#157 Pubs (Part 2)
Oh What A Time...
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!
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!
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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, |
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| 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. |
| 0:23.7 | For all your options, you can go to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello and welcome to part two of pubs. Let's get on with the show. |
| 0:32.0 | Music Right, I am now going to be telling you lovely boys |
| 0:47.8 | A bit about the history of landlords and inspectors |
| 0:52.6 | And also how pubs turned from a cottage industry into something far bigger. |
| 0:58.4 | Okay, it's genuinely fascinating. |
| 0:59.6 | Some of this stuff I had no idea about, and I'm so glad I now have kind of found out by this stuff. |
| 1:06.1 | When you picture your sort of typical medieval landlord, what are you seeing? What are you picking? |
| 1:13.4 | When you imagine the person selling you booze in medieval times, what are you imagining? |
| 1:18.8 | Massive belly. Okay. Yeah. Big warts. Yeah. Huge hands. A shirt with the sleeves rolled up |
| 1:30.6 | Those warts sort of lightly touching the top of your gimmits as well |
| 1:33.4 | You see the phone move |
| 1:34.7 | Oh yeah yeah |
| 1:34.9 | That's ruined that now |
| 1:37.0 | Like a big apron that's covered in like beer slops |
| 1:39.7 | Okay what about you Chris |
| 1:40.8 | It's monks isn't it? Isn't it all monks at this age |
| 1:43.2 | No Actually historically in Britain Landlords were Okay, what about you, Chris? It's monks, isn't it? Isn't it all monks at this age? No. |
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