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If you found us thanks to the lobster face-piss that featured in the last episode, welcome! There is no crustacean face-piss in AMT408, but there is:

Willy Wonka’s factory but for stock cubes
airport massage chair hogs
business meetings with your spouse
what the art industry has in common with podcasts
Deely Boppers Bobbers
King Charles’s mucky gloves
tiara rules
private investigators
the Spy Store
and
the downside of being Lil Nas X.

Plus: Olly just needs either his father-in-law to allow him a nightlight, or to buy night vision goggles (prescription obv); Helen will go to the Tower before claiming King Charles is well dressed; and if you see Martin advancing towards you in your airport chair, preemptively get up and RUN.

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 new episode will land in your podfeed Thursday 28 August 2025.

Paying patrons hear from us before then, though: not only will you receive a compilation of Bonus Bits halfway through the month, and an ad-free version of the episode, but you also get to join us for our live video question-answering featurette Petty Problems on 23rd August at 22:00 UK time (check your timezone). The previous edition was a very fun hangout, and we all got to weigh in on some not so serious problems – good neighbours, bad neighbours, a veterinarian finding some perhaps incriminating items inside a pet…

That video is still available to watch, and you should join us for the next one, by becoming an AMT donor at patreon.com/answermethis.

Check out our other work:

Helen and Martin just had a one-off piece on BBC Radio 4: Souvenirs, a tragicomic factual essay/musical thing, which you can listen to via BBC sounds if you’re in the UK, and if you’re not in the UK, here. You can also hang out with them IRL on the beach in Vancouver on 13 August at the Allusionist meetup. And, the latest in the Allusionist’s Four Letter Word season is a collab with Hannah McGregor about the word dino.

Olly handily lists most of his work at ollymann.com, where as well as checking out the many podcasts he makes and stars in, you can peruse the guest appearances he does, most recently a walking tour around Letchworth Garden City with The Story Pilgrim.

This episode is sponsored by Squarespace, the all in one platform for creating and running your online empire. Go to squarespace.com/answer, have a play around during the two-week free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code ANSWER.

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