We’re back with our Your Friends & Neighbors watchalong series for episode 4 – “Literal Dragons.” Mel has a birthday, Coop gets chased, and there’s some big choices about a potential team up.

This new Apple TV+ series follows Jon Hamm as Coop, his fall from grace, and how desperation drives him to misappropriation.

Enjoy today’s episode, and be sure you catch the new episode of Your Friends & Neighbors and our recap each Friday through the season finale on May 30, 2025.

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Watch Your Friends & Neighbors on Apple TV+, and catch our review of the next episode every Friday.

After being fired in disgrace, Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Hamm), a hedge fund manager still grappling with his recent divorce, resorts to stealing from the homes of his neighbors in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.

From creator and executive producer Jonathan Tropper, the captivating drama also stars Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Gravitt and Donovan Colan.

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We’ve got a review of the Home Free LP hot off the presses! Do any of these names ring a bell? Adrian Quesada of Black Pumas. Mix Master Mike and Money Mark of Beastie Boys. Akil the MC of Jurassic 5. J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. Sabrina Ellis of A Giant Dog. Slimkid3 of The Pharcyde. Stephanie Hunt of Buffalo Hunt. 

The list goes on and on, and they all contribute to a soundtrack that elevates a movie with a mission. Writer Lenny Barszap and director Aaron Brown put together a fantastic movie about college, coming of age, and homelessness. Their old college friend, Adrian Quesada, helped put together a masterful mix of musicians to make something really special.

Resident musician and co-host Kevin Bessey sits down with Tristan to discuss some of the tracks on the album, what stuck out, and the lessons he took away from the Home Free LP original soundtrack. We spliced in bits of the songs we discussed so listeners get a little taste of the tracks.

We hope you enjoy today’s episode, and we’ll have our interview with Lenny and Aaron dropping in the next couple months as well, so keep an eye out for that.

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Listen to the Home Free (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): 

- Listen on Spotify

- Listen on Apple Music

- Listen on Amazon Music

- Purchase the album on Bandcamp

- Purchase the album as mp3 or vinyl on Amazon

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About the Home Free Original Soundtrack:

The stacked 28-track, 90s-inspired mixtape delivers original music produced by Quesada. It spins like a home-dubbed mixtape: a sequence embracing grooved-out jazz-funk instrumentals, eclectic alternative pop, heavy-lidded stoner raps, and zero gravity singer-songwriter meditations. Featuring a host of musical legends definitive to the film’s era, this soundtrack does something truly unique in its matchmaking of these heavy hitters on the tracks in unexpected ways. What you get is a true mixtape of styles, with the throughline of Quesada’s vision and musical prowess that imbues the album with style and cohesion. 

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and delayed the making of the film and Quesada’s Black Pumas tour at the time, Barszap and Brown gave him the script and entrusted him to produce the soundtrack. He completed about 80% of it before the film was even made – a very cool and unique process for all involved. The result was a very collaborative, special project in which the soundtrack and film each influenced the completion of the other.

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About the Film: 

Home Free is based on the real-life experience of Onion Creek Productions founder and director/producer Aaron Brown and writer/producer Lenny Barszap of Entertaining Entertainment. In 1997, as sophomores at the University of Texas at Austin, Brown and Barszap invited an unhoused philosophy professor to crash on their porch – where they hosted several parties, many of which their friend and fellow UT Austin student at the time, Adrian Quesada, also attended. Twenty-five years later, this became the premise for the film Home Free, which explores profound themes of friendship, personal growth, and social impact through the lens of comedy (think Dazed & Confused meets Superbad).

Home Free aims to put a spotlight on the homelessness crisis and organizations like The Other Ones Foundation (TOOF), Caritas and other housing nonprofits in Austin that are actively working to rewrite the narrative around our unhoused neighbors and transition them off of the streets – with hopes of inspiring this kind of format across the country. 

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What’s more important? The power of cinema or the fight to cure children’s cancer? For The Studio’s Matt Remick, it’s a tighter race than you might expect. As Matt points out in Episode 6, doctors tend to patients, but every patient’s room has a television in it.

We’re back with The Studio Episode 6 for our watchalong of the new Apple TV+ series, titled “The Pediatric Oncologist.”

From the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, it’s a show about a newly appointed studio head, movies, TV, and everything in between. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

Throughout the first season of The Studio, we’ll release reviews for each new episode release. We hope you watch each new episode on Apple TV+, then catch up with our recap on your favorite podcast platform (link in bio).

We’ll continue dropping our recaps/reviews every Wednesday through the season finale on May 21, 2025 as we recap one of the best shows of the year.

We hope you enjoy today’s episode, and let us know what you’ve thought about the series thus far!

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The Studio is a new Apple TV+ series, from the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. This show centers around a newly appointed studio head, trying to make movies he enjoys AND make the studio money. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

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We’re back with our Your Friends & Neighbors watchalong series for episode 3. The new Apple TV+ series follows Jon Hamm as Coop, his fall from grace, and how desperation drives him to misappropriation.

Today's episode is full of basketball, bravado, wine, and wrestling. Who's a real friend? Who's really buying a $20K toilet? And does any of it matter if you don't have a job?

Enjoy today’s episode, and be sure you catch the new episode of Your Friends & Neighbors and our recap each Friday through the season finale on May 30, 2025.

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After being fired in disgrace, Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Hamm), a hedge fund manager still grappling with his recent divorce, resorts to stealing from the homes of his neighbors in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.

From creator and executive producer Jonathan Tropper, the captivating drama also stars Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Gravitt and Donovan Colan.

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Today we’re recapping The Studio Episode 5 for our watchalong of the new Apple TV+ series. This episode was all about Sal Sapperstein and Quinn Hackett vying for power, arguing over parking, and dueling it out to secure their director for an upcoming project.

From the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, it’s a show about a newly appointed studio head, movies, TV, and everything in between. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

Throughout the first season of The Studio, we’ll release reviews for each new episode release. We hope you watch each new episode on Apple TV+, then catch up with our recap on your favorite podcast platform. Or, you can listen to our review then watch. The choice is yours!

We’ll continue dropping our recaps/reviews every Wednesday through the season finale on May 21, 2025 as we recap one of the best shows of the year.

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Watch The Studio on Apple TV+, and catch our review of the next episode on Wednesday.

The Studio is a new Apple TV+ series, from the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. This show centers around a newly appointed studio head, trying to make movies he enjoys AND make the studio money. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

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We’re kicking off a watchalong series for the new Apple TV+ series, Your Friends & Neighbors. The first two episodes have just been released, so be sure to go watch those on Apple TV+ before giving today’s recap a listen.

We’ll continue dropping our recaps every Friday through the season finale on May 30, 2025.

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After being fired in disgrace, Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Hamm), a hedge fund manager still grappling with his recent divorce, resorts to stealing from the homes of his neighbors in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.

From creator and executive producer Jonathan Tropper, the captivating drama also stars Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Gravitt and Donovan Colan.

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We’re back to discuss The Studio Episode 4 in our watchalong of the new Apple TV+ series, The Studio. Olivia Wilder, Zac Efron, celluloid, and Chinatown? Like Matt says at the opening of the episode, “good artists borrow, great artists steal.” But don’t steal a reel of film!

From the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, it’s a show about a newly appointed studio head, movies, TV, and everything in between. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

Throughout the first season of The Studio, we’ll release reviews for each new episode release. We hope you watch each new episode on Apple TV+, then catch up with our recap on your favorite podcast platform. Or, if you’re feeling *crazy*, you can listen to our review then watch. The choice is yours!

We’ll continue dropping our recaps/reviews every Wednesday through the season finale on May 21, 2025 as we recap one of the best shows of the year.

Enjoy!

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The Studio is a new Apple TV+ series, from the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. This show centers around a newly appointed studio head, trying to make movies he enjoys AND make the studio money. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

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Today we dig into The Studio Episode 3, with the first episode of our watchalong of the new Apple TV+ series, The Studio. From the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, it’s a show about a newly appointed studio head, movies, TV, and everything in between. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

Throughout the first season of The Studio, we’ll release reviews for each new episode release. We hope you watch each new episode on Apple TV+, then catch up with our recap on your favorite podcast platform. Or, if you’re feeling *crazy*, you can listen to our review then watch. The choice is yours!

We’ll have reviews dropping every Wednesday through the season finale on May 21, 2025 as we recap one of the best shows of the year.

Enjoy!

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The Studio is a new Apple TV+ series, from the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. This show centers around a newly appointed studio head, trying to make movies he enjoys AND make the studio money. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

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We continue our Sacred Texts series today with March’s entries, Princess Mononoke (1997) and Sing Street (2016).

Sacred Texts can be art in any medium that you internalize, reflect upon, and find worth or inspiration through beyond the original presentation.

These movies or shows could impact you in a number of ways, and they could be Sacred because they are family touchstones, or because of their impact at a certain time in your life, or indicative of a change in your outlook, or for any number of reasons.

Tune in to our initial episode today, and then keep an eye out for our Sacred Text series on the third Wednesday of every month.

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Watch the Sacred Texts we discussed today: 

— Princess Mononoke (1997) — Watch on Max or rent on VOD

— Sing Street (2016) — Watch on Netflix or rent on VOD

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We’re back for The Studio Episode 2 in our watchalong of the new Apple TV+ series. From the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, it’s a show about a newly appointed studio head, movies, TV, and everything in between. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

Throughout the first season of The Studio, we’ll release reviews for each new episode release. We hope you watch each new episode on Apple TV+, then catch up with our recap on your favorite podcast platform. Or, if you’re feeling *crazy*, you can listen to our review then watch. The choice is yours!

We’ll have reviews dropping every Wednesday through the season finale on May 21, 2025 as we recap one of the best shows of the year.

Enjoy!

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Watch The Studio on Apple TV+, and catch our review of the next episode on Wednesday.

The Studio is a new Apple TV+ series, from the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. This show centers around a newly appointed studio head, trying to make movies he enjoys AND make the studio money. For fans of Hollywood, comedy, and good television, this show is for you!

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