#70 Elections (Part 2)

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Comedy, History, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week we’re heading to the ballot box to discuss elections! The importance of eating racoon meat in Arkansas, how democracy worked in Britain before 1872 and how political party colours have evolved over the last century or so. And this week we’re also talking about: showers. Is anyone out there a power-shower fan? And is there a water source in the world with a lower pressure than the average nan’s house? If so, fire up your emailer: [email protected] If you fancy a bunch of OWAT content you’ve never heard before, 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	Are you both both in the queue for tickets?
0:02.0	Yeah, I've got like 27 tabs open.
0:04.0	I'm ready to some onezo whoever gets through first.
0:05.0	I'm in too.
0:06.0	Found a good spot for phone signal.
0:08.0	I don't know if I can hold my arm up here for long though.
0:11.0	Oh, hold on.
0:12.0	Yes, I'm in. Tickets in the basket. Monzo me. Done. Sent. Oh, that was quick. I'm still feeling in my billing address, but thank you. Pay your friends back instantly.
0:24.0	Money never felt like Monzo.
0:26.0	Download your new favourite bank.
0:28.0	UK residents tease and seas apply.
0:30.0	Hello and this is part two of elections.
0:33.0	Let's get on with a show. As Chris has explained, certainly Brighton at 1872 running for elected office, very complicated business, plenty to do before polling day.
0:55.8	That's still true today of course.
0:58.6	I've got a few friends of mine work for various political parties and it is just manic in the leader to an election.
1:07.0	You know you just don't stop. You are unable to stop. So there's a matter of getting selected obviously, writing a campaign platform, choosing the photographs to go in the literature, even getting on to the list of approved candidates in the first place.
1:21.0	Booking Carluccios. Booking Carluccios.
1:23.0	Booking Carluccios.
1:25.0	Dedication, political engagement.
1:27.3	You need a decent presence on social media, all this sort of thing.
1:31.2	It all adds to your profile profile but over in the United States
1:35.1	and we don't really have this in the UK there's a more perilous line to cross let's
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