Posts Tagged ‘childcare’

AMT420: folded finger bowl

July 30, 2026

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In AMT420, questioneers want, nay need, to know about:

aeroplane keys
aeroplane seatbelts
going to the pool without your kids
illegal use of wet wipes
the G in G-string
the lie in ‘plant-based’ food labelling
pulling an all-nighter because you booked yourself onto a flight at shit o’clock in the morning
and
hotel room cuck chairs.

Plus: Olly wonders if all the switches in the plane cockpit really do something; Helen maintains that going on vacation with your family is not vacation; and Martin the Sound Man guides us into the manosphere.

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Check out our other work:

Olly‘s several podcasts can be found via ollymann.com, and include Today in History with the Retrospectors, his monthly magazine show The Modern Mann (‘How To Be A Dad’ is here), and the news-but-not-the-news-you’re-totally-sick-of podcast The Week Unwrapped.

Helen makes the entertainment podcast about language, The Allusionist, and was recently talking about the Tunbridge Wells brass rubbing centre on The Town Show – also available in video form.

Martin makes the weird experimental podcast Neutrino Watch, where each episode is a little different each day you download it. He also has a new album coming out soon, so get hyped for that by digging into the back catalogue of his songs, available via his Bandcamp.

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EPISODE 277 – Millennium Bug Minister

October 31, 2013

Dinosaur-themed adventure golf!

Dinosaur-themed adventure golf!

This week’s episode comes from AMT’s rural outpost: Olly’s new house in the countraayyyyyy. And you know who else lives there? Of course it’s Olly’s beloved cat COCO! Listen carefully for her special guest appearance in Answer Me This! Episode 277:

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We discuss:

the man who can fry his own hands
dinosaur-themed minigolf
YouTube tutorials
‘vlogging’
golf sales
godparents
the Millennium Bug
Echo and the Bunnymen
Bob Dylan vs Paul McCartney
the royal death light
and
paruresis.

Plus: Olly prefers silence and privacy during lavatory-time; Helen does not endorse the Divine Right of Kings; and Martin the Sound Man destroys Olly by winning Coco’s affections (and eating all the chocolate buttons). Look at him, brazenly wooing her away from the Mann who loves her most.

Martin steals Olly's cat's love

Martin steals Olly’s cat’s love

In this week’s Bit of Crap on the App (available for iDevices, Android and Windows) Olly betrays his younger self by not bothering to meet Jason Donovan.

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In the words of Atomic Kitten, see ya!

Helen & Olly

AMT277 Child-Friendly Rating: 76%. A handful of swears. Reference to a blowie. Discussion of weeing adjacent to famous people. Could be a lot worse.

PS:

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween

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