Going Back To The '90s With Chuck Klosterman
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🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In between, a lot happened: Nirvana, "Seinfeld," "Friends," the Clinton presidency, "The Matrix," Tupac, Beanie Babies, "Titanic," The Spice Girls, the Columbine shootings, compact discs, AIM, Anita Hill's testimony... shall we go on?
In his new book, "The Nineties," cultural commentator Chuck Klosterman looks back at the years that he argues may be "the last decade."
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| 0:00.0 | Culture critic and author Chuck Klosterman says the 90s began in 1991 with a release of |
| 0:14.7 | Smells Like Teen Spirit. |
| 0:16.7 | It's the first single off Nirvana's album Never Mind. |
| 0:20.3 | It launched the decade of Grunge when there was nothing less cool than caring too much |
| 0:25.0 | and America went online. |
| 0:34.9 | Now take yourself back in time to the 1990s. |
| 0:37.7 | What do you see? |
| 0:38.9 | Is it Bill Clinton playing saxophone on TV, Titanic at the movies? |
| 0:44.1 | Or maybe you remember the toys that doubled as pets, Toma Gatches and Furbies. |
| 0:49.7 | Joining us after the break is Chuck Klosterman. |
| 0:52.0 | He's the author of 11 books including the bestseller Sex, Drugs and Coco Puffs. |
| 0:57.1 | His newest book is The 90s. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm Jen White. |
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