#49 Blunders The Sequel (Part 2)

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday!It’s our first ever sequel episode and this week we’re looking at one of our favourite subjects: Blunders. We’ll be discussing a man often regarded as one of the worst US Presidents ever, Andrew Johnson (not the striker or Elis’ old flatmate), the Swiss Army and how they accidentally invaded another country and how the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II got soundly beaten on the battlefield.This week we found out that Tom literally once hit the headlines and that headline was ‘IDIOT’. We also heard our first Correspondence sting and there was plenty of examples of people getting stuck in coats. If you’d like to get in touch about that or anything else, you know what to do: hello@ohwhatatime.comIf you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).And thank you for subscribing! We couldn't make the show without you!Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to part two this episode is on blunders part two of blunders part two
0:07.6	Let's get off of it
0:09.6	It's a tart poo of the lunders.
0:15.0	I didn't think about it.
0:17.0	Sorry, it's just a one big bloody blunder after another.
0:21.0	Oh, yeah, I believe taking you back to 1788. Now Austria is led by the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph the second.
0:42.0	He's the ruler, incidentally, appears in the film Amadeus.
0:46.6	And Austria found itself at war with the Ottoman Empire.
0:49.3	Now at the time, Europe was absolutely ravaged by conflict. So let's have a sort of top of the box
0:56.6	camp down. The Ottomans already at war were the Russian Empire. Russians, also at
1:01.7	war with the Swedes who were in turn at war with Denmark and Norway.
1:06.0	In short, it was a fucking nightmare.
1:08.0	Europe was...
1:10.0	It was chaos.
1:12.0	Was anyone not at war?
1:14.0	Was it real bragging rights if you were to war?
1:16.0	It would have been so relaxing to not be at war, wouldn't it?
1:18.0	You be like, well, that's just concerning the economy.
1:20.0	Like the isles of silly were the only places they weren't at war or something.
1:24.0	Now the Austrians fear that either the Prussians or the French would intervene on behalf of the
1:28.7	Ottomans. And in any case, there's already a rebellion underway in the lower countries, the part that we know
1:34.2	called Belgium, which might in turn bring British intervention.
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