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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 contest. we wrap it up with a bunch of jerks....james 'napster' hetfield at the sphere, shane gillis on snl, and sebastian maniscalco with his own siriusxm channel.

then, chris freezes, unfreezes, and freezes again, so we break early with joker tigger and the journey through the 100 ai woods.

the rest of mind grapes, tasers & tears, the coffee song, trailer trash, framed and the faculty review are in our feature presentation, available now.

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- byron j.

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• 0:00 becoming friends with...
• 2:30 rene's denver airbnb
• 4:00 texas college mascots
• 5:30 horned toads shoot blood out of their eyes
• 8:30 richard attenborough narrates
• 10:30 what does the horned toad guy sound like?
• 16:00 whatcha watchin: train dreams
• 18:30 robert smith, morrissey & billy corgan
• 23:30 wild things & pen15
• 25:00 the 1998 fest list
• 28:00 the primary colors walkout
• 29:00 species i & ii on october 30th
• 30:30 99 homes & michael shannon's r.e.m. band
• 33:00 the lost daughter
• 36:30 love lies bleeding & ed harris
• 40:30 andrew garfield & the white tiger
• 42:30 baseball & announcer voices
• 44:30 npr voices & garrison keillor
• 46:30 the simpsons & troy mcclure
• 49:30 mind grapes: the tesla flying car
• 55:30 cgi fridays
• 57:00 where mind grapes comes from
• 1:00:00 mind grapes: the off-the-clock pumpkin contest
• 1:08:00 a whole lot of milk
• 1:10:00 office uprisings: mayhem & beef
• 1:12:30 mind grapes: hetfield at the sphere
• 1:18:00 shane gillis on snl
• 1:21:30 kill tony & the weird science kid
• 1:26:00 sebastian maniscalco & siriusxm
• 1:33:30 chris freezes
• 1:38:00 joker tigger

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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, insomnia and boyhood in framed.

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• 0:00 back from the break
• 1:30 mind grapes: metallica shreds
• 5:30 david lee roth's health ticker
• 6:30 the plexiderm commercial
• 11:30 plexiderm is hemorrhoid cream
• 14:00 the fayette county candidate
• 19:30 cuckoo, park chan-wook & korean cinema
• 25:00 rene's signed slift record
• 27:00 tasers & tears: the unaired hansen
• 35:00 a different chris hansen
• 44:30 the woody allen turn
• 53:00 this too shall pass
• 54:00 coffee song: the human league, "human"
• 1:00:00 trailer trash: dragon ball: the magic begins
• 1:05:30 framed: silent hill
• 1:10:30 framed: insomnia
• 1:11:30 framed: boyhood
• 1:15:30 linklater, the newton boys & touch
• 1:18:00 feature presentation: the faculty
• 1:21:30 kevin williamson & the shelved script
• 1:22:30 robert rodriguez, from el mariachi to grindhouse
• 1:32:00 the two halves of from dusk till dawn
• 1:34:30 the football practice opening
• 1:37:00 we all saw it in theaters
• 1:41:30 chris's theory: the breakfast club
• 1:45:00 the pencil stigmata
• 1:48:00 class of '99 & layne staley
• 1:53:00 josh hartnett's dumb and dumber hair
• 1:54:00 first films & halloween h20
• 1:57:00 chris loses his video
• 2:00:30 independence vs. conformity
• 2:01:30 bebe neuwirth & piper laurie
• 2:03:00 the sprinkler & the graboids
• 2:04:00 the car crash fight
• 2:06:30 jon stewart's goatee
• 2:10:30 chapter 4 vs. chapter 5
• 2:11:30 byron in the stands
• 2:13:30 the scat scene
• 2:19:30 the jordana brewster fake-out
• 2:21:30 the dummy flying out of the car
• 2:23:00 the head on legs
• 2:24:00 rodriguez loves cheap effects
• 2:25:30 the flagpole ending
• 2:28:30 the system vs. the queen alien
• 2:31:30 famke janssen & the book called literature
• 2:34:00 the verdict
• 2:35:00 control & flawed adults
• 2:39:00 next up: invaders from mars & species
• 2:40:00 2 a.m. at denny's
• 2:41:30 matchbox 20 & a pair of panties

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, and nu shooz's laser coffee pot. enjoy. please like and subscribe everywhere you look at things and don't forget that everyone you know needs to know about this, too. it's important. tell everyone. everyone must know!!

- byron j.

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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 framed round that nails tremors and nothing else, and the next picks: the faculty, invaders from mars, and species i and ii. enjoy. please like and subscribe to everything bfw. it's pertinent to yer health.

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• 0:00 back from the break
• 0:30 trailer trash: arena (1989)
• 7:30 trailer trash bonus: space raiders
• 11:30 the garbage series & don't go in the woods
• 15:30 framed: tremors
• 19:00 the white house ballroom x-men
• 22:30 framed: collateral, pumpkin heads & drive
• 30:30 rock of ages & paul giamatti
• 33:30 framed: the long road to london has fallen
• 41:30 the hidden trailer
• 45:30 mike flanagan's exorcist
• 47:30 the hidden: ted, vhs & fire and ice
• 51:30 are the aliens running on dopamine?
• 55:30 the hidden is gta the movie
• 59:30 the security-camera opening
• 1:01:30 car chases & the death race 2000 energy
• 1:04:00 vibrator guns & drywall aliens
• 1:06:30 the darkest happy ending
• 1:09:30 the alien american dream & danny trejo's two seconds
• 1:10:30 the doctors hate the cops
• 1:12:30 mouth-to-mouth & the least erotic hole
• 1:15:30 sound design, halloween iii & the tingler
• 1:20:00 make theaters weird again
• 1:25:30 coke, claudia christian & the dog in the mirror
• 1:29:30 the roach in the mouth
• 1:32:30 did the wife know?
• 1:35:30 next up: the faculty, invaders from mars & species
• 1:40:30 the verdict
• 1:42:30 the taco bowl sign-off

this week on an all nude becoming friends with...euphoniums, sousaphones, and why nobody likes jimmy fallon. nobody. then netflix's menendez brothers season (with a millie vanilli eulogy), the walmart of cruises, mad about you is 35, helen hunt's résumé, the jack smith hawkeyes mix-up, why muscle men run like that, a david lee roth welfare check, a scream-heavy tasers & tears, and david fincher's very upsetting billy idol video. enjoy.

- byron j.

skip ahead if you want to:

• 0:00 a very special edition, starring chris hansen
• 3:30 new drops & the cinder block studio audience
• 5:45 woody allen on clarinet & the brass section tier list
• 9:00 sousaphone, euphonium & the trombone conspiracy
• 13:30 trombone shorty, brass-section spit & jimmy fallon
• 18:30 whatcha watchin: baseball & dark matter
• 24:00 monster: lizzie borden, dahmer & the menendez brothers
• 28:30 the millie vanilli eulogy
• 35:30 charlie hunnam, the gentlemen & guy ritchie
• 39:30 the walmart of cruises
• 47:00 marshmallows in the pacific northwest
• 49:00 mind grapes: mad about you & helen hunt
• 54:30 mind grapes: jack smith & the hawkeyes mix-up
• 1:04:30 mind grapes: why do muscle men run like that?
• 1:11:30 welfare check: david lee roth
• 1:17:00 tasers & tears
• 1:37:30 the build-up scream
• 1:38:30 david fincher & "cradle of love"
• 1:50:00 heading to the feature

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primetime (2026) review: decoy dan, bill s. preston esq. & a lone man at the movies

our first in-theater review: primetime, with robert pattinson as chris hansen, skyler gisondo's rent-singing decoy dan, merritt wever, alex winter as the district attorney (that one), and jonathan lipnicki as the whipped cream guy. we cover what's real and what's not, network tv as the villain, a stranger who picked the seat next to us, a framed round that ends in focus, and we reveal the october slate: the hidden, the faculty, invaders from mars, and species i and ii. enjoy. don't forget to like and subscribe and bug all yer friends to do it. it would mean the world to us. thanks...take care.

- byron j.

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• 0:00 saving ernest from himself
• 2:00 trailer trash: the prey
• 5:45 framed: focus (and the wizard of oz)
• 18:45 new jeff drops: "he can come into the baby"
• 23:45 theater stories: alamo, flix & the chosen seat
• 27:30 the lone man theory & the backpack rule
• 29:00 my two dads, bj and the bear & cannonball run
• 34:00 primetime: the cast
• 40:45 alex winter, the final call & decoy dan sings rent
• 45:30 what's real? the affair, the timeline & stone phillips
• 47:30 pattinson's hall of fame: high life, good time, the rover
• 50:30 the non-reclining seat incident
• 55:00 going solo to a to catch a predator movie
• 58:30 the rabbi scene & the real footage
• 1:05:00 acting vs. not acting: hansen & decoy dan
• 1:06:30 bokeem woodbine & the sweaty producer
• 1:10:30 theranos, nathan fielder & jeff zucker as himself
• 1:14:30 alex winter's mullet & the lost boys
• 1:15:45 the score & phoebe bridgers
• 1:17:45 ratings & oscar talk
• 1:22:30 network is the villain & the backlash
• 1:27:30 october picks: things passing as human

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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 dramatized. that covers morgan spurlock, michael moore, and nathan fielder, plus the butthole surfers doc’s puppet recreations (go see the hole truth and nothing butt whenever you can) and ai slowly sneaking into movies. that obviously leads us to lanterns, batman’s worst villains, christian bale’s batman smoking in the background of nolan’s odyssey (totally real), and the time a bar back at caravan of dreams in fort worth handed a wide-eyed, teenage doorman rene his first (and only?) virginia slim. hashtag vagina slime.

then i bitched about tom segura and showed rene some clips from the new james austin johnson special (better than the odyssey). david fricke, bob dylan’s protest songs, and brian cox as the voice of mcdonald’s.

mind grapes starts with tilly norwood, the ai “actress,” and her perfect piers morgan appearance. also, why is piers morgan? then corey worthington, the australian teen who threw a 500-person party and refused to take off his famous glasses…my new hero. and then, whatever the opposite of that is…david lee roth’s “shark week” sturgis promo…which is definitely not overplayed by me in any way, shape, or form. it was the right amount. he did a tedx talk with alex van halen for some reason and went on a six minute roth rant about ozzy and he just goes “good job, dude.” then music talk: how much of what you listen to is actually new? somewhere near 25%, if we’re lucky. we go through what’s been on repeat: jaga jazzist, sharks keep moving, misha panfilov, domi and jd beck, john coltrane, brad mehldau, joe henderson, isaiah collier, slint, serengeti, and my full butthole surfers revival, with a new appreciation for paul leary and his guitar noodling. we also cover how the flaming lips spent a whole tour as beck’s backing band, rene’s pitch for an animated show where a love supreme turns into a city, and our own sequel to cats. you won’t like it. i love it.

coffee song: billy idol’s “eyes without a face.” iI was stuck in rene’s head all week, so now it’s in yers.

send us fan mail at [email protected]. chris would especially love the letters.

- byron j.

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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 we’ve already filed it away for an exploitation series. framed is all over the place as usual…we go from carlito’s way to s.w.a.t. to a guy ritchie frame that filled us with rage. we do parts of that monologue in sling blade, talk terrence malick’s the tree of life (dinosaurs, volcanoes, brad pitt), martin mcdonagh’s in bruges and seven psychopaths, and i mention my undying love of the incomparable parker posey.

then the feature: the devil’s candy, sean byrne’s heavy-metal possession horror film. or sean hayes. sean haynes. david byrne. the blue’s clues guy steve burns. we do eventually get the director’s name right. ethan embry plays a struggling metalhead painter who moves his family into a cheap texas farmhouse, and pruitt taylor vince is the man in the red tracksuit who is the reason the home was so cheap. hilarity ensues. no. horror. horror ensues. and nary a shirt on embry.

some highlights:

we friends?

yes. it’s a great, genuinely upsetting movie that doesn’t need to make a million statements to creep you out. but lose metallica. always solid advice.

also watched the trailer for byrne’s shark-killer film dangerous animals, preview our halloween theme (horror about things pretending to be human, and yes, we need your help naming it), and debut a brand-new segment: rapid fire questions for rene. it hits every big life question…didya poop? front or back? is that glint the beach shine coming off yer zipper? it's blinding me.

if you like horror, metal, cult movies, or two guys arguing about colin farrell, pull up a chair. but like and subscribe first. don’t make it weird. i will send rene after you.

- byron j.

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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 form, launching a cowboy persona to publicly rank cartoon women, and the entire ed sheeran tour imploding one quitting band at a time. plus jurassic world rebirth as flaming garbage, the new resident evil as a miracle, why the night sky isn’t bright, a seven-year-old wiener dog named frida, an itemized history of dogs eating butter (and shit), finally, we play to catch a predator bingo where the only winner is our good friend chris hansen, and say a goodbye to duncan sheik that we mostly hum.

no lore required. no homework. bring snacks. you will want snacks. just a side quest. in and out. maybe.

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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.

also this:

that wolf creek 2 limerick standoff scene followed by a ten-question australian history quiz where every wrong answer costs a finger. stop it with the fingers, you guys.

i issue a short, confident obituary for bruce willis, who is absolutely not dead, while rene and chris discuss last man standing. i never saw it.

we meet and fall in love with cc pazzini, the four-inch-tall steampunk mascot cici’s pizza has hired to represent the inventor of the unlimited pizza buffet. dude looks like the mighty boosh, paul f. tompkins, and melissa mccarthy all mushed together. did he invent pizza, or did he invent the buffet? no clear answer is given.

the only known is that we will be chrisless for the devil’s candy next week. tell us how you feel about that and anything else in these ways:

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