Why would you be disappointed to hear that you have to take the number 11 bus to your destination?

The answer to that at the end of the show. My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

Greetings and welcome with what I can only describe as moderate excitement to lateral.

We are thrilled in a low-key and emotionally restrained manner to present another episode.

Prepare yourselves, if you are so inclined, for an intellectual journey of, um, well, that's not oversell it,

it's puzzles, slightly odd puzzles, solved with varying degrees of

success, but we assure you the effort is present. Joining us on this endeavour, first, we have

someone who, in the chat before we started recording, described herself as unhinged fashion and

cultural historian, Abby Cox. Welcome back to the show. Hello, I'm so happy to be back.

I just thought I'd make it clear that you were the one who used the word unhinged there.

I'm not just thrusting that upon you.

Last I saw you were making a video on hatpins, which I assumed was small and which really

are not, which are weapons.

Do you want me go get one?

I can brandish it during the whole thing.

Hold on, give me like two seconds.

And while Abby is going off to find a hatpin, we will introduce from YouTube.

I think you said you just wanted to be introduced as Evan, so please welcome Evan.

That's me, hi.

How do you sum up what you do?

Good, and while Evan's waiting for that, we'll move on to the third guest that we have here today from Kids Invent Stuff and now from Masters of Reinvention on the Yesterday channel, Ruth Amos,

welcome back to the show.

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