This week the Buddies discuss their favorite splurges, their opinions on Rick and Morty with it's season 5 return, and advice on getting a good bedtime. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Love and Monsters (film), Dimension 20 Unsleeping City (Youtube series), Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 1 (tv show), The Last of Us Part II (video game)
This week the Buddies discuss breakfasts, important things for your dwelling, and how many tong clicks are appropriate for a BBQ. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Dice Knight: Mystery of the Moirai (video game), No Mans Sky (video game), Red vs. Blue (machinima video series)
This week the Buddies discuss how short a man has to be to be considered "short", moving advice, and where to get cardboard boxes. Share with a friend! Recommendations: BattleBlock Theater (video game), The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann film), Super 8 (JJ Abrams movie)
This week the Buddies discuss how they got into video games, Westerns, the best Mel Brooks films, and how to destress. Share with a friend! Recommendations: The Sopranos (tv show), Young Frankenstein (movie), Louis L'Amour short stories (Youtube Music)
This week the Buddies discuss their favorite dinosaurs, the Rapture, running away to live in the woods, and how to wear socks with shorts. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Citizen Kane (movie), Excitable Boy (Warren Devon album), Castlevania (Netflix show)
This week the Buddies discuss events in the Olympics of Childhood Games, staring out windows when having a drink, grooming comforts, and good fictional dads. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: Love, Death, and Robots Season 2 (Netflix), Reigns (video game), The Fairly OddParents (tv show)
This week the Buddies discuss what kind of strange pet they'd have, The Bad Batch and the Star Wars timeline, how to stick to an exercise plan, and what their favorite words are. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: Bioshock (video game), The Last of Us (video game), Shadow in the Cloud (movie)
This week Calvin and James share hosting duties as the Buddies discuss the right to rule, issues of diverging from historical accuracy in story telling, and how to pick up guys. Share with a friend! Recommendations: The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke (book), Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (movie)
This week the Buddies discuss monster fights, most powerful movie props, how to find your hair style, and how many shoes to own. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: Godzilla Vs King Kong (Movie, 2021), Shadow and Bone (Netflix show), Iron Man (movie)
This week the Buddies return to some classic form by discussing our favorite salty snacks, a bad movie, and the implications of media representations of masculinity and it's real world consequences. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Invincible (tv show), Lucy (movie), The Quest for the Holy Grail (book)
This week the Buddies discuss pens vs pencils, the Falcon and the Winter Soldier series, and the dangers of vaping. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Dungeons and Daddies (podcast), Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon (graphic novel)
This week the Buddies discuss the Tooth Fairy versus the Easter Bunny, CGI in movies, some dark humor in the world, and how to build your own volcano. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: Avengers: Age of Ultron (movie), The Amelia Project (podcast), Civilized (podcast), South Park Seasons 1-3 (tv show)
This week the Buddies discuss vaccination experiences, how long a short drive is, and answer a multiple choice question about a dog bite. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Homunculus (Song by Area 11), Violet Evergarden Soundtrack (album), Bradio (Japanese funk rock band)
This week the Buddies discuss the first anime they saw, how to tell who people are when they're wearing masks, and tattoos. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier (film), Stormlight Archives series (books), Trails of: Zero no Kiseki (Japanese video game)
This week the Buddies discuss St. Patrick's miracle of time travel, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and how to get rich in five years. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Casino Royale (movie), Goldfinger (movie), Wrens of the Curragh (Irish historical facts)
This week the Buddies discuss United Nations members having a talent show, nonfungible tokens, and some serious fashion and aesthetic advice. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv show), Apocalypse Now (movie), Dances With Wolves (movie)
This week the Buddies discuss the intricacies of Trash Bin Culture, all Pokemon versus one billion lions, and how to communicate good. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: Blue Milk Special (webcomic), Superman & Lois (show), Fail-safe (Sidney Lumet movie)
This week the Buddies close out the Palentine's Day season by discussing how friends have similar brain patterns, their favorite things to do with their pals, how long you should hold a grudge, and male friendship groups. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: The Killing Joke (movie), Arrested Development (tv show), and Astartes (Youtube)
This week the Buddies begin celebrating their multi-week holiday Palentine's Day! First in the celebration is answering which fictional characters they would want to spend a week hanging out with. Then comes discussions on genetics, 3 things you should never do when you're married, and what kind of vampire is best. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (documentary on Youtube), Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa film), and The Yiddish Policemen's Union (book b...
Due to some technical issues, we're hopping in the Wayback Machine to the year 2018, where Calvin and James recorded the first episode of an unaired podcast. They talk about their travels and opinions on aesthetics. They also talk about movies, so at least you know we're consistent! Share with a friend! Twitter: @BetterBudCast #betterbuddies Facebook: Better Buddies Gmail: betterbuddiescast@gmail.com
This week the Buddies discuss a decade they'd live in if they had to, using sitcoms to contain eldritch horrors, and which social media platforms aren't worth it. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: Lego White Noise (album), Futurama (show), Naruto (anime)
This week the Buddies discuss the dangers of stock trading, whether young people today are more immature than previous generations, and what another word is for "not close friend". Speaking of, share this episode with a friend! Recommendations this week: The Wolf of Wall Street (movie), Wandavision (show), Fate: The Winx Saga (show)
This week the Buddies discuss if they could handle living in a video game, how to handle people who back stab you or are being rude behind your back, the consequences of signing up for an international space country, and what to do if your dog starts talking to you about it's diet. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: Ryo Fukui (jazz musician), Solaris (book by Stanislaw Lem), Star Wars Lofi/Hiphop (Youtube)
This week the Buddies discuss their experiences moving, the importance of not living in your head, and what it means to have pride. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Man From UNCLE stories (1960's magazines/books), Jay Foreman (Youtube Channel), On Writing Well (book by William Zinsser)
This week the Buddies share what basic things every kid should get to experience, and discuss political events of the week. Share with a friend!
This week the Buddies discuss New Year's Resolutions and having a yearly Theme. We talk about some books we like, Constantine, an advice lightning round, and our thoughts as we roll into a fresh year. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: Network (movie), Good Omens (book), Tonikawa (anime)
This week the Buddies spread some Christmas cheer. Or maybe it's Christmas Fear. Good luck Santa Claus! Recommendations this week include: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Home Alone, White Christmas, Hilda Season 2
This week the Buddies pitch ideas for a series of American Explorer movies culminating in the Alamo, an Alice Capone movie featuring Jennifer Lawrence, and discuss contacting people who may or may not want to talk to you. Share with a friend! Recommendations this week: Mark Rober on Youtube, Golem: Book 1 of the Identity Trilogy, and Man in the High Castle
This week the Buddies give out their favorite insults that don't use swear words, talk about some music they enjoy, RJ goes off about Spider-Man movie news, and Calvin gets into coffee. Share with a friend! Better Buddies Recommendations: Brooklyn 99, Eyes Like the Sky (Album by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard) and lo-fi hip hop music
This week the Buddies take a trip through the fringes of ideas, discussing scarves, Star Wars (yes, again, we know, but not the whole episode), conspiracy realists, and imaginary friends. Share the episode! Recommendations this week: Operation Northwoods and other old FBI and CIA operations, Altered Carbon, and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Special Edition
