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So, as we told you at the end of Episode 150, we’ve been asked to assist in the breaking of a world record. Stop laughing, it’s true! Finally, our athleticism will be recognised…oh, leave us alone. It’s just like school sports day all over again.
We will, in fact, be lending ourselves to what is being called in some quarters the world’s biggest three-way. Raise your minds from the gutter, please, for this feat is in fact an attempt to break the world record for the longest three-way phone conversation, viz:
At 2pm on Thursday 30th September, cricket legend Phil Tufnell, comedy legend Patrick Monahan, and boobs legend Jodie Marsh will install themselves in the middle of Waterloo, Victoria and London Bridge stations; whereupon they will commence talking to each other on the phone, and they won’t stop for 24 hours.
But in case they are flagging at the final furlong, we are being dispatched on the Friday morning to perk up their chatter with some of your questions. Summon your unparalleled inquisitiveness and put the results into a comment below, or in an email to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com entitled ‘Phil/Jodie/Patrick, answer me this‘ [delete names as appropriate]. Don’t tell us you have nothing you’ve ever wanted to ask Jodie Marsh, we know you’re lying.
You can watch a live feed of the World’s Biggest Threeway, follow it on twitter.com/powwownow and Facebook, and find out a load more about it at www.upforathreewaycall.com. If you’re passing through one of the stations, you can even admire the record-attempters in action, and perhaps give them an energy drink or calf massage. And with your question-asking help, by the end of next week the three will find themselves in this illustrious company and we can all pretend they couldn’t have done it without us.
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Answer Me This! Podcast 
September 29, 2010 at 11:50 pm |
Everyone,
Really speaking, is there any difference between knowing a lot about old plays and, for example, knowing lots about brookside? Why do we buy into a concensus that thinks being able to quote shakespeare is better than knowing all the words to the neighbours theme?
September 29, 2010 at 11:32 pm |
Tuffers,
You resemble the sort of person who enjoys Ska music? is this the case?
September 29, 2010 at 11:31 pm |
Tuffers,
What do you believe in even though you know rationally that it does not exist? I am certain that I get stalked around my kitchen by a werewolf, but I know there isn’t one there really because the local wise-woman put a jar of nails and vinegar in the pan cupboard.
Oh and are you into ska? you look the sort.
September 29, 2010 at 11:25 pm |
Tuffers,
Do you like Ska music? you look like the sort.
September 29, 2010 at 11:24 pm |
Patrick,
It has been argued that science is now making fewer important discoveries at greater cost to time and resources than ever before. One of the proposed reasons for this is that we are reaching the limits of what our brains can comprehend. Do you think it’s time to stop and just classify everything we don’t now understand as “magic”?
September 29, 2010 at 11:08 pm |
Jodie,
Do you think that humans have an in-built sense of “humanity” in the same way as, for example dogs have an enduring instinct to chase rabbits and bury things? Consider in your response the cases of children that have been abandoned by their (usually mentally unstable) parents and left to the care of animals such as the Portuguese Chicken Girl.
15 points
September 29, 2010 at 7:50 pm |
Weirdly unhairy bits: I am, like Esau, an hairy man. My legs are quite hairy. When I was 15 I shaved off the hair from about 1 square inch from the front of my left shin. After 27 years, the hair has not grown back on that section, yet when i shaved all the hair off my head it all grew back and I have to shave my face every day. So, H and O answer me this: why won’t the hair grow back on my shin?
September 29, 2010 at 4:55 pm |
I know you’ve answered what your favourite TV Shows are before, but you didn’t say what were the funniest to you, so what’s your favourite comedy?
Also, WAZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHPPPP?
September 29, 2010 at 4:40 pm |
Why I am so desperately lonely?
September 24, 2010 at 12:45 pm |
Hi Tuffers, you’re known as the cat because of your lightning quick reactions and amazing pouncing lunges. But with all that bloddy dancing I think you’re more of a pussy cat. So Phil, answer me this! who would win in a fight, you or Freddy Flintoff (you’re not allowed to sweep the knee for obvious reasons).
Hi Tuffers, we all know that the greatest scandal of the 2007 ICC World Cup was Flintoff’s midnight pedalo excursion but Phil, answer me this, have you ever done something truly mad like that? If you tell us then maybe the band the Duckworth Lewis Method could write a song about you next time!
September 24, 2010 at 10:27 am |
I have many questions!
1. Surely their mobile batteries will die within a few hours of talking, so will they be swapping them out regularly?
2. Why are they doing this in the middle of train stations, where it’s noisy and they’ll be buffetted by tourists and commuters? If it’s important they do it in public (and if so, why?), why not stand in, say, a quiet corner of a 24-hour Sainsburys? Also, the signal in Victoria is not great.
3. Your “calf massage” quip implies they’ll be standing the whole time? If so, why? Does Guinness make these restrictions, or did they come up with them on their own to make the stunt suitably hard that they’d qualify?
4. I can only assume there’s some commmercial angle to this. Is O2 or somebody sponsoring it?
5. How often do they get breaks and for how long, and when they’re not on break, how often do they have to be speaking? I mean, how long of silence is there allowed to be before they’re disqualified? And can’t they just prearrange beforehand that persons A and B take a particular hour, allowing person C to rest, and then rotate throughout? Or is that against the rules?
Confusedly yours…