#74 Long Journeys (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week we’re packing our bags and heading out on some of the longest journeys known to the annals of history. From the travels of Herodotus and how he put Judith Chalmers to shame, Charles Dickens on tour in America and two books on the subject of being a vagrant in the USA at the dawn of the 20th century. And now they’re we’re at the dawn of the AI apocalypse that may wipe out humanity and therefore, worst of all, podcasters too; there may be no finer time to send us an email than now: [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	This episode is brought to you by Diet Coke.
0:04.0	Time for a Diet Coke break.
0:09.0	Enjoy what you like.
0:12.0	Just how you like it.
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0:26.6	Hello and welcome to O-Water Time, the history podcast that appreciates we are in the era of late-stage human podcasting.
0:48.3	Yeah.
0:49.3	Tom, Elle and I have just been chatting.
0:52.3	You missed this.
0:53.3	Right. But I just revealed to Elle that Google have released a tool called like notebook.
0:59.2	And it's like it's an AI generator.
1:01.7	Basically, you can input different sources into this tool notebook.
1:05.1	And it will create for you a podcast on the sources you've submitted.
1:09.0	And the podcast is a man and a woman just having a casual conversation about what they've learned of the sources you've submitted. And the podcast is a man and a woman just having a
1:12.0	casual conversation about what they've learned of the sources you've inputted.
1:15.5	It is so chillingly realistic. Really? It's incredibly conversational. So Chris, just at random,
1:26.6	chose the French Revolution and he uploaded a few Wikipedia
1:29.7	articles about various parts of the French Revolution that he was interested in.
1:35.8	And suddenly we've got a 12 minute long podcast. And if you told me, oh, have you heard this
1:40.3	podcast by so and so, there's nothing on earth that would have made me think that it was AI generated. So, this is the last, oh, what a time. We're bowing out. We're bowing out before
1:52.9	AI pushes us out. We've had a really great run. We've thoroughly enjoyed doing these. But we
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