What were you doing in the early 2000s? A time when Britney, Blockbuster, Napster and Nokia ruled the world. Joe and Mel present the week that was, 20 years ago. T minus 20, a podcast about not so ancient history.
Rewind to 16–22 July 2006, when reality felt increasingly stranger than fiction. A devastating tsunami caught thousands off guard, MySpace's biggest breakout star served up the ultimate kiss-off anthem, Criss Angel convinced us all that walking on water was totally plausible and Play School proved some childhood comforts never go out of style.
Rewind to 9–15 July 2006, when your Top 8 could end friendships, everyone suddenly had an opinion in 140 characters and celebrity reality TV decided skating on knives sounded like a great idea.
Rewind to 18–24 June 2006, when Pluto got some new friends, a teenage country singer quietly launched a global empire and everyone suddenly learned what drifting was.
Rewind to 11–17 June 2006, when Google officially became a verb, Nelly Furtado completed her glow-up from folk-pop darling to dancefloor queen and Pixar convinced an entire generation that a talking race car could have emotional depth.
Rewind to 28 May – 3 June 2006 and suddenly everyone wants to move to LA, start an online business and dramatically stare out a window while Natasha Bedingfield plays in the background.
Rewind to 21–27 May 2006 — where chaos, culture and a whole lot of feelings collided.
Rewind to 14 – 20 May 2006: it's science breakthroughs, shiny new tech and tabloid culture at its absolute messiest.
Rewind to 7 – 13 May 2006 — and it's giving high-speed chaos, awkward tech flexes and absolute main character energy.
Rewind to 30 April to 6 May 2006 — where billionaires are buying feelings in Cubist form, governments are controlling the weather (casual) and your main character moment has a full soundtrack.
Rewind to 23 April – 29 April 2006 — and Australia's glued to a rescue, metalheads are doing emotional homework, Coachella quietly changes music history and horror gets… deeply unsettling.⛏️ Trapped, televised, unforgettable An Anzac Day mine collapse in Beaconsfield traps three miners a kilometre underground — and suddenly the entire country is emotionally invested. One miner is tragically found dead, but two are discovered alive days later, surviving in a space the size of a coffee table, singing The Gambler and rationing a single muesli bar. Cue collective national meltdown and wall-to-wall TV coverage like it's the original binge-watch.
Send us Fan MailRewind to 16 April to 22 April 2006 — and the internet is arguing about journalism, Rihanna's quietly becoming a global takeover, parody movies are still printing money and celebrity scandals are… very 2006.
Send us Fan MailRewind to 9 April to 15 April 2006 — and somehow one of the biggest songs of the year is about having a terrible day, another song is so popular it gets pulled from the charts and the hip hop world is hit with a loss that still echoes today.
Send us Fan MailRewind to 2 – 8 April 2006 — when reality TV got self-aware, club tracks got questionable and the weather channel was basically a thriller series
Send us Fan MailRewind to 26 March - 1 April 2006 — where Hollywood dreams, chaotic girlhood and peak mid-2000s culture collide in one very unfiltered episode.
Send a textRewind to 19 March 2006 – 25 March 2006 and the world serves up cyclones, the birth of Twitter, Disney Channel domination and reality TV chaos.
Send a textRewind to 12 – 18 March 2006
Send a textRewind to 5 – 11 March 2006 and the world is juggling human rights debates, dancehall domination and the Pope casually flexing a 2GB iPod Nano.
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Send us a textRewind to 23–30 October 2005
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Send us a textRewind to 25 September to 1 October 2005 — when emo kids were discovering top hats, Fergie was making “lady lumps” a phrase and Bali gets hit by bombings again.
Send us a textRewind to 18–24 September 2005
Send us a textRewind to 11–18 September 2005⚡ Lights out in LAMillions of Angelenos suddenly found themselves trapped in elevators, stuck at dead traffic lights, and clutching their Nokia flip phones as a worker's “oopsie” cut the wrong line. Terrorism fears? Nah — just Culver City's clumsiest electrician turning LA into the world's largest candlelit dinner for two hours.
Send us a textRewind to 4 September 2005 to 10 September 2005
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Send us a textRewind to 21–27 August 2005
Send us a textRewind to 14–20 August 2005 — the week where rockstars went back to school, storms turned Toronto into Waterworld and Kansas decided BTK's future was forever in prison.
Send us a textRewind to 7 to 13 August 2005.It's the week the UN got scandalous, Shane Warne made history and a Playboy Mansion reality show somehow counted as TV. Plus: Jessica Simpson washes a car… aggressively. Let's ride.
Send us a textRewind to 31 July to 6 August 2005
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