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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan’s main topics are Election 2018, Alex Jones getting kicked off various platforms, and all the corruption in and surrounding the Trump administration. Before all that, a few bits on kid accounts for online services, a book and a movie Sam watched, and some adventures with cars.
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Recorded 2018-08-09
Length this week – 2:00:40
(0:00:15-0:31:02) But First
Agenda
The real Importance of the Corn Palace
Kid accounts for online services
Book: The Eyre Affair (2001)
Movie: Space Jam (1996)
Ivan’s car alarm rescue
Leaving keys in the car
(0:32:17-1:05:47) Election 2018
OH-12 Special Election
People mad at Greens
Primary results
Democratic wave?
State races
Trump effect
Sam votes
(1:06:56-1:30:02) Jones Removals
Platform or media?
Does presence of alternatives matter?
Private company rights
Human judgement and standards
Slippery slopes
Governmental vs corporate censorship
(1:30:46-2:00:20) Corruption
Wilber Ross grifting
VA run out of Mar-a-Lago
Trump Cabinet
Trump and family
Grassroots grifting
Manafort
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This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan do get into politics a bit, talking about the trade wars, 3D printing guns, attacks on Election 2018, and the separated kids at the border. But mostly the show is a lightning round show, so there are a lot of non-political things too. So you also get to hear about the rest of Sam’s road-trip, some books and movies, Apple’s milestone, and some feedback we received a while ago.
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Recorded 2018-08-04
Length this week – 1:59:34
(0:00:20-0:31:17) Sam: Road Trip Continued
Day 2 Revisited: Bad Hotels
Day 4: Things not done, Corn Palace
Day 5: Bighorn and Yellowstone
(0:32:02-1:16:40) Lightning Round 1
Ivan: Trade War
Sam: Book: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume 3 (2015)
Ivan: 3D Printing Guns
Sam: Movie: Computer Chess (2013)
Ivan: Movie: Mission Impossible – Fallout (2018)
(1:17:56-1:59:14) Lightning Round 2
Sam: Feedback on Ivan rant on Boomers
Ivan: Apple at One Trillion
Sam: Attacks on Election 2018?
Ivan: Separated Kids
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All three of us agreed that the “fun thing” for the last day would just be getting home. So we powered through the drive and got home just after midnight.
Alex Verdict: Collapses on stairs.
Brandy Verdict: Oh my god, there is so much to do!
Sam Verdict: They had a whole month vacation, I only had 10 days. No fair!
Sunday’s fun thing was deciding to not just go on I-90 for the last couple days, but instead take smaller more scenic routes a bit further south through Bighorn and Yellowstone. We had already decided days ago to aim at getting home Monday instead of Sunday, so we could afford a little extra time. The detour added about three and a half hours to our trip.
Lots of great views as we passed through Bighorn. As we passed through, Brandy stopped for a deer crossing the road, but just as she started up again, the deer’s baby ran in front of us. We did hit it, but thankfully at very low speed. The deer got knocked over, but popped up immediately and ran to its mom. They glared at us angrily as we drove away.
We got to Yellowstone at twilight, so no stopping, just straight through from the west side to the east side, mostly in the dark, although we saw quite a lot of steam coming up from hot springs and smelled the sulfur anyway.
Alex Verdict: Too long and mom hit too many deer
Brandy Verdict: It was pretty. Didn’t like the dead animals. The bison was sad.
Sam Verdict: The drive was great. Next time hit Yellowstone in the daytime.
On Saturday, Brandy whizzed right by the Porter Sculpture Park and wouldn’t turn around to go check it out. But a little bit later we did stop at the point the GPS said we were exactly 1201 miles from Amy back in Pennsylvania, and exactly 1201 miles from my mother in Washington State. That’s one way of defining the half-way point, although not the only one of course, and maybe not the best one. But it is the one we used today. We stopped and took pictures. Remarkably, it wasn’t just a field by the side of the road. But it was only a parking lot. VERY near by though, was the Corn Palace! So was the “fun place of the day”. 1203 miles from Amy, and exactly 1200 miles from my mom.
Alex Verdict: Most of it wasn’t even corn. And it wasn’t a palace.
Brandy Verdict: Corny.
Sam Verdict: Should have been a couple miles further east.
A number of hours later, we of made the required pilgrimage to Wall Drug, but we did not stay long.
On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, a break from politics and the news. Sam is joined by his wife Brandy and son Alex (with a cameo by daughter Amy) to discuss a few highlights of the start of their road trip from the Philadelphia area to the Seattle area. The hijinks include Sam donating their luggage to charity, Sam shoplifting, fleeing a really bad hotel, and more…
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Recorded 2018-07-27
Length this week – 0:58:38
(0:00:20-0:01:56) Intro
(0:03:56-0:20:40) Day 1: Donated Bag, Stealing from Wawa
(0:22:23-0:43:35) Day 2: Abandoned Turnpike, Bad Hotel
(0:44:44-0:52:17) Day 3: Safari Park
(0:52:56-0:58:17) Outro
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Alex didn’t want to go to Crystal Lake Cave, and he didn’t want to go see the world’s largest popcorn ball, so that left the “fun thing of the day” an earlier detour we took when US-20 was closed for a stretch, then the next turn the GPS told us to take was closed too, and later a third road was closed too. So we spent an hour or so (at least) on back roads in rural northwestern Illinois. A good portion of those roads were dirt roads!
None of the nearby Atlas Obscura spots this morning were universally enticing, so we went to African Safari Wildlife Park in Port Clinton, Ohio. These two posed for pictures. The bison gave me a nice lick.
Atlas Obscura stop for today: the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike. We did not hike the two miles to the first of the two tunnels on the abandoned stretch. Neither Brandy or Alex were up for that today.
This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about the chaos surrounding the Trump/Putin summit, the case of Maria Butina, and the reports on the detail given in the January 2017 briefing where Trump was told about Russian interference in the 2016 election. Oh, and before that, just a little about bugs. The flying kind, not the computer kind.
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Recorded 2018-07-19
Length this week – 1:38:19
(0:00:20-0:13:30) But first
(0:15:12-0:51:35) The summit
(0:52:55-1:12:53) Red Sparrow
(1:13:30-1:38:00) What did the president know?
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Ruth M Brandon { Never been to Yellowstone myself but yes, daytime would be more interesting and with lots more to see! Glad the fawn got up and rejoined... } on A Little Detour at 30 July 2018 18:07:16 UTC
Ruth Brandon { love these photos! } on My New Friends at 28 July 2018 18:02:56 UTC
Abulsme { Yes, this is here. This Halloween is coming quickly! We'll see what things look like this year! } on Halloween 2017 Timelapse at 15 July 2018 21:49:00 UTC
Diane R Minter { Any chance of midterm 2018 graphs?? Or just an informed guess? } on Election Graphs Blog at 5 July 2018 10:16:54 UTC
Ed haines { FB is my best place to find CC. } on Election Graphs Blog at 4 July 2018 21:04:42 UTC
Abulsme { Miley often cuddles with him until he is asleep, then extracts herself and goes to her own place to sleep. :-) } on Miley and her sleeping boy at 24 June 2018 00:38:59 UTC
Abulsme { Yes, when you make a public comment, it is indeed public and everyone can see it. Unless you are really saying something you don't want... } on Curmudgeon's Corner: Toy Swords at 24 June 2018 00:38:00 UTC
Diane Minter { Very sweet. Looks like Miley would like to get up,but Alex has his arm around her. Maya says her kids do that, throw an arm... } on Miley and her sleeping boy at 26 May 2018 18:57:52 UTC
Diane Minter { Hi Sam, Loved the last video of Alex´s Youtube channel but my question is this. I am only subscribed to his channel and another. I... } on Curmudgeon's Corner: Toy Swords at 31 March 2018 15:59:25 UTC
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