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

Episode 319: The Ballad of Home Networks

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss home tech infrastructure, why you shouldn't take insulin shots for flu shots, and school curriculum fun!

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Show Notes:

• Frontier...improved our access...but for how long?
• Voretaq has a firewall story to share
• Wireless talk
• DNS weirdness
• Acknowledging an SLA can mean just acknowledging there's a ticket
• "You've all done very well!"
• Children in daycare hidden behind a wall in Colorado
• Ten hospitalized when given insulin instead of flu shot at care home
• Brother shoots brother, mistaking him for deer...MURICA!
• Five Below to become Five-ish Below
• Chick-Fil-A no longer donating to anti-LGBTQ groups
• Trump cartoon
• The Long-Island Red Light Robin Hood
• He has a FaceBook page!
• Abington Heights (PA) school district has a "controversial" curriculum?
• Dancing standards for gym class
• Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• "Lyrics and Lit" class discussion

Episode 318: John Oliver takes on SLAPP

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Dupont, a really expensive doll, and John Oliver's latest show highlighting SLAPP lawsuits!

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Show Notes:

• Yes, we talk of the audio echo that may not apply in the final product. I think I fixed it. Why did it happen? No idea.
• Subletting parking spots is a thing in NYC
• Feedback Veterans Day discussion
• Feedback Mormon family killed by Mexican drug cartel
• Dupont did not nice things: Dark Waters coming to a theater near you
• Newest push for educators to track outcomes in PA
• An argument over average vs percentiles
• Feedback American Girl exclusive $5,000 dolls
• Unstable Trump supporter hiding/stealing library books
• Mormonism and black/dark-skinned people...
• Police department ignores "claiming business," so someone did it for them
• Delayed text messages finally arrive months later
• Papa John still sucking up to Trump
• Some blame Trump for Alabama loss to LSU
• John Oliver nails SLAPP (and Murray Coal)

Episode 317: BAD MOOD (Not Me)

A short episode! Bart and Norma discuss again that Frontier Internet sucks and Norma argues about something involving bias while Bart argues about the myth of "balance" between viewpoints from 2 groups.

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Episode Notes:

• Frontier now dies on us an hour earlier thanks to time change!
• Feedback: gender reveals are stupid
• Feedback: Autism blue buckets for Halloween
• Mentioned: Jenkem hoax
• Stack Overflow asks for podcast guest ideas
• That same person is asking on Twitter
• Lancaster (California) school students get a suicide HOTline number
• Bart mentions a story about Republicans being out of their minds. Here's the article.
• Missouri government is apparently populated by gyno's

Episode 316: They Live!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss school safety, They Live, Trump gets a boo-ing just in time for Halloween, and Stack Exchange continues their dumpster fire...STILL!

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Show Notes:

• Are the latest OSX and iOS worse that previous versions?
• City life vs. Yee-Ha life
• Feedback: woman may have killed child after getting hundreds of thousands in treatment
• Feedback: Queen removing pictures
• Feedback: Hocus Pocus remake info
• "They Live" was better, though
• "They Live" was a warning that is still relevant in the Trump world we live in today
• Teachers are using Home Alone to defend against gun lovers
• Trump BOOED! BWAHAHA!
• Woman killed at "gender reveal"
• Stack Exchange dumpster fire update
• Hashtag Cause a Scene podcast episode referenced
• Update: there's a GoFundMe for Monica
• "Disrupting the Status Quo"
• This has to be a record for downvotes on a question, or at least in the running...
• David's post continues sliding down
• Should Twitter activity count against someone in a separate job?
• RoboTrump highlights a study in detection of fake Trump vs. real Trump statements by people
• Voretaq sent a link highlighting how bad people are at skepticism vs. "fake news"
• Texas transgender case concerning a child...

Episode 315: Stack Exchange Community Dumpster Fires Continue the Burn!

Bart and Norma discuss house hunting, heart fun, Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow CONTINUES their community dumpster fire, and fight clubs be fighting on Geeking After Dark Episode 315!

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Show Notes:

• "I'm going to say Voretaq is ghosting us this week..."
• House hunting: ongoing
• Yay for heart problems!
• Racket got a new cave!
• Dubia roaches for Racket food?
• Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow meltdown continues!
• I'll note that as of this writing the post is under 10...
• The only thing that stops a bad woman with a book is a good guy with a gun, apparently
• Feedback - FIGHT CLUB (for old people)
• Feedback - requiring cursive writing
• Google has learning to program via Grasshopper
• LA is on fire again
• Trump acts like he doesn't understand why he can't have G7 summit at his hotel so he can get lots of sweet sweet cash
• Final Destination reference
• Yet another Trumpster fire of a Cabinet meeting