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American Prestige

E192 - Y2K: The Future That Never Was w/ Colette Shade

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Danny and Derek speak with Colette Shade, who just released her debut collection of essays Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was). They discuss the fine line between ordinary nostalgia and lamenting the decline in material conditions, the advent of the internet and how it shaped a generation, how the millenials who grew up with the promise of the 90s compare with Gen Z and Alpha, the reality of globalization, how 9/11 magnified some of the more unfortunate trends of the 90s, the '08 recession, and more. Subscribe now for ad-free episodes and much more content! Go to Colette's website for more of her work and more information on her upcoming live appearances! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0

That's kind of conversation to your soul. free and will remain so. Enjoy the episode. Hello, Prestige Heads and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner,

1:17.4

here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davison. And we're very excited to welcome to the podcast today.

1:22.8

My Twitter buddy, Colette Shade. And we've invited Collette to talk about her new book, which is just out

1:28.8

when you're hearing this titled Y2K, How the 2000s Became Everything. And all you millennials out

1:36.0

there I know will be interested in this book. And it'll be even more interested after you listen to

1:40.5

Colette talked in this interview. So Colette, thank you so much for joining us.

1:44.0

Thanks for having me, guys. So the first question I want to ask is how you came to write this book,

1:49.6

because it's my understanding, both from the book itself and from Twitter, that this wasn't the first

1:54.1

book you set out to write. And I think in that way, it's a very millennial story, you know,

1:58.9

changing your path in the middle. So how did this book

2:01.8

come about? Why did you want to write it? And what are you really trying to say with this

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