Episode 301: Bad Surveys, California Wrap-Up, and Education Discussions

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the overall California trip (DINOSAURS! BEACHES! DEATH!), terrible surveys sent on behalf of the Orange Curse, charter schools and education in general as well as a bit document discussing the things Cargill has done (according to the organization in the link...)

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Show Notes:

• California wrap-up
• Cabazon Dinosaurs
• California as an oil-state
• Walk of fame, beach visits, etc...
• Trump star vandalized (but not while we're there...)
• The council wants to remove Trump's star, because they SHOULD
• Kevin Spacey lawsuit dropped
• Trump survey won't allow you to harm his snowflake ego with negative feedback
• Voretaq HATES bad surveys
• Museum of Death
• No last words for the condemned in Texas?
• Irvine area and beach rental impressions, climate differences from "home"
• PA schools to end "snow days" as we know them?
• Learning and schooling discussion
• Charter schools and funding
• Legal marijuana pushes out drug dealers
• Opportunity zones/incentives are bullsh#$%
• Pence and his indifference to suffering
• Cargill criticism

Episode 300: California Special Edition 2019

Bart and Norma record a short update on their California trip!

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Show Notes:

• Earthquake
• Yes, there was an earthquake
• Cabazon Dinosaurs
• Randy's Donuts, as featured in Iron Man 2 and other movies
• Henson Company drive-by
• Walk of fame
• Venice Beach
• Feedback
• Scranton ex-mayor pleads guilty to corruption
• Idiot ice cream licker
• Trump-Epstein link
• Trump and allegations of raping a 13 year old

Episode 299: Let's Embarrass America Tour! (And Kim K's Kimono-no!)

Bart and Norma discuss triking, snakes, a local Rail Trail, Ivanka and her Embarrassing America performance, and Toys R Us may be making a comeback for Xmas!

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Show Notes:

• Immortal Hulk!
• Triking update (stupid flats)
• Racket is shedding, which means he's grouchy
• Air travel is horrible
• Feedback
• Snakes!
• Elmira Rail Trail (Lackawanna Rail Trail) lacked people and maintenance...
• Kim K and her Kimono-no's
• Other miscellaneous things are trademarked too...
• Ivanka and her "Let's Embarrass America" tour
• College for free?
• How's our idiot President doing?
• Toys R Us is back for Xmas?

Episode 298: Raspberry Pi, Oh My!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss reparations, the new Raspberry Pi 4, why curious toddlers and teal Glocks don't mix, Oregon nuttery and a debt collector finds themselves in debt!

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Show Notes:

• Feedback
• Reparations
• Conway vs. the Hatch Act
• Biden should probably not run
• Raspberry Pi 4 released
• Anxiety: travel edition
• Stupid cat
• Useful (marine biology) specializations
• Are kids growing horns?
• Toddler finds gun, shoots self
• House in a Greenhouse
• Debt collector goes into debt. BOO HOO!
• Pence refuses to answer climate change threat questions
• Oregon and Conservative crazies
• Immigration

Episode 297: Apple Mac Pro or Apple Mac Schmo?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss amusement parks, Apple's new hardware announcements and possible future path, tech security practices and Trump's Mexico deal that isn't even a deal!

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Show Notes:

• Jon Stewart is the target of Mitch "Grim Reaper" McConnell
• We are infested by cows
• Voretaq encounters a rooster
• Feedback time
• Waiting for Potter
• Shout-out to Knoebels
• Universal Studios (Hollywood) memories
• Cuba Gooding, Jr. turns self into police
• GOOD RIDDANCE SANDERS
• The dusty press corp podium...good job not doing a job
• Might want to skip the Dominican Republic, maybe?
• Apple's new Mac Pro controversies
• Apple and the future of Macs
• Bart's primary Mac doesn't like the hard disk when upgrading to an upgraded OS...don't know about the current release, though
• Seeing iPadOS, Bart's unsure of the joy of OS X's future for his use case...
• What is Bootcamp?
• Raspberry Pi: affordable mini-computers
• Samsung was suddenly telling people they should run antivirus checks on their TVs...
• ...then we might have been reminded why
• Playstation Network TIFU story on Reddit; DON'T GIVE AWAY ACCOUNT CREDS, PEOPLE
• 2-Factor defeated by SIM (your ticket to the cell phone network, basically) theft, thus losing access to much of his digital life
• Man fights release of name after admitting he abused children 40 years ago
• Liz is laying (blank) eggs
• Amazon pretends they are paying well; attacks Ocasio-Cortez in retaliation move
• Trump's "Mexico Deal" text released by Mexico. There's no "Deal."
• Rumors of Trump's use of slurs on The Apprentice

Episode 296: I Am Sploot

Bart and Norma produce a shortcast where we discuss a trike accident, Racket the Bearded Dragon, and movie and TV show opinions.

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Show Notes:

• Racket: I AM SPLOOT
• Elisabeth Moss and Scientology (and Handmaid's Tale)
• Little Dude crashed a trike...how?
• Galaxy's Edge Star Wars attraction at Disney
• Dark Phoenix had a terrible opening weekend
• Men In Black: International
• Trump's so busy working he decided to call CNBC
• David Ortiz shot in Dominican Republic

Episode 295: Movies, and the UK Won't Keep Him

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss movies, raising lizards, Trump's problems in the UK (boo hoo), and cults! We also talk about Baltimore's ransomware issue...

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Show Notes:

• Hearing things that aren't there
• Theater putting in beds instead of chairs
• Climbing Everest facts
• Climbers dying on Everest...
• Godzilla 2, Booksmart
• Trump's n the UK, they want him to go home (damn...)
• Giant wee wee greets the Orange Wee Wee (That's Trump, by the way)
• Trump greeted again with projections on buildings
• Baltimore taken down by ransomware...
• ...that was injected into their systems using "Trust Us We're Good Guys" NSA tools
• Watch The Perfection
• Arrow discussion, vigilantes, being above the law...and we don't know anything in real life in the US that allows people above the law, do we?
• Voretaq's lizard is afraid of superworms due to a biting incident when it was a baby
• Allison Mack: from Smallville to NXIVM cult member
• iTunes is going away
• Creationist ark museum suing for flood damages (to access road, but still ironic)