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Answer Me This!

AMT414: Wax Seals, Y2K Songs, and the Butler Doing It

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Relationships, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.73.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This month, questioneers want to know about songs for the year 2000, what the deal is with wax seals, why we say “The butler did it!” when the butler never did it, and how to shirk unwanted company at rowdy retiree lunch club. For more information about this episode, head to answermethispodcast.com/episode414 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. AMT415 will be in your podfeed 26 Febuary 2026, with an episode of Answer Us Back mid-Feb; paying patrons at patreon.com/answermethis also get a batch of Bonus Bits, plus the Petty Problems back catalogue, AND an ad-free version of AMT414. (Sign up at one of the higher tiers to 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Do successful traders get recruited as spies?

0:05.0

Hasolidivis, Hasoubi-N-E-N-E-E.

0:07.0

Why did Diana King have such a thing for shy guys?

0:11.0

Has-a-le-his, Helen and only,

0:16.0

Ah-Suh-Lead.

0:17.0

Helen, you are not alone when it comes to your predilection

0:19.0

for whole raw vegetables in lieu of salad.

0:21.6

Oh my God.

0:22.5

Finally, a meeting of vegetable club, which won't just be me, crunching by myself.

0:27.2

Darcy was listening to our last episode, ad-free, on Patreon, and says,

0:31.5

For what it's worth, whilst I was listening, I was eating a yellow bell pepper like an apple.

0:36.1

Whilst Helen was saying that some people find eating whole raw vegetables odd, I don't think it's weird at all. Thank you for the validation, Darcy. Our friend Josie Long used to eat whole peppers like an apple. I don't know if she still does, but people really looked at her askance for that. I do think it is nicer cut into strips and dipped into things, isn't it?

0:55.5

I don't want to judge someone, but as a preference, if you've got a knife in the house, better in strips. What if you've had all your knives confiscated? If they've been subject to an amnesty, then at least you can still get your seven a day. I dear for you, Ollie, as a renowned mayonnaise fan.

1:10.2

You open up the bell pepper,

1:11.4

take the seeds out,

1:12.2

but keep it otherwise,

1:13.2

hold like a cup.

1:13.8

Fill the cup with mayonnaise. you, Ollie, as a renowned mayonnaise fan. You open up the bell pepper, take the seeds out, but

1:12.3

keep it otherwise, hold like a cup, fill the cup with mayonnaise, dip your other cruditate into

1:16.4

the pepper cup and then eat the mayonnaise, moistened pepper at the end.

1:20.8

Oh, that's like porn. Well, last episode, you mentioned a poor choice of tie, Ollie, when you

1:26.3

appeared on Sky News because your tie

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