#89 Cancel Culture (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re trawling through history to discover how people got cancelled in the past. We’ll have the ancient Egyptians striking people from the record, how Stalin photoshopped associates away and how ‘getting cancelled’ worked during the European renaissance.

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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 Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.6	With the new Lloyd's app, you can do it all.
0:11.5	You can freeze your card if you misplace it.
0:14.1	Whilst you search behind the sofa, blame the dog, run upstairs, run downstairs,
0:18.7	empty your bag, look behind the sofa again,
0:22.6	only to realise it's in your back pocket,
0:23.9	curse quietly under your breath,
0:25.2	and unfreeze your card,
0:26.7	shove everything back in your bag,
0:28.5	take a deep breath, smile,
0:30.0	and run for the boss.
0:32.5	Freeze and unfreeze your card at the touch of a button,
0:34.0	the power to do it all on the new Lloyd's app.
0:36.7	Download now,
0:55.1	Pee's and C's Apply. Hello and welcome to Oh, What a Time and welcome to this episode on Cancel Culture.
0:59.6	And this is a history podcast in which we contemplate the past. And right now, I'm halfway through Dry Jan. When did the first person do that? Do you think anyone in the middle ages was
1:04.6	staying off the mead for a month? Now that. I don't think so. I think you're crazy. They would
1:09.6	put your head on a spike if you said, I'm not drinking mead for a month.
1:13.1	Now, that is a very interesting question, because they've always been teetotlers and prohibitionists.
1:18.2	The teetotal movement has existed for centuries, but dry jam.
1:25.4	I forsooth, for, shall have a month off
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