Bufnagle: the Podcast
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.
Episodes
210 episodes since 2020
Ep 207: Blood, Shakespeare, and Johnny Mathis
Taking a break from the summer school recaps, Rafe goes solo and recounts a recent adventure he had while giving blood, tying in revenge and mercy from Shakespeare and one of the great love songs of all time, and getting a t-shirt and cookies f...
September 17, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 207
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30:09
Ep 206: "I am at peace" — Part 2 of Summer School 2024 Recap
Rafe describes to Harry the second part of his 8-week summer school, in particular, a trip to the Strasburg cathedral and meeting craftsmen in Alsace. Discussion of church literacy, coffee shops and pubs, odd temperature scales, limestone...
September 10, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 206
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42:19
Ep 205: "I fell in love with Barr" — Part 1 of Summer School 2024 Recap
Rafe describes to Harry the first part of his 8-week summer school, in particular, the first part of the course in Barr, Alsace, France. Discussion of vernacular architecture, storks, arches, Barr's "Golden Book", the metric system, and m...
September 03, 2024
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Episode 205
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42:04
Ep 204: Covid-24, Fiber Optics, and Summer School — A Rambling Conversation About Upcoming Topics
Harry and Rafe get back together to discuss how things have been for the last eight weeks. What follows is a typical Buf conversation about where the show will be headed for the next couple of weeks. Shenanigans abound, of course.&n...
August 27, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 204
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19:54
Ep 203: "Be the Creed" — A Conversation with Catholic Manhood's Nick Sledge
Harry hosts Nick Sledge, founder of the Catholic Manhood social media site. Think of it as two young redneck fathers discussing Aristotle, Aquinas, architecture, and working to help get their families to heaven.Nick Sledge can be ...
August 13, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 203
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40:15
Ep 202: Great Cathedrals — What Are Their Bells Calling Us To Do?
Rafe goes solo from a secret remote location (and apologizes for the sound quality) and discusses the grand cathedral in Strasbourg, its square, its facade, its masses, and its restaurants.Are we building things today that will cause ge...
August 06, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 202
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20:16
Ep 201: Two Hundred Episodes — A Look Back on Another Century Mark
With at least 200 episodes now produced, the Buf team looks back on their favorite episodes of the last 100, what they each have learned, and how it has helped shape their understanding of a consistent world view.
July 30, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 201
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31:26
Ep 200: Light Part 5 — Consequences of Special Relativity
Harry and Rafe conclude the discussion around coming to understand the nature of light. In this episode they discuss some of the consequences of Einstein's Special Relativity and, in particular, how it implies that a clock moving very ver...
July 23, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 200
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42:17
Ep 199: Bringing Enchantment and Delight Into Your Everyday Life
Rafe quotes a recent twitter post about how to re-enchant the world, starting with simple things like elegant dinner parties. Harry joins in to discuss ways to bring about more Truth, Beauty, and Goodness to what you do on a daily basis b...
July 16, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 199
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39:07
Ep 198: On Light, Part 4 — Einstein's Special Relativity
Harry and Rafe continue the discussion around coming to understand the nature of light. In this episode they discuss the concepts of Einstein's Special Relativity, the basic concept that ALL laws of physics must be consistent in any inert...
July 09, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 198
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36:13
Ep 197: Independence Day — Are Sparklers Really That Hot???
Rafe surprises Harry with an ad lib topic: let's talk about Independence Day. While the conversation could have been a scripted lesson in the history of the holiday and the American founding, instead the hosts meander through a br...
July 02, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 197
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35:02
Ep 196: Sin, Expiation, Theodicy, and Much, Much More — A Conversation with Fr. Elliot Zak
Harry and Rafe roll out a warm welcome to Fr. Elliot Zak, Associate Pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Carmel, IN.Displaying remarkable poise under the intensely complicated theological questions posed by our hosts, Fr. Zak walks the...
June 25, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 196
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49:03
Ep 195: On Light, Part 3 — Waves, Interference, Maxwell's Equations, and Maxwell's Donuts
Harry and Rafe continue the discussion around coming to understand the nature of light. In this episode they discuss the properties of waves (interferences and such) and how the nature of light is like the nature of sound except for the f...
June 18, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 195
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35:13
Ep 194: Two Days of Big Rockets — America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™ Talks About Two Notable Launches Last Week
Rafe is joined by Big Brain Smart Head™ Bob Luzenski, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™, to discuss recent launches of SpaceX' Starship Superheavy and Boeing's Starliner, just one day apart.A review of the flights and what went wrong...
June 11, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 194
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45:38
Ep 193: A Very Special Guest Returns to Discuss Men's Mental Health Awareness Month
Big Brain Smart Head™ and past co-host Zach Donahue returns to the show (he was never really gone) to discuss the state of men's mental health and strategies to help you get to where you need to go.More Zach can be found...
June 04, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 193
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43:06
Ep 192: On Light, Part 2 — Toothed Wheels, Spinning Mirrors, and Meeting the President
Harry and Rafe continue the discussion around coming to understand the nature of light. In this episode they discuss Fizeau, Foucault, and Michelson and how they used the technologies of the 18th and 19th centuries to zero in on the unive...
May 28, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 192
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38:03
Ep 191: On Light, Part 1: Measuring Light Speed — How Do They Actually Do That?
Harry and Rafe present the first part of a series on the the speed of light and special relativity.In this episode, they discuss basic Galilean relativity and discuss how the speed of light was actually measured prior to the year ...
May 21, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 191
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37:47
Ep 190: Bees, Bees, Bees!
Harry and Rafe welcome Big Brain Smart Head™ Matthew Donahue, a current PhD student studying one of the Buf's favorite insect friends: bees!Matthew holds up supremely well under the heat of unrelenting questioning at the Buf and educate...
May 14, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 190
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38:58
Ep 189: Acronyms, Army, and Architecture — The Buf Takes Listener Questions
Harry and Rafe respond to some listener questions about the Buf in general, about Harry's time in the army, and about why Rafe is going to Europe this summer.As usual it probably turns out exactly as you might imagine, which means it's ...
May 07, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 189
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41:09
Ep 188: The Rocket Equation and CubeSats — A Lesson in Putting Things Into Orbit (and not trusting the interwebs, AI, and other such things...)
A simple observation from a photo on the interwebs leads to a question, and then lots of Bufnagely discussion, about space and orbits and rockets and garage projects, marketing, and much, much more!Harry and Rafe are joined by not one b...
April 30, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 188
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38:38
Ep 187: The Joy of Summer School — And a Big Announcement!
Harry and Rafe discuss summer school and other summer activities and finish with a big announcement from Rafe about this coming summer and what it means to the Buf!
April 23, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 187
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41:19
Ep 186: Bounded and Right-sized — Doing Your Job to Save the World
Rafe tackles the question of how to save the world using a little help from from a four-year-old with a wagon full of rocks.
April 16, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 186
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16:32
Ep 185: Eclipse 2024 Retrospective
Rafe talks to Bob Luzenski, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™, and Dr Brian Donahue, a Time Traveling Ham Radio Anesthesiologist™, about the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 as viewed from Bufnagle Global Headquarters in Westfield, IN.
April 09, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 185
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43:51
Ep 184: Bufnagle Unscripted — Working Out Ways to Fulfill Duties to Others and Yourself
Harry and Rafe work through a rare unscripted episode based loosely around the question of "How do you do what you need to do for yourself while also doing what you need to do for others?"What results is a random walk through a plethora...
April 02, 2024
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Episode 1184
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39:26
Ep 183: Springtime Shenanigans— All Sorts of Ways that Cultures Celebrate Spring
Rafe does a solo episode that ties together all sorts of Springtime shenanigans from colored dust to "seven sins" to evading the Angel of Death to announcing the arrival of Truth Incarnate and lots in-between. Join us to celebrate Spring!...
March 26, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 183
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33:00