Episode 539: Democanes! Democrats Control the Weather!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the Democrat Hurricane Machine, credit stuffs, organ donations and some information on flying without seeing where you're going. Oklahoma confounds Bart with blatant corruption by sending millions of taxpayer dollars to Donald Trump in exchange for Bibles in schools. And a PA school adds windows to middle school student bathrooms because Conservatives are obsessed with underage perversion?

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Show Notes:

• Marjorie Taylor Greene insists, despite backlash, that liberals are controlling the weather in an effort to stop Trump from winning election (hurricanes are created by Democrats!)
• Financial/debt/credit/etc. discussion
• Flying/piloting discussion
  
• Soap opera and child actor discussion
• Vaccinations
• TikToker passed away at 25...
  
• Oklahoma Department of Education wants to purchase three million dollars' worth of Bibles for school curriculum, but purchase requirements suspiciously only match Trump Bibles
• Trump promised Musk a position as head of his own "efficiency commission" if elected
• Melania's book tour and promotion are...different.
• Republican candidate claims the wrong side won WWII
• Flood insurance discussion
• A Pennsylvania school district puts windows into student bathrooms
• There's a holiday next week...no show!

Episode 538: Hacking the Kia!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss shots for the season, language models actually being helpful when condescending programmers aren't, more people passed away who were important in shaping entertainment, and how you can hack Kias from the comfort of the keyboard!

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Show Notes:

• Sometimes you just want the $%^# question answered...and this is why language models endanger average programmer's future (in part, at least...)
• Adam Savage - eliminate "why don't you just..."
   
• Maggie Smith of Harry Potter fame passed away
• Kris Kristofferson passed away
• RSV in adults
• "Gen Z are unhireable" say employers who don't like change
• Hacking a Kia via the web
  

Episode 537: OctoGrandma

Bart and Norma discuss Octomom becoming a grandma, school cop has a gun whoopsie, and someone is peeing in scented candles...

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Show Notes:

• What storms are out there now? Anything?
• Pee-scented candles
• "Octomom" now a grandmother
• School Resource Office (school cop) shoots self in whoopsie-doodle incident
• Melania is getting paid to speak. Don't know why or how, so it's all suspicious, but she is...

Episode 536: Tay-Tay Doesn't Like Trump Trump

Bart and Norma discuss a little gun in the oven and a lot of Taylor Swift hate from GOP weirdos who have no problem with celebrities like Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock playing at their rallies so that seems even more super weird. Also a local-ish comic-con event will have Atreyu from Neverending Story coming to the area, so that might be neat?

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Show Notes:

• Is it a kitten or a small horse?
• Storing your guns in the oven
• Airplanes go *boop* on runway field
• Jeremy Renner's family evacuated due to wildfires
• Tito Jackson died
• Taylor Swift and other celebrities regarding advertising, platform to the people, and politics (Trump bigly mad)
• Someone tried to kill Trump again, supposedly, and again, didn't accomplish anything other than headaches and fundraising opportunities for Trump
• When "Leon" fired his personal handler...
• local comic-con information, featuring Atreyu
• Wednesday season 2 isn't coming until 2025?!
  

Episode 535: Bullets and Books: The Apalachee School Story

Bart and Norma discuss recent celebrity deaths, "cat eyes" for your hands and yet another US school shooting in a seemingly endless parade of school shootings. Oh, and Apple had another event announcing new super expensive toys.

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Show Notes:

• Medicare stuff
• Let's pretend Norma is paying attention
  
• TSA hates "Cat Eyes"
• Adam Savage blade vs TSA story
  
• RIP Obi Ndefo
• Norma whines about her sleep schedule
  
• RIP James Earl Jones
• Trump "weaves" intricate confabulations using multidimensional dementia 
• "Third gender" 
• Hundred Rabbits
  
• Big surprise, another school shooting
• Apple announcements at Apple Event
  

Episode 534: In Memoriam: Mongo Kitty

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a supercommuting douche, Reagan was terrible for education (and more), the Living Computer Museum is being completely disassembled, and we touch on the passing of one of our feline family members and periodic uninvited podcast guest, Mongo Kitty.

Farewell, Mongo. You will be missed, buddy.

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Show Notes:

• Cobol "Beebs" Kitty is playing and doesn't want recording to interrupt playtime
• School has started
• Why do we have summer off in the US for school students?
• Starbucks CEO gets to supercommute 1000+ miles
• People are not happy about it
• Reagan: we need to make sure Americans are stupid and can't get into colleges
• Oklahoma does NOT like teachers teaching about banned book titles
• Companies are posting "ghost jobs"
• Dave Plummer and the Living Computer Museum
• Big tech complying with the government
• One of the NSA exploits stolen from them and unleashed on the public
• RFK not only played with a bear carcass, he sawed the head off a whale and toddled home with it strapped to the roof of a minivan
• Mongo Kitty passed away and will be missed
  

Mongo - Thank You For the Memories

 

Episode 533: Mostly Feedback Day

Bart, Norma and Voretaq mostly discuss feedback this week...Olympics, Kirk Cameron being Kirk Cameron, homeschooling, auctioning props, and MAGA is definitely not weird. You know, the usual stuff.

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Show Notes:

• Where do old people go?
• Olympics and drugs
  
• Kirk Cameron thinks you raise your kids wrong
• Homeschooling
  
• RIP Phil Donahue
• Bart first saw BEHEMOTH on Phil's show
• Indiana Jones hat goes to auction
• Link to the Prop Store
• Scotty, Enterprise Chief Engineer, has been in space awhile. Or some of him, anyway.
• Once again, MAGA proves they're definitely not weird, this time by proudly displaying semen sample cups for JD Vance, which is definitely not weird.