Word With Friend

This week's episode is with the Monday Punday man himself, Matthew Broussard! They get into Matt's LOVE (seriously) for words, body hair, and a tiny bit of math!   The week's word is AVUNCULAR which has nothing to do with what you think it does unless you actually know what it means. Also niblings and piblings.  

Word With Framily!! This week's episode is with animator Steve Hirt (Pig Goat Banana Cricket, Tough Puppy). Julian and Steve talk fan names, animation, and CHRIS MILLIKEN. Seriously if you're a hardcore Millman...Mill-ionaire tune in. Steve also talks about character designing and honing in on a personal style and it's real cool.   BULWARK (not bull work) is this week's word - which is related to boulevard and a ghost.   TUNE. TOON.

This week's fabulous episode is with Eli Lutsky and David Kane of STEENK fame!! The guys talk bagels, Batman, and Boston in the first half and discuss their Kickstarter for their series Store Assholes.   The word this week is BESPOKE and somehow Julian talks about AM/PM's weird food mascot Toomgis again. DONATE TO THEIR KICKSTARTER!!   IT'S GREAT!

This week's multi-hyphenated guest is comedian, actor, musician Philip Labes! Julian and Philip talk about last names, the difference between LPs and EPs, and Philips upcoming/current projects!!   After the break we learn about DRAB and what color it is specifically associated with and how it relates to PROSTITUTES!! They also develop DRAB CAB.      

This week's episode is with comedian Matt Besser (definitely go to MattBesser.com)!!! Julian and Matt start the episode off with Matt helping Julian decide what to do with his car, Matt lets us in on his favorite "asshole attitude" video, and they talk about pranking people who dialed the wrong number.   The word of the week is jostle! Tune in to find out how jostle relates to joust, what context "fuck" is more commonly used in, and Matt develops "The Apostle of Jostle"    

Julian invites writers of hit book, "Adult Stuff: Things You Need To Know To Win At Real Life" Matt Moore and Robert Boesel to this week's pod and they dive right in to how they met and work as a team, jazz, and their book.   This episode's word is CONFABULATE so listen to them confabulate about confabulate. It's conFABULOUS.

#Framily! Get ready to be BEWILDERED on this episode with comedian, writer Caitlin Durante! Caitlin started off the podcast fresh and hungry and unpeeled (ha) her very rural upbringing in Pennsylvania, Drake, and she plugs a few shows we should be watching!   Second half of the pod is dedicated to Flummoxed, Ryan's Roses, and Flem Ox. Follow Caitlin @caitlindurante Follow Word With Friend @WordFriendPod Follow Julian @JulianMStern   Tags with Friend: Flight of the Conchords, Australia, Love, Netflix, Orange, Roulette, Hjordis, miniola, ninja turtles, sex in the city, Nedmelt, Meltdown, open Mike, Lemonade, Tidal, Beyonce, Drake, Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato, Pop Music, script reader, Views, Amish, Pitch, Pitches

Thiiiiiis week's episode is with comedian Edgar Momplaisir! Julian and Edgar talk about astrology (shout out Joe Cabello), equated Lemonade to Murder (shout out Jay-Z and Beyonce), AND porn site interfaces (shout out masturbation).   After the break, they jump into SUSURRUS (whispering, murmuring, rustling).   Check out @edgarmomplaisir for his cool tweets and when you can catch him on his many teams AND listen/subscribe to his podcast Frenemies!       Tags With Friend: Flash TV Show, astrology, cw, leo, taurus, cusp sign, gemini, serial, lemonade, adnan, making a murderer, birdman meme, rick roll, facebook live stream, swagger jack, janelle monae, azelea banks, m83, James Blake, death, choking, funeral, ballesr, entourage, pornmd, porn md, feeldo, feminist porn, skin e max, texas, coolio, turd, hardy boys, rush hour, jackie chan, bill lawrence, duke, alice in wonderland

This #framilyfriday Julian goes ON COUCH-cation to talk to writer, comedian Jon Zucker ("The Digital Show, Live", Bronso). They both regale us with running away from the cops story and we get to hear about Julian's discovery of "around the corner". GRIT is this week's word and Julian clarifies how "grits" make sense and they both list off gritty people and people who make them grit. This is a grit episode!

It's friday #wordwithframily, and you know what that means! Julian is back at it with this week's guest, writer, producer, actor Stephen Sanow! They found common ground and talked about transportation AND their first screenplays during the first half. After the break, they journey into SYLVAN, the smell of Pennsylvania according to Stephen, and Julian tells another great pee story! It's Pee With Friend!!

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, c

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.   Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe to us on iTunes! If you don't have those, check us out on SOUNDCLOUD.  

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!