{"podcast":{"title":"1999: The Podcast","slug":"1999-the-podcast-5273048","podcast_index_feed_id":5273048,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/1999","website_url":"https://www.cageclub.me/1999","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d0064978-a2db-11ec-a3d7-ff9be675552e/image/87ed8bb1b40c97b52fb71552c29afb28.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"John Brooks and Julia Sirmons","episode_count":114,"summary":"Was 1999 the best year in movie history? We think it might be! John Brooks, Julia Sirmons, and special guests work their way through all the year has to offer, one movie at a time, and we’ll ask special guests to share their memories of this amazing year and the movies that made it unforgettable. Unfortunately, nobody can be told what 1999: The Podcast is… you have to hear it for yourself!","last_synced_at":"2026-09-15T16:22:53.358332+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1999-the-podcast-5273048"},"episode":{"title":"BICENTENNIAL MAN","slug":"bicentennial-man","published_at":"2026-08-05T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1999-the-podcast-5273048/bicentennial-man","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1999-the-podcast-5273048","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CCPN2534278331.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CCPN2534278331.mp3","summary":"Bicentennial Man was the 40th highest grossing movie of 1999, opening December 17th in 4th place and taking in $87 million dollars worldwide on an almost literally unbelievable $100 million dollar budget. It's also the one movie of the year to star the late Sam Neill. Directed by Chris Columbus with script by Elia Kazan’s son Nicholas Kazan, based on the short story “The Bicentennial Man” AND the novel “The Positronic Man” by Isaac Asimov, with perhaps the most phoned-in score James Horner ever wrote, Bicentennial Man stars Robin Williams, Sam Neil, Embeth Davidtz, Wendy Crewson, Oliver Platt, Kiersten Warren, Hallie Eisenberg, John Michael Higgins, Bradley Whitford, Stephen Root, and noted January 6th Capitol Insurrectionist, Jay Johnston. This week, John and Julia talk \"family films\", uncanny valleys, Williams, and, of course, Sam Neill.","meta_description":"Bicentennial Man was the 40th highest grossing movie of 1999, opening December 17th in 4th place and taking in $87 million dollars worldwide on an almost…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3932,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/1999-the-podcast-5273048/episodes/bicentennial-man/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1999-the-podcast-5273048/bicentennial-man.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}