Posts Tagged ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’
January 9, 2020
Happy thirteenth birthday to this show! But it’s question-answering business as usual in Answer Me This! Episode 381, with problems including:
public nudity laws
lost/stolen jewels
friendly grinding
death in Thomas the Tank Engine
casserole in your pubes
museum lasers
dry ice
slapstick
trains’ souls
your naked dad
the true meaning of Frubes
and
eggy smell.
In this month’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for iPadPhones, Android and Windows – there’s more about Thomas the Tank Engine, plus Rod Stewart’s train set and Mr Frosty. Did you have one? Should we get one now to fulfil our childhood dreams, or would it only crush those dreams like the ice in its belly?
If you want to hear AMT episodes 1-200, they’re all available at answermethisstore.com, along with our five special albums. In the run-up to Valentine’s Day, how about the AMT Love album for an hour of questions about sex and love and problems therewith?
Hear our other work!
This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Visit squarespace.com/answer and get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain with the discount code ‘answer‘.
Send us your QUESTIONS, in writing or as voice recordings, to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com.
Be our interfriend at twitter.com/HelenAndOlly and facebook.com/answermethis.
We’ll be back with AMT382 on 6 February 2020, and there’ll be a Retro AMT episode in your feeds on 23 January.
Helen & Olly
••• AMT381 Child-Friendly Rating: 75%. Question about friendship with grinding, but mostly fairly PG. •••
Tags:animation, antisocial foods, batacchio, bracelet, British law, carbon dioxide, Catherine Zeta Jones, characters, chemical reactions, chemistry, children's books, children's telly, commedia dell'arte, crushes, death, dry ice, egg smell, eggs, Entrapment, etymology, fence, friendship, Frubes, grinding, hardboiled eggs, heists, insurance, jewellery, jewelry, jewels, kids' books, kids' telly, lasers, law, legal, liquid nitrogen, London, Lost, lost property, Mission Impossible, more than friends, movie tropes, museums, nakedness, naturism, naturists, nitrogen, nudity, Oliver the Tank Engine, parents, pawn shops, Phillip Schofield, physical comedy, physics, police, precious metal, precious objects, precious stones, Professor Brian Cox, public nudity, relationships, Reverend Wilbert Awdry, Ringo Starr, romance, S C Ruffey, science, security systems, slapstick, smells, Sodor, stench, stink, stinky, stolen goods, sulphur, The Return of the Pink Panther, The Spiteful Brakevan, This Morning, Thomas and Friends, Thomas the Tank Engine, Tiffany's, trains, tropes
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May 3, 2018
Hello pets! This month is the British Podcast Awards, and you can vote for AMT in the Listeners’ Choice category, you know, if you choose to. Click here to do it. If you need to remember why you love us, listen to Answer Me This! Episode 362. Today we consider:
Meghan Markle’s citizenship post-marriage
My Dad Ate A Pringle
baked bean hummus
celebs in specs
labyrinths vs mazes
atheism vs romance
God Save The Queen vs My Country ‘Tis Of Thee vs every other bloody country’s anthem with the same tune
dangerous beans
King Minos’s palace
Princess Michael’s brooch
El Parador (try the broad bean paste!)
and
a life-sized cutout of Kylie Minogue.
In today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for iPadPhones, Android and Windows devices – we continue our Beanchat, and learn about keeping deer out of your flowerbeds, deflating a swollen scrotum, and this predicament that Helen’s eyelid got itself into.
Check in with our other work: Helen and Martin are on stage in the next few weeks, with Radiotopia in the eastern USA, the Bugle in the western USA, and the Allusionist in Australia in June. You can check where and when and how at theallusionist.org/events. Hear the modern Olly Mann on The Modern Mann at modernmann.co.uk.
Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring the show, and for making it so easy to set up a good-looking website for your projects. Visit squarespace.com/answer; play around during the two-week free trial; then when you’re ready to buy your website or domain, you can have get 10% off your first purchase with the discount code ‘answer‘.
If you are in the UK, you can also get two free Audible audiobooks if you go to answermethispodcast.com/audible. Remember to set a calendar alert for 29 June so you get this done before the 30 June 2018 deadline!
There’s no deadline for sending us your QUESTIONS: any time, deliver a voice memo or a written question by emailing answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. You can still use the old ways of calling the Question Line on 0208 123 5877 or Skype ID answermethis, but a lot of those messages haven’t been reaching us lately. So emailing a voice memo is the safer bet.
Be our interfriend at twitter.com/HelenAndOlly and facebook.com/answermethis.
We’ll be back with AMT363 on 7 June 2018, and there’ll be a Retro AMT episode in your feeds on 24 May.
Helen & Olly
••• AMT362 Child-Friendly Rating: 80%. Nothing too scandalous in this one. •••
Tags:America, Ancient Greece, anthems, atheism, Bananarama, beans, biccies, biscuits, Britain, celebrities, church, citizenship, Crete, crisps, dangerous food, Elton John, eyewear, flavour, flirting, food, food safety, Germany, glasses, God Bless America, God Save The Queen, Greek myths, green beans, health, hummus, King Minos, Kylie Minogue, labyrinths, Look In magazine, marriage, matchmaking, mazes, MDWAP, Meghan Markle, melody, Minotaur, monarchy, music, My Country Tis Of Thee, My Dad Ate A Pringle, My Dad Made A Sculpture, My Dad Wrote A Porno, national anthems, Prince Harry, Pringles, Pringles of the World, Prue Leith, religion, romance, royal, royal family, royal wedding, royals, royalty, songs, Specsavers, spectacles, Star Spangled Banner, string, Sue Perkins, sunglasses, Theseus, Thomas the Tank Engine, toxic, trains, Trevor McDonald, tunes, USA, Zack Zaltzman
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April 5, 2018
With a spring in your step and a scent in your nostrils and a freshly cleaned undercarriage and Answer Me This! Episode 361 in your ears, join us to consider:
Smell-O-Vision
reclaiming skipping for the adult man
museum buddies
the Dalí museum
bidet chat
baby equipment
the perfect baby bottle warmer
getting aboard Michael Palin
crystal prawn cocktail glasses
and
Trainy McTrainface.
In today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for iPadPhones, Android and Windows devices – we have a bonus question from prolific questioneer Lindon from Huddersfield about how to cut off the ex-housemate who’s still a parasite upon Lindon’s Spotify account.
Want to see Helen and Martin live on stage? (NB that’s ‘live’ in an adverbial sense, not a verbal sense. Although they will be alive on stage. They just don’t live on one. Why do you have to make everything so complicated?) They’ll be touring with Radiotopia in the eastern USA in May and the Allusionist in Australia in June, and you can check where and when and how at theallusionist.org/events. And hear all about Olly’s grandmother’s amazing piss-based beauty routine on The Modern Mann at modernmann.co.uk.
Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring the show, and for making it so easy to set up a good-looking website for your projects. Visit squarespace.com/answer; play around during the two-week free trial; then when you’re ready to buy your website or domain, you can have get 10% off your first purchase with the discount code ‘answer‘.
You can also get two free Audible audiobooks if you go to answermethispodcast.com/audible. Why don’t you listen along with Olly to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s memoir? He turned TS Eliot’s poetry into a hit musical and Thomas the Tank Engine into what looks like a load of off-brand Power Rangers on roller skates – what ISN’T he capable of?
You are capable of sending us your QUESTIONS: deliver a voice memo or a written question by emailing answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. You can still use the old ways of calling the Question Line on 0208 123 5877 or Skype ID answermethis, but a lot of those messages haven’t been reaching us lately or are coming out sounding like you’ve just been eaten by a robot. So emailing a voice memo is the safer bet.
Be our interfriend at twitter.com/HelenAndOlly and facebook.com/answermethis.
We’ll be back with AMT362 on 3 May 2018, and there’ll be a Retro AMT episode in your feeds on 19 April.
Helen & Olly
••• AMT361 Child-Friendly Rating: 60%. A handful of swears. Acknowledgement of the existence of the nether regions. •••
Tags:1970s, 70s, 70s food, Aldous Huxley, alone time, Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aromarama, awkward, babies, baby stuff, bathroom, beds, BO, body butter, body odour, Brave New World, British rail, carriages, child, childhood, children, Christopher Columbus, cinema, crap, creepy dolls, crystal, dim sum, Disney, dolls, equipment, exercise, families, family, Fantasia, film, food, fragrance, Friends, gender normative bullshit, gimmicks, grandpa's stuff, grandparents, Hans Laube, homes, houses, hygiene, Ikea, introverts, Japanese toilets, John Waters, Keanu Reeves, loyalty schemes, Mary Kingsley, Michael Palin, movies, museums, names, nasal, nasal polyps, noses, odour, parents, physical exertion, Portland, possessions, prawn cocktail, pregnancy, pubs, railway, relations, relatives, road trips, Salvador Dali, scent, Scent of Mystery, Scentovision, scratch'n'sniff, sense of smell, senses, skipping, smell, Smell-O-Vision, smells, smelly friends, special offers, Starlight Express, stinky, stuff, Taiwan, The Flaming Lips, Thomas the Tank Engine, toilets, toys, trains, travel, tributes, trips, vacation, VR, Walt Disney, washing, Wetherspoons, youreallysmell.com, Zaireeka
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December 22, 2011
We hope you enjoyed last week’s rattle through the first half of the AMT year. If not, here’s more stuff that you won’t enjoy, in The Best of AMT2011, part 2:
This classic episode is available to BUY NOW for just £1.99 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)
Wherein we revisit such golden moments as:
Jon Ronson’s breakfast with Pocahontas
butternut squash
Tate & Lyle’s decomposing lion
Lulu
Going for Gold
‘Imagine’
the theme from Requiem for a Dream
claret jugs
character M&Ms
Martin’s wedding pants
the Fat Controller’s wife
Owl City
Reg Grundy nepotism
staplenuts
Avril Lavigne fans
Anna Paquin
and
sexy Jews.
Plus some more Previously Unheard Bits from the bin.
Help us concoct more podcast for you to hear in 2012 by sending us your QUESTIONS: fill our inbox by emailing answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, and deluge our Question Line with voicemails (dial 0208 123 5877, Skype answermethis).
And you can also fill our big empty box – our PO Box, what did you think we meant? – with some 5th birthday goodies:
Answer Me This!
PO Box 53587
London
SE19 9BQ
We’ll be back with episode 201 on January 19th 2012, so it merely remains for us to wish you all a very happy Christmas/atheist substitute and New Year, and to thank you very sincerely for listening to us in 2011.
Helen & Olly
Tags:9 1/2 Weeks, Adam Young, advertising, adverts, Al Pacino, alcohol, Anna Paquin, Avril Lavigne, banned songs, BBC, bees, Bible, Black Eyed Peas, booze, boxer shorts, boybands, breakfast, Brian Cox, Bruno Mars, butter, butternut squash, celebrisex, celebrities, champagne, children, claret, cookery, crisps, crushes, Disney, Disney World, drugs, drunk, drunkards, Ebeneezer Goode, fast food, Fat Controller, fattitude, fetishes, fitting rooms, food, funerals, gigs, Golden Syrup, Green Man festival, hair, haircuts, Halle Berry, Hans Zimmer, Harrods, Henry Kelly, honey, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Imagine, injury, Jay Z, Jesse Eisenberg, Jewish celebrities, jews, John Lennon, Jon Ronson, Katy Perry, Little Mermaid, M&Ms, marriage, Mickey Rourke, mirrors, music, neighbours, nepotism, Nicki Minaj, not butter, Olly's mum, Owl City, owls, pants, parenthood, pelican fly, Perfect Day, pie, pig's head, Pocahontas, pop music, rap, Reg Grundy, Requiem for a Dream, Rosemary Daniels, Russell Brand, sex, sex with celebrities, sexy food, sexy Jews, shopping, songs, staples, sterilisation, Tate & Lyle, Taylor Swift, telly, testicles, The Shamen, The Wanted, Thomas the Tank Engine, undergarments, underwear, vasectomy, weddings, wine, yuk
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August 25, 2011
It’s pretty unusual for us podcasters to venture out of our comfortable armchairs, let alone venture into the great not-indoors. Last weekend, however, we donned our cagoules, stocked up on wet-wipes, and took in a lungful of folk-laced fresh air at the Green Man festival – where we had such a smashing time, we decided to record Answer Me This! Episode 189 right there:
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 a field in Wales, we talk about:
camping with Charlotte Church
Batman: Arkham City
zebra-riding
cornichons
talking trains
the sexy Green M&M
the 9 1/2 Weeks
fridge
the Cadbury’s Caramel Bunny vs. Jessica Rabbit
Cadbury World vs. Kraft World
George W. Ferris
Mrs Fat Controller
and
local anaesthetic.
Plus: Olly fears the revenge of Kris Marshall; Helen discovers a sport she IS interested in: topless frisbee; and Martin the Sound Man sees a future where Batman and Catwoman give birth to Dustin Hoffman.
As you’ll hear, we were joined this week by some unexpected guests in the shape of wasps. (They weren’t just shaped like wasps; they were wasps.) Next week, we should be joined by a much less stingy and stripy special guest in the shape of Jon Ronson. (He’s not just shaped like Jon Ronson, he is Jon Ronson.) So concoct some QUESTIONS for the fan of psychopaths, goat-starers and Robbie Williams, and send them in the form of voicemails to the Question Line (dial 0208 123 5877 or Skype answermethis) or emails to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com.
We do hope that Jon remembers to turn up, but whether he does or not, we’ll deffers see you next Thursday,
Helen & Olly
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