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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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)