#173 Australia and crucially, who discovered it?! (Part 2)
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!
This week we’re discussing that wonderful land of Australia! We’ll be finding out what was suspected about a land down under in Antiquity, south-east Asia’s Australian mythology and we’ll answer the age-old and quite complex question: who discovered Australia?!
Elsewhere, Chris has barely survived a bout with Norovirus and Tom finally admits what he’s thinking when listening to electronic dance music. Do you have any confessions you’d like to share? If so, please send them in: 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 hello and welcome to part two of Australia. |
| 0:41.9 | Before we get into part two of Australia, we have just done our first ever video episode. |
| 0:47.9 | It is a clip show. |
| 0:49.1 | We've trawled the archives. |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome to the future. |
| 0:51.3 | The future is here. |
| 0:52.3 | We're now in 2D. |
| 0:57.8 | We've entered the visual medium. |
| 1:02.9 | You know that form of entertainment that's only been around for about... Well, I actually watched a Mickey Mouse cartoon yesterday. |
| 1:05.0 | It was made in 1928. |
| 1:07.4 | Oh, which one? |
| 1:08.6 | It was a Steamboat Willie. |
| 1:09.7 | Yeah, Steamboat Willie. |
| 1:10.6 | I watched it with my son. It's brilliant, to be fair. Well, I can was a Steamboat Willie? Yeah, Steamboat Willie. I watched it with my son. |
| 1:11.7 | It's brilliant, to be fair. |
| 1:12.6 | Wait, stop. |
| 1:13.9 | Steamboat Willie is shit. |
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