Keep Buggering On
Alexandria Quinn Love, M.A. — historian and formulator — and Dennis, a U.S. Navy veteran and thirty-year veteran of pharmaceutical and microchip quality control, co-host Keep Buggering On together, each bringing their own standards to the receipts. Every episode starts with a shirt. KBO Standard Supply makes apparel with a phrase on it, and the phrase is never just a phrase — it's a door. Keep Buggering On walks through that door into whatever's actually on the other side: history nobody taught you right, a golf swing gone wrong, an ethics problem hiding in your last team meeting, a recipe that ended in minor property damage. Fully accurate. Genuinely funny. Never mean about it. Alex and Dennis aren't here to lecture anyone or take anyone down — just to report, with the receipts, exactly how absurd being human really is. They also run KBO Apparel. We tell true stories to honor the people who lived them. Every event and quotation is drawn from factual accounts and shared with respect for those involved. We checked. It's real. You're not going to believe it. www.kbostandardsupply.com
Episodes
On May 18, 2025, a car went over the seawall at St. Peter's Park in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and plunged into Harbor Cove with three women trapped inside. Alex (M.A. in history) and Dennis (U.S. Navy veteran) tell the true, fully-sourced story of off-duty fire lieutenant Buddy Doucette and the crew of the lobster boat Tight Lines, who went in after them with nothing but a hammer and a knife. We checked. It's real....
On September 11th, 2001, while the towers were still burning and the whole country went silent, something else was happening on the water that almost nobody remembers: roughly 500,000 people evacuated from Lower Manhattan by boat in under nine hours — bigger than Dunkirk, run by ferry captains, tugboat crews, and dinner-cruise operators who'd never drilled for anything like it. This episode opens our Fir...
A bonus episode, off the usual cycle — requested by one of our most loyal listeners, and there was nothing to do but honor it. November 10th, 1975: twenty-nine men, a storm called the Witch of November, and three words on the radio that became the whole hinge of the story. We get into the ship, the theories nobody's ever agreed on, and the reason this wreck is remembered when deadlier ones on the same lakes mo...
The most famous line in Coast Guard history — "You have to go out. You don't have to come back." — might not be real. At least, not exactly. It traces to a 1904 rescue off Cape Hatteras and a keeper named Patrick Etheridge, but the earliest surviving account of what he actually said wasn't written down until 1946 — forty-two years later. There are at least three competing versions. The station logb...
July 1948, Berlin. A blockade, a fence, two sticks of gum, and a farm kid from Utah who broke every rule in the book because thirty starving kids asked him not to worry about them. This is the true story of Operation Little Vittles — the unauthorized candy drop that got a superpower to file an actual diplomatic complaint, and the general who could've ended it with one word and instead told the lieutenant...
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December 22, 1944. Bastogne is surrounded. The Germans deliver an ultimatum: surrender or face annihilation. The general in charge says one word back — and the real story of how that word got written down is funnier, and truer, than the legend. This episode: the myth versus the muttered reality, a staffer's assist that made history, and why "Nuts!" ended up on a shirt eighty years later. Accur...
June 1918. Belleau Wood. The Germans are fifty miles from Paris, the French line is folding, and a brand-new brigade of American Marines is told to fall back with everyone else. Captain Lloyd Williams says six words instead — "Retreat, hell! We just got here!" — and dies nine days later making sure they were true. We checked. The Marine Corps' own history division can't even agree on who really sai...
A Navy chaplain isn't allowed to touch a weapon. That's not weakness — that's the entire job. So when the attack on Pearl Harbor hits the USS New Orleans and the ship's ammunition locker is welded shut with the key ashore, Lieutenant Howell Forgy grabs a fire axe, breaks the men into their own bullets, and does the only thing left that's actually his to give: he starts shouting the men into motion. Less than a...
For the first time on KBO, we're not doing this alone. Dennis — my husband, my business partner, and the most silent partner in podcast history — joins the mic to hash out the argument we have over every single product: backstory vs. copy-paste, font size vs. storyline, and whether anyone actually knows what "heading the ball" means. Along the way: the true story of two brothers-in-law who got assi...
In 1968, on his own 45th birthday, golfer Roberto De Vicenzo shot the best round of his life — good enough to force a playoff at the Masters. Then he lost the green jacket over a pencil mark he didn't even make. His playing partner wrote down the wrong score, he signed the card without catching it, and the rulebook said the signature was the truth now, whether or not it matched what actually happened. His only...
Oscar Wilde once said "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." He meant it as a philosophy. He lived it as a cautionary tale. And somewhere along the way, the American restaurant industry, the internet, and this very podcast all decided he had a point.
In this episode of Keep Buggering On, we start with a confession: we mentioned KBO Standard Supply way too many times in our early episodes. We kno...
Where does "Keep Buggering On" actually come from — and why do we keep yelling "huzzah" like it's 1812? On this episode, we trace the real Winston Churchill moment that gave this whole show its name (December 10th, 1941, three days after Pearl Harbor), the surprisingly contested history of the word "huzzah," and the actual sailors who shouted it mid-battle aboard the USS Constitution. Plus: a multi-state...
A golf shot so rare almost nobody saw it happen — and the legend got told anyway. On this episode of Keep Buggering On, we trace Gene Sarazen's 1935 Masters double eagle, the "shot heard 'round the world" that maybe two dozen people actually witnessed in person. Then: a ten-year-old argument about whether Benedict Arnold really deserves to be America's most famous traitor, and a classroom story about the...
Ever snapped at someone for asking a completely innocent question like, "Hey, did you grab milk?" We’ve all been there. In this episode of Keep Buggering On, we are breaking down the art of the one-liner, the volatility of homemade carbs, and the real reason you are secretly furious at the person standing right next to you.
First, we tackle one of history's most iconic verbal takedowns: Winston Churchill’...
Welcome to the premiere episode of the Keep Buggering On podcast. This show takes something true—fully, footnote-having true—and tells it to you like it’s the best thing that happened at the bar last night. No wellness routines, no debates, and no conspiracy theories. We checked, it’s real, and you’re not going to believe it.
We kick things off with a confession from the driving range ab...
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