Hey, um, I’m Olivia and this is the Y2K podcast! I’m a little nervous, I’ve never done anything like this before… So a few days ago I managed to get my Mum’s old laptop working. I rummaged around this really old black-and-white dodgy-looking interface and found these old audio files, dozens of them, all labeled with dates from January 2000 onwards. It seems to be a conversation in voice mails between my Mum and a friend of hers, and I’ve only listened to a couple of them but they seem… interesting somehow.

(hungover) All right, I’m back. Headache is receding slightly but now I’m nauseous. (groans) Better wrap this up. So, Jess’s boss is being horrible and Kat’s been looking at birds. (sigh) I am never drinking again. Ever. Um, so e-mail me if you know anything. About anything. (reads, a little too quickly) You can reach me at [email protected], find me on Twitter or Instagram @y2kpod, that’s the number two. My name’s Olivia, thank you for listening, and welcome back next week when we return to the year 2000. (relieved) All right, I’m gonna go lie down somewhere…

(very upset) I… I didn’t know. Why didn’t you tell me? I thought I… Bloody hell. (angry) Did you think I wasn’t interested? That I didn’t care what’s going on in my own family? (almost crying) Well, you thought wrong.