Podcast Like It's ...

“Lord what fools these mortals be!” Shakespeare wrote this in A Midsummer Night's Dream but he might as well have written it about Phil and Kenny, so luckily we brought in Joanna Robinson, of Vanity Fair, Little Gold Men and The Storm: A Lost Rewatch Podcast, to help us foolish mortals talk about all the late 90’s goodness of this adaptation of one of the Bard’s most famous comedies.

Kim Kelly is My Friend, just like Phil Iscove is My Friend, Kenny Neibart is My Friend, TV Writer Ashley Lyle(Narcos: Mexico, The Originals) is My Friend.    But KIM KELLY IS MY FRIEND is also the fourth episode of Freaks and Geeks and the subject of this episode of Freaky Fridays. Listen as we deep into the episode and that pesky thing we call friendship.

Don't worry this is still podcast about 1999, but back in early September Warner Brothers released a trailer for their upcoming Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Todd Phillips and that film is being released this Friday.   Kenny had thoughts on the trailer. Phil had thoughts on the trailer. This is their story.

This Week we take a trip to Cuba and back with Gideon Yago (MTV News, HBO’s The Newsroom, Quantico and Narcos) to talk about BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, Wim Wenders' seminal documentary about a legendary group of Cuban Musicians and the seminal self titled album they put out.

Novelist and Screenwriter David Iserson (His novel Firecracker,The Spy Who Dumped Me) joins us again on this Freakiest of Fridays for the discussion of TRICKS AND TREATS, the third episode of FREAKS AND GEEKS. We talk the ups and downs of Freaks and Geeks as it settles into its run and our beautifully awkward Halloween memories.

TV Shows in 1999. What were the people watching? What Were We Watching? What Was a Hit? What Was a Flop? We sit down with Joe Adalian, West Coast editor for Vulture(New York Magazine), to answer all these questions (or not) and many more. We try to figure out what was up with what people were watching in 1999 and what deserved those views.

In this Weeks Freaky Friday, Phil and Kenny sit down with Novelist and Screenwriter David Iserson (Mr. Robot, Firecracker) to geek and freak about BEERS AND WEIRS the second episode of Freaks and Geeks. They talk about watching David's experience having watched the pilot early, the relate-ability and specificity that made Freaks and Geeks great and how the show bumped up against the expectations of TV in the era.

Aaron Thomas(Co-Creator/Showrunner of CBS’ SWAT) joins Kenny and Phil to talk about The Best Man. Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chesnut, Saniaa Latham, Regina King, Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineu . A generation of African American stars collected in one beloved romantic comedy/drama. Taye Diggs may be the titular THE BEST MAN. But this week we hope that Phil, Kenny and guest Aaron Thomas will be your Best Men to talk about it.

Welcome to Freaky Fridays! Every week for the next 18 weeks we'll be diving into a new episode of the 1999 television masterpiece that is Freaks & Geeks. This week we discuss the pilot with Rolling Stone's Chief TV Critic Alan Sepinwall! We talk about the casting, the direction, the writing as well as the launch of the series, its development and its many timeslots.

Literary adaptation Awards Bait is a clear part of any year in films legacy, so this week Phil and Kenny discuss Snow Falling on Cedars, the Ethan Hawke vehicle about a town wrestling with a racially charged murder, information I assume you are all learning now because it effectively doesn’t exist. “