Episode 42: Comic Movies, Soylent, and Professional Mobility

Bart and Pete discuss comic book movies, learned helplessness and how it relates to professional mobility, and Bart is tempted to tray a Soylent imitation...stay tuned to future podcasts to see if he manages to get the ingredients!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_42.mp3

Show Notes:

• A dude gets shuttle parts...accidentally...
• Comic movie discussion
• Transformers (the Bay ones) are BAD. 
• The new Wonder Woman has a new outfit? Is it better armor?
• Thor is a woman now
• Changing characters to change characters; is it lazy writing?
• Feedback: Bunghole Liquors
• Feedback on Episode 41
• Pete, Norma and Bart in one podcast?
• Learned helplessness and professional mobility
• Opportunity to improve must be presented, but our society prefers to punish and blame
• Attractive people get perks
• Soylent and Schmoylent
• So they reinvented the diet shake?
• Beaver ass in food

Episode 41:The Prodigal Host Returns

Pete returns and we end up getting sidetracked on double standards, but manage to revisit a story about Justin Lookadoo

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_41.mp3

Show Notes:

• Pete returns
• "Love your job but never fall in love with your company."
• Feedback - visiting NYC
• Living arrangements in the city (Pete really likes steam pipes)
• Roosevelt Island makes trash disappear through magic and pipes
• Men's Rights Activists
• Justin Lookadoo wants a drinky-poo

Episode 40: Vacation Wrap-up and Guthrie Pains

Norma and Bart wrap up their vacation and go over tribulations with prescription-faxing from Guthrie, plus Trump Plaza closes in Atlantic City and Norma never saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_40.mp3

Show Notes:

• Does Pete listen to these?
• Bunghole Liquors - hahahaha
• Recap of Salem Sights
• So many psychics!
• Reenactment of an actual witch trial
• Those trials were bullshit or people are utterly stupid. Maybe both.
• Dungeons! (No dragons)
• Walden Pond
• Tech companies scattered near Salem
• Guthrie...AAAAGH
• My child insists he's the worst
• Trump Plaza joins others in destroying Atlantic City
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights. She's never seen it. What's wrong with her?

Episode 39: Vacation Time

Norma and Bart are on an anniversary vacation trip! They talk about vacations in the USA work environment, storms in Salem, and discuss some Salem attractions we visited so far!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_39.mp3

Show Notes:

• Vacations in the USA work environment
• Salem thunderstorms
• Salem attractions we visited so far

Episode 38: Hobby Lobby, Rape Culture Revisited, and NYCC Tickets

Norma returns as cohost to review the Hobby Lobby ruling, she shares feedback about Rape Culture, and we discuss New York Comic Con ticket problems and we also have a guest appearance by the Little Dude.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_38.mp3

Show Notes:

• Hobby Lobby...corporations can find religion
• Data breach feedback
• "Solo podcasts are okay"
• Walmart benefits from poor pay and poor benefits
• You owe us vs. you owe them...guess when businesses are quick to act?
• Rent in Bradford County went nuts after the gas mini-boom
• Norma discusses the rape culture term
• Do people only pick up on keywords to be outraged about?
• Victim blaming - I Punch First
• Women getting free programming training is a bad thing?
• New York Comic Con ticket debacle.
• Little Dude crashes the recording session
• He has a YouTube channel