🌴 Summer mode, nostalgia maxed out
We’re hitting pause on the weekly time machine to bring you a sun-soaked sampler platter of the most unhinged, delightful and ‘I can’t believe that actually happened’ moments from this year’s T Minus 20 episodes. Grab a Frosty Fruit, slip-slop-slap and settle in — because this is the year in rewind, but make it chaotic, sparkly and aggressively early-2000s.
🎸 Ryan Cabrera and the reality-TV fever dream
Ah yes, the Ryan Cabrera episode — the one where we discovered the man behind ‘On the Way Down’ was also on his way through some of the most wonderfully bizarre reality-show plotlines of the 2000s. From the Ashlee Simpson relationship arc to the hair that defied both gravity and good products, this was peak celebrity-music-MTV crossover energy. The perfect time capsule of when pop stars doubled as plot devices.
🕴️ Prince Harry’s party-store disaster
Then we revisited the royal scandal that truly broke the internet in 2005: Harry turning up to a costume party dressed as a Nazi. The global outrage, the tabloid pile-on, the palace damage control — every single part of it felt like watching history facepalm in real time. And in hindsight? It became one of the earliest signs of a royal era unravelling.
🍦 Wendy’s: the pink-tiled paradise we didn’t appreciate enough
And finally, a love letter to the Wendy’s of our youth — the hotdogs warming proudly on those stainless-steel spikes, the cheese that defied physics, the Funtime ice creams dipped in sprinkles that stuck to your face for three hours. It was chaotic. It was pink. It was perfection. Australia absolutely fumbled the bag by letting this icon vanish, so we’re officially launching the Bring Back Wendy’s movement. Hotdogs on spikes for all.
🌞 Your perfect summer catch-up episode
Three nostalgia bombs. Zero homework. Peak chaotic energy. The ideal warm-weather listen while you’re at the beach, stuck in holiday traffic or avoiding awkward small talk at a BBQ.
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