Why does some pizza parlors give away a free doughball with every pizza? The answer to that at the end of the show.

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral. On today's show, we are joined by three guests who have degrees in quick wit, and a master's in repartee and PhDs in lightning fast

comebacks. And their student loans must not be worth it. We have, first of all, from Kids Invent

Stuff, Ruth Amos. Hi, thanks for having me. Welcome back to the show. It's good to have you back.

How was it last time? You were a first timer. How did it feel?

It was great. I couldn't think straight because I was like, hang on a minute. Where are we going

with this? But yes, it was great and I loved it and I'm back for more. Thank you for being so

enthusiastic there. Also joining from Kids Invent Stuff, the other half of the channel,

Sean Brown. How are you feeling about it? Good, yeah. I enjoyed it last time. I didn't have any

idea what to expect. In fact, I never even watched or listened to it. So I was going in blind.

So now I least have a vague sense of what I've let myself in for. And yes, I'm excited. I've felt

less like a rookie now, marginally. Well, thank you very much for coming in. Despite all that,

you should also talk a little bit about kids invent stuff, because I do like the format. Like,

what are you working on between now and whatever this episode comes out? So we're currently

editing a video where we built a kid's idea for a vegetable launcher.

So it's a cannon that fires fruits and vegetables that we had a lot of fun testing recently.

My dog, Luna, my Labrador was particularly excited about the kind of games of chase

involving various root vegetables and things.

So yeah, that's currently what we're working on.

But yeah, bringing kids inventions to life is our speciality. Well, you and Ruth are now both old hands with the show. So thank you for coming back. Also joining us again is one of our regulars

from Escape This podcast, Danny Siller. And don't worry, Tom. I listen to the show. But, Sean,

on my whatever visit this is to the show, you still feel like a rookie the entire time. I still

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