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AMT423: ancestral detritus

October 29, 2026

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Before listening to AMT423, you have to do a couple of minutes of homework, which is to watch this video.

Then, proceed unto the episode, wherein we discuss:

whether the chicken really crossed the road as a morbid pun
Albert Einstein’s posthumous career as a spokesmodel
Tinkertown, Albuquerque
popcorn machines
Billina in Return to Oz vs bad chicken representation in media
dealing with wedding first dance fears
spice bag cocktails
porn star martinis
infinity pools
the Lautner Edge
dying in New Jersey
build-your-own castles ≠ BDE
the Nakatomi Plaza of the mind
and
a man incubating a duck egg in his underpants – seriously, watch the video.

Also, we must issue content warnings for some chat about hen death (and alcohol, and a blackface minstrel troupe).

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AMT424 will be out 26 November 2026 and the next Answer Us Back will land in your podfeed on 12 November.

Check out our other work:

Olly‘s several podcasts can be found via ollymann.com, and include his monthly magazine show The Modern Mann, and his daily history show Today in History with the Retrospectors,

Helen makes the entertainment podcast about language, The Allusionist, with a recent episode about the name Trevor.

Martin makes the weird experimental podcast Neutrino Watch, where each episode is a little different each day you download it. He also worked with Helen on Souvenirs, which our podpals 99% Invisible recently played.

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EPISODE 393: Raven McRavenface

January 7, 2021

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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.

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••• AMT393 Child-Friendly Rating: 89%. Maybe only one swear? And pretty family-friendly content. •••

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