Bufnagle: the Podcast

Bufnagle

Join us for an entertaining and enlightening discussion of eclectic adventures in the pursuit of all things Good. Gain a better understanding of technology and science, history and philosophy, and leadership and success, all presented in a positive and affirming conversational framework. Big Brain SmartHead™ guests occasionally join the pair to bring actual expert knowledge to the conversation. 

  1. 4D AGO

    Ep 293: Good and Very Good — Weddings Reveal Your Duties As Imago Dei

    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 bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** 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/bufnagle On 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!!!

    31 min

  2. MAY 12

    Ep 292: Belief, Conviction, and Action — How to Build a Grand Basilica

    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 bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** 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/bufnagle On 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!!!

    23 min

  3. MAY 5

    Ep 291: The Year 2026 Will Have 7% More Summer!!!

    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 bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** 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/bufnagle On 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!!!

    23 min

  4. APR 28

    Ep. 290: An Update: Waiting, Babies, Cardinals, and Pizza

    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 bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** 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/bufnagle On 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!!!

    21 min

  5. APR 21

    Ep. 289: Patience is the Difference Between Just Waiting and Waiting Well

    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 bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** 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/bufnagle On 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!!!

    25 min

  6. APR 14

    Ep. 288: Taking Love to the Stars — BBSH and AFRS Bob Luzenski Debriefs Us on Artemis II

    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 bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** 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/bufnagle On 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!!!

    49 min

  7. APR 5

    Ep. 287: From Despair to Hope — An Easter Sunday Message from the Buf

    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 bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** 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/bufnagle On 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!!!

    28 min

  8. APR 3

    Ep. 286: Truth, Power, and the Passion — A Good Friday Message from the Buf

    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 bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** 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/bufnagle On 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!!!

    20 min
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Join us for an entertaining and enlightening discussion of eclectic adventures in the pursuit of all things Good. Gain a better understanding of technology and science, history and philosophy, and leadership and success, all presented in a positive and affirming conversational framework. Big Brain SmartHead™ guests occasionally join the pair to bring actual expert knowledge to the conversation. 

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  • Creator
    Bufnagle
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    296
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Bufnagle: the Podcast
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    Bufnagle: the Podcast

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