We have proud SpongeBob SquarePants fan, our friend Luke Chilton, back for another off the wall chat and misunderstandings with Bobby. Grady the Cow teaches us all about not getting stuck in a silo shortly after giving birth, Albert II is the first primate to be blasted into space, the legend of Tokyo Rose, and serial killer Gary Ridgway. Sign up now to our Patreon for early access, bonus weekly episodes not available anywhere else, posters, cameo messages, free tickets to online shows and...

BBC "Jerk" writer and star Tim Renkow can now add guest host to The Year Is to his IMDb page now. Tim brings his own learned and cultured facts and untruths to challenge Bobby with as we go to 1902. Oil magnate Sarah Rector is born, having been given what was thought to be worthless land aged 12, a new land speed record is set driving a steam car in France, a newspaper cartoon inspires the creation of the first Teddy Bear, the first science fiction film premieres by George Melies. Watch Tim...

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A significant episode where we travel to 1984, to discuss the George Orwell, Orwellian classic novel 1984, which was written in 1948, the Crack Cocaine epidemic spreads across America, Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona is sold Italian team Napoli, and political commentator Ben Shapiro, entrepreneur and fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are all born Watch Red Richardson's brand new comedy special - https://www.youtube.com/@redrichardsoncomedy Sign up now...

Maybe you were lucky enough to catch this episode early when Jody accidentally released this episode on Saturday night, 5 days before it was supposed to be dropped. An earth shattering episode of 1962, a year full of significant moments, as deep dived by Robert Mair, Jackie Kennedy invites cameras into the White House for tour, Astronaut John Glenn orbits the Earth three times as part of Project Mercury, the Cuban military tribunal convicts some of the Bay of Pigs attackers, American retail...

Recorded on the day of Burns night so by the time of this release it's already out of date, this is a very fun and silly visit to 1796, when the as forementioned celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns died but nobody can work out why the particular date of Burns Night was specifically chosen, the only performance of the forged Shakespeare play Vortigern and Rowena takes place, written by forger William Henry Ireland, known as Samuel to his dad, a mob of peasants overtakes the covent of Saint...

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This is the story of 1976 as deep dived by Bobby Mair visiting the true story of Middleweight boxer, Rubin Carter whose retrial was upheld after he was convicted for murder in 1967 leading to a hit song by Bob Dylan that began a campaign to free him and a Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated film starring Denzel Washington, also the Great Bookie Robbery happens in Melbourne, Australia and India are rethinking their marriage laws. We take several detours in this episode as Bobby has never...

The year everyone has been asking for, a year when stars were born including Snoop Doggs protege, Lil Bow Wow and World Cup winning Argentinian football star Lionel Messi, Seattle coffee chain Starbucks opens, and the terrorist Unabomber blows up his second bomb. Along with plenty of chat about Prince Harry’s book, Red is looking forward to the release of his special on 29th January and Bobby competes with Red for facts about his football and Messi knowledge  Subscribe to Red's YouTube...

It's great to be back for a new year and we hit the ground running by going back to 1823, when Fransz Liszt gives a concert in Vienna and is personally congratulated by composer Ludwig van Beethoven, Hugh Glass gets mauled by a grizzly bear on an expedition in Missouri which inspired the Leonardo di Caprio Oscar winning film The Revenant, Russian author Alexander Pushkin begins work on the verse novel Eugene Onegin and eventually suffers a cuckolds death, the Oxford University Union debating...

During the Christmas break here are some of our favourite moments between Bobby and Red 1963 - Disgustingly rich Bobby and Red the emergency driver 1966 - Charles Whitman, known as the Texas Town Sniper kills 16 people from the top of a university clock tower 1986 - Boxer Mike Tyson becomes heavyweight champion of the world and Red's university dissertation on Muhammad Ali 1995 - Michael Jackson releases "Earth Song" and The Rednex hit single "Cotton Eyed Joe" are released 1977 - Roy Sullivan...

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During the Christmas break here are some of our favourite moments with our guests 2001 - Ed Night - September 11th or 9/11 , The Invention of Wikipedia 1996 - Jayde Adams - 6ix9ine, Tom Holland and Jade's muted Twitter words 2006 - Tim Renkow - Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is killed by a stingray, what body parts would you trade with an animal? And Jody doesn't have a thyroid 1997 - Helen Bauer - The Death of Princess Diana 1979 - Alfie Brown - Mesrine, The Twinkie Defence, The Staircase, and...

We present our recording at Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival in October where Ed Night joined us to travel back to 1829. Oxford University wins the first inter-university boat race, Robert Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police in London, the first modern police force, Lord William Bentinck pushes through a regulation declaring pushing self-immolation of widow on her husbands funeral pyre is guilty of culpable homicide, Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, claims to have received the...

What a treat we have for you, one of the funniest episodes of the pod so far, helmed and lead by the masterful research of history undergraduate Red Richardson. We go to 1913 when Vincenzo Peruggia is arrested for stealing the Mona Lisa and has trouble selling it, failed artist Adolf Hitler moves from Vienna to Munich, low cost shopping giant Aldi is founded, Joseph Stalin is arrested by the Russian secret police and exiled to Siberia, the Romanian army cholera outbreak during the Second...

Well here we are, celebrating our first year and getting straight to business by transporting ourselves to 1895 when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator, W.E.B DuBois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D grin Harvard University, the world's first portable handheld electric drill is developed in Germany, and American frontier and murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. Sign up now to our Patreon for...

Now that Red is an international star, sunning it up in Switzerland, and Bobby is lost somewhere on British country roads trying to get to Cornwall and Jody is moonlighting editing other people's podcasts, we have dug into the vault to find another live show from Edinburgh for you to enjoy. We go to 2005, when the first person survives rabies, Prince Charles and Camilla get married, Rodney Marsh is fired Sky Sports, Saddam Hussein is put on trial and hanged, Hunter S Thompson and Richard...

This week we go to 2011, a difficult year for dictators, where Prince William Kate Middleton get married, Gaddafi is killed, 9/11 mastermind and Taliban and Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is hunted down killed in Pakistan, and Kim-Jon Il dies. Also Red is looking forward to filming his special in a couple of weeks and we get into a deep discussion about Pete Davidson. Red is about to film his on December 2nd - Get your tickets here - http://www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/2543 Watch...

Content Warning: This episode contains either some new legendary argumentative moments on the podcast or very probably the stupidest. We go to 1856, where Scottish-Australian James Harrison invents the fridge, American mercenary takes control of Nicaragua, pre-human remains are found in Neanderthal Valley in Prussia, and the Battle of Black Jack, antislavery forces, led by John Brown, defeat proslavery forces in Bleeding Kansas. Also Bobby has been experiencing incontinence, and what's the...

It's 2008, Bobby's recovering from the flu and Red's so excited about doing his research for the year, he dives in immediately, with the origin of phrases such as mansplain, burner phone and fat shame, Bobby's Canadian cousin Justin Bieber is signed to Def Jam records, a fire Universal Studios Hollywood lose 175,000 master tapes tapes to over 700 artists music including Nirvana, Chuck Berry, Eminem, Otis Redding. "Dad of the Year" Josef Fritzl is discovered to have been keeping his daughter...

We investigate one of the most special times of year, we replace the time machine with a broom that travels into metaphysical ideas and concepts, where did the concept and origins of Halloween come from, it's originally being known as Cabbage Night, in Alabama it is illegal to dress in a nun or priest costume, the phobia of halloween has an unusual name and we celebrate the birthday of Saturday Night Live star and Adam Sandler movie's friend, Rob Schneider. Also Bobby is releasing his...

We've been building up to this year, and Red Richardson brings the research whilst also taking every extreme ideological position possible and offending everyone that opposes him. Enzo Ferrari sets up the company that would develop the luxury Italian car Ferrari, notorious American gangster Al Capone is released from prison, later dying from syphilis, peace activist Gandhi sends a letter to his friend Adolf Hitler, World War 2 begins but who was the first soldier killed and was it friendly...

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It's a well researched episode by Bobby this week, as 1970 has piqued his attention. Bobby shares his love with us for the comedy trio The Stooges, when Larry Fine suffered a debilitating career ending stroke, we get a taste of Bobby's Spotify playlist featuring forgotten folk musician Charles Manson, Make America Great Again founder Donald Trump's third wife Melania is born, drilling on the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in Russia, a man eating tiger kills 48 people in New Delhi, India, and...

We have traveled back to 1872 to be the first ones to solve the mystery of the Mary Celeste ship that was discovered with no crew aboard but everything still in tact, Suffragist Susan B Anthony votes for the first time, Monet paints the first Impressionist painting, geologist Clarence King reveals the diamond hoax, and the Tichborne case is decided in London against claimant Arthur Orton. Also descendent of the Quakers, Red is learning how to make friends and Bobby is trying to figure out who...