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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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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…