AMT393: Glow Sticks, Walking the Plank, and the Pringles Sweats

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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New year, new questions, about naming ravens at the Tower of London, how glow sticks work, did pirates really walk the plank, and how come prawn cocktail-flavour Pringles bring out one listener in the sweats. Find out more about this episode at . For more AMT stuff, head over to , where you can get our six 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 the 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	Where are you baby? We used to have so much fun.
0:04.8	How many times did Spock set the faces to stun?
0:11.3	How many times did Spock set the faces to stun?
0:14.1	How many times did Spock set the faces to stun?
0:17.2	Happy New Year listeners, happy 14th birthday answer me this.
0:20.9	I hate you.
0:22.4	I know that.
0:24.0	So yeah, that wasn't anything to do with our 14th birthday.
0:27.1	I just couldn't suppress it anymore.
0:28.9	I feel like ants me this years are more like dog ears.
0:32.0	So now we're an old and creaky docile dog and the teenagers are quite some way behind us.
0:37.4	Yeah, well I suppose the way podcasting as a medium has gone feels a bit like dog ears, doesn't it?
0:41.5	So like, you know, every year for the last five years of ants me this has felt like 20 years of
0:45.4	podcasting. The first 10 years just coasted a lot, just more of the same, wasn't it?
0:48.2	Well, I suppose if dogs became ultra-capitalist and started buying each other for hundreds of
0:52.5	millions of dollars.
0:53.7	Yeah, that's what dogs get like when they're 14.
0:56.0	Yeah, just throwing the cash around before they suddenly die.
1:00.0	Actually, this metaphor works a little better than one would have imagined.
1:03.7	Hello, Helen, Oli and Martin. Paul here from Hertfordshire.
1:07.8	I'm a confirmed meat eater, but I think like a lot of people, I'm reducing my meat intake.
1:12.8	So venturing more into vegetarian options.
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