750 episodes
Curmudgeon's Corner Samuel Minter / Iván Bou
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A weekly current events podcast where the hosts discuss whatever is hot in the news each week.
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2021-10-22: See All About It
On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner Sam and Ivan are joined by Bruce who joins us to discuss his adventures in helping to build and deploy a submarine. Not the military kind, but the deep see research kind, but one you can buy tickets on! If you have the cash. Oh, and after that they discuss the pandemic and congress. But they do that all the time.
Show Details:
Recorded 2021-10-22
Length this week - 2:00:10
(0:00:22-0:39:40) Submarine
Agenda
Episode 750
Background
Apollo 13 moment
The dome
The experience
Tickets
(0:40:11-1:15:30)Pandemic
Trends
Masks
Vaccines vs natural immunity
Lockdowns and mandates
Individual decision?
(1:16:02-1:59:49) Congress
Alec Baldwin
Bannon contempt
Jan 6th investigations
Voting rights and the filibuster
Infrastructure negotiations
Stuff at the end
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)
Please buy his music and support his GoFundMe. -
2021-10-15: Angle Of Your Finger
This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan's main topics are the supply chain problems, and various aspects of the political situation for Democrats. All kinds of meaty stuff in there, but they also talk about Captain Kirk in space, and the NFL and Netflix scandals.
Show Details:
Recorded 2021-10-15
Length this week - 1:45:51
(0:00:23-0:32:21) But First
Agenda
Sam: Captain Kirk in space
Ivan: NFL and Netflix scandals
(00:32:49-1:01:40) Supply Chain
Cascading ripples
Breaking Just-In-Time
Economic impacts
Labor shortage
Consumer impact
(1:03:41-1:45:30) Democratic Politics
Popularism
Deliverism
Scaring people
Bannon contempt
Not looking back
Stuff at the end
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)
Please buy his music and support his GoFundMe. -
2021-10-08: Second Tongue
On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about Europe a bit. Specifically mostly about European energy concerns. And they talk about Facebook. The outage. The leak. The perils of optimizing for engagement. And the possibilities of government regulation. But first the usual random stuff and some pre-show hijinks. Have fun!
Show Details:
Recorded 2021-10-08
Length this week - 1:54:54
(0:00:01-0:06:48) Pre-show Hijinks
(0:07:10-0:37:54) But First
Agenda
Ivan: Job update
Ivan: Tax stuff
Sam: Whose podcast?
Sam: Movie: Apollo 11 (2019)
(0:39:48-0:57:40) European Energy
UK fuel crisis
How's Brexit working out?
European dependency on Russian gas
(0:58:07-1:54:34) Facebook
Mini pandemic round
The outage
The leak
Optimizing for engagement
Government regulation?
Stuff at the end
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)
Please buy his music and support his GoFundMe. -
2021-10-02: Paste Paste Confirm
This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan discuss some recent Apple software updates, Ivan rants about people who say they take climate change seriously, but still don't make personal choices that align with that, they discuss all the latest pandemic trends (spoilers, things are getting better at the moment!), and finally they discuss all the latest congressional goings on with government shutdowns, debt limits, and the two big trillion plus dollar bills. Enjoy!
Show Details:
Recorded 2021-10-02
Length this week - 1:39:46
(0:00:23-0:43:32) But First
Agenda
Sam: Apple software updates
Ivan Climate hypocrites
(0:44:18-1:14:57) Pandemic
Stats
Acute locations
New developments
Mandates
(1:16:41-1:39:26) Congress
Government shutdown averted
Debt limit still pending
Infrastructure week again
End stuff
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)
Please buy his music and support his GoFundMe. -
2021-09-25: Demolished the Roof
On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam is joined by his 12 year old son Alex for the entire show. But for the first time, rather than talking exclusively about video games, his YouTube channel, and things like that as he has done before, he actually joins his dad in discussing a couple of movies and how the pandemic impacts him. He then pretends to fall asleep during a segment on the January 6th memo released this week, and the results of that pseudo-audit in Arizona. Oh, and Sam discusses a little incident relating to the original opening segment of this week's show, and how a little burst of static keeps us from breaking a really long streak.
Show Details:
Recorded 2021-09-25
Length this week - 1:06:35
(0:00:01-0:06:30) Explanation
(0:06:53-0:09:54) Alex's Mini Show
(0:10:19-0:23:47) Movies
Corpse Bride (2005)
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
(0:24:32-0:45:58) Pandemic
Trends
Alex vaccination
Alex and school
(0:47:51-1:06:14) Politics Stuff
January 6th memo
Arizona pseudo-audit
Alex style end stuff
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)
Please buy his music and support his GoFundMe. -
2021-09-18: Slow Walk It
This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about all kinds of things. From Facebook to General Milley, from Apple to Afghanistan. From Trump continuing to be a sore loser, to fun with unauthorized computer network access. And of course the pandemic. And a TV show.
Show Details:
Recorded 2021-09-18
Length this week - 2:12:23
(0:00:22-0:33:51) But First
Agenda
Ivan: Unauthorized network access
Sam TV: Broadchurch (2013-2017)
(0:34:18-1:13:52) Pandemic
Trends
Boosters
Hospitals and schools
Regional differences
Changing guidance
Politics
(1:14:33-2:12:02) Four Pack
Ivan: Facebook interactions
Sam: General Milley and Trump
Ivan: Apple stuff
Sam: Collateral damage
Sam: Trump on Georgia
The stuff at the end
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)
Please buy his music and support his GoFundMe.
Customer Reviews
Current Politics, and other subjects, Discussions
Two old friends engage in weekly discussion of current political events from mostly liberal stance. Occasionally, a guest discussant replaces one of them. Great fun to listen, agree with, disagree with, be upset by some of the language, and ponder on. As an occasional guest, I may be biased but find the end result to be worth an investment of a couple hours each week of my time. Keep it up, guys.
Two guys ranting about stuff
Listen in on a conversation you might have late night with a buddy over a beer or two or three. I don't always agree, but fun to listen to.
Two Guys Talking - Join the Conversation
Sam and Ivan (and the occasional guest) have a variety of world experience, and a long history together.
They reasonably discuss politics, tech, travel, etc and related current events.
Not news, not politically biased, just two guys talking, and kind of conversation you’d want to join.