#69 Your Letters - September 2024 (Bonus Episode!)

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

OWAT returns properly on Monday 29th September 2025, so to fill the gap over the next couple of weeks we're dropping a few old subscriber episodes onto the feed.

And today we have a Your Letters episode from September 2024. In this, we’ll hear from listeners with astounding relatives, we’ll ponder how awful a stag-do in Sparta may have been, plus we hear of the most practical one day time machines, possibly ever.

If you fancy sending us a letter, you can do so via the medium of the future, email: hello@ohwhatatime.com

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Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Oh What a Time. We are on a summer break right now. We return on Monday the 29th of September. Look forward to that. But to keep you occupied, right now we've got an old subscriber special. This is number 69, your letters from September 2024. If you want to become a subscriber, you get two bonus episodes every month and this month that includes a special
0:21.2	episode on stonehenge plus another one to come to sign up go to oh watertime dot com and enjoy this
0:27.4	ahead of us returning next week hello and welcome to Oh, what a time.
0:43.3	This is a subscriber special.
0:45.6	And this is the show that ponder's the question.
0:48.8	Was life harder in a pre-oobly time?
0:51.9	We should briefly explain what ubley is.
0:57.7	I'm staying in a, um, should we say,
1:03.6	not the most swish hotel. I've been handed at, I've got a yogurt from the buffet. It's an ublee yogurt. It's a make of yogurt I've never heard of before. It's a taste of yogurt. I've
1:08.2	never heard of before. Chris and I and Ellis have been discussing this yogurt, Ubley, that none of us have ever heard of, and I'm currently holding up. Well, it's actually, you're not given its full title. It's actually, it's actually an oobly thick and creamy. There are so many words on it. These are the words on the label, Ubley Life, thick and creamy, smooth yogurt. So there's a lot going on there. You're living in an Upli life. You never told us about the life bit. It's a lifestyle choice, the Ubly Life. I'm always, if I stay in a budget hotel, and I don't mind a budget hotel there's a
1:45.0	me about the anonymity of a budget hotel which I actually quite like I like the
1:49.5	idea that I can just die and no one would know okay and there's not even enough of a
1:56.7	turnover no people coming to this hotel so you'd probably be alright you'd be
2:00.9	lay there for about fortnight yeah i'd be like a danish bodbody i'd be like toll and man they'd find
2:06.2	me in about four thousand years preserved in ublee yeah premiere in man
2:12.2	with film four still running on the tv because it doesn't have Netflix, it doesn't have Disney.
2:18.9	So that's your best option at watching anything decent, film four, which you've had to flick through up and down on the channels, not through a guide.
2:29.5	Yeah.
2:30.4	He was, body was discovered with loads of little hand soaps.
2:33.8	Yeah.
2:34.0	Incredible. They think he was in his early 40s, his body was discovered with loads of little hand soaps. Yeah. Incredible.
2:35.1	They think he was in his early 40s.
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