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

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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!

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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

Episode 288: It's Your Fault You're Not Rich

Bart and Norma discuss work culture, what it takes to become a lawyer, Medicaid savings using "If Only You..." reasoning, cost of living in different areas, and taxes taxes taxes!

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Show Notes:

• Hello to Racket (yes, it's programming related)
• Feedback
• Chinese wealthy guy advocates 9-9-6 work culture
• Kim Kardashian, legal eagle
• Police called to stop a...Roomba
• 4 Hour Workweek
• Medicaid savings if only these moochers would...
• Do you save money if you make meals at home instead of fast food?
• Cost of living discussion
• Zumper for cost of living comparisons!
• Minimum wage would be $33 if it kept pace with C-suite execs...
• 60 big companies paid $0 in taxes due to Trump law...
• IRS won't help you get taxes done more easily any time soon, thanks to lobbyists
• No, you shouldn't drop water from the air onto a burning cathedral
• Trump giving Woods a Medal of Freedom

Episode 287: Abs, Rich People, Japan and Gymnast Snaps Legs

Bart, Norma and Voretaq dig into getting a great 6 pack, Ray Dalio's Principles and his dots, Olivia Jade and her contempt for college, Motel 6 pretends they cared about trying to deport their guests, and Japan has a sex problem. And the Impossible Burger is coming to Burger King! YAY!

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Show Notes:

• How do you get a 6 pack set of abs?
• The actual post I was referencing
• Bart has his first flat tire on the trike
• Yes, ponies were eaten by whales in a south pole trek
• Arya Stark and the Fallon interview
• Ray Dalio and his Principles
• Rich people hiring special-needs kids for preferred treatment at Disney
• Dan Lyon's new book: Lab Rats
• Lego Serious Play
• Dalio's Dots
• Allison Mack goes to jail
• Olivia Jade and her school privilege backlash
• Nathan Pyle, controversial
• Motel 6 settles another lawsuit for turning people over to ICE
• 3 year old pees, mother cited
• Japan's sex problem
• Impossible Burger coming to BK
• Gymnast retires after nasty landing

Episode 286: April Fool's Almost Shortcast

Bart and Norma try to have an April Fool's shortcast...we talk about Burger King's new fakemeat, April Fool's stupidity, GET AN ALINKER!, and the reality of reality shows!

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Show Notes:

• Burger King's vegan burger with Impossible Meat
• MS bans April Fool's shenanigans
• Stack Overflow's latest April Fool's
• ThinkGeek April Fool's actually sometimes fun
• Norma's father is back in the hospital, so therefore kind of a shortcast today...
• IGN April Fool's links
• The A-Linker walking bike!
• Teacher suing
• Norma poses an ethics question
• Feedback!
• Mystery condition after tonsillectomy
• Spacewalk for female astronaut canceled (or delayed?)
• Reality shows are fake?
• John Oliver vs. WWE
• Women can't ride in trains!
• Drama rehearsal get's seriously dramatic
• Avoid knocking on this idiot's door...or you'll get shot AMERICA!