251: Andrew DeYoung (Writer / Director of FRIENDSHIP): The Work is Medicinal
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy welcomes Writer / Director Andrew DeYoung.
On this episode, Jeremy and Andrew talk California, skateboarding, Converge, Tower Records listening stations, Coalesce, MC Hammer at the county fair, creating art for the sake of it being made, The Goonies, maintaining a passion for creating, working with Tim Robinson, their new movie Friendship and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | The first ever podcast is proud to be sponsored by Convulse Records, a label that outshines most in terms of quality and consistency of hardcore, punk, and punk-adjacent releases, including the new MSPaint EP, No Separation, which is shipping now. |
| 0:18.9 | Head to convulsrecords.com to pick up a copy. |
| 0:22.1 | And while you're at it, grab a record from some of my favorite releases, |
| 0:25.3 | which include punitive damage, bib, destiny bond, gum, military gun, and more. |
| 0:32.3 | Once again, that is convulsrecords.com. |
| 0:47.6 | Thank you. that is convulse records.com. First ever podcast. |
| 0:52.1 | First ever. |
| 1:14.7 | Podcast. Welcome to the first ever podcast. Welcome to the first ever podcast. Welcome to the first ever podcast. |
| 1:16.2 | My name is Jeremy Boll. |
| 1:18.4 | I am your host, and if this is your first time here, |
| 1:21.0 | this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their art form |
| 1:23.2 | that led them to where they are today. |
| 1:26.1 | This is episode 251. |
| 1:28.8 | And my guest this week is writer, director, Andrew DeYoung. |
| 1:34.8 | He is the mastermind behind the A24 comedy film Friendship, which is still playing now. |
| 1:41.0 | Check your local listings. |
| 1:42.8 | I mean, I checked last night, still playing here in |
| 1:45.0 | Burbank. If you haven't seen this movie and you are a fan of Tim Robinson, if you're a fan of |
| 1:50.3 | Paul Rudd, if you're a fan of Connor O'Malley, I don't know what you're doing. I don't know what |
| 1:55.2 | you're doing. You have to see this movie. I absolutely loved it. It's been a minute since I've seen |
| 2:00.0 | a comedy in theaters that had the entire audience just losing their mind. The kind of thing where you're like, okay, I guess I have to go see this again because I definitely missed jokes because of how loud people were laughing. There's a Connor O'Malley moment or two specifically that had me so fucking laid out. Uh, Andrew reveals that it's going to be on max eventually. So if you're waiting for it to come to streaming, you can hold tight for that. I was so pumped to have him on. We've been friends on, uh, Instagram for a long time now. And we have that sort of internet friendship where we just keep telling each other |
| 2:35.3 | we got to get coffee we got to get coffee and it just never ended up happening um he was so kind |
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