It Happened One Year

1967 Episode 13 - Super Bowl I: Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City Chiefs

As another season of gridiron greatness starts, It Happened One Year is taking it all the way back to the beginning of the Super Bowl era! Sarah & Joe breakdown the circumstances behind the initial AFL-NFL Championship Game in January of 1967, the surprising popularity of the junior league orchestrating the merger, and the wild differences in game play from fifty-five years ago to today. Along the way, there's a new IHOY Hall of Famer inducted, a brief segway to mention the band We Were Promised Jetpacks, predictions for the upcoming NFL season, more Chicago Bears talk than is probably warranted, the hosts' undying hatred for Aaron Rodgers, and, obviously, the Super Bowl Shuffle. It Happened One Year is shufflin' on down, doing it for you!

1967 Episode 12 - The All-Time Greatest Celebrity Birthday - February 20th, 1967

Finding two or three famous and semi-famous people born on the exact same day isn't super difficult, if you do a little digging. But turning up fully eleven celebrities from the worlds of movies, music, sports, television, and modeling is basically unheard of - but that's where the 1967 research led us! February 20th is discussed for its position on the calendar, speculation of what was happening nine months prior, and how this near-dozen group might reflect on Pisces in general. We've got Olympians and centerfolds! NFL greats and Futurama cast members (plural)! We've got Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers and beloved '90s heartthrobs! We've got child performers and radio personalities! It's such an amazing bunch of coincidence as to almost make one believe a higher power had a hand in crafting today's episode, but come on, Sarah & Joe just got lucky with this one.

1967 Episode 11 - The Well Sung Games and Snacks and Inventions of ’67

The marketplace was changed forever by the advent of today's topic products, all introduced to the public in 1967! Sarah & Joe walk through the notable inventions and creations of the year, from the mundane but useful (handheld calculator) to the useful but waning (automated teller machine) to the fun party game/tool of the industrial prison complex (electronic breathalyzer). Along the way, landmark childhood staples like Lite Brite, Battleship, Skip-Bo, Gatorade, and Ho Hos get a look, alongside lengthy discussions about McDonald's and the Big Mac, St. Louis and the Gateway Arch, a truly unhinged commercial for Fiddle Faddle, and pleas for the Drake's company of baked goods to sponsor the podcast.

1967 Episode 10 - Raquel Welch’s Bikini Skydiving Thriller - Fathom!

Through the spy movie craze of the 1960s, some films were deemed more forgettable by the public at large than others, and so for every Goldfinger there were at least a half dozen knockoffs and cash-ins. However, few went with the dental hygienist turned scantily clad espionage skydiver except for 1967's Fathom! How Sarah & Joe happened across this epic of schlock is discussed, with plenty of love and shade thrown at the Movies! TV Network, Raquel Welch films in general, how the last two years may have made them stupider, the countries of Africa, how the '60s Batman connects to all this, and much more. Stick around 'til the very end for an incredibly dumb conversation wherein the hosts attempt to determine and/or gaslight each other regarding what a "thermometer" is. It's a new low in IHOY history!

1967 Episode 9 - Hair - The American Tribal-Love Rock Musical

Harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abound in this ninth foray into 1967, covering the legacy and impact of the groundbreaking hippie musical extravaganza, Hair! Sarah & Joe discuss the freewheeling nature of the show's composition, from its initial off-Broadway premiere in '67 to its triumphant run on Broadway and the West End to becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Much attention is paid to creators Gerome Ragni and James Rado, their other projects in subsequent years, the too-late film adaptation by Milos Forman in 1979, the massive controversies surrounding Hair virtually everywhere it played, and how the show influenced and changed musical theater from that point forward. 

1967 Episode 8 - A Threesies of Sports Legends

The show is consistent in its love of a good threesies, and #8 is no exception - as sporting greats Bubba Smith, Kathrine Switzer, and Evel Knieval have their 1967s examined! Sarah & Joe take us through the '67 NFL Draft and cover highlights from #1 pick Smith's careers as a footballer and an actor, then look at the Boston Marathon intrigue surrounding Switzer's attempt to run in disguise. Finally, the New Year's Eve Caesars Palace fountain jump by Knieval is discussed, with many stops along the way to talk Who's the Boss?, helicopter parenting, marathon rules, the Police Academy series, the dearth of daredevils in pop culture, various Halls of Fame, and, of course, Bubba Until it Hurts. The classics never go out of style!

1967 Episode 7 - The Secession of Winneconne, Wisconsin

What would happen if an American city decided it no longer wanted to be part of its assigned state? Could it just leave? Could it join up with a different state? Could it become its own nation?? That's (kind of) what happened in the tiny village of Winneconne in central Wisconsin, circa July of 1967! Sarah & Joe, having just returned from a brief visit to the cheese empire, delve into the wacky aspects of city secession, appointing a new cabinet, designing a national flag, and annexing nearby towns. Along the way, they discuss potentially leading the charge to have their building secede from the city of Chicago, which historical figure Sarah most resembles, and the differences between the village of Bainbridge, NY and the town of Bainbridge, NY. Sexy, exciting geography packed episode!

1967 Episode 6 - Elvis Presley’s Triple Feature

With the imminent release of Baz Luhrmann's big screen biopic, It Happened One Year checked the 1967 release schedule and found not one, not two, but three big movies starring the King of Rock 'n' Roll, and figured it was high time to give them a watch. They aren't Elvis's best films, they aren't his best known films, but they are all, in their own odd ways, fascinating hunk-a hunks of entertainment - Double Trouble, Easy Come Easy Go, and Clambake! With such luminary co-stars as Elsa Lanchester, Bill Bixby, Michael Murphy, Pat Harrington, Pat Priest, Will Hutchins, and Shelley Fabares, these films are long on talent, very long on musical numbers, and murky on plot! Listen as Sarah & Joe recount their Elvis connections, detail the highlights of visiting Graceland in Memphis, rate the films on a scale of one-to-five hip gyrations, and spotlight the most ludicrous tacked-on song in each production.

1967 Episode 5 - The First Live Global TV Event - June 25th’s Our World Special

Television and satellite broadcasting took a giant leap for mankind, and It Happened One Year is there! Sarah & Joe delve into the segments bizarre, fascinating, and deadly dull that comprise the intercontinental TV production Our World, airing June 25th, 1967! At the time (supposedly) the most viewed program in history, this BBC-led production featured live events from across the globe - most notably Japan, Australia, Mexico, Sweden, France, Germany, Canada, and the U.S. of A. From half-baked athletic competitions to behind-the-scenes filmmaking, from pedantic traffic reports to Saturn V rocket tests, from Leonard Bernstein to The Beatles, this slice of '67 documentary is equal parts technical achievement and slow-motion entertainment catastrophe. Discussion ranges through Russia's 11th hour bailing on the program to camera difficulties in Tunisia to Sarah getting songs stuck in her head to Joe's Andrew Cuomo impression. This is Our World!

1967 Episode 4 - The First Cryogenically Frozen Man!

It's science-fiction madness come to life in this fourth chilling episode of It Happened One Year's look at 1967! Sarah & Joe take a close examination at the business of freezing corpses with aims toward eventual reanimation, by way of the the story of the first human being to undergo this procedure - James Bedford! A harrowing tale of his body's journey across western American states and the optimists and charlatans involved unfolds in standard, jokey IHOY fashion. What other notables are currently in the fridge in Scottsdale, Arizona? And would the hosts be willing to take the subzero adventure themselves? All will be revealed!