Episode 225: Public School Layoffs, Unemployment Rates and Eggert Accuses Baio

Bart and Norma chastise an absent Voretaq, give an update on the weight progress, talk about unemployment rates, and discuss store closings due to the economy as well as tuition reimbursements and schools cutting and cutting and cutting staff.

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Show Notes:

• How long have we been doing this? (since October 15th, 2013)
• Weight update - down 22.5 lbs since the 10th
• Feedback
• When a big business with influence wants their money, you need to pay NOW, but when you are owed, they'll pay when they feel like it
• Schools are a-holes when it comes to paying bills on time
• SOTU tickets have a typo (technically not the White House's fault, though)
• Fire and Fury - highly recommended for your book club
• Unemployment rate is misleading
• Vox wrote about the misleading unemployment rate
• Grand Orange Leader likes to say he reduced unemployment for black people, but that's a crap claim
• Closing stores that are still selling off stock are "living ghost towns"...or a preview of our small town's future...
• Scranton public school laying off 51 teachers
• ...even though it may have been illegal
• McTuition Reimbursement
• F-35 piece of super expensive defective military toy
• Border wall prototypes are a cost-sink fiasco
• Truth behind "chain migration"
• UK court ends life support for another baby without parental consent
• Melania costs taxpayers more than Michele, already...
• Nicole Eggert and Scott Baio allegations
• Spicer feels bad...awwwww

Episode 224: Skype, Autobot Jazz, 13 Reasons Why and Suicide...RANDOM DAY!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Skype, small planes trafficking pot, revisits Aziz, Megyn Kelly (WHY ARE YOU ON TV STILL?!), and does 13 Reasons Why cause suicides or are people just stupid? Also: Transformers were MAGA supporters? (Spoiler: no)

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Show Notes:

• Skype requires attribution when used in podcasts?!
• Transformers - Autobot Jazz, Trump supporter?
• PA Gerrymandering struck down (for now)?
• Heinz (the senator, not the ketchup)
• Small plane lands in small town with 200lbs of pot
• Bart's weight project status update
• Feedback
• Raw milk
• Children held captive by family in California
• Congress incompetence
• Aziz revisited
• babe.net writer made herself look petulantly unprofessional
• Whoopi Goldberg comments
• Wells Fargo screwed over auto-bill pay system customers
• Megyn Kelly (why is she still on TV?) - attacking Jane Fonda again
• 13 Reasons Why: encouraging suicide, or are you just #$% illiterate with comprehension problems?
• Intel Spectre update issues?
• Pronouncing Gal Godot
• Trump stupidly helps China with an energy tariff?

Transformers MAGA?!

Episode 223: Raw Milk is a Thing

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss iPhone and Apple quirks, teachers being arrested, dieting...which will probably be an ongoing theme...raw milk and food documentaries, and the Aziz Ansari story!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_223.mp3

Show Notes:

• Apple product quirks and bugs (we bought new phones from Verizon and had fun reconfiguring them)
• iOS 11 can share wifi passwords to iDevices in proximity
• Implants to track your child (Black Mirror episode)
• Don't use an iPhone as your single iDevice...tie it to a Mac
• Verizon iPhone activation can be a "problem"
• Phone decided to use iCloud features I told it not to...#$^%
• Adblocking via VPN on the phone continued
• MITM (Man In The Middle) attacks via root certificate replacement discussed
• Twitter upset Twitter devs can see DMs
• Encryption of your "professional" emails
• Warrant Canaries
• Cranberries lead singer died
• LA teacher arrested for questioning superintendent raise
• School district arresting teacher getting backlash. Deservedly, in my opinion.
• Soda is called Soda. "Pop" is wrong.
• Norma thinks weight loss studies are fringe excuses, like this prison experiment
• Raw milk movement is a thing
• Netflix series: Rotten
• Organic food
• Dairy farms are disappearing
• Norma is ninja-food logging
• Bart discusses Lose-It
• #metoo
• The Aziz Ansari story discussion
• James Franco creepy behavior account in book
• "Shithole countries"

Episode 222: Spectre, Meltdown, and Feedback and No Food Dieting

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss LOTS of feedback, Ad Popups are #$% evil, FIRE AND FURY!, gifting, hospitals are fun, and dieting is basically not being allowed to eat food that doesn't taste like crap...

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Show Notes:

• Weight Loss
• Holidays moving on
• McManager Income?
• Advertising links/popups on phones/tablets are EVIL
• Adblocker on the phone time...
• Is Facebook listening to your conversations?
• Israel bans Quakers
• HI GRIFFIN
• Feedback 220
• Tax pre-payment
• FIRE AND FURY
• Apparently it was his ex-wife who said Trump had Hitler's book
• Stephen Miller forced out of studio after bizarre interview
• Feedback 221
• Regifting...
• Gift exchange follies
• Hospital fun
• Spectre and Meltdown XKCD explanation
• Original XKCD
• Logan Paul suicide filming controversy
• Damore suing Google for stupid reasons
• ...but conservatives are definitely not whiny snowflakes!
• Frances McDormand censored for nothing, NBC full of incompetence
• Mike bought himself a 3D printer for Xmas
• Vegetarian chicken patties (Chik Patties) are not high protein

Episode 221: It's a New Year!

Bart and Norma talk about surviving Xmas, movies watched, memories of past holidays, parenting by shooting kids' belongings, and subway accidents!

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Show Notes:

• Damn it's cold
• Xmas Movies Watched
• Krampus is a wonderful holiday spirit movie
• Christmas Horror Story - streaming on Netflix!
• Live-action Grinch
• Stupid cats
• The Big Sick - good movie, available on PornHub - and other places legitimately
• Feedback
• Don't call it a "quick-e-mart"
• Cards Against Humanity
• Xmas Memories
• Xmas - Everyone else is doing it WRONG
• Feedback
• Subway work trains accident under east river
• Ferry got stuck near Coney Island
• Fun court briefs
• Good yee-haw parenting
• Idiot kids murder driver using a sandbag from overpass
• A princess ball