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, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 176
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, 2023•54 min•Ep. 175
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, 2023•59 min•Ep. 174
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, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 173
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, 2023•56 min•Ep. 172
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, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 171
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, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 170
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, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 169
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, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 168
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, 2023•58 min•Ep. 167
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, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 166
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, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 165
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, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 164
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, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 163
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, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 162
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, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 161
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, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 160
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, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 159
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, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 158
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, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 157
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, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 156
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, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 156
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, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 155
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, 2022•55 min•Ep. 154
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, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 153
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, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 152
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, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 151
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, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 150
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, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 149
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, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 148