The Optimistic Curmudgeon is an interview podcast where Josh Herring interviews expert guests whose credentials and experience help listeners understand truth in a confusing world. We discuss issues under seven areas: economics, politics, education, philosophy, business, virtue, and leadership! May the best ideas win.
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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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Not afraid to speak their minds, the Salty Curmudgeons share their wisdom & thoughts on culture, lifestyle, current events, and sports. Sometimes controversial and always entertaining, our conversations are geared to make you laugh, think, and sometimes feel a little salty!
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Archie Bunker is my spirit animal. The Government is your enemy. Don't trust the cloud for your media. Buy my hot sauce.
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A loud-mouth retired rock critic and a cranky expat rock obsessive discuss, analyze and just plain old argue about rock ‘n‘ roll: the old stuff, the new stuff and why it all still matters.
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If you love to explore ideas and consider life deeply . . . but you also can’t hold your tongue or help rolling your eyes at some of life’s crazy, then this podcast is for you. Join Barnabas Piper & Adam Read in their exploration of (and occasional grumpiness at) big issues in life as Christians.
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You've liked him on Facebook, you follow him on Twitter. Now hear him live on KLRNRadio.com. Conservatives envy him and Liberals hate him. He hits every issue hard and with facts and if you aren't careful he can and will live rent free in your head! No holds barred and no punches pulled if you are on the wrong side of an issue he will call you out regardless of party affiliation. He is Grouchy Aka The Conservative Curmudgeon
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Trying to bring you the best and the brightest in the small business detailing community. Curmudgeon’s Corner is hosted by Aaron Burkett from @Phoenixeod and Eileen Baez from @SoCleenDetailing , typically twice a month where we try to bring viewers (and listeners) interviews from some of the best and brightest in the automotive, detailing, and small business industries. Curmudgeon’s Corner is a laid-back, open-ended long interview format, with a tad of structure, but mostly going wherever th ...
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A little cranky, but generally good natured observations about life and culture from someone who doesn't fit in, and doesn't care.
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I will record mostly positive thoughts on various topics
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Chats with Interesting People. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/curmudgeon-chat/support
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A podcast between two friends who want to discuss various subjects they feel like talking about from the list of topics they choose amongst each other.
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Bleacher Report Senior writer Jonathan Snowden and photographer Ryan Loco have been around the fight game just long enough to be a bit sick of it all. Want ambivalence, ennui and unexplained anger? You've come to the right place!
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America's Nuclear Future - with Emmet Penney (7x7)
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Emmet Penney discusses America's failing electrical power grid, the possibilities of a nationwide network of nuclear power plants, and the way those power plants would restore dignity to the American workforce. Penney has opinions on which nuclear model should be template - listen to find out! We also briefly discuss his journey out of the Democrat…
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The 3rd Golden Age of Rock - 1977 (God Save the Punks!)
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In which the Curmudgeons continue to revisit the fertile fields of the late 1970s and land on 1977, one of the most explosive years in rock history. It's when the Sex Pistols dropped their album Never Mind the Bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols and set off a punk revolution. It's also when Fleetwood Mac, Kraftwerk and Bob Marley dropped genre-definin…
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This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Ivan has an excused absence, so Sam goes solo. We've got a riff on a bad experience trying to replace some faulty equipment, discussion of holiday gift giving patterns, and then a hodgepodge of semi-topical things to round things out. Woo Woo! Show Details: Recorded 2024-11-30 Length this week 1:50:17 0:00:31 - Par…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner 41 - Dmitry’s Garage - Dmitry D
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Curmudgeon's Corner 41!!! Saturday, Nov 30th We’ll be chatting with the legendary Dmitry from Dmitry’s Garage!!! Going for the "Hat Trick", Dmitry will be our THIRD legitimate Engineer on the show! We LOVE how Dmitry breaks down his reviews from a "just the facts" point of view and gives real data and feedback on products! ALSO: Tonight, November 3…
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Advice to My Younger Self: Developing Disciplines
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In this episode, Adam and Barnabas wade into some deep, murky, and seemingly not-very-fun waters to discuss the importance of discipline in life. What is a “discipline”? What are disciplines you developed later in life you wish you had invested in earlier? What are the most important disciplines in your life? How does someone keep disciplines from …
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On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner Sam and Ivan think about how many non-news things they would probably rather talk about, but after some discussion of ear hygiene, rescheduling travel due to illnesses, and the story of a car spider, they do end up talking about how the business world is reacting to Trump and a few other topical things. Enjoy! Sho…
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The Salty Curmudgeons Season 3 Episode 8 - Yogi isms
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Send us a text Our Curmudgeons dive headfirst into the hilarious and paradoxical world of Yogi-isms! You know, those delightfully baffling nuggets of wisdom from baseball legend Yogi Berra that somehow make less sense the more you think about them—and yet, they’re undeniably true. This show is where enlightenment meets absurdity. Join Blaze, KillJo…
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Advice to My Younger Self: Risk-Taking and Pursuing Opportunities
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In this episode, Adam and Barnabas talk about how they considered risks and opportunities when they were younger vs. how they consider them now. What risks do we wish we had taken? How does someone weigh risk vs. reward? How does that evaluation change over the years? How do we consider risk in terms of following God’s will for our lives? And of co…
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Educational Entrepreneurship - With Bob Luddy (7x6)
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Bob Luddy, founder of Captiveaire, St. Thomas More Academy, Franklin Academy, Thales Academy, and Thales College, defines and discusses the "educational entrepreneur." He explains the role eduction plays in changing culture, the significance of finding the right people for leadership roles, and the value of persistence in building an organization. …
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This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan do a bit more digesting of the election results. First off, more on what actually happened leading to Trump's win, how the polls did, and how this fits into worldwide trends. Then a look forward to the transition and the impending start of four rocky years of Trump 2, The Revenge. Show Details: Recorde…
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The Salty Curmudgeons Season 3 Episode 7 - The Colonoscopy Chronicles
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Send us a text Getting close to that age? Join the Curmudgeons as they share details of their most recent colonoscopies! From the prep to the probing, the boys share the intimate details of one of the most important preventative procedures you should get done. Hilarious and informative! The Salty Curmudgeons…
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Advice to My Younger Self: Spiritual Health and Passion
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In this episode, Adam and Barnabas consider their own spiritual states in their younger years and discuss some things they wish they had known. Aspects of spiritual life and faith to be taken more seriously Things that fueled or quenched spiritual passion The role of friends and mentors in spiritual life And of course they take a few moments to be …
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Season 2 Intro: Advice for My 20-Year-Old-Self
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How does this topic impact all ages? Encouragement to the young, exhortation to ourselves, others and “the old.”Av Barnabas Piper & Adam Read
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The Neil Young Archives Vol. III Tales Album...A Curmudgeonly Review
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In which the Curmudgeons dive into the little bit of the third installment of Neil Young's Archives that we can. The full 17-CD, five-Blu Ray Archives Vol. III is available for roughly $450, but only for 5,000 lucky customers willing to spend a small fortune. The rest of us get an album Young refers to as "Takes," which contains a 16-song sampling …
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Curmudgeon’s Corner 39 - Papa Smurf, Jayhawker’s Detailing & The Devil’s In The Details
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Curmudgeon's Corner 39!!! Saturday Night, November 9th at 8pmEastern/5pmPacific: We got a Double Header!!! Special Community Edition!!! A couple of regulars from the chat rooms are joining us this Saturday Night! Franko of The Devil's In The Details infamy and our good friend Rick Smith from @jayhawker5050 Jayhawker's Detailing! Oh, and that wasn't…
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2024-11-06: Election 2024 Special
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So Sam and Ivan hosted a special Curmudgeon's Corner reacting to the Election 2024 returns live as they came in. If you tuned in on election night, thank you. If you are listening later, be glad that all the umms, ahhhs, and silences have been removed, reducing the show from over six hours to under four. But you can still relive all the ups and dow…
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This is the last Curmudgeon's Corner before we start seeing results for Election 2024. Sam and Ivan will be doing a live stream on election night as the votes come in. Listen to the episode for more details. In the mean time, they go over the polling situation one more time and discuss recent campaign developments. Plus some discussion of the world…
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AMERICAN CURMUDGEON # 1 : " The Beginning of the END of America? "
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We're only 5 days away from Election Day.....is this the beginning of the END of America? Get a bottle of my delicious American Curmudgeon hot sauce : https://theamericancurmudgeon.com/Av American Curmudgeon
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Led Zeppelin....The Legacy of All Legacies
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In which The Curmudgeons worship at the altar of the mighty, mighty Led Zeppelin. With scorching guitar licks, torpedo-heavy drumming and sex-god screamer vocals, this band epitomized the sensuality and the swagger of rock 'n' roll, and in presenting their take on the genre, they helped create what we now call heavy metal. During this episode, we c…
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Money and the Deep State - Tyler O'Neil (7x5)
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Tyler O'Neil discusses his forthcoming book The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government. Covid policy, education, budget funding, the LGBTQ+ agenda, and teachers' unions that have broken American education - Tyler explains the many ways the deep state has corrupted the constitutional governance of America. Tracing the mo…
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On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, it is less than two weeks before the US presidential election, so what do you think Ivan and Sam are going to be talking about? If you said diverticulitis and season one of Law & Order, then you guessed correctly. Congratulations! Well, ok, yeah, and that other thing too. Show Details: Recorded 2024-10-26 Length …
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Curmudgeon’s Corner 38 - Detailing Made Simple - Socrates Talavera, Jr
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Curmudgeon's Corner 38!!! Saturday Night, October 26th at 8pmEastern/5pmPacific: Socrates "Soc" Talavera, Jr of @clarityglossautospa and of his incredible YouTube Channel - Detailing Made Simple - youtube.com/@DetailingMadeSimple Soc is known for his incredible details and product reviews! One might even argue he's the Rinseless King... Looking at …
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The Salty Curmudgeons Season 3 Episode 6 - There Are Superstitions!
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Send us a text The boys take a chance and dive into the world of superstitions! From their own to some of the most famous athletes in the world, you will laugh at some of the things people do to have good luck. Don't step on a crack & break your mother's back! Give them a listen today! The Salty Curmudgeons…
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Transhumanism, P**n, Loneliness, and Big Tech - With Emily Jashinsky (7x4)
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Emily Jashinsky of Unherd discusses the unique challenges pornography and big tech pose to our culture; she suggests that the loneliness epidemic is directly connected to these problems. Transhumanism as a rejection of the natural goodness of the body fits directly into our cultural malaise. Join Emily and Josh for a great conversation about the pr…
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2024-10-19: Thumb on the Thing
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This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Ivan is a last minute scratch, so Sam does a solo show. And well, that means it is almost 100% election stuff this time around. But come on, there are just barely more than two weeks left. What do you expect anyway? Well, he does talk a little bit about taking time off from work... to do election stuff. Uh. So fine…
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Forming the Moral Imagination - feat. Sean Hadley (7x3)
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Dr. Sean Hadley discusses the effects the key texts of literature have on the moral imagination: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Milton's Paradise Lose, Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle, The Song of Roland (Anon). Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Lewis's Till We Have Face…
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The 3rd Golden Age of Rock: 1976 - Year Zero For Punk
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In which The Curmudgeons kick off its latest Golen Age series of episodes by revisiting the seminal year of 1976. It was a year that saw both The Ramones and The Sex Pistols break out. To say punk was the thing that year was an understatement. It was also was vital year for arena rock, as Boston and The Eagles both dropped classic albums. We also p…
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On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, Ivan and Sam's big topics are Hurricane Milton, and of course Election 2024. Because what else would they talk about? Oh yeah, finding lost things, Columbus Day, and auroras are back, but aren't they old news now? Fun show, there you go. Show Details: Recorded 2024-10-11 Length this week 2:02:17 0:00:00 - Cold Op…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner 37 - Quiff Queen Rock Star - Lisa Hoogvliet
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Curmudgeon's Corner 37!!! October 12th at 8pmEastern/5pmPacific we are breaking the box and bringing in one of our own from the Phoenix Family! As we gear up for the Phoenix Rise From The Ashes Pay It Forward Campaign, we're going to pivot shift to our community! Lisa The Quiff Queen Rock Star @quiffqueenrockstar is a huge fan of Phoenix E.O.D. and…
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Pinch of Salt - The Olympic Sport of Changing a Toddler's Diaper
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Send us a text Those who have ever changed the diaper of a toddler know all too well about the potential for disaster! From the Escape Artist to the Human Fountain, toddlers have always made changing a dirty diaper an adventure to remember! Join Killjoy & Riptide on their hilarious take on the sport of changing a toddler's dirty diaper! The Salty C…
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Ministry in a Hostile World - Urie Brito of the CREC (7x2)
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Ministry in the negative world is often difficult. Pastor Urie Brito explains his story of getting into ministry, why he loves the CREC (Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches), and details the argument of his latest book, The War of the Priesthood: An Exposition of the Armor of God. Towards the end of the episode, Uri explains why he is willin…
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Riptide Pinch of Salt - The Joys & Benefits of Being Fun Sized
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Send us a text Join Riptide as he dives into the benefits of being a fun-sized (short) person! Appreciate the little things in life...give a short person a hug! Riptide will leave you with a smile on your face with his lighthearted take on how short people have it so great! The Salty CurmudgeonsAv The Salty Curmudgeons
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This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan start out by chatting more about Hurricane Helene and then some discussion of AI assisted coding. After that they settle in to the "big" topics for the week, namely the escalations in the Middle East, and all the latest updates on Election 2024. Show Details: Recorded 2024-10-05 Length this week 2:02:5…
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Pinch of Salt - Killjoy is upset about the abuse of ticket fees!
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Send us a text Are you fed up with prices to go to concerts, games and other events?? Killjoy shares his saltiness about the fees added on to tickets to our favorite teams or entertainers. Give it a listen today! The Salty CurmudgeonsAv The Salty Curmudgeons
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The Conservative Curmudgeon Radio Show 10-02-24
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In which The Curmudgeons shake, shake, shake that booty and revisit one of popular music's most unfairly maligned genres. Disco was essentially funky orchestral music--grand, reverb-heavy, maximal, showy, dramatic. Yet it was also energetic and fun as hell. Here, we explore disco's birth as a movement of freedom and uninhibited expression in Black …
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Beauty and Aesthetics: Mike Young (7x1)
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Dr. Michael Young discuss beauty, Roger Scruton, and aesthetics as a natural desire of the human soul. Our longing for beauty signifies our desire for something higher, something more meaningful to the human condition, than mere utility. We were made for more! This conversation was inspired by Roger Scruton's book Beauty: A Very Short Introduction.…
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2024-09-28: Repelling the Ninjas
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On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan argue about polls. But also there is of course more Election 2024 talk. But before that, some on Hurricane Helene and more generally about disaster preparedness, a look back at the book "Big Data" from 2013, and a discussion on the need to actually pay people a decent wage. Oh, and some celebration o…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner 36 - Special Q&A and Live Demo w/ Brian Spitler Apex Auto Detail
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Curmudgeon's Corner 36!!! Saturday, September 28th @ 8pmEastern/5pmPacific The Godfather of Detailing Himself, Brian Spitler @apexautodetail and his protégé Brian Mayall! Hot out of their Fall Training Master Class, Brain Spitler, Sr., is going to do a Live Q&A and Demo for ANY and ALL questions you may have on running a business and detailing! Fro…
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The Salty Curmudgeons Season 3 Episode V - The Travels
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Send us a text The Curmudgeons are back following a short hiatus to allow for travel schedules! Find out about exciting travels along with a discussion on the current college & pro football seasons. What has them salty?? Tune in to find out! The Salty CurmudgeonsAv The Salty Curmudgeons
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This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan start off with Seinfeld, Ferris Bueller, and self driving. With the fun stuff out of the way though, it is time for exploding pagers in Lebanon, and finally the latest on Election 2024. Jump in and enjoy the show! Show Details: Recorded 2024-09-21 Length this week 2:01:43 0:02:35 - But First Most Viewe…
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The Conservative Curmugeon Show LIVE 09-18-24
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In which The Curmudgeons know you wanted the best so we're giving it to you. Long live KISS, whose live act and meaty, ferocious riffs are both legendary. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss understood that rock 'n' roll, at the end of the day, is all about the show. And KISS, nearly 50 years ago, put on the greatest show on the…
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On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan eventually get to talking about the Harris vs Trump debate and all developments cascading from that, but first they cover difficult sleeping arrangements, the difficulties of flat tires, Donald's pet public stock, and the difficulty of knowing what is true. So packed show! Show Details: Recorded 2024…
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This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Ivan celebrates the 900th episode of the podcast with a wild night in Vegas, thoughtlessly leaving Sam behind. But they manage to talk about the Chase Glitch, Election 2024, and Ghostbusters II anyway. Someone MAY have fallen asleep though. Show Details: Recorded 2024-09-07 Length this week 1:40:47 0:01:37 - But Fi…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner 35 - Miranda Detailing - Phil Miranda
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Curmudgeon's Corner 35!!! This Saturday, September 7th @ 8pmEastern/5pmPacific Four Horseman and Fan Favorite... Philip J Miranda of @miranda__detailing !!! So much controversy surrounds this guy!!! IS he the most handsome man in detailing!? IS he the nicest, most laid back detailer you're ever going to meet!? Does he now sport a better beard than …
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The Conservative Curmudgeon 09-04-24
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