The Year Is

As soon as Jody has finally finished setting up the studio to record we can take you back to 1866, suggested by Red and researched by Bobby so a real team effort. A year that sees the SS Great Eastern completes laying the transatlantic telegraph cable between Ireland and Newfoundland, Paraguay defends Curupayty against the Paraguayan War, whilst managing to kill more than 5,000 of their opponents whilst only suffering 50 casualties, Alfred Nobel invents dynamite and then is so ashamed of himself and his legacy he creates the global peace prize, the first daylight bank robbery in peacetime United States history takes place in Missouri, and the Dick of the Year is a famine in Finland that arguably wouldn't have occurred if Red Richardson had been present to advise them a simple way out of it.

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Our BAFTA-Nominated friend, the very funny Tim Renkow helps us work out the meaning of 2006, when the crocodile hunter Steve Irwin was unexpectedly killed by a stingray, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed, 140 character social media giant, Twitter was created by someone, and a Jackson Pollock painting was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction to music mogul David Geffen - much to art critic Red Richardson's disapproval. Also we learn what body parts Bobby, Red and Tim would trade with an animal, Red learns the ancient martial art of Crab Manga and Tim teaches us what a wank battle as well as some basic biology that Bobby and Red question.

Check out Tim's hilarious BBC BAFTA-Nominated "Jerk" on BBC iPlayer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0716m4x

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The King is back. Red Richardson returns and brings with him knowledge of a bygone era in 1969, when the legendary Summer of '69 Woodstock Festival takes place, and Rupert Murdoch buys the largest selling British Sunday phone hacking newspaper The News of The World. Also we learn a lot about how much time Red spent on his honeymoon speaking to Bobby, as well as Death Island, and play a very exciting game of Shag, Marry, Kill.

Bobby and Red had a lot to catch up on so this is a two parter, and you can catch part 2 on our Patreon later this week, where we discuss John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Bed-In" for peace, the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America, and members of the Charles Manson family cult kill Sharon Tate, and four friends.

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It's 1888 and brilliant comedian Luke Chilton joins Bobby for a kombucha fuelled first 2 part episode. We learn that 1888 is the year with the longest Roman numerals, women's rights activist Susan B Anthony votes illegally, the National Geographic is founded, and the earliest evidence of a death and injury from a meteorite is discovered in Iraq, and artist Vincent Van Gogh chops off part of his ear. We hear about Bobby's early job at a nightmare Indian restaurant in Canada, and we also learn more about Luke Chilton's life than he probably anticipated he would share on a podcast.

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Whilst Red Richardson is living it up making friends with fellow Redophiles he finds in Thailand we welcome the very funny Harriet Kemsley whose being held against her will by Bobby to host the pod with him on Red's behalf. 1959 sees the invention of legendary children's doll and cultural sex symbol Barbie, a bunch of ski hikers mysteriously dying, Russia holds it's first census in 14 years after the second World War, Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens die in a plane crash, the first colour tv programme Bonanza is broadcast, and "Dick Of The Year" Japanese pilot flies a plane into a school.

Buy tickets to Harriet Kemsley's brilliant brand new UK tour "Honeysuckle Island" beginning in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August and across the rest of the country till December - https://harrietkemsley.com/

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Another remote episode so that the podcast can be an accessory to enabling a known Redophile to go and live it up in Thailand. Thanks to a suggestion from Kelly we have gone to 1973 when boxer George Foreman floors Joe Frazier to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World and then go on to be the king of celebrity endorsements with the George Foreman Grill / Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine, The Godfather wins Best Picture at the Oscars, O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills becomes the first running back in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in pro football season and afterwards is never heard of again, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces a peace accord has been reached in the Vietnam War, and Dick of the Year King Mohammad Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his own cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.

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It's 1938 and we are doing our first remote episode over the internet as Bobby's studio is a breeding ground for coronavirus and Red is terrified it's going to ruin his 6th attempt to go to Thailand since the pandemic. To help us we have the brilliant and young comedian Finlay Christie who despite being 22 years old we find out has been doing comedy for as long as Bobby has. In 1938 however, Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, arrives in London, the minimum wage is established in the USA, the first Beano comic is released, gas masks are issued to the British population, Howard Hughes completes a 91 hour plane flight around the world, and politician John Prescott is born. Also the Dick of the Year for the very first time is someone on the pod!

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It's our 20th episode and so we are celebrating the birth of the original Redophile, Red Richardson. We also talk about the first commercial dial-up Internet connection in North America being made by The World STD, Ice Cube's gangster rap group NWA release their seminal album "Straight Outta Compton", the Menendez Brothers, Erik & Lyle kill their parents and are sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, David Hasselhoff performs his music on the Berlin Wall and the last golden toad becomes extinct in Costa Rica. Also Red continues having more e-scooter adventures whilst solving Tupac's murder and Bobby has a new Netflix show idea and is threatening to add more bonus items to the £25 Patreon tier.

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The Year Is 1848, the year of the con artist! The Fox sisters, two teenagers inadvertently start Spiritualism by getting paid pretending they could speak to dead people, the California Gold Rush encourages people from across America including the Trump family trying to outdo each other to find the gold when they could have just been selling shovels! Phineas Gage is a medical miracle somehow surviving a large iron rod being driven completely through his head, Gustave Caillebout a friend of Monet, is painting art with his fellow Impressionists and "Dick of The Year" Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels. Also hear about Bobby's experience inadvertently working for a very talented con artist in Canada and Red's adventures on his e-scooter ends up with him having to make a long distance call to California after being conned by some teenagers.

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It's 1900 and thankfully the brilliant Sarah Keyworth is here with us to make sense of a busy year, as all the research was left to the brain of notorious historian Red Richardson. The radical Carrie Nation is attacking pubs with hatchets, the Central Line on the London Underground opens, part of Stonehenge mysteriously falls off, Louis "Lunch" Lassen invents the hamburger, the Queen Mother is born and the historic second ever Olympics games might have happened. Also hear about Bobby's experience in a sexless love triangle and Red and Sarah reminisce about their days looking after school children as responsible teacher's assistants.

Go and see Sarah Keyworth at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in the Pleasance Courtyard, Cabaret Bar at 5.40pm.

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