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oh hey...week two of less human than human starts with horned toads that shoot blood out of their eyes, a richard attenborough narration, and rene in a denver airbnb with a bed in the living room. then train dreams, billy corgan breathes and shits, a 1998 release list, michael shannon's r.e.m. cover band, the 'flying' tesla car that just falls, and an off-the-clock pumpkin carving cont...

less human than human continues with the faculty (1998): robert rodriguez, kevin williamson, josh hartnett's lego hair, and scat. we cover the breakfast club theory, class of '99, chapter 4 vs. chapter 5, the head on legs, and the darkest flagpole ending. plus metallica shreds, plexiderm, a sad unaired to catch a predator, the human league's "human," dragon ball: the magic begins, and silent hill,...

less human than human starts with mark wahlberg saying hi to a donkey's mother, a david spade dramatic turn, the billy ripken card, christopher abbott's p-movies, and a pay it forward pyramid scheme. then danny trejo's ben shapiro movie, the great shirt-or-pants-first debate (donald ducking), ben affleck's ai movie, a david lee roth welfare check, a peach snapple tasers & tears...

the hidden review: an alien plays gta in 1987 los angeles | becoming friends with...   less human than human starts with the hidden (1987): kyle maclachlan, a body-hopping alien slug, and one of the darkest happy endings ever. we cover dopamine aliens, the gta theory, drywall aliens, the roach-in-the-mouth finale, and danny trejo's two seconds. plus arena and space raiders in trailer trash, a...

welp, here we are again, a day late and a description short. but, that will change at some point. for the time being, i am very sleepy. yikes. we love you!! - byron j

have a seat. first, sorry to anyone who might have been looking for this yesterday (or today if you are me reading this right after it's typed out). but, if you are reading this, you grabbed it before i had a chance to put my notes together on the back half of saturday's show. it was our first "in the theatre" review and that felt exciting. made for a really fun one. anyway, this day has been too...

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...

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...

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 fo...

we come back with korn. not popcorn. korn. so, there is apparently a gathering of the korn, and it stands in direct opposition to the gathering of the juggalos. This is where the movie half begins. that's related to the loved ones, yeah? anyway, then we head into some staples before the movie chat. trailer trash — another italian one...cheap enough that we’re not convinced any of it is real, about...

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@becomi...

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...

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 Si...

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...

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.

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...

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 r...

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...

flying killer compact discs and plenty of confusion Listen up, space cadets! This episode of Becoming Friends with... is a real trip. The aging-stoner crew fires up some high-minded chatter in the first segment, debating a confusing photo of MC Hammer and George Michael that's almost as wild as a lightbulb-shaped head. It's a journey, man. The main event features the Dolph Lundgren classic, Dark A...

This week on becoming friends with… the crew sparks up another installment of their “Meathead Movie” saga — and this time, it’s Sylvester Stallone’s Cobra. What starts as random, smoke-hazed chatter about farts, guitars, and accidentally mixing up Spider-Man with Superman, slowly morphs into a surprisingly sharp (and hilarious) takedown of 80s macho cinema. The gang of aging stoners dissect every...

Double the Muscle, Double the Mellow, Double the Damme This week, the smoke is thick, the takes are wild, and the vibes are loose. The crew continues their hazy cinematic pilgrimage through the world of Meathead Movies — those big, sweaty, overly macho classics that beg to be reexamined through the eyes of modern, aging stoners with more nuance than protein powder. This time it’s Jean-Claude Van D...

Meathead Movies and Midlife Musings This week, everyone's favorite podcast pals light one up and dive into the gloriously sweaty, post-apocalyptic fever dream that is Cyborg — the second entry in the “Meathead Movies” series, where they take the most protein-soaked, testosterone-dripping films of yesteryear and crack them open to reveal surprisingly tender truths about modern masculinity. But befo...

becoming friends with…Under Siege 2 (Meathead Movies Vol. 1) The boys kick off their new Meathead Movies series by getting spiritually and  chemically aligned with Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, a 90s action flick where Steven Seagal plays a deadly chef (again) on a runaway train (also again?) And also why? Before that cinematic train leaves the station, there’s some classic detoured nonsense: con...

You guys...this is gonna be a bit of a placeholder synopsis because I'm in the middle of camp where the only wifi spot is and I just want to get this in your hands. Anyway, I'll update it if I can. Or, if I remember? Anyway, here's a lil list of some items that are brought up in this episode, besides the panos cosmatos film mandy, which is highly recommended by all of us here at becoming friends w...

becoming friends with…Dune –  Spice-Fueled Nostalgia & Wormhole Tangents   In this episode of becoming friends with…, four slightly-fried friends meander through a hazy fog that begins with wayward banter and ends knee-deep in Arrakis sand. The first segment is pure heady chaos—Steven Seagal’s arm-flailing jog becomes a spiritual metaphor, nostalgic VHS memories, and nobody can quite remember...