Episodes
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
1984 Episode 25 - This is Jeopardy!
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Back-to-back game show episodes?! Well, sort of! Recorded an absurdly long time ago, Sarah & Joe go into all things Jeopardy - from the original Art Fleming show straight through to this year's wild three-rounded Celebrity Jeopardy, with all the Ken Jennings and Becky Lynch trivia along the way! What is the eerie fate that befell both longtime show hosts? How does Pluto offering a Jeopardy channel affect the IHOY hosts' lives? What other programs did Alex Trebek helm before (and during) his record setting run reading the answers? Also - as this show was recorded on a significant commemorative holiday for the hosts - Sarah & Joe take a weird trip down memory lane, with many references to people and places you've never heard of. Enjoy!
Saturday Jun 08, 2024
Big Bucks, No Whammies
Saturday Jun 08, 2024
Saturday Jun 08, 2024
Serial get-rich-quick fanatic Michael Larson was almost out of schemes to earn the elusive buck. Bills piling up, kids needing school clothes, ice cream truck season ending - obstacles were plentiful. So when he filled the living room with a dozen television sets to allow the universe to deliver his next great idea for success, the family was understandably skeptical. But the events that followed would go down in television history, as Larson hopped a bus to Los Angeles and tackled the newest game show sensation - Press Your Luck...
It Happened One Year presents its fourth fully scripted, full cast episode, covering the incredible story of Larson and family, the nail-biting recording session for the famed contest, and its manic aftermath. Come along and commemorate the fortieth anniversary of this historic event, in vintage IHOY style!
Written by Nick Perfetto
Directed by Joe Cetta
Cast
Teresa Harrington - Alex Ferrer
Michael Larson - Nick Perfetto
Bill Carruthers - David Munchak
Bobbi Richmond - Lana Cooper
Marge Brockman - Sarah
Agent Davis - Becky Schmidt
Agent Richie - Joe
Jim - Dave Gardon
Judy - Clare Kalemba
Peter Tomarken - Brett Benge
Darlene - Lauren Morgan
Paul - Jon Deiner
Howard E. Cheetum - John Kozempel
Pam - Kristen Gaydos
Phil - Kevin Donlin
Nancy - Sara Stefanski
Adrienne - Sarah Dichkewich
Ed Jenkins - Duke Tumbleweed
Janie Lester - Eileen Linnabery
Jennifer - Abigail Perfetto
Julie - Susie Cetta
Eugene - Danielle Harris
Additional Voices - Brack Reed, Jerron
DJ Frankie Wango - Scott Fata
Friday May 31, 2024
1984 Episode 23 - Baby the Parrot and Sandy the Lobster
Friday May 31, 2024
Friday May 31, 2024
1984 wasn't just the Presidential election and the Olympics and bustin' ghosts - there were also amazing tales of crimefighting parrots and the raffle for a century-old lobster, where nothing turns out the way you'd expect! This landmark It Happened One Year episode sees Sarah & Joe finally tackle the existence of God, while batting around some of the greatest animal stories in podcast history. And afterward - stick around for a preview of the new scripted episode - Big Bucks, No Whammies - coming June 8th!
Friday May 24, 2024
1984 Episode 22 - Ghostbusters: The Franchise That Won't Die
Friday May 24, 2024
Friday May 24, 2024
What is left to say about Ghostbusters that hasn't already been said? Sarah & Joe take a swing at it in this spooky It Happened One Year entry! They cover their personal relationships with the property in the 1980s, the reemergence of the franchise in the past decade, and how it compares to other film series where the first film was a big commercial and critical success, and then just coasted forever after. Along the way they're talking casting in the original film, the different versions of that script, how the 2016 reboot could've worked better, what other '80s films benefited from its huge success, and much more! Then - stick around to the end for a preview of the new scripted episode - Big Bucks, No Whammies - coming June 8th!
Wednesday May 22, 2024
Coming Soon - Big Bucks, No Whammies!
Wednesday May 22, 2024
Wednesday May 22, 2024
Michael Larson was an out-of-work ice cream truck driver, struggling to make ends meet for his young family (and multiple ex-wives) in Lebanon, Ohio. His penchant for get-rich-quick schemes caused few to take him seriously, and so when he announced he was going on a game show, no one thought much of it. But his subsequent run on CBS's Press Your Luck in 1984 would go down in television history. It Happened One Year presents its fourth fully scripted audio dramedy, this time written by great friend of the show Nick Perfetto, and featuring dozens of performers from the Mighty IHOY Players! Listen to the trailer now, and tune back in for the whole shebang on June 8th!
Friday May 10, 2024
1984 Episode 21 - Sisters are Doing It For the First Time!
Friday May 10, 2024
Friday May 10, 2024
Strap in, folks! It Happened One Year commemorates recording on International Women's Day with tales of exploration, politics, murder, and music, with some truly unhinged interludes along the way! Listen as Sarah & Joe wander off into the pointlessness of space walks! Gasp at Sarah's suggested names for this episode, and whether this sets feminism back decades in the doing! Marvel at the hosts' high school superlatives! Experience possibly the greatest song ever written about one's own grandfather being poisoned!
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
In the Wake of O.J. Simpson and 1994
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
The most unexpected of bonus episodes arrives here in the midst of season three, as It Happened One Year harkens back to its early days in the form of finally discussing murderer and Heisman winner O.J. Simpson! Despite putting out shows dealing with Kato Kaelin, F. Lee Bailey, Naked Gun 33 1/3, and Al Cowlings (the inaugural episode of the entire show), Sarah & Joe never solely concentrated on the villain at the center of the whole event, and on the occasion of his death it felt high time to do just that. And boy does it get deep - not just opinions about the trial and the verdict, but America '94 versus America today, the early days of the show and the pandemic, the utter failure of the justice system then and now, cancel culture, the Me Too era, redemption, vengeance, Rodney King, George Floyd, Marcia Clark's hairstyles, the Dancing Itos, and more.
Monday Apr 08, 2024
1984 Episode 20 - Love & Dissolution
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
It's time for another round of everyone's favorite alcove in the It Happened One Year complex of topics - The Love Corner! Sarah & Joe run down the list of marriages and divorces from 1984, from the titans of politics to the seedy philanderers of Tinseltown, with much classic digressing along the way. Hear tales of the hosts encountering many of today's subjects in the various movie theaters, comedy clubs, and street corners they frequent! Listen as they cannot recall which band sang what song and debate who exactly DeBarge is! Witness cameos from the likes of G.E. Smith, Pierre Trudeau, Mary Poppins, Apollo Creed, Paul Thomas Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, UHF, and many more! Love goes where my rosemary grows this week on the big show!
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
1984 Episode 19 - All of Me, the Steve Martin/Lily Tomlin/Carl Reiner Classic
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
The fourth and final pairing of Steve Martin and Carl Reiner created arguably their best movie, in the form of 1984's All of Me, and It Happened One Year is there to discuss! Sarah & Joe breakdown their memories of the star's films, why this movie may not be resonating down through the ages like some of their other projects, the somewhat odd circumstances of seeing both of these legends in person, and much more, including cameos from show favorite Speed, making friends on the internet, The X-Files, Louise Fletcher's parents, and Sarah forgetting how we typically wrap up an episode.
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
1984 Episode 18 - Theoretically, There Could Be Anything Out There
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
In the midst of all the pop culture items crowding the subject year, the hosts managed to dust off the rarely-used science corner and see what - theoretically - was taking place in outer space in 1984! Two main topics comprise most of Sarah & Joe's stumbling through the cosmos - the Nemesis Star/Death Star theory and the SETI project, both concocted to take wild swings at what might be going on in the extraterrestrial plain!