It Happened One Year

Episode 18 - You Can't Touch Duane Barry!

Trust no one, except Sarah & Joe! It should come as no surprise that It Happened One Year is finally swerving hard into an extensive look at The X-Files, in this eighteenth spooky episode! 1994 featured one of the great, early two-parters in the run of the series - season two's Duane Barry and Ascension, featuring the great villainous work of Steve Railsback opposite David Duchovny's Mulder and Gillian Anderson's Scully! This wide ranging discussion covers the bumps of the show's early years, the conspiracy episodes versus stand-alones, Vancouver's prominent role standing in for Washington D.C. and the rest of America, the catastrophic series finale in the reboot seasons, great one-off psychos, and much much more! The truth is right here in IHOY: You Can't Touch Duane Barry!

Episode 17 - IHOY Radio: 1994 Hitz, One-Hitters and Whatnot!

Haddaway? Corona?? Culture Beat?! The hosts tackle an increasingly obscure group of artists in the second part of the quiz show concept introduced last time around. Joe takes the lead offering up the jams here and Sarah takes swings at identifying, with varying levels of accuracy. Clues are provided, "Love is All Around" is explored at some length, and those hot 1994 beats are relentless in their ability to entertain! Keep your dial tuned to IHOY for this seventeenth harmonic episode!

Episode 16 - IHOY Radio: 1994 Hitz, Powerhouse Ladies Edition!

Part one of an ambitious dual episode holiday weekend delivery, where Sarah & Joe take us through some of the big hit songs of 1994 in an interactive guessing game contest! Sarah is in the driver's seat here, quizzing about the song titles and artists around the major successes straight from the ladies! Hear the stunning missteps and shocking gaps in Joe's knowledge! Listen to bizarre anecdotes about live country music concerts and Geico commercials! Experience again a dazzling array of tunes stretching from Celine Dion to Reba McEntire to Brandy, and marvel at the guesswork in this symphonic sixteenth episode!

Episode 15 - Six Degrees of It Happening One Year

Lightning episode! It's a quick one this week as Joe & Sarah explore the origin of the famed parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and then attempt to play along, with varying levels of success. Come see how few Sean Connery movies Sarah can name! Listen as the hosts stumble through the decades trying to make connections! Hear the silly ways they pronounce "Cumberbatch"! It's multiple hours of recording condensed into a hot baker's dozen minutes of podcast glory in this blistering fifteenth episode of It Happened One Year!

Episode 14 - Love & Prenups

Finally, there's an opportunity for a full-on follow-up episode, as Sarah & Joe revisit a very, very briefly mentioned incident from back in Episode 2 - Love & Chaos, discussing the dissolution of a big 1994 celebrity marriage - Bill & Melinda Gates! Following fresh on the heels of Jeff Bezos's divorce, other potential super rich break-ups on the horizon are explored, while trying to mine details out of the Gates' rocky conclusion. Infidelity? Corporate strife? Jeffrey Epstein?? In addition, extensive shout-outs are given to other celebrities keeping their '94 unions afloat, including IHOY favorites Leila Kenzle and Harry Connick/Jill Goodacre. Credit where credit is due! Come for the love but stay for the fireworks in this fourteenth judicial episode!

Episode 13 - Blackout Thursday on NBC!

They don't do epic theme crossover television nights like they used to! That's the overriding conclusion of this thirteenth murky episode of It Happened One Year, delving into NBC's wild New York City based crossover of November 3rd, 1994! Sarah & Joe get into the night's programming scheme and the general history of Mad About You, Friends, Seinfeld, and Dabney Coleman's short lived Madman of the People! The discussion ranges from evaluating these shows at this point in their respective runs, why Seinfeld didn't participate in the blackout theme (and their proposal if the network insisted), tossing around theories as to when these programs hit their peaks, and debating the merits of television crossovers in general. Was it Must See TV at its finest, or too gimmicky to even warrant further attention? Bring a flashlight - it's IHOY: NBC's Blackout Thursday!

Episode 12 -"Who the F*ck is Justin Bieber?"

A rollicking new It Happened One Year segment is upon us, as Sarah & Joe delve deeply into the existential and literal question - Who is 1994 baby Justin Bieber? This twelfth bewildering episode attempts to address this through the use of very foggy memories and wild speculation, all subsequently fact-checked and highlighted in the episode with dings and buzzers, to let you know which guesses were on the money! Some names randomly thrown around include Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Demi Moore, Xavier Cugat, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Donny Osmond, Brenda Song, and Taylor Momsen as the hosts hack through the forest of modern teen entertainment to try and reach the core of truth about this pop idol. Are we all actually Justin Bieber? Does he even exist? Does he have a criminal record and/or a terrible mustache? Serving up heaping spoonfuls of truth and striking out mightily in equal measure, this week!

Episode 11 - Dinah!

The first of our In Memoriam: 1994 collection features that favorite darling of American television from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s - the late great Dinah Shore! Hear Sarah & Joe attempt to recount the highlights of the famed songstress's life, and mostly get hung up on her extensive dating accolades. Burt Reynolds, Tarzan's Ron Ely, Johnny Carson, and Hoda Kotb all make appearances as a new found brainteaser emerges to stump society - who looked better than Dinah Shore for as long as she did? The answers won't surprise you! Come see the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet alongside Dinah in this honorific eleventh episode of It Happened One Year!

Episode 10 - One Hoax Over the Line

Dumb internet hoaxes didn't originate with your step-uncle getting scammed out of his social security number by Russian teenagers, heck no! This week, Sarah & Joe take us back to the early, early days of stupid nonsense people believed in cyberspace on this tenth techno-funktastic episode of It Happened One Year! 1994 saw the famed Good Times Virus burst onto the scene, followed in short order by a popular satirical news bulletin wherein Microsoft was going to purchase the Catholic Church. And if that isn't daring enough, actual cybercrime takes centerstage as super hacker Kevin Mitnick goes to prison, while prankster Zeke Shif declares "My kung fu is the best." It's a lot of technical mumbo jumbo and fancy digital doodads and whizzballs, with cameos from Bill Gates, The X-Files' Lone Gunmen, the show's first serious foray into financial advice, and no small discussion of early email accounts, web service providers, and the internet accessibility options of kids without home computers in 1994. IHOY: One Hoax Over the Line!

Episode 9 - Three Weddings, a Funeral, and Another Wedding

The wheel of chance is trotted out once again for this newest Dealer's Choice episode, wherein the winner selects the topic of discussion and the loser can suck eggs. This week - 1994's dreamiest and most acclaimed romantic comedy, Four Weddings and a Funeral! Sarah & Joe go into all facets of this famed British nuptial fest - from its inventive plot structure to establishing the Hugh Grant phenomena of the mid-nineties. Along the way, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Rowan Atkinson, and Richard Curtis are given their fair due, while director Mike Newell and ostensible star Andie MacDowell are questioned at some length. Was this truly the funniest movie of '94? Or should this be classified as a comedy at all? Horns are locked and the debate is lusty in this starry-eyed ninth episode of It Happened One Year!