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Hello Void! This week we are writing in our diaries about Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and Erin is very happy about it. We discuss the greatest fist fight ever, the philosophies of panties, and blue soup. Renee Zellweger is a comedic master, combining the ideas of Jane Austen with the scope of modern life. Erin loves Daniel wet in a pond, Brennan is scarred by egg peele...

Hello, Void. As our title says, we talk about the 2015 film Spy starring Melissa McCarthy. This is a film neither of us thought would be enjoyable, but joke's on us, we can't stop laughing! Erin has not one, but two TED talks about her love of Jason Statham, Brennan keeps eating, and both cannot believe any Parisian could be "nice" especially to someone who spoke French like TH...

Welcome, Void! This week we're back to bungee jump off a dam to the top of a mountain toilet stall! Ok, that's pretty gross, but to save the world from petty theft, it's worth it. If you don't know the story of GoldenEye, just know that it has Sean Bean in it and that tells you exactly what's going to happen! Betrayal! We have EMPs, perverted hackers (aka hackers), Q-Branc...

Erin and Brennan find a time hole to escape the supreme being who doesn't seem like a good guy. This week we talked about Time Bandits, the film made by 2/3rds of Monty Python that everyone should know about. We hop through the annals of time with 6 bandits (angels?) plus Kevin and encounter the best cameos. We have Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Ian Holm, R2-D2 (Ke...

Podcasters' log, star-date 1039.129198651.5164651.57812456.25.456.265.1456.22. In response to Erin's commemorative solar orbit completion (her birthday), we review the J.J. Abram's video log titled Star Trek '09 where we discuss how Chris Hemsworth found his way to Valhalla, how much Shatner is too much Shatner, and the Winona Rennaissance with attached boob shelf. By order of...

Welcome to the most excellent future, Void! We are here in our garage playing our guitars (plucking strings) to make the most bodacious music (cacophonous garbage). This week we watched the documentary film about public high school in San Dimas in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." Erin and Brennan discuss REAL history: the realities of plate armor, an extensive discussion on med...

Zoom zoom Void! We're back with our much-anticipated recap of the 2024 Formula 1 season! This year McLaren, Ferarri, and Red Bull went vroom vroom, while Alpine vrommed and Stroll boomed. Ya know, 'cause he crashes a lot? You get it. We discuss the schadenfreude of Red Bull behind the scenes, the earth-shattering move of Lewis to Ferarri, and the silent fart of Kick Sauber being slower t...

Hark, Void! Middle-Earth's 007, Gamgee, Samwise Gamgee, saves the world from ring-obsessed Gollum while Frodo staggers into danger constantly. Literally, Elrond will only let Arwen marry Aragorn AFTER he's defeated ultimate evil in the world. Now THAT'S a father-in-law. ORCS HAVE NAMES TOO!! And feelings! No one hates orcs more than other orcs! Aragorn runs like a Muppet, Gandalf ac...

Hello, Void! We're back this week feeling fresh and wriggling as a new-caught fish. Or maybe a child throwing a tantrum. We debate the effects of magic in Tolkein's world, where the ent-wives have gone, and Gollum/Smeagol's ring motivations. We learn even more about Middle Earth as we venture into the wilds: oliphaunts are elephants with more tusks, dwarf women have beards, and ther...

The world has changed - Erin and Brennan can "podcast" now, they've had time to think on what to say next, and Brennan has FINALLY read the books. This means we spent 4 hours talking about everything, anything, and all the stuff you didn't need to know. Erin salutes Boromir for his heroism, Brennan is reading the Silmarilion and knows more than he should, and there is the attac...

Voila! Erin and Brennan violently clash with this week's vexing political tragedy and turn to a vaudevillian veteran in a Guy Fox mask for solutions for voracity. Blood, bombs, and Shakespeare with a verbose soundtrack to boot! We have John Hurt, Stephen Fry, Natalie Portman, Stephen Rea, and Hugo Weaving all being the epic actors that they are in this 1984 inspired story of "V" van...

Happy Samhain, Void! While Erin is reveling on the other side of the world, I'm in my apartment eating chocolates and making yummy sounds. Again, there is no new episode this week, but fret not, for we bring you one of our favorite films EVER! Sorry for just quoting the whole thing, but if you haven't seen it, we can think of nothing better for Halloween. From both of us, Happy Halloween...

Hi. Void. How are you.       I was going for emotionless blah, and I think I did it! Anyways, we are still on break this week, but we bring you one of our favorite recordings about vampires, Twilight. Be prepared for bad dialog and our hosts mocking them at every turn. Enjoy!

Hello Void! This week we're not uploading a new episode, instead we're looking back at the romance story of an obsessive, creepy old guy using magic tricks to seduce an underage singer in the Paris opera. Awwwww, how lovely. Or gross. We'll leave that to you to decide. Happy Spooky Season!!!

Happy spooky season! After 40 years, we are resurrecting Ghostbusters, but not the original, nor all the sequels and remakes that followed, but Afterlife, the sequel not-sequel remake-yet-not-remake sequel. We have a kid named Podcast, marshmallows with sado-masochistic tendencies, and Paul Rudd with a flower in his hair. At least we have confirmation that Gozer the Gozerian has ALWAYS had a flatt...

This week Erin and Brennan try their hands at solving the Zodiac murders and they totally nail it. How did it take so long for those pigs to figure it out? It was Lee, duh! Or Rick, maybe Vaughn, but probably Paul Avery. What a @&$#. Meanwhile, Erin tries to make a point by singing "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel while a baby gets thrown out a window. It's fun! At the same time,...

Welcome, Void to our conclusion of the Bourne trilogy (we are NOT counting those other two). This week we scratch our brains about how and when this film fits in with the previous one, CCTV finally gets its day and it's 98% useless, and the shakiest of cameras. It takes special skill to get motion sickness from camera work. Look at what they make you give! Despite some confusion, we get the a...

This week, we continue to run from the CIA in the second installment of the Bourne trilogy, The Bourne Supremacy. Matt Damon is still hot in this movie, but now he must contend with Karl Urban, aka Master of the Riddermark and leader of the Rohirrim (aka hot with short black hair and long blond hair). But that's beside the point, sadly, we return to the world of espionage in the distant land...

Erin and Brennan are back from summer vacation and are ready to take down CIA black ops teams WITH A BALLPOINT PEN!!! Contrary to other spy films, we're looking at you James Bond and Mission Impossible, the Bourne movies tell the story of believable assassins. Do they have secret gadgets? Nope, just their minds and a lot of cash. We have Brian Cox being evil (as usual), Clive Owen dying (as u...

This week Erin and Brennan ride a horse that takes FOREVER to get to the Eiffel Tower only to turn around. I mean come on, the Eiffel Tower was the center of ALL the festivities and the cauldron was on the other side of the city?!?!?! We celebrate the 2024 Olympics in all of its much deserved glory, and it's much deserved. . . je ne sais quoi? We fell in love with a new generation of athletes...

Did you ask for this? Probably not, but we're back from our brief hiatus to revisit some of our earliest films/recordings and see if anything has changed. We learned new things, like Sean Bean's eyes change color, the original screenplay was 600 PAGES, and Kalique had a fetish for getting wrinkles! We're still confused how this got made, we still don't understand most of what t...

Здравствуйте!  We started this podcast on task and ready for a highly coordinated TED talk from our resident Russian History/Lit dweeb, Erin. But by the end, we got Jennifer Coolidge impersonations, LE PONT ALEXANDRE TROIS!, a royal palace bereft of occupants but no one stole the silverware (or the gold for that matter), and arguing that no one cares about the ending's accuracy, the writers d...

This week Erin and Brennan are picked up in a time machine captained by Walter Cronkite! Is it a time machine or a spaceship? Or a spaceship time machine?? Whatever it is, it's filled with BRAAAAINNNN GRAAAAAIIIINNN!!!!! A cereal that makes your brain grow, like, a lot! We meet Rex, Elsa, Woog, and Dweeb, dinosaurs (and a pterosaur) that are brought to the 90's to fulfill the wishes of c...

This week Erin and Brennan visit the library to continue their trek of rewatching the films that gave them trauma as children. In "the Pagemaster" we run into Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, and Frank Welker as Adventure, Fantasy, and Horror. Not to be confused with the sections they also represent. Let's be real, Erin is a book nerd and she loves this, apart from all the times sh...

Hello, Void!! This week we venture into the Bush of Australia where nothing is as it seems. The Murder Birds (Cassowaries) are silly and kind, Byron Bay is a "big city," and the Aussies are from New Jersey. People of color? No! But they definitely appropriated their art. Tone Loc wants to eat us, Tim Curry wants to seduce us, and Robin Williams really wants us to kill that human. Despite...