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 commencing 7 July 2002.

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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 someone thinks its a good idea to remix Jessica Simpson. Meanwhile Sony music feels the wrath of Michael Jackson.

Peter Corbett wins the second season of Big Brother, Sailor Moon gets cancelled, we wish Lindsay Lohan a happy birthday and we discover the chilling tale of a baseball legend who was cryogenically frozen! 

Plus much more!

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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 Australians still think Scooby Doo is the best thing to see at the movies.

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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't be bothered reading!

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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 Men and we discuss why we hate 'End of the Road' so much. Joe also discovers the magic of country music in his middle as we revisit the 36th CMT Flameworthy Music Awards.

American Idol makes it's debut this week in 2002 and we look at some of the worst auditions and best reactions.

We hold a birthday party for Johnny Depp, the Olsen Twins and Steve-O. Attend Paul McCartney and Heather Mill's wedding and bury John Gotti.

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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 classic, Avril releases her debut album, R Kelly gets arrested for the first time and Natalie Imbruglia returns home to stand by her man.

Jack Ryan and Jason Bourne have their day at the box office, The Wire and Crank Yankers make their TV debut and Chopper Read tries his hand at being a children's author.

Plus loads more!

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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 deep dive into his life and times. And we’re still banging on about Oasis beacuase it's one of the Gallagher's birthday…

We also delve into the world ASMR and open our first ever letter sent in by a loyal T minus 20 listener. Spoiler alert: no cake.

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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 recovered, a KKK member is finally brought to justice and Russia and the United States come to an agreement of sorts over nuclear weapons.

In sport the ACT Brumbies get spanked by the Canterbury Crusaders in the Super 12 Rugby final.

In entertainment it's the end of the line for Ally McBeal, Felicity and the X-Files.
 
And we wish Louis Theroux and Claudia Schiffer a happy birthday!

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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 and find out why you wouldn't be able to buy a house these days with it's box office takings on opening week. We also look at Bowling for Columbine and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.

Plus we've got Kath and Kim, Lil Huddy, Tony Hawk and loads more. It's a jam packed week that was, way back in 2002.

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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. Spiderman dominates the box office and is an occupational health and safety disaster on broadway and we remember the time Holly Valance took a sidestep from Nieghbours and got naked on Video Hits.

Plus lots more!

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