T minus 20
The year is 2005... Anakin turns to the dark side, YouTube makes its debut and we’re all couch-jumping for Maria, McDreamy and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo…
T minus 20, rewind to this week in history 20 years ago with Joe and Mel.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 84 minutes
- Episodes
- 213
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Does anyone remember Selwyn?
Pearl Harbour mystery solved, the Earth holds a summit and the time they tried to kill Christmas in Camden.
Blazin' Squad hits the charts, we've got new albums from Eve, Queens of the St…
The first recorded public display of Nickleback hate
Typhoons, plane crashes and embassies under seige! It's just another week in the early 2000s.
Rich Beam won the PGA Championship at Hazeltine after he was drugged by his wife, the Doggi…
Human organ product recall
Airlines going bankrupt, floods in Europe and a product recall on human tissue. You'd be forgiven for thinking the end times were upon us! But no! It's just another week back in 2002.
In…
We are drunk enough to dance
An abduction at in the UK that shook the world, in Australia Pacific Brands led the way for a national paid maternity leave scheme and in sport Australia wins the Bledisloe Cup.
In music…
Everybody hates Tom Brady
A harrowing rescue this week as nine coal miners are trapped in the Quecreek Mine in Pennsylvania, terror in Jerusalem with the Hebrew University bombing and a Legionnaire's disease out…
A scandal bigger than Enron
A financial scandal bigger than Enron, cloning returns to the headlines when a well known fertility expert takes his operation underground and a massive disaster over the skies of the U…
Let's all go to Sexpo!
The French president avoids an ill-conceived assassination attempt on Bastille Day, there's a massive beef recall in the States when they find poo in the meat and a nightclub in Peru tu…
Our Lleyton conquers Wimbledon
Hormone Replacement Therapy hits the headlines, a piece of baroque art breaks a record at auction and pilots are allowed to carry guns on planes.
Lleyton Hewitt wins Wimbledon and Frien…
Fossett goes around the world in 13 days
The International Criminal Court vows to bring tyrants to justice, there's gangland murders in Griffith and we see a mid air disaster end with a shocking true crime twist.
Steve Fossett…
George W Bush gets a colonoscopy
George W Bush gets a colonoscopy, someone invents an electronic dog translator and we take a 'trerp' to Nellyville.
Rod Stewart and Coldplay headline Glastonbury, Ozzy Osbourne releases …
Britney Spears, world's most powerful woman
It's a week of earthquakes, wildfires and Willie Mason's hair!
Plus we've got tooth phones, Elvis lives and our patron saint, Britney Spears is ranked the most powerful woman in the wor…
The mystery of the Lithgow panther
It's a week of scientific mystery and wonder as we discuss husband and wife planting electrodes into their nervous system, asteroid near misses and the infamous Lithgow panther.
We talk …
Chopper Read - children's author
This week sees a new development in the case against murderer Sef Gonzalez, the spammers sue the spammed in a landmark case and Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her home in Utah.
Inter…
Closure at Ground Zero
This week 20 years ago was an emotional milestone in the aftermath of September 11 as the clean up crews started to pack up and head home.
It was also a sad week for sports fans with the…
Tommy Lee goes solo
It's a week where we prattle on about music for quite some time. There's new number one's from Shakira and Liberty X plus album releases from Killswitch Engage, Poison, Tommy Lee, Danz…
Carter talks peanuts with Castro
Jimmy Carter misses out on the April Sun in Cuba but discusses peanut farming with Fidel Castro, the ambitious Network Against Prohibition storm the legislative assembly in Darwin and w…
Elon Musk buys rockets from Russia
Did you know that, long before he purchased Twitter, Elon Musk went shopping in Russia to buy the largest ICBMs that they had in their nuclear arsenal?
We've got the skinny on the 20th …
Bardot call it quits
Find out why they called the Mig21 aircraft 'the flying coffin', the government thought our kids playgrounds were about as safe and fax machines were essential working from home kit way…
Nudes in space
There's gold in them there hills around Orange in NSW this week, people are finding bodies in the Thames over in the UK and we send nudes via one of the most successful space probes of …
Friendly fire in Afghanistan
Air disasters in Korea, friendly fire incidents in Afghanistan and the Indian Army integrate yoga into their training.
Tiger Woods wins the Masters, the Boston Marathon is dominated by …