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We turn this week to learn more about Erin's youthful indiscretions. Brennan sees boyfriends of Erin's past with all the red flags and we wonder if maybe Ethan Hawke is a culmination of all Erin's boyfriends. This is becoming a very telling episode, AKA, "a dramatic takedown of my life." We have Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo, and Steve Zahn as young college g...

Party on, Erin! Party on, Brennan! It's time to plug our amps in and rock out to the 1992 SNL skit turned feature film, Wayne's World! In week 2 of Erin's Birthday World, we find ourselves magnetically drawn to Tia Carrere, repulsed from Rob Lowe, and laughing uncontrollably by Dana Carvey. It's a movie that is chocked full of jokes and surprise appearances like Alice Cooper, h...

It's the new year and that means that it's time to celebrate Erin! This year, she's decided to lead you all on a guided tour of her Grunge obsessions AKA Layne Staley. We discuss Cameron Crowe's meet-cute comedy about this tiny scene in Seattle only months before it conquered the world (literally). Who's that on the left? That's Chris Cornell! Who's that group ov...

Erin and Brennan get sucked into the video game Jumanji, smolder equipped and dance-battle ready! Along the way they meet up with a scaredy-cat Rock, Kevin Hart, shy Karen Gillan, and "I just woke up like this" Jack Black. One of the most surprisingly enjoyable remakes, it gifts us with grown adults play teenagers, get blown up by cake, and go toe to toe with an inconsequential antagonis...

Erin and Brennan take a moment to dust off their cleats and shin guards, the pitch ahead echoing with the roars of fans from around the world to see their heroes play. Those cheers: "WE WANT BEER!!!" The whistle blows and instead of making a start, Erin and Brennan begin to dissect the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. We discuss DESTINY, DESTINY, and Messi holding aloft the World Cup. We cheer t...

If you follow us here to the left, you will see Tom Cruise before he was an action star. Take notice of the comedic timing, the attention to drama, both of which are evocative of his work in the 80s and 90s. To our right we have Emily Blunt. This movie, titled "Edge of Tomorrow" is one where she shed her image as the female sidekick to fully realize herself as 'Wings of Victory&apos...

Remember the simpler times with dial-up internet and chatrooms without creeps? Crazy that was only 20 years ago, right? We follow up this week with Tom and Meg in rom-com #3 where they finally live in the same city. But is their relationship any less creepy? Brennan: yes, Erin: no. It was a magical time where bookstore chains encroaching on pseudo-intellectual liberals were the primary concern for...

We are back with week 2 of Brennan's Birthday Bash Podcast Smash 2022 and we are discussing the highs and many many lows of the 2022 F1 season. We ask the questions: WHAT IS FERRARI DOING?!?! And that takes up most of the podcast. Erin praises beekeeper Seb, laments the sacking of Danny Ric, and continues to remind everyone that Lewis Hamilton shares her birthday. Meanwhile, Brennan hates Max...

We're back after a two-week birthday hiatus to bring you, the Void, a birthday podcast about science, potatoes, Mars, and maritime law!! We're discussing the comedy classic (at least according to the Golden Globes) that is The Martian. It's about a man who gets stuck on a planet, does science to survive, and in the end almost dies to disco. There's the Council of Elrond (I thin...

Erin and Brennan ring in Halloween by visiting a city synonymous with the supernatural, New Orleans. They follow trails of dead rats and birds to find Tom Cruise rocking some frills and lace with a sad Brad Pitt mourning, well, everything. Luckily, we have baby Kirsten Dunst saving the whole movie, acting circles around everyone at 12 years old, while Antonio Banderas is also there, being himself...

This week we discuss fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles. . . the greatest story ever told! The Princess Bride is one of those movies that we have all seen, loved, and made us laugh, and boy did we laugh. We learned Brennan had an odd role model from a young age, Erin of course owns the book, and together as children they have screamed Inigo&...

Double! Double! Toil and trouble, fire burn and tequila bubble! Pinch of salt, juice of lime. Blocks of ice, booze divine! In the mixer, blend and shake. For our goblets, margaritas make! This week, we check in with our friends, the Owens family and the curious case of how a bad man went missing. Erin gets some strong vampire vibes from Jimmy and Brennan is astonished that Madam First Lady Bartlet...

Grab your fur coats and forks, it's time to face the biggest evil Champion City has ever known: common sense and a gun. This week we take on the blockbuster fail that is Mystery Men, a film that is SO much more relevant today than it was in 1999. We have heroes, we have villains, and we have corporate sponsors. Our team is a ragtag group of amateur heroes with questionable abilities: shovels,...

This week, the Earth is destroyed AGAIN. This time, it's on purpose from an evil race of CGI energy aliens called the Drej. Luckily, we're on a ship with our favorite president, Good Will Hunting, and bad girl Drew Barrymore, plus John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo, and Tone Loc. We discuss the magisty of space whales, the vampire-owl Gaoul, and how Matt Damon is a little punk...

"So long and thanks for all the fish," our hosts sing as they hitchhike across the galaxy searching for the ultimate question after being let down by the ultimate answer: 42. We learn much about our universe, like how big space is, politicians are idiots no matter where you go, and that the creation of the universe was widely considered to be a Bad Move. Erin converts to the religion of...

Contrary to the common advice for online dating, this time the magician gets the girl! Fall is here and we're feeling the vibes of sepia tone Vienna. The Illusionist is about the love affair between a duchess of Hungary and a young boy who wants to be a musician- I mean magician. Brennan had a really hard time making that distinction this week. We discuss conjuring, magic tricks, paranoid pri...

The summer may be over, but the heat is still lingering, and just like a lingering heat, our film this week is long, has a lot of explosions, and people are wearing next to nothing. By golly that sounds like a Michael Bay movie! Well, if you can call this a movie... then yes, yes it is. This week Erin and Brennan roll out in favor of the Autobots, not because they're the good guys, but becaus...

Coming to you this week from the back of the "Fun 'Vee" with AC/DC and a side of whiskey on the rocks as they ride through Bishop, Califor- I mean. . . Afghanistan, are our hosts Erin and Brennan. EXLOSION! The only way out of our terrible predicament is to make a SUIT out of IRON and all in our tank-tops. Thank God we're geniuses, huh! This week we discuss the beginning of the...

This week, our hosts steal the Declaration of Independence to keep it out of the clutches of EVIL Sean Bean. They team up with Nic Cage, Diane Kruger, and Justin Bartha to track down the minute clues left behind by the FOUNDING FATHERS (and Masons) (and Knights Templar) that lead to a NATIONAL TREASURE beyond comprehension! This movie is filled with all the hallmarks of a Jerry Bruckheimer film, l...

We are back, Void! After almost two months away, our hosts have returned from Post-Nose Egypt with the gift of a new episode all about the 1999 blockbuster The Mummy. This week Brennan brushes off the dust and cobwebs from his Egyptology days while Erin gets a fan to cool herself from Brendan Fraser's hotness. We discuss scarabs, vampire motifs, and the pharaohs of ancient (Pre-Nose) Egypt. W...

What, did you think we would make some kind of (du dun. du dun. dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun BUBUHDADA!!!!!!) Jaws pun for the title? Of COURSE not, the description is where we prefer to CHUM the waters to lure our prey. . . I mean our guests. Fish are friends, not food. This Fourth of July weekend, nothing sums up the current state of affairs than a massive man-eating shark terrorizing peo...

Well, I think the title sums it up. Val is our uncontested villain of this film; you'd think it was the Republican senator (and to be fair, you're not wrong), but in this case there's just someone worse. We follow the beautiful albeit far from tranquil relationship of Armand and Albert as they deal with their horrible college son and his quest to un-gay them in pursuit of a HIGH SCH...

Erin and Brennan turn left at that one village without any vowels to find themselves in a village with only one vowel. Wait, are we in Wales? Why yes, good chap! We're in the UK in 1984 when Margret Thatcher (Darth Karen) went to war against the mining unions across the nation. And in these dark times, times when help is of the utmost importance, to whom can we turn for aid? THE GAYS!!!! Spec...

Erin and Brennan travel to Isla Nublar, an island off of Costa Rica, where "Dinosaurs Rule the Earth." There they find an incompetent theme park devoid of proper staffing, proper infrastructure, and proper safety protocols. We're talking a place with a massive law suit waiting to happen! Oh wait! That's right, they ARE being sued after a poor man was torn apart by a Velocirapto...

This week Erin and Brennan plan the ultimate heist, to reveal the subtle details of Ocean's Eleven. In a seemingly messy and disorganized series of events, it turns out that DANNY PLANNED IT ALL! This movie is about three things: money, love, and messing with Linus. We are talking about Tess having the WORST taste in men, Brad Pitt eating constantly, and what happens when the lights go out in...