Masha Gessen's Y2K

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🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A very Russian love story on the brink of Y2K.

— Dan Taberski hosts the show, Surviving Y2K, and previously hosted Missing Richard Simmons. Both shows are part of the Headlong Podcast.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom, Mark Orton & John Hancock, and Nathaniel Wyvern ("Sanctuary Of The Sky Gods"). Theme by Alexander Overington.

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0:00.0	Yes.
0:01.0	Do you remember all of the fear around Y2K and how everyone was like, the world is going
0:07.8	to end?
0:08.8	Yeah, going into the year 2000, there was a fear that computers couldn't handle the turn
0:13.6	of the century and they just all go haywire.
0:15.9	Yeah, nuclear power plants would melt down, planes would fall from the sky, the banking
0:20.5	system would fall apart, it was going to be like an apocalypse kind of.
0:24.5	End of times.
0:27.0	How do you think you would handle the end of times?
0:30.7	I have a very strong position on this, in that I would like to be amongst the first wave
0:37.5	to just give it to the apocalypse.
0:40.2	You're not going to try and repopulate humanity or just like, I'm out.
0:44.1	That is so much work.
0:45.4	I also would want to go pretty early, but before that, I think I'm just going to go to McDonald's
0:51.5	and fry up everything they have and just have so many chicken nuggets before I die.
0:58.4	Yeah, last meal.
0:59.4	Was it last meal, McDonald's?
1:01.4	That's sad.
1:02.4	That's sad.
1:03.4	That's sad.
1:04.4	That's sad.
1:05.4	From WNYC Studios, you're listening from Nancy.
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