Stormy seas & Mariah’s mic drop: Deadliest Catch premieres and Mimi reclaims her throne
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Rewind to 10 to 16 April 2005, when science cloned your dog, Mariah staged a mega comeback, and Pamela Anderson worked in a bookstore (yes, really).
💣 Olympic bomber finally busted.Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic bombing, ending a 9-year manhunt. Four life sentences, no parole.
🐶 Who’s a cloned boy?Snuppy the Afghan hound becomes the world’s first cloned dog, born after 1,000 embryos, 123 surrogates and more ethical debates than a philosophy major on Red Bull.
⚽ Teen kicks history.James Vaughan, 16, scores for Everton and becomes the youngest goalscorer in Premier League history.
🎶 Akon's Lonely Era Begins"I'm so lonelyyyy…" Akon's chipmunk-sampled heartbreak anthem crashes the charts and our hearts.
🎤 Mariah's not-so-comeback.The Emancipation of Mimi drops and Mariah Carey reminds us she never left — she just needed a minute, some stiletto cardio and 14 guest producers. We Belong Together = world domination.
🎬 Sahara flops Into cinemas.Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz try to find a Civil War battleship in the Sahara. $160 million budget, epic box office faceplant.
📺 Crabs, cold & chaos.Deadliest Catch debuts, turning crabbing into edge-of-your-seat TV. Storms, injuries, yelling Vikings — Discovery Channel strikes gold with saltwater and steel pots.
📚 Pam gets stacked!Pamela Anderson trades swimsuits for Shakespeare in Stacked, a sitcom where she works at a bookstore. Critics weren’t buying the plot… or the show. It lasted two awkward seasons.
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Chapters
1. intro (00:00:00)
2. show opener (00:00:22)
3. news (00:09:10)
4. sport (00:18:20)
5. open up the boombox (00:21:37)
6. music (00:24:43)
7. tv and movies (00:40:30)
8. hatches, matches and dispatches (00:51:27)
9. show closer (00:57:27)
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