

Answer Me This!
Helen and Olly
BACK FOR 2025! Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann host the award-winning podcast that's been answering the world's questions since 2007. New episodes on the last Thursday of each month - keep us going by supporting us at patreon.com/answermethis. Visit our official site at answermethispodcast.com and buy classic episodes and albums at answermethisstore.com
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Mar 7, 2019 • 51min
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 or voice memos to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Tweet us http://twitter.com/helenandolly Facebook http://facebook.com/answermethis Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Hear AMT episodes 1-200, all five of our special albums, and our Best Of compilations at . Hear Helen Zaltzman's podcast The Allusionist at , Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at , and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Want to build a website? Go to , and get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code 'answer'. Also! Get free audiobooks and half-price Audible subscriptions at - and while you're browsing around Audible, be sure to download Olly's new series . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 7, 2019 • 59min
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 this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written words or voice memos to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Tweet us http://twitter.com/helenandolly Facebook http://facebook.com/answermethis Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Get your engine revving for Valentine's Day with the AMT Love album! One hour of your questions about your body parts and the various fun things you want to do with them. It's available, along with all our special albums, Best Of compilations and classic episodes 1-200, at . Hear Helen Zaltzman's podcast The Allusionist at , Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at , and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Want to build a website? Go to , and get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code 'answer'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 3, 2019 • 49min
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 this specifically to infuriate Olly Mann, GIVE HIM MAYONNAISE. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written words or voice memos to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Tweet us http://twitter.com/helenandolly Facebook http://facebook.com/answermethis Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Get your engine revving for Valentine's Day with the AMT Love album! One hour of your questions about your body parts and the various fun things you want to do with them. It's available, along with all our special albums, Best Of compilations and classic episodes 1-200, at . Hear Helen Zaltzman's podcast The Allusionist at , Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at , and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Want to build a website? Go to , and get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code 'answer'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 9, 2018 • 55min
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 one's girlfriend? Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written words or voice memos to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Tweet us http://twitter.com/helenandolly Facebook http://facebook.com/answermethis Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Now is the OPTIMAL time to listen to the AMT Christmas album! It's available, along with all our special albums, Best Of compilations and classic episodes 1-200, at . Hear Helen Zaltzman's podcast The Allusionist at , Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at , and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . This episode is sponsored by Squarespace and Haynes publishing. Want to build a website? Go to , and get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code 'answer'. Haynes is running a Secret Santa deal on its books: get Bluffer's Guides on a multitude of subjects or the parody Haynes Explains books for £5 each at http://haynes.com/santa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 1, 2018 • 52min
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 voice memos to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Tweet us http://twitter.com/helenandolly Facebook http://facebook.com/answermethis Subscribe on iTunes http://iTunes.com/AnswerMeThis Buy old episodes, albums and our Best Of compilations at . Hear Helen Zaltzman's podcast The Allusionist at , Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at , and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . Helen and Martin are touring the Allusionist around the US and Canada over the next few weeks: Squarespace! Want to build a website? Go to , and get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code 'answer'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 4, 2018 • 51min
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 at . Send us questions for future episodes: email words or voice memos to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Tweet us http://twitter.com/helenandolly Facebook http://facebook.com/answermethis Subscribe on iTunes http://iTunes.com/AnswerMeThis Buy old episodes, albums and our Best Of compilations at . Hear Helen Zaltzman's podcast The Allusionist at , Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at , and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . Helen and Martin are touring the Allusionist around the US and Canada over the next few weeks: Squarespace! Want to build a website? Go to , and get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code 'answer'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 6, 2018 • 50min
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: email words or voice memos to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Tweet us http://twitter.com/helenandolly Facebook http://facebook.com/answermethis Subscribe on iTunes http://iTunes.com/AnswerMeThis Buy old episodes, albums and our Best Of compilations at . Hear Helen Zaltzman's podcast The Allusionist at http://theallusionist.org, Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at http://modernmann.co.uk, and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . Squarespace! Want to build a website? Go to , and get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code 'answer'. The Bluffers' Guides are back! Rapidly become well-informed in subjects from cats to fishing to chocolate at . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 2, 2018 • 47min
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 the end of their staffs? Why are FedEx ok with being the cause of Tom Hanks being cast away in Cast Away? And why are people standing waist-deep in wet cranberries? Is it some bold cure for a UTI? There's more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email words or voice memos to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, call 0208 123 5877, Skype answermethis. Tweet us http://twitter.com/helenandolly Facebook http://facebook.com/answermethis Subscribe on iTunes http://iTunes.com/AnswerMeThis Buy old episodes, albums and our Best Of compilations at . Hear Helen Zaltzman's podcast The Allusionist at http://theallusionist.org, Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at http://modernmann.co.uk, and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . Squarespace! Want to build a website? Go to , and get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code 'answer'. The Bluffers' Guides are back! Rapidly become well-informed in subjects from cats to fishing to chocolate at . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 7, 2018 • 53min
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 at . June is full of SPORTY SPORT, so while watching people kick balls or thwack balls, listen to the AMT Sports Day special, an hour of surprisingly great AMT-ness all about the sports. Get it from iTunes, Amazon and . Send us questions for future episodes: email words or voice memos to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, call 0208 123 5877, Skype answermethis. Tweet us http://twitter.com/helenandolly Facebook http://facebook.com/answermethis Subscribe on iTunes http://iTunes.com/AnswerMeThis Buy old episodes, albums and our Best Of compilations at . Hear Helen Zaltzman's podcast The Allusionist at http://theallusionist.org, Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at http://modernmann.co.uk, and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . Squarespace! Want to build a website? Go to , and get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code 'answer'. The Bluffers' Guides are back! Rapidly become well-informed in subjects from jazz to management to fishing to dogs at . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 3, 2018 • 45min
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 . Are you ready for the ROYAL WEDDING OMGGGGGG? The soundtrack to your giddy anticipation/antipathy/indifference is the AMT Jubilee album, one hour of right royal fun. Get it from iTunes, Amazon and . Send us questions for future episodes: email words or voice memos to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, call 0208 123 5877, Skype answermethis. Tweet us http://twitter.com/helenandolly Facebook http://facebook.com/answermethis Subscribe on iTunes http://iTunes.com/AnswerMeThis Buy old episodes, albums and our Best Of compilations at . Hear Helen Zaltzman's podcast The Allusionist at http://theallusionist.org, Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at http://modernmann.co.uk, and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . Squarespace! Want to build a website? Go to http://squarespace.com/answer, and get a 10% discount with the code 'answer'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices