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Lateral with Tom Scott

6: Solve a 13th Century murder!

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9742 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Trace Dominguez, Nahre Sol and Jordan Harrod face questions about profitable collisions, familiar flags, and knotty problems. 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 & EDITED BY: The Podcast Studios, Dublin. EDITOR: Julie Hassett. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com). ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Josh Halbur, Ben Justice, Lewis Tough, Arun Uttamchandani, Eglė Vaškevičiūtė. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In which 1972 film does an elderly man go to sleep in Hollywood, but wake up next to cartoon?

0:07.2

The answer to that at the end of the show.

0:09.3

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

0:15.7

The guests on Lateral are drafted at random from a computer database of eligible adults aged 18 or over.

0:21.5

Today, serving their civic duty in the name of panel games, it's the turn of from his own

0:25.7

YouTube channel and from The Theory of Awesome.

0:27.9

Now streaming, it is Trace Dominguez.

0:30.4

Hello.

0:31.3

Musician, composer, pianist and YouTuber, Naree Sol.

0:34.8

Hello.

0:35.7

Hi.

0:36.5

And working on her PhD in medical engineering and medical physics and casually running a YouTube

0:40.3

channel on AI as well, Jordan Harrod.

0:42.3

Hi, I'm very curious about this algorithm that randomly selected us now.

0:46.3

I'll be honest, the introduction scripts just keep getting more unhinged the longer this series

0:52.3

goes on, and I'm just, I'm here for it, frankly.

0:56.0

Today's guests are here to work their way around a range of tricky riddles and puzzles.

1:01.0

Think of it as soft play for the mind, but with less vomit and somehow more tantrums.

1:05.0

We start with this question.

1:07.0

Good luck.

1:08.0

A real 13th century mystery.

1:11.2

A body is found in a rice field with the throat cut.

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