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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...

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...

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 th...

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 Japa...

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...

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 c...

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 Amazo...

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 t...

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 m...

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 bom...

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...

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 t...

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 exciti...

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 ea...

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...

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 Mach...

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, Sigmu...

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 wit...

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 surviv...

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 bor...

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 Y...

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...

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...

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? Fi...

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...