20th Century Pop! is a podcast that tries to understand the present by living in the past. Each episode hosts Bob and Tim take a sociological look at the pop culture of the '80s and '90s. Its a ruining of their childhood that hopefully explains how they became adults.
“This Encarta ‘95 trial disc is effed.” (1981-1999) Two decades in and its probably safe to say that YakBak is Y2K compliant. But there was a time where not every warranty was guaranteed past New Year’s Eve 1999. On today’s episode, Bob and Tim count down the pop culture that seemed to lean toward an apocalypse before the 21st Century. Its a who’s who of certain doom featuring such fear mongers as Orson Welles, Nostradamus, Prince and … Ralph Fiennes.. maybe … is the guy from Strange Days(?) Forget that acquaintance and never once reflect on this actual pop of the 20th century.
00:00:00 UNLICENSED AUDIO - more or less intact
00:00:37 AUD LANG SUCKS - not quite the opener they wanted
00:03:19 NINETEEN NOT TOO FINE - end time anxiety on the eve of 2000 … maybe?
00:09:08 NOSTRADAMUS IF YOU DO, NOSTRADAMUS IF YOU DON’T - a document of tomorrow
00:15:18 A PURPLE RAIN’S A-GONNA FALL - and save the pop culture date
00:22:23 STRANGE BLASE - - and the anxiety of looking ahead
00:28:41 Y2K, YOU’RE 2K - Tim’s print subscription to Paranoia really pays off
00:35:22 APOCALYPSE, NAH - the letdown of arriving in 2000
00:41:58 NOT FINDING A THRILL AT THE END OF THE WORLD - and art imitates anxiety
00:53:21 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase / “Why Worry About Y2K?”
00:55:38 BONUS FEATURES - Stand-Up Spotlight with Tim Blevins
Cliff Note your way through the Centuries with these clips from the Orson Welles’s hosted documentary “The Man Who Saw Tomorrow” as compiled by Kevin Maher for KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT NOSTRADAMUS.
Behold his royal purpleness as he shreds through life's last few moments in the ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR 1999.
Try and keep a straight face through some mid-90s internet slang in this ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TEASER FOR 1995’S STRANGE DAYS.
Check out this late 90s turtleneck as MAN PREPARES FOR Y2K DOOMSDAY AMID PANIC IN 1999 and then check in 20 years later without said turtleneck in 20 YEARS AFTER Y2K PANIC, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GUY WITH A BUNKER OF FOOD?
Wow at how compliant capitalism was with this Y2K COMMERCIAL FROM NIKE.
Bunker down with Art Bell's Coast To Coast FM with a performance of WHY WORRY ABOUT Y2K AS PERFORMED BY THE DANA RAY BAND.
And, finally, live a little longer to barely prosper past New Years with 1999’s Y2K FAMILY SURVIVAL GUIDE WITH LEONARD NIMOY.
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MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY’S EPISODE:
“Why Worry About Y2K” as performed by THE DANA RAY BAND and featured on Art Bell’s Coast To Coast FM.
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20TH CENTURY POP! will return next week with a look back at that time neither Tim nor Bob saw The Godfather.
