On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan do a Republican National Convention mega show, talking about each night of the convention in detail. But a lot of other things happened this week, so before even starting on the convention they cover Nice and Munich and Syria and Baton Rouge and Miami and Turkey and Roger Ailes and the VP announcements and more. It was a very very busy news week. To top it off, Sam also interviews an actual attendee at the convention. It is a big show. Over three and a half hours this time. Our longest ever. Enjoy!
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Recorded 2016-07-23
Length this week – 3:40:00
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Show Details:
(0:00:10-0:06:55) Introduction
Big News Week
Election Graphs vs Curmudgeon’s Corner
(0:07:58-0:32:56) Everything Else Part 1
Nice Attack
Munich Attack
Alex Interlude
US Drone Strike in Syria
Baton Rogue Police Killing
North Miami Shooting
(0:33:09-0:52:39) Everything Else Part 2
Ivan’s Staplers
Attempted Coup in Turkey
Roger Ailes
(0:53:24-1:22:06) Everything Else Part 3
Mike Pence VP Rollout
Republican Rules Committee
Trump and Russia
Leaked DNC docs
Tim Kaine VP Announcement
(1:22:44-1:41:22) Republican National Convention Day 1
Expectations
Rules Vote
Minor Speakers
Melania Speech
(1:42:25-1:57:07) Republican National Convention Day 2
Official Roll Call Vote
Giuliani Speech
Christie Mock Trial
Duck Song
Don Jr Speech
(1:57:55-2:21:15) Republican National Convention Day 3
Cruz Speech
Pence Speech
Trump NYT Interview
(2:21:54-2:56:01) Republican National Convention Day 4
Ivanka Speech
Trump Speech
Trump vs Clinton
(2:57:09-3:35:50) Interview with Marcus the RNC Alternate
Self-Introduction
Political Origins
Primary Support
Unification
Electability
Demographics
NeverTrump efforts
Convention Experience
Protests
Final thoughts
(3:37:10-3:39:40) Wrap up
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We are way behind in posting the episodes, but back in May Alex celebrated the 10th subscriber to ALeXMXeLA.com by spending two episodes flying various planes in X-Plane 10. Especially in the last few minutes of the first of these (starting at about the 17 minute mark) you can imagine what horrors you might experience if you were in a 747 piloted by a six year old. In the second episode he gets a bit better, although you probably still wouldn’t want to be on that plane. Anyway, enjoy!
On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan spend the most time on Election 2016. So you will hear all about the latest Trump craziness and the Clinton email scandal. But there is a lot more here too! We recorded before Philandro Castile’s death or the attacks in Dallas, so that will have to wait until next week, but Sam has an adventure with the IRS and we talk about our theme music by Ray Lynch! And in a lightning round we briefly cover over a dozen other topics from the space probe at Jupiter to Puerto Rican bankruptcy to how Sam rigs the election polls… and more!
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Recorded 2016-07-07
Length this week – 2:01:41
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Show Details:
(0:01:58-0:20:23) But First
Agenda
Sam and the IRS
Ivan Family
Ray Lynch
(0:21:03-1:02:56) Election 2016: Republicans
Star of David Tweet
Trump likes Saddam Hussein
Trump throwing the election?
Trump rape charges
Free the delegates?
(1:04:12-1:27:12) Election 2016: Democrats
Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch
Clinton Email Scandal
Sanders Foot Dragging
Veepstakes
(1:27:53-2:01:21) Lightning Round
Juno at Jupiter
Brexit Fallout
Tesla Crashes
Non-Western Terror Attacks
EgyptAir Update
Puerto Rican Bankrupcy
Chilcot Report
Alton Sterling
Christian Mingle
ALeXMXeLA.com
Gretchen Carslon lawsuit
Book: Earth Afire
Trump and the Frozen book
Rigging the Polls for Clinton
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This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan’s big topics are Brexit and Election 2016. In addition though, they talk about Low Battery Mode, the Yelchin accident, SCOTUS, and even a bit about Ivan’s latest Uber driver and a connection to a class Sam and Ivan took in college.
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Recorded 2016-06-29
Length this week – 2:01:53
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Show Details:
(0:00:10-0:13:20) But First
(0:13:59-0:27:26) Yelchin accident
(0:28:29-0:58:17) Brexit
(0:59:20-1:47:04) Election 2016
(1:48:22-2:01:33) SCOTUS
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I now present Alex’s new mega episode from his channel ALeXMXeLA.com. He is very proud of this. It is different than his usual gaming videos. There is no video game. Instead, he and Amy present some educational material about plants. Sorta.
Alex and Amy go to the store to buy plants, then head home and re-pot them. In between the commentary on plants, you’ll hear them bickering and talking about all sorts of other things as well. For instance, Alex wanted to make this two episodes, Amy wanted only one. Amy won that one. Alex was right. Off camera, Amy also wanted to cut a lot to make it shorter. Alex was having none of that. Enjoy! – Recorded 2016-04-14
Alex did a lot of the editing on the video (what there was of it) himself, adding scene transitions and choosing how to do the credits at the end, and making choices about how much to leave in and what to drop. He decided he wanted to include almost all of the footage we had, only a few seconds total were left out. And a few seconds of footage are actually included twice! So this is his longest video yet, over an hour. And while I may have cut some out of it if I was doing the editing all by myself to bring it under an hour, I admit to being amused by the sibling banter that winds its way through the entire episode.
Enjoy! And subscribe to his channel! This is the 74th episode. We have 70 more “in the can” that have been recorded but not yet posted. I am trying to post several each week, but am having issues keeping up with the rate he records them! In addition to the gaming videos, he has been making some more of these non-gaming videos occasionally as well about various topics. :-)
PS: Lets Plant 1 was an earlier video giving an overview of different sorts of trees that appear in the games he plays.
PSS: I specifically had Alex choose some of the built in “use it anywhere” music loops from Garage Band for the credits to be safe on copyright sorts of issues, but YouTube still identified it as copyrighted music (although with the wrong title, so I suspect it may be an incorrect identification) and so ads were inserted by the the supposed copyright holder. Annoying. Better than blocking the video, but still annoying. You can just close the ads, but still…
Update 2016-06-24 13:56 UTC: Had to upload a new version of this because a day and a half after publishing it Alex pointed out there was a place in the middle with an audio gap that escaped my notice despite watching it over and over again. I was able to fix it, and a corrected version is now posted and embedded above.
Update 2016-06-26 07:09 UTC: It looks like the new version, with the exact same closing credits music, didn’t trigger the copyright warning this time. Good. Because it wasn’t the song it said it was anyway. Sigh.
Sam is solo again on this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner podcast. As you would expect, the big topics are election related. Clinton clinching. The Sanders dead enders. Trump’s really bad week. Veep speculation. All of that. In addition, some brief hits on the Brock Turner case, the Gawker bankruptcy, some Apple stuff… and more!
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Recorded 2016-06-11
Length this week – 1:36:22
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Alex’s full play through of the original Portal is now available as a playlist on his YouTube channel.
He has a little help from me and Amy, but does quite a bit of it himself.
You are going to watch the whole thing right? It is 11 episodes. They total 3 hours, 52 minutes, and 21 seconds of game play. I’ve watched all of it, so should you!
This week on the Curmudgeon’s Corner podcast Sam and Ivan talk about television, thermostats, manipulating public opinion and a few other things besides Election 2016, but of course most of the show ends up being about the election. They cover the last gasp Sanders path to the nomination, Trump zig-zagging on the issues, the Republican civil war, and possible Trump VPs. Oh, and Sam’s son Alex keeps interrupting to promote his YouTube channel.
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Recorded 2016-05-12
Length this week – 1:35:45
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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner Ivan and Sam spend most of the show on Election 2016 again. On the Democratic side they talk about how after a short moment when it looked like he was embracing the inevitable, Sanders is once again fighting on against the odds. On the Republican side they discuss Trump’s victory, how we got to this point, how the Republican establishment will react, and what it all means for the general election. In addition to all that, there is also talk of the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, a county Democratic convention, Ivan’s travel… oh, and Sam’s 6 year old son Alex has some questions for the listeners.
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Recorded 2016-05-04
Length this week – 1:42:04
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Show Details:
(0:00:10-0:12:20) But First
Ivan’s Flights
Alex’s Questions
Agenda
Delegate Confusion
(0:13:00-0:27:15) Election 2016: Democrats
Indiana Results
Sanders still fighting!
Annoying the superdelegates
Ways Clinton is Winning
Contested Convention?
Over Over Over
(0:28:35-1:03:29) Election 2016: Republicans
Indiana Results
Trump Ascendant
Cruz Drops Out
No Rules Changes
Last Trump/Cruz attacks
Trump is the Nominee
How did it happen?
How will elected Republicans respond?
Predicting November
Trump Win Scenarios
How big a Clinton win?
(1:04:32-1:18:55) White House Correspondents Dinner
Obama’s Routine
Boehner and House Divisions
Differences in Trump/Clinton surrogates
Potential Trump VPs
Wilmore’s Routine
(1:20:10-1:41:44) Snohomish County Democratic Convention
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