#58 Bad Ideas (Part 1)

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Comedy, History, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On the show this week we’re discussing some of the most absolutely disastrous ideas that history has to offer; we’ve got airships, the infamous Sinclair C5 and various attempts at creating ’smell-o-vision’ (which sometimes involved a ‘smell-brain’). Plus, we’re still struggling to get over the concept of trifle, especially with the possible inclusion of veal. If you’ve got any more of trifle, savoury trifle or anything on the worst excesses of Victorian cuisine, you know what to do: [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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0:48.0	UK Residents, Tease and sees apply. Hello and welcome to Oh what a time the history podcast that tries to decide if the
1:07.8	past i.e. a time before the suitcase with wheels really was worth living in.
1:14.0	I mean it's absurd how long that invention took to be invented actually.
1:18.4	Prior to that Ellis was there a period where it was just a suitcase as we see them now but without the wheels you're just
1:23.6	dragging the cloth across the floor if you went to an airport in the 60s is that what it
1:28.6	was I remember in the 90s my dad had a suitcase with like very tiny wheels but only on one
1:34.7	corner of the suitcase and you would have to pick it up by the other diagonal end and
1:39.0	drag it along on those like it was a halfway house between that and modern kind of wheels.
1:44.3	I also remember genuinely a time when people when men would look at you if you use in the wheels
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