Curmudgeon's Corner

2018-08-30: Useful Thing

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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!

Show Details:

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

        • 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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