Aside from all the other Media Shizzle we’ve been up to lately, Olly will be on ITV’s This Morning on Tuesday 20th May around 11.25am! So tune in to see him chatting with the lovely Phil and Fern; or if you’re yet to hear him chatting with the not-so-lovely Helen and Martin the Sound Man in Answer Me This! Episode 54, click HERE.
** Update! You can now watch Olly’s appearance on This Morning HERE **
If you’re having trouble listening to Answer Me This! today, panic not - our hosting company’s just having a spot of bother, but we’re assured that they’ll be back up and running before your ears even have time to shout, “What the hell am I supposed to do now, eh?”
Meantime, here’s a luvverly picture of something we saw in the supermarket the other day:
** Update: 25/04: This problem now seems to be solved. Huzzah!
EPISODE 52 IS OUT TODAY! CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!
Yes, our new episode is out today, but you might not have received it in the usual way. See, our podcast has moved to a new feed. Incredibly, we were Too Popular for our old one. As Olly’s Yiddishe ancestors may have sagely commented, ‘Eh! I should have these problems!’ Etc.
Don’t worry if you don’t know what a ‘feed’ even means. Here’s all you need to know:
If you subscribe to us with iTunes:
Even though your iTunes might have been behaving oddly whilst we switched feeds (sorry about that), Episode 52 should be delivered to your Podcast Library as usual. Check. If it’s there, everything’s working fine - you’re receiving our new feed. Hurrah!
If, however, you haven’t received Episode 52 in your Podcast Library, even after refreshing, then just go to our iTunes Store page and Resubscribe. Our show’s free, so that’s no great shakes, right? Then you should see Episode 52 downloading to your Podcast Library, and you’ll get all our new episodes from now on, just like old times.
If you subscribe via RSS:
You need to subscribe to our new RSS feed. Here it is:
RSS
Presto!
If you listen/get your MP3s of our show through this website:
It’s your lucky day. None of this ‘pressing the subscribe button again’ for you! All the links on this site should work fine.
If any of you have other technical problems we haven’t covered here, do email us to let us know, and we’ll do our best to sort it out. Of course, that’s the address for non-technical problems too, like whether you should go out with that guy you like but you’re not sure if he likes you. We’re a service in so many ways.
Helen and Olly
** Click here to listen to EPISODE 51 **
Hello listeners!
We’re having a bit of a technological spring-clean this week, so if you notice anything odd, like your iTunes doing something uncharacteristic with your Answer Me This! collection, panic not. Normality shall be restored very soon. Promise!
Hello there, pals! We’ve been away for a month but we’ve been far from idle. Here’s the evidence:
There’s also an article about our Luxembourg-cracking adventures in the Telegraph on 12th January, so click HERE to read it.
We’ll be back with the first Answer Me This! of 2008 on Thursday 17th; if you require audio entertainment in the meantime, have a go on the Best of 2007 part 1 and part 2, or the redux versions of the previous forty episodes.
See you next week!
Helen and Olly
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It has come to our attention that iTunes is behaving like what is known in the trade as a Big Sweaty Bitch, by shirking its duties and neither displaying nor downloading our beloved Episode 32. It’s not the first time that technology has tried to withhold the Answer Me This! goodies, but at least this time it has only partially stymied us, for even while iTunes is you can still get your Episode 32 kicks by downloading it HERE or clicking on this player:
or pressing your ear into a conch shell you found on the beach (provided it is a conch shell equipped with wireless internet).
Why, it’s Thursday! Also known as ‘New Episode of Answer Me This! Day’! Right?
Wrong! according to our Esteemed Friends at our mp3-handling company. Not content with bumming everything up earlier this week, they’re continuing their Reign Of Mischief and not letting us upload all-new fun-packed Episode 26.
Humph.
We’re hoping to get Episode 26 out as soon as possible, because it’s a good’un. Here are some of the things the technologists don’t want you to hear in it:
Fiddy Cent’s tax return
bird foetus
Brave New World Facebook
and
Milkybar.
The technologists have got a bit of previous, unfortunately, but let’s hope they stop being capricious bastards soon and we can all get on with enjoying Episode 26 in peace.
Meanwhile CLICK HERE if you want to console yourselves with some old episodes; and, of course, please get busy sending questions to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com or reciting them on 0208 123 5877. Together we can beat this thing! Or, at least, wait until it all goes away.
**To listen to Episode 25, click HERE **
Friends,
Some of you may have noticed that, in the past few days, this “website” hasn’t really been working “properly”.
This is due to our “friends” at the company who handle our mp3 files going a bit “renegade” and changing all the filenames of all the podcasts we’ve ever done, so none of our links are working.
We’ve been trying to fix it, and you should now be able to listen to our most recent episodes through this site by clicking on the players in the posts below. Everything should be back to “normal” soon.
Sorry.
p.s. If you subscribe to us on iTunes, you’ll see that it has also reacted to these changes in its own delightful manner, and in a fit of confusion will try to offer you ‘new’ versions of episodes you’ve already listened to. No need to panic - when episode 26 comes out it’ll automatically land in your iTunes as usual.
To sum up roughly how we feel about this situation, here is a picture of a horse having a piss:
Hello, chums!
Answer Me This! is back next Thursday. Hallelujah! Wickitty-wickitty-wah! There’ll be new jingles! New songs! New costumes! And a whole lot of the same old shit, so don’t think we’re ditching our roots and not keeping it real.
If you’re restless in anticipation of the new episodes, or just not very busy this weekend, you can entertain yourself with one of these pursuits:
1) Check out this shit-hot video from tomorrow night’s Culture Show of Tony Blair’s final speech as Prime Minister, as voiced by premium impressionist Rory Bremner, animated by cartoon badboys Triffic and ghostwritten by John Oliver off The Daily Show and Helen’s big brother Andy Zaltzman. Yep, it’s a nepotistic plug!
2) Bone up on how Olly and Helen met and fell in like all those years ago in the new edition of the stupendous magazine All The Rage. And even if you couldn’t give a rat’s handbag about how we met, you should read the magazine anyway because it’s very good.
3) Send us all the questions you’ve been brewing while we’ve been away! We’ve missed you and your lovely inquisitive brains. Pop them in an email to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com - it’s a much better way to while away your time than watching Big Brother 8, that’s for sure.
And if you fancy a binge on our back catalogue, click HERE.
Until Thursday 7th, bye! Xoxo! Lol! etc
Helen and Olly
Of course, we know that many of you subscribe to us on iTunes, thereby helping us move up the podcast chart and reach new listeners.
And that many more of you still have added us to your MySpace friends to help share your love for us with all your Murdoch-loving comrades who like the same sort of songs and films, or something.
But now, friends, is the time to show you REALLY care about our podcast, and are quite literally MAD for some interactive fun on our behalf…
You can now JOIN THE ANSWER ME THIS! PODCAST FANCLUB ON FACEBOOK!
This club has only been active for a few days and already has 45 members. Think what we could achieve in a few weeks! SHARED PHOTOS! BULLETINS! INTERLINKED FRIENDSHIP GROUPS! REGRETTABLE BUT IRREVERSIBLE DIGITIZATIONS OF OUR ENTIRE LIVES!
It’s all to play for, people.
Seriously - if you like our podcast, and you’re on Facebook, please do join the fanclub- and help spread the word.
* Click HERE to listen to EPISODE 10 of Answer Me This! *
I never thought I’d see the day when we were in the Financial Times.
Yet, HERE we are!
Thanks, rubbish pudding! I promise not to badmouth you ever again. (as long as I don’t have to eat you, either)
* click HERE to listen to EPISODE 8 *
After only a couple of days on ebay, our Sainsbury’s Basics Christmas Pudding has already attracted an incredible FOURTEEN BIDS! Thankyou ever so much to everyone who has put in bids already; and everyone else, get bidding. All proceeds of the auction (including the £2 postage fee) go to Comic Relief, and if helping out disadvantaged people in Africa and the UK wasn’t enough to lure out your altruistic monies, you of course get 454g of Christmas pudding all of your very own.
Which, according to some rogue factions, would make it a win-win situation. We’ve had an email from listener Dave, mounting a strident defence of the pudding:
I was mildly disgruntled to hear your bashing of Christmas pudding. I love Christmas Pudding and would argue that Christmas Cake is the real villain. It has disgusting layers of marzipan and icing on top of what is essentially a very dry, cake-shaped, Christmas Pudding. Is Helen aware that Christmas Pudding can be fried as an excellent Boxing Day breakfast?
I was not aware of that; when confronted with a foodstuff that manages to render innocent fruit heavier than lead, my natural instinct is not to fry it. Or eat it for breakfast and condemning myself to a Boxing Day spent having a lie-down, clutching my heart. But, whilst the Zaltzman pudding remnants moulder away unloved and unfried, my brother can habitually be found chomping on Christmas CAKE as his Boxing Day breakfast. Perhaps he and Dave can settle which is the true villain of Christmas with a festive gut-barging contest?
However, I concur with Dave’s point that Christmas Pudding and Christmas Cake are natural enemies; and let’s not forget the Scrappy Doo of sweet Christmas stomach-busters, the mince pie. All three are cut from the same cloth: fruit, sugar, flour and extreme stodginess. And yet, on the day of the year when you’re least likely to suffer hunger pangs, all three awake from their 364-day-long hibernation (because the last person to eat a mince pie in June was sent to the Priory) and mount a three-pronged endurance test for the digestive system. It’s baffling. But perhaps it’s just what Jesus wanted for his birthday.
Anyway, sorry, Dave, to have caused you disgruntlement. Rest assured: as far as I’m concerned, Christmas Pudding AND Christmas Cake can go fuck themselves.
Except for when they’re being used to raise money for good causes, people! Bid like the clappers in our charity auction! Hey, maybe Christmas Pudding will be rehabilitated as a fashionable spring/summer snack, and I’ll look even stupider than I do on the average day.
