Oh What A Time... - #56 Animals (Part 2)

Episode Date: July 8, 2024

This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday! This week we’re off the leash and talking about some of history’s most noteworthy animals. We’ll have Joséphine Bonaparte’s vertically challenged pet dog Fortune, Britain’s first zebra of note and the incredible story of the mayor of Texan town Lajitas (who just happens to be a goat called Clay Henry). Following on from our music episode, there’s lots of chat about our favourite non-lyrical aspects of songs. And in an OWAT first, Elis takes his place in the inaugural Plaudits Corner. If you want to send anyone else there, you can email us at: [e-mail] If you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), 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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visit Connects Ontario.C.A. Hello, this is part two of Famous Animals. Part one was yesterday on the feed. Are you ready? Let's get into it. All right, so I'm going to tell you now about a particularly famous zebra. And I wanted to pause here to ask, thoughts on zebras and greeners' tongue. All right, so I'm going to tell you now about a particularly famous zebra. And I wanted to pause here to ask, thoughts on zebras? Well, I don't really know where that's... You'll say particularly famous zebras. I'm trying to think if there is another zebra who just falls under that

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They can roll around in the hay but they can't breed. And that's fine if year before this, Queen Charlotte and King George III have got married and belatedly, they got married in the 1761. Belatedly, a wedding present arrived from South Africa a year later in 1762. And it is a zebra. Now Ellis, you're getting married soon. How would you feel if one of the gifts you got was a zebra? It's a classic, my friend John Robbins has got a great phrase for this. It's a gift that's basically a problem. Yeah, yeah. You're like, okay. Thank you. It's clutter. Great. It's live clutter. Cheers, man.

Yeah, Queen Charlotte and King George III got a zebra as a wedding present, he arrived in 1762. Now, this is the thing that's really quite mind-blown to me, but it makes complete sense. Most Britons had never, at that point, in 1762, seen a real zebra before. Wow. There have been prints of ones in magazines and so naturally a zebra in Britain caused an absolute sensation. One newspaper observed at a time. The curious zebra that was presented to the queen is rode every morning at six o'clock in the paddock behind the queen's house and is at

present obliged to be led by another man, it not being tame enough for a person to ride it by himself. So, that man, the zebra keeper, was called Jemmy Hamilton, a person of color in the employ of the royal family. He also had expertise which extended to looking after elephants and kangaroos. And again, these were gifted to the king. Well, well. So he had a menagerie. Right. But But back to the zebra. This zebra had thereereereereereere threm threm threm the the the thremremremremremend the thremend the thremend the the zebra had the the zebra had the the thremend the zebra had the the the zebra had the the the king. Well, well, well. So he had a menagerie. Right, but back to the zebra. This zebra had tremendous celebrity. People would get up early to go alone and watch the zebra getting walked around. As one observer put it, the zebra was pestered with visits and had all her hours employed from morning to night in satisfying the curiosity of the public. People couldn't get enough of the sight of a zebra. And at this point I'll tell

you this story. Right after COVID, my daughter who loves animals, like we said to her, what do you want to do for your birthday? She said, I want to go to London Zoo. We went to London Zoo and we didn't really see any animals. She wanted to see the giraffes, didn't see any giraffes. The doors of the giraffe paddock were open and we said like, well the giraffes be coming out and the zookeeper said, they're just a bit shy today because they haven't had a lot of visitors recently. So you won't be seeing any giraffes. Oh, no. And I thought, isn't the the the the the the the the they, oh, oh, oh, they, oh, oh, oh, they, oh, they, oh, oh, they, oh, the, oh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, isn't that the point of a zoo?

Like, can't you goad them out? Goad them? It's quite sweet, it's quite sweet in a way that animals have those days where they're not feeling, they're feeling a bit more sort of introverted. But also it implies that they have days where they're like, bring it on. Yeah. I hope we get loads of visitors today. I'm actually in a the the thode thode the the thode like like like like like like like like like like like like like like theeeary theary theary theary theary theary theary theary thode like thode like thode like thode like thode thode theaseasea good theasea thearneaught thoed thoed thoed go go go go go go go go go go go go go goa good good good good good good good good good good good good good thoed thoed thoed thoed thoed thoed thoed bring it on. Yeah. Like the zebra most days. I hope we get loads of visitors today. I'm actually in a great mood. I feel like Freddy Mercury at Wendy.

I'm going to show you every. I'm going to put on a hell of a show. I know I can completely see why so many people were fascinated by it. I mean, zebras are crazy things when you look at them. In 1762, it must have been mind-blowing. Of course. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. So so many people were turning up to see the zebra, the enterprising palace guards, tried

to make the spectacle a ticketed event to earn an extra bit of money. But this was quickly shut down. But some of the problem was people wanted to ride the zebra, they wanted to interact with the zebra, but the zebra had no intention of being tamed and it was a really, really stubborn animal, this particular zebra zebra. Good on it. Yeah! And this might be the case why we've never really had a successful zebra racehorse. Because I didn't know this, but now it makes sense that zebras are notoriously hard to domesticate, I've learned.the theory is that they, because they have evolved in Africa under such difficult evolutionary pressure because they've got so many predators which include humans that zebras have grown and evolved to be innately really aggressive. Really? Oh. Yes, so the Queen's zebra absolutely fitted into this category.

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But it had it really hard to do the rollie, didn't it? It was, I think it was kind of really struggled with hooves. Near impossible with hooves. Yeah. And the tobacco had absolutely no effect. Instead, it just bit the keeper and tossed them around. Oh good. And at this point they decided the zebra was frankly more trouble than it was worth. So they sold it on to John Pinchbeck who was a London impresario who came up the idea of a traveling menagerie.

So if you bought a ticket to John Pinchbeck's traveling menager, these are some of the sites you would have seen. A the tiger. This is it from the poster. A magnanimous lion. Right. Right. A real Bengal tiger. A beautiful leopard, a curious porcupine. A voracious panther and a man tiger. As well as a troublesome queen's ass. There's queen zebra. So you could go along and see the famous quiz. What's a man tiger? What's that? I don't know. I'm just reading the list. Is it half man, half tough? What's the situation?

What's going on there? Man with a particularly big beard? When you look up man, tiger, it's seen as a fictional monster with a consisting of a lion with a human head. sort of freak show stuff isn't it? Yeah. So yeah, Pinchpeck Circus went visited Oxford, Stamford, Salisbury, Birmingham, Newark before the unfortunate creature breathed its last breath. Yeah, so the Queen's Zebra was actually quite famous. They would sing songs about it in Taverns, Inns and Alehouses, usually sung by kind of bawdy, drunk, young men, and they would sing about Queen Charlotte and her zebra. Do you want to hear the song? These are the lyrics? Yes, please do, yeah.

Since then, there is no mighty difference between the ass of a subject and that of a queen, let each lad full of glee take his bottle and glass and drink to the queen's health, not forgetting her ass. the queen's health, not forgetting her ass. Not forgetting her ass. Not forgetting her ass. And drinks to the Queen's health, not forgetting her ass. I reckon an inventory or a list of gifts the royal family have been given over the last few hundred years would be fascinating. Yes. Because often the gifts reflect the culture from the country of which they're given. Yeah. Sometimes they're really elaborate. Sometimes, Trumbaram, there was that enormous scandal about 15 years ago

when Gordon Brown gave Barack Obama like this beautiful antique writing desk. I think I know this. Oh yes. And Barack Obama gave Gordon Brown a load of DVDs. Absolutely re-gifted DVDs, I guarantee as well. Basically a car boot sale. There's the stuff you get on a car boot. I remember reading loads of articles about what that said about the state of the special relationship between Britain and America. I tell you what it says. It says,

Barak, are you aware that Gordon Brown is coming around in five minutes? Yeah. Oh God I haven't got him anything. He's just rushing around the living room, pulling open cupboards, and these aren't open, these aren't opened yet. Yeah, he's that, well I got this one free with a Sunday newspaper. Can I give him that? That's from the daily, can you make the most of it with your membership rewards points? Earn points on everyday purchases. Use them for that long-awaited vacation. You can earn points almost anywhere, and they never expire.

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and services available at the Y. to see what you can achieve at YMCAGTA.org This will be the least likely mayor of all time. So you may remember, quite a while ago actually, in a previous episode, I talked about the Roman Emperor Caligula and how he planned on appointing his horse as senator. Do you remember that? Do you remember remember that? Yes, yeah, yeah. Very well. So, it's a very famous story. Impossible to justify.

Yeah, absolutely. But then, if you're an emperor, you probably don't need to justify it, you can just kind of suggest it. There isn't a manifesto good enough for me to go, and I will accept them appointing a horse. I just think I think what they're going to do the NHS is so good I will accept a horse incompetent. Well that didn't quite get through despite him pushing it however elsewhere something equally bizarre did actually happen. In fact, I'd say it's kind of nothing compared to what actually happened in the tiny town of Lachitas in Western Texas. And that's what I'm going to talk to you today. So I'm going to take you

back to the 1980s when Lahitas was owned by a Houston millionaire businessman, and his name was Walter M. Misha was known to Texans as the Kingmaker, partly because he uses huge fortune to fund political campaigns, including that of Ronald Reagan. So in fact, his dollars, this one guy, okay, his dollars were essential in turning the traditionally Democrat state of Texas over to the Republicans. So I'm going to give you some stats here. Let's show you the sort of power this guy had. From 1872 until 1980, the Democrats only lost the state of Texas four times, okay? From 1872 to 1980, only lost Texas four times.

Then Misha starts pumping his money into the Republicans, and since then the Democrats haven't won. So it's been such a flip from technology. So long being strongly Democrat and since his basically his funding it's all completely changed. But it's like Man City in a way. The money's come in, it's cemented it, it's just victory after victory now. The point that this story starts about this strange mare starts in the mid-80s and it's during a freak snowstorm where Misha, this businessman and a group of local businessmen are trapped a place called the Thirsty Goat Saloon in La Jitas which I think it sounds like a fake

bar the Thirsty Goat so. Yeah it sounds like somewhere they would go for a drink in Dumb and Dumber. Yes, exactly, yeah. It really does, yeah, completely. It doesn't feel like it possibly exists. Well, it does exist. It exists in this small town called Ligitas. And they're there, they're trapped in because of the snowstorm, and they start to talk about they decide what this tiny town needs is a mayor. And they choose a guy called Tommy Steele.

Tommy Steele runs a construction company. However, there's an issue. His construction company and his home is not in the Jitas. He lives in Houston. And this really irritates the locals, okay? So they're livid that this guy has been forced upon them as mayor. They're furious about it. And they start creating an alternative election campaign. And the candidate that the locals put forward instead was a goat called Clay Henry. Okay? Clay Henry. What a strange name? That's such a funny It's amazing. They insist that this goat, Clay Henry. What a strange name that's such a funny. It's amazing, isn't it? They insist that this goat, Clay Henry,

because it's a local, will do a much better job as mayor than this outsider that's been forced on them. And incidentally, I love this side of politics as we head towards another election. It's one of my favorite things are the peripheral sort of politicians who are dressed as a goat or something or as a clown and they've got a shoe on their head or whatever. I love that aspect that we have in Britain but clearly it happens elsewhere as well. I mean what's what's your feet? Are you into that sort of side of policy? I love Lord Buckethead every time he comes around. Yeah, I love his manifesto always makes me laugh. We've got rich history of that in the UK. Yeah, I'm a Monserave and Looney Party, Screaming Lord Such. Great name for like a Mad Blok, screaming Lord Such.

There's class, isn't it? He's absolutely nailed that. Yeah. You're under no illusion that he is a serious candidate. Yeah. If it was calmly spoken Lord Such, you'd think that guy's probably a shoe-in. So they vote for this goat. The opposition is this guy called Tommy Steele. And what begins is an incredible story and a fully-fledged political contest. So the first year, Tommy Steele wins, okay, he promises the new town of snowplow, the memory of this snowstorm is in their memory and the locals just go,

okay we'll vote win. But this only convinced the irate locals to try harder at the next election in 86. I'll give you a quick roll call with the options for the La Jeter's mayoral elections in 1986. This is who people could vote for. Tommy Steele, okay, who will be returning. Clay Henry, the goat, he was up again. A wooden statue of a Native American that normally stood outside the town hall and a local dog. So those are the four options. What? The mayoral rules around.

The thing we're going to elects is it is the best, is the best of all the options. It is imperfect. But only if you have real options. Yeah. Not if one of the, you know, if only one of the options is human. I'm slightly drawn to the dog, I think in a way. I don't know, man's best friend. I'd trust it. He'd have our interests at heart. Yeah, can you corrupt a dog? I think it's hard to corrupt a dog, isn't it really? Maybe with biscuits. Well, I don't know. If it's like a guard dog, you'd put a tasty little steak in there, you can correct.

Dogs are corruptible with a sleeping pull in it. If he was on Scooby-d. That's. That, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I, I, I, I, I, I, I I, I I, I I I I, I, I, I I I, I I I I I, I I, I I I I, I th. I th, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thiiiiiiii. I think, I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi, I thi. I true. So they go into the 86th election and the goat wins by a landslide. In fact, he's so successful and so loved that he remains as mayor for six years until 1992. Loved. Absolutely loved. So loved Ellis that he even becomes a tourist attraction and people are traveling from miles and from different countries to meet his girl. Would you care to guess what his party trick was? What are the things that people came to see? Try and guess what his party was.

Can he say a few words? Signing legislation with his hoof? Nope. But that would actually be far more useful. His oratory, the power is power, the power, the power, to, to, to, to, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, tooom. tooom. to, tooom. tooom. tooom. to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to to to to their their their their their their their their their their their their, their their, their, their their their their their the, the.e.a.e.e.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a, the power of his oratory, just convinced to, convinced everybody of what he wanted to achieve. His power was his ability to drink beer from glass bottles, sometimes as many as 40 a day. So he was a piss head, basically. That was a sad. A pissed gore. Do you know what, I am really proud of the small town I come from? Yeah. And I'm trying to work out if I would be more or less proud if the to to to to to to the to to to to the the to to to the the to to the small town I come from, and I'm trying to work out if I would be more or less proud if we had a goat mare. Would I, would I, would I be glad or would I, would that embarrass me?

I think you have to, the question you ask is, who is this goat surrounded by? What are the voices in its ear? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Am I comfortable with their political leaning? Because I think they're crucial in this. Who th. Who th, th, th, th, the th, th, th, th th th the th th th th th th th th th the, th the, the, the, the, the, their the, their the, the, thi, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th the, th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th the, the the the, their their the, their the the theat theat, their, their, their, their, their, their, their in its ear yeah yeah am I comfortable with their political leaning who is they're crucial in doctor that's exactly yeah yeah yeah yeah who's got his ear so he comes into office okay he people come and visit him because he can neck bottles of beer 40 of them a day however there was one major issue they found for his time in office and it's got a big one and that was that he kept head-butting people. Okay, so...

So, he was routinely head-butting people around the mayoral quarters, and it was becoming a real issue. Because that's what goats do. It is what goats, if you elect a goat, that's what you get. Yeah, you live by the sword, you die by the sword. I don't have a huge about sympathy. Although, admittedly, I think if a human politician was headbutting as well, you think maybe that is an issue, it's not okay in a workplace setting.

He wasn't just headbutting other humans. That was the issue. In fact, this behavior led to his downfault because he got into a big a a big a big the big the big the big the big the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, if the, if the, the, if the, the, the, theat, the, if the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to to to to to to to to to to who is the soon-to-be successor Clay Henry, Jr. that's what he's known. What was a hereditary position? It was. And well, you'll find out. And this battle led, sadly, to the death of Clay Henry. He was killed by his own son in a headbutting battle. And his son then replaced him as mayor. Oh! His son replaced him as mayor and went from strength to strength. After succeeding

his father as mayor of La Jitas in 1992, Clay Henry Jr. went on to become a national celebrity. He was appearing on television show. It's like Streets of Lareda, which is a 1995 show, and Sally Jesse Raphael's talk show. So he became a huge star outside of the town before finally retiring from office in 1998. And you're probably thinking, that's that, right? That's the end of it. Well, no. That's 1998 is really recent. There were still two final twists in this tale.

First, in the year 2000, the tradition was revived again with the election of Clay Henry the third. That is unbelievable. Oh man, it's a dynasty! Who was another goat from the same lineage? And then, here's a twist. In 2001, some tourists arrived and they're hoping to take a photo with Clay Henry the third because he also liked a tiple. He continued this family trait of drinking beer from bottles.

However, the touristsistsists to get beer because it's a Sunday. They can't get any beer, they can't get this photo they travel for ages to take. I think the Gortwood was something about that is. It is the me. It's a very religious part of the world the well. He's not going to goy and they convince him to give them one of his beers and he does. They go and give the goat the beer, they take the photo. The drunk local then finds out that his beer hasn't been drunk by these visitors. It's been given to a goat and he goes absolutely crazy. So much so he breaks into Clay Henry III the III's pen and castrates him. Okay, so he's absolutely living about the fact that his beer has been given to a goat.

I mean, nobody saw that twist coming. However, Clay Henry III then continued as a ballless mare for the next few years. He's lost his testicles, he continues his mare, before finally losing election to a beer drinking donkey named Poncho. And retiring... What is this place? I know, and retiring, apparently bringing the Clay Henry line to an end. However, duh, da da! Final beat in the story. That was until a few years ago when DNA tests proved a connection between another goat to the lineage. Clay Henry the fourth who was elected as mayor and he is still mayor today in La Jitas. So out in Texas in this town La Jitas there is a goat that is mayor

that is from a lineage of mayoral goats, which all started because a billionaire tried to assert his power over a small town during a snowstorm. Do you know what I would say? The lineage of the goat does mean anything to me. If you want a goat, a goat is a gul. No, yes. I need to know it's from the line, the family lineage. You can trace it back to Clay Henry the first.

That is absolutely extraordinary. We must have had listeners who have met Clay Henry, or sort of been there. Please email us in, hello at O'What a Time. I like the fact they're giving it a first and second name, but, but, and second, but, but, and second, but, but, but, and second, but, and second, but, but, but, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a that's, and a that's, and a that's, and a that's, and a that's a their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, is is is is. That is. their, is. their, is. their, is. their, is. their, is. their, is. their, is. their, is a their, is a their, is a their, their. their. their. their. their. that's, that's, absolutely. their. that is a. their. their. their. their. their, is for the political arena maybe that's what that is I don't know. It makes it feel a bit more sort of that is absolutely incredible. There you go let's have a final question it's just coming to my head if as we head into an election here it's probably going to be Kirstama but if our new prime minister had to be an animal what animal are you going for? and why let's let's end with that. Let that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that th th th th th th th th th th th th the th th th th th th th th th the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. the the the the th. th. th th th th th th th th th th th th th th the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the and the and the and to the and to to th Prime Minister had to be an animal, what animal are you going for? And why? Let's end with that. A goat, I'm fine with a goat.

Okay. Guy dog. Guy dog. Oh, that's nice. Inately caring. Innately caring. Yeah. Obviously a socialist government with that.

It's bright and it can lead us to safety, better times. There must be some very cooperative monkeys or primates. Yes, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I reckon maybe, I don't know if Blue Peter still on, but if Blue Peter still on, there must be a Blue Peter dog. And then a dogs, you know, if they looked after quite kind animals, it's used to the spotlight, it's done media the media the media the media the media the media the media the media the media to the media to to to to media to media to media to media to media to media media to media to media the media the media to to to to to to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be after quite kind animals, it's used to the spotlight,

it's done media work, it's not frightened of a camera. It might be quite good sort of at big summits. Well, on that L, I actually think, crucially, for the dignity of our nation and how we're seen on a global front, we need an animal that we can dress up and make to look like a human. We need to suppress the knowledge that we've elected an animal and we did an animal that we can put in a long Danny Mac, some Wellington boots and send out and hope that nobody will notice. That's what we need otherwise we're going to be a laugh and strong. Yeah exactly. That's all I'm asking. If ever happens, please make it at least human-shaped.

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