#110 Vaults (Part 1)

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🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to take a look at the most secure places history has to offer, from Scrooge McDuck to Colonel Sanders - let’s look at Vaults! We’ll be off to Ancient Rome, we’ll examine where secret recipes are kept and, naturally, we’re off to Fort Knox.

If Tom were a medieval King, he would almost certainly have been Tom the Unready. Not sure the rest of us have nicknames, but feel free to suggest them: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of Oh What a Time early and ad-free.
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0:20.0	Hello and welcome to Oh, What a Time, the history podcast in which the three of us, myself Chris Scholl, L. James and Tom Crane, go on a historic journey through time and discover new things like all the kings before William the Conqueror, which is what I've been doing over lunch.
0:37.2	Going on Wikipedia,
0:38.4	checking out Ethelred. About a million Ethelreds.
0:41.0	Ethelred the unready.
0:42.3	Ethelred. And people could like Ethel Bum and Ethelwreck.
0:47.7	Ethel Red the Unready was, I went through a very brief phase of referring to Tom as Tom the
0:53.3	unready when You did?
0:54.7	About 20 years ago.
0:56.9	And it hurt.
0:57.4	I think it's a grin for a kick.
1:01.1	It makes him sound like he's been having a lie in during a war.
1:05.6	Yeah.
1:06.3	I imagine him scrabbling around looking for his crown when someone's important coming to the castle.
1:12.5	I've been absolutely fascinating because I grew up thinking that the kings started with William the conqueror.
1:18.2	But then suddenly it just occurred to me, there were kings before him. So I'll run you through. We've gone through Ethel Red the Unready. I'm going to go through the...
1:25.6	We'll go back in time through predecessors and I'll tell you their nicknames and you tell me what you think
1:29.3	they were like. Great. The predecessor
1:31.5	of Ethelred the Unready,
1:33.8	Edward the Martyr, what was he like?
1:35.7	Okay. Quite a good bloc, I'm imagining.
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