#183 BIG Companies and ELIS RAN THE HACKNEY HALF (Part 2)

Oh What A Time...

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

This week we’re looking at commercial entities that went bigger than their wildest dreams. We’ve got for you: Japanese consumer electronics firm Casio, how did Cadbury make that chocolate money and lastly, how Andrew Carnegie acquired insane wealth and then, incredibly, went about giving it away!

And isn’t the world a better place for mass sporting events? AND IS THE WORLD TALKING ENOUGH ABOUT ELIS RUNNING THE HACKNEY HALF? Do let us know: 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 big companies over on our Patreon.
0:43.3	We just did an episode looking at 80s super hit TV show Tomorrow's World and what they thought the future would look like in the 70s, 80s, 80s and 90s.
0:53.7	We love this episode.
0:55.1	Here, please enjoy a little bit from that.
0:59.5	And the aeroccar is half the price of any other five-seat helicopter.
1:03.7	Perhaps one day it might be cheap enough for all of us to helicopter out of an earthbound traffic jam
1:08.4	into the wide open spaces of the air, as long as they last.
1:12.7	Now, obviously, this is a video episode. So you really need to, if you're listening to this,
1:18.4	just with the audio, you need to understand what you're dealing with when we talk about a flying car.
1:22.0	Tom, how would you describe what we heard there as a flying car?
1:26.1	So it is, its bottom half is a sort of slightly round bubble-like car.
1:32.7	Yeah.
1:34.2	That bit's fine.
1:36.1	And then on top of it, it has two huge propellers which jut out way ahead of the car and way behind the car, which feels like the issue for me.
1:46.1	Well, they're rotor blades for a helicopter.
1:48.8	Exactly.
1:49.1	So really, it's, it's, I wouldn't say it's a flying car.
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