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From the SportsAlcohol.com mixtape archives: Here's a mix made back in 2015, when Star Wars: The Force Awakens was coming out.

Direct download: The_Tape_Awakens_FINAL_MIX.mp3
Category:movies, music -- posted at: 11:01pm EDT

For a special holiday episode (and a rare new-release movie review!), Jesse is joined by podcast expert and horror fan Becca, to talk about all three versions of BLACK CHRISTMAS: The 1974 original, the 2006 remake, and the new 2019 version in theaters now!

Direct download: SportsAlcoholPodcastBlackChristmasX3.mp3
Category:movies -- posted at: 6:00pm EDT

Continuing our ongoing 20th-anniversary celebration of assorted albums from the year 1999, we GET INTO IT about one of Beck's less universally beloved records, the party bomb Midnite Vultures. Who thinks it's Beck's best album? Who vehemently disagrees? And how do we define "serious"? Mix bizness with Rob, Jesse, Marisa, Ben, and Derrick to find out!

Direct download: SportsAlcoholPodcast1999AlbumsMidniteVultures.mp3
Category:music -- posted at: 11:41pm EDT

Our play-through of 20-year-old albums continues with a double feature, as Marisa, Jesse, Rob, and Randy talk about The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner by Ben Folds Five and Utopia Parkway by Fountains of Wayne, two stylistically disparate records that nonetheless come from a similarly nerdy, suburban place.

Direct download: SportsAlcoholPodcast1999AlbumsBenFoldsFoW.mp3
Category:music -- posted at: 11:40pm EDT

Continuing our look back at some of the most interesting and beloved albums of 20 years ago, Rob, Sara, and Jesse talk about Fiona Apple's second album, commonly referred to as When the Pawn. How does it hold up two decades later? Was Fiona ahead of her time? Is this world bullshit? LISTEN AND DISCOVER!

Direct download: SportsAlcoholPodcast1999AlbumsWhenthePawn.mp3
Category:music -- posted at: 2:06pm EDT

As 2019 winds down, SportsAlcohol.com is looking back... to 1999 again! In a series of shorter, sweeter mini-episodes, we're dedicating individual discussions to some major albums from 1999 that mean a lot to us, then and/or now. First up is Emergency & I, the classic third record by the Dismemberment Plan. How did we love this album then and how do we love it now? Listen and learn, indie rock nerds!

Direct download: SportsAlcoholPodcast1999AlbumsEmergencyAndI.mp3
Category:music -- posted at: 1:46pm EDT

While SportsAlcohol.com loves to look back at pop culture from 20 years ago, we also try to pay attention to what is happening RIGHT NOW--especially in the world of independent cinema. Each summer for the past bunch of summers, we've capped the season with a look back at a bunch of cinematic indies, good and bad. For the 2019 edition, we cover over a dozen titles, providing an excellent guide for what to catch up with on streaming or VOD or DVD or whatever this fall!

Direct download: SportsAlcoholPodcastIndieMoviesSummer2019.mp3
Category:movies -- posted at: 10:43pm EDT

It's that time of year again, when the SportsAlcohol.com crew takes a look at where they were and what they (and the rest of America) were watching 20 years ago, examining a list of the highest-grossing box office attractions of summer 1999. Will Smith! Julia Roberts! Brendan Fraser! Jar Jar Binks! An apple pie! Pepe the Prawn?! All of your favorite 1999 stars are well-represented as Rob, Jesse, Nathaniel, Marisa, and Sabrina get deep into nostalgia mode.

Direct download: SportsAlcoholPodcastSummerMovies1999.mp3
Category:movies -- posted at: 12:30am EDT

In the second part of our epic exploration of Quentin Tarantino's nine-or-ten-film career, we talk about all of his previous films, from Reservoir Dogs to The Hateful Eight to however many Kill Bills you count as one movie, and everything else in between, exploring connections between them, and to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Direct download: SportsAlcoholPodcastTarantinoPart2.mp3
Category:movies -- posted at: 11:47pm EDT

With Quentin Tarantino's new film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood debuting to big business and an avalanche of thinkpieces, the core of SportsAlcohol.com's film team thought it would be a good time to take a look at the fullness of Tarantino's career so far, in a Grindhouse-like double feature. In the first episode, we talk about the new movie, and get into the ending right away, so the spoiler-averse should hold off! What did Marisa, Sara, Nathaniel and Jesse think about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood? LISTEN UP, because they all have a bunch of opinions about QT's latest.

Direct download: SportsAlcoholPodcastTarantinoPart1.mp3
Category:movies -- posted at: 12:17am EDT