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Can you bloody well believe it? New AMT in your ears in the year 2025?? Well, it’s real! In AMT402, we discuss:
roller derby namespirate ships tall ships
art that is EVEN BETTER IRL than it is printed on the tea towels in the gallery gift shop
beach powder
negging/sycophantic book dedications
ear protectors for dogs
Branston Pickle
Loyd Grossman biopic WHEN
the Baked Bean Museum of Excellence
and
the medical dangers of bagpipes.
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Hear our other work:
Olly has a daily podcast, Today in History with the Retrospectors, and a monthly magazine show The Modern Mann, both of which you can find along with his other work at OllyMann.com.
Helen is on a break from the The Allusionist, her entertainment podcast about language, but there’s a ten-year archive which you can find at the podplaces and at theallusionist.org – including this episode about roller derby names.
Martin‘s other sounds include songs, available at PaleBirdMusic.com, his Tom Waits podcast Song By Song at SongBySongPodcast.com, and his experimental fiction podcast Neutrino Watch at neutrinowatch.org.
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