The Year Is
By Bobby Mair & Red Richardson
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.
New Eps every Wednesday. If you enjoy then hit SUBSCRIBE PLEASE! If you want to watch The Year is full eps are on Youtube.
Sign up to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/theyearispod for exclusive episodes, early access, as well as live stream episodes and discounts to live shows.
Thanks!
Bobby and Red
Get bonus content on PatreonHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Latest episode
-
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 reveals what the future has in store for Bobby… -
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. -
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 -
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 year when everything was great, 2015. -
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 birth of very funny Edinburgh Award winning … -
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 OceanGate so we had to walk to 1998, when James … -
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 -
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 thing that catches his attention is shark … -
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, Missouri, United States, killing 72 people, The … -
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 television soap opera Neighbours begins and laun…
