Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude

Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude

By Richard Chelson and Bryan GoodwinSociety & CultureEducationSelf-ImprovementRelationships
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Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude episodes

  • 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
    Bryan: [email protected]
    Rich: [email protected]

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    2 hr 48 min
  • 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

    Rich: [email protected]

    If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988
    The world needs you here. 

    2 hr 47 min
  • 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]

    If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988
    The world needs you here. 

    2 hr 47 min
  • 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]

    If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988
    The world needs you here. 

    3 hr 7 min
  • 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]

    If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988
    The world needs you here. 

    2 hr 57 min
  • Galley 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]

    If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988
    The world needs you here. 

    3 hr 6 min
  • Bumper 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]
    If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988
    The world needs you here. 

    If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988
    The world needs you here. 

    2 hr 51 min
  • Dogs, 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. 

    2 hr 56 min
  • Everything'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

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    • Tropical Storm Earther and the eastern edge problem

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    • Hovercrafts — recreational, commercial, and English Channel

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    • The Obama Presidential Center and Chicago politics

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    • Waffle House, ranch dressing, and TSA nonsense

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    • Income tax history and the Federal Reserve

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    • Caveman cabbage recipe and rice cooker revelations

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    • The missing GoPro saga

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    • Scrapin' the Coast and content planning

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

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    • Vietnam vets and what you don't ask

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    • Building the Three Grumpy Vets subreddit live on air

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

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    • Fireworks safety tip: don't hold them



    Find Us


    Sites of the Week

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

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    • 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

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

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



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    If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988
    The world needs you here. 

    2 hr 58 min
  • Chili Burritos and 4 Sets of Jack Stands
    Rich is up to his ankles in floodwater, The Duuude just dropped $900 on a new phone he barely understands, and the Duuude's earbuds are staging a full rebellion. This week's rabbit hole starts with relentless Gulf Coast rain and a possible "Super El Nino," then spirals into a Samsung S26 nightmare, a TRICARE billing fight, a taco night gone sideways, and a brand-new flip phone wearing the Commodore name. Somewhere in there: water drop photography, ugly Cybertrucks parked next to a mint 1970s Pacer, Uber's new bus business, a website with a name you shouldn't say out loud at work, and a phone that survived getting run over twice. Buckle up.
    On this episode:
    • Rain, flooding, and Gulf storm fallout
    • A costly new phone and tech frustrations
    • TRICARE bills, VA care, and colonoscopy stories
    • Paychecks, insurance costs, and feeling "hood rich"
    • Taco seasoning fails and grocery store debates
    • Voice royalties, cigarettes, and phone choices
    • Android versus iPhone, and retro phone nostalgia (hello, Commodore)
    • Uber buses, Cybertrucks, and classic ugly cars
    • Water drop photography and turning art into prints
    • Podcast ideas, OnlyFans jokes, and internet absurdity
    • Current events, hot takes, and a Reddit ban story
    • Elon Musk, SpaceX stock, crypto, and market talk
    • Wrap-up: value for value, and a phone that survived two tire tracks
    Links & Resources Mentioned:
    Commodore Callback 8020 flip phone -- commodore.net/callback
    Rasterbator (turn any image into a giant wall poster) -- rasterbator.net
    Modern Podcasting 2.0 apps directory -- podcastapps.com
    TrueFans -- truefans.fm
    Podverse -- podverse.fm
    Podcast Guru -- podcastguru.io
    Email Us:
    Rich -- [email protected]
    Bryan -- [email protected]
    If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988
    The world needs you here.

    If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988
    The world needs you here. 

    2 hr 58 min

About Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude

From the publisher's feed

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, in our infinite wisdom, we decided to share this with you. To let you know that you can find someone to talk to about anything and still maintain your manly attitude.