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Answer Me This!
Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann host the award-winning podcast that's been answering the world's questions since 2007. New episodes fortnightly - 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
Episodes
Answer Me This!AMT423: Infinity pools, Einstein ads, and incubating an egg in your underpants
Before listening to AMT423, you have to do a couple of minutes of homework, which is to watch the video we just reposted at facebook.com/answermethis. Then…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Stir and Forget. Stir and Forget
Welcome to this month's Answer Us Back, full of your feedback and questions provoked by previous Answer Me Thises. On today’s dance card: ● Elly from London…
Answer Me This!AMT422: Strictly, TK Maxx and Stickers from the Dentist
AMT422’s questioneers want to know how to count how far away lightning is striking, what is the strictness in Strictly Come Dancing, who was the first monarch…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Fridge Magnet Rotator
Welcome to this month's Answer Us Back, full of your feedback and questions provoked by previous episodes of Answer Me This. Today we have: Look, we recorded…
Answer Me This!AMT421: Camp Classics, Singing Washing Machines, and Muffins
In AMT421, questioneers want to know about orchestra conductors falling off their plinths, why their washing machine plays a little tune, why humans got into…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Consider the Bidet
Welcome to this month's Answer Us Back, packed full of your responses to previous episodes of Answer Me This - or as it will soon be rebranded, Could Be…
Answer Me This!AMT420: G-strings, Cuck Chairs and Fatbergs
In AMT420, questioneers want to know whether airplanes have keys, what the G stands for in g-string, and why hotel rooms have one solitary chair staring at the…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Nelly Tagliatelle
Every edition of Answer Us Back features your responses to/observations upon previous episodes of AMT, some of them many many years old - but today's episode…
Answer Me This!AMT419: Living Statues, Mangelwurzels, and Tom Cruise’s Cakes
AMT419’s questioneers need to know how living statues get to work, whether ladybirds do have homes to fly away to, what happens to stadiums with brand names…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: scab library
Hello! Welcome to this month's edition of Answer Us Back, featuring your responses to and observations upon past episodes of AMT. Today: Responding to AMT417’s…
Answer Me This!AMT418: Prop Cigarettes, Charlie Chaplin’s Moustache, and Condom Machines
What would you do with a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged? One questioneer needs any answer other than 'read it'. AMT418's questioneers also wonder how they…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: silky finish
Hello! Welcome to this month's edition of Answer Us Back, featuring your responses to and observations upon previous episodes of AMT. Today: Swiss Chris…
Answer Me This!AMT417: Shotgun Weddings, Oldest Ballet Dancers, and a Collection of Baby Teeth
This month, questioneers want to know why shotgun weddings and three line whips are called that, what the deal is with those little fish-shaped bottles of soy…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: something has to go in that hole
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…
Answer Me This!AMT416: LEGO Titanic, Curried Whale and World Book Day
AMT416’s questioneers want to know what to do with their wedding suit post-divorce, why is World Book Day, how Nelson’s Column is cleaned, whether Brits during…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: 'nduja-smeared rubber glove
Hello! Welcome to this month's edition of Answer Us Back, full of your feedback on AMTs old and new. Today: Helen's going to watch ice hockey this weekend…
Answer Me This!AMT415: BLTs, Zambonis and the Wingdings Conspiracy
This month, questioneers want to know what Zambonis are up to on ice hockey rinks, what Wee Willie Winkie is up to running through the town, why not many…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Tobermory Carvermory
Hello! Welcome to this month's edition of Answer Us Back, full of your feedback on AMTs old and new. Today: In response to AMT413's question about unusual food…
Answer Me This!AMT414: Wax Seals, Y2K Songs, and the Butler Doing It
This month, questioneers want to know about songs for the year 2000, what the deal is with wax seals, why we say “The butler did it!” when the butler never did…
Answer Me This!AMT413: Secret marriage, wet Mr Darcy and transparent pie
How do you tell your parents you’ve been married for several years? Is bell-ringing a sport? What should you wear on a TV quiz show? How rich/soggy is Mr…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Naughty Elves and Same-names
Hello! Here is this month's edition of Answer Us Back, full of your feedback on AMTs old and new - mostly pretty new. On today's menu: Olly Mann himself has a…
Answer Me This!AMT412: Widow’s Peaks, Mixtapes and Garlic
AMT412’s questioneers want to know why Innocent smoothies wear little woolly hats, how to increase someone’s spice tolerance, whether someone making you a…
Answer Me This!Answer Us Back: Tiaras and Cadavers
Wake up, babe - a new AMT feature just dropped! Midway through the interminable month between new episodes, we’ll be doing an Answer Us Back episode that’s all…
Answer Me This!AMT 411: Sperm Donation, Snake Charming, and Open Top Bus Parades
AMT411’s questioneers want to know whether snakes really are charmed, if people of Yore really slept sitting up, and what you should do when your mum finds out…
Answer Me This!AMT410: Unwanted Tattoos, Cherry Wine and Sexy Old Men
In a piggyback ride, who is the piggy? WHO IS THE PIGGY??? A questioneer simply must know! We also learn about cleaning swimming pools pre-chlorine, fruit wine…
Answer Me This!AMT409: Nude Furniture, Cheesecake Factory, and Eating Slugs
Today’s questioneers want to know whether to hide bawdy home decor when kids visit, how one comes to own a cemetery, why cities are full of artist-decorated…
Answer Me This!AMT408: Tiaras, Private Investigators, and the King’s Mucky Gloves
Today’s questioneers want to know, among other things, what private investigators actually do, what happened to Deely Boppers (Deely Bobbers?), how to greet…
Answer Me This!AMT407: Cartoon Anvils, Dating Semi-Celebs, and Lobster Piss
Today’s questioneers want to know why a coffee shop will have either good coffee or good chairs but not both, WTF Judi Dench’s voice is doing at Disney World…
Answer Me This!AMT406: Slicing Socks, Polyglot Popes and Stealing Butter
Why do Danes slice up the bride’s veil and the groom’s socks at a wedding? Is it OK to take pats of butter from a cafe? How/when do Popes learn Italian? And…
Answer Me This!AMT405: Trophy kissing, Biscoff, and the meaning of pretzels
It's one of those fantasy questions that gets batted around when "Who would you want at your fantasy dinner party?" has been wrung dry: what would you spend…
Answer Me This!AMT404: Sand Heists, the Northern Lights, and Werewolf Menstruation
In AMT404, listeners want to know where to go to see the northern lights, why Jesus's official birthday and deathday aren't on the same calendar, and who is…
Answer Me This!AMT403: Popcorn, Vertigo and Toby Carvery
We've been making this show for a long time. We have had SO many questions about weddings. And yet, in AMT403, we get a whole fresh spin on the Wedding WTFery…
Answer Me This!AMT402: Tall Ships, Branston Pickle and Bagpipe Lung
Can you bloody well believe it? New AMT in your ears in the year 2025?? Well, it's real! In AMT402, listeners ask about roller derby names, baked bean beans…
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Happy birthday to AMT, turning 18 years old today! Which means our baby is now an adult, and we are celebrating by.... 🎉 BRINGING THE PODCAST BACK! 🎉 We're…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…
Answer Me This!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…