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Lateral with Tom Scott

96: The king of everywhere

Lateral with Tom Scott

Lateral with Tom Scott

Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.9742 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything!' face questions about roundabout routes, mysterious messages and devillish doorbells. 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://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. EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at The Podcast Studios, Dublin. MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com). ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Xavier B., Cory Anderson, Alex Rinehart, Violet Moon, Lucas Neumeyer. FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott. © Pad 26 Limited (https://www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hannah takes off a rapper and sees the message, because then it would be a foot.

0:05.5

Why?

0:06.6

The answer to that, at the end of the show.

0:08.2

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

0:16.4

You fall down the well into a dingy room lit by a single flaming torch.

0:21.2

The only door is to the north.

0:23.0

There is a soft, grunting noise from the darkest corner.

0:26.3

Examine the corner of the room with sword drawn.

0:29.0

You don't have a sword.

0:30.8

Okay, make a sword first.

0:33.0

You take out your portable ford and make a sword.

0:36.0

Three hours later, it has cooled into a wonderful scimitar.

0:38.6

I'll fire an arrow into the corner.

0:41.1

Why didn't you tell me you had a bow, Tom?

0:45.2

It's been in my knapsack the whole time.

0:47.5

You fire the arrow, a goblin falls over, clutching the arrow in its chest.

0:51.3

Oh, oh, open the chest with the silver key. No, not a treasure chest. Like, his actual chest. Uh, oh, sorry, okay, I'm new to this. I've got it. Can we examine the door? The door is made from iron and seems sturdy. There appears to be a keyhole at the top, but it's too high to reach. Oh, oh, stand on the chest. There's still no treasure chest.

1:11.5

It's an actual, actual chest.

1:13.5

Right, okay, yes, sorry.

1:15.5

Attach the key to an arrow and fire it from the bow towards the door.

1:19.5

I can roll for that if you want, but there's no way in a million years.

1:24.5

That's...

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