Episode 324: Merry Holiday Christmas Spooktacular

Bart and Norma discuss lactose intolerance, StackOverflow settles their dispute with Monica Cellio, accountability for people in power is a joke, and our orange commander-in-chief rambles incoherently (again) about WIND! MERRY XMAS!

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Show Notes:

• Just kidding. There's not much holiday here.
• Teen tries stealing a plane
• DNA in primitive gum
• Lactose intolerance information
• Stack Exchange vs. Monica Cellio update
• Bradford County, PA wants to make sure you can shoot people!
• Accountability: the USS McCain incident
• Boeing CEO resigns
• Movie Cats being updated almost immediately after disastrous release
• Legal Eagle talks Senate impeachment hearing
• Moron president prattles on about "windmills"
• Stephen King wants his rep to fully impeach the orange moron in White House or King will work to remove him in elections
• Euphemism treadmill
• Charlize Theron and her background...
• Edward Snowden - Government decides his money is theirs
• StarWars: Rise of Skywalker discussion (preview version)
• Trump Jr. murders endangered sheep because he's a Trump

Episode 323: Receive Marrow, Become a Chimera!

Bart and Norma discuss American concentration camps, becoming a millionaire for a day, and how to become a chimera!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_323.mp3

Show Notes:

• Thank you to Erik for his accidental contribution to feedback feedback
• Holiday show blackouts (Rudolph, for example) on streaming but work on live shows
• Show licensing is fun
• Legal reasons we can't have nice things in our favorite shows. Or at least consistent things.
• Texas infant life support lawsuit
• Japanese-American Concentration Camps: Order 9066
• George Takei's Broadway hit Allegiance
• Little Dude brings up Birdie Sanders/Jack Sparrow
• Woman becomes a millionaire for a day
• Boy Meets Boy star becomes porn star
• Family Matters star turned to porn
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife OUTRAGE because PATRIARCHY
• Marrow transplant leads to chimerism...guy gets new DNA patterns
• Injustice served?
• PewDiePie on "break"
• More IRS crankiness
• RIP Chuy

Episode 322: Santa Loves Coke! And the Ghostbusters Return!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss what a crappy start to the month we've had, Trump goes anti-semite yet again, taxes are implemented in a braindead fashion (surprise!) in America, and Santa is a cokehead!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_322.mp3

Show Notes:

• Aging and injuries
• Physical therapy fun
• Bluetooth complaint session
• Voretaq's bluetooth doesn't work unless the jack is facing a certain direction...?
• Bart has a weird podcast app crash on iOS that may be related to an iTunes (maybe) outage?
• North Korea Xmas gift to the US?
• Trump: you don't support Israel enough, you won't vote for "Pocohontas" because she'll tax your money away, so you'll definitely vote for me...
• Trump: SNAP away your supporter base since dead people can't vote, apparently
• Odo passed away!
• Big Bird passed away!
• It's been a crappy start to the month...
• $54 BILLION dollar drop in charitable donations after tax changes...
• Coldfusion (programming) reference
• COBOL (programming) reference
• No medical coverage for you, but taxpayer funding for my stupid irresponsibility for me
• Pensacola says it has a "cyber incident"
• Santa the coke head...
• The child wants to see The Book of Mormon
• Blackmail business
• Brexit and settling the NHS to American corporations
• Brits asked if they know the cost of American health services, hilarity ensues
• Databreaches.net for malware/ransomeware/etc. information
• SwiftOnSecurity drops a 0-day on Twitter (oops)
• Ghostbusters Afterlife trailer
• Wonder Woman 1984 trailer
• Black Widow "teaser trailer"
• Hallmark movies are terrible

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!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_321.mp3

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?)

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_320.mp3

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!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_319.mp3

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!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_318.mp3

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.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_317.mp3

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!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_316.mp3

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!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_315.mp3

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

Episode 314: A Pile of Pronoun Problems

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss some news stories and we complain (again) about Frontier Internet, but the big story is the StackOverflow/StackExchange moderator explosion making rounds on their site, some news outlets, Hacker News, etc. etc. etc...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_314.mp3

Show Notes:

• Showing of house scheduled! (But after recording, it was unscheduled...)
• Voretaq is old and his leg is falling apart
• Alabama teen learned stepmom wasn't biological mother, so he shot everyone
• Licking doorbells and other fun hobbies
• Yes, I left in some connection issues because FRONTIER IS TERRIBLE
• I was on chat with Frontier for a repair investigation regarding the outcome of the previous tickets, since I didn't hear about updates from the previous repair. They disconnected after  (under my protest) telling me to restart the modem.
• Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow steps in a dinosaur-sized pile of pronoun problems
• Timeline from the ousted moderator
• More of Monica's information
• There's an SE "official FAQ on gender pronouns" getting downvoted. A lot.
• SE's kerfluffle was on HackerNews
• There's a YouTube/SE user that has posted, and apparently deleted, a number of videos about the issue. Here's a video from user Yvette...if it doesn't get deleted too
• Sara Chipps had an apology (perhaps referred to as an "apology") that was not received well
• The David Fullerton apology, which might be a Sara Chipps apology using the right words. But it was well received for awhile.
• Why are the changes to the CoC and licensing not being readily accepted?
• Monica's announcement of what happened on MiYodeya SE site, with updates and info
• The Xtian "Brothers I Must Go" resigning announcement by user Caleb
• The Register article implying Monica is some kind of bigot...that will age well in her future Google searches!
• Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.,...some accused SE of racing to release an "official" apology from David before this site went live
• HackerNews also has a Dear StackExchange link and comment thread
• Did you know there's a website to sum up terms of service and rate them? (Don't know how "good" this site is, though...but it didn't like Stack Exchange)
• A clarification posted by a (resigned) moderator who may or may not have instigated the firing/dismissal (or was at least in the initial orbit of controversy)
• Idealism vs. realism
• Trump in video depicting murders, right wingers pretend they're not bright enough to have endorsed it
• Trump's net worth is...questionable, at best
• Racist PA teacher on leave, likely to be fired
• Cop sent on welfare check, shoots woman he's checking on
• Voretaq discovered he can buy his upstairs neighbor
• NYC apartment heating
• Voretaq should get an Alinker

Episode 313: Beware of Frontier for Internet

Bart and Norma discuss the IRS, Internet connection issues, germs, and is there a black hole orbiting our solar system?

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_313.mp3

Show Notes:

• Frontier's Internet service and their rebranded Netgear D2200D still lacking
• AAAAND Internet connection failed; THANKS FRONTIER
• Motorists view porn on roadside billboard
• Yummy stuffed skull pizza bites
• Moving/packing update
• Baby shower nachos poo platter
• Rich people are harder to audit, so the IRS doesn't bother...instead, they attack "poor" people
• Woman dies but DirectTV wants their early termination fee
• Germs in your home
• Vandalizing the Wikipedia
• Planet 9 may be a primordial black hole?
• Trump confirms what he did, but only %40 of conservatives believe it's true...uh...duh?
• Trump abandons Kurds because he owns property in Turkey?
• Rich pay lowest taxes

Episode 312: Your TV Is Watching YOU

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the new Joker movie, NYC pizza, 3 new studies of how much your smart TV is spying on you (again), and Stack Overflow seems to have a small PR problem with their moderators. Episode 312!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_312.mp3

Show Notes:

• HP used to make better printers...revisit, briefly, the HP Golden Period
• Randy Pausch
• Rudy Giuliani's Fox meltdown
• DREAM act, deportations
• Feedback
• Joker Movie
• What is the deal with the Joker movie?
• Lets talk pizza and garbage plates
• If a man falls in the woods, does only the Apple Watch hear?
• Stacey Dash, former GOP talking head and Fox commenter, arrested
• Your TV is spying on you
• Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange community-company schism growing with "firing" of moderators
• Seems to be what sparked with this incident
• New York Comic Con is coming!
• It's trendy to give "talks"
• Dreadlock-cutting hoax

Episode 311: House Hunting Blues

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a chocolate milk ban, KFC trying a chicken-and-donut combo, Pizza Hut goes nuts for Cheez-Its, iOS 13 catches some sneaky application behavior and house hunting SUCKS!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_311.mp3

Show Notes:

• TrumpRegrets Reddit
• LeopardsAteMyFace Reddit
• House-selling fun
• Voretaq is playing with an Oculus Rift
• Banning chocolate milk in NYC
• Voretaq loves 3D printing...
• Event Horizon footage found in a salt mine
• More information on the footage
• KFC donut chicken...
• Pizza Hut Cheez-It Pizza...stuff...
• GM strike headlines
• iOS 13 privacy exposes certain company's sneaky behavior...*cough*FACEBOOK*cough*
• How much does new flooring add to the house resale value?
• House hunting adventures
• Nog from DS9 passed away
• Apparently the Emmy's happened...
• Kardashians have reached the point where they believe their own crap?
• Netflix: Travels with my Father
• Another series we've been watching: Killing Eve

Episode 310: Immigration, Don't Invite ICE for Dinner, and PA Sex Trafficking

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss GPS in cars, an Alabama university is tracking their student attendance in football games, an undocumented immigrant invites ICE to a town meeting and discovers the answer to what could possibly go wrong, and PA seems to have a sex trafficking problem...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_310.mp3

Show Notes:

• Read FoxTrot. It's good
• Norma wants to leave us homeless (well, not directly)
• Voretaq has a new bed coming
• Do all modern cars have GPS trackers?
• Yale sued over wellness program penalties
• Body found in Google maps capture
• Alabama tracking students for not liking football
• Friendly well-known and beloved non-documented immigrant invites ICE to talk to community to alleviate fears, gets deported
• John Oliver talks immigration (and Trump has no idea what he's talking about...again...)
• Key states for Presidential vote may be diving into a recession already
• Trump wants to make Americans pay more to ship things
• Sex trafficking kids in PA
• Charter schooling/Online schooling discussion
• Florida man crashes van, police find his murdered wife inside

Episode 309: The Amazon (Spy)Ring Door Camera

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the teamup of Ring door cameras with law enforcement, again with wealth inequality (surprise! Most Americans are poorer!), Trump does more stupid things (Surprise!), and a couple not far from Bart and Norma decide that a surprise $120,000 is a gift from the bank and go on a spree (Surprise! It wasn't a gift!)

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_309.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback
• Apology to the prince for ballet comment from GMA anchor
• Vaping disease warning
• What do we know about the vaping illness?
• Trump discloses secret information to the world because he's an idiot
• Why are secret things so important?
• Sharpie-gate
• The Grand Cheeto can't let it go that he doesn't know s$%t about weather
• We regulate drones more than guns
• Someone tattles
• Voretaq builds a PC
• Wolfenstein company was in Nazi controversy
• Twitter can't auto-ban Nazis because Republicans would be banned
• Norma wasn't allowed to play video games because her (now Internet-addicted parents) said "GAMES BAD"
• Norma might know about an Altair on the Internet?
• IT Chapter 2
• New Dark Crystal miniseries is in progress on our queue
• New Terminator coming out soon
• Longest running Internet-connected webcam saved
• Workers are 1/3 poorer this labor day, versus the 1% who are twice as rich
• Wikipedia and World of Warcraft are under attack
• Trump vs. Farmers? Farmers vs. Trump? Or just whine and flail while voting against interests again?
• Ring surveillance 
• Also the White House wants to spy on your household and brain with your Fitbit (among other devices...)
• Was Trump pretending to be Pence on Twitter?
• Idiot president gets into a Twitter fight with Chrissy Teigen
• The righteous Palin family getting a divorce
• Couple spends $120,000 that wasn't theirs to spend after mistaken bank deposit
• Russian who basically wrote his own credit card offer and got it, and court supported his claim
• Road rules
• We will be bringing up sex trafficking in rural bum-f*ck PA next time
• ICE detention centers are hosting sexual predators...who aren't the detainees?
• "Don't contradict the orange Cheeto's weather claims or you'll be fired!" 

Episode 308: Another Quick Announcement

Bart drops a quick announcement into the feed. TL:DL - It was a holiday, got a little busy with trying to take some time off, join up next week for the next episode...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_308.mp3

Episode 307: Nuking Hurricanes

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk about photography in the old days, insurance, humans going extinct in the past, our VERY SMART PRESIDENT nuking hurricanes, and moving to Vermont. Episode 307!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_307.mp3

Show Notes:

• "Trump had a bad week"..."Week?!"
• Update on the apartment damage
• Do you like photography? Like, "real" photography, with a darkroom?
• Do you remember cameras that required developing?
• Original lightsaber for Luke was a 3-cell Graflex flashgun
• Feedback - whole life insurance discussion
• Feedback - too short to fly that plane? You're fired!
• Steve King makes comments about rape and incest, and he's getting roasted by his own party of disloyal hypocrites...
• Human population did drop precipitously low...apparently more than once... (even if that's not what he was talking about)
• Feedback - Let's rename the street in front of Trump Tower Obama Avenue
• The "VERY SMART PRESIDENT" wants to nuke hurricanes
• NYTimes paywalls suck
• Well, paywalls suck
• In Bart's opinion, Rep Matt Shea is a nut
• Matt Shea has a history of nuttery, in his opinion...
• Biblical heresy time
• Longest-running webcam to shut down
• Trump maintains his record of lying at G7 summit
• "MOVE TO VERMONT!"
• Abused dog hoax

Episode 306: Quick Announcement (It Really Is a Short Episode!)

Bart gives a quick episode. TL:DR - Join us next week.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_306.mp3

Show Notes:

• I mentioned a new He-Man series

Episode 305: Apartment Fires Really Suck

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss guns (how can we not?), Conservative hypocrites, why it sucks to have your apartment building burn down, and why a woman can't ride in a train for fear of losing her uterus and a week in space requires 100 tampons.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_305.mp3

Show Notes:

• NRA influence
• Citizens United is just another head on the hydra
• NRA snowflakes are having problems...boo hoo
• Video games, cartoons, etc. cause gun violence in America...anything EXCEPT gun access...
• Suicidal stats
• "Proof of anti-Conservative bias in tech!" turns out to be a White Nationalist. SURPRISE!
• Maybe Conservatives should vet their heroes before turning them into examples
• ...especially since it seems to reinforce that they're a bunch of hypocrite racist bigots
• Probably don't get a NULL license plate, because outsourcers are idiots
• It sucks to have your apartment building burn
• Fortunately there was only smoke damage...
• Also, the lock on the door stopped working!
• Life has reached a stretch of "Sucks Highway"...
• Mortgage company dealing with titles investigated by SEC for data breach
• Less a breach than an idiot system that let users just increment a number to view records
• Screw Equifax
• Am I the Asshole subreddit link...
• Current President is a conspiracy nut/moron...
• Keep in mind Trump walked in on underage girls changing clothes
• Sally Ride and idiot rocket scientists
• Women in trains...YOU'LL LOSE YOUR UTERUS
• Trump has undocumented workers...ICE raids at an all time high...why not at Trump properties? Hmm...?

Episode 304: Moscow Mitch and Prison...Coincidence?

Bart and Norma discuss gun accessibility, MoscowMitch, Neil DeGrasse Tyson making another tweet faux-pas, and prison labor...not in the context of our sitting president belonging in prison (this time) but just...prison labor.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_304.mp3

Show Notes:

• Racket has a new enclosure
• Feedback
• PR Mayor arrest revisited
• Death at Kennedy compound - possible suicide?
• Shootings again
• How hard is it to get a gun? Norma's dad is offered a Glock for a woodstove trade...
• #MoscowMitch #MoscowMitch ... doing my part...
• #MoscowMitch and his komrads sit on gun legislation...
• Obama is still a better President than our sitting president in response to shootings
• #MoscowMitch "fractures shoulder" in conveniently timed fall at home
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson makes a stupid tweet, followed by apology
• Vox wrote about the responses to his tweet
• Poussey Washington Fund to help prisoners adjust to outside life
• John Oliver talks prison labor
• They may get stomped by a bull...but hey, at least they can sell crafts!
• Conservatives decide video games cause shootings (despite other countries having violent videogames and a lack of mass shootings)
• No. No more pets.

Episode 303: Mitch McConnell, Russian Asset?

Bart and Norma discuss Mitch McConnell and his aversion to fair elections, Another Life on Netflix, Forever 21 and their latest adventures in angering customers who stay customers, and Trump thinks he's a hero of 9/11

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_303.mp3

Show Notes:

• Puerto Rico woes
• LET'S MOVE HALLOWEEN because derp
• Fortnite tournament won by PA kid
• Starcraft in Korea
• Trump, Baltimore, Kushner as a slumlord
• Testing lunar dust on Earth lifeforms
• Another Life on Netflix
• Forever 21 tells customers when they're fat
• Macy's fat shaming plates
• Ironman cyclist dies after collision with semi
• DoorDash and tip-skimming from their "dashers"
• Moron Republican claimed name typos is voter fraud, has name misspelled on election race
• Russian Asset (asshat?) Mitch McConnell and election security
• Trump pretends to participate in 9/11 cleanup efforts, gets mocked on Twitter
• Maybe don't commit murder while abroad?

Episode 302: School Says PAY UP OR HAVE YOUR KID TAKEN AWAY

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss weird weather, owning DRM'd books, radioactive coal waste and a PA school that mails vague threats to parents regarding having their kids taken into the foster system if they don't pay their lunch bills!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_302.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma turns 90
• Flooding in NYC area?
• Weird weather incident
• Feedback
• Multitasking in meeting participation...
• Affordable lab meat
• Coal ash and radioactivity
• MS bookstore closes, demonstrates danger of "online book reader" purchases
• Spacey lawsuit dropped
• Senators regret pushing Franken to resign?
• PA School sends threats to parents delinquent on lunch payments
• Government cheese surplus
• PEANUT BUTTER FESTIVAL (audio warning)
• Verizon anti-spam call app
• Genius racists caught by school wifi
• Bye-kea
• Police assaulted by buckets of water (WTF?)
• Star Trek discussion

Episode 301: Bad Surveys, California Wrap-Up, and Education Discussions

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the overall California trip (DINOSAURS! BEACHES! DEATH!), terrible surveys sent on behalf of the Orange Curse, charter schools and education in general as well as a bit document discussing the things Cargill has done (according to the organization in the link...)

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_301.mp3

Show Notes:

• California wrap-up
• Cabazon Dinosaurs
• California as an oil-state
• Walk of fame, beach visits, etc...
• Trump star vandalized (but not while we're there...)
• The council wants to remove Trump's star, because they SHOULD
• Kevin Spacey lawsuit dropped
• Trump survey won't allow you to harm his snowflake ego with negative feedback
• Voretaq HATES bad surveys
• Museum of Death
• No last words for the condemned in Texas?
• Irvine area and beach rental impressions, climate differences from "home"
• PA schools to end "snow days" as we know them?
• Learning and schooling discussion
• Charter schools and funding
• Legal marijuana pushes out drug dealers
• Opportunity zones/incentives are bullsh#$%
• Pence and his indifference to suffering
• Cargill criticism

Episode 300: California Special Edition 2019

Bart and Norma record a short update on their California trip!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_300.mp3

Show Notes:

• Earthquake
• Yes, there was an earthquake
• Cabazon Dinosaurs
• Randy's Donuts, as featured in Iron Man 2 and other movies
• Henson Company drive-by
• Walk of fame
• Venice Beach
• Feedback
• Scranton ex-mayor pleads guilty to corruption
• Idiot ice cream licker
• Trump-Epstein link
• Trump and allegations of raping a 13 year old

Episode 299: Let's Embarrass America Tour! (And Kim K's Kimono-no!)

Bart and Norma discuss triking, snakes, a local Rail Trail, Ivanka and her Embarrassing America performance, and Toys R Us may be making a comeback for Xmas!

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Show Notes:

• Immortal Hulk!
• Triking update (stupid flats)
• Racket is shedding, which means he's grouchy
• Air travel is horrible
• Feedback
• Snakes!
• Elmira Rail Trail (Lackawanna Rail Trail) lacked people and maintenance...
• Kim K and her Kimono-no's
• Other miscellaneous things are trademarked too...
• Ivanka and her "Let's Embarrass America" tour
• College for free?
• How's our idiot President doing?
• Toys R Us is back for Xmas?

Episode 298: Raspberry Pi, Oh My!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss reparations, the new Raspberry Pi 4, why curious toddlers and teal Glocks don't mix, Oregon nuttery and a debt collector finds themselves in debt!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_298.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback
• Reparations
• Conway vs. the Hatch Act
• Biden should probably not run
• Raspberry Pi 4 released
• Anxiety: travel edition
• Stupid cat
• Useful (marine biology) specializations
• Are kids growing horns?
• Toddler finds gun, shoots self
• House in a Greenhouse
• Debt collector goes into debt. BOO HOO!
• Pence refuses to answer climate change threat questions
• Oregon and Conservative crazies
• Immigration

Episode 297: Apple Mac Pro or Apple Mac Schmo?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss amusement parks, Apple's new hardware announcements and possible future path, tech security practices and Trump's Mexico deal that isn't even a deal!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_297.mp3

Show Notes:

• Jon Stewart is the target of Mitch "Grim Reaper" McConnell
• We are infested by cows
• Voretaq encounters a rooster
• Feedback time
• Waiting for Potter
• Shout-out to Knoebels
• Universal Studios (Hollywood) memories
• Cuba Gooding, Jr. turns self into police
• GOOD RIDDANCE SANDERS
• The dusty press corp podium...good job not doing a job
• Might want to skip the Dominican Republic, maybe?
• Apple's new Mac Pro controversies
• Apple and the future of Macs
• Bart's primary Mac doesn't like the hard disk when upgrading to an upgraded OS...don't know about the current release, though
• Seeing iPadOS, Bart's unsure of the joy of OS X's future for his use case...
• What is Bootcamp?
• Raspberry Pi: affordable mini-computers
• Samsung was suddenly telling people they should run antivirus checks on their TVs...
• ...then we might have been reminded why
• Playstation Network TIFU story on Reddit; DON'T GIVE AWAY ACCOUNT CREDS, PEOPLE
• 2-Factor defeated by SIM (your ticket to the cell phone network, basically) theft, thus losing access to much of his digital life
• Man fights release of name after admitting he abused children 40 years ago
• Liz is laying (blank) eggs
• Amazon pretends they are paying well; attacks Ocasio-Cortez in retaliation move
• Trump's "Mexico Deal" text released by Mexico. There's no "Deal."
• Rumors of Trump's use of slurs on The Apprentice

Episode 296: I Am Sploot

Bart and Norma produce a shortcast where we discuss a trike accident, Racket the Bearded Dragon, and movie and TV show opinions.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_296.mp3

Show Notes:

• Racket: I AM SPLOOT
• Elisabeth Moss and Scientology (and Handmaid's Tale)
• Little Dude crashed a trike...how?
• Galaxy's Edge Star Wars attraction at Disney
• Dark Phoenix had a terrible opening weekend
• Men In Black: International
• Trump's so busy working he decided to call CNBC
• David Ortiz shot in Dominican Republic

Episode 295: Movies, and the UK Won't Keep Him

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss movies, raising lizards, Trump's problems in the UK (boo hoo), and cults! We also talk about Baltimore's ransomware issue...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_295.mp3

Show Notes:

• Hearing things that aren't there
• Theater putting in beds instead of chairs
• Climbing Everest facts
• Climbers dying on Everest...
• Godzilla 2, Booksmart
• Trump's n the UK, they want him to go home (damn...)
• Giant wee wee greets the Orange Wee Wee (That's Trump, by the way)
• Trump greeted again with projections on buildings
• Baltimore taken down by ransomware...
• ...that was injected into their systems using "Trust Us We're Good Guys" NSA tools
• Watch The Perfection
• Arrow discussion, vigilantes, being above the law...and we don't know anything in real life in the US that allows people above the law, do we?
• Voretaq's lizard is afraid of superworms due to a biting incident when it was a baby
• Allison Mack: from Smallville to NXIVM cult member
• iTunes is going away
• Creationist ark museum suing for flood damages (to access road, but still ironic)

Episode 294: A Memorial Day Goes By

Bart gives a short (Really! Honest!) message for the Memorial Day recording

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Show Notes:

• How I spent my weekend so far
• This week is going to be abnormal
• We'll save feedback for next week
• EXERCISE (NOT) FUN
• Planning a solo long ride, rode a short ride with Dude
• Think Dude and I can make the Pine Creek Trail ride?
• Saw Book Smart in theater
• 47 Meters Down has a sequel coming!

Episode 293: Hide Her in a Tote

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss SPACE FORCE!, RIP to many last week, protesters parade a pooping president, and hiding your legless girlfriend in a plastic tote!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_293.mp3

Show Notes:

• "It's a thousand degrees and wet." - Voretaq
• Bart rode ~43 miles Saturday, climbed 3000 feet
• Insurance companies are the worst...
• Judge not by what they say, judge what they do
• Feedback
• Many deaths last week
• Prank gone too far?
• Hiding your girlfriend in a tote
• SPACE FORCE! AGAIN! Because Cruz is not smart
• Declaration of Independence banned on FaceBook
• Hertz "computer glitch" causes customers to be arrested
• A coin to talk to God and pray for Trump
• Ahead of UK visit, protesters plan to fly a big balloon and display giant robot pooping Trump
• Baltimore held for ransom in "cyber attack"
• Some short movie bits

Episode 292: It's Not a Party Without Helium (for balloons)

Bart and Norma discuss Trump's billion dollar (so far) fraudulent persona, George Conway rants again, John Oliver explains the New Green Deal, we've racked up 115 mass shootings (and counting!), and an Ohio Republican once again demonstrates they don't know how uteruses work! (And where has all the helium gone!?)

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_292.mp3

Show Notes:

• Racket needs to eat more vegetables...so we're trying to mix wax worms in
• Feedback
• Cali teacher with cancer must pay for own sub
• Party City vs. Helium Supplies
• Watch the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix
• Trump's billion dollar tax "fraud"...in that his reputation is fraudulent (at a minimum)
• Maleah Davis missing...blood found...
• George Conway rants about the Cheeto on Twitter
• Trump hurts his own voters with China tariffs
• John Oliver on the New Green Deal
• 115 mass shootings so far this year...SURPRISE
• Which is more lethal: food or immigrants?
• Is Unplanned (the movie) a load of bullsh#$?
• Ohio legislator doesn't know how human pregnancy works

Episode 291: Hamilton

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk about a weekend NYC trip to see Hamilton, flushing your grandparents down the toilet, Georgia shows that racism is still alive and well (surprise!), and Chase Bank thinks you're poor because you're a wasteful entitled idiot. Episode 291!

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Show Notes:

• NYC-area weather
• Hush, Satan
• Cutting tails with scissors
• Florida once again leads the country in stupid by allowing guns with teachers
• Law fun
• Chewie died
• Don't flush your grandparents down the toilet
• Chase Bank issues tone deaf ignorant Monday Motivation message
• Voretaq notes that Chase still hasn't fixed their broken password system
• Georgia mayor and councilman agree that the town isn't ready for a black person
• Voter suppression?
• Hillary makes a Republican-version of a non-suggestion to China?
• Betsy DeVos apparently doesn't know about Hamilton
• Yummy yummy airpod
• Billions show up to Alive In New York anti-abortion event. BILLIONS.
• "Unplanned" propaganda
• Five Boro Bike Tour
• Biking and your heart (GCN Show)
• Tyson chicken strip recall

Episode 290: The Endgame

Bart, Norma and Voretaq are back to discuss some SJW winds changing, Endgame, PennDOT having funds illegally redirected, AI invents a new sport and a responsible gun owner shot their kid during a safety lesson

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_290.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq meets Racket
• Racket's had a heat upgrade
• Should we become bug farmers?
• How long as Voretaq been missing?
• Propane deliveries are...well...*sigh*
• Is Google eating email?
• "It's not my job to tell you why I'm offended!"
• "Trigger warning!"
• Feedback
• Endgame
• Powerball winner has lots of money
• Conspiring to raise drug prices
• Child's body found
• PennDOT in the red for billions, and now we know the police have it
• Bart and Matthew went for a trike ride. Norma mentioned it, so can't blame me
• Responsible gun owner shoots his kid
• NO TRUE SCOTSMAN fallacy
• AI invents a game...
• Article with some information
• Rosenstein quits
• So many types of bearded dragons...
• SURPRISE yet another bizarre speech from Trump
• Free Comic Book Day this weekend

Episode 289: PA Gets an Official Amphibian

Bart and Norma discuss Amazon's outsourced eavesdroppers, China spying on their citizens while cleaning garbage, Arya and Gendry do the horizontal hoopla and John Oliver reviews the Mueller Report! And can we all agree how AWESOME it is our state representatives have time to anoint a state amphibian?! It's time for episode 289!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_289.mp3

Show Notes:

• Racket the Bearded Dragon is still joining us
• Japan's "secular" Easter (well, they are a non-Christian country for the most part...)
• Little Dude's knee is healing, went on first trike ride in over a month!
• People "listen in" on your Amazon device voice commands
• Is your food safe in fast food places when served by people who are underpaid?
• China forces workers to wear GPS watches to track labor, alarms if they are still for 20 minutes
• Amazon's selfie-deliveries for verification
• PA is to get a STATE AMPHIBIAN
• Arya and Gendry make a scene
• Trump thinks 100+ million people killed in Sri Lanka bombings
• Trump is suing to keep Democrats from seeing his tax returns
• Stephen Moore is sad that women aren't men
• John Oliver and the Mueller Report
• Columbine at 20
• Sledge Hammer!
• Bart is officially, as of last appointment, below "morbidly obese" BMI
• The Yupper