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February 4, 2021
In Answer Me This Episode 394, listeners are struggling with questions about:
catnip for lions
the humerus/funny bone/ulnar nerve/little Jew
Fabergé eggs
all the cool stuff that used to be on Woodhouse Moor
Gallifreyian garden features
treadmills in shoe shops
X-rays in shoe shops
your own children’s mediocrity
and
genies’ feet.
In today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for Apple and Android – Olly struggles with home schooling.
Hear our other work:
• Helen makes The Allusionist, an entertainment show about language, and Veronica Mars Investigations, recapping every episode of Veronica Mars from the beginning – now powering to the end of season 3!
• Olly hosts many podcasts, and you can find them all at ollymann.com, including his monthly magazine show The Modern Mann and weekly under-the-radar-news show, The Week Unwrapped.
• Martin makes music – including a new EP – which you can hear palebirdmusic.com, on the Pale Bird podcast, and on Spotify etc. You can also join him in contemplating the work of every song by Tom Waits Tom Waits in Song By Song, and he produced and composed the kids’ science podcast Maddie’s Sound Explorers, hosted by Maddie Moate.
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We’ll be back with AMT395 on 4 March, and there’ll be a Retro AMT episode in your feeds on 18 February.
Helen & Olly
••• AMT394 Child-Friendly Rating: 82%. Pretty savoury, although some references to things that are problematic. •••
Tags:aeroplanes, airplanes, Aladdin, Alien, aliens, anatomy, animals, bandstands, benches, big cats, catnip, cats, children, Dexter, Discworld, Doctor Who, ears, Easter eggs, eggs, Eustachian tubes, Fabergé, Fabergé eggs, fancy shit, fantasy, feet, feline, fluoroscopes, funny bone, Gallifrey, genies, gout, homophones, humerus, jewellers, jewels, landing, lions, memorial benches, memorials, metal, Michael Powell, ornaments, parenting, parks, pedoscopes, perfume, planes, public spaces, references, retail, rich people, Russia, Russian Revolution, science fiction, Second World War, shoe shops, shoe stores, shoes, shopping, smelling salts, takeoff, Terry Pratchett, The Thief of Baghdad, Tsar, ulnar nerve, Unilever, Weyland-Yutani, wild animals, Woodhouse Moor, World War Two, WW2, X-ray
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February 1, 2018
Upon the last Winter Olympics in 2014, we fair shat ourselves with surprise and delight when Lizzy Yarnold, who won gold for Team GB in the skeleton, listens to AMT! She’s competing again this time, so GOOD LUCK, Lizzy. Do it for all of us who get most of our exercise running for the ice cream van.
People of all athletic abilities, Olympian or not: get ready to race through Answer Me This! Episode 359, to learn about:
pope tropes
hotel toothpaste
chewing toothpicks
your auntie’s Facebook pic
Dave Claus The Santa Dave
Defence Against the Dark Arts
Dumbledore’s aptitude for HR
the Center Parcs trees
the Center Parcs dome
the Center Parcs soft play that’s located in the bar/the Center Parcs bar that’s located in the soft play
karakia
cocktail swords
buttermilk
butterfat
and
globules.
Plus: we hear the latest in Olly’s gold pen nightmare scenario #OllyMannProblems; Martin figures out his title for when, as a Son of Santa, he inevitably takes up Santa duties; and Helen is already running down the beach to go swimming with some snazzy fish, so SEE YA.
The conversation about advance ticket-buying continues in today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for iPadPhones, Android and Windows devices – as Olly wonders whether his son, aged 2, will be too sophisticated to enjoy the Teletubbies live on the stages of Hertfordshire..
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We’ll be back with AMT360 on 1 March 2018, and there’ll be a Retro AMT episode in your feeds on 15 February.
Helen & Olly
••• AMT359 Child-Friendly Rating: 62%. No bawdiness, but a couple of strong swears. •••
Tags:alcohol, Argentina, athletes, aunts, awkward, baking, Bat Out Of Hell: The Musical, beliefs, bereavement, beverages, booze, brunch, butter, butter churning, butterfat, buttermilk, Center Parcs, chewing toothpicks, Christmas, Christmas presents, cocktail sticks, cocktail swords, cocktail umbrellas, cocktails, comedians, cookery, cooking, cultural appropriation, dairy, dairy products, Dave Austwick, Defence Against the Dark Arts, dilemmas, Doctor Who, drinking, drinks, Dumbledore, dumped, emulsification, exes, Facebook, families, family, Family Guy, Father Christmas, fax, faxes, faxing, flavours, food, foodstuffs, forest villa village, forest villa villages, forests, gifts, gigs, Gilderoy Lockhart, gold pens, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Hogwarts, holiday camps, holidays, hospitality, hotels, ingredients, Italians, Italy, JK Rowling, karakia, Kenneth Branagh, kitsch, Lizzy Yarnold, magic, Maori, Martin's dad, Meat Loaf, musicals, New Zealand, Olly's dad, Olly's mum, Olympians, Olympics, parents, photos, pirates, Pope, Pope Francis, presents, profile pictures, relations, relatives, religion, respect, rum, Santa, schools, Silent Running, Silver Spring, Spinal Tap, sport, Springfield, Stanley Mann, staycations, stereotypes, Steve Coogan, straws, swords, tastes, teachers, the pope, theatre, tickets, toiletries, Tom Riddle, toothpaste, toothpicks, travel, trees, vacations, Vatican, Voldemort, Winter Olympics, wizards, wizardverse, Woburn, woodland, work
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April 10, 2014
Hello! You still have one day to catch the first half of our Radio 4 documentary to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the word ‘podcast’. The second episode airs 11am tomorrow, Friday 11th April, and features money-making from Roman Mars, baby-making from Theresa Thorn, and something absolutely puke-making from Keith and the Girl. UPDATE: here’s Part 2.
So please do listen to that, and also to Answer Me This! Episode 287:
Today we contemplate such topics as:
the Man from Del Monte
Tony Benn’s chair
catnip
human statues
snooze buttons
kissing gates
Miffy vs Hello Kitty
Telford vs Jamaica
CTRL+V vs CTRL+C
pedantry with partners
Artbox
netiquette
The Pageant of the Masters
and
listener Jessy’s missing colon, part II
Plus: Olly details the specifications for choosing his new alarm clock, so set your own alarm clock to jolt you back into consciousness afterwards; Helen comes up with a Doctor Who reboot for Matt Smith and an amazing sit- for a sitcom, so TV commissioners, prepare a bucket of cash and call her in for a meeting; and Martin the Sound Man won’t let you through a gate until you give him a little somethin-somethin. APPROACH WITH CAUTION.
Today’s Bit of Crap on the App, Helen gets doorbell envy. To hear all about that grievous condition, push the button on your iDevices, Android or Windows gadgets.
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Back in a fortnight,
Helen & Olly
PS Get well soon, Dave from Smethwick!
AMT287 Child-Friendly Rating: 95%.
No unsuitable content, aside from the demystification of Hello Kitty. An F-bomb is detonated during the discussion of keyboard shortcuts, but thanks to the subject matter, there’s no way your kids will be paying attention.
Tags:alarm clocks, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Are You Being Served, autocorrect, Ben-Hur, bowel movements, brands, catnip, cats, chairs, Chesney Hawkes, chitchat, clocks, Coco, colons, computation, computers, CTRL+C, CTRL+V, CTRL+X, cut and paste, Dave from Smethwick, Doctor Who, emails, English, etiquette, exclamation marks, fez, fruit, gates, George Osborne, grammer, guts, hatchat, hats, Hello Kitty, helmets, human interaction, human statues, inventions, IT, Jamaica, Japan, Japanese, keyboard shortcuts, keyboards, kids, kissing, kissing gates, language, levitation, Lew Wallace, Man from Del Monte, manners, marriage, Matt Smith, Miffy, motorbikes, motorcycling, neighbors, neighbours, nerds, netiquette, New York, Noah, Olly's cat, Olympians, Olympics, origins of phrases, Orkney, Paddington Bear, Pageant of the Masters, pedantry, pets, phrases, politeness, pronunciation, punctuation, relationships, Russell Crowe, shortcuts, slang, snooze button, social media, speech, spoken English, spouses, Squarespace, street performers, superheroes, Switzerland, tech, Telford, terms, Tessa Sanderson, the Beatles, Tony Benn, Twitter, urgent bowel movements, waking up, West Midlands, wine, Yiddish, Yoda
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