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Better Buddies

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Your #1 spot for Mid-West wisdom! Join RJ and friends as we have some real conversations and all become Better Buddies. Facebook: Better Buddies Twitter: @betterbudcast Gmail: betterbuddiescast@gmail.com
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Episodes

Episode 176: The Bible of Marvel

This week the Buddies discussed what to do when the Internet and power go out for more than a day, Studio Ghibli, Futurama, and how to plan out a Bible using Mavel characters. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Futurama (show), Lupin the IIIrd Castle of Cagliostro (movie)

Mar 17, 20231 hr 10 minEp. 176

Episode 175: Blimp Life

This week the Buddies discuss historical events, blimps, March Madness, blimps, dealing with dealbreakers, and blimps. Share with a friend! Recommendations: March Madness (basketball), Disenchantment season 4 (Netflix), Oshi No Ko (manga)

Mar 10, 202354 minEp. 175

Episode 174: Y2K USA

This week the Buddies discuss the philosophy of airsoft, good and bad Star Trek movies, Team Fortress 2 but for religions, and a 90's nostalgia apocalypse. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Fox Coverage of Hiroshima Bombing (Youtube Sketch), The Witcher 3 (video game), Star Trek Wrath of Khan (movie)

Mar 03, 202359 minEp. 174

Episode 173: God Emperor James

This week the Buddies face their fears, discuss the fancy dance of ballet, poorly trained dogs, and how James is above us lowly mortals. Share with a friend! Recommendations: The Backseat Lovers (band), Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania (movie), ballet (form of dance)

Feb 24, 20231 hrEp. 173

Episode 172: Dante’s Divine Comedy Club

This week the Buddies discuss mild curses, mild blessings, comedy media, and pitch Dante's Inferno as a comedian traveling through comedy hell. Share with a friend! Recommendations: The First Cat In Space Ate Pizza (children's graphic novel), Cunk on Earth (Netflix comedy series)

Feb 17, 202356 minEp. 172

Episode 171: The Last Menu of Us

This week the Buddies discuss their favorite types of dogs, old memes, The Last of Us, The Menu, and good questions to ask at the end of an interview. Share with a friend! Recommendations: The Last of Us (HBO show), Dagoth Ur AI Shitposts (internet), 30 Rock (show), The Menu (movie)

Feb 10, 20231 hr 4 minEp. 171

Episode 170: Star Wars 4: The Star War

This week the Buddies discuss playing with hair, a multi-media talk show, and the ultimate Star Wars watch order super cut. Share with a friend! Recommendations: The Adam Friedland Show (Podcast/talk show/video clips), Across The Obelisk (video game)

Feb 03, 20231 hr 2 minEp. 170

Episode 169: The Buddies Talk OGL

This week the Buddies discuss shady rib joints, the Ghostbusters reboot, the Dungeons and Dragons Open Game License Situation, and wearing another man's slippers without asking. Share with a friend! No recommendations this week. Facebook: Better Buddies Twitter: @betterbudcast Gmail: betterbuddiescast@gmail.com

Jan 27, 20231 hr 12 minEp. 169

Episode 168: Spongebob Episode

This week the Buddies discuss treating children's watergun fights too seriously, losing a limb, horoscope shenanigans, and Spongebob Squarepants. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Constantine (movie), Spongebob Squarepants (show)

Jan 20, 20231 hr 16 minEp. 168

Episode 167: First Theater Experiences

This week the Buddies discuss eating meat, their first movie theater experiences, X-Men movies, and pitch a Ghibli film about three robots. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Falling Upward by Richard Rohr (book), Logan (film)

Jan 13, 202358 minEp. 167

Episode 166: New Year Same Show

This week the Buddies discuss the history of hugs, the Howl's Moving Castle book, Rian Johnson's mystery movies, clothes as gifts, and live versus fake Christmas trees. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Howl's Moving Castle (book), Glass Onion (movie), Osmosis Jones (movie) Anti-Recommendation: Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast (Kid Rock's first album 1990)

Jan 06, 20231 hr 13 minEp. 166

Episode 165: Pokemon Pondering

This week in a chill episode to end the year the Buddies discuss surviving the French Revolution as the last video game character they played, the new Pokemon games, the old Pokemon games, and live vs fake Christmas trees. Share with a friend! See you in 2023 with more goofiness! Recommendations: The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (book), Pokemon Scarlet (video game)

Dec 30, 20221 hr 12 minEp. 165

Episode 164 Grinch-iverse of Madness

This week the Buddies debate the best Grinch movie, discuss the impact of popularity of nerd culture, revisit Where The Crawdads Sing, and come up with the Grinch sequel. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Peglin (video game), The Mask of Zorro (film), Where The Crawdads Sing (book)

Dec 23, 20221 hr 15 minEp. 164

Episode 163: Ghost Pepper TED Talk

This week the Buddies discuss favorite women artists, washing mouths out with soap, music design, and which person is the Ohio of the podcast. Share with a friend! Recommendations: My Dinner With Andre (movie), Dead Wax (Youtube Podcast), Airforce One (movie)

Dec 16, 20221 hr 6 minEp. 163

Episode 162: The Splurge

This week the Buddies discuss magic technology, a Seinfeld rip off stand up set about internal combustion engines, and a Black Friday survival movie. Share with a friend! Recommendations: The Wheel of Time (book series), The Green Knight (film)

Dec 09, 20221 hr 3 minEp. 162

Episode 161: James Cameron Junk

This week the Buddies discuss well written powerful women characters, Black Adam, and James Cameron's Avatar. We talk too much about James Cameron's Avatar. Also, a surprise guest! Share with a friend! Recommendations: Black Adam (movie), Terminator 2: Judgement Day (movie)

Dec 02, 20221 hr 8 minEp. 161

Episode 160: Animation Hour

This week the Buddies discuss sketchy job combinations, preferred era of animation styles, and what makes for a class act man. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Margin Call (film), Inside Job Part 2 (Netflix)

Nov 25, 20221 hr 6 minEp. 160

Episode 159: Save a Cowboy, Ride a Trolley

This week the Buddies discuss crypto news, Black Panther, if watches are required for formal wear, the ambidextrous agenda, and the Trolley Problem. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Gone Girl (movie), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (movie), Bob Dylan (musician)

Nov 18, 20221 hr 11 minEp. 159

Episode 158: Back to The Everything

This week the Buddies discuss taking future information to the past, a founding document of the USA, an alternate realities movie, and if you should switch communication methods if someone blocks your number. Also a surprise guest! Share with a friend! Recommendations: Common Sense by Thomas Paine (pamphlet), Everything Everywhere All At Once (movie)

Nov 11, 20221 hr 22 minEp. 158

Episode 157: Me, Myself, and Cage

This week the Buddies discuss voter fraud, what they are not, real life witches, and Nicolas Cage: Into the Cage-Verse. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Francis Ellis (comedian), Dust and Grim by Chuck Wendig (book), Wildwood by Colin Meloy (book), Not Watching Youtube for a Month (anti-recommendation), Amsterdam (movie)

Nov 04, 20221 hr 9 minEp. 157

Episode 156: Dairyglen

This week the Buddies discuss Lord of the Rings, appropriate Autumn music, and an animated mockumentary about Celtic mythology co-existing with a Midwestern town. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Fellowship of the Ring (film), George Winston (pianist)

Oct 28, 20221 hr 10 minEp. 156

Episode 155: What’s the Deal?!

This week the Buddies ask what the deal is with why the USSR flag isn't as reviled as the Nazi flag, with the laws we'd make in our own countries, with backhanded compliments, and with grunting when sitting down. Share with a friend! Recommendations: flipturn (band), Pan Arcadia (band), Batman The White Knight (graphic novel)

Oct 21, 20221 hr 16 minEp. 156

Episode 154: The Tale of Payne

This week the Buddies discuss what songs make them feel sexy and confident, Arthurian legends, a Quentin Tarantino knight movie, and when cutting things out of magazines goes from cute to creepy. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Guy's Grocery Games (show), The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (book)

Oct 14, 20221 hr 13 minEp. 155

Episode 153: Back to Questions

This week the Buddies return to our usual format and actually give some advice. Included are discussions about handwritten notes, sharing the location of your dates on social media, and when you become a grown up. Share with a friend! Recommendations: "Diggy Diggy Hole" covered by Wind Rose (song), Forged in Fire (show)

Oct 07, 202255 minEp. 154

Episode 152: The Colbert Report Colon The Movie

This week the Buddies discuss late night comedy talk shows, Wisconsin, ice fishing musicals, and pitch the origin story movie for The Colbert Report. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Euripides Medea and Other Plays (plays), Guys on Ice (musical)

Sep 30, 20221 hr 10 minEp. 153

Episode 151: Jeff Bezos Standing by For Titanfall

This week the Buddies discuss Jeff Bezos mechs, Avatar the Last Airbender real-life cultural counterparts, and door-to-door door salesmen. Share with a friend! Recommendations: Hal Leonard Guitar Method 2nd Edition (book), True Detective (show), The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (film)

Sep 23, 20221 hr 9 minEp. 152

Episode 150: Wish You Were Heere!

This week the Buddies pitch a movie idea for a group of Allied and Axis soldiers imprisoned in a Swiss ski resort during World War II. Complex snow forts, a kick ass cast, and all coming together for the greater good. Oh, and we tell you how often you should call your parents. Share with a friend! No Recommendations this week on account of us not being a movie podcast.

Sep 16, 20221 hr 7 minEp. 151

Episode 149: Candy Grams and Scams

This week the Buddies discuss fire tracks, Elden Ring progress, classic scams, and what the worst candy is. Share with a friend! Recommendations: The Protege (film), Ghost Stories (anime), DAGOTHWAVE by young scrolls (YouTube)

Sep 09, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 150

Episode 148: The Remake Reckoning

This week the Buddies discuss Batman, R rated movie remakes, a samurai movie, and why men must throw rocks in lakes. We swear we aren't a movie podcast. Share with a friend! Recommendations: 7 Samurai (film), Lucifer (show)

Sep 02, 20221 hr 13 minEp. 149

Episode 147: Big Bird Gundam

This week the Buddies discuss Muppets, how Big Bird is actually a mech suit, movies that would be improved if actors were replaced with Muppets, and how to learn to drink coffee. Share with a friend! Recommendations: The Batman (movie), The Crow (movie), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (film)

Aug 26, 20221 hr 12 minEp. 148
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