A fun and freewheeling look at the many events big and small, famed and forgotten from a single calendar year
Episodes
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.
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
In the second-to-last episode of this It Happened One Year season, Sarah & Joe take a look back at the rest of the celebrities we lost way back in the landmark year of 1994. The major figures of politics, literature, sports, film & television, crime, music, and more are given that classic IHOY send off. Hey, what takes place on an awards show before they reach their grand finale? Gotta give a nod to the dear departed! Richard Nixon, Jackie Kennedy, Kurt Cobain, Burt Lancaster, Wilma Rudolph, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Jack Kirby, Harry Nilsson, Peter Cushing, Raul Julia, Jersey Joe Walcott, Henry Mancini, Jessica Tandy, and many more feature prominently in this super-sized episode!
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
It Happened One Year's landmark fiftieth episode delves into one of the show's little-covered corners of 1994 entertainment - video games, specifically the blockbuster titles from the Super Nintendo, with cameos by the Sega Genesis, and a few long forgotten products from both. Sarah & Joe cover their respective paths of console enjoyment in the early '90s, touching on the top selling games of the year - including Donkey Kong Country and Super Metroid - and the wildly creative by necessity Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball. Along the way, various PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Game Cube, and Wii discussions pop up, with cameos from Mario Kart, Rockstar titles, Simpsons Road Rage, Final Fantasy, Triple Play '97, Super Punch-Out!!, and more!
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Love is in the air this Valentine's Day, and what is more romantic than the Jack Nicholson/Michelle Pfeiffer cult (?) classic monster melee Wolf?! It's another Dealer's Choice - the first one in a while - and the result brings us straight to the full moon doorstep of horror, suspense, lust, and highbrow literary society circa 1994! Sarah & Joe discuss werewolf films of the era (which this film only basically fits into), making difficult comparisons with An American Werewolf in London and that all-time show favorite Teen Wolf, why anyone involved actually made this movie, and the stunning pedigree of the cast & crew. Was this more a Mike Nichols project, or a Jack Nicholson one? Is "sniff acting" the hardest thing to ever pull off on film? Is James Spader the film's MVP? Along the way, attention is thrown to Lon Chaney, Tom Everett Scott, Carnal Knowledge, The Prince of Tides, Stan Freberg, The Witches of Eastwick, and many more!