2026-04-04: Stuck To My Brain

About this episode

Sam and Ivan discuss Trump's cabinet culture, the war in Iran, corporate layoffs, and balance it with discussions on Artemus II and movies.

This week on Curmudgeon's Corner Sam and Ivan talk about Trump's cabinet culture, the war in Iran, and more corporate layoffs. With all that negativity, they have to balance things out with Artemus II and a couple of movies too. And that is it.   Show Details: Recorded 2026-04-04 Length this week 2:08:17 <!— /meta --> 0:01:10 - But First Corporate Layoffs Artemus II Movie: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Movie: The Martian (2015) 0:52:06 - But Second Bondi Out Dumb and Lazy Possible Iran POWs Cabinet Turnover 1:16:08 - But Third Iran Economic Impact Iran Goals? Empathy, Diversity, and Expertise Election 2026 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

• Trump's cabinet culture
• war in Iran
• corporate layoffs
• Artemus II
• movies
• election 2026
• empathy and diversity

Keywords

• Trump
• Iran
• corporate layoffs
• Artemus II
• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Martian
• election 2026
• empathy
• diversity

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Lawrence of Arabia, The Martian

Places: Iran

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