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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about the Iran situation, Cybersecurity, Joe Biden, and how Sam reacquired live televsion. Enjoy the show!
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Recorded 2019-06-21 Length this week – 1:55:31
(0:04:52-0:56:30) Round 1
Ivan: Iran Situation
Sam: Live TV
(0:57:51-1:55:10) Round 2
Ivan: Cybersecurity
Sam: Joe Biden
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This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about Trump and his administration and what they are doing, duh… but they also talk about kids being exhausting in the summer, anti-vax idiots, and WWDC. Enjoy the show!
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Recorded 2019-06-14 Length this week – 2:16:13
(0:00:21-0:37:16) Round 1
Ivan: Summer exhaustion
Sam: Trump admin ignoring laws and ethics
(0:38:33-1:30:02) Round 2
Ivan: War with Iran?
Sam: Trump on taking foreign help
(1:31:45-) Round 3
Ivan: Anti-vax idiots
Sam: WWDC
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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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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about politics in the US, UK, and Israel. They also riff on Julian Assange, Mexican tariffs, and Social Media disinformation. Plus some feedback and an Election Graphs update!
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Recorded 2019-05-31 Length this week – 1:50:22
(0:00:25-0:27:22) Round 1
Ivan: New Israeli Elections
Sam: New Assange Indictments
(0:27:58-0:59:48) Round 2
Ivan: Mueller Statement
Sam: Teresa May Resignation
(1:00:27-1:40:46) Round 3
Ivan: Mexico Tariffs
Sam: Social Media Disinformation
(1:44:29-1:50:01) Round 4
Ivan: Feedback
Sam: Election Graphs Update
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This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about the latest “Infrastructure Week”, the arguments on impeachment hearings, and Biden’s “unity” posture. They also talk about trade wars, the economy, and Bill and Hillary’s visit to Seattle. On the non-political front, a little bit on scheduling meetings across time zones, and a horrible scam about a bogus bleach cure that has been going around.
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Recorded 2019-05-23 Length this week – 2:14:44
(0:01:00-0:35:25) Round 1:
Sam: Meetings Across Time Zones
Ivan: Infrastructure Week
(0:37:08-1:11:51) Round 2:
Sam: Impeachment
Ivan: Bogus Bleach Cure
(1:13:36-1:38:46) Round 3:
Sam: Biden “Unity”
Ivan: Abortion
(1:40:02-2:12:24) Round 4:
Sam: Trade Wars and Economy
Ivan: Bill and Hillary
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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about the Trump administration stonewalling of any and all Congressional inquiries, Trump’s latest financial disclosures, and the rash of new anti-abortion laws across the country. Oh, and Ivan raves about a movie he saw.
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Recorded 2019-05-18 Length this week – 1:30:37
(0:01:06-0:51:59) Round One
Ivan: Ivan Movie: Apollo 11 (2019)
Sam: Trump obstruction
(0:53:08-1:30:16) Round Two
Ivan: Trump’s financial disclosure
Sam: New abortion laws
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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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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Ivan and Sam cover four topics: The 1965 movie Doctor Zhivago, the idea of sending migrants to sanctuary cities, the Mueller/Barr conflicts, and Venezuela. And at the start, Ivan sings! Enjoy!
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Recorded 2019-05-03 Length this week – 1:16:51
(0:00:00-0:01:21) Jenny
(0:01:21-0:02:44) Agenda
(0:02:44-0:17:46) Ivan: Sam Movie: Doctor Zhivago (1965)
(0:17:46-0:29:55) Sam: Illegals to sanctuary cities
(0:29:55-0:56:03) Ivan: Mueller and Barr
(0:56:03-1:13:19) Sam: Venezuela
(1:13:19-1:16:51) Closing
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This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan go lightning round style again. This time they cover Joe Biden’s launch, the hollowing out of DHS, Trump’s efforts to resist congressional investigations, the question of if the women running for president (specifically Harris and Warren) are getting enough attention, the failure of the Galaxy Fold, some feedback on previous Assange comments, and finally spam, of both the phone and email varieties.
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Recorded 2019-04-26 Length this week – 2:06:20
(0:01:48-1:15:40) Lighting Round #1
Ivan: Joe Biden
Sam: Clearing out DHS
Ivan: Trump resisting investigations
Sam: Shortchanging the women running for president?
(1:17:00-2:06:00) Lightning Round #2
Ivan: The Galaxy Fold
Sam: Feedback on Assange
Ivan: Random foreign calls
Sam: Creative spam
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On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about, what else… the Mueller Report. They cover the collusion bits, they cover the obstruction bits, they talk a bit about the differences between the actual report and Barr’s letter a few weeks ago, and of course, they talk about the potential political fallout. Oh, and Sam talks about universal time, and Ivan reviews a movie. Full show.
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Recorded 2019-04-20 Length this week – 2:30:34
(0:00:40-0:19:34) But First
(0:21:35-0:40:59) What We Know
(0:42:03-1:07:26) Mueller Report Collusion
(1:09:33-1:52:06) Mueller Report Obstruction
(1:53:49-2:30:13) Political Fallout
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