The week Roblox entered the game

Rewind to 27 August–2 September 2006, when one of the biggest gaming platforms in history quietly launched with almost nobody noticing, Jessica Simpson was trying to move on from America's favourite celebrity divorce and a pair of stolen masterpieces finally reappeared after two years on the run.

🎮 From blocky beginnings to global obsession
Roblox officially launched this week with a handful of simple games and barely any fanfare. Twenty years later, it's home to millions of player-created worlds, virtual concerts and enough Robux to make parents everywhere sigh.

🖼️ The Scream returns
Two years after masked gunmen stormed a museum in broad daylight, Edvard Munch's The Scream and Madonna were finally recovered. The only catch? Police have never revealed exactly how they got them back, making one of the world's most famous art heists even more mysterious.

💔 Jessica's public affair
Fresh off her headline-making split from Nick Lachey, Jessica Simpson released A Public Affair. We rewind to one of the biggest celebrity breakups of the 2000s, revisit the rumours, the tabloid frenzy and ask whether reality TV helped make—or break—their marriage.

✈️ The runway mistake that changed aviation
Comair Flight 5191 crashed after taking off from the wrong runway in one of the deadliest aviation accidents of the decade. The tragedy led to major changes in cockpit procedures and airport safety that are still in place today.

🎤 The VMAs lose their edge
Panic! at the Disco shocked the music world by beating Madonna, Shakira and Christina Aguilera for Video of the Year, while critics declared the once-outrageous MTV VMAs had become... a bit boring. After years of headline-grabbing scandals, the biggest story was that there wasn't one.

🧦 Innovation or just... thermal underwear?
Our Innovations Catalogue heads to Damart, where the Fancy Knit Spencer promised "comfort and complete freedom" and buying the matching thermal pants could even score you a discount. Peak catalogue glamour... if your idea of glamour involved long johns.

Hang with us on socials to chat more noughties nostalgia - Facebook (@tminus20) or Instagram (tminus20podcast). You can also contact us there if you want to be a part of the show.

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The year is 2006. We head to the hills and learn reality is scripted. Your Sony Cyber Shot uploads 462 blurry regrets. A Facebook poke makes everything complicated. And Twitter's like, cool story, you've got 140 characters. Go. T-minus 20. Rewind 20 years with Joe and Mel. Week of 27 August 2006. T-minus 20. Bringing the sexy back. I want to forgive you. T-minus 20. I hate this long distant relationship. And I want to forget you. You have no style or succession. This is a beauty. This is very nice. Yeah, boy. 

Hey, welcome to T-minus 20, the podcast that rewinds exactly 20 years to relive the biggest news stories, pop culture moments and wonderfully weird trends from the mid 2000s. Every single week we jump back to the same week in history to find out what everyone was talking about, what we've completely forgotten and some of the stuff that definitely would not fly today. With two people that are still flying today, Just, your hosts Joe and Mel. Hello, Mel. 

Hello, yes, think of it as a time machine for Gen Xs, for millennials and Y2K curious Gen Zs. Headlines are real, nostalgia is strong, fashion choices, questionable. So whether you lived through it the first time or you're discovering 2006 for the very first time, let's rewind 27th of August to the 2nd of September. 

Students across the world used interactive physics to see how two cars would crash or build destructible houses. It was astonishing to see what these kids and teens were designing. And I wanted to replicate that capability on a much grander scale. It's. 

Always way, megalomania. I want to replicate whatever they're creating on a much grander scale. What is all that about? That is about a billion dollar launch that nobody really paid any attention to at the time. 

And now it's one of the biggest entertainment platforms in the world. Authorities say two or three. 

Armed masked men burst into the Munk Museum in Oslo in broad daylight and took the paintings as visitors watched. Both works are by Edward Munch, including his masterpiece, The Scream. Remember this story? We spoke about it a couple of years ago. 

Finally, finally we have answers. I've been waiting for two years. 

We've got closure after two years on the run. Two paintings that have been on the run like Thelma and Louise. The Scream and Madonna finally recovered. But, well, you're never going to really find out how they got them back, but we will talk about it. Always chasing us. Could we be any more? Actually, girls, I think we could. 

I want to be so famous that every time I fall in love, Oprah does a special about it. I want to be so famous that even my ex-boyfriends become famous. I want to be so famous that I have to have my babies in Africa. Well, I want to be so famous that I'm the most downloaded person on the internet. I want to be more famous than the internet. I want to be so famous my hairstylist gets his own show on Bravo. So you guys think there's going to be even more paparazzi when we get there? 

Yeah, they better be. Careful what you wish for. Careful what you wish for. Will there be more paparazzi? Jessica Simpson making a post-divorce comeback. She's had a glow up. She has. She's coming back. 

I liked this, Jessica. 

Did you? like this version of Jessica? I did. The setup for the film clip was pretty interesting. Lots of famous people helping her along the way. We'll find out about that and a whole bunch more stuff later on in the show. It's been a while since we opened the Boombox, but last time we did it at the beginning of the show, it worked out pretty well for us, I think. 

It just set the scene beautiful, didn't it? 

It's a great spot. I'm pretty good. I've got a black belt at whinging. Fourth Dan, black belt, fourth Dan whinging. I'm very good at it. And you could be good at it too because this is your opportunity to do it when we open up the boom box to your boomer complaints. You can make a boomer style complaint free from judgment here, free from the comment. Okay, boomer. Because this is your safe space. This is where you can do it. You come and slide into our DMs, you send us your problems, we air them out to everyone. Everyone knows that they're a problem. Everyone identifies it and discusses it and rants and raves about it. And it's still a problem, but it's less of a problem once that happens. That's what opening the boom box is about. 

The patron st of booming won Selwyn. This would not have been possible without Selwyn and the release of his song Boomin. 

Was it Boomin? Is that what it was called? yeah, that one. 

Yeah, I think it's called Booming. Bad booming in it anyway, but that's how booming was born, courtesy of Selwyn and his CDs. 

You were like, I love that song so much. How can I weave that into a segment that I can have? 

Repeat views on through the podcast? I don't know. It's been a while between Selwyns. 

Be careful. He's going to come after us for some money. Otherwise, I don't think he's got much. 

Neither do we. 

No, so it might be very helpful. Perhaps we could start up a crime syndicate with Selwyn. 

Maybe. 

Who knows? 

Maybe. 

No, of course, we're not alluding to that. No, it's time to boom. So have we got someone? Someone messages. T-minus 20 podcast is where you need to search for us on the site. 

Yeah, you can send us a boom via DM. That's that little messagey bubble thing on the Instagram. 

That's the acronym, yeah. 

Yes, you can, or you can record in the direct message, you press the little microphone. You've got a minute to unload your boom. I don't know if that's enough. If you've got a serious boom, I think. Potentially, we could talk around it. 

We can talk around it. So we can certainly make that minute. We can get a lot of currency out of that minute. 

Lovely, if you could do that. But nobody does, so I just find other booms from other people and I read them out. But that's okay, because this is a good one. 

You just broke the 4th wall then. 

We have had some legitimate booms, but this one clearly isn't, because I don't know anyone called Bryn Cowell, do you? Do you know Bryn Cowell? 

I don't know Bryn Cowell. Neither do I. But I mean, that's not to say that Bryn Cowell wasn't listening. Thanks for your message, Bryn. Although, that's right, you've just trolled it from somewhere else. 

But it's worth it. is worth it. 

You've boom jacked. 

It fits in. The booming definition. Are we ready? 

Yeah, of course. 

I miss VHS tapes and CDs. I miss feeding my computers and TVs yummy treats. Now they're eating nothing. They're being born without mouths. 

Oh yeah. 

Edgar Allan Possum replies, hashtag, I have no mouth and I must stream. And then there's a picture of all the computers that used to have little slots in them. Never forget what they took from us. 

Yeah, look at that. When you used to have like a couple of USB ports and then an Ethernet port. 

Which is CD, remember the CD-ROM thing? 

That was like feeding your computer. And then what did they give you? They gave you 2 USB-Cs. that you couldn't really do anything with because you had to go and buy the adapters, but they're slowly phasing it out. We're slowly assimilating into USB-C land. I don't like this. 

I don't like not plugging things in, and I don't like not inserting things in to do things. They're being born without mouths. I like that. They've evolved. 

Well, kind of, but they're devolving as well now. They're putting extra mouths back onto them because the community is spoken. Which is like what we spoke about last week with that whole, you know, the internet dictating snakes on a plane and the Snyder Cut and stuff like that. Power to the people. 

So we will start feeding our televisions again, you reckon? 

That's right. I think we should just, in protest, we should all put our USB-C cables out. Yes, put your cables out. It really doesn't have a good connotation to it. Have you laid your cable today in protest for USBC? Yeah. Oh, congratulations. It's the Hatches, Matches and Dispatches clue segment where we revisit this at the end of the show, celebrity birth, death or marriage. What have we got this week? Is it just a birthday? Just a birthday again. Nothing really significant happening, experiencing a bit of a lull. 

Oh, someone died from a movie, but I didn't recognise the movie, so I didn't use it. 

Fair enough. So we have a celebrity who's having a birthday that said this. 

And everybody want to make a dollar, whether it's rappers, musicians, media, TV. It's just you need the hot story. Like you may need a hot story. You don't care if it's going to really hurt somebody. That's just the way you make a living. 

Is he? Did he just wake up? 

Might be a bit tired, yeah. 

Tired, sounds a bit drowsy. We'll find out who that sleepy person is at the end of the show. It's a really terrible story to start the news with, unfortunately, this week. This was an aviation disaster that really, I mean, we always say that these disasters change aviation and I guess they do because they hope to not make the same mistake twice, particularly with this one, which was a really big mistake. 

Yes, 27th of August 2006, we have a flight 5191 crashing in Lexington, Kentucky. A routine early morning takeoff. It lasts less than a minute, and it was, like you say, one tiny but very stupid mistake. 

Both the plane's crew and the control tower were on the same page in terms of which runway the plane should have been on yesterday before the plane rumbled down the wrong runway. The result was catastrophic. 49 of 50 people on board killed when the plane crashed and burned. 

It was terrible, terrible, terrible. So, Com Air flight 5191 lines up on the wrong runway before dawn. The aircraft can't get enough speed to become airborne because the runway is too short for that particular plane. And then it crashes beyond the runway, killing 49 of the 50 people on board. The only person that survived was First Officer James Polinki. He was the co-pilot and he suffered very severe injuries. He ended up being paralyzed, put in a wheelchair. And the investigation found that the crew had mistakenly taxied onto the wrong runway. 

Air traffic control and the flight crew planned for a takeoff from runway 22. As you know, the FDR and the evidence on scene indicates the crew took off from runway 26. 

Runway 26 at the Lexington Kentucky Airport at a length of 3,500 feet is too short to handle a regional jet the size of the Comair plane. The question remains why the crew missed the proper runway, Runway 22. 

There is no excuse for not being able to identify which runway you should be on. 

It's extraordinary. How did they manage to not notice that they were on the wrong runway? 

Yeah, both. the pilots, but also the control tower. And the runway difference, so they're on 26, that was around a kilometer long. 

Yeah. 

Runway 22 that they were meant to be on is around 2 kilometers. So there's a one kilometer difference. 

Yeah, and 22 was like the big straight long one. 

That's crazy. 

And then 26 was on a diagonal. I just don't understand how they did that. So obviously they get to the end of the runway, they haven't got enough to take off and they just go barreling off into the paddock and explode. And this accident really was a case study in human factors rather than mechanical failure. Because it was actually, it was human error. 

Well, everything we've spoken about has been usually a mechanical failure or there's been really poor conditions or poor visibility. But no, this was just absolutely just human error. 

Yeah, and the control tower actually wasn't staffed overnight because operations didn't require it at the time. 

So that's why they didn't. 

So it was one of those disasters that was caused by a few failures lining up rather than one big fault. But it's interesting in the context of today. Just recently in the news, I know Sydney Airport was brought to a standstill. It became not quite brought to a standstill, but really extensive delays due to a lack of air traffic controllers. A lot of them had called in sick. And I just wonder if it's like there's obviously a certain number that you need to have and you need to work in these shifts. in order to, I guess in short, disasters like this don't happen. The last thing you want is overworked and tired air traffic controllers or air traffic controllers that are maybe pulling double shifts, you know, so you need to have a pretty decent roster and you need to have them sharp and on the ball. And that didn't happen here, which was, and you know, the outcomes of those sort of things are devastating. 

Yeah, onto something a little bit. Yes, look, this is good. We've been waiting two years for this. 

We're closing the loop on something. 

I've been worried sick all this time. Yes, just wanted closure. 

I mean, it's not like you've been worried sick for 20 years, but you were quite worried from 2004 to 2006. Is that right? There was a window. 

We reported on this two years ago and I've been worried since then. 

And as an art aficionado and a big fan of Edvard Munch or Munch, depending on where you want to come from, hail from. 

Lay your pronunciations. 

Lay your pronunciation, that sounds good. If you're a fan of that, then yes, you would have been worried sick. 

31st of August, after two years, they find the Scream and the Madonna. Two years ago in 2004, masked gunmen walk into a museum, broad daylight, and Norway's most famous paintings. taken. 

He went towards the Madonna painting and he grabbed that off the wall and he started banging it against the wall and against the ground, I guess because the gray strings weren't breaking off for him. And then he kind of looked confused as to what to do next. He then saw the scream and ran towards that and grabbed that off the wall. 

She's about to get a phone call too. That was like the preeminent digital interference from the late 90s, early 2000s where you could detect, you could feel a phone call coming before it would arrive. It's amazing little piece of technology. Just that little piece of, I loved that, the premonition, the little macarena that would happen before the ringtone. Yeah, so you remember that. The gunman walked in, they were a bit discombobulated and confused. They grabbed the paintings, they tried to smash the frames. I think they did smash the ditched them after they'd escaped, and then they ran out of the museum, the gallery, in broad daylight, right in the middle of the day, while everyone was in front of people perusing the paintings. 

So 31st of August, police announced that both paintings have been recovered. They never publicly reveal the exact circumstances of how they disappointed them. I know, because I'm sure there's a good story behind it. I'm sure there's something interesting. They just say the paintings have been recovered during a quote, successful police operation, unquote. after a two-year investigation. They wouldn't say where they were found, they wouldn't say who led them there, and they wouldn't say whether an informant was involved. But several men had already been convicted for their roles. And there was an offering of a reward, 2 million Norwegian krone. 

Which is about 400 grand Australian. 

Yes, but police say that reward wasn't actually paid. 

Oh, that's not very good. 

So We suspect they acted on intelligence rather than just tripping everyone going, oh, there's the Madonna. Wow, look at that. 

Oh, look, and there's a scream as well. We've been looking for that. 

Yeah, wow, great. 

Fancy seeing it here? 

I think the challenge was the paintings became a liability. It's not like you could resell them because everybody knows what they are and everybody knows how that person would have talked to. 

So all I've got really is evidence that a crime was committed. 

Yes, exactly. The prevailing theory is that the paintings became bargaining chips within organized crime circles and eventually someone squealed. 

Well, this is where I'm like, okay, look, I can't do anything with them. I might as well tip the police off and collect $400,000. And so maybe this is my wild and crazy conspiracy theory just trying to connect the dots based on the information I have is that That is what led them to that. Maybe the person who committed the crime just kind of caved, just went on. I'm a bit strapped for cash and you know I've got those two paintings there that are just collecting dust. I can't do anything with them. 

Maybe that's. 

Why they didn't have to pay it out because they're like, I reckon you're implicated in this, but your. 

Fingerprints are all over it. 

Yeah, exactly. 

Police never confirmed. Big allegedly. 

No, it's all alleged. And because the police never confirmed it, all I'm doing is fueling speculation and scuttlebutt that could be entirely incorrect. 

The artworks did suffer some damage from moisture handling and poor storage. Obviously not art collectors then. 

No. No, amateurs. 

Thieves. They were later restored, put back on public display. And yes, several men eventually convicted over their roles. 

I mean, maybe they were art collectors. They're just in the early stages. You know, like when you start collecting coins or stamps or whatever. 

Where you want to get the best one first. 

Well, you just kind of put them in a box or whatever until you get a few and then you're like, I should probably get an album. 

I'd probably do something with that. 

Geez, I've stolen a significant amount of artwork, so I probably need an album or something to put that in. 

Should get out to discount. out frames and get some nice matching frames on the cheap. 

IKEA are pretty good for that. You get good frames at IKEA. 

Yeah, they're not bad. 

They're pretty cheap as well. 

Yeah, something simple. You wouldn't want anything. 

For the screen, you wouldn't want to take away from the screen. 

Exactly. You don't want to detract from the artwork. 

Yes, that's exactly. 

Make something a little bit neutral. Yeah. Great. 

Speaking of home and innovation, home deco. Innovation segment. I was going to just try and introduce it a little bit more subtly, but you seem to have taken care of that for me. So there we go. We're in the technology segment now. And innovation. Sorry. 

Let's open up the innovations catalogue. 

Right, okay. Hang on. There you go. Oh, that's nice. It is. And it could be yours if the price is right. 

Okay, welcome to the unique warmth and feeling of well-being from thermolactal. 

Thermolactal. 

Thermolactal. 

That does, that sounds like. 

Thermolactal. 

That sounds like something hot leaking. 

A very hot dinosaur. 

That sounds like something hot that's leaking from something else. 

No, this week from the Innovations catalogue, I bring you the fancy net Thermolactal Spencer. 

A Spencer. 

A Spencer. I haven't heard it about Spencer. I haven't thought about a Spencer or heard the term Spencer for years. Well, actually, since the girl I lived with called her Cat Spencer, and I thought, you've named your cat after an undergarment. 

Yes, well, now it's just thermals, isn't it? Like, now they dress Spencer's up as compression wear or something like that and charge you three times the price. 

Don't they? Yes, a Spencer. And weren't you the uncoolest kid at school if you had to do her a Spencer under your blouse. 

So, for anyone under the age of 50, what, pray tell Mel, is a Spencer? 

Well, it's basically aside from really Heidi Montag's husband. Think about it. Think about a singlet, but a singlet to keep you warm. So it's got long sleeves and it's thermal. 

Yeah, a Spencer. And it's called a Spencer. 

It's called a Spencer. 

Yep. 

All right, let me read it. 

This one is the fancy knit thermalactyl Spencer. 

It's made of thermalactyl. Comfort and complete freedom as the soft, supple knit moulds to your body without clinging. Ribbed at the waist and hem with no side seams for premium comfort. Finished in a pretty clover knit diamond pattern. Buy Spencer 176 and pant 243 and save $10. 

What's pant 243? 

Well, have a look. I grabbed the description of that for you. 

Oh, you want me with that? Okay. Soft, lightweight, thermalactyl, thermal pants with a comfortable elasticized... Oh no, not elasticized. That word would be elasticated. 

Is that a word? According to the Innovations Catalogue, elasticated it is. 

Don't get too much thermalactyl, you'll end up elasticated. Fine rib knit stretches to follow your every movement while locking in warmth without bulk. If you take some Thermolactyl, you may be able to remove some of that bulk. Perfectly worn discreetly beneath everyday clothing, machine washable. And it could be yours tonight if the price is right. 

And we should have mentioned, I should have mentioned at the start, the Thermolactyl Spencer. is actually from Day Mart. 

Really. 

Do you remember Day Mart? 

Day Mart. 

Day Mart, the brand. 

Oh, put on your Day Mart and laugh at the cold. 

Yes, from the 80s. 

Yes. 

This was like new age Day Mart with a fancy knit and a thermolactal fibre. 

Yes. 

So it was bringing, you know, the Day Mart into Y2K. 

Once again, thermolactal fibre just sounds like something hot that's going to leak from something else. Over to music. And look, the top five. I'm just going to do it now. I want to get it out of the way because it's exactly the same as the top five that we had last week. So in the interest of repetition, let's repeat. 

I've been waiting. Baby, tell me if you like it Tell me if you like it I. 

Miss you with girl Whatever you are I'm all alone And it's you that I want. 

I miss you with boy You already know I think you're crazy I think you're crazy I think you're crazy. 

There you go, so it was it was Buttons at 5 with the Pussycat Dolls, me and you with that, what was her name? Cassie. Cassie, yeah, Promiscuous with Nelly Furtado and Timberland, Crazy with... and then Fergie Ferg, London Bridget #1, which we had all last week. And then it doesn't get much better in the, where am I going? I don't even know. You want me to go to Shakira? We'll go, okay, so we'll go to the motherland first. Yep, they like Shakira and then we're like, no, we're not. We're, what are we? 

Sexy back. 

Yeah, and that's it. So, what do you want to do now? 

I think there's only one thing we can do. We can go over to the German charts in Germany for our listener from Hess. 

That was not. Was that rapping? 

Was that German rap? I don't know, bingo card for this evening, this afternoon. That is good. I like that. is, I did not expect ever to hear Germany or a German person do soul or R&B. I just, it's not something. Yeah, and that's what you get. 

Can you do it again? Sure. 

I'd like to hear it again. 

I don't know. 

He's not as sexy. It's not as sexy in the German language. 

I think he dropped the Deutsche Bank in there. 

Yes, but I think he was saying a few names. 

Xavier Nardu. 

You will find out why. Yes, Xavier Nardu. He was one of Germany's biggest soul and R&B stars in the 2000s. Often compared to Seal and Craig David for his soulful vocals. 

Really. 

The language, in that demonstration, they just didn't feel particularly soulful. 

Yeah. 

But I did like him spitting the lyrics, the lyrics, spitting the raps. 

I think it's soulful to a point. I didn't, I didn't hate it. 

I just wouldn't describe it as soulful. 

The Timberland stuff, because instead of going, yeah, he'd be like, yeah. 

Xavier first, that was Dunke. Have you said that? 

Have you said that yet? No, but it's called Dunke, which I believe means thank you in German. 

Yes, I learned that in year 7 German with Mrs. Field. 

Did you? He's quite popular over there. 

Yeah, he first came on the scene in the 90s and he blends soul, gospel, pop and hip hop. He'd had a few hits, including Disser Weg, which means this way. 

Yeah. 

And that became the unofficial anthem for Germany's 2006 FIFA World Cup campaign. 

Right. 

So he's done the song for 06 FIFA. 

So he's a big deal, big deal in Germany. 

He is a big deal, but this song here was never meant to be a commercial single. 

Dunker was not meant to be a big deal. 

No, so Disser Weg, this way was. Germany lost to Italy in the semi-final of the World Cup. 

Right. 

And everyone was devo. I think they thought they were going to win. So they were shocked and sad about this. 

Yeah. 

And I think they'd done some hosting throughout. I don't know if they hosted the whole thing, but they hosted some of the games anyway, and they were all very proud. It was a very nice atmosphere in Germany for once. Everyone was really happy and they enjoyed it. 

Well, Germany in the World Cup, Germany are always a bit of a a chance. They're a good side. 

Well, I think they were confident. 

Yeah. 

And then they lost. So Xavier writes Dunker as a tribute to the coach of the German team. 

Oh, that would have been Jurgen Klinsmann at the time. 

Very good. 

Yes, I used to watch a little bit of Premier League, so I was aware of who Klinsmann was. 

And the song is about thanking them for uniting the country rather than mourning the loss. He reportedly wrote it the night Germany was eliminated. And it was just going to be this internet, this nice little internet thank you song. Thank you for everything you've done for Germany. You've brought us all together. You know, don't be sad. Let's celebrate unity. 

Celebrate the fact that we got there. It was a lot of just being donated, so to speak. 

Public demand was so huge that they ended up releasing it and it debuts at #1 in Germany and stays there for five weeks. 

Once again, because internet. Look at this is taking over. People are getting their own way via the internet. It's not just them being spoon-fed stuff. It's like, no, we like this and we want this. 

We want the German rats. 

That's how they got that. And I enjoyed it. It's really good. 

I think it's also important to note that Nadu did become a bit controversial. He was promoting some conspiracy theories. a bit of far right narrative going on. I think we need to put that in there. Major backlash in Germany. He got cancelled. Lots of damage to his career. But he did release a video a couple of years ago, a public apology in 2022 saying that he'd become caught up in these conspiracy theories and he no longer felt that way. So I think that's important to put in there. 

You get famous and then you get lofted high on the shoulders of a nation and then somewhere along the line. You're going to fall from grace, and it looks like poor old, poor old, what's his name? Xavier and I do the dunker band. 

Let's listen one more time, though. 

OK. I love that. I love that language. Sounds great. No, I really do. I'm just, I just, I just, Duolingo is doing nothing for me. Like I'm trying to learn languages on Duo. I just, you know what the thing is, I like too many languages, so I try to do too many. I want to be like, I wish I could be like a protocol droid, like C-3PO and speak like a whole bunch of different dialects. But unfortunately, I'm just a buffoon. Anyway, let's move on to, speaking of buffoons, Jessica Simpson back in the spotlight. She's not a buffoon. What are you talking about? Well, she was, no, that's not fair. I don't think that's fair. I don't think Jessica Simpson is a buffoon. 

Thank you for taking that back. 

I do feel like I'm taking comments back. Yeah. I do feel like though she was Pushed marketed as a buffoon, even by her own people. Anyway, she had this song and this was her. It's an album. 

Yeah, the album's called The Public Affair. This is the title track. Officially Divorced. Yes, we'll go through the timeline in a moment. Just hold your divorce. 

I can't wait. 

Hold your divorces. 

Divorce horses. 

Public Affair is the album. That is the title track. It's released. Very upbeat. So let's rewind. Let's wind it back as Jay Uso would say. 

Roll it back. 

Roll it back. 

Run it back. 

Run it back. We got there in the end. They were married in October 2002. She was 22, he was 29. Obviously, the MTV Newlyweds premieres 2003. Phenomenon. 

We spoke about it quite a bit. 

Chicken of the Sea. 

Yeah, big line. 

2005, her career is exploding. 

He gets jealous. 

Mix isn't. 

Yeah. 

He's slowed. Nobody cares about Nick. Leading to speculation about the imbalance in fame. Here, he was becoming referred to as Mr. Jessica Simpson. 

Which causes the fracture. 

Did not like them. 

The fractures in the relationship. 

Spring-summer 20 or 2005, tabloids are reporting them spending increasing amount of time apart. Jukes of Hazard, rumours around that. October 2005, US Weekly runs a cover claiming they're splitting. They both publicly denied at this stage. 

No, we're still going on strong. 

Next month, they announce their separation before Thanksgiving. You're right. 

Things aren't great. We got it. Now that you mention it, that's a now that you mention it. 

Thanks for bringing it up. 

No, we're good. 

Thanks for asking. 

Oh, now that you mention it, maybe it was the media's fault. They gave them time to reflect. They're like, we're done. 

Maybe they're fine in October. 

We're doing all right. They're just sitting in the media like that we weren't doing too well, but we're okay. Actually, I wasn't aware. 

After 3 years of marriage, they announced they've decided to part ways. In December, Jess files for divorce, and we get to... June 2006, official, divorce official. 

Gone. Irreconcilable differences was the cause. Irreconcilable. 

Allegedly. 

We cannot reconcile our differences. They are irreconcilable. And so then she does a public affair. She gathers her self, pulls herself together. 

Gets A girlfriends. 

Gets A girlfriends. 

Heads out. 

And goes and starts. 

I think they were roller skating in that video, weren't they? 

Were. Living well is the best revenge. 

That's just what you do when you get divorced. You know, roller skating with your mates. 

I just, I don't think that can end well. 

Not at our age. 

No, it's like, let's go out, celebrate my divorce, have a couple of Chardonnays and go roll skating. 

I just think that's a really, really bad idea. 

It's a bad idea. 

Neck brace. Yeah, you'd want a lot. 

Yeah, I just don't, after what you've been through, you know, you really probably can't afford to not be working. So you want to just make sure you're healthy and fit. 

Everyone expected the album to address the breakup, but it was very upbeat. People were like, oh, oh. 

I was very happy. I think she did really well from this. 

Debuts at #5 on the Billboard album charts. 

Pretty good. 

Reviews were mixed, but it did sell well. And that was, yeah, pretty iconic video. Lots of celebrities, Christina Applegate, Eva Longoria, Christina Milian, and Seacrest out, out, out, out. 

It's confusing. And I guess it's because they're leaning into the whole paparazzi thing. They're like, you know, oh, I hope there's going to be lots of paparazzi there. And I'm like, what? 

Why? 

No, you don't. You do not hope there's going to be lots of paparazzi there. Do you really? 

No. 

I just want to make them kind of work for you. I just, it just kind of flies in the face of the narrative and everything else that was going on. Well, I think it was them taking the power back, you know, saying, yes, the paparazzi are there. It's like, because there's a symbiotic relationship between celebrity and paparazzi, isn't there? Because it's like if a tree falls in the forest and nobody's there to hear it. 

If a celebrity goes roller skating, did it really happen? 

To capture somebody going to bloody Walmart or whatever, did it actually happen? Exactly. One can't exist without the other. That's so gross. 

We're expecting to have all the truth exposed. all the dirty secrets coming out. Why did they divorce and all the heartbreak? But it was quite an upbeat. 

Maybe it wasn't that bad. 

Well, everyone was like, where's the song about Nick? 

We're both focused on our careers. 

Well, he was releasing. Remember he released that single, that Sookie, What's Left of Me. 

Oh, the, what was that called? What's Left of Me? What's Left of Me? You can have what's left of me. 

That was his. I'm broken and he's complete. 

But you can have what's left of me. It's like I'm rebounding and I'd really like some sex. That's what that's the that's the undercurrent of that song. 

She's built a billion dollar fashion business. Remember when I bought the Jessica Simpson Jeggins? I loved those. 

They were good Jeggins. 

Bought them from Macy's America. 

The Macy's. 

And they got a hole in them. They were very comfortable. It was my fault. They weren't poorly manufactured. The hole was my fault. 

Did you wear them out to a public affair? 

I went roller skating and I fell over and grazed my knee and it split them. Such a shame. She's also an acclaimed bestselling memoir author with her book Open Book. 

Hang on. I'm just wondering if that's the title or she's just written an instruction for herself. Oh, rude. It was just there. 

Stay out of it, Nicolas Shay reinvented himself as a TV host alongside his wife, Vanessa. She was a VJ, Vanessa Manololo. 

Oh, really? 

Remember her? She was on like MTV or VH1 or something. They got married. And then Jessica later admitted that she really wanted the record to sound optimistic because everybody did expect the heartbreak album. So she was like, no, I'm not going to give you one. 

Fair enough. Let's go over to what can only be described as a cluster in music. And that is the MTV Video Music Awards for 2006, which were held on the 31st of August. They're always outrageous, you know that. But this one? Not so much. A little bit tamer. Well, sort of. Like there was a big upset there because Panic at the Disco won Video of the Year for I Write Sins, Not Tragedies. And they beat people like Madonna and Shakira and Christina Aguilera and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. So this is like an emo band winning. But what was more interesting about that was when Jennifer Lopez was presenting the award for Video of the Year to Panic at the Disco. this bloke runs up on the stage, Kanye West style, and starts to promote himself, complaining that MTV never gave him his own show or whatever, and then plugged his website and then got escorted off by security. What I find interesting about that is with these emo bands, because they just kind of dress down or they just kind of look a bit more, I mean, they're not like a normal celebrity where it's like glamour and they sort of hold their head high and they have that aura around them. 

No, they have the jeans hanging off their. 

Right, and so for a second there, when they all came up on stage and the dude came up, everyone was just like, is he with them? Like, I'm not entirely sure. 

What's up, MTV? How y'all doing? My name is Six. MTV never gave me my own show. So I want everybody around the world to log on to MTV6000.com and give it up for these guys. Big up Remy Moss, Star Blaze, and Philadelphia. So there's a lot of confusion there. He speaks very well. Throwing off my thunder. Wow. I guess I just want to start by, you know, thanking all the fans that voted for us and everybody that supported us in the past year. It's been amazing. We can't thank you enough, so. We would like to thank all our friends and family back home. John Janek, Pete Wentz, and everybody in Fall Out Boy. Everybody at Fuel By Ramen, everybody at Lanik, Leor, Julie, Craig, Doug. 

Yeah, Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy gets a shout out. It's a fuel by Rahman. I love that name. But the confusion. 

I think he spoke better than them though. 

The confusion was great because, well, nobody knew who he was. And then the problem was is the guys from Panic at the Disco were like trying to talk and they'd cut all the mics because they didn't know who was in Panic at the Disco and who wasn't. So there was Panic at the VMAs, the Panic at the Disco. 

What do you do? 

Yeah, well, I think they and I they let him know. 

They think that they would have learned from that and stopped the whole Kanye thing. 

Did that happen before? More or after this? 

Well, that hasn't happened yet, has it? Or has it? 

I don't know. I don't think it hasn't. Things come to me. 

Taylor Swift only just released her song this year, her first song. So she can't win an award yet. 

Until we research the show and put these things on the timeline, I can't bloody know. 

No, the Taylor Swift thing hasn't happened. Can confirm, because she's just released her first song. Yeah, you think then they'd have better security and they'd learn from the six incidents? 

Well, yes, but he just spoke so well, I thought he was a... 

Very well, but he gave an MTV URL, so maybe he wasn't legitimate. 

Look, maybe. I mean, they are chaotic. I mean, that wasn't the most chaotic thing. I think was it Fergie doing London Bridge and not knowing the lyrics to her own song was pretty funny. 

All the time I'm going around, brothers get around, I was looking at the down, looking at my, I just want to stay in the mind, just round up, drum a little mama, I don't want to marry, you know? 

That's good. 

I don't know what's going on there. 

I don't know what's happening. 

It's like somebody fast forwarded the tape. That was terrible. So there was that. There was that. And then Sarah Silverman said something about Lance Bass. 

Lance Bass from NSYNC is gay. Remember that time he wanted to like fly to the moon or whatever? Please. I mean space travel. It's pretty gay. 

That was a time, I've forgotten about that, the early 2000s, when people used to say all the time, that's so gay. That was such a, it was just, people would say it all the time and nobody would have a problem with it. 

Yeah, now they can't. 

Remember that. 

I do. 

That's wild. 

It is wild. 

Thinking back. 

It is wild. I don't think Sarah Silverman meant anything derogatory by the way. No, but I think it was more of a social commentary on the fact that everyone else was commenting about it. 

Yeah, I think so, because that's very much what her comedy is. It just reminded me back in the day when people used to just call everything gay, that's so gay. 

See, they always used to call things that were gentle and soft and nice gay though. 

All those things that were bad. That's gay. I don't like that. That's gay. Don't you remember that? 

No, I remember it. Look, you've got to understand, like that phrase, that's gay, is unfortunately in the vernacular of every young boy from about 12 years old. Because it's one of those things that just becomes one of those words that get bandied around by young prepubescent boys and then, you know, get used on things like Call of Duty and stuff all the time. It's just, I mean, thank goodness we've kind of moved past that. 

We have. 

We've evolved a little bit. 

Yeah, I totally forgot about that till just then. I was like, oh my gosh. 

I thought Silverman's joke was pretty funny, to be honest with you. But, you know, there were other instances where that is used where it's done. Anyway, they had little Kim out of jail. 

Fresh out of jail. 

Wearing an orange prison jumpsuit. 

She was. Yeah, And I think she stripped out of it Perform, and she made some comment about having to be around women for the past year, so I think there's men on stage dancing around her. 

Well, that's she's very sassy. That might be gay. Who knows? And then Jack Black said it was, he was going to bring the crazy, but everyone was like, that was pretty safe, actually. 

Yeah, it was pretty safe. 

Just didn't have those headline grabbing moments. They didn't have anyone from Rage Against Machine protesting Limp Bizkit winning something. No meat dresses. 

No meat dresses. 

No Kanye on the stage. 

No Madonna kissing people. 

You know, nobody pulling guns on somebody on the red carpet or none of that. Really disappointing. Lift your game, MTV. Over to the big screen and Snakes on a Plane is just going gangbusters in Australia at #1. We're all like, oh, we love Snakes in Australia, let's go and see them on a plane. Yes, and we love swearing too. Yeah, we like swearing too, so let's go and look at them mother snakes on that mother plane. So #1 at the US box office is a sport film about NFL called Invincible. 

Every Sunday. Millions of fans experience the power and rush of NFL football. But in 1976, for the Philadelphia Eagles and a fan named Vince Papale, Vince, we've had some rough times, you and me. 

Bob, things are going to turn around. 

It was time to do something. 

Welcome the new head football coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Mr. **** Vermeil. 

That had never been done before. 

This coming Saturday, the Philadelphia Eagles will hold open tryouts. 

Now, you got a tryout this weekend. Nobody's trying out. He's 30 years old for one thing. The Eagles' biggest fan. This is the one where Vince runs around everyone. 

My car. 

Is about to take a shot at a dream. Even if you're down there for one hour, you're down there. 

What brings you out here would. 

Be an eagle, baby. 

How we doing, AC? 

I've seen glaciers move faster. 

Where'd you play your college ball? I didn't play college ball. Do you mind me asking you how old you are? If you don't mind me asking how old you are, coach? 

Shocking news from today's tryout. The Eagles have decided to invite one man to training camp. Phillies own Vince Papale. A-N-G-L-E-S Eagles. 

That was a great story and a true story as well. And Disney were going through this wave of inspirational true sports story movies. This was one of the better ones. And it is just such an interesting story in that it's based on Philadelphia Eagles play out Vince Papali. So Mark Wahlberg plays Vince, right? And Greg Kinnear plays coach **** Vermeil. And the film follows Vince earning a roster spot through an open tryout, which is unheard of in the end. They don't just throw the thing open for anyone. There's a college system and there's scouting and there's all this sort of stuff that happens. But open public tryouts for professional teams are unheard of. And even more so today. But here, this is so great. Like during During that time in the 70s, they needed players on the Eagles. They sucked and they went out and they did public tryouts and Vince was the only person to get through. and onto the roster for the opening tryout. And then had a great career in the NFL, which is fantastic. Vince Papali himself, not Mark Walberg, is a motivational speaker these days. **** Vermille, the coach, was in the Football Hall of Fame in 2022. Eagles didn't win their first Super Bowl till 2018, which is fans, I mean, in spite of the inspirational sporting film in 2006, they're like, yeah, we're not winning anything. But it was a good movie. It was a feel-good family Disney movie with an interesting story and it's even quirkier because it actually happened. 

It's been a while between gaming news. 

Oh, it has. I don't have time to play video games anymore because I'm old. Yes. I just don't have time. It's really frustrating. Everyone is playing my game consoles in this house except me. 

I'm not. 

Even the dog is. I've caught the dog. 

Really? What doing? Singstar. 

No, the dog's playing Paperboy. 

Nintendogs. 

Nintendogs, there you go. 

First of September 2006. 

Yeah. 

There's a little launch. And at the time, nobody really cared. Founders David Basuki and Eric Castle had been developing something since 2004. 

The story of Roblox begins in 1989 with this simple block. We programmed a 2D simulated physics lab called Interactive Physics, which would later go on to influence our approach to building the groundwork for Roblox. Students across the world used interactive physics to see how two cars would crash or build destructible houses. It was astonishing to see what these kids and teens were designing, and I wanted to replicate that capability on a much grander scale. So with my co-founder Eric, we began building the core components that would become the basis for our imagination platform. Roblox quickly began bringing the world together through the power of play, harnessing players and creators of different ages and backgrounds from all around the world, connected by shared experiences. From China to Brazil to America, the world began to create as one. Friendships were built and a new form of entertainment was born. Roblox world is growing faster than ever before. Creators are creating new genres, deeper narratives, and more diverse experiences that are opening up entertainment paths into worlds of play never thought possible. We're enabling the creation of more human forms that allow for greater self-expression, unleashing the limits of the imagination to enable anyone to be who they want to be. We're building a platform for a new generation, one that enables people to create and share experiences through play. Together, we are the architects of play. 

How about that? Do you feel inspired? 

It's a very long ad. No, I feel inspired. 

I think it was a pitch. You know, like it's like, hey, I mean, I don't need to. 

I feel like someone was selling me a pyramid scheme. 

They don't need to sell anything now. 

No, they don't. 

These guys have that. I mean, what is fascinating about it is instead of like giving someone a game, They've just given them the tools to make it themselves to create and they've tapped into this creativity that a lot of gamers have and it's been an absolute winner. 

Originally called Dynablox. 

That was not the winner. It's a good thing they changed the name. 

They renamed it to Roblox. Launches on the 1st of September. Shipped with Roblox Studio, letting anyone create games and worlds. And early experiences were pretty basic. Obstacle courses, paintball arenas, haunted houses, train rides. It's just like the carnies. The avatars were blocky, barely animated, pretty basic to start with. 

But the thing is, people get into these things and they start pushing boundaries. 

Started with a tiny community in the first month. And then it grew. It grew and it grew. The users created the content. It's now one of the biggest entertainment platforms in the world. with 10s of millions of daily users and millions of player created experiences. 

Yeah, it's like, well, if you've never been on Roblox before, it's like YouTube for games. So you can, there's a whole bunch of creators and channels out there making all sorts of different things and you can go on in there and sample this stuff. And some of it's good and some of it's not so good. And I think that's why you see a lot of stuff in the news about it being sort of problematic for kids because like lots of kids obviously want to go in there and do it. And in their hands it can be a really great creative tool, but if it's not monitored and regulated, you can find some pretty nefarious pockets out there in the Roblox world. 

And I think that's the thing a lot of parents think of it, Roblox, as a game, as opposed to having access to millions of completely different games that other people have built. 

It's almost gateway social media for them. Like, and you think about it now, like in this country, like social media is banned for kids under 16, but they can still go and play Roblox. Is that right? Or is that part of it now? 

But I think the concept of understanding that it's not just one game, it's user-created games. Therefore, you don't actually know what's within those games. And there's also the chat functionality as well. So you can interact and speak with others. 

Yes, it's become a case study as to why we can't have nice things, really. Because like, yes, it is a great tool when it's put in the right hands, but someone's always going to be out there and try and do something stupid with it and try and break it. I mean, that's almost human nature, I think. There's always going to be one. And in this case, when you've got something that's huge, there's often more than one. But at its core, I think it is still a great learning tool if used correctly. 

And that concept of user generated content as well. You have, like you said, it's the YouTube for gaming. It's people actually create the content. 

I would wager that a lot of people that have now gone on to big careers in the gaming industry and the software developing industry may have started out in the early 2000s playing on Roblox. 

It went public in 2021. It's worth 10s of billions of dollars. It's expanded into concerts. 

I don't even know how that works. 

Education. 

Yeah. 

Virtual commerce and brand partnerships. 

That's where it starts to get the monetizing. You really want your kids around that sort of virtual commerce. You've got to be careful with that. There's got to be guardrails. You've got to take the same life lessons that you've given to your kids out there in the real world and understand that the online world is as much a part of the real world as what the real world is. And it has the same trappings and things that you can experience in the real world. So you need to prepare them for that. Does that make sense? Or do I sound like a I built the helicopter in Roblox and then flew it around. It's a new game I'm developing called The Helicopter Parent. 

They are investing heavily in safety features and moderation though because they do realize that there is a young audience and that they need to do it and keep it safe. 

Well, otherwise you get whole countries like Australia going, no, kids can't play that anymore. And then you lose a lot of those 10s of billions of dollars. That's right. We're just about to ban ourselves until next week. But first we have to do hatches, matches and dispatches. It would only be right. So we have a celebrity birthday again this week. Somebody who said this? 

You know, and everybody want to make a dollar, whether it's rappers, musicians, media, TV. It's just you need the hot story. Like you may need a hot story. You don't care if it's going. really hurt somebody. That's just the way you make your living. 

I think you should rethink your job, if that's the case. I don't know who this guy is, but it's, you do. It's a dude by the name of Maze. 

Mace. 

Mace. 

Mace. 

Spelled M-A-S-E. 

Yes. Pronounced like the spray that you spray and attacker's eyes. 

Someone's face. Right. 

With the ball thing that you... 

That's a flail. 

Isn't there like a thing that knights use called the mace? 

Well, the mace is actually a club. 

Oh, I thought it was the one with the, I thought it was the club that had the swingy chain bits. 

It doesn't have the chain, that's a flail. But if you just have the, if you just have the ball bit on the end of a pole. 

I got my knight ship confused. 

If you have the ball bit on the end of the pole with the spikes, that's a mace. 

That's the mace. Okay, sorry, got that mixed up. 

Make sure you get your sword and sorcery right. You don't want to go into Roblox. 

Not knowing the difference between a flail and a mace. That is Mace, born Mason Bethel in Jacksonville, Florida before moving to Harlem as a child. Started off as a basketballer. 

Right. 

Very talented basketballer. 

Where did he end up? 

Music. You don't know him from music. He's a rapper. He's a rapper, but he started in basketball and got a scholarship. People thought it was going to make it big. Then he started rapping and he's friends with Cameron. Remember Cameron? 

Cameron. Is he the one that Jay Uso got in an argument with? 

Yes. Who's saying, Hey Ma, what's that? You know that song? 

So he's friends with Mace? 

Cameron and Mace. 

They both have beef with the Usos then. 

I actually think, actually, I think Mace is on the podcast with Cameron. 

And so that was the podcast that Jay Uso got. I think it was. People are like, what are you talking about? And it's like, oh, you need to. It's all right, we. 

Wound it back before and we mentioned it. Was it wind it back? Rewinded. 

Run it back, run it back, run it back. Okay, so what, so Mace is in basketball and music? 

So basketball, but then he becomes, he starts rapping with Cam Ron. Right. And he originally performs as Murder Mace. Oh, that's not really. 

With Cam Ron, Big Yell, and some others. 

Then Sean, Puff Daddy Holmes, P. Diddy, Dotty, whatever, he signs him to Bad Boy. 

Does he, as Murder Mace? 

Well, no, he's like, that's not really radio friendly. So they drop the murder, signs him in 96, just as Mace. He becomes the big star of Bad Boy after the death of Biggie Smalls. So Mace is the next big thing as far as Bad Boy Records goes. 

I've never heard of this. 

In, he features in a lot of other songs, so his biggest song himself was Feels So Good, but you probably know him best. He was on Mo Money Mo Problem. 

Who's hot, who not? Tell me who rock, who's selling the stores? You tell me who flop, who popped the blue drop? Who jewels got popped? 

And then he featured, he featured on a lot of other, as a rapper that featured a lot of other bad boy artists like 112. And if you listen to any bad boy music, he's usually featured within the songs rapping. 

I'm so sorry. You really are on your own in this segment. I have no idea how it was going. 

He featured on Cart, Nobody Held Me Down. Been around the world? 

Right. 

All of your favorites. 

Yeah. Great. Good for him. 

He sold more than 4 million copies of his debut album, Marlon World. 

Yeah. 

And very influential. Drake cites him as a major influence. 

Oh, well, he's got a lot to answer for then, doesn't he? 

If Drake is name dropping you, must be good. But plot twists. He then decides at the height of his fame to quit rap. 

Oh, he's throwing in the towel. 

He retires, but he announces it live on New York radio. So nobody knew. He just drops this during a radio interview. Because he believed that rap was leading people away from God and he wanted to become a pastor. 

Oh, he's born again. 

Founded a church. 

Yep. 

Spent years preaching. 

Really. 

Pastor Mace. 

Look at that. Instead, Pastor Mace. 

It's an interesting turn of events. It is an interesting turn. Then in 2004, he comes back. 

He ran out of money. Wasn't getting enough off the collection plate, needed to go back to bad boy. We stole the Welcome Back Cotter theme song. Yeah, that was in an ad too. 

What ad was that in? 

I don't know, but I mean it's a bit cheap. Like I get that they sample stuff, but when you start to get down to TV shows, theme songs. Do you reckon? Yeah, we could be. I mean, it's a good song. It's a great song. The original song for the theme back when TV themes were good. I kind of like the idea. The more I think about it, like I'm kind of like I'm looking for the worst. 

All the girls, someone should sample thank you for being a friend and rap over it. There's an idea. 

Well, it's... 

Maybe we should get the German rapper. To drop some German raps over, thank you for being a friend. 

What's thank you for being a friend in German. 

I don't know. 

Yeah, well, it starts with Dunker. For being Mein Frau. Yeah. Something like that. 

Perfect. 

Yeah, it works. 

Make it happen. So he came back with welcome back. It did all right because he's still, you know, people still remembered him. But they felt that the sound, it was probably more late 90s rather than mid 2000s. You're still stuck in the 90s, mate. And he was still a pastor. He actually didn't turn his back on the church. He was still kind of doing pastor stuff. while rapping. 

Can the two worlds, can they co-exist? 

Pray by day, rap by night. 

I don't know, yeah. We've got to pray just to make it today. Religion plays a big part in hip hop. 

So one of hip hop's most unusual figures. So he's continued to make music on and off. He spent years feuding. He had a big falling out with Diddy actually. 

Diddy? I didn't mean to do that then. 

Publishing rights and bad boy contracts. And yes, over the years, so it is Cameron that he is, so he is podcasting with Cameron. They're hosts of a popular sports podcast. It's what it is. 

Yeah, that would have been the one. 

Yeah. And giving, they're known for giving blunt and often very funny commentary on the NFL and the NBA. 

Oh, yeah. 

That's their niche. 

So just excuse us while a couple of musicians sit here and criticize elite athletes. 

Don't talk about cycling. 

Yes, look out. Oh dear. And that's, I wonder if they could pick any other, what other TV themes? Think of classic Australian TV themes. Skippy. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Henderson Kids. 

Henderson Kids. 

Did that have a theme song? Yes, it was. You got to have something with some lyrics here, Mel. You can't just go off half cocked. No, it did have lyrics. 

It did have lyrics. It was. 

Like the Home and Away theme song, for example. 

Closer Each Day, Home and Away. 

You and I belong together. You and I, no matter where you are, you're my guiding star. Like you could, you could do something with that. 

You definitely could. 

You know. 

Anderson Kids was, Carry on. Carry on together. 

Yeah, that is. Carry on. 

Carry on. 

Yeah. See that would work. What a funny old fellow is Humphrey. He gets in all manner of strife. He leads a very exciting life. And Honey's his favorite fair, which is hardly so very surprising. He really is an amazing old bear. 

Yeah. 

You know, there's stuff there in Australia, sons and daughters theme, you know. Neighbours. I mean, country practice didn't have words. No, but you could be like, ding, ding, ding, ding. See, it's not just Timberlake that could do it. Anyone can do it. 

Oh, that was great. Fabulous. 

Exactly. Was that this episode or the one before? Who knows? It's all starting to bleed into one another. We weren't talking. We weren't even talking about sexy back this week. That was a week ago. 

I didn't even tell. You just beatboxed all over the ground. 

Well, you did it to me last week with the Timberlake stuff, so now we're even. And now we're out of here, because that is the end of the show for this week. Happy birthday, Mace. 

Yes, have a nice birthday. 

Yeah. 

God be with you. 

I'd say he probably is. If you want to come and be with us during the week, you can come and find us on the socials, Facebook, Instagram, search for T-minus 20 podcast. Send us a boom so that we don't have to make them up. That'd be really helpful. 

I didn't make it up. 

I don't mean to make it up. You sourced it, but we don't need to source it from other sources. We could just get it from our sources. That'd be good. 

Yeah, maybe. Oh my gosh. 

What's happening next week? 

Big week next week. Steve Irwin's death, Peter Brock's death, Paris Hilton's DUI, Justin's album, Borat premieres, one of those bloody vampire books is out. 

There's too much. too much. A bumper episode. I'm tired just thinking about it. I'll try and build myself up for that. And again, build yourself up on the socials. Go and find us there. And thanks. Thanks for being a part of it. We'll see you next time. Bye. 

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