Rewind to 17 to 23 April 2005 – when the Bali 9 are busted with 8.3kg of heroin, a teenager drove a tram like a boss and YouTube dropped its very first “like and subscribe.”🚨 Bali 9 busted.An Aussie drug smuggling op was b...

Rewind to 10 to 16 April 2005, when science cloned your dog, Mariah staged a mega comeback, and Pamela Anderson worked in a bookstore (yes, really).💣 Olympic bomber finally busted.Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to the 1996 Atl...

🕊 Farewell JP2. The world farewelled Pope John Paul II after 26 years in the top job. Cue one of the largest funerals in history and all eyes on a chimney as the conclave kicked off. White smoke = new pope. Enter Benedict XVI.✊ <...

🌊 Another quake, more heartbreak.Just months after the Boxing Day disaster, a massive 8.6 earthquake rocked Sumatra. Panic spread across the region but mercifully, no tsunami. Tragically, nine Australian military personnel lost their liv...

🌍 The Fukuoka earthquake shakes Japan—an unexpected 6.6 magnitude tremor devastates Genkai Island, leaving one dead and over 1,000 injured. Aftershocks continued for months, proving nature doesn’t always follow the schedule.🔥 ...

⚛️ Did scientists almost create a black hole? Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider were smashing particles together at nearly the speed of light, reaching temperatures hotter than the sun. One physicist suggested we may have create...

⚖️ The U.S. Supreme Court makes a landmark ruling, banning the death penalty for crimes committed by minors. ♟️ The world’s greatest chess player retires, leaving us all to wonder: who will defend us when AI takes over?🎤 50...

🛫 Steve Fossett is at it again, this time flying solo around the world without stopping and making history.🏒 Canada loses its collective mind over curling as Jennifer Jones pulls off “the shot” to claim victory.

Pop-punk fans everywhere are in emotional free fall—with Blink-182 confirming their split, leaving us all whisper-screaming Where are you? 😭Meanwhile, Spain votes sí on the EU Constitution, but the whole thing crashes and ...

Explosions, heists and YouTube’s awkward dating era? This week on T minus 20:💣 Rafik Hariri was assassinated in Beirut, triggering mass protests and forcing Syria to withdraw from Lebanon after nearly 30 years of occupation. The ...

Tony Blair breaks records as the longest-serving Labour PM—but let’s be real, his coolest moment was inviting Oasis to Downing Street. (Noel Gallagher later called it awkward, which is ironic coming from him.) Meanwhile, hi...

We had such a great chat with Ryan Cabrera and he was so generous with his time that we pretty much had enough content for an entire show. So, as a special treat to our wonderful subscribers, we thought we'd give you the full interview, warts a...

From Iraq’s first free elections 🇮🇶 to Canada paving the way for same-sex marriage rights 🌈, we’re unpacking the headlines that shaped history. The Royal Rumble serves up chaos (and a limping Vince McMahon) in the WWE ring ...

👑 Prince Harry’s Fashion Fiasco – A royal costume party goes awry, and the future Duke of Sussex learns a lesson in history—and headlines. ✋ Fancy dress parties are overrated anyways, but you will be shocked at the them...

We've saved some of the biggest stories of 2004 for our last week of summer programming.Protesters, dressed as Batman, scaled Buckingham Palace. Protesters, dressed as construction workers, broke into British Parliament. And Saddam Huss...

We're halfway through our little sabbatical and getting ready to come back with our biggest season yet. In the meantime enjoy the tall tales of Malice at The Palace - the biggest brawl in NBA history, the time Britney married K-Fed and Mel's ad...

We're still taking a short break but now is your chance to catch up on some of our bigger moments from 2004. The Killdozer rampage, Lance Armstrong's fall from grace and who could forget the time Dave Matthews tour bus dumped a full tank of hum...

Its that time where we get to put our feet up, but not before we go over some of the better stories from 2004. So load up your Party Susans and get ready for Nipplegate, Ceasar Milan, some hot coffee from GTA 3 and loads more. 

It's our best of the best for the year 2004 where the internet’s favorite new words take center stage 📖, we find out who Time’s Person of the Year was and look at all the hot topics that were trending on Google search

🌏 On December 26, the Boxing Day Tsunami, triggered by a 9.3 magnitude earthquake, devastated 14 countries, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. With waves up to 30 meters high traveling at 800 km/h, nearly 228,000 lives ...

It's a week full of heartbreak. There's no way to sugar coat it, but we will press on and make the best of it. On December 8, tragedy struck the music world 💔 when an obsessed fan killed Dimebag Darrell Abbott and three others du...

This week, the heartbreaking Shaanxi coal mine explosion in China. A methane gas build-up caused one of the deadliest mining disasters ever, claiming 166 lives and shining a harsh light on the dangers of an industry where safety often to...

🎨 Orange is the New Revolution: Ukraine in 2004 wasn’t just a spot on the map—it was a movement. The Orange Revolution burst onto the scene as Ukrainians ditched political apathy for orange scarves and chants of democracy. Poiso...

This week in 2004 NASA cranked up the speed dial to an astonishing Mach 9.6—that’s 7,000 mph—thanks to the experimental X-43A scramjet aircraft. Unlike traditional rockets, this futuristic wonder didn’t rely on onboard oxygen; it sucked ...

This week is loaded with high-stakes showdowns, culture-defining beats, and innovations that reshaped our digital lives. We begin in Fallujah, Iraq, where the brutal Second Battle of Fallujah—aka Operation Phantom Fury—gripped in...