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The Year Is
by Bobby Mair & Red Richardson
A new comedy podcast from comedians Bobby Mair and Red Richardson Every episode we travel back to a different year in history and talk about the weirdest, most interesting and sometimes horrifying events that year. New Eps every Wednesday. If you enjoy then hit SUBSCRIBE PLEASE! If you want to watch The Year is full eps are on Youtube. Sign up to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/theyearispod for exclusive episodes, early access, as well as live stream episodes and discounts to live shows. Thanks! Bobby and Red Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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The Year Is 2055 - We Time Travel Into the Future To Discover Our Destinies
The Time Machine has been fitted with the ability to go forward in time for our final episode, after we catch up with how everyone has been for the past 5 weeks, we travel ahead 30 years and Red reveals what the future has in store for Bobby, Red and Jody, and assess what we have all learnt and...
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2020 with Sean McLoughlin - January to March
Red is still in a Dubai Prison at the time of recording so our much anticipated guest Sean McLoughlin makes a 40 minute walk to chat with Bobby about the first few months of 2020. Flash floods struck Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 66 people in a worst flooding in over a decade, Ukraine International...
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1877 with Radu Isac - Romania Declares Independence from the Ottoman Empire, Sioux Chief Crazy Horse, Alexander Graham Bell installs the 1st telephone service
Red is imprisoned in a Dubai prison so the brilliant Radu Isac steps in to guest host and joins Bobby to break down an important year for Radu's home country. By a speech in the Parliament of Romania by Mihail Kogălniceanu, the country declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire…
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2015 with Micky Overman - Bruno Mars Uptown Funk, Facebook reaches a Billion Users, Jeremy Clarkson leaves BBC Top Gear
This is a very funny episode with the very funny and patient Micky Overman who is left alone with Red whilst Bobby is still away to make sense of a better world, before the world descended, the last year when everything was great, 2015. Musicians Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars recruit 11 writers to…
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1981 with Phil Ellis - Phil Ellis is born, First London Marathon, Mozart's Undiscovered Symphony
Bobby is still on the run from Interpol, somewhere in the world, so Red sits down with the brilliant Phil Ellis for a deep dive of the most important things that happened in 1981 starting with the birth of very funny Edinburgh Award winning comedian, Phil Ellis, also the very first London…
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1998 with Sunil Patel - Titanic Grosses $1 Billion, Posh Spice and David Beckham, California Bans Smoking, Clinton Lewinsky Scandal, Andrew Wakefield MMR Vaccine
Red is back and Bobby's gone away so our close friend, Sunil Patel, namesake of Bobby and Harriet's dog steps in to host with Red. The Time Machine is still out of action after we loaned it to OceanGate so we had to walk to 1998, when James Cameron's blockbuster film of the Titanic became the…
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1817 with Luke Chilton - General José de San Martín crosses the Andes, the Dandy Horse, Florida Seminole Wars, English botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker
Our very funny friend and honorary Super Genius, Luke Chilton joins Bobby for a deep historical dive of the year 1817 whilst Red is on holiday. An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina, to liberate Chile and then Peru. German inventor...
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1935 - Titanic Submersible, Shark Arm Case, Driving Tests, Sonny Bono, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lindbergh Baby, Robert Downey Senior, Hitler Reorganises the Luftwaffe
Explorer Red Richardson takes us to the depths of 1935 but not before some chat about the Titanic Titan Submersible that captured everyone's attention and imaginations this week. Of course the first thing that catches his attention is shark that vomited a murder victim's arm, driving tests become...
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1957 - Shark Attacks, Assassinated Swedish Schindler, A Fire Kills 44 Old People, the Last Man Hanged in Australia
The Miami Cruiser Bobby Mair, whisks us to 1957, when The Soviet Union announces that Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg had died in a Soviet prison, a fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri, United States, killing 72 people, The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James...
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1985 w/Eshaan Akbar - Neighbours, Michael Jackson buys The Beatles, New Coke, Harrods, George Michael
Eshaan Akbar eventually arrives after a big night out to join us for a historical tour of the year after he was born. In 1985, the fictional Australian town of Erinsborough is discovered, when television soap opera Neighbours begins and launches the careers of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Margot...
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1988 with Alexandra Haddow - Toxic Waste, Nazi President, Plane Roof Falls Off
We welcome our very funny friend Alex Haddow, and the man with the highest IQ in the world Bobby Mair takes her on a tour of the year she was born 1988. A year when the cargo ship Khan Sea deposits 4,000 tons of toxic waste in Haiti after wandering around the Atlantic for sixteen months. A Nazi...
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2002 with Rob Mulholland - Eminem, Afghanistan, Ben Affleck, American Idol, Britney Spears splits up from Justin Timberlake & Fifa World Cup
The brilliant and very funny and tolerant, Rob Mulholland joins us for one of our funniest episodes as historian Red Richardson takes us on a tour deep dive tour of 2002, a year when Eminem releases Lose Yourself and his biopic 8 Mile is released in cinemas, Afghanistan changes its name to the...
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1776 - Thai King Ekkathat, Meermin Slave Mutiny, Mozart and a Paper Entrepreneur
Renaissance man Bobby Mair takes us on his own personal tour of 1776, and introduces us to King Ekkathat of Thailand when the country is besieged by invaders from Burma, the Meermin Slave Mutiny when the captive Malagasy prisoners take the ship over, Mozart returns to Salzburg after a grand tour…
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1948 - Gandhi Assassination, Hells Angels Bikers, Voice of America
Red Richardson whisks us to the scene of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination, and the Winter Olympics that happened the same day, the founding of the Hells Angels Biker gang and introduces us to their founder Sonny Barger, the Australian cricket team set a record against England and the Soviet Union...
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1923 - Hailstones, Etna Erupts, Japanese Earthquake, Scandalous Dead President
This week Bobby has been watching Yellowstone so was inspired to take us to 1923 where he's mostly interested in natural disasters such as large hailstones killing 23 people in the Soviet Union, The Great Kanto Earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing more than 100,000 people, Mount Etna...
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1956 - Snooze Alarm, Tom Hanks, Mussolini's Shot, Marilyn Monroe
Esteemable historian Red Richardson escorts us on a personalised excursion to 1956, when the most important things that happened were firstly the invention of the snooze alarm, Tom Hanks was born, British Rail gets rid of 3rd Class seats, Royal Navy Frogman Lionel Buster Crabb disappears, Violet...
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1893 - The Invention of Pepsi, Master Criminal Adam Worth & the Diesel Engine Patent
Robert Lindsay Mair transports us to 1893, when Rudolph Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine, in Belgium Adam Worth is sentenced to 7 years for robbery, and Caleb Bradham invents the recipe for what he calls "Brad's Drink" that would later go on to become known as the brand Pepsi. Also…
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1992 - Pablo Escobar, McDonalds Robbery, Hook, Whitney Houston
This week historian Red Richardson takes us to 1992, where the first thing that piques his interest is the Sydney River McDonald's Murders in Nova Scotia, Canada, Home Alone 2 is released, Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" from the The Bodyguard is number one for 10 weeks,...
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1916 - Mary the Elephant is Hanged, Jaws Shark Attacks, and An Alternative Gasoline
Robert Mair has taken over controls of the time machine, to go to 1916, when Louis Enright claims he has a substitute for gasoline, Mary the Elephant is hanged, and shark attacks in Jersey Shore inspire the seminal film Jaws. Meanwhile back in the present day the heir of the Porsche dynasty has…
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The Sopranos, Canoe Man, iPhones, and the Sub Prime Mortgage Crisis - The Year Is 2007
Strap in for another bumper ride helmed by the research of historian Red Richardson, as we go to 2007, which was notable for his favourite TV show coming to an end, The Sopranos, a national anti-hero coming to prominence John Darwin, better known as Canoe Man, a fire at the restoration at the…
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The Year Is 1839: Unlocking the Mysteries Behind The Opium War, The Amistad Vs Spielberg, And The First Dishwasher
The Year Is 1839, where Britain open's the 3 Year First Opium War against China, Slaves aboard the Amistad , rebel and capture the ship, leading to an Oscar nominated film by Steven Spielberg 158 years later, Josephine Cochrane, inventor of the first commercially successful dishwasher is born, a...
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The Year is 1967 - Unveiling the Last Man Hanged in Australia + R.Kelly & Kurt Cobain's Birth!
Red Richardson, the man, the legend is back, and takes us back to 1967, with the birth of Rogue trader Nick Leeson whose training collapsed Britains oldest merchant bank, 10,000 people join together In New York's Central Park on New Year's Eve for a "Be-In" to protest against racism and the…
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The Unbelievable 1949 w/ Luke Chilton: Grady the Cow Stuck in a Silo + 1st Primate in Space?!
We have proud SpongeBob SquarePants fan, our friend Luke Chilton, back for another off the wall chat and misunderstandings with Bobby. Grady the Cow teaches us all about not getting stuck in a silo shortly after giving birth, Albert II is the first primate to be blasted into space, the legend of...
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Tim Renkow Guest Hosts The Year Is 1902 - Sarah Rector, Teddy Bears, George Melies
BBC "Jerk" writer and star Tim Renkow can now add guest host to The Year Is to his IMDb page now. Tim brings his own learned and cultured facts and untruths to challenge Bobby with as we go to 1902. Oil magnate Sarah Rector is born, having been given what was thought to be worthless land aged 12…
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George Orwell, Mark Zuckerberg, Ben Shapiro, Elizabeth Holmes - The Year Is 1984
A significant episode where we travel to 1984, to discuss the George Orwell, Orwellian classic novel 1984, which was written in 1948, the Crack Cocaine epidemic spreads across America, Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona is sold Italian team Napoli, and political commentator Ben Shapiro,...
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Jackie Kennedy, John Glenn, Bay Of Pigs, Was Mart, Rolling Stones - The Year Is 1962
Maybe you were lucky enough to catch this episode early when Jody accidentally released this episode on Saturday night, 5 days before it was supposed to be dropped. An earth shattering episode of 1962, a year full of significant moments, as deep dived by Robert Mair, Jackie Kennedy invites…
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Robert Burns Night, Fake Shakespeare, Astronomer David Rittenhouse - The Year Is 1796
Recorded on the day of Burns night so by the time of this release it's already out of date, this is a very fun and silly visit to 1796, when the as forementioned celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns died but nobody can work out why the particular date of Burns Night was specifically chosen, the...
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Reuben Carter "The Hurricane" & The Australian Great Bookie Robbery - The Year Is 1976
This is the story of 1976 as deep dived by Bobby Mair visiting the true story of Middleweight boxer, Rubin Carter whose retrial was upheld after he was convicted for murder in 1967 leading to a hit song by Bob Dylan that began a campaign to free him and a Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated...
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Lil Bow Wow, Messi, Starbucks, Unabomber - The Year Is 1987
The year everyone has been asking for, a year when stars were born including Snoop Doggs protege, Lil Bow Wow and World Cup winning Argentinian football star Lionel Messi, Seattle coffee chain Starbucks opens, and the terrorist Unabomber blows up his second bomb. Along with plenty of chat about...
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The Revenant, Pushkin and Oxford Union Debating - The Year Is 1823
It's great to be back for a new year and we hit the ground running by going back to 1823, when Fransz Liszt gives a concert in Vienna and is personally congratulated by composer Ludwig van Beethoven, Hugh Glass gets mauled by a grizzly bear on an expedition in Missouri which inspired the Leonardo...
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The Best of Red and Bobby Vol.3
During the Christmas break here are some of our favourite moments between Bobby and Red 1963 - Disgustingly rich Bobby and Red the emergency driver 1966 - Charles Whitman, known as the Texas Town Sniper kills 16 people from the top of a university clock tower 1986 - Boxer Mike Tyson becomes...
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The Best of Our Guests - Jayde Adams, Alfie Brown, Tim Renkow, Helen Bauer, Ed Night
During the Christmas break here are some of our favourite moments with our guests 2001 - Ed Night - September 11th or 9/11 , The Invention of Wikipedia 1996 - Jayde Adams - 6ix9ine, Tom Holland and Jade's muted Twitter words 2006 - Tim Renkow - Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is killed by a…
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Self-Immolation, Metropolitan Police, Mormons - The Year Is 1829 with Ed Night - Live At Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival
We present our recording at Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival in October where Ed Night joined us to travel back to 1829. Oxford University wins the first inter-university boat race, Robert Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police in London, the first modern police force, Lord William Bentinck...
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Mona Lisa, Aldi, Stalin, Hitler - The Year Is 1913
What a treat we have for you, one of the funniest episodes of the pod so far, helmed and lead by the masterful research of history undergraduate Red Richardson. We go to 1913 when Vincenzo Peruggia is arrested for stealing the Mona Lisa and has trouble selling it, failed artist Adolf Hitler moves...
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"Space Elevators, PhDs, Handheld Drills" - The Year Is 1895
Well here we are, celebrating our first year and getting straight to business by transporting ourselves to 1895 when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator, W.E.B DuBois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D grin Harvard University, the world's first portable handheld...
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Rabies, Prince Charles, North Korea, Saddam Hussein, Hunter S Thompson - The Year is 2005 Live In Edinburgh Fringe 2022
Now that Red is an international star, sunning it up in Switzerland, and Bobby is lost somewhere on British country roads trying to get to Cornwall and Jody is moonlighting editing other people's podcasts, we have dug into the vault to find another live show from Edinburgh for you to enjoy. We go...
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Prince William, Gaddafi & Bin Laden - The Year Is 2011
This week we go to 2011, a difficult year for dictators, where Prince William Kate Middleton get married, Gaddafi is killed, 9/11 mastermind and Taliban and Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is hunted down killed in Pakistan, and Kim-Jon Il dies. Also Red is looking forward to filming his special…
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Fridges Vs Ice House, Neanderthals Vs Humans, Prussia Vs Russia - The Year Is 1856
Content Warning: This episode contains either some new legendary argumentative moments on the podcast or very probably the stupidest. We go to 1856, where Scottish-Australian James Harrison invents the fridge, American mercenary takes control of Nicaragua, pre-human remains are found in…
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"Justin Bieber, Josef Fritzl & Big Shorts" - The Year Is 2008
It's 2008, Bobby's recovering from the flu and Red's so excited about doing his research for the year, he dives in immediately, with the origin of phrases such as mansplain, burner phone and fat shame, Bobby's Canadian cousin Justin Bieber is signed to Def Jam records, a fire Universal Studios...
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"Pumpkins, Cabbages and Rob Schneider" The Year Is Halloween Special
We investigate one of the most special times of year, we replace the time machine with a broom that travels into metaphysical ideas and concepts, where did the concept and origins of Halloween come from, it's originally being known as Cabbage Night, in Alabama it is illegal to dress in a nun or...
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"Ferrari's, Al Capone, World War 2 & Gandhi" The Year Is 1939
We've been building up to this year, and Red Richardson brings the research whilst also taking every extreme ideological position possible and offending everyone that opposes him. Enzo Ferrari sets up the company that would develop the luxury Italian car Ferrari, notorious American gangster Al...
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Larry Fine, Charles Manson and Angela Lansbury - The Year Is 1970
It's a well researched episode by Bobby this week, as 1970 has piqued his attention. Bobby shares his love with us for the comedy trio The Stooges, when Larry Fine suffered a debilitating career ending stroke, we get a taste of Bobby's Spotify playlist featuring forgotten folk musician Charles...
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We Solve the Mystery of the Mary Celeste - The Year Is 1872
We have traveled back to 1872 to be the first ones to solve the mystery of the Mary Celeste ship that was discovered with no crew aboard but everything still in tact, Suffragist Susan B Anthony votes for the first time, Monet paints the first Impressionist painting, geologist Clarence King…
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The Year Is 1933
It's 1933, a quiet year, where the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party appoints a little known man called Adolf Hitler as their leader, and everyone lived happily ever after, meanwhile British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill makes his first speech warning of the dangers of German...
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The Year Is 1966
This week we time travel to 1966 when you might be aware was the year that England won the World Cup, but not just that, John Lennon says that the Beatles are more popular than Jesus, mass murderer Charles Whitman known as the Texas Town Sniper kills 16 people from the top of a university clock...
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The Year Is 1769
It's great to be back in the studio, in our own space back together again. We have a lot to catch up on after Edinburgh. Red shares his unvarnished views on his month at the Fringe Festival, and has done a lot of research for 1769. Napoleon Bonaparte was born and Red gives us a in-depth insight...
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The Year Is 1974 Live In Edinburgh Fringe Festival 24th August 2022
We present another live recording from our Edinburgh shows. We had a pretty lively audience when we travel back to 1974, when the first recorded sextuplets in the world where all six babies survived, the first McDonalds in the UK opens in Woolwich, South East London, Lord Lucan disappears after…
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The Year Is 1999 Live In Edinburgh Fringe Festival - 23rd August 2022
A live recording from Edinburgh Fringe Festival last month when we time traveled back to 2013 with our audience. We teach them history, including a meteor exploding over Chelyabinsk in Russia, a 3-D printer creates the first lab grown ear out of collagen, Pope Benedict XVI resigns, and China...
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The Best of Bobby & Red 2
Another week with a new Best Of Red and Bobby as everyone comes back from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and into normal life again. Clips featured are from 1989- Hello Redophiles and another e-scooter incident 1760- Lightning strikes at Portsmouth 1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, and bronze doors and...
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The Best Of Our Guests So Far...
Continuing a short hiatus until after Edinburgh Fringe Festival we have another Best Of, featuring some of our favourite, funny moments with some of guests on the show so far. 1990- Rosie Jones. - Bobbys awful intro, Why Rosie’s number a one fan of our podcast, Don’t drop baby Rosie. 1912 - Fin...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A new comedy podcast from comedians Bobby Mair and Red Richardson
Every episode we travel back to a different year in history and talk about the weirdest, most interesting and sometimes horrifying events that year.
New Eps every Wednesday. If you enjoy then hit SUBSCRIBE PLEASE! If you want to watch The Year is full eps are on Youtube.
Sign up to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/theyearispod for exclusive episodes, early access, as well as live stream episodes and discounts to live shows.
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A new comedy podcast from comedians Bobby Mair and Red Richardson Every episode we travel back to a different year in history and talk about the weirdest, most interesting and sometimes horrifying events that year. New Eps every Wednesday. If you enjoy then hit SUBSCRIBE PLEASE! If you want to...
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