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Answer Me This!

AMT375: Scratchcards, Pincushions, and Sherlock Holmes on coke

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In AMT375, mysteries abound: is there a murder plot in Jane Austen's Emma? Why don't newsagents get rich off scratchcards? Can you really make eggs benedict in a microwave? And how the blazes do you get a sieve clean??? Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written words or voice memos to [email protected]. Tweet us Facebook Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Hear AMT episodes 1-200, all five of our special 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 . This episode is sponsored by 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'.

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0:00.0

If there's live action, Fantasia, who'll play the broom.

0:05.0

Has it been a long day?

0:08.0

Should I put a tenor on Orlando Bloom?

0:11.0

Has it been a long day?

0:14.0

Has it been a long day?

0:17.0

Before we begin formal proceedings, Helen,

0:19.0

I have a quick Disney World clarification to make

0:22.0

of the kind that you will really struggle to pretend you give a shit about.

0:25.0

Are you sure it's going to be quick?

0:28.0

Because from what I gather, people are very, very steamed up

0:33.0

in extreme detail about the issue you're about to raise.

0:36.0

The feedback has been extensive, but I think it can be dealt with quickly.

0:40.0

You will recall in the last episode, Matt from Austin asked me about a ride at Epcot

0:45.0

that featured animatronic scenes depicting farming in the future.

0:48.0

He thought it was spaceship earth, and indeed it might have been

0:52.0

for reasons I dealt with in the episode.

0:55.0

Anyway, as you suggest, Helen, literally dozens of you have been in touch

0:59.0

with quite detailed emails.

1:01.0

Quite detailed. Quite a lot of detail.

1:03.0

To say that Matt might have actually been remembering the now permanently

1:07.0

closed ride horizons, which opened in 1983, closed in 1994,

1:13.0

and amazingly was originally called Future Probe.

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