

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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Apr 5, 2018 • 54min
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 more about this episode at http://answermethispodcast.com/episode361. 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 http://answermethisstore.com 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

Mar 1, 2018 • 55min
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 bowling to OBTAIN soup or on BEHALF of soup. There's more about this episode at http://answermethispodcast.com/episode360. 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 http://answermethisstore.com 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 http://songbysongpodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 1, 2018 • 56min
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 at http://answermethispodcast.com/episode359. 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 http://answermethisstore.com 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 http://songbysongpodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 4, 2018 • 51min
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. Find out more about this episode at http://answermethispodcast.com/episode358. 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 http://answermethisstore.com 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 http://songbysongpodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 7, 2017 • 53min
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 in AMT357. Find out more about this episode at http://answermethispodcast.com/episode357. Send us questions for future episodes: email 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 http://answermethisstore.com 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 http://songbysongpodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 2, 2017 • 53min
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 more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email 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 Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 5, 2017 • 47min
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 Subway, fan fiction, and KFC (Kentucky Fried Lung). Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email 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 Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 7, 2017 • 53min
AMT354: Magic Wands, Mount Fuji and Freakshakes
There's MAGIC! all over AMT354: how to MAGICALLY transform a banana into a sliced banana, how to MAGICALLY turn an egg into an egg IN A BOTTLE, and how to MAGICALLY turn an adolescent boy into a hit with the ladies. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email 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 Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 3, 2017 • 57min
AMT353: Despacito, Apples for Teacher, and Glory Holes
To borrow from The Song Of The Summer 2017, let AMT353 in the walls of your labyrinth. IE your ears. What did you think we were talking about? A duck's complicated nether regions? All will become clearer (but not necessarily more savoury) at . Send us questions for future episodes: email 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 Olly Mann's The Modern Mann at and Martin Austwick's Song By Song at . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 6, 2017 • 55min
AMT352: Dothraki, Points of View, and sleb-spotting Shatner
Had any good celeb-spots lately? However good yours are, there's no way they're as good as the celeb-spot hat trick Olly scored last week. Hear who in AMT352. Find out all about the episode at . 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 . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices