Archive for April, 2007

EPISODE 16: shitty socks

April 26, 2007


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It’s party time at Answer Me This! Helen and Olly break out the champagne and immediately get giddy, because, as it turns out, they’re as hard as eggs. Soft-boiled eggs. In the cocktail-shaker of our brains this week are:

101 Fun Things to Do With a Pineapple (or, more accurately, A Thing to do with a pineapple)
The Rock
astigmatics of the world unite!
Chucky the Blood Doll
um…err…um….
Paul Robinson, the champagne charlie
naughty naughty Top 40
Toksvig! Toksvig! Toksvig!
magic eye pictures
and
Fishcotheque

Also, Olly’s grandmother smacks down Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Helen smacks down summer, Olly attends the shittest ‘key party’ in Christendom, and also puts some Zimbabwegians off their lunch. NB: do not listen to this episode while eating.

As ever, you can email your questions for future episodes to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, and also if you have any ludicrous family games like the ones in this episode, please tell us about them: the Manns and Zaltzmans don’t really go in for that sort of thing, so we’re having to live vicariously through you chaps instead.

Until next week, farewell!


Helen and Olly

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EPISODE 15: it’s got game

April 19, 2007


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Hello, dears.

Spring has sprung, as it is wont to do, and duly we’ve had a big old clear-out of the Question Cupboard. So if you sent us a question three months ago and have been on tenterhooks ever since, EPISODE 15 might just be your lucky day! And if it isn’t, well, hang in there.
Treats in store include:

Columbo
Sepultura t-shirts
banging 1930s jazz
the surprising success of Vanilla Ice
Queen Elizabeth the Egg-Head
the Alan Bennett Megamix
X-rated jerky
Bill and Ted Hit Middle Age
baked goods in Beowulf
and
a helluva lot of classic gags.

You’ll also be privy to Olly’s misbegotten attempt to impress Barry Norman with his cool, the quite extraordinary extent of Helen being a square, and yet more coughing and spluttering from Martin the Sound Man. Someone get that man some damn eucalyptus, stat!

Until sweet Episode Sixteen, bye!

Love,

Helen and Olly

PS We’ve had to go a bit further afield for our sound effects this week, indeed as far as the awesome tunes of Kevin MacLeod and the boisterous noises of Absolute Sound Effects. Thanks, chaps!
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Distraught Britain demands answers!

April 17, 2007

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It’s the question on everyone’s lips. Well, not quite everyone – mainly the lips of the This Morning royal stalker James Whittaker, old ladies and readers of Hello! Magazine. And also, as it turns out, listener Mark:

What is the real reason for the untimely breakup of William Windsor and Kate Middleton? Is it because they kept putting cameras up her skirt?

I have not been this upset since Busted.

Oh Mark. Are you upset because you’d invested all your savings in the Woolworths’ Wills’n’Kate wedding souvenir range? Surely, any couple in their early-mid-20s would find that level of premature wedding-commemoration rather too much pressure on their relationship, but particularly when coupled with Hello! frenziedly announcing each week: “Look, they’re SMILING! He’s bound to propose ANY DAY NOW! She’s got a HEART-SHAPED KEYRING! Because he’s GOING TO PROPOSE!”

But I think the real reason for their split, Mark, is that with every passing day Prince William looks more and more like the Jabberwocky. And if that’s the case when he’s 24, in twenty years’ time it would be like waking up next to an industrial mincer.

Love can only conquer so much.

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Washing-up bowls: the Defence speaks

April 14, 2007

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We’ve had some wise listener feedback this week, from Alex, who happens to be one of Answer Me This!’s premier jingle artistes. In response to Chip’s question from Episode 14, Alex says:

We have washing up bowls for one very simple reason. It’s for swilling! If you’re not lucky enough to have a double sink then you need space for the cold swilling water to escape and not pollute the lovely warm soapy washing-up water, or cause the sink to overflow.

So: double sink – no need for a washing up bowl. Ridiculous and senseless. I have a single sink and so am entirely justified in my purchase.

And if you don’t swill, as you’ve said yourself Helen, “the plates aren’t clean”!

Thank you, Alex, for shaking us out of our privileged double-sink-reverie. (And, indeed, without rinsing washing up isn’t worth a damn.) I feel satisfied now that the mystery is resolved. However, if YOU have a washing up bowl AND a double sink – what the hell are you playing at, eh?

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EPISODE 14: the Lynx Effect

April 12, 2007


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Watcha!

With EPISODE 14, Answer Me This! is now firmly in its teens. But instead of slamming the door and sulking in their room all night, Helen and Olly (firmly in their twenties) decided to pass on their podcasting wisdom to a new generation, and welcomed Nathan the Work Experience into the studio for an incredible exclusive behind-the-scenes view of how the magic happens. You can hear all about Nathan’s journey to podcasting maturity in this week’s episode, plus:

the unspoken baby taboo
Dogtanian and the Muskehounds
pound shops
Oscar the Grouch’s unsanitary diet
cut-price Easter eggs
Sausage McGraw
beef money
the Daily Express
armpit-licking
Bentley Mann
Hercules Zaltzman
and
Button from Neighbours.

Furthermore, you’ll receive incredible insights into Olly’s sex education, Helen’s career development, and Martin the Sound Man’s sinuses. (He’s got a cold and a cough, you see, and keeps honking into the microphones. Sorry.)

Well, that concludes the week’s business; if you have anything to add to the minutes – or, more importantly, QUESTIONS for us to answer – please email answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. On the subject of which, apologies to listener Neal, who sent us the following message:

I have one of your jingles playing in my head in a continuous loop: “answer me this podcast at google mail dot com, answer me this podcast at google mail dot com, answer me this podcast at google mail dot com, answer me this podcast at google mail dot com, etc.”

I now know your email address by heart, but how can I break the cycle? I’m not sure it’s good for me.

Sorry, Neal. Our jingles (thanks, Martin the Sound Man and the Answer Me This! Players!) are dangerously catchy. The only cure is to get something even more infernal on the brain. We suggest ‘The Vengabus’, or ‘Chiquita’ by Abba. Nobody said it would be easy…

Until next week, farewell!

Helen and Olly
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Unlucky EPISODE 13 (oooooooooooh!!!)

April 5, 2007


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Don’t worry – it’s not really unlucky! It’s just pure coincidence that, during recording, a copy of Now 13 fell off the shelf and smote Olly in the eye. Go on, take a chance on EPISODE 13 – topics in the Answer Me This! lucky dip this week include:

Lemsip vs. Fisherman’s Friends
Gremlin nutrition
Helen’s candied face
Stephen Sondheim’s birthday
Tall blonde hotties
the inscrutible Shaggy
unison clapping (urrggghhhh!!!!)
fatalistic George Michael
funspoiler E.M. Forster
toaster rage
Paris Hilton’s ladyparts
the inner workings of Heat magazine
and
poussin.

Plus Helen’s skincare tips for teenagers, Olly’s incredible impersonations of Glamma Kid, and Martin The Sound Man putting his PhD in Physics to (good) use. And if that doesn’t tickle your fancy, your fancy probably isn’t ticklish.

Don’t forget: if YOU want to go on a date with Answer Me This! listener Emma (tall! Blonde! Hot! Mid-20s! London! GSOH!) then send an email describing yourself and where you’d take Emma on a date to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. (Or, if you aren’t into lovely ladies, just email us YOUR QUESTIONS instead, just like this week’s questioneers Lauren, Jonny, Rick, Nick, other Nick, and Emma did. ‘Cos without questions, Answer Me This! would wither like a bunch of grapes in an old people’s home.)

Until next week, farewell!

Love,
Helen and Olly
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Nick’s Erecticon

April 3, 2007

In response to Rosie’s question about emoticons in episode 11, Olly suggested there is a gap in the market for an emoticon shaped like an erect penis, in order to express extreme joy.

And now, thanks to listener Nick, there is! Check it out:

I think this looks like a stiffy.

<=8

Or, if you wanted to be rude:

– – <=8

Cor! Lock up your grannies, readers! That there erecticon’s saucier than a giant bottle of ketchup!

(By the way, if you are interested in songs about giant bottles of ketchup, why not check out Martin the Sound Man’s collaboration with Josie Long, The People’s Sauce?)

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