Answer Me This! Podcast

Look here, chums,

Only six days to go until our amazing Photoshop Challenge closes, so here’s a checklist:
1) Have you uploaded your entries to photobucket.com/answermethis?
2) Have you visited the same photobucket.com/answermethis to view the entries, comment upon their finery, and slyly download them for our birthday cards?

If yes to both, good. You may now proceed to Answer Me This! Episode 88:

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This week we ponder:
historic Brighton
Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares
notable people from Stanmore
dead fish vs. live fish
vampires vs. vegans
the Barenaked Ladies vs. the Sound of the Ladies
synaesthesia
the Norman invasion
two fat ladies
the Dicks and the Balls
and
Last of the Summer Wine.

Plus! Helen wheels out her etymological dictionary without putting everyone to sleep; Martin the Sound Man contracts porphyria; and has Olly found his real dad on Google Streetview?

If that’s not enough for you, don’t forget to sign up for Martin’s spring music sale, and tune in to TalkSport tonight between midnight and 1am to hear us on the Late Show with Ian Collins. Then please send us your QUESTIONS, to Skype ID answermethis, our Question Line 0208 123 5877, or answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Oh, and here’s the tooting video we chuckle about in the podcast:

Parp!

Helen and Olly

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Hello dears,

Don’t forget that it’s Mother’s Day this Sunday. Obviously a trip to THIS would be the Best Present Ever (certainly better than this bollo) but if you’re a big lazy cheapskate then just put a bow on Episode 87 and pray that none of your siblings have got her a spa day.

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Wherein we consider:
paedomorphosis
muted girlbands
our new Twitter account
yellow tomatoes
Sarah Beeny
iced eyebrows
Rentakil
the ocean sunfish
toy chicken escalopes
pandas
tumeric
Jamie Oliver’s plates
stainless fasteners
and
the wrong way to do Ramadan.

Plus: Olly gives dance tips; Helen suggests lying on your CV; and Martin the Sound Man is giving away his music for free! Spring madness! Click here to get it. And for further audio fun, you can Listen Again to us on yesterday’s Nemone show on BBC 6Music. It’s available here on the BBC iPlayer until Wednesday 25th. We’re on around the 2hr10 mark.

Twelve days remain of our Photoshop Challenge, so keep uploading your entries to photobucket.com/answermethis, which is where you also need to go to admire the dazzling display that you wonderful people have supplied thus far. Also we know your curiosity is undauntable, so please send us your QUESTIONS, to Skype ID answermethis, our Question Line 0208 123 5877, or answermethispodcast@googlemail.com.

Byeeeee!

Helen and Olly

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Listener Mark kindly alerted us to a strange gap near the end of Episode 86. We thought that 27 minutes into the podcast, you’d need a little rest, ok? Of course it wasn’t a cock-up! However, if you’d prefer the gapless megamix of Episode 86, then it’s now available from iTunes and all the normal places.

Hello champs!

And happy birthday to AMT!P fan Andrew from Southampton, who turns 17 today! We’ve got you a present. It is Episode 86; hope you haven’t already got one:

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This classic episode is available to BUY NOW for just 79p, through iTunes or a secure PayPal server, without DRM restriction. CLICK HERE to find out more and support our podcast. (This helps keep our most recent episodes free)

Wherein we ponder:

Teenage Mutant Slasher Deviant Turtles
smear tests
David Lynch
Are You Being Served?
moisturiser
Arrested Development
spouses
southpaws
Jared Leto
farty Marty
and
Boris Yeltsin.

Plus: Olly reveals his secret wish for an in-house make-up artist; Helen wonders whatever happened to the word ‘shevelled’; and Martin the Sound Man finally tells how he bagged Helen – literally! Also, last year’s Camcorder Challenge winners Brad and Josh from Huddersfield entreat you to join this Facebook group and bring it down from within. No-one disses Answer Me This! bags, ok? NO-ONE.

Thanks to you, our Photoshop Challenge is going super-strongly; head over to photobucket.com/answermethis to add more entries and marvel at the Photoshop fun.

All that remains is to ask you to send us your QUESTIONS, to Skype ID answermethis, our Question Line 0208 123 5877, or answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Or come and see us at Webstock at the London Word Festival on 22nd March and ask us to our faces.

See you next week,

Helen and Olly

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Wahey, listeners! We’re back! Waheyyyyyyy!

Formalities over, let’s get down to business. There’s a new series of Answer Me This!, and accordingly a new episode. So without further ado, here is Answer Me This! Episode 85:

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We’re limbering up with such topics as:

Visalia, CA
syllabub
the four corners of the globe
Antonin Artaud
the life of bivalves
The Little Mermaid
garlic bread
Johnny Onion
this pungent place
Diane Arbus
Past Times
Walkman iPod covers
little red Dansette

Plus! Olly offers some top-notch economising tips for you cat litter users; Helen says the word ‘syllabub’; and Martin the Sound Man explains the difference between corpses and dogs. Thankyou, Martin. Should make walkies a bit less sinister.

As usual we are wanting your QUESTIONS, which you can submit orally to to Skype ID answermethis or our Question Line 0208 123 5877, or emailly to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com; BUT we also want more from you this week because we are greedy. Firstly, we would like you to come and see us at Webstock at the London Word Festival on 22nd March – click HERE for more about it – and secondly, we would like your entries for our fun new Photoshop Challenge, for details of which click HERE. Thirdly, we’ve now got one of those Twitter things that everyone’s going on about, so come and follow us at twitter.com/helenandolly. No doubt over the coming weeks and months we shall provide some very insightful Twits or Twats or whatever the hell the kids call it now. Fourthly, Martin the Sound Man has a new musical video project which he beseeches you all to watch, here or here.

Ok, that’s all the neediness out of the way. Now get back to work!

Oxes,

Helen and Olly

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Avaunt, listeners!

What a week it’s been for public speaking. On the one hand, you have Mr Obama’s inauguration speech; on the other, you have Jordan offering some of the least helpful crime-busting ideas since the Great Marshmallow Truncheon Debacle of 1882. Then, somewhere in between, you have Answer Me This! Episode 83:

This classic episode is available to BUY NOW for just 79p, through iTunes or a secure PayPal server, without DRM restriction. CLICK HERE to find out more and support our podcast. (This helps keep our most recent episodes free)

Wherein we elocute upon:

suppositories
second-hand jigsaws
Shami Chakrabarti
contraception for dogs
Rochester Castle
parallax
Karen O
Fifteen to One
moats vs. mottes
coconut-milk vs. man-milk
yom kippur
God ❤ Gareth Gates
the Hard Rock Cafe, Cyprus
Roy Orbison
condom pockets
and
the anal glands of animals.

Plus: Olly’s previous gig as the Marlboro Man; Helen’s problems of personal presentation; Martin’s jangly bunch of keys; and 2009 can finally get started, for at last we hear the voice of Graham from Canada!

We’ll be taking a little break after Episode 84 until March 5th, but don’t let that deter you from sending your QUESTIONS to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, Skype ID answermethis or our Question Line 0208 123 5877. And we’ve got a special treat for you next week to end the series – no, it’s not fun-sized Mars Bars, it is a lovely special guest! Will they have the stamina to deal with your questions? Do they have proper general knowledge instead of the ability to Google-search at speed? Will they talk about genitals as much as Olly does?

Tune in next Thursday to find out!

Helen and Olly

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mixed feelings about the commencement of a new year of podcasting

Just two calendar years ago, Answer Me This! was as trembly and new as a soft-poached egg. Yet here we are, on our second birthday, sage and wrinkly octogenarians, for today we unleash Episode 81:

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Therein:
Prince of Egypt
Calamity Jane
thermal underwear
the Kansas cowboys
Mel Brooks
Nick Robinson
Anne Robinson (no relation)
incontinence vs. electric blankets
Seneca
Clive Anderson
‘Shine’ by Take That
Little Women
sandpaper
Henry James
and
peas.

Plus, Olly’s moods swing from ‘cheerful’ to ‘jolly’; Helen reveals another completely spurious bugbear; and Martin the Sound Man is forced to reexamine the contents of Mickey Mouse’s pants.

We thank you in advance for all the wonderful birthday presents you have no doubt sent us; and also for the QUESTIONS you should dispatch to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, Skype ID answermethis or our Question Line 0208 123 5877.

See you next week!

Helen and Olly

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Ho ho ho, listeners! Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat – yet another species succumbs to the obesity epidemic. But at least Answer Me This! Episode 80 is calorie-free and takes up none of your Weightwatchers treat points! Try it.

All this week’s questions are Christmas-related, so lodged within the episode like the Little Baby Jesus in the manger are topics including:

cats shitting tinsel
Larry Dean Stewart
Stevie Wonder’s hair
iPhones
advent calendars
elves vs. Argos
the three wise men
ballottine (translation: turducken)
Santa as chambermaid
plumb lines
wine coolers vs. The Da Vinci Code
Father Textmas
and
FIVE GO-OLD RINGS!

Plus some lovely messages from you listeners, and a special treat from Martin the Sound Man. Indeed, if you missed his gift from last year, you can hear it now before we take it to the charity shop:

Along with satsumas, chocolate coins and stripey socks, what we really want for Christmas is some QUESTIONS from you – either drop them down our chimney or, more practically, email them to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, Skype answermethis or phone 0208 123 5877, and we’ll get cracking on them in the new year. Meanwhile, in between picking dog-hair out of the brandy butter and swearing at the broken fairy-lights, we’ll be tackling some more of your questions right here on this very website, so keep coming to visit!

We’ll be back on Christmas Day with The Best of Answer Me This! 2008, Part I, which will be full of Incredible Moments from this monumental year in amateur British podcasting, as well as some extra special never-before-podcasted footage. Just the thing to fill in a few minutes between the family row and the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special.

Falalalalala-lalalala!

Helen and Olly

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Listeners! Pause for a moment from multiple-voting for Thingy, Whatsit or The Other One on X Factor, or from clearing the shelves of Woollies lest you never see a cheap socket set again; for Answer Me This! Episode 79 awaits.

Messing up the white noise this week are such subjects as:
the Manic Street Preachers
Oregon
gynaecologists
Peekaboo
Bugsy Malone
Radio 4 smash hit The Department
drama teachers
gait vs. gate
spontaneity vs. arrest
Wii vs. World of Warcraft
Will vs. Gareth vs. sanity
and
the troll Zeus.

Plus, Olly reminisces about his cross-dressing years; Helen delights the pervs with racy talk of LADIES’ BRAS; and Martin the Sound Man is more stumped by a bow tie than by quantum physics. We knew he must have an Achilles Heel; we just didn’t expect it to be a foot long and made of black satin.

It’s coming up to Christmas and we want to find lots and lots of your QUESTIONS in our stockings – or, more appropriately, in our inbox at answermethispodcast@googlemail.com or our phonebox via Skype ID answermethis or phone number 0208 123 5877. But as well as that, we would love to have festive voice messages from you lovely lot to play in next week’s episode, so please call and leave us a nice little message! Pretty please! We’ve been SO good this year!

See you next Thursday, for the special Christmas edition of Answer Me This!,

Helen and Olly

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This week was a toughie for us, listeners…because it was the first time ever we’ve shouldered through a podcast without Martin the Sound Man. Our beloved third wheel was off games after a nasty stomach upset. Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone…but there’s still Episode 78, so get listening!

This week, lining the streets of Talkytown are:

Mrs William Hague
cribbage
Richard X vs. various artists
Liberty X vs. Jesus
chance vs. skill
the Queen vs. the career of Kylie Minogue
infants vs. coffee
anaesthesia
the Weekly World News
Cameron Diaz
L. Ron Hubbard
the best Japanese restaurant in Crystal Palace
Perudo
the many moods of Zeus
Sheffield
and
Sam Taylor-Wood.

Plus, Olly gets into low-level gambling; Helen yearns for Einstein’s twin brother; and Martin the Sound Man, of course, malingers on his sick bed – but if you need your weekly fix, download the new episode of his music podcast. Or go and stand outside his work and wait for him to come out.

Martin’s completely better now so there’s no need to send any get well cards or bunches of flowers, but there’s always a need to send us a QUESTION, which you can do by Skypeing answermethis, phoning 0208 123 5877 or emailing answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Don’t make us beg!

See you next week,

Helen and Olly

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