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.

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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

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

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. 

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Answer Us Back: Tiaras & Cadavers

AMT412’s questioneers want to know why Innocent smoothies wear little woolly hats, how to increase someone’s spice tolerance, whether someone making you a mixtape is definitely a sign of romantic interest, and what to do about similarly-named strangers using your email address.

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AMT412: Widow’s Peaks, Mixtapes and Garlic

Answer Us Back: Naughty Elves and Same-names

August 3, 2018: Today's episode features a conversation between Tom Vinson and Math Erao.

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