One Hour, One Brain Cell

It's a question as old as time: would you rather eat 1,000 artificially flavored cheese balls while the city of New York watches, or eat an entire rotisserie chicken for 40 days in a row while the city of Philadelphia watches your final feat? By some miracle of the indomitable human spirit, both of those things have actually been done, and we recap their perils and tales of heroism on today&#3...

We're back, we're over time, and we're obsessed with Taylor Swift's newest album - so really, you haven't missed very much. On this very special episode of the show, we're breaking down (in every sense of the word) The Tortured Poets Department, including all of the ways in which it's snuck onto our TikTok for you pages. It's no Every Single Album, but we'd like...

We're back with episode 16 (for real this time) - and a lot has happened since our Lost Episode recording. First, we cover the two major geological and cosmic events that, experienced in a two week period, would've been enough to convince our ancestors the world was in The End Days: the "west of Manhattan" earthquake and the solar eclipse. We also manage our chronic pain with Jok...

It’s our 15th episode, which means we’ve spent at least 15 hours broadcasting our nonsense to the world (and that’s 15 hours of your lives you won’t be getting back, dear listeners). On today’s special musical episode (just kidding, we don’t want to do that as much as you don’t want to hear it) we revisit the cultural phenomenon beloved by theater kids and Emma Stone enjoyers alike - 2016’s La La...

We put on our tin foil hats (and green for St. Patrick's Day) to dive into some of the most popular and hilarious internet theories of all time. From the existence of birds to lost luggage, ghosts, Kate Middleton, and Bigfoot (who are not the same cryptid, believe it or not), join us for this dose of mischief and mystery. We also debut another *to be named* segement where Richie tries to be li...

Welcome to episode 13, which is contractually mandated to include at least one Taylor Swift reference. As usual, join your hosts for a trip into the Twilight Zone that is the internet's favorite memes of the week, made worse by randomly-inserted ads and Richie discovering the soundboard function of our show software. Then, take a trip with us into the Peruvian Amazon as we recap the cult class...

The internet was actually so full of memes and garbageposting this week that it bogged down Richie's connection, so we're trying a new video format for this week's episode. After a (week) long hiatus, we're back discussing all things viral and horrifying - the Willy Wonka Experience in Glasgow, imaginary friends that might be ghosts of bubonic plague victims, and choosing to ignore...

DISCLAIMER: This episode lacks structure, organization, or reason. Proceed at your own risk. (Truthfully, we weren't sure we'd get this far.) As a result, we bring you one of our most chaotically-assembled episodes - a totally unsponsored Red Bull taste test, a truly unhinged recap of the Super Bowl, and the internet's best memes of the week, and a tragically unsuccessful attempt by yo...

It's been a busy couple of weeks at OHOBC headquarters, but we're back with our milestone tenth episode! Richie and Jordan discuss all things fear - ghosts, goblins, the dolls from It's A Small World, and more things that go bump in the night (mostly our shins against all of the walls and furniture). We also recap boygenius' emotional Grammy victories, struggle to remember the titl...

Feeling nihilistic about love this Valentine's Day? Us too. In an effort to fight back against our Hallmark overlords, we're ranking the best and worst first date spots, romantic comedies, and more - and end up with arguably the most unhinged 30 seconds in podcasting history. As they say, love is in the air - or maybe it's just those leftovers you forgot to throw out. Grab some chocola...

As the self-appointed aficionadoughs of this particular topic, it was really only a matter of time before we had a pizza-themed episode. Your hosts cook up a number of piping-hot takes, including the best brands, toppings, and chains, and reveal one truly disturbing slice of information about Richie. As is becoming tradition, we've also gathered a few pop culture references about this deliciou...

After seven episodes of this nonsense, we've finally realized that you probably don't know much about your two absolute fools for hosts. We're here to fix that today by taking a bunch of probably arbitrary quizzes, all of which we will believe with absolute blind faith and certainty and allow to slowly overtake our personalities. (Don't ask us what time we were born or our rising s...

We're not a regular pod, we're a cool pod. Take a trip down memory lane with us as we revisit some of the greatest hits in movies and music of the early 2000s, recap the new Mean Girls movie-based-on-a-musical-based-on-a-movie, and decide whether museum heists are fetch or not. While we yet again failed to keep the episode under an hour, we did manage to keep Richie from swearing in this o...

This episode will disappear randomly after casting gaseous form - but before it does, we welcome you back to our hijinks with the first episode of 2024. Aided by a concerning amount of caffeine, Richie and Jordan recap the ins and outs of the year ahead, including edible mascots, the movie Holes, and the science side of the Sephora subreddit. This might be our best episode yet, so buckle in, grab...

It's the end of 2023, and we're feeling our age instead of feeling ourselves. We celebrate the end of the year by rewinding pop culture to discuss our favorite things, including movies, music, the world takeover of Taylor Swift, and our love for the members of boygenius. We also dive into the best of the Internet, remember fondly the time a Boston cop met a children's slide, and as usu...

This episode is so wild, we had to censor Richard on more than one occasion. Today we're talking all things ~etiquette~ including concerts and air travel, and debate some hot stove topics including preferred seating location, run-ins with the law (TSA), and the utter anarchy of putting your bare feet on the airplane floor. Plus, we dive into the collective decline of concert etiquette in recen...

We're back for more with our first ever holiday special on this episode of One Hour, One Brain Cell - where we chat about Christmas music, holiday decorating, and the warm and fuzzy feeling you get from watching Hans Gruber fall from Nakatomi Plaza. We make a brief detour into movie musicals, Taylor Swift, and Richie's homework (Hail Meryl). After we finish subtweeting Delilah, we follow i...

The debut & pilot episode of our new show, One Hour, One Brain Cell - where we dodge our adult responsibilities and adult supervision to roast each other for an hour each week. Together, we combine the power of our singular shared brain cell to try and learn something new, and maybe teach you all something as well. (I wouldn't bet on it.) On this debut episode, we discuss how the show got...