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!

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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!

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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.

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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...

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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)