Episode 547: Shooting Down Drones over Jersey!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss voting, Medicare Advantage, the Goonies celebrates another decade, drones and Cash 4 Kids judge is free again...

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Show Notes:

• Whoops...episode 547...not 546
• Starting was a little weird again because updates are terrible
• Why avoid Medicare Advantage?
• Goonies turns 40
• Turns out the story I recalled was from an interview with Josh Brolin, and yes, he kind of ruined the take with his genuine reaction to the ship
• Voting discussion
• PA governor Shapiro reacts to Cash-4-Kids judge being pardoned by Biden
• Fetterman: Republican Ackshually?
• Hegseth: definitely won't drink when getting Trump-granted power
• Kid went on 10 mile walk, parent arrested
• Drones over NJ...PA...etc
  

Episode 546: Robin Hood Denied Insurance Claim

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss props and blood sugar, but mainly we talk about insurance and how horrible human beings with money try to spin a narrative that they're actually nice people who don't deserve being shot just because they profit off pain.

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Show Notes:

• Green (insecure?) text bubbles are going away on iOS
• G7 glucose monitors come with FREE MINI MAGNET!
• Bye bye Goop
• Ruby Slippers auctioned for millions
• Prop talk
• Health insurance CEO killed, millions cheer
• Whoops...weird disconnect paused the discussion momentarily...
• School memories
  

Episode 545: Advertisements are Terrible

Bart and Norma discuss advertising, why relying on third party companies for your company's success is probably a bad idea, Niantic has been using collected data for other purposes, and there's snow in part of our state! Plus we survived the holiday that isn't really acknowledged as a holiday anymore!

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Show Notes:

• Bart hates Python
• Amazon ruins small business with a returns-as-new screwup
• Much traffic/engagement/interaction on the Internet is from bots
• Advertising is SO out of hand now
• Niantic using Pokemon Go as a covert mapping project/AI training system
• Why do I have to submit information that agencies already have, or worse, pay to send information that is already collected by government/companies?
• Infamous drum-of-lubricant from Amazon back in the conversation
• People are full of germs. Ew.
• Erie getting lake effect snow
  

Episode 544: Convention Visit in Bean Town

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a million dollar banana, shopping carts that revolutionize annoying customers, Norma's adventures in Boston and the latest holiday is coming around the corner!

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Show Notes:

• Banana artwork for millions of dollars
• Expensive revolutionary shopping carts with batteries
• Bubble Tea Adventure
• Listening to a Supreme Court Judge
• Adventures in losing things at big conventions
• Conservative evil is still creeping in to schools
• Wheel of Privilege
• Man arrested for drug/rape charges that are rather staggering for a small town area...
• Tis' the season for idiot to cry OPPRESSION and pretend they're victims falalalala
  

Episode 543: The Votes Are In And We're Doomed

Bart and Norma spend a lot of time wishing we weren't in this country now that it's marching down a path to fascism. Also, plastic rain is the new acid rain, and karma bites an ex-GOP rep right in the healthcare. Because they're clowns and deserve bad karma.

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Show Notes:

• Don't know where Voretaq is. Haven't heard from him since Election Day.
• Kitten visits the studio
• Eyeballs and smarts
• Plastic rain...the new reason we're growing stupid and infertile?
• Scam question: No, Musk isn't selling a power saver, despite being a grifter and all around terrible person in my opinion
• Yes, the US had concentration camps in WWII
• Generational wealth, Congress, and slaveowners
• Musk making friends with other Trumpets' advisors
• Oklahoma superintendent forces schools to bow to (Trump) Christianity in bid to get picked for Trump grifting position
• Former GOP rep has GoFundMe trolled after disabling injury due to his attempts to deprive Americans of affordable healthcare
  

Episode 542: Election Day Horrors

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss computing and...much of it is the election. Trump. How is Trump still a candidate? Why? Are his supporters pretending they don't understand why he's terrible? Are they just knowingly lying? Or are they legitimate fascist morons? Also a local celebrity squirrel is murdered by New York State and people are not happy about it.

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Show Notes:

• Food is better from the fridge
• Ads load great, the content I'm actually trying to view, not so much.
• Bird flu farm animals
• MS Teams migrated away from Electron to something that seems worse unless you're running Windows...
• That time Dude almost got himself murdered
• Computing and the "children of plenty"
• Election coming up. Trump. You knew that would happen.
• NYS murdered a squirrel
• Parody: I Kissed a Squirrel (And I Liked It)
  

Episode 541: Ballot Box Burnings

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss MS Teams, McDonald's just happens to spread E. Coli after the Orange Man serves hamberders to his cult followers, election results are in the air along with ashes of ballots in at least 3 states, and Jimmy Pesto goes to jail!

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Show Notes:

• Microsoft Teams takes up 1 GIGABYTE on the hard drive...WHY?
• Spam/scams in email and filtering
• Celebrities writing children's books...
• McColi - obviously a conspiracy to make Trumps McCosplay look bad?
  
• Standing desks are healthy except when they aren't
• Ballot box burnings
• Apartment manager commits fraud to vote Trump multiple times
• McD's flurry machines broken?
• Right to repair talk (mostly copiers)
• Jimmy Pesto actor sentenced in insurrection participation