#56 Animals (Part 1)

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History, Comedy, Education

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🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week we’re off the leash and talking about some of history’s most noteworthy animals. We’ll have Joséphine Bonaparte’s vertically challenged pet dog Fortune, Britain’s first zebra of note and the incredible story of the mayor of Texan town Lajitas (who just happens to be a goat called Clay Henry).Following on from our music episode, there’s lots of chat about our favourite non-lyrical aspects of songs. And in an OWAT first, Elis takes his place in the inaugural Plaudits Corner. If you want to send anyone else there, you can email us at: 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).Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:18.4	Hello and welcome to Oh what a time the history podcast that tries to decide if a time before singers went oh. If that really was music, if, and you share my opinion, music was invented
0:30.1	about 15 years ago.
0:31.3	Hmm, yeah, oh, baby, yeah, oh baby girl, yeah.
0:35.0	Mmhmm.
0:36.0	I hate that. I also hate the thing where it's not even lyrics.
0:39.0	It's a, oh, who, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that that one which is just dancing around a note.
0:45.4	Oh, stop.
0:46.4	What do you think the people who like composed medieval madrigals and stuff, what do you think
0:50.9	they'd have made of a
0:52.8	singer, a modern singer going back in time,
0:55.0	800 years, and being like, it's good.
0:58.0	But when you sing your song about Harvest,
1:01.0	have you considered going,
1:02.8	baby, yeah, oh yeah, oh, whoa, whoa,
1:07.4	hmm.
1:09.4	You don't have my favorite one of that genre is,
1:12.3	you know, when an artist sings their name at the start of a song.
1:14.6	He was big in the naughties where producers would go like, Starlight Productions or whatever,
1:19.4	and then like Jason Derulo would just go, Jason Derulo at the start of his song.
1:24.3	Craig Dave was a bit fun of that, wasn't he?
1:26.1	Craig David.
1:27.5	Exactly.
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