Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 145: Nothing Gold Can Stay (Unabashedly Obsessed) Hey, everyone! This is it. The last ride. The final countdown. The big sleep. Thank you, each and every one of you, for being a part of this podcast’s journey. Thank you for your support, your friendship, your write-a-movie title suggestions, your Anna Kendrick memes, yo…

Unabashedly Obsessed Mini-Episode: An Announcement (An Announcement) Hey, everyone! This week, we’re keeping it brief, with a quick announcement leading up to next week’s episode. Thank you to Jamie Chahine for our theme song, “Did You Guys Know There Was A Ladder Down Here?” and to Emily Kardamis (@corruptedgem) for our cover art. You can find mor…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 144: Don’t Go Down Stairs. (“Russian Doll”) Hey, everyone! What if real life was a video game, where every time you died to respawned to your last save point? That’s exactly the surface premise of Netflix’s “Russian Doll”, which stars Natasha Lyonne as a woman who keeps dying and respawning to the same moment. It’s like…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 143: My Butt Hurts From Sitting For So Long (Podcasts, Volume 4) Hey, everyone! It’s been a year since we talked about what podcasts we’re listening to. We’ve picked up, uhhhhh a LOT of new podcasts in that time. Strap in. (This isn’t even all of them. Some we didn’t even get to mention. Some we talked about but are sav…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 142: Kids Always Think Farts Are Funny (“Hearts in Atlantis”) Hey, everyone! It’s Amity’s Patreon anniversary–you may recall that last year she selected “The Lost Room” for us to watch, and that one was an excellent recommendation, so we were pretty stoked to dive into this year’s rec, the movie version of Stephen King’…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 141: What If Your Phone Ate You? (“Bandersnatch”) Hey, everyone! It’s been a couple months since Black Mirror’s “Bandersnatch” was released on Netflix, and now that we’re out of Jannauary, we decided to dive in and see what it’s all about. (Spoiler: It’s not about your phone eating you.) Thank you to Jamie Chahine for o…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 140: Elboned (Nobody Likes A Clown At Midnight: Livestream 12/21/18) Hey, everyone! Remember back in December when we did a livestream? Did you miss that livestream? Well, you’re in luck, because here is the best hour of that very, very long experiment. Thank you to Jamie Chahine for our theme song, “Did You Guys Know T…

Episode 139: Mrs. Zombieson, You’re Trying to Seduce Me! (“Life After Beth”) Hey, everyone! It’s the final week of Jannauary, and this movie is a weird one. A delightful one! But a weird one. Thank you to Jamie Chahine for our theme song, “Did You Guys Know There Was A Ladder Down Here?” and to Emily Kardamis (@corruptedgem) for our cover art. You …

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 138: Bleh, bleh! (Outtakes, Vol. 10) Hey, everyone! James had a family emergency and was out of town on our normal recording night, so we couldn’t do a PodCon2 recap like we’d planned, but don’t worry, you still get to hear our lovely voices. Probably more of Erin’s voice than you’d want, as she has discovered that if s…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 137: So Much Cardio (“Pitch Perfect 3”) Hey, everyone! It’s JAnnauary Week 3, and we’re talking about the sequel to the sequel to James’s favorite movie. It is a bit of a wild ride, and as always, Anna is a delight. But if that’s not enough, watch it for Fat Amy. And if that’s not enough, watch it for Elizabeth Banks. A…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 136: Sraey Evif Tsal Eht (“The Last Five Years”) Hey, everyone! Sometimes a creator will decide to try something new, like starting at the end of a story and moving backward to the beginning. Sometimes they think, “Hmm, maybe that’s too unconventional, I should do it the normal way instead.” And sometimes they think, “W…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 135: Ben Franklin’s Bullets (“Rapture-Palooza”) Hey, everyone! A new year, a new month, a new theme…welcome to JAnnauary! It’s all Anna Kendrick, all the time! This week we’re talking about 2013’s “Rapture-Palooza”, which was a really weird but not unenjoyable movie. Erin talks a lot about Anna’s boobs, and once again s…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 134: Take Me Down to Spatula City! (“UHF”) Hey, everyone! Things get weird this week–Weird Al, this is! (That…was terrible and I apologize, I have taken cold meds and they are addling my brain.) Mike from Back to the Futurama brings you this week’s episode courtesy of Patreon. We spend a good deal of time discussing act…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 133: A New Hollywood Chris (2018 In Books) Hey, everyone! We discovered a new Hollywood Chris this week! And Erin issues Pete Wentz an apology! And James’s voice threatens to give out on him completely! And we do our annual recap of the books we read this year! Thank you to Jamie Chahine for our theme song, “Did You Guy…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 132: Our Lawyers Made Us Change The Name Of This Episode So We Wouldn’t Get Sued (Fall Out Boy) Hey, everyone! We’re back to our normal length for an episode this week as we discuss…music? Yep, you read that right. Fair warning, this episode is mostly James offering up facts and insightful opinions while Erin just screa…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 131: THanksgiving 2, Week 5: Fakle Till You Makle (“Catch Me If You Can”) Hey, everyone! It’s the final week of THanksgiving 2: Electric Hanksaloo, and we are bookending the month with the two longest, most serious, and at least one of us (the one writing this) (guess who it is!) would argue best movies of the five. We …

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 130: THanksgiving 2, Week 4: Pity Slickers (“The Money Pit”) Hey, everyone! This week we rounded out our 80s Hanks Spectacular with “The Money Pit”, which is a really enjoyable if extremely simple movie about a couple and the super terrible house they bought. It’s another short one, because frankly, this movie can be su…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 129: THanksgiving 2, Week 3: It’s a Tom Rom Com! (“Dragnet”) Hey, everyone! Police detective Joe Friday was a stickler for the rules, a real square. Detective Pep Streebeck, was a rogue in a wrinkled shirt who drove too fast. Neither Joe nor Pep could see a world where they could possibly work together; but work togethe…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 128: THanksgiving 2, Week 2: It’s Just Fine. (“The ‘Burbs”) Hey, everyone! It’s Week 2 of THanksgiving 2: Electric Hanksaloo, and this week’s movie, “The ‘Burbs”, was…fine. It’s just fine. It’s weird, and Corey Feldman is in it, and so is Carrie Fisher, and we suspect there is a reason you never hear about why either of…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 127: THanksgiving 2, Week 1: Hi Again, Caitlin! (“The Green Mile”) Hey, everyone! Who here likes a nice clean segue? I hope you all do, because boy do we have one for you. We transition this week from All Hallows’ Steve into THanksgiving 2: Electric Hanksaloo (the jury is still out on which of us came up with that, but …

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 126: All Hallows’ Steve, Week 4: Oops, All Carries! (“Carrie”, “Carrie”, “Carrie”, “Carrie: The Musical”, and “Carrie”) Hey, everyone! It’s the final week of All Hallows’ Steve, and we’ve got a bloody good topic for you. You could say we’re really on fire this week. It’s been a really great period of time in UFO history…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 125: All Hallows’ Steve Week 3: All About Rips (“The Langoliers”) Hey, everyone! This week Erin made (“made”) James read what is possibly her most favorite Stephen King book, “The Langoliers”–a book in which time travel is not what you might think, and a man sleeps in the back of a plane for absolutely no reason that we…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 124: All Hallows’ Steve Week 2: Hi, Amity! (“Castle Rock”) Hey, everyone! This week we are joined by Amity from The Latecomers Podcast to discuss Hulu’s new-as-of-this-summer Stephen King-inspired show “Castle Rock”. Thank goodness Amity took really good notes because this show is…something. It sure is something. Before…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 123: All Hallows’ Steve, Week 1: Flaming Arms (“Mr. Mercedes”) Hey, everyone! It’s the first episode of October, which we have decided this year to dub All Hallow’s Steve–that’s right, it’s a whole month of all Stephen King, all the time. (“How is that different from your normal material?” you may ask. It just is, okay?…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 122: 13/10, Would Munch (New Segments) Hey, everyone! This week we decided to take a break from the more structured…structure…that we’ve been following of late, and just goof around for a bit. We ended up pitching each other different ideas for potential new segments, and occasionally wandering off topic, but we always …

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 121: Everead Day/Evereel Day (“Every Day” Book and Movie SPECIAL COMBO EPISODE!) Hey, everyone! Thanks for your patience last week as we dealt with some technical difficulties. This week we are doing a special two-episode combo episode, where we take what we were going to talk about last week (the book “Every Day” by Da…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 120: Searching For That Track (Outtakes, Volume 9) Hey, everyone! It’s an outtakes episode! We’ve got some very good moments from Auguest in addition to some other delightful nuggets of happiness for you, so enjoy! Thank you to Jamie Chahine for our theme song, “Did You Guys Know There Was A Ladder Down Here?” and to Em…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 119: Hi, Raeanna! (Neopets, “Sister Act 2: Back In the Habit”, and “Clue”) Hey, everyone! This week is our final week of Auguest, and we are closing out the month with our first solo guest, the lovely and talented Raeanna from Mount Olympus University! We start out by learning about a thing we don’t know anything about,…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 118: Hi, Kyle and Conner! (James and Erin [and Kyle and Conner] Don’t Actually Really Write a Movie, Thank Goodness) Hey, everyone! It’s week 3 of Auguest and this time we are joined by our favorite dusty bois, Kyle and Conner from The M Word. We had a plan for this episode. We planned to have them help us write a movie…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 117: Hi, Matt and Chris! (“Airborne”) Hey, everyone! We are back for another week of Auguest, and this time we are joined by Matt and Chris Yule of Finish It!, a completionist’s interactive fiction podcast. If you aren’t listening to their show, you really, really should be. Bust out your Rollerblade-brand inline skates…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 116: Hi, Jen and Micah! (“Now and Then”) Hey, everyone! Welcome to the first OFFICIAL episode of Auguest! This week we are joined by Jen and Micah from I Never Saw That to talk about 1995’s Now and Then, which is one of Erin’s favorite movies from her tween years. Hop on your bike, grab a pop, tape your boobs down (wait…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 115: Zombie Pennies (“Pet Sematary”) Hey, everyone! Welcome to Auguest, the month where we have all guest episodes! Except, uh, this week, when we were SUPPOSED to have a guest episode but we had to publish it early due to unforeseen circumstances, so just pretend that three weeks ago you listened to this episode, and t…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 114: James and Erin Write a Movie (“Murder Beach”) Hey, everyone! It’s “write a movie” time again, and thanks to our amazing friends and fans, we had so many suggestions we only had time to touch on a fraction of them. Highlights include: Anna Kendrick punches a bus. Tom Hanks shuts a door. Denzel Washington is in “Spee…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 113: Res-Erection (“Magic Mike XXL”) Hey, everyone! This month we are just alllllll over the place. Outtakes, a guest episode, and now this. James got it into his head that we should watch “Magic Mike XXL” because he heard surprisingly good and insightful things about it, and Erin is always game to watch hot men dance. …

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 112: Hi, Bill! (Stuff We Like [But Didn’t Expect To]) Hey, everyone! This week we are joined by Bill from The Great Albums podcast, to chat about things we really like that we didn’t initially expect to like. Topics include music, books, music, TV, music, and of course music. We recorded this one a little bit ago so we …

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 111: Trippin’ Balls (Outtakes Volume 8) Hey, everyone! This week, Erin is on the West Coast, so we’ve compiled an outtakes episode for you. This month, we are participating in the 2PodsADay campaign, which aims to introduce listeners to new independent podcasts, two a day for the whole month of July. You can follow the …

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 110: They’re Both Named Ross (“The IT Crowd”, Part 2) Hey, everyone! It’s a sequel! We finish “The IT Crowd” and find it generally less problematic in the latter half of the series, buuuuut there’s still one episode in particular that was sorta gross. It centers around Douglas Reynholm, so really, we shouldn’t be surpri…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 109: You Remind Me of the Babe (“Labyrinth”) Hey, everyone! This week, we dance the magic dance, we brave the Bog of Eternal Stench, and one of us appreciates David Bowie’s tight, tight pants. That’s right, we’re talking about “Labyrinth”, the movie that made Erin and so many other children of the 80s want to send our y…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 108: Hi Again, Lucy! (“13 Reasons Why” Season 2) Hey, everyone! Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” is back for its second season, which means our dear friend Lucy is back with us to discuss it. It’s a longer episode than normal, but that’s because this season is just so complicated and has so many layers and also we spent a goo…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 107: She’s a Hussy! (“Much Ado About Nothing”) Hey, everyone! This week we sat down to watch 2012’s “Much Ado About Nothing”, directed by Joss Whedon. In this episode, we manage to avoid talking too much about the time we were in our high school’s production of it, but we do accidentally pull a “James and Erin Write an …

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 106: (AN: STOP FLAMIGNG PREPZ!!111) (“My Immortal”) Hey, ever1! Dis week we read “My Immortal”, da Harry Potter fanfic dat’s supposably da wurst fanfic ever ritten. If u dont liek it ur a prep! Our brainz r broke now. We r gunna go cry tears of blood and shop at Hot Topic 2 make ourselvs feel bettr (cuz we’re goffik ged…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 105: Ross and Moy (“The IT Crowd”, Part 1) Hey, everyone! Boy, the early 2000s sure were a time of some enjoyable-yet-problematic TV shows, weren’t they? This week we dive into the first two seasons of “The IT Crowd”, which is overall enjoyable but oof, does it have some cringe-worthy moments. We’ll take a look at the l…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 104: Third or Nothing! (Puffs: Filmed Live Off Broadway) Hey, everyone! What’s that, you say? Our audio quality this week sounds like we recorded in a van with the AC cranked because it’s hot AF (hi, Liz!) in Virginia right now? Well, dear listener, you are not wrong. We DID record in a van, and it IS hot AF in Virginia…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 103: Hi, Caitlin! (90% Stephen King, 10% Book Deals) Hey, everyone! This week, we had the chance to sit down with the most excellent Caitlin Kunkel, co-founder of The Belladonna, a comedy and satire website consisting entirely of pieces written by women and other marginalized genders. It’s very, very good, and you shoul…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 102: Stop! … It’s a Trap. (“Dave Made a Maze”) Hey, everyone! This week we watched 2017’s “Dave Made a Maze“, a movie about Dave, who makes a maze fueled by…his imagination? Or something? It’s a very impressive maze, whatever is fueling it. Also, we spend about 20 minutes talking about whether or not Erin should watch “…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 101: Smells Like Reading(s) (Potpourri, Vol. 3) Hey, everyone! Join us this week as we dive headfirst into reading! James starts a book club (but don’t hold him to it)! Erin busts out her tarot cards (she’s very bad at it)! We talk about Stephen King (who’s surprised?)! Thank you to Jamie Chahine for our theme song, “Di…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 100(!!!): BLAZE IT! (The Unabashedly Obsessed Livestream Patreon Reward Family Fun Hour With James and Erin As Titled By Mike From the Podcast “Back to the Futurama”, Without Whom This Livestream Wouldn’t Be Happening (Probably) (At Least Not Until Someone Else Decided To Become a Patron): The Livestream) Hey, everyone!…

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 99: Viviseduction (“The Autopsy of Jane Doe”) Hey, everyone! Happy Friday the 13th! During our Patreon live stream a few weeks ago, Ashkan (hi, Ashkan!) bumped up his monthly pledge and got to select an entertainment for us to consume (pretend I said that in a way that made sense in an actual language). He chose 2016’s …

Episode 98: Bats Bats! (“The Sandlot: Heading Home”) Hey, everyone! Last week, we covered the 1993 classic The Sandlot. But did you know they made two sequels? We decided to skip The Sandlot 2 and go straight to The Sandlot: Heading Home, in which Luke Perry gets hit in the face with a baseball and travels back in time to his own childhood! It’s a …

Unabashedly Obsessed Episode 97: The Sandwich Lot (“The Sandlot”) Hey, everyone! Sometimes, we see a video on Facebook and it reminds us of a thing we like and then we decide we have to watch/read/etc. that thing and hey, as long as we’re both doing it, why not talk about it on the podcast? And thus, this episode was born. Thank you to Jamie Chahin…