2026-03-14: Flying Clowns

About this episode

Ivan and Sam discuss various topics including the Iran War, election updates, and Pi Day amidst a slow news week.

On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner Ivan and Sam realize that besides the Iran War, which they spend the second segment on, there wasn't a lot of news stuff going on to talk about. So they spend the rest of the show on everything from problems with backups, to staffing issues at xAI, to some election updates, to Pi Day, to found Doctor Who episodes, and much more!   Show Details: Recorded 2026-03-14 Length this week 1:45:26 <!— /meta --> 0:02:38 - But First Pi Day Syncing Problems Backup Problems 0:32:58 - But Second Iran War Update Absent War Goals Lack of Foresight 1:06:55 - But Third Election Updates Found Doctor Who xAI Exodus 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: Ivan Bou, Samuel Minter

Topics covered

• Iran War
• election updates
• backup problems
• staffing issues
• Doctor Who
• Pi Day

Keywords

• Iran War
• election updates
• backup problems
• xAI
• Doctor Who
• Pi Day

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: xAI

Books & works: Doctor Who

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