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This week, Scott and Marc tackle the latest cultural panic: artificial intelligence.

On this very special episode, Arnold Drummond doesn't get diddled at the bike shop but big stuff is still happening. But before you stockpile canned goods and apologize to your VCR, take a breath.

We look back at the moments when groundbreaking technology made everyone nervous:

• Y2K and the midnight meltdown that never came
• The dot-com bubble and sock puppets with IPOs
• “There should be an app for that”
• The early internet when even morning news anchors weren’t sure what email was

Every generation experiences a wave that feels like the end of the world.

Gen X has been through a few.

Is AI disruptive? Absolutely. Is it apocalyptic? History suggests otherwise.

If you survived dial-up, you can survive this.

If you grew up before everyone carried tiny video cameras in their pockets chances are your best memories are sitting on a VHS tape somewhere. But here's the thing; those tapes don’t last forever That’s where the guys at Thedigitizecenter.com helps out.

They convert your old media into high-quality digital formats that you can enjoy again and share!

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Before Amazon wish lists and two-day shipping, there was a thin paper flyer, a crumpled order form, and a check your mom wrote with mild suspicion. The Scholastic Book Club wasn’t just about books. It was about waiting. About forgetting you even ordered anything. And then one day, the teacher opened a giant cardboard box and the classroom turned into Christmas morning (for some of us). More on that later.

This week on Free Nights and Weekends, we welcome guest co-host, Jason Dean to rewind to the mini book fairs of the 1980s. The thrill of circling titles you’d never read. The disappointment of picking the wrong book. The strange power dynamics of who got the cool paperback and who got the weird one about horses. Whatever, man. I had $2.50. Gimmie them NFL pencils!

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In the 1980s, history didn’t arrive on your phone. It arrived on a rolling television cart that wheeled into your classroom and got parked next to the chalkboard like a sacred object.

On the day the Space Shuttle launch was shown live in schools across America, some kids watched in stunned silence. Others cracked jokes. Some had to catch the news at lunch because they were in some nerd math class.

Today, we welcome Chad Goucher to step up to the mic and we relive that era like two dudes that watched it happen from the same jr high!

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