It's the Red Richardson show this week and he has with him, his very funny friend movie star Jayde Adams to make sense of the world according to 1996 whilst Bobby has some explaining to do. Back in the time machine, and Michael Jackson has married Elvis's daughter Lisa-Marie Presley, rapper and hip-hop star Tupac Shakur is shot and killed, the Deep Blue computer beats Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the most popular toy of the year is Buzz Lightyear from the Disney Pixar Toy Story film, there is an outbreak of British Mad Cow disease in the UK, and the rapped 6ix9ine is born.

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