Bufnagle: the Podcast

Rafe walks us through the fourth chapter of Genesis, the story of Cain and Abel.  This story reveals more about the Nature of Man, the Nature of God, and the relationship between Man and God.  A very short story, the story of Cain and Abel reveals incredible insight into brotherly relationships, envy, and how to do right.  You are called to lift yourself up by "acting rightly", not to tear others down just because they might have what you want."Sin lies in wait at the door: it's urge is for you, yet you can rule over it."#bufnagle #genesis #cain #abel #offerings #anger #dejection #actrightly #sinliesinwaitforyou #brotherskeeper #punishmenttoogreattobear #eastofeden #landofnod #steinbeck #seth #adam #eve #TheMan #motherofalltheliving*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe looks into the question of Whatever happened to all the land that France used to hold in North America?In 1750, France held massive quantities of land in what is now the USA and Canada.  From the Gulf to the Great Lakes, from the Appalacians to the Rockies, and from throughout the St Lawrence River, the French flag had laid claim to approximately a third of North America.  And less than 35 years later, it was all gone.  And then Napolean got back a good swath of in in 1803 but then sold it to the USA for $15,000,000 just three weeks later.Where did it go?#newfrance #quebec #colonialamerica #bufnagle #frenchandindianwars #greatbritain #iriquois #stlawrenceriver #louisianapurchase #itisyoursifyoucankeepit*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe reviews the USA's foundational document: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, the fledgling nation's statement justifying the USA's dissolution of political bands with Great Britain.Along the way, we will discuss structure and nature of this document, what is says and what it means, why these things were (and still are) important, and what it means today.#bufnagle #declarationofindependence #semiquincentennial #LawsofNature #LawsofNature'sGod #self-evidenttruths #lifelibertyhappiness #consentofthegoverned #rightsandduties #hyperbole #freeandindependentstates #livesfortunesacredhonor #treason #patriots #loyalists #quebec #canada #articlesofconfederation #articleeleven #virtue #moralformation *****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe discusses all things surrounding donating blood.  This episode has it all: from understanding your blood and what is in it, to how it moves around your body, to the history of blood donation, to how it is carried out at present, to how wonderful nurses are, to how all this demonstrates the power of human touch.#bufnagle #blood #erythrocytes #leukocytes #thrombocytes #plasma #redcross #williamharvey #richardlower #karllandsteiner #transfusion #bloodtypes #apharesis #nursing #myelofibrosis #anesthesia #dyingwell #thepowerofhumantouch *****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe finally gets around to tackling the third chapter of Genesis, the story of Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden.The serpent is a dastardly character, using his cunning to trip up the child-like and unassuming Eve and Adam.  They get tricked by his chicanery and violate one of God's first assignments: they eat the forbidden fruit.While Adam's and Eve's sins are understandable and relatable (the nature of how they fall into sin is all too familiar to us, even today), the serpent tricking them is far less comprehensible.  What the serpent does to our first parents is not "good for food" or "pleasing to the eye" or "desirable for gaining wisdom"; it is only an act to bring destruction to the pinnacle of God's creation.  Like Joker in the Batman film "The Dark Knight", we find that the serpent in Genesis 3 "just wants to watch the world burn".  #bufnagle #adam #eve #fallofman #genesis3 #forbiddenfruit #treeoflife #treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil #satan #God #eden #sin #nakedness #redemption #expulsionfromthegarden #batman #joker #brucewayne #alfred #darkknight #watchtheworldburn #evilisasevildoes*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe sits down for a conversation with Big Brain Smart Head™ Roland Warren, president and CEO of Care Net, to discuss healing the culture.  In a world filled with material abundance, more people than ever are suffering and despairing, the widows and orphans are being left behind, and we are mired in a culture that produces anything but flourishing.  With Father's Day just around the corner, Roland touches on a lifetime of ministry and experience to describe a style of ministering that focuses on rebuilding the family: father, mother, and child — the cornerstone of thriving and flourishing cultures.Directed by Love and using the Holy Family as a model, Roland steers troubled souls to return to a place where men serve women, women serve men, and both serve children, thereby allowing children to grow up seeing aspirational models of men and women in their own homes and then reflecting the resulting Christian love outward to their neighborhoods, cultures, countries, and the world.#bufnagle #rolandwarren #carenet #holyfamily #widowsandorphans #love #rolemodels #familyfoundations #abundantlife #benotafraid #fathersday*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

In this redrop of a classic episode from nearly four years ago, Rafe and Harry tackle the question of "Why is the US so  reluctant to embrace the metric system?"To answer this question, they go back to the basics of where the metric system comes from ("There were five definitions of the meter???"), where Imperial units come from ("The Romans did what???"), and how things got to be how they are in the US ("So this is a history class???").  Join the fun to find out why the US struggles so much to fully implement metric and why that answer turns out to be the Land Ordinance of 1785.#metricsystem #imperialunits #arbitraryunits #frenchrevolution #romans #landordinanceof1785 #bufnagle*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe is fully enjoying the arrival of summer, in particular all the plants producing flowers and leaves and, soon, fruit.  What follows is a discussion of angiosperms (plants that produce flowers and seeds enclosed in fruit) and their wondrously rich variety, which leads to a discussion of the 1981 film Time Bandits in which the Evil One mocks God for producing "43 species of parrots" when he could have been focusing on lasers and high tech.In the end, we learn that Goodness blossoms and expands to higher and higher amounts of diversity while Evil, the absence of Good, decays and devolves into nothingness, represented in the film as smoldering blackish grayish ashy rock.#angiosperms #bufnagle #parrots #greenplants #asters #orchids #grasses #leaves #fruit #agriculture #timebandits #goodandevil #God #supremebeing #evilone #satan #kevin #mostfabulousobjectintheworld #fortressofultimatedarkness #infinitudeofthevarietyofthegood #seanconnery*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

With Summer looming, so are summer things like weddings!  In this re-drop of a classic Buf episode from way back in 2023, Rafe, heroically fighting a cold, talks of a wedding he attended in Iowa and the lessons that were learned, most importantly how children and grandchildren are the greatest blessings one can receive and how they fulfill our duty as Imago Dei.#bufnagle #weddings #imagodei #iowa #children #grandchildren #blessings #creationstory #goodthings #verygoodthings #genesis*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe discusses thoughts around some snarky twitter posts, some cultural issues plaguing us, lament for old times, the understanding that one cannot go back, the situation with Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, Heinrich Heine, the definitions of belief and conviction, modernist Man's terrible predicament, and what to convict yourself of in order to do your part to turn things around.#bufnagle #paris #notredame #snarkycaptions #barbarians #ruinsofagreatcivilization #lossofdirection #badfood #dressinglikeslobs #vapidyouth #LOL #noisymusic #disturbingart #uglyarchitecture #emojis #corruption #problemsofthepast #antonigaudi #sagardafamilia #spanishcivilwar ##heinrichheine #burningbooks #opinions #convistions #imagodei #greatcivilizations #whatdoyoubelieve #truth #beauty #goodness*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe talks about the coming of summer from solstices and equinoxes to cross-quarter days to Memorial Day and Labor Day.  Learn why 2026 is a special summer that comes around (on average) only once every (approximately) seven years!#bufnagle #calendar #summer #equinox #solstice #quarreterdays #crossquarterdays #memorialday #laborday #threedayweekend #theaverageisnotadatum #microsoftcopilot #ai #artificialintelligence #thisisnotausefultool #makehaywhenthesunshines*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe updates things from last week, in particular, how did the waiting go?  Did God make Good from Bad?  Did the baby arrive?  And have you made any mathematical advances in that time?Spoiler: the waiting went well.  God made Good (as usual); the baby came out just fine (as usual); and I discovered something I probably learned long ago but forgot.#bufnagle #seekthegood #waiting #patience #updates #answeredprayers #childbirth #grandchildren #namingkids #cardinals #spiritsfromanotherrealm #therearethingsthatarerealbutarenotmaterial #squaresandcircles #areaofacircle #areaofasquare #squaringthecircle #many-sided-geometricfigures #mathformulas #trigonometry #pizza #pizzaboxes #don'tusetriangularboxesforpizza #virtue #adventureoflife*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

We do lots of waiting; such is the nature of life in a world moving through space and time.  Is waiting a virtue or is it waiting well?Let's look at all the waiting that we do and how to deal with it.#wait #waiting #patience #sprinklersystems #searching #grass #seasons #winter #spring #summer #autumn #holidays #birthdays #baseball #basketball #hockey #football #soappantry #nowaiting #frozendinner #drive-thru #puns #suffering #waitingwell #poetry #andrewmarvel #coyness #tohiscoymistress #worldenoughandtime #timeswingedchariot #fineandprivateplace #amourousbirdsofprey #proverbs20 #psalm27 #justiceandmercy #waitforthelord #allsnowmelts #allbleedingstops #imakeallthingsnew #bestrong #takecourage #makinggoodoutofbad #allshallbewell *****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Getting back to our regular Tuesday schedule, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™ and Big Brain Smart Head™ Bob Luzenski joins Rafe to discuss NASA's highly successful Artemis II mission to the far side of the moon and back to earth.Ten days in space and nearly 700,000 miles for the crew of Artemis II ended on Friday evening (PDT) off the coast of California.  The mission was, by nearly all accounts, a spectacular success with only a handful of minor issues popping up during the flight.The images that were acquired while on the far side of the moon were spectacular as well, with great shots being made of an eclipse of the sun, the earth from a record distance away (for humans), and a broad palette of colors from the surface of the far side of the moon.Public sentiment was high during the entire mission, with all manner of people discussing the voyage in glowing terms.Tune in to see what an actual rocket scientist saw during the mission.#bufnagle #artemis #artemisII #farsideofthemoon #nasa #spaceflight #recordsetting #SLS #rocketscience #afrs #bbsm #americasfavoriterocketscientist #bigbrainsmarthead #celestialmechanics #moonorbit #earthorbit #apollo #integrity #teamwork #selfsacrifice #orionspacecraft #spacelaunchsystem #orioncapsule #europeanservicemodule #esm *****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Happy Easter!  The Buf is still playing with the schedule a bit by re-dropping a classic episode originally from 2022 where Rafe discusses how the passage of time, and its subsequent change in perspective, changes our understanding of the story of our past and our outlook for the story of our future.  Our perspective of where we are now can change dramatically when future events bring us understanding.  For the small band of followers of Jesus, the Saturday after the crucifixion meant only sadness, fear, and despair.  Easter Sunday morning brought confusion, as the body was missing.  By Sunday evening, their understanding of their pasts had been completely rewritten as Christ revealed to them a new understanding of what they had experienced.  And now, 2000 years later, we carry that Hope forward; Easter has changed everything.“All shall be well.”#bufnagle #easter #despair #perspective #hope #resurrection*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

As it is Good Friday, the Buf is messing up the schedule a bit by re-dropping a classic episode originally from 2023 where Rafe takes a short solo episode to discuss the Passion and how it is the oldest and most common story in history: power is threatened by Truth so Truth gets killed.  But Truth has that odd little habit of coming back, which gives us Easter.Technology may advance but Man stays the same: driven by power and thus corrupt.  There are no new problems; all the problems are old.  The solutions are old too: practice the virtues."We live in enemy-occupied territory, fighting a war of sabotage."#bufnagle #passion #goodfriday #truth #pilate #easter #technology #power #corruption #virtue #history #samesongdifferentverse*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe hosts Big Brain Smart Head™ Fr Elliot Zak, Associate Pastor and Pastoral Vicar at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Carmel, Indiana, and peppers him with questions on the difference between licitness and validity, on the sinful nature of failing to forgive, on accounting the days within Lent, on how one can interpret what Hell is like, on how to love God, and all sorts of other things.#bufnagle #OLMC #mountcarmel #catholicteaching #cathechism #licitness #validity #sacraments #grace #forgiveness #sin #missingthemark #turningawayfromGod #God #love #willingthegood #perfectjustice #perfectmercy #lent #holyweek #triduum #inlentbutnotoflent #roomlockedfromtheinside #darknessandice #wailingandgnashingofteeth #unquencablefire #gehenna #howtoloveGod*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

In this fan favorite from way back in 2023, Rafe discusses the 1976 Academy Award Winning Movie Rocky and how it shows that to fulfill your calling to become what you were made to become, you must discipline yourself to practice virtue.  Rocky is a story of a good man who could be Great, if he would only practice discipline and virtue.  In it we learn to see that we must work to fulfill the nature of our design and that a man must fight his dragon, even if he knows that he will lose.The consequence of taking on this yoke is the fulfillment of the person and the growth of those around you; Love is the result.Every 12-year-old boy (and most everyone else too) should watch Rocky for what it teaches us about Virtue.#bufnagle #fightingdragons #rocky #academyaward #1976 #boxing #virtue #greatness #winning #losing #virtue #love #telos #greatmovies #stallone #philly #philadelphia #discipline #character*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

The Buf celebrates St. Patrick's Day with a discussion of Ireland's most famous saint and a number of other things.  Born in Scotland but then captured and sold into slavery in Ireland, St. Patrick came to love Ireland and the Irish and returned to the Emerald Isle after his ordination to convert her people.Rafe looks at St. Patrick's Day, Irish names and naming, St. Patrick's life and God's final promise to Patrick on Patrick's deathbed.#bufnagle #stpatrick #stpatricksday #ireland #irish #christianity #evangelization #greenbeer #scotland #ballymena #slemish #popestcelestinei #catholicism #munster #celtics #druids #stpatrickspurgatory #stbrigid #stcolumba #downpatrick #cathedral #judgementday*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Pi Day is March 14, due to its 3.14 notation.  This week on the Buf, we discuss all things pi-related, including interesting pie words, the history of the precision of estimates of pi, how to think about radians, and why thinking about a different circle constant (namely tau := 2*pi) might help get your head around some of these ideas.#pi #pie #piday #tauday #3.14 #6.28 #shepherdspie #magpie #rupee #pious #piety #pilot #prirate #piracy #pioneer #pythagoras #pylon #pyre #pyrotechnics #pyrite #foolsgold #matheducation #rationalnumbers #irrationalnumbers #transcendentalnumbers #kingsolomon #ZuChongzhi #unitcircle #circle #hexagon #cauchysintegralformula #gaussiandensity #fourierseries #stirlingsapproximation #maxwellsequation #plancksconstant #rootsofunity #piiswrong #BobPalais #taumanifesto #michaelhartl #march14 #june28 #seekthegood #bufnagle*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe discusses the 1969 Ryder Cup and Jack Nicklaus' concession of Tony Jacklin's final putt.  A discussion of the Ryder Cup competition and some Latin-based words starting with com- or col- or con- or cor- or just co- reveals that this event is a grand example of the real meaning of "competition", not the "conflict" into which so many sports, on all levels from little kids through professionals, have fallen.#competition #compete #latinprefixes #conflict #youthsports #war #battle #golf #rydercup #jacknicklaus #tonyjacklin #1969 #grace #impudence #temptation #virtue #lent #passion #victory #strive #striving #sports #purpose #concession #rivalry *****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™ and Big Brain Smart Head™ Bob Luzenski joins Rafe for the second time this month to update the Buf on some interesting activities with Artemis II and Starliner.While Episode 277 was on the Buf pad still waiting to drop, NASA attempted a wet dress rehearsal of the Artemis II mission but was unable to overcome pesky hydrogen problems and now the next set of launch windows that are open will be in April.  Meanwhile, the vehicle will need to be rolled back into the assembly building for more checking and testing and adjusting.Recent NASA press meetings also presented new information concerning 2024's Starliner issues with the potential for astronauts to be "stranded on the space station"; Bob addresses these as well.All in all, Bob gets us up to date on NASA trying to get back to the moon and lays out, again, why this whole rocket science thing is so difficult.NASA's starliner report #nasa #artemis #starliner #strandedinspace #hydrogenfuel #hydrogenleak #refueling #rollback #afrs #bbsm #bufnagle #rocketscience #gettingitright #spacestation #engineering #seektheGood *****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Springtime brings Lent and with it come all the wonderful and wacky ways people prep for 40 days of preparation.  In this fan favorite from 2023, Harry and Rafe discuss Shrove Tuesday traditions and how they bring us to understanding the balance between feasting and fasting and staying in the the middle of the highway of virtue.#shrovetuesday #shrove #shrive #shriven #shriving #lent #pancakeday #mobfootball #royalshrovetidefootball #liberalkansas #olneyengland #ashwednesday #goodfriday #holyweek #easter #nameddays #fishfries #fattuesday #sugaronpancakes #neworleanslouisiana #riodejaneiro #virtue #thelottery #yellowwallpaper #prayer #fasting #almsgiving #chesterton #feastingandfasting #balance #bothextremes*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe looks forward to (St.) Valentine's Day and what it means from the Romans' Lupercalia, to multiple Saints (and a pope) Valentine, to shoeboxes with pink construction paper, to candy hearts, to philia, eros, and agape, to feelings and choices, to others as others, to St. Paul and the Corinthians (not those who made the famed Corinthian leather), to patience, kindness, bearing, believing, hoping, and enduring, to agape leading to eros, and to our ultimate desire to return to God.  Happy St. Valentine's Day on February 14th!*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™ and Big Brain Smart Head™ Bob Luzenski joins Rafe to discuss NASA's official remembrances during this time of year and hopes and aspirations for the upcoming Artemis II launch.  After some solemn discussions of the fallen astronauts from the Apollo 1 fire of 1967, the Challenger accident of 1986, and the Columbia accident of 2003, discussion turns to the Artemis project to return people to the moon.  Artemis II has half-a-dozen open launch windows over the next several months and NASA is planning some aggressive space flight tests with this next launch to set the stage for a human footprints again on the lunar surface in the next couple of years.  Bob details the plans for the mission while providing needed context to what happened in the late 1960s with the Apollo flights.Post-production note:  Bob mentions in this episode a previous Buf episode in which we discussed his witnessing the Challenger disaster of 1986.  That episode is Episode 19, "Slipping the Surly Bonds of Earth", originally released January 26, 2021; it can be found in the list of previous episodes of the Buf.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe discusses the Feast of Candlemas, the use of animals in the prediction in the timing of Spring, and the underlying themes of the movie Groundhog Day.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

The Buf welcomes Big Brain Smart Head™ Derek Hales, founder of naplab.com, to discuss the nature of mattresses, what they are made of, how they are tested, what they should cost, how they impact your sleep, and much much more.  How much should you pay for your next mattress?  Learn how to get that answer for a man at the forefront of mattress testing!To find out how your mattress tested out, go to Derek's company's website at https://naplab.com*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe discusses the impact of (1) the earth's elliptical orbit and (2) the tilt of the axis of the earth's axis of rotation on setting clocks.  It turns out that even though the earth is spinning at the same rate, the length of a day varys considerably over the course of a year and failure to account for that can lead to errors as big as 15 minutes.Rafe explains why the days are different length due to these two issues and how the Equation of Time allows you to reconcile your shadow-based sundial and the clock on your phone, and encourages you to use permanent marker on your flows when taking astronomical observations, especially if you have carpet.#ellipticalorbit #meansolartime #equationoftime #analemma*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe got a great Christmas gift: the book "The Stones of the Abbey", by Fernand Pouillon.  He's reviewing it for you this week on the Buf.This historical fiction account tells the story of a master building an abbey in Provence in France in the late 1100s.  Through dated journal entries, he tells the story of the beginning of the construction of the Abbey of Le Thoronet in southeastern France.Lessons about concerning masonry and framing and quarrying and smithing and all sorts of things associated with building in the middle ages but most of all, this book is a philosophy text, examining Man's role as a creator in his manifestation as Imago Dei.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Redropping one of our favorite episodes from December 2024, Harry and Rafe start with the idea of a bleak midwinter, dart down some rabbit holes and tell some stories of old shenanigans, and end up on Christmas carols, in particular Sleigh Ride, O Holy Night, Cradle in Bethlehem, Still, Still, Still, and Joseph's Song.  Particular attention is paid to Paul Cardall's splendid instrumental version of Still, Still, Still, which serves as the intro and outro tunes for the episode.In the end, they come to the conclusion that Christmas should be done very intentionally to be done well, and that means starting with Advent and then fully embracing the thrill of Hope that Christmas gives to a weary world.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe recounts a recent tour of the sawmill at Frank Miller Lumber in Union City, IN, one of the world's largest producers of quarter sawn white oak lumber.  A high-tech sawmill with state-of-the-art, computer-controlled, laser-assisted saws and dozens of people doing the hard work, Frank Miller Lumber pumps out nearly 1.5 million board feet of quarter sawn white oak every month.  Come along as Rafe describes what was seen and what exactly quarter sawing does for a log.https://frankmiller.com*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe tells the tale of a the third (and final) part of a recent trip to France, with stops Orléans and Paris.Along the way, we'll hear about Joan of Arc, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Sainte-Chapelle, and Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre and a host of other things.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe tells the tale of the second part of a recent trip to France, with stops at the Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette and the Basilica of Our Lady of Fourvière (and other places!).The sun shines brighter, the birds sing sweeter, the food tastes better, when one is surrounded by beautiful things.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe tells the tale of a the first part of a recent trip to France to visit the cloistered nuns at ABBAYE NOTRE-DAME DE L'ANNONCIATION, along the way discussing a brief stop in Avignon to see ancient papal dwellings and a meeting with a delightful luthier.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe and Harry discuss the general wonders, and the specifics of the combustion, of wood, one of the great (if not the greatest!) natural resources on planet earth.Again, more proof that this planet was made for us.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Re-dropping a classic episode from the early, early days of the Buf: Rafe and Zach discuss Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery and their exploration of Louisiana, a gigantic chuck of land purchased by President Thomas Jefferson for the fledgling United States in 1803.It is a tale full of adventure, miracles, and divine providence and a must for anyone wanting to understand the modern Americans' understanding of their place in history.  Stephen E. Ambrose's book Undaunted Courage is a wonderful text for the complete tale.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Bob joins Rafe to discuss happenings in the world of flower gardens, fatherhood, home repair, model trains, and, of course, ROCKETS!*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Re-dropping a classic episode from Allhallowtide 2023: Harry and Rafe discuss role models (not ROLL models) and the examples we put in front of our kids and in front of ourselves. If our wish for our children is for them to get to heaven, who should their role models be?*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Re-dropping a classic episode from October 2023: Rafe is joined this week by Big Brain Smart Head™ Angela Nash to discuss Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.  As Rafe recounts the story, Angela provides a rich commentary on the understanding of the tale. If you haven't read the book but know anything of "Frankenstein", chances are that everything you know about the story is wrong.Set in Geneva in the early 1800s, the novel tells a cautionary tale of a Victor Frankenstein, a truly mad scientist, and a monster that he creates by trying to understand how life animates the material world.  The story touches on a  wonderfully rich number of broad themes (Good and Evil, Truth, Virtue, Beauty, Justice, Mercy, and the usual Bufnaglely topics) but the primary theme is an investigation into loneliness and the need for human companionship.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

After reading an article in Hearth and Field, Rafe goes in search of the author and today's guest, Big Brain Smart Head™ Peregrine North, a.k.a. Rachel Shrader.  Rafe discovers that she is a writer, musician, and artist and has written oodles of things related to Truth, Beauty, and Goodness.The conversation covers all sorts of topics, from praying with birds, to understanding the costs one pays for convenience, to grandchildren and honey, and all sorts of things in between.Peregrine North's online writing, music, and art content can be found at https://peregrinenorth.com Her article Praying with the Birds can be found at https://hearthandfield.com/praying-with-the-birds*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe has noticed that it is currently autumn and that means changing leaves and all that.  The discussion takes us through the miracle of changing seasons, chlorophyll and photosynthesis, French songs and English versions, life changes, loss, Momento Mori, and hope for Spring.(This show's bumper music is excerpts from Eva Cassidy's near-perfect rendition of Autumn Leaves from her CD Songbird.  This album is a must for any serious collector of standards of the American song book sung with unparalleled warmth and emotion.)*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe shares the tale of a lottery "glitch" — a simple human error that wasn't caught, that ended up costing the company about a million dollars.In the end, it is experience that counts, not a sharp suit or a brainiac coder or an AI; keep the old people around so you can learn from their mistakes instead of paying oodles of dollars to repeat them.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe invites his sister, Big Brain Smart Head™ Maura Donahue, to discuss her recent adventures with shepherding a flock of monarch butterfly caterpillars from hatching to chrysalis stage.  The discussion is one filled with wonder and awe, a conversation edged with the understanding that everyday processes that take place mostly unseen in Nature are nothing short of miraculous.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Re-dropping a classic episode from 2023: Harry and Rafe address some listener questions surrounding great saints, why so much focus on Imago Dei, and all the great stuff we have learned doing the Buf for all these years.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe tackles a classic high-school algebra problem and discusses that, when teaching, there is a real need to actually show students the tricks and procedures for getting to answers; the idea that students should be encouraged to try to reinvent the wheel, when the solution has been developed and is shared amongst the educated, is just silly.  Be deliberate in your instruction; don't hide the secrets of academic success.  Share what you know.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe tells the story of the repair of a sewing machine and somehow ends up with the idea of God giving us (or him) puzzles to solve so as to give us Great Joy.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Harry joins Rafe to discuss the principle of lift, problems the Wright brothers needed to solve before their airplane could be complete, how jet engines work, and an unknown brush with greatness that Rafe had years ago.This is Part 2 of two episodes.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Harry joins Rafe to discuss the principle of lift, problems the Wright brothers needed to solve before their airplane could be complete, how jet engines work, and an unknown brush with greatness that Rafe had years ago.This is Part 1 of two episodes.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

In this second of two episodes, Rafe discusses the second half of the Book of Esther, a tale of political intrigue, cleverness, faith, and duty.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

In this first of two episodes, Rafe discusses the first half of the Book of Esther, a tale of political intrigue, cleverness, faith, and duty.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!