Podcast Like It's ...

Phillip Iscove, Kenny Neibart, Emily St. James

podcastlikeits1999@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

This is a pop-culture retrospective interview show focused on film, television, and music, typically bringing on writers, comedians, editors, and other knowledgeable commentators to discuss specific works. Agencies could credibly pitch film and television critics, entertainment writers, comedians with strong cultural-analysis skills, and editors or creators with distinctive perspectives; booking difficulty is low because the show generally features accessible professionals rather than major celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 586

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

podcastlikeits1999@gmail.com

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Host

Phillip Iscove - Writer and co-creator of FOX's Sleepy Hollow.

Kenny Neibart - Writer known for work on Entourage and Hindsight.

Emily St. James - Writer and cultural critic focused on film, television, and popular culture.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Writers, comedians, film and television critics, editors, podcast hosts, and other entertainment professionals with informed perspectives on particular movies, shows, musicians, or cultural eras.
Required Achievements:  
Published writing or criticism, Professional entertainment or media work, A podcast, editorial, or comedic platform

Recent Guest Discussions

Carson Olshansky - Pay It Forward, Earnest Prestige Films, Filmmaking Choices, And The Movie's Controversial Ending.

Jude Ellison Doyle - The Box, Richard Kelly's Filmmaking, Gender Representation, Economic Anxiety, And Literary Horror.

Mitchell Beaupre - Wendy & Lucy, Kelly Reichardt's Filmmaking, Poverty, Unhoused People, And Michelle Williams's Performance.

Recent Topics

Film Criticism, TV, Music, Pop Culture, Nostalgia

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
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105: The Gift with April Wolfe

July 31, 2026

Phil and Emily are joined by writer and critic April Wolfe for Sam Raimi's The Gift (2000). Cate Blanchett plays a widowed Georgia fortune teller who reads cards to keep her family afloat and gets pulled into a murder when a local woman (Katie Holmes) goes missing. Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Hilary Swank, and Greg Kinnear round out a stacked Southern-gothic ensemble.The three dig into Raimi working in a minor key between the Evil Dead films and Spider-Man, Blanchett anchoring a lurid pulp...

104: Pay It Forward with Carson Olshansly

July 24, 2026

Phil and Emily are joined by comedian Carson Olshansky for Mimi Leder's Pay It Forward (2000). Haley Joel Osment plays a seventh-grader who answers a social-studies assignment think of a way to change the world by inventing a simple chain reaction: do a big favor for three people, and ask each of them to "pay it forward." Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt orbit as the scarred teacher and the struggling single mom the plan quietly sets out to fix.The three get into how a movie this earnest slowly cu...

103: The Box with Jude Ellison Doyle

July 17, 2026

Phil and Emily are joined by writer Jude Ellison Doyle to open up Richard Kelly's The Box (2009). Cameron Diaz and James Marsden play a cash-strapped 1976 couple handed a simple, horrible deal by a scarred stranger (Frank Langella): press the button on the box, collect a million dollars, and somebody you don't know dies. What starts as a Twilight Zone morality test (via Richard Matheson's "Button, Button") spirals into NASA, Mars, and a very literary sense of damnation.The three dig into Kell...

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