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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.