The Year Is - Bobby Mair & Red Richardson

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The Year Is 2055 - We Time Travel Into the Future To Discover Our Destinies

Season 1 · Episode 86

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 • Duration 41:53

The Time Machine has been fitted with the ability to go forward in time for our final episode, after we catch up with how everyone has been for the past 5 weeks, we travel ahead 30 years and Red reveals what the future has in store for Bobby, Red and Jody, and assess what we have all learnt and taken from our experience of doing the podcast.

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2020 with Sean McLoughlin - January to March

Season 1 · Episode 85

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 • Duration 51:09

Red is still in a Dubai Prison at the time of recording so our much anticipated guest Sean McLoughlin makes a 40 minute walk to chat with Bobby about the first few months of 2020. Flash floods struck Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 66 people in a worst flooding in over a decade, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iranian forces shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, killing all 176 people on board, a rare Universal Palindrome Date (02/02/2020) occurs in the Gregorian calendar. Such events usually only transpire around once every 1000 years, with the last such event occurring in 1111, Eleven people are killed and five injured in a terrorist shooting spree by a far-right extremist targeting shisha bars in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Germany, NATO expresses solidarity with Turkey after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike by pro-Syrian government forces, During a demonstration, pro-government colectivos shoot at disputed President and Speaker of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó and his supporters in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, leaving five injured and then something is happening in Wuhan.

Watch Sean's new comedy special "So Be It", it's very very funny - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CNyTFvDGgY

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1988 with Alexandra Haddow - Toxic Waste, Nazi President, Plane Roof Falls Off

Season 1 · Episode 76

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 • Duration 01:07:30

We welcome our very funny friend Alex Haddow, and the man with the highest IQ in the world Bobby Mair takes her on a tour of the year she was born 1988. A year when the cargo ship Khan Sea deposits 4,000 tons of toxic waste in Haiti after wandering around the Atlantic for sixteen months. A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim, Austrian President and Secretary General of the U.N. in World War II deportations and Aloha Airlines 243 safely lands after losing its roof in midair, killing a flight attendant and injuring 65 people. Plus we learn a lot about Alex's home town of Corby and it's role in so many significant global events, the time when Bobby stayed in a nuns convent, and Red stumbles a new conspiracy theory that may explain a lot.

Get tickets to Alex's debut Edinburgh Fringe Show "Not My Finest Hour" all of August - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/alexandra-haddow-not-my-finest-hour

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2002 with Rob Mulholland - Eminem, Afghanistan, Ben Affleck, American Idol, Britney Spears splits up from Justin Timberlake & Fifa World Cup

Season 1 · Episode 75

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 • Duration 01:02:20

The brilliant and very funny and tolerant, Rob Mulholland joins us for one of our funniest episodes as historian Red Richardson takes us on a tour deep dive tour of 2002, a year when Eminem releases Lose Yourself and his biopic 8 Mile is released in cinemas, Afghanistan changes its name to the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, Ben Affleck was finally named People magazine's sexiest man alive, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake split up, Simon Cowell starts American Idol, and the Fifa World Cup kicks off. Also Red can't remember his own name as he's sweating so much, Bobby takes offence at being interrupted and Rob has just learnt his hasn't got long to live.

Watch/Listen to Bobby on Rob Mulholland and Freddy Quinne's very funny podcast Dead Men Talking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S52PFbYKEQ

Set a reminder for Rob's special "Born Ready" coming out July 2nd on the Dead Men Talking YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@DeadMenTalkingPod

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1776 - Thai King Ekkathat, Meermin Slave Mutiny, Mozart and a Paper Entrepreneur

Season 1 · Episode 74

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 • Duration 57:20

Renaissance man Bobby Mair takes us on his own personal tour of 1776, and introduces us to King Ekkathat of Thailand when the country is besieged by invaders from Burma, the Meermin Slave Mutiny when the captive Malagasy prisoners take the ship over, Mozart returns to Salzburg after a grand tour of Europe and Paper Entrepreneur, Henry Fourdrinier is born. Also Red is considering a holiday to Tulum in Mexico and Bobby paints his own inimitable picture of how Robert de Niro has ended up having so many children

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1948 - Gandhi Assassination, Hells Angels Bikers, Voice of America

Season 1 · Episode 73

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 • Duration 52:06

Red Richardson whisks us to the scene of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination, and the Winter Olympics that happened the same day, the founding of the Hells Angels Biker gang and introduces us to their founder Sonny Barger, the Australian cricket team set a record against England and the Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America radio. Also is Red the reincarnation of Gandhi, Bobby is suffering from narcolepsy and Jody seems more juiced up than usual.

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1923 - Hailstones, Etna Erupts, Japanese Earthquake, Scandalous Dead President

Season 1 · Episode 72

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 • Duration 52:36

This week Bobby has been watching Yellowstone so was inspired to take us to 1923 where he's mostly interested in natural disasters such as large hailstones killing 23 people in the Soviet Union, The Great Kanto Earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing more than 100,000 people, Mount Etna erupts in Italy making 60,000 homeless, Walter Wever, a Luftwaffe flying ace who claimed 44 aerial victories 350 combat missions is born, and Warren G Harding, the 29th President of the United States died whose reputation was diminished after the revelation of multiple scandals after his death.

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1956 - Snooze Alarm, Tom Hanks, Mussolini's Shot, Marilyn Monroe

Season 1 · Episode 72

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 • Duration 53:51

Esteemable historian Red Richardson escorts us on a personalised excursion to 1956, when the most important things that happened were firstly the invention of the snooze alarm, Tom Hanks was born, British Rail gets rid of 3rd Class seats, Royal Navy Frogman Lionel Buster Crabb disappears, Violet Gibson dies, the woman who shot Mussolini in the nose, and Norma Jean Mortenson legally changes her name to Marilyn Monroe.

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1893 - The Invention of Pepsi, Master Criminal Adam Worth & the Diesel Engine Patent

Season 1 · Episode 71

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 • Duration 01:08:36

Robert Lindsay Mair transports us to 1893, when Rudolph Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine, in Belgium Adam Worth is sentenced to 7 years for robbery, and Caleb Bradham invents the recipe for what he calls "Brad's Drink" that would later go on to become known as the brand Pepsi. Also a Putin War Fanatic is being scammed by hackers and how did Ted Bunny father a child whilst in a maximum security prison?

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1992 - Pablo Escobar, McDonalds Robbery, Hook, Whitney Houston

Season 1 · Episode 70

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 • Duration 54:55

This week historian Red Richardson takes us to 1992, where the first thing that piques his interest is the Sydney River McDonald's Murders in Nova Scotia, Canada, Home Alone 2 is released, Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" from the The Bodyguard is number one for 10 weeks, Colombia drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison La Catedral, Sinead O'Connor tears up a picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live and the number one film of the year is the Peter Pan film, Hook. Also Red had an awful gig and Bobby has a painful thumb.

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