{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"118. Olly Mann; Guns On Trucks in Malawi, Swim-Up Bar Pi\u00f1a Coladas, Greyhounds and The American Dream","description":"  Olly Mann, from Answer Me This podcast fame, his new The Retrospectors and much more, loves nothing more than researching trivia especially with travel. We talk Wrigley\u2019s chewing gum and decapitation, leaving your baby outside a pub, people who get erections on public transport, a love for Luton Airport, the misleading American Dream, cocktails worth shortening your life for, having a bottom accident on an African roadside (yes this episode does feature the S word) and much more.    On this episode we cover:   His new day in history' podcast The Retrospectors How Lisa\u2019s research for this conversation has been INTENSE (basically just talking to Helen Zaltzman) Greyhound buses \u2013 Wrigley\u2019s chewing gum and decapitation Holiday camps \u2013 sorry \u2013 forest villages -   The woman jailed for leaving her baby outside a bar in New York  How they choose their subjects for The Retrospectors Wanting to spend his whole day researching trivia Our favourite Alvin and the Chipmunks hits Lisa\u2019s \u2018research\u2019 \u2013 basically Google and talking to Helen Zaltzman \u2018Why is it when I travel on a bus I always get an erection?\u2019 Is Simon Calder kinky on certain forms of transport Does Michael Portillo get an erection on a train Centre Parcs and holiday camps coming into their own Covid-19 restrictions meaning we now have to be more organised The salty smell of the sea with a drying octopus nearby Wanting to sit where the busker plays the accordion Creating whole podcasts so he can go out and meet people Flying to Vienna to interview a Canadian he found on Instagram Having a love for Luton airport Being fascinated by Gibraltar (where he got married) Lisa feeling bad about slagging off Gibraltar on TV and radio Churchill decreeing there should be monkeys John and Yoko and Sean Connery also getting married there How Madonna wasn\u2019t writing about San Pedro in Malaga Marbella being lovely yet easy (with an appealing trashy side) How there\u2019s nothing wrong with wanting a branch of McDonalds How mod cons are quite nice to have, for tourists and for locals The miracle of Uber Loving walking around cities His favourite cocktails (worth shortening your life for) How a swim-up bar begs for a Pi\u00f1a Colada Malawi, despite a lot of guns and poverty, being incredibly welcoming The threatening side of the USA The \u2018American Dream\u2019 being pervasive and appealing but not quite true Is it easier in Britain to transcend social barriers than it is in the US? Helen sharing Olly\u2019s shi*tty socks story from his African gap year \u2018Your anus becomes a floodgate\u2019 Chickens on buses Squatting lurid yellow sh*t on his socks at the side of the road The sponsorship opportunities of a niche podcast \u2018have you sh*t yourself abroad\u2019 Travelling to India to help his friend scatter his grandparents\u2019 ashes in the Ganges Having no sense of direction Previously not knowing where the Pacific is Laughing at his dyspraxia and feeling terrible How Tom Tom was revolutionary for dyspraxics Driving ten junctions the wrong way round the M25 Needing huge landmarks like the Eiffel Tower Being a \u2018geriatric millennial\u2019, straddling digital and pre-digital worlds How it doesn\u2019t matter what your company\/podcast is called Imposter syndrome holding people back Swimming around his holiday pool hosting pretending he was Jonathan Ross Travelling around the UK for his show on BBC Radio 4 \u2013 Four Thought Enjoying the challenge of something goes down badly with the crowd Leaning into the \u2018something sad\u2019 about being somewhere on his own Yes Sir I Can Boogie blaring out on a truck guarded by a man with a gun How not everyone who travels is mentally ill The Full Monty and its bizarre CD spin offs ","author_name":"The Big Travel Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.thebigtravelpodcast.com","html":"