AMT413: Secret marriage, wet Mr Darcy and transparent pie

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Relationships, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

How do you tell your parents you’ve been married for several years? Is bell-ringing a sport? What should you wear on a TV quiz show? How rich/soggy is Mr Darcy? And what species is a Womble? AMT413 questioneers want to know all these things and more. For more information about this episode, visit answermethispodcast.com/episode413, and let us know your weird snack preferences too. Got questions for us to answer, or feedback about an episode? Send them in writing or as a voice note to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, or you can call 0208 123 5877 like the old days. AMT414 will be in your podfeed 29 January 2026, and paying patrons also get a fresh edition of our video livestream question-answering session Petty Problems on 16 January. So become a patron at patreon.com/answermethis and you not only get to watch all the Petty Problemses, you also receive an ad-free version of the episode, plus bonus material each month, and if you sign up at one of the higher tiers, 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. Cor! AND you’re helping with the continuing existence of AMT through 2026. Also, if you want to check out our other podcasts that we mention at the end of this episode: Olly's daily history show Today in History with the Retrospectors is here, and you'll find Helen's Pride and Prejudice re-caps in the archive of Veronica Mars Investigations. 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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0:54.1	Alive in every drop.
0:59.2	Can my New Year's resolution be to eat way more chips?
1:03.5	Has to be this.
1:05.0	Before bottles exist, where do dock tiny ships?
1:09.8	Has to be this, heaven and only, absolutely. bottles exist did where do dot tiny ships? Answer me this.
1:14.1	Heaven and only.
1:17.8	Answer me this. Happy 19th birthday, Answer me this.
1:19.9	Oh, Christ. Old.
1:23.2	The show is now too old for Leonardo DiCaprio.
1:29.3	Hey, his current girlfriend's 27, you know, practically a geriatric. So she was six when we started, yes.
1:31.3	Dad's making me want to die and I'm younger than he is.
1:36.3	Wait, wasn't she aged when we started?
1:39.3	If we're 19.
1:40.3	I will trust you on Math Smart in the, the Sound Man, if nothing else.
1:49.3	We are here slightly later than promised because, Helen, when we last spoke to plan the show,
1:51.5	you sounded in your own words like Madge Bishop.
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