Hello! Welcome to this month’s edition of Answer Us Back, featuring your responses to and observations upon past episodes of AMT. Today:
Responding to AMT417’s collection of lost teeth, Dan from Sydney makes us wonder why there is a tooth fairy but no toenail fairy. Which body part would you choose to be the fairy of?
Max in New Jersey responds to AMT418’s question about Jersey Shore filming in bars, having worked at a bar while Jersey Shore filmed in it. Also, have a care in this pivot-to-video era for we audiomakers, who do not wanna be on camera.
Also responding to the Jersey Shore filming in bars with music question, Matt the dialogue editor chips in with his insider knowledge about the reality of music use and shooting dancing scenes. And Olly completely forgot that he too has insider knowledge, having himself been a dancing extra in a film!
Dale in Truckee, California heard the AMT416 question about what to do with the suit from one’s wedding after the marriage has ended, and has an engagement ring to deal with post-breakup.
And Rob in Durham has a question arising from maybe every AMT ever: did either of us ever try a career in stand-up comedy?
If AMTs 1-418 left you with lingering questions and opinions, share them with us for future episodes of Answer Us Back. And as always, send in your questions, in voicenote or written form, to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. All new AMT419 will be in your podfeed 25 June 2026.
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What would you do with a copy of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged? One questioneer needs any answer other than ‘read it’. AMT418 also contains:
Charlie Chaplin’s moustache Richard Herring’s moustache Adolf Hitler’s gold teeth the point of decanters condom machines what’s in prop cigarettes the time Martin held a microphone in front ofThe X Files‘s Cigarette Smoking Man your neighbour’s golf noise vs your ears ‘bumper’ editions and going to The Club on reality TV shows.
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Helen makes the entertainment podcast about language, The Allusionist, where she is currently amid a miniseries about Dracula (original edition), Dracula (Icelandic adaptation) and Draculitz (Swedish adaptation). Listen to Draculae at theallusionist.org and in the podplaces.
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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Woo-hoo, it’s time for our special guest episode! Sorry campers, Ian Collins forgot to turn up this week (although with any luck he will be on the show in a couple of weeks. (If he remembers.)), so you’ll just have to make do with the three of us in Answer Me This! Episode 147, as per. Here we are:
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We speak this week of:
speed of sound vs. speed of light Cats vs. pigs vs. puppets
Keanu Reeves vs. Martin’s dad
steak and kidney pudding
newspapers for Christmas
blue-screening Neighbours
hare The Sheep-pig by Dick King-Smith
artichoke liqueurs
builders’ tea
allergens Countdown for foreigners St John
and
eel.
Olly depends upon Twitter to make even the most banal decisions for him; Helen explains Deal or No Deal in a nutshell; and Martin the Sound Man calms everyone down with some maths before they crap themselves in a scary thunderstorm.
Over on the AMT app, there’s the extended coverage of the balls’n’Marmite issue; and we bid farewell to our Great British Questions series with a blooper reel, which is the only way we know how to say goodbye. Which will make our funerals interesting.
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