Episode 576: Oh Dear School Is Here

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss school...well, public school...words as weapons, data centers in PA revisited, Texas wants a theocracy (yay Handmaid's Tale!), Cracker Barrel pretend Conservative whining, and Pamela Anderson apparently likes pickles? You can buy some and help a wildlife sanctuary!

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Show Notes:

• Discussion: teachers return to school. Yay.
• PBIS is not Pbis and Putthead. 
• New squeezie gel cube
• Teachers spent a lot of time reiterating stuff these idiots should have learned years ago. Or in a handbook.
• There's a custodian shortage in schools now too? 
• Weaponized Semantics... "woke", "clip", "magazine" 
• Texas can't force kids to view 10 Commandments posters in a school
• PA data center proposal causes distress to a mobile home park
• Cracker Barrel is the latest Eugenics Barbie. Release the Epstein files.
• Some interesting Snopes research on the term "cracker barrel".
• Editing/Notes Bart: There was some discussion about the origin of public education. I think we're all kind of wrong. Public education in the US seems to have origins in religious roots, and it grew from there as states defined requirements and society evolved. It's a topic unto itself.
• Want to buy some pickles from Pam Anderson's family recipes, for a good cause?  

Episode 575: MAGA is Slow to Learn

Bart and Norma discuss some feedback and what little news there is this week. My highlight is an article about the morons who actually thought Russia was a nice place to live until they criticized their lives there...big mistake, dumbass.

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Show Notes:

• Cats visit. Mainly Princess Meow Meow.
• One-hit wonders stuff. Sort of. 
• Amazon outsourcing deliveries (yes you can become an Uberazon Driver!) 
• Super old astronauts die under odd circumstances...
• Hurricane Erin won't be adding local drama
• MAGAts move to Russia and discover they are morons.  Is "MAGA" the new "Slow Learner"?
• A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear 
• Felony sandwich-throwing, but only if it's targeted at a MAGA SS goon squad 

Episode 574: Dean Cain as Homelander

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss zoo donations, nukes on the moon, Dean Caine now starring as real-life Homelander, the iPad as a laptop replacement, and that's about it, so...mainly crappy people who happen to be actors of fondly remembered characters?

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Show Notes:

•  Denmark zoo wants your unwanted animals
•  Next on the space race: nuke plant on the moon
•  Dean Cain: from Superman to Homelander
• Screen refresh rate discussion
• Norma wants to look at an iPad-as-a-computer-replacement 
• Justice Department fires spouse of app developer 
• Rapper claims Tesla disabled his vehicle remotely, Tesla issues rare denial 
• Silver Couch Surfer 

Episode 573: Friendship Goals and Leopards Eating Faces

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Disney, a new Star Trek story about Khan featuring Tuvok and Sulu, a Tennessee school district doesn't like the optics of teachers asking for supplies the school won't get for them, American Eagle is courting the MAGA Nazi crowd with their latest ad about superior genes, and a reminder that leaded gas was poisoning people for half a century because some companies loved their profit more than not killing customers...also, voting has consequences, you're experiencing them, please stop complaining about getting what you wanted.

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Show Notes:

• Shooting in NYC (mentioned last week, I think?)
• Fantastic Four
• George Takei  and Tim Russ reunite for the podcast Star Trek: Khan
• George Lucas and his artist museum
• Disney is a law firm that happens to make movies 
• Loni Anderson RIP, and aging actress surgery syndrome discussion 
• TN superintendent won't let teachers post Amazon wish lists because it makes them look bad; "People will think we aren't getting you supplies that you aren't getting."
• County that rejected installation of weather warning system, had the camp apply for exceptions to flood zone building, supported Trump cuts to NOAA and FEMA, now complains they aren't getting relief/disaster support and funds...
• American Eagle likes eugenics? Voretaq doesn't care. I think it's wrong to tacitly normalize Nazi tactics. But whatever, right? Some say it's just an ad, or you're reading into it,...this link makes the connection between AE CEO and Trump means it's a little less coincidence they're celebrating Aryan-appearing Sweeney as having the best genes.
• They knew leaded gas was a poison. It was also profitable. So...we had leaded gas. 
• Building 100% American 

Episode 572: Was It Quiet?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss what few headlines have passed our way this week, which mostly was fallout of pissing off Stephen Colbert and the South Park gang, and Hulk Hogan died, countering the idea that terrible horrible people live longer.

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Show Notes:

•  Voretaq: developing for iOS is terrible
•  Syncing music between iPhone and Mac is more difficult than it should be. The note in the discussion isn't mentioned in online troubleshooting, and there's more to it than I think is mentioned, involving a small matrix of possibilities (probably due to licensing issues for Apple), and it looks like it had changed over time what does and doesn't work.
•  Funeral Home(s) accused of mishandling remains
•  YouTuber and author Caitlin Doughty mentioned in our conversation that discusses questions, history, news, etc. regarding funeral homes and mortician work
•  Walmart stabby stabby attack
•  More on the Memex
•  Hulk Hogan died. Nothing of value was lost. He was a terrible person. In my opinion.
•  Colbert advertises South Park link to YouTube PSA about how much Trump loves us
• We have been watching The Pitt, apparently it's pretty medically accurate 

Episode 571: Trump and Epstein...Really?

Bart and Norma discuss her recent surgery to explain her speaking issues, Superman is too "woke" (what the hell does that even mean?!), a Christian camp washes away after being built in a flood-prone area that lacks flood warning equipment in an area so Republikan they refused to used Biden-sourced funds to upgrade warning systems, Epstein not only had no "files" but he didn't even exist let alone kill himself!

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Show Notes:

• Surgery worked, still recovering, will take awhile...
• Christian camp washed away. Didn't really spend much time on that, didn't even get into how the county thumbed their nose at funds that would have installed a warning system and likely saved lives. 
• Superman is "too woke"
• Dean Cain is the Kevin Sorbo of the Superman franchise? 
• Superman and history
• Memex - a device, or vision, that could perhaps save us from the age of AI
• Malcolm Jamal Warner RIP
• Data centers coming to PA
• Robot delivery agents riding subways, distributing to 7-Elevens in China
• Epstein discussion from comment question
• "Gen Z Stare" - Current "Get off my lawn" whining of old people vs. young people 

Episode 570: Red GOP, Blue Dems,...White MAGA?

Bart and Norma discuss some general chatter, but there's some focus on idiots. I suppose many of our topics are about idiots, so we'll narrow this one down to having a "political" party that sooner believes in magic weather machines murdering Christian conservatives instead of climate change being ignored.

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Show Notes:

• It's raining, but there's still all sorts of (illegal) fireworks going off 
• ScarJo had a fear to face in Jurassic World
• NextDoor
• Guess he didn't throw his kid overboard on a Disney cruise...
• Star Wars actor dies of Covid + pneumonia
• Marjorie Taylor Greene uses deaths in Texas from NOAA shutdown and DOGE cuts to instead outlaw imaginary chemtrails 
• Kennedy wants you to wear health trackers to make you healthier. Bonus: government tracks what you're doing, and lobbyists profit off the collected data, and insurance companies can use it against you. Yay! 
• "You must quickly pass state budget before I pass the federal Big Beautiful Bill that will defund hospitals and make people vote me out of office!" I paraphrase, but...well... 
• Mean girl Elon threatens mean girl Trump with 3rd political party, tanks stock in the process (again)  
• Children in US keep dying more than children in comparable countries 
• Medicaid, insurance, new glasses, it's all a giant suck of energy and time where people dealing with it have given up and the companies behind it are profiting