#84 Christmas is cancelled (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Pull down the decorations and throw the tree in the street; because this week we’re discussing a few of the attempts through history to cancel Christmas. You can expect an appearance from Oliver Cromwell, Maximilien Robespierre will pop up too, as will all the critics of Elvis Presley’s 1957 Christmas album.

And this week we’ve got several great emails on the subject of “who are you playing a song to from history and what song are you picking and what do you want out of it?” (Snappier title for this feature very urgent). If you’d like to chip in you can email: [email protected]).

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of Oh What a Time early and ad free.
0:04.9	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:20.8	And welcome. It's oh what a time.
0:22.9	You know, I've just been to New York.
0:24.4	We're living in this age now where you can just jump on a flight and go there.
0:28.4	Even that still blows my mind, even though we are essentially living in the future.
0:31.5	But, you know, when I was out there, I saw a little fella by the name of Donald Trump.
0:37.0	Did you?
0:37.6	Well, I saw his motorcade.
0:39.5	Did he get out of the car?
0:40.9	Yes.
0:41.3	Well, did you know what?
0:42.2	I was walking down Fifth Avenue in New York.
0:45.0	And I was like, oh, look, that's Trump Tower.
0:47.8	And then suddenly I was like, oh, look, there's a lot of police around.
0:50.8	And then I was realised, oh, they're stopping the traffic.
0:52.9	They're not letting anyone go past and then I saw these secret service guys come out into the middle of the road with
0:57.4	head pieces on and then about 15 big escalated cars with the secret lights kind of flashing and they
1:03.9	rolled into trumped out and then he went into a tent and then up into the building but it made me
1:08.4	think like it's interesting isn it, when you think of these
1:11.2	great figures from history, and whatever you think about him, he probably is a great figure
1:15.0	from history now, where all these world leaders, like the protection around them, the importance
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