36: The no-show French king

Lateral with Tom Scott

Leisure, Comedy, Games, Education

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Annie Rauwerda ('Depths of Wikipedia'), J. Draper and Geoff Marshall face questions about sporting schemes, misty mirrors and Boston billboards. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com. Join the Producer's Club via https://members.lateralcast.com for ad-free episodes and bonus content. HOST: Tom Scott. QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe. RECORDED AT: The Podcast Studios, Dublin. EDITED BY: Julie Hassett. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com). ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Ricky James, Ryan G., Jared Pike, Charlie. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why do some people celebrate their birthday on the 25th of June, even though that's nowhere near
0:05.4	their real birthday? The answer to that, at the end of the show. My name's Tom Scott,
0:09.1	and this is lateral.
0:16.8	We've assembled another three agile minds who have an uncanny ability to solve lateral thinking problems while talking at a steady pace, which means they're passing our lateral flow test.
0:27.2	With that and with apologies, we start this week from the London History Show and her own TikTok channel and a qualified London tour guide, Jay Draper.
0:37.2	Hi, good to be here.
0:38.3	Welcome to the show.
0:39.5	I think you're our first TikToker in a while.
0:42.8	You sort of started out on YouTube a while back and then kind of moved over to short form.
0:47.3	How are you finding that?
0:49.0	So I've kind of moved back, actually.
0:52.3	Oh, spot me not catching up with what you're putting out.
0:55.2	Sorry.
0:55.5	Oh, no worries, no worries.
0:57.3	It's, I barely keep up.
0:59.0	But yeah, so I started out on YouTube years and years ago and had a lot of fun, but it never
1:05.8	sort of went very far with it.
1:07.1	And then in the pandemic, like most people, went on TikTok and that exploded rather.
1:14.9	And now since things are sort of winding up more in real life now, I'm back on YouTube and it's
1:21.2	doing much better. So I'm really enjoying it. Also joining us from the depths of Wikipedia,
1:27.1	which is not just a literal description,
1:29.3	but also the Twitter and TikTok account you run, among many other things in your life.
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