JOSIE AND THE PODCATS with Maria Lewis and Blake Howard (Maria Lewis and Blake Howard)

It has taken nearly 20-years, but after crashing and burning at the box-office, the most unexpected thing starts to happen: Josie And The Pussycats becomes a cult classic. In our final major episode of the show, we speak to EVERYONE - Rachael Leigh Cook, Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont, Adam Schlesinger, Bif Naked, Kay Hanley and more - about the movie’s unlikely legacy and hear from musicians who have defined their careers by it.

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For the hearing impaired, a written version of this episode is available online here:

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Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com

Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

Tim Hanley is the author of several non-fiction books, including Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine and the upcoming Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale. He’s on Twitter at @Tim_Hanley https://twitter.com/timhanley01 and his books can be found here: www.amazon.com/Tim-Hanley/

Alex Segura is the author of several novels and comic books, which can also be found here www.alexsegura.com . He’s on Twitter at @Alex_Segura https://twitter.com/alex_segura

This episode was sponsored by Boss Logic https://www.artbybosslogic.com and the fourth novel from Maria Lewis, The Witch Who Courted Death https://www.amazon.com/Witch-Who-Courted-Death/dp/0349421293

She’s someone who was so inspired by the Josie And The Pussycats movie that she started her own internationally famous teenage rock band. We speak to Operator Please founder, frontwoman and guitarist Amandah Wilkinson about teen fame, the pressures of the music industry, and her new act Bossy Love.

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For the hearing impaired, a written version of this episode is available online here: 

If you like this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. New episodes drop every Sunday, with bonus episodes during the week.

Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com 

Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: https://www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

Ride on your motorbike with DuJour and into this Josie And The Podcats bonus episode about the unintentional breakout stars of the 2001 cult film Josie And The Pussycats - the parody of 90s boybands, DuJour. Writers and directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont talk about crafting the DuJour sound with Kenny ‘Babyface’ Edmonds and pitching a DuJour movie to Netflix. Rachael Leigh Cook shares why they’re her “favourite” part of the movie - even 20 years later - and musicians Eva and Sam Hendricks from Charly Bliss and Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Operator Please talk about DuJour’s lasting musical influence.

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For the hearing impaired, a written version of this episode is available online here:

If you like this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. New episodes drop every Sunday, with bonus episodes during the week.

Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com

Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

Tune in for next week’s episode of Josie and the Podcats: Soundtrack.

Josie and the Podcats is a limited podcast series diving into the history, the production, the music, the legacy, and the fandom surrounding the 2001 cult classic Josie and the Pussycats. From the stars and creators to the obsessive fans, DuJour means this show is a must-listen for all Josie diehards. Hosted by Maria Lewis and produced by Blake Howard.

It's the Josie And The Podcats episode you’ve been waiting for: Soundtrack. To create the sound of Josie And The Pussycats, an eclectic mix of musical maestros get brought in to work on the soundtrack under the direction of Kenny ‘Babyface’ Edmonds. We speak to the voice of Josie herself, Letters To Cleo’s Kay Hanley, writers and directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, star Rachael Leigh Cook, back up singer Bif Naked and the late, great Adam Schlesinger from Fountains Of Wayne.

Fountains Of Wayne reunited in honour of Adam Schlesinger at Jersey 4 Jersey to support the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund, which can be found here: https://njprf.org

Josie and the Podcats is a six-part limited podcast series all about the 2001 cult classic Josie and the Pussycats hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For the hearing impaired, a written version of this episode is available online here:

If you like this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. New episodes drop every Sunday, with bonus episodes during the week.

Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com

Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

This episode was sponsored by Diva Headwraps https://www.divaheadwraps.com

Kay Hanley is the voice of Josie we all know and love, but on this week’s bonus episode we speak to the original singing voice from Josie And The Pussycats - Dee Dee Gipson. And how that all ties in to the current Josie on the hit series Riverdale - Ashleigh Murray.

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For the hearing impaired, a written version of this episode is available online here:

If you like this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. New episodes drop every Sunday, with bonus episodes during the week.

Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com

Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

Tune in for next week’s episode of Josie and the Podcats: Release.

The Josie And The Pussycats movie is officially green lit, with production heading to Vancouver, Canada to shoot. Yet first, the trio of Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, and Rosario Dawson are going to band camp in Los Angeles to figure out how to be believable music superstars on screen. As for writers and directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, they start locking down the rest of their cast including quirky character actors Alan Cumming and Parker Posey.

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For the hearing impaired, a written version of this episode is available online here:

If you like this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. New episodes drop every Sunday, with bonus episodes during the week.

Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com

Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

This episode was sponsored by One Heat Minute https://oneheatminute.com and Edenki Studio https://www.edenki.com.au

Tune in for next week’s episode of Josie and the Podcats: Soundtrack

Welcome to the first BONUS episode of Josie and the Podcats, a six-part limited podcast series all about the 2001 cult classic Josie and the Pussycats. After our first episode - History - dove into the pop cultural significance of Josie as a property over the decades, we decided to keep things historical for our debut bonus ep. This is all about how Archie broke the Comics Code.

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For the hearing impaired, a written version of this episode is available online here:

If you like this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. New episodes drop every Sunday, with bonus episodes during the week.

Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com

Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

Tim Hanley is the author of several non-fiction books, including Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine and the upcoming Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale. He’s on Twitter at @Tim_Hanley https://twitter.com/timhanley01 and his books can be found here: www.amazon.com/Tim-Hanley/

Alex Segura is the author of several novels and comic books, which can also be found here www.alexsegura.com . He’s on Twitter at @Alex_Segura https://twitter.com/alex_segura

This episode was sponsored by All The President’s Minutes

After going on a historical journey to where the Josie and the Pussycats movie could exist as a commercial entity in the late nineties, now we get into the nitty gritty of development. Writing and directing duo Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont sign on to direct after their hit Can’t Hardly Wait and they put out an offer to Rachael Leigh Cook for the role of Josie. Tara Reid gets locked in as Melody and everyone from Aaliyah, Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes, Beyoncé and Regina King audition for the part of Valerie.

Welcome to the second episode of Josie and the Podcats, a six-part limited podcast series all about the 2001 cult classic Josie and the Pussycats.

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For the hearing impaired, a written version of this episode is available online here: https://graffitiwithpunctuation.com/josie-and-the-podcats

If you like this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. New episodes drop every Sunday, with bonus episodes during the week.

Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com

Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

This episode was sponsored by Nicola Scott Art https://www.nicolascottart.com and the new book by Maria Lewis, The Wailing Woman https://www.amazon.com/Wailing-Woman-Maria-Lewis/dp/0349421323

Tune in for next week’s episode of Josie and the Podcats, Production, and our upcoming bonus episode, Fashion.

Welcome to the first episode of Josie and the Podcats, a six-part limited podcast series all about the 2001 cult classic Josie and the Pussycats. This week, we’re looking at Josie’s unlikely history: from a World War II romance to the Civil Rights movement in America during the sixties. A collection of the world’s best Archie Comics and pop culture experts help us break down exactly how we got to the point where the biting, satirical movie Josie and the Pussycats could exist.

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For the hearing impaired, a written version of this episode is available online here: https://graffitiwithpunctuation.com/opinion/the-unlikely-history-of-josie-and-the-pussycats

If you like this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. New episodes drop every Sunday, with bonus episodes during the week.

Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com

Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

Tim Hanley is the author of several non-fiction books, including Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine and the upcoming Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale. He’s on Twitter at @Tim_Hanley https://twitter.com/timhanley01 and his books can be found here: www.amazon.com/Tim-Hanley/

Alex Segura is the author of several novels and comic books, which can also be found here www.alexsegura.com . He’s on Twitter at @Alex_Segura https://twitter.com/alex_segura

This episode was sponsored by Supanova Pop Culture Expo www.supanova.com.au and the wares of artist Kirbee Lawler www.kirbeelawler.com

Tune in for next week’s episode of Josie and the Podcats: Development.

Everything is seemingly in line for Josie And The Pussycats to become a box-office hit but instead … it bombs. Immediately “dead on arrival”, we speak to writers and directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont about that crushing opening weekend but it finds fans in Rachael Leigh Cook, Letters To Cleo’s Kay Hanley, Bif Naked, Alanna Bennett and … Bono?

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For the hearing impaired, a written version of this episode is available online here:

If you like this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. New episodes drop every Sunday, with bonus episodes during the week.

Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com

Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

Tim Hanley is the author of several non-fiction books, including Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine and the upcoming Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale. He’s on Twitter at @Tim_Hanley https://twitter.com/timhanley01 and his books can be found here: www.amazon.com/Tim-Hanley/

This episode was sponsored by Haus Of Dizzy https://hausofdizzy.com

Some 16-years after Josie And The Pussycats is released in cinemas, the whole cast, crew and musical team are reunited for a once in a lifetime event to celebrate the vinyl pressing of the movie’s soundtrack from Mondo Records. There are tears, tunes, and some jerkin’ surprises.

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For written versions of every episode, please visited Graffiti With Punctuation: https://graffitiwithpunctuation.com/josie-and-the-podcats

If you like this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. New episodes drop every Sunday, with bonus episodes during the week.

Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com

Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

In this week’s bonus episode of Josie and the Podcats we’re talking about the FASHION of Josie And The Pussycats. From tonal dressing to the essential shimmer lip, why not don a pair of flip flop platforms and join us to look at the film’s visual storytelling? 

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

For the hearing impaired, a written version of this episode is available online here: https://graffitiwithpunctuation.com/opinion/the-fashion-of-josie-and-the-pussycats

If you like this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. New episodes drop every Sunday, with bonus episodes during the week.

Josie and the Podcats logo was designed by Aimee Reid who you can find on Instagram at @ai.me.me or via email at aimee.reid0310@gmail.com 

This episode was sponsored by the jerkin Netherworld Arcade in Brisbane, who can learn about and view their extensive shop of online merch here: http://netherworldarcade.com