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January 7, 2021
Greetings listeners, and thanks for joining us in 2021. Here’s Answer Me This Episode 393, featuring vital questions about:
spinach and ricotta pasta
Pringles-induced sweat
cocktail, performative preparation thereof
cocktail, prawn (crisps flavour)
walking the plank
glow sticks
smelling salts
and
Ronald Raven.
Today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for Apple and Android – is a big one, featuring the world’s most expensive advent calendar, and the World’s Strongest Man contest.
Hear our other work:
• Helen makes The Allusionist entertainment show about language – hear the festive episodes here and the swearalong quiz here – and Veronica Mars Investigations, recapping every episode of Veronica Mars from the beginning – season 3 has begun!
• Olly hosts many podcasts, and you can find them all at ollymann.com, including The Week Unwrapped and The Modern Mann – hear the festive episodes here.
• 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.
Hang out with us online at twitter.com/HelenAndOlly and facebook.com/answermethis, send us pictures of elves on your shelves and your advent calendars.
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Buy AMT episodes 1-200, our six special albums including the all new Home Entertainment or the AMT Christmas, and our Best Of compilations from 2007-2015 at answermethisstore.com.
Send us your QUESTIONS, in writing or as voice recordings, to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com for us to answer in 2021! We’ll be back with AMT394 on 4 February, and there’ll be a Retro AMT episode in your feeds on 21 January.
Helen & Olly
••• AMT393 Child-Friendly Rating: 89%. Maybe only one swear? And pretty family-friendly content. •••
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September 6, 2018
It’s back to school season, but at AMT the edutainment is year-round. Get your learning on in Answer Me This! Episode 365, wherein we find out about:
Dyson hairdryers vs Duck’n’Dry
‘Sweet Caroline’ (ba ba BAAA)
shoutability
cubits
gopher wood
the List of Unusual Deaths
Bible minigolf
the replacement Avril Lavigne
vanilla pods vs beaver anuses
romance vs Dubai
and
playing Noah for the day.
In this month’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for iPadPhones, Android and Windows devices – listener Ben in Bolivia calls up suffering from altitude sickness. Luckily, there’s a cure! Just not a particularly useful cure when you’re stuck at high altitude. Hope you’re OK, Ben!
Check in with our other work: Olly hosts The Modern Mann; and Helen and Martin are performing the Allusionist live show on stages in the UK, Ireland, the US and Canada this autumn – check where and when at theallusionist.org/events.
Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring the show, and for making it so easy to set up a good-looking website for your projects. Visit squarespace.com/answer and get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain with the discount code ‘answer‘.
The Bluffers’ Guides are back! Rapidly become passingly well-informed in subjects from cats to fishing to social media to wine at bluffers.com.
Send us your QUESTIONS: any time, deliver a voice memo or a written question by emailing answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. You can still use the old ways of calling the Question Line on 0208 123 5877 or Skype ID answermethis, but a lot of those messages haven’t been reaching us lately. So emailing a voice memo is the safer bet.
Be our interfriend at twitter.com/HelenAndOlly and facebook.com/answermethis.
We’ll be back with AMT366 on 4 October 2018, and there’ll be a Retro AMT episode in your feeds on 20 September.
Helen & Olly
••• AMT365 Child-Friendly Rating: 53%. No smut, but several swears. Plus a discussion of The Eagles. Why would you put a child through that? •••
Tags:1D, Ace of Base, anal glands, animal products, animals, anthems, ark, Avril Lavigne, bands, beavers, Bible, blacksmiths, boat-building, boats, careers, castoreum, Come On Eileen, conspiracy theories, cubits, dating, Dick Turpin, Dubai, Duck'n'Dry, Dyson, farriers, Ferrero Rocher, flavourings, flavours, food, foodstuffs, gadgets, gopher wood, hair, hairdryers, hairstyling, Happy Nation, horses, horseshoes, Hotel California, jobs, Liam Payne, long distance relationships, lyrics, maritime, measurements, misheard lyrics, Morgan Spurlock, musicians, Neil Diamond, Noah, Noah's Ark, Old Testament, One Direction, PopMaster, pub names, pubs, Queen, romance, ships, shoutability, songs, Sweet Caroline, The Eagles, vanilla, wasps, We Are The Champions, William Friedkin, Woburn Abbey, work, working, working abroad
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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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Send us your QUESTIONS: deliver a voice memo or a written question by emailing answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. You can still use the old ways of calling the Question Line on 0208 123 5877 or Skype ID answermethis, but a lot of those messages haven’t been reaching us lately or are coming out sounding like you’ve just been eaten by a robot. So a voice memo is a safer bet.
Be our interfriend at twitter.com/HelenAndOlly and facebook.com/answermethis.
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 16, 2015
Steel yourself, because you’ll never look at highlighter pen(i)s in the same way again after you hear Answer Me This! Episode 312:
Today we learn about:
working in Antarctica
Jews for Jesus
props in the House of Commons
Thomas Jefferson’s ice cream recipe
gold toilet paper
despatch boxes
Queen Elizabeth Land
not looking dodgy at night
House of Cards
Adolf Hitler, Bible-bomber
yogurt vs yoghurt vs yoghourt
the Guardian Style Guide
and
Quiztina Aguilera.
Plus: Olly’s pub quiz victory strategy is ruined by cocks; Helen would rather swear on the dictionary than the Bible; and Martin the Sound Man is vanilla-blind. Quick, throw a benefit gala for him!
There’s bonus Jews for Jesus jazz in today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App, available for iThings, Android and Windows gadgets.
Be a dear and send us your questions: leave voicemails on the Question Line – call 0208 123 5877 or Skype ID answermethis – and send emails to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. And be our online pal at facebook.com/answermethis and twitter.com/HelenAndOlly.
Thanks very much to Squarespace.com for supporting this episode, and for giving you 10% off their website-building and -hosting services for a year if you use the code ‘ANSWER‘.
We’ll return on 30th April 2015 with AMT313, please return too!
Helen & Olly
••• AMT312 Child-Friendly Rating: 21%. Martin the Sound Man deploys the word ‘cunty’ in the first couple of minutes, but in protest at poor provision of services for the visually impaired, which is a cause your children ought to support. Shortly followed by a discussion of crude cock’n’balls drawings, with which the average child will already be more than familiar. Question about penis size at the end of the show. While the content is clean in between the penis references at either end of the show, there are a few swears sprinkled throughout. In sum: not an episode to enjoy on the school run.•••
Tags:999, Adolf Hitler, Antarctica, australia, Australian parliament, bombing, bombs, books, British government, Christianity, cocks, cold, dairy, dairy products, dating, despatch boxes, disguises, flavourings, flavours, food, France, general election, genitalia, genitals, god, government, Gregory Isaacs, Guardian Style Guide, Her Majesty, highlighter pens, houmos, House of Cards, House of Commons, hummus, ice cream, inhospitable places, intelligence, Israel, Jews for Jesus, jobs, Judaism, London, London transport, loo roll, lunchboxes, manparts, marketing, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Netflix, Night Nurse, night shifts, night work, nocturnal, oaths, Old Street Station, online dating, Parliament, passersby, penguins, penises, phonemes, pub quizzes, public transport, publicity stunts, Queen Elizabeth II, quizzes, relationships, religion, Second World War, sex, sexual compatability, size queens, South Pole, spelling, Squarespace, swearing in, TFL, the Bible, The Godfather, the Queen, The Thing, Thomas Jefferson, toilet paper, toiletries, tourism, transliteration, tube stations, Turkish, vaginas, vanilla, walking, walks, Watchmen, Waterloo, words, World War Two, WW2, yoghourt, yoghurt, yogurt
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March 19, 2015
Phwoar! Look at the orbs on that! Etc.
Why are we leering over an inaccurate drawing of Her Maj? Find out in Answer Me This! Episode 310:
Today we consider:
Brownies
bacon
Hamlet cigars
cleaning your stovetop
cleaning like Robocop
the redundancy of toothpaste
the ethics of Tesco Clubcard vouchers
Jurassic Park: The Ballet
Home Alone: The Ballet
Miss Saigon: The Helicopter
post-coital smoking
post-coital tristesse
and
chicken-flavoured crisps.
Plus: Olly is ready to join a Cub Pack for adults; Helen campaigns for Cheetos to be sold in the UK; and the latest victim of Martin the Sound Man’s uncanny impersonations is Jeff Goldblum. What did Goldblum ever do to you, Martin? We also hear back from AMT308 questioneer Lizzie, whose life is getting more Sliding Doors with every passing episode.
For further beanery following AMT309, peruse the listener-submitted Bean Gallery, and listen to today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App (available for iThings, Android and Windows gadgets) in which listener Nick describes his recent experience of sitting in a baked bean bath for 27 HOURS. For charity. Not for his own fun.
For our fun and yours, please supply us with your questions. Leave voicemails on the Question Line – call 0208 123 5877 or Skype ID answermethis – and fire emails to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. And be our online pal at facebook.com/answermethis and twitter.com/HelenAndOlly.
Thanks very much to Squarespace.com for supporting this episode, and for giving you 10% off their website-building and -hosting services for a year if you use the code ‘ANSWER‘. Go forth and create the website of your dreams! (The good dreams, not the ones where you’re being chased by a terrifying headless monk with the claws of a bear.)
we’ll return on 2nd April 2015 with AMT311. Join us!
Helen & Olly
••• AMT310 Child-Friendly Rating: 77%. Only a couple of swears. Content is pretty clean, even a question about post-coital smoking. •••
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