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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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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, Vanessa Carlton and the big Fella Chad Kroger. Plus we get a healthy dose of Bad Religion and our faith in humanity is restored when Bardot announce they are calling it quits.

In entertainment Tobey MacGuire swings onto our screens as Sam Raimi's Spiderman conquers the box office, Wendy Harmer bombs at the Logies and we smell what the Rock is cookin' - which actually turns out to be birthday cake. 

All that and heaps more!

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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 heavyweight with an absolute stinker of a movie, find out who The Mole is and say 'goodbye' to The Weakest link.

But wait, there's more! We celebrate the brith of Jason Lee and mourn Lisa Left eye Lopez.

We also head to Coachella for only $75 a ticket.

Don't go chasing waterfalls, stick the podcasts that you're used to!

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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 an ex member of Destiny's Child goes gospel.

Plus we celebrate 10,000 episodes of General Hospital and Samuel L Jackson takes on Ben Affleck at the box office.

Those stories and more, this week on T-Minus 20!

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