A budding author grabs something from a high supermarket shelf, and so what literary character is born?

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

Welcome to another edition of the Lateral podcast, and we are, as ever, joined by three

captivating guests. Sorry, that's captive guests because the doors are locked and we've got

them for the next 45 minutes or so. We start with, from his own YouTube channel, Jeremy Fielding.

Hello, thank you for having me. Now, I met you a while back at ThinkCon. You are, how do you describe yourself? I've got

maker, but that doesn't seem to encompass everything that you do. Yeah, I struggle with this

every time someone asks me what I do. But my real goal is to teach people about engineering,

but I try to design and build things that are

interesting so they will want to learn about engineering. So that's really the goal. Everything

from building robots in my garage to all types of machines and gadgets and teaching stuff

as well. But yeah, that's what I do. So making is, you know, only part of what I'm after.

Making is like a means to the end.

Which I think is also true for our second guest.

Also joining us, Estefani, from your YouTube channel,

are you going with Maker?

Are you going with something else?

Because last I saw you were taking a lot of pictures of your cat.

Yeah, I don't know.

Like, I think I just like to invent things.

So, because I think my dream is to become like dog from, you know, back to the future.

And I just want to build stuff in my garage.

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