T minus 20

This week we're worried about the sex lives of koalas, struggling to pronounce Hyundai, celebrating a posthumous release from Kurt Cobain and watching a bit of Dr Phil while we chuck a sickie. In the news we discuss a rockslide in Russia that wiped out an entire film production, we find out why Toby Keith will never smoke weed with Willie again and look at the premiere of Firefly on network t...

A manhunt in the NT dominates the news in Australia, it's a sombre week in the USA with the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks and TransOrbital get permission to put man and a time capsule on the moon. New albums from Atomic Kitten, Megadeth, RUN DMC and in music news Marie from Roxette receives a terrible diagnosis. Aussie director John Polson goes to the top of the US box office...

Using a prison prayer room for Satanic worship, people having relations with frozen chooks and freeze dried pets. It's a weird old week this one. We've also got the rise of the Roomba, the Williams sisters face off again and Argentina deliver one of the biggest upsets in basketball history. Atomic Kitten ruin a Blondie track, Aaron Carter is a pathological liar, The Music debut with thei...

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 Stone Age, 30 Seconds to Mars and we find out what happened to Popstars 2 runner up Selwyn. Michael Jackson crowns himself artist of the millennium lil Tecca is born and we have cake with Jeff Hardy and Yas...

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 Doggiez breached the salary cap and were in big trouble and nobody told Steve Jobs how to properly pronounce Jaguar. We take you on a world tour of music with a new UK number one from the Sugababes, albums from Blac...

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. music we've got the history of Murder Inc, new albums from Nerf Herder & Def Leppard and we ponder who on earth would call themselves Keith Sweat. You'll get some pretty confronting search...

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 Nelly is number one in the US, Darius is colourblind in the UK and DJ Sammy takes us to Heaven. New albums from Swedish extreme metal masters Meshuggah and Bowling for Soup are Drunk Enough to Dance. At the movies...

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 outbreak in the UK that could have easily been avoided. We've got three wheeled scooters and nobody won the Tour De France that year, however Aussie Robbie McEwen did win the green jersey and no one could tak...

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 Ukraine at the Sknyliv air show. Schumacher wins his 5th F1 championship in France, the Commonwealth Games open in Manchester and Warwick Capper enter the Big Brother House! Road to Perdition dominates the box office...

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 turns into a deathtrap when it is consumed by fire. The second gen iPod is released with Windows support, Gareth Gates goes to number one in the UK and Aussie band The Vines release their critically acclaimed deb...

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 Friendster is the new social network everyone wants to be a part of. New albums from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Men in Black 2 is a hit at the box office and Monk makes his TV debut. Plus loads more on the week commenci...

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 finally succeeds in his around the world solo balloon flight at the expense of the Aussie taxpayer and Brazil dominates the World Cup Final. Oasis release Heathen Chemistry, Green Day get up to Shenanigans and...

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 Live at Budokan and The Who's John Entwhistle is found dead in a hotel room. Cruise and Speilberg rule the box office with Minority Report, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are no longer in action and Aust...

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 world. Scooby Doo dominates the box office, Boris Johnson celebrates his birthday while working as the editor of The Spectator and we check out the latest New York Times best selling novel that we couldn...

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 about the size of Shaq's shoes and the Lakers winning the 2002 NBA finals as well as the Manly Sea Eagles full-time return to Brookie! Bowie and Korn released albums this week 20 years ago. So did Boyz II...

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. Interest rates are on the rise in Australia, The South Koreans draw the ire of the Italians when they knock them out of the Fifa World Cup and Serena Williams beats her sister in France. Will Young butchers a Doors class...

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 passing of a cricketing great Hanse Cronje. While at the same time, a deceased sports super fan becomes a very unlikely terrorist threat. We saw the rise and rise of rapper Eminem so it’s only fitting for a bit of...

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, Danzig, Dio and Boxcar Racer. It's also  the 47th Eurovision Song Contest in Estonia and Alien Ant Farm are lucky to survive a horror bush crash in Spain.  In the news the body of Chandra Levy is rec...

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 we get all hippy dippy at the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival. We confuse Scott Cain with Scott Cam and question the morality of taxidermy for your pets. We break down High Crimes starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd...

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 Anniversary of Space X, a political assassination in the Netherlands and a devastating terrorist attack in Russia that you probably never even heard about. Big Kev gets excited about coming back from a DUI. Spi...

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 back in 2002. In sport Barry Bonds hits his 400th homer and mistakes performance enhancing drugs for arthritis cream while Arsenal snatches the FA cup from Chelsea.  In the charts it's the Sugarbabes...

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 all time. We dissect Oasis's the Hindu Times, get all indie with Badly Drawn Boy and then add a touch of glam with the latest release from Dokken. The Rock takes his first steps into becoming a Hollywood h...

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 the Kenyans and we discuss the affect of long distance running on toenails. In the charts, sports fans go crazy over an Icelandic DJ, Damon Albarn gets fresh beats in Mali, Blink 182 and Green Day hit the road and a...

This week we farewell the Queen Mother, George W Bush denounces cloning and the development of human animal hybrids and the worlds shortest coup d'etat takes place in Venezuela. Plus Nelly heralds the end of Nsync, Lance Bass joins the Russian space program and we discuss why Lemmy is the coolest human ever to walk the earth. We also discuss the 'Cash for Comment' controversy, Joe r...

He’s one of our peers, a long time friend of the show, he’s been a big deal in media circles for quite some time and he’s embarking on a new business venture with Smoke Masters Barbecue . Scott Masters joins us to chat meat, music, footy, pies and life after radio. And this week 20 years back, the grisly murder that rocked Australia, the death of a grunge superstar that really hit hard and the Dut...