Episode 326: New Year, New Setup, Same Stuff Still

Voretaq rejoins Bart and Norma to discuss Apple repairs and podcasting, Putin music videos, Windows users apparently have a REALLY IMPORTANT security update coming, and StackOverflow once again shows true colors! This and much more on episode 326!

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Show Notes:

• New recording setup...our first shakedown trial
• Audio Hijack and Fission...how does this podcast sound?
• Apple podcast recording/editing/etc. irritations
• iMac disassembly and reassembly story time
• Baking your video card for solder fixes...
• StackOverflow has some interesting news...
• Microsoft issues cryptic crypto update that hint users should DEFINITELY INSTALL IT ASAP
• Will users rebel and create their own version of StackOverflow?
• There seems to be some work on a work-alike...
• Lets talk about art and bananas and why it's bananas
• One Like Putin, English
• One Like Putin
• Velvet Buzzsaw
• Actual Cannibal Shia Labeouf
• Expensive Pokemon Card!
• Drone "fireworks"
• Watch Lost in Space (Netflix)
• Rubber Ducking taken to a new level
• Organ donation education on the process...
• Last gorilla from Gorillas in the Mist passed away?
• Trogdor's birthday...

Episode 325: Sad News Update

Bart and Norma have been having a not so great end of 2019 and a still not great start of 2020. This episode reviews some of those issues, along with a few news items to pop off the stack (a computer science reference!...see, not all gloom...) (Also, Voretaq is out of todays episode, but not his fault. Bart contacted him to say it wasn't going to happen, but we aim for him back next week...)

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Show Notes:

• Yes, we missed a show. There was a reason. It wasn't because we were taking a vacation.
• Computer used to record decided the GPU should have solder joints go bad (I think)
• Now using a laptop with latest MacOS, which doesn't run 32 bit software, which the recording software uses 32 bit compiled components so...ugh.
• Norma's father passed away on New Year's Day
• Learning about the aftermath of death
• IRS fun still
• Star Wars...not yet...controversial...in the end, if you like it, like it.
• Zumbo's Just Desserts season two is coming!?
• Letterkenny...Handmaid's Tale...
• A problem with tumbleweeds
• Napping with cats
• Methodists are splitting. Religious people are REALLY interested in what you do in the bedroom...
• Instagram model sends nudes for donations to Australian fire relief
• Evangelical bigots
• NOT ALL GUN NUTS and the random air-shooting for the new year
• Trump's latest fuckup (can you guess?...okay, he predicted a weak President would attack Iran now he is attacking Iran...)
• Wal-Mart bedbugs

Episode 324: Merry Holiday Christmas Spooktacular

Bart and Norma discuss lactose intolerance, StackOverflow settles their dispute with Monica Cellio, accountability for people in power is a joke, and our orange commander-in-chief rambles incoherently (again) about WIND! MERRY XMAS!

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Show Notes:

• Just kidding. There's not much holiday here.
• Teen tries stealing a plane
• DNA in primitive gum
• Lactose intolerance information
• Stack Exchange vs. Monica Cellio update
• Bradford County, PA wants to make sure you can shoot people!
• Accountability: the USS McCain incident
• Boeing CEO resigns
• Movie Cats being updated almost immediately after disastrous release
• Legal Eagle talks Senate impeachment hearing
• Moron president prattles on about "windmills"
• Stephen King wants his rep to fully impeach the orange moron in White House or King will work to remove him in elections
• Euphemism treadmill
• Charlize Theron and her background...
• Edward Snowden - Government decides his money is theirs
• StarWars: Rise of Skywalker discussion (preview version)
• Trump Jr. murders endangered sheep because he's a Trump

Episode 323: Receive Marrow, Become a Chimera!

Bart and Norma discuss American concentration camps, becoming a millionaire for a day, and how to become a chimera!

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Show Notes:

• Thank you to Erik for his accidental contribution to feedback feedback
• Holiday show blackouts (Rudolph, for example) on streaming but work on live shows
• Show licensing is fun
• Legal reasons we can't have nice things in our favorite shows. Or at least consistent things.
• Texas infant life support lawsuit
• Japanese-American Concentration Camps: Order 9066
• George Takei's Broadway hit Allegiance
• Little Dude brings up Birdie Sanders/Jack Sparrow
• Woman becomes a millionaire for a day
• Boy Meets Boy star becomes porn star
• Family Matters star turned to porn
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife OUTRAGE because PATRIARCHY
• Marrow transplant leads to chimerism...guy gets new DNA patterns
• Injustice served?
• PewDiePie on "break"
• More IRS crankiness
• RIP Chuy

Episode 322: Santa Loves Coke! And the Ghostbusters Return!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss what a crappy start to the month we've had, Trump goes anti-semite yet again, taxes are implemented in a braindead fashion (surprise!) in America, and Santa is a cokehead!

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Show Notes:

• Aging and injuries
• Physical therapy fun
• Bluetooth complaint session
• Voretaq's bluetooth doesn't work unless the jack is facing a certain direction...?
• Bart has a weird podcast app crash on iOS that may be related to an iTunes (maybe) outage?
• North Korea Xmas gift to the US?
• Trump: you don't support Israel enough, you won't vote for "Pocohontas" because she'll tax your money away, so you'll definitely vote for me...
• Trump: SNAP away your supporter base since dead people can't vote, apparently
• Odo passed away!
• Big Bird passed away!
• It's been a crappy start to the month...
• $54 BILLION dollar drop in charitable donations after tax changes...
• Coldfusion (programming) reference
• COBOL (programming) reference
• No medical coverage for you, but taxpayer funding for my stupid irresponsibility for me
• Pensacola says it has a "cyber incident"
• Santa the coke head...
• The child wants to see The Book of Mormon
• Blackmail business
• Brexit and settling the NHS to American corporations
• Brits asked if they know the cost of American health services, hilarity ensues
• Databreaches.net for malware/ransomeware/etc. information
• SwiftOnSecurity drops a 0-day on Twitter (oops)
• Ghostbusters Afterlife trailer
• Wonder Woman 1984 trailer
• Black Widow "teaser trailer"
• Hallmark movies are terrible

Episode 321: PA Lawmakers vs. OH Lawmakers

Bart and Norma discuss drug trafficking via homemade sub, Seattle homeless, PA proves they're more of a "hold my beer" state than Ohio in the Olympics of Stupid Laws, and booby traps can be dangerous!

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Show Notes:

• Homemade sub with cocaine in feedback (I should have looked at the date...looks like it's from 2015?)
• Damn anti-ad-blocking sites...
• Sub article I found that's a wee bit more recent...
• Homeless in Seattle
• National Dog Show 2019 goes to the (bull)dogs
• Made a touchdown, time to pretend I'm peeing
• PA tells Ohio to "hold my beer" proving they can out-stupid their conservatives in lawmaking logic
• London attack citizen: hero, or murderer? (No, not the terrorist)
• A booby trap for boobies
• The case that established some precedent for booby traps
• ICE creates a fake school to steal money from foreign students, then deport them
• Lil' Bub passes away at 8 years old
• Don't talk to people in stores

Episode 320: So Much Thanking

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the holiday, some movies, Letterkenny! And the Trump Prophecy! (Bonus: ever drink torpedo fuel?)

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Show Notes:

• Holderness Family Thanksgiving fun
• Knives Out movie
• Golfing kindness
• Picture Pages!
• Computer Chronicles archive
• Ohio apparently is too stupid to understand uteruses
• Photos with Satan!
• Someone tries to get a StackOverflow employee in trouble with .NET group
• What is a Captain Thunderpants?
• The Lighthouse
• Torpedo Juice
• Subpoena fun. Not that they'll actually DO anything.
• Bloomberg running for GOP nomination (ugh...)
• Letterkenny!
• I thought we had Doctor Who on disc...
• Holderness Family Thanksgiving before and after kids...
• Computer monitor talk
• Traveling for the holidays and what you can bring with you on flights (ugh...)
• Tesla made a truck
• Quarterback misses last play because he's taking a selfie
• Rick Perry: Trump sent by God
• Trump Prophecy
• Why My Cat is More Impressive than Your Baby
• Racket goes on an excursion
• Thanksgiving plans