TWO OLD BUCKS

Send a text The Bucks have a successful coffee encounter with no car crashes or falls. Dave recounts a kitchen adventure. Del gives the movie John Wick: Chapter 4 two thumbs up and Dave again promises to watch it even though he won't. Guns, shooting, blood, death-defying stunts...and that's what Del encountered before he even got in the theatre. Dave gives 2 of 5 stars to Blonde Faith by...

Send a text Del raises environmental concerns about phosphate depletion , a floating garbage patch that is becoming  new ecosystem, and the dangers of rising ocean temperatures . Dave recalls his week in Nashville and his ongoing recovery. Cap'n Jim recounts his tale of sailing in a labyrinth of river channels in Borneo , his almost encounter with a high tension line across the river, and mak...

Send a text Due to our inability to both be on the same planet at the same time, we dig into the archives again to present excerpts from interviews with really old friend Gene and newer old friend Dr. Vito.  These were Season Two episodes 11 and 26, respectively. Dave also manages to brag on his grandsons - accomplished scholars, athletes, chess wizards, and violin virtuosos. But most importantly,...

Send a text A delightful coffee date goes terribly wrong when Dave finds his car is a crash victim. Dave maneuvers the painful car repair process and in the process meets Muggy Lee Bear-paw, a member of the Cherokee Nation. Quite a guy. As we can't seem to find enough time to sit down together, we're revisiting a couple early episodes to fill up a half-hour. These include: - Another look...

Send a text Created a ton of Gay Hat fans out there, many wanted pictures. Ask and we'll email you one. Bridey Thelen-Heidel got a book deal and will be performing  off Broadway on April 1. You can get a streaming ticket HERE . Del applauds new MLB rules to speed up the game. Dave laments the times he didn't get to second base. Del is back in the workforce, at least for a little while un...

Send a text Bucks interview good friend and budding playwright Joel and his traveling companion Gay Hat, along with Teddy and Cocoa.  Joel recently got lost on the interstate in Florida and wound up in California, where he promptly bought a house. He shared some travel stories with us involving hitchhikers fleeing  convicts, possibly grouchy drivers, and wind and sleet storms within a few minutes...

Send a text A discussion on Bruce Rettig's book Refraction , which YOU really need to buy, leads to a sharing of near-death experiences by the Bucks.  Do YOU have a N-D  experience you'd like to share.  Send us a note or a voicemail. We might read it. Podcasters have fallen out of favor [if they were ever in favor?] as some women will not date them, according to the NYT.  Fortunately, th...

Send a text The Bucks interview Bruce Rettig, who talks about his experiences working 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle in the summers during his college years in the mid-1980s. Bruce talks about his roots, the work ethic instilled in him by his father, and arriving at Prudhoe Bay as a total greenhorn to work 12-hour days doing monotonous and sometimes treacherous work in support of the Alaska...

Send a text The Bucks slow down to a trot [do bucks trot?] to review recent episodes.   #118 with Bridey Thelen-Heidel reading We Owned the Night   from her upcoming memoir, Bright Eyes garnered the most listener feedback of any episode and is on the way to being our most downloaded episode ever, as well. You can catch Bridey’s upcoming off-Broadway performance on April 1 in NYC. You can purchase...

Send a text We interview Laura Hayes, who works for  World Central Kitchen, the organization founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés to provide meals in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti and soon expanded to cover natural disasters globally. Since then, WCK has served over 250 million meals around the world, including 200 million in Ukraine, arriving there Feb. 24, 2022. They served 15,000 meals in...

Send a text The Bucks are fortunate to be able to interview "Phoenix," a frontline Doctor/Medic in Ukraine who is presently recovering from wounds sustained during a recovery operation. It's a powerful story of the determination of the Ukrainian people in defending their country and their way of life against the Russian aggressors. Phoenix has had to watch good friends die while sav...

Send a text In our continuing effort to look at the personal stories of hope coming out of the war in Ukraine, the Bucks are proud to interview Mary Meaney and Annie Tregouet, two residents of St.-Omer, France who are among the many townspeople of this beautiful village who have opened their hearts and homes to over 500 Ukrainian refugees. Mary has spearheaded this all-volunteer effort simply beca...

Send a text Ranger Rick sent us some background info on Buckminster Fuller , who apparently invented a lot of words when he wasn’t designing geodesic homes or Dymaxions. https://ade3.medium.com/three-words-invented-by-buckminster-fuller-d8002645226d  Bridey Thelen-Heidel, who you heard two weeks ago, just announced she has been selected to read her works on Listen to Your Mother , which is playing...

Send a text Bucks share some of the terrific feedback on Bridey Thelen-Heidel's story We Owned the Night from her upcoming memoir , Bright Eyes. The response was dazzling and we plan to have more author interviews  in the future. Bucks are wishing Bridey the best as she navigates the challenging route to publication. A listener in Switzerland sends a news story saying the Ukrainians are, in f...

Send a text WARNING. This episode deals with domestic violence. There is brief use of strong language. The Bucks welcome Bridey Thelen- Heidel,  author and award-winning teacher, who reads her wonderfully-written true-life story, We Owned the Night . This story was published this month in Mutha Magazine and you can read the story here . Her story relates her growing up in an abusive household and...

Send a text Got our 2022 stats from Buzzsprout this week. Seems we have listeners in eighteen countries. Whudda thunk it! Thanks to all who took a chance. Only 180 countries left before we conquer the world. Del and Dave have mini-rants  on doctors and dentists. Nothing new here, just old guys whining again. Dave discusses linking up with a French  fellow he met on LinkedIn who shared how his comm...

Send a text Bucks break the artwork budget with new logo and music as we ring in 2023. Del thinks we look mahvelous now the we've shed our antlers . . What do you think? Del is frightened by AI artwork, perhaps thinking he'll be replaced by a really ugly machine. Dave interviews his grandsons, now 6 and 8 [technically almost 9].  He's pretty sure he didn't know what they know a...

Send a text Del wants to change his name. Send in your nominations for his new name. We have a few NFTs left to offer as the top prizes. Dave's son plugs him into DALL-E2 , which can generate pictures from your text instructions.  Last week all the writers were put out of business, now the artists bite the dust. The fun never ends.  Remember, the Bucks warned you first. We review the top epis...

Send a text Dave reads Del excerpts from three prose poems, one of which was written by a machine. Incredibly, Del correctly guesses the insta-poem written by the grandson of Hal from 2001: A Space Oddity. We wonder how our listeners did on this one.  You can read the human-generated poems written by Joshua Weiner and Donna Stonecipher as well as other poems here in Body . Del gives Dave a multipl...

Send a text Del continues to rally from his bout with covid. His sense of taste has still not returned.  Does that make him tasteless? Listeners seemed to enjoy last week's AI segment on bot-writing.  We love to get those Letters From Afar so let us know what you think.  As Del appears intrigued by GRAVITY, Dave had the bot create a prose poem of sorts on the subject. Here's what we got...

Send a text Del the trouper shows up while still positive with Covid and thanks our loyal listeners for their patience and well wishes.  He's presently overdosing on placebos, hoping something will work. We wonders why water tastes funny. Any clues? Dave stumps Del on an emerald recovered from the Atocha, which sank in 1622.  Four hundred years later, it was auctioned off to support the Ukrai...

Send a text Del succumbs to Covid 19 but feels the show must go on, trouper that he is. The good new is he now sounds like Barry White , who has probably assisted in more egg fertilizations than anyone on the planet. Yuks aside, Del gives a graphic description of his symptoms  and issues an earnest warning to take Covid seriously. Send him some love, or at least an email, to buckstwoold@gmail.com....

Send a text Del has post-Thanksgiving blues, or at least recollections and observations about the parade, the meal, the beaching of whales. Dave recounts a TG tradition with a British couple from Leeds, followed by three stories of thankfulness. He first recommends Mission Joy, a documentary with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama.  A friend relates a story of unexpected help from the othe...

Send a text Del explains the proper way to lick a knife. Is any way the proper way? Don't try this at home. Dave is unable to stump Del about the FTX debacle and SBF, the latest billionaire whiz kid who was not as smart as everyone thought he was. Caveat emptor.  Bucks forecast this on June 9, 2021 episode [sort of]. Go back and listen, send us your thoughts. Del ups the ante as he quizzes Da...

Send a text Bucks play Stump the Buck and Del figures out the correct answer. He now bats .333, all-star material. Del's question to Dave is more complex, dealing with addiction and compulsion. Del may be addicted to David's Cookies , especially Butter Pecan Meltaways.   You decide. Del laments shrinkage and is concerned about oversize holes. It's complicated. Bucks celebrate the en...