The Best of Red and Bobby Vol.3

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.

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 shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, killing all 176 people on board, a rare Universal Palindrome Date (02/02/2020) occurs in the Gregorian calendar. Such events usually only transpire around once every 1000 years, with the last such event occurring in 1111, Eleven people are killed and five injured in a terrorist shooting spree by a far-right extremist targeting shisha bars in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Germany, NATO expresses solidarity with Turkey after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike by pro-Syrian government forces, During a demonstration, pro-government colectivos shoot at disputed President and Speaker of the National AssemblyJuan Guaidó and his supporters in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, leaving five injured and then something is happening in Wuhan.

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 war). American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier, after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska. Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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 rush to the rescue of a unicyclist trapped under a bus, several people are catastrophically injured and left with life changing injuries in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash, Jeremy Clarkson quits the BBC's number one car show Top Gear, and Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook has reached one billion users. Also we learn about Micky's painful 2015 breakup, how Red and Micky first met at the Cavendish Arms open mic where Micky won, and the benefits of the Pizza Express Gold and Silver Rewards Club.

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 discovered, also in London.