Y2K and Other Pixelated Memories (w/ Tanisha Naik)

12/10/2025 57 min

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Tanisha Naik stops by to rewind the clock to the Y2K era — the time of low-rise jeans, flip phones, and dial-up tones. We talk early 2000s style, culture, and the tech that changed everything (and that we totally take for granted now).Timestamps0:00 - Intro2:55 - Y2K Defined, Advances in Technology 6:46 - Millennium Style 7:58 - Zenon Movies8:43 - Style Throwback Trends10:19 - Y2K Music Videos11:16 - Michael Jackson, Posthumous Album, Plastic Surgery 13:56 - Celebrity Culture, Rise of Influencers17:43 - Tech Breakthroughs, Apple Comeback26:30 - Looking Back on What Used to Interest Us27:22 - Rise of Blogging, Elon Musk31:15 - Grimes, AI, Forgetting Passwords 34:38 - Emo Music36:32 - Appointment TV, Loss of Universal Interests38:47 - Blockbuster Failed Streaming Service, Netflix, Redbox41:00 - Marvel Movies 42:53 - 2000s movies, evolution of TV sets44:29 - Rise of Social Media, YouTube, The Social Network 49:09 - Inconsistencies with Biopics 50:40 - Rom-Coms56:45 - Outro