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Answer Us Back: something has to go in that hole

April 16, 2026

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Hello! Welcome to this month’s edition of Answer Us Back, full of your feedback on AMTs old and new. Today:

Following AMT416’s discussion of meat fondue, Amanda gives us meat fondue tips amassed from four generations of her family’s festive flesh fondue.
Also apropos of AMT416, Rebekah – and several other people! – notes the existence of a 9/11 musical: Come From Away.
AMT306 inspired Matt from Birmingham to try the chicken kyiv sandwich, which has comforted him during many major life events since.
Chris from New Zealand wants an update on AMT376’s message from the then 38-year-old Olly to his future fortysomething self ie present day Olly.
We heard from so many of you about World Book Day after AMT416! Katy has a clever way to keep your kid’s costume obligations extremely light..
Joe in Minnesota sees your World Book Day and raises you the Children Pretending To Be Historical Waxworks Day of his own childhood.
Neil from Staffordshire is haunted by an AMT jingle from 15+ years ago.

If you’ve been haunted by thoughts about AMTs 1-416, exorcise them by sharing 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 AMT417 will be in your podfeed 30 April 2026.

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AMT416: “Fondue is good and creates a good mood”

March 26, 2026

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AMT416 sends us on a Learning Journey about:

John Noakes cleaning Nelson’s Column
LEGO Titanic sets
World Book Day
curried whale
meat fondue
dirty Downing St
novelizations of film/TV shows
and
what to do with wedding suits post-divorce.

Plus: Olly and his new massage gun are very happy together; Helen of course managed to find the absolute least cool way to rebel against a school custom; and Martin the Sound Man says he loves wearing suits, despite never actually wearing suits as they conflict with his self-image of someone who does a more physical job than sitting at a computer and occasionally twiddling knobs on an audio interface…

Now is a GREAT time to become a patron at patreon.com/answermethis if you haven’t already, because the next edition of our video livestream series Petty Problems is happening Sunday 29th March! Join us for that, and in return for your patronage, you also get the whole Petty Problems back catalogue, a batch of Bonus Bits each month, and an ad-free version of AMT416. If you sign up at one of the higher Patreon tiers, you get access to an RSS feed with ALL the AMT stuff EVER, including our entire back catalogue, our six themed albums, the retro AMTs, and every Bit of Crapp from the AMT App.

So send us your trivial unserious questions for Petty Problems, as well as questions of any other level of seriousness, in writing or voice note, to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com 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.

AMT417 will be out 30 April 2026. Mid-month, there will also be an episode of our new feature Answer Us Back, where you answer us back about questions from our recent and distant back catalogue. So send in your feedback about any question or answer from any episode ever.

Check out our other work:

Olly‘s several podcasts include Today in History with the Retrospectors and his monthly magazine show The Modern Mann. All can be found via ollymann.com.

Helen makes the entertainment podcast about language, The Allusionist, which returns in early April. You can also hear her on recent episodes of The Bugle, and with Martin guesting on a recent episode of Material Girls podcast about the word ‘daddy’, speaking of which…

Martin‘s song therein, ‘Daddy Really Cares’, is available to buy from his Bandcamp. All proceeds go to organisations helping trans youth in the UK and Canada.

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The London Review of Books, the twice-monthly literary mag full of essays, reviews and more by excellent writers. Get a 6 month print and digital subscription for just £12 at LRB.me/answer.

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