AMT418: Prop Cigarettes, Charlie Chaplin’s Moustache, and Condom Machines

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Relationships, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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What would you do with a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged? One questioneer needs any answer other than 'read it'. AMT418's questioneers also wonder how they film club scenes in Jersey Shore, what the Hitler Moustache was called pre-Hitler, what’s in prop cigarettes, what to do about your neighbour’s golf noise, and where all the decanters and pub toilet condom machines went. For more information about this episode, go to answermethispodcast.com/episode418 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. AMT419 will be out 25 June 2026 and the next Answer Us Back will land on on 11 June. Become a patron at patreon.com/answermethis to get an ad-free version of each episode and a batch of Bonus Bits each month, plus our video livestreams Petty Problems. 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. AND you’re keeping this show going! 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	After Kylie on Netflix, when is it's Sonia's turn?
0:05.1	Has to me this, Answer me this.
0:07.7	Can you return a rover to the rover's return?
0:11.4	As to me this, awesome me this.
0:14.5	Heaven and only, Answer me this.
0:18.4	We had our correspondent wondering what the hell to do with 52 photos of her baby.
0:25.0	Yes, the first year of her baby's life photographed with an orange dinosaur toy week by week.
0:30.4	Many people suggested the following, but the first was Swapner.
0:34.8	Swapner says, the very first idea I had was to get a custom printed
0:38.8	deck of cards. There are 52 cards in a deck so you can use each of the pictures and it
0:44.3	is a fun, useful item. It is ingenious. I can't believe the number 52 didn't jump out at us
0:49.4	for this. And also I love novelty cards. My dad had some erotic ones, which I enjoyed very much as a breteen.
0:55.4	Do you know what? So did my granddad. We only found them after he died, though. I guess it was an acceptable way to get porn in like the 1960s. I don't know. 52 pawns, not including jokers. I wish I'd kept some of my grandma's playing cards. When she died, I inherited her runner-up trophy from Linford Bridge Club and her sparkly bridge pens.
1:16.7	And even a cushion that says, I only play bridge on Days Ending in Y.
1:21.6	And I thought at first, I can't stand that up.
1:24.7	I'm not going to.
1:26.0	That cushion doesn't represent me. But I kept it because it represented her. But I decided not to keep her cards. Eva also comments, I've been to quite a few one-year-old's birthday parties where the parents will make a garland out of the weekly or monthly photos and use it for decoration for the party. Yeah, that is a lovely idea for that one party, but then you just
1:46.9	have someone writing into answer me this saying, what do I do with the garland of 52 baby photos I put
1:50.6	together for my one-year-old's birthday party? So I'm not sure it helps in the long run.
1:53.7	You add a photo every week to the garland until the garland is a mile long and then the child has reached
1:58.9	adulthood. And then it's ready for the King's Golden Jubilee.
2:03.1	Anyway, there is plenty more feedback on AMT 417, including some of your responses to booze-free
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