Wow. It took more than eleven years and 360 episodes, but it has at last happened:
Our first ever question about the Bowling for Soup.
(Who? (No, that’s not the actual question.))
Try to contain yourselves on this landmark occasion as you listen to Answer Me This! Episode 360, in which we also learn about:
astronauts’ dirty underwear
Sushidoku™
bears
the biggest ever cruise ship
sleeping in your grandpa’s old bed
sploofs
skunks vs skunk
seeing a rocket launch
and
the Blockbusters Hand Jive.
In today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for iPadPhones, Android and Windows devices – Helen craves more information from behind the scenes at the Hanoi water puppet show. (Someone please tell us: how do the performers cope with the water and the boredom, HOW?)
We also have Other Projects. Hear Olly’s interview with Britain’s biggest rogue trader at modernmann.co.uk. To celebrate the release of the Black Panther film, Helen’s latest Allusionist is about the evolution of superhero names – hear it at theallusionist.org. And you can see her TED talk about typos HERE (or at the bottom of this post if you are a scroller not a clicker). And Martin the Sound Man’s latest album Ten Things Which Aren’t Love is available for £0 – or more, if you absolutely insist – at palebirdmusic.com.
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Answer Me This! Podcast 
March 4, 2018 at 8:45 pm |
This is for the weed smoker: Put on your grown up clothes and talk to your parents. It’s like you were asking “I want something but I don’t want to ASK for it.” If you go to McDonalds do you think “Well I want a Big Mac but I don’t want to ASK for it.”?
Also, dude, if you’re smoking weed outside the house, your parents already know you smoke weed. (Just as, yes, Linda from work, we all know you have a couple of cigarettes at lunch and covering yourself with cologne on the way back only make it smell like Estee Lauder broke in and had a cigarette.)
March 2, 2018 at 12:31 pm |
Sorry Olly, Martin is the one who gets discussed on bear forums.
Kisses
March 2, 2018 at 6:08 am |
If you want weed without the smell, try edibles.
March 2, 2018 at 2:07 am |
Helen and Olly: “hiking the Appalachian trail” was the excuse that the former governor of South Carolina used, when he disappeared from office for a week to have an affair. So that might be what your listener was doing.
March 1, 2018 at 10:39 pm |
I grew up in Berkeley and I was shocked to learn that my husband, who is not from Berkeley, can’t recognize the smell of dissipated weed smoke wafting out an open window.