AMT410: Unwanted Tattoos, Cherry Wine and Sexy Old Men

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In a piggyback ride, who is the piggy? WHO IS THE PIGGY??? A questioneer simply must know! We also learn about cleaning swimming pools pre-chlorine, fruit wine in song lyrics, TV character crossovers, and telling fibs in a wedding speech. For more information about this episode visit answermethispodcast.com/episode410. Got questions for us to answer? Send them in writing or as a voice note to [email protected], OR - thanks to Adam of SocialComms.uk who has revived our phone number - you can call 0208 123 5877. Next episode will be in your podfeed 30 October 2025 so get your Halloween questions in, or hang onto them for a full year. Become a patron at patreon.com/answermethis to help with the continuing existence of AMT, and to get an ad-free version of the episode, plus bonus material each month, and our live video question-answering session Petty Problems. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace, the all in one platform for creating and running your online empire. Go to squarespace.com/answer, have a play around during the two-week free trial, and when you're ready to launch, get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code ANSWER. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are there any crimes left without their own show on Netflix?
0:05.2	Is that the Blair Witch or just a bunch of wet sticks?
0:15.4	Ollie, our previous episode caused quite a tizzy for Charlotte, who writes to say,
0:23.5	I was shocked to hear Ollie say that Kenneth Branagh isn't anybody's fantasy when he was, in fact, my sexual awakening.
0:33.1	Goodness.
0:33.6	We watched the 1996 Hamlet in my GCSE English lit class.
0:38.8	Oh, okay.
0:39.3	It wasn't his Poirot then.
0:40.3	It wasn't his, what else he'd done?
0:42.4	Volander?
0:43.4	Dead again.
0:44.4	Peter's friends.
0:45.4	Everyone wanted to fuck him in Peter's friends.
0:47.8	Charlotte says,
0:49.1	I was absolutely taken by Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet's intensity
0:52.8	and his tiny triangular beard, so much so
0:57.3	that it prompted me to write a list of, I quote, sexy old men that I still have today.
1:04.8	Apparently, this is who my 16-year-old self was into in 2011.
1:09.6	And she's an attached image of the notebook that she wrote in 2011. Yep, Sunday 22nd of January. Yes, yeah. What I love about it is, and we'll put it on the website as well, answer me this podcast.com. So you can read along, if you like, is that it's got the names of the gentleman on the left, David's Hewis, Alan Rickman, Kenneth
1:28.0	Branner, Vigo Mortensen. But on the right, the years of their birth. She actually done the
1:33.1	calculations. She's probably got a different list for sexy young men and sexy neither old nor young
1:39.7	men. Ewan McGregor, 1971. So in 2011, he was 40. I don't think he'd have appreciated being on this list
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