Julian sits down with short filmmaker-cinematographer-"Comedy Guy" Mike Cullen for this week's episode! Mike and Julian talk about Mike's experiences with interacting with his favorite comedians and his video series (one of many) "Young Man Retirement".

This episode we dive into DECAMP, which is not what happens when you're done camping.

You can watch ALLLL of Mike's videos on Vimeo and youtube and definitely check them out and insist he make more episodes of "Young Man Retirement"

Julian sits down with writer, creator of Classic Texts Sam Martin for a little talk about elderly women, Henry Danger "Easter Eggs", and her wildly hilarious instagram account, Classic Texts. Also shout out to Sam's mom! And Shaggy. And karaoke.

They also get into MALINGER, malingering, and The Cranberries. Sam develops "Mall Linger" AND Mal Inger. Tune in, get sick - pretend it's worse than it is, and leave us a review.

Also, HI It's me, Samee. I didn't insert a pizza update but I'm at 93 slices of pizza. Follow along on twitter if you want. #1000slices2016

Julian invited writer, actor, improvisor, tutor Zeke Nicholson (George Lopez, Julian's improv coach) on to the pod this week!

They talk in depth about MTV/VH1 dating shows, specifically Flavor of Love and its spinoffs and "Are You The One". Zeke also clues us in on his theory on teachers (and Julian mentions Eugene Cordero's word definition theory) AND talks a little bit about his improv team White Women and his other group Cardinal Redbird.

In the second half, they get into MOTTLE and what it initially makes Zeke think of WILL SHOCK YOU (Clickbait). Julian also challenges Zeke with his hardest question yet, and Zeke creates and breaks down NARD.

Word With Words of the episode:

Chickens, teachers, teaching, tutor, tutoring, blackout, tally, mountebank, snake oil salesman, chinatown, allegiance, school rivalry, rival, school, loyal, xyster, bottle, tim duncan, metaphor, linguistics, bird watcher, petty, motley, mote, career, job, passionate, san antonio, HEB, spurs, fan, swim team, local commercials, commercial, texas, brother, pattern, feathers, biology, spanish, pringle, polka dot, mouth feel, michelada, flavor of love, i love new york, a chance of love, i love new york 2, rock of love, shot of love, tila tequila, flava flav, UCB, Harold, improv, yellow fever, cagematch, cage match, comedy, comedy scene, crisis, existential, chaos, stress, discomfort

This week, Julian invited his very first other JULIAN (Last name Vargas, first name The Greatest) onto Word With Friend! Starting off with a hot and heavy David O Russell cold open, the Julians quickly unravel the tapestry of Julian Vargas' early scripts, his love for movies, and the Meek Mills vs. Drake beef.

We learn Palimpsest as well, but mostly we learn a ton of other stuff from the Julians and THIS IS A MUST LISTEN EPISODE.

Also check out Julian's podcast - Talking Raps with Julian Vargas. Because he probably pretty much knows everything.

Julian sat down with his good friend Austin Davison to talk about Zany, their most formative childhood gifts, and debut the Word With Friend Table Read Series.

This episode is with the Word With Friend's resident Australian, Sam Clark (Grease Live, Neighbors). Julian gets the low down on Sam's experience being Leo on Fox's recently aired Grease Live, Sam teaches us how to hand jive, and gives us an in depth explanation of the now infamous dance move that happened between Sam and Vanessa Hudgens.

Julian's word this week is "JIVE" and we get to find out what JIBE has to do with JIVE, what jives with Sam, AND Sam talks about his poop.

Listen, love, share, repeat.

This week's guest is none other than Producer Samee! Julian and Samee dive in to the pizza-eating goal Samee set for herself for 2016 during the first half of the episode and later on, we learn about SLICE and where it comes from and what kind of slice is favored by the gal of the hour.

Ladies and gentleman at home! End your first week of the new year with Julian, Shane Hartline, and Joe Cabello! The guys discuss wrestling, turning $1 into $4,000 and the show Shane and Joe put up called The Hopefully Chris Pratt and Shane Hartline Show (next show is February 22nd at iO west!!).

They also talk UNCTUOUS, create DJ Unctuous, and a fetish website.

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In this week's "non-episode", Julian highlights 6 "in case you missed 'em" episodes of 2015. 

This Christmas, Julian sits down with an old friend who is currently in rabbinical school to talk about the word COOLTH, the rapper singer Drake, and what it's like to study to be a rabbi!