Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude

By Richard Chelson and Bryan Goodwin

This show is about two grumpy vets and a duuude who became friends and have been talking once a week for the last 4 or 5 years. These conversations result in many rabbit holes being chased. Finally, i... more

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August 30, 2026Oh No Not an Apostrophe
Rich, Bryan, and Ron settle in for another round of weather complaints, heat index bragging rights, and home-repair swapping — Ron's up early for a run to Abilene, Rich shares how sealing his AC ducts dropped his electric bill about $2 a day, and Bryan's still fighting a 130-degree attic and an old house that used to run a $500-a-month natural gas bill before the wood stove took over.
From there it wanders everywhere it usually does: Rich's dilemma over joining a ham radio club (and the Thursday-night scheduling conflict that finally pushed the show to Mondays), hitting 10,000 downloads and sorting real listeners from bot traffic, a Hennessy Velociraptor sighting, celebrity deaths and the Dolly Parton/Freebird duet nobody knew existed, a long detour into AI, data centers, and the power grid, and the usual politics-and-government venting. Rich lays out his plan to shoot video for Cruising the Coast with his new phone and gimbal — which is also where the episode gets its name. Bryan talks about his wife wanting to see her uncle while she still can, growing older, and the Ocean Pacific corduroy shorts he's bringing back. Route 66 trivia and a website of the week round it out, and Ron closes with a trucking safety tip everyone needs to hear.
Links Mentioned
Mobile Amateur Radio Club (W4IAX)
No Agenda Show
Podcast Apps (find a modern podcast app with a funding tag)
Make My Drive Fun — website of the week
iHeartRadio
Daily Mail
Edison Research
Amazon — for anyone else who needs Ocean Pacific corduroy shorts back in their life
Support the Show
We're a value-for-value show — no sponsors, no ads. If we got you to laugh, think, or yell at your speakers, that's worth something, and there are three ways to send it back:
Time — Share the show or this episode with someone who'd enjoy it.
Talent — Make us some album art (2000x2000 square) and we'll credit you and post it on the site.
Treasure — Support us through any modern podcast app with a funding tag, found at podcastapps.com. Whatever you think it's worth, one-time or recurring, entirely up to you.
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Bryan: [email protected]
Rich: [email protected]

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2h 56min
August 24, 2026 Flock Cameras, Third Eye Stickers, and Grandma's Ass-Whooping
This week we kick off griping about the brutal summer heat before Ron takes us deep into trucking life — special permit testing on hazmat cylinders, DOT stops over faded UV labels, and a surprise job site move from McAlester to Ada. From there we go all over the map: celebrity deaths and the state of the news, flock cameras and surveillance, liberty vs. safety, generational apathy, and why we'd rather argue like friends than agree like strangers.
Bryan gives us an update on the podcast player he's building and tells the story of a 99-year-old grandma who reportedly beat up a home intruder. We get into driver-facing AI cameras, backward-facing cameras coming to new vehicles, the national debt and gas prices, and a detour into ham radio contests, HAARP, and shortwave radio. We close it out with the website of the week, a couple of car trouble stories, and our usual value-for-value pitch.
Links Mentioned
StartMyCar.com — https://www.startmycar.com
DeFlock (flock camera tracking map) — https://deflock.me
Sayre2Weatherford.com (Bryan's podcast player build) — https://www.sayre2weatherford.com
PodcastingApps.com — https://podcastingapps.com
Support the Show
This show runs on value for value. If you got something out of it, that's worth something — your time, your talent, or your treasure. Share it with a friend, send us album art, or support us through a modern podcasting app via PodcastingApps.com.
Get In Touch
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Rich: [email protected]

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2h 48min
August 17, 2026 Don't Drink the Battery Acid
This week Rich, Bryan, and the Duuude catch up after a scorching week — Zoom hiccups, a dead grape myrtle bush, and heat indexes pushing triple digits. Ron doesn't hold back on a gas plant nightmare that nearly cost him his PTO in throat chops, while Bryan gets his hyperlocal news site off the ground and Rich rolls out season three of his other podcast. From there the guys wander through vacation planning, Ron's untouched model kit collection from his grandpa's estate, the last Blockbuster on Earth, dying malls, Rich's GrapheneOS privacy plans, telescope shopping for a nebula shot, and Bryan's oilfield frac work — plus the usual detours into politics, TV, and everything in between.
Links Mentioned
sayre2weatherford.com — Bryan's hyperlocal news site for Sayre, Elk City, Clinton, and Weatherford
goblin.tools — this week's Website of the Week, a collection of simple tools (Magic To-Do, Formalizer, Consultant, and more) for when things feel too big
podcastapps.com — find a modern podcast app that supports live streaming so you can catch the show the moment it goes live
Support the Show
This show runs on value-for-value. If we made you laugh, think, or groan, you get to decide what that was worth. There are three ways to do it:
Time — share the episode with your friends, family, and enemies.
Talent — send us album art or other creative work.
Treasure — hit the Support This Show button in your podcast app to send something through PayPal, one-time or recurring.
Get In Touch
Bryan: [email protected]
Rich: [email protected]

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2h 47min
August 10, 2026 Slap Your Mama, Tabasco Pepperoni, and Fat Boy's MREs
This week Rich gets ambitious — rescuing a curbside table, building a rolling generator stand with a Harbor Freight deer pulley, and reviving a generator that had sat dead for years. That kicks off a debate over Slap Your Mama versus Tabasco (and whether Tabasco belongs in pepperoni), followed by Mopar's notoriously bad paint jobs and a six-hour fight with a backwards-mounted Jeep alternator. Bryan lays out his plans for a hyperlocal Sayre-to-Weatherford news podcast, complete with sponsor pricing and Perplexity AI research on Western Oklahoma listener numbers. Rich and Ron trade Korea deployment stories — Camp Casey, Camp Stanley, live-fire ranges, and the eternal debate over sea bags versus duffel bags — before the guys cover Ford's oddly named Ranger "Rapture," car telematics selling your driving data to insurance companies, the upcoming Toyota Stout, GrapheneOS and duress-password phone privacy, and close it out with the site of the week: CamelCamelCamel.com.

Links Mentioned:
Harbor Freight
AutoZone
RockAuto
KCLI Newstalk
Perplexity AI
CamelCamelCamel.com
GrapheneOS
Discover
Capital One
PayPal
Podcast Apps
Support the Show:
There are three ways to pay back any value you got from this episode — Time, Talent, and Treasure. Time: share the show with a friend, family, or on social media. Talent: if you make art (hand-drawn or AI), send it our way and we'll feature it in chapter and episode art. Treasure: if you've gotten value out of the show and want to support it directly, you can do that through the show — whatever amount feels right to you.
Get In Touch:
Rich -- [email protected]
Bryan -- [email protected]

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2h 47min
August 03, 2026 Bald Head Bacon and a 59-Cent Pup Cup
This week Rich walks through his brutal Jeep shock replacement — a five-minute job that turned into an eight-and-a-half hour fight with stripped lug nuts, a honeycombed shock mount, and a jack that sat on his porch because his pain level had hit a 10. Ron has his own expensive lesson after stacking his Jeep backwards at the monthly car meet, blowing out his power steering booster and stripping studs on his spacers. Bryan shares an update on Jana's hospitalization and the relief that she's finally getting the care she needs. From there the guys cover MTV turning 45, Bryan's tribute to No Agenda's John C. Dvorak, Rich's take on Al Jazeera's surprisingly even-handed reporting, Rich's story on a border-crossing phone search that ended in a GrapheneOS duress wipe, the FCC's Roomba ban, AI hype and Sam Altman wanting your money, Chinese knockoffs versus "Made in America," a school shooting sentencing, home defense philosophy, women in combat roles and the Space Force, and close it out arguing over McDonald's ice cream machines, Biscoff blizzards, and Lorna Doones.

Links Mentioned:
Amazon
Harbor Freight
O'Reilly Auto Parts
RockAuto
Al Jazeera
No Agenda Show
McBroken.com
PayPal
Podcast Apps
Note: a scam site, campsales[.]com, was also named on air — not linked here on purpose.
Support the Show:
There are three ways to pay back any value you got from this episode — Time, Talent, and Treasure. Time: share the show with a friend, family, or on social media. Talent: if you make art (hand-drawn or AI), send it our way and we'll feature it in chapter and episode art. Treasure: if you've gotten value out of the show and want to support it directly, you can do that through the show — whatever amount feels right to you.
Get In Touch:
Rich -- [email protected]
Bryan -- [email protected]

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3h 7min
July 27, 2026 Storm Surge Selfies, Clock Springs, and Yucky Song Wrong Hole
This week Rich rides out Tropical Storm Bertha's storm surge with Bella in tow, then dives deep into Jeep repairs — clock springs, shocks, and cabin air filters. Ron chimes in with his own trail-ride mayhem, a near-miss on the road, and the story of his mom's sentimental Buick Regal. From there the guys swap trucking stories (Blue Pete included), wander through mountain passes and winter misery, and land on a Puerto Rico deployment story before wrapping with a Scott update, a water-rights rant, chicken tender secrets, and MIT's free course catalog.
Links Mentioned:
RockAuto
Extreme Terrain
onX Off-Road
MIT OpenCourseWare
PayPal
Podcast Apps
Support the Show:
There are three ways to pay back any value you got from this episode — Time, Talent, and Treasure. Time: share the show with a friend, family, or on social media. Talent: if you make art (hand-drawn or AI), send it our way and we'll feature it in chapter and episode art. Treasure: if you've gotten value out of the show and want to support it directly, you can do that through the show — whatever amount feels right to you.
Get In Touch:
Rich -- [email protected]
Bryan -- [email protected]
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2h 57min
July 20, 2026Galley Nippers, Gopher Gas, and a Fatter Fat Boy
Rich, Bryan, and Ron cover a lot of ground this week — back MRIs, a blown disc that ended jump status, a Hemet tire that ate a whole Saturday in Korea, a stolen challenge coin, Bella's dinner theater, and a yard war against mosquitoes and a mole. There's also a genuinely great story about letting a foster kid drive a Jeep through the trails at a camp near Marble Falls. Brian's wife Jana has gallbladder surgery, the guys argue about cryonics and Tootsie Pops, and it all wraps up with the site of the day: Supercook.com, for when you've got random ingredients and no plan.
Links Mentioned
Supercook.com — enter what's in your kitchen, get recipes back
AllRecipes.com — where some of Supercook's full recipes link out to
PodcastApps.com — find a modern podcast app like Podcast Guru
TwoGrumpyVets.com — donate button, show info
Support the Show
We're a Time, Talent, Treasure kind of show. If you got value out of this episode, the best thing you can do is share it with somebody — friend, family, even your worst enemy. If you've got a talent for digital art, send us episodic or chapter art. And if you want to chip in financially, whatever you can afford — we're grateful for every bit of it and we'll never treat it like it wasn't enough.
Get In Touch
Bryan: [email protected]
Rich: [email protected]
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3h 6min
July 13, 2026Bumper Cars At 90 Miles Per Hour
This week, Bryan, Rich,and Ron sits down for one of those conversations that reminds everyone exactly why they do this show — life shows up fast, and sometimes all you can do is laugh through the chaos. The big story is Ron's unbelievably rough week on the road: rear-ended on I-35 by a kid doing 90-100 mph with no brakes, no insurance, and no registration, followed by a DOT stop, a late-night piss test scramble, and a work schedule that keeps shifting on him. Rich balances it out with something a lot calmer — taking Bella for rides in the Jeep with his new Insta360 GO Ultra and its time-shift mode. From there it's a global download surge, scary fungal-spore headlines, island trip daydreams, grocery store meat sales, a long wait in the truck line at the sand plant, and a deep dive into why this show will never carry a sponsor.Links Mentioned

Windows93.net – Site of the Week, a browser-based nostalgia trip that boots up like old Windows and even runs an arcade emulator
Healthline.com – the source Rich pulled up on the deadly fungal spore story making the rounds
PodAnalyst.com – the analytics tool Bryan pulled up to check the show's surging global download numbers
BetterHelp.com – brought up as an example of the kind of subscription-service ad you'll never hear on this show
Support the Show
No sponsors here — you are the sponsor. Support us with your Time, Talent, or Treasure:
Time – share the show with someone who'd enjoy it
Talent – send us album/episode/chapter art (2000x2000px)
Treasure – hit "Support This Show" in your podcast app for one-time or recurring support via PayPal
Get In Touch
Email Bryan: [email protected]
Email Rich: [email protected]
Got a question for the Duuude? Send it to either email above and we'll make sure he sees it (eventually).
Email Us:
Rich-- [email protected]
Bryan -- [email protected]
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The world needs you here.
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2h 51min
July 06, 2026Dogs, Dust, and a Really Bad Friday
Bryan, Rich, and the Duuude get together for another round of life, mostly unplanned. Bella starts a full-blown TV rivalry with any animal on screen, Rich's back-door floor peaks up like a tent and turns into a full flooring-replacement nightmare, and losing his phone at Lowe's ends with a trip to Verizon and a brand new Pixel 10. From there it's Saharan dust, tenting floors and piers, prediction markets and the lottery, crypto skepticism, a $20 magnetic cup holder from Harbor Freight, an antenna anchor working loose, boat plans and a maybe-island trip, a hard conversation about homelessness and honesty, electric vehicles vs. the new diesel Hilux, solar panels and local LLMs, a Hep C treatment update, and a deep dive into the 100,000+ satellites currently orbiting Earth. Ron closes it out with some very necessary M-80 safety advice ahead of the 4th.
Links Mentioned
LeoLabs Satellite Visualization – Site of the Week, track every satellite, rocket body, and piece of debris currently in orbit
Kalshi – the prediction market / event contract site discussed
Audacity 4.0 Beta – the new DAW-style interface Rich has been testing
PodcastApps.com – directory of modern podcast apps (Castamatic, Podcast Guru, True Fans, and more) that support live tags, funding tags, and chapters
Support the Show
No sponsors here — you are the sponsor. Support us with your Time, Talent, or Treasure:
Time – share the show with someone who'd enjoy it
Talent – send us album/episode/chapter art (2000x2000px)
Treasure – hit "Support This Show" in your podcast app for one-time or recurring support via PayPal
Get In Touch
Email Bryan: [email protected]
Email Rich: [email protected]
Got a question for the Duuude? Send it to either email above and we'll make sure he sees it (eventually).
If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988
The world needs you here.
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2h 56min
June 28, 2026Everything's Faster Than I Am
This week Bryan, Rich, and the Duuude tackle the important stuff: standing water that won't quit, a GoPro that sprouted legs and ran off, and what happens when you look down your nose at explosives. Also: hovercrafts as a business model, the Waffle House pipeline, TSA's war on ranch dressing, Reddit setup live on air, caveman cabbage, and a surprisingly honest conversation about what truck drivers carry with them long after they leave the road.

Oh, and the Duuude is now on Reddit. Mostly.

Topics This Week

Gulf Coast flooding and the great lawnmower dilemma

Tropical Storm Earther and the eastern edge problem

Hovercrafts — recreational, commercial, and English Channel

The Obama Presidential Center and Chicago politics

Waffle House, ranch dressing, and TSA nonsense

Income tax history and the Federal Reserve

Caveman cabbage recipe and rice cooker revelations

The missing GoPro saga

Scrapin' the Coast and content planning

Truck speed governors — a bad idea then, a bad idea now

Vietnam vets and what you don't ask

Building the Three Grumpy Vets subreddit live on air

ClassicGameZone.com and Neal.fun — this week's sites

Fireworks safety tip: don't hold them

Find Us

Reddit: r/ThreeGrumpyVets

Email Bryan: [email protected]

Email Rich: [email protected]

Sites of the Week

ClassicGameZone.com — retro arcade games, free, in your browser

Neal.fun — weird little games including Internet Road Trip

Support the Show
We're a value-for-value show. If you got something out of this episode, you can give back three ways:

Time — Share the show with someone who'd appreciate it

Talent — AI art for chapter images or album art? We'd love it. Email us.

Treasure — Hit the Support link in your podcast app to send what you think we're worth

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2h 58min

FAQs about Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude:

How many episodes does Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude have?

The podcast currently has 116 episodes available.