'Tis the season, so Adam and Chad answer the age-old question "is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” Instead of concluding the season with stuffing-filled turkey like in years past, this time the dudes wrap it up with milk n cookies… because Chad’s basement studio flooded. Happy Holidays right? This unfortunate incident leads to an unexpected win: a disc…

Devasting news about Matthew Perry, best known as Chandler from the ultimate 90’s sitcom, Friends. After thoroughly analyzing the good and bad of the show, including Jennifer Aniston and her hairdo “The Rachel,” Courtney Cox as ho-hum Monica, Lisa Kudrow as space cadet Phoebe, Matt LeBlanc as dumb-but-hot Joey, and David Schwimmer as frustratingly …

Adam and Chad try to definitely decide which of the most popular "hood movies" of the early 90's is the best. These films were hugely important to young Adam and Chad, and they want to know if they were right for loving them back in the day, and if their opinion has changed over the years. On the surface, both films are very similar. But "under the…

Wayne's World was only the second SNL movie and the first one since Blues Brothers. Mike Myers and Lorne Michaels had a lot riding on this one. Fortunately, Wayne's World was an unparalleled success and launched an era of movies based on SNL sketches. But was Wayne's World actually any good? Adam and Chad absolutely loved it growing up and quoted i…

We bring you Michael Mann’s 1995 masterpiece, Heat. Al Pacino and Robert De Niro face off for the first time on the silver screen, supported by a sick supporting cast featuring Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, and Val Kilmer. Oh, and the most perfect gun fight ever put on film. But you really want to hear the story about Adam m…

Well, it took us four seasons and 118 episodes before we put one out without a super focused topic. This week we ask the question, “what’s something you loved as a kid that you’re embarrassed by as an adult?” What shows, toys, fashion trends, and music makes your present adult-self cringe that your past child-self loved? Help us answer that questio…

Adam and Chad geek out on Quentin Tarantino’s finest achievement, the 1994 masterpiece Pulp Fiction, and ask the question “how did a movie this good become so widely popular with audiences and critics?” The movie that made Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman superstars, recontextualized Bruce Willis, and completely revived John Travolta’s career. Har…

In this episode we go deep inside Chad and probe his deepest, darkest teenage feelings to discover exactly what spoke to him the most about the ultimate 90s Grunge band, Nirvana. Smells Like Teen Spirit changed music and culture forever, and Unplugged made us actually feel something. < ’00 | an Art House Empire Production | #LessThan2000 1v1MeDM Th…

One of the most important films of the century: The Matrix (1999). Did it revolutionize or ruin cinema for the next ten years? Starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Hugo Weaving, and written and directed by the Wachowskis, it’s either a timeless classic or a dated cliché. What pill are you taking? < ’00 | an Art House Emp…

Part 2 of our epic interview with our high school director and teacher, Mark Schnitzler, aka "Schnitz." In this episode we get into the 1992 movie "Noises Off" starting Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve and John Ritter, and tell more tales of the 1999 stage production. Also, twenty-four year old hatchet gets buried. <3 < ’00 | an Art House Empire Pr…

Adam and Chad's high school director and physics teacher joins the show in our best episode yet. Mark Schnitzler, aka "Schnitz," somehow managed to convince a midwestern Catholic high school to allow him to direct the sex farce "Noises Off" in 1999. The 1982 play by Michael Frayne was the basis for the 1992 movie staring an incredible ensemble cast…

Just in time for the 30th anniversary, Less Than 2000 geeks out about the biggest movie of our lifetime, the original Jurassic Park. One of two of Steven Spielberg’s best films released in 1993, starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight and the greatest non-human character ever to grace the silver screen… the mu…

Rap and Hoop go together like P&B with the J. 1994’s Above the Rim brought Hip Hop and B Ball together in a slammin’ collab starting Tupac and Leon. It spoke to the very soul of a young Adam and Chad and had a bomb soundtrack featuring Regulate by Nate Dogg and Warren G. Listen to us riff about the movie, the soundtrack, and hear more stories about…

The Fly is a light hearted romantic comedy that uplifts the spirit and sooths the soul. Jeff Goldblum plays a quirky scientist that falls “madly” in love with a “smoking”reporter played by the delightful Geena Davis. Hank Scorpio makes and appearance in this hilarious brain child of comic genius Mel Brooks. Filmmaker (and not at all evil person) Jo…

Adam & Chad attempt to handle the topic of 80’s and 90’s supermodels with grace and class… or at least try to be as non-cringey as possible! Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss were known as the Big Six and were the biggest print and runway models the world has ever seen. George Michael…

Adam & Chad celebrate 4/20 with the defining stoner movie of our generation, Dave Chappelle’s Half Baked. < ’00 | an Art House Empire Production | #LessThan2000 1v1MeDM The board is set, the story yet to be written, Join TBW on their wacky adventures! Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show…

Weird Al Yankovic. There is no other. Not even close. After starting out in the 70’s doing song parodies on his accordion, he went from a novelty act on the Dr. Demento Radio Show to a worldwide cultural phenomenon by lambasting 80’s megastars Michael Jackson and Madonna. After his 1989 feature film UHF bombed, the Weird One made his first comeback…

Bryan Auer from Chat of the Wild makes his triumphant return to talk about another videogame mega franchise… Super Mario Bros. We go all the way back to the dawn of time and discuss all the 8-bit and 16-bit games in the groundbreaking series, and touch on Super Mario 64, The Wizard with Fred Savage, and the SMB movies from 1993 and 2023. Check out …

We all did dumb stuff when we were kids. Adam and Chad are just crazy enough to share their stories with the world. Nothing too weird. Nothing inside the statute of limitations. ;) Hit us up on Instagram or Facebook and let us know if you did the same silly stuff and share all the dumb things you did back in the day. < ’00 | an Art House Empire Pro…

There’s no other band quite like Tool. Juxtaposing dark sounds and images against positive messages about expanding our hearts, minds and souls and evolving as a species. Equal parts terrifying and uplifting. Adam Jones’ signature guitar sound and visceral visuals; Danny Carey’s polyrhythms and unparalleled percussion; Justin Chancellor’s melodic a…

With Scream 6 coming out, Adam figured it might be a good idea to watch the original Scream for the first time. Chad saw it in theaters in 1996 because he actually had friends! Wes Craven reinvigorated the horror genre in the 90’s by referencing all the typical horror tropes, many of which he invented. With stars like Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell,…

Beloved (and hated) by many, and considered a comedian’s comedian, Bill Hicks changed the face of standup comedy forever… and the lives of Adam and Chad. (For better or worse!) Bill’s comedy was smart, irreverent, edgy, enlightening, offensive, and most importantly, hilarious. Many of us heard Bill Hicks before we ever heard his standup from Tool’s…

Chad confirms his Beta status by defending Sony’s Betamax format to its sad, pathetic end. Adam, as usual, wins the debate easily by advocating for the vastly superior VHS video tape format. Or does he? You be the judge on this week’s zany episode, and relive your childhood memories of going to the video store on Friday nights. < ’00 | an Art House…

You only turn 100 once! Come celebrate our 100th episode with six previous guests who partied with us on New Year’s Day for our first ever Xennial Roundtable. Our mission? To decide once and for all “What is the Most 90’s Thing?” Big props to Christopher Wolfe, Michelle Mimick Phillips, Andrew Kenney, Abbie Witherbee, Darren Deffley, and Bobbi Wien…

Hating life now that the new Teen Wolf movie is out? Does Teen Wolf (2023) make you want to take a time machine back to before the world went to hell around the year 2000? If so, reclaim your childhood memories and rediscover why you loved the original from 1985 with Michael J. Fox! When MJF agreed to do Teen Wolf, he was a relatively obscure young…

Does Willow on Disney Plus make you weep for humanity? Did the 2022 Willow TV series send you to the hospital with life threatening gas? If so, reclaim your childhood memories and rediscover why you loved the original on our debut episode of Season 4! Written and produced by George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard, starring Val Kilmer and Warwick D…

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas! Thank you for joining us on our season (series??) finale. We give thanks to our guests, listeners and corporate overlords, then break down the best Christmas movie at all time staring Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid. Towards the end, join us for our first ever State of the Show where we make the decision whether …

We cross you over like MJ by doing a joint podcast with friend and fellow podcaster, Chris Wolfe. We joined his podcast and he joined ours for a dope collab about Grosse Pointe Blank, the John Cusack and Minnie Driver film from 1997. With great performances by Dan Akroyd and Alan Arkin and a killer 80’s soundtrack, this coming-of-age action/romanti…

In 1989, Konami released one of the most tubular four player beat-em-up ever to hit arcades. It was totally radical! Adam and Chad get into the comic books, the original NES game, the cartoon, the censorship in Europe, the NES arcade port, the 1990 movie, Pizza Hut product placement, and Chad playing with his action figures well into his late teens…

Special guest Andrew Kenney joins the show to talk about the best band in the entire universe: RUSH! Because the Canadian rock band’s career spans five decades, we decided to focus on one glorious period: the 1980’s. The 80’s gave Rush their greatest successes, including The Spirit of Radio and Tom Sawyer, and witnessed the biggest change in their …

We cap off Spooktober with a movie that deeply traumatized Adam as a lad. (Chad was already desensitized by the time he was 13). The boys go deep into this 1993 alien horror film based on a TRUE story staring the liquid Terminator Robert Patrick. Adam regales us with the deep research he did into Travis Walton and recounts his quest to parts of Ari…

Shrouded in mystique and tragedy, The Crow was a cursed production from the beginning – from a hurricane destroying the set to the horrible accident that killed Brandon Lee. Based on a comic book and starring Ernie Hudson, with a killer soundtrack featuring The Cure and Nine Inch Nails, The Crow was the movie that gave the world “The Goth.” < ’00 |…

We continue our month-long journey into the spooky and the sublime by reviewing a movie we’ve never seen… Dan Aykroyd’s 1991 horror/comedy Nothing But Trouble… and boy is it a scary. As in, scary how bad it is! How does a movie with Chevy Chase, Demi Moore and John Candy, written and directed by the King of the Ghostbusters, fail so spectacularly? …

Batman (1989) was the first PG-13 movie the boys ever saw, and boy, was it a great one. Directed by Tim Burton and staring Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Billy Dee Williams and Jack Palance, with music by Prince and Danny Elfman, it was a smash hit beyond Warner Bros.’ wildest dreams. In 2022, it’s hard to imagine a worl…

From the Files of Police Squad! comes the best spoof comedy this side of a Mel Brooks film. In honor of passing of Queen Elizabeth, we’re covering a movie that centers around her. Starring Leslie Nielsen as Lieutenant Frank Drebin, former wife of Elvis Priscilla Presley, Kahn from Star Trek II Ricardo Montalbán, academy award winner George Kennedy,…

You can get with this, or you can get with that. I think you’ll go with this, because this podcast is kinda phat! Black Sheep was one of the most original and quirky hip hop acts of the early 90's. Hear about Adam and Chad doing a rap song for a 5th grade lip sync contest at their Midwest, Catholic school! < ’00 | an Art House Empire Production | a…

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start [or for those of us with friends, Select, Start!] Grab a controller, a friend, and thirty lives to take on the evil Red Falcon alien army in the best two player simultaneous game on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Due to technical difficulties, Adam’s audio isn’t as awesome as it normally…

With Clerks 3 coming out, there’s no better time to dig into the original Clerks from 1994. Kevin Smith had his pulse on the twenty-somethings of America and released his super low budget independent film at the Sundance Film Festival at the right place and right time. Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson killed it as Dante and Randal Graves and Jaso…

Adam and Chad are joined by the first girl to take pity on them and be their friend, junior high cool girl Bobbi Lawhorn. They spend a Saturday in detention together dishing about John Hughes movies, the Brat Pack, The Breakfast Club (1985), and their deepest, darkest secrets from high school. Eat. My. Shorts. And Don’t You Forget About Me! < ’00 |…

Some movies just aren’t as “good” as we remember; some are better. Some might be classified as “good, bad movies.” Which is exactly what Kuffs starring Christian Slater and Mila Jovovich is. Kuffs is a very PG-13 “cop” movie about an immature boy who inherits a patrol specialist district in San Francisco and becomes a “man.” Simply put, they should…

In August 1994, the most important music festival of a generation took place on the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock. Unlike the wretched 1999 version, Woodstock ’94 was three glorious days of peace, love and music. You know it was a success when the worst thing that happened was just a lot of rain and mud! Adam and Chad discuss how excit…

Youth speaker Mike Donahue joins the show to rap about Eminem – the highly polarizing and controversial figure who debuted in the late 90’s. Was it all an act or was Marshall Mathers “keepin’ it real?” Adam has some strong opinions. Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? < ’00 | an Art House Empire Production | a proud member of the HyperX podca…

Hey! Doesn’t twelve CDs for a penny sound like a good deal?! It is until you have to buy a ton of albums at the “regular retail price” of almost twenty bucks, and if you don’t send ‘em back in time you get hit with late fees and lawsuits! Adam and Chad discuss whether the BMG and Columbia House Music Clubs were a great way to build your music colle…

Saddle up! It’s time to go all the way back to 1974 to experience the landmark western satire by Mel Brooks and starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. < ’00 | an Art House Empire Production | a proud member of the HyperX podcast Network | #LessThan2000 Support the showBy Chad Bishoff & Adam Wintz

Prince made the second comeback of his illustrious career in the early 90’s with Diamonds & Pearls and the “Love Symbol” album. With mega hits like Cream, Gett Off, Money Don’t Matter 2 Night, Sexy M.F., and 7, Prince reinvented and revitalized his career for a new generation… a New Power Generation! There will never be another artist quite like th…

The boys kick off Season 3.5 by covering another new movie based on old I.P.! Nothing says the early 90’s quite like Beavis & Butt-Head when Mike Judge’s creation took MTV and the world by storm. They haven’t put out a feature film since 1996… so how does the new movie play in 2022? Does it rule or does it suck?? Find out in this spoiler free revie…

How about a bonus episode to kick off the summer?! Adam and Chad give you the straight dope about whether you should go out and see Top Gun: Maverick. Previous guest of the show Darren Deffley joins to add his thoughts. Don’t worry, we won’t spoil it for ya! Check us out FOR FREE on Patreon to hear this extended special episode complete WITH SPOILE…

In the final episode before our summer hiatus, Adam’s Dad joins the show to analyze the crap out of the original Top Gun. See where Adam gets his signature cynicism and trademark communication style! Starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis and Val Kilmer, and directed by Tony Scott and co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, with an iconic 80’s soundtrack wi…

In the early 90’s, Aerosmith embarked on their second comeback of their career. Their new album, Get a Grip, was dead on arrival until they released a series of videos featuring future Clueless star Alicia Silverstone. Then Steven Tyler took it to the next level by putting his daughter Liv on the pole! Adam and Chad analyze Aerosmith’s “Alicia Silv…

This is the true story… of three people… picked to discuss a show… and have their conversation taped… to find out what happens… when peopled stop being polite… and start getting REAL. Reality TV fan Abbie Witherbee joins the show to discuss the first four seasons of MTV’s The Real World and how it changed entertainment forever. < ’00 | an Art House…