TWO OLD BUCKS

Send a text Del agonizes over a broken $9.98 watch and then commits to fixing it, as Dave is befuddled by Del's clear efforts to avoid reality by jumping down the rabbit hole. Wait, that's what guys do. In the news of the world, Dave discuses the hunt for the sterile neutrino while Del insists his neutrinos are still fertile.   Richard Branson crashes his bike , claiming "no brakes&...

Send a text Del is awed by today's power hitters in baseball. He then relates his days as a pitcher and how he prayed the batters would not hit the ball to Dave's side of the infield. Watch a monster homer here. Del relates his wife's recent air travel nightmare and predicts that cancelled flights due to weather will be the spark that finally forces us to deal with climate change. Y...

Send a text Del gets a new backup camera and has a happy ending. The Bucks review the US News list of Best Places to Retire in the US . Why are most of the top choices in Florida or Pennsylvania, two states that couldn't be more different?  We sure don't know. Maybe you have an idea. Tell us at buckstwoold@gmail.com. Dave stumbles across a story on the best places to relocate under the W...

Send a text What does safekeeping mean? Del announces the Copenhagen Radical Artist Program.  Listeners are invited to submit candidates. Del wants to create a cryptocoin and agonizes over what to name it. Dave has some ideas on how to avoid high-energy crypto-mining. It just might work. After taking a course in traffic engineering, Del proposes a new highway traffic pattern. Dave is confused. Hol...

Send a text Not NASA but close. Del queries indigestion  in  space and gets an actual reply from the National Air and Space Museum. An astronaut chimes in, too. This leads to  discussion on dark matter, allowing Dave to geek out a bit while Del offers a simple solution for collection dark matter. Don't try this at home. Continuing the theme of dark matter and invisibility, Dave recounts a car...

Send a text Dave interviews longtime biking buddy and good friend Terry D. Terry talks about his Italian heritage, his family, career as a machinist building monster machines, and his many hobbies. Listen and find out why we call this talented guy  Superman.  As always, send your comments to buckstwoold@gmail.com. Give us your thoughts: BUCKSTWOOLD@GMAIL.COM Find Two Old Bucks on Facebook and YouT...

Send a text Explicit Warning-Contains coarse language and graphic scenes. Dave reads the short story, Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff, which first appeared in The New Yorker in 1995.   Wolff is a prolific writer and his coming-of-age  memoir This Boy's Life was made into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Barkin. Do you want more or fewer short stories? What did you think of thi...

Send a text Del reports remotely from Yulee, Florida , home of the Hornets. The other Hornets. The Bucks share fire stories as Del melts down a well-known grill and Dave forgets the laws of physics and chemistry. Dave rants about stupid street signs and private parking spaces on public streets. Del discusses Captain Kirk's upcoming flight into actual space at the actual age of 80.  Thanks for...

Send a text Dave visits and highly recommends the Red River Gorge geological area in Kentucky .  Plenty of outdoor activities for all. Dave helps his son's family move into their new house after a tornado destroyed their old house 18 months ago. Del educates us on bats-the flying kind- and how they may survive viruses. Dave then relates a bat infestation problem he had while trying to sell hi...

Send a text Warning: The Ig Nobel Prize segment contains sexual references. Is Del's fantasy to sing like Freddie Mercury or does he want to BE Freddie Mercury? His favorite Freddie song is Barcelona. Watch it here .  Try to pretend it's Del. Dave wonders why he can't buy real tomatoes in the store anymore and recalls his tomato contests with Sparky, his sister's father-in-law....

Send a text While Del is working out his renewal in the Witness Protection Program, Dave looks back at some of our earlier segments. Del will be back next week...we hope.  Send your feedback to buckstwoold@gmail.com Give us your thoughts: BUCKSTWOOLD@GMAIL.COM Find Two Old Bucks on Facebook and YouTube Leave a Voice message - click HERE WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?

Send a text The Bucks are inundated with letters from, for, and about Normalville. A resident admits talking to animals and she's the normal one. Laundry tips, snake charming, amorous animals, nd aliens. What more could a town ask for? Dave recalls trout fishing near Normalville with his balance-impaired high school principal. Can you say suck-up? Our first LFA from Latrobe questions the habi...

Send a text It's the first day of school for Grayson and he's not happy about it...or is he? Who doesn't like brain breaks? Dave gives a book report on Project Hail Mary by And Weir.  Five stars for geeky science projects, fewer for a sloppy backstory and some character superficiality. Dave gives it 3.5 stars but Goodreads gives it 4.55. Who's right? Read it and  decide. Dave r...

Send a text Dave admits to Del that he got a job-a real job. A bike shop took a chance on Dave and he became their oldest and dumbest mechanic. His fellow mechanics are very talented , very young, and have great senses of humor. It's like the perfect job. The Bucks catch up on letters from afar. Many kudos to Judith, Vintage Vixen #1, for sharing her life's journey with all the V's...

Send a text Welcoming new listeners from nice-sounding places.  And Normalville, of course. A nod to LaScola's , another great coffee stop. Dave rants about Canadian geese leaving their treasures all over the bike paths along the river. Appeals to the Canadian government to let them fly home across the  border closed by the pandemic. Del shares stories about his 90+ year old neighbor, Gus. Gu...

Send a text Dave tries to get blood tests...again and again. Will he succeed? Del thinks he can integrate his TV remotes all by himself. We know better. Del gets a flat tire, causing the earth to stop spinning on its axis. Or something less menacing.  Part Two of the interview with vintage vixen Judith.  A retired librarian, she agrees to provide future book reviews. This takes all the pressure of...

Send a text Del anguishes over his bout with a simple aerator [air raider?]. on't try this at home. Del asks the eternal question:  Which billionaire would you let launch you into space?  We interview Vintage Vixen Judith, the person who suggested we give a name to our  female listeners. We've known  Judith since we were in single digits, age-wise. She's had an interesting life, whi...

Send a text NOTE: This episode contains what some might consider explicit content. Dave poses the eternal question: If you could fly or be invisible, which would you choose? The Bucks discuss the recent government report on UFOs and ponder the possibilities. Dave believes aliens walk among us and gives the obvious examples to back his claim. Del remains noncommittal, raising the possibility that h...

Send a text Del describes the functionality of his Water Pic. Not for the squeamish. Dave goes on a rant about Reddit, which apparently won't post your comments until you have posted ten comments. Does that make sense? Can you say Catch-22? Dave instructs Del in the process of creating a crypto-account to buy and sell NFTs. Del is excited about selling his Stovetop Art NFT but is befuddled by...

Send a text Dave goes off on a tangent about junk/spam email. having received 44 one day with multiple offers for prizes won, packages to be picked up, weight loss pills and more. While the sender is different for every email, he is told to respond to smart102944@gmail.com for all of them. If you're getting these, tell Dave how to block them or what prizes you picked up. Highly recommended th...

Send a text Dave interviews cycling buddy Dr. Vito, a professor at  well-known eastern university and now a part-time trolley driver.  Dr. Vito shares the experiences and observations he's garnered along the way.  Give us your thoughts: BUCKSTWOOLD@GMAIL.COM Find Two Old Bucks on Facebook and YouTube Leave a Voice message - click HERE WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?

Send a text Dave tells a couple stories about losing things.  Where do all the remotes hide anyway? Could it be in his wife's bra drawer?  His wife explains multifunctional entities. Del convinces himself his foot knows Morse code. Or is he hearing things? Del finds himself unable to judge a book by its cover or something like that. Dave talks about American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, a story a...

Send a text Del recalls a Far Side cartoon about an old buck romping through the forest. Pay attention, this could be you. Del has a Big Idea on merging everyone's blocked spam call lists  into one file we all could share. Is this a blocked call blockchain? Dave files for patent protection. Dave discusses a two-part story in The New Yorker in 2009 about and American and two Russians traveling...

Send a text The final tally is in and there is a clear winner in the Name the Female Listener contest. Only female votes counted so emails from names like Tractorboy88 and Gorillabreath were discarded. Del agonizes over generic products and where they are made. Further, he finds bottled water has a sell-by date. Water? Really? Del performs a science experiment on B-12 and discovers he's been...

Send a text Del's Big Idea of the week is to inform listeners about a little-known arm of the government known as Crisis Response and Planning. If that knowledge doesn't make you sleep better at night, try listening to the Bucks. We discuss the many lives of Peter Mark Roget, of thesaurus fame. Also, Dave tries to figure out how to pronounce his name while Del works on pronouncing thesau...