Best Friend Weekend Podcast

Aldo NICE and C.A.P. decided to kick up some dust this week with our podcast topics. Rumble Williams got us off to an interesting start with a conversation about whether or not homeless people should have pets (01:00), what is our obligation to help (03:00) and should you have a “homeless plan” in the case that you lose it all (07:00). The topic of “African Dust” has been on the tongues of many people in Texas over the last few days, so we broke down what that was all about (12:00) and why putting “African” in front of things make them more dangerous (17:00). We ran through the story of the Florida man riding on the hood of the car at high speeds (25:00) before talking about Real House Wives (34:00) and reminiscing about old VH1 reality shows (40:00). The last sections of the pod were devoted to us pitching our reboot of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (48:00), giving our two cents on the BET Awards (51:00) and Aldo having Nothin’ NICE to Say about State Farm Agents (59:00).

After keeping it really simple last week with just Aldo NICE and Rog Smuve, we had a full house this time around welcoming back C.A.P. and bringing in Gramstar and Just Devaughn. Rumble got us started with observations about Nigerians and women shaped like baked potatoes (01:00), which sparked a conversation about the World Cup led by Gramstar (06:00). He gave us some rules to follow for any casual soccer fans (10:00) and let us imagine a world where the U.S.A. was the dominant team (19:00). A recent slew of NBA “rap stars” (24:00) helped open up a conversation about the surgical summer Pusha T predicted and how Drake has been doing since then (29:00), who has been the top dog in rap for the last month (38:00), and can Beyonce be the best rapper in the game (43:00). A caller left a message discussing her lack of interest in the Beehive so we had to dissect that (45:00) before saying our goodbyes to XXXTentacion (59:00). To wrap things up, Aldo had a chance to deliver Nothin’ NICE to Say about sticking to

We called this episode “eggplant friday” and that’s kinda weird. Aldo NICE and Rog Smuve got to talking this week and the silliness ensued. Rumble Williams kicked us off with a conversation about lying and condiments (02:00), which led directly to us rehashing our talk about the Fast Food Wars and I.H.O.B. (07:00). The eggplant stories began with us discussing Jamie Foxx’s Dongle-gate (15:00) and ran into a court case from a few years back involving a “Florida Man” choking his girlfriend (24:00). When the lewd humor slowed down, we ran through the XXL Freshman Class for 2018 (33:00) and the Good Music albums from the last few weeks (42:00). In our sports section, we debated about LeBron’s next landing spot (46:00), got the NFL season started with some Saints talk (1:00:00) and picked some teams for the World Cup (1:03:00). Aldo ended the pod with Nothin’ NICE to Say about posing for pics with people you don’t know (1:05:00).

Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and C.A.P. linked up to discuss the week that was in popular culture, sports, and entertainment. Rumble Williams got us started with musings about “living your best life” (02:00) before we discussed the new age of social media with young folks running corporation’s twitter accounts (08:00). NBA Finals talk was next on the docket (16:00). Why are the Warriors so good? Is LeBron going to stay in Cleveland? Does LeBron have enough business stopping power to scare Trump (28:00)? Switching gears to music, we ran through the new Ye album (31:00) (which this podcast is longer than), gauged excitement for a potential Carter V album (38:00), and scaled James Prince’s influence in the culture (45:00). Rog brought up the story of a prison eye eater (54:00) prior to Aldo wrapping the pod by having Nothin’ NICE to Say about defending black celebrities (1:03:00).

This week was crazy so we decided to lock on to a couple of major stories and just talk about them. Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and C.A.P. kicked off the podcast by discussing our thoughts on Morgan Freeman after we had let it settle in for a week (02:00). After exploring this from a few angles, we found ourselves going in on Roseanne getting her show cancelled and if there is a liberal bias in the media when it comes to repercussions for politically incorrect behavior (07:00). The majority of the podcast was spent dissecting the Drake vs. Pusha T beef, the history of rap beef, etiquette for diss tracks, top beefs of all time, the Drake Hater Holiday, and Birdman checking Pusha (20:00). After Aldo had Nothin’ NICE to Say about co-opting posts (56:00), we ran through the NBA Finals (1:00:00) and snuck in our live reaction to J.R. Smith’s game ending play after the credits (1:06:00).

Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and C.A.P. caught up to run down some of the more interesting stories that came up this week. Rumble Williams got us started with a conversation about Subway sandwich preferences (01:00) before we switched gears to Morgan Freeman’s sexual harassment allegations (08:00) and the rising “incel” movement (19:00). Sports stories were too big to pass up so we discussed the Rueben Foster story with fake domestic abuse charges filed by his girlfriend (28:00), the NFL finally giving the middle finger to black players and making it law to stand for the National Anthem (40:00) and Sterling Brown getting tased and arrested by Milwaukee police for not taking his hands out of his pockets (58:00). The podcast finished up with Aldo having Nothin’ NICE to Say about Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo (1:03:00) and the art of posting barbershop “after” pics.

I’m just gonna start with the fact that the conversations were all over the place when Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve and C.A.P. caught up this week for the podcast. Rumble Williams got us going with a story about Killer P*** (01:00) and we relayed our thoughts on the phenomena before turning our attention toward the Oakland Snitch (08:00). Sub-conversations about pronunciations, local vernacular, and preference were kicked around while focusing on an underlying question, “to snitch or not to snitch” (18:00). In our sport talk section, we talked a little about the NBA playoffs (25:00), Kobe Bryant’s Detail show on ESPN (28:00) and the future of legalized gambling (35:00). One of the craziest stories of the week was featured when we unwrapped a grown man posing as a high school basketball player to relive his glory days (37:00). After ranking natural disasters (51:00) and having some rap beef surrounding T.I. and Kevin Gilstrap (57:00), Aldo ended the podcast with Nothin’ NICE to Say about NYC’s favorite lawyer (1:

Sometimes you just feel like it’s gonna be one of those weeks. Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and C.A.P. kicked off the podcast by going back and forth about Rumble Williams’ definitions of “dumb” and “stupid” (01:00) before getting into a serious comparison of buffets and cafeterias we loved as kids (03:00). Aldo gave a glowing endorsement of SR3MM, which got us talking about what’s happening in the rap game at this moment (08:00). Donald Glover had the best week ever, so we had to give our takes on his SNL performance and the “This Is America” video (18:00). After laughing at the FLOTUS’ #BeBest Initiative (34:00), we tried to determine if the Met Gala’s theme was blasphemous toward Catholics (36:00). Our race talk about the mistreatment of students graduating at the University of Florida (53:00) preceded some humor about NBA nicknames in China (59:00) before the pod wrapped up with Aldo having Nothin’ NICE to Say about “turning boys on” (1:04:00).

Race, mental health, policing, and sports were the topics of the week when Aldo NICE and C.A.P. linked up for the podcast. Rumble Williams got us started with an in-depth conversation about black male greetings (01:00) prior to us trading opinions about the Kanye fiasco from all angles (05:00). This talk covered more than half of the podcast with us trying to figure out if he’s trolling, dissecting his voice inflections, giving some common social media responses, and rehashing his infamous “slavery is a choice” commentary. After this convo, we switched focus to two different stories involving the police: improper police contact with inmates with “crooked” members (33:00) and ethical use of DNA results from ancestry websites (39:00). With the NBA playoffs still rocking, we took some time to talk about Drake vs. Kendrick LaPerkins (47:00) and Patrick Beverly’s mama on the Price is Right (51:00). To end things off, we spoke about Eric Reid joining Colin Kaepernick with a collusion case against the NFL (58:0

BFW Weekend was real and the ensuing hangover was just as real. Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and C.A.P. linked up to get back to the business of podcasting which began with Rumble having a moment to discuss bare ass on toilet seats (01:00). After shoutouts to the homies who attended Best Friend Weekend Weekend (05:00), we ran down some simple Air BnB rules (09:00) and rules to govern getting a section in the club (14:00). With Philadelphia being the most talked about city in the country right now, we had to discuss Meek Mill coming out and Pill Cosby going in (23:00). The great Kanye West debate raged on (29:00) before we got to some NFL talk, Josh Allen’s racist tweets (39:00) and the Saints draft pick live (44:00). You know we were going to gloat about our Playoff Pellys, so we did that and flipped through the NBA playoffs as a whole (49:00). The podcast ended with Aldo having Nothin’ NICE to Say about airport pickups and Rog rebutting with an Uncle Smuve’s Cabin about Uber availability (58:00).

Best Friend Weekend Weekend is finally here!! Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, C.A.P., CNH, and Rumble Williams all linked up in Denver for the one-year anniversary of the podcast. The pod opened up with Rumble discussing family reunions for white people (01:00). We switched up and kicked around the major news story for the week, the Starbucks incident (06:00) before briefly reviewing airplane etiquette (16:00). Cardi B’s recent success story got us talking about her latest album (25:00) and comparing her shine to Beyonce’s (29:00) and what black women love most in life (34:00). Los dropped a FA REAL DOE centered on crazy people using Facebook Live (38:00), which led to a conversation about the Cheetos Bandit in North Louisiana (40:00). Rog opened up the cabin door for an Uncle Smuve’s cabin about hood life (46:00) setting up Aldo ending the pod with Nothin’ NICE to Say about our least favorite Houston 9-1-1 operator (53:00). Then, we got drunk.

One week before Best Friend Weekend-Weekend, Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and C.A.P. caught up to bring some life to your week. Rumble Williams kicked off the festivities with his take on the art of “Cooning” which got us off and running with our perspectives (02:00) before we went over the new phenomenon of “internet holidays” (05:00). With BFW Weekend swiftly approaching, Rog brought up our trials and tribulations with vacation rentals (16:00) prior to the group giving our takes on the Tristan Thompson/Khloe Kardashian scandal (27:00). One of the main questions we tackled was whether Drake was a larger cultural appropriator than Bruno Mars (34:00). This back-and-forth conversation paved the way for C.A.P. brining up a disgruntled teachers’ story in Texas (44:00) and publicizing podcasts in production by the fam, Educated Ignorance, BlackBuster Video, and The Halftime Speech (57:00). The podcast was brought to a close with Aldo having Nothin’ NICE to Say about Stevante Clark (58:00) and brining back the Gas Pe

I dare you to go and watch Belly again. Aldo NICE, Just Devaughn, and Karlton Banxxx did just that and linked up to talk about the Hype Williams' 1998 hip hop staple. We discuss if Belly was a bad, good movie or a good, bad movie.

Sometimes a slow news week leads to some of the most fun conversations about interesting topics. Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and C.A.P. kicked off the BFW pod with some words from Rumble Williams that got us discussing the art of tipping at restaurants (02:00). Connor McGregor can’t get right so we had to mention that (09:00) and discuss if Fabolous might also have MMA dreams with his recent domestic violence incident (11:00). We couldn’t help but discuss some collegiate stories so we went over how the media is covering the Houston kid who has been accepted into 20 universities (29:00), how the 2011 Heisman Trophy winner is getting another shot in the NFL before “you know who” (40:00), and how Tyrone Hankerson Jr. might have just pulled off the biggest finesse in financial aid history (45:00). The pod wrapped up with a reading of the chapter titles from Michael’s Bennett’s new book “Things That Make White People Uncomfortable” (54:00), the crowning of our #BlackMovieBracket champion (57:00), and Aldo having Not

Aldo NICE, C.A.P., and Just Devaughn kick off the BlackBuster Video podcast with a movie review of the 1985 cult classic, Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon.

With C.A.P. taking the week off like Tyronn Lue, Aldo NICE and Rog Smuve caught up to kick around the hot button issues of the week that was. Rumble threw us off with a conversation about box shrimps (02:00), which quickly led to a conversation about pluralizing verbs (05:00), which quickly lead to a conversation about food in the 337 area code (07:00). Eventually, we got to the larger discussion of Michael Bennett’s new book, his run-ins with the laws, and whether these two things are inexplicably tied together (12:00). Aldo’s recent trip to the barbershop sparked a brief talk about a funny meme floating around the interwebs (34:00) and Rog’s recent run-in with a disgruntled husband sparked a brief talk about being called the N-word (39:00). We began to run it about Nationwide releasing segregated commercials on TV (42:00) before we devised a plan to keep Black Panther in the theatres (52:00). The Elite 8 in the Black Movie Bracket was touched on (56:00) before Aldo ended the pod with Nothin’ NICE to

Sometimes, the best talking points come from a quick flip through the Yahoo headlines. Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, C.A.P., and C.I. caught up this week and kicked off the podcast discussing Rumble Williams’ views on a flat Earth (01:00), some interesting audience feedback we received on YouTube (06:00) and our continued discussion of cultural appropriation (14:00). After going over OBJ’s latest mini-controversy (20:00), we got an opportunity to discuss three stories that brought race to forefront of our minds again this week. Will Eric Reid, Colin’s Kaepernick’s kneeling buddy in San Francisco, find a new job (25:00)? Is it such a bad thing for black bosses to promote a culture of blackness at the workplace (36:00)? And did the racial bullying of Jonathan Martin lead to his mental breakdown this week (46:00)? The podcast wrapped up with a recap of the NCAA tournament, our #BlackMovieBracket’s current situation (56:00) and Aldo having Nothin’ NICE to Say about technology taking over (59:00).

Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve and C.A.P. welcomed MileHigh CI to the podcast to add some more Denver flavor a month before Best Friend Weekend in Colorado. We reviewed some hot topics from the last few podcasts with feedback about our white female listeners (06:00), how we are Cowboys haters (09:00) and the glaring omissions in our Black Actor Championship Belt lineage tracing (18:00). After making adjustments to our timeline, we got into the discussion we wanted to have about Bruno Mars and cultural appropriation. Using Seren Sensei’s viral video as a backdrop, we asked if playing up racial ambiguity is really a bad thing (38:00), if America really likes their black music from non-black faces (43:00), and if Bruno Mars is simply a karaoke singer who doesn’t compare to Michael Jackson or Prince (48:00). With March Madness upon us, we talked about user friendly NCAA brackets (57:00) and encouraged everyone to fill out a bracket in our #BlackMovieBracket on bestfriendweekend.biz (1:01:00). To wrap things up, we had

This week our theme was breaking preconceived notions of what someone can or cannot do based upon race or gender. Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and C.A.P. jumped the podcast off by discussing our favorite Italian-African-American Kobe Bryant, his Academy Award, and backlash from the #MeToo crowd (02:00) before answering lingering questions from our last podcast about guns in schools, a police officer’s responsibility during mass shootings, and another school shooter that you may not have heard about (10:00). Switching focus back to the Oscars, we dissected Emma Stone’s failed attempt to go hard for the #TimesUp community at the expense of minorities (24:00). Why do we always have to equate struggles of the LGBT community and women with minorities (31:00)? After briefly shooting on the Black movie, actor, actress, and director of the year (36:00), we again changed directions and discussed the NFL combine (41:00). In this segment, we picked our 5 favorite stories from the combine and looked at the bigger stories b

We tried a little something different this week… Recorded over two days, Aldo NICE caught up with Rog Smuve and C.A.P. to discuss the hot button topics of the last week of February. We kicked the pod off by discussing different types of people at work (03:00) and the recent NCAA Basketball scandal (08:00) before getting into our big topics of the week: the reactions to the most recent school shooting (20:00) and whether or not teachers should have guns (27:00). The NRA’s reaction to gun violence was kicked around (49:00) prior to readdressing Fake News (53:00), talking about James Harden’s latest antics (57:00) and revisiting Monique and ‘Daddy’s’ interview on the Breakfast Club (59:00). Aldo brought the episode to a close with Nothin’ NICE to Say about the Walking Dead (1:07:00).