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...

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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.

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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...)

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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• We establish that Voretaq's hardware is hopelessly out of date and slow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!)

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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!

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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