meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Answer Me This!

AMT377: Bull and Bear, Quality Street and Biblical Jokes

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

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 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'.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Does being told to keep calm ever keep someone calm?

0:04.8

Asking us, asking us, with old McDonald's family inherit the farm.

0:11.0

Asking us, asking us, heaven and glory as needed.

0:17.1

Sad news, since the last episode came out, we were discussing in it,

0:21.3

Morse code, and the Inspector Morse theme tune,

0:24.1

and the day that episode came out,

0:26.2

the composer of the Inspector Morse theme tune died,

0:29.4

Barrington Foulong, very glad that we didn't slag off the Inspector Morse theme tune

0:35.4

on such a significant day for the Inspector Morse theme tune.

0:38.4

He got proper obits everywhere.

0:40.2

He's done a lot of films, did the music truly madly deeply,

0:43.3

and for the film Hilary and Jackie?

0:45.0

Yeah, well, that came about because Anthony Mingela wrote episode one of Inspector Morse,

0:50.2

because Anthony Mingela was into his sort of classical music and ballet and stuff,

0:53.6

and saw a ballet that Barrington Foulong had done the music for,

0:58.4

and commissioned him to do Inspector Morse,

1:00.6

and then liked it so much, he commissioned him to do truly madly deeply.

1:03.5

Wow, which is a very music-y film.

1:05.6

Tom has been in touch with this feedback.

1:07.6

The Morse code in the TV show Morse was different every week,

1:10.7

and would include clues, sometimes red herrings, to the episode content,

1:15.4

including Morse's unknown first name.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Helen & Olly, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Helen & Olly and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.