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Prepare yourself, because there’s a moment of extreme eldritch in AMT417. We weren’t ready. Can we truly be ready?
We also discuss:
massage products for bees
fish-shaped soy sauce (here’s that 13-second vacuum video btw, comment if you find a full version)
the oldest ballet dancers (hey listen to A Dancer Dies Twice)
Stacey Solomon’s Sort Your Life Outshotgun knobstick weddings
three line whips
zero percent proof drinks
what to do with 52 very similar baby photos
what to do with 52 baby teeth?!?!!?*
spuriously rebranding Bloomsbury
our fave classic misbegotten hashtag
and
older names for AMT’s original home, the southeast London neighbourhood Crystal Palace.
* In AMT281 someone wrote in about the horror of an acquaintance collecting all their child’s teeth.**
** But is that less or more horrific than this listener’s jewellery made of their own toe-knuckles?
That time we gussied up George Ezra’s song ‘Budapest’ was AMT373 by the way.
Send us your questions for new episodes, and your feedback on old ones for Answer Us Back, to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com in writing or voice note, or leave a voicemail at 0208 123 5877 like the old days. Remember to include the formula “Helen and/or Olly, answer me this”, and let us know a name (pseudonyms are fine) and pronouns to use for you. AMT418 will be out 28 May 2026 and Answer Us Back on 14 May.
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Check out our other work:
Olly‘s several podcasts can be found via ollymann.com, and include Today in History with the Retrospectors, The Week Unwrapped and his monthly magazine show The Modern Mann where you’ll find the episode he mentioned, My Deepfake Nightmare.
Helen makes the entertainment podcast about language, The Allusionist, and she just made an appearance on the episode Word Wrangling of the science fiction sitcom podcast We Fix Space Junk.
Martin makes the weird experimental podcast Neutrino Watch, where each episode is a little different each day you download it. He also has a new album coming out soon, so get hyped for that by digging into the back catalogue of his songs, available via his Bandcamp.
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