The Year Is (Bobby Mair & Red Richardson)

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This week Red and Bobby travel back to the year 2000 - the turn of the century. Big Brother has just launched, the Pope is apologising, there’s a Millennium bug, Blockbuster are laughing at Netflix, animals are going extinct plus much more. Relive it all with comedians Red Richardson and Bobby Mair.

What obscure or significant events did we miss from 2000? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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Red and Bobby go back to 1892. Bobby has been dreaming of Elon Musk and £10,000 notes, The escalator has been invented, Coca Cola has just been incorporated, Sherlock Holmes is making his debut, anarchists are being annoying and Timmy the Tortoise retires from the Navy. Also Red dominates a load of four year olds at sports.

What obscure or significant events did we miss from 1892? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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In this very special festive episode, Red and Bobby take a look at major events that have happened on Christmas Day throughout history. Bobby is in a bad mood because he hates Christmas and Red is dressed as en elf.

What obscure or significant events did we miss about Christmas? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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Our furthest journey so far to 1547, a year filled with Henry VIII's extraordinary appetite and suspicious good looks, a young King Edward VI outlaws boiling people alive, the questionable parenting skills of both Ivan The Terrible and Francis I of France, also Magnus Pegel is born, the first person to write about blood transfusions and we learn how Bobby and Red first met.

What obscure or significant events did we miss from 1547? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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This episode we go back to 1929. Wall Street crashes and Bobby tries to explain the stock market to Red, Bobby loses out on millions in cryptocurrency, 7-UP is invented, Israel and Palestine are still at war and the roaring 20s are over. Also Al Capone ruins Valentine's day.

What obscure or significant events did we miss from 1929? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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The year is 1986, the birth year of our own Bobby Mair, Mike Tyson is the heavyweight champion, Prince Andrew and Fergie get married and there’s chaos in Chernobyl.

What obscure or significant events did we miss from 1986? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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The year is 1963. Bobby uncovers the truth behind the Kennedy assassination, the Porsche 911 comes out, there’s a disaster at an ice show, Frank Sinatra's son is kidnapped and Christine Keeler is sleeping with a Russian spy and British politicians. Also Red and Bobby plot to kidnap Bobbys cousin, pop star Justin Bieber.

What obscure or significant events did we miss from 1963? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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Bobby and Red travel back to 1760 - the unveiling of roller skates is a disaster, the industrial revolution gathers steam, lightening strikes Portsmouth docks and we unveil our brand new dick of the year competition. Also Red and Bobby do an IQ test and the results are stunning.

What obscure or significant events did we miss from 1760? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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Bobby and Red jump to 1995 where the mysteries of Cotton Eyed Joe and Earth Song are explored, the Dali Lama betrays a young boy, the oldest woman in the world outwits the man buying her house, and Eric Cantona shows off his kung fu skills. Will O.J. Simpson be crowned "Dick of the Year" or will somebody beat him to the top spot?

What obscure or significant events did we miss from 1995? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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Bobby and Red travel back to 1977. Star Wars premieres, future President Kanye West is born, and park ranger Roy Sullivan gets struck by lightning for the seventh time. Also Red abandons a woman during a fake terrorist attack. Warning: This episode contains graphic depictions of Bobby demonstrating how to defend a family with a can of tuna.

What obscure or significant events did we miss from 1977? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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Bobby and Red visit medieval 1455 which sees The War of the Roses and the bloodiest battle in British history, we figure out if we can acquire a Lorenzo Ghiberti door, the Mary Rose sinks, and which Spanish Inquisitor will be declared Dick of the Year? By the time this episode comes out we will find out if Bobby is a viral star for his video about Kirstie Allsopp and Red may have taken up fencing again if he can remember what the sword is called.

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1950 is a momentous year which sees the birth of Richard Branson and William H Macy, as well as the Canadian invention of bin bags, and Eastern Germany's creation of the Stasi. Find out what rabbits have to do with the Dick of the Year. Also Bobby risks fatherhood for a doughnut, and Red makes a lot of libellous allegations, allegedly.

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The time machine is broken and could only take us back 12 years to 2010, a time when Australia are attempting to restrict internet user's rights to view pornography, Instagram and the iPad are both launched, Julian Assange's leaking reaches international attention and the Arab Spring is kicking off. All this whilst Bobby is broadcasting on behalf of Russia Today and Red is entertaining a Princess from Dubai.

What obscure or significant events did we miss from 2010? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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An exciting episode where we welcome our first guest, comedian Fin Taylor. We investigate Scott of the Antarctic's real reason for his adventures, computer scientist and fellow genius Alan Turing was born along with Nazi Eva Braun Hitler. Also the famous film boat, the Titanic sets sail and sinks and why did it take so long for people to notice the geographical phenomenon of continental drifts?

Fin Taylor is widely regarded as one of the UK's best stand ups and has appeared on Live at the Apollo and Have I Got News For You. Fin has recently his brilliant stand up comedy special debut, "So My Wife" on his YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/xak4gsTFVXU

Recorded by Phoebe and Mooch at Vauxhall Comedy Club Podcast Studios at short notice after Jody came down with covid. Huge thanks to them!

What obscure or significant events did we miss from the history of 1912? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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It's 1991, the year that the world welcomed our friend and guest Jamali Maddix into existence. Bryan Adams has a record breaking number one single, Ukraine votes to become independent from the Soviet Union, two incidents of ex-postal workers engage in killing sprees, a pyromaniac fire fighter is charged with arson, newspaper tycoon, fraudster and father of Ghislaine, Robert Maxwell dies, and Dick of the Year serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is finally arrested. Also Jamali shares a lot of funny stories about his travels around the world for his brilliant documentary series, Hate Thy Neighbour.

You can buy tickets to Jamali's last shows of his tour at Hackney Empire, Cambridge and Reading from his website - https://www.jamalimaddix.com/

What obscure or significant events did we miss from the history of 1991? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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We welcome our wonderfully funny friend Helen Bauer to the pod studio who arrived prepared already wearing a jumper commemorating Princess Diana for our venture into the forgotten world of 1997. Royal conspiracies abound about the fateful crash but was a young 6 year old Helen Bauer who was also in Paris at the time somehow responsible? 1997 also sees Kylie Jenner being born, the Heavens Gate cult commits mass suicide, President Bill Clinton makes it illegal to clone human beings, Pokemons cause a lot of stir in Japan, Mattel tries to be woke with a disabled Barbie but then locks her out of her Dream House. Also Bobby learns how to pronounce ciabatta and who wants to be a Redophile?

Check out Helen Bauer's great podcast Trusty Hogs - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trusty-hogs/id1587488188

What obscure or significant events did we miss from the history of 1997? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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1980 was the year our dear friend Sunil Patel was conceived, it’s also the year that convicted murderer Paul Geidel was released from prison after 68 years, the Post-It note and the Rubik's cube are invented, professional fraudster Rosie Ruiz wins the Boston marathon, CNN brings us the first 24 hour news channel in time for the Pope’s visit to Brazil and AC/DC release Back to Black. "Dick of the Year" Mark Chapman murders John Lennon. This podcast is brought to you by the worst comedian in the world and the man who will ruin the brand new film “The Power of the Dog” for you.

What obscure or significant events did we miss from the history of 1980? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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It's 1900 and thankfully the brilliant Sarah Keyworth is here with us to make sense of a busy year, as all the research was left to the brain of notorious historian Red Richardson. The radical Carrie Nation is attacking pubs with hatchets, the Central Line on the London Underground opens, part of Stonehenge mysteriously falls off, Louis "Lunch" Lassen invents the hamburger, the Queen Mother is born and the historic second ever Olympics games might have happened. Also hear about Bobby's experience in a sexless love triangle and Red and Sarah reminisce about their days looking after school children as responsible teacher's assistants.

Go and see Sarah Keyworth at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in the Pleasance Courtyard, Cabaret Bar at 5.40pm.

What obscure or significant events did we miss from the history of 1900? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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The Year Is 1848, the year of the con artist! The Fox sisters, two teenagers inadvertently start Spiritualism by getting paid pretending they could speak to dead people, the California Gold Rush encourages people from across America including the Trump family trying to outdo each other to find the gold when they could have just been selling shovels! Phineas Gage is a medical miracle somehow surviving a large iron rod being driven completely through his head, Gustave Caillebout a friend of Monet, is painting art with his fellow Impressionists and "Dick of The Year" Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels. Also hear about Bobby's experience inadvertently working for a very talented con artist in Canada and Red's adventures on his e-scooter ends up with him having to make a long distance call to California after being conned by some teenagers.

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It's our 20th episode and so we are celebrating the birth of the original Redophile, Red Richardson. We also talk about the first commercial dial-up Internet connection in North America being made by The World STD, Ice Cube's gangster rap group NWA release their seminal album "Straight Outta Compton", the Menendez Brothers, Erik & Lyle kill their parents and are sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, David Hasselhoff performs his music on the Berlin Wall and the last golden toad becomes extinct in Costa Rica. Also Red continues having more e-scooter adventures whilst solving Tupac's murder and Bobby has a new Netflix show idea and is threatening to add more bonus items to the £25 Patreon tier.

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What obscure or significant events did we miss from the history of 1989? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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It's 1938 and we are doing our first remote episode over the internet as Bobby's studio is a breeding ground for coronavirus and Red is terrified it's going to ruin his 6th attempt to go to Thailand since the pandemic. To help us we have the brilliant and young comedian Finlay Christie who despite being 22 years old we find out has been doing comedy for as long as Bobby has. In 1938 however, Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, arrives in London, the minimum wage is established in the USA, the first Beano comic is released, gas masks are issued to the British population, Howard Hughes completes a 91 hour plane flight around the world, and politician John Prescott is born. Also the Dick of the Year for the very first time is someone on the pod!

Go and see Finlay Christie's great show "OK Zoomer" at the Edinburgh Fringe throughout August, tickets available here - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/finlay-christie-ok-zoomer

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Another remote episode so that the podcast can be an accessory to enabling a known Redophile to go and live it up in Thailand. Thanks to a suggestion from Kelly we have gone to 1973 when boxer George Foreman floors Joe Frazier to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World and then go on to be the king of celebrity endorsements with the George Foreman Grill / Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine, The Godfather wins Best Picture at the Oscars, O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills becomes the first running back in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in pro football season and afterwards is never heard of again, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces a peace accord has been reached in the Vietnam War, and Dick of the Year King Mohammad Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his own cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.

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Whilst Red Richardson is living it up making friends with fellow Redophiles he finds in Thailand we welcome the very funny Harriet Kemsley whose being held against her will by Bobby to host the pod with him on Red's behalf. 1959 sees the invention of legendary children's doll and cultural sex symbol Barbie, a bunch of ski hikers mysteriously dying, Russia holds it's first census in 14 years after the second World War, Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens die in a plane crash, the first colour tv programme Bonanza is broadcast, and "Dick Of The Year" Japanese pilot flies a plane into a school.

Buy tickets to Harriet Kemsley's brilliant brand new UK tour "Honeysuckle Island" beginning in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August and across the rest of the country till December - https://harrietkemsley.com/

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It's 1888 and brilliant comedian Luke Chilton joins Bobby for a kombucha fuelled first 2 part episode. We learn that 1888 is the year with the longest Roman numerals, women's rights activist Susan B Anthony votes illegally, the National Geographic is founded, and the earliest evidence of a death and injury from a meteorite is discovered in Iraq, and artist Vincent Van Gogh chops off part of his ear. We hear about Bobby's early job at a nightmare Indian restaurant in Canada, and we also learn more about Luke Chilton's life than he probably anticipated he would share on a podcast.

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What obscure or significant events did we miss from the history of 1888? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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The King is back. Red Richardson returns and brings with him knowledge of a bygone era in 1969, when the legendary Summer of '69 Woodstock Festival takes place, and Rupert Murdoch buys the largest selling British Sunday phone hacking newspaper The News of The World. Also we learn a lot about how much time Red spent on his honeymoon speaking to Bobby, as well as Death Island, and play a very exciting game of Shag, Marry, Kill.

Bobby and Red had a lot to catch up on so this is a two parter, and you can catch part 2 on our Patreon later this week, where we discuss John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Bed-In" for peace, the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America, and members of the Charles Manson family cult kill Sharon Tate, and four friends.

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Our BAFTA-Nominated friend, the very funny Tim Renkow helps us work out the meaning of 2006, when the crocodile hunter Steve Irwin was unexpectedly killed by a stingray, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed, 140 character social media giant, Twitter was created by someone, and a Jackson Pollock painting was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction to music mogul David Geffen - much to art critic Red Richardson's disapproval. Also we learn what body parts Bobby, Red and Tim would trade with an animal, Red learns the ancient martial art of Crab Manga and Tim teaches us what a wank battle as well as some basic biology that Bobby and Red question.

Check out Tim's hilarious BBC BAFTA-Nominated "Jerk" on BBC iPlayer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0716m4x

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As soon as Jody has finally finished setting up the studio to record we can take you back to 1866, suggested by Red and researched by Bobby so a real team effort. A year that sees the SS Great Eastern completes laying the transatlantic telegraph cable between Ireland and Newfoundland, Paraguay defends Curupayty against the Paraguayan War, whilst managing to kill more than 5,000 of their opponents whilst only suffering 50 casualties, Alfred Nobel invents dynamite and then is so ashamed of himself and his legacy he creates the global peace prize, the first daylight bank robbery in peacetime United States history takes place in Missouri, and the Dick of the Year is a famine in Finland that arguably wouldn't have occurred if Red Richardson had been present to advise them a simple way out of it.

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Possibly one of the most important significant years of the modern age and so very fitting that we have our very funny friend Ed Night to help us make sense of it all. 2001 brings with it a revolutionary website known as Wikipedia that has informed this podcast on more than one occasion, Richard Reid the "shoe bomber" forever changes aeroplane travel by trying to blow up a transatlantic with a bomb hidden in his shoe, the first artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools in the United States, Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal kills his father, the king, his mother and other members of the royal family with an assault rifle and then shoots himself in the Nepalese Royal Massacre, Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and Marco Siffredi was the first to descend tallest mountain in the world on a snowboard in 2001, Apple releases the first generation mp3 playing behemoths, the iPod, and American Airlines Flight 587 crashes minutes after take off. Also something known as 9/11 happens in New York City on September 11th which we briefly touch on.

See Ed's show at Soho Theatre on Saturday 25th June 2022 tickets available here - https://sohotheatre.com/shows/ed-night-work-in-progress/

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We are back in the Time Machine and brought our very funny friend Alfie Brown with us when a tsunami in Nice, France killed 23 people, China introduces it's infamous one-child policy for families everywhere, the "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the UK, French police shoot gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris, Dan White is convicted of manslaughter rather than murder after using what became known as the "Twinkie Defence". Also a big day for everyone as Bobby learns what a tarpaulin is and Red learns who Harvey Milk is.

Listen to Alfie Brown's podcast - The Alfie Brown Show

Listen to Alfie Brown's podcast with Josh Weller (that Josh Weller who does the music on our pod) - Dirty Air F1 -

Watch his Amazon Prime Special "Sensitive Man" - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soho-Theatre-Live-Season-3/dp/B09VYM6P4X

Watch his YouTube Special - "Imagination" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGA60RcfscQ

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What obscure or significant events did we miss from the history of 1979? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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Strap into the time machine and shotgun a comfortable seat as we are going all the way back almost 2000 years to AD 30, and what better guest to have join us than the the very funny and very nice but also argumentative Alasdair Beckett-King. A year primarily known for being when Jesus Christ of Nazareth was crucified, as well as either John the Baptist or Jon Batiste being beheaded, and "Dick of the Year" Caligula escapes exile and death along with his siblings after his mother is arrested. We also hear about Alasdair's many online feuds, and Bobby and Red try and come up with various methods to get the podcast more attention.

Check out Alasdair Beckett-King's podcast about local legends "Loremen" and his Twitter - https://twitter.com/MisterABK

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It is 1971 this week, a year which sees American daredevil Evil Knievel setting a world record by jumping 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California, Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to Peter Macari aka "Mr Brown" for an elaborate bomb hoax, and Juliane Koepcke is the only survivor of a plane crash, after falling out of the plane attached to her seat as a teenager and survived 11 days in the Amazon rainforest and Dick of The Year Robert Plant writes "Stairway to Heaven". Also Bobby shares a remarkable and almost unbelievable survival story of his own and Red is working out how to raise money for charity

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It's the Red Richardson show this week and he has with him, his very funny friend movie star Jayde Adams to make sense of the world according to 1996 whilst Bobby has some explaining to do. Back in the time machine, and Michael Jackson has married Elvis's daughter Lisa-Marie Presley, rapper and hip-hop star Tupac Shakur is shot and killed, the Deep Blue computer beats Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the most popular toy of the year is Buzz Lightyear from the Disney Pixar Toy Story film, there is an outbreak of British Mad Cow disease in the UK, and the rapped 6ix9ine is born.

Listen to Jayde Adams brilliant new podcast "Welcome to the Neighbourhood" on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cgc78c

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Rosie Jones storms her way onto the podcast and Bobby and Red get in the time machine to take her back to the year she was born, 1990. Aside from being the year of birth of our biggest fan, 1990 also saw the trial of Joseph Hazelwood, the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, supertanker, in Alaska, who was accused of negligence that resulted in America's second worst oil spill and whose name became a national joke, the first McDonald's opens in Moscow, Russia after 8 months of construction, and an agreement is reached for a two stage plan to re-unite Germany after the Second World War, with the Berlin Wall coming down the year before (See Episode #20 of 1989 for more on that), and Gary Lineker has an accident on the football pitch during a England World Cup game at Italia '90. Also Rosie shares impression of Red with us along with some very funny stories, behind the scenes, making television shows for you to enjoy, and everybody talks about their views on the past and future of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

This episode is brought to you by Andrex and The Big Blue Hotel in Blackpool. (Goodnight Rosie xx)

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We are going back to 2016 and who better than to accompany us than the brilliantly funny comedian and Twitter sensation Rosie Holt, as we see Joaquin Guzman, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker escape and be continually recaptured from maximum security prisons in Mexico, TV reality star Donald Trump wins the U.S. Presidency, the last video VHS tape recorder is made by Japanese makers Funai, a little known trade policy known as Brexit is voted by the British public, Pokemon Go is released on iPhones by Nintendo, Seaworld announces an end to its orca breeding program, and almost every celebrity in the world mysteriously dies.

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The boys are back in town. Our first episode back in the studio with everybody present who should be there, Red, Bobby and Jody. We hear about Bobby going to Canada, which Red has never been to, and Jody went up the One World Trade Center, which Red would never do. More importantly we travel back to 1957, for an episode researched by Bobby Mair, a year when the Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electronic watch in the world, suspected English serial killer, Dr John Bodkin Adams is found not guilty of murder at the Old Bailey, the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with the first animal to orbit the Earth, and Dwight D Eisenhower is sworn in for a second term as the President of the United States. Also Red's friend tries to buy a pizza, and Bobby commits to getting a "The Year Is" tattoo after failing to persuade Jody to get one.

It's Edinburgh Fringe Festival time.

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We get in the time machine for another Red Richardson researched special to 2009 this week. A year that sees Michael Jackson, the King of Pop and other things, die, along with Kill Bill star, David Carradine and celebrity chef, Keith Floyd, the Rupert Murdoch owned News of the World newspaper reports on Prince Harry using racist slurs whilst serving in the British Army, a whistleblower reveals the MPs expenses scandals in the Houses of Parliament, and BNP leader and celebrity racist, Nick Griffin appears on BBC Question Time to a lot of protest and backlash from the audience.Also Red has a joke in the top jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Bobby reveals an affair he had with an MP named Marge.

It's Edinburgh Fringe Festival time.

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With Bobby & Red both performing in Edinburgh this month, we have put together this best of episode, featuring some of their funniest moments.

1547 - Francis I of France and his sons.

1892 - Dr Bobby, Bobby's vaccination ideas and Bobby's Poker doctor.

1848 - Red is robbed of his e-scooter & Phineas Gauge gets a rod through his head

1929 - Red gets the year wrong Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic

1760 - IQ Results, the invention of Rollerskates

1963 - Kidnapping Justin Bieber

1989 - David Hasselhoff performs on the Berlin Wall

It's Edinburgh Fringe Festival time.

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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 Taylor - Alan Turing was born. Pardoned by Gordon brown, who will we pardon in the future 

1991 - Jamali Maddix - Ukraine Nationalists, Postal Spree and the Chicken Shop Man

1959 - Harriet Kemsley - Invention of Barbie

1900 - Sarah Keyworth - The invention of the hamburger - The Queen mother is born - The second Olympics ever

It's Edinburgh Fringe Festival time.

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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 autobiographies, and The Mary Rose sinks

2010 - The Mary Rose Museum fight, Australian Porn restrictions

1977 - The New York City Blackout and Red's shooting scare

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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 launches an uncrewed rocket to the moon. Take part at home in the quiz at the end where an audience member has a chance to win £25,000 by being more of a genius than Bobby and Red. Also Red had a bad gig the night before because of some theatre kids from a show called "Two Fingers Up" and Bobby has been doing some creative promotion of the show with his baby daughter.

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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 the murder of his children's nanny, Hollywood star and 90s pin-up Leonardo DiCaprio is born along with English supermodel Kate Moss and the Rumble in the Jungle takes place in Zaire where Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman to regain the heavyweight boxing title. Also we learn a lot about producer's Jody past.

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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 into the life of the great Corsican man, who gave us the idea of the Napoleon complex, his marriages, adventures in Egypt and Moscow and how to be a successful cuckold. 

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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 tower, builders begin work on the World Trade Center, and supermodel Cindy Crawford and actor Stephen Baldwin are both born. Also Bobby has become a TikTok star and Red is drawing lines on what countries he won't perform in.

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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 rearmament, Scientist and fellow genius Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany, the first alleged modern sighting of the Scottish Loch Ness Monster occurs, Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as president of the United States, Gieuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate Roosevelt.

Also we are collectively mourning the passing of rapper Coolio, and Red has more very funny stories from growing up in Devon.

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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 reveals the diamond hoax, and the Tichborne case is decided in London against claimant Arthur Orton.

Also descendent of the Quakers, Red is learning how to make friends and Bobby is trying to figure out who or what soiled his new couch.

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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 Manson, Make America Great Again founder Donald Trump's third wife Melania is born, drilling on the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in Russia, a man eating tiger kills 48 people in New Delhi, India, and Japanese geisha and sex worker Sada Abe dissappears after murdering and dismembering her lover.

Also hear how our appearance at the podcast festival went last week as Red is continuing to learn how to make friends.

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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 Capone is released from prison, later dying from syphilis, peace activist Gandhi sends a letter to his friend Adolf Hitler, World War 2 begins but who was the first soldier killed and was it friendly fire, Gone with the Wind premieres, George Elser fails to kill Hitler and pioneering U.S. aviator Amelia Earhart is declared dead 18 months after her disappearance.

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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 priest costume, the phobia of halloween has an unusual name and we celebrate the birthday of Saturday Night Live star and Adam Sandler movie's friend, Rob Schneider.

Also Bobby is releasing his special on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67iptVv9ac

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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 Hollywood lose 175,000 master tapes tapes to over 700 artists music including Nirvana, Chuck Berry, Eminem, Otis Redding. "Dad of the Year" Josef Fritzl is discovered to have been keeping his daughter hostage in his basement for 24 years, the Channel Island of Sark holds its first democratic elections becoming the last European territory to abolish feudalism and stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a recession after the 2007 financial crisis. Also Bobby's comedy special is challenging Baby Shark to be the most viewed video on YouTube

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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 Neanderthal Valley in Prussia, and the Battle of Black Jack, antislavery forces, led by John Brown, defeat proslavery forces in Bleeding Kansas. Also Bobby has been experiencing incontinence, and what's the difference between a fridge an ice house, neanderthals and humans, and Prussia vs Russia?

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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 in a couple of weeks and we get into a deep discussion about Pete Davidson.

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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 to 2005, when the first person survives rabies, Prince Charles and Camilla get married, Rodney Marsh is fired Sky Sports, Saddam Hussein is put on trial and hanged, Hunter S Thompson and Richard Pryor die.

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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 electric drill is developed in Germany, and American frontier and murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.

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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 from Vienna to Munich, low cost shopping giant Aldi is founded, Joseph Stalin is arrested by the Russian secret police and exiled to Siberia, the Romanian army cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan war starts, and the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth is recorded in Death Valley, California. Also Red is promoting his new special, and Bobby's dog Sunny makes a return appearance for the first time since the launch of the podcast.

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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 pushes through a regulation declaring pushing self-immolation of widow on her husbands funeral pyre is guilty of culpable homicide, Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, claims to have received the Aaroni Priesthood from John the Baptist, Kaspar Hauser is wounded, and a lucky audience member pits their history knowledge against Ed to be in with the chance of winning £25,000!

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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 stingray, what body parts would you trade with an animal? And Jody doesn't have a thyroid

1997 - Helen Bauer - The Death of Princess Diana

1979 - Alfie Brown - Mesrine, The Twinkie Defence, The Staircase, and Serial True Crime Podcasts

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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 heavyweight champion of the world and Red's university dissertation on Muhammad Ali

1995 - Michael Jackson releases "Earth Song" and The Rednex hit single "Cotton Eyed Joe" are released

1977 - Roy Sullivan is struck by lightning for the 7th time, and the Wow signal is picked up indicating there may be aliens living in the universe sending us messages.

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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 di Caprio Oscar winning film The Revenant, Russian author Alexander Pushkin begins work on the verse novel Eugene Onegin and eventually suffers a cuckolds death, the Oxford University Union debating society is founded in England, Robert Peel ensures the passage of an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom abolishing the death penalty of hundreds of offences. Also Bobby has gone partially deaf and lost his hearing in one ear after going swimming and Red is discovering the wonders of the modern vacuum cleaner and of course Prince Harry keeps coming up in conversation.

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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 Prince Harry’s book, Red is looking forward to the release of his special on 29th January and Bobby competes with Red for facts about his football and Messi knowledge 

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What obscure or significant events from the pod have we missed from 1987? Let us know your favourite historical facts from that year, or if have any suggestions for other years for us to do an episode on send us an email to theyearispodcast@gmail.com

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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 film starring Denzel Washington, also the Great Bookie Robbery happens in Melbourne, Australia and India are rethinking their marriage laws. We take several detours in this episode as Bobby has never heard about the dingo eating the baby story, and Lord Lucan comes up again, Red is excited about his special coming out this weekend so has dressed as a samurai for the occasion whilst Bobby attends his baby and his dog who are disrupting the recording of the pod throughout the episode.

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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 only performance of the forged Shakespeare play Vortigern and Rowena takes place, written by forger William Henry Ireland, known as Samuel to his dad, a mob of peasants overtakes the covent of Saint Peter, and astronomer and American inventor David Rittenhouse dies.

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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 cameras into the White House for tour, Astronaut John Glenn orbits the Earth three times as part of Project Mercury, the Cuban military tribunal convicts some of the Bay of Pigs attackers, American retail giant War-Mart opens, music legends Rolling Stones make their debut at the London Marquee Club and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan reshuffles his government cabinet in such a scale it was dubbed "the Night of the Long Knives", named after the massacre of Nazi leaders carried out by Hitler. Also Red celebrates his birthday releasing his special and continues to be compared to other well known public figures.

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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, entrepreneur and fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are all born

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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, a new land speed record is set driving a steam car in France, a newspaper cartoon inspires the creation of the first Teddy Bear, the first science fiction film premieres by George Melies.

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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 Tokyo Rose, and serial killer Gary Ridgway.

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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 Vietnam War, Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965 and also the birth of 2 music legends in their own right, Kurt Cobain and R.Kelly. 

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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 cyclone hits India and wipes out the city of Coringa killing 300,000 people, and William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel. Also TV star, Red is being harassed by an obsessed extra, Bobby has a new group of friends at the gym, and Judge Jody is dishing out punishment for criminals.

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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 Cutty Sark in Greenwich, Steve Jobs launches the Apple iPhone, and Red explains the Sub Prime Mortgage Crisis that led to the 2007 and 2008 financial crisis.

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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 got a new girlfriend, what's the best war, and what does Am Fam mean?

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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, Colombia drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison La Catedral, Sinead O'Connor tears up a picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live and the number one film of the year is the Peter Pan film, Hook. Also Red had an awful gig and Bobby has a painful thumb.

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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 a Putin War Fanatic is being scammed by hackers and how did Ted Bunny father a child whilst in a maximum security prison?

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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 Gibson dies, the woman who shot Mussolini in the nose, and Norma Jean Mortenson legally changes her name to Marilyn Monroe.

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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 erupts in Italy making 60,000 homeless, Walter Wever, a Luftwaffe flying ace who claimed 44 aerial victories 350 combat missions is born, and Warren G Harding, the 29th President of the United States died whose reputation was diminished after the revelation of multiple scandals after his death.

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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 begins to jam Voice of America radio. Also is Red the reincarnation of Gandhi, Bobby is suffering from narcolepsy and Jody seems more juiced up than usual.

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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 of Europe and Paper Entrepreneur, Henry Fourdrinier is born. Also Red is considering a holiday to Tulum in Mexico and Bobby paints his own inimitable picture of how Robert de Niro has ended up having so many children

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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 Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, Ben Affleck was finally named People magazine's sexiest man alive, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake split up, Simon Cowell starts American Idol, and the Fifa World Cup kicks off. Also Red can't remember his own name as he's sweating so much, Bobby takes offence at being interrupted and Rob has just learnt his hasn't got long to live.

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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 document implicates Kurt Waldheim, Austrian President and Secretary General of the U.N. in World War II deportations and Aloha Airlines 243 safely lands after losing its roof in midair, killing a flight attendant and injuring 65 people. Plus we learn a lot about Alex's home town of Corby and it's role in so many significant global events, the time when Bobby stayed in a nuns convent, and Red stumbles a new conspiracy theory that may explain a lot.

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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 Robbie, Chris Hemsworth, and Guy Pierce, Michael Jackson takes the advice of his friend Paul McCartney to invest his money in music rights to build his wealth and buys half of the Beatles catalogue, Coca Cola launches New Coke, Mohamed Al-Fayed buys Harrods, Comedy Movies Back to the Future and Beverly Hills Cop films come out, and George Michael and Andrew Ridgley co-wrote Careless Whisper.

Also Eshaan is making friends with his stand-up, opening for Mickey Flanagan at the o2, Red has invented a new measure of finance with the Haagen-Dazs Index, and Bobby is struggling with staying awake again.

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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 Bolton, is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for poisoning his wife.

Also Red has heard about a terrifying shark story that hopefully won't happen in the streets of South London, and we debate whether someone called us stupid or not?

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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 compulsory, Sonny Bono, Jerry Lee Lewis and Robert Downey Senior were all born, the Lindbergh Baby is kidnapped, and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler reorganises the Luftwaffe.

Also it's very hot, Val Kilmer, shooting cows with a bazooka, and we argue the difference between titan and titanic.

P.S. There's a mistake in this episode. Can you find it before Red does?

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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 Karl Drais drives his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Laufmaschine), the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim. The first Seminole War begins in Florida. The first cholera pandemicoriginates in Bengal, reaching Calcutta by September. Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and Alexander Wood (physician), Scottish inventor of the first true hypodermic syringe are both born. Also Luke is recovering from a sensitive and sore neck after a martial arts fight. 

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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 first film to gross $1 billion, California bans smoking in public places, Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham and footballing legend David Beckham get engaged, online conservative newspaper Drudge Report breaks the story of Bill Clinton scandal with Monica Lewinsky, and Doctor Andrew Wakefield stirs up the craze for Anti Vaxxers, over the MMR vaccine. Also Red has become a viral superstar, and Sunil and Red get deep into geopolitics.

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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 Marathon happens and Mozart's Undiscovered Symphony is discovered, also in London.

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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 pen the sound of the summer "Uptown Funk", 100 people rush to the rescue of a unicyclist trapped under a bus, several people are catastrophically injured and left with life changing injuries in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash, Jeremy Clarkson quits the BBC's number one car show Top Gear, and Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook has reached one billion users. Also we learn about Micky's painful 2015 breakup, how Red and Micky first met at the Cavendish Arms open mic where Micky won, and the benefits of the Pizza Express Gold and Silver Rewards Club.

Get tickets to Micky's Edinburgh Fringe stand up comedy show all August - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/micky-overman-the-precipice

Listen to Micky and Sarah Keyworth's brilliant podcast - Thank F** For That available everywhere you get your pods.

Enjoy Sarah Keyworth's appearance on The Year Is - https://youtu.be/JN4XDIjIFBQ

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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 (recognized in 1878 after the end of the Romanian independence war). American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier, after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska. Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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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 Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iranian forces shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, killing all 176 people on board, a rare Universal Palindrome Date (02/02/2020) occurs in the Gregorian calendar. Such events usually only transpire around once every 1000 years, with the last such event occurring in 1111, Eleven people are killed and five injured in a terrorist shooting spree by a far-right extremist targeting shisha bars in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Germany, NATO expresses solidarity with Turkey after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike by pro-Syrian government forces, During a demonstration, pro-government colectivos shoot at disputed President and Speaker of the National AssemblyJuan Guaidó and his supporters in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, leaving five injured and then something is happening in Wuhan.

Watch Sean's new comedy special "So Be It", it's very very funny - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CNyTFvDGgY

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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 taken from our experience of doing the podcast.

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