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March 5, 2020
Filled with lights, portraits, seaside photo boards and, er, dead bodies on display, Answer Me This! Episode 383 is a very visual episode. Of audio. Rifle through your mental Google Images as you hear about topics including:
BOB the Box of Bibles
missing cats
not-missing cats
warring cats
posthumous pants
Las Vegas lights
comic foregrounds/face-in-hole boards/kaohame
portraits’ eyes
and
Jeremy Bentham’s corpse.
In this month’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for iPadPhones, Android and Windows – we learn which shop was the first to offer gift vouchers. And ibuprofen! And gift certificates for ibuprofen?
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We’ll be back with AMT384 on 2 April 2020, and there’ll be a Retro AMT episode in your feeds on 19 March.
Helen & Olly
••• AMT383 Child-Friendly Rating: 60%. Low in swears, but the final question in the episode is about how to say goodbye to casual hookups so, while the content itself is not explicit, it may raise some awkward queries. •••
Tags:Alvin, art, auto icon, bibles, birthday gifts, birthday presents, bit of fun, book disposal, books, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, cats, Coco, comic foregrounds, corpses, cutouts, dead bodies, dogs playing poker, eye contact, eyes, face things at the beach, faces, FaceTime, fairground attractions, farewells, Filippo Brunelleschi, Fremont St, Ghostbusters II, gift cards, gifts, goodbyes, graphic design, hooking up, hookups, hotels, Jeremy Bentham, kaohame, Kate Middleton, Las Vegas, libraries, lightbulbs, lights, logos, Luxor hotel, maths, missing animals, missing cats, missing pets, National Portrait Gallery, Nationwide building society, neon, Nevada, Olly's cats, optical illusions, overnight visitors, paintings, pants, pets, philosophers, pictures, portraits, presents, Riviera, seaside, seaside attractions, The Strip, tourist attractions, ubiquitous gaze, UCL, underpants, underwear, University College London, utilitarianism, vouchers, wills
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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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June 23, 2011
To all our listeners in the Northern Hemisphere: hope you enjoyed the summer solstice! Only 185 sleeps to go until Christmas! Wooooo!
Southern Hemispherical listeners: happy mid-winter’s day! Now roll on summer! Woo woooo!
Equatorial listeners: as you were.
One thing that is the same the world over is Answer Me This! Episode 180:
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)
In it, we speak of such things as:
Gunther from Friends
seaside rock
the Wailing Wall
chocolate mousse
Claridge’s tea
mango lassi
Face/Off
disappointing fudge
hypnotherapy vs. stage hypnosis
British postboxes vs. French postboxes
Lady Godiva vs. Ed Balls
and
wanking in the Ritz.
Plus: Olly is made of stronger stuff than Carrie Bradshaw; Helen was hypnotised for love; and Martin the Sound Man admits to a few awkward moments in his honeymoon. He likes to live life like an Ashton Kutcher film, he does. Accordingly, before any and every decision, Mr Kutcher thinks, “What would Martin the Sound Man Do [WWMTSMD]?” And Demi Moore sighs, and thinks that if only she’d stayed with Bruce Willis, she wouldn’t ever have to talk about sound cards over breakfast.
This week, we’re popping up on a couple of other podcasts: Pappy’s Flatshare Slamdown, the new comedy quiz show from the AMT37 alumni; and Radio 4Xtra’s What’s So Funny?, wherein we talk in a not-so-funny way about podcasting.
Despite flirting with other podcasts, AMT will always be our (audio)boo, so keep the love alive by sending your QUESTIONS – leave voicemails on the Question Line (dial 0208 123 5877 or find answermethis on Skype) or send emails to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com – that we may magically create next week’s episode with them.
Helen & Olly
Tags:007, 1990s, 90s, archaeology, awkward, Bond villains, booze, British film, Chandler, commemorative t-shirts, confectionery, corpses, Courteney Cox, crap presents, cunty friends, dead bodies, death, dirt, Draveil, DVD hacks, DVD players, East Sussex, eating alone, electronics, etiquette, exhumation, films, food, France, French, Friends, Friends reunion, grave-robbery, Helen Baxendale, hospital, Hove, hygiene, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, illegal activities, Israel, James Bond, Jerusalem, Joey, John Travolta, John Woo, knickers, Lady Godiva, laundry, legend, lingerie, Lisa Kudrow, loners, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, medicine, movies, myth, Nicolas Cage, nudity, Oliver!, operations, ouch, Paris, perversion, petty crime, Phoebe, Pizza Hut, post, postbox, presents, restaurants, Sarah Jessica Parker, SATC, seaside, Sex and the City, shame, stage hypnosis, sugar, sweet vs savoury, t-shirts, technology, telly, theft, This Life, throats, tonsillitis, tonsils, towels, trances, twin towns, underwear
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March 3, 2011
This week, listeners, we go on a journey. Don’t worry – it’s not an emotional one like they have on reality shows! We go from Great Yarmouth to Gibraltar, California to Celebration, and end up in Utopia. It must be good if Cliff Richard is skating around it. Anyway, strap in and travel along with us in Answer Me This! Episode 169 (dudes):
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)
We also consider:
Sam Cooke vs. Claire Tully
razor clams
dirty sexy waxworks
carp
Visalia
dusky pink
Alisha’s Attic
cork floors
sorghum
creative management tips from Jeffrey Archer
bathroom predictions from Sarah Beeny
dried apple
pork six-pack
and
Aberystwyth.
Plus: Olly wonders why toilet seat vendors have missed the opportunity to part this fool and his money; Helen fails to reap the full entertainment offered by a bowel movement; and Martin the Sound Man wishes* that the whole world could be as democratic where men’s crotches are concerned as Madame Tussaud’s is. If that’s not enough crotch for you for one week, today’s Bit of Crap on the App is us reminiscing about that 90s TV trend to line naked men up behind a screen then leer at their genitals. Relive those glory days of The Word with us on iPhone or Android.
It’s Lent next week, but we’re not going to give up answering QUESTIONS, so send them as voicemails to the Question Line (dial 0208 123 5877 or findanswermethis on Skype) or emails to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Not that Lent holds much sway with atheist Jews, mind.
See you next week, for AMT170!
Helen & Olly
* He also wishes that you stick around till the very end of the episode to hear one of the songs off his new album ‘Songs from the Scientific Cabaret’. Make his wish come true, do. And come to see him play at the Geekpop festival on 10th March, why not? Because you’ll have given up geeky pursuits for Lent? Liar!
Tags:1960s, 69, Alex Winter, Alisha's Attic, Arcata, authors, awkward situations, B&Q, babies, basins, bathrooms, baths, Bill and Ted, Blackpool, bodies, bodily functions, bowel movements, California, cleverity, Cliff Richard, conception, convenience foods, cookery, corn on the cob, crap towns, creative pursuits, decor, degrees, Denise van Outen, diet, digestion, drunk-dialling, East Anglia, erectile dysfunction, erections, etiquette, fish, fish fingers, Gibraltar, goldfish, history, holidays, hygiene, inconvenient foods, Karen Poole, Keanu Reeves, Kylie, Latitude Festival, laziness, lethargy, libraries, Lizzy Roper, Madame Tussauds, marine life, Milton Keynes, money, new towns, News in Briefs, Norfolk, nudity, nutrition, packaging, Page 3, pancetta, penises, pets, poo, poverty, pregnancy, procrastination, restaurants, scat, seaside, sex, Shelley Poole, shellfish, sick, students, supermarkets, sweetcorn, tertiary education, the Sixties, The Word, Thorpe Park, toilets, tourism, town planning, UK tourism, utopia, vacations, Wales, writing
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