We take a look at what the current Democratic candidates for president were doing in the 1990s and 2000s. For this episode, we explore the votes and gaffes of Joe Biden's career, Kamala Harris's affair with Willie Brown, and Pete Buttigieg becoming a CIA robot.

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24 years after the discovery of the comet Hale-Bopp, we look back at Heaven's Gate, the religious cult who committed mass suicide to enter a spaceship following in the comet's tail. We talk the cult's leader Marshall Applewhite, the members' passion for web design, and why cults seemed to be everywhere in the 1990s.

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* https://gizmodo.com/the-online-legacy-of-a-suicide-cult-and-the-webmasters-1617403237 *

* https://skepticalinquirer.org/1997/07/art_bell_heavens_gate_and_journalistic_integrity/ *

Our friend Donni returns to discuss the 1990s ska movement. We talk the defining elements of the genre, its history as a political genre, and where the hell it's been for the last two decades.

We cover billionaire Ross Perot's political career in the 1990s, focusing on his major showing as the Reform Party candidate in the 1992 U.S. Presidential election. We talk his economic populism, his anger toward George H.W. Bush, and how he inadvertently gave us the iPhone.

We watched the new film, Yesterday, and discuss its absolutely insane premise. We talk The Beatles, Ed Sheeran, parallel universes, and the film's surprisingly good comedy.

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We return to the 1996 holiday classic, Independence Day. We talk Jeff Goldblum the sexy scientist, Bill Pullman as the ideal Clinton-era president, and how marrying a stripper affects your ability to fly a space shuttle. Also, Andy and Nora describe the nightmare of trying to get a green card.

Is Speed about capitalism? Is the bus the economy? Is the speed limit the growth rate? We talk Keanu, Dennis Hopper, and why Speed is one of the best action films of the decade.

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We close out our series on the best albums of the 1990s with dead dad jokes, made-up facts, and taking drugs to make music to take drugs to.

We're joined by Pete, co-host of Podside Picnic, to discuss the 1997 sci-fi cult classic The Fifth Element. We talk the film's sci-fi elements, the 22 years it took to complete the film, and the allegations of sexual misconduct surrounding the film's director, Luc Besson.

We discuss the musical relationship between Björk and Madonna during the late 1990s with our good friend Alyssa. We talk the influence of the trip hop and trance genres, Ricardo Lopez's obsession with Björk, Madonna's sex positivity, and our pathetic undergrad intern who we pay in bones.