AMT397: Meerkats, Albatrosses, and Dog Mayors

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In AMT397, questioneers want to know when meerkats got so popular, why you'd wear an albatross around your neck, what you do when your friends think you're a pennypincher, and whether Mary Shelley had sex on her mother's grave. Find out more about this episode at . For more AMT stuff, head over to answermethisstore.com, 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 . Tweet us @, and follow us on Facebook . Hear our other work: Olly Mann has a new podcast, the Retrospectors, which you can find along with his other shows at ollymann.com; Helen Zaltzman makes the podcasts The Allusionist - theallusionist.org - and Veronica Mars Investigations VMIpod.com; and Martin Austwick's music is available at palebirdmusic.com, his Tom Waits podcast Song By Song at songbysongpodcast.com, 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	Where are the roller coasters at No Madland?
0:04.8	Asking us, asking us
0:07.8	Just how well do you know the back of your hand?
0:11.3	Asking us, asking us, heaven and glory asking us
0:17.1	Excited to announce that Oli Mann has some thrilling news
0:21.2	Yeah, well exciting news for you if you like listening to Oli Mann
0:24.4	If you don't, this isn't exciting news
0:26.1	It's just news
0:27.1	It's news you want to avoid
0:28.9	That's all news for me
0:30.9	If you feel like you're not getting enough of me by having a monthly slash fortnightly version of me on this show
0:36.7	There is now a daily version of me you can put in your ears every day
0:41.2	Daily dose of Oli Mann
0:43.0	Imagine waking up to these pipes every day
0:45.4	It's called the retro spectres
0:48.2	And it's kind of on this day in history idea
0:52.0	So it is a history show but it's kind of a history show for people who don't like history
0:56.0	Like it's not going to be you know this is the day Hitler became chancellor
0:59.4	We're not doing that
1:00.6	You're just picking the fun bits like when they invented Sherbert Dibdabs
1:04.6	Exactly picking the fun bits is right so we're doing you know this is the day cats opened in the West End
1:09.1	That's the show
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