It Happened One Year

"I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines." By way of the 25th/26th seasons, Sarah & Joe go into all things Saturday Night Live, NBC's variety show staple of the last half century! They discuss the pivotal transition the show went through during 2000, as what you'd recognize as modern SNL was truly formed from the remnants of the last '90s season. Then the wide ranging breakdown gets into everything from personal favorite sketches, forgotten featured players, the Rotten Tomatoes survey of best moments, least favorite performers and characters, awards, ratings, controversies, and more! 

What better way to cover the grand game of the gridiron in the year 2000 than with guest host and longtime friend of the show/excellent Babe Ruth impersonator - David Munchak! Sarah & Joe chop up the amazing run of the Tennessee Titans in the playoffs of January 2000 with man-on-the-scene Munchak, and go on to cover the calendar year in full - from the draft to the fall season to the show's standard, ominous predictions for the football in the current year! Get over to DraftKings and place your bets!

We're doing it again! The fourth season of It Happened One Year kicks off the only way a season about the year 2000 could - a little Y2K madness! Listen as Sarah & Joe get deep into the panic and the preparation behind the computer bug that nearly tore the world apart, with all the media hysteria that led up to that fateful New Year's Eve, all the millennium celebrations, all the marketing tie-ins, and the various tidbits connected to the biggest year end party any of us will ever know!

We took a break, stretched our legs, and now it's time to do it again! The famed and forgotten await their turns on the big show! Starting later this month!

After twenty months, It Happened One Year is finally ringing down the curtain on 1984! Sarah & Joe are revisiting their season one roots by wrapping up the year with a rousing trivia contest, this time backed by the board game of 1984 product - Jeopardy! Listen as the hosts hack their way through decades-old questions and recount memories of this lengthy podcast season. 

It's that time again, folks - It Happened One Year has (nearly) reached the end of another season, and so it's time to again honor those lost in the subject year. Listen as Sarah & Joe discuss a wide range of celebrities who said goodbye some forty-one years ago now, including Richard Burton, Peter Lawford, Ethel Merman, Indira Gandhi, Truman Capote, Francois Truffaut, Jackie Wilson, Count Basie, James Mason, and many more!

And now, the conclusion! The police are after the culprits, the press has caught the oddball details, and the conflict is coming to a head!

 

Written & Directed by Joe Cetta

Cast

Michelle Auffrey/additional - Sarah Rusakiiwicz

Freddie Auffrey - Dane Bower

Karl Daigle - Brent Hutchins

Karen Daigle - Lana Cooper

Patrolman Anne Dandy - Kristin Mann

Sgt. Furrier - Bear Savo

Judge Membrino/additional - Joe Cetta

Vito Vitale/Bailiff/Jack/additional - David Munchak

Rocky Cannavino - Bill Randall

Radio Margaret - Jo-Elle Munchak

Officer Rodriguez - Krispy

Attorney Henshaw - Matthew Hinton

Michelle P. - Jennifer Nack

Michelle R./Atomic Scientists/additional - Angie Buonincontro

Courtroom Assistant Marsha - Dina Udomsak

Stenographer Alice - Shannon Hosey

Reporter Hildy - Matt Moran

Reporter Gail - Graceann Dorse

Reporter Howard/additional - The Batman

David Wittman/additional - Adam Carpenter

Irving R. Levine/additional - Dave Gardon

Additional voices - Danielle Harris, Michael Buonincontro, Jerron

Dead Milkmen - Bill Honchell

Dead Kennedys - Kate Langan

Heaven 17 - Reid Mosley

Should the government allow as Christian a symbol as a nativity on town property? Some crusading figures in Fitchburg, Massachusetts sure didn't think so. And the events that followed grew into a local scandal and international punchline in 1984, with the nativity in Monument Park the new epicenter for this ideological battle! Vandalism, kidnapping, chicken throwing, and social commentary abound, and now, It Happened One Year brings you the whole approximate tale with its sixth fully-scripted production!

 

Written & Directed by Joe Cetta

Cast

Michelle Auffrey/additional - Sarah Rusakiiwicz

Freddie Auffrey - Dane Bower

Karl Daigle - Brent Hutchins

Karen Daigle - Lana Cooper

Patrolman Anne Dandy - Kristin Mann

Sgt. Furrier - Bear Savo

Judge Membrino/additional - Joe Cetta

Vito Vitale/Bailiff/Jack/additional - David Munchak

Rocky Cannavino - Bill Randall

Radio Margaret - Jo-Elle Munchak

Officer Rodriguez - Krispy

Attorney Henshaw - Matthew Hinton

Michelle P. - Jennifer Nack

Michelle R./Atomic Scientists/additional - Angie Buonincontro

Courtroom Assistant Marsha - Dina Udomsak

Stenographer Alice - Shannon Hosey

Reporter Hildy - Matt Moran

Reporter Gail - Graceann Dorse

Reporter Howard/additional - The Batman

David Wittman/additional - Adam Carpenter

Irving R. Levine/additional - Dave Gardon

Additional voices - Danielle Harris, Michael Buonincontro, Jerron

Dead Milkmen - Bill Honchell

Dead Kennedys - Kate Langan

Heaven 17 - Reid Mosley

 

And tune back in next week for the conclusion!

A relic from the days of yore! It Happened One Year finally rolls out its episode about the New York mafia of the 1980s, recorded so long ago we still thought there was a chance Donald Trump might go to prison! Ah, those innocent days! Sarah & Joe - at the tail end of Memorial Day weekend, 2024 - tackle a variety of mob related antics from 1984 and the surrounding days, including Rudy Giuliani's RICO takedown of organized crime (a story which was very fresh in the news again nine months ago), Big Paul Castellano's murder, the rise of John Gotti, Joe Columbo's Italian American Civil Rights League, Joe Profaci's descendants, the extensive crimes of Roy DeMeo, The Godfather's Albert Ruddy, The Sopranos in pop culture, Russell Bufalino, mob tours in Chicago, and much more!

"We have Jesus. We will hang him unless the police leave five cases of Budweiser here January 1st." This was the anonymous ransom demand left at the scene of the nativity heist that made international news out of Fitchburg, Massachusetts in December of 1984. But the identity of the culprits and their true motives were a mystery to law enforcement and the rosary-clutching public. Was the objection on religious grounds? Was it someone with a vendetta against the Fitchburg police? Or was it all a light-hearted prank that got out of hand? The fourth and final scripted episode from It Happened One Year for 1984, Three Minutes to Midnight imagines the daring crimes and colorful figures involved in this semi-forgotten incident, brought to life by dozens of members from the Mighty IHOY Players! Tune back in March 14th & 21st for the epic, two-part tale!