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Joe and Mel

220 episodes

4 days ago

Send us a text 🎧 Rewind to 30 October – 5 November 2005 🎃 The great pumpkin arms race New England’s finest farmers flexed their green thumbs at the Topsfield Fair, where a 1,314-lb orange beast stole the show. People clapped. Kids squealed. Somewhere, a guy whispered “that’s a big-ass pumpkin.” Simpler times — when the heaviest thing online was a JPEG of your harvest. 🐎 Makybe Diva’s mic-drop moment Flemington lost its mind as Makybe Diva thundered home to a third straight Melbourne Cup win...

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Send us a text 🎧 Rewind to 30 October – 5 November 2005 🎃 The great pumpkin arms race New England’s finest farmers flexed their green thumbs at the Topsfield Fair, where a 1,314-lb orange beast stole the show. People clapped. Kids squealed. Somewhere, a guy whispered “that’s a big-ass pumpkin.” Simpler times — when the heaviest thing online was a JPEG of your harvest. 🐎 Makybe Diva’s mic-drop moment Flemington lost its mind as Makybe Diva thundered home to a third straight Melbourne Cup win...

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The Birth of Pepe the Frog and the meme that broke the internet

Send us a text 🎧 Rewind to 30 October – 5 November 2005 🎃 The great pumpkin arms race New England’s finest farmers flexed their green thumbs at the Topsfield Fair, where a 1,314-lb orange beast stole the show. People clapped. Kids squealed. Somewhere, a guy whispered “that’s a big-ass pumpkin.” Simpler times — when the heaviest thing online was a JPEG of your harvest. 🐎 Makybe Diva’s mic-drop moment Flemington lost its mind as Makybe Diva thundered home to a third straight Melbourne Cup win...

4 days ago

1 hour 15 minutes

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The King of cash: Elvis still owns the afterlife

Send us a text Rewind to 23–30 October 2005 🎸 💀 The King still reigns Elvis may have left the building, but he sure didn’t leave the bank. Forbes crowned him the top-earning dead celebrity — again — raking in a cool US$45 million thanks to Graceland tours, reissues and endless blue suede merch. Even in the afterlife, Elvis was out-grossing the living. 🚭 Britain stubs it out Tony Blair’s government finally declared war on cigarette smoke, announcing plans to ban puffing indoors across Englan...

1 week ago

58 minutes

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Ashlee vs Lindsay: The boyfriend battle that rocked 2005

Send us a text Rewind to 16 October 2005 to 22 October 2005 🕋 Million Man March 2.0 Louis Farrakhan’s Millions More rally hits D.C., calling for unity and self-reliance after Katrina. His fire-and-brimstone speech slams Bush but sparks fresh controversy. Big turnout, smaller legacy — more sequel than revolution. ⚖️ Saddam takes the stand Iraq puts Saddam Hussein on trial for crimes against humanity. He mocks the court, yells, refuses to say his name — peak dictator drama. Justice or theatre...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 8 minutes

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The iPod video era: when we watched Lost on a two-inch screen

Send us a text Rewind to 9 October 2005 to 15 October 2005 🚀 China goes full space cowboy China’s Shenzhou 6 mission blasts off, sending two taikonauts into orbit for nearly five days — a major flex in the global space race. It’s their first two-man crew, the first time anyone’s used the orbital module as living space and a huge leap toward their future space station plans. 🎭 Harold Pinter gets the Nobel nod Britain’s master of awkward pauses and passive-aggressive menace finally gets...

3 weeks ago

54 minutes

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Spark-ula: Twilight hits bookstores and turns vampires dreamy

Send us a text 🧑‍⚖️ Supreme Court Soap Harriet Miers is tapped to replace Sandra Day O’Connor and America collectively Googles “Who?” A loyal Bush insider with zero judicial experience tries to sell a “practicing lawyer’s perspective.” Conservatives grumble she’s not conservative enough, liberals cry cronyism and the vibes are awkward. A case study in how not to roll out a lifetime gig. 🌍 Quake Lines Snap A 7.6 earthquake slams Kashmir on Oct 8. Towns buckle, mountain roads vanish, helicopt...

1 month ago

1 hour 18 minutes

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From MySpace to emo icons: Panic! at the Disco’s debut album

Send us a text Rewind 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. 🪖 Abu Ghraib’s dark shadow Lynndie England was found guilty in a military court for her role in the prisoner abuse scandal. The photos had already shocked the world, but her conviction cemented her as the face of the U.S. military’s biggest disgrace of the era. 💣 Bali bombings again Three suicide bombers struck touris...

1 month ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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How I Met Your Mother hits screens & INXS finds a frontman

Send us a text Rewind to 18–24 September 2005 🌪️ Rita raises hell Just three weeks after Katrina, Hurricane Rita stormed in as a Category 5 beast before slamming Texas and Louisiana as a Category 3. The real nightmare? The evacuation. Millions jammed Houston’s highways for up to 24 hours, gas ran out, buses caught fire, and tragically more than 100 people died — most not from the storm itself, but from the chaos of trying to escape it. 🦢 Blood, sweat and Swans After 72 long years, the Sydne...

1 month ago

1 hour 14 minutes

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From pop princess to pop mama: Britney Spears gives birth

Send us a text Rewind to 11–18 September 2005 ⚡ Lights out in LA Millions 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. 🎢 Disney goes dim sum Hong Kong Disneyland opened its gates — four lands, one castle, and a Space Mountain that had loc...

1 month ago

1 hour 4 minutes

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When Steve Jobs pulled an iPod Nano out of his jeans’ tiny pocket

Send us a text Rewind to 4 September 2005 to 10 September 2005 🌀 Katrina fallout The floodwaters were barely receding in New Orleans and already the finger-pointing had begun. FEMA was roasted for its snail-paced response, Bush’s leadership was under fire and TV screens were filled with images of stranded residents that turned a natural disaster into a national reckoning. 🎨 Art attack! In Austria a woman pulled out a jackknife and slashed Roy Lichtenstein’s Nudes in Mirror because she t...

2 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes

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Hurricane Katrina: Category 5 storm, category 10 fail

Send us a text Rewind to 27 August – 3 September 2005 ⏪ 🌪️ Katrina’s wrath Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast with catastrophic force, flooding 80% of New Orleans when levees failed. What followed was a disaster of human error as much as nature’s fury — FEMA fumbled, the Superdome became a nightmare and trust in the system was non existent. But there were glimmers of humanity too: the Cajun Navy, hospital staff who refused to abandon patients and strangers who took families into their home...

2 months ago

1 hour 1 minute

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Six Feet Under finale: the ending that still wrecks us (20 years on)

Send us a text Rewind to 21–27 August 2005 🎙️ 💊 (not so) model behaviour. Michelle Leslie went from catwalks to courtrooms when Bali police “found” two little pills in her Gucci bag. What followed? A media circus of headscarves, bribe rumours and a prison stint that ended almost as quickly as her career. From Schapelle to the Bali Nine, it was peak Aussie-drama-abroad season. 🎹 The piano man unmasked. Remember the mysterious mute who wowed (or maybe just plonked) on the piano in Kent? Turns...

2 months ago

1 hour 1 minute

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From Motley to midterms: Tommy Lee goes to college

Send us a text Rewind 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. 🪓 BTK gets the book thrown at him. Dennis Rader, the church-going, cub scout–leading *serial killer next door*, is sentenced to 175 years without parole. His floppy disk blunder remains the ultimate self-own in true crime history. 🌪 Toronto goes full disaster movie. A monster supercell drops F2 tor...

2 months ago

59 minutes

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Inside the playboy mansion: The Girls Next Door premieres

Send us a text Rewind 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. 🛢️ UN scandal gets greasy. The third Volcker Report into the Oil-for-Food Program dropped and it was messier than a deep-fried mars bar. Top UN official Benon Sevan was accused of pocketing bribes, Saddam’s regime raked in billions and the whole thing made the UN look ...

2 months ago

1 hour 12 minutes

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The girl with the dragon tattoo reinvents trauma-core bestsellers

Send us a text Rewind to 31 July to 6 August 2005 🛑 No smoking on the grid. The EU bans tobacco advertising across borders, sending Formula 1 teams scrambling for cash and leaving Marlboro-branded Ferraris gasping for air. 💀 Skulls just dropped. Scientists in Georgia unearth a 1.8 million-year-old human skull that throws the whole “big brain = better human” theory into chaos. 👟 Three stripes, one flop. Adidas buys Reebok for $3.8 billion in a move to challenge Nike and instead gets a 16...

3 months ago

1 hour 9 minutes

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Pon de Replay: the birth of bad girl Riri

Send us a text Rewind to 24 July 2005 to 30 July 2005 This week in 2005, Rihanna made her Diwali riddim-fuelled debut, Hulk Hogan became the ultimate helicopter dad and Birmingham took a surprise spin on the tornado ride. We also hit Splendour just as it pivoted to electro and watched Canadian scientists crush Bigfoot dreams with one tuft of bison hair. 🌪️ Birmingham gets twistered. A rare urban tornado tears through England’s second city, tossing trees, ripping roofs and causing £40 million...

3 months ago

1 hour

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Pussycat Dolls, tramp stamps and Miami Ink

Send us a text Rewind to 17 to 23 July 2005, where tattoo regrets were permanent, burlesque entered the mainstream and Crazy Frog somehow got a record deal. 💣 Bombs fail, panic doesn’t. Two weeks after 7/7, four bombs fail to fully detonate on London transport. No deaths, but the fear is real. Cue evacuations, manhunts and media chaos. 🚨 Shot by mistake. Jean Charles de Menezes is tragically killed by police, mistaken for a bombing suspect. Operation Kratos, racial profiling and public trus...

3 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes

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Harry Potter leaks, lawsuits and late-night line ups

Send us a text Rewind to 10 July 2005 to 16 July 2005: the week NASA stalled, Potter fans sobbed, Johnny Depp traumatised children and WorldCom made Enron look like amateurs. 🚀 To infinity… or not quite. NASA’s big “return to space” mission hits pause thanks to a dodgy fuel sensor. Ground control to boomers: your tech’s showing its age. 🍫 Wonky Wonka energy. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tops the box office, but Depp’s creepy bowl cut and dentist flashbacks leave us craving Gene W...

3 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes

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Terror on the Tube: London’s 7/7 Attacks Remembered

Send us a text Rewind to 3 July 2005 to 9 July 2005 and buckle in, because the chaos this week is coming at you from space, underground, and straight out of the Hot 97 parking lot. 💥 NASA punches a comet. Because smashing things is how science happens. Deep Impact lived up to the movie name as NASA slammed a probe into Comet Tempel 1 at 22,800 mph to see what was hiding beneath. Spoiler: space dust, ice, organic gunk, and some existential dread about how small we are. 💔 London under attack. T...

4 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

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iTunes launches podcasts and Ned Kelly becomes Aussie merch royalty

Send us a text Rewind to 26 June 2005 to 2 July 2005 🎧 Podcasting goes mainstream. iTunes officially jumps on the podcast bandwagon and suddenly your weird uncle with a headset mic thinks he’s the next Ira Glass. Everyone’s got a podcast now — including us — but we promise zero toilet wine reviews. ⚖️ Grokster gets busted. The Supreme Court serves up a harsh reminder that building your business on pirated copies of Gladiator isn’t exactly legal. Goodbye free Shrek downloads, hello...

4 months ago

1 hour 24 minutes

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From fake news to digital cults: Reddit is born

Send us a text Rewind to 19 June to 25 June 2005 This week, we’re talking digital disasters, newspaper nightmares and sports meltdowns so epic they’re still rage-tweeted about today. 🧻 Wikitorial wipeout. The LA Times tried letting the public edit their editorials. What they got instead? Porn, profanity and chaos in 36 hours. A short-lived democracy, quickly replaced by Ctrl+Alt+Nope. 🐀 Rat vs nation. One rat, one clumsy workman and boom—New Zealand goes offline. Stock exchange? Down. Inter...

4 months ago

1 hour 14 minutes