Answer Me This! - AMT222: Brighton, Battersea Power Station, and Fudge

Episode Date: July 5, 2012

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Terms and conditions apply. Visit bmo.com slash theiporter to learn more. Tom Cruise, are you ready for me to sign my contract? That's who he is, that's who he is. Shall we get shit faced on vanilla extract? That's who he is, that's who he is. Helen and Ollie answer me this. Hello listeners and welcome to episode 222 of Answer Me This,

which is a third of the number of the beast. And reflective of what we should have got in our degrees, but somehow we managed to get T1s. Two 22s, well done. I didn't get a T1, I got a first. Well, you're cleverer than us. It also gives me some satisfaction that it sounds like episode toot toot toot. And also Desmond Tutu.

Do you think Desmond Tutu and his brother, if he has one, were ever referred to as the Tutu Two? I don't know. I'm sorry to kick off the episode in somewhat of a melancholy way, but we've had a very heartfelt reaction to what we said last week in response to Chris from Manchester's question about whether he should tell his friend that his friend's potential wife is a bitch. And we said, well, maybe you shouldn't do that.

You were very clear on this point, Ollie. I remember your position was extreme. Ian tweeted in response and he said, I did this as best man and lost the best friend I've ever had. His name is Malcolm and it might help him to see how sorry I am if you mention it. He's never forgiven me in eight years

and I still miss him but it hurt him too much because I was over the top in the way I told him. So Malcolm's your old best friend, Ian. So in a way, could you call him your Malcolm X? What's the matter with you today?

We've had a very different perspective on this from Barbara from luxembourg though who says my friend was in a relationship with a girl for a number of years and a lot of people were not a big fan of hers she was bossy and often denigrated my friend quite aggressively in front of other people early on in the relationship we found that she cheated on him all the time he found out about some of these occurrences But decided to forgive her And marry her anyway I was invited to the wedding But told him on a drunken night out

That I didn't want to go on principle Surprisingly he agreed with me at the time And we remained friends I bet he had to make up a pretty elaborate excuse To the girlfriend as to why you weren't going though I bet you didn't say Oh yeah yeah Barbara can't come Because she's discovered you're a massive slapper

Anyway Barbara continues A year or so after getting married I bet you didn't say, oh yeah, yeah, Barbara can't come because she's discovered you're a massive slapper. Anyway, Barbara continues. A year or so after getting married, he found out that she'd been cheating on him again and they both decided to divorce. Why did this girl decide to get married? Doesn't sound like she was really into it. People want their cake and to eat it. They could have a cake that's not a wedding cake.

Bloody cheaper as well, isn't it? They could even buy three cakes and stack them on top of each other and just eat them. For the price of a wedding cake, they could buy 3,000 Battenbergs. What a treat that would be. He was obviously distraught about the situation, says Barbara. However, he thanked me and another friend for our honesty. After the breakup, he found that loads of people said things like,

well, we never liked her anyway. And he was a bit disappointed by the hypocrisy and was grateful that there had been people who, although supported him, were honest throughout most of the relationship. It's not necessarily hypocritical to be polite. Yeah, well, are all white lies hypocritical? Or are they there to save someone's feelings? That's the point of them, isn't it?

It's not hypocrisy, it's just being nice. But sometimes you've got to be cruel to be kind, I suppose. Although that is contrary to our advice. We think it's always better to be kind to be cruel. Short-term kindness, long-term cruelty. We think it's always better to be kind To be cruel Short term kindness, long term cruelty I think really the main solution would be To make all these women be nicer And then there wouldn't be this problem

Pay for some therapy For all women, compulsory therapy I was thinking about this the other day Has any state ever said Everyone has to have compulsory therapy I think New York That's not state healthcare though is it crucially Imagine if the state said You have to have compulsory therapy i think new york that's not state health care though is it crucially imagine if the state said you have to you have to have an excuse from

your doctor as to why you don't want therapy but you have to have a therapy session every six months just to check how you are check away long-term conditions things that might affect you in the future that is a very interesting idea because it seems to me that would cut down the nhs bill in the long term yeah because you're dealing with anxieties without drugs that kind thing. I would have to get a doctor's note to get me out of that because I feel that if I ever became self-aware, I'd kill myself. Which obviously is not the desired intent of most psychotherapies.

You have that in common with the spaceship from Dark Star. Do I? Now I know why you like me, Martin. Here's a question that I think you'll find very easy to answer from Adam, who says, I thoroughly enjoyed the Answer Me This Jubilee album. God bless you, sir. Please make another

one. Maybe about the Olympics. Hint, hint. Well, Adam, your wish is our command. Because now, available now on our website, answermethispodcast.com slash sports day, you can find exactly the album of your dreams adam

all new one hour album of brand new material about sports new jingles and everything you're thinking listeners you guys talking about sport what have you become we just we thought what sport was really lacking was our expert commentary yeah i think that's fair the trouble is that generally the people who talk about sport are too reverential towards it and are too interested in it. We don't have that problem. No, and we took a very broad canvas of what sport might mean. Does it include

gymnast erections? It does in our album. Yes, it can. That's pole vaulting, isn't it? Does it include the problem of getting rid of things that your grandma gave you? It does, yeah. It's somewhat of a sport, like say if your grandma had given you a javelin. So all that's in there. There is some stuff which is sport, but not really sport.

Well, like golf. Boom. And hopefully, much like with our Jubilee album, if you like our podcast ordinarily, you will like our shtick on this album. We couldn't actually call the album The Answer Me This Olympics because apparently the Olympics committee is a little bit overprotective about them being the only Olympics in town. And they probably thought if we called it the Answer Me This Olympics.

People may well confuse an Answer Me This Olympic album for the Muse single, which is the official Olympic diet. You've got to be very careful, haven't you? You can't tell what's indoors. Yeah, because our album is an hour long and their singles do tend to run long. That feels like very careful, haven't you? You can't tell what's endorsed. Yeah, because our album is an hour long and their singles do tend to run long. That feels like an hour, doesn't it?

Have you heard it? I haven't heard it. It is the most impressive phoned-in single I've ever heard. Well, I've heard Muse before so I imagine it's a great departure

from their usual work. Imagine it's Muse but one of your nieces had written the lyrics. Oh, okay. Helen, come and look at my Lego. No, really look at it.

Is that how it goes? That would be a blessed relief. Here's a question now from Andy who says, I live in Norway and often go to cabins at the weekend with some friends for some fishing,

a few games of poker and just to catch up on the banter. I'm a circle jerk. I was just thinking that. I literally was just thinking that. I think we all know what you're up to, Andy. It sounds quite idyllic, I think, the sounds lovely i love cabins i'm a bit weirdly obsessed with cabins and beds made of logs actually i went to a norwegian cabin in january

and it is really nice but you have to really really like the people that you're with in january because there's only five hours of daylight and 19 hours of sitting around doing the things that he's describing sounds Sounds like my kind of place. Anyway, he continues. As I've been playing guitar for about eight years now... Oh, your fingers must hurt. I usually take it along with me on these trips, and after a few beers,

we all have a bit of campfire-style sing-along to some great tunes. But recently, however, a friend from uni who I actually can't stand has been learning guitar. Oh, what a dick. You saw the guitar first. And now takes every opportunity to pick up the guitar and play. This wouldn't be so bad, says Andy, except that he's fucking awful,

having no sense of rhythm and can't sing for shit. Well, we all had to start somewhere. Something all the more embarrassing when he suddenly starts playing the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah and massacres it. That's not a song you should take on unless you're incredibly confident. Maybe he's not singing the Jeff Buckley version. Maybe he's covering the JLS version. Does JLS do it?

Well, yeah, because it was the X Factor winner's single. And they were the runners-up, so they recorded a version. When Leonard Cohen wrote it, he thought, what I dream of is JLS one day doing this song justice. What he thought is, my voice is jls one day doing this song justice what he thought is my voice is a bit gravelly in this part but when ashton sings it uh anyway uh andy continues i understand that everyone has to learn somewhere but he plays and sings like he thinks he's fucking awesome dance like nobody's watching actually isn't that though quite a crucial part of learning

guitar i mean at some point everyone is rubbish and does have to develop rock star swagger i think the first stage to learning to sing is losing your self-consciousness, yeah. So Helen, answer me this. How can I stop the little twat from doing this as it's really rude, annoying and he's totally shit? Set his guitar on fire? Yeah, snip his guitar strings mid-strum. That would send a powerful message, wouldn't it?

You might lose an eye as well. He's probably bought spares or he'll just start doing acapella work. Landy says the best thing I can think of is to film him on my phone and then post it to youtube send him the link and then maybe he'll feel embarrassed himself and stop it no because he might look at that and think wow andy thought that was good enough to post on youtube i'm really getting somewhere and what if thousands of people watch it and love it then it's gonna make your problem worse than ever andy but this is very very annoying i remember when martin and i were at a wedding a few years ago,

which had a campfire, and several of us had played sets at the wedding. They'd asked us to do the music. There was a guy called Guitar Dave who played a really long set, so we went on late. But anyway, we went out to the campfire afterwards. Guitar Dave got out his guitar and started singing again despite having sung for hours at the reception.

We thought, well, he could take it in turn so Martin started playing and Guitar Dave instead of sitting and listening patiently like we had when he'd been singing just started playing over Martin playing a completely different song so it was a weirdly passive aggressive move from a campfire guitarist The thing is I was playing exit music for a film

which starts off really quietly and ends really really loudly so I carried on playing and at the point where it got really loud I completely drowned him out and it was really wonderful so you could do that andy you could just start playing over him but maybe entertain the notion that he started doing this because he finds your guitar playing and your choice of songs undesirable and a bit of an intrusion so maybe he's doing it to stop you maybe he's the martin in this situation actually and you're the one who's just been playing blindly, assuming that everyone loves what you're doing. There is a thing, isn't there, though, when you're the musician,

when that's your thing, like I'm the guy that goes to the party and plays the guitar and shows off my skills, and someone else starts doing it. Do you know what I mean? It's stepping on your toes a little bit. It's like when someone else goes to a party that I'm at and eats all the cheese. That's my role. I've got a question

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AnswerMeThisPodcast at GoogleMail.com So retrospective, what historical events are we ticking off on this week's run of Today in History? On Monday, we bring you the real story of the mutiny on the bounty. On Tuesday, the anniversary of the day somebody invented the meatball, but who? On Wednesday, the iconic British car that ripped off an iconic American car. On Thursday, how American airlines invented air miles. And on Friday, the UFO sighting that gripped colonial America.

We discuss this and more on Today in History with The Retrospectors. Ten minutes each weekday, wherever you get your podcasts. A question from Sam and Amy in West Norwood, who say, We often catch the train back home to west norwood through battersea passing by its semi-ruined power station europe's largest brick building fact fans wow yeah it's clearly an awesome building that must be listed against alteration or demolition grade two listed but it's also prime real estate correct and must be potentially worth a packet there must have been attempts to turn it into a hotel apartments or a public building like the tate modern why do i feel like sam and amy are doing all my work for me with this question

but they're very generous yes to everything so far what of it they know you get tired so ollie answer me this why has nobody so far managed to refurbish battersea power station it's the bureaucracy of it really the fact that it's grade two listed does make it rather complicated yeah because they've essentially hollowed out the inside. There have been four separate private development proposals to regenerate Battersea. They were going to put in like an indoor skiing centre or some shit. Well, all of them have involved leisure shops and flats, basically. That's all you need, isn't it?

They're all Olly Mann centres of the future. And a bit of Disney in the turrets. Well, you say that. Oh. The reason the roof came off was because private developer number one was the bloke who had developed Alton Towers and wanted to turn Battersea into a theme park. Wow!

And actually they took the roof off to get all of the heavy machinery out so they could basically put roller coasters in. Oh, and then what went wrong? The budget went up from something like, they planned 25 million and it went to something like 120 million. And they were like, oh, actually, we haven't got't got that money sorry and now you haven't got a roof bassy did come up in those years didn't it so you know property prices the most recent one was an irish property firm uh clues in the title there irish property firms not been doing so well recently so they've had to

back out basically because they haven't got the capital anymore they said they'd have what were they planning to stick in it same sort of thing flats flats restaurants cinema branch of giraffe honestly isn't it boring when they redevelop something just by putting a branch of giraffe in i mean giraffe it's a better quality burger than burger king but it's nothing to write home about i had a very nice plate of mezzo there and he threw terminal five in march it's fine but it's really upsetting when you go to say spittlefields market in london and it looks like he throw terminal five yeah couldn't agree more used to be such a characterful building but I do quite like the idea of this theme park because it was going to be themed around Britain's industrial past. Oh really? So I just quite like the idea of

like a mining roller coaster with the voice of Neil Kinnock or something. Wouldn't that be quite a cool idea for a theme park? I like the idea of the Black Country Living Museum that was a bit less boring. Yeah exactly. But the latest proposal that was actually quite cool before they decided to award it to some malaysian property developers who have currently got their hands on it what they're going to do with the flats flats restaurants bunch of giraffe um the coolest proposal recently was chelsea football club wanted it as a stadium as an iconic football stadium that would be cool wouldn't it yes the thing about it is that there aren't that many convenient transport links to it yet. Well, no, no. This is the cool thing. This genuinely is cool.

They've now changed it so that this company, this Malaysian company, that say they're going to build it and are spending £400 million... They're going to put in a tube line from Malaysia to it with zero stops. They're going to put in a new underground station, yeah. That in itself is going to cost £250 million to develop. So that's a huge part of the budget. So you have to really be serious about wanting to change it. Which is why it's never going to happen

And why it will always be an empty shell of a building our entire lives Did you know that it was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Who also created the red telephone box I did not know that That's a very good fact And also Bankside which became Tate Modern That's three iconic things that he did And now he's got a restaurant named after him in St Pancras

Quite right yes which I've been to and had some animal offal in Super What a tribute That's three iconic things that he did And now he's got a restaurant named after him in St Pancras Quite right, yes, which I've been to And had some animal offal in What a tribute That's all he wanted, he thought Maybe if I do really, really well at putting up these very giant industrial edifices Someday A young Jewish man from North London Will be able to eat offal in a place that bears my name

Just around the corner from where the Spice Girls film wannabe This is Brian in Brighton You might be able to tell from my accent my name just around the corner from where the spice girls film wannabe uh this is brian in brighton um you might be able to tell from my accent i'm not actually from around here originally i'm from manchester um and i was wondering how molly answer me this how did brighton become the place in the uk for all sorts of freaks and misfits to gather because i've just it's seven in the morning on a saturday and i'm walking to asda by the beach and i've just seen a chap playing 70s disco tunes on the saxophone as well as all sorts of crazy people barbecuing on the beach while drinking special brew it is reassuring though in a way isn't it when places conform to stereotype. When you go to Brighton

you want to see a few wackos walking around just like in Camden you want to see emos and goths. You turn a blind eye to the fact that Alan Bennett lives there because you think yeah goth theme park and that is overwhelmingly what you can see if you choose to look at that. You see what you want to see. You don't see all the people going about their business. I suppose once a place

becomes welcoming to oddments then more oddments will go there and then it'll become renowned for them so you let that chink and they blow it a mile wide yes it's the crack windows syndrome isn't it that's not i'm not trying to do a metaphor for immigration i'm the daughter of an immigrant brighton though has had a lot of ups and downs in its history but the thing that really put it on the map as a destination like a touristy destination for fun was um a man called dr richard russell and he arrived there in 1750 when brighton had been a bit down because

it'd been destroyed by storms earlier in the century and he started propagating the seawater cure because before that people did not go into the sea to swim well you say that i bet i bet people did in the west indies they just didn't in brighton because it's bloody freezing and there's a pebble beach he was an an advocate of using seawater within and without to cure yourself. And the seawater cure consisted of seawater, obviously, with the following additives.

Bicarbonate of soda. Milk. Yep. Woodlice. What? Cuttlefish bones. And crab's eyes. Brilliant.

You're cured! Wow. That's just a sort of early example of branding an energy drink, isn't it, really? Yes. I mean, you know, you've got a secret blend of vegetable extracts. That is a crab's eye same sort of thing, isn't it? But, you know, as long as it's got the seawater in it, seawater cure. And there are waste products, aren't there?

You're not doing anything with those crab's eyes, are you? No, I'm chucking them out. Sure. I mean, this is how enterprises get born. They'd lock you up, wouldn't they, if you did that? And then the really major turning point was when George IV chose Brighton as the place for his weekend shaggings. So he built, well, he eventually built the Brighton Pavilion,

but he had a little cottage first. And so once the royals decide to do something, as with the Middletons and wearing transparent tights, it becomes popular. So then, you know, the upper classes started going to Brighton, especially once they opened the London to Brighton railway line in 1841. It got this reputation of being this kind of holiday-ish place and also maybe where anything went.

And so that meant that, you know, it was probably quite a good place for gay people to go when they were illegal. Because, you know, if you're in a place where people went to have affairs and particularly people who are trying to get divorces they would be seen in brighton with a prostitute so that their partner could make the divorce claim against them so it's difficult to get a divorce that was popular in novels in the 1930s like handful of dust by evelyn war although just clarify it wasn't gay men who were illegal it was the act of homosexual sex i inserted two bigger parentheses into that sentence but anyway if you're in a place like that where people turn a blind eye to lots of things

and being gay is illegal, it's probably quite a good place to be gay rather than a place where everyone is very staid and proper and you're not allowed to do anything. Slightly depressingly though, Brighton is another of those places that's done exactly what we were just talking about. Brighton Marina redeveloped.

Oh, Café Rouge, branch of giraffe. Big fucking deal. Call Marina and like, you know, the Café rouge has an excellent view don't get me wrong oh undoubtedly but it is a cafe rouge and yeah i've got one of those where i live i'll tell you the bit that you're missing as well from the history of brighton that's made it an attractive place uh it was the linda leplante mini-series killer net which uh teenage ollie man watched in 1998 did you see it that was a very good web 1.0 mystery yeah pretty much a plot plucked out of the

pages of the mail on sunday uh it was a paranoid conspiracy thriller about the internet but the early days of early web forums and stuff yeah and it was easy because people who would watch that kind of show had probably never been on the internet so you could say whatever you liked about it and about the kind of people that would kill people on it well to be honest even if you'd been to the sort of more exciting corners of the internet, it was all on dial-up, so you had to wait a while for your content to load. And it is possible that in that time you may have plotted a series of murders. And how did that influence Brighton in its historical development?

Because it was set amongst a group of trendy young students. I can't remember the name of the bloke, but Emily Woof was one of the ladies. Emily Woof? Yes. Is it Woof or Woof? Woof. Emily Woof was one of the ladies yes is it woof or woof emily woof uh was one of them she's a lovely lady she is yeah like i say it was a very strong influence on the teenage ollie man i haven't seen it since then i remember it pretty well jason orange was in it as well oh yes that was his big breaking out from take that job yeah you met emily woof at a

party a couple of years ago did you mention to her the fact that you'd seen killanette and it had been a major influence on the young ollie was it a formative sexual experience um no and yes um so anyway um the background of brighton that permeated the whole series i was like i want to i want to go and be a student there because i was it was the time i was applying for university we never would have met no if the pull of killanette had been just slightly stronger none of this would be happening if i'd have chosen to watch itv instead of channel four with emily wolf and me and fit enough uh yeah so so if it weren't for linda laplante this podcast wouldn't happen well no no because actually on all two or three

I can't remember how many times I applied for university but anyway on all two or three of my UCAS forms I included Sussex and you said

I want to go here because of Killernet and surprisingly they rejected me so I never had the option to go there so Linda LaPlante or no

I still would have ended up going to university they saw your form and they're like oh chuck it in the pile with all the other Killern fanatics it's only putting your personal statement is i love killer net and in october that was probably seen as quite avant-garde

it's the question line it's a question line. 0-2-0-8-1-2-3-5-8-double-7. Answer me this. Shh. Answer me this. I don't know nothing. Such a perl lover. It's a question line. It's a question line.

It's a question line. 0-2-R-8-1-2-3-5-8-7. I wouldn't normally do this, listeners, but I just need to warn you that we're about to hear a call from the phone line that some of you may find distressing so if you're eating something finish the mouthful if you're driving pull over and brace yourselves hi hello this is ollie from bristol i'm sat here with my friend katie who knows a friend whose anus popped off during childbirth. Now, as in completely left, like completely left the bottom and was described to look like a calamari. How does that answer me? That can't be fucking possible, can it?

I really, really, really, really, really hope not. The thing about pregnancy and childbirth sounds god awful. I didn't realise you're in danger of losing your anus as well, along with everything else. And I really wish we hadn't had squid for dinner. I gained a child, but I lost my anus. I've had to use an elastic band to keep myself together. I'm pleased to say that Helen has done the research that even I was too afraid to do.

I'm afraid I could only do a small amount of research because I was trying not to poke everywhere. But I could not find any evidence of anuses actually detaching and plopping onto the floor independent of the body because I think it would take even more force than the force of a child being wrenched from your body it's pretty rigorously stitched in isn't it the anus yeah it's quite well integrated with your flesh but i think prolapse i believe rectal prolapse is a not uncommon side effect of birth and therefore count me out this line stops here here's a question from laura from gloucester who says helen answer me this which way round are you supposed to put the jam and clotted cream on scones and by the way you'll notice that i said scones because that's how you say scones and we're not having that debate thank you very much no we've had that before on this podcast and

it's tedious yeah not as tedious as this it's a dry week uh laura continues i always spread the cream on first then put a blob of jam on top like you would if you were spreading butter and jam on a slice of toast yes thank you we understand how the process works now i think she means though i i do it in that order because the cream is analogous to the butter in that scenario which is how i've always seen it as well laura yes and well we're going to discuss this at length in a minute. Yes, we are. I don't want to shoot my jammy load all over the question. Oh, your creamy load.

But my two housemates feel the opposite way round is correct. Oh, civil war. They like to shoot their creamy load second. On top. And they, says Laura, become deeply offended when I try to convince them otherwise. It's because it's not important. I've just Googled some pictures of scones really can we

please swap search histories because i would kill for yours i don't know if uh you've been to gloucester ollie but apparently there's not much to do after 5 p.m and this hasn't helped as both methods are shown equally yeah you see the world is ready for both types of scone eater to be out in the open ollie and i a couple of years ago met a man who one would eater to be out in the open. Ollie and I, a couple of years ago, met a man who one would consider to be a bit of an authority on this because he was the head of a clotted cream dynasty in Cornwall. Yes.

And he really knew his shit. He really, really knew. It wasn't clear what else he knew, but he certainly knew lots about clotted cream. The Cornish and the Devonians, they're constantly at war you know the border there it's it's like helmand province like the lilliputians and their neighbors the little enders and the big enders none of them have got anything on cornwall and devon when it comes

to scone topping order so he sat us down and he told us at length that in cornwall we put the jam on then the cream because why would you want to cover up the good cream with the jam in devon they put the cream on first then the jam and then he paused and then he looked up at us and he said because their cream so bad they want to cover it in jam. And that was supposed to be a joke and it was very difficult to know what to do, really. But ever since then, I've gone for the cream, then the jam out of defiance.

But I would also suggest that you want the most flavoursome ingredient on top because if you're sandwiching it between the blandness of a scone and the blandness of cream, then it's not really going to go on your taste buds much and you might have to eat more to feel satisfied. Well, I disagree. Why didn't you tell us before we were married, Martin?

Scones are really crumbly. I would argue it's easier to layer smooth cream directly onto the scone and then the jam on top of that than try and spread jam and break up your scone and get crumbs everywhere the thing is you know to use a sexual analogy oh no both both jam and cream are tops aren't they i know that they're sometimes found in the middle but neither are bottoms as this questionnaire points out you have jam on the top on bread but very often you have cream on top on a cake and so you're used to both flavors on the roof of your mouth live and let live or so you're used to both flavors on the roof

of your mouth live and let live or if you're going for afternoon tea just don't have the scones because they're the worst worst have seconds on the sandwiches yeah and then thirds well you want to have the sandwiches then the cakes then return to the sandwiches yes i think that's right yeah because you want to still be hungry a bit when you have the cake i mean people go for fancy tea because they think it's fun but actually you've got to be very very pragmatic in your choices you've got to be quite militaristic actually about getting the job done ollie man is somewhat of an expert in his field i went for two afternoon teas last week because you have the best life ever yeah i'm going to rename myself algernon on the subject of sugar highs yes uh may i just take this opportunity to say thank you very much for

the consignment of fudge that we received from the listeners who work at Rowley's Fudge. We have fudge technicians listening to the podcast. Isn't that wonderful? We have packed so much fudge into this, flat listeners. You wouldn't believe it. We each got a separate parcel of fudge and Peter, who sent the parcels to us, said, I've taken a guess as to who would like what flavour

and I'd be interested to know if I have guessed correctly. So let's see if Peter managed to gauge our personalities through the medium of fudge flavours. Sorry to say, Peter, I don't want to complain. He sent me vanilla. What are you trying to say about me? See, I like vanilla.

But I think he's trying to say I've no personality. Whereas Martin gets all the jazzy fudges. He got lemon meringue fudge. That was nice. Whiskey and ginger, because he's trying to say I have no personality. Whereas Martin gets all the jazzy fudges. He got lemon meringue fudge. That was nice. Whiskey and ginger, because he's a bit spicy. Rum and raisin. Rum and raisin's my favourite. That was a really good choice.

Thank you. I didn't know you got rum and raisin. Now I'm pissed off, because I don't even like fudge. But rum and raisin is my favourite flavour of anything. Even mayonnaise. I'm curious whether you would have liked the ones that he sent me then, Martin, because I got Maltesers, Baileys and coffee. The one on your website, though, Peter, that I was interested in was Cherry Bakewell.

And he didn't send it to anyone. I'm not saying send us more fudge, but... I think we've got enough fudge. Yeah, I think we're all fudged up. It's a fudging lot of fudge, all right. But we should say, listeners, by the way, if you want to try this delicious fudge, and I can say it's delicious, even though I don't like fudge. I can see it is quantifiably delicious fudge against other fudges.

Martin's just laughing because we've said fudge so much I just stopped saying the word fudge and talking in my head anyway if you want to order this you should go to rollysfudge.co.uk yeah they're not sponsoring us

they just like the show they just send us a load of fudge that's all you need major corporates are you listening all we want is some free sweets and then you can have your website read out on the show

sugar makes us grateful well that's it for this week's answer me this except it's not it of course if you want to hear another hour of us talking that you've never heard before as we said before get our album sports day and also there's another hour of us talking that you've never heard before because we were invited on the getting better acquainted podcast by dave pickering which is a really great podcast in which he interviews people in order to get better acquainted with them and he decided he wanted to get better acquainted with us and boy did he regret it uh but anyway yeah we'll put that up on our website but you can get it

direct from his as well gettingbetteracquainted.co.uk but if you don't know how to spell acquainted just find it on our website answermethispodcast.com where you can also find as we said before a big banner with answer me this sports day written on it that is the link to the album please buy it

and I hope you enjoy it and if you do enjoy it rate it on iTunes and tell people and if you don't enjoy it shut up keep your mouth shut no one's interested

in your views you scrote stick some fudge in your mouth and enjoy yourself and we'll see you next week bye