#157 Pubs (Part 1)

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re popping into history’s local - it’s a whole episode dedicated to pubs! We’ve got a brief history of the British pub, this history of the pub landlord and how some pubs were designed to pull in punters from the tourist trail!

And this week we’re discussing trousers, sex education at school, airports and much more; so if you’ve got something to contribute, 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
0:21.7	history you might have popped up for all your options you can go to patreon.com forward slash
0:27.1	oh what a time
0:27.9	hello and welcome to Oh, What a Time.
0:42.5	It's a history podcast we look back on the past.
0:44.5	But this morning, as we're recording, we're looking to the future.
0:47.7	Because just as we were about to start recording,
0:50.8	Ellis revealed that he's got to change his trousers very soon.
0:53.9	Now, Tom, shall we try and guess why that might be?
0:57.4	Well, let's just, the actual wording was, can we end five minutes early so I can change my trousers?
1:02.8	So I don't know.
1:03.8	I literally have no idea what has happened.
1:06.1	Are we spitballing here, Chris?
1:07.7	We're guessing what's happened.
1:08.7	You need five minutes.
1:09.7	Are they painted on?
1:29.2	I'm thinking, if you want to know, I'm thinking wet dream. Oh, dear. It's too early in the episode for that. I tell you one thing. All my school was in Welsh, so I don't know what you used to call it in English. But you know the lesson at school where you discuss things like the body and feelings, etc. What would you call that?
1:33.1	Which, mate, that lesson did not happen in East London where I went to school.
1:37.6	Did it not? I don't think we have that note. The lesson where you're shown the video on puberty and... Oh, science. That was science. Oh, sex education. Yeah, and sex education, all that
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