Surviving Y2K

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Surviving Y2K
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Hosted by Dan Taberski
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Preceded by Missing Richard Simmons
Followed by Running From Cops

Surviving Y2K was a podcast hosted by Dan Taberski and produced by Pineapple Street Media and Topic Studios. [1] [2]

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Background

The podcast was a six episode documentary that premiered on November 13, 2018. [3] The podcast was hosted by Dan Taberski and produced by Pineapple Street Media and Topic Studios. [4] The show was the second in a set of anthologies by Taberski called Headlong—Missing Richard Simmons was the first. [5] The podcast focuses on the hysteria caused by the Year 2000 problem. [6] The podcast discusses Taberski's own life changing events that occurred that new year. [7] Nicholas Quah of Vulture described the show as "[f]unny, poetic, and wonderfully written." [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Larson, Sarah (December 29, 2018). ""Surviving Y2K," a Podcast That Mines the Lessons of New Year's Eve". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  2. ↑ Divola, Barry (February 1, 2019). "Surviving Y2K: A podcast revisits 1999 hysteria". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on September 2, 2022. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  3. ↑ Quah, Nicholas (November 7, 2018). "The Creator of Missing Richard Simmons Has a New Podcast About the Y2K Crisis". Vulture. Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  4. ↑ Jarvey, Natalie (September 6, 2018). "'Missing Richard Simmons' Host Dan Taberski Sets Follow-Up Podcast 'Surviving Y2K'". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  5. ↑ McQuade, Laura Jane Standley, Eric (December 23, 2018). "The 50 Best Podcasts of 2018". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on March 16, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Podcasts: when the world was gripped by millennium-bug fever". Financial Times. November 18, 2018. Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Buggin' Out: Surviving Y2k's Dan Taberski on 'the disaster that never happened'". the Guardian. November 30, 2018. Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  8. ↑ Quah, Nicholas (November 19, 2018). "Surviving Y2K Is One of the Year's Most Beautiful Podcasts". Vulture. Archived from the original on September 1, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
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