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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 being weird: them, or their family? We also learn about:

sand heists
leaving your body to scienceDisneyland
the perfect beachcarpet of fish blood
werewolf menstruation
Apple Tango
404 codes
opening coconuts
cooking with mayonnaise
Nicky Pluff the doll’s eye polisher
and
bat-flavoured beverages.

And a question for you to answer in the comments: what would you write in a note to the medical students dissecting your body after you left it to science?

Got questions for us? Send them in writing or voice note to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com – remember to include the formula “Helen and/or Olly, answer me this”, and let us know a name (pseudonyms are fine) and pronouns to use for you. Next episode will land in your podfeed 1 May 2025.

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Check out our other work:

Olly has a daily podcast, Today in History with the Retrospectors, and a monthly magazine show The Modern Mann, both of which you can find along with his other work at OllyMann.com. 

Helen‘s entertainment podcast about language, The Allusionist, is on a break until early May but there’s a ten-year archive which you can find at the podplaces and at theallusionist.org – including the Bufflusionist episode about Buffy the Vampire Slayer language.

Martin‘s other sounds include songs, available at PaleBirdMusic.com, his completed Tom Waits podcast Song By Song at SongBySongPodcast.com, and his experimental fiction podcast Neutrino Watch at neutrinowatch.org.