The Year Is

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 M...

Recorded on the day of Burns night so by the time of this release it's already out of date, this is a very fun and silly visit to 1796, when the as forementioned celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns died but nobody can work out why the particular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 Wil...

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 Indi...

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 comp...

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 n...

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 r...

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 -...

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 gui...

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 Russi...

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...

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 i...

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. Red is about to film his on...

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 prosl...

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, Emine...

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 Ni...

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 fr...

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...

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 des...

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 Ge...

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 Ba...

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, ad...

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 E...

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...

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 1...

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 - J...