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). The conversation got a bit deeper when we started to delve into the rich cultural identities repres...
Feb 23, 2018•1 hr 8 min
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-Can-Watch Movie Pass (22:00). With it being the start of NBA All-Star Weekend, we jumped into LeBron...
Feb 16, 2018•1 hr 8 min
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 a moment to decide if the Winter Olympics were really the Olympics (28:00) before stepping into the ...
Feb 09, 2018•1 hr 7 min
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 hating, naming teams we never like to see win, and deciding if this is the most booty matchup ever, we ta...
Feb 02, 2018•1 hr 12 min
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 Monique, her calls for a Netflix ban, her acting roles, if she would make a good sex doll and th...
Jan 26, 2018•1 hr 5 min
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 talked about sports grief (26:00). Many elements of the lost TV Guide episode were reassembled as we gave...
Jan 19, 2018•1 hr 23 min
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 fodder with his remarks about shithole countries (22:00), so we chopped it up about that before we...
Jan 12, 2018•1 hr 4 min
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 shifted to the Kay Jewelers $24.99 engagement ring (26:00), Meghan Markle’s significance for “Ask Roger...
Jan 05, 2018•1 hr 1 min
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 Thousand and Seventeen” (03:00) and why the Salvation Army kinda sucks (04:00). Those convos were short a...
Dec 31, 2017•1 hr 11 min
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 college sports (26:00), which cities should have teams and what black-owned businesses should suppor...
Dec 22, 2017•1 hr 16 min
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 Internet, we discussed the concept of net-neutrality (30:00) and why black people felt like they needed to...
Dec 15, 2017•1 hr 15 min
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 knowledge of teaching, we decided to debate the recent incident of a teacher “kidnapping” a student in Flo...
Dec 09, 2017•1 hr 8 min
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 thought we would be off of #MeToo this week, but we had to rap about Russell Simmons and the various a...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 14 min
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 didn’t want to date us (15:00). The fellas in attendance told stories from college about Aldo (22:00)...
Nov 18, 2017•1 hr
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 Boy and his 10,000 confirmed kills (36:00) before listing our Commandments for Social Media Etiquette ...
Nov 10, 2017•1 hr 20 min
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 life and social media activity (14:00). We definitely touched on our favorite movies (22:00) and mu...
Nov 03, 2017•1 hr 11 min
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), and the fact that George H.W. Bush is getting put in the mix (24:00). We shot out ideas for what dir...
Oct 27, 2017•1 hr 20 min
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 they are off the clock (13:00). Officer Friendly broke down why certain police officers end up in ce...
Oct 20, 2017•1 hr 27 min
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 being a coke head and got him fired (12:00). With the NFL protests pushing into week 6, we decided to ...
Oct 13, 2017•1 hr 16 min
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 on our favorite parts of Insecure from the guy’s perspective: navigating the tough terrain of a n...
Oct 06, 2017•1 hr 29 min
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 would kneel or not (26:00). To be truly inclusive, we examined the other side of the protest and tried ...
Sep 29, 2017•1 hr 13 min
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 have been fired (20:00), and the ramifications of speaking your mind on social media at the job (33:00)...
Sep 22, 2017•1 hr 7 min
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 to their mother (26:00). We then did a word association game where we said which word comes to mind...
Sep 15, 2017•1 hr 14 min
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 this a thing (06:00). Aldo presents 10 "news stories" that hit the internet during the storm and ask...
Sep 04, 2017•1 hr 6 min
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 Confederate soldiers. We played a snippet from the presidents' response and dedicated some time to ou...
Aug 16, 2017•1 hr 5 min
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 slept with his BBW accuser (25:00). The second half of the pod finds the fellas breaking down the m...
Aug 15, 2017•1 hr 2 min
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 clubs seem to have cover charges and white clubs do not (17:00), what's up with the lack of diversity ...
Aug 04, 2017•1 hr
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. Michael Vick debate (25:00), rehashed a conversation about OJ Simpson, the 1995 trial, and its imp...
Jul 24, 2017•1 hr 10 min
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 Mayweather/McGregor (26:00), our opinion of our favorite Make-A-Wish kid, Lil Jarrius, and if he’s doing too ...
Jul 18, 2017•59 min
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 taking stock of who has more juice, Kimye or Bey/Jay (30:00). The last part of the pod was dedicated t...
Jul 07, 2017•1 hr 8 min
