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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 recurring segments like “Coffee Songs”, “Hi, Thoughts”, “Tales of Video Library”, and hilarious hijinks involving weird AI-generated images, becoming friends with... is part nostalgia trip, part emotional check-in, and all good vibes. Whether you’re here to laugh, reflect, or just feel a little more connected, this is the podcast for dudes who cry at movies and laugh at fart jokes—and everyone who loves them. https://bit.ly/m/becomefriendswiththepod friendship. music. movies. dig it. we’d love it if you’d join us.

  1. 2d ago

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

    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. f**k 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.

  2. 4d ago

    becoming friends with...Heaven and Hell (1980, Our Feature Presentation)

    An angel gets thrown out of Heaven, comes back as a Hong Kong cab driver, gets gunned down, and then has to fight his way out of the underworld with a girl named Red Dress. That’s the movie. It’s somehow stranger than that sounds. This week I drag Rene and Chris into Heaven and Hell (1980), also known as Shaolin Hellgate — the divisive, borderline-unhinged Shaw Brothers picture Chang Cheh shot on and off across five years while the studio’s empire was drifting toward television, then ended on a high with the Venom Mob and dumped into theaters. I picked it blind...started with Wu-Tang and worked my way to Shaw Brothers, and finally landing on this because of the crazy nature of the shooting schedule and being released during the Shaw Bros. transition to TV. My first note... “this movie is already crazy.” So we get into all of it: the glitter-rain fountain sets that play like a stage musical, the Bob Fosse fever-dream dance numbers, the color-coordinated gangsters straight out of The Warriors, three separate sets of opening credits for Heaven, Earth and Hell — and then the roughly 80% of the runtime that is just Hell. Paper-mâché pig noses. Fruit-roll-up flesh peels. A gambling hell where demons rifle through your wallet. A man who keeps getting his fingers cut off so he’ll never do it again. A guy sentenced to be split in half so he can fight himself forever. And the nail-through-the-throat shot that genuinely made all three of us flinch, which we slow-mo, freeze-frame, and argue about for a solid stretch. My burning question: how much of Quentin Tarantino’s whole thing is sitting right here? Go Go Yubari’s haircut, the Jack Rabbit Slim’s dance contest, the arterial spray — it’s all on screen in 1980. or 1994?!!???! Also in this half: Trailer Trash — The Hidden (1987), and pitching a disguised-alien/body-snatcher series for October Framed — guessing movies off single stills, which detours hard into which Jodie Foster performance is the most checked-out, and the emerging genre of A24 gritty Revenge of the Nerds reboots A Jodorowsky tangent, the mystery of “Crippled Warriors,” a real story about an art teacher and a paper cutter, and the definitive verdict on the Ronco bagel slicer Letterboxd ratings: a 3, a 3.5, and a 4 Next time: The Loved Ones gripes to BFW.gripe, symptoms to BFW.doctor (we are not doctors), everything else to hello@becomingfriendswith.com. thanks for listening. we love you. please make sure to like and subscribe.

  3. Sep 11

    becoming friends with...shaolin soccer (Our Feature Presentation)

    The boys dive into Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer (2001), the cult martial-arts sports comedy that Miramax butchered on its way to American shelves and is now quietly held by Paramount in its streaming library. Tracing the film’s rocky journey — from the trailer that spoils the ending, the 23 minutes Dimension Films chopped for the US distribution (including the Golden Leg Fung flashback and key Sing/Mui scenes), and all the way to how Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax sat on it before piracy forced their hand.   From there, it’s a full breakdown of why this “live-action Looney Tunes” still holds up: the surreal tonal shifts that recall Michel Gondry and Boots Riley, the Kill Bill-style scoring, the Rocky IV training-montage energy, and a shared cast with Chow’s follow-up Kung Fu Hustle. There’s quite a debate over the film’s best performance (Small Brother’s egg-eating scene gets singled out), discuss the makeover sequence and its satirical intent, and land on the same conclusion: this is a movie built for kids and adults alike, packed in slapstick laughs and layered enough for repeat viewings. Family-movie-night approved, according to Rene who watched it again with his wife and kids the night before recording.

  4. Sep 11

    becoming friends with...shaolin soccer (Before The Film)

    Before we ever get to Shaolin Soccer, buckle up, because this is the half of the show where the wheels fall off. We open with a live rendition of the Become Friends With theme that may or may not have accidentally invented a weekly remix tradition, immediately pivot into a Kevin Smith ruse discourse nobody asked for, and somehow end up debating whether Kevin Smith owns a thesaurus. From there it’s trailer chaos: The Guest gets a genuine, heartfelt recommendation sandwiched between jokes about British guys doing American accents, Onslaught gets roasted for its “weak” German accent, and Surviving the Game’s poster turns into a 10-minute fever dream about Gary Busey’s face, Rutger Hauer cosplaying Teddy Roosevelt, and a full Charles S. Dutton Roc retrospective. Naturally this spirals into competing cuts of Alien 3, a deep dive on the Assembly Cut chestburster debate, and a completely unhinged detour into a Busey movie called Bulletproof where every line of dialogue is just the word “Butthorn.” Mind Grapes brings the actual news: Columbia House is finally, actually going out of business (yes, it was still alive), a guy at a Korn concert gets internationally memed for a moment he insists was medical, and a young man loses a hand to a firework in the most quotably tragic TikTok of the year. The segment closes out with the premiere of a brand-new recurring bit — a To Catch a Predator “wine tasting” hosted by our resident predator-content sommelier, complete with pizza commentary, a homemade marriage contract, and easily the most unhinged live commentary track of the night. None of it makes sense together. All of it is exactly the vibe.

  5. 11/16/2025

    becoming friends with...friday the 13th part iii

    We are having fun times with hands and feet and heads and ears. Have fun time listening to friends talking about a movie called Friday the 13th part III. Other things we move our moves and make noise about are some music and just stories fun.

  6. 11/06/2025

    becoming friends with...halloween iii: season of the witch

    what a funny joke for the children, it’s the return of becoming friends with… on this episode we start a series of three horror films, all the third in their franchise…starting wit the 1982 film halloween iii: season of the witch. this little oddity stands out as it is the only one in the franchise that doesn’t center around michael myers, a plan originally conceived by john carpenter himself. the film switched directors two weeks prior to filming but that did little to break the spirit of the foley artists who document every footstep and nipple suck. it’s not one to be missed…the movie or the podcast. we also chat about airline etiquette, get frustrated at the game framed while we play and then continue to play. well hell…stop reading this and start listening to actual pod. and tell everyone you know. have a great day….we love you!!

  7. 09/18/2025

    becoming friends with...the wraith (1986)

    becoming friends with…the wraith (1986)   every time you listen to this podcast, a wraith loses another metal brace. what a thrill to be alive. join everyone’s favorite guys that talk into mics as they discuss the 1986 independent action-fantasy film the wraith. this movie is all over the place, but not nearly as much as the topics discussed in the first segment. everything from a maga christian rapper named angry abe, feelings on buffets in a post-pandemic world, colloidal silver and how only the smartest people are drinking it and dinosaurs. you won’t be believing your ears when you are listening.

  8. 09/11/2025

    becoming friends with...remo williams

    Did you ever watch that movie with Fred Ward called Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins? Good for you. So did we AND we recorded us talking about it so you don’t have to. That’s right, america’s only podcast is back and talking more meathead movies. This go around, they’re steeped in racism watching Joel Grey pull an Emma Stone four decades before that was even a thing. Isn’t science amazing? This bonkers movie is celebrating 40 years of questionable (and some just wrong) decisions. So, we are just the silly boys to talk about it. We also talk about a bunch of other stuff, like that band Nelson, remember them? We revisited a few old student films that Rene and Byron made back around the turn of the century. And so much more…it’s more fun than anyone deserves in this economy. Enjoy it and don’t forget to like and subscribe to complete your life.   #becomefriendswiththepod #becomingfriendswith #bfw    #movieswithfriends #RemoWilliams #TheDestroyer #Sinanju #Chiun #80sMovies #ActionAdventure #VintageAction #MovieAdaptation: #TheAdventureBegins #EatTheRich #blessed  #moreurinetalk

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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 recurring segments like “Coffee Songs”, “Hi, Thoughts”, “Tales of Video Library”, and hilarious hijinks involving weird AI-generated images, becoming friends with... is part nostalgia trip, part emotional check-in, and all good vibes. Whether you’re here to laugh, reflect, or just feel a little more connected, this is the podcast for dudes who cry at movies and laugh at fart jokes—and everyone who loves them. https://bit.ly/m/becomefriendswiththepod friendship. music. movies. dig it. we’d love it if you’d join us.

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  • Creator
    becomefriendswiththepod
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    20
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