Best Friend Weekend Podcast

It’s Aldo’s birthday, so Team NICE is in town to celebrate. Aldo and Rog welcome Rumble Williams and Gramstar to the podcast to discuss the week that was. We began by discussing the origins of the Best Friend Weekend name (03:00), the Small Town Hall of Fame (06:00), and what does it mean to get “held back” in school (12:00). Tyrese Gibson was a major topic of discussion because of his recent real...

If nothing else, this week showed that what you do in the dark will more than likely come to light. Aldo NICE and Rog Smuve got an opportunity to discuss some troubling news stories and give some advice on our Halloween edition podcast. We went in on the latest Harvey Weinstein allegations and the #MeToo movement (07:00), should there be a statute of limitations on sexual assault charges (17:00),...

We love doing interviews… This week Aldo NICE, Rog Smuve, and CAP brought in one of Houston’s finest, Officer Friendly, to talk about police brutality and issues plaguing the urban community. In one of the most frank and humorous podcasts to date, the guys discussed how black cops can still be black while being the police (05:00), different policing styles (06:00), and if cops are still cops when...

Man, this week has been crazy! Aldo NICE and Rog Smuve linked up to give our hot takes on the events impacting the culture. We started off by discussing Harvey Weinstein and how he uses his power for evil (04:00) and posed the question, “What would you do for some paper?” (09:00). Our black person of the week award went to Kijuana Nige, who used her 15 minutes of fame to out her sugar daddy for be...

Hopefully we’ve given everyone enough time to watch Insecure: Season 2, but if not #SpoilerAlert. CAP and Ashley came in to chop it up with Aldo NICE about all things going down in the first week of October. We began by discussing Cam Newton’s dismissive comments to the female reporter (02:00) and Shannon Sharpe’s Black & Mild fetish (08:00) before jumping into the show review. We chose to focus o...

Donald Trump started it, so we had to discuss it. We started this week’s pod with the rationale behind us calling Donald Trump the “Great Unifier”, which was completely tongue-in-cheek (03:00). We continued this conversation and debated if it is appropriate to sit or kneel during the national anthem (12:00), tried to understand what people are really upset about (20:00), and hypothesized if we wou...

At the end of the last pod, we said that somebody would do something wild that we would end up talking about… Kevin Hart is the gift that keeps on giving! In this episode, aptly titled “HARTless”, we quickly rapped about some recent cotton controversies at Hobby Lobby and Lipscomb University (03:00). Then we shifted gears to talk about Jemele Hill and ESPN (11:00), was she wrong and should she hav...

With the NFL season kicking off, we decided to dedicate an episode to America's favorite and most controversial pastime, football. The elephant in the room was should we be watching the NFL or boycotting in support of Colin Kaepernick (01:00). After this short debate, we revisited Michael Bennett’s incident in Las Vegas (09:00), its fallout, and if the Bennett brothers or Meek Mill give more money...

Hurricane Harvey left us without recording equipment for the last 2 weeks, but we are back with one of the most entertaining podcasts in a while! Aldo NICE and Rog Smuve linked up with C.A.P. to discuss the Harvey aftermath in the city of Houston and how #FakeNews is killing the internet in 2017. After exchanging open statements, the guys discuss the origins of Fake News and how Donald Trump made...

In one of the most heated podcasts to date, Rog Smuve returned to discuss the recent racially charged events in Charlottesville, Virginia from conservative and liberal perspectives. We began by explaining the protest and the aftermath (03:00) which brought us a conversation about the meaning of imagery, especially flags (16:00), statues (20:00), and schools (27:00) that bear the name/likeness of C...

In the first installment of Educated Ignorance, Aldo NICE sat down with our homeboy Los to chop it up about recent social events and what really happens in the world of teachers. The guys dove right into Usher and his grand fetish (05:00), the difference between teachers sleeping with kids in the 90's (07:00) and the same act nowadays (11:00), if all fetishes are okay (16:00) and if Usher actually...

For the first time ever, we decided to do an interview on the BFW Podcast. We were able to get Scottie D, one of Houston's most renowned event promoters, to sit down and discuss the subtle differences between "black clubs" and "white clubs." We had a chance to ask why club promoters only seem to exist at black clubs (09:00), what's up with the phenomenon of "holding the line" (12:00), why black cl...

Back in our respective cities, we chose to dive into the intersection of race, the justice system, sports, and pop culture in the week that was. We began with our takes on the Pied Piper of R&B, R.Kelly, and his "sex cult" (03:00), discussed who is the better artist, him or Usher (16:00), touched on Usher Raymond's legal woes and risky sex (19:00), gave our two cents on the Colin Kaepernick vs. Mi...

With Aldo NICE in town, the #BestFriendWeekend was recorded LIVE in Denver, CO. Since we were in the Mile High City, it was only right to discuss good and bad highs and why we proceed with caution when it comes to weed (02:00). Next we chose a few albums that would sum up the music industry for the last 20 years for Pac and Biggie (15:00). We took a little time to discuss our thoughts on Mayweathe...

We got back to basics this week with our favorite topics; race and hip-hop. We started with a brief conversation about Kodak Black's latest controversial statements (03:00) which got us off on another tangent about skin tone and females (08:00), the Land of the Mythical Creatures, and the downfall of the light-skins (10:00). Some brief Blac Chyna and Kardashian talk (23:00) spilled over into us ta...

The return of Rog Smuve had us using this weeks’ show to talk beef in the hip-hop community… We started off with a discussion about the 2017 BET Awards (05:00), had some brief convo about Pride Weekend (07:00), touched on the recent hip-hop mini-beef sessions between Meek Mill/Safari (12:00) and Migos/JoeBudden (22:00), pitched a 2017 Def Jam Vendetta video game (36:00), got into a some local news...