This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan spend most of the show talking about the Democratic Debates, but they also spend some time on a movie Sam watched, Sam’s adventures with streaming live TV again, and the situation with border detention camps.
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Recorded 2019-06-29 Length this week – 2:19:04
(0:00:20-0:18:26) Ivan: Sam Movie – Apollo 11: First Steps (2019)
(0:19:10-1:31:14) Sam: Democratic Debates
(1:31:52-1:50:08) Ivan: Sam’s Streaming Failures
(1:52:09-2:18:43) Sam: Border Camps
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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Brandy joins Sam to talk about dogs, raisins, impeachment, Mexican tariffs, propaganda, polls, and electability. A fun and exciting show!
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Recorded 2019-06-08 Length this week – 1:37:47
(0:00:33-0:57:18) Round 1
Brandy: Raisin Dog
Sam: Impeachment
(0:58:55-1:37:27) Round 2
Brandy: Trump Soup
Sam: Electability
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This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Ed and Bruce join Sam to cover a wide variety of topics. Election 2020 updates. Discussions on Syria and Iran. Some thoughts on populists and on nuclear power. And finally economic stats and machine learning. We’ve got about everything this week!
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Recorded 2019-05-10 Length this week – 2:14:34
(0:00:20-0:36:43) Intro
Agenda
Democratic Nomination
Election Graphs Update
(0:38:04-1:08:56) Round One
Ed: Civilian Casualties in Syria
Bruce: Iran escalation
(1:09:36-1:35:42) Round Two
Ed: Populists and why they get elected and want recounts
Bruce: Three Mile Island closing
(1:36:58-2:14:13) Round Three
Ed: Income and Employment
Bruce: Machine Learning everywhere
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This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner… lightning rounds! Sam and Ivan talk about a total of 17 different topics this time around. These include… the snow in Seattle, Roger Stone, the Green New Deal, Paul Manafort, a correction to something Sam said last week, food delivery, translating Trump into other languages, the National Emergency, an upcoming Seattle Curmudgeon’s Corner meetup, and of course eight other things too. Enjoy!
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Recorded 2019-02-16 Length this week – 2:40:00
(0:00:20-0:28:09) But First
Trump translations
Agenda
Curmudgeon’s Corner Seattle meetup
Correction about Tucson
Seattle snow
Food delivery
(0:29:53-1:10:31) Lightning Round I
Ivan: Glenn Greenwald
Sam: Book: The Zimmerman Telegram (1985)
Ivan: Movie: Geostorm (2017)
Sam: Green New Deal
(1:12:32-2:04:20) Lightning Round II
Ivan: Paper Bank Statements
Sam: Doing a “Clinton Email”
Ivan: Manafort
Sam: Stone
(2:05:29-2:39:42) Lightning Round III
Ivan: National Emergency
Sam: Bill Weld 2020
Ivan: McCabe and the 25th
Sam: Democratic debate rules
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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about a phishing link Sam clicked on, the Bezos blackmail attempt, the Virginia mess, and the latest Trump stuff. They also do a run down of the Democratic field for the 2020 Presidential race. Oh, and they have news about a Seattle meetup, and more!
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Recorded 2019-02-08 Length this week – 2:32:23
(0:00:20-0:08:56) But First
Agenda
Bruce predictions
Seattle Meetup being planned
(0:11:09-1:21:12) Potpourri
Sam Clicked a phishing link
Bezos Blackmail
Virginia Mess
(1:21:53-1:49:09) Trump
Executive time
SOTU
SDNY Investigating Trump inaugural
New House investigations
(1:50:29-2:32:03) Democratic candidate roundup
The whole field
Joe Biden
Bernie Sanders
Beto O’Rourke
Kamala Harris
Elizabeth Warren
Cory Booker
The others
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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan get back to the normal format with the main topics being the Shutdown/Wall and Trump/Russia. Before that, a bit on the Mexican gas shortage and a movie Sam watched.
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Recorded 2019-01-11 Length this week – 1:45:43
(0:03:38-0:17:31) But First
Mexican gas shortage
Sam Movie: The Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
(0:19:13-1:05:32) Shutdown / Wall
The walls themselves
Now what
Should the Dems take a deal?
The impact of the shutdown
National emergency?
Border neighbors
Live Address
Civility
(1:06:41-1:45:23) Trump / Russia
Manafort poll data
Improper redaction
Confirming conspiracy theories
Who knew what when?
Cohen testifying
Impeachable offenses?
Almost over?
Trump kids
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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Ivan and Sam’s two big topics are the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh including all the surrounding issues relating to the climate that leads to such things, and their final pre-election thoughts on the 2018 midterms. But as usual, there are smaller topics to round things out, including thoughts on a movie, a book, a new iPhone, the economy, and even Gary Hart. Also, after you listen… go vote!
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Recorded 2018-11-03
Length this week – 2:06:38
(0:01:38-0:32:18) But First
Agenda
Local candidates, amendments and initiatives
Sam Movie: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (2017)
Sam Book: Arrow of God (1964)
Mistake from last year
Sam’s new iPhone XS Max
(0:34:18-1:04:24) Pittsburgh and Trump
Sam and Ivan Pittsburgh connections
Long term trends
Synagogue security
anti-Semitic motives
Presidential responsibility and response?
Trump and racists
(1:05:09-1:45:53) Election 2018
Current Numbers
Early voting
Polling errors
Reactions if the Democrats win
Reactions if the Republicans win
Go vote… Democrat please.
(1:47:09-2:06:17) Mini Lightning Round
Ivan: Economy update
Sam: Gary Hart’s Monkey Business
Go vote. Really.
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This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam is joined by guest host Bruce. Sam and Bruce go lightning round format and hit a lot of different topics including the “uberization” of all sorts of things, a couple movies Sam watched, preliminary thoughts on the 2020 Presidential election, whether Trump is being bashed for the wrong things, jury nullification… and more!
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Recorded 2018-08-30
Length this week – 1:27:39
(0:00:20-0:40:25) Lightning One
Bruce: Sam’s shifting politics
Bruce: Bashing Trump for the wrong things?
Sam: Movie: The Incredibles (2004)
Sam: Movie: The Incredibles 2 (2018)
Bruce: Manafort trial and jury nullification
Sam: John McCain
(0:41:04-1:27:19) Lightning Two
Bruce: Uberization of everything
Sam: Democratic superdelegate rules
Sam: Democratic caucus and primary rules
Bruce: Smoke detector batteries
Sam: Bruce and local politics
Sam: Election 2020
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This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan’s main topic is the big immigration debate that has been dominating the headlines recently. They talk about the family separation policies and the larger debate about immigration, and also what watching this debate playing out tells us about our fellow citizens. Before that though, Sam gives his report from attending the Washington State Democratic Convention, and we hear a little bit about Sam’s family’s upcoming travel plans.
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Recorded 2018-06-22
Length this week – 1:47:54
(0:00:25-0:18:58) But First
(0:20:58-0:48:34) Convention
(0:49:54-1:47:34) Immigration
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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about the politics of the short government shutdown and what that means to the continuing immigration debate, then they move on to reviewing many of the latest developments related to the various scandals surrounding the Trump White House. Along the way, Ivan also reports on his recent trip to Thailand.
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Recorded 2018-01-25
Length this week – 1:39:38
(0:01:20-0:22:18) But First
Agenda
Ivan in Thailand
Ivan on a Zipline
Baby on a plane
Climate change migrations
(0:24:21-0:54:17) Shutdown and Immigration
Should the Dems have forced this?
Should the Dems have agreed to end shutdown?
What next?
(0:56:00-1:39:18) Trump and Mueller
Wendy Murdoch and Jared Kushner
Russia to NRA to Trump?
Mueller/Trump negotiations
Trump’s prospects if he testifies
Discrediting Meuller
Release the Memo
Trump and McCabe
Are we near the end?
Trump Live
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