#160 Comebacks (Part 1)

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🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week we’re looking at some of the greatest comebacks history has to offer. Where else to begin than the epic comeback that is Skoda cars! And what about the comeback of the West German economy after world war 2?! And finally, a literal comeback, Apollo 13’s incredible return from the moon after disaster struck.

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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, the history podcast that dares ask the question.
0:46.3	What on earth did we do with the stuff we didn't want before the charity shop?
0:50.8	I know. I've got the answer to this question.
0:52.7	Oh, because today we gave away a
0:55.3	lot of stuff to charity shop and it was stuff that's decent, like books, the kids don't read
1:00.4	anymore, clothes that are fine that the kids have grown out of. What were we doing? Christopher,
1:06.5	please enlighten me. One of my favorite things to do as a kid, I'd put this in the top three things to do. My dad would go, do you want to go to the tip? And the tip back in the early 90s, late 80s, was a giant mound of stuff. Yes. Glass, mirrors, whatever, and you could throw it on there smash to throw rocks at glass. Chris, yeah, yeah. Chris, this isn't a thing in the 80s. We went on Saturday, and my kids loved it. They absolutely loved it. We got back home, and they were looking around the house for other stuff we could take to the tip. Charlie would come up to my room with, like, good stuff from the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You luck. Or kettle or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, no. But they were desperate to go back and just hurl it into the sort of mountain of glass and shards of metal. I've been to the tip the last two Sundays running and I'm going again on this Sunday. My mother always says that it's a really good day out the tip in Kmarthen.
2:03.5	Yeah, yeah.
2:05.5	What's your favourite bit of the tip?
2:09.5	Is it A, the lobbing of something.
2:13.5	There is a satisfaction to the style of throw.
2:15.5	I like a sort of basketball three-point shot.
2:16.3	I quite enjoy that.
2:17.1	Yeah. But I also quite look. Sometimes they shot. I quite enjoy that. Yeah.
2:34.4	But I also quite look, sometimes they have like tables of nice stuff art here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have basically a few tables where the people who run it thought, I can't believe people have chucked this stuff away. And there's often quite nice stuff there. Like there's like a, what was there? Like a wooden cuckoo clock that was still working. Nice. It's the feeling of relief I get when I get back in the car.
2:40.2	I've got rid of something that I needed to get rid of about three years ago.
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