History of the 90s Curiouscast

In May 1999 hordes of Star Wars fans swarmed movie theatres for an event that many thought might never happen.
It was release day for a movie they had spent the past 15 years longing for, but all the excitement soon turned to confusion, disappointment and in some cases even anger.
In this episode we are looking back at one of the biggest movie releases of the decade. This is the story of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
GUEST INFO:
Fearless Fred Kennedy, radio DJ on Q107 in Toronto weekday 2 – 7pm, comic book writer and creator of the podcast Mud 79, a fan made Star Wars story. Fearless Fred Presents: Mud 79 – A Fan Made Star Wars Story – curiouscast.ca
Twitter/X: @fearless_fred
Instagram: @fearless_fred
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Email: 90s@curiouscast.ca
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In the 1990’s Oprah Winfrey set herself apart from other talk show hosts by pivoting away from trash TV shows like Geraldo and Jerry Springer.
Instead Oprah focused on what creating what she called hour long life lessons and in the process she changed TV forever.
On this episode of History of the 90s we track the ascension of the Queen talk.
GUEST INFO:
Kellie Carter Jackson, award-winning author, professor, historian and podcaster.
www.kelliecarterjackson.com
www.yougetapodcast.com
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In November 1997, the shocking swarming murder of 14 year old Reena Virk, a BC teenager made international headlines and brought the issue of teen violence and bullying to the forefront.
In this episode Caitlin and Graeme Duffy from the podcast True North True Crime join Kathy to look back at the long road to justice.
GUEST INFO:
Caitlin and Graeme Duffy, cohosts of True North True Crime
Instagram: @tntcpod
Facebook: @truenorthtruecrime
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In November 1997, the shocking swarming murder of a BC teenager made international headlines and brought the issue of teen violence and bullying to the forefront.
14 year old Reena Virk was punched and kicked by a group of mainly teen girls after being swarmed under a bridge in the Victoria area. Later when she tried to stagger home, two of the teens followed her and continued the attack.
In this episode I’m joined by Caitlin and Graeme Duffy from the podcast True North True Crime as we look back at the murder of Reena Virk.
GUEST INFO:
Caitlin and Graeme Duffy, cohosts of True North True Crime
Instagram: @tntcpod
Facebook: @truenorthtruecrime
SHOW INFO:
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TikTok: @90spodcast
Email: 90s@curiouscast.ca
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In May 1999, Owen Hart, the youngest member of Canada’s first family of wrestling, was at Kansas City's Kemper Arena to compete in the pay-per-view event “Over The Edge.”
Owen was set to enter the wrestling ring by descending from the rafters on a wire attached to a harness as his alter ego The Blue Blazer.
But something went horribly wrong. On this episode of History of the 90s we explore the life and tragic death of Owen “The Rocket” Hart.
GUEST INFO:
Kevin Michie, Associate Producer and Reporter at Sportsnet.
Twitter/X: @Kevinmichie
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Email: 90s@curiouscast.ca
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When something bad happens, we want to know why…the weirder and badder the event, the more we need to know…
It can’t possibly be random…someone needs to be responsible and held accountable…someone needs to be blamed…and there had better not be any loose ends…
Certain segments of the population have always been suspicious of the official story…forget the simplest of most logical explanation…these awful events or phenomenon’s are the work of some kind of secret cabal or organization pulling the strings of life on earth…it was a conspiracy…
For example, the most famous murder of modern times was the assassination of JFK on November 22, 1963…more than sixty years later, it seems like no one believes that lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman…
To be fair, they might be right…there’s been a lot of investigation into the JFK case over the decades…i’m one of those nuts who reads, watches, and listens to everything involved with the assassination…and I gotta tell you that i’m convinced this was the result of a loose need-to-know operation involving the CIA, the deep stage, Cuban exiles, and American mobsters…
There’s also something called “Occam’s razor” which dates back to the 14th century…this Monk—William of Occam—was annoyed at how people blamed supernatural forces when even the simplest thing went wrong…his answer to that was “look, the simplest and most obvious explanation is usually the correct one”…
But try that approach with people who believe the earth is flat and that we never went to the moon…Covid-19 was engineered by the media…and the Illuminati live beneath the Denver airport…
The world of conspiracy theories is a bottomless pit of weirdness…and when it comes to music, one of the deepest and strangest of these theories has to do with what happened above a greenhouse in Seattle on April 5, 1994…
Boy, have I got stories—multiple stories, in fact—about this one…in fact, it might be the most compressive study you’ve ever heard on the subject…this is uncharted: music and mayhem in the music industry, episode 12: it’s the ever-popular Kurt-Cobain-was-murdered theory…

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X (formerly Twitter): @AlanCross
Website: curiouscast.ca
Email: Alan@alancross.ca
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