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It Happened One Year
A fun and freewheeling look at the many events big and small, famed and forgotten from a single calendar year
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2000 Episode 23 - The Exciting Downballot 2000 Elections!
All the fun of Election Day, none of the chaotic Presidential contest from 2000! Removing Bush v. Gore, you still had an election slate full of the Democratic…
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2000 Episode 22 - The Most Surprising Book Release of the Millennium!
And we're back! And so surprising is this particular novel that we're not even going to reveal the title in the episode description! How's that for suspense?…
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The Last Viewmont Cinema Picture Show
The General Cinema at the Viewmont Mall - the original multiplex in Northeastern Pennsylvania - closed for good on January 17th, 2000, after 27 years in…
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2000 Episode 20 - Sports Championships, Famed and Forgotten!
Having already covered the NFL for this season last September, as well as the WNBA and golf along the way, It Happened One Year chose to tackle the rest of the…
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Coming Soon! The Last Viewmont Cinema Picture Show
Ushering in the era of the multi-plex in Northeast Pennsylvania, the General Cinema at the Viewmont Mall was the premiere moviegoing experience for a…
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2000 Episode 19 - Jesus: The Made-for-TV Miniseries Epic of the New Millennium
No bigger way to kick off another thousand years than to revisit the man behind all the calendar hijinks himself - Jesus, airing on CBS in May of 2000! From…
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2000 Episode 18 - Jackass: Quintessential American Entertainment on the 4th of July
Recorded amidst the booms and bombast of the country's yearly bacchanalia, Sarah & Joe took time away from the hot dogs to discuss the Jackass franchise, which…
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2000 Episode 17 - Future MLB MVP and Hall of Famer Munetaka Murakami?
Welcome back to full tilt speculative corner here on It Happened One Year! This episode clearly should've been released much sooner, given how much has…
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2000 Episode 16 - The International Space Station
On November 2nd, 2000, human beings signed the lease and got their mail forwarded to 250 miles above the Earth's surface, and they've been up there ever since!…
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2000 Episode 15 - Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown & Charles Schulz
The year 2000 ushered in the end of the 20th century, and the end of one of the most popular comic strips in history, as the world bid farewell to Peanuts and…
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2000 Episode 14 - The U.S. Open and the Self Destruction of Tiger Woods
Golf corner! A rare one here on It Happened One Year! Listen as Sarah & Joe hack their way through the legendary 2000 U.S. Open held in Pebble Beach, when…
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2000 Episode 13 - The Brief, Explosive Saga of Elian Gonzalez
The #1 news story of 2000 not directly connected to the presidential election was the harrowing journey and legal struggles of six year old Elian Gonzalez, and…
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2000 Episode 12 - The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the WNBA
Finally, professional women's basketball corner on It Happened One Year! Only hinted at before, the listeners are finally exposed to the full mania Sarah & Joe…
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2000 Episode 11 - Film Animation from the Year 2000!
Put down those crayons and close MS Paint - It Happened One Year is delving into the wildly inconsistent world of film animation in the Year 2000, and you are…
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2000 Episode 10 - November 3rd Again! FOX's FreakyLinks and E!'s Talk Soup
Back to the longtime favorite running series inside the show - It Happened One Year's exploration of television programming specifically on November 3rd of a…
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2000 Episode 9 - Dan Brown's Angels & Demons
Book corner is back on It Happened One Year! The best selling adult book from the year 2000 (discounting that fourth Harry Potter) has proved to be Angels &…
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2000 Episode 8 - Inventions, Innovations, and Glorious Human Achievement Corner!
The Year 2000 tried to beat us over our collective noggin with dazzling creations and technological wonderment, and It Happened One Year is there to get wrist…
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2000 Episode 7 - The Grinch vs. Ebony Scrooge!
It's Christmastime pretty baby once again, and It Happened One Year is all over it like tinsel on the holiday goose! The highest grossing domestic film of the…
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2000 Episode 6 - Cats - Now and Forever?
It's time once again for It Happened One Year to swerve into Broadway Corner, and this time they turn up a big fat hairball! That's right, Sarah & Joe are…
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2000 Episode 5 - Love & Milestones
It's that time again, folks! No, not just Thanksgiving - it's It Happened One Year's annual trip to the Love Corner, and romance abounds! Highlighted by the…
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2000 Episode 4 - Should You Choose to Accept It - Mission: Impossible II
"This is not Mission: Difficult, Mr. Hunt, it's Mission: Impossible." Tom Cruise returned as super spy Ethan Hunt in the top worldwide grossing film of 2000…
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2000 Episode 3 - Live From New York, It's the Actual 50th Anniversary of Saturday Night Live!
"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…
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2000 Episode 2 - Super Bowl XXXIV, The Music City Miracle, and More Millennial NFL!
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…
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2000 Episode 1 - The Dawn of the Millennium!
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…
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Coming Soon! It Happened One Year's Fourth Big Season!
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!
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1984 Episode 42 - Season Three Trivia Finale!
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…
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1984 Episode 41 - The '84 In Memoriam Segment *Cue Somber Applause*
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…
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Three Minutes to Midnight - Part Two
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…
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Three Minutes to Midnight - Part One
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…
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1984 Episode 38 - Wiseguys, Cannoli, and Manhattan Murders
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…
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Coming Soon! Three Minutes to Midnight
"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…
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1984 Episode 37 - Roger Moore's Mid-Bond Thriller, The Naked Face!
For the first and only time this season, It Happened One Year is doing a fabled Road Episode - this time the show's first from outside the country! Recorded…
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1984 Episode 36 - The Cabbage Patch Kids' First Christmas!
Having largely dealt with 1984's Christmas season last year, It Happened One Year had to dig deep to unearth the Xmas episode topic this time around, and what…
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1984 Episode 35 - The Great, Grand Epic of Amadeus
After trudging through many years of popcorn entertainment and bikini skydiving thrillers, It Happened One Year finally tackles highbrow, award-winning cinema…
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1984 Episode 34 - Mike Hammer, Airwolf, and the Entire CBS November 3rd Lineup!
The old standard returns! It Happened One Year is once again looking at what aired on November 3rd in 1984, checking in over a year since exploring ABC's…
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Ferraro! An Afterlife Cabaret
Geraldine Ferraro is dead. So are Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy, Pat Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson, and all the members of the Female United Politicians of…
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1984 Episode 32 - Decision '84! Reagan v. Mondale!
With Election Day right around the corner, It Happened One Year finally gets around this season to discussing the biggest news story of 1984 - the Presidential…
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Coming Soon - Ferraro! An Afterlife Cabaret
The first presidential ticket to feature a woman was formed in 1984, when Walter Mondale selected Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, and history was made!…
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1984 Episode 31 - Sunday in the Park with George
Despite being a classic of the American theater and winning a rare Pulitzer along the way, Sarah & Joe were largely unfamiliar with Sondheim's Sunday in the…
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1984 Episode 30 - The Muppets Take Manhattan
101 episodes and nearly three years later, It Happened One Year is finally talking Muppets again! Given the rousing success of Season One's breakdown of 1994's…
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1984 Episode 29 - The Games of the XXIII Olympiad! Los Angeles!
Despite the Paris games wrapping up, Olympic fever still grips It Happened One Year, as it's time to cover the glittering Los Angeles Summer Games of 1984!…
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1984 Episode 28 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Recorded on the day Joe Biden decided to drop out of the presidential race, Sarah & Joe take a pretty unhinged tact in attempting to discuss the cult classic…
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Biden's Gaffes and Trump's Survival at the End of the World
Originally intended as the wrap-up to Episode 27's discussion of 1984 and Joe Biden's floundering campaign, this follow-up recording went completely off the…
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1984 Episode 27 - George Orwell's 1984, Book & Movie!
It's true, the classic novel was published in 1949, but it's quite obviously relevant to this season, and to the modern day, and thus - It Happened One Year is…
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1984 Episode 26 - Hey Chicago, What Do You Say? The Cubs are Gonna Win Today
Just in time for the All-Star Game, baseball is back on the show! Prior to 2016, the one Chicago Cubs team that lived in local memory as the best chance to…
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1984 Episode 25 - This is Jeopardy!
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…
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Big Bucks, No Whammies
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…
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1984 Episode 23 - Baby the Parrot and Sandy the Lobster
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…
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1984 Episode 22 - Ghostbusters: The Franchise That Won't Die
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…
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Coming Soon - Big Bucks, No Whammies!
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…
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1984 Episode 21 - Sisters are Doing It For the First Time!
Strap in, folks! It Happened One Year commemorates recording on International Women's Day with tales of exploration, politics, murder, and music, with some…
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In the Wake of O.J. Simpson and 1994
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…
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1984 Episode 20 - Love & Dissolution
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…
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1984 Episode 19 - All of Me, the Steve Martin/Lily Tomlin/Carl Reiner Classic
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…
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1984 Episode 18 - Theoretically, There Could Be Anything Out There
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…
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1984 Episode 17 - The Timeless Question: Who's the Boss?
The Ballad of Tony & Angela, or is it The Odd Couple meets The Brady Bunch meets the horniest of Golden Girls? ABC's long-running family sitcom Who's the Boss?…
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1984 Episode 16 - The Macintosh Apple Super Bowl Commercial
"You'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984!" With this is awkward-ass phrase, the era of Super Bowl commercials fully began, and home computers took over the…
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1984 Episode 15 - The Hail Flutie
Just in time for the Super Bowl, It Happened One Year is heading back to the gridiron to talk a little football! Sarah & Joe very quickly discuss the Super…
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1984 Episode 14 - Hulk Hogan vs. The Iron Sheik for the WWF Title!
An obvious pick by Sarah for topics - when Hulk Hogan fully emerged as a huge pop culture icon in the decade at Madison Square Garden in January of 1984! Just…
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Jingle Hell: The Last Shopping Day Before Christmas
It's Christmas Eve 1984, and the battle scars from the prior year's Cabbage Patch carnage still sting for employees and customers alike. The utter mayhem of…