SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!Josh, Charles, and Allison enter Part 3 of the The Hungerverse without the titular games, but still very hungry. They talk Survivor, Redwall, and scatting in bed all while trying to get The Hanging Tree (Rebel Remix) out of their heads. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!Allison Lerman-Gluck is back for Part 2 of The Hungerverse! Josh, self-proclaimed Student of Government Oppression and Repression, gets deep into The Hunger Games: Catching Fire while Charles just can’t stop thinking about Finnick drinking water straight from the tree. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!Charles is still in the basement alone waiting for his covid test, and what a perfect way to begin The Hungerverse. They talk sad rock Peeta, love almost-triangles, and the child wars after watching The Hunger Games and desperately waiting for Philip Seymore Hoffman to show up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!After five days of being quarantined in his basement waiting for a Covid test, Charles is starting to go a bit bonkers. But that won’t stop the boys from finishing off The Hardverse, first jumping back to Die Hard and the recent 12 minute monologue from Johnny McT and finally making it to A Good Day to Die Hard. Yippee Ki-Yay Mother Russia, Yippee Ki-Yay. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!The Hardverse is proving to be quite a touchy subject for Josh and Charles. Live Free or Die Hard adds one more topic to get the boys bickering: parkour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!The boys had almost given up, but with the return of Johnny McT and a fresh dose of some guy named Hensleigh, they’re happy to say The Hardverse is back… you know, With A Vengeance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!Before we get back to The Hardverse, the boys have a special announcement: Josh will be watching Tenet on his gosh-darned phone to prepare for Friday’s episode of Why Won’t It End?, so make sure to subscribe to hear the boys’ take on Nolan’s latest brain-bender. Honestly, just thinking about that is way more interesting than anything happening in Die Hard 2: Die Harder or this dumb episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!The wait is over: the boys are finally ready to enter The Hardverse! Charles dons his professor hat in an attempt to take Josh to school over Die Hard, but over the course of a typically meandering conversation, Charles realizes he might have chosen a student ready to take over the class. Does the student become the professor? You’ll have to listen to find out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!It’s the final night in The Museumverse and the boys wish a fond farewell Larry and the wax gang. After watching Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Josh learns the tomb secret and Charles is finally ready to give his special message to Dick Van Dyke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!The Museumverse asks: what if THE MAGIC OF HISTORY, but you know, more of it, and also, more of it at THE SMITHSONIAN, which just so happens to be the largest museum in the world? To which the boys reply: Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian, please fuck off.. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!As Josh begins a new chapter of his life and records the first episode where he is a married man, the boys start The Museumverse. Josh and Charles get into the greatest movies about running and list some of their favorite runners in cinema because there is one scene in Night at the Museum where Ben Stiller runs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!The boys have done it!! American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules ends the nine weeks spent in The Pieverse and Josh and Charles have a special message for the new president, they update the Stifler Family Alignment Chart, and Josh finds out what size Jazz Boy he is. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!As Thin Lizzy once lovingly crooned: the boys are back in town. Which boys? The Pie Boys. Oh and the Josh and Charles Boys. And which town? East Great Falls, Michigan of course. It’s been 9 years and 4 parts of The Pieverse since we’ve seen the OG pie-fuckers, and boy, are we ready for an American Reunion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!The boys are simply happy to be out of the nightmarish lows of The Pieverse, and feeling pretty fucking good that there’s only one entry left. After watching American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, Josh and Charles create a D&D alignment chart for the entire Stifler family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!The Pieverse continues and the boys get theological as they attempt to decipher whether American Pie Presents: Beta House is so wretched that it disproves the existence of G*d, or that it proves the necessity for G*d to exist in order to fill in these pits of evil. Like a pothole. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile is so repulsive and boring to talk about, Charles fits himself into his dryer just to prove Josh wrong. The Pieverse, for no explicable reason, continues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON!In one of the longest and most divisive episodes to date, Part 4 of The Pieverse sees Charles wildly defend American Pie Presents: Band Camp as the best of the series, while Josh desperately wants to go home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week in The Pieverse, the boys watch American Wedding and must access the mindset of a certain Sigmund Freud as they analyze Stifler’s subconscious attraction piss, shit, and cum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hitting theaters on August 6, 2001—mere weeks before 9/11 made everything all gritty—American Pie 2 might be the last time Americans just got to have an easy, good time examining dumb white men trying to get laid. Recording mere weeks after this years’ remembrance of The Plane Event, Josh and Charles try their best to get into a pre-9/11/pre-summer vacation mood to spend another week in The Pieverse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys are once again back in high school—or should we call it PIE SCHOOL—as they begin The Pieverse. Josh and Charles talk less about cum than you’d expect after watching American Pie and reminisce on their early sexual experiences and their parents’ inept explanations of the birds and the bees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just as Troy and Gabriella and Sharpay and Ryan and Chad and Taylor graduate from high school, Josh and Charles and Allison graduate from The HSMverse. After watching High School Musical 3: Senior Year, they sign each others podcast books and look onward to the next terrible new thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Allison Lerman-Gluck returns to co-host the next entry in The HSMverse, where everything they loved—High Schools and Musicals—are gone, now replaced in High School Musical 2 with country clubs, talent shows, and the barren wastelands of New Mexico. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Allison Lerman-Gluck—host of The Illness Chronicles Podcast, fiancé to Josh, and portrayer of Sharpay Evans in the 2009 Albany staging of High School Musical—joins the show with her first-hand experiences to help the boys navigate the complicated world of The HSMverse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a quick 2020 recap, things get a little heated when Charles shows Josh his toad during a maelstrom of gurgles, smacks, coughs, and doorbellings. But there’s no stopping the conclusion of The Cornettoverse, as the boys ransack The World’s End for everything it’s worth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys cover a lot of ground in Part 2 of The Cornettoverse, from Josie and the Pussycats to Grease, from American Imperialism to British Colonialism, from Shaun of the Dead to The World’s End. Oh yeah, and Hot Fuzz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys’ friendship was founded on many things, but perhaps none more than their mutual love affair with The Cornettoverse. All in a single hour, Josh and Charles figure out pubic mounds, lemonade, and of course, Shaun of the Dead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s Charles’s birthday! The Batverse (Part 1) concludes with a surprise celebrity cameo and a long argument about whether Charles should get a tattoo or not as the boys try their hardest not to talk about Batman & Robin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First time recording in his new apartment, Josh is hot. No AC is turning his mind to jelly and his body to a glistening semi-solid, but that won’t stop the boys from talking Batman Forever. We gleefully say goodbye to Tim Burton, Michael Keaton, and beano.com in this episode of The Batverse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys are back with more penguin jokes and penguin facts from the world wide web. Josh and Charles watch Batman Returns just so The Batverse won’t end. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Want to know why Batman can’t go fishing, why Batman’s wife names their son Gotham, and what Batman does when he goes shopping? Well, shut up and listen to Part 1 of The Batverse, as the boys explore Time Burton’s Batman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Josh and Charles close out The Roboverse with the 2014 remake RoboCop. There will be rankings. There will be MVPs. And if they end up making more of these, we can only hope that RoboCop 5 is after the Great Defunding and Murphy can finally go chill with the precogs at that cool house in the countryside. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With only a 3% on Rotten Tomatoes, RoboCop 3 joins Jaws: The Revenge and Shrek the Third as yet another overlooked and underloved sequel. Especially in a time where Black Americans are disproportionately affected by our racist criminal injustice system, this entry in The Roboverse watches like a fairy tale, as cops throw away their badges to protect their community and a scientist refuses orders to brainwash the RobotCop so that he can join a badass group of protesters fighting against the dehumanizing nightmare that is corporate America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Roboverse continues with the right-wing pro-cop trash heap that is RoboCop 2. Please donate to something that Frank Miller would hate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At the end of 2019, when Josh and Charles decided to include The Roboverse for WWIE2020, they did not realize that it would come out the same week that American cops would once again show themselves to be the militarized progenitor of racist violence, systemic bigotry, and mindless brutality. Verhoeven knew what was up in ‘87, and it is sadly fitting to cover RoboCop today, where it is somehow even more relevant. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys have spent over two months living in The Furiousverse, and will sorely miss the cars, the friends, and the harpoon guns as they wait until the Family returns in Fast 9. In addition to the rankings and MVPs, here is also a list of everything Josh did while watching Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw:Wrote A LimerickTwo Words You Can Spell From Vanessa KirbyTop 6 Non-COVID-19 Deaths I Don’t Want To Experience5 Notable Moms In Cinema10 Favorite Star Wars Moments2 Movies You Can Watch Instead Of Hobbs & ShawRemember How Cool Halo Was Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eight episodes into The Furiousverse and the boys are still laughing, crying, screaming, and running around the room over all these cars and harpoon guns. Josh and Charles watch The Fate of the Furious, and Josh gets into how sad it is to be the Mayor of Rock ‘n’ Roll City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Furiousverse cruises into its seventh week, and this time the boys are joined by Jesse Rose-Pulitzer to discuss Furious 7. There’s family talk and car talk of course, but also which-character-from-Serenity-best-corresponds-to-a-Democratic-Primary-nominee talk as well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Josh and Charles are taking on the role of master detectives/Nicolas Cage in National Treasure this week as they further investigate the Odd/Even Franchise Effect, FAMILY, and the baffling titling conventions of the Furiousverse. This week: it’s Fast & Furious 6, or maybe Furious 6, who knows, we’re just as confused as you are. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys have made it to Fast Five, and so that you have one fewer thing to worry about, yes they loved it. So just relax, get some tea, and get ready for a joyous episode in The Furiousverse where Josh and Charles agree and a cat softly mews in the background every once in a while. Oh, and Josh finally tells that story about mom’s pie! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On their quest through The Furiousverse, the boys continue their analysis of La Familia and discover the greatest bit of Fast & Furious ancillary content: Fast and Furious: Fast Meals for The Thrill in You. Susan Gray, Josh and Charles would like to have you as a guest on the podcast so they can give you many, many awards. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Daddy’s basement to the great outdoors to the isolation of each other’s quarantine zones, the boys have really moved around a lot to make The Furiousverse. They go a little long discussing The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, but it’s only understandable that in these desperate and scary times, Josh and Charles would want to talk about a boy from Alabama who just wants to drift. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week the boys were in the basement, but this week—after watching 2 Fast 2 Furious—they break new ground and record outside in the perfect sunshine. And let us tell you, The Furiousverse will never be this relaxed again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Josh and Charles are fast and they are furious, which is a pretty good emotional state to watch The Fast and the Furious. Recording this week in Josh’s dad’s basement panic room, the boys begin The Furiousverse, an audacious 9-week exploration of family, Corona Extra, and vroom vroom cars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Josh and Charles make it to the end of The Bladeverse and boy, does it deliver. After GdT’s disastrous attempt to make a Blade movie, Blade: Trinity is a refreshing return to everything the boys loved about the first one. Plus: Charles tries out his new catchphrase, Josh tells a story about clowns, and, of course, John Carter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guillermo del Toro is one of the few people immediately entered into the Fuck Off List at birth and, unfortunately for The Bladeverse, he’s in charge of Blade II. Josh and Charles do their best to still have fun even in the midst of GdT’s ruinous influence, and you better believe there’s more John Carter talk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Bladeverse begins! Josh and Charles start their next big adventure with 1998’s dark and violent Blade, a pre-MCU, pre-Matrix vampire delight that gets everything right. But with storytelling buffoon Guillermo del Toro helming number two, will the boys already be asking When Will It End? And remember the red planet you probably call Mars is actually Barsoom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Josh and Charles break format by recording this week’s episode in The Scaryverse while Scary Movie 5 is still playing in the background. Instead of wasting any time talking about the movie, the boys give a dramatic reading of Sean Elwood’s fan-made screenplay of the then-unmade film. READ ALONG HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys are knee-deep in The Scaryverse. Joined by special guest Greek Salad, Josh and Charles get into Scary Movie 4, try to comprehend John Carter, and reenact the best moments of Glengarry Glen Ross. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.