The good news is that you can add an interactive transcript to your Spotify hosted podcast. See below …
[Ellis] Hello there. This is the trailer for Oh What A Time – a new history podcast presented by me, the proud owner of a degree in history, Ellis James.
[Tom] And me, comedian, and history enthusiast – Tom Craine.
[Chris] And me graduate of the University of East London, (it’s a real university) – Chris Scull.
[Tom] Each week, we’ll be firing up our time machine heading back in time to tackle a brand new subject.
[Chris] From childhood to a life at sea, marriage to fashion, all in an effort to answer the question, was the past as awful as it sounds?
[Ellis] Or was a life without mattresses and central heating actually better?
[Chris] We’ve actually recorded quite a few episodes. And the thing that really sticks with me is what we learned about a pig that became really intelligent by claiming to have eaten books.
Right.
That’s the kind of… that’s the kind of historical insight that is not getting covered elsewhere.
[Tom] We’re not afraid to tackle the big subjects. That’s what’s great about this podcast.
[Ellis] There’s the bit in, in Short Circuit with Johnny Five is sort of up all night reading encyclopedias and stuff, and just saying input input. It was a pig doing this first 100 and 100 years ago.
[Chris] The original Johnny Five.
[Ellis] The original Johnny Five was a pig who ate literature. Exactly.
[Chris] And also, how Vikings went about having a poo.
[Tom] Absolutely.
[Chris] Yeah.
[Ellis] Yeah.
[Tom] Once again, you’re not getting this anywhere else.
[Chris] Exactly. I mean, they did it in the same way, by to be absolutely clear.
[Ellis] Yes. Yeah. They just they just had very, very different sensibilities about what was an wasn’t acceptable. But to be honest, I mean, as we’ve established on the podcast, because we’ve recorded quite a few now, as Chris said, it was a different time. So that’s Oh What A Time. Make sure to subscribe and why not give us 5 stars now on the back of this absolutely amazing trailer. I mean, why wait?
[Tom] And if you want to start following the pod on social media, you can find us at Oh What A Time pod on Instagram and Twitter. And if you want to email us, you can do so at hello@ohwhatatime.com.
[Chris] So that’s oh what a time. The first episode will be out on podcast platforms everywhere on Monday 17th July. So make sure you subscribed. We’ll see you then. Bye.
[Ellis] Bye.
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The not so good news is that the Spotify iFrame API, we use to make it all work, has several restrictions.
1. You can only “seek” in one second intervals, this means clicking on words may not shift the play-head to exactly the right place.
2. Player current time updates are also one a second which is less than ideal when trying to create an accurate karaoke effect. Although I’m pleased to say we’ve worked around this by sub-sampling.
3. Playing a file without previous interaction will always play from start
so for example – a shared selection will highlight but not start at the start of that selection.
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