TWR Season 4 Episode 25 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Taking A Break - It's Not You, It's Us

The fellas have decided to take a little break from podcasting until Randy gets back on the road in late summer.  We love our Facebook page and realize it's about US travel, not aliens and AI lol and so we're pausing the podcast.   Don't worry - we're both active on our facebook.com/travelswithrandypodcast page and plan to keep everyone updated and informed throughout the spring and summer and Randy may even put some of his fantastic photography up for sale and Bubba may list many of his travel and National Park books for sale there as well.

This past week Randy returned home to Washington from his month long trip up and down the Mississippi river and to several baseball stadiums to watch his Angels play.  In one month, he and Snuffy drove over 9,000 miles sheesh!

Conversations were then had about having an AI buddy along for the trip and Randy's future plans for travel.

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TWR Season 4 Episode 24 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Randy Finally Clues In On The Potential Of AI

This week Randy travels down to near Nawlins but takes a right before he gets there, which takes him through Baton Rouge and across the huge swampland of southern Louisiana to Lafayette to Lake Charles to Texas where he holes up near Dallas to watch his Angels get clobbered by the Rangers lol.  

For some reason, Randy has picked this week to go into crisis mode as he FINALLY begins using ChatGPT in earnest on some of his photos and it slowly dawns on him that AI is kind of a big deal.  The fellas then have a lengthy discussion about AI and how and in what ways it's going to affect just about every corner of society.  Bubba throws in some more advanced info about what's coming next that is REALLY disruptive, such as Agentic AI agents.

Randy's conclusion:  Get busy learning the tools of AI or get left behind! 

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TWR Season 4 Episode 23 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

St Louis Baseball And The Natchez Trace Parkway

Well it's been a fun week for Randy! The week started with him at Busch Stadium watching his Angels play the Cardinals.   From there, he had to dodge thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes as he crossed over to Memphis.  After driving a few hours east of there he found the Natchez Trace Parkway, and old Native American trail which is now managed by the Federal govt (a la The Blue Ridge Parkway for example) which meanders from just south of Nashville to Natchez, LA.

After that, it wouldn't be TWR if the fellas didn't speak about bigger issues.  Tonight,  they focused on the differences between generations, how to raise men in this climate, and whether or not OnlyFans girls are justified earning their living or if they are contributing to the horrific dating/marriage/birthrate stats right now.  

C'mon in - the brainwater's fine!

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TWR Season 4 Episode 21 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Mississippi Moon Won't You Keep On Shining On Me

Happy pollen season everyone!  Charlotte is COVERED in yellow right now.  Luckily, Randy is just outside of St Louis and not having the same issues.  This week Randy made it from Fargo, ND over to Lake Bemidji where the Mississippi River begins, down through Minneapolis/St Paul, over to Lacrosse, WI where he had a coffee with one Mary Lou Balts (Bubba's Mother-In-Law) before heading south along the Mississippi flood plain to nearly St Louis.  Sheesh!

Beyond travel discussions the fellas talk a lot about A.I. and how it's all going to affect us in general and what may even occur in the future as the tech advances.  Is this all a good thing or a bad thing?  Tune in to find out.

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TWR Season 4 Episode 21 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Back On The Road?  You Betcha!

Randy is FINALLY back on the road again!  This week he left home base in Washington and traversed the northern portion of the USA to Fargo, ND.   He had to brave a big snowstorm in Oregon, survive a night at a winery, and fight off the boredom of driving through Montana and North Dakota as well.

Randy will be following the Mississippi River from its' origin to its' dump into the Gulf of America while he also catches his beloved Angels playing ball in stadiums across the Midwest.

Bubba talks about a quick trip to Clemson with his son for an orientation and tells us the story of his wife's adventure with Satan's Anus at church.   We get a detailed backstory for Satan's Anus as well.

Then, of course.....aliens.   Emily Eaton made a boo-boo Tik-Tok post and gave us exact dates for alien arrival that, well, didn't happen and now she's on the inter-dimensional hot seat.

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TWR Season 4 Episode 20 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Luke Makes His College Pick And Randy Prepares For Baseball Heaven

Daylight Savings Time is here...or, errrr, done?  I can never remember which.   Anywhoo, it's brighter outside than usual.   

On today's show Bubba reveals which college Luke has picked for the fall and the fellas discuss empty nest syndrome and just how weird it's going to be to have 0/3 kids at home for Bubba and Linda this fall.  

The fellas then do their usual rambling about farmers, daylight savings, aliens, the economy, the crazy year that is 2025, and much more.

Randy then explains that his next trip will be to visit baseball parks in the midwest centering around the Mississippi River and his beloved Angels.  It's almost time to hit the road!

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TWR Season 4 Episode 19 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Name 5 Things YOU Did Last Week, Bucko!

It's a glorious afternoon before the Oscars and so the fellas are here to keep your ear-holes filled with glorious old man ranting for a while.

Randy and Bubba mentally travel all over the map this week -  they talk aliens and their favorite interdimensional communicator, Elon and his government audit, Zelinsky and his VERY BAD DAY, cutting staff from the National Park Service, the Epstein files, the Kennedy assassination, the Florida and Wash DC housing crisis, and many many other topics. 

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TWR Season 4 Episode 18 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

The fixed income blues.

It's another week where Bubba did most of the traveling.  He and his family had a great time visiting the University of Illinois at Champaign, IL on Monday - that was a mere 22 hours of driving in a 48 hour period no big deal.  Bubba is SUPER ready to actually spend a weekend at home this weekend.

Randy talks about his approaching retirement and what a crazy change it is to stop earning money for a living and just start spending it.   It can really throw someone for a loop if they haven't thought it through.

Bubba then explains how todays podcast almost didn't happen because he became part of a sting operation to apprehend a car thief ;)  

The fellas both talk about married life vs unmarried life but living with your sister and how similar (and different) it is. 

Of course, they wrap it up with...aliens.   

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TWR Season 4 Episode 17 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

Why Is There No Comprehensive Dental Insurance??

Oh man do we need to get Randy back on the road lol.

The fellas both became your old man and managed to spend a whole podcast talking about retirement and Medicare and dental insurance and DOGE and AI in film and get off my lawn! 

Bubba is taking his youngest Padawan on a trip to Illinois to visit his Alma Mater, the University of Illinois.  The youngling applied there just to please his father and he got in!  Weather is supposed to be 8 degrees lol.  They also found out live on the podcast if Virgina Tech accepted him as well - tune in to hear the result! 

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TWR Season 4 Episode 16 of the Travels With Randy podcast is here!

The Good Old Days Of Inept eBay And The Buy.com Scoop

It's another gaslighting episode except Randy and Bubba don't really know what that means!  They both talk about the slang of the younger generations and how bizarre it is.

The fellas have a long conversation about being eBay entrepreneurs back in the day and how crazy dealing with eBay was.   Randy also recounts the eBay exclusive scoop on his blog that ended up landing his job for the last 15 years.  That's a million dollar blog post, people!

Bubba talked about his youngest Padawan turning 18 and taking a trip over to Nashville to see Hans Zimmer in concert like the good nerds they both are.   Luke was also deflowered on the way home as they visited his first Buc-ees ever.   

Bubba also gave an update for his book business and it looks like he's going to keep on keeping on.    Does he have ADD?  Randy thinks maybe so!

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