Best Friend Weekend Podcast

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:...

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...

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 vi...

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...

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-con...

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 adjustm...

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 re...

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 shoot...

SPOILER ALERT!! This episode is 100% about Black Panther so if you didn’t see it yet, what are you doing?!?! Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and C.A.P. welcomed our favorite Nigerian homeboy, Babafems, to the podcast to discuss the new cultural phenomenon that is Black Panther. We checked all the boxes, discussing movie attire (04:00), our favorite characters (06:00) and favorite parts of the movie (11:00)....

Aldo NICE, C.A.P., and Gramstar got the festivities off to upbeat start while musing about Valentine’s Days of past, present and future (04:00) and what to buy a man for any holiday (10:00). We switched gears to discuss the black motion picture event phenomenon that is Black Panther (14:00), designed the perfect African American black pride shirt (18:00), and debated the merits of the $10 All-You-...

We decided to celebrate Black History Month in the only way we know how… by having a BHM Program. Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and C.A.P. kicked off the festivities by applauding LeBron for trading his whole team (04:00), reliving the Super Bowl (10:00), talking about which Juniors are better than Seniors (14:00), and giving props to Shauni Davis for taking on the U.S. Olympic Committee (22:00). We took...

Objectively speaking, this is one of the best episodes of the podcasts to date. Aldo, Rog, and Los jump into feedback from last week about our All-Snub teams and debate if this is the worst month ever in Louisiana sports history (02:00). We turn the audience on to the CNN documentary, TROPHY (08:00), before switching your attention to this year’s Super Bowl (13:00). After doing some Patriots hatin...

The fellas came together to drop hot fire on this last podcast of January. Aldo, Rog, & Los kicked off the festivities by answering audience questions from last week about underwear borrowing (03:00), sex doll movies & TV shows (06:00), and if we would be okay with Radio having a sex doll as a significant other (12:00). CAP debuted his new weekly rant FAREALDOE (15:00) to intro our talk about Moni...

The boys are back and kicked off the podcast with Aldo, Rog, and Los discussing Harley Barber’s fur coat from Neiman Marcus and use of the N-word (02:00). We refocused on last week’s discussion of the teacher harassment in Louisiana (13:00) prior to giving a nod to Trump’s Fake News Awards (24:00). The pod took a decidedly more sober tone as we bid farewell to our 2017 New Orleans Saints and talke...

The end of the week brought a lot of newsworthy stories, so Aldo NICE and Los tackled as many as possible in the latest podcast installment. After responding to some audience feedback about the $24.99 engagement ring (03:00), we addressed fair-weather Saints fans (10:00) and the controversial H&M photo of the child in the “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle” hoodie (11:00). The president gave us more fo...

For the first podcast of 2018, Aldo and Rog welcome Los back from suspension and let him share his Top 10 List for 2017 (01:00) before responding to some audience feedback (09:00). We then decided to talk about a recent episode of Jeopardy that instructed white folks how to “talk black” (13:00), followed by discussing some annoying New Year posts on social media (18:00). Next, the conversation shi...

Back to where it all started, ALDO Nice and Rog Smuve revisit the first ever Best Friend Weekend Podcast with the Top Ten List for 2017. We decided to bring in CNH, the first Caucasian friend of the program, to help us bring in the New Year and discuss our favorite people and things of 2017. The podcast started with a brief conversation about whether you should say “Twenty Seventeen” or “Two Thous...

Aldo NICE & Rog Smuve hit the ground running this week, answering audience questions from the last few podcasts (02:00). Then we discussed Diddy’s chances of owning the “North Carolina” Panthers (11:00) and how Cam Newton is sticking up for his rapey/racist owner (21:00). Big Baller Brand is back in the news so we talked about Lavar’s idea for the Junior Basketball League, how he is taking on coll...

This week we decided to start a GoFundMe for Keaton Jones but then….nah. Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and Los (drunk ass Los this episode) hop right into the Keaton Jones saga, the nature of bullying and when a GoFundMe is appropriate (02:00). We compared Keaton Jones’ story to that of Ashawnty Davis (20:00) and where the Avengers stand on this (24:00). While we can still do things for free on the Intern...

They’ve been asking for Los, so he made his way back to the podcast this week! Aldo and C.A.P. began the episode by answering some pressing questions and comments from last week (02:00). Aldo says what’s been grinding his gears lately (05:00) before we dove into the topic of Bitcoin (09:00), exactly what it is, and why black people are always late on things like this (15:00). Calling on our knowle...

We took a week off for Thanksgiving, but we’re back… You miss us? Aldo NICE and Rog Smuve briefly discussed our absence for the holidays and parental etiquette when sending packages (02:00). We attended a baby shower over the weekend and talked about the differences between male & female baby showers (07:00), games that we played (10:00), and proposed new games for future events (18:00). We though...

The Homecoming edition was definitely something different! Aldo NICE went up to XULA’s homecoming and brought out a bunch of old friends from college to talk that talk on the podcast. We began by discussing AirBnB’s vs. hotels, which way to go (03:00)? On some Xavier specific talk, we shared stories as to why we chose XU (08:00), the infamous male to female ratio (12:00), and why girls at school d...

Damn, we had fun this week! Rog Smuve got to attend the Jay-Z 4:44 tour so we talked about it, the poor ticket sales, and how Jay-Z ranks as a live performer (03:00). We checked in with Tyrese (21:00) before discussing Meek Mill (24:00) and Liangelo Ball (30:00) and their latest legal troubles. After the awesome ESPN 30 for 30 documentary on Ric Flair, we took some time to talk about the Nature Bo...