hiding between three slightly less obvious answers, all of which are wrong. Let's meet our guests

who are here to provide wrong answers in interesting ways. First, we have London tour guide

with a YouTube channel. Jay Draper, welcome back to the show.

Hello, it's great to be back. It is lovely to have you back. The last thing I saw from you

online was a surprisingly bloody video about executions that managed to make it past all of YouTube's

filter guidelines. Well, well done.

Thank you very much. I only used a small amount of real blood in it. It was mostly fake blood.

And a lot of red yarn, as I remember. A lot of red yarn, beads. Yeah, I do disembowl myself on

camera. Thank you for coming back on the show.

It is, I think, low season for tour guides at the moment as we record this.

Yes, that's right.

We're at the beginning of the year.

So January, February is very, very quiet for tourists in London.

But you are still getting the occasional gig, like just gearing up for the new year?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then once it gets to March, it'll be back on, especially like Easter, all the Americans will come back. Yeah. Well, speaking of the Americans, good luck to you, Jenny, tonight, because we have with us, visual effects artist, engineer, and part of the corridor crew, Brenn Weikman, welcome back. What's up? Thanks for having

me back. We do have to acknowledge right now that you are in Los Angeles and at time of recording. There's a bit of fire going on. Are you okay? How are things going? We lost a little bit of power on the first night of the windstorm, but apart from that, at least me and all my coworkers and friends have been safe. We're far away from the fire, so it's not that big of a deal. Los Angeles is a very

large place, and away from the fire, so it's not that big of a deal.

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