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Answer Me This!

AMT383: Missing Cats, Portraits' Eyes, and Jeremy Bentham's Corpse

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

AMT383's questioneers need to know what those funny things are called that you stick your face through at the seaside, how many lightbulbs there are in Las Vegas, how to say farewell to a hook-up, and why the corpse of utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham is still keeping busy at university. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written words or voice recordings to [email protected]. Tweet us Facebook Hear AMT episodes 1-200, all five of our special albums, and our Best Of compilations at . Hear our other work: Helen Zaltzman's podcasts The Allusionist at and Veronica Mars Investigations at ; Olly Mann's five podcasts including and The Media Podcast at ; and Martin Austwick's music at and his Tom Waits podcast 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

Has Simon Le Bonne ever eaten a Bon Bonne?

0:05.0

Has Simon Le Bonne ever eaten a Bon Bonne?

0:08.0

Did did run, run, run, run, did do run, run?

0:11.2

Has Simon Le Bonne ever eaten a Bon Bonne?

0:17.1

In last episode, Katie from Kingston asked what to do

0:20.1

with a book of Mormon that she didn't want,

0:22.5

how to dispose of that, sensitively, but also definitively.

0:26.5

We gave her various suggestions.

0:28.5

Here we said donated to someone, basically, like a college or a school.

0:31.5

Well, anonymous from the Wassanich and La Kongan territories,

0:36.0

aka Victoria British Columbia, says,

0:39.2

as someone who used to work in a Canadian public library system,

0:42.9

I found myself laughing somewhat maniacally when only asserted that there is always a market

0:47.4

for used religious texts.

0:49.2

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

0:52.8

On my first day of work as a library clerk, I was instructed to never,

0:56.5

under any circumstances, accept donations of Bibles

1:01.4

and was introduced to Bob the box of Bibles

1:05.7

that we accumulated every few weeks and then had to pay to have collected and recycled.

1:11.2

I once arrived early to work only to find one of our sweet regulars

1:14.7

furtively shoving water-damaged Bibles through the return slot.

1:18.8

Wow.

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