Answer for It!
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. Subscribe and listen to new episodes every Tuesday.
Episodes
October 14, 2025 • 55 mins
Why do some people wear their clothes inside out on Halloween? According to the lyrics of “Monster Mash,” who are the guests of the Halloween party? What Halloween costume is illegal in Alabama? Which First Lady was the first to decorate the White House for Halloween? What's the most popular Halloween candy in North America, and more spooky questions in this special mid-October episode.
New episodes every Tuesday.
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October 13, 2025 • 58 mins
Don’t you see the danger, Elyse, in what you’re doing here? I’ll tell you the problem with the early drafts of Back to the Future. Both AJ and James have read them. You read what others have done, and you took the next step (Back to the Future Part II). You didn’t earn Shakespeare’s Curse for yourself, so therefore you don’t take any responsibility for it. You illegally bought a $276,000 dinosaur skull only for it to be seized by t...
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September 30, 2025 • 52 mins
Somebody call a doctor, preferably a tall one, because Elyse’s questions are D.O.A. She Speeds (1994) through quality Captain Crunch lore, breaking various Texas Bovine Laws as she races to “tear down that wall!” Luckily, the rebel alliance of James, AJ and Zach strikes back.
New episodes every Tuesday.
Brought to you by:
Elyse Willems
James Willems
Zach Anner
AJ LoCascio
Music by Casey Edw...
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September 23, 2025 • 46 mins
We oil check ourselves before we rub hog wreck ourselves in this week’s free-for-all question bonanza. Zach ponders whether or not Casper rules will allow him to bring his wheelchair with him to the afterlife; Elyse surprises with a husband-centric Ain’t No Slang; and AJ and James debate the merits of CATS (2019) versus The Cat in the Hat (2003) – both quality cinema.
New episodes every Tuesday.
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Elyse W...
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September 16, 2025 • 47 mins
Clarice Starling could run laps around the FBI's dwindling hacker pool... Why? Plus, what flavor of ice cream did Baskin-Robbins release in 1969 to commemorate the Moon Landing? Which Best Picture nominee did Leo DiCaprio butcher while presenting at the 2014 Golden Globes? And why can’t dogs resist the stinky allure of skunk butts? James, Zach and AJ attempt to answer these three questions of Elyse’s, and more.
New episodes ev...
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September 9, 2025 • 50 mins
Raise your hand if you’re too dumb for science trivia? Great. While AJ, James, and Zach are distracted, we can tell you that this episode features a disturbing story about how to visit Disneyland while you’re in New York City, an unnerving impression of Winnie The Pooh, and someone (we won’t say who) desperately trying to offload the mantle “Piggy of the Podcast”. And that’s all before Elyse asks the second question! So tighten you...
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September 2, 2025 • 54 mins
Answer for It LIVE is at The Bell House in New York City on October 8th! Join James, Elyse, and Drawfee's Julia LePetit and Jacob Andrews! With more special guests to come. Tickets on sale now at The Bell House or via jameswillems.com/answer-for-it
Calling all lollipop ladies! Sample a taste of the Magnificent Mangalista, which in no way smells like Uranus. In this episode, Zach presents a compelling argument that Kindergarten Cop...
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August 26, 2025 • 44 mins
Answer for It LIVE is at The Bell House in New York City on October 8th! Join James, Elyse, and Drawfee's Julia LePetit and Jacob Andrews! With more special guests to come. Tickets on sale now at The Bell House or via jameswillems.com/answer-for-it
Elyse trades trivia for monkey puzzles in this week’s slang-heavy episode. Then, in two clutch moments, James’ encyclopedic knowledge of Dennis Rodman and Bond villain brain damage give...
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August 19, 2025 • 46 mins
Answer for It LIVE is at The Bell House in New York City on October 8th! Join James, Elyse, and Drawfee's Julia LePetit and Jacob Andrews! With more special guests to come. Tickets on sale now at The Bell House or via jameswillems.com/answer-for-it
In this week’s episode:
It’s quote-off, vis-a-vis “Charles Manson or Gandhi?”
Menver: gay club or tufted baby hair?
Diana Ross makes a bombastic exit after Super Bowl XXX.
Apparent...
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August 12, 2025 • 53 mins
Pucker-up listeners, because men's rights activist and self-proclaimed “good person” James Willems has some pretty juicy ideas about what two consenting males should be able to do on the steps of the nation's capital.
Meanwhile, self-defamed manchild Zach ponders his right to exist after Sabrina used her pop carpentry skills to build him a complex.
And hand-me-down punnyman AJ finds that jungle cruising outside the podcast for answ...
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August 5, 2025 • 56 mins
If Zach spills a milkshake in an elevator and his wife cleans it up while he watches on, did it ever really spill at all?
We tackle trivia of a moral variety on this week’s episode, with questions such as*:
Is it illegal to steal an airplane?
Was Babe Ruth actually magic?
How cold does Coney Island need to get for two A-list actors to eat sloppy sandwiches in the backseat of a Toyota?
… And so much more!
It’s time to pull-u...
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July 29, 2025 • 49 mins
While we do proudly hold the title of the world’s premier comedy trivia podcast (or at least that’s what our moms say) we're also hard at work, toiling away behind-the-scenes as the custodians of a groundbreaking, state of the art, Piston Cup archive. Not even the founding fathers of yesterday could've fathomed our turbocharged shrine to Ka-chow: a Library of Congress of high-octane lore, preserving the sacred history of animated '...
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July 22, 2025 • 57 mins
Just as downloads were increasing, the Answer for It crew have decided to mix things up! This week's episode comes from the mind of Zach as he steps into the role of TRIVIA MASTER (an honorary title that carries no authority).
Does he use this as an opportunity to teach James, Elyse, and AJ about major milestones in the progress of accessibility in America? Or keep it silly with no less than TWO Holiday-themed questions?
Hunker dow...
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July 15, 2025 • 55 mins
All-time top five bottom-selling boy band and your mom's favorite trivia podcast Answer For It returns for a reunion concert, dripping with nostalgia and steeping in medical grade urine. So get ready to rewind it like a race car and make it a Blockbuster night, as James, Zach, AJ, and Elyse play such memorable misses as:
“Gurl, Let's Get Naked (because u have hypothermia)”
“Ur Glasgow Kisses Got Me Seein’ Double, Gurl”
"Coffee Brea...
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July 8, 2025 • 53 mins
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 ...
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July 1, 2025 • 49 mins
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 ...
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June 24, 2025 • 50 mins
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 b...
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June 17, 2025 • 47 mins
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 anonymo...
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June 10, 2025 • 53 mins
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 aslee...
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June 3, 2025 • 46 mins
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 wh...
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