#166 Small Countries (Part 1)
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Get the atlas out because this week we’re analysing some of the world’s smallest countries! We’ve got for you Brunei, the Vatican City and how about we take a trip to Andorra?
Elsewhere, Chris can now talk to his house to turn off a lightbulb: so is humanity getting lazier and lazier? If you know the answer to that or anything else, do get in touch: 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, |
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| 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, and this is a special episode all about small countries. |
| 0:45.1 | And just earlier, before recording, I amazed Tom Crane with my ability to speak to my Amazon Alexa product and order it to turn on my lights. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.4 | But I also, I've upgraded the lighting system and I now have Wi-Fi bulbs in my house. |
| 1:00.4 | What's that mean? |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah, I just, those are just words. |
| 1:03.3 | I know those words independently in one another. |
| 1:05.1 | I can control all the lights in my house just by talking to my house. |
| 1:09.7 | I feel like this is something that would really blow Henry the 8th's mind. |
| 1:13.4 | This is something that 20 years ago would have got you sectioned. |
| 1:17.0 | So if you're on holiday, you can turn the lights on so the thieves think that there's |
| 1:23.2 | people in the house. |
| 1:25.1 | So tell me some of the things you can say to your light bulbs and what they'll do. Watch this. Alexa, turn off Loflamp. It didn't work. Absolutely fantastic. Oh. Oh, it did. It was a slight delay. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. So in conclusion, it did it slightly slower than it would if you just collect it yourself. |
| 1:49.0 | I don't have to lean over. I could have been anywhere in the world, potentially, if you've got internet access. |
| 1:53.6 | So you're in South Paulo and you're turning on your loft lamp. |
| 1:59.0 | Do you think all this technology is making us lazy as humanity? Because now I don't even have to get up to turn off a light. |
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