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Ron Shelton made some of the best and most beloved sports movies of all-time in Bull Durham, White Men Can’t and Tin Cup.    Boxing has long been considered the sport that lost naturally lends itself to dramatic storytelling, as evidenced by such classics as Raging Bull, Rocky and Million Dollar Baby.    So, when Ron Shelton came out with his boxing movie in 1999, audiences were expecting a knockout!    And what they got was... an extended gay panic joke?   Christian Lander (black-ish, The Mick) joins Phil and Kenny to dissect just how this seemingly perfect marriage of artist and subject was apparently derailed by the marriage of a director and his star.    And then they talk about WWE for 30 minutes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PHILLIP ISCOVE (co-host, “Podcast Like it’s 1999): It was really just supposed to be another episode, not unlike the 75 or so we had previously done.  KENNY NEIBART (co-host, “Podcast Like it’s 1999”): But something was different that day. Something in the air.  ERNIE HURTADO (producer, “Podcast Like It’s 1999”): That was the just the airplanes.  NEIBART: Aside from the airplanes. Something else. A certain je ne se quois.  WHITNEY FRIEDLANDER (entertainment journalist, guest “Podcast Like it’s 1999”): I think what Kenny is referring to is squeezing a non-problematic podcast from this very problematic movie. ISCOVE: Yes! We somehow avoided being problematic while talking about Woody Allen.  NEIBART: I don’t know if I’d say we were completely without controversy. What about the part where you defended Woody’s behavior? ISCOVE: I never defended Woody’s behavior!  FRIEDLANDER: I don’t think any of us defended him.  NEIBART (smirking): Phil did.  ISCOVE (steam rising): I did no such thing!  NEIBART: Ernie? HURTADO: I don’t know. He may have when one of those 15 planes flew over.  NEIBART: Yup.  ISCOVE: I never defended him! Stop putting that out there!  NEIBART: I guess our listeners will have to listen to the entire episode to find out. FRIEDLANDER: This got real weird, real fast. (Pause) ISCOVE: I didn’t defend him.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Special Double Episode! Fantasia 2000 with Karen Han and Julien Donkey-Boy with Ben Hosley Podcast like it’s 1999 is proud to bring to you a double bill that goes together like yogurt and sand.  First, Karen Han (Polygon) joins the guys for a deep dive into 1999s second most experimental film, Disney’s Fantasia 2000.  And then Karen stays on as Ben “Monster Man” Hosley (Blank Check) chimes in to talk a little Harmony Korine and the first most experimental film of 1999, Julien Donkey-Boy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before The Avengers. Before the Guardians of the Galaxy. Before the Justice League. Before the X-Men. Before the Agents of Shield. Before the Fantastic Four. Before the Suicide Squad. Before the Eternals. Before Birds of Prey. Before The Legends of Tomorrow. Before a The Defenders. Before the Teen Titans. Before the Umbrella Academy. Before Supermansion. But after Josie and the Pussycats. There were the Mystery Men with classic heroes like Mr. Furious! Blue Raja! The Bowler! The Shoveler! The Invisible Boy! And everyone’s favorite, The Spleen who’s secret power is super farts. Join Phil and Kenny as they welcome David Sims (The Atlantic, Blank Check), a superhero of film criticism and podcasting, to discuss this groundbreaking(-ish) superhero comedy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The year was 1999. Woodstock. Free Love. The Moon Landing. Any one of them could make for a good movie. But Walk on the Moon defies that half-assed bullshit and just throws it all into a blender and somehow churns out a single, spectacular film. Writer/Producer Toby Herman joins the Pod to discuss this hidden little gem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On a cool and spooky night Phil, Kenny and Ira Madison III (Daybreak, Keep It podcast) we’re mysteriously invited to discuss “House on Haunted Hill” and should any of them survivor the podcast, he would receive $1,000,000. Unfortunately, they all died. But the podcast lives on! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this biblical epic, Billy Crudup plays the son of the the son of God, a man set adrift from his family, his society and himself. Gideon Yago (The Newsroom, Quantico) joins Phil and Kenny as they discusses the religious implications of this retelling of the Book of Fuckhead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Phil and Kenny are joined on the podcast this week by director and animator Miguel Jiron (Into the Spiderverse) to discuss - yawn - Hiyao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke."   We have some real slogs in 1999, but few are as rote as this one, folks. It's a story you've heard a million times. Boy kills giant hog imbued with a demon spirit. The spirit gets inside him and gives him, you guessed it, superhuman strength but, yup, is also going to kill him.     In an effort to find a cure, he encounters a wolf goddess and her human daughter, San. I know, grow an imagination, Miyazaki.    Of course, they don't fall in love, but grow to have a mutual respect for each other, like pretty much every story about a young man and woman in traumatic circumstances.    That says nothing of the other mundane things he runs into, like your cliched group of bandaged of lepers manufacturing firearms or the tree spirits who probably hold the secret to all life on earth.    On top of that, visually it looks like a Monet come to life and populated with best and worst living dreams and nightmares of a opium eater. Like every other fucking movie ever.    Well, we said we'd do every movie, so here's Princess Mononoke for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alexandra Amin (WME) joins Phil and Kenny to talk about The Wood, a 1999 movie about the unexpected boners of growing up and the way those boners affect us all the way into adulthood and the friends you make along the way to help you get past your biggest boners as you stop being such a boner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Phil and Kenny are joined by producer Laura Neibart (Entourage, their children) to discuss Girl, Interrupted... Come for the thoughtful discussion about women’s mental health as portrayed in the film, but stay because you want to know who married Kenny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.