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Answer Me This!

AMT395: Bobble Hats, the Hollywood Sign and the Macarena

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Put your arm out, palms up, now touch your biceps, cradle the back of your head, hand on hip, other hand on other hip, pat each buttock and JUMP because in AMT395 we're learning about the Macarena dance! As well as Rita Ora's hats, wearing sports merch for a team you don't support, and winning a car at the airport. 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 your questions for future 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 piano to mystery-writing to formal logic to Italian. AMT listeners get a free fortnight 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

Is there a bag of war for the lid?

0:02.9

A boy who lives down the lane.

0:04.9

Asterisk, asterisk.

0:07.5

How many murderers are there on this luxury train?

0:11.2

Asterisk, asterisk.

0:14.2

Hell and a bowl of liars, asterisk.

0:17.3

Hey, remember how kids used to get their fee text raid in shops?

0:19.9

No, but I remember you telling me that they did in episode 394.

0:23.5

Quentin in full-empt, he's written in to say,

0:25.7

I was surprised at your shock over the use of flora scopes and pedoscopes in British shoe shops.

0:31.0

In the popular Michael Cain film, Billion Dollar Brain.

0:34.3

I mean, Quentin says popular, I'm seeing 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.

0:38.0

The hero, Spy Harry Palmer, rushes into a shoe shop to use a pedoscope

0:42.7

to check the contents of a mysterious thermos flask to find it contains plague-carrying eggs.

0:49.8

Of course it does.

0:50.9

And of course the shoe shop flora scope would be able to tell that.

0:54.6

And also, I've been enjoying taking a thermos flask to the park over recent weeks.

0:58.3

In my one-a-lotted period of exercise per day, the last thing I would want to think is that it contains plague-carrying eggs.

1:04.1

Play carrying coffee?

1:05.9

Or eggs? Eggs of any kind do not want it in my flask.

1:08.6

Anyway, Quentin continues.

1:09.9

This would've provided a superb link back to your Billion Dollar Fabige eggs article.

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