Podcast Like It's 1999

Alan Sepinwall (Rolling Stone) makes his triumphant return to Freaky Friday to discuss Discos and Dragons, the untimely demise and the long, storied legacy of one of the great series of all-time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Phil and Kenny break their furmat to dumpster dive into 2019’s meow-sical, Cats! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are excited to have a dynamic duo of dames to talk about a dynamic duo with Danes. We bring on returning guests and stars of STATION 19, Danielle Savre and Barrett Doss to talk about BROKEDOWN PALACE, the Kate Beckinsale/Claire Danes thriller about a pair of high school grads getting into some trouble. We talk to them about acting, female dynamics on screen and what they thought about the movie then and now.This week we are excited to have a dynamic duo of dames to talk about a dynamic duo with Danes. We bring on returning guests and stars of STATION 19, Danielle Savre and Barrett Doss to talk about BROKEDOWN PALACE, the Kate Beckinsale/Claire Danes thriller about a pair of high school grads getting into some trouble. We talk to them about acting, female dynamics on screen and what they thought about the movie then and now. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Melancholy begins to arise as we begin to approach the end of this fun journey we have taken. This week we talk to Deputy TV Editor at Vulture and host of the The Next Picture Show, Genevieve Koski to talk about The Little Things, the penultimate episode of Freaks and Geeks, her relationship with the show, approaching the end of a great thing and our time with these characters.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We start to year off right with an incredibly special episode as we take a look back at one of the films we’ve already covered, 200 CIGARETTES, and we talk to some of the people involved in making. First of we have Betsy Beers, a producer on the film and a variety of hit television programs such as Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. And we also have actor Guillermo Diaz(Scandal) to y’all about the non speaking part he has in this film and his career. If any podcast was ever gonna get deep into the making of a 1999 Ben Affleck, Courtney Love, Kate Hudson vehicle you’re know it would be this one! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Freaky Friday, Phil and Kenny are joined by writer, actress and comedian Becky Feldman(Talking Tom and Friends) move out of their parents' house to talk about Smooching and Mooching, the 16th episode of Freaks and Geeks.  We get into Becky’s relationship with the show, getting into fights with our parents, the awkwardness of having a crush and having to tell them, the power of smooching, our favorite moments from the episode and our thoughts on the beginning of the end for Freaks and Geeks as the show begins to come to a close for its first and only season.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This jolly old, merry old Christmas we are joined once again by one of our absolute favorites returning guests Vox’s Emily VanDerWerff to talk about the Christmas Cinema of 1999. We get into the Cheese, Shmaltz, Corny and maybe even Horny? Stuff that was released for or around Christmas in 1999 and what it says about how we were treating Christmas in ‘99. We also reminisce about our own Christmas’ that year and genuinely have a Merry old time talking to one of our nicest friends.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Freaky Friday, Kenny and Phil are joined by TV writer Chuck Hayward(Dear White People, Mixed-Ish) and struggle to figure out whether to tell you that they talk about the Noshing and Moshing, the 15th episode of Freaks and Geeks. We get into Chuck’s relationship with the show, going to parties, being attracted to older people, having to keep secrets from someone and our favorite moments from the episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Week, Kenny and Phil break out their glasses and calculators to take a look at the Box Office Numbers of 1999. And to be able to get in depth and know what we are talking about we brought on not just a Box Office Guru but THE founder of the website Box Office Guru, Gitesh Pandya. They talk about the flops, bombs, surprise hits and record breaking successes and everything in between because in a year with this many wonderful movies there are sure to be winners and losers at the Box Office. They say numbers don’t lie so we figure out what movies they tell harsh truths about, what movies they sing the praises of and what movies we as audiences just plain let down. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are double dipping on the Hunter Convington (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Stacy Traub (Black-ish)of it all as we bring them back to get morbid over DEAD DOGS AND GYM TEACHERS THE 14th episode of Freaks and Geeks. This 14th Freaky Friday we talk to them about their relationship with the show, our favorite moments from the episode and how we feel about the show this late in its run.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are rejoined by writer/producers Hunter Covington (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Community) and Stacy Traub (Black-ish, The Real O'Neals) to talk about one of the best comedies of 1999, the Eddie Murphy/Steve Martin film making farce, BOWFINGER. We talk about the careers and our fandom of two of the biggest stars of the 80s pushing their stardom into the Late 90s, the film's randomly impressive supporting cast and run through some of our favorite bits from the movie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are flying high as we talk about CHOKIN' AND TOKIN', on the 13th FREAKY FRIDAY. We puff, puff, pass the mic and welcome TV writer Lauren Signorino (Fear the Walking Dead, Flight 462) to talk allergies, doin' drugs (hypothetically, if you are listening cops), Lauren's history with watching Freaks and Geeks and our favorite moments from the episode.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We begin to celebrate the holidays by bringing on writer Jeff Greenstein (Friends, Desperate Housewives) to talk about our favorite depressed icon Charlie Brown and his classic seasonal specials. If you are a fan of Christmas, Great Pumpkins, the holidays or even just the comic strip then this is the episode for you. So bang on the piano, do your little dancing and enjoy the episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Week we open up THE GARAGE DOOR to talk some Freaks and Geeks with writer Emei Willis. It's not quite a Pink Floyd Laser Light Show but we do have some colorful discussion about our favorite moments from the episode, Emei's thoughts on Freaks and Geeks in general and understanding our parents.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we are giving you some special mid-week TV talk, as we are joined by writer Bryan Cogman(Game of Thrones), to talk about one of the most exciting events of 1999, The ER 2 Parter THE STORM. We talk all about this exciting event in the era of must see TV, our ER fandom and sexy, sexy Clooney. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we steal our dad's car and go for a ride with Alison Eakle and talk about LOOKS AND BOOKS, the eleventh episode of Freaks and Geeks. We talk about messing up as a kid, changing your style up to impress people, reconnecting with friends and after we finish talking about our week we get into the stuff that happened in the episode.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ah don't you love looking back at the year.   This week we bring you are 2nd Annual 52 in Review. We reminisce about the podcast before giving out awards for Best: Picture Actor Actress  Director  Screenplay   ...of the movies we have covered in the last 52 weeks of the podcast.    PLUS:  We give you our top ten movies of 1999 (that we have covered so far, no spoilers from us) AND we bring you our top 20 movies of the 2010's just cause it's the season and above all, we love movies! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dear Diary,   This week on the podcast we were joined by writers Manuel Figueroa and Jordan Heimer (Stumptown, Step Up:High Water) to talk about the THE DIARY. We all had a very fun time as we discussed some of our favorite moments from the episode and also our personal history diaries and our parents. They'll never know about this one I hope.  Anyway it was a fun time had by all and Linda Cardelini is just the cutest. :)   PLI1999  The 10th Freakiest of Fridays See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Picture this. A College Dorm Room, the early 00s, weed smell pouring out of the bunk beds, not a book in its place. You look up on the wall and what do you see, A poster with no frame in sight, of a film starring a couple of cool dudes for a couple of "cool" dudes who just won't shut up about it. No, not Fight Club, not The Matrix either, this week on Podcast Like its 1999, we are talking The Boondocks Saints.    Comedian, Head Writer and Dad Podcaster Sean O'Connor (A Little Late with Lily Singh) joins us to talk about one of the centerpieces of Bro Acclaimed Cinema. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Barbara Friend comes back to the podcast to discuss some of our favorite Freaks and Geeks moments, including a very awkward break up, a very problematic fight scene and a very terrifying Norseman head. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.