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EPISODE 38 – middle-class wankers

November 22, 2007


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Helen and Olly and their cheap new perfumes

It’s a lovely fragrant episode this week, as Helen and Olly try out bottom-of-the-line knock-off perfumes Live On Air and get high as kites in the process. They sure are wild for the rock’n’roll lifestyle! Luckily even all this dangerous living doesn’t stop them getting on with Episode 38, preoccupied with such assorted subjects as:

haggis
Condoleezza Rice
Waitrose Cow Sphincter
Hillary’n’Barack
McDonald’s
McDavid’s
Sean (Mc)Bean
square roots
King Solomon’s Mines
Thanksgiving
Pizza Hat
Alanis Morissette
Terry Pratchett
and
Glasgow.

Also, Olly’s dreams of a career in quantum mechanics are crushed, Helen hints that she may need some psychological counselling, and Martin the Sound Man holds the team together like a big hairy mother hen.

If that episode doesn’t already seem chock-full enough to you, listen up! There’s a competition afoot! Since we’re so excited about our sweet new Answer Me This! merch, and particularly this little chap –
AMT dog
– we’re really keen to see some Real Dogs wearing Answer Me This! clothes (even though dogs wearing clothes is completely obviating the fur Dame Evolution gave them). So we’ve decided to award one of these super-duper messenger bags
AMT bag
– to the listener who sends in the best picture of a dog wearing an Answer Me This! dog t-shirt, from our Superstore or, even better, a HOME-MADE version thereof! If you can’t get hold of a real dog, then a dog substitute like a fluffy toy dog or dog-shaped loaf of bread will suffice.

The competition closes on New Year’s Day, so hurry up and start styling those hounds, and send your photos, as well as questions, to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com; and as usual phone in your queries, problems and quibbles to our Question Line 0208 123 5877.

So long, farewell, and see if you can spot Macy Gray namechecking Cilla Black in the video to ‘I Try’. Olly swears she does. She’s quite eccentric so anything is possible, I suppose.

Bye!

Helen and Olly


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EPISODE 37 – fun with Pappy’s Fun Club!

November 15, 2007


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AMT and PFCPappy’s Fun Club hard at workPappy’s Fun Club holding hands

Hello there buoys and gulls, and welcome to an extra-special bumper episode of Answer Me This!, as this week we are joined in our question-answering by shit-hot comedy troupe Pappy’s Fun Club!

Brainwashed by The Apprentice and The Search For The Next Pussycat Doll, Helen and Olly determine to choose a new colleague out of Ben, Brendan, Matthew and Tom, who when not busy being nominated for the If.comeddie award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, appearing on the Annie Mac Show on Radio 1 or starring on BBC3’s Comedy Shuffle, turn out to be rather good at this question-answering lark.

It’s basically a combination as glamorous and unwieldy as Girls Aloud + Sugababes’ cover of ‘Walk This Way’ by Aerosmith, only much less crap-sounding and with no proceeds going to charity.

Leaping forth from our collected mouths are such subjects as:

Sean Bin
the Stanford Prison Experiment
Halo
Sir Lancelot
All Saints (girlbandwise)
things to do with a sword
things to do with a shiv and some heroin
the Wolverhampton Massive
spitting
the Brighton Sea-Life Centre
and
Choco Leibniz.

It’s a mind-bending magical ride, gosh yes.

Now, although we can’t promise you funny award-sniffing guests every week, we can guarantee some definite question-answering; so send YOUR QUESTIONS to Helen and Olly’s Question Line 0208 123 5877 or answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, and in future episodes we’ll try to give them A Bloody Good Go.

Until Episode 38 next week, bye!

Helen and Olly

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Brendy and Matthew a-boozingTom and Ben
PFC singPappy’s in confab

Where the jeff is Episode 37?

November 15, 2007

An Angry Mob has gathered outside Answer Me This! Towers, replete with burning pitchforks and flasks of Lemsip. “It’s Thursday tea-time!” they bellow as they pelt the front door with Tesco Value turnips. “Give us Answer Me This! episode 37, please! Otherwise I’ll have nothing to listen to whilst I trim my corns but the ringing in my ears.”

Perish the thought that we would leave corn-cutting unsoundtracked! Unfortunately although Episode 37 is all ready to go, we haven’t yet been able to release it, and you can choose your reason from these three:

a) Special guest answerers Pappy’s Fun Club were so funny that the episode has been embargoed until after Children In Need, lest it cheers the public up so much that they no longer feel any motivation to fix the world through do-gooding and charitable works;

b) Our answers to the featured questions are so incredibly accurate and sensitive that the episode has been taken away for scientific testing lest it can provide a universal cure for every query in the world;

c) Our hosting company is, yet again, being too shit to function.

Much as we’d love it to be a) or b), unsurprisingly the blame falls at the blame-submerged feet of our pesky hosting company, which appears to taken all of our money and jetted off for a year-long sabbatical in Alicante, leaving a toy panda in charge. Fond as we are of toy pandas, IT is not their strong point.

We hope the problem is resolved soon; meanwhile you can get a bit of a Pappy’s Fun Club fix at 11pm tonight, when they’re appearing on Comedy Shuffle on BBC3, and just imagine what the noises that accompanied this photograph would have been like.

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EPISODE 36 – the White Spikes

November 8, 2007


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Hello there, pals!

We’re all kinds of keen to present Answer Me This! Episode 36 to you. However our hosting company is being a cock – as is its wont – so if you have problems getting hold of this or any other of our episodes, we suggest you storm down to their head office and demand to see the manager.

Tripping forth from our dainty gobs this week are noises in the shape of:
Noel’s House Party
blowing up the world
back hair
entropy
Aerosmith
Zadok Zaltzman
Dexter Fletcher out of Press Gang
Princess Tiaamii Jordan-Andre
ceilidh
bearskin hats
Fergie (both kinds)
the B’n’B sandwich
and
personal topiary.

Now, we know it’s nearly the end of this post and you must be getting tired, but keep your attentive face on for another minute or two because we have two very exciting bits of news to share with you. Get ready, ‘cos here they come!

Bit the First: WE HAVE MERCH!!! To find out all about it, check out the Answer Me This! Podcast Superstore page, where all will be revealed about what podcast-related tat you can smash open your piggy-bank for. Or if you’ve already spent all your money on sweets, at least you can enjoy the pretty pictures.

Bit the Second: for next week’s episode (number 37, for those of you who have trouble with maths) we will be joined by almost-award-winning comedy team Pappy’s Fun Club! Following their recent appearance on the Annie Mac show on Radio 1, they now feel ready to come and duke it out with the big guns… So if you have a QUESTION that you think Helen and Olly might not be equipped to answer and would rather pose it to Pappy’s Fun Club instead, send it to the Question Line 0208 123 5877 or answermethispodcast@googlemail.com and perhaps wannabe question-answerers Matthew, Brendan, Ben and Tom can sort out all your troubles.

See you next week, for the results of AMT v. PFC – let’s hope it’s a pleasing collaboration, like Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue, rather than Posh Spice and Dane Bowers.

Helen and Olly

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Episode 35 – eggs not knives

November 1, 2007


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Phew! Hallowe’en is finally over, so you can turn that wizened pumpkin into a nice soup and once again open your front door without fear of rampaging sweet-lovers (if only they thought to buy their OWN sweets, they wouldn’t have to waste all that money on rotten eggs and toilet paper! Tschhh). But brace yourself for some spooks and frights in Answer Me This! EPISODE 35.

This week we are Freaking the Hell Out about:

the loobrary
Nottingham council’s wacky measures
Interview magazine
the terrors of Thorpe Park
junkie animals
summer pudding
pennyfarthings
Office Angels vs. nepotism
actuaries
Pudsey Bear
James Blunt corrupting Sesame Street
Alcatraz mugs
Babylonian sexagesimal mathematics
Jeff the Jeffing Jeffers
Gropecunt Lane
and
snakebite ‘n’ black

Furthermore, Olly shows his blokey side , Helen pretends her childhood out-of-body experiences were COMPLETELY NORMAL, and Martin the Sound Man invents the finest slogan the Jobcentre could ever have. There’s also a bit of nasty crackling, which is no doubt Paranormal Activity and not because something got a bit bummed up technologywise.

Now, we’re stocking up on questions for winter like a squirrel hiding nuts in a tree, so if YOU want to help keep us busy, please send us YOUR QUESTIONS by phoning them into the Answer Me This! Question Line 0208 123 5877 (Skype name answermethis) or emailing them to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com.

Until next week, when some Exciting Shit will go down, bye!

Helen and Olly

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EPISODE 34 – born special

October 24, 2007


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Hello there, chums!

Dunno what you were doing last week, but Helen and Martin the Sound Man were stumbling through the set of a Major Motion Picture! Yes way! On their little trip to New York, they managed to walk through a shoot for the upcoming Sex and the City movie, and here is fuzzy pictorial evidence (click on it for a bigger, but no less fuzzy, version):

Sex and the City film set chairs

That’s right – celebrity chairs! Lordy, the reflected glamour.

Celestial delights in Episode 34 include:

luxury chocolate biscuits
Fred Savage
Gunther from friends
Donkey Kong
busty Julia Roberts
busty Helen Mirren
olive oil
Olive Oyl
Blitz beers
fruit graffiti
and
Penzance.

Also Olly turns into Jamie Oliver, Helen turns into T.S. Eliot, and Martin the Sound Man turns into late-90s Chris Evans with similarly deleterious results.

Now, we know there are still plenty mysteries in the world for us to solve, so help us out by sending some of the ones that are particularly vexing you to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com or leave them in voice-message form on Helen and Olly’s Question Line 0208 123 5877. Just like these lovely lads and ladies did! There’s nothing sinister about it, unlike joining the Moonies or hanging around your local branch of Iceland all day, hoping for a glimpse of Kerry Katona.

Until next week, bye!

Love,

Helen and Olly

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EPISODE 33 – babies with beards

October 18, 2007


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Oy listeners, cop a load of this:

baby with beard
Yeah, that’s right, suckers! It’s a baby! With a beard! You want more bearded babies? HERE are more, you pervy freaks! And if you’re wondering why we’re all het up about bearded babies rather than getting on with EPISODE 33, here is a SPOILER ALERT:

Martin the Sound Man
was
born
with
a
BEARD!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t believe us? Here’s proof! This is a picture of Martin today:
beardy-martin-the-sound-man.jpg

and here’s one of him as a newborn baby:
johns-natural-dog-training2.jpg
What a special fellow.

Cluttering up the place this week are such topics as:

clitoris/nose confusion
geriatric Jenga
From Dusk Till Dawn
bridge
the perils of cycling
Alf the Alien
the fifth floor at Olly’s work
cottaging in the Trocadero centre
burglarizing vs. burgling
and
Olly’s career as a child actor.

It’s also quite a musical episode, as Olly wreaks something wonderful out of a boring Anglo-Saxon poem and Martin shows off his jazzy talents. Helen also had a crack at that song about castles and crap that the little girl sings in Les Miserables, but we edited that bit out, encased the tape in concrete and dropped it into the North Sea. It’s in all our best interests.

Meanwhile, if you’d like to keep Answer Me This! ticking over nicely, please don’t hesitate to send in YOUR QUESTIONS for future episodes by leaving them in your most seductive voice on Helen and Olly’s Question Line 0208 123 5877, or emailing them in your sauciest font to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. That would make us giddy with delight, which is what we all want, no?

Until next week, bye!

Love,
Helen and Olly

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EPISODE 32 – like Dead Poets’ Society, but with porn

October 11, 2007


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Hello there, palominos!

According to Jonathan Keats, we’re smack in the middle of the Season Of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness, Close-Bosom [tee hee!] Friend of the Maturing Sun…

However, he died in 1821, 186 years before EPISODE 32 of Answer Me This! – so you can only imagine how much more peppy ‘To Autumn’ could have been if only he’d had a bit more foresight.

Amongst the topics ripening in our fruitbowl this week…

desecrating the queen
bilious frogs
dental nightmares
the Honeyz
creepy old Subway
plebby jalapenos
lovely lady lumps
Mystic Meg’s boobs
Olly’s gammy toe
and
Helena Handcart.

See? Helen and Olly rush in where Romantic Poets fear to tread!

What’s more, Helen reveals herself a secret tabloid-reading hypocrite, Olly describes his fantasy life as a gladiator, and everyone worships at the altar of Jonathan Cainer‘s incredible metaphors. How does the man do it?

As we’re sure Mr Cainer’s research will support, ’tis written in your stars that you should send in YOUR QUESTIONS for future episodes of Answer Me This! by leaving them in voice-message form on Helen and Olly’s Question Line 0208 123 5877, or emailing them to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. And who are you to disobey the stars, eh? You really don’t want to get on the wrong side of them.

Until next week, bye!

Love,
Helen and Olly

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EPISODE 31 – the bad touch

October 3, 2007


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Well shiver me timbers if it ain’t time for EPISODE 31 of Answer Me This! kids! Actually no timber-shivering is currently required – which is lucky, because last time any of that kind of stuff went down, Martin the Sound Man was picking splinters out of his backside through the whole of Lent – because it very much IS time for Episode 31.

Topics lying in wait this week include:

cucumber contraception
plantar fasciitis
girls dressed as cats
bulk order of sanitary towels
the way to a lady’s heart
Denon hi-fis
ranting
the evils of Comet
and
the Times swimsuit supplement.

And as usual Olly says a thing, Helen says some stuff and Martin garbles like a man drowning in a tankful of Bovril – but MUCH MORE EXCITINGLY there is a mighty fine bit of listener-generated content which not only puts our usual shit to shame but also FINALLY lays to rest the Bremen debate from Episode 16. Thanks ever so much, questioneer Benjamin Partridge, for solving your own question with such dazzling aplomb.

Anyway, if you fancy sending us a QUESTION that you might end up answering yourself in four months’ time, leave it with your voice on the Answer Me This! Question Line 0208 123 5877 or email it to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. That would be quite a delight for us, really it would.

Until next week, bye!

Love,

Helen and Olly

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EPISODE 30 – Novelty Wank

September 27, 2007


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Hello there, friends!

It’s the 30th episode of Answer Me This! and Helen and Olly are broadcasting with all the gravitas and maturity you’d expect from seasoned podcasters. Viz, to wit, this week they misuse contraceptives, conduct dangerous experiments with mouthwash, and revive some 90s boyband horror

If you survived that, cop a load of Episode 30, in which we discuss such topics as:

Monopoly-related family breakdown
sexy stick insects
Beowulf
missed cake opportunities
Shakespearian June Sarpong
GSOH
Romeo the fickle lecher
Listerine
and
the Pope.

And if all that hasn’t completely tired you out, bombard us with YOUR QUESTIONS for us to answer in future episodes by leaving a message on Helen and Olly’s Question Line 0208 123 5877 or emailing them to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. It’s a quid cheaper than texting AQA, and by gum it yields slower results too.

See you next week, yes? Yes!

Love,

Helen and Olly
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EPISODE 29 – twat in a hat

September 20, 2007


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Howdy, friends!

We’ve been away for a month but now we’re more back than bacon! It’s first day of Michaelmas term at Answer Me This!, so with sharpened pencils, shiny shoes and tidy but unflattering pudding-bowl haircuts all round, it’s time to unleash EPISODE 29.

And making the chalk squeak on the new blackboard this week are such topics as:
Edwina Currie’s steel undercarriage
knocking down the fourth wall of Dot Cotton
sexy William Hague
Rihanna’s canine soundtrack
yodelling
the downside of Jason Bourne
the Delphic Oracle
and
Gwen Stefani.

Also Olly fesses up to some fashion shockers, Helen reveals the truth about Princess Diana courtesy of her late grandmother, and Martin the Sound Man reveals his friends to be a bunch of amoral fibbers. Hands up who’s surprised?

We’d love to have a huge pile of YOUR QUESTIONS to keep us busy in the new series, so please send them to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com or call our Question Line 0208 123 5877 and ask them using your Own Voice. We know you want to – especially as quizzical frowning causes wrinkles.

Until next week, bye!

Helen and Olly

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EPISODE 28 – auf wiedersehen, pets

August 15, 2007


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Hello there, friends. How’re you doing? Going anywhere nice on your holidays this year? Olly is – he’s jaunting off to California to play Mischa Barton’s stunt double in The OC: Beyond the Grave, and accordingly Answer Me This! is taking a holiday too. Nowhere fancy, probably just to Auntie Bren’s bungalow in Colwyn Bay, but a change is as good as as a rest, eh? Anyway, until we return in mid-September, here’s EPISODE 28 to keep you going.

If you can refrain from shoving a stick of rock into your ears, you will hear such gobbets of fun as:

What the Butler Saw machines
The KFC Detritus Special
contraceptive nightcaps
porridge
Victorian genitalia
the truth about breadcrumbs
the allure of wicked stepmothers
Elizabeth Duke
and
sport sport bloody sporty sport.

Plus, Olly angles for some free jim-jams, Helen does some gender stereotyping, and Martin the Sound Man puts exercise in its place.

We’re sure going to miss you while we’re off on our break, so please do keep in touch by sending YOUR QUESTIONS to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com or leaving them on our Question Line, 0208 123 5877. Or feel free to send us a nice postcard with a bawdy pun on it. And be sure to check back here around September 14th, when we’ll return revivified for Michaelmas term.

So long!

Helen and Olly

PS. Big-ups to the amazing Kevin MacLeod of incompetech.com, whose marvellous Mariachi Snooze we poached for our own nefarious purposes.
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