During the Christmas break here are some of our favourite moments between Bobby and Red 1963 - Disgustingly rich Bobby and Red the emergency driver 1966 - Charles Whitman, known as the Texas Town Sniper kills 16 people from the top of a university clock tower 1986 - Boxer Mike Tyson becomes heavyweight champion of the world and Red's university dissertation on Muhammad Ali 1995 - Michael Jackson releases "Earth Song" and The Rednex hit single "Cotton Eyed Joe" are released 1977 - Roy Sullivan is...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 57
During the Christmas break here are some of our favourite moments with our guests 2001 - Ed Night - September 11th or 9/11 , The Invention of Wikipedia 1996 - Jayde Adams - 6ix9ine, Tom Holland and Jade's muted Twitter words 2006 - Tim Renkow - Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is killed by a stingray, what body parts would you trade with an animal? And Jody doesn't have a thyroid 1997 - Helen Bauer - The Death of Princess Diana 1979 - Alfie Brown - Mesrine, The Twinkie Defence, The Staircase, and Se...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 56
We present our recording at Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival in October where Ed Night joined us to travel back to 1829. Oxford University wins the first inter-university boat race, Robert Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police in London, the first modern police force, Lord William Bentinck pushes through a regulation declaring pushing self-immolation of widow on her husbands funeral pyre is guilty of culpable homicide, Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, claims to have received the Aaroni...
Dec 21, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 55
What a treat we have for you, one of the funniest episodes of the pod so far, helmed and lead by the masterful research of history undergraduate Red Richardson. We go to 1913 when Vincenzo Peruggia is arrested for stealing the Mona Lisa and has trouble selling it, failed artist Adolf Hitler moves from Vienna to Munich, low cost shopping giant Aldi is founded, Joseph Stalin is arrested by the Russian secret police and exiled to Siberia, the Romanian army cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan ...
Dec 14, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Well here we are, celebrating our first year and getting straight to business by transporting ourselves to 1895 when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator, W.E.B DuBois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D grin Harvard University, the world's first portable handheld electric drill is developed in Germany, and American frontier and murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. Sign up now to our Patreon for earl...
Dec 07, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Now that Red is an international star, sunning it up in Switzerland, and Bobby is lost somewhere on British country roads trying to get to Cornwall and Jody is moonlighting editing other people's podcasts, we have dug into the vault to find another live show from Edinburgh for you to enjoy. We go to 2005, when the first person survives rabies, Prince Charles and Camilla get married, Rodney Marsh is fired Sky Sports, Saddam Hussein is put on trial and hanged, Hunter S Thompson and Richard Pryor d...
Nov 30, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 52
This week we go to 2011, a difficult year for dictators, where Prince William Kate Middleton get married, Gaddafi is killed, 9/11 mastermind and Taliban and Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is hunted down killed in Pakistan, and Kim-Jon Il dies. Also Red is looking forward to filming his special in a couple of weeks and we get into a deep discussion about Pete Davidson. Red is about to film his on December 2nd - Get your tickets here - http://www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/2543 Watch Bobby...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Content Warning: This episode contains either some new legendary argumentative moments on the podcast or very probably the stupidest. We go to 1856, where Scottish-Australian James Harrison invents the fridge, American mercenary takes control of Nicaragua, pre-human remains are found in Neanderthal Valley in Prussia, and the Battle of Black Jack, antislavery forces, led by John Brown, defeat proslavery forces in Bleeding Kansas. Also Bobby has been experiencing incontinence, and what's the diffe...
Nov 16, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 50
It's 2008, Bobby's recovering from the flu and Red's so excited about doing his research for the year, he dives in immediately, with the origin of phrases such as mansplain, burner phone and fat shame, Bobby's Canadian cousin Justin Bieber is signed to Def Jam records, a fire Universal Studios Hollywood lose 175,000 master tapes tapes to over 700 artists music including Nirvana, Chuck Berry, Eminem, Otis Redding. "Dad of the Year" Josef Fritzl is discovered to have been keeping his daughter host...
Nov 09, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 49
We investigate one of the most special times of year, we replace the time machine with a broom that travels into metaphysical ideas and concepts, where did the concept and origins of Halloween come from, it's originally being known as Cabbage Night, in Alabama it is illegal to dress in a nun or priest costume, the phobia of halloween has an unusual name and we celebrate the birthday of Saturday Night Live star and Adam Sandler movie's friend, Rob Schneider. Also Bobby is releasing his special on...
Nov 02, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 48
We've been building up to this year, and Red Richardson brings the research whilst also taking every extreme ideological position possible and offending everyone that opposes him. Enzo Ferrari sets up the company that would develop the luxury Italian car Ferrari, notorious American gangster Al Capone is released from prison, later dying from syphilis, peace activist Gandhi sends a letter to his friend Adolf Hitler, World War 2 begins but who was the first soldier killed and was it friendly fire,...
Oct 26, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 47
It's a well researched episode by Bobby this week, as 1970 has piqued his attention. Bobby shares his love with us for the comedy trio The Stooges, when Larry Fine suffered a debilitating career ending stroke, we get a taste of Bobby's Spotify playlist featuring forgotten folk musician Charles Manson, Make America Great Again founder Donald Trump's third wife Melania is born, drilling on the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in Russia, a man eating tiger kills 48 people in New Delhi, India, and Jap...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 2 min
We have traveled back to 1872 to be the first ones to solve the mystery of the Mary Celeste ship that was discovered with no crew aboard but everything still in tact, Suffragist Susan B Anthony votes for the first time, Monet paints the first Impressionist painting, geologist Clarence King reveals the diamond hoax, and the Tichborne case is decided in London against claimant Arthur Orton. Also descendent of the Quakers, Red is learning how to make friends and Bobby is trying to figure out who or...
Oct 12, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 45
It's 1933, a quiet year, where the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party appoints a little known man called Adolf Hitler as their leader, and everyone lived happily ever after, meanwhile British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill makes his first speech warning of the dangers of German rearmament, Scientist and fellow genius Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany, the first alleged modern sighting of the Scottish Loch Ness Monster occurs, Franklin D. Roose...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 44
This week we time travel to 1966 when you might be aware was the year that England won the World Cup, but not just that, John Lennon says that the Beatles are more popular than Jesus, mass murderer Charles Whitman known as the Texas Town Sniper kills 16 people from the top of a university clock tower, builders begin work on the World Trade Center, and supermodel Cindy Crawford and actor Stephen Baldwin are both born. Also Bobby has become a TikTok star and Red is drawing lines on what countries ...
Sep 28, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 43
It's great to be back in the studio, in our own space back together again. We have a lot to catch up on after Edinburgh. Red shares his unvarnished views on his month at the Fringe Festival, and has done a lot of research for 1769. Napoleon Bonaparte was born and Red gives us a in-depth insight into the life of the great Corsican man, who gave us the idea of the Napoleon complex, his marriages, adventures in Egypt and Moscow and how to be a successful cuckold. Sign up now to our brand new Patreo...
Sep 21, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 42
We present another live recording from our Edinburgh shows. We had a pretty lively audience when we travel back to 1974, when the first recorded sextuplets in the world where all six babies survived, the first McDonalds in the UK opens in Woolwich, South East London, Lord Lucan disappears after the murder of his children's nanny, Hollywood star and 90s pin-up Leonardo DiCaprio is born along with English supermodel Kate Moss and the Rumble in the Jungle takes place in Zaire where Muhammad Ali kno...
Sep 14, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 41
A live recording from Edinburgh Fringe Festival last month when we time traveled back to 2013 with our audience. We teach them history, including a meteor exploding over Chelyabinsk in Russia, a 3-D printer creates the first lab grown ear out of collagen, Pope Benedict XVI resigns, and China launches an uncrewed rocket to the moon. Take part at home in the quiz at the end where an audience member has a chance to win £25,000 by being more of a genius than Bobby and Red. Also Red had a bad gig the...
Sep 07, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Another week with a new Best Of Red and Bobby as everyone comes back from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and into normal life again. Clips featured are from 1989- Hello Redophiles and another e-scooter incident 1760- Lightning strikes at Portsmouth 1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, and bronze doors and autobiographies, and The Mary Rose sinks 2010 - The Mary Rose Museum fight, Australian Porn restrictions 1977 - The New York City Blackout and Red's shooting scare Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Continuing a short hiatus until after Edinburgh Fringe Festival we have another Best Of, featuring some of our favourite, funny moments with some of guests on the show so far. 1990- Rosie Jones. - Bobbys awful intro, Why Rosie’s number a one fan of our podcast, Don’t drop baby Rosie. 1912 - Fin Taylor - Alan Turing was born. Pardoned by Gordon brown, who will we pardon in the future 1991 - Jamali Maddix - Ukraine Nationalists, Postal Spree and the Chicken Shop Man 1959 - Harriet Kemsley - Invent...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 38
With Bobby & Red both performing in Edinburgh this month, we have put together this best of episode, featuring some of their funniest moments. 1547 - Francis I of France and his sons. 1892 - Dr Bobby, Bobby's vaccination ideas and Bobby's Poker doctor. 1848 - Red is robbed of his e-scooter & Phineas Gauge gets a rod through his head 1929 - Red gets the year wrong Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic 1760 - IQ Results, the invention of Rollerskates 1963 - Kidnapping Justin Bieber 1989 -...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 37
We get in the time machine for another Red Richardson researched special to 2009 this week. A year that sees Michael Jackson, the King of Pop and other things, die, along with Kill Bill star, David Carradine and celebrity chef, Keith Floyd, the Rupert Murdoch owned News of the World newspaper reports on Prince Harry using racist slurs whilst serving in the British Army, a whistleblower reveals the MPs expenses scandals in the Houses of Parliament, and BNP leader and celebrity racist, Nick Griffi...
Aug 10, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 36
The boys are back in town. Our first episode back in the studio with everybody present who should be there, Red, Bobby and Jody. We hear about Bobby going to Canada, which Red has never been to, and Jody went up the One World Trade Center, which Red would never do. More importantly we travel back to 1957, for an episode researched by Bobby Mair, a year when the Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electronic watch in the world, suspected English serial killer, Dr John Bodkin Adams is foun...
Aug 03, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 35
We are going back to 2016 and who better than to accompany us than the brilliantly funny comedian and Twitter sensation Rosie Holt, as we see Joaquin Guzman, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker escape and be continually recaptured from maximum security prisons in Mexico, TV reality star Donald Trump wins the U.S. Presidency, the last video VHS tape recorder is made by Japanese makers Funai, a little known trade policy known as Brexit is voted by the British public, Pokem...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Rosie Jones storms her way onto the podcast and Bobby and Red get in the time machine to take her back to the year she was born, 1990. Aside from being the year of birth of our biggest fan, 1990 also saw the trial of Joseph Hazelwood, the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, supertanker, in Alaska, who was accused of negligence that resulted in America's second worst oil spill and whose name became a national joke, the first McDonald's opens in Moscow, Russia after 8 months of construction, and a...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 33
It's the Red Richardson show this week and he has with him, his very funny friend movie star Jayde Adams to make sense of the world according to 1996 whilst Bobby has some explaining to do. Back in the time machine, and Michael Jackson has married Elvis's daughter Lisa-Marie Presley, rapper and hip-hop star Tupac Shakur is shot and killed, the Deep Blue computer beats Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the most popular toy of the year is Buzz Lightyear from the Disney Pixar Toy Story film, there...
Jul 13, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 32
It is 1971 this week, a year which sees American daredevil Evil Knievel setting a world record by jumping 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California, Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to Peter Macari aka "Mr Brown" for an elaborate bomb hoax, and Juliane Koepcke is the only survivor of a plane crash, after falling out of the plane attached to her seat as a teenager and survived 11 days in the Amazon rainforest and Dick of The Year Robert Plant writes "Stairway to Heaven". Also Bobby shares a rema...
Jul 06, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Strap into the time machine and shotgun a comfortable seat as we are going all the way back almost 2000 years to AD 30, and what better guest to have join us than the the very funny and very nice but also argumentative Alasdair Beckett-King. A year primarily known for being when Jesus Christ of Nazareth was crucified, as well as either John the Baptist or Jon Batiste being beheaded, and "Dick of the Year" Caligula escapes exile and death along with his siblings after his mother is arrested. We a...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 30
We are back in the Time Machine and brought our very funny friend Alfie Brown with us when a tsunami in Nice, France killed 23 people, China introduces it's infamous one-child policy for families everywhere, the "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the UK, French police shoot gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris, Dan White is convicted of manslaughter rather than murder after using what became known as the "Twinkie Defence". Also a big day for everyone as Bobby l...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Possibly one of the most important significant years of the modern age and so very fitting that we have our very funny friend Ed Night to help us make sense of it all. 2001 brings with it a revolutionary website known as Wikipedia that has informed this podcast on more than one occasion, Richard Reid the "shoe bomber" forever changes aeroplane travel by trying to blow up a transatlantic with a bomb hidden in his shoe, the first artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools in the United States, ...
Jun 15, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 28
