Reese Oliver
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1,229 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Reese Oliver’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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From, as you mentioned, the tiny sunglasses, which maybe are not exactly period accurate, to a lot of metallics, bedazzling, a la Zara Larsson.
Is aesthetic nostalgia then functioning like a belief system?
Are we worshiping some sort of like romanticized version of early internet?
Why does this sort of tribalism exist?
Whenever I talk about Pen15, the episode that I always tell people to watch is the Spice Girls episode.
because I think it so perfectly does what you just mentioned you set out to do.
It juxtaposes something that is like ripe with really fun, beautiful, glitzy nostalgia, which is the Spice Girls with sort of like this underlying coding of social racism and the ways in which like teen girls are
categorized and we feel like we all have a role to play and we want to be included so badly.
And when you're young, you don't know where it's like microaggressions and xenophobia.
You just know in and out like mean and nice, cool and loser.
And that's what you're experiencing.
So that's always the episode that I fall back on because I feel like it just really, really demonstrated what you guys set out to do.
And it captures such magic of that era.
100%.
I identified with that so much.
And it's funny because on a top global level, the original surge of Y2K came in the wake, yes, of the technological uprising, but then also 9-11, the recession, the war on terror, all of these big
global paranoias that led to the social current of it's cool to care it's cool to be politically engaged like it's honestly cool to be earnest and similarly the resurgence of y2k came in the wake of really terrible political isolation the pandemic which led people to feel more alone than ever all of this fear over the world ending the environment
technological advancement, but instead it led to like a sense of nihilism and like, it's cool to care as little as possible in young people and might as well give up now because we're living on a tiny little floating rock and we're all going to die soon.
So on like a top level, you have that kind of social conformity, but then also when you get closer and you look
at social cost more intimately, we all just want to feel like we belong to something and we're accepted.
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