Curmudgeon's Corner

2019-01-11: The Wheel is Still Good

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On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan get back to the normal format with the main topics being the Shutdown/Wall and Trump/Russia. Before that, a bit on the Mexican gas shortage and a movie Sam watched.

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Recorded 2019-01-11

Length this week - 1:45:43

  • (0:03:38-0:17:31) But First
    • Mexican gas shortage
    • Sam Movie: The Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
    • (0:19:13-1:05:32) Shutdown / Wall
      • The walls themselves
      • Now what
      • Should the Dems take a deal?
      • The impact of the shutdown
      • National emergency?
      • Border neighbors
      • Live Address
      • Civility
      • (1:06:41-1:45:23) Trump / Russia
        • Manafort poll data
        • Improper redaction
        • Confirming conspiracy theories
        • Who knew what when?
        • Cohen testifying
        • Impeachable offenses?
        • Almost over?
        • Trump kids

          • 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.

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