Why might you put a photo of a random baby in your wallet, even if you've never been a parent?

The answer to that at the end of the show.

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

Perchance, it's the popular puzzles podcast, playing particularly pleasing problems for your pleasure.

Please partake in our poses parallel to our panel.

And the producer can pee right off for that script. First, we have London tour guide from the London History Show.

Welcome back to the show, Jenny Draper. Hello, good to be here. Good to have you back. How are you doing since last week we crossed wits on this channel?

Yeah, last time I had a lot of fun. But yeah, this time I've purposefully not been looking up any lateral puzzles.

So I'm coming to this totally fresh.

We try to make sure they're original. I'm told our producers get a lot of questions sent in that may have been taken from

elsewhere and have to have to watch out for them. So feel free to rehearse. It probably won't help.

Also returning to the show, a maker who most recently made a robot companion backpack,

which looks adorable. Becky Stern. Hello, lovely to be back.

Thanks, Tom.

Tell me about the backpack. It holds a robot. My friend Jay makes companion robots that sit on his shoulder, but he's not a sewer, so-souist. So I do all that stuff, so I made him a backpack. I've been making purses since I was a kid. It was really fun. So it's like one of those things of taking your dog on the subway or something like that,

but it is just a robot sat in the back. been making purses since I was a kid. It's really fun. So it's like one of those things of taking your dog on the subway or something like that,

but it is just a robot sat in the back.

Yeah, it's a bespoke, you know, Becky Stern brand luxury handbag.

And how are you feeling about being back on the show?

Oh, good. I slayed last time, so I'm like, I'm pumped.

You've set yourself up for all that.

Very best of luck.

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