Oh What A Time... - 🚨 EMERGENCY PODCAST 🚨

Episode Date: September 28, 2025

Hey listeners,As you may have seen, our podcasting host Wondery has closed its UK operations — which has left Oh What A Time a little homeless for the moment.Wondery+ has been the home of our bonus content for the past year, so with those doors closing, our paid subscriber episodes also needed somewhere new to live.The good news: as of today, we’ve found that new home — Patreon! 🎉On our Patreon you’ll now find:The full archive of bonus episodesBrand new bonus episodes each monthOWAT subscriber group chatsLoads of extra perks for supporters of the showPLUS the first two episodes of our new series (Technophobia and Memorials), which we can’t wait to share with you.Join us at 👉 patreon.com/ohwhatatimeAnd as a special thank you, use the code custard for 25% off your first month.Thanks so much for sticking with us — and apologies for the little pause while we find a new long-term home for the show.Chris, Tom & Elis x

Hello and welcome to Oh What a Time. Hello to all of the O Water Time listeners. This is an emergency broadcast. Now, obviously, our listeners, tend to make up the elite, the liberal elite. And I know for a fact that almost all of our listeners read the sort of the insider podcast magazines. They go to all the big podcasting conferences. They go to all the big podcasting conferences and they read all of the industry audio magazines.

And they will know from reading industry audio magazines and having them sort of landing on the mat every month. With a heavy thump. It's a big magazine, isn't it? Because you're all reading the industry podcast magazines, you will know that Wondry, the podcast platform that hosts, oh, what a time, has decided to cease its UK operations, which, I'm sure you can understand, is a right, bloody good laugh. It's good, it's good fun. So they emailed us and they said, we're no longer going to be operating in the UK. and so all of the podcasts are now technically homeless. I mean, they didn't quite phrase it like that, but still. So we don't get anyone to host this at the moment,

which is, as I said, hilarious and I love it, and I'm glad. Ideal, and I'm glad. Exactly what I needed. I think the listeners might want some extra contact here. I'm going to use a historical analogy. This is a podcasting Dunkirk. Yeah. This is the podcasting fall of Rome

This is the podcasting Battle of Britain for us But worse The Queen Mother is walking around Inpecting the damage done to oh what a time So what you're saying, Chris, is This could be our finest hours What we need now is Tom to go into the houses of Parliament And give a thumping speech

About how, oh what a time will rise from these ashes Yeah This is the kind of speech that is going to be quoted by people a hundred years from now so Tom take it away so I don't know

that by heart so it's quite hard for me to sort of twist and tweak the words of Churchill yeah but what I will say about Churchill is that obviously he was dealing with quite a pressurized situation

but what he wasn't having to deal with was the invasion of the Nazis was quite a to pressurized what he wasn't having to deal with was bringing up two young children which is something all of us

are having to do. If I've got a bloody do it myself, okay? I would say to our listeners as I said to those who've joined our Patreon I've got nothing to offer but blood, toil,

tears, sweat, bonus episodes every month, early access to live shows, Meanwhile, listeners should prepare themselves for hard and heavy tidings. I have only to add that nothing may happen in this podcast battle can in any way relieve us of our duty to defend podcasting,

history podcasting with a humorous bent to which we have vowed ourselves nor should it destroy our confidence in our power to make good history podcasts as on former occasions through disaster and through grief to the ultimate defeat of our enemies. Now, we don't want the ultimate defeat of our enemies, by the way. That's too much. Keep listening to our enemies. Because, you know, a healthy podcast community is good for everyone. Yes, absolutely.

Don't hunt down whatever you do, Dan Snow, in the street. He's got nothing to do with this. That's the last thing we want you to do. So if you've interpreted that Churchillian speech, both of them, well, you may understand where this is heading. So we no longer have a subscription platform with Wondery and we're also going to be moving off another slice in the very near future. What we're going to do instead is put all of our subscription benefits,

all of the oh water timeful timers, are instead going to be consolidated into one amazing patron experience. And this is the medium through which this show will be saved. This is the boats pulling up on the donkey, Dunkirk features to save the podcasting experience. So now head to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time. But you don't have to see there what you're going to get. I'm going to explain it to you right now.

It's genuinely exciting as well, I think. There's some great benefits here. We've thought long and hard for this. And not only are they great benefits, there are great benefits immediately while we secure the main feed future of oh, what a time. So here's how you can support the show, save Tom, Ellis and I, And also, Jody, our amazing editor and our historian, Dr. Daryl Lee Worthy. So here are the tiers that are available for you on patreon.com forward slash oh water time.

The oh what a time part timer tier. And on here, you'll get main feed episodes before anyone else. And you'll also get all the main feed episodes ad free. And then we've got our middle tier, which is the oh, what a time, full timer tier that you know and love. On here you'll get everything in the first tier plus the full archive of bonus content you'll get the two bonus episodes every month you'll get early access to live show tickets

and you're also going to get access to and this is exciting the oh what a time group chat on Patreon which we have all agreed we're going to be contributing to in the very near future and then finally we're introducing a new subscription tier for the ultimate oh what a time fans and this is called the oh water time all-timer tier.

Great names. Love it love. And for these fans who support the show, you're going to get all the benefits I've just described. Plus, you're going to get a priority inbox for listener correspondence. Once a month, at the very least, you will pick the topics that we explore on Oh What a Time. And we will big you up

at the beginning of that episode. We will give you full praise for this being your idea for this episode. And then also, probably the best benefit of all. If you sign up to become an O-Water Time All-Timer and save the show, me Ellis and Tom will riff on your name as we quite frequently do and imagine where in history you might have been

so there's all the tears that's how you can save the show oh what a time.com for all your options but patron now is the future but I want to just throw in a few more added benefits if you do it right now so if you sign up right now I know you were probably listening to this hoping that the return of oh what time would be Monday 29th September but for the reasons we've just described we're pushing it back slightly to Monday the 13th of October is now the proper start date are back on the main feed hopefully we've got our house in order by then but if you can't wait

and you want the two new episodes that will launch our new series which are technophobia and memorials you will get those right now if you become an oh what a time full time or above plus you've got Stonehenge which is the subscriber episode we just released and you're going to get in the next couple of weeks all quiet on the western front which is another bonus episode and then from this point on all the bonus episodes and all the early release, everything is going to be on Patreon. However, there is an introductory offer that we're giving you to thank you for sticking with us

and also to thank you for saving the show and that is what we're going to give you 25% off discount for your first month. And Tom, what is that discount code? That discount code, it could only be one word, custom. It had to be custard. It custard, in so many ways, is the gift that keeps on giving. And once again, it's come up trouble.

Well done. So type in custard, 25% off your first month. And also, Chris, live show. If you're a full-timer or an all-timer, you will get first dibs on live tickets. And there is going to be our first live show before the end of this year to make it clear how official this is. Here is something I sent to my agent this week, just to wet your appetite. It's the tech requirements of a show. Go, ready?

I'd have your reaction to each of these, how excited you are. Four times seats, three for hosts, one for guest. Oh, nice. Four times wired mics. That's good. I also suggest some old-fashioned we are that we've gone wired mic in 2025. Well, you know, I actually prefer a wired mic to a headset mic.

I feel safer. I feel safer, yeah. I feel rooted to the stage. A screen for images. Oh, that's a big one. a screen for people to so you can look at things in the show some historical some sexual

the visual medium absolutely what word is more fun than the word lectern there's going to be a lectern the show logo and also and this is professional to the end a tech someone doing music lights levels someone who actually knows their way

around Fadis so it's going to be a quality show but genuinely our first live show will be happening before the end of 2025 and you if you're in one of those two tiers will have first dibs on those tickets. So there we go. It's in the hands of the great British public and do so, our international listeners.

So there we have it. I mean, this is not just happened to us. This is up to lots of other podcasts. But Wondry of ceased trading in the UK, and so we're looking for another home. So if you'd like to support the work we do in all the time, it would be very, very much appreciated. and head to Patreon.

One final soundbite from me, to quote Tony Blair, I can feel the hand of history on our shoulder. I can feel the hand of history podcasting on my shoulder. Thank you so much for listening. And thank you to all those who are no doubt going to help us save the show. Don't forget, the 25% of code is custard. Head to ohwattatime.com for all the links. And we will be back on Monday,

the 13th of October or right now if you choose to support us via Patreon. We'll see you very soon. Love you all. Bye. Goodbye.