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AMT422: tiny toy sword

September 24, 2026

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AMT422‘s questioneers want to know about/we tell them about the following, whether they like it or not:

the strictness in Strictly Come Dancing
Cosette’s little lead sword in Les Miserables
actual bargains at TK Maxx
actual half penny halfpennies
Harrison Ford’s brand of grumpiness
that stripy pasta
how long you can leave a creamy shrimp bisque out on the kitchen counter on a hot day
stickers hypo-allergenic latex-free goodies at the dentist
counting how far away lightning is
ethics of editing
The Young Visiters [sic! (ugh at the ‘sic’)]
WWTGWTDTD (What Would The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Do)
Darius the Great‘s coins
and
Alexander the Great’s cum gutters.

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AMT423 will be out 29 October 2026 and the next Answer Us Back will land in your podfeed on 22 October. 

Check out our other work:

Olly‘s several podcasts can be found via ollymann.com, and include his monthly magazine show The Modern Mann, and his daily history show Today in History with the Retrospectors,

Helen makes the entertainment podcast about language, The Allusionist, with recent episodes about phobias and the fear of saying people’s names.

Martin makes the weird experimental podcast Neutrino Watch, where each episode is a little different each day you download it. He also worked on The Propagandists, the new miniseries from Drilled.

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EPISODE 220 – I’m with the Tithead party

June 21, 2012

As AMT devotees, you know that we don’t shy away from the most serious questions the human mind can concoct. Remember AMT198 last year, when we boldly tackled “What makes a pie a pie?” Today, in Answer Me This! Episode 220, we broach another foodstuff with an identity crisis – salad:

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Seriously though, how can this and this and this and this be even nominally related? Pffft.

Anyway, tossed into the conversational salad this week are:

facts about Eugene, Oregon
Hamlet, the Madonna of his time
Madonna, the sexual bully of her time
alternating current vs. direct current
dentist chair vs. electric chair
Natalie Portman Hershlag
French Freemasons
William Kemmler
Pizza Express
rainbow parties
Rory Gallagher’s guitar
and
Spin the Bottle.

Plus: Olly impresses the ladies with his great big throbbing veins; Helen discovers that Thomas Edison was a right cnut; and Martin the Sound Man plays coy about his age. Don’t worry Martin, you don’t look a day under 55.

This week’s Bit of Crap on the App is more crap-related than usual, as it features a question from Stephy from Bristol about the point of patterned toilet paper. Along the way we learn upon what Simon Cowell and the Queen probably wipe their bottoms. The rich educational resource that is the Answer Me This! app is available for iDevices or Android, you’ll be relieved to know. Relieved. Ho ho ho.

Enough japery for one week; but if you want to listen to more of our japery next week, you are obliged to send us a QUESTION: emails go to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, voicemails to the Question Line (dial 0208 123 5877 or Skype answermethis).

See you next Thursday,

Helen & Olly

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