#94 Canals (Part 1)

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Finally, AN EPISODE ON ARTIFICIAL WATERWAYS. Come with us as we dig our way through the jungle to form the Panama Canal, we traipse back to Glastonbury to check out their canal, and we’re off to ancient China to take a look at the world’s oldest canal.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of Oh What a Time early and ad-free.
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0:20.1	Hello and welcome to Oh, What a Time, the history podcast that tries to decide whether life was better before you'd get Instagram suggestions for weekend entertainment like this.
0:33.7	Now, I'm going to read you out something that I received on my Instagram yesterday, and it
0:37.8	blew my mind. It might say more about me than it does modern life. Maybe it's fine. Maybe it's
0:43.9	normal. This is one of the hit things to do in America at the moment, okay? Yeah. It is in Volente
0:50.4	Beach Resort in Texas. Okay. This is one of the big popular things that people are doing every summer and they're selling
0:55.4	tickets for the next summer.
0:56.6	They show jaws on a huge cinema screen and you are out in the ocean in a tire, an inflatable
1:04.8	tire with your legs dangling in the water at nighttime.
1:09.1	So at night, instead of a cinema
1:11.7	at screen, a thousand people are out in the ocean.
1:14.5	Oh, right.
1:15.0	You're floating with your feet in the pitch black sea beneath you
1:18.2	and you're watching Jaws on a big screen.
1:21.1	Now, is it better that we live in an age
1:24.8	if that's the sort of entertainment that's available to us?
1:27.0	Or is that, as it is to my mind, insane and you couldn't pay me enough money to do that?
1:32.0	That is insane.
1:33.4	Do you know why I wouldn't like it?
1:34.6	Right.
1:35.1	Because I can't think of very many things I find more irritating than being splashed.
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