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#303: Y2K New Year's Eve

🕑 Added 2024-12-27 14:04:02 +0000 UTC

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Taylor D

Erin being messyyyy on main (affectionate) 😬

Ivy Clark

Two for two on subtly cursed renditions of old lang sine

flesh_prison

“Lisa, I feel like you just have not been the same since The Sixth Sense came out.” is absolutely the best goddamn thing I’ve ever heard….anymore. Lololol

Roe Jaz

Even in 99 JPC had a horse thing We still doing horse jokes?

Trent Glenn

Alternate universe where x games 99 happened on NYE

Daisy Freedman

Great episode

Kate

You all had me kind of spinning out wondering how Napster actually made any money

Adam Kronfeld

Every time the interstitial music started I though Dancing Queen would follow. Alas.

Camille

Does HRR know how much I need these holiday-themed episodes to survive each year? I hope so

Dehlan Sage

Erin and JPC both breaking character and getting asked 'whats that' lol

Dehlan Sage

Dexter Parker died like two years ago killed me

Alexie Smith

These are my favorites!!!

Arden Dre

Great episode. All timer.

Brandon Nunnery

Wow I’m learning so much, but surely the calendar on the plane wouldn’t have caused it to crash

Halsey Jones

Y2K was an actual problem, the bit about them working for months to update the code to base 4 instead of base 2 was real. People in IT and tech worked all nighters for months to fix everything

Janessa Steele

I’m turning to dust as I describe this, but the computers-can’t-handle-these-numbers thing also meant that people were afraid all kinds of things would fail: power, banks, transportation, food supply. There are plenty of survivalists now; then, at least where I lived, it was very common and casually accepted to have a stockpile of canned goods and supplies just in case everything came crashing down when 2000 dawned. The US watched the world not end when midnight struck on the other side of the globe, and began to breathe easier.

LonnieK

Do you remember when you were 12 and people thought it was over because of the Mayan calendar? Similar type of thing, unwarranted concern for over active minds. For y2k tho people were worried the power grids would fail and planes would fall out of the sky because the computers that ran everything would simultaneously malfunction having 99 roll over to 0 Anyways sorry for the long winded reply LOL

Wesley Farber

I heard it had something to do with how old computer calendars didn't go up to 2000 and instead just reset to 0, so a bunch of people just went crazy thinking that meant everything was ending.