AMT396: The Addams Family, Voodoo Dolls, and Snooping In The Bathroom Cabinet

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In AMT396, questioneers are concerned about crabs eating their babies, The Addams Family, and whether their voodoo doll of their office nemesis worked out a little too well. 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	As Adam Duritt finished counting all the crows.
0:05.0	As we dance, as we dance.
0:07.0	Did you know PG Woodhouse wrote anything goes?
0:11.0	As we dance, as we dance, heaven and glory, as we dance.
0:17.0	They all want me, they can't have me,
0:19.0	so they all come and dance beside me.
0:21.0	I think we can all admit to being a bit of rouse now.
0:24.0	The man-corrana.
0:26.0	In our conversation about the Macarena last episode,
0:29.0	we were commenting on the irony that the Macarena is a comparatively unsexy dance,
0:34.0	given that it was inspired by a flamenco dancer.
0:37.0	Kevin from New Mexico has reached out to say,
0:40.0	I want to point out that the flamenco is not a sexy dance.
0:44.0	Flamenco is a rich and complex art form that includes music,
0:48.0	singing, hand clapping, percussion, as well as dance.
0:52.0	The principal expression is not sexiness,
0:54.0	but rather grief, sorrow and defiance against an oppressive world.
0:59.0	Otherwise, I enjoy your show from high-desitive New Mexico.
1:02.0	Very beautiful place.
1:04.0	Can it not be sexy at the same time as prioritising all those other things?
1:10.0	I mean, I do know about the other things,
1:12.0	because I have read a whole book about flamenco.
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