The Year Is 1848

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04/10/22 • 81 min

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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The Year Is 1900 with Sarah Keyworth

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.

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The Year Is 1989 - Are You A Redophile?

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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