INTRODUCING Wait... They Did What!?

Short & Curly

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Philosophy, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Wait... They Did What!? is the question you’ll be asking after travelling back through modern history with comedian Tilly Oddy-Black. 

We’ll unearth the weird, wild and outright scandalous stuff people did in the olden days... like letting kids buy fireworks, banning bikinis on the beach, putting blood-sucking leeches on sick people, and riding in cars without seatbelts.

It’s the podcast that will make you feel just a little bit smarter than your parents and grandparents. New episodes out every Monday on the Kids tab of ABC listen.

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0:00.0	This podcast is for big kids over eight years old.
0:04.1	ABC Listen.
0:07.3	Did you know in the not-so-olden days, cars didn't have seatbelts?
0:12.1	Doctors put blood-sucking leeches on your skin and school teachers were allowed to hit kids.
0:17.6	What?
0:18.5	They did what?
0:19.3	They did what?
0:19.9	I can't believe that.
0:21.6	Yep, I'm Tillyotti Black and my new podcast,
0:27.6	Wait, they did what?
0:29.6	Takes a look back at the weird and wild things that happened when our parents and grandparents were youngers.
0:34.6	Like in the 80s when kids were allowed to buy fireworks and explode them.
0:40.3	We have firecrack of walls and elephants, unreal.
0:43.3	Wars?
0:44.3	Yeah.
0:45.3	Bungers, chuckle and you actually throw them at each other.
0:47.3	Yeah.
0:48.3	Why do you do that?
0:49.3	Fun.
0:50.3	Some do.
0:51.3	Yikes.
0:52.3	And in the 60s when women could be arrested for wearing a bikini to the beach.
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