Answer for It! – Details, episodes & analysis

In the premiere episode of this family friendly trivia podcast, conductor and quizmaster Elyse drives a runaway train all the way from Peter Pan to John Travolta while James, AJ, and Zach go off the rails to find answers for why you never want to meet an Australian with their shirt out; what disaster turned Kit-Kat wrappers blue for five years; who “Almost Prince Harry” almost married; and what could possibly be the proper punishment for a gorilla that's built a faulty house. By the end, the group will have answered perhaps the most important questions of all: what *is* weather, and why is AJ's toilet water ten times hotter than the surface of the sun?

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Ever wonder why barber shops have that striped pole out front? What does it mean? Is it a warning? Perhaps a hypnotic device to lull you into spending too much on a haircut? We don’t know. But we will pretend to know, on ANSWER FOR IT! -- the podcast where trivia meets comedy, facts meet improv, and where fumbling the answer for laughs is both an art and a science.

Featuring an all-star “who the hell is that?” cast, ANSWER FOR IT! comes from James and Elyse Willems (Funhaus), AJ LoCascio (X-Men ‘97), and Zach Anner (Speechless)-- four friends ready to tackle silly, unusual, and obscure trivia questions. Like, when in history were Kit-Kat wrappers blue? How do astronauts handle their dirty laundry? And what the heck is a ‘tattie boodie?’ Prepare to listen and leave feeling at least 12% smarter.

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Q: I answer complex trivia questions once a week, yet my intelligence level remains the same… 

… Who am I?

A: The cast of Answer for It, of course! 

Coming to you LIVE from the Bongiovi Funeral Home in Raritan, New Jersey, this comedic quartet of ticklish penguins can’t tell Snorlax from Snore-less, no matter how hard they try. And the gang’s all here: America Online’s most Funkabetical man, Zach Anner; coming off her latest stint on Ally McBeal, Elyse Willems; big-time mama’s boy, AJ LoCascio; James Wah-ooh-wah-ooh Willems; and introducing breakout new cast member, FWANK.

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Theme song by Casey Edwards @composercasey

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Wash your pennies, you little street urchins, and prepare to have your ape drapes hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hoodwinked, and led astray by the twelfth episode of Answer For It: the only trivia podcast co-hosted by James Willems (Sex Swing: The Animated Series) and Elyse Willems (Forever 21). Swing from building to building looking for ramps with ‘Tandem Spider-Man,’ aka AJ and Zach as they go back to the future to find out what happened to the real Marty McFly in 2010. Did he get stuck at Gatwick? Or have a chance encounter with his nemesis, Boof Tannen?

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In the third episode of Epcot’s best trivia podcast, mob boss and Canadian Ellen DeGeneres Elyse Willems drags secret weaklings James, AJ, and Zach to the swamp of her dreams to start gettin’ some answers. Will James‘s bicep be fast enough to save them from suffering the same fate as the carefree women who drink gin or milk? Will it take the emergence of unsung heroes Spider-Man 3 and Dr. Needleman to rescue them from the masked men waiting in the Denny’s they all call home? And will they finally learn the only superpower they needed all along was something that two out of three of them already had: a syphilis-free brain?

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In the second episode of this first trivia podcast to ever get a PG-13 rating, Hard-Wonking candy woman Elyse steers the nightmare boat between pure imagination and pure nonsense to give unqualified Oompa-Loompas James, AJ, and Zach a golden ticket for a tour of German King Henry VI’s far more deadly, uh, chocolate factory. AJ learns which if not all of his most cherished hobbies are the least attractive to women according to “science,” a.k.a. some random magazine. Plus, James answers a riddle with another riddle: would YOU travel through time for a Klondike bar? And the group ponders two of the most urgent and relevant questions of our time: when IS it appropriate to shame a disabled person for their wheelchair? And, given that, what can we learn from the way heteronormative relationships are presented in 1990’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie?

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Theme song by Casey Edwards @composercasey

In this new episode of Answer for It:

• The future calls via iPhone.
• James, trivia sniper, proves that he knows more about The Matrix than Zach.
• We ask ourselves how we should REALLY feel about The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior.
• Everyone has their own interpretation of what services the fabled ‘Groom of the Stool’ once performed for his well-fed royal liege.
• We ask what it would take for Superman to swallow his pride and borrow money from Batman.
• Zach sees all, including his own hallux.

... And much, much more!

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When we started this podcast ten episodes ago, we were but four childish trivia nerds who would giggle at mere mention of names like ‘Mosher Butts’ without even considering his indelible contribution to the board game industry! But now, AJ can ask mature, insightful questions like "does Scrabble spell potato?” On episode one, if we had received a bad review, we would’ve spent the whole hour passive aggressively needling the anonymous listener just to prove they didn't hurt our feelings. As adults, we don't need validation from strangers, just James's mom, who isn't just loving the podcast, but learning things she never would've known without it like the sound of her own son's voice. And at the beginning of this journey, Buffalo Zach would've scoffed at Elyse flipping to the sticky pages of the Guinness book to find a record that never would've been set if Alfred Hitchcock hadn't scared people away from taking showers. Now, 10 weeks in, he can calmly voice his protestations, and move on to more adult musings, like, if on those lonely nights, wandering through worlds in Nintendo land without Princess Peach, Mario and Yoshi might've had maritals. Not in a lascivious manner, of course, but in a way that challenges us all to re-examine what we know about love itself. Ten episodes in, we're wiser. We've learned not just about the world but ourselves. We appreciate cinnamon and understand that chocolate isn't ALWAYS cold, and I feel like that's a good thing.

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The longer you wait to listen to this episode of Answer for It, the harder it gets! At the top of the show, we honor the memory of brave gelatinous blob Squibbly Bits who died saving his belongings (not kids) from a raging house fire. Then, the group treads stormy waters as James hits the high seas to plunder the depths of his questionable Instagram algorithm, but not before making Operation Mincemeat out of Elyse for falling asleep at the cinema. Zach’s pug-owner card is revoked by a pack of wild Olives. And, as newly crowned rodent sovereign, Rat King AJ declares that one must “never go on a cruise where someone changes your sheets for you.”

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In the eighth episode of one dead Internet lobster’s most humane podcast, our over-medicated Pokémon and trivia poet, Elyse Wille...

I'm sorry everyone. Zach here, breaking the fourth wall. Normally, I like to keep these episode descriptions fun, brief, to the point and concise because I follow AJ's example. But today I'm a little upset. I know you're probably all in magical Scotland thinking, "hey Zach, I'm no Dr. Thunder, but why don't you just take a couple Milotic to chill out?” Well, that would be a disaster!

In the beginning of this week's episode, you'll hear James say that he took a health soda out of my fridge that didn't belong to him. Editing gives the impression that I gave him permission to take it, when in fact, it belonged to my roommate, best friend and wife, Karlee. Well, newsflash, audience! That's just Hollywood podcast trickery. What you don't hear is the preceding four hours (which I would've left in) of me being strong-armed by a man with very strong arms -- James Willems -- into relinquishing the fizzy beverage. But make no mistake; James stole that soda then walked around this apartment in beautiful, downtown REDACTED like he was the King of Pop. Even Michael Jackson couldn't refute it because (as we all know) he‘s too busy making those Marvel films. So here I am, using this description to demand an apology. And, if he can't think of one, maybe he should take a cue from his namesake, Jimi Hendrix, and say sorry for once. Otherwise, Elyse is going to have to do the description for next week's episode, and nobody wants to read that because her taste in words is as bad as it is in husbands.

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Theme song by Casey Edwards @composercasey

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