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welcome to the most podcast where everything is great. you are welcome here!! episodes drop on random thursdays, so get yer heart right, catch up or revisit EVERY episode, and check out https://bit.ly/m/becomefriendswiththepod for all sorts of fun. we love you!!becoming friends with... is a funny, heartfelt, and slightly hazy longform podcast where four longtime friends—and delightfully weathered stoners—meander through the cosmic maze of adult friendship while gently dismantling macho nonsense and redefining manhood, one laughably profound tangent at a time.Each episode dives headfirst into everything from spaced shower thoughts to deep chats about movies, music, and masculinity. The first half? A delightfully chaotic, free-roaming conversation that pinballs between topics like late-night snacks, dad feelings, and philosophical detours. The second half? A deep-dive into a favorite film, band, or album that gets way more thoughtful than you’d expect from guys this high.With recurrin

becoming friends with... is a comedy podcast hosted by becomefriendswiththepod, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  Episode #24

  becoming friends with...the devil's candy (2015, Before The Film)

  Oct 1, 20261h 56m

  chris is on a cruise, so it’s just rene and i tonight. that means less chris hansen (booo) and a lot more records (huzzah). so…if cocaine is the devil’s candy and weed is the devil’s lettuce, what’s heroin? we don’t settle it, but we give it a half-assed effort. what you watching: apple tv’s widow’s bay, hbo max’s foul-mouthed true-crime doc a killer story, and whether documentaries should ever be dramatized. that covers morgan spurlock, michael moore, and nathan fielder, plus the butthole surfers doc’s puppet recreations (go see the hole truth and nothing butt whenever you can) and ai slowly sneaking into movies. that obviously leads us to lanterns, batman’s worst villains, christian bale’s batman smoking in the background of nolan’s odyssey (totally real), and the time a bar back at caravan of dreams in fort worth handed a wide-eyed, teenage doorman rene his first (and only?) virginia slim. hashtag vagina slime. then i bitched about tom segura and showed rene some clips from the new james austin johnson special (better than the odyssey). david fricke, bob dylan’s protest songs, and brian cox as the voice of mcdonald’s. mind grapes starts with tilly norwood, the ai “actress,” and her perfect piers morgan appearance. also, why is piers morgan? then corey worthington, the australian teen who threw a 500-person party and refused to take off his famous glasses…my new hero. and then, whatever the opposite of that is…david lee roth’s “shark week” sturgis promo…which is definitely not overplayed by me in any way, shape, or form. it was the right amount. he did a tedx talk with alex van halen for some reason and went on a six minute roth rant about ozzy and he just goes “good job, dude.” then music talk: how much of what you listen to is actually new? somewhere near 25%, if we’re lucky. we go through what’s been on repeat: jaga jazzist, sharks keep moving, misha panfilov, domi and jd beck, john coltrane, brad mehldau, joe henderson, isaiah collier, slint, serengeti, and my full butthole surfers revival, with a new appreciation for paul leary and his guitar noodling. we also cover how the flaming lips spent a whole tour as beck’s backing band, rene’s pitch for an animated show where a love supreme turns into a city, and our own sequel to cats. you won’t like it. i love it. coffee song: billy idol’s “eyes without a face.” iI was stuck in rene’s head all week, so now it’s in yers. send us fan mail at hello@becomingfriendswith.com. chris would especially love the letters. - byron j. #becomingfriendswith #BFW #ComedyPodcast #MusicPodcast #DavidLeeRoth #VanHalen #BillyIdol #EyesWithoutAFace #ButtholeSurfers #PaulLeary #IndependentWormSaloon #HoleTruthAndNothingButt #JamesAustinJohnson #TillyNorwood #CoreyWorthington #JagaJazzist #Coltrane #BradMehldau #Serengeti #Slint #WidowsBay #AKillerStory #framed #coffeesongs #mindgrapes #trailertrash #becomefriendswiththepod #becomingfriendswith #bfw #EatTheRich #blessed #moreurinetalk

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  Episode #23

  becoming friends with...the devil's candy (2015, Our Feature Presentation)

  Sep 29, 20261h 13m

  chris is on a cruise, so it’s just the two of us, and you wouldn’t believe how much it was!! we come back from the break with zz top’s “rough boy” ( still hilarious, that’s here ) and a heartfelt rest in peace to drummer frank beard, whose name i get wrong only once. trailer trash takes on delirium (1979), a vietnam-vets-turned-vigilantes exploitation movie with an absolutely unhinged trailer, so we’ve already filed it away for an exploitation series. framed is all over the place as usual…we go from carlito’s way to s.w.a.t. to a guy ritchie frame that filled us with rage. we do parts of that monologue in sling blade, talk terrence malick’s the tree of life (dinosaurs, volcanoes, brad pitt), martin mcdonagh’s in bruges and seven psychopaths, and i mention my undying love of the incomparable parker posey. then the feature: the devil’s candy, sean byrne’s heavy-metal possession horror film. or sean hayes. sean haynes. david byrne. the blue’s clues guy steve burns. we do eventually get the director’s name right. ethan embry plays a struggling metalhead painter who moves his family into a cheap texas farmhouse, and pruitt taylor vince is the man in the red tracksuit who is the reason the home was so cheap. hilarity ensues. no. horror. horror ensues. and nary a shirt on embry. some highlights: how byrne’s brutal long takes follow up the loved ones without the sophomore slump the blood looking more and more like paint as the film goes on\ the suitcase scene, where the movie shows you nothing and it’s still horrific ray’s flying v drone and why it should have been the whole score (the chug) metal as the private language between a father and daughter the father-daughter thread running through both of byrne’s films the crucifix, the voices, and whether it’s the devil, the house, or neither ethan embry’s wig, his abs, his chest tattoo, and lack of shirt was metallica was the right call, and why this movie has a smell we friends? yes. it’s a great, genuinely upsetting movie that doesn’t need to make a million statements to creep you out. but lose metallica. always solid advice. also watched the trailer for byrne’s shark-killer film dangerous animals, preview our halloween theme (horror about things pretending to be human, and yes, we need your help naming it), and debut a brand-new segment: rapid fire questions for rene. it hits every big life question…didya poop? front or back? is that glint the beach shine coming off yer zipper? it's blinding me. if you like horror, metal, cult movies, or two guys arguing about colin farrell, pull up a chair. but like and subscribe first. don’t make it weird. i will send rene after you. - byron j. #TheDevilsCandy #SeanByrne #EthanEmbry #PruittTaylorVince #MetalHorror #HorrorPodcast #CultFilm #Delirium1979 #Exploitation #ZZTop #FrankBeard #SlingBlade #TerrenceMalick #InBruges #MovieDiscussion #becomingfriendswith #BFW

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  Episode #22

  becoming friends with...The Loved Ones (2009, Before The Film)

  Sep 24, 20262h 21m

  tonight on an all nude becoming friends with... we're on a lil side quest. a little something we picked up on the way to the main quest, like a mysterious brownie from a stranger in a parking lot of a phish show. we discuss the loved ones (2009), Sean Byrne’s debut feature, in the second half...that's here: before that, a phone call from probably possibly satan, david lee roth is back in tiktok form, launching a cowboy persona to publicly rank cartoon women, and the entire ed sheeran tour imploding one quitting band at a time. plus jurassic world rebirth as flaming garbage, the new resident evil as a miracle, why the night sky isn’t bright, a seven-year-old wiener dog named frida, an itemized history of dogs eating butter (and shit), finally, we play to catch a predator bingo where the only winner is our good friend chris hansen, and say a goodbye to duncan sheik that we mostly hum. no lore required. no homework. bring snacks. you will want snacks. just a side quest. in and out. maybe. #DavidLeeRoth #DiamondDave #vanhalen #WilmaFlintstone #edsheeran #macklemore #HindsHall #RogerWaters #LoopTour #Staind #AaronLewis #LimpBizkit #UncleKracker #ChoctawCasino #StainedBiscuitTour #tocatchapredator #chrishansen #DatelineNBC #PredatorBingo #jurassicworldrebirth #ResidentEvil #zachcregger #Andor #diegoluna #RogueOne #bookoflife #1899 #DarkNetflix #miracleworkers #DanielRadcliffe #BobbyMoynihan #DuncanSheik #BarelyBreathing #VirginMegastore #OlbersParadox #SpaceFacts #stonerthoughts #WienerDog #DachshundsOfInstagram #FridaKahlo #GarryShandling #nfl #koreanfilm #hopemovie #becomefriendswiththepod #becomingfriendswith #bfw #EatTheRich #blessed #moreurinetalk

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  Episode #21

  becoming friends with...The Loved Ones (2009, Our Feature Presentation)

  Sep 22, 20261h 17m

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  Episode #20

  becoming friends with...Heaven & Hell (1980) (Before The Film)

  Sep 17, 20261h 41m

  before we get anywhere close to heaven or hell, there’s two hours of this nonsense: a sean connery voicemail, not one but two cameo pep talks that both go sideways, and an oral history of every song the coward american radio stations quietly stopped playing in september 2001. because of the 9/11. (check out the intro on YT, there’s more wild 9/11 happenings). we open up our new inbox (hello@becomingfriendswith.com) and then run through the whole pre-show run sheet like children lost at play: y’all watch anything? — our lil way of breaking in the show. chris can’t stop watching wecrashed even though he’s not sure it’s good (as i type, i know recall seeing this, but not when we talked about it on the show), which spirals into jared leto’s tommy wiseau-adjacent accent and a genuinely angry appreciation of the big short. rene saw onslaught, loved it, and rates it “go see it” on a scale where the middle is “mid” and the bottom is a fart noise. that leads to carpenter’s assault on precinct 13, the ice cream man scene played back frame by frame, and a detour through silo, dark matter, and a full sliders excavation: our sweet jerry o’connell, the floating-heads poster where one cast member is clearly holding in a fart, the mayor mccheese playground you could climb inside, and the uncanny young jeff bridges (daniels?) from tron: legacy, who may just also be the one and only chris hansen. mind grapes — rene called into another podcast doing good will hunting, left a voicemail as sean connery, and they aired it. and then we played that tape. perhaps we’ll send them the clip to play on their next show and we will all slip into a tragic, yet comical metaverse. i then he pulled up the old clear channel memo — the 162 songs (plus EVERY rage against the machine track) that program directors flagged as “lyrically questionable” after the 9/11 — and we go line by line trying to find any logic in it. six AC/DC songs. “walk like an egyptian.” “lucy in the sky with diamonds.” even, for some godforsaken reason, louis armstrong’s “what a wonderful world,” which we will be retroactively protesting forever. fuck clear channel. plus i booked the great kevin mcdonald of kids in the hall fame on cameo for a pep talk and advice, and gets four minutes of the man rambling about how he’s not sure if he’s watching the right thing, deciding we seem charming, and then promising to email cameo and get my money back. he’s a beautifully sweet man. tasers and tears — rene returned the favor and booked the actual, living breathing, human man chris hansen, who opens with “what, you’re expecting robert pattinson,” wishes us luck getting guys out of the manosphere, and clarifies that when he says have a seat, we’re not in any trouble. then we break down a takedown when hansen revisits the bust of a 32-year-old math tutor in Fairfield, Connecticut…the never-ending gum chewing, the tactical turtleneck, and the great unanswered question of who was supposed to eat the cupcakes. please god tell me they didn’t go unmunched upon. coffee song — chris brings oingo nboingo’s “little girls” and the corresponding music video…we argue about unreliable narrators, whether it’s a sympathy song or a horror song, and how very few in 1981 had any idea what elfman was doing. finally, we stumble into break before our feature presentation…make sure to check that out. it dropped tuesday. look for new podcasts every tuesday and thursday in the morning. live shows are saturday night on patreon, twitch, and YT…though they sure do like to yank us off air for having a good time, man. seriously, thanks for listening…please like and subscribe. it’s the only way we’ll eventually get paid to do this. reach out at bfw.gripe or bfw.doctor and we’ll read it on air. check in on each other and be well until next week. ⁃ byron j.

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