Episode 51: The Downer Episode

Bart and Norma review feedback, Sam Pepper sexually harassing women, Tracy Morgan being blamed by WalMart for his injuries, and the ethics of the wealthy

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Show Notes:

• Feedback - Mike's voice was a hit
• Feedback - women join professions, and the average pay goes down
• Feedback - low paying jobs and they don't have retirement savings
• Interesting facts about the Forbes Top 400
• Feedback - gas workers (fracking) and their families on welfare?
• Feedback - NYC mask law
• California passes an explicit consent law
• Sam Pepper scandal
• Laci Green's open letter to Sam Pepper
• How common is assault like this?
• "Boys will be boys"
• Twitter harasshole sent to jail
• Study: Trolls are sociopaths
• Walmart blames Tracy Morgan for not wearing his seatbelt
• Wealthy vs. Middle Class ethics
• Millennials not using credit cards so much anymore
• ATM fees rising
• "Rule to Work"

Episode 50: A Wild Voretaq7 Appears!

This week Mike, AKA Voretaq7, co-hosts with Bart and we have what is possibly the longest reply-to-feedback episode ever! Topics were all over the chart...dino-sharks, cost of living, fracking, #FloodWallStreet and even Emma Watson!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_50.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq7 emerges from ServerFault for a co-host session!
• Feedback: Dino-Sharks and Dinner Plates
• 9-Inch Diet
• We're getting old
• Feedback: Teachers teaching at the whim of the public
• "Parents are a customer in education"
• Base pay for everyone?
• Cost of living, comparing the country to the city
• When women join a profession, it becomes devalued
• Seattle and the $15 minimum wage
• -> What I was thinking of but not mentioned in the podcast: Moo Cluck Moo
• Gas company fracking
• Taxes on home...DEATH TAX
• Salem trials trivia revisited
• The Poor Door
• #FloodWallStreet Scroll down to find the Captain Planets
• NYC Mask Law (so Capt. America and Iron Man, together, are illegal, technically...)
• Child porn laws and unintended consequences
• Emma Watson threats?
• Not All Men!
• We don't speak for our employers...

Also mentioned: Don't microwave your iPhone, and MacOS Ken

Episode 49: Country Edition

Bart and Norma talk about schools, the state of technology in schools, dress codes and attrition rates and end up speculating about the degradation of their "home town."

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_49.mp3

Show Notes:

• We're going back to basics, country style. You can tell from the cricket sounds.
• Pete got interviewed
• How do you pronounce "Megalodon?"
• Trials of ordering food in the country
• School dress codes
• State of tech in schools (Spoiler alert; not good)
• Practical vs. promised use of the Internet
• The country has bugs. So many bugs.
• Skills learned in schools
• Resume' writing 101
• Dressing strange and dress codes...so strange...
• Teacher attrition and how teachers are treated
• My home town will probably become an economic wasteland

Episode 48: Bart Was Wrong

Norma and Bart discuss feedback, trite memes regurgitated as a substitute for thinking, and Apples big security failure. Oh, and more naked people.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_48.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback review
• Pity poor rich people!
• Danielle Fishel book signing is skipped
• Regurgitating ideas through memes as a substitute for thinking actual thoughts
• Everything you do carries a risk
• Victim blaming paper/study
• Angry crotch cannon transformer!
• Unintended consequences of stupid laws and underage photos
• Apple 2-factor is totally inadequate
• Google checks your email contents
• Star Wars reference!
• Websites experiment on you. Big surprise
• OKCupid experiments on people

Episode 47: Naked People

Norma and Bart review feedback (rioters, teacher training, etc.) and review the celebrity nudes story along with a discussion about victim blaming.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_47.mp3

Show Notes:

• Damn it's hot...
• Norma proposes being a host instead of guest host
• Feedback: Sheets to help reduce A/C costs?
• Feedback: Rioters/looters were waiting for an excuse to loot?
• Feedback: Weight loss foods
• Feedback: Teacher training
• Feedback: Here's the opinion piece on teachering that was discussed
• Feedback: Vox unions article
• Celebrity nude photos released to the public
• "Victim blaming" versus "personal responsibility"
• Reporters can't seem to report properly to begin with
• 2-factor authorization. Use it.
• Deny it...but if you're lying, you're just going to Barbra Streisand it.