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Curmudgeon’s Corner: No Ifs Ands Or Buts

This week on the Curmudgeon’s Corner podcast Sam and Ivan start out with an old fashioned lightning round covering the Olympics, Gawker, EpiPens and more. Then of course they settle in to talk about this week’s developments in the race for the Presidency. Looking for your weekly fix of Clinton and Trump craziness? We have it for you here as always. Oh, and Sam complains about cars on the beach and annual reviews.

Click below to listen or subscribe… then let us know your own thoughts!

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Recorded 2016-08-25

Length this week – 1:32:06

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Show Details:

  • (0:00:10-0:10:04) But First
    • Exhausted Ivan
    • Agenda
    • Sam Beach Trip
    • Work Reviews
  • (0:12:03-0:34:05) Lightning Round!
    • No disasters at the Olympics
    • Time Delayed Olympics
    • Gawker Shutdown
    • Louisiana Flooding
    • EpiPen Pricing
    • NSA Hacked
    • Proxima Centuri B
  • (0:35:14-0:56:44) Clinton Stuff
    • Clinton Email Again
    • Clinton Foundation Again
    • Clinton Health
  • (0:57:23-1:31:46) Trump Stuff
    • Trump on Immigration
    • Phil is Thirsty
    • Trump pivoting?
    • Trump’s appeal to African-Americans
    • Trump supporter racial anxiety
    • Trump sticking to the script
    • FAU Florida Poll
    • Fake Polls

 

The Curmudgeon’s Corner theme music is generously provided by Ray Lynch.

Our intro is “The Oh of Pleasure” (Amazon MP3 link)

Our outro is “Celestial Soda Pop” (Amazon MP3 link)

Both are from the album “Deep Breakfast” (iTunes link)

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Please Don’t Sue Us

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner with Sam and Bruce:
* Vacations / Riding a Bike / Ads?
* Seymour Hersh on Bin Laden Raid
* Amtrak Crash
* Bush’s Bad Week / Reagan Lives!
* Lightning Round

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Recorded 2015-05-15

Length this week – 1:30:43

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Edit 2015-05-19 16:00 UTC to fix recorded date

Curmudgeon’s Corner: What did you break?

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:

  • POP and IMAP Email / Tech Support
  • In App Purchases / Potato Salad Guy / Cleaning Glass
  • Alex and Juana Interlude
  • Ivan, Brandy and Brownies Interlude
  • Funding CC / Latest on NSA / Profiling / Spying on Germany
  • TSA on Devices / Immigration
  • Washington State Marijuana / Israel

Recorded on 10 Jul 2014

Length this week – 1:21:07

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Everybody Is Out

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:

  • Expensive Egg / Ukraine
  • Reading Hotmail / NSA Changes
  • MH370 Again
  • 530 Landslide

Recorded on 26 Mar 2014

Length this week – 1:28:17

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Stupid and Uninformed

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:

  • State of the Union
  • Ukraine
  • Awards / Apple Earnings / Social Tech Norms / 30 Years of Mac
  • NSA App Leakage / Rand Paul Week / 2016

Recorded on 29 Jan 2014

Length this week – 1:11:03

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Edit 22:39 to correct title from “Uniformed” to “Uninformed”. Oops.

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Except When You Do

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam, Ivan and Alex talk about:

  • Facebook Ads / Weather / Locks / Low End Android / Unreliable Software
  • Things we aren’t talking about / Media Realignment
  • anti-Snowden Campaign
  • Obama NSA Reforms / Trains

Recorded on 22 Jan 2014

Length this week – 1:36:13

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Popping into my Head

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Alex talk about:

  • Holidays
  • Political Tenets
  • Thoughts on 2013 / Trains and Portal

Recorded on 27 Dec 2013

Length this week – 1:23:37

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Something to Contribute

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:

  • Feedback / iPad Smash / Bitcoin Update
  • Budget Deal
  • Some NSA Stuff
  • Beyonce Ramifications

Recorded on 17 Dec 2013

Length this week – 1:17:52

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Stronger Duct Tape

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:

  • Banking Woes
  • NSA Feedback
  • Govt Shutdown and Debt Limit Standoffs
  • Twitter IPO / Samsung Watch
  • DC Car Shooting Incident

Recorded on 7 Oct 2013

Length this week – 1:22:52

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Fingerprints of the Shutdown

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:

  • Timeliness / NSA Stuff
  • Govt Shutdown / Obamacare
  • Fingerprint Security
  • Talking to Iran / Syria

Recorded on 30 Sep 2013

Length this week – 1:15:42

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