June 25, 2015
In Answer Me This! Episode 317, one questioneer is risking the beauty of his bottom for a bet; one appears to be too close to his sister; and another has an inferiority complex over his local multiplex (an inferiority multicomplex?). We also deal with:
Cornwall vs Greggs
Milton Keynes vs Merseyside
the Mercedes logo vs the peace symbol
Victoria, British Columbia
John Lahr’s remote working practices
dinner party gifts for the booze-free
unwanted text messages
D-BOX seats, not to be confused with these d-box seats (link NSFW)
movie premiere attendees
Leningrad
bridegrooms
and
Matthew McConaughey’s norge.
There’s a double bill of childhood nostalgia-themed Bonus Bits of Crap on the App (available for iStuff, Android and Windows devices): Olly reminisces about another junior marketing exercise, and Helen about the Tunbridge Wells cinema now apparently known as a ‘grot spot’.
If you want more AMT, you can a) buy our old episodes; b) send us questions for future episodes: leave voicemails on the Question Line by calling 0208 123 5877 or Skyping answermethis, and send emails to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Stay in touch between episodes at twitter.com/HelenAndOlly and facebook.com/answermethis; furthermore, you can vent your Ollyman(n)ia at facebook.com/ollymann. Hey, if we’re plugging our extracurriculars, you can listen to and like Helen’s podcast The Allusionist via theallusionist.org, and hear Martin’s music here.
AMT318 will appear on 9th July 2015. Stay cool.
Helen & Olly
••• AMT317 Child-Friendly Rating: 62%. To be honest, we can’t remember the swear-situation in this episode, so we’ll be cautious and assume there are some. No bawdy-talk, though. •••
Tags:Al Pacino, alcohol, alcoholism, BBC, bets, Bolivia, booze, bridegrooms, brides, bridesmaids, brothers, Canada, CCCP, Channing Tatum, Chochabamba, climate, CND, cohabitation, comms, Cornish pasties, Cornwall, dogma, etiquette, etymology, families, film premieres, film stars, films, flatmates, former USSR, geography, Gerald Holtom, gifts, god, graphic design, Greggs, Greggs the Baker, grooms, history, home office, housemates, John Lahr, journalism, language, Leningrad, Luftwaffe, Magic Mike, Magic Mike XXL, Matthew McConaughey's norge, Mercedes, Merseyside, Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes Point, movie premieres, movies, multiplex, nuclear disarmament, Olly's dad, Olly's grandma, Olly's mum, peace, peace symbol, Peter the Great, Petrograd, presumption, Reef, relationships, religion, relocation, retirement, Russia, Russian, Salford, siblings, sisters, Source Code, South America, SS, St Petersburg, Stanley Mann, Steven Soderbergh, symbols, Tasmania, tattoos, teetotal, Telford, text messages, TFI Friday, travel, USSR, vehicles, Victoria, weather, weddings, Woody Allen, words, work, Zadie Smith
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September 4, 2014
Hello listeners!
Got any great tips for gaming a hotel breakfast buffet? Do share in the comments; but first, listen to Answer Me This! Episode 297 to learn from the master (ie Olly Mann):
In today’s buffet of audio delights, we’re serving:
Sea Monkey refills
second hand wedding dresses
green peppers vs red peppers
Bob Dylan vs grapefruit juice
Steve Wright in the Afternoon vs heroin
Harold Von Braunhut
the Pizza Hut salad bar
Oxford divorces
cryptobiosis
spying on your children
and
gobbing in the pot.
Plus: if you see Olly roving towards you armed with a Tupperware tub, he’s either going to take advantage of your buffet or imprison you with fatal consequence; Helen will be survived by a sackful of raw gingerbread; and Martin the Sound Man is a masochist for grapefruit juice.
In today’s Bit of Crap on the App, we tackle another Great British Bake Off question from Katherine from Sheffield. To find out how we go from that to the Sword of Gondor in just four short minutes, fire up the app on your iDevices, Android or Windows playthings. As a happy by-product of buying the app, you’re funding the show – likewise if you splash out on any of our albums or vintage episodes at answermethisstore.com. So you know that along with your purchase you’ll receive a free dose of our eternal gratitude.
We are also eternally grateful to receive your QUESTIONS: call the Question Line on 0208 123 5877 or Skype ID answermethis, or email answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. And be our imaginary friend at facebook.com/answermethis and twitter.com/HelenAndOlly.
And because we’re simply brimful of gratitude today, let’s throw a bucketful over Squarespace.com, for sponsoring this episode, for allowing people to build and host websites easily and beautifully, and for offering you 10% off their services for a whole year if you use the code Answer.
By the way, if you’re keen to start your own podcast, book a ticket for this Guardian Masterclass and on 20th September, Helen and a host of other podcasting mavens will teach you all you need to know, and then some.
We will return with AMT298 on 18th September, and we hope you do too. Cheerio!
Helen & Olly
••• AMT297 Child-Friendly Rating: 88%. Light on profane language. Unfortunate TMI about Olly and Martin’s bodily fluids. Question from a parent running surveillance ops on their teenager, which may instill trust issues in your own offspring. •••
Tags:Alan Partridge, australia, Blackpool, Blue Mountains, Bob Dylan, bodily fluids, breakfast, brides, bridesmaids, buffets, capsicum, chair covers, childhood, children, comic books, confetti, couscous, cress, cryptobiosis, death, divorce, drunk-dialling, eggs, families, family, food, gay weddings, gingerbread, glasses, glassware, god complex, grapefruit, grooms, habits, hangovers, Harold Von Braunhut, Harvester, hermit crabs, hotel buffets, hotels, inebriation, inventions, invisible goldfish, iPhones, juice, Kendal Mint Cake, lavatorial, lies, liquids, lying, marriage, mountaineering, nomenclature, nutrition, orange juice, Oxford, parauresis, parenting, parents, patents, peppers, pets, Pizza Hut, puke, salad, salad bar, saliva, same sex marriage, Scotland, Scottish independence, sea monkeys, seaside, shrimps, spitting, spittle, spying, Squarespace, sugar, surveillance, teenagers, The Prisoner, toilets, toys, traditions, trust, urinals, urinating, V Festival, vegetables, vocabulary, vomit, wedding decor, wedding dresses, wedding traditions, weddings, worms, X-ray specs, yuk
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