This week on Podcast Like It’s the 2000s, Phil and Emily continue their Valentine’s miniseries on the films of Wong Kar-wai with a deep dive into his dreamy, decadent, and divisive follow-up to In the Mood for Love: 2046. Joining them is Screen Drafts co-host Clay Keller to unpack memory, desire, sci-fi metaphors, hotel rooms, and the many women orbiting Tony Leung’s endlessly romantic (and endlessly messy) Chow Mo-wan.


Early in the episode, Phil provides context for listeners who may not have seen the film, walking through its fractured narrative, a futuristic train that takes passengers to a place where memories can be reclaimed, and a writer blurring fiction and reality as he drifts through the Oriental Hotel and the ghosts of love past.


The conversation explores how 2046 expands Wong’s romantic universe into something colder, more reflective, and more haunted. Is it a sequel? A remix? A sci-fi epilogue? A man trying to freeze time so he never has to grow up? The trio discusses the film’s nonlinear structure, its lush visual language, recurring musical motifs, and the way longing becomes both theme and architecture.


They also touch on the film’s limited U.S. release, its evolving critical reputation, and how it fits into Wong Kar-wai’s broader body of work. Along the way, the episode offers a brief glimpse behind the scenes of this Valentine’s miniseries and how close to release these conversations sometimes are.



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81: 2046  with Clay Keller

Sally Dinosaur doesn’t perform desire, she inhabits it. In this raw, funny, and deeply honest episode, Sally joins Holly to talk about BDSM dynamics, camming orgasms, public-risk streams, the burnout that shut her body down, and the explosive comeback that proved her audience never left. From accidental penis humiliation mishaps to learning how to separate fantasy from real life, this episode digs into what happens when pleasure becomes a profession — and why listening to your body might be the most hardcore move of all. 

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Pain, Power, and Pleasure: Sally Dinosaur on Kink, Camming, and Control

This week on Podcast Like It’s the 2000s, Phil and Emily kick off a brand-new Valentine’s miniseries on the films of Wong Kar-wai with one of the most celebrated movies of the century: In the Mood for Love. Joining them are Katie McGrath and Tom Mison, making their first appearance on the main feed after many beloved appearances on Podcast Like It’s the 90s (the Patreon-exclusive show).


The conversation explores why In the Mood for Love has become the defining cinematic text of longing, memory, and restraint. The group digs into Wong Kar-wai’s sensual, dialogue-light approach; the role of ambiguity and audience interpretation; the film’s obsession with time, repetition, and missed connection; and how Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung deliver one of the most emotionally charged screen romances ever filmed without ever fully consummating it.


They also discuss the film’s slow critical “glow-up,” its influence on filmmakers like Sofia Coppola and Barry Jenkins, the role of Criterion in canon-building, and why this movie works as pure cinema something that couldn’t exist in any other medium. Along the way: conversations about memory, performance without dialogue, and what it means for a film to trust its audience completely.


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80: In The Mood For Love with Katie McGrath & Tom Mison

Holly Randall records a special AVN edition of Holly Randall Unfiltered featuring two conversations from the world’s biggest adult convention. Bobby Grey opens up about leaving the military for 🌽, first shoots, discipline on set, and why most outsiders misunderstand the industry. Addison Vodka talks about transitioning into studio work from camming, handling harsh online comments, exploring fantasies safely, and what she wants next in her career.

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Two Paths Into Porn And Why They’re Nothing Alike

We continue our Pixar 2000s miniseries with one of the studio’s most unexpectedly profound films: Ratatouille. Joined by Brooke Solomon and Jordan Gustafson of The Queer Quadrant, we dig into why this movie about a rat who cooks somehow became one of Pixar’s most emotionally resonant works.


We talk about Ratatouille as a love letter to food, Paris, and creative ambition; the film’s quietly radical worldview; the cultural impact of “ratatouilling” someone; and why the movie asks us to accept its reality completely or not at all. Plus: gay rat discourse, cursed 2007 box office math, and why this might be Pixar at the absolute height of its powers.


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79: Ratatouille wtih Brooke Solomon and Jordan Gustafson

This special AVN-edition episode of Holly Randall Unfiltered features adult-industry icon Isis Love, whose 27-year career spans performer, domme, director, producer, and talent liaison.Isis opens up about entering the industry as a homeless teenage mother, how she avoided burnout while others flamed out, and why porn is far harder, mentally and physically than most people realize. We also dig into her groundbreaking project XXX Tryouts, a real-world, reverse casting couch that tests whether “average guys” actually have what it takes to perform on camera.

This is an honest, funny, sometimes wild conversation about longevity, consent, boundaries, power dynamics, and what porn really looks like behind the scenes.

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Do You Have What It Takes? Isis Love on Porn Tryouts Gone Wild

On this episode of Podcast Like It’s the 2000s, Phil and Emily continue their Pixar 2000s miniseries by finally pulling into Radiator Springs to talk Cars with critic and scholar Myles McNutt.


Often dismissed as “the lesser Pixar,” Cars is also one of the studio’s most commercially dominant films and one of its strangest cultural phenomena. The trio digs into why this movie connected so deeply with kids, how Disney merchandising helped shape its legacy, and why Cars feels philosophically out of step with Pixar’s more emotionally precise storytelling. They also explore the film’s obsession with nostalgia, small-town Americana, Route 66 iconography, and the uneasy politics lurking under its warm glow.

Along the way, they discuss Pixar’s evolving reputation, the film’s place in the studio’s broader lineage, Cars Land as a theme-park response to Harry Potter, and why even if it’s flawed Cars might still be essential viewing to understand Pixar’s 2000s run.


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78: Cars with Myles McNutt

This episode of Holly Randall Unfiltered pulls back the curtain on the real business of sex work. Holly sits down with MelRose Michaels performer, entrepreneur, and founder of SexWorkCEO, SWR Data, and GPTs.ai for a raw, no-filter conversation about what it actually takes to survive and scale in the adult industry. 

This is an unglamorous, honest look at porn, power, money, and the psychological toll of monetizing your body from someone who’s done it, survived it, and built systems to help others do it smarter.

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How MelRose Michaels Turned Sexwork Into a Serious Business

This week on Podcast Like It’s the 2000s, Phil Iscove and Emily St. James continue their Pixar of the 2000s miniseries by diving into Brad Bird’s The Incredibles with critic and writer Libby Hill.


Released in 2004, The Incredibles sits at a fascinating crossroads for Pixar part family sitcom, part mid-century spy fantasy, and part superhero deconstruction years before the genre would dominate Hollywood. Phil, Emily, and Libby unpack why the film’s action sequences double as character studies, how its superpowers function as metaphors for family roles, and why the movie still feels sharper than most modern comic-book adaptations. They also discuss the film’s complicated nostalgia, its cultural blind spots, and why The Incredibles managed to “get away with” things that live-action superhero movies still struggle to pull off.


Along the way, the conversation touches on Brad Bird’s direction, Pixar’s voice-acting process, the film’s critical and commercial legacy, and where The Incredibles sits in the larger Pixar pantheon especially when compared to its sequel.

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77: The Incredibles with Libby Hill

Mick Blue has slept with more women on camera than almost anyone in the history of porn — and he’s still standing. In this raw, no-filter conversation, Mick sits down with Holly to pull back the curtain on what it really takes to survive as a male performer. From gang-bang auditions and marathon shoot days to on-set anxiety, performance pressure, and the dark truth behind boner shots and “performance enhancers,” Mick breaks down the parts of porn most people never hear about.

They also get into his rise from Austrian outsider to AVN Hall of Famer, his crossover into mainstream acting, and why porn sets create some of the realest, most honest communities in Hollywood.


If you’ve ever wondered what it’s really like to perform under the lights, under pressure, and under everyone’s expectations this is the episode that tells you.

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Mick Blue: 25 Years, No Shortcuts, and the Real Cost of Being a Male Star

No topic will be off limits Aries Spears and Gerard Guillory will discuss everything from politics to pop culture to sports music religion and everything that’s humanly relatable. Aries and Gerard are the “SOPHISTICATED SCOUNDRELS”

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Unfiltered is a podcast series that sheds light on those working in the adult industry, and explores all topics of sex with authors, educators, and advocates. Hosted by world renowned erotic photographer and director Holly Randall, she interviews some of the biggest names in the adult industry, and various non-porn guests who touch on the subject of sex in one way or another. With an honest and humorous outlook on life, Holly strips away the misconceptions on people who work in the sex industry, and offers sex-positive discussions on various social and political issues. You can follow Holly on both Instagram and Twitter at @hollyrandall and drop us an email at hollyrandallunfiltered@gmail.com. Expect to be intrigued, to laugh your ass off, and to learn something new! Holly Randall Unfiltered is a proud member of Pleasure Podcasts. For network details, contact cameron@pleasurepodcasts.com.

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In a lot of ways 1999 was the year that changed movies. From “The Matrix” and “The Blair Witch Project” to “American Beauty” and “The Sixth Sense”, the last year of the millennium was transformative for Hollywood. Through "Podcast Like It's 1999" writers Phillip Iscove (co-creator of FOX's Sleepy Hollow) and Kenny Neibart (Entourage, Hindsight) examine this apex of Cinema, before television took over, before Reality TV, before TMZ and Twitter but also after the internet, after Clinton, after OJ, after Howard Stern and Jerry Springer. This podcast will cover the over 250 exciting, funny and influential movies produced that year. Get excited to do a deep dive into all things 1999.


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