Episode 272: Happy Solstice!

Bart and Norma discuss the upcoming Solstice holiday, from Christmas (or Xmas) to Festivus!

Direct download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_272.mp3

Show Notes:

• Festivus for the Rest of Us!
• Yes, Bart is talking trike again
• Feedback
• Facebook and disappearing posts
• A passive aggressive Merry Christmas, or just obnoxious?
• Happy Solstice!
• Christians fearing "happy holidays" because they are losing influence
• Trump hates Christmas
• Thank the human cheeto! HE NEEDS VALIDATION!
• Bumblebee movie discussion
• Stocks fall as Mnuchin reassures the public that it's definitely not Trump's fault
• Japan has a population problem?

Episode 271: Ramping up for Xmas (Featuring a Dark Crystal sequel!)

Bart, Norma and Voretaq bring on the Xmas cheer in this week leading up to the Xmas Day...weekend...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_271.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq demonstrates primer huffing
• Chocolate spill in Germany
• Google called to testify
• So...many...nativities...
• So...many...Xmas trees...
• Netflix's new adventure of Sabrina
• Sandy Hook gun nutters make threats again
• ACA and Texas, because healthcare is sh*#$ in the US
• Stocks take a hit due to that ruling
• What? Even some conservatives aren't happy with the ruling?
• That time Trump had to admit he lies about his worth
• Windows updates that aren't from Patch Tuesday are sort-of "beta"?
• Replacing an Amiga controlling a School HVAC System
• Netflix bringing a Dark Crystal sequel!

Episode 270: The Smocking Gun

Bart and Norma review several news stories regarding PETA, Rudy Giuliani doesn't know how to Twitter, and Trump's lack of a smocking gun!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_270.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback
• Cold Outside "ban"
• PETA outdoes itself with more stupid
• Trump and his smocking gun
• Probably won't happen but please please please let me be wrong: Trump and jail time
• Giuliani is a bigger idiot than I remember
• Giuliani's accidental link...
• Huawei CFO arrested, China is pissed
• Police vs mother with toddler
• Teen murdered and found in dumpster; football player boyfriend arrested as suspect

Episode 269: Chick-Fil-A supports rainbows (having lots of green)!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss doors, NYC apartments, the sale of computer game history on eBay, Chick-Fil-A doesn't want you to think of them as anti-rainbow as long as the rainbow has lots of green, and an idiot shoots his meat department in a Walmart!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_269.mp3

Show Notes:

• Juniper Starbucks?
• Voretaq has door problems
• NYC apartment talk
• Feedback
• Broomsticks, no bedknobs
• Boy bitten by shark
• Bush is dead now; what did he think of atheists?
• Former PA AG Kane goes to jail
• Ranting about fiat currency postponed until next week
• Al Lowe sells Sierra games source code
• Man shoots self in his meat department at Walmart
• Chick-Fil-A wants you to know they're not anti-gay (by some definitions)
• Celine Dion launches demonic clothing line for children, some lunatics claim
• Voretaq's car heating problems, we all have maintenance issues with respective garages
• PS - Toyota Entune sucks
• Keyless hybrids can cause death when left running in enclosed spaces (surprise?)
• Kid Rock whines like a snowflake when chastised...partially on Fox Faux News!
• Giuliani typo used to troll moron President
• Idiot Trump appears at G-20, disappears from stage

Episode 268: Missionary Impossible

Bart and Norma discuss the war on drugs, idiot missionaries, Blackfish, and how awesome recumbent trikes are!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_268.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback
• Adam Ruins Everything and (illegal) drug costs (thanks to the War On Drugs)
• Nixon demonized drugs to actually target minorities...
• Death of an Idiot (Chau the Missionary)
• Detroit cops try to arrest Detroit cops in under-undercover drug stings
• Trump thinks he looked like a young Elvis...
• Is Seaworld bad?
• Truth: How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality
• Lets talk trikes
• Did you know Bicycle Man is having a season sale?

Episode 267: "Everything is Terrible" - Happy Thanksgiving!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the weather, the holiday, and there's a fun biblically-themed video to watch. Also, Bicycle Man is having a recumbent sale!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_267.mp3

Show Notes:

• Our ISP hates the weather, and ISPs are terrible
• Fiddler on the Roof Trump Nazi?
• Nikki Haley as VP mate?
• Incentives for businesses to locate here hurts the town
• The homeless given homes
• Stanford Prison Experiment inaccurate?
• De Blasio passes the blame on recent snowstorm
• Bicycle Man is having a sale until Jan 1st
• Ivanka using personal email for government business?
• But it's okay, she didn't know it was wrong...("LOCK HER UP!")
• Trump thinks liberal democrats are winning elections by changing hats
• Thoughts and prayers for the NRA!
• GOP Jesus
• Blue Apron laying off workers
• Fun with a NASA Apollo computer
• Turkey cake wrecks...
• Roadkill cuisine

Episode 266: Post Election Blues

Bart and Norma discuss Thanksgiving in a can, Stan Lee, Amazon Echo as evidence in a murder trial, and Healthcare.gov has had information scraped...whoops!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_266.mp3

Show Notes:

• Tide pods were in January of this year?!
• Thanksgiving Pringles
• Florida vote recount...it's working like it's supposed to (now)...
• Immigrants as a "bad word"
• "Stealing our jobs!"
• Stan Lee has passed away
• Thanksgiving coming up...
• Amazon to turn over Echo recording for murder case...
• Wisconsin young Republican gathering, or bigot rally? You decide...
• Acosta barred...but what we didn't know at recording: CNN is suing
• Healthcare.gov breach == stolen personal information...thanks to people with actual authorized accounts being idiots?
• Bart mentioned Coupland's book "Bit Rot"
• Climate change is a hoax, California. It's all fake news that you're in drought conditions

Episode 265: Caravans, SSD Encryption, and the Wohl of Wall Street

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Halloween controversies, caravans of people that just HAPPEN to choose election time to have their countries try to kill them, and idiot Trumpies that try derailing the Mueller investigation in the most incompetent way possible!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_265.mp3

Show Notes:

• VPNs suck sometimes
• Halloween trees?
• Feedback
• School memories
• Lowes closing several stores...
• Seeing things in person
• KKK Kostume Kontroversy
• Teacher Halloween costume causes outrage
• OMG THE CARAVANS ARE COMING
• Conspiracy theorists will conspiracy
• Want an acting job? Just cut off your arm...
• SSD drive encryption weakness...
• The Wohl of Wall Street
• His news conference is a thing to behold...
• MyPillow ex-crackhead (his words) is a proud Trump groupie
• The "Angry White Man"

Episode 264: Beastie the BSD Daemon!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk voting, weight update, and the normalization of school shootings to the point where schools aren't even sending kids home after a shooting

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_264.mp3

Show Notes:

• Weight update (down 147.2 lbs)
• Muscle building sucks
• Longest trike trip so far!
• Chick Tracts for the win!
• Beastie the FreeBSD mascot
• Feedback
• School shooting happens, kids kept in class for the day
• Synagogue shooting
• Revisiting old shows
• Texas voting machine derp
• Voting machines bought on EBay with records on them
• TSA master keys are copied. Government morons haven't learned their lesson
• Automated cars will cause long term damage to health
• Swatter going to the clink
• Powerschool is bad
• Carter calls for Georgia Secretary of State to resign
• Human pinball (OUCH)

Episode 263: How to be Eaten by a Tiger

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the upcoming Halloween season, review feedback, and drop news-bites from around the web...like an idiot that decided rules didn't apply to her while in an animal park! This episode is relatively quiet now that Bart has been on a social media diet! (But we'll see what comes up next week...)

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_263.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma is clear as mud figuring out what she's doing with her encrypted phone backup
• Feedback
• China sending an artificial moon to light up a town
• Telephones today suck...thanks, marketers
• Trump hates trans people - Remember when he was running and said he was their ally?
• Yes, our military floated the idea of a "gay bomb"
• Asking permission to change the infant's diaper
• 80's TV shows
• Lotto fever
• Did a kid bake granny into cookies?
• How to feed your tiger (older story making the rounds again)
• Fox and Friends propaganda
• Bible Museum had fake artifacts?! Say it ain't so!
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Early voting starts in some states!

Episode 262: Welcome to the Deathcast

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss relatives passing away, derpy people causing anger and frustration, we have no ambassadors in major countries due to Presidential incompetence, Charmed was rebooted, and why the hell is Elizabeth Warren taking a DNA test when our Dear Leader won't show his tax forms?

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_262.mp3

Show Notes:

• Grandfather memories
• Digging up bodies
• Bart's out of the news cycle...and doesn't really care
• Bart's out of social media...and doesn't really miss it
• Paul Allen of Microsoft fame passes away
• Mentally derped people are out in force recently...or Bart is even shorter on patience/tolerance than usual
• Where has Voretaq been?
• Saudi Arabia murdered a journalist
• Background on our history with Saudi Arabia
• We STILL lack ambassadors in key countries...because our President is a moron
• Trump's administration doesn't know why the deficit is getting worse?
• Celebrities shouldn't be listened to! (But we should vote them into office?)
• Chuck Wendig fired from Marvel for not bowing to bigots
• Charmed was rebooted
• Elizabeth Warren takes a DNA test
• Google data breach
• ...leading to Google+ shutting down
• Facebook also had a breach...SURPRISE!
• NYC celebrates a weekend without reported shooting
• Melania Trump: Most Bullied, or Most Delusional?

Episode 261: Meteors Holding Back Doors

Bart and Norma discuss meteors used as doorstops, a wine tasting tour takes a turn for the worse, App Script fun, and is your cellphone listening to you?

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_261.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback
• Meteor doorstop
• Albany limo crash...
• Java and Javascript fun
• Chromebooks don't like them
• Google App Scripts are...a challenge
• Presidential alert!
• There was actually a (failed) lawsuit to stop it...
• Bart stopped following Twitter and Facebook for the most part
• Is your cellphone listening to you?
• Bart has a Bart Rant
• Local districts considering merger?

Episode 260: Macaroni and Cheese Candy Canes

Bart and Norma discuss feedback regarding macaroni and cheese candy, cannabis oil for seizures, and an update on Bart's weight along with some other discussion!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_260.mp3

Show Notes:

• Dumbbell discussion
• Feedback
• Macaroni and cheese candy canes?
• Contaminated blood
• No Drugs On School Grounds even when this is stupid
• Weight update - Down 142.1 lbs since January
• Kanye on SNL as a...water bottle?
• American Horror Story: Cult - the story of Trump?
• Time for a social media break
• ICE Adventure HD recumbent trike

Episode 259: BOYS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH ME

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss TV series finales, intimate examinations without consent, and principals that aren't a girl's princi-PAL!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_259.mp3

Show Notes:

• The Starbucks at Voretaq's mall is gone?
• Feedback
• Julie Chen leaving The Talk
• Camel rampage update
• Lost theory of purgatory
• Show endings
• Remember when Hooters was in NY state?
• Women examined without consent
• High school girl told by principal to make explicit others not to touch her, she does, principal then threatens her for telling others not to touch her
• Kathy Griffin highlights an article about people who can't evacuate in impending disasters
• The post that prompted her tweets
• Texas Prisons: "You don't need dentures because solid food is overrated"
• The child is loving Hamilton without having seen Hamilton
• Cop who broke in and shot a guy in his own apartment now fired
• Netflix and copyright?

Episode 258: PRESIDENTIAL ALERT: Voretaq Returns!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk about plumbing, weather people sensationalism, weight updates, and presidential updates that most people don't seem to want!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_258.mp3

Show Notes:

• How much some of the president's gang of thugs make (in salary only)
• Feedback
• Weather people are the worst for dealing with repercussions of sensationalism
• Public services for sale - they're not obligated to help you...
• Weather Channel yet again undermines credibility
• Voretaq talks about his plumbing problem
• Weight update
• Mold fun
• "Presidential Alert" to your phone...and you can't opt out...
• Camel rampage
• Trello has features...
• Part of the conversation was cut, but we talk about the UHS kids' run in Vestal
• Suspect taken into custody tied to Brooklyn mall fire
• Hospital bill fun

Episode 257: Trikes on the Brain

Bart and Norma discuss some trike news, a hopefully awesome apple festival, and Dear Leader doesn't like people not being enthusiastic enough!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_257.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq has problems with his plumbing
• Feedback
• 3 hurricanes approaching?
• Weekend weather for riding...
• Endicott Apple Festival this weekend!
• Robust, puncture-proof bike tires
• Tannus tires...but having trouble even being able to try them
• Norma walked the Vestal rail trail east!
• Again, Coal House Cafe is good
• Serena Williams was in the news for arguing with an umpire
• Most dangerous jobs list
• 11 year old girl tased by officer for shoplifting
• 17 year old detained by SS for not being enthusiastic enough for Trump at Trump speech
• Fear being released 9/11/18! Trump hates it! Woodward's book has to be good!

Episode 256: Labor Day Without the Labor

Bart and Norma discuss Labor Day, the movie Searching, and throw in a few news-type items to boot!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_256.mp3

Show Notes:

• Labor Day: what is it?
• Ivanka doesn't know not to use her phone when scrutinized at events?
• Feedback
• Anxious students
• Discussion: Searching (the movie)
• Triking weekend recap
• Coal House Cafe
• Trump whines that Sessions should have charged Republicans AFTER elections
• Nike stands with protests, backlash causes stock slide
• Boy assaulted by teacher for not saying the pledge

Episode 255: Fate Hates Me

We (well, "me," Bart...) lost over an hour of audio when Bart looked at the display and realized that it was recording a blank track...the audio driver was dropping Voretaq. We lost feedback, some discussion, some swearing...the usual...but added some other material to make up for it (kind of...)

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_255.mp3

Show Notes:

• Bart's had an "off" day
• Norma's parents are getting random things they didn't order
• Dude and Bart are planning some more trike riding
• Norma's teaching lyrics in literature
• Guy in charge of department preventing screwing over student loan borrowers resigns because SURPRISE Trump is terrible
• Big Bang Theory ending
• McSkillet murders child and parent in crash
• Video gamer shoots players at Madden tournament 
• NuVinci hubs are WONDERFUL
• I made a mushroom storage tube
• Propane + Statue of Liberty = evacuations
• NORMA MADE SCALLOPS
• Coal House Cafe on the Vestal Rail-to-Trail path

Episode 254: School is Starting and Life is a Zoo!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss zoos, Shit Life Syndrome, and benefits to ignore from companies!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_254.mp3

Show Notes:

• School is starting!
• NY is better than PA
• Norma likes the Rosamond Gifford Zoo
• Feedback
• "It's a SOFT DRINK"
• Omarosa's book isn't hitting the sales the publisher thought it would...
• Freaky weather commentary
• Little Dude weight program followup
• Reminder: go to Tres Hermanos
• "Shit Life Syndrome"
• A commentary on SLS
• CENSORSHIP and not at all because you're too stupid to set your profile settings correctly
• Trump was great in her opinion until it affected HER family...
• Religious expression vs. state property using Baphomet as an example
• Musk/Tesla being investigated...
• Team building and company benefits (and other things that aren't what they advertise)
• Mermaids are real!
• Man charged with killing family
• Pilot suspended pending investigation after he felt the need to threaten a kid
• Florida black transgender serial killings?
• September Farm Cheese!

Episode 253: An Amish Tale

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a big set of news like Vegas hotels barging into customer rooms for "security", Chris Hardwick returns, and someone decided to steal a plane, and these are in addition to Bart and Norma spending nearly a week in Lancaster!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_253.mp3

Show Notes:

• Hiltons in Amish country
• A simple trick to eliminate verbal fillers that isn't a $%^ trick
• Feedback, including the missed feedback last episode
• Chiropractors, continued
• Weight update - down 126.3 lbs since 1/10/2018
• Eating out, Lancaster edition
• Norma loses a soda
• Ephesians 5:21 commentary
• Stolen plane
• Alpaca trike carrier
• Breaking into hotel customer rooms for "security"
• Trump star of fame voted to be removed (sort of)
• "Artist" sticks fake Trump stars all over
• Most people don't know walk of fame stars are paid for
• Hardwick is back! And people walked off...
• Voretaq's Twitter account was locked out...but doesn't know why
• Trump can't comprehend maps and timezones?
• Omarosa tapes
• Mayo Clinic medically kidnapped someone?
• EAT AT TRES HERMANOS
• Post-closing theme: Hershey factory tour discussion

Episode 252: Recumbent Trikes and More Medical Updates

Bart and Voretaq talk about updates on cancer, heart surgery/stroke rehab, and recumbent riding, along with some of the usual TRUMP IS TERRIBLE wrapup and duckboats modified by a non-engineer!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_252.mp3

Show Notes:

• Minecraft updates are terrible
• Liz is getting pretty big
• Little Dude goes to the doctor for sleepy time
• Norma's father returns
• Norma's mother has the last cancer treatment
• Old people care
• RIP Charlotte Rae
• Update on our trike rides
• Exercise sucks (but is necessary)
• The big aquarium
• Trump (doesn't) go grocery shopping
• Coke raises prices (THANKS TRUMP)
• Trump is winning the war on Xmas
• Drone attack in Venezuela
• Duckboats in the news
• Chiro-craptic
• The Meg

Episode 251: Medical Problems Edition

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the medical issues faced over the past few weeks in this household, a small triking incident, and discussion of some drama dramatics on this episode of Geeking After Dark!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_251.mp3

Show Notes:

• There's no intro; we fall into a recount of recent events almost right off the bat...
• Hospitals are terrible
• HSAs are worse
• Rehab for fun and someone's profit
• Trike incident where a bungee entangled the hub (update: company rep said it is a decorative cover and isn't needed...)
• Bariatric followup and hospital outcomes
• Sacha Baron Cohen's new show gets idiots to expose themselves as idiots
• "Who Is America" gets idiots to agree and advocate arming elementary schoolers
• Borat wands Roy Moore with pedo detector on "Who Is America"
• Voretaq has been sick
• Paul Manafort drops lawsuit against Mueller
• Guardians of the Galaxy cast calls for Gunn reinstatement
• Man follows black man home to tell him what a "N-XXX" he is, claims he regrets it after Internet reminds him of the existence of consequences
• Family drama is dramatic
• Why aren't hospital ceiling tiles painted?

Episode 250: Recumbent Trikes, and Elderly Care Homes

Bart and Norma have had a tiring few days, so we talk about care of elderly people in homes and Bart and Little Dude's first "official" ride on our trikes!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_250.mp3

Show Notes:

• Bart has sun exposure weariness
• Norma reviews her odd family tree
• Voretaq is ill this week
• Memory of The Colony
• Trike ride! Little Dude made us proud!
• What do we do with older parents?
• Tales from the rehab home...
• Feedback
• Trump's still a moron
• Bicycle drive-by shooting
• Cuddle cots
• Norma saw Nora

Episode 249: Triple Bypass and Being Self-Made

Bart and Norma talk healthcare, recumbent trikes, mall collapses, self-made billionaires that are completely self-made, and Papa John is exposed as a racist...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_249.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma's family update
• Feedback
• Information on the movie Wonder
• The recumbent trikes have arrived!
• Eff the Customs and Border Protection, eff the insurance companies...
• Mexican mall collapse
• Korean building collapse...
• Papa John is a racist? REALLY?!
• What it means to be "Self Made"
• Michelle Wolf comments on this...
• Healthcare ICU costs...
• Trump exonerates Russia for voting interference, Russia gives Trump a soccer ball...

Episode 248: Grilled Cheese at the Street Art Fair

Bart and Voretaq discuss why Norma is out for this episode, the 4th didn't feel like "The Fourth," government officials heckled in public places, cave rescues and NYC life vs. country life!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_248.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma's father is in the hospital...
• Feedback
• Fireworks without fireworks
• Didn't feel like the 4th as a holiday this year, did it?
• How we spent the previous week
• Little dude wanted grilled cheese, so we got some at the art fair
• WHERE'S MY TRIKE?!
• Atheist Shoes shipping to America fun...
• James Woods: I'M A TRUMP SUPPORTER AND THAT'S WHY EVERYONE HATES ME
• Trump supporter immigrant surprised he's getting deported
• Trump avoids London on UK trip; fears the giant baby balloon?
• Turtle Head McConnell
• Ant Man and the Wasp
• Trump campaign wants to use slogan that's oddly familiar to The Purge...
• Russia embarrasses US over breast milk
• Trump had called breast feeding "disgusting"
• Woman calls police for black man wearing socks at the pool
• Cave rescue in Thailand
• Take it for granted; you can't swim? Drive? etc... (City vs. Country)
• Moving in NYC: SO MUCH FUN (no, that's sarcasm)
• Bedbugs in NYC
• "Exercise is supposed to be miserable" - Voretaq
• Finger Lakes discussion

Episode 247: Customs and Border Protection SUCK (GIVE ME MY TRIKE!)

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk bath salts, Customs and Border Protection are "randomly inspecting" my trikes, responsible law-abiding gun owners in IKEA, and Equifax insider trading!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_247.mp3

Show Notes:

• F*#$ Customs and Border Protection...GIVE ME MY TRIKE
• Pair on bath salts fires at lightning bugs, mistaking them for laser-toting aliens
• "Stealin' our jobs"
• Feedback
• Norma got a surprise test
• Medical fun
• MALL ALARM
• Fat update - 117.8 lbs lost since 1/10/18...
• Corning trooper shot story
• Kid finds gun in IKEA BoomenKouchen
• Equifax engineer charged with insider trading fun
• JANUS ruling; anti-union thugs win?
• ROMEOs at a restaurant
• All My Friends are Dead
• We need a Poopasaurus, right?!
• "If you want to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" - Sagan
• Australian woman feeds sharks, surprised when it doesn't go as planned

Episode 246: You'll Pop Your Eye Out

Bart and Norma have a relatively quiet podcast...sort of...as Voretaq skips out to work on something at $EMPLOYER.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_246.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma's computer is old
• Feedback
• Talking about movie sequel callbacks
• Walgreen's pharmacist won't help miscarrying woman
• Insurance Sucks: Reason 234
• Pro-Trumper businessman begs Democrat to save his business from Trump policies
• Making America great apparently means making business go out of business
• Taxing Internet companies
• Johnny Knoxville pops his eye out (whoops)

Episode 245: They Don't Like the Word "Cage"

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the weather (it sucks), the trikes are coming, Chris Hardwick is in trouble, Microsoft helps the domestic fascists, and apparently some people wonder why babies get brain bleeds when they don't get vitamin K shots...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_245.mp3

Show Notes:

• We agree the weather sucks
• Trikes should be offloaded from the Tayma now...
• Weight update: down 106lbs so far...
• NYC helps immunize you from sweat self-consciousness
• Half-arse work on road update

Er...better, I guess?

• Steve Jobs info
• Feedback
• School Guardians (har har)
• Voting gets you jailed?
• Woman gets no consequences for voting as dead mother
• Children in cages explained
• They don't like the word "cage"
• Microsoft helping our domestic SS
• Chris Hardwick in trouble
• Religious nuts use stuffed lion lawyer to talk to God in court
• Idiots reject science, wonder why babies die of brain bleeds
• Cancer discussion
• Don't Google rule 34

Episode 244: Schools and Cell Phones

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk road work, Trump is still a moron, tech support and corporate-sponsored community work!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_244.mp3

Show Notes:

• "Illustrated a half-ass job":

...Why?

• Net neutrality now dead
• Frontier Internet story...
• Old people complaining about DSL time
• Feedback
• USB fans at the dictator summit
• Trump: kill drug dealers. Also Trump: Kim K. smiled at me. Release a drug dealer.
• Sara Gilbert and Roseanne comments
• "Two dictators meet..."
• Bourdain discussion
• It's Obama's fault Pooty-Bear isn't allowed in the G-7!
• State Department spokesmoron says D-Day shows our long friendship with Germany
• Office 365 support...why call?!
• Schools + cellphone use
• Country Time sponsors lemonade stands
• Dominos and pot holes
• Gay pride baseball
• Advisor has a heart attack
• MELANIA SIGHTED
• Bike conversations

Episode 243: Rowcycles are Nifty

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a Rowcycle (via Sports 'N Spokes Magazine), Babylon 5, Solo, the "Cake Bigot" and the Microsoft Github deal!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_243.mp3

Show Notes:

• Bart discovers some articles about a Rowcycle, thanks to Sports 'N Spokes Magazine
• Norma is out of school for the Summer
• Teacher school awards given out
• Weight update: down 102.3lbs since 1/10/18...
• Bart learns something new about canceled gym memberships
• Trike discussion
• Feedback
• Solo movie
• Babylon 5 is online now
• Terminator 2 was 1991, Jurassic Park was 1993
• Colorado cake case
• Yelpers don't like the Colorado cake shop
• Vox explains the Cake bigot case
• Carroll O'Connor information
• Microsoft bought Github
• The Trump cancels sportsball meet and greet event
• Graduate trolls audience with quote  

Episode 242: Bicycle Shaped Objects

Norma and Bart discuss the status of the bike/trike purchases, Moron is selling a commemorative coin for a summit that may not happen, a woman has to prove she's not a robot to a car dealer and a responsible gun owner is shot by his own revolver when things get too hot...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_242.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma's computer doesn't want to boot
• Trike update
• Bikes, trikes, and bike-shaped-objects
• Steven K. Roberts
• Bicycle Shaped Objects
• Norma's car attacked by bird
• Floppy disks
• Tour de Shunk
• Rowbike
• Feedback
• Moron's Korea peace talk coin
• Yes, Mueller HAS FOUND crimes committed, and is still investigating
• WHOOPS tracking people by cellphone
• I am not a robot...
• "Responsible gun owner"
• The concentration camp bus for kids...
• Glassfest
• Cedar Point power whoopsy

Episode 241: Welcome to America!

Bart and Norma have a local recording night because things just aren't going their way regarding luck. We talk about our weekend fun, medical coverage in America, and the reason DOORS ARE KILLING PEOPLE IN SCHOOLS. Doors. And trench coats. Definitely not guns.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_241.mp3

Show Notes:

• Weekend tales
• Weight update
• Feedback
• Bart likes donuts
• Santa Fe substitute teacher's death raises funds in husband's GoFundMe for medical bills (Welcome to America!)
• Too Many Doors!
• Cellphone use in schools

Episode 240: CDC Vs. The Poppyseed Muffin

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the leaky administration, AirBnB renting while not white, and PGP and S/MIME problems, and Bart's new hobby! (Today's bonus: the CDC is sort of but not really sorry about ruining poppyseed muffins...)

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_240.mp3

Show Notes:

• We establish that Voretaq's hardware is hopelessly out of date and slow
• Fire alarm? Barricade in the rooms!
• Feedback
• Epic software in the news?
• Norma's birthday
• McCain commenter...no, not fired
• Why is this administration so "leaky?"
• Update on teen who died in back of van
• "AirBnB Renting while Not White"
• CDC vs. Poppyseed Muffins
• PGP and S/MIME bug found
• Trump's embassy move triggers murders
• White vs. Black Hats...offensive?
• Offensive anecdote
• Bart's new hobby: reading stories from Trump voters negatively affected by Trump
• Voted for Trump, losing their businesses!

Episode 239: Toilets Rebooting Servers, and Servers Out off their Clocks

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss server clock problems, weather in NYC, Twitter's password whoopsie, and healthcare being the new boom-bust "thing" (bonus: Uranus confirmed to smell like farts!)

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_239.mp3

Show Notes:

• Yes, this episode was released later than usual, I was busy busy busy...will try to do better with the next episode
• Did Voretaq fix his clock problem?
• NY temperatures
• Toilet-related reboots
• Story
• Twitter screwed up, saved your passwords in cleartext
• Why MS dropped Pinball from Vista
• Feedback
• Horse talk
• Amazon vs. the homeless tax
• Healthcare economic boom
• Startup types
• Glucose sensor for the skin
• Black man moving into apartment questioned for "moving while black"
• NYPD police union attacks group that reminds citizens they have a 4th amendment right
• Trump still wants a "space force"
• Uranus smells like farts
• Teen died in van

Episode 238: Bicycles, The Wolf of White House, and Prom Dresses

Bart discusses his weight update while waiting for Norma to join; then we talk about the correspondent dinner, Bezos and his work/life "circle", and prom dresses of appropriation!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_238.mp3

Show Notes:

• Weight update
• Vegetables: not a fan
• DeskCycle pedal exerciser
• Bicycle Man recumbent bike shop
• Feedback
• Macron vs. Trumpy
• Norma joins late, claims a "concussion" made her tired
• Reporter asks about Trump comment, Buhari is "Presidential"
• Michelle Wolf transcript from correspondent dinner
• Bezos: don't go for work/life balance, it's all a "circle"
• Fun discussion about this...part of Bart's attempt at the point
• Girl vs. lucky rubber band
• Obesity vs. fabric on the skin...
• The prom dress of appropriation!
• Book: So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Episode 237: Sean Penn Wrote a Novel

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk about people who can't hang up their phones and sue people for eavesdropping, the FCC is officially killing net neutrality, Sean Penn wrote...something...and Google scans your email for personal results!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_237.mp3

Show Notes:

• Monkey selfie case decided
• Trump sues Maher over orangutan joke
• Hannity uses HUD to create landlord empire using shell companies
• Dead men tell no (phone) tales
• Why didn't it work?
• Feedback
• Man sues after boss eavesdrops
• Milo whines about snowflakes, melts at a bar
• Florida judge may have contributed to death
• Youtuber tries to kill homeless person?
• FCC, run by an irresponsible corporate shill, officially killed Net Neutrality
• Google does interesting gleaning from your Gmail
• ...such as your credit card information
• Trump lied his way to Forbes list of wealth
• Sean Penn wrote a novel
• Does it fart?
• Think of the flight attendants
• Celebrating traitors
• Cincinnati racists

Episode 236: Zuckerberg (Kind Of) Testifies

Voretaq returns and discusses Zuckerberg's Congressional softball session, Hannity acknowledges the real reason he's been cuckoo for Cohen, Harry Anderson goes to the magic top hat in the sky, and Universal Basic Income as an interesting idea...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_236.mp3

Show Notes:

• Cohen/Hannity disclosure
• Alex Jones loses his #$% over Trump bombs
• Harry Anderson, RIP
• Voretaq has a new laptop, but don't ask how
• Feedback
• Cannabis oils/creams/lubes
• Hungry for Change
• Zuckerberg testifies
• Didn't really answer questions
• FaceBook hired one of the people who "stole" data
• Zuckerberg stole login credentials to steal email (many moons ago...)
• FaceBook accidentally reveals a now-soon-to-be-feature of "unsend" after being caught using it for execs
• The people questioning Zuckerberg have nicely lined financial pockets
• Universal Basic Income
• Finland's experiment
• Wiki has a short list with overviews of similar projects
• Native American basic income-type "experiment"
• Casino pay dispersal
• "Trump's rich because God loves him" type thinking
• Ivanka wishes there were some way government promotes healthy living for kids...uh...
• Is it wrong to eat a PB&J in public?
• Binghamton U. stabbing
• Starbucks and Racial Bias Training (story linked to what we talked about...)

Episode 235: Recumbent Trike Fun!

Bart and Norma discuss the latest Trumpy trouble, recumbent bikes, a Winky-Eyed Jesus, and a quiet movie!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_235.mp3

Show Notes:

• Michael Cohen may be in trouble...YAY!
• Trump's Tower murders one, injures others, Trump calls it "well built building"
• Norma gets an OS X update
• A Quiet Place
• Norma and Bart have a recumbent trike discussion - Bicycle Man!
• ALA list of top 10 banned books
• Feedback
• NRA grant rejected by school
• "NRA isn't racist"-type defense...yeah, right
• Condom snorting challenge
• White supremacist podcast host/teacher (alleged) resigns
• Metabolisms can't really be easily "sped up"
• Woman embalmed alive
• First Senator to give birth while holding office
• Fox accidentally admits they aren't trusted...whoops
• "Did you pack the explosives?"
• Download your Facebook account data
• Winky-Eyed Jesus and Other Undescribables: An elite, feral recumbent cyclo-tourist wages human-powered jihad against the force of gravity and the awesome span of the North American continent
• Tour de Shunk

Episode 234: Welfare Music to Shame By

Bart and Norma discuss taxpayer-funded music, GOP group admits they hate poor people, and teachers in PA are armed with rocks to fight gun toting rampagers!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_234.mp3

Show Notes:

• Welfare to Work taxpayer-funded music
• This was funded by taxpayers for a public government department...
• Lead vocal: Lavern Scott
• Background vocals: Wilny Audain, Regina Clayton, Christopher Gray, Carol Rogers
• Lyrics: DPSS Income Maintenance Staff, Keith Rogers
• Music composed, performed, arranged, and produced by Keith Rogers
• 99% Invisible podcast episode about the taxpayer-funded music and the magic bureaucrat
• Apologies for the keyboard clatter; Bart had after-hours work related work to do...
• Colorado Alamosa GOP group admits they hate poor people; apologizes
• Feedback
• Kyle Kashuv wasn't invited to speak at March for our Lives rallies...
• ...complains he's ignored by "mainstream media"...in the media...
• ...but if true, there might be a reason...
• Arm teachers with rocks! (Original link gone; instead linked to Daily Show)
• Student shot in school shooting gets detention for protesting school shootings
• Frank Stallone apologizes for saying what he thinks and discovering people think his opinion is reprehensible
• Hybrid car shutoff is #$% stupid
• McJob employee stats
• Panera Bread customer data leak...and they try to hide it?
• They didn't respond to the person who reported it...so he went public
• Trump taxes revisit...
• "Fake Weed" deaths
• Protein powder may not be just protein...