What eventually contains 178 feet, 81 heads, 46 wings, and eight udders.

The answer to that at the end of the show.

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

We've got a bright constellation of guests on the show today, arguably the best all-star line-up since Orion's belt.

So let's see if we're going to be dazzled by their brilliance.

First, we have, from her own YouTube channel, it is Emily the Engineer.

Hello.

Welcome back to the show.

Last time we had some strange questions in there, including one about violating the Geneva Convention.

How are you feeling about being back this time?

Yes.

You know, no, I think I've got a handle on it a little bit more, so I'm excited.

Next up, it is from Corridor Crew and from Corridor Digital this time, without the exclamation mark added to his name,

we have Ren Weichrist.

Thanks for having me.

I just love the enthusiasm, and I kind of wish I'd kept it up last time that I just would have kept referring to you as Ren every time.

In the rush of the show, I forgot.

As long as you just keep it up in real life every time I see, you got to say it that way every time. You know I'm going to do that if we meet up near VidCon. You know I'm going to come in and just use that exclamation mark all the time now. Oh, I hope so. And finally, science communicator, Kip Heath. Hey. Welcome back to the show. How is work going for you at the moment? With the, with the science

communication job, with the onstage stuff, how is life now hopefully gigs are coming back as a

thing? I'm really enjoying it. It's, I was glad to do virtual, particularly as in my day job. I work

as a scientist in a hospital, but face-to-face is more fun, and there's

something really depressing about talking to 500 students, but mostly at your own face on a

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