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The Year Is

A new comedy podcast from comedians Bobby Mair and Red Richardson

Every episode we travel back to a different year in history and talk about the weirdest, most interesting and sometimes horrifying events that year.


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Society & Culture Funny Improv Comedy History
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
60 minutes
Episodes
88
Years Active
2021 - 2023
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The Year Is 2055 - We Time Travel Into the Future To Discover Our Destinies

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

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 reve…

00:41:53  |   Wed 23 Aug 2023
2020 with Sean McLoughlin - January to March

2020 with Sean McLoughlin - January to March

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 struc…

00:51:09  |   Wed 09 Aug 2023
1877 with Radu Isac - Romania Declares Independence from the Ottoman Empire, Sioux Chief Crazy Horse, Alexander Graham Bell installs the 1st telephone  service

1877 with Radu Isac - Romania Declares Independence from the Ottoman Empire, Sioux Chief Crazy Horse, Alexander Graham Bell installs the 1st telephone service

Red is imprisoned in a Dubai prison so the brilliant Radu Isac steps in to guest host and joins Bobby to break down an important year for Radu's home country. By a speech in the Parliament of Romania

00:45:05  |   Wed 02 Aug 2023
2015 with Micky Overman - Bruno Mars Uptown Funk, Facebook reaches a Billion Users, Jeremy Clarkson leaves BBC Top Gear

2015 with Micky Overman - Bruno Mars Uptown Funk, Facebook reaches a Billion Users, Jeremy Clarkson leaves BBC Top Gear

This is a very funny episode with the very funny and patient Micky Overman who is left alone with Red whilst Bobby is still away to make sense of a better world, before the world descended, the last …

01:06:46  |   Wed 26 Jul 2023
1981 with Phil Ellis - Phil Ellis is born, First London Marathon, Mozart's Undiscovered Symphony

1981 with Phil Ellis - Phil Ellis is born, First London Marathon, Mozart's Undiscovered Symphony

Bobby is still on the run from Interpol, somewhere in the world, so Red sits down with the brilliant Phil Ellis for a deep dive of the most important things that happened in 1981 starting with the bi…

01:00:07  |   Wed 19 Jul 2023
1998 with Sunil Patel - Titanic Grosses $1 Billion, Posh Spice and David Beckham, California Bans Smoking, Clinton Lewinsky Scandal, Andrew Wakefield MMR Vaccine

1998 with Sunil Patel - Titanic Grosses $1 Billion, Posh Spice and David Beckham, California Bans Smoking, Clinton Lewinsky Scandal, Andrew Wakefield MMR Vaccine

Red is back and Bobby's gone away so our close friend, Sunil Patel, namesake of Bobby and Harriet's dog steps in to host with Red. The Time Machine is still out of action after we loaned it to OceanG…

01:08:53  |   Wed 12 Jul 2023
1817 with Luke Chilton - General José de San Martín crosses the Andes, the Dandy Horse, Florida Seminole Wars, English botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker

1817 with Luke Chilton - General José de San Martín crosses the Andes, the Dandy Horse, Florida Seminole Wars, English botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker

Our very funny friend and honorary Super Genius, Luke Chilton joins Bobby for a deep historical dive of the year 1817 whilst Red is on holiday. An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San M…

00:58:11  |   Wed 05 Jul 2023
1935 - Titanic Submersible, Shark Arm Case, Driving Tests, Sonny Bono, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lindbergh Baby, Robert Downey Senior, Hitler Reorganises the Luftwaffe

1935 - Titanic Submersible, Shark Arm Case, Driving Tests, Sonny Bono, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lindbergh Baby, Robert Downey Senior, Hitler Reorganises the Luftwaffe

Explorer Red Richardson takes us to the depths of 1935 but not before some chat about the Titanic Titan Submersible that captured everyone's attention and imaginations this week. Of course the first …

00:53:55  |   Wed 28 Jun 2023
1957 - Shark Attacks, Assassinated Swedish Schindler, A Fire Kills 44 Old People, the Last Man Hanged in Australia

1957 - Shark Attacks, Assassinated Swedish Schindler, A Fire Kills 44 Old People, the Last Man Hanged in Australia

The Miami Cruiser Bobby Mair, whisks us to 1957, when The Soviet Union announces that Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg had died in a Soviet prison, a fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missou…

00:51:04  |   Wed 14 Jun 2023
1985 w/Eshaan Akbar - Neighbours, Michael Jackson buys The Beatles, New Coke, Harrods, George Michael

1985 w/Eshaan Akbar - Neighbours, Michael Jackson buys The Beatles, New Coke, Harrods, George Michael

Eshaan Akbar eventually arrives after a big night out to join us for a historical tour of the year after he was born. In 1985, the fictional Australian town of Erinsborough is discovered, when televi…

01:08:46  |   Wed 07 Jun 2023
1988 with Alexandra Haddow - Toxic Waste, Nazi President, Plane Roof Falls Off

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

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…

01:07:30  |   Wed 31 May 2023
2002 with Rob Mulholland - Eminem, Afghanistan, Ben Affleck, American Idol, Britney Spears splits up from Justin Timberlake & Fifa World Cup

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

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 …

01:02:20  |   Wed 24 May 2023
1776 - Thai King Ekkathat, Meermin Slave Mutiny, Mozart and a Paper Entrepreneur

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

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…

00:57:20  |   Wed 17 May 2023
1948 - Gandhi Assassination, Hells Angels Bikers, Voice of America

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

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 fou…

00:52:06  |   Wed 10 May 2023
1923 - Hailstones, Etna Erupts, Japanese Earthquake, Scandalous Dead President

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

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 …

00:52:36  |   Wed 03 May 2023
1956 - Snooze Alarm, Tom Hanks, Mussolini's Shot, Marilyn Monroe

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

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, Br…

00:53:51  |   Wed 19 Apr 2023
1893 - The Invention of Pepsi, Master Criminal Adam Worth & the Diesel Engine Patent

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

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…

01:08:36  |   Wed 12 Apr 2023
1992 - Pablo Escobar, McDonalds Robbery, Hook, Whitney Houston

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

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 Ho…

00:54:55  |   Wed 05 Apr 2023
1916 - Mary the Elephant is Hanged, Jaws Shark Attacks, and An Alternative Gasoline

1916 - Mary the Elephant is Hanged, Jaws Shark Attacks, and An Alternative Gasoline

Robert Mair has taken over controls of the time machine, to go to 1916, when Louis Enright claims he has a substitute for gasoline, Mary the Elephant is hanged, and shark attacks in Jersey Shore insp…

00:54:42  |   Wed 29 Mar 2023
The Sopranos, Canoe Man, iPhones, and the Sub Prime Mortgage Crisis - The Year Is 2007

The Sopranos, Canoe Man, iPhones, and the Sub Prime Mortgage Crisis - The Year Is 2007

Strap in for another bumper ride helmed by the research of historian Red Richardson, as we go to 2007, which was notable for his favourite TV show coming to an end, The Sopranos, a national anti-hero…

00:53:36  |   Wed 22 Mar 2023
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