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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March 10, 2011
Hello chums,
Round here, we thought there’s no way the opening ceremony of next year’s London Olympics could be anything but a damp squib. Given our Glorious Nation’s inherent shyness, we assumed we’d be lucky if the expected pageantry ascended such heights as the whole squad doing the David Brent dance, with commentary from Myleene Klass wearing a low-cut dress and speaking only in adjectives. But au contraire, we were much mistaken! Here, in Answer Me This! Episode 170, we discover what’s going to make the Olympics go with a bang:
This classic episode is available to BUY NOW for just 79p at the Answer Me This! Store, through a secure server, without DRM restriction. CLICK HERE to find out more and support our podcast. (This helps keep our most recent episodes free)
Accompanying the episode, like a flock of primary schoolkids wearing national dress, are topics including:
Booze Britain
Ibiza Uncovered
Winston Churchill
coffee stirrers
Jaws
dog trends
Wiesbaden
Danger UXB
monkeys in clothes
fancy-dress football
the abandoned bomb register
Jonathan Creek’s downtime
illegal snoods
the other Martin Austwick
the real-life Miss Marple
dihydroxyacetone
and
the Maillard Reaction.
Plus: Olly is silenced by booze; Helen’s not going to be winning a car anytime soon; and Martin the Sound Man intimates that the dinosaurs might have survived, if only someone had bought them little pink coats with diamante on. Martin would also like you to know that his latest album is out today, which is sadly diamante-free but not without other compensations – download or buy a special edition physical copy here.
Today’s Bit of Crap on the App is the Deleted Scenes from our chat about amateur detectives. How does one get from the FBI to Paul Ross in five easy steps? Find out for yourself on iPhone or Android.
We be wanting your QUESTIONS for next week, so send them as voicemails to the Question Line (dial 0208 123 5877 or findanswermethis on Skype) or emails to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. And you know what else is next week? Red Nose Day! So if you fancy a bit of pain-free fundraising (ie no climbing mountains or digging latrines or songs involving Bob Geldof), please come along to Literary Death Match on Friday 18th March, in which Helen joins Spaced alumna Jessica StevensonHynes to judge the bookish equivalent of sumo wrestling.
Helen & Olly
Tags:Agatha Christie, alcohol, Amanda Lamb, amateur detectives, animal clothing, animals, aquatic life, army, Barack Obama, bombs, booze, cars, Churchill, Cliff Richard, clothing, coffee, coffee machines, crime, Crystal Palace, Dave Gorman, David Beckham, David Bowie, detectives, dogs, drinking, emoticons, excrement, explosives, fake tan, FBI, fish, football, genitals, Germany, Graham Norton, Hitchen, Ibiza, implements, inebriation, investigation, Iraq, ITV, Jessica Fletcher, Jonathan Creek, London, London 2012, London Olympics, Luftwaffe, Madame Tussauds, marine life, military, Miriam Margolyes, Miss Marple, missions, MoD, murder, Murder She Wrote, Nazis, office politics, ointment, Olly's fake tan, Olympic Stadium, Olympics, Paul Ross, pets, Poirot, poo, prizes, San Francisco, scat, Scotland, sharks, Sharon Marshall, Sherlock, shopping malls, sister cities, skin, sleuth, sports, stupid stupid stupid, tanning, telly, the Blitz, the FA, tights, towns, Tunbridge Wells, TV, twin towns, underwear, unexploded bombs, wangs, waxworks, weapons, Winston Churchill, WWI, WWII
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