A fun and freewheeling look at the many events big and small, famed and forgotten from a single calendar year
Episodes
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
What better to close out Season Two than with an historic, super-sized episode commemorating the dear departed of 1967! Sarah & Joe take an uncharacteristically deep dive into the many notables in film, music, sports, politics, writing, art, and society who vacated the premises in the subject year, with a list of icons including Vivien Leigh, Che Guevara, Otis Redding, Spencer Tracy, Dorothy Parker, Woody Guthrie, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone, Jayne Mansfield, the Apollo I astronauts, Rene Magritte, Jimmie Foxx, and many more! Pull up a chair and invite the neighbors over for a block party, because this is a long one, chock full of the facts and Speed references you've come to expect over IHOY's two season run!
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
Life may be a numbers game, but as that great American Ned Ryerson said, it's also "one big crap shoot, any-hoot." So how significant really is the fact that the 200 millionth American was born (probably) on November 20th, 1967? After an introduction by friend of the show and Visitors to Nova Scotia star Kristin Mann, Sarah & Joe dig deep into U.S. and World population, from the predictions made in '67 about where these numbers would be in 2000 and 2015, to where they might be headed in 2050, and why these guesses ended up so far off. Along the way, the hosts go into everything related to the debate, including contraception, abortion, Covid, sperm counts, obesity rates, microwave ovens, government assistance (or lack thereof) for parents and teachers, and the long soul-crushing darkness of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Monday May 08, 2023
Monday May 08, 2023
Sometimes the powers that be need to know of the public's general displeasure, so we take up our signs and we march! It Happened One Year's near-miss scripted episode morphed into this Branson, Missouri recorded dissection of the great Vietnam War protest that gripped Washington D.C. and the Pentagon in October of 1967, replete with discussions of the Yippies, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and how comatose inducing Mexican drug trips brought about this historic event! Was the Pentagon really levitated off the ground? Did public opinion of the war change after this march? Was the Pentagon exorcised and demystified from that day forward? Sarah & Joe getting political can be a bit unhinged, but they manage to keep it together, talking the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Pigasus, Peter, Paul, & Mary, International Women's Day, and much more.
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
It's an epic throwdown for the ages as It Happened One Year wanders into one of the great debates in music history! Sarah & Joe don't exactly see eye-to-eye on these bands' particular outputs in 1967, but with The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request on the turntables, a heady, trippy time was bound to be had by all! After an introduction by friend of the show and Visitors to Nova Scotia star Shannon Hosey, the conversation ducks and weaves through favorite songs and albums from the bands, what The Who was up to in the Summer of Love, how the first text messages the hosts ever sent each other relate to this match-up, why The Doors have remained popular at all, who was the real king of Seattle grunge, and tries to answer the question - who best conquered this year of psychedelic music?
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
There were a ton of newcomers to the entertainment industry in 1967, and It Happened One Year is there! After an introduction by friend of the show and ReconCinemation co-host Jon Deiner, Sarah & Joe unroll the landmark TV debuts, first albums, and inaugural feature film directing efforts coming out of '67 - covering a vast spectrum of the media universe, including The Flying Nun, The Producers, Surrealistic Pillow, Dragnet, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Who's That Knocking at My Door? and many more! Cameos abound from the likes of Gary Busey, Claude Debussy, the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Melvin Van Peebles, Ken Loach, and George of the Jungle, plus lots and lots of Mel Brooks talk.
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
In what will absolutely be the final time It Happened One Year covers the UFO sighting over Nova Scotia on October 4th, 1967, Sarah & Joe discuss the actual, known facts of the event, plus their own opinions about what this might have been. The Visitors to Nova Scotia's non-fiction percentage is guessed at, along with some random discussion of the film Women Talking and the most recent NFL season, as well as other theories and speculation that has swirled around the Shag Harbour incident in the decades since.
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Surprise road episode! Recorded in lovely Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sarah & Joe decide to tackle the NCAA University Division Tournament of 1967, culminating in UCLA's defeat of Dayton for the title! After an intro by friend of the show Dane Bower, the hosts go into their picks for the current men's bracket - and how that instantly went sideways - and the women's bracket (all in on Caitlin Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes!), plus an extensive look at the Bruins dynasty circa the late '60s, featuring John Wooden, Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and a discussion about the best athlete performances in major motion pictures. It's another trip to Sports Corner, IHOY-heads!
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
A military base is not the most welcoming of places for the masses, typically, but all the curious populace nonetheless arrives with one thing on their minds - who or what is out in that harbor? All questions are answered and secrets revealed as the events of Shag Harbour and Shelburne come to a close...
It Happened One Year presents a fully scripted, full-cast audio dramatization of the UFO sighting on October 4th, 1967 and its aftermath!
The Visitors to Nova Scotia Cast
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
As the anxiety continues to ratchet up in Shag Harbour, various nefarious schemes enter the mix, with people aiming to capitalize on the newfound notoriety of the area or leverage their positions of power for personal gain. Meanwhile, rumors breakout of new sightings, and the quest for cosmic truth nears its conclusion...
It Happened One Year presents a fully scripted, full-cast audio dramatization of the UFO sighting on October 4th, 1967 and its aftermath - Will the divers pull anything up from the water? Who can really be trusted here? Why would a UFO museum need a crematorium?
Episode Four Cast
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
As the media descends on the tiny fishing village of Shag Harbour, as well as a number of other eyewitnesses to the big event of two days prior, the mayor and the police attempt to allay fears, positing a story explaining the mysterious crash that may or may not involve tourists from the cosmos...
It Happened One Year presents a fully scripted, full-cast audio dramatization of the UFO sighting on October 4th, 1967 and its aftermath - Can the reporters be thrown off the scent of cover-up? Will anything be pulled up from the sea floor? And why did this colonel make a trip all the way down to Barrington?
Episode Three Cast