Podcast Like It's 1999

Cue the ironic Hip Hop, bust out the baseball bats.This week, comedian Zack Bornstein (Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live, My Least Favorite Thing) joins us to talk about Mike Judge's cult comedy classic Office Space. We talk about its reception at the time and the litany of marketing mistakes that surrounded it, Mike Judge's weird idiosyncratic (sort of a pun intended) career and Jennifer Aniston's movie career. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on Sex and the City Saturdays, TV Critic Jen Chaney (Vulture) joins us to get to the bottom of "THE AWFUL TRUTH", the second episode of Sex and the City Season 2. We talk about leaving your lover, Carrie running her mouth and interfering with the people around her, Samantha's size shaming, and analyze the effect the ladies have on the people around them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are busting out the whiteboard, checking tier lists and double checking who is available cause folks, we are drafting. Clay Keller of the Screen Drafts podcast joins us to draft some of our favorite stars of 1999 based on the Vanity Fair's 1999 Hollywood Issue Cover. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to SEX AND THE CITY SATURDAY! For the next few months we will be talking about Season 2 of Sex and the City as well as its cultural legacy.This week we welcome TV Critic at The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum, to talk about Take Me Out to The Ballgame, the season 2 premiere. We introduce our relationships with the show, talk about Carrie and Mr. Big, and what makes this crew of ladies so compelling.Check out Emily Nussabaum's New Yorker piece on Sex and the City:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/difficult-women See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are jamming and keeping the good times rolling as our guest comedian Erin Lampart takes us on a journey through the world of Phish. We talk about Erin's journey with the band, what they were up to in 99, and how one would describe the music they make.Songs included in the episode:Julius from the album HOIST and Free from the album BILLY BREATHES See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are looking at the stars and sitting faithfully with THE ASTRONAUT'S WIFE. Guest Haliegh Foutch (Senior Editor @ Collider) joins to talk about Johnny Depp's weird 1999, the rise of Theron, the film's insane plot, and its critical and commercial failure. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we welcome journalist/filmmaker Chandler Levack (We Forgot To Break Up) on the podcast to talk about GUINEVERE, the 1999 romantic drama starring Canadian legend Sarah Polley and Stephen Rea. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week writer/director Morgan Dameron (the namesake of a famous Star based character) joins us to talk about My Favorite Martian, another strange classic TV adaptation with a bounty of weird character actors (Christopher Lloyd, Michael Lerner, Wayne Knight and Wallace Shawn), one of the most 1999 actors around (Elizabeth Hurley) plus Jeff Daniels and Daryl Hannah to keep it grounded. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are lacing up our skates and getting ready to root those plucky underdogs as we welcome writer Bart Nickerson (Narcos, Dispatches from Elsewhere) on the podcast to talk about Mystery, Alaska. We talk about Jay Roach directing this AND The Spy Who Shagged Me in the same year, another interesting career pivot from David E. Kelly, Russell Crowe's interesting 99' between this and The Insider and much more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Raise your fists and bang your head cause this week we welcome Rich Monahan (Writer and Host of the THAT REMINDS ME live show) to talk about Rage Against the Machine's seminal 1999 album Battle of Los Angeles. We get to dive deep into our history with the band, the album's political context and more than anything just how hard it goes. Songs Featured in the Episode:Testify by Rage Against the Machine (Battle of Los Angeles)Wake Up by Rage Against the Machine (Rage Against the Machine/Self Titled) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you let Robert Downey Jr., Jared Leto, Scott Caan, Gaby Hoffman, and members of the Wu Tang Clan show up to an apartment and improvise you are bound to get something interesting right?Well this week we have the brilliant actress/filmmaker/playwright Kemiyondo Coutinho on to figure that out as we talk about BLACK AND WHITE. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 1999 Kwesi Mfume was the president of the NAACP in July 1999 and saw that none of the 26 new comedies and dramas being launched had a minority performer in a leading or prominent role and said "When the television viewing public sits down to watch the new prime-time shows scheduled for this fall's lineup, they will see a virtual whitewash in programming." With this in mind this week we brought together a Roundtable of TV Writers to discuss if 1999 brough more diversity to TV and what work still needs to be done to make the industry as inclusive as possible. Featuring Aaron Thomas (Showrunner/Creator of SWAT)Alexander Woo (Creator/Showrunner of The Terror:Infamy)Angela Harvey (Teen Wolf, Station 19)Delondra Mesa (Step Up)Chuck Heyward (Dear White People, Mixed-ish) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we go back to basics as Kenny and Phil go undercover and take on THE MOD SQUAD, the film reboot of the 70's TV Show starring Claire Danes, Omar Epps and Giovanni Ribisi.They talk about the all the 60s and 70s TV Show revivals to come of the back of the success of Mission: Impossible, why this version of The Mod Squad just doesn't work in a modern context, and try to figure out Claire Danes' career. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Friend of the show Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones, Amazon's Lord of the Rings) returns this week to rock the cradle and talk about Tim Robbins' CRADLE WILL ROCK.We get all into Robbins' fictionalized account of the production of The Cradle Will Rock, where the movie lies politically/its thoughts on communism, art and the labor movement in the early 20th Century, Tim Robbins as an auteur and performances based on real life figures like Orson Welles! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Put on your fancy suits and dresses, crack open a bottle of champagne and join us and AWARDS WATCH Founder Erik Anderson as we talk about the 1999 Golden Globes! We talk about the beginning of the American Beauty Oscar momentum, Toy Story 2 winning Musical or Comedy as animated feature, favorite speeches and talk about the ceremony as a whole and our favorite characters within it! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, writer and horror head Louis Peitzman (The New York Times, Vulture, Buzzfeed) joins us to talk about supernatural, horror movie, STIGMATA. We talk about Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne's interesting relationship to horror movies and his Razzie Nominated performance in this movie, the weird space of being a financial success but a critical failure and all the strange twists and turns STIGMATA takes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Have you ever been the very best? Like no one ever was?Well if you have then you have arrived at the correct episode of Podcast Like its 1999, as this week we welcome Mike Natale (Writer for Comic Book Resources and host of the upcoming You're Missing Out podcast) onto the podcast to talk about the ominously titled POKEMON: THE FIRST MOVIE. We get to talking about Pokemon as a multimedia phenomenon in the late 90s and how it just missed some of us age wise, card based box office boosts, how people feel about the movie/animated series in relation to the games and whether or not Pikachu crying brought tears to our eyes. Will Phil and Kenny leave the episode wanting to catch them all? Listen to find out. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We aren't quite done! This week as our final FELICITY FRIDAY, Phil interviews a couple of FELICITY's key creatives.First off we have Executive Producer and TV Veteran John Reims about his role on Felicity, what makes Felicity different from all the other shows he's worked on in his career, and what it was like to work with the cast.And then we bring back Director and Producer on Felicity, Lawrence Trilling to talk about what it was like to say goodbye to Felicity, his thoughts on the ending and what it was like to direct the show's finale. THANK YOU all so much for listening to Felicity Fridays, it's been a blast doing them. Hope you tell your friends and get excited for what's coming up of PODCAST LIKE IT'S 1999. We, like Felicity, might be looking towards the past pretty soon, stay tuned... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the 90s we all loved lasers and we all loved Catherine Zeta Jones. Put them together and you have an all time memorable teaser trailer and ... an absolutely terrible movie??This week we welcome back Jessica Ellis (Host of Distant Socials Podcast) to the podcast to talk about Entrapment, a movie as far as anyone is concerned is just Catherine Zeta Jones dodging lasers with sexy movements and also Sean Connery is in it.We talk about the movie beyond the trailer, Sean Connery as a 60 year old movie star, Catherine Zeta Jones place as a movie star post-Zorro and just how much we did not care for Entrapment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's so hard to say goodbye, but sometimes we must put away Ben and Noel and wrap up talking about one of the best shows of all time.This week we welcome back Vanity Fair Senior Writer and Podcaster Extraordinaire Joanna Robinson (Storm of Spoilers, Little Gold Men) to talk about the final episodes of Felicity.We talk about Felicity's journey from mid season 2 (the end of its 1999 run) to its end in 2002, the craziness of the twist of the final 5 episodes (TIME TRAVEL!), where Joanna and Phil end up on Ben v Noel at the end of the show and those melancholy senior year/anxious about the world feelings.P.S. This is not the final episode of FELICITY FRIDAYS. We will be doing one more bonus episode interviewing executive producer Josh Reims and Producer/Director Lawrence Trilling.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.