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This week on Podcast Like It's 1999, Phil and Kenny have the unique pleasure of talking with America's greatest living podcaster, Griffin Newman (Black Check with Griffin and David, he also stars on The Tick), about one of his favorite movies, Toy Story 2.    Join us for this in-depth conversation about Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Pixar, John Lassetter, Sarah McLaughlin, Toy Story, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, Partysaurus, Babe: Pig in the City, Detective Pikachu, Frasier Crane, Prince's Super Bowl Halftime Show and the meaning of life.    And come back next week for Part 2 of our discussion with Griffin!

When there’s something strange, in the neighborhood, who you gonna call? GHOST DOG! When there’s mobsters trying, to contract a hit, who they gonna call? GHOST DOG! When you’re doing a pod, with two writers from Step Up: High Water, what movie you gonna do? GHOST DOG! When you’re watching Jim Jarmusch, and it don’t make sense, what movie are you watching? GHOST DOG (or any of his other movies)! GHOST DOG GHOST DOG GHOST DOG (I ain’t afraid of no birds) GHOST DOG GHOST DOG GHOST DOG (Forrest Whitaker’s really great in this) GHOST DOG!

HELLO Hello hello h e l l o... PODCAST LIKE IT’S 1999 HAS A NEW EPISODE Episode episode e p i s o d e ... ON A KEVIN BACON MOVIE Movie movie m o v i e (THOUGH NOT ONE THAT WILL HELP MUCH WITH THE KEVIN BACON GAME Game game g a m e...) IT A LITTLE LIKE THE SIXTH SENSE Sense Sense s e n s e... BECAUSE THERE’S A KID WHO SEE AND HEARS GHOSTS Ghosts ghosts g h o s t s... BUT THAT’S WHERE THE SIMILARITIES END End end e n d... JOINING PHIL AND KENNY ON THE PODCAST Podcast podcast p o d c a s t... IS KERRI DOHERTY Doherty doherty d o h e r t y... A WRITER ON SCHOOLED Schooled schooled s c h o o l e d... TO HELP BREAK DOWN Down down d o w n... STIR Stir stir s t i r... OF Of of o f... ECHOES! ECHOES! ECHOES! ECHOES!

Erin La Rosa (Netflix social media) came back to the podcast for her second Brendan Fraser-Hugh Wilson film. She thought she was just there to talk Fraser, but she never could have anticipated what awaited her. When people talk about the best twists of 1999, they’ll mention The Sixth Sense or The Matrix. Perhaps the more artsy of us will ride for eXistenZ. And maybe those who don’t understand twists will stan for, I don’t know, The Bone Collector? But the biggest twist of all is that this movie about a simple Canadian Mountie and his flatulent horse named Horse based on a little-loved cartoon is not only good, it’s great! Listen to this episode to find out if this write up was itself a twist as well and it’s really as bad as you think.

Bicentennial Man is a film from 1999 with a title that gives away the ending. If the studio was intent on giving away the ending, perhaps they should have gone with one of their alternate, snappier titles instead, such as: “I Fucked My Fridge” Todd Van Der Werff (Vox) and Libby Hill (LA Times) join us for a high-minded discussion on the film* that ended Robin Williams’ career as a leading man. * ”Jakob the Liar” can also make this claim, but fortunately for us we won’t be covering it because it was made in ... well, fuck.

Phil, Kenny and Okieriete Onaodowan (Hamilton, Station 19, sorry, did you miss what we said? Hamilton. The original Broadway Cast. He was Hercules Mulligan and James Madison. If you knock him down he’ll get the fuck back up again! Oh my god, I’m fanboying out and I’m just a bot that generates amusing podcast writeups, back to the movie) take a trip to a little redneck mountain town (which is directly from the movie. The MOVIE is using the derogatory term ‘redneck,’ you ass-licking cockholes) to review Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s masterpiece (yeah, masterpiece. Hang it in the Louvre, shitsniffers!), SOUTH PARK: BIGGER LONGER AND UNCUT!    So strap in you big ol dildo pirates as we let Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, Chef, Mr. Hat and Satan serenade us with the best - and only - toe-sucking, pubic hair-ingesting musical of 1999.    Oh, and Happy New Year, Fuckers!

Are you ready to ROCK?! Oh, no, you’re not? Then, well, are you ready to ROLL?! Not that either? Hmm... are you ready to PAINT YOUR FACE LIKE A DEMON AND STICK YOUR TONGUE OUT?! Oh, not your bag either, huh? Okay, then... ARE YOU READY TO LISTEN TO A PODCAST ABOUT A THINLY-VEILED INFOMERCIAL DISGUISED AS A PROBLEMATIC ROAD MOVIE?! You are?! Then, my good man, do we have the podcast for you.

This week on the pod Matthew D’Ambrosio (The Vampire Diaries) joins Phil and Kenny to discuss Kevin Williamson’s directorial debut, “Teaching Mrs. Tingle,” a film best known for changing its title pre-release from “Killing Mrs. Tingle” and thereby solving the problem of violence in America once an for all!

Christmas comes early for the listeners of Podcast Like It’s 1999 as Phil and Kenny are joined by Eric Carrasco (Supergirl) to discuss the 1999 Denise Richards vehicle “Dr. Christmas Jones and the World Is Not Enough” (co-starring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond).

We all have dreams, but the truly great ones dare to dream the dreams that have never been dreamt before. Take Carrie Gillogly (AMC), our guest for the week. Carrie had a dream to guest on the podcast about October Sky, the 1999 Jake Gyllenhaal-Chris Cooper space/mining drama, and make co-host Kenny appreciate it for the sensitive story of one man’s perseverance it is. At every turn, she experienced seemingly insurmountable odds. Yet, like the protagonist Homer Hickman, she persevered. But, did she succeed in her mission? Tune in to find out!