Only 44% of the cells in your body are yours. How? The answer to that at the end of the show.

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

In a world where conformity reigns supreme, where minds are trapped in the ironclad shackles of conventional thinking,

there's a clandestine movement, a rebellion against the status quo, a sanctuary for those who dare to think different.

Jason Statham, Charlie's Theron, and Dwayne Johnson are not here today, but firstly we do have puzzle

editor from The Telegraph, Dan Peake.

Hello!

Excellent work!

Look, the script just said, in the voice of Red Pepper movie voice over guy,

I do not have that voice or that accent or that anything.

You tried. This is the important thing. You tried. I feel like that was the audio

equivalent of just a pat on the head there. Thank you very much. How are you doing, Dan?

I'm very well. Thank you. Thank you very much for returning to the show. You are making

puzzles and clues for questions

and things like that as part of your job. Where do you go to find inspiration? And I'm asking that

for a couple of reasons. One, because it's an interesting question for a question editor. And two,

because frankly, our question editors would also like to find two places to find questions.

I tell you, the best place to get inspiration for questions is literally the real world.

I write a quiz for The Telegraph and also work on Only Connect.

So I have a big range of questions, some very straight, some very lateral.

And literally, I'll just be watching a show, like, or maybe even the news.

The news is really good for inspiring stuff, but it's just, oh, I'll be walking down the street,

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