The Year Was 2000 feat. 12Kyle

On this episode, Danny brings back friend of the pod/host of the 12Kyle Podcast, 12Kyle, to wax poetic on the year 2000. They talk about what their lives were like in 2000, the Y2K scare, the Bush/Gore Election, Elian Gonzales, Super Bowl 35, Vince Carter shutting down the dunk contest, The Summer of Venus Williams, the debut of the Survivor TV show, Eminem, our favorite albums from 2000 and more!

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What is good, good people? You are now listening to another episode of Since We Last Spoke with Danny Foxworth. I am your humble narrator, Danny Foxworth, and once again we're joined by an extremely special repeat guest. I mean, anytime I do a yearly retrospective on Since We Last Spoke, I figure who better to invite on to uh wax poetic about the olden days than this good brother next to me, Podcaster Extraordinaire. He's the host of the 12 Car Podcast and the Rap Soul Podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, back for the umteen thousandth time, the good brother 12Cyle, Florence, South Carolina's own. What's good, brother? Chilling, man. What's happening, Danny, man? Thanks for having me back on, man. This has been a it's been a couple of times. You know, I didn't even think about it until you just mentioned it. And I think we we last saw each other at uh what homecoming last year, South Carolina State University. So always good to be back on, man. And I definitely got to get you back on, man, because I got tons of topics to talk about. Man, you just just say the word and I'm there. So if this is your first time listening, every now and then I'll have an episode dedicated to a specific year, and and uh 12 Kyle and I, he's basically the co-pilot for these uh annual retrospectives. And we covered the year 1992, and we also covered the year 1996. And I was like, you know what? We hadn't done one of these in a in a hot minute. Let's do Y2K. So that's what tonight's episode is going to be about. All notable things that happened in the year 2000. So, first off, first off, 12 Kyle, what were you doing in the year 2000? Well, I had a life-changing event in 2000, Danny. Uh, I got married in 2000. No kidding. Yeah, man. My wife, Sharice and I, we met on a campus of South Carolina State University uh when we were both an undergrad. And uh I met her, we met in '94, dated, and uh in 2000, yeah, man, we tied the knot. And uh in and like the old uh in living color uh skit, and we still together. We still together. I love it. So yeah, that was that was probably the most major thing that happened September 23rd, 2000. We we we tied the knot in uh in Andrews, South Carolina. My wife's uh grandparents' hometown, yes. Her grandparents? Yeah, her grandparents are from her grandparents. I don't, they weren't born and raised there, but they live in Andrews or they they did before they transitioned. And my wife is from Compton, but she moved to uh and went to Andrews High, and that's where she graduated from. Uh she moved there, I think, in like 10th grade. So she was in California up until then, then moved and and uh graduated from Andrews High. I thought I told you that. Yeah, I I mean I I didn't know she I knew she was from Compton. I didn't know about the part of her. Yeah, moving Andrew. She got little country ties, man. Wow, that's wow. So Andrews, that's the Yellow Jackets, right? Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. Georgetown County. Not too far from uh, well, it's probably about 10 minutes from Georgetown, and then maybe another 25, 30 minutes to Myrtle Beach. So it's near, it's it's in the middle of nowhere, according to me, but you know, I'm from the magic city of Florence, South Carolina, so the the the metropolis, Florence, South Carolina. The capital of the PD. There you go, there you go. Man, 2000, I was a sophomore in college. Okay. This point I was uh I was still at uh Trident Tech and man, just uh simple life, you know. 20 years old, you don't have a like you just now like getting bills in your name and stuff, so it wasn't a whole lot of responsibilities that I had to shoulder, but you know, it just basically the bills became like an accelerant in the maturation process. So yeah, those are probably the um biggest memories was uh especially being a Trident Tech man and experiencing college life, which in that to if I'm gonna be keeping the bean with you, Trident Tech was basic is basically 13th grade. That's that's what we called it. Or we called it UNC, the University of North Charleston. Yeah, did that and then uh eventually transferred to the College of Charleston. But yeah, 2000 That's back when the clubs were down here were still popping, man. The Palladium and uh Club Killer Manjaro and in the end zone and the diplomat, man, good times, good times. But enough about that. We're gonna get into some of the more notable things that took place in the year 2000. So, what we're gonna do is we're gonna divide the topics. So, first we're gonna do news, then we're gonna do sports, and then we're gonna do entertainment. So, the first thing we're gonna talk about in Y2K was the actual Y2K scare. So uh this was a uh a potential computer glitch that uh it was related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. Many programs represented four-digit years with only the last two numbers of the year. So 1999 would you just put in the number 99, but for the year 2000 is two zero. So that could either be the year 2000 or it could be the year 1900. And computer systems' inability to distinguish dates correctly had the potential to bring down worldwide infrastructures for computer-reliant industries. And uh in the years leading up to the turn of the millennium, the public gradually became aware of the Y2K scare. A lack of clarity regarding the potential dangers of the bug led some to stock upon food, water, and firearms, purchase backup generators, and withdraw large sums of money in anticipation of a computer-induced apocalypse. Man, this was a this was a wild time. This is a very wild time. And the whole year 2000 scare, if I can backtrack, I just remember the f when Buster Rhymes dropped his first album, and the whole there was just a recurring theme throughout that first album. He was just screaming, there's only five years left. There's only five years left. And I mean the very last track is talking about the um impending apocalypse. And then fast forward to you know, December 31st, 1999, and the only thing in my mind is I wonder what Buster's gonna think whenever everything turns out to be fine, once the clock strikes 12. And in the back of my mind, I had a little bit of concern, but then once I saw all of these other countries that were, you know, in time zones ahead of us, and they celebrated the bringing in the year 2000 without a hitch, I'm like, okay, then we're in the clear. So um, 12 Kyle, what was the Y2K? What were your um memories of the Y2K scare? It it was uh it was interesting because, like, like you said, Danny, we did not know. We had no idea because the way the computers were set up, everything was supposed to go through the 1900s. We didn't know if any computer would flip it to when once it once we hit December 31st, 1999, when you go into the next day, January 1st, 2000, they we didn't know if it was going to flip or not. And, you know, probably somewhere around February or March, that's when you started hearing people being concerned about it. Like you said, it wasn't something that was on the forefront in the beginning. And the closer and closer we got to January, I'm excuse me, to December, you know, people were really terrified. There was uh for some banks, there was what we call a run-on banks where people were going to the banks and taking out their money. And, you know, it's okay if a couple of people do that, but if you you can't banks can't have thousands of people going and withdrawing their money because for some banks, the money isn't physically there anyway. So it was a lot of a lot of concern. It was probably one of the first crises that I can remember like that. Nothing like COVID, but it was a crisis because you know the difference was that you knew that time was coming. So it wasn't like it was something you could bypass. We knew the clock was gonna strike 12. And I'll I'll end this with a quick story. Uh, I got engaged December 31st, 1999. No kidding. No, I what I what the joke I always tell is that I proposed to her because I thought the world was coming to an end. But uh, but seriously, you know, you you you make a good point. When we started seeing other countries that were hours and hours ahead of us, there was probably less trepidation. I think the biggest thing happened when it hit midnight in the UK, which for us on the East Coast is five hours away, ahead, excuse me. And once it once it hit London and the time changing, the computers didn't shut down, I think we thought we were okay, but there were still some people here in the United States that were panicking. But uh, you know, we we uh we got engaged that night, and I'll the the thing I remember is getting engaged, and I was living in the hood in Decatur, Georgia, and um right outside of Atlanta, and in Decatur, where it's greater, dudes was busting off shots like it was Beirut. So I lived in this real hood part of Decatur and over by uh South Decad Mall. If you know, you know. And so it was a lot of gunshots, a lot of gunshots. So it was one of those times where the gunshots are going off, and you're like, was that a gun? Was that oh no, that wasn't a gun. You know, like was that fireworks? No, that wasn't fireworks. But uh, but yeah, it it went off without a hitch, man. It went off without a hitch, and I think eventually we went to bed and you know, we were happy because we were engaged, but um yeah, that's how I brought in uh the new year of 2000. Man, dope, dope. And another major news story that was basically the headline, like many a day on the 6 o'clock news, was the abduction and a custody battle regarding one six-year-old Cuban boy by the name of Elian Gonzalez. And uh him and his mother fled Cuba by boat as part of a group of refugees attempting to reach the United States. The boat sank during the journey, and Elion's mother, along with most of the passengers, drowned. Elion was found floating on an inner tube and rescued by two fishermen who turned him over to the U.S. Coast Guard. He was taken to a hospital and treated for dehydration and minor cuts. The Immigration and Naturalization Service granted Elion temporary permission to stay in the U.S. and placed him with his granduncle, Lazaro Gonzalez in Miami. His granduncle wanted Elyon to remain in the country while his father sought his return to Cuba. This led to a high profile and protracted custody battle involving his father, his Miami relatives, and U.S. and Cuban officials. He was returned to his father's custody after an INS raid on his Miami relatives' home on April 2nd, 2000. They returned to Cuba when the legal dispute concluded on June 28, 2000. Gonzalez has openly stated that he's never had regrets about his return to Cuba. Kyle, what a time. What a time. So what are your memories of the Gonzalez custody battle? It was it was crazy, man, because like here it is, this little boy, and I don't think, if I'm not mistaken, he didn't really speak a lot of you know good English because he was relatively young. So, you know, he washes up or they they found it or what have you. And um it became a national story. And you know, it was just it was it was sad because like he his family here in the United States really wanted him to be here. The United States said, hey, basically, hey, you can stay, he can stay. And then, you know, but it was a thing between obviously the United States and Cuba, you know the history. And so it was a like a tug of war. And the United States kind of took the stance of, well, he's here, he's here, we're not gonna send him back. And so then it became a battle between the father, and then there was a lot of pushback here when the father started, you know, openly campaigning, saying, Hey, you you he even went as far as to say, like, you know, his son was kidnapped. So after that, it was just like, we don't want no smoke. And look, if you want to take him back, take him back. He's welcome to be here. And uh it's funny because when I chuckled when you sent me that uh when you sent me the show notes, and I thought I haven't thought about him in like years. So I'm when we're done, I'm gonna have to Google him and see where he's at and what he's up to, because it was a relatively young, young little boy. But um, that story was headlines, and you know, suffice to say, if that had happened today, he they they wouldn't let him stay here. They probably probably put him in a camp or something like that, sadly. Yeah, he's actually a um he's a politician. He's a member of the National Assembly of the People's Power. Okay, in the uh Communist Party of Cuba. And uh he yeah, he's he's 32. Yeah, so he's immersed himself in politics now. So that's what's up. That was that was a major, major, major news story. And that's still a photo of him of the uh immigration services just running up in the house because I remember they were camoed out and had the he had the big assault rifle. And yes, you know, Elion and his guardian were like in the corner of the closet, like, and you could see the look of terror on Elyon's face, which I mean, listen, I get it. You were immigration services kicking my door in, and you know, with a high-powered rifle in my face? Yeah, I'd I'd feel a way about that too. No doubt. Then one of the one of the biggest news stories this year, well, in the year 2000, was the presidential election between Al Gore and George W. Bush, which took place on November 2nd, 2000. And Al Gore won the uh popular vote, but uh George W. Bush ended up winning the electoral college votes. He needs 270, he ended up with 271. And there was a big dispute that was basically boiled down to the voter counts in the state of Florida. And um, you know, Al Gore had Al Gore had conceded defeat, but then once the they were were realized what how how tight the race was in Florida, he uh rescinded his concession. And it says on election night it was unclear who had won, with the electoral votes of the state of Florida still undecided. It took over a month to resolve the issue. Florida's electoral votes went to Bush, tipping the election in his favor. He carried Florida by only 537 votes out of 5.96 million cast in the state of Florida, which is a voter margin by as 0.009%. I was like, wow. So that was a tight race, man. So what were your biggest uh memories of that presidential election? I thought with my heart of hearts that the election was stolen. Mm-hmm. And I wasn't alone in those thoughts. But, you know, looking back on it, there were some flaws in Al Gore's campaign, you know, places, because if I'm not mistaken, Al Gore didn't win Tennessee, and he's that's his home state. So he should have at least you know carried his home state. That being said, I mean, like it was really close, and it was from what I can remember, and I was always someone, even when I was little, who you know liked to hear and talk about politics. One of the things that I remember distinctly about that election, Danny, was that was probably the first night in my life where there was an election night and you went to bed and you didn't know who won. Like you had no idea. It was, I mean, when I say it was, you know, it was the small, like you said, the the margins were so small. I think they did a a count and then a recount, and then I think maybe like a third recount before they officially declared that uh George W. Bush had won. And you know, it it uh it sparked an outrage because you had people over here that were happy, you had people over here that felt like the li because it's one thing if you beat if you beat somebody on paper, but to look and appear and feel like it had been stolen, where it had been won. You know, and then of course, you know, you know, our our people, our folk, black folk, we we we won't make a joke out of anything. So the the the Florida jokes, the the the st stealing of the election jokes were definitely a lot of comedic material for any hot comedian back in 2000. Because it was just, I mean, we found a way to make funny of it and uh and we lived through it, but it was um it was definitely it was interesting because like I said, based on the on the raw numbers, I don't think he did. And there was, you know, mail-in ballots and stuff that got lost. And and granted, folks, we didn't have the technology that we have now, and there was no such thing as early voting either. I think you had to vote, you had to show up the day that you, you know, you voted the day that you showed up on election day. And if you didn't show up on election day, and there was another thing too where in some rural places uh the polls were closing at seven, and which is fine, the polls can close, but you can't deny if people are in line, you can't deny them the opportunity to vote. And there were some places where, you know, particularly in states like Mississippi where there were people in line who had waited in line for hours in the heat and some in the rain, and uh, you know, and they weren't given the opportunity to vote, or or they made it more difficult for people to vote. So it was it it was it was rough, man. It was rough, but it was uh it was a time, to say the least. That it was. So now we're gonna leave the news segment of 2K and we're gonna get into sports. So the first thing, January 30th, 2000, Super Bowl 35. The uh Super Bowl was won by the LA Rams, who beat the Tennessee Titans 23-16. It just dawned the uh the beginning of the greatest show on turf. Yeah. And one of the more just one of the more thrilling endings to a Super Bowl that I can remember, with Kevin Dyson of the Tennessee Titans getting tackled by Mike Jones. Who? Mike Jones. He got tackled and he stretched his arm out to try to break the plane with the ball in his hand, and he fell one yard short of possibly either tying the game or winning the game for the Titans. And that was just such a heartbreaker for uh for Tennessee at that time. So uh Kyle, talk to me. I remember that vividly because that Super Bowl was here in Atlanta. Sure was. There was a lot of things going on. We had an ice storm. If you guys know Atlanta does not handle snow or ice well at all. At that particular time, there was probably three snow trucks in the whole state of Georgia, and so we had this huge ice storm, and so you know, Super Bowl week, you know, is known for parties and all kinds of networking events and stuff like that. People couldn't go anywhere because it, I think we got the ice on like Thursday, and through Saturday, you couldn't do anything. Like it there was literally, if you pull up, pull it up on YouTube, that you can literally see mobuses sliding downtown on some of the icy streets on Peace Street Street and Piedmont as well. But man, that Super Bowl was crazy. Uh Kirk Warner and the uh greatest show on turf. And then you had uh you know the late great Steve McNair on the other side for the Tennessee Titans. Dyson, man, he makes the catch, Danny. And in my heart of hearts, as an old former receiver, I think he let up. I think he caught the ball, and I think he didn't know that Mike Jones was behind him. I think he relaxed for half a second, not only Kevin Dyson can tell you this, but I think he he relaxed for half a second thinking that he was going to go into the end zone because the cornerback, I don't know if the cornerback fell or whatever like that, or maybe they were in zone. I can't remember, but I don't think he knew that Mike Jones was right behind him. He didn't explode through the uh end zone. And that one half a second cost them a Super Bowl. And uh and uh it was crazy, man. And and obviously, what a lot of people do remember what happened after that game was unfortunately two murders that happened in Buckhead section of Atlanta. And Ray Lewis uh from the Baltimore Ravens was uh indicted, went to trial. I think they found him guilty of a lesser charge, like obstruction of justice, but they didn't find him guilty of murdering two men. And uh that trial changed Atlanta forever. Uh changed the party district of Buckhead uh that was in Atlanta and uh you know how celebrities move. A lot of stuff changed from that. But all of it happened that weekend, man. It was a crazy weekend. I remember it was kind of weird to have the Super Bowl in your city and you not leave the house. I didn't leave the house at all because I mean the ice was just terrible. We I think we had like maybe six inches of ice. So, I mean, like you can't people can't drive on six in six inches of snow, let alone trying to drive on six inches of ice. So it was crazy, man. But that that that Super Bowl was memorable for a lot of different reasons. And Kurt Warner, the aforementioned Kurt Warner, boy, he balled out. First undrafted quarterback to win a Super Bowl, was named Super Bowl MVP after setting Super Bowl records for throwing through for 414 passing yards and had 45 pass attempts without an interception, making him only the sixth player in NFL history to win Super Bowl MVP and NFL MVP in the same season. And one of the things I remember most about, well, not that game in particular, but the Titans was during that playoff run, that wildcard game, they had the Music City Miracle against the uh Buffalo Bills. Buffalo Bills, I know what you meant. You talk about one of the wildest endings to a game I've ever seen. You know, Lorenzo Neal getting the getting the kickoff, giving it to Frank Wajek, and then Wajek throwing the throwing the lateral all the way to the other side of the field. Yeah, and it took a long time. I mean, and they they reviewed the play, and it's it seemed like the longest 10 minutes ever. Well, you know what, Danny, they they think about it like this. Do they make it out of that stadium if they overturn that call? No. No. There was going to be a riot in the music in Music City that day. Best believe it. Yeah, and Kevin Dyson took the lateral and he took it straight to the house, and they went on to the divisional. Round. And I think they ended up beating the Colts and then the uh AFC Championship. They uh they beat the piss out of the Jaguars, and the Jaguars actually had the best record in the league that year. I think they were 14-2 that year. Yeah. And they ended up losing 33 to 14. And then to beat down the best team in the league like that and to make it to the Super Bowl and to end the way that it ended, man, that was crushing. Yeah, it was. And then another thing that happened that shook up the sports world was the following month, February 12th, 2000. And uh that night we all came to the realization that it was Vince Carter's world and we were merely living in it. Because that man flat out showed his ass in that dunk contest. I'd never seen, up to that point, I'd never seen a display of athleticism and creativity like I did whenever Vince Carter won the dunk contest. And it was wild because second and third place was T-Mac and Steve Francis. And they were no slouches either. But it was just the fact that Vince, like Vince did dunks that we never saw. I mean, off the rip. The first dunk off the rip, that 360 reverse corkscrew. And I'll never forget, it's embedded in my memory. When he nailed that dunk, and seeing Shaq's face, like with the camcorder in his hand, like Shaq had never Shaq felt the the way the the rest of the the way the rest of America felt whenever they saw Vince after that first dunk. So Kyle, we got, man, what what is uh what are your memories from that dunk contest? Man, I I remember watching that dunk contest and even before the dunk contest. I I mean obviously we we saw events at Carolina and we you know knew what he could do in the league. And you know, this was when it was a big thing to be in the dunk contest. The dunk contest was the highlight of All-Star Weekend. And I often said, like, I didn't think that anybody could take over or dominate a dunk contest like Michael Jordan, even though he did steal it from Dominique that one year in '88. And I'm a and I'm a huge Jordan fan. I mean, but let's just keep it a bean. That was Mike's week. Mike won MVP of the All-Star Game, and he won the dunk contest that year. And he did not enter the dunk contest after that ever again. But I, you know, having watched so many dunk contests, you you the anticipation for it, but but again, we didn't know what he was gonna do. And if I'm not mistaken, he went last, right? As far as the the first in the first round. Yeah. And like you said, Shaq's face was priceless. Like he's sitting there holding his camera, his eyes are wide open, and his mouth is on the floor. And, you know, like you said, we saw dunks that we had never seen before. I remember when he does the arm dunk where he puts his whole arm in the rim. Danny, we when when you saw it live, we didn't understand what happened. Because he just went up there and it wasn't like he had a like a long running start or anything like that. He just dunked and put his elbow in the rim. And we were like, huh. And everybody was kind of even the audience in the in the arena was kind of dumbfounded, like, what was that? And then when you saw the replay, when they played it in on TV and they played it in the arena, everybody lost their minds. Like, I cannot believe he put his whole elbow in the rim. Yeah man, that that dunk contest. I didn't think that it would be another dunk contest. I think that you know, to that caliber, you know, the the one with Gordon and uh and uh what's my guy's name? Levine. Levine. That was probably first now in my mind in my memory. Uh but Vance Man was incredible. I mean, half man, half amazing. The name stuck and it fit. Yeah, and then when he did the when uh T Mac did the bounce lob and he caught it and went between his legs off a off a two-foot takeoff, never seen that. And I'll never forget when he dunked that, because I remember the judges between Cynthia Cooper and Isaiah Thomas. Yes. When he did that between the legs dunk off two feet, I remember Cynthia Cooper was like this, and Zeke was like that too. Man, and when he looked at the camera, he said, It's over. It's over. It's over. And every time I see that, I immediately think of you with using that gif on uh on Twitter, like when the game gets out of hand. Yeah, it's over. It's over. Man, that was uh that was that was a that was a great just just a precious moment in time. Yes, indeed. And then we're gonna move to uh July. Summer 2000, that was the summer of Venus Williams because in July, she won her first Grand Slam title at the ripe old age of 20, defeating defending champion Lindsey Davenport in straight sets to win her first Wimbledon title. And then she went on to win another Wimbledon title, more Wimbledon titles in 2001, 2005, 2007, and 2008. But she wasn't done that summer because not only did she win Wimbledon that summer, she won the U.S. Open, and she won a gold medal in the Sydney Olympics, man. You talk about just a taking the world by storm. So, Kyle, what say you? Man, I I remember that like it was yesterday. Because here's the thing, especially when you see young people, people your age in your age group doing things athletically, and they look like you, you want to tune in. And this was a sport I followed tennis, you know, even when I was a kid, and I remember watching Yvonne Lindell and MacEnroe and you know, some of those characters from those days. Pete Samper's probably one of my favorite tennis players to watch. And but there was no, there was very little representation as far as we were concerned. And then I remember the the Williams sisters and how they came onto the scene. And what was interesting was I as Venus is making this run that you mentioned, her dad or their dad kept telling everybody, hey, her her her sister's better than she is. And we were like, are you kidding me? She just won Wilmot, she just won a US Open. What do you mean, you mean Serena's gonna be better than Venus? And there was a time, folks, when Venus was she was the one. But even in her being the one, her dad was the first to keep telling everybody and remind, and this was before Serena ever won anything. Yeah. And you know, the rest is history, man. But I I've I've been a fan and enjoyed watching both of them play. But Venus in particular, when she started, she was she was special, man. She was special. She was, and she always won with grace. She always won, you know, with with style and class, and she was always respectable and everything like that. And uh, you know, and even in her interviews, she she appeared to be someone who was having a good time at those matches. And so, you know, you couldn't help, but even if you didn't follow tennis, when you watched Venus play, especially back then, you smile because she was you could tell she was now she was out there kicking ass. Yeah, yeah, but she was having a good time. So and it was it was a it was a joy to watch. Yeah, and just the just the looks that she had. She had the braces and she had the braids with the beads in them, too. Yes. Just very, very, very unmistakable. Yes. And I tell you, just like uh just like Deion Sanders saying you look good, you feel good, you feel good, you play good. You play good, they pay good. Pay good. And she's made some bank over her career, so salute to Venus Williams, man. For sure. And then moving on into October, we had the Subway Series between the New York Yankees, your New York Yankees, yes, indeed, and their crosstown rival, the New York Mets. And the Yankees ended up winning that Subway series in five games. Derek Jeter was the series MVP, and we got the Baja Men. The Baja Men were basically the uh unofficial ambassadors musical ambassadors to the Subway series. Because I remember they sang, they performed Who Let the Dogs Out uh before, I think it was before game one, if I'm not mistaken. Probably. But yeah, that was the Yankees' third straight World Series title. So you being the diehard Yankees fan, I'll I will uh clear the lane and let you uh do what you do. Man, listen, that brings back so many memories. That's when we were we, I mean, I even back then, I would tell people we're the Yankees and you're not. Because and it made it a little bit sweeter, even more sweeter to beat the Mets, because nobody likes the Mets. And if you like the Mets, I feel sorry for you. Um but Joe's fired. But uh, but yeah, man, it was a great time, man. It was I the only knock I had was that I was here in Atlanta, I wasn't in the city, you know, in New York City. But uh being a fan, man, I just really enjoyed and appreciated watching Jeter and those guys go out there to core four, go out there and do their thing. Uh, Mariano was spectacular. And I think the thing about I always said about the Yankees, particularly those Yankees, is that you either liked them or you didn't. Like, and you didn't have to be a baseball fan. You either liked them or you didn't. And there was really no in-between. You know, like you it particularly, and now if you talk about baseball fans, everybody hated us. And I and I loved it. I loved it. Because you you couldn't beat us. And like I said, to to to to get the cherry on top was beating the Mets. I mean, like, I I would I I'd give anything to go to another, well, even though I didn't go to the games, but I mean to have another Subway series with us beating the Mets five games won. I I'd sign up for that every day. Man, I'm listening if I were you, I'd feel the same exact way too. Man, so um, now we're gonna get into the uh entertainment segment. So first thing, it was a TV program that debuted in the year 2000, and that is Survivor, which was derived from the Swedish television series Expedition Robinson, and this American series premiered in May 31st, 2000, hosted by Jeff Propes, who's also an executive producer, and like we had never seen like reality TV like that before, and if I'm not mistaken, uh, Richard Hatch was the winner of the first season, and there like 50 some odd seasons now, which is just crazy hard to wrap my mind around. So, Kyle, would you ever consider being the guest on uh being a contestant on Survivor? No. It just looked like it was is it was just way too much stuff going on, and then just being in that element of you know, nature, and you're out there and you literally are surviving. I actually went to school with a young lady from South Carolina State University who uh who was actually on our ladies' basketball team. She was on Survivor probably maybe around somewhere in the early 2000s. I mean, she did well. She uh I can't remember how far she got, but she got she was like one of the last people on there. But I mean, being out in nature, eating bugs, no, I'm not doing that. Yeah, I don't know. But it was it was it was must see TV though, man, for real. It was. And uh also in uh in the month of May, May 23rd, 2000, Eminem dropped his third studio album entitled The Marshall Mathers LP. And to me, that's still my like to me, that's still my favorite Eminem album. When it sold 1.7 million copies in the first week. First week. 12 million in the States and sold 25 million copies worldwide. Man, I remember I bought this, yeah, I bought this album the day that it dropped, that Tuesday, and it didn't leave my uh it didn't leave my CD changer for a hot minute, too. So yeah, and he just that was a moment in time right there. So what was your uh what were your takeaways from the Marshall Mathers LP? I thought there was it was a really, really dope album. I think that's that may be the only Eminem album that I actually purchased. But what's weird is like, and I tell people this all the time, and I'm a huge hip-hop fan, you guys know that if you follow me, I I Eminem's music, man, doesn't have a lot of replay value for me. So once I hear it for a couple of times, like I don't go back to it. And I probably haven't listened to the Martial Math, I haven't listened to this album, Danny, probably in about 10 years at least. Every now and then I'll go back and I'll be like, oh, let me just see if I missed something. You know, that type of thing. But but nah, man, it it was uh, but it was it was it was an incredible album that people flocked to. Don't get that twisted. I mean, rather than the given the fact that I wasn't a big fan of it like that, as far as listening to it again and again and again, it was still a dope album and people loved it. Like you said, selling it, and I don't know at that particular time, Danny. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think anybody sold that many records for first week sales, you know, because that's how a lot of the uh your success was measured by your first week's sales. And I don't know anybody that had first week sales like that. I can't think of anybody else off the top of my head, but that uh the real slim shady, when that dropped, like had the world in a chokehold. I remember when he performed at the MTV Music Awards, and he was outside of the um, I think they did it at Radio City Music Hall, and it was like a bun, he had it was probably about like a one or two hundred like different people that all like dressed and had their hair dyed blonde like him and just walked behind him as he walked from outside into the into the theater and then eventually made his way on stage. And like that was just it was just crazy to see. But um, my favorite track on there, like I remember the first when I first listened to it, no, um, I think Kill You was the first track, but that second track, Stan. Yeah, Stan. I'd never heard anything like that before, just from the point of view of an of an obsessed fan. And then the very last verse was Eminem responding back in a in a uh written letter, and you know, Mark the 45 King on production, which I did not see coming, being that he was joining Dr. Dre at the hip like that. And I was like, wow, that and that was a banger. Still is, no doubt, no doubt. I mean, it it's and I I think amongst Eminem fans, they'll say it's probably, if not his best work, probably one of his better, you know, best albums. It's definitely in his top three, I would say. I think I I don't think that's a stretch to say it's in his top three, but it put it really, he was already a star. But I mean, he really delivered with that album. If I'm not mistaken, he he you know, he he collected a couple of Grammys, a few awards off that album, along with the sales. And I mean, he solidified himself as a household name at that point. Yeah. I mean, hell, I remember, I think it was at the Grammys when he performed that song with uh Elton John. Elton John, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, the thing I love about Stan is even listening to it, just the little scribbling on the paper. Yeah. Just little small details like that, man. I that like you said, it was a dope album. I I can't for it. Dope album. Yes. And keeping the hip-hop, I just wanted to talk about some of our favorite rap albums that came out in the year 2000. And I'll I'll say you can name like three or four, but I'll go first. My favorite album of 2000 was actually, well, to this day is my favorite Wu-Tang solo album. That is uh Supreme Clientele by Ghostface. Wow. That one common like what like water for chocolate. Love that album. I'll tell you what, man. I'll tell you another album, one of my favorite albums in the year 2000 was Big Mo, City of Syrup. Okay. Oh my god, I love it. I love Big Mo, man. Yeah, man. Um Zero, Zero vs. the World, that came out in 2000. I jammed that album real heavy. And uh Slum Village, fantastic volume two. Volume two. But man, the uh that that Supreme Clientele. I didn't play an album more that year than uh Supreme Clientele. And there was something I think a lot of people overlooked, or maybe because the song was so dope, they just let it ride. That song, Stroke of Death, he has a lyrical faux pas on that song. Ghostface has a line where he's supposed to say, Bitches think that I'm Dominican, slash half Indian, milk on my mustache, fell to my chinny chin. Instead of saying slash half Indian, he said slap hash Indian. You gotta go back and listen to it. It was on stroke of death. I was like, nobody picked up on that, huh? But I was like, you know what, it's ghost face. He's gonna let it rock. It's ghost, man. You know, ghost ghost got his own sling. Yeah, and that wardrobe the base head's. Oh my god. Yeah, cash rules everything around you, but crack rules everything around me, motherfucker. Man, listen. But but uh what were some of your favorite rap albums from uh 2000? Bro, a couple of you mentioned Like Water for Chocolate by Common. That's my favorite common album. Uh if you guys follow me, uh me and my man C-Rex just recently did an episode on the Rap Soul podcast where we did uh Common, Common's two, what we deemed Common's two classic albums, B versus Like Water for Chocolate. I love Like Water for Chocolate, man. Obviously, my favorite producer, Jay Diller, Rest in Peace. That album is one of those albums, man, still gets play. I mean, Danny, I still listen to it a couple of times a month. Yeah. You mentioned uh Slum Village again, JD, Jay Diller. Dope, super tope, super produced album. Yes. What else came out in 2000? Uh Beanie Siegel's The Truth. Man, listen. Yeah, bruh. I played that CD. I played that CD so much, man. It it it it there's no there's no cover on it. Yeah, that's how much I played that CD. The truth. Oh, what else? Rod Digger's Dirty Harriet. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And probably too. Yeah, man. Rod Digger's very slept on. She she wasn't, she's not a woman who comes out and talks about her body, anything like that, but she she'll rap circles around 90% of the people that rap, you know, and male or female. And uh probably the other one I probably banged that year a lot was uh Jay-Z's La Ra Familia, the dynasty album. That got a lot of good play too. I still have yeah, I've never heard that album. It is good. It's it's it's pretty it they they they they count it as a solo album for Jay-Z, but it's features on every song. It's really a uh it's a Rockefeller compilation. That's what it is. But Jay-Z gets credit for it. I think he may have uh he may have been an executive producer on, I'm not sure, but but no, it's a it's a compilation because I don't think, just off the top of my head, there may be two songs with Jay-Z by himself on everything else. You got Bleak on there. First time we heard um Freeway for the first time on 1900 Hustler. Bleak is on there, Beanie Siegel, Mill, I think the Young Guns on there, Clue. Everybody who was on Rockefeller was on there. So yeah, it's uh, but it is it's a really it's a really solid album, part of uh Jay-Z discography. Right on. I'm gonna definitely have to tap into that because I'm I'm I'm low-key ashamed that I've never heard that album, but I'm gonna tap into it this week. It's a good album, man. It's a good album. Right on. So, man, this is 2000, man. 2000 was uh had some had some real strong moments to it, man. So what were you what's your uh biggest takeaway from the year 2000 as we uh land this plane for this episode? Um the biggest thing, like I said, really was just getting married, man. Um it was it was interesting. And it was kind of a wild time too, because like not only do we get married, but like my niece, my brother's, my my my younger brother Damon, he's three years younger than me. And uh his daughter, my niece Taylor, she was born the day before. And she was born early. So and she was born in Columbia. And so my brother leaves Columbia and he drives to Andrew. Now keep in mind, Danny, we don't have there's no GPS. Like you, you you gotta get a map quest and print it out. And so he's going through like King Street, he turns the wrong way and gets backtracked. So he calls me on a cell phone, and you know, you know how it is in the low country, Danny. You you move it around. Again, it's 2000. You don't really have a lot of cell phone towers, so you can be in one area where your calls are dropped. And he called me, he was on his way, so I so I don't see him until he and he gets turned around. I because he was he had they had my niece on Friday, and so he misses my bachelor party Friday night. He's just he's like, I'm gonna I'll be there, you know, I'm gonna leave early in the morning, you know, come to Andrew's and and be at the wedding, because he's my best man, right? And so he gets turned around, so he gets lost, and so he calls me like maybe an hour before the wedding's about to start. He's like, Man, I can't find it. He was like, I don't know where it is. And I'm like, bruh, you gotta I'm trying to tell him, and I don't know where he is, you know, specifically or whatever. And uh he made it to the church, man, uh, probably about 15 minutes before we were time, before it was time for us to walk the aisle. But I I told I told everybody it was there, I was like, look, I'm not going out there until he gets here. I was like, I'm not. And Sharice never, she never found out, or she didn't find out until later, but but um, but yeah, so I was uh so it was a crazy time, man. But I I I really enjoyed 2000. It was it's it's weird to think about all of those things that happened that we talked about on this episode because it really seems like it was a long time ago. And relatively speaking, it's been 26 years for most of these things, and uh, but we remember them like it was yesterday. So yeah, I'm thankful to have seen it. I'm thankful to have lived it, and I'm also thankful that you know we ain't too old of where we we actually forgot about it. So it's so it's it's it's been a good trip down memory lane for sure. And that's real. So uh Kyle, where can the people find you? Promote and plug your stuff, man. The floor is yours. For sure, for sure. As always, brother, man, thank you for having me on again, man. I have two podcasts, both drop episodes every Thursday. One is called the 12 Kyle Podcast. I talk about a little bit of everything, uh, mostly about how life was before the internet. And then the Rap Soul Podcast, uh, where we talk about music and artists from the 80s, the 90s, and the 2000s when it comes to rap, hip-hop, soul, and RB. Uh, I like to tell people it's the best music podcast that you've never heard, so check it out. You can find the podcast wherever you're listening to this podcast on all DSPs as well as YouTube again. Like I said, man, shout out to you for having me on, man. I definitely appreciate it. Yeah, and tell the people where you where they can find you on YouTube. Definitely. Uh YouTube is uh 12 Kyle Podcast on YouTube and the Rap Soul Podcast on YouTube, real simple. And I'm on social media as well, 12 Kyle the number one two K Y-L-E. There it is. So uh man, Kyle, thank you so much for being on here, man. And thank y'all for listening. Make sure you like, download, or subscribe to Since We Last Spoke with Danny Foxworth. 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