AMT416: LEGO Titanic, Curried Whale and World Book Day

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Relationships, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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AMT416’s questioneers want to know what to do with their wedding suit post-divorce, why is World Book Day, how Nelson’s Column is cleaned, whether Brits during WW2 bought whale meat from fishmongers or butchers, who is buying £530 LEGO Titanic sets at the airport, and whether the fondue party they had for their twelfth birthday was bougie. For more information about this episode, head to answermethispodcast.com/episode416. Got questions for us to answer, or feedback about an episode old or new? Send them in writing or as voice notes to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, or you can call 0208 123 5877 to leave us a message. AMT417 will be in your podfeed 30 April 2026, and you’ll get an episode of Answer Us Back mid-month. Also, now is a GREAT time to become a patron at patreon.com/answermethis if you haven’t already, because the next edition of our video livestream series Petty Problems is happening Sunday 29th March! Join us for that, and in return for your patronage, you also get the whole Petty Problems back catalogue, a batch of Bonus Bits each month, and an ad-free version of AMT416. If you sign up at one of the higher Patreon 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. This episode is sponsored by: Saily, flexible eSIM data roaming plans for when you’re abroad. Download SAILY in your app store and use our code amt15 at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase. For further details go to saily.com/amt15. The London Review of Books, the twice-monthly literary mag full of essays, reviews and more by excellent writers. Get a 6 month print and digital subscription for just £12 at LRB.me/answer. 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	Answer Me This is brought to you thanks to Saley. Sayley does e-sims that you can use abroad. I'm always telling people about these, partly because I'm a very boring person, but also because people don't know that this is a possibility when you travel. Used to be you had to go to like a local phone shop. And get a sim, a physical sim. Yeah, pop your old sim out, hope you didn't lose it. Get one of those stupid like pins that you have to get. Like, oh, I haven't got a paper clip.
0:24.4	Right. a sim, a physical sim. Yeah, pop your old sim out, hope you didn't lose it. Get one of those stupid, like, pins that you have to get.
0:23.1	Like, oh, I haven't got a paper clip.
0:24.3	Right.
0:24.9	Yeah.
0:25.4	What's an e-sim?
0:26.2	It's like the ghost of a sim card, Olly. So you don't have to open up your phone and shove it into your phone's guts. if you have a phone that's capable of ESIM,
0:34.0	there are over 200 destinations
0:35.5	where you can use Saly for your roaming
0:38.1	and thus not
0:39.1	rack up a huge phone bill while away.
0:41.4	This sounds like a good thing to add to your checklist whenever you're going on holiday.
0:44.4	Like my travel tips are that and four-wheel suitcase dot two.
0:48.0	People don't believe me on that, but seriously, why do you hate your shoulders?
0:52.0	Download Saly in the app store and use our code AMT-15 at checkout to get 15% off your first
0:59.2	purchase. You spell Saly S-A-I-L-Y. And you spell 15-15. You don't have to spell the whole
1:05.8	word. So that is Saly.com slash AMT15.
1:13.7	And use our code AMT15 at checkout.
1:15.9	You'll find the details in our show notes.
1:20.3	Jamie Lang and Sophie Hiboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
1:21.7	We're having a baby.
1:22.5	We're having a baby.
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