Season 1 Ep. 2: A History of Clock Chimes ft. Michael Cormier-O'Leary & Carmen Christopher

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Joe Pera

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🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A dive into the history of clock chimes. Plus a call with Carmen Christopher of FX's The Bear on how to negotiate with club bouncers.

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Music by Michael Cormier-O'Leary. Sound Design and Additional Music by Ryan Dann. Featuring Carmen Christopher.

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0:00.0	Do, do, do...
0:03.5	Bampa!
0:07.1	Bampa! Bampa! Bampa! Bampa!
0:09.9	Okay, enough Rasmataz!
0:12.8	But it's not every day a new scratch card drops.
0:15.0	With the new set for five years scratch card from the National Lottery,
0:19.3	you could win five grand a month, every month, for five years.
0:23.0	Pick up yours in store today and get scratching.
0:26.2	Search Dream Big Place Mall. Rules, procedures and game-specific rules apply.
0:29.0	Place must be 18 or over. For a moment, I don't know how long all of the universe was in one place.
0:53.3	Then Ra initiated the All of the universe was in one place.
0:55.0	Then Ra initiated the Big Bang and time began.
1:05.0	Moving forward.
1:09.0	Each minute dispersing the universe further and further in all directions.
1:13.6	In an attempt to keep track of time on Earth, the first were shadow clocks, then water clocks, candle clocks, time sticks, and hourglasses.
1:36.5	And then, around the 14th century, European monks invented mechanical clocks so they could remember to prey on time, and that's when things got noisy.
1:48.0	...you're going to... I'm I'm I'm
2:01.6	I'm
2:02.6	I'm Joe Perra, and I thought it'd be fun to do an episode on the history of clock chimes.
2:38.7	I know you love those Bell Tower classics.
2:42.0	The Whittington chimes, the St. Michael's chimes, and of course, the Westminster chimes.
2:48.7	But I realized that most of the sounds associated with time,
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