Remember Shuffle

In hono(u)r of the recent marriage of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, Remember Shuffle is looking back at how their fairy tale love story began: with full-page ads in the press, intense paparazzi attention, and what is likely the most offensive and terrible film of either of their careers, Gigli. After discussing the power couple, the Shuffle Bois go beat by beat through Gigli, so that you don’t have to.

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On this episode, the “Music Heads” of Remember Shuffle discuss Green Day’s American Idiot: the 2000s’ quintessential protest album, a zeitgeist-capturing punk rock opera about suburban angst, and the source material for a superfluous and unnecessary Broadway musical about sitting on couches. We break down what makes this album an incredible 2000s time capsule, investigate how Green Day wrote an apolitical protest album that no one will cancel you for, and bafflingly wonder why this got the musical treatment.

Grab your Doritos, Xbox controllers, and Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel and buckle up for a tight 57-minute conversation about the Halo franchise-- a formative video game series of the childhoods and adolescences of millennials everywhere. Along the way, we attempt to discuss the surprisingly deep lore of the Halo universe, talk about the rise of “The Operator” in both politics and culture, and Cortana's slow creep into being a strange sex symbol.

Hi, we’re Remember Shuffle, and this is our Jackass episode. In this episode we discuss the absolute masterclass of early 2000s reality TV that is MTV’s Jackass. We analyze the pure, anarchic, joyful chaos of the 2000s reincarnation of Diogenes' cynicism, look at how the Jackass energy has been diffused throughout our pop-culture, and touch on why the nostalgia cycle of reboots seems to be shortening.

This week, the public intellectuals of Remember Shuffle are a literature podcast. We discuss the absolute masterpiece that is the Robert Langdon's Literary-Crypto Universe, unpacking the dense symbology Dan Brown’s Magnum Opus. Along the way, we discuss the gradual mainstreaming of conspiracy theories starting in the early 2000s, the laziest movie adaptations Hollywood has ever crapped out, and produce our own Dan Brown plot. Few People Realize Real Lies.

Finally, they made a movie just for the fellas. You have made it to the end of the rainbow, and awaiting you is a triple feature of a discussion of the 2000s cult classic, The Boondock Saints; Overnight, a documentary about its director; and The Boondock Saints 2, maybe the worst film ever made.

Remember How I Met Your Mother? HIMYM had HEAT in the 2000s--more viewers than The Office,  more episodes, more catchphrases, and even a Hilary Duff spinoff that launched this year! And yet it feels like this show is never talked about today. Even though it ended only it passed right through our culture like a 2000's Tiger King. We examine why.