The truth about Y2K

关于Y2K的真相

Today, Explained

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2024-12-07

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Kyle Mooney dreams up a New Year’s Eve 1999 apocalypse. Historian Zachary Loeb explains why the real Y2K wasn't one. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Anouck Dussaud, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Rob Byers, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Kyle Mooney in a still from "Y2K," the film he directed and starred in. Photo credit: Nicole Rivelli. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • 25 years ago, if you were alive, you or someone close to you was wondering what would happen when the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve.

  • Would the power go out?

  • Would planes crash?

  • Would ATMs start spitting out money all over the world?

  • But then nothing happened.

  • But what if something did?

  • I was 15 when Y2K happened, and for those of us who who were alive during Y2K, it was a letdown.

  • Nothing really happened.

  • And I think I've always been sort of minorly obsessed with that.

  • So one day the idea kind of struck me to make up a movie about teenagers, go to a party and.

  • Y2K actually happens on Today, Explained Kyle Mooney is going to tell us about his new movie, Y2K, and then we're going to hear why Y2K didn't happen.

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