Introducing Headlong: Surviving Y2K | November 13

Headlong: Missing Richard Simmons

Topic / Pineapple Street Media / Dan Taberski

Serial, Arts, Society & Culture

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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December 31, 1999: As midnight approached, the world braced for disaster. Then, nothing happened.

The new season from the creators of Missing Richard Simmons drops November 13.

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0:00.0	I'm Dan Tabersky. Last year I was missing Richard Simmons.
0:04.8	There's a guy in here whose name's Richard Simmons.
0:07.0	Richard Simmons.
0:08.0	Richard Simmons.
0:09.0	Oh my god, I love Richard Simmons.
0:11.0	Well, I'm back. And this time I'm gonna get that guy.
0:15.0	I'm kidding. But I did learn a few things.
0:18.0	Like to really understand something, you gotta go deep.
0:21.0	I think he's truly made me into a better person.
0:24.0	I'm not trying to just blow smoke. He saved a lot of people's lives.
0:29.0	And sometimes when you think you're talking about one thing,
0:32.0	you're really talking about yourself.
0:34.0	How do you let that go, man?
0:36.0	You have to let it go. You don't have a choice. You have to go on with life.
0:39.0	That whole idea, a deep dive into culture that I think we might be getting wrong,
0:44.0	that's my new anthology series. It's called Headlong.
0:48.0	Think of missing Richard Simmons as season one.
0:51.0	Season two, Surviving Y2K.
0:54.0	I'm interested in the concept of the Y2K bug.
0:57.0	It was not a bug. Never was a bug. It was a conscious, correct design compromise.
1:03.0	It was absolutely categorically not a bug.
1:07.0	Why do they call it a bug?
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