The Topic: Do you have a favorite murder? Life of the Pahty's Shanna Shrum and host Ana Marie drink champagne and talk murder, close calls and constantly planning how to not get murdered. Talking about the things that scare you can be so cathartic! Shout out to Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark of My Favorite Murder for awakening this juicy chat! 

The Guest: This is Shanna Shrum's second time on Champagne & Snark. She is comedian and creator of the web series Life of the Pahty. Her new spin off series, In Someone Else's Kitchen with Fuschia features the world's first Mediocre Sized Model in her own cooking show. It's my favorite!

What is overlanding exactly? Well, as E-Six aka Emilio Abadia describes it, overlanding is about self-reliance and getting away from the noise of city life...and doing it in a big truck. In this episode, we drink champagne with the DJ and music pro and talk about his love for overlanding and how sometimes the journey is the most important part of the trip.

If you think Harry Potter is just some children's book, you haven't talked to comedian and writer Hope Rehak. This episode takes J.K. Rowlings fantasy series and approaches topics like fandom, female-written fan fiction and how art and literature serve as allegories in our non-fantasy lives.

Ernest Wilkins has made his mark writing about music, pop culture and entertainment. After a stint as the face of Chicago's RedEye newspaper, he has credits with Complex, Rolling Stone, GQ, Pitchfork and other culturally relevant spots.

Not so secretly, Ernest also has a deep fandom for professional wrestling and, as we learn in this episode of Champagne & Snark, a wealth of wrestling facts to pull out at will.

Tim Barnes is a comedian and host of It's All True, a podcast and live show. On this week's episode, Tim talks with host Ana Fernatt about his love of comic books, the life of a comedian and is obsession with Star Wars.

Edo is a Chicago-based artist whose first showcase, Infinite Inception, both completely sold out and blew up my Instagram feed. In this episode, Edo drinks champagne with Ana Fernatt and talks about his love of collecting, what it means to be a collector and how he curates his collections.  It is a fascinating view into the mind of an artist.

Brian Babylon is a Chicago comedian who is now a writer and producer on Why with Hannibal Burress. This interview takes place two days before Brian's leap-of-faith move to L.A. and features a very personal close-up of a comedian on the verge of a breakthrough. Host Ana Fernatt drinks champagne with Brian Babylon, the Prince of Bronzeville, and talks about geek culture, his Star Trek fandom and the expectations of someone preparing to upgrade their career.