Today’s questioneers want to know why a coffee shop will have either good coffee or good chairs but not both, WTF Judi Dench’s voice is doing at Disney World, how to stop their coworkers pushing MLMs onto them, how to get their wife to like their malepolish, and why Phoebe from Friends would say lobsters mate for life when actually lobsters just want a quick hot fling and no commitment.

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AMT407: Cartoon Anvils, Dating Semi-Celebs and Lobster Piss

Today’s questioneers want to know, among other things, what private investigators actually do, what happened to Deely Boppers (Deely Bobbers?), how to greet your spouse when you’re attending the same business meeting, how to steer someone to not want to work for you, and how to persuade someone to GTFO of the massage chair at the airport that they’re not getting massaged in.

For more information about this episode, visit answermethispodcast.com/episode408.

Got question for us to answer? Send them in writing or as a voice note to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com. Next episode will be in your podfeed 28 August 2025.

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AMT408: Tiaras, Private Investigators and the King's Mucky Gloves

Today’s questioneers want to know whether to hide bawdy home decor when kids visit, how one comes to own a cemetery, why cities are full of artist-decorated animals, whether you can eat slugs, what to do with three unwanted sets of boules, and what the most ordered item is from the enormous menu at Cheesecake Factory.

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AMT409: Nude Furniture, Cheesecake Factory and Eating Slugs

AMT410: Unwanted Tattoos, Cherry Wine and Sexy Old Men

What if being a bit weird is actually entirely normal? What if sharing our internal struggles wasn’t a sign of weakness, but strength? Let some experts help you wade through the ‘neurotrash’ to talk about the science of neurodiversity. Gina Rippon is a Professor of Cognitive NeuroImaging
and author of The Gendered Brain and The Lost Girls of Autism. Dr Camilla Pang is the Royal Society Book Prize winning author of Explaining Humans and Perfectly Weird. They join comedian and author of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, Robin Ince.

Recorded at the the 2025 Latitude Festival. Support us at patreon.com/cosmicshambles to watch an extended edition of this episode

Weirdly Normal: The Science of Neurodiversity - Live from Latitude 2025

Ten years ago, Young(ish) Howard began writing a novel about a subject he knows well - life for rich people in the 1930s. 

Now we get to read his thrilling tale of witchcraft, murder, and stalking - and meet George Spooner: the parvenu with nowt to do.

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Worst Writer - George Spooner & the Woman who Loved a Horse, Part 6

The ocean is an all too often overlooked part of our natural world, yet it is the blue engine that drives everything. And it is changing in many ways, at an alarming rate. Rising sea levels, warming oceans, increased acidification, plastic pollution... Physicist and oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski will discuss this with oceanographer Professor David Ho and geologist Professor Chris Jackson, looking at what we can do, and why or why not there's reason to be hopeful.

Recorded in The Cosmic Shambles Forest of Science and Culture at the 2025 Latitude Festival.

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Climate Change at Sea - Latitude 2025

AMT411: Sperm Donation, Snake Charming and Open Top Bus Parades

Worst Writer - George Spooner & the Woman who Loved a Horse, Part 7

Wake up, babe - a new AMT feature just dropped! Midway through the interminable month between new episodes, we’ll be doing an Answer Us Back episode that’s all bits of feedback you send in about episodes old and new. Today we hear from:

Scott, on the lyrics of ‘Sweet Caroline’, first discussed in AMT365 in 2018;
Steve in San Diego, with some cool tiara trivia following our discussion of that headgear in AMT408;
Elodia and Jess, both former medical students, illuminating us on what really goes on when they dissect human bodies during their training, which came up in AMT404. And Elodia previously wrote to us all the way back in 2011!

If you’ve been storing thoughts about AMTs 1-411, send them to us for future episodes of Answer Us Back. 

And as always, send in your questions, in voicenote or written form to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com, for all new AMT412 which will be in your podfeed 27 November 2025. Also, join us for our fun Petty Problems live video on 16 November 2025 by signing up at patreon.com/answermethis; by doing so, you’re also helping keep the whole podcast going, so congrats and thanks for that.

Thanks to Naked Wines for sponsoring AMT, and for providing bottles straight from world-class winemakers, cutting out the middleman, delivered to your door. Head to nakedwines.co.uk/answer to get a £30 voucher on your first 6 pack, including free delivery.

Answer Us Back: Tiaras & Cadavers

This week it's good news for wannabe Ironmen (ironmans?) and brooches. And bad news for U.S. postal service and fashion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26wLK0TKqWY

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/jul/18/was-the-queen-sending-coded-messages-to-donald-trump-via-her-brooches-absolutely

https://gizmodo.com/usps-ordered-to-pay-3-5-million-after-putting-artists-1827305357

EPISODE 11: SHADY QUEEN

We've got some good news and we've got some bad news. Rosie and Joe find the best and worst news of the week however silly or odd.

EPISODE 11: SHADY QUEEN

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