Podcast Like It's 1999

This week, Tia Napolitano (writer, Grey's Anatomy, Station 19) joins us to talk about Four Women and a Funeral, the fifth episode of Sex and the City season 2. We talk about funeral etiquette, Carrie getting back with Mr. Big, Samantha sleeping with the wrong guy at the wrong time, and apartment hunting. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

HO HO HO! MERRY CHRISTMAS (and Happy Holidays of course). This week we are joined by Ashley Lyle (Writer: Narcos: Mexico, Dispatches From Elsewhere) to give you all a special treat and give you a taste of what we have cooking up for you in 2021. We are talking about 1989's NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION, a preview of our upcoming series PODCAST LIKE IT'S 1989 which will launch on our upcoming Patreon launching January 11th. (Follow us on social media for further details)Join Ashley, Kenny and Phil as we talk about Chevy Chase's career as a megastar, National Lampoon's and National Lampoon's Vacations legacy as a franchise and celebrate the season. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we welcome back one of our favs Dana Schwartz (Noble Blood Pod) to talk about "They Shoot Single People, Don't They?" the fourth episode of season 2 of SEX AND THE CITY. We talk about Carrie trying out single life and the show's relationship with ...um relationships, the female orgasm and the continuing raunchy adventures of Samantha Jones. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Another year, another 52 in Review. Join us as Phil and Kenny look back at our last 52 episodes of Podcast Like It's 1999 and continue to determine which are our favorite performances, movies, and moments of 1999. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week writer Anne T Donahue joins us as we talk about Freak Show, the third episode of Sex and the City season 2. We talk about Men (ugh amirite folks), the continuing evolution of Samantha's hornyness, the specificity of New Yorker's self obsession and our relationship with the show. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.