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Host Bobby Ruiz is a long time Whittier resident and self proclaimed foodie. This podcast focuses on the city of Whittier, California giving you a locals prospective on the happenings in the city. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mywhittier/support
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The Year Is

Bobby Mair & Red Richardson

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A new comedy podcast from comedians Bobby Mair and Red Richardson Every episode we travel back to a different year in history and talk about the weirdest, most interesting and sometimes horrifying events that year. New Eps every Wednesday. If you enjoy then hit SUBSCRIBE PLEASE! If you want to watch The Year is full eps are on Youtube. Sign up to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/theyearispod for exclusive episodes, early access, as well as live stream episodes and discounts to live sho ...
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Follow Us Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy Whittier Podcast: iTunes, Spotify, iheartradio & www.anchor.fm/mywhittier Please visit ourwebsite: ⁠www.mywhittier.com⁠ this is headquarters for us with direct links to everything wedo. You can also message us directly from there. Visit our Pop Up 10046 Sc…
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Follow Us Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy Whittier Podcast: iTunes, Spotify, iheartradio & www.anchor.fm/mywhittier Please visit ourwebsite: ⁠www.mywhittier.com⁠ this is headquarters for us with direct links to everything wedo. You can also message us directly from there. Visit our Pop Up 10046 Sc…
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Follow Us Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy Whittier Podcast: iTunes, Spotify, iheartradio & www.anchor.fm/mywhittier Please visit ourwebsite: ⁠www.mywhittier.com⁠ this is headquarters for us with direct links to everything wedo. You can also message us directly from there. Visit our Pop Up 10046 Sc…
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Follow Us Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy Whittier Podcast: iTunes, Spotify, iheartradio & www.anchor.fm/mywhittier Please visit ourwebsite: ⁠www.mywhittier.com⁠ this is headquarters for us with direct links to everything wedo. You can also message us directly from there. Visit our Pop Up 10046 Sc…
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Follow Us Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy Whittier Podcast: iTunes, Spotify, iheartradio & www.anchor.fm/mywhittier Please visit ourwebsite: ⁠www.mywhittier.com⁠ this is headquarters for us with direct links to everything wedo. You can also message us directly from there. Visit our Pop Up 10046 Sc…
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Follow Us Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy Whittier Podcast: iTunes, Spotify, iheartradio & www.anchor.fm/mywhittier Please visit ourwebsite: ⁠www.mywhittier.com⁠ this is headquarters for us with direct links to everything wedo. You can also message us directly from there. Visit our Pop Up 10046 Sc…
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Today I sat down with Esther the Psychic Medium to discuss what it is like to speak to someone in the afterlife. She gives us some insight on what a psychic medium does and sees. Very interesting. We also talk about a ton of events happening here in the city of Whittier. i hope you enjoy this weeks episode. Follow Us Facebook, Instagram Subscribe t…
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Touching base with happenings and events going on here in Whittier, California Follow Us Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy Whittier Podcast: iTunes, Spotify, iheartradio & www.anchor.fm/mywhittier Please visit ourwebsite: ⁠www.mywhittier.com⁠ this is headquarters for us with direct links to everythi…
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On todays podcast I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with local business owner ricky Magana. Ricky owns Rah House Vintage clothing shop in Uptown Whittier. He specializes in selling vintage tshirts. He is celebrating his three year anniversarry here in Whittier. This is quite an accomplishment considering he had never had a brick and morter…
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Today I had the opportunity to sit down with Eric Hauser. He is the owner of Anytime Promotions. He specializes in Comic Book Artist and Event Promotions. Eric has some big news he wanted to share with the city of Whittier. He is putting together Whittier's first Comic Fest here in town. He gave us all of the details on this great event happening r…
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Today I had a chance to sit down with Ryan Banfield. Ryan is the owner and creator of the Haunted Rose Haunted Attraction. He gave us all of the details on the upcoming haunt that he is curating at the Whittier Museum. The Attraction will take place at the Whittier Museum on October 21st & 22nd also on the 28th & 29th tickets are $10 Head over to #…
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Today I had the good fortune to sit down and talk with William Ha. William is a lawyer that specializes with estate planning. There are many layers to estate planning and it can be a very tricky. Willam sat down with me to shed some light on this subject. It was extremley informative and it really helped make sense of this complicated subject. If y…
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Today we discuss the news and happenings here in Whittier, California. Follow Us Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy Whittier Podcast: iTunes, Spotify, iheartradio & www.anchor.fm/mywhittier Please visit ourwebsite: ⁠www.mywhittier.com⁠ this is headquarters for us with direct links to everything wedo.…
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On this weeks episode we talk about the happening here in Whittier, California. We discuss the rebranding of a beloved restaurant in the city and give our condolences to the Vasquez family who tragically lost their daughter here in Whittier over the weekend. If you have time please tune in to the pod.Follow Us Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYou…
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The Time Machine has been fitted with the ability to go forward in time for our final episode, after we catch up with how everyone has been for the past 5 weeks, we travel ahead 30 years and Red reveals what the future has in store for Bobby, Red and Jody, and assess what we have all learnt and taken from our experience of doing the podcast. Get a …
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Red is still in a Dubai Prison at the time of recording so our much anticipated guest Sean McLoughlin makes a 40 minute walk to chat with Bobby about the first few months of 2020. Flash floods struck Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 66 people in a worst flooding in over a decade, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iranian forces s…
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Today we talk about happenings in Whittier, California. This week there was a Whittier officer shot, we discuss. We also tried two local restaurants that I really like. There are some great events coming up as well. I hope you have time to listen.Follow our Socials Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy …
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Red is imprisoned in a Dubai prison so the brilliant Radu Isac steps in to guest host and joins Bobby to break down an important year for Radu's home country. By a speech in the Parliament of Romania by Mihail Kogălniceanu, the country declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire (recognized in 1878 after the end of the Romanian independence…
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Today I had the great pleasure to sit down with stacey corona and Jay Gill. These two are the owners of Unidos Community Events. These two have been in charge of running Whittier's Night Market in Uptown Whittier. The Night Market has been a huge success and these two are the reason why. I hope you will listen and enjoy this weeks podcast. Follow #…
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This is a very funny episode with the very funny and patient Micky Overman who is left alone with Red whilst Bobby is still away to make sense of a better world, before the world descended, the last year when everything was great, 2015. Musicians Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars recruit 11 writers to pen the sound of the summer "Uptown Funk", 100 people …
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Bobby is still on the run from Interpol, somewhere in the world, so Red sits down with the brilliant Phil Ellis for a deep dive of the most important things that happened in 1981 starting with the birth of very funny Edinburgh Award winning comedian, Phil Ellis, also the very first London Marathon happens and Mozart's Undiscovered Symphony is disco…
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Red is back and Bobby's gone away so our close friend, Sunil Patel, namesake of Bobby and Harriet's dog steps in to host with Red. The Time Machine is still out of action after we loaned it to OceanGate so we had to walk to 1998, when James Cameron's blockbuster film of the Titanic became the first film to gross $1 billion, California bans smoking …
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Our very funny friend and honorary Super Genius, Luke Chilton joins Bobby for a deep historical dive of the year 1817 whilst Red is on holiday. An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina, to liberate Chile and then Peru. German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Lauf…
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Explorer Red Richardson takes us to the depths of 1935 but not before some chat about the Titanic Titan Submersible that captured everyone's attention and imaginations this week. Of course the first thing that catches his attention is shark that vomited a murder victim's arm, driving tests become compulsory, Sonny Bono, Jerry Lee Lewis and Robert D…
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On this episode I fill you in on the return of Concerts in the Park here in Whittier. We also say goodbye to Oceanic Arts here in Whittier. and other local happenings. I hope you will listen and enjoy.Follow our Socials Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy Whittier Podcast: iTunes, Spotify, iheartradio…
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The Miami Cruiser Bobby Mair, whisks us to 1957, when The Soviet Union announces that Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg had died in a Soviet prison, a fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri, United States, killing 72 people, The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton, is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for poisoning …
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New podcast episode for June 9Follow our Socials Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy Whittier Podcast: iTunes, Spotify, iheartradio & anchor.fm/mywhittier Please visit ourwebsite: ⁠www.mywhittier.com⁠ this is headquarters for us with direct links to everything wedo. You can also message us directly fr…
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Eshaan Akbar eventually arrives after a big night out to join us for a historical tour of the year after he was born. In 1985, the fictional Australian town of Erinsborough is discovered, when television soap opera Neighbours begins and launches the careers of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth, and Guy Pierce, Michael Jac…
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We welcome our very funny friend Alex Haddow, and the man with the highest IQ in the world Bobby Mair takes her on a tour of the year she was born 1988. A year when the cargo ship Khan Sea deposits 4,000 tons of toxic waste in Haiti after wandering around the Atlantic for sixteen months. A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim, Austrian President …
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Today I had the opportunity to sit down with Haunted Whittier tour Guide Jacob Caputo. Jacob started the Whittier Ghost Tours in 2020 during covid. He thought it would be a great idea to allow people to get outside and get some much needed fresh air at the time. Listen to the interview to hear how he got started and how Whittier ranks amongst some …
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The brilliant and very funny and tolerant, Rob Mulholland joins us for one of our funniest episodes as historian Red Richardson takes us on a tour deep dive tour of 2002, a year when Eminem releases Lose Yourself and his biopic 8 Mile is released in cinemas, Afghanistan changes its name to the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, Ben Affleck …
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Renaissance man Bobby Mair takes us on his own personal tour of 1776, and introduces us to King Ekkathat of Thailand when the country is besieged by invaders from Burma, the Meermin Slave Mutiny when the captive Malagasy prisoners take the ship over, Mozart returns to Salzburg after a grand tour of Europe and Paper Entrepreneur, Henry Fourdrinier i…
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Red Richardson whisks us to the scene of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination, and the Winter Olympics that happened the same day, the founding of the Hells Angels Biker gang and introduces us to their founder Sonny Barger, the Australian cricket team set a record against England and the Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America radio. Also is Red the …
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This week Bobby has been watching Yellowstone so was inspired to take us to 1923 where he's mostly interested in natural disasters such as large hailstones killing 23 people in the Soviet Union, The Great Kanto Earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing more than 100,000 people, Mount Etna erupts in Italy making 60,000 homeless, Walter Wever,…
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On today show we are just talking local news and events. Follow our Socials Facebook, Instagram Subscribe to myYoutube Channel “MY WHITTIER TV” Listen to theMy Whittier Podcast: iTunes, Spotify, iheartradio & anchor.fm/mywhittier Please visit ourwebsite: ⁠www.mywhittier.com⁠ this is headquarters for us with direct links to everything wedo. You can …
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Esteemable historian Red Richardson escorts us on a personalised excursion to 1956, when the most important things that happened were firstly the invention of the snooze alarm, Tom Hanks was born, British Rail gets rid of 3rd Class seats, Royal Navy Frogman Lionel Buster Crabb disappears, Violet Gibson dies, the woman who shot Mussolini in the nose…
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Today I had the opportunity to sit down with Ryan Banfield. Ryan is an event planning expert and he is in charge of this years Founders day Event happening at Central Park on May 13th 9am-1pm Ryan is most known for the Haunted Rose haunt that he put together at the Whittier Museum. His haunts have captured the attention of horror fans all over Sout…
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Robert Lindsay Mair transports us to 1893, when Rudolph Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine, in Belgium Adam Worth is sentenced to 7 years for robbery, and Caleb Bradham invents the recipe for what he calls "Brad's Drink" that would later go on to become known as the brand Pepsi. Also a Putin War Fanatic is being scammed by hackers and h…
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Today I had the good fortune to sit down and talk with Aaron Melendrez owner of Uptown Provisions. He talked and reflected on his past 18 months as the owner and head chef of Uptown provisions. Aaron has many projects going on here in Whittier and he is always expressing his creativity in ways Whittier hasn't seen before. He is also focused on impr…
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This week historian Red Richardson takes us to 1992, where the first thing that piques his interest is the Sydney River McDonald's Murders in Nova Scotia, Canada, Home Alone 2 is released, Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" from the The Bodyguard is number one for 10 weeks, Colombia drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury p…
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Today I had the honor and privilege to interview food blogger extraordinaire Mexipapa. Mexipapa is internationally known and a social media sensation. It turns out Mexi has Whittier roots! So i jumped on the opportunity to sit down and speak with him about his amazing journey. I hope you will give it a listen it was a great interview. You can follo…
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Robert Mair has taken over controls of the time machine, to go to 1916, when Louis Enright claims he has a substitute for gasoline, Mary the Elephant is hanged, and shark attacks in Jersey Shore inspire the seminal film Jaws. Meanwhile back in the present day the heir of the Porsche dynasty has got a new girlfriend, what's the best war, and what do…
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Today we just recap the week that was and we talk with Brandy Rametta owner of Heart and Soul Yoga. She fills us in on a very important blood drive happening in Whittier and updating us on what she has going on. I also wanted to remind you that it is restaurant week this week. Make sure and get over to Uptown Whittier and show your favorite restaur…
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