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Hold onto your low-rise jeans nostalgia nuts, this week we’re chatting boobs, bluetooth and Mr Brightside

🎓 What did you get for your graduation? A watch? A fountain pen? Or a set of breasts? Yep. Back in ’04 parents were gifting their 18-year-olds breast implants as a ‘well done on the exams results kiddo, here are some new cans’. With reality shows like Extreme Makeover fuelling body image issues in the early noughts, this controversial gift sparked many heated debates. 

📱 We had the first mobile phone virus that left us all clutching our Nokias a little tighter. Cabir, the Bluetooth-spreading menace was a game-changer, showing us that even our trusty flip phones weren't safe from hackers. We’ll dissect how it all went down.

💰 Remember the name Dean Cartechini? We literally think about him 8.5 times per year. Dean made history as the first Deal or No Deal contestant to snag the $200,000 top prize. We’ll relive his nail-biting journey to the jackpot and how it had us all screaming ‘take the deal you mad man’ at the old cathode ray tube (not rich enough for a flat screen in 2004).

🎶 Over in the music scene, The Killers' debut album Hot Fuss was blowing up the albums charts with bangers like "Mr. Brightside" and "Somebody Told Me." We’ll dive into why this album became an instant classic and why it’s still iconic (esp at UK house parties and Singstar).

📺 And in the world of reality TV, we were hashtag blessed by the The Ashlee Simpson Show this week 20 years ago. This series gave us a front-row seat to Ashlee’s rise to fame and the drama that came with it, including that infamous SNL lip-syncing debacle. 

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