Rafe is joined by the Buf's most frequent guest, Big Brain Smart Head™ Bob Luzenski, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™, to discuss what is happening in the world of Bob and the world of rockets: winter, flowers and bulbs of Spring, model train shows, big rocket launches, lunar landers, and much more.

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Re-dropping a classic episode from just Lent 2023, Harry and Rafe discuss wild, wonderful, and wacky Shrove Tuesday traditions and how they bring us to understanding the balance between feasting and fasting and staying in the the middle of the highway of virtue.

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An chance encounter on a 100-watt radio station leads to learning all sorts of new things and discovering some things that Rafe never could have imagined.

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Rafe starts with a Shelley poem about the Birth of Aphrodite and wanders into backgammon, Christmas, AI images, mimesis, regression, aviation, and then emerges with the understanding that AI might be a fun toy but it's not possessing understanding the way a human being does — it has no concept of meaning the way we do.  

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Rafe discusses Nicholas Cage's lament over the coming of AI to film-making and along with it traces a history of Man's model for viewing Man as the hot technology of the times.  Along the way we learn that Man is not a chariot, nor a wind-up clock, nor a steam engine, nor electric circuit, nor race car, nor rocket or a computer or an AI model; Man is a material body infused with a soul.

Be aware of the model that you use to think about yourself and others, as it impacts how you think, how you reason, and how you act.  Make sure your model helps you seek the Good, live virtuously, and flourish.  

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Rafe finally gets an answer to why his toast takes so much longer to cook than it did when he was a kid, and it's not just an issue of nostalgia.

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Harry and Rafe discuss the Nature of Time and how one conforms one's life to it.  Do we live in harmony with seasons and cycles and rhythms of life or do we fight against them to control the world around us?  Is what you are doing bringing you Joy?

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Harry and Rafe discuss shoveling snow as a lead-in to a discussion of work, leisure, and riding both sides of the road, as Chesterton would suggest, and doing both the working and playing very well.

Along the way they discuss all manners of Bufnagley things, including one of the Great Song by Dan Fogelberg, one that, in particular, mentions the snow turning into rain...

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Rafe discusses turning 60 (!) and a lifetime pursuit of Wisdom.  Job's Poem on Wisdom provides some insight.

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Harry and Rafe discuss books from 2024 and ones they hope to consume in 2025.

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