Benefer is back. Brad and Jen are friends again and Perishilton is somehow still making headlines.

20 years later, we're living in the world that the 2000s tabloids created.

On this series, I'm going to tell you the story of a decade of American life through the trash we love to consume.

From Spotify and the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Claire Malone and this is just like us, the tabloids that changed America.

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This gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little row bike and I remember it was all like, it was all wrapped up, but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and had a little ribbon on it.

I was sort of like, for like that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now.

So, full of that one changed me a little.

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

She would have prevented Hitler in the destruction of Europe, the Neoron.

The Armenian genocide, Paul Pop, not nice people.

But she was betrayed.

Was she?

By Indolin, fellow gods.

Oh, by even her own avatar.

Avatars, blue people, love that film.

By Avatar. You mean that? I mean anime.

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