Class of '03

08. The Simple Life

Do you loves it? 2003 was a monumental and genre-defining year for reality television, but there was one show that stood out from the rest: The Simple Life, starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. The two socialites lived in Altus, Arkansas for a month and worked (and got fired from) odd jobs to experience "real life." The show made Paris and Nicole household names, and solidified Paris's status as the It Girl of the early aughts. Helen and writer Kirsten King discuss the best moments from The Simple Life Season 1 (all of which, unsurprisingly, are Nicole moments), what The Simple Life would look like today, Paris's outfits on the show, and more. LINKS Princess Paris by Vanessa Grigoriadis [http://www.vanessagrigoriadis.com/paris.html]Rolling Stone 2003 (http://www.vanessagrigoriadis.com/paris.html) Paris Hilton Nostalgia [https://thoughtcatalog.com/rachel-r-white/2013/01/paris-hilton-nostalgia/] by Rachel R. White Thought Catalogue 2013 (https://thoughtcatalog.com/rachel-r-white/2013/01/paris-hilton-nostalgia) Song of the Week [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwtNLUqkMY] - CRAZY IN LOVE! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwtNLUqkMY) Kirsten's social: Instagram: @kirstenlking Twitter: @kirstenking_ Website: https://www.kirstenkingsays.com/about Watch her movie CRUSH on Hulu!

07. Rich Girls with Hannah Becker

Is it a coincidence that in the fall/winter of 2003 two shows aired about pairs of wealthy heiress best friends? In our first episode of the two part series on Eat The Rich television, Helen and guest Hannah Becker discuss MTV's Rich Girls, a reality television show starring Ally Hilfiger (daughter of designer Tommy Hilfiger) and Jamie Gleicher (daughter of a different rich guy). The show is perhaps best remembered today for its depiction of the New York City blackout in August '03 — much less impressive upon rewatch sadly — but it's a time capsule show about friendships, early reality programming, and caprese salad. Unlike The Simple Life, which starred fellow heiresses Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, Rich Girls didn't have a format, but what it lacked in structure it made up for in heart. LINKS Song of the Week: Dandy Warhols We Used To Be Friends [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm1g5Yg0hUw] Income Inequality in the United States 1913-1998 [http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/fichiers/public/PikettySaez2003.pdf] (Quarterly Journal of Economics, Feb 2003)

06. Myspace with Tiffany Kwak

One of the TOP 8 inventions of 2003 was undoubtedly Myspace, which launched in August of ’03 and quickly became one of the most important social networking and music discovery platforms of the aughts. Helen speaks with Tiffany Kwak aka Lawrence, Kansas’s “that girl from Myspace” about her Myspace era and what we lost when we ditched Myspace for Facebook. LINKS !! Tangled Up In Spam by James Gleik [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/magazine/tangled-up-in-spam.html] - NYT Magazine Oral History of Myspace Music [https://www.stereogum.com/2056046/myspace-music-oral-history/interviews/cover-story/] - Stereogum Song of the Week: Transatlanticism by Deathcab for Cutie [https://open.spotify.com/track/5IJVWLwidnnU2O4XiscsEe?si=3701eccbdcf34dd1]

05. Lawrence v. Texas with Professor Wes Phelps

Twenty years ago this week, the Supreme Court released their landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas, which declared sodomy laws unconstitutional. Professor Wes Phelps of University of Northern Texas joins to discuss the Texas sodomy statute, who is affected, and the decades of efforts before Lawrence to invalidate it. Read Before Lawrence: The Making of a Queer Social Movement [https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Futpress.utexas.edu%2F9781477322321%2F&data=05%7C01%7CMiranda.Leddy%40unt.edu%7Cfdb11975f15d481d80f608daa0b8ce7a%7C70de199207c6480fa318a1afcba03983%7C0%7C0%7C637999012852042401%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dVtOqnQFrtIM%2BuIXxLGA8eOCJI6DEIUOp1XzjG0jqOk%3D&reserved=0] Listen to Professor Phelps's podcast Queering the Lone Star State! [https://www.queeringthelonestarstate.com/season-1] Professor Phelps's bio / faculty page [https://history.unt.edu/people/wesley-phelps]at UNT and follow him on Twitter @wesleyphelps20 Song Of The Week: I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjZuykKY1I) Class of '03 is an independent production hosted, written, and edited by Helen Grossman. If you have a memory or an idea for the show, please call in at 724-CLASS-03 and leave a voicemail or send an email to classof03pod@gmail.com. Follow Class of '03 on Instagram @classof03pod [http://instagram.com/classof03pod]or visit our website classof03podcast.com. Our logo is by Maddie Herbert of @dame.studio [https://www.instagram.com/dame.studio/] and theme song is by Luke Schwartz and Evan Joseph of Sawtooth [https://sawtoothmusic.com/].

04. America's Next Top Model with Zoë Klar

WANNA BE ON TOP? Helen and guest Zoë Klar discuss Cycle 1 of one of the most important, genre-defining shows in reality television: America's Next Top Model.  LINKS! Song of the week: In Da Club by 50 Cent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qm8PH4xAss Prometea the cloned horse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometea Robyn reading the bible instead of charming men in Paris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tFEMOpt5SU Class of '03 is an independent production hosted, written, and edited by Helen Grossman. If you have a memory or an idea for the show, please call in at 724-CLASS-03 and leave a voicemail or send an email to classof03pod@gmail.com. Follow Class of '03 on Instagram @classof03pod [http://instagram.com/classof03pod]or visit our website classof03podcast.com. Our logo is by Maddie Herbert of @dame.studio [https://www.instagram.com/dame.studio/] and theme song is by Luke Schwartz and Evan Joseph of Sawtooth [https://sawtoothmusic.com/].