A fun and freewheeling look at the many events big and small, famed and forgotten from a single calendar year
Episodes
Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
The counterculture brought all their flutes and vegetables to the park on March 26th, 1967, and the Love-In commenced! It Happened One Year plunges you into the midst of this glorious, groovy event as Sarah & Joe talk flower & incense based protest circa the Summer of Love, and then spiral it out to the Be-Ins of the time, the simultaneous Central Park event of Easter '67, more aggressive protests to come, and whether or not The Monkees joined in with the fun and frivolity. Attention is paid along the way to Les Blank's God Respects Us When We Work..., the psychedelic bands making appearances at Elysian Park that day, General Lewis Hershey vs. General Hershey Bar, and speculation as to how the hosts may have personally involved themselves in protests on their college campuses were they alive at the time.
Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
A large portion of American society has never gotten to experience the cultural mania of a wedding being held in the home of the president, but in the late '60s and early '70s, this joint was a hotbed of matrimonial hullabaloo. Sarah & Joe captain a journey through time as they explore the history of White House nuptials, stretching back multiple centuries, while focusing on the union of Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda Bird to Marine Corps officer and future governor and senator from Virginia Chuck Robb! From the guest list to the menu to the intrigue surrounding LBJ's terrier Yuki, It Happened One Year covers it all and cordially invites you to the D.C. social event of the year, circa 1967!
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Welcome back, IHOY Heads! It's a new year in season two as Sarah & Joe do their level best to tackle the landmark lovefest that was 1967! Kicking things off is the famed (and forgotten?) tale of Munich artist Helmut Winter, a man who would not take it anymore as a hundred NATO planes flew over his neighborhood each and every day, and took matters into his own hands in a hilariously creative way. Witness the valiant efforts that affected real change for his community! Be there as the It Happened One Year Hall of Fame is finally established! Hear the hosts attempt to stick to 1967, and veer back to 1994 only on occasion!
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 18, 2022
There have been some questions about It Happened One Year's freeform, under-researched trial episodes - well, fear not, as this last Bonus Episode before Season Two begins stays mostly on subject and features actual concrete opinions! Recorded in February of 2021 (which is handy to know, given references in the discussion), Sarah & Joe go full Marvel What If...? on the world in their recollections and breakdown of the nail-biter 2000 Election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. What would've happened had Gore won? Do all the early '00s wars still happen? Does the Patriot Act exist? Who could've been elected in 2004, and 2008, and 2012, for that matter? Also, what about the photo-finish 1960 Election? Do the '60s as we know them actually take place in the '70s, if Nixon won in '60? Lots of speculation and conjecture abound as IHOY gears up for the new season!
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
While still debating which year would be covered by Season Two of It Happened One Year, Sarah & Joe took a mighty swing at 476 A.D., with decidedly mixed results! Sure, the Roman Empire finally collapsed for good, but the hosts have a hard time even staying on that momentous event, getting distracted by the secular naming convention for years, the fifth century Pope Simplicius, Joe Biden's State of the Union Address, and how calendars worked before the birth of Christ. Be thankful that 476 didn't emerge as the winning subject of the new year!
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
We're doing it again! Sarah & Joe are rolling out another season of events big and small, famed and forgotten! It's a new year from the history books to explore and a massive new slate of topics across politics, sports, world events, literature, movies, television, innovations, oddball human interest, pet judging contests, mundane weather, and so much more!
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
It's another ancient archive recording this week, as It Happened One Year unearths this test episode from pre-season one - Sarah & Joe's quick hack through all 116 years of the Hundred Years' War! Listen as they dispute this clearly inaccurate naming convention! Watch in horror as they speculate about the leaders of the countries, the countries involved, the relevance of the Crusades, and whether or not the Americas were somehow tangentially involved in the conflict! There are even a handful of references to World War III, making this 13 month old recording particularly impactful given the current state of the world. Terrifying!
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
As season two continues under construction, It Happened One Year is again making with the bonus oddities - this week, Sarah & Joe kick around what they know of the Johnstown Flood of 1889, thus the abbreviated running time! Listen as the discussion quickly ranges between what people might've kept in their basements in the late 19th century to a frustrating argument with the Alexa over Jack the Ripper facts.
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Bonus episode! From deep in the vault comes this bizarro rarity - a pre-It Happened One Year "episode," before the show had recorded a single minute of actual content. Listen in as the married hosts try to determine if they have any sort of podcast chemistry, while kicking around the legendary tale of that stumbling baby who fell down a well. Plenty of questions are raised about the famous event, and about wells in general, as Sarah & Joe worked to develop the show that would ultimately emerge.
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Finally, 1994 is coming to an end! Sarah & Joe's grand pandemic era experiment in nostalgia wraps up this week, with this wholly trivial fifty-second episode! Listen in to that most riveting of podcast adventures - the hosts battling it out for knowledge supremacy, with all questions pertaining to the broad podcast topic they've revisited week after week for the past year. Past episodes are discussed, missed subject opportunities discovered, and hints for the future of It Happened One Year dropped along the way. Many favorites resurface through the course of the game - including Speed, Kurt Cobain, The Lion King, Forrest Gump, Tonya Harding, Beck, The Real World, Friends, and Calvin Klein - and plenty more IHOY lore is explored.