Living in the Past

We open our final season with a watch along of one of the most polarising movies of perhaps all time and definitely 1999....The Phantom Menace. We talk behind the scenes drama, the saga of Jar Jar, problematic aliens and, of course, go way off topic. We will back in the new year with our first episodes so stay subscribed. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser i...

We are finally back and it feels so good. This is a quick episode to explain why it took us so damn long and to look ahead to our 1999 season. Make sure you subscribe to not miss an episode, and please join us as we travel towards the end of our 90s journey. Rate and review us on Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-in-the-past-15...

It's time to say farewell to 1998. Goodbye Truman! So long Yield! F**k Off Armageddon! Sit back and hear us state our claims for 1998's best Songs, Albums and Films. We mostly respect each other's lists but there are some surprises and, no doubt, glaring omissions in our Top 10's for our penultimate season of there podcast. Thankyou to everyone who has listened to this season and have been with us...

This week we are talking all about December 1998. In our penultimate episode for this season we talk way too much about UK television, make our way through the Boxing Day movie releases, try and convince Ben that The Faculty is one of the best movies ever, Paul gives his best James Hetfield impression and we end the year on a nice and calm note thanks to Clem Snide.  Rate and review us on Spo...

This week Paul talks to listener turned guest Halloween Queen Helen as they both construct a movie marathon of 5 horror movies from the 90s. They talk about 90s slashers, space and beyond, give some love to Candyman, chat about very limited power wielded by video store employees and bask in the brilliance that is The Night of the Scarecrow. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us...

This week we are talking all about July 1998.....like we should have been doing 5 or 6 episodes ago! That's right, we forgot to post July earlier this season so here it is in all its glory, We talk about Sydney's dirty water, Ronaldo missing from the World Cup Final, terrible blockbuster films (especially stupid asteroid movies that aren't Deep Impact), finally get to One Week by Barenaked Ladies...

This week we are all about November where we have a supersize film section covering high quality H20, Irish tales, terrible bachelor parties, a confusing pig centric family movie and a certain white guy with dreadlocks in a slasher movie. We also talk about Tigercats and Huskies, show some love for at least 4 songs on Americana and Paul shares another video store from the past concerning public dr...

We invite our good friend Shannon Bowling back to look through the end of year ARIA Single and Albums charts plus the Hottest 100 for 1998. In. a sea of compilations, Swedish crafted singles and for some reason Matchbox 20 we not only go through the Top 10s of each list but compile our own Top 5 as well. Whose list will be reign supreme? How many times will Brick by Ben Folds Five be mentioned? Wh...

This week we have good friend Grace Robinson joining us to talk all about October 1998. We brave a real bummer of an events section, have some mixed feelings about Pleasantville, admire the background acting of FBI Files, lay some love on Refused's The Shape of Punk to Come and find out there maybe more to the The New Radicals than a bucket hat and a hit song. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple...

This week we are joined by good friends Evie and Damon (and for an Akira Kurosawa obituary, Miss Laura Jayne Spooky) to talk all things September 1998. We talk about Baby One More Time being unleashed upon the world, the unexpected joy of a Van Damme counterfeit jeans with nano bombs movie, Evie breaks down the masterpiece that is Casper Meets Wendy, Damon shares his love for Hole's Celebrity Skin...

This week we cover everything August 1998 but we must warn you....the events section is a bummer this month. We also get all cockney with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, find out if Stella got her groove back, look back fondly on Who's Line Is It Anyway? and navigate through all the Nu Metal in our music section finally listen to then queen herself Lauryn Hill and all about her misadventures....

This week are talking about the video games of 1998 where we are attacked by zombies, parasites, kazooies and Spyros. Plus Ben tells the story of an innocent visit to a Internet cafe to play Age of Empires that goes bad. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-in-the-past-1549141 Email: livinginthepastp...

This week we are talking all about June 1998 where we cover another chapter of Ben's British childhood, the World Cup, some questionable drunk acting by Harrison Ford in Six Days Seven Nights, some questionable work from everyone involved in Can't Hardly Wait, give the love to the Truman show and Paul has a hard decision to make for favourite album with Rancid and Billy Bragg & Wilco. Events -...

This week we are talking all about May 1998 where we farewell the great Phil Hartman, can't wait for Godzilla to end, get comforted by President Morgan Freeman, look back on Celebrity Deathmatch and dance around the house to Garbage. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-in-the-past-1549141 Email: liv...

This week we are talking about original MA rated sweary, bloody comic movie...Blade. With our resident comic book expert Craig Taylor we talk about cool swords, children thrown through bus stops, grisly on set injuries, exploding microscopes and much more. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-in-the-...

This week we are covering April 1998 where after watching Matt LeBlanc trying to be dramatic in space, Nicholas Cage as an angel that doesn't know how to shower and a Gwyneth Paltrow encountering terrible men in tow different timelines we struggle to find a favourite movie. We also reminisce about Scrapheap Challenge, show some love for Gomez and Ben finally runs out of time in our weekly Conan ch...

This week we are talking all about March 1998 including The Oscars, a little bit if true crime, The Big Lebowski and why Ben hates it, Wild Things and why Paul hates it and finish with some Morcheeba and Jerry Cantrell. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-in-the-past-1549141 Email: livinginthepastpo...

This week, we bid farewell to the spooky season with a special Halloween Eve watch along of 1998's Urban Legend. Listen as Ben repeatably confuses the lead actress for someone else, some questionable face acting, a very 90s soundtrack and possibly one of the best kills in a 90s horror so far. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www....

This week we are talking February 1998 where Bill gates gets a pie in the face, give The Wedding Singer the 2024 'is it problematic' test, find out if Blues Brothers 2000 is really that bad (it is), represent the hometown with The Superjesus and fall in love all over again with Catatonia. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podc...

This week we rank every track (even the secret one) on Pearl Jam's 5th album, Yield released in February 1998. It gets tense again as we nerds battle it out to have the definitive best ranking, and see how many Pearl Jam fans we can outrage in the process. We also talk about memories of the 1998 Australian tour, the behind the scenes look at making the album with Single Video Theory and try and wo...

We are back with our 1998 season and for once we have some pretty good stuff to cover for our January episode. We have the beginning of the Clinton scandal, giant squid creatures in Deep Rising, Peter O'Toole somehow agreeing to be in Phantoms, Louis Theroux's TV debut, a new song for our Conan segment and then finishing off my chilling to a little Air. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcast...

We are back!! Before our 1998 season we wanted (well, Paul wanted) to give out a special spooky season treat and gift you all a watch along to one of the greatest movies of all time (Paul's words)....Halloween H20. We talk about Michael Myers driving across the country, the shock of losing Joseph Gordon Levitt in the first 10 minutes, Josh Hartnett's hair, LL Cool J's weird erotic fiction subplot,...

This week we farewell 1997 the year by ranking our Top 10 favourite songs, albums and films. In a year where one of us struggled to fill out the 10 spots and the other had too many options (so much so that he completely flouted the rules....but whatever) we think some of you will be pleased and the rest will thoroughly annoyed. Thankyou for listening and all the support, we shall be back October.....

This week we are talking all things December 1997 including cartoon seizures, maybe the worst Bond, a Home Alone that features a child not being alone at home very often, another pretty much music free December and Ben takes down Dr. Harry. Events - 06:30 Sports - 16:35 Film - 28:45 TV - 1:19:50 Music - 1:25:15 Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link...

This week we work hard and play hard while talking about all The Simpsons episodes that aired in 1997. We have Burns and Homer stranded on a mountain, Rex Banner and the Beer Baron, Homer drinking wax, Frank Grimes or Grimy as he liked to be called and don't forget Armin Tamzarian's reign of terror. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https...