Oh What A Time...

This week on the show we’re discussing the magnificent inventions invented by early US Presidents! For you we have George Washington’s threshing barn (not a pub), Thomas Jefferson’s wheelie chair (as exciting as it sounds) and Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod (not as rude as it sounds).When exactly was the golden age of parking? We can’t decide if it was the coin-based or app-based eras. If you have anything on parking, inventions or anything else, you know what to do: [email protected] you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday!It’s our first ever sequel episode and this week we’re looking at one of our favourite subjects: Blunders. We’ll be discussing a man often regarded as one of the worst US Presidents ever, Andrew Johnson (not the striker or Elis’ old flatmate), the Swiss Army and how they accidentally invaded another country and how the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II got soundly beaten on the battlefield.This week we found out that Tom literally once hit the headlines and that headline was ‘IDIOT’. We also heard our first Correspondence sting and there was plenty of examples of people getting stuck in coats. If you’d like to get in touch about that or anything else, you know what to do: [email protected] you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).And thank you for subscribing! We couldn't make the show without you!Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It’s our first ever sequel episode and this week we’re looking at one of our favourite subjects: Blunders. We’ll be discussing a man often regarded as one of the worst US Presidents ever, Andrew Johnson (not the striker or Elis’ old flatmate), the Swiss Army and how they accidentally invaded another country and how the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II got soundly beaten on the battlefield.This week we found out that Tom literally once hit the headlines and that headline was ‘IDIOT’. We also heard our first Correspondence sting and there was plenty of examples of people getting stuck in coats. If you’d like to get in touch about that or anything else, you know what to do: [email protected] you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).And thank you for subscribing! We couldn't make the show without you!Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday!Let’s point our ears in the direction of some of the greatest oratory from history, because this week we’re discussing: Speeches. Henry V’s St Crispin’s Day speech (both in fiction and non-fiction), Elizabeth I at Tilbury and the campaigning of John Petts.We found out this week that Tom Craine’s favourite speech was performed by THAT guy from Come Dine With Me. Can you name a better speech? On this and anything else, you can email us at: [email protected] you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Let’s point our ears in the direction of some of the greatest oratory from history, because this week we’re discussing: Speeches. Henry V’s St Crispin’s Day speech (both in fiction and non-fiction), Elizabeth I at Tilbury and the campaigning of John Petts.We found out this week that Tom Craine’s favourite speech was performed by THAT guy from Come Dine With Me. Can you name a better speech? On this and anything else, you can email us at: [email protected] you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday!It’s time to take a look at some of the most infamous criminals history has to offer; the story of Bonnie and Clyde, the infamous Al Capone and American crime boss Arnold ‘The Brain’ Rothstein.Also.. What were you doing during the great storms of the past? If you’ve got anything on that or anything at all! Do send us an email at: [email protected] you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It’s time to take a look at some of the most infamous criminals history has to offer; the story of Bonnie and Clyde, the infamous Al Capone and American crime boss Arnold ‘The Brain’ Rothstein.Also.. What were you doing during the great storms of the past? If you’ve got anything on that or anything at all! Do send us an email at: [email protected] you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday!This week on the we’re discussing Gangs ie. proper mean ones so not the Scouts (Chris) or the Boys Brigade (Elis). We’ll be taking a look at some of the razor gangs of Glasgow, the infamous American mafia and going back in time to see what gangland was like in Medieval Britain.Have you ever landed on a rhubarb patch? Would you like to live on Cockney Island? And want to hear what Welsh sounds like in another accent? You know what to do, drop us an email at: [email protected] you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This week on the we’re discussing Gangs ie. proper mean ones so not the Scouts (Chris) or the Boys Brigade (Elis). We’ll be taking a look at some of the razor gangs of Glasgow, the infamous American mafia and going back in time to see what gangland was like in Medieval Britain.Have you ever landed on a rhubarb patch? Would you like to live on Cockney Island? And want to hear what Welsh sounds like in another accent? You know what to do, drop us an email at: [email protected] you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday!This week we’re talking about unique weather events through history. From the great freeze of 1899 that plunged Miami to sub-zero temperatures, the great storm (in the UK) of 1987 (and how badly Michael Fish got it all BANG WRONG) and of course, the LONG-HOT-SUMMER-OF-NINETEEN-SEVENTY-SIX (which Elis’ parents WILL NOT STOP GOING ON ABOUT).Plus there’s even more Jeremy Bentham bantz. And if you want to get in touch with the show, you know what to do: [email protected] YES! You may have spotted a new numbering system. Well, we haven’t gone straight from episode #39 to episode #44 by accident (!), we have in fact retroactively applied episode numbers to old subscriber specials:#40 Heroes (OWAT: Full Timer Edition)#41 Gifts (OWAT: Full Timer Edition)#42 Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll (OWAT: Full Timer Edition)#43 Protests (OWAT: Full Timer Edition)When informed of this, Tom Craine said he felt “absolutely no emotion whatsoever” - but nonetheless, there’s the explanation for those who need it.If you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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