109: The Last Future
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Y2May! Our monthlong celebration of all things related to the year 2000 and the end of the 20th century. We start off with some William Gibson inspired chat about the current dystopian moment and then head back into the relative calmness of the near distant past. What were each of us doing on Y2K itself? But first it's our new sports show within the show Sports Call, where we take a call about Dennis Rodman and The Last Dance, the new ten part ESPN documentary about Michael Jordan's last season. Molly recommends The Last Dance to Tess and Emily, who remember their own sports thoughts. Our producer Joelle jumps in with some basketball facts after Molly wonders why the Bad Boys of Detroit were allowed to foul like that. As a new generation discovers Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra for the first time, is anyone surprised they're going viral again? Then we get down to Y2K color schemes with a query from a listener about the late nineties Pacific Northwest color scheme of purple and forest green. We discuss what color schemes and design elements remind us most of Y2K, and why we all wish we could go to a late nineties Taco Bell. On a new Night Call!
FOOTNOTES:
Interview with Evan Collins, Y2K Aesthetics Enthusiast
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | It's 1222 a.m. in Chicago, and you're listening to Night Call. |
| 0:17.8 | Hello, and welcome to Night Call, a call, a call-in show for our dystopian reality. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Molly Lambert, and with me are... |
| 0:25.9 | Tess Lynch and Emily Yoshida. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome back. It is May. |
| 0:30.4 | Today is the first day of May. |
| 0:31.7 | This will be coming out in May. |
| 0:33.2 | And it's now Y2 May, our new theme month. |
| 0:38.9 | That's all Y2K themed. |
| 0:40.6 | You guys excited about Y2 May? |
| 0:41.9 | So excited. |
| 0:48.6 | I love looking back at a fake apocalypse to just contrast the real one going on right now. |
| 0:50.9 | It gives me the warm and fuzzies. |
| 0:55.9 | I was given permission by Hunter Harris that we are the only people allowed to do a it's going to be May meme. |
| 0:57.9 | The meme that died, but we can use it. |
| 0:59.9 | We're allowed to do it's going to be Y2 May. |
| 1:01.9 | Yes, good. |
| 1:02.5 | Okay. |
| 1:03.7 | We were given meme permission. |
| 1:05.3 | I think that kind of joke is what one calls a hat on a hat if you're in a writer's room, |
| 1:09.1 | but we'll go with it. |
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