It Happened One Year

The General Cinema at the Viewmont Mall - the original multiplex in Northeastern Pennsylvania - closed for good on January 17th, 2000, after 27 years in operation. There was little fanfare, virtually no publicity, and a few months later the building was leveled to construct a new bookstore. But what was the final day of operations at the Viewmont Cinema actually like? The 7th scripted show from It...

Having already covered the NFL for this season last September, as well as the WNBA and golf along the way, It Happened One Year chose to tackle the rest of the sports calendar in 2000! And so, listen as Sarah & Joe tackle everything from the NBA to the Iditarod, MLB's Subway Series to the World Series of Poker, the America's Cup to the Kentucky Derby, and much much more! Then, our intrepid hos...

Ushering in the era of the multi-plex in Northeast Pennsylvania, the General Cinema at the Viewmont Mall was the premiere moviegoing experience for a generation. Three screens! And two more added before the end of the 1970s! But by 2000, the theater had become a forgotten relic, and the entire GC chain was on the verge of bankruptcy, ultimately leading to its closure on a frigid Martin Luther King...

No bigger way to kick off another thousand years than to revisit the man behind all the calendar hijinks himself - Jesus, airing on CBS in May of 2000! From its wild casting choices to its place in the grand run of biblical TV films of the era, Sarah & Joe dive into a freewheeling dissection of the Italian-American co-production. Were we cheated out of a much bigger career for titular portraye...

Recorded amidst the booms and bombast of the country's yearly bacchanalia, Sarah & Joe took time away from the hot dogs to discuss the Jackass franchise, which began its unlikely quarter-century run in October of 2000! From the relatively short-lived, hugely-popular TV show through the five film series with many random products and guest shots and spinoffs along the way, Jackass has been a con...

Welcome back to full tilt speculative corner here on It Happened One Year! This episode clearly should've been released much sooner, given how much has happened to the 2026 White Sox since this recording - while February 2nd, 2000 baby Munetaka Murakami's career on the South Side has had more ups than downs (even as he currently languishes on the DL). Listen as Sarah & Joe give late-April pred...

On November 2nd, 2000, human beings signed the lease and got their mail forwarded to 250 miles above the Earth's surface, and they've been up there ever since! Listen as Sarah & Joe stumble-bum their way through the facts and figures connected to the International Space Station - from the long history of post-lunar landing stations in orbit around the Earth to the onrushing plans to dump the e...

The year 2000 ushered in the end of the 20th century, and the end of one of the most popular comic strips in history, as the world bid farewell to Peanuts and its creator, Charles Schulz. Sarah & Joe take a trip through the comic's long history - from newspapers to movies to television specials to video games - discussing their scattershot memories, their beloved artifacts from the franchise (...

Golf corner! A rare one here on It Happened One Year! Listen as Sarah & Joe hack their way through the legendary 2000 U.S. Open held in Pebble Beach, when Tiger Woods hung a beating on the competition that has never been equaled! Side stories detail the Tiger Slam, the bizarre circumstances around Payne Stewart's death, a previous record set in 1862 by Old Tom Morris himself, and more. And the...

The #1 news story of 2000 not directly connected to the presidential election was the harrowing journey and legal struggles of six year old Elian Gonzalez, and It Happened One Year is there! Listen as Sarah & Joe navigate their way through the history of 20th century Cuban politics, the key figures in the custodial battle, the general buffoonery of the state of Florida, the outstanding SNL com...

Finally, professional women's basketball corner on It Happened One Year! Only hinted at before, the listeners are finally exposed to the full mania Sarah & Joe experience in recent years, by way of the hometown Chicago Sky and their super dramatic off-season. This is all a conduit to head back and take a look at the fourth season in the league's history in 2000, with such defunct teams as the...

Put down those crayons and close MS Paint - It Happened One Year is delving into the wildly inconsistent world of film animation in the Year 2000, and you are there! Listen as Sarah & Joe discuss films that range in quality from near cinematic perfection to virtually unwatchable in this barreling episode! The discussion largely centers on five (count 'em, five!) major theater releases - Dreamw...

Back to the longtime favorite running series inside the show - It Happened One Year's exploration of television programming specifically on November 3rd of a given year! This time around, Sarah & Joe dig into what the hell was going on that Friday night over at the FOX Network and cable's E! Entertainment Television. Not the most robust of original programming nights saw FOX roll out the short...

Book corner is back on It Happened One Year! The best selling adult book from the year 2000 (discounting that fourth Harry Potter) has proved to be Angels & Demons, the precursor to the cultural phenomenon that was The Da Vinci Code in the early years of the century. But...why? How did these novels catch on? And just how popular were they really? And you're telling me Dan Brown has kept writin...

The Year 2000 tried to beat us over our collective noggin with dazzling creations and technological wonderment, and It Happened One Year is there to get wrist deep in the discoveries and doohickeys! Sarah & Joe take a crack at understanding and discussing the Human Genome Project, put that on hold to answer call waiting about the Nokia 3310, pull sunken submarines off the Atlantic floor, discu...

It's Christmastime pretty baby once again, and It Happened One Year is all over it like tinsel on the holiday goose! The highest grossing domestic film of the year was Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, so naturally Sarah & Joe needed to weigh in on this semi-classic of the millennium year, with details on all the Jim Carrey antics and development of a live-action Seuss picture and the...

It's time once again for It Happened One Year to swerve into Broadway Corner, and this time they turn up a big fat hairball! That's right, Sarah & Joe are tackling Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, which wrapped up its original, record-breaking New York run on September 10th, 2000, after 7,485 performances! Listen as the hosts share their fondest memories of the show (which is largely limited to the...

It's that time again, folks! No, not just Thanksgiving - it's It Happened One Year's annual trip to the Love Corner, and romance abounds! Highlighted by the dazzling union of gorgeous Hollywood types Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, the year 2000 was no slouch in the famous marriages department. Listen as Sarah & Joe breakdown the various millennial weddings, dig into the forgotten pairings of...

"This is not Mission: Difficult, Mr. Hunt, it's Mission: Impossible." Tom Cruise returned as super spy Ethan Hunt in the top worldwide grossing film of 2000, and Sarah & Joe are taking it to task! Listen as they breakdown the stark differences between the first two films in the long running series, the carousel of directors that were employed under the M:I banner, how the Lord of the Rings and...

"I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines." By way of the 25th/26th seasons, Sarah & Joe go into all things Saturday Night Live, NBC's variety show staple of the last half century! They discuss the pivotal transition the show went through during 2000, as what you'd recognize as modern SNL was truly formed from the remnants of the last '90s season. Then the wide ranging breakdown...

What better way to cover the grand game of the gridiron in the year 2000 than with guest host and longtime friend of the show/excellent Babe Ruth impersonator - David Munchak! Sarah & Joe chop up the amazing run of the Tennessee Titans in the playoffs of January 2000 with man-on-the-scene Munchak, and go on to cover the calendar year in full - from the draft to the fall season to the show's st...

We're doing it again! The fourth season of It Happened One Year kicks off the only way a season about the year 2000 could - a little Y2K madness! Listen as Sarah & Joe get deep into the panic and the preparation behind the computer bug that nearly tore the world apart, with all the media hysteria that led up to that fateful New Year's Eve, all the millennium celebrations, all the marketing tie...

We took a break, stretched our legs, and now it's time to do it again! The famed and forgotten await their turns on the big show! Starting later this month!

After twenty months, It Happened One Year is finally ringing down the curtain on 1984! Sarah & Joe are revisiting their season one roots by wrapping up the year with a rousing trivia contest, this time backed by the board game of 1984 product - Jeopardy! Listen as the hosts hack their way through decades-old questions and recount memories of this lengthy podcast season. 

It's that time again, folks - It Happened One Year has (nearly) reached the end of another season, and so it's time to again honor those lost in the subject year. Listen as Sarah & Joe discuss a wide range of celebrities who said goodbye some forty-one years ago now, including Richard Burton, Peter Lawford, Ethel Merman, Indira Gandhi, Truman Capote, Francois Truffaut, Jackie Wilson, Count Bas...