Episode 376: The Art of the Steal

Bart and Norma discuss a winery light display, Meghan McCain decides women should have maternity leave (now that she experienced problems), Trump may or may not be stealing White House art, Hot Pockets recall asks if you'd like some glass with your lava, and My Pillow guy is experiencing problems because he just loves the Trump too darn much!

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Show Notes:

• Light display trip at the winery
• Greta Thunberg to be on Stamp
• Meghan McCain changes her mind on a subject once SHE had to go through it
• Conservative brain, liberal brain
• Black market vaccines
• The Art of the Steal: We Swear We're Not Stealing White House Stuff Edition
• Github fires Jewish employee for stating concern for other employees in DC area because of rioting Nazis, then walks back on firing because there were Trump-supported Nazis rioting in DC
• Hot Pockets recalled because of glass, plastic, not because of lava
• MyPillow Mike Lindell getting "cancelled" by vendors; snowflakes complain
• Trump anti-education group issues racist report on MLK day

Episode 375: Mayhem Descends on DC

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss...well, a lot of it was a discussion of the recent mob events in DC. Among other things, like accidentally giving kids liquor in the form of vanilla extract (oops).

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Show Notes:

• Bidets are fun
• Coup Klux Klan visits Washington, D.C.
• Impeachment information
• Consequences are apparently for the little people
• Resignations
• Some Section 230 talk
• A star who didn't die but thought was dead is now dead
• Furniture shopping fun
• Norma likes Purple mattresses
• Happy Birthday to Bart's mom and happy anniversary as well

Episode 374: Did The Government Stimulate You?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Play-Doh, Trump's New Year's party, and the incompetence of the Stimulus Executors. And can we find college-grade cube-shaped chair?

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Show Notes:

• Yes, Voretaq has an odd reverb/echo. Don't know why.
• The stimulus package...Norma got one...Bart didn't...?
• Having an app isn't necessarily bad...but why must every part have a sub-app?
• The IRS doesn't think Bart lives here
• Covid-19 claims Dawn Wells
• GOP fights the Biden victory because f*ck what they claim to support
• Vaccine distribution screwed up by administration...SURPRISE
• Kid spends thousands on Mom's credit card because derp
• Oh no McConnell's house was vandalized so sad
• A Very Trump New Year's Eve (minus Trump)
• A neighborhood for pilots
• Do you actually know what your political party supports? Republicans don't...
• Death to 2020 mockumentary
• "We need to retire that term for 2021...'fake news'..."
• The conference Bart couldn't remember was Davos. Or Davros. One is a Dr. Who villain, the other is for villains. So I guess not much difference.
• The Play-Doh Scent saga
• Voretaq has fun with Verizon.
• Best furniture: cube-shaped chairs we had in college. Those things ROCKED.

Episode 373: Surviving Xmas

Voretaq has a new TV! A terrible state rep whines about being criticises Trump supporters criticising him! Pence thinks poor people must SUFFER! And Scotty is on board the ISS! MERRY POST-XMAS!

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Show Notes:

• Voretaq explores his newly mounted thin-panel smart TV
• OS's for "smart things"
• FaceBook vs. Apple: privacy wars
• Aunt Becky is already out of jail!
• Mike Pence is aghast at the idea of poor people being comfortable
• Part of James Doohan is now aboard the ISS
• GoDaddy tests employees with promise of nonexistent holiday bonus
• KFC working on a game system?

Episode 372: Brought To You By Paint Fumes

It's a holiday, and this is minimally edited. That said, Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss painting Voretaq's apartment, snow, end of year work fun, snow, Tyson's managers betting on death for workers followup, and more snow!

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Show Notes:

• Voretaq is painting
• Voretaq didn't get his TV delivered yet...
• SNOW DAY 
• "Shredding machine go BRRRRRRRR"
• Saturday morning cartoons
• Australian death foam
• Russia hacks us again
• Tyson managers fired

Episode 371: Holidays are Here

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Flowbees, vaccines, stimulus money lost and Google has an outage!

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Show Notes:

• The holidays are upon us
•  Voretaq's credit card sucks
• Solarwinds virtual attack
• I think this was the Stack Exchange secrets-in-repo application I was talking about
• Flowbee discussion
• PA Governor tests positive, negative, negative...
• Closed captioning at home and in theaters
• Vaccine news, virus movies
• Voting
• Government misspending
• IRS sends stimulus checks to overseas non-citizens
• Poor rich people
• Tyson managers make bets on employee illness in the age of Covid
• Google Outage!
• AG William Barr quits
• Gatherings and Covid
• School closures and policy

Episode 370: Post Thanksgiving Wrap

Bart, Norma and Voretag discuss Baby Yoda the Genocidal, what the future of cinema may hold, and Covid rules (and the flaunting by Conservative groups of those rules)

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Show Notes:

• Chia Pet of Yoda's species
• Baby Yoda: Genocide Edition
• Ken Jennings to host Jeopardy!
• First run releases to HBO streaming?
• Future of movies discussion
• Voretaq is replacing his car and his Verizon fun
• Discussing Covid closings
• Anti-masker arrested
• NJ calls out GOP party party held to flaunt Covid rules
• Can you ban someone from a state?