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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 response: "What a stupid I am."

In this episode of Keep Buggering On, we follow that story wherever it leads: into the actual Masters rule that cost a man a major championship, into the very human habit of signing off on things — expense reports, performance reviews, forms — without double-checking them, and into the fact that it took professional golf fifty-six years to fix the rule that broke Roberto's heart. Along the way, there's a personal detour involving a disastrous first round of golf, a butterfly with impeccable timing, and a well-timed kiss that intercepted a swear word before it could escape.

Everything in this episode is true. None of it is going to make you feel better about humanity. That's the deal. Keep Buggering On is connected to KBO Standard Supply — find us at k-b-o-standardsupplyllc.com — where the store is coming together one phrase at a time.

What is KBO Standard Supply? We make no-nonsense apparel for the disciplined, the relentless, and anyone who knows that a rough day is no excuse to quit. If you’re going to face the chaos of the world, you might as well look lethal doing it.

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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 know. You know. We're fixing it, and we're owning it — because a show about human beings not getting it right the first time probably shouldn't pretend otherwise. Then we follow Wilde's line where it actually leads: into the history of a man who succeeded wildly by going too far in everything, into the restaurant menus that put bacon on a donut and called it progress, into the fried pickle (a perfectly good vegetable that humanity simply could not leave alone), and into the comment sections where someone decided a stranger's tomato garden needed their unsolicited expert opinion at eleven PM.

Everything in this episode is true. None of it is going to make you feel better about humanity. That's the deal. Keep Buggering On is connected to KBO Standard Supply — find us at k-b-o-standardsupplyllc.com — where the store is coming together one phrase at a time. We'll let you know when it's ready.

What is KBO Standard Supply? We make no-nonsense apparel for the disciplined, the relentless, and anyone who knows that a rough day is no excuse to quit. If you’re going to face the chaos of the world, you might as well look lethal doing it.

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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 Halloween costume hunt that produced a huzzah that wasn't even ours. Fully sourced. Genuinely funny. Wear the mindset — KBO Standard Supply, link in the show notes.

What is KBO Standard Supply? We make no-nonsense apparel for the disciplined, the relentless, and anyone who knows that a rough day is no excuse to quit. If you’re going to face the chaos of the world, you might as well look lethal doing it.

K-B-O Standard Supply LLC