In AMT420, questioneers want to know whether airplanes have keys, what the G stands for in g-string, and why hotel rooms have one solitary chair staring at the bed. Plus: Olly wonders if all the switches in the plane cockpit really do something; Helen maintains that going on vacation with your family is not vacation; and Martin the Sound Man guides us into the manosphere.

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