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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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S1E296 Ep 296: Restoring an Abundance of Love — An Inspiring Conversation with BBSH Roland Warren
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…
S1E295 Ep 295: How Good Is The Metric System?
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…
S1E294 Ep 294: Angiosperms, Parrots, Good, and Evil
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…
S1E293 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…
S1E292 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…
S1E291 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…
S1E290 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…
S1E289 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…
S1E288 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…
S1E287 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…
S1E286 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…
S1E285 Ep 285: Discussing Forgiveness, Lent, Hell, and How To Love God, with BBSH™ Fr. Elliot Zak
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…
S1E284 Ep 284: Fighting Dragons, Rocky Balboa, and Virtue (A Bufnagle Classic Re-drop)
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…
S1E283 Ep 283: Happy St. Patrick's Day — All About St. Patrick, and Some Other (Irish) Things
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…
S1E282 Ep 282: Happy Pi(e) Day! — Pi, Pies, Math, and An Alternative Circle Constant
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…
S1E281 Ep 281: We're Doing Sports Wrong — Competition, Latin Prefixes, and Grace
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-…
S1E280 Ep 280: Artemis II and Starliner Updates — Why Is This So Difficult?
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…
S1E279 Ep 279: Mardi Gras, Mob Football, Pancakes, and Shriving (A Buf Lenten Classic Re-drop)
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…
S1E278 Ep 278: Romans, Valentines, Eros, Agape, Aquinas, and St. Paul
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…
S1E277 Ep 277: NASA Remembrances and New Hopes — AFRS™ BBSH™ Bob Luzenski on the Impending Artemis II Launch
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…
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