Answer Me This!

By Helen and Olly

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Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann host the award-winning podcast that has been answering the world's questions since 2007. Visit the official website at answermethispodcast.com. Buy classic episodes, albums and apps at answermethisstore.com.

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AMT401: Danielle Steel, keb...

04.06.2023

Welcome back AMT for one special new episode! So much has changed since we retired nearly two years ago, but what remains is our desire to answer your questions. Today, questioneers wonder about what to say about working in a ...

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04.06.2023 AMT401: Danielle Steel, kebab awards and detestable birds Welcome back AMT for one special new episode! So much has changed since we retired nearly two years ago, but what remains is our desire to answer your questions. Today, questioneers wonder about what to say about working in a ...
01.01.2023 Mr Blobby and the Birth of the Burger (from 'Today In History with the Retrospectors') Mr Blobby made his debut on anarchic BBC show Noel’s House Party on 24th October, 1992. Oscar Bilby, of Tulsa, Oklahoma grilled a beef patty, and - for the first time in documented history - PUT IT IN A BUN ...
12.13.2021 Festivelusionist choice cuts Hello! There's a sleighful of fun festive episodes of Helen's podcast the Allusionist over at the theallusionist.org and in the podplaces - episodes about Santa/Father Christmas/St Nick's many names, meaty greetings cards, what to do when kids' letters to Santa ...
08.05.2021 AMT400: Sky Dining, Swiss Barbie, and Homing Pigeons Well this is it, listeners. After 14 years and 8 months and many thousands of questions, AMT400 is the last episode of the show. But we go out on some terrific inquiries, about pigeon navigation, saving Joni Mitchell's childhood home/destroying ...
07.22.2021 retro AMT200 For our very last retro AMT, we returned to a favourite from December 2011: AMT200, where we enlisted our families to answer your questions. And, well, it's a novelty not to be embarrassed just by our own past selves this ...
07.01.2021 AMT399: Ginger Beer, Cheetahs' Pet Dogs, and Ball Pits In AMT399, we find out about tuning church bells, cheetahs being given pet dogs, Olly getting lost in SeaWorld, how pickled onions inspired soft play, and which ways you might be most likely to be killed by a ball pit. ...
06.17.2021 AMT398: Wedding Rings, Edamame, and Straight To Video Sequels We're settling a lot of couples' disputes in AMT398. Potato in tacos: Y/N? Did all animation used to be worse, or specifically just in Disney's straight to video sequels? And who's from the biggest village? Find out more about this ...
05.06.2021 AMT397: Meerkats, Albatrosses, and Dog Mayors In AMT397, questioneers want to know when meerkats got so popular, why you'd wear an albatross around your neck, what you do when your friends think you're a pennypincher, and whether Mary Shelley had sex on her mother's grave. Find ...
04.01.2021 AMT396: The Addams Family, Voodoo Dolls, and Snooping In The Bathroom Cabinet In AMT396, questioneers are concerned about crabs eating their babies, The Addams Family, and whether their voodoo doll of their office nemesis worked out a little too well. Find out more about this episode at . For more AMT stuff, ...
03.04.2021 AMT395: Bobble Hats, the Hollywood Sign and the Macarena Put your arm out, palms up, now touch your biceps, cradle the back of your head, hand on hip, other hand on other hip, pat each buttock and JUMP because in AMT395 we're learning about the Macarena dance! As well ...
02.04.2021 AMT394: Fabergé Eggs, Catnip for Lions, and the Funny Bone In AMT394, listeners are struggling with questions about genies' feet, treadmills in shoe shops, and their own children's mediocrity. Find out more about this episode at . For more AMT stuff, head over to , where you can get our ...
01.07.2021 AMT393: Glow Sticks, Walking the Plank, and the Pringles Sweats New year, new questions, about naming ravens at the Tower of London, how glow sticks work, did pirates really walk the plank, and how come prawn cocktail-flavour Pringles bring out one listener in the sweats. Find out more about this ...
12.03.2020 AMT392: Elf on the Shelf, Glitter, and the Holy Foreskin Jingle those bells, it's festive AMT392, with questions about Elf on the Shelf, fancy advent calendars, CONTENT WARNING: the episode may not be suitable for children, as it contains contains information about parental deceit w.r.t. Christmas logistics, plus a thoroughly ...
11.05.2020 AMT391: Video Phones, Scrumping Apples, and Going Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel Content warning: animal cruelty. In AMT391, we hear about eviscerated rabbits, I'm A Celebrity food-kills, and a zoo in a deadly stunt. But there's some mysterious dog magic to compensate. Find out more about this episode at . Send us ...
10.01.2020 AMT390: Giant Pumpkins, Playing Dead, and Sweet Fanny Adams Pop in your prosthetic fangs, spritz yourself with fake blood and turn off all the lights except for that annoying one that flickers - it's the Answer Me This Halloween Special! Featuring SCARY plays, GIANT gourds, MONSTER Mash, and SEXY ...
09.04.2020 AMT 389: Banana Pizza, Sewing Machines and Monaco In AMT389, questioneers need help with being heard through a mask, watermelon rind raining down from upon high, and understanding the financing of bin collection in Monaco. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future ...
08.06.2020 AMT388: Lolly Stick Jokes, Pizza Cutters, and Wombat Scat In AMT388, questioneers wonder about pizza cutters, lolly stick jokes, cubed poo, lawns, and the house in the middle of the M62 motorway. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written words ...
07.02.2020 AMT387: Bear Nipples, Easy-Bake Ovens and Salmon Vending Machines In AMT387 questioneers want to know how pregnancy tests work, how many nipples bears have, why there are salmon vending machines in Singapore, and how to deal with old friends who don't know you have amnesia. Find out more about ...
06.05.2020 AMT386: Dirty Doormats, Sitcom Sets, and Handheld Indulgence Ice Cream Beloved listeners: as we've said in the past, AMT doesn't tend to discuss current events, as we know a lot of you turn to the show to give yourselves a brief break from dealing with reality. We hope you're holding ...
05.08.2020 AMT385: Cold Toast, Intimate Bleaching and Rickrolling AMT385's questioneers are curious about the financial side of rickrolling, Hollywood teeth, novelty lamps and bleached bumholes. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written words or voice recordings to [email protected]. Tweet ...
04.02.2020 AMT384: Leopard Print, Badger Repellent, and a Fortress of Toasters Welcome! We hope you're doing OK. We're keeping AMT a pandemic-free pod, so if you're looking for content to take your mind off things for a bit, AMT384 can provide, with questioneers wondering why leopard print is considered sexy, how ...
03.05.2020 AMT383: Missing Cats, Portraits' Eyes, and Jeremy Bentham's Corpse AMT383's questioneers need to know what those funny things are called that you stick your face through at the seaside, how many lightbulbs there are in Las Vegas, how to say farewell to a hook-up, and why the corpse of ...
02.06.2020 AMT382: Ice Skating Music, Monks' Hairdos, and Life Coaching In AMT382, we hear from questioneers concerned about their friend's expenditure on life coaches, the ethics of placing fake animals on wildlife tours, disposal of an unwanted Book of Mormon, and scattering a grandparent's ashes on someone else's property. Find ...
01.09.2020 AMT381: Slapstick, Eggy Smell and Your Naked Dad In AMT381, questioneers are worrying about lost jewels, stinking out the office, dad doing the gardening in the nude, and what happens to trains in Thomas The Tank Engine when they die. Find out more about this episode at . ...
12.05.2019 AMT380: Candy Canes, Family Pranks and Talking Dogs Well Spotify just named AMT one of the top podcasts of the decade, so let's conclude the 2010s with a bumper episode of festive questions. In AMT380 we learn how the canine actors in the festive film Santa Buddies look ...
11.07.2019 AMT379: Fly Spray, Dogs vs Children, and Garlic Breath Is it OK to steal someone else's discarded room service jam? Is it OK to let friends take me on an all-expenses-paid holiday? Is it OK that my sister-in-law has given her dog the same name as my child? And ...
10.10.2019 AMT378: Blue Peter Dogs, Cats in Sacks, and Getting Over A Lipstick Fetishist In AMT378, we celebrate the arrival of Olly's new child, and consider listeners' problems with attraction/lack thereof, home security systems, and mathematical nursery rhymes. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written ...
09.05.2019 AMT377: Bull and Bear, Quality Street and Biblical Jokes In AMT377, we go looking for jokes in the Bible. It's...a mixed bag. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written words or voice memos to answer[email protected]. Tweet us Facebook Subscribe on ...
08.01.2019 AMT376: Morse Code, European Monkeys, and Peanuts Peanuts! Why do pubs have them? Monkeys! Why does Gibraltar have them and the rest of of Europe doesn't? Pickled eggs! Why does anyone eat them? We can't answer that third question, but tackle the others and more in AMT376. ...
07.04.2019 AMT375: Scratchcards, Pincushions, and Sherlock Holmes on coke In AMT375, mysteries abound: is there a murder plot in Jane Austen's Emma? Why don't newsagents get rich off scratchcards? Can you really make eggs benedict in a microwave? And how the blazes do you get a sieve clean??? Find ...
06.06.2019 AMT374: Jellyfish, Green Screens and Sea Monkey Soup Greetings, listeners! If you've ever wondered how jellyfish eat, shit and bonk, we've taken the hit to our search histories to illuminate you in AMT374. Plus: post-chemo hair; green screens; microwave mug cakes; and Ryvita. Find out more about this ...
05.02.2019 AMT373: Dr Martens, the Queen's Private Cinema, and Helen's Sentient Bed Things that have got the listeners perplexed this month: what do you do when you and your partner have the same name? Why doesn't the evil queen in Narnia drive a snazzier form of transport than a sled? And how ...
04.04.2019 AMT372: Cummerbunds, Mummified Monarchs, and Mr Motivator Whatever happened to aerobics on morning telly, the corpse of Henry VIII, and cummerbunds? We crack these mysteries and more in AMT372. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written words or ...
03.07.2019 AMT371: Gladiator Shortages, 'Go West', and Cats for Students In AMT371 we hear about letting a cat out of the bag and getting a peacock INTO the bag. Both sound very painful. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written words ...
02.07.2019 AMT370: Peacocks, Hamsters, and National Bagel Day This month's questioneers want to know what bullet journals are for, where hamsters come from, when the legal drinking age was invented, and what to do with a large painting by their friend which they hate. Find out more about ...
01.03.2019 AMT369: New Year's resolutions, gilets, and McDonald's mayonnaise To see in the new year, AMT369 contemplates the orangeness of basketballs, the failure of New Year's resolutions, the lovelorn state of a lottery-winning listener, and why the hell does McDonald's in the UK not sell mayonnaise, are they doing ...
12.09.2018 AMT368: St Nicholas's Sidekicks, Joseph and Mary's Marriage, and Slime AMT368 is a bulging sack of festive questions, including: were Joseph and Mary married? Why are there Santas in department stores? And should you disinvite your friends from your New Year's Eve celebrations because one of them shagged the other ...
11.01.2018 AMT367: IKEA Meatballs, the Popemobile, and a Years-Long Lie In AMT367: the Pope goes for a drive, Dustin Hoffman goes for a walk, and a listener stands in a queue at Epcot. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email words or ...
10.04.2018 AMT366: LASIK, Hand Modelling, and a Dead Body in your Living Room Landlord trouble! We've all had it, right? But have you ever had it as bad as the questioneer in AMT366? Also in this episode: passion fruit! Being square! The House of the Rising Sun! Find out more about this episode ...
09.06.2018 AMT365: Sweet Caroline, Bible Minigolf and Beaver Bums Which should you choose: working abroad, or romance at home? Dyson hairdryer, or a classic Duck'n'Dry? Vanilla pods, or beaver anuses? So many tricky decisions in AMT365! There's more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: ...
08.02.2018 AMT364: Cranberries, Jesters and the Cruise Ship Wig Department A questioneer is on a ship in Alaska with only 300 wigs and a case of unrequited rage for company. Where to seek solace but AMT, of course? Also! Why do jesters have little replicas of their own heads on ...
06.07.2018 AMT363: Parliamentary Mace-Fights, In-Flight Magazines, and the Soupsoaker While you're young, should you make a wig of your own hair? Why are bathroom walls across America filled with razor blades? And what's James Cameron been up to lately? Find out all in AMT363. There's more about this episode ...
05.03.2018 AMT362: Dangerous Beans, Meghan'n'Harry, and a Life-Sized Cardboard Cutout of Kylie Minogue There is a menace that we only just learned could have murdered us from within. It's a miracle we have survived this long. Find out what to fear in your own salads in AMT362. There's more about this episode at ...
04.05.2018 AMT361: Smell-O-Vision, Bidet Chat, and Trainy McTrainface With a spring in your step and a scent in your nostrils and a freshly cleaned undercarriage and AMT361 in your ears, join us to consider films that smell, friends that smell, and taking a ride on Michael Palin. There's ...
03.01.2018 AMT360: Astronauts' Underwear, the Blockbusters Hand Jive, and Sushidoku AMT360 will be a huge relief for you if you've spent a lot of your life wondering what astronauts do with their dirty underwear, why the audience is jiving during the credits of Blockbusters, and whether Bowling for Soup are ...
02.01.2018 AMT359: Center Parcs, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Pope Tropes Why does your cocktail come with a tiny piratical weapon in it? Why is Dumbledore so shit at HR? What's the deal with the Center Parcs dome? Find out all this and more in AMT359. There's more about this episode ...
01.04.2018 AMT358: Sexy Yoghurt, Chutney, and Your Friend's Gross Hot Tub It's AMT's 11th birthday! To celebrate, we can't replicate how Olly spent his own 11th birthday, at Cody's Tex-Mex restaurant in Stevenage, because it closed down. So instead we've made some mild-to-moderate life changes - hear all about them AMT358. ...
12.07.2017 AMT357: Band Aid, Home Alone 2 and Self-Love in Someone Else's House Where does all the money go from the Band Aid song? When you're someone's house guest, how long before you can have a wank? And what's a penguin doing in a nativity scene? The answers to all these mysteries are ...
11.02.2017 AMT356: Ghost Pubs, Cheesecake, and NSFW Weddings A questioneer today finds themselves in quite the consternation after clicking on the link to a friend's wedding list...and finding a dazzling array of Adult Pleasure Implements. And we're not talking golf clubs or top-of-the-range espresso machines here. Find out ...
10.05.2017 AMT355: Shippers, Stoners and Subway Smell In AMT355, we tackle the greatest mystery ever penned by Agatha Christie: why the hell is one of Miss Marple's murderees dining on a bowl of cornflour? We also learn about that smell that wafts out of every branch of ...

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Answer Me This! episodes:

AMT401: Danielle Steel, kebab awards and detestable birds

Mr Blobby and the Birth of the Burger (from 'Today In History with the Retrospectors')

Festivelusionist choice cuts

AMT400: Sky Dining, Swiss Barbie, and Homing Pigeons

retro AMT200

AMT399: Ginger Beer, Cheetahs' Pet Dogs, and Ball Pits

AMT398: Wedding Rings, Edamame, and Straight To Video Sequels

AMT397: Meerkats, Albatrosses, and Dog Mayors

AMT396: The Addams Family, Voodoo Dolls, and Snooping In The Bathroom Cabinet

AMT395: Bobble Hats, the Hollywood Sign and the Macarena

AMT394: Fabergé Eggs, Catnip for Lions, and the Funny Bone

AMT393: Glow Sticks, Walking the Plank, and the Pringles Sweats

AMT392: Elf on the Shelf, Glitter, and the Holy Foreskin

AMT391: Video Phones, Scrumping Apples, and Going Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel

AMT390: Giant Pumpkins, Playing Dead, and Sweet Fanny Adams

AMT 389: Banana Pizza, Sewing Machines and Monaco

AMT388: Lolly Stick Jokes, Pizza Cutters, and Wombat Scat

AMT387: Bear Nipples, Easy-Bake Ovens and Salmon Vending Machines

AMT386: Dirty Doormats, Sitcom Sets, and Handheld Indulgence Ice Cream

AMT385: Cold Toast, Intimate Bleaching and Rickrolling

AMT384: Leopard Print, Badger Repellent, and a Fortress of Toasters

AMT383: Missing Cats, Portraits' Eyes, and Jeremy Bentham's Corpse

AMT382: Ice Skating Music, Monks' Hairdos, and Life Coaching

AMT381: Slapstick, Eggy Smell and Your Naked Dad

AMT380: Candy Canes, Family Pranks and Talking Dogs

AMT379: Fly Spray, Dogs vs Children, and Garlic Breath

AMT378: Blue Peter Dogs, Cats in Sacks, and Getting Over A Lipstick Fetishist

AMT377: Bull and Bear, Quality Street and Biblical Jokes

AMT376: Morse Code, European Monkeys, and Peanuts

AMT375: Scratchcards, Pincushions, and Sherlock Holmes on coke

AMT374: Jellyfish, Green Screens and Sea Monkey Soup

AMT373: Dr Martens, the Queen's Private Cinema, and Helen's Sentient Bed

AMT372: Cummerbunds, Mummified Monarchs, and Mr Motivator

AMT371: Gladiator Shortages, 'Go West', and Cats for Students

AMT370: Peacocks, Hamsters, and National Bagel Day

AMT369: New Year's resolutions, gilets, and McDonald's mayonnaise

AMT368: St Nicholas's Sidekicks, Joseph and Mary's Marriage, and Slime

AMT367: IKEA Meatballs, the Popemobile, and a Years-Long Lie

AMT366: LASIK, Hand Modelling, and a Dead Body in your Living Room

AMT365: Sweet Caroline, Bible Minigolf and Beaver Bums

AMT364: Cranberries, Jesters and the Cruise Ship Wig Department

AMT363: Parliamentary Mace-Fights, In-Flight Magazines, and the Soupsoaker

AMT362: Dangerous Beans, Meghan'n'Harry, and a Life-Sized Cardboard Cutout of Kylie Minogue

AMT361: Smell-O-Vision, Bidet Chat, and Trainy McTrainface

AMT360: Astronauts' Underwear, the Blockbusters Hand Jive, and Sushidoku

AMT359: Center Parcs, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Pope Tropes

AMT358: Sexy Yoghurt, Chutney, and Your Friend's Gross Hot Tub

AMT357: Band Aid, Home Alone 2 and Self-Love in Someone Else's House

AMT356: Ghost Pubs, Cheesecake, and NSFW Weddings

AMT355: Shippers, Stoners and Subway Smell

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