AMT412: Widow’s Peaks, Mixtapes and Garlic

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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AMT412’s questioneers want to know why Innocent smoothies wear little woolly hats, how to increase someone’s spice tolerance, whether someone making you a mixtape is definitely a sign of romantic interest, and what to do about similarly-named strangers using your email address. For more information about this episode, visit answermethispodcast.com/episode412 Got questions for us to answer, or feedback about an episode? Send them in writing or as a voice note to [email protected], or you can call 0208 123 5877 like the old days. AMT413 will be in your podfeed 24 December 2025, and halfway through the month you’ll get an episode of our new feature Answer Us Back in your podfeed, full of your own contributions to AMT questions recent and ancient. Become a patron at patreon.com/answermethis to help with the continuing existence of AMT. All tiers get an ad-free version of the episode, plus bonus material each month, and our live video question-answering session Petty Problems which is next happening 18 January 2026; but spend a bit more and you get access to an RSS feed with ALL the AMT stuff EVER, including our entire back catalogue, our six themed albums, the retro AMTs, and every Bit of Crapp from the AMT App. 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. Thanks to Naked Wines for sponsoring AMT, and for providing bottles straight from world-class winemakers, cutting out the middleman, delivered to your door. Head to nakedwines.co.uk/answer to get a £30 voucher on your first 6 pack, including free delivery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ask Me, this is sponsored by Indeed.
0:02.9	Because when you want to hire the right person with the right skills, it's helpful to have a middleman.
0:10.7	If you don't believe me, try the dirty martini I was mixed last week by a bartender who had clearly just been chosen for their looks.
0:18.8	Well, that's a different part of the job, Ollie, you know? Sure, but, you know, if I wanted that many toothpicks, I'd go to a dentist. If you are looking to hire someone really good, really quickly, then try indeed sponsored jobs because it will do the digging through resumes for you to find the person that you need, which is the time-consuming bit. And if you had time, you wouldn't
0:37.6	need to hire another person, would you? And if you are just looking to hire people,
0:41.3	because they're hot, I would say, reassess your priorities. You shouldn't be in charge of people.
0:48.1	Spend more time interviewing candidates who check all your boxes, less stress, less time,
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1:06.1	Just go to Indeed.com slash answer right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast. Indeed.com slash answer right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast.
1:12.8	Indeed.com slash answer. Terms and conditions apply. Hiring, do it the right way with Indeed.
1:20.4	Will there be a wicked part three about the munchkins in college?
1:24.7	Hasolidivis. Why was Goldilocks so fond of tepid porridge?
1:32.8	Huge news, huge news, and not the kind of huge news that makes you think, oh, what are the government
1:41.5	done now?
1:42.3	Outlaw libraries?
1:43.4	No, good news.
1:46.9	Indeed, yeah, we have a new product and this is our big launch. A product? A product. You make
1:52.8	it sound like we've got a new mopped. Oh, Olly. You've worked so hard on this. Big it up. You've
1:57.7	staking you ages. We have two new products. Oh, for fuck sake. Two mop heads.
2:03.0	Got bigger.
2:04.5	Which are here as a result of me having spent quite a few hours uploading our entire
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