#150 Short lived Presidents (Part 1)
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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This week we’re discussing US Presidents who, through various interventions of fate, weren’t actually President for any great length of time. We’ve got poor old Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), unlucky James Garfield (1831-1881) and let’s not forget Warren G. Harding (1865-1923).
Plus, what on earth did we do before the advent of eBay? Did you basically have to just be very fortunate if you wanted something obscure and niche? If you remember these grand old days, you know what to do: hello@ohwhatatime.com
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free, |
| 0:06.4 | plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access |
| 0:11.9 | to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water |
| 0:16.9 | Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in history you might have popped up. |
| 0:23.5 | For all your options, you can go to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time. |
| 0:44.4 | Hello and welcome to Oh What a Time, the history podcast that asks, |
| 0:49.9 | If you're into vintage stuff, niche stuff, obscure stuff, unique stuff, |
| 0:55.5 | How on earth did anyone get by before the Vinted and eBay age? |
| 0:58.0 | I'm going to give you an example, right? |
| 1:07.0 | I, when I was a teenager, really, really coveted the 1984 to 87 Wales home kit by Adidas and the 87 to 1990 Wales Home kit by Hummel. |
| 1:12.0 | And once in a charity shop in Cardiff, |
| 1:14.7 | I saw an old Northern Ireland kit from 1980. |
| 1:18.8 | Right. |
| 1:19.1 | I thought, well, maybe they get loads of vintage football kits. |
| 1:23.1 | They didn't. |
| 1:23.8 | It was a bonardo's. |
| 1:25.4 | That didn't stop me from every week going in and saying, |
| 1:29.0 | have you got a vintage Adidas Wales home kit between 1984 and 1987 and a vintage |
| 1:34.4 | Wales Hummel kit between 87 1990 in a sort of small men's pleas? And they'd always go, no, |
| 1:41.8 | because the chances of that happening were vanishingly rare. |
| 1:45.9 | Because they only sold about nine of them in the first place, because Welsh football kids |
| 1:50.0 | won a big sell in the 1980s. So I just used to sort of walk around and hope that I would |
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