The Occasionalists Podcast

We are back with our 8th installment of the much heralded Fright Fest!
That's right, folks, it's October, and all things scary are at the top of mind here on the podcast. However, we are not abandoning the year format; we are talking about what scared us in 2006.
To kick off this month, we start with a little movie trivia about 2006 horror movies.

The space-time anomaly has provided us with a glimpse into the sports world of 2051.
Sad to say, it feels kind of the same as it ever was.

Our final episode of Sports in '61 looks at one of the most famous seasons in any sport, ever.
The season Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle went swing for swing in pursuit of the most hallowed record in baseball and likely, all of sports: Babe Ruth's single-season home run record.
In 1927, Babe Ruth slugged a truly astonishing 60 HRs, a record most considered impossible to break.
Until a former high school football star from North Dakota took down the Bambino's record all while fending off the vultures in the New York media, toxic fans, and the commissioner of baseball.

In our next episode of Sports in '61, we examine a tragedy that reshaped American sports overnight: the crash of Sabena Flight 548, a disaster that claimed the lives of the entire elite tier of U.S. Figure Skating.
In the wake of the disaster, hard lessons were learned about everything from team travel protocols and national sports administration to international aviation safety standards.

We are back with our second full episode of Sports in '61, as we take a look at the television deal that would shape the NFL and other sports in America for the next six decades: The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.

New month! New year! New theme!
We step into 1961 to take a look at the sports landscape. Yes, a full month of sports episodes all centered around that specific year.
Is that even possible?
Oh buddy, you have no idea just how possible it is.
But first, some trivia about some major people, places, and things from the sports world of 1961.

Once again, the Einstein-Rosen Bridge has provided us with a news brief. This time from the year...2065!
Bad time to be part of the online outrage mob. Great time to be a Browns fan!

Our last episode of this potpourri 1985 month finds us turning our oversized Sherlock-esque magnifying glass toward one of the 20th century's most infamous terrorists, Ted Kaczynski, aka The Unabomber.
While his run of horrific bombings extended before and after 1985, this year proved to be one of the most active and pivotal times in his 17-year reign of terror, including the first time his bombs killed someone.
We'll talk about the infamous manifesto and how it's an extensive look into the mind of someone suffering from lifelong, untreated emotional distress.