AMT392: Elf on the Shelf, Glitter, and the Holy Foreskin

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jingle those bells, it's festive AMT392, with questions about Elf on the Shelf, fancy advent calendars, CONTENT WARNING: the episode may not be suitable for children, as it contains contains information about parental deceit w.r.t. Christmas logistics, plus a thoroughly researched passage about Adult Material depicting Jesus. Find out more about this episode at . Tis the season for the AMT Christmas album, which you can get at , along with our other special albums, AMT episodes 1-200, and our Best Of compilations. Send us questions for 2021 episodes: email written words or voice recordings to [email protected]. Tweet us Facebook 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: The Great Courses Plus, the streaming library of courses on topics from chess to mystery fiction to yoga to formal logic to dog training. AMT listeners get a free month 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	So this is Christmas and what have you done?
0:04.8	Is there any good reason to get off my bum?
0:11.0	Is there any good reason to get off my bum?
0:17.0	Just before we get going on the actual matters at hand,
0:20.1	which are Christmas questions, thank you everybody for sending them in.
0:22.9	We should just issue our annual health warning on this,
0:25.3	which is if you're a parent listening with younger children right now,
0:29.1	you may choose to have the magic ruin for them through some other mechanic
0:34.1	and turn this episode off and listen to it personally in your own headphones,
0:37.9	not with young company.
0:39.1	Yes.
0:40.1	Oh, ho, ho.
0:42.6	Here's a question from Julia from Ottawa, but living in Dublin,
0:45.8	who says, Helen, answer me this,
0:47.6	should I start the elf on the shelf tradition for my kids?
0:52.4	My oldest child is just turning three,
0:54.2	and my first thought was that elf on the shelf seems like a completely fabricated tradition.
0:58.4	All traditions are fabricated.
1:00.4	That's true. God, that's profound.
1:02.4	Whose main purpose is to stress out parents and or make kids feel guilty.
1:07.0	Hmm, perfect.
1:08.2	On the other hand, I'm looking for small ways to make the winter more festive
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