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

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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