It Happened One Year

The marketplace was changed forever by the advent of today's topic products, all introduced to the public in 1967! Sarah & Joe walk through the notable inventions and creations of the year, from the mundane but useful (handheld calculator) to the useful but waning (automated teller machine) to the fun party game/tool of the industrial prison complex (electronic breathalyzer). Along the way, landma...

Through the spy movie craze of the 1960s, some films were deemed more forgettable by the public at large than others, and so for every Goldfinger there were at least a half dozen knockoffs and cash-ins. However, few went with the dental hygienist turned scantily clad espionage skydiver except for 1967's Fathom! How Sarah & Joe happened across this epic of schlock is discussed, with plenty of love...

Harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abound in this ninth foray into 1967, covering the legacy and impact of the groundbreaking hippie musical extravaganza, Hair! Sarah & Joe discuss the freewheeling nature of the show's composition, from its initial off-Broadway premiere in '67 to its triumphant run on Broadway and the West End to becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Much attention is paid t...

The show is consistent in its love of a good threesies, and #8 is no exception - as sporting greats Bubba Smith, Kathrine Switzer, and Evel Knieval have their 1967s examined! Sarah & Joe take us through the '67 NFL Draft and cover highlights from #1 pick Smith's careers as a footballer and an actor, then look at the Boston Marathon intrigue surrounding Switzer's attempt to run in disguise. Finally...

What would happen if an American city decided it no longer wanted to be part of its assigned state? Could it just leave? Could it join up with a different state? Could it become its own nation?? That's (kind of) what happened in the tiny village of Winneconne in central Wisconsin, circa July of 1967! Sarah & Joe, having just returned from a brief visit to the cheese empire, delve into the wacky as...

With the imminent release of Baz Luhrmann's big screen biopic, It Happened One Year checked the 1967 release schedule and found not one, not two, but three big movies starring the King of Rock 'n' Roll, and figured it was high time to give them a watch. They aren't Elvis's best films, they aren't his best known films, but they are all, in their own odd ways, fascinating hunk-a hunks of entertainme...

Television and satellite broadcasting took a giant leap for mankind, and It Happened One Year is there! Sarah & Joe delve into the segments bizarre, fascinating, and deadly dull that comprise the intercontinental TV production Our World, airing June 25th, 1967! At the time (supposedly) the most viewed program in history, this BBC-led production featured live events from across the globe - most not...

It's science-fiction madness come to life in this fourth chilling episode of It Happened One Year's look at 1967! Sarah & Joe take a close examination at the business of freezing corpses with aims toward eventual reanimation, by way of the the story of the first human being to undergo this procedure - James Bedford! A harrowing tale of his body's journey across western American states and the opti...

The counterculture brought all their flutes and vegetables to the park on March 26th, 1967, and the Love-In commenced! It Happened One Year plunges you into the midst of this glorious, groovy event as Sarah & Joe talk flower & incense based protest circa the Summer of Love, and then spiral it out to the Be-Ins of the time, the simultaneous Central Park event of Easter '67, more aggressive protests...

A large portion of American society has never gotten to experience the cultural mania of a wedding being held in the home of the president, but in the late '60s and early '70s, this joint was a hotbed of matrimonial hullabaloo. Sarah & Joe captain a journey through time as they explore the history of White House nuptials, stretching back multiple centuries, while focusing on the union of Lyndon Jo...

Welcome back, IHOY Heads! It's a new year in season two as Sarah & Joe do their level best to tackle the landmark lovefest that was 1967! Kicking things off is the famed (and forgotten?) tale of Munich artist Helmut Winter, a man who would not take it anymore as a hundred NATO planes flew over his neighborhood each and every day, and took matters into his own hands in a hilariously creative way. W...

There have been some questions about It Happened One Year's freeform, under-researched trial episodes - well, fear not, as this last Bonus Episode before Season Two begins stays mostly on subject and features actual concrete opinions! Recorded in February of 2021 (which is handy to know, given references in the discussion), Sarah & Joe go full Marvel What If...? on the world in their recollections...

While still debating which year would be covered by Season Two of It Happened One Year, Sarah & Joe took a mighty swing at 476 A.D., with decidedly mixed results! Sure, the Roman Empire finally collapsed for good, but the hosts have a hard time even staying on that momentous event, getting distracted by the secular naming convention for years, the fifth century Pope Simplicius, Joe Biden's State o...

We're doing it again! Sarah & Joe are rolling out another season of events big and small, famed and forgotten! It's a new year from the history books to explore and a massive new slate of topics across politics, sports, world events, literature, movies, television, innovations, oddball human interest, pet judging contests, mundane weather, and so much more! 

It's another ancient archive recording this week, as It Happened One Year unearths this test episode from pre-season one - Sarah & Joe's quick hack through all 116 years of the Hundred Years' War! Listen as they dispute this clearly inaccurate naming convention! Watch in horror as they speculate about the leaders of the countries, the countries involved, the relevance of the Crusades, and whether...

As season two continues under construction, It Happened One Year is again making with the bonus oddities - this week, Sarah & Joe kick around what they know of the Johnstown Flood of 1889, thus the abbreviated running time! Listen as the discussion quickly ranges between what people might've kept in their basements in the late 19th century to a frustrating argument with the Alexa over Jack the Rip...

Bonus episode! From deep in the vault comes this bizarro rarity - a pre-It Happened One Year "episode," before the show had recorded a single minute of actual content. Listen in as the married hosts try to determine if they have any sort of podcast chemistry, while kicking around the legendary tale of that stumbling baby who fell down a well. Plenty of questions are raised about the famous event,...

Finally, 1994 is coming to an end! Sarah & Joe's grand pandemic era experiment in nostalgia wraps up this week, with this wholly trivial fifty-second episode! Listen in to that most riveting of podcast adventures - the hosts battling it out for knowledge supremacy, with all questions pertaining to the broad podcast topic they've revisited week after week for the past year. Past episodes are discus...

In the second-to-last episode of this It Happened One Year season, Sarah & Joe take a look back at the rest of the celebrities we lost way back in the landmark year of 1994. The major figures of politics, literature, sports, film & television, crime, music, and more are given that classic IHOY send off. Hey, what takes place on an awards show before they reach their grand finale? Gotta give a nod...

It Happened One Year's landmark fiftieth episode delves into one of the show's little-covered corners of 1994 entertainment - video games, specifically the blockbuster titles from the Super Nintendo, with cameos by the Sega Genesis, and a few long forgotten products from both. Sarah & Joe cover their respective paths of console enjoyment in the early '90s, touching on the top selling games of the...

Love is in the air this Valentine's Day, and what is more romantic than the Jack Nicholson/Michelle Pfeiffer cult (?) classic monster melee Wolf?! It's another Dealer's Choice - the first one in a while - and the result brings us straight to the full moon doorstep of horror, suspense, lust, and highbrow literary society circa 1994! Sarah & Joe discuss werewolf films of the era (which this film onl...

It's time to take a look at the good, the lucrative, and the flops coming from the motion picture industry in 1994, in this cinematic forty-eighth episode! Sarah & Joe's lengthy trip around the film universe covers the biggest box office grossers, the proliferation of unsuccessful sequels & remakes versus the gangbusters industry of today, the Oscar winners and nominees, and the movies they feel s...

Two of the absolute icons of 1994 are featured in this legendary forty-seventh episode of It Happened One Year! Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and Nicole Simpson's ex-house guest Kato Kaelin had lives of varying success and public interest prior to the events of '94, but afterward they would become household names forever, and for very different reasons. The tribulations of the Gillooly/...

This super-sized forty-sixth episode is legitimately way too much - everyone involved would agree. But in order to cover (briefly) the events of the plague on the sub-continent in 1994 and (more expansively) everything personally connected to the COVID pandemic of 2020, 2021, 2022, and so on requires a whole bundle of time! Sarah & Joe take us on a rollercoaster of emotion, swinging from discussio...

It's a special brand of sci-fi suspense this week, as this gelatinous forty-fifth episode tackles the eerie, inexplicable events in Oakville, Washington from August of 1994! Sarah & Joe attempt to concoct theories as to what caused pellets of goo to rain down in unholy terror on the unsuspecting residents of this small northwest town, causing some to fall ill and causing some Fidos and Meow-Meows...