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- 2023-02-11: They Start With G
On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about Twitter's slow implosion again, the impending injection of AI Chatbots into search results, more on spy balloons, and Ivan goes on one of his trademarked epic rants, this time about Section 230. Plus some riffing on Minority Report type technology, and curmudgeonly complaints about aging. Fun stuff. Woo!
Show Details:
Recorded 2023-02-11
Length this week 2:03:52
- (0:01:09-1:13:54) First Part
- Minority Report Tech
- Ivan is old and so is Sam
- Twitter Stuff
- Section 230
- (1:14:54-2:03:20) Second Part
- AI Chatbots and Search
- Shooting Balloons
- Turkey Earthquake
- Coast Guard Rescue
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.
2 hr 4 min - 2023-02-04: What's The Number?
This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Ivan was not available, so Sam has his 13 year old son Alex as a cohost again. Alex doesn't have much to say when the topics are Twitter, the Chinese balloon, his father's trip back to the office, and how a driveway cam actually was useful. But he does have a handful of things to add in the back half of the show, when they talk about some movies and books. Enjoy!
Show Details:
Recorded 2023-02-04
Length this week 1:37:30
- (0:00:48-0:20:00) But First
- Back to the Office
- Driveway Prowl
- (0:21:09-0:42:44) Newsy Stuff
- Twitter API Paywall
- Stupid Chinese Balloon
- (0:43:24-1:36:35) Media Stuff
- Stupid Balloon Update
- Alex Book: ALeXMXeLA Book 2
- Sam Book: History of Lewis County Kentucky (1912)
- Alex Sound Effects
- Sam Movie: Man of Steel (2013)
- Sam Book: Reign of Terror (2021)
- Sam Movie: Annie Hall (1977)
- Sam Movie: Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)
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.
1 hr 38 min - 2023-01-28: Cacophony of Assholes
On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about stuff. Lots of stuff. On the serious side, the killing of Tyre Nichols, political violence, and the age old gun debate. Plus an update on Trump's social media and the classified docs stories. But on the lighter side, bees, sabertooth tigers, transcripts, and dreams.
Show Details:
Recorded 2023-01-28
Length this week 2:00:35
- (0:01:15-0:39:38) Part the First
- Ivan and the Bee
- Mating Patterns of the Sabretooth Tiger
- Podcast Listening and Transcripts
- (0:42:25-1:19:38) Part the Second
- Killing of Tyre Nichols
- Guns Guns Guns
- Political Violence
- (1:22:26-2:00:01) Part the Third
- Ivan Needs a Massage
- Trump's Social Media
- Classified Docs Everywhere
- CC Slack Highlights
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.
2 hr 1 min - 2023-01-21: But Thirsty
This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan spend the most time talking about the current wave of tech layoffs. The other "serious" topics are Tesla cutting prices and Twitter cutting off the third party clients. But they also talk about a classic movie, and complain about the perils of sitting and sleeping.
Show Details:
Recorded 2023-01-21
Length this week 1:58:52
- (0:01:16-0:17:43) Lightning One
- Sitting
- Standing
- (0:19:44-1:17:00) Lightning Two
- Tech Layoffs
- Tesla Price Cuts
- (1:18:43-1:57:25) Lightning Three
- Twitter Kills 3P
- Sam Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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.
1 hr 59 min - 2023-01-13: Squeaky Things Inside
On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan get some preliminaries out of the way in the opening segment, then try to catch up on recent politics and such. The Speaker race, the new Republican House, George Santos, Biden's own classified documents scandal, and more!
Show Details:
Recorded 2023-01-13
Length this week 1:44:15
- (0:00:25-0:32:47) But First
- Section 230
- Editing Travails
- NOTAM Outage
- Following Processes
- (0:33:31-1:40:10) Politics
- Speaker Battle
- Concessions to the Rebels
- California Senate
- George Santos
- Biden Classified Docs
- Inflation
- Brazil
- Slackaroo
- (1:40:34-1:44:12) Hot Close
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.
1 hr 45 min - 2023-01-06: 2022 Predictions Review
This week on Curmudgeon's Corner Sam and Ivan comment a little on the recent Speaker of the House Drama before getting down to business reviewing their predictions from a year and a week ago about what would happen in 2022. What were they right on? What were they wrong on? Should you trust their prognostications ever? Did they improve on previous years, or just get worse? Listen and find out!
Show Details:
Recorded 2023-01-06
Length this week 2:24:18
- (0:01:11-0:40:22) Speaker Votes
- (0:44:03-1:07:35) Politics
- (1:08:42-1:20:36) International
- (1:21:13-1:32:09) Economy
- (1:35:03-1:55:52) Technology
- (1:56:53-2:11:08) Hodgepodge
- (2:11:58-2:23:57) Results
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.
2 hr 25 min - 2022-12-31: 2023 Predictions Show
On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner… Sam and Ivan's annual prediction show. The Curmudgeon's think about 2023 and spew out their best guesses about what will happen in the next year in the categories of politics, international, economy, technology, and the classic hodgepodge. This year, many of the items being predicted are requests from listeners. So thank you listeners! And yes, before they go to sleep, some younger folks in Ivan's family make some fun noise too. But it is all in good fun. And a year and a week from now, you'll be able to come back and see how good these predictions are!
Show Details:
Recorded 2022-12-31
Length this week 2:43:12
- (0:00:23-0:54:46) Politics
- (0:56:29-1:12:48) International
- (1:13:38-1:41:31) Economy
- (1:42:10-2:11:12) Technology
- (2:12:19-2:42:47) Hodgepodge
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.
2 hr 44 min - 2022-12-24: Real First
This week on Curmudgeon's Corner Sam and Ivan do tech and politics. Big surprise. Well, kinda tech. All about Elon and Twitter and Tesla again. Plus more on migrating off of Twitter to Mastodon. So they can toot. For politics, you've got J6, Trump's taxes, the Omnibus, and even some on Ukraine. But before all that, some chatter on movies and TV. Have fun!
Show Details:
Recorded 2022-12-24
Length this week 2:32:03
- (0:00:01-0:02:04) Cold Open
- (0:02:26-0:40:17) But First
- Some Quick Ones
- Sam Movie: The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021)
- Ivan TV: Jack Ryan (2018-Present)
- Bad TV Endings
- Long Running TV Shows
- Ivan Movies: Mission Impossible Series (1996-Present)
- (0:41:00-1:40:39) Tech
- Elon's Twitter Hijinks
- Tesla Stock Slide
- Chaotic Twitter
- Amplifying Toxicity
- Facebook Moderation
- Mastodon Migration
- Mastodon Clients and Instances
- (1:42:40-2:31:28) Politics
- J6 DoJ Referrals
- J6 Final Report
- J6 Witness Intimidation
- Trump Taxes Preview
- Omnibus Passes
- ECA Reform
- Biden Accomplishments
- Ukraine
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.
2 hr 33 min - 2022-12-17: Hesitate to Say
On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner Sam and Ivan split the bulk of the show between two man-child narcissists who have been leaving a trail of destruction behind them as they rampage through the world. If you guessed Elon and Donald, congratulations, you figured out the obvious. Anyway, aside from the latest adventures of those two wacky rich people, Ivan brings news of a problem with a fish tank, a movie recommendation, and some thoughts on earthquakes. And Sam shares some sad personal news.
Show Details:
Recorded 2022-12-17
Length this week 1:53:16
- (0:01:19-0:20:20) But First
- Miley
- Fish Tank
- Ivan Movie: Sing (2016)
- Earthquakes
- (0:21:10-1:14:26) Elon
- Prediction Requests
- Unopened Lego
- Twitter Alternatives
- Stay or Go?
- Toxic Elon
- Moderation
- Flight Tracking
- Arbitrary Elon
- Twitter Value
- (1:16:28-1:51:41) Donald
- Prediction Requests
- Trump Cards
- Free Falling Polls
- J6 Referrals?
- Other Trumpy Things
- CC Slack Highlights
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.
1 hr 54 min - 2022-12-10: Your Elephant
This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan do not talk about MacOS Updates and Weather apps, because Sam forgot to hit record for that part. But you do get Ivan complaining about the difficulty he had with a new HDMI based receiver system. After that though, they get to business on the serious stuff. They cover a little bit about developments in seven separate non-US countries, then move on to developments in the US Congress, and finally the latest Trump related nonsense.
Show Details:
Recorded 2022-12-10
Length this week 2:09:28
- (0:01:39-0:30:59) But First
- Recording Incompetence
- HDMI Issues
- Usage Patterns
- (0:32:05-1:27:15) International
- Ukraine
- Russia
- Israel
- Iran
- China
- Germany
- Peru
- (1:30:01-2:09:06) US Politics
- 51-49 Senate
- Sinema
- Lame Duck
- McCarthy
- CC Slack Highlights
- Grant Wahl
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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