2026-02-21: 35 Degree Thumb

About this episode

Sam and Ivan discuss various topics including Tesla, AI, tariffs, and movies.

This week on Curmudgeon's Corner Sam and Ivan talk Tesla, AI, Tariffs, Economy, Epstein, Cars, Movies and RobinLetter. Is that enough for you? I hope so, cause that's what you have this week. Plus the benefits of checking your mail! So there ya go!   Show Details: Recorded 2026-02-21 Length this week 1:37:37 <!— /meta --> 0:00:35 - Part One Movie: Tuck Everlasting (2002) Movie: Allegiant (2016) 0:16:49 - Part Two Tesla Pulling Back From Cars Electric Car Competition AI Risks and Benefits 0:49:04 - Part Three Looking at Mail Tariff Decision Negative Indicators 1:14:55 - Part Four New Epstein Consequences RobinLetter Update Expensive Cars 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 . <!— /credits -->

People in this episode

Hosts: Samuel Minter, Ivan Bou

Topics covered

• Tesla
• AI
• Economy
• Tariffs
• Movies
• Mail

Keywords

• Tesla
• AI
• Economy
• Tariffs
• Epstein
• Movies
• Mail

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tesla, RobinLetter

Books & works: Tuck Everlasting, Allegiant

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