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Answer Me This!

AMT364: Cranberries, Jesters and the Cruise Ship Wig Department

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

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 [email protected], 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 .

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0:00.0

Under which country's government is love island fall?

0:05.0

Us we live, us we live

0:07.6

Which of the Danny Dyers would win in a brawl?

0:11.3

Us we live, us we live

0:14.2

Heaven and glory, us we live

0:17.2

Now listen as I'm pleased to say that our co-host for the last 11 years, Helen Zoltzmann, is alive

0:22.8

I'm alive, she's alive

0:24.6

I'm pretty pleased about that

0:25.9

Yes

0:26.9

Good

0:28.2

For reasons other than the podcast

0:29.8

So and for people listening in the future who won't be sensitive to the time release schedule

0:33.5

having been delayed of this podcast

0:35.0

Let's just enlighten what has happened over the past few weeks, Helen

0:38.0

It's been a strange few weeks

0:39.8

If you're sensitive to discussion of medical stuff, maybe fast forward the next couple of minutes

0:44.3

I in Tasmania, in mid-June, I got tonsillitis and it broke bad

0:52.1

Basically, I woke up one night and hour after I went to bed and my whole neck had swelled up

0:57.6

And I looked like nanny from Count Dockyler

1:00.0

Always finding the positive

1:02.4

I went to the doctor who was like, go to the hospital, I don't know what this is

1:07.7

That's not news you want to hear it is

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