AMT390: Giant Pumpkins, Playing Dead, and Sweet Fanny Adams

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Pop in your prosthetic fangs, spritz yourself with fake blood and turn off all the lights except for that annoying one that flickers - it's the Answer Me This Halloween Special! Featuring SCARY plays, GIANT gourds, MONSTER Mash, and SEXY Martin the Sound Man costumes if such things are possible, you have this month to prove it. Find out more about this episode at . CW: suicide, child murder, death. Send us questions for future episodes: email written words or voice recordings to [email protected]. Tweet us Facebook Our new album Home Entertainment is available now for £paywhatyouwant for a limited period at , where you can also obtain our other special albums, AMT episodes 1-200, and our Best Of compilations. Hear our other work: Helen Zaltzman's podcasts The Allusionist at and Veronica Mars Investigations at ; Olly Mann's five podcasts including , The Week Unwrapped, and Four Thought at ; and Martin Austwick's music at his Tom Waits podcast Song By Song at , and his new music'n'science podcast Maddie's Sound Explorers, hosted by Maddie Moate, at . This episode is sponsored by: Manscaped, precision-engineered grooming for your danglers. Get 20% off plus free shipping with the code ANSWER 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'.

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0:00.0	Be afraid, be very afraid. This is a special Halloween edition of the show.
0:25.1	Good ghost voice, Helen. Assuming you are doing a ghost voice and you haven't been possessed.
0:31.7	Already. What? I didn't make a sound. Here's a question from Megan in Seattle who says,
0:39.7	it is common at state fairs in the US states at northern latitudes where summer days are long
0:45.6	to have giant vegetables on display. Fun. The winning pumpkins often weigh between 1113
0:52.9	and 100 pounds. So Helen asked me this, what becomes of those giant pumpkins after the fair?
0:58.7	What becomes of the giant pumpkins? It seems like it would be fun to carve them into giant
1:06.3	jackalandons. I was reading up on giant pumpkin growing. It's a whole thing online and I enjoyed
1:11.9	spending a few hours observing the community of giant pumpkin grows around the world.
1:16.2	It seems to be big in New Zealand as well. Yeah. But I think the current record holder is in
1:20.2	Belgium or Germany. He is Matthias Weljimmons of Belgium. Yeah, it's had an over £2,000
1:26.8	pumpkin that just keep on getting bigger. But I haven't seen that many giant jackalandons
1:32.2	and they say it's very easy for the giant pumpkins to split and that means they're invalid
1:36.6	for competition. Right. They're quite fragile. Or maybe it's just people are so wowed by the
1:41.6	giantness that they just want to keep them whole because they'll last longer. Yeah, I mean, I've
1:45.6	seen giant pumpkins doing a lap of honour. Oh yeah. For example, there's a garden centre near us
1:50.1	that always has a giant pumpkin outside at this time of year and I presume it's been to the women's
1:55.0	institute fate or whatever in one surprise. But then it sits outside the garden centre as a sort of
1:59.5	photo opportunity prop. Yeah. I mean, you wouldn't eat it because it's there for children to sit on
2:04.4	and have a picture taken at. What they often do is they retrieve the seeds to grow next year's
2:09.2	giant pumpkins and then they compost the rest or they feed it to wildlife like moose and bears
2:15.4	and bite them. Yeah, because apparently they're quite watery and don't taste a very much.
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