Better Buddies

About Better Buddies

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

Publisher

Better Buddies

Category

comedy · education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

8 Nov 2019

Latest episode

30 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

365 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Oct 2026

   Episode 365: Television Innovations

   This week the Buddies discuss ways to upgrade the next generation of televisions, dystopian data collection, environmental science communication, books, and how often to stay in touch with male friends. Share with a friend! Contact us: Facebook Instagram Email Youtube Recommendations: Science Communicator Astrid Lundberg (influencer, @oddpride), Platform Decay (book by Martha Wells), Somewhere Beyond the Sea (book by TJ Klune)

2. 

   23 Oct 2026

   Episode 364: Acquire Frogs

   This week the Buddies discuss the near infinite knowledge at our fingertips, simulate a quest to acquire frogs, discuss some meaningful books we've read, and how to shop for clothing as a teenage boy. Share with a friend! Contact us: Facebook Instagram Email Youtube Recommendations: My Friends - book by Fredrik Backman, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest - book by Stieg Larsson, System Collapse - book by Martha Wells

3. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Episode 363: Cars Crusades

   This week the Buddies discuss annoying machines they have to regularly deal with, a cool puzzle video game, theater shows, subtle gay love stories, helping men with their collars, the Virgina Coal Wars, and the in-universe historical implications of the Cars franchise. Share with a friend! Contact us: Facebook Instagram Email Youtube Recommendations: Tunic (Video Game, 2022) (and also Archipelago's: https://archipelago.gg/), Broadly: Go see a play, it's a good time.  Specifically: Taking Sides (Play, 1995 by Ronald Harwood), Fugitive Telemetry (Novella, Murder Bot Diaries, 2021 by Martha Wells), The House in the Cerulean Sea (Book, 2020 by TJ Klune), The Second American Civil War You Never Learned (Podcast - Behind the Bastards), The Coal Wars Never Actually Ended (Podcast - Too Many Tabs)

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,417

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

58

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

60

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