At last, the AMT animal nipples special! How many do bears have? How long are an opossum’s? Where do solenodons keep theirs? Did you already learn all this from David Attenborough?? If not, you will in Answer Me This! Episode 387, along with information about:
salmon vending machines
amnesia etiquette
Easy-Bake Ovens
American flapjacks
British flapjacks
Shakespearean flapjacks
blue flashing lights
how pregnancy tests work
and
the landlord’s mystery cupboard in the basement.
In today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for Apple and Android – Olly makes his first attempts at no-bake cakes. And survives! A triumph!
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• Helen makes The Allusionist, an entertainment show about language, and Veronica Mars Investigations, recapping every episode of Veronica Mars from the beginning.
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• Martin makes music which you can hear palebirdmusic.com, on the Pale Bird podcast, and on Spotify etc. You can also join him in contemplating the work of every song by Tom Waits Tom Waits in Song By Song.
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We’ll be back with AMT388 on 6 August 2020, and there’ll be a Retro AMT episode in your feeds on 23 July.
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July 21, 2020 at 2:24 pm |
Hi Helen, Olly & Martin,
Firstly thank you so much for what you do and your amazing work keeping us entertained – if you had Mannbassadors for AMT then I would be first in the queue!
Just a note to clarify the point about green flashing lights – whilst they may be used in the US for counter terrorism, in the UK they are used by a medical professional registered with the General Medical Council whilst attending to or en route to an emergency (so basically an emergency doctor). They are also used on an ambulance control vehicle at the scene of a major incident.
Source: The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989 (Part III, Reg 27, Item 8)