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Oh What A Time...

#168 Invasions & Why The British Invaded Iceland (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

Pop! Pop!

Comedy, History, Education

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re looking at various invasions and subsequent occupations through history; we’ve got Nordic allied invasions in WW2 (including Iceland!), the Norman occupation of Sicily and the story of how Gibraltar became British!


Elsewhere, we’re marvelling at how turning things off and on again really seems to work. And are you a Safari guy or girl? Who likes Internet Explorer? Anyone for Chrome? 


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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.

0:23.7

For all your options, you can go to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time.

0:42.3

Hello and welcome to All What a Time, the history podcast that asks,

0:47.7

if you could stop people from turning it off and then turning back on again,

0:50.9

would the global economy collapse?

0:51.7

It'd fall apart.

0:54.3

I do it all the time.

0:54.8

Yeah.

1:02.5

But now, obviously, because I keep my ear to the ground and I'm friends with some people who work in IT, I don't call it turning it off and turning it back on again.

1:03.9

I say it's a soft reset.

1:06.6

What's a hard reset?

1:11.3

Hard restart is just throwing your phone into a river and buying a new way.

1:13.9

And then going to the Apple store and buying a new Apple.

1:17.7

Going into witness protection, changing everything.

1:18.7

Bank accounts.

1:19.3

Yeah, yeah.

1:20.0

Yeah, absolutely.

1:23.5

The reason we mention is because my Zoom froze.

1:26.9

We record this across a snazzy sort of version of Zoom.

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