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AMT421: a hetero slab of dad

August 27, 2026

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We recorded this the day before news broke of Tim Curry’s death, so our inadvertent tribute to him is being somewhat critical of Rocky Horror Picture Show and Clue. Remember this for when we die: cue up an old AMT and say, “Pah, three stars at best.”

In AMT421, we also discuss:

Bring Back Doors
We Want Plates
post-wedding stag dos
Olly riding a horse and surviving with no injuries!
camp classic movies
Hercule Poirot’s bathing ensemble
operatic washing machines
(English) muffins
twice-cooked things
conductor plinths
and
why you really don’t want to share a hotel room with Martin the Sound Man if the bathroom wall is made of opaque glass.

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AMT422 will be out 24 September 2026 and the next Answer Us Back will land in your podfeed on 10 September.

Check out our other work:

Olly‘s several podcasts can be found via ollymann.com, and include Rollercoaster: Universal’s Bedfordshire Journey, Today in History with the Retrospectors, his monthly magazine show The Modern Mann, and the news-but-not-the-news-you’re-totally-sick-of podcast The Week Unwrapped.

Helen makes the entertainment podcast about language, The Allusionist, and recently made a tiny cameo in Switched On Pop’s new Netflix show, explaining the etymology of ‘chorus’.

Martin makes the weird experimental podcast Neutrino Watch, where each episode is a little different each day you download it. He also worked on The Propagandists, the new miniseries from Drilled.

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AMT Home Entertainment

May 22, 2020

We made a new album!!

Like our previous albums – AMT Jubilee, Sports Day, Holiday, Love and Christmas – AMT Home Entertainment is an hourish of all-new AMT material that has never been on the podcast.

All the questions are about how you might homelily entertain yourself, with telly, music, films, food and some YouTube deep cuts. We discover:

🌴 What IS a wonderwall?
🎥 What was the first movie to have a director’s cut?
🐘 What’s with the big wooden elephants in Les Miserables and Moulin Rouge?
🅾️ What’s with blood groups in The Simpsons?
📺 Are TED speakers allowed teleprompters?
🍔 When did Justin Timberlake stop singing ‘I’m Lovin’ It’ at the end of the McDonald’s ads?
🍳 Why doesn’t Cathy eat breakfast in this, er, thought-provoking educational film/Dairy Council propaganda from the 1970s??

AND MORE!

AMT Home Entertainment is out now at the Answer Me This! Store or (but we make less money this way – just saying) from iTunes (UK / USA )

The album art is by the excellent Joe List, whom you can find at joelist.co.uk and on Instagram and Twitter @joelist. (You may recall that, way back when, Joe illustrated the AMT book after his magnificent entry to our 2009 Photoshop Challenge!)

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EPISODE 266 – the Queen’s gynaecologist

August 8, 2013

Good day, listeners,

In the words of Neely O’Hara, Answer Me This! Episode 266 is all ‘Boobies boobies boobies’: surgically enhanced ones, natural ones, milky ones, Kelly Brook’s ones…

Aside from the boob-reverie, we discuss:

audience participation (get it away from us!)
poor old Queen Anne
backyard burial grounds
business cards vs. Michael Jackson
She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain When She Comes vs. ATB’s Till I Come
freelance gravediggers
singalonga musicals
Mutya Buena’s boosted buttocks
Darryn Lyons’ abs
and
forked tongues.

Plus: Olly specifies where his ashes are to be scattered; Helen doesn’t care if her craft legacy dies with her; and despite all his singing skills, Martin the Sound Man doesn’t have the range to sing in Aspects of Love. He’ll never get to be Michael Ball (ball!).

In this week’s Bit of Crap on the App, which is available for iDevices and Android, a revival of Olly’s beloved Hunting of the Snark might become a reality? Come on, Mike Batt – make a young Mann’s lifelong dream come true!

And you – make our combined dream come true by sending us QUESTIONS: leave voicemails on the Question Line (call 0208 123 5877 or Skype ID answermethis) and send emails to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com.

See you next Thursday,

Helen & Olly

AMT266 Child-Friendly Rating: 70%. References to the songs of Peaches. Question about dead bodies. Discussion of boobs, natural and cosmetically altered. Very little swearing aside from an f-bomb.

PS Singalonga: