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Hold onto your butts, AMT415 contains some SHOCKING and EXTRAORDINARY facts about:
Wee Willie Winkie vs Wicked Willie
Zambonis
the Wingdings conspiracy theory
the Clown Egg Registry
the invention of Cluedo (translation: Clue)
the green parakeets of London and beyond
taking the London transport boats
sandwiches that go by their initials
BLT day
BLT month
mayonnaise
and
donating your organs to someone who turns out to be a wanker.
AMT416 will be out 26 March 2026, so send your questions in writing or voice note to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com or call 0208 123 5877 like the old days. Remember to include the formula “Helen and/or Olly, answer me this”, and let us know a name (pseudonyms are fine) and pronouns to use for you.
Mid-March, there will also be an episode of our new feature Answer Us Back, where you answer us back about questions from our recent and distant back catalogue.
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Olly‘s daily history series Today in History with the Retrospectors includes a show about Grimaldi he refers to in this episode. Elsewhere, in the February edition of his monthly magazine show The Modern Mann you’ll find the interview he mentions with Robbie Greatrex, who survived six hours buried in the rubble of an earthquake.
Helen makes the entertainment podcast about language, The Allusionist, and with Jenny Owen Youngs recapped all of Veronica Mars (including the titular character’s many crimes) in Veronica Mars Investigations. You can also hear her and Martin guesting on a recent episode of Material Girls podcast about the word ‘daddy’, speaking of which…
Martin‘s song therein, ‘Daddy Really Cares’, is available to buy from his Bandcamp. All proceeds go to organisations helping trans youth in the UK and Canada. And we insist you check out the video he made, featuring the robot named Bobot he also made:
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