#56 Animals (Part 2)

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday! 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: [email protected] If 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 tickets Subscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.com You can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepod And Instagram at @ohwhatatimepod Aaannnd 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 x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is part two of famous animals. Part one was yesterday on the feed.
0:03.7	Are you ready? Let particularly famous zebra. And I'm going to tell you now about a particularly famous zebra and I wanted to pause here to ask
0:25.8	thoughts on zebra's generally. Well I don't really know where I mean one thing
0:30.6	there you'll say particularly famous zebra I'm trying to think if there is another zebra who just falls under that bar
0:35.7	are there ones that aren't particularly particularly
0:38.8	particularly famous suggests there's lots of famous ones looking around what What was there not a Zebra race horse at one point?
0:46.0	Was there?
0:47.0	I've never heard of this.
0:48.0	I hope that's true.
0:49.0	Yeah, I'm thinking of the movie Racing Stripes which is a children's family comedy.
0:55.6	I did check. Would watch. Last time I checked not a documentary.
1:03.0	So yeah, maybe not.
1:05.0	Yeah, thoughts on zibras, they're quite wild, didn't they?
1:07.0	I mean, they're so weird looking, of all the animals in the animal kingdom.
1:11.0	That's the one that freaks me out the most I think. That and the jellyfish. I just think this just so similar to horses.
1:18.0	Yeah that's where I am. It's just a strippy horse isn't it? I don't, it's amazing, don't get me wrong, if there's any
1:24.2	any zebras listening, I'm not sort of looking to be cruel, but I, yeah, I see them
1:28.3	very much in the horse area. I mean they're different species to horses they can't breed with horses or
1:34.5	don't they yeah no no they can have fun they can roll around in the hay but
1:39.9	they can't breed and that's fine if... And they've never been domesticated of these
1:44.6	epants, like there's no... No and I will get onto that. But okay I want you to cast your
1:48.6	mind back now to 1762. The year before this, Queen Charlotte and King George the third have got married and belatedly, they got married in the 1761,
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