It Happened One Year

In a year as jam packed with classic entertainment and landmark inventions as 1994, some things were bound to fall through the cracks of history – but Sarah & Joe are here to thrust them back into the limelight in this heroic twenty-fourth episode! Come along as the hosts whirl from personal favorite films (Love Affair, The Fantastic Four) to TV shows (Saved by the Bell: The College Years, Herman’...

Wrapping up this tour of '94 born luminaries is the tale of former Chicago Bears quarterback and local media punching bag Mitchell Trubisky! From the mysterious circumstances surrounding the Bears drafting the Tar Heel hurler in 2017 through his being named the Nickelodeon's Valuable Player in his final game with the team (a playoff loss to the Saints this past January), Sarah & Joe go deep into C...

The second piece of a valiant effort to highlight some 1994 babies rolls out with model/media personality Courtney Stodden, best known for marrying the considerably older Doug Hutchison back in 2011 (when he was 51 and Courtney was all of 16) and for their role in the somewhat-ongoing apology tour of Twitter figure/celebrity Chrissy Teigen. Sarah & Joe struggle to use the correct pronouns (Courtne...

A misguided belief that three 1994 babies could be covered in a single episode brings us to the first in a trio of episodes, also centered on a misguided belief! Child of '94 Fredrick Brennan is in the spotlight as we explore his major contribution to society - the nightmarish imageboard 8chan - and its most infamous members, the hyper conspiracy-trolling, insurrection-inspiring, downfall-of-ratio...

The gang from Police Squad! pulled it together one final time in the spring of 1994 to supply a third film in the Naked Gun series, right before O.J. effectively torpedoed the whole franchise! Sarah & Joe take an extensive look at the entire Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker catalog, from the Kentucky Fried Movie through to the 21st century knock-offs of the genre, while also exploring the mysteries of the N...

Finally, the fabled Biggest Liar episode arrives! The actual topic only manages to occupy about half of the runtime this week, as much discussion centers around the journey this story took to finally reach podcast audiences. Sarah & Joe explore the original concept as recorded many months ago, why it no longer could be released, and ultimately devolves into a surprising conversation about general...

Trust no one, except Sarah & Joe! It should come as no surprise that It Happened One Year is finally swerving hard into an extensive look at The X-Files, in this eighteenth spooky episode! 1994 featured one of the great, early two-parters in the run of the series - season two's Duane Barry and Ascension, featuring the great villainous work of Steve Railsback opposite David Duchovny's Mulder and Gi...

Haddaway? Corona?? Culture Beat?! The hosts tackle an increasingly obscure group of artists in the second part of the quiz show concept introduced last time around. Joe takes the lead offering up the jams here and Sarah takes swings at identifying, with varying levels of accuracy. Clues are provided, "Love is All Around" is explored at some length, and those hot 1994 beats are relentless in their...

Part one of an ambitious dual episode holiday weekend delivery, where Sarah & Joe take us through some of the big hit songs of 1994 in an interactive guessing game contest! Sarah is in the driver's seat here, quizzing about the song titles and artists around the major successes straight from the ladies! Hear the stunning missteps and shocking gaps in Joe's knowledge! Listen to bizarre anecdotes ab...

Lightning episode! It's a quick one this week as Joe & Sarah explore the origin of the famed parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and then attempt to play along, with varying levels of success. Come see how few Sean Connery movies Sarah can name! Listen as the hosts stumble through the decades trying to make connections! Hear the silly ways they pronounce "Cumberbatch"! It's multiple hours of re...

Finally, there's an opportunity for a full-on follow-up episode, as Sarah & Joe revisit a very, very briefly mentioned incident from back in Episode 2 - Love & Chaos, discussing the dissolution of a big 1994 celebrity marriage - Bill & Melinda Gates! Following fresh on the heels of Jeff Bezos's divorce, other potential super rich break-ups on the horizon are explored, while trying to mine details...

They don't do epic theme crossover television nights like they used to! That's the overriding conclusion of this thirteenth murky episode of It Happened One Year, delving into NBC's wild New York City based crossover of November 3rd, 1994! Sarah & Joe get into the night's programming scheme and the general history of Mad About You, Friends, Seinfeld, and Dabney Coleman's short lived Madman of the...

A rollicking new It Happened One Year segment is upon us, as Sarah & Joe delve deeply into the existential and literal question - Who is 1994 baby Justin Bieber? This twelfth bewildering episode attempts to address this through the use of very foggy memories and wild speculation, all subsequently fact-checked and highlighted in the episode with dings and buzzers, to let you know which guesses were...

The first of our In Memoriam: 1994 collection features that favorite darling of American television from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s - the late great Dinah Shore! Hear Sarah & Joe attempt to recount the highlights of the famed songstress's life, and mostly get hung up on her extensive dating accolades. Burt Reynolds, Tarzan's Ron Ely, Johnny Carson, and Hoda Kotb all make appearances as a new found...

Dumb internet hoaxes didn't originate with your step-uncle getting scammed out of his social security number by Russian teenagers, heck no! This week, Sarah & Joe take us back to the early, early days of stupid nonsense people believed in cyberspace on this tenth techno-funktastic episode of It Happened One Year! 1994 saw the famed Good Times Virus burst onto the scene, followed in short order by...

The wheel of chance is trotted out once again for this newest Dealer's Choice episode, wherein the winner selects the topic of discussion and the loser can suck eggs. This week - 1994's dreamiest and most acclaimed romantic comedy, Four Weddings and a Funeral! Sarah & Joe go into all facets of this famed British nuptial fest - from its inventive plot structure to establishing the Hugh Grant phenom...

More than any other single person, one man towered like a colossus over all forms of media in 1994, the subject of It Happened One Year's slam-jammingest eighth episode - Shaquille O'Neal! Sarah & Joe explain how this episode ballooned from a mere nugget of trivia into a gold rush of stories surrounding the then Orlando Magic center - from his wildly successful gold and platinum rap albums (Shaq D...

The journey gets nostalgic and retrospective as Sarah & Joe celebrate It Happened One Year's 30th anniversary in this seventh star-studded episode! Come for the wild adoration of the teeming crowd, with special shoutouts to Sarahs and Joes from throughout the ages, and stay for a teary look back at past favorite episode moments plus previews of shows arriving in the coming weeks. It's a podcast bo...

Sic Semper Bubba! The many attempts to murder the 42nd President of the U.S. Bill Clinton in 1994 are explored in this sixth perilous episode of It Happened One Year! Marvel as Sarah & Joe rundown the efforts half-assed and otherwise of Ronald Barbour, Frank Corder, Francisco Duran, and Marcelino Corniel to snuff the democratically elected leader! Chortle at the stunning ineptitude on display from...

Record-setting achievements in movies, television, and literature are examined in this triumphant fifth episode - It Happened One Year: Threesies! What a gross title! Sarah & Joe's multi-section exploration focuses on the three-pronged, 1994 exclusive successes from Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb & Dumber), Tim Allen (The Santa Clause, Home Improvement, Don't Stand Too...

Tied through a loose naming convention and shaggy thematic chaos, this dazzling fourth episode explores more and more Michaels of 1994! Sarah & Joe continually butt heads over whether any of this holds together, as filmmaker Michael Moore, boxer Michael Moorer, and I.O.C. Honorary Life President Michael Morris are profiled and compared ad nauseum! Moore's NBC show TV Nation is put into career cont...

The first in a subset of Dealer's Choice episodes, wherein the dastardly wheel of fate is spun and the winner chooses the discussion topic. To kick things off, it's Jan de Bont's action-suspense-traffic hell masterpiece Speed! Sarah & Joe discuss the ins and outs of the film reaching the screen, from narrow-miss casting debacles to Dennis Hopper's maniacal laugh. Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Jeff...

The many famous and infamous marriages, divorces, and romantic-ish crimes of 1994 are explored in this dreamy second episode! Come along as Sarah & Joe rattle through the likes of Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley, R. Kelly, Anna Nicole Smith, Robert Kennedy Jr., Richard Gere, Cindy Crawford, and many more! Who is named (un)official MVP of Vows for '94? How much mileage can be ground out of Harr...

The gangbusters first episode of It Happened One Year has finally arrived! Sarah and Joe are kicking off their grand 1994 dissection with one of its most memorable figures, A.C. Cowlings - Former NFL defender turned accomplice in the O.J. Simpson saga! There is plenty to chew over, from A.C.'s football days to his brief acting career to his even briefer dabbling in aerobics. Between the many subse...

From the folks who brought you Knowingly Undersold, The Bass & The Intruder, and Parade Day comes a new show where Sarah and Joe discuss the events and newsmakers of a given year in their own inimitable style. Kicking off this enterprise are the hits and highlights of that halcyon trip around the sun - 1994!   Come along as your hosts guide you through the legendary moments and long-forgotten inte...