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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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Jan 9, 2026
Jan 9, 2026
47 min
This week the Buddies talk about their rebellious sides, challenge beliefs, and discuss Nick Offerman. We also give advice on blankets, towels, and paying for lunch. Share with a friend!
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Recommendations: Where the Deer and the Antelope Play (book 2021), Magic The Gathering (specifically casual Commander format, game), The Lost Symbol (book, 2009)
Jan 2, 2026
Jan 2, 2026
1hr 2 min
This week the Buddies discuss toaster pastries, Groundhog's Day, their plans for the new year, a wide variety of media tastes, encouraging men to work in education and childcare, and sudden urges. Share with a friend!
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Recommendations: BLT (the sandwich), Catbus Collective (jazz ensemble band), Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha (book), Donut County (video game)
Dec 26, 2025
Dec 26, 2025
1hr 8 min
This week the Buddies discuss important moments that defined them, their favorite holiday magic movies, buying toys for men, and reading spicy books. Share with a friend! And happy holidays!
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Recommendations: Klaus (movie), Dogpile (video game), Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas (movie), Cameron Cortinas (Instagrammer)
Dec 19, 2025
Dec 19, 2025
1hr 6 min
This week the Buddies discuss childhood things current children won't get to experience, post-apocalyptic theme parks, great albums of the year, rom coms, and unorthodox ways to describe being a pediatric heart surgeon. Share with a friend!
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Recommendations: SABLE,FABLE by Bon Iver (album), Never enough by Turnstile (album), Everybody Scream by Florence+The Machine (album), Cabin in the Sky by De La Soul (album), Getting Killed by Geese (album), K-Pop Demon Hunters Soundtrack (album), Assistant to the Villain (book), Lovely Complex (slice of life romcom anime), Slay the Spire (video game)
Dec 12, 2025
Dec 12, 2025
1hr 5 min
This week the Buddies discuss their old people habits, an army of lumberjack husbands, unreliable narrator creepy stories, Norse mythology, and the loss of culture to history. Share with a friend!
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Recommendations: Smiling Friends season 3 (show), The Witch's Heart (book), Tales from the Gas Station by Jack Townsend (book series)
Dec 5, 2025
Dec 5, 2025
53 min
This week the Buddies have no secondary motive asking if it's better to know when you would die, talk about their bucket lists, biographies, video games, telling your friends that you love them, and being emotionally vulnerable. Share with a friend!
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Recommendations: Yes Please by Amy Poehler (audio book), Stardew Valley (video game), RV There Yet? (video game)
Nov 28, 2025
Nov 28, 2025
57 min
This week the Buddies discuss what they buy more of than most people, embarrassing stories from growing up, Parks and Recreation, AI, and how to know where the men's room is. Share with a friend!
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Recommendations: Hazbin Hotel Season 2 (show), So Close To Being The Sh*t Ya'll Don't Even Know by Retta (book)
Nov 21, 2025
Nov 21, 2025
58 min
This week the Buddies discuss the things they're sick of hearing about, the webcomic meme format known as Loss, the movie Alien, Sherlock Holmes, and how many people try to scale Mount Everest in a year. Share with a friend!
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Recommendations: Minecraft Datapacks (modding), Alien (1979 movie), Sherlock Holmes & Count Dracula: The First of the Classified Dossier Series (2021 book)
Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025
56 min
This week the Buddies discuss the most useful things their parents taught them, learning to drive, Red Dragon Inn, Neil Gaiman, and how to help your parents as a responsible adult son. Share with a friend!
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Recommendations: Red Dragon Inn (board game), Good Omens Season 2 (TV show), Ender's Game (book by Orson Scott Card)
Nov 7, 2025
Nov 7, 2025
1hr 18 min
This week the Buddies discuss where they get their decorations, Pokemon ZA (again), the history of an arcade game, and the philosophical and economic impacts of live-service video games. Share with a friend!
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Recommendations: Antimatter Dimensions (idle browser game), Mistborn: The Final Empire (audiobook), Killer Queen (arcade game), big boss (Youtube Channel)