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Oh What A Time...

#62 Humiliation (Part 2)

Oh What A Time...

CBW Productions | Wondery

Comedy, History, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday! This week we’re dwelling in the podcasting pits of utter humiliation. We’ll be finally looking at the specifics of the infamous stocks and pillory, shaved heads as a punishment, the dunces cap and the humiliating act of ‘white shirting’. Humiliation is of course the specialist subject of Tom Craine who once lost a kebab stained shirt to the roof of a cab. Do you have any humiliating stories to share? And also, what can you offer to the museum of failure? Let us know here: [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

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0:30.0

Hello, this is part two of humiliation, and let's get on with a show. Right, so I'm going to tell you now about head shaving as a ritual of humiliation that has gone on all over the world for centuries.

0:56.6

And I will say I think it's probably lost some of its humiliation because it's quite cool

1:01.5

now, isn't it, ever since David Beckham did it the shaved head now.

1:05.0

But also in I remember the tail end of this if you had a shaved head up to when I was about

1:12.0

13 everyone talked about it.

1:14.0

And people would call you co-jack.

1:16.0

And they would say slaphead, and they would call you a slap bed.

1:20.0

And now obviously, because the Comover was a big part of sort of Western culture.

1:27.0

Yes. I could name so many footballers and just people in my life with Comovers and then I would say at some point in the 1990s people are just get rid of it just shave it off

1:37.4

Yeah, and then it and then it became acceptable to have a shaved head and then it sort of kind of thing that I mean I also remember the time

1:44.2

when it was like the hard kids who did it sort of skinhead culture and all that stuff I know

1:48.4

have you ever I know I could not pull off a shaved head I just don't have the face

1:52.8

rim at all. I have sort of two... But have you ever done it?

1:55.4

Because I thought that and I did it and it was great. I loved it.

1:58.0

It did quite suit you skull actually. I remember you had short hair.

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