The Occasionalists Podcast

We are in the hot, sweaty dog days of summer, folks. Which means it's a new month and a new year. 
For August, we are taking things back to 1985! A pivotal year in the middle of a bunch of really important years for both pop culture and the world at large. Which means, we kind of miss out on some major events and critical pieces of art.
But that means we get to freestyle a little bit this whole month. Hooray!
First up, a look at how the video game industry nearly buckled before a plucky Japanese gaming company came along to save the Princess from the clutches of Bowser and/or Gannon industry and create new ways to make video games and a whole lot of money.
 

Since you asked for it no one at all asked for this here's the Silas Crane cut of OCC Headline News for July 31 2100.
Amazing that I was able to clear up the signal!

We've once again found a frequency emanating from deep inside the Einstein-Rosen Bridge. There's some temporal jumbling happening, but this signal is the farthest in the future we've been able to intercept thus far. 
Wait, this is actually two separate signals, but they are riding into our space-time together all the way from the year 2100!
Spoiler alert: Sounds great! OR IS IT?!

We wrap up this month's episodes covering the events of 1999 with a look at two of the most impactful, world-changing events of the last millennium: The Battle in Seattle (WTO Ministerial Conference) and the Columbine High School Shooting.
One forever changed our economies and dealt a blow to domestic labor and the environment and the other fundamentally shook every American to their core in a way no one ever fully recovered from.

Our second 1999 episode takes a wide look at the movies and musical acts dominating their respective charts, how consumer and studio habits have changed the movie landscape, and why certain musicians are just so indescribably "millennial."
 

Was it a hoax? A fear-mongering tactic? A crisis that was carefully averted? A little bit of all of the above?
One thing is for sure, though: Y2K was THE hot topic of 1999.

July is here, which means hot dogs, fireworks, swimming, and a new theme month!
It's 1999 all month long on the podcast, and what better way to introduce some of the big things we're going to be talking about than with some pop culture trivia?!
Is that your final answer?

An oddity sprang up today, as if having an Einstein-Rosen Bridge in your house wasn't enough of an oddity, but we received our first broadcast signal from the past.
This is a very exciting development in the short existence of this seemingly one-way street of communication. More puzzling is that it seems to be a combination of two distinct signals from different times in the past.
It's getting weird around here!