Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude

Bryan kicks things off with the YouTube weathermen who wave fried chicken at the camera, and the cloud-seeding jokes start right away. Rich walks through a week of 3D printing: kitchen sink strainers sized to the millimeter, canvas blocks for his pour paintings, a bagel slicer printed while the Walmart order came together, and a lighted frame for the 8x10s with a $6.50 LED strip, no app, and maybe an Etsy store down the road. Ron has the vinyl guy with three printers, $60,000 in cameras nobody touches, two motorcycles nobody rides, and a winch still in the box, plus a hot rod fund, early voting, and the Towle Court shooting at Fort Bragg 31 years ago. Bryan brings a Lear jet nosedive near Mar-a-Lago and the Halloween shootings, then Rich and Bryan trade pantyhose, Atlas Shrugged, Shakespeare in the Park, and the St. Crispin's Day speech. Bryan also covers Karl Bushby finishing a 31,000-mile walk around the world, the Camino de Santiago, Meta's Muse writing a local news site, the PlayStation 5 jailbreak, and the end of the game disc, while Rich and Bryan sort out POTS, hypochondria, and a great aunt who took the wrong aspirin. Rich can't make it to Kentucky this year, prints a sausage slicer, and puts out a bacon grease fire with water, and Bryan and Rich cover gassed strawberries, alcohol caps in the reefer, and a $13 pigtail wedge that's a nickel's worth of rubber and apparently worth fifty million each. Bryan closes the show with Yeggi, clothespin match guns, a dog that took off a pants leg, and MyAbandonware, home of the oldest game on the shelf, a 1965 baseball sim. Rich reports on Potapalooza, Bella, a hedge butchered down to sticks and stumps, and a week of VA appointments for hearing aids and a partial, and Ron nods off with a chainsaw humming. Links Mentioned MyAbandonware – the website of the week: classic games from 1965 to 2015 that you can play in your browser, including Gyruss and the PDP-10 baseball game Yeggi – a search engine for 3D printable models across Thingiverse, MakerWorld, and other sites MakerWorld – the 3D printing site with the image-to-3D-print tool Thingiverse – one of the big 3D model libraries Yeggi searches Podcast Apps – where to get a modern podcasting app and get notified when the show goes live Sayre to Weatherford – Bryan's local news site Muse – the AI agent that searches, writes, and sorts the news for the local site Relaxed Male – the writing Muse was told to copy for Bryan's voice Etsy – where the handmade lit paintings might end up xTool – the $2,000 laser engraver everyone keeps looking at Harbor Freight – where the tile cutter would come from Walmart – the grocery order that gave a bagel slicer time to print, and the $2.14 bag of bagels Amazon – where the $12 pigtail wedge lives NOAA – the weather radar that beats the clickbait weathermen YouTube – home of Max Velocity, Paul Hall, and the fried chicken intros TikTok – where the cut-to-length LED strips showed up Facebook – the pixel that knows too much, plus the pantyhose reels and the 3D printing videos Cyberpunk 2077 – the game with the most powerful joke weapon in it PlayStation – the PS5 jailbreak, GTA 6, and the end of the disc IMDb – settling the Tim Burton question Google Maps – which can't find the Potapalooza park Buffalo Wild Wings – where the Potapalooza crowd ate afterward Whataburger – what Rich would rather have eaten Medieval Times – the one dinner show worth the trip 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.

Rich kicks things off with a furnace contactor that cost $254 for a part that runs $12 to $43, then confesses he slept through most of a big radio contest and printed his way through the weekend instead: monitor stands, risers, a laptop stand, a retractable box cutter, and a Christmas list of boomerangs, kites, and snowball launchers. Bryan's radiator job means pulling the whole front end off the car, and then he gets to the heavy part: his grandson Rooster, the urgent care visit that missed it, the ER that found pyloric stenosis, and why you advocate for yourself and your kids for the rest of your life. Rich's podiatrist says almost nothing and sells him a $35 pair of insoles, and Bryan explains the six-on, six-off work rotation. Ron shows up late and walks us through a contract driver who placarded a trailer for flammables that weren't on it, a $7,500-a-day hauling rate, and a manual-versus-automatic argument that wanders through J.B. Hunt orientation, floating gears, and a nephew's automatic-only CDL restriction. Along the way: a law firm called Do We Cheat Them and How, a printed hand with a collapsible middle finger, TPU TV bricks and Monopoly money, a Jeep on 37s that's about to get an aluminum oil cooler, Augie the crayon-eating golden retriever, Bella the house hippo, lightning over the roof and a grounded ham shack, and a 3.6 percent cost-of-living bump that buys more cigarettes. Website of the week is Get Free Snacks, Ron's tip of the day is turn around, don't drown, and Bryan drops off the call before the bears get fed. Links Mentioned Get Free Snacks – the website of the week: free full-size snacks from top brands, you just review what shows up Wikipedia – the page on the Communist Control Act of 1954 Lowe's – where the $12 furnace contactor lives H-E-B – where the cigarettes used to be, before they stopped carrying them Walmart – the Arkansas delivery where the gear-floating ride-along happened J.B. Hunt – the orientation road test and the "you will not float my gears" speech YouTube – where the Jeep tune-up research is going to happen Gemini – the cyberpunk picture frame rendering Messenger – how Ron got tracked down for the recording Zoom – the leaked meeting recording in the DSA story BMW – nice cars, never going to buy one Toyota – the car that would make somebody a happy man Facebook – where the 3D printed hand with the collapsible middle finger turned up, and one of the places to share the show Instagram – one of the places to share the show X – one of the places to share the show Bluesky – one of the places to share the show Mastodon – one of the places to share the 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). If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988 The world needs you here.

Bryan opens from a Weatherford hotel with a very small bowl of gumbo and the Route 66 history of Lucille's, which rolls into Casey's buying ASAP Energy and a full-blown Casey's pizza fight between Bryan and Rich. Rich finds a nickel under his carport, pennies are officially done, and nobody can explain the 900-car line for $9 Starbucks coffee. Ron nearly loses his bumper to a Waco construction zone driver with no common sense, then gets pulled over by the same Grand Prairie DOT officer for the third time in five months. Rich is four days into his new 3D printer and has been a printing fool: headset holders, a poop catcher, a spirograph, a brush, plastic-jerky filament drying, TPU scrubbies, and the question of whether 3D printed slop is still slop if it sells. Rich also tells the story of quitting a trucking job over a $700 seat, and crawls into his attic to find a humming furnace transformer and almost no insulation. The heavy part comes when Ron tells the story of Patrick's service dog, and the idea that a veteran can't be forgiven turns into a long, wound-up run through David, Peter, and Joseph. From there it's New Jersey's war on ducks on the dash, Cruising the Coast breaking its record at 10,712, a Sea-Doo pontoon with a brake, challenge coins for first responders, Tears of the 22 closing its doors, Christmas cookies with mustard, Rich's dying smoker, and a Ninite tip for setting up a new Windows machine. It closes with the phrase of the day: sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug. Links Mentioned Ninite – one custom installer for the apps you want on a new Windows computer, with an updater to keep them current Tinkercad – the free, beginner-friendly CAD tool for designing 3D prints Canva – the design tool Rich would love to stop relying on PodcastApps.com – directory of modern podcast apps with live tags, chapters, and a Support This Show button PayPal – one-time or recurring support for the show Casey's – the pizza and food argument that started it all Starbucks – the $9 coffee and the 900-car line Black Rifle Coffee – $5.50 to fill up a mug Scrub Daddy – the sponge Rich can print for a lot less than nine bucks Walmart – where the Scrub Daddy sponges are sold Amazon – where the filament dry box is coming from Sea-Doo – the pontoon boat with a brake and a jet drive Tesla – the Cybertruck, the bedliner one, and the one that jumps YouTube – where the 3D printed slop videos kept showing up Facebook – Cruising the Coast notifications, the Cybertruck post, and the dragon-selling kid Instagram – one of the places to share the show Bluesky – one of the places to share the show X – one of the places to share the show Mastodon – one of the places to share the 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). If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988 The world needs you here.

Bryan's stuck driving back from Amarillo, so Rich and Ron start without him. Ron's two-hour Jeep shelf job turns into four and a half hours, and a four-piston air compressor and some very questionable hot rod trailering from Cruisin' the Coast round out his week. Then Rich drops the news that he's ordered a 3D printer, and his project list jumps from about 22 to about 75 in one afternoon: lighted frames for his pour paintings, a homemade Spirograph, ugly toe charms for size 13 Crocs, a brake rotor clock, and a toilet paper holder with a hinged lid. The hurricane hits at 18 miles an hour and just dies, Rich's guy lines and antenna survive it, and his hearing aids quit on him. When Bryan finally shows up he gets caught up on the printer, recaps a long day at the courthouse, and takes the show through the Ilhan Omar raid, the Minnesota fraud numbers, and why he says privateering is still legal in the U.S. Rich and Bryan trade notes on Windows 11 bloatware, bombers, and prepper-video burnout. Bryan brings up Susan Dell's face, Ron supplies the Adam's apple and ugly-tree lines, and Bryan takes the comedy tangent from Gabriel Iglesias to Josh Johnson before the Site of the Week: ArtCraft, a stack of free open-source Adobe clones. The title is the answer to whether ducks with dickheads are getting printed. Links Mentioned ArtCraft – Site of the Week, free open-source Adobe-style apps (PhotoCraft, VectorCraft, FilmCraft, SoundCraft, and more) Adobe – the subscription software those clones are aimed at Audacity – the free audio editor, version 3.8 vs. 4 Etsy – where lighted frames might sell, as long as the design is original Amazon – the four-piston air compressor, USB LED strips, phone cases, and the needle felting kit Gemini – Gemini Live and its room-by-room 3D print ideas Claude – asked about the lighted frame idea too Hobby Lobby – filament and clock parts Michaels – more filament Crocs – the shoes getting ugly toe charms Facebook – marriage advice groups, Where's Waldo posts, and Josh Johnson clips YouTube – Josh Johnson clips, prepper videos, and the Windows 11 video that started it Reddit – where the Susan Dell photo blew up HBO Max – Josh Johnson's show GitHub – home of the Windows 11 bloatware remover that landed in the chat Microsoft – Windows 11 and Edge, with the tracking switched off PodcastApps.com – directory of modern podcast apps that support funding tags and chapters TwoGrumpyVets.com – the show's website, with the Value for Value tab PayPal – one-time or recurring support for the show Patreon – the paywall game we don't play 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. If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988 The world needs you here.

Bryan, Rich, and the Duuude get together for another round of life, mostly unplanned, with Rich and Ron in the same room for Cruisin' the Coast week. Bella slides out of her harness during a Jeep ride and ends the day with a new harness and a Lamb Chop toy. Thousands of hot rods roll into town, a dozen of them break down in the driving lanes, and the rain cancels the drag races. From there it's pull-the-thermostat theory, Rock Auto prices, Mopar coolant, control arms, a Louisiana State Police run-in, truck cameras that judge your elbow, Rich's porch screening and a 70-and-a-half-inch measuring screwup, a Suzuki Samurai with an engine bigger than the car, a surprise CDL school payout for Ron, Bryan's AI influencer rabbit hole, tornado stories, France's school riots, Mississippi's reading scores, and the college bubble. The best part: Rich walks into a ham radio club meeting on Thursday night and walks out a member, with new friends, club shirts, and a calendar full of POTA and contest events. It closes with Route 66 on the Air and QSL cards, Bella's cheese tax, Tulsa King on Rich's couch, a steroid pack that took the edge off Rich's pain, liver and thiamine talk, and WorldCam.io as the Site of the Week. Links Mentioned WorldCam.io – Site of the Week, live webcams and traffic cams from all over the world RockAuto – cheap parts for the 3.6 Jeep: thermostat housings, control arms, coolant Elk City Hamfest – the Elk City amateur radio club's hamfest page ARRL – where to look up ham radio clubs by county PodcastApps.com – directory of modern podcast apps that support live tags, funding tags, and chapters Fountain – a modern podcast app that can pick up the live show Podcast Guru – a modern podcast app that can pick up the live show TwoGrumpyVets.com – the show's website, with the Value for Value tab PayPal – one-time or recurring support for the show Metal Cloak – the adjustable control arms and drag link Facebook – where the car pictures, videos, and canceled-drag-race news showed up TikTok – where the AI influencers kept popping up YouTube – the AI-generated jazz videos playing for Bella BBC – the report on the French school protests Paramount+ – home of Tulsa King Petco – where the new harness and the Lamb Chop toy came from Walmart – delivery for the hoagie supplies and green olives Lowe's – where the porch screen door came from CVS – the extra-strength magnesium CafePress – possible show merch, if the t-shirt prices ever behave Canva – for album art (2000x2000px, please) GIMP – another option for making show art Zoom – the recording platform, with its usual drama 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. If you are struggling with life please reach out to The Suicide Life Line - Dial 988 The world needs you here.