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AMT403: steam-powered popping wagon

February 27, 2025

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We’ve been making this show for a long time. We have had SO many questions about weddings. And yet, in AMT403, we get a whole fresh spin on the Wedding WTFery genre of question. We also discuss:

understudies’ pay
the least worst cruise ships
popcorn
wet crunch vs dry crunch
vertigo/acrophobia/illyngophobia
loud cinema snacks
posthumous shed clearance
and
Toby Carvery.

Plus: Olly wants neither moist feet nor minty balls, Helen doesn’t want the royal family to inherit her stuff when she dies, and Martin the Sound Man is unwilling to pound you to death on an ice rink, sorry. No, not in either sense of ‘pound’ as a verb.

Also: which retired or deceased artist would you want one more album/book/film/etc from? Tell us in the comments.

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Olly has a daily podcast, Today in History with the Retrospectors, and a monthly magazine show The Modern Mann, both of which you can find along with his other work at OllyMann.com

Helen is on a break from the The Allusionist, her entertainment podcast about language, but there’s a ten-year archive which you can find at the podplaces and at theallusionist.org – including this episode about roller derby names.

Martin‘s other sounds include songs, available at PaleBirdMusic.com, his Tom Waits podcast Song By Song at SongBySongPodcast.com, and his experimental fiction podcast Neutrino Watch at neutrinowatch.org.