Why reorder David Mitchell?

Julian O'Shea, Dani Siller and Bill Sunderland discuss reordering radio.

GUESTS:

HOST: Tom Scott.
QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.

EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at the Podcast Studios, Dublin.
GRAPHICS: Chris Hanel at Support Class. Assistant: Dillon Pentz.
FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott.

[yurisei]

I'd not thought about it before, but "try to lie about something undetected" is the perfect panel show premise. Comedians get to tell outrageous stories, and the standup problem of "this doesn't sound like it really happened" is turned into a feature of the game.

[theSolemnBard]

Reorder David Mitchell to make "mild chat devil"

[scragar]

RE: Taskmaster seat order

It's actually really weird, but seat order does actually correlate with wining the series, but only in that seat 1 is the worst seat, the rest are actually pretty balanced.

Ignoring special episodes/series(like the champion of champions or new years episodes)

Seat 1 has won 1/17 series
Seat 2 has won 4/17
Seat 3 has won 4/17
Seat 4 has won 3/17
Seat 5 has won 5/17

If we include the specials/new years episodes then seat 5 has won 7/24, while seat 1 has won 3/24(mostly down to Dara winning season 14 and the Champion of Champions this year).

So yeah, unless you're Dara Ó Briain seat 1 makes you about ¼ as likely to win.

[dodsg]

"This episode of Lateral was invented by Jesus" - Henning Wehn

[rayscotchcoulton]

I never realized that about Taskmaster... and sure enough, I ran through the first names of Taskmaster UK's series 18 cast (which is nearly complete, as I write this)... and yep! From left to right, in ABC order, it's Andy, Babatunde, Emma, Jack, and Rosie. I just thought it was an appealing arrangement, especially since Jack and Rosie are such polar opposites personality-wise. That's wild!

[Nabend]

This was fun. I'm a member of exactly the subreddit where these reordered episodes are shared.

[Marianopiano]

OH MY GOD this really has come full circle
I started watching Only Connect because Tom was in it (this was after watching a lot of Tom's yt video, so it wasn't when it first aired in Series 3). I then got into a Victoria Coren(-Mitchell, now) rabbithole, and watched the WILTY episode when she was there in Lee's team, and then became a huge David Mitchell fan, and now David is mentioned on Tom's podcast!

[dave]

The irony is I feel asleep to this very episode and didn't hear the answer to this question! So thanks for giving me the answer without me having to re-edit this podcast episode 😁

[jonathan_]

Watching Lateral on YouTube also scrambles some of the callback jokes :D

[natebutontheinternet]

I listen to The Unbelievable Truth to go to sleep at nigh. Great show

[NoVisAnima]

And here was me thinking it was a reference to another David Mitchell, the author of Cloud Atlas and it was about reordering to match the way the book orders time.

[tombstonerforever]

I'm happy that I listened to the full episode

[charliedobbie]

4:11 "They want the end to be the start and the start to be the end" - That is a fascinating way to state the situation!

[fragglet]

I thought it was going to be someone that always falls asleep when they hear David Mitchell talking

[freddieweasel]

I fall asleep listening to No Such Thing as a Fish but instead of painstakingly editing fact orders I just start the podcast about halfway through on the second night! Seems a slightly easier option

[Matt_H]

I do actually listen to this exact show when falling sleep. Then I need to listen to it again because I missed part of it.

[andrew]

Congrats on the shout-out from Richard Osman on "the rest is entertainment!" This is indeed a great podcast.

[dodsg]

I like that the suggested video after this for me was every episode from series 27 of The Unbelievable Truth.

[JoeBleasdaleReal]

I hate it when I have to reorder David Mitchell bc he’s been damaged in transit

[MySisterIsASlytherin]

With David Mitchell in the title I thought it was going to be something about his epic rants