Episode 373: Surviving Xmas

Voretaq has a new TV! A terrible state rep whines about being criticises Trump supporters criticising him! Pence thinks poor people must SUFFER! And Scotty is on board the ISS! MERRY POST-XMAS!

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Show Notes:

• Voretaq explores his newly mounted thin-panel smart TV
• OS's for "smart things"
• FaceBook vs. Apple: privacy wars
• Aunt Becky is already out of jail!
• Mike Pence is aghast at the idea of poor people being comfortable
• Part of James Doohan is now aboard the ISS
• GoDaddy tests employees with promise of nonexistent holiday bonus
• KFC working on a game system?

Episode 372: Brought To You By Paint Fumes

It's a holiday, and this is minimally edited. That said, Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss painting Voretaq's apartment, snow, end of year work fun, snow, Tyson's managers betting on death for workers followup, and more snow!

Direct Link: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_372.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq is painting
• Voretaq didn't get his TV delivered yet...
• SNOW DAY 
• "Shredding machine go BRRRRRRRR"
• Saturday morning cartoons
• Australian death foam
• Russia hacks us again
• Tyson managers fired

Episode 371: Holidays are Here

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Flowbees, vaccines, stimulus money lost and Google has an outage!

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Show Notes:

• The holidays are upon us
•  Voretaq's credit card sucks
• Solarwinds virtual attack
• I think this was the Stack Exchange secrets-in-repo application I was talking about
• Flowbee discussion
• PA Governor tests positive, negative, negative...
• Closed captioning at home and in theaters
• Vaccine news, virus movies
• Voting
• Government misspending
• IRS sends stimulus checks to overseas non-citizens
• Poor rich people
• Tyson managers make bets on employee illness in the age of Covid
• Google Outage!
• AG William Barr quits
• Gatherings and Covid
• School closures and policy

Episode 370: Post Thanksgiving Wrap

Bart, Norma and Voretag discuss Baby Yoda the Genocidal, what the future of cinema may hold, and Covid rules (and the flaunting by Conservative groups of those rules)

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_370.mp3

Show Notes:

• Chia Pet of Yoda's species
• Baby Yoda: Genocide Edition
• Ken Jennings to host Jeopardy!
• First run releases to HBO streaming?
• Future of movies discussion
• Voretaq is replacing his car and his Verizon fun
• Discussing Covid closings
• Anti-masker arrested
• NJ calls out GOP party party held to flaunt Covid rules
• Can you ban someone from a state?

Episode 369: THANKSGIVING 2020

Bart and Norma discuss Sweden's herd immunity total fail, strawberry turkey treats, Sia's new movie and the controversy that followed, and Ricky Schroder is helping to bail out alleged Conservative murderers!

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Show Notes:

• Popeyes offers churkey meals
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• Something about the OED and word of the year
• Ice Bucket Challenge cofounder passes away
• Sweden's "herd immunity" approach to Covid failed
• Ricky Schroder helps pay bail for "alleged" murderer
• Sia makes an autism inspirational movie that isn't autistic enough to qualify as okay to do
• 160+ business leaders threaten to cut financial ties to GOP if Trump doesn't start the transition...so they start the transition
• Apparently a Trump supporter is charged for breathing deliberately on women

Episode 368: Lawsuits, Debt Collectors, and Your Computer Isn't Yours

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss some varying topics like Transgender Awareness Week, selling your organs, Prop 22 passing in California, lawsuits against the states from the Trumpers, and some upgrades for the Mac that can, in some lights, be...bothersome.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_368.mp3

Show Notes:

• We missed some of the recording because Bart was an idiot
• loser.com points to Trump's Wikipedia page
• Metal detectorist finds 222 year old coin
• Arc of the Scythe series
• Liberals have different brains compared to Conservatives. That's why they make more sense.
• Lawsuit against the states for recounts, and frivolous lawsuits
• Transgender Awareness Week
• Vaccine transportation and spoilage
• Selling your organs...
• Man pursues debt collector
• Prop 22 passed in California
• Your Computer Isn't Yours
• When HP printers stopped working on Macs
• Apologies for the SUPER LOUD TYPING. Norma was...I have no idea what she was doing.
• Google lawsuit about Android phones stealing cell data
• Accelerometer data can get more information about you than you might think
• Theragun discussion

Episode 367: Trump's a LOSER!

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss our favorite LOSER, Donald J. Trump! We also talk about iOS update weirdness, new TVs and cars, and the cost of Playstation repairs vs. new consoles!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_367.mp3

Show Notes:

• Trump lost!
• The amount of stupid with this election is astonishing
• Two Virginia loons arrested for toting guns near PA ballot counting facility
• RIP Trebek
• Yay, Corona in the schools!
• Weird iOS behavior...Bart's phone really really likes listening to autotuned Trump singing Xmas songs
• Trump Sings XMas
• Voretaq gets a new TV
• Verizon no longer uses contracts?
• Playstation 4/5 discussion
• Voretaq is looking at cars
• How voting works

Episode 366: Yay, Voting...

Could politics GET any more fun? No? The only thing for sure is we are making American history...and I can understand Germany's slide into what led to WWII.

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Show Notes:

• Texas Conservatives try suppressing votes
• Bart is still struggling with a verbal tic
• White House adds non-scaling fencing
• Postal worker in trouble for not delivering ballots...
• Jordan Klepper at his last Trump rally
• A clip of Lets Be Real
• Post Gazette is terrible 
• Bias in media
• When Google terminates you
• 18 year old bought an IBM mainframe
• Time fun
• Voretaq will become a lizard dad
• Show endings

Episode 365: A Very Covid Halloween

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the continuing Covid state tour, Trump visits PA and we review his racism record, some dogs are born green, and Ivanka and Jared follow Daddy's footsteps and threaten to sue when they don't like what they're hearing!

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Show Notes:

• After 364 unbirthdays, we're calling this the birthday show!
• Voretaq is back!
• Our county is number 2 in the state for infections!
• Trump visits PA to lie about his love of fracking
• Vexations of hair cutting
• Trump stumps in PA...with fake Amish people?
• Trump 60 Minutes interview
• The comment is made that it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that Aunt Lydia will get on the Supreme Court...note: she got on the Supreme Court
• Trump and the Central Park 5
• Trump and his housing racism...among other things...
• Paltrow kissing RDJ
• Green dogs
• Google's lawsuit, explained
• Santas won't get early vaccines for Covid now
• Racket joins the podcast to run around as much as his zoomies feet can carry him
• Trials for vaccines
• Social media accounts being "fun" representing companies
• Young guy makes a McIcecreamChecker website
• Ivanka and Jared want to sue over billboards
• Rudy Giuliani is...being himself. 

Episode 364: We Knew It Was a Water Wiggler

Bart and Norma discuss elder abuse, a mystery rocketman, Water Wigglers were a thing creating controversies and Trump is one rung shy of claiming he doesn't need to poo (for the reference, see "North Korean Dear Leader")

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_364.mp3

Show Notes:

• Racket decides roaches are good to eat...sometimes.
• 364 un-episodes!
• Stan Lee elder abuse story
• Things to not take from a vacation
• Jetpack flier sighted again
• Reinfections documented
• "We totally knew water wigglers weren't sex toys..."
• FaceBook fires employee that exposed right-wing bias
• Trump searches for dirt, comes up with nothing
• Hunter Biden laptop fact check
• Trump thinks "reinfection of covid" was invented after his superior immune system fought off the virus to discredit him.
• 3 days, 66 lies: a weekend with Trump

Episode 363: Don't Steal from Pompeii

Bart and Norma talk about the Hulk smashing Trump's walk of fame star with a pickaxe, a T-Rex skeleton is sold to a rich person, Eddie VanHalen passed away and police in Texas don't see anything wrong with leading a black person through the streets with a rope. Also, Republicans see absentee voting and mail-in voting as two different things, despite being the same?

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Show Notes:

• Racket likes baby food
• Hulk Smash Nazis
• T-Rex skeleton auctioned
• Eddie VanHalen RIP
• Perhaps we know what one part of MAGA is...whiny Conservatives miss blurting out racist, bigoted crap and being told they're racist bigots?
• Handcuffed and led through the streets by rope, man sues police department for being displayed as a slave for trespassing charge
• GOP: Mail in ballots are fake, terrible, corrupt. Absentee ballots are fine. The mind...wobbles.
• Don't steal from Pompeii
• A question of Trump's stamina post-Covid

Episode 362: There's Still Hope

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Trump, Covid, Kellyanne Covid, and a court ruling that Subway is using bread that isn't classified as bread! And what's with the Dunkin' Donuts health code violations?

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_362.mp3

Show Notes:

• There was finally some GOOD NEWS last week. It was good news. I'm not listening to your virtue signaling.
• Water water everywhere and faulty spigots are annoying
• Unfortunately Trump left the hospital
• Trump needed to SHOW POWER by driving around and waving at MAGAts.
• Trump's definitely not Nazi-like nationalist indoctrination education fund/bribe
• Trump's "Patriotic" education program
• Banks are fun
• Kellyanne Covid's daughter and their social media fun
• Losing PA
• UNDECIDED?!
• Subway is not using bread?
• Regal Cinemas
• Tax rates: dolls vs action figures?
• What's wrong with our local Dunkin' Donuts?

Episode 361: TRUMP TAX TIME

Bart and Norma discuss TAXES TAXES TAXES! Only we don't complain about OUR taxes. Nope, we laugh at the revelation that the Orange Man has his taxes released, confirming what was already known by those not kneeling at the altar of hypocrisy and bigotry; Trump is a con man hiding behind the facade of wealth...we also go over some funny stories, like drone strikes in PA and coffee makers that demand payment to work. Fun episode!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_361.mp3

Show Notes:

• Covid is coming...
• Banking/finance has changed, gradually, since I was growing up, and they've changed in a way that conveniences you but profits them. A lot.
• What is gouging?
• Verbal tics are gifts from Satan
• TRUMP TAXES
• "Consulting fees"
• Another of Trump's "best employees" to be fired (well, downsized to another role?) arrested after police standoff
• The Internet of Things is a Piece of Sh@#
• Guy makes a wooden wiener for the front yard
• Man denies drone-bombing ex-girlfriend

Episode 360: Passing of a Legend

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss RBG passing away before seeing Trump dethroned, religious Christians really want to live in a Christian theocracy, a bar owner kills himself after murdering a protester, and how do you sponsor? And Bart and Norma are one bathroom short! Episode 360!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_360.mp3

Show Notes:

• We have no (downstairs) bathroom...
• Ginsberg passed away
• Some people need to be blocked
• Religion, laws, blah blah...
• What is Jubilee?
• Bar owner kills protester, later commits suicide
• Sponsorships
• Congress loves handouts to the military...
• Nazi behavior from Conservative administration continues on...
• Financial literacy
• Do you know the cost of living somewhere that isn't here?
• Bathroom talk
• Emmys

Episode 359: The Raw Episode

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss missing last week's recording. This week, Bart ran short on time because the house has power glitches and gremlins, so for the first time he remembers in the show's posting history, he uploaded a show that is largely uncut and unedited...it's the raw source recording. Enjoy!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_359.mp3

Episode 358: First Day of School!

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss our first school day of the year, revisit memories of a drive-in, Zoom meetings for school, celebrity deaths and landlord/tenant fun. 

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_358.mp3

Show Notes:

• First day of school
• Transparent backpacks for the kids
• Drive-in memories
• Modern cars and drive-ins
• Zoom-bombing school classes
• Online teleconferences
• Cancer and Black Panther
• Leslie Hamilton passed away as well
• Main stream media not covering 30+ kids in a trailer in sex trafficking ring!?
• Teacher dies from Covid after baby shower
• Teen gets billed for police overtime
• Tenant/landlord fight, can't evict!
• Amber Heard poop on the pillow
• OnlyFans discussion

Episode 357: Poutine Isn't Food

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Kim Jong Un rumors, the Conways decide to step down from politics because of "family issues", Cheers cheers no more, and journalism uses passive voice far too much.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_357.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma is cranky
• Mention of "the wall" scandal
• School with covid
• Kim Jong Un rumors
• Conways step away from political spotlight to "focus on family" as daughter says she wants out
• CEO pay is even FARTHER away from average worker pay
• Banks make HUGE profits from PPP funds...thanks Congress!
• Voretaq's unique(?) lizards are "Mourning Geckos"
• Carlisle, PA car show will go on despite orders for everyone else to not hold events
• One of the Boston "Cheers" bars is closing August 30th, 2020
• Wonder Woman rules
• Chocolate rain!
• RNC platform is "Whatever the orange man wants"
• Poutine. Yuck.
• Postmaster pretending he's not sabotaging the election
• Journalism and passive voice == "balance"?
• KFC and Covid

Episode 356: Hedonism II: Socially Distant Touching

Bart and Norma discuss the post office, mail-in ballots, nudist/swinger resorts and Covid 19, and police accountability...

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_356.mp3

Show Notes:

• Let's talk about derechos
• Maryland had a derecho not horribly long ago...
• Good religious person steals millions from PPP funds
• Drug testing social service recipients...
• Trump vs. Post Office
• Mail demographics
• #WrongTrump
• Trump trend
• Hedonism resort and Covid
• The baby with the flashbang grenade injuries? Yeah, the cops didn't get in trouble for it
• The judge that authorized the no-knock testified that had he been given accurate information, he'd not have authorized it...yeah, right. Judges hand out these warrants like candy. You'd not have given authorization if you knew they'd get nailed in the news for throwing a grenade on a baby...
• California Pizza Kitchen...we barely knew you, farewell...
• I mentioned Red Lobster as a restaurant in trouble...

Episode 355: Back to School Time Soon...

Bart discovered an awesome Trump song about running down a ramp, Norma is preparing to go back to a Coronavirus petri dish called school, and Voretaq reels in horror at yet more Trump crap!

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Show Notes:

• Bart's headset is broken, but HOW DID IT DO THAT?
• Norma tries breaking her feet with her computer
• In case you didn't hear about Beirut...
• Nintendo profits during quarantine period
• Awesome Trump can't make it down the ramp song
• Trump tax deferral
• Trump wants his orange face on Mount Rushmore
• Don't push your friends to the bear in parks
• Going back to school! YAY COVID!
• Didn't go well for this school, though
• NY Plates are ugly now?
• Steam and Audible refund requests
• Unions help working class. Go figure.
• Trump in Axios interview...wow

Episode 354: You May Regret Relying on that Service

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the liberal hoax that apparently killed Herman Cain, Canada doesn't like Americans much right now, schools around here supposedly think about how to reopen, and there are risks to subscribing to services and becoming reliant on them, no matter how convenient. And for some reason pedophelia is the latest "What About..." argument from Trumpies. Why? Don't know, especially when Trump spoke of walking into the backstage dressing area of teenage girls...

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_354.mp3

Show Notes:

• Where was Voretaq?
• Where is Norma?
• Is working for Financial-type firms better?
• Herman Cain died of a "Librul Hoax"
• It's a worldwide hoax to dethrone Trump?
• The Lincoln Project deserves some love for their ads this year
• Canada tightening no-entry rules for Americans
• Space Force
• Apple, privacy, and exposing apps misbehaving
• Brief touch on school reopening plans locally
• Subscription to services...and the risk of having them disappear
• Scott Sigler's story The Rider
• Trump and 15 year old girls

Episode 353: Dunk Tanks and Star Trek Copyright

Bart and Norma discuss conspiracy theories (sort of), stupidity of CBS and Star Trek copyright enforcement, and a giant Gundam robot!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_episode_353.mp3

Show Notes:

• Judge detains kid who didn't do her homework
• A Reddit link with some more comments, another article
• PA dunk tank controversy
• More about the non-apology
• Sharks disappearing
• Liberty lightning
• Gone with the Wind actress dies at 104
• Conspiracy theorists are idiots. Don't bother reasoning with them
• Stores say they'll enforce mask rules, then don't enforce mask rules
• CBS forgets to tell their copyright bots not to cut off their own material during virtual Comic-Con
• Star Trek fan film was Axanar
• 60 foot Gundam robot to debut in October

Episode 352: Volleyball on Cybertron

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss cardboard cutouts in the stands, the GOP doesn't want your boss to get sued if you get infected when ordered to work, Portland is under attack by American storm troopers, Hasbro is releasing its biggest blatant money grab yet, and the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds hosted a carnival that made fun of the trans community!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_352.mp3

Show Notes:

• Bill O'Reilly is still alive, it seems
• Bars "get around" rules for serving at bars
• Frederick Douglass statue defaced
• Slave work is capitalism at its peak
• Cardboard cutouts at the games (although the fake face incident wasn't in the US)
• GOP wants to make sure your employer can't be sued for making you work and negligently getting you infected
• Tax racket
• Portland has a small invasion of government storm troopers problem
• Trump is planning to invade more Democrat-run cities with federal storm troopers
• Trump now wears a mask, pretends he supported it all along
• VPN providers leak terabytes of information
• Outsourcing stuff
• Getting electrical things fixed in the house
• Hasbro is releasing another franchise tie-in for Transformers. This time, Top Gun. It is a jet. With a helmet. And a volleyball. Yes. A volleyball.
• An idiot governor
• An idiot Christian camp
• Clintons are apparently murdering people again in the deep dark shadows of nutbag minds
• Grant Imahara passed away
• Transphobic Bloomsburg Fair carnival event?
• Bloomsburg wants to backpedal as quickly as possible
• Voretaq is having issues getting a 4TB drive

Episode 351: School Bells as Corona Swells

Voretaq returns to join Bart and Norma in discussing standards in technology, living on boats, TV shows with curses, and schools reopening in the age of the Corona!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_351.mp3

Show Notes:

• Older people like airports?
• Lets live on a boat!
• Sailing Millennial Falcon
• Standards...so many to choose from
• Mary Trump book
• PA wants to roll back fireworks law (but sees no issue with letting people run around with guns and other explosives?)
• Glee actress found dead in lake
• Glass vial shortage could impact Coronavirus vaccine research
• Power Rangers who have died...
• School reopening risks
• The people who brought you child trafficking in the basement of a pizza parlor that doesn't have a basement now presents: Wayfair trafficking kids via over-priced furniture!
• Catholic church gets millions in tax money they didn't pay into, at least partially because they had to pay lawsuits for raping kids

Episode 350: Summer of Disease

Bart and Norma discuss Hamilton and Beetlejuice, 4th of July stuff, the summer spread of Covid, Home Depot has a rope racism problem, and the Rancid Mango gives another speech of idiocy!

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Show Notes:

• Hamilton on Disney+
• Beetlejuice on Broadway
• Ft. Hood soldier's body found
• Charlie Daniels passed away
• 4th of July stuff
• Summer Covid
• Gatherings and the disease
• Home Depot changes the way it sells rope
• Home Depot cofounder is a Trump supporter
• Boris Johnson's fiancee wants a ban on monkey labor
• Trump and the Central Park 5
• The Rancid Mango's speech at Mount Rushmore, critiqued
• Outsourcing rant

Episode 349: Yummy Yummy Sanitizer

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the American Rule, white privilege, some fringe group gets punked but they TOTALLY KNEW IT ALL ALONG, cults, and qualifications for becoming a magistrate!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_349.mp3

Show Notes:

• Bike rules, and asset forfeiture is bull$#%
• American Rule in attorney fees
• Legal Eagle speaks about SLAPP and the American Rule
• The NASCAR noose incident
• Kimmel white privilege speech
• John Bolton...yeah
• Trump gearing up to invalidate the November election
• Here comes the dust
• Trump is still a moron. We had to put in our reminder about his failed rally
• Far right group unhappy they got punked
• ...They're really unhappy Apparently they said the part they're supposed to keep silent?
• Lawmaker admits he didn't bother researching ectopic pregnancy when passing law mandating implantation of0 ectopic pregnancy when it's impossible
• Yet another encryption bill introduced by idiots who don't understand encryption
• Yummy hand sanitizer
• A story about crabs
• A talk about cults (well, one in particular...)
• Should Bart run for Magistrate?...

Episode 348: Apples to Arms

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the new Mac processor announcement, COVID status, Copaganda, and Trump's wonderfully disastrous rally!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_348.mp3

Show Notes:

• Apple is switching to ARM processors
• Steve Jobs: touchscreen laptops suck
• Processors used in the Microsoft Surface
• How's the weather?
• Into the Wild bus/van removed due to idiots trying to hike to it in the wilderness, some dying
• "Black Wall Street" in Tulsa
• COVID warning levels
• Trump's weak, pathetic rally
• Trump has a new favorite propaganda network (Sorry, Fox!)
• NY retirement homes
• "Copaganda" on Today, Explained
• Fruit causes near-evacuation
• Lincoln Project

Episode 347: After 30 Seasons, COPS is Gone With the Wind

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Mac updating, VP nominees, older movies with "hidden" racism, COPS is off the air, roofie-ing yourself with Aqua Dots, owning a piece of KITT, and squirrels!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_347.mp3

Show Notes:

• MacOS updates are fun
• Is the Orange Man leading through incompetence, dementia, or both?
• VP talk for 2020
• Can Obama be VP then become President again?
• Please don't steal a Senator for VP
• Social distancing in restaurants
• for NY, check forward.ny.gov
• Coronavirus shows macho leaders are weak leaders
• Gone with the Wind going bye bye (temporarily)
• These "southern" statues were erected during the civil rights movement, not after the Civil War
• COPS is off TV after 30+ years
• Gin, or hand sanitizer?
• Aqua Dots, the toy that doubles as a roofie
• You can get a 3-vial set of vehicle fluids from a screen-used KITT car
• JK Rowling and not being okay with transgender people
• Ball Wash
• Voretaq shares a squirrel story

Episode 346: Treasure Hunt!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss black lives matter, touches on racism, modern construction vs. the old days, how to properly extend a network, and the end of a real-life treasure hunt!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_346.mp3

Show Notes:

• "I'm a coffee pot"
• Flooring sample discussion
• Stores are starting to "reopen?"
• So THAT'S why my hands are peeling apart?!
• "Black lives matter"
• Holderness Family Podcast: Working on being a better ally (Black Lives Matter)
• Community redlining
• How dangerous is being a cop?
• How do Co-Ops work?
• Throwing things away...
• Old construction vs. modern wireless
• End of a treasure hunt

Episode 345: Webcam Shortages and Aunt Becky Goes to Prison

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss looting, rioting, and covid status, along with news of Full House's Aunt Becky pleading guilty to get out of a bigger sentence. Norma reviews a Darknet Diaries episode and Bart talks of black ice cream made from charcoal. Yum!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_345.mp3

Show Notes:

• Curfews, looting, rioting, etc.
• We're OPEN as a county now! The DISEASE IS GONE!
• Sean Hannity seems to understand his base of idiots is susceptible to the virus
• George Floyd protesters at White House drove Mr. Definitely Not Weak into a bunker
• House is slowly coming together. Or, at least, progress is being made
• We have a refrigerator that warns when the door is left open
• Full House's Aunt Becky offers to go to jail for a few months in deal for getting caught doing what most rich people don't get caught doing
• Norma recounts episode 66 of Darknet Diaries
• Who are the "real" looters?
• Webcam shortages spur knock-off brand sales and price gouging
• Black ice cream
• Jason Bateman and Ozark
• Remember the Hogan Family?
• Voretaq is working on his smart-home-hub setup
• We lack AC at this time...
• We talk about our new Internet connection

A Short Note

Taking a short rest because:
a) Recording fell on a holiday weekend
b) We're trying to get the house in order. It's like the Enterprise-A at the moment. Livable, but the damn turbolift isn't working...
c) We're tired, and the periodic heatwaves with lack of A/C isn't helping
d) We're not being paid

BUT we plan on coming back next week, so join us then!

Episode 343: MOVING TIME (Ready or Not)

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Elon Musk going alt-right, anti-pandemic means new surveillance for people by the government, dead people can't have money so neither will you, and we discuss the new house situation!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_343.mp3

Show Notes:

• We missed last week...but we explain why...
• First time recording from the NEW STUDIO
• Voretaq is not out of quarantine yet
• Bart wants to make a tech-helmet instead of using a mask
• Voretaq thinks a fan would work better
• If you didn't test for the disease, you wouldn't have any more disease found
• Elon Musk going alt-right with the red pill references? 
• Musk and his misogyny streak
• Mystery disease from Covid-19 in kids
• Australia/New Zealand measures to stop the plague
• Did you get a stimulus check for a dead person? You get to give it back!
• Government now can spy on your browsing history without a warrant
• KITTY BUTT
• It's been quite the week for moving!
• Adventures in moving, commence...
• Holiday memories
• Critique on the new home architecture
• Internet connection setup
• Raspberry Pi's and home automation
• Voretaq convinces Norma she wants a combination washer/dryer unit

Episode 342: Murder Hornets and Biden Accusations

Bart, Norma and Voretaq try to discuss news in a news-sparse week. Everything is about the virus or hornets! So we talk about masks, mask vending machines, quarantine reasons, and murder hornets! Along with some news about police shooting police and incompetent government checks.

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Show Notes:

• Automating setup of a program on the Mac (sort of...) with Automator
• Hypercard
• Hitler's descendents live in Long Island
• Lincoln saved by Booth
• The Pepcid cure
• Why Quarantine?
• Bill Maher on Covid...
• Bull semen in Red Bull
• Mask vending machines
• Murder hornets
• "Keep yourself healthy (so our costs will be low!)"
• Cop shoots cop in LA
• Biden accusation news
• House moving fun
• "Stimulus check"...what a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.
• Business bankruptcies 

Episode 341: Covid Spread, Software Testing

Bart, Norma and Voretaq (and some occasional additions from Norma's mom)  discuss some software testing, a skate park turned (accidentally?) into a dirt bike park, Covid spread and the effect on GOP voters (spoiler: more of them are dying in their Trumpy-states), and UV light kills germs AND you!

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Show Notes:

• Lizard tales
• Software Testing
• Especially Go(lang) testing
• Since we mentioned it, Ditch Diggers podcast
• Covid and pulse/Ox monitors for fingers
• Skate park filled with sand, now it's a dirt bike park!
• As older voters succumb to Coronavirus, the GOP loses votes for November
• CovidActNow.org
• Big companies manage to snatch bailout money (SURPRISE) and the Treasury is "threatening" that there will be "consequences" if they don't return it (yeah, right...)
• Let MAGA supporters inject bleach if they want...
• UV does kill germs. And your cells.
• Hand sanitizer burns. Surprised?
• Celebration of life needs more fire
• Home buying/selling fun...

Episode 340: Quaratine Masks

Bart, Norma and Voretaq continue lamenting weekly lowlights over quarantinis. We talk about masks, testing, and people we know getting ill. We also mention oil problems, why the clown in charge is orange, and stimulus eff-ups!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_340.mp3

Show Notes:

• Masks, masks, masks everywhere
• Cloth mask effectiveness
• NOTE don't actually use plastic bags as masks
• We have a coworker testing positive and someone related die from COVID
• Did Trump refuse WHO tests?
• Trump's head of virus response was fired from previous job...
• He wasn't a "team player"?
• Two proposed reasons Trump is orange
• One
• Two
• Charlie and the Racist Chocolate Factory
• Oil prices go boop
• Loans loaned to companies that didn't need it...
• Comic con and LGBTQ parade canceled
• Stimulus check eff-ups
• Try giving money to the PEOPLE
• Next week...mortgages...oil...OS/2 reborn...
• What does a house wear? 

Episode 339: Do You Want to Eat a Jellyfish?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss (Americentrically) eccentric foods, guerilla fruit tree grafting in NYC, the Tiger King, Trump being incompetent (as usual), and soon we'll have no post office because Amazon makes Trump feel bad!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_339.mp3

Show Notes:

• Food shopping in quarantine days
• Bart's aunt seems to be afraid of the plague
• What's the right amount of terrified?
• Microwaves don't work like that
• Preacher holds services, dies of virus
• Remote learning from the teacher's side
• Weird foods
• NYC activists graft fruit to trees on sidewalks
• ATV's on the roads
• Stimulus checks...maybe? Does anyone know what's going on thanks to communication from our fabulous government leaders?
• "Doctors" giving advice...don't inhale hydrogen peroxide, you idiot
• Please be careful insisting you're a "doctor" and calling during a quarantine out of the blue...
• Suing Fox News. Someday.
• Tiger King
• John Oliver followup to his long-ago coverage of Joe Exotic
• YouTube views up during quarantine, but pay is down for content creators
• Looking forward to Space Force
• Trump decided to put his idiot kid and in-law in charge of reopening America? Wonder if there's backlash...
• NRA: "Shooting people is ESSENTIAL for BUSINESS"
• Trump goes full dictator when governors give him the virtual finger; "YOU WILL RESPECT MY AUTHORI-TAY!"
• Republicans want to kill 600,000+ jobs and your ability to vote by mail... Because Amazon makes Trump cry

Episode 338: Zoom: Who Needs Privacy?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq continue to weather the COVID-19 quarantine with stories of Zoom security issues, NJ is asking for COBOL volunteers to fix the systems they couldn't bother to have fixed before now, MyPillow CEO and Trump suck-up running for public office, and Centralia is removing a (somewhat) famous highway!

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Show Notes:

• Quarantines are a new normal for now...
• Running out of quota on the podcast account sucks
• Tigers can get Coronavirus, apparently...
• Food distribution talk
• Fox News prepares for possible lawsuits
• Cruise ships searching for a place to dock...
• Voretaq's computer broke
• "We need COBOL volunteers" in NJ (yeah, right...)
• LGR talks Y2K
• Boeing 787's must be restarted before hitting 50 days uptime
• Zoom conferencing faces yet another problem
• Gender reveal party sparks Florida fire
• Dumbass in charge of MyPillow encouraged to run for office by human Cheeto
• We watched Star Trek: Picard, Bloodline, and Derry Girls
• ST:Picard discussion
• Centralia graffiti highway is going away
• Some insurers returning premiums?
• "Pro-life" pastor gives silly excuses for having services against quarantine orders
• More voters would hurt GOP
• Wisconsin voters hurt by court decision
• Next week: TIGER KING

Episode 337: Quarantine Days

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss stimulus relief, school during the days of Corona, Trump is still an incompetent twit, and Congress likes to partake in insider trading AND read your email.

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Show Notes:

• School's Out Forever! (At least in PA)
• 777 is a HOLY NUMBER
• Sunday School Dropouts podcast
• Alcohol stores and being "essential"
• AIDS discussion
• Uranus is leaking gas
• Pastor touts CoronaVirus as hoax against Trump, first to die in Virginia after telling Mardi Gras festival goers they're goin' to hell
• What is going on with the "relief checks?"
• What are the parts of speech?
• Javits Center is now a hospital
• Congressional insider trading used to be legal; here's the STOCK act meant to stop it
• Trump blames hospitals for equipment shortage, while shipping equipment overseas
• Congress uses the pandemic to hide their attempt to block encryption on the Internet, making it easier for criminals to get your information

Episode 336: Rise of the Plague and Theremin Theater!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Wegmans, the idiots in Congress are angry they can't enrich themselves because of those meddling Democrats, Cats: the Butthole cut, and Voretaq is making a theremin!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_336.mp3

Show Notes:

• New York is on "pause"
• There is a Wegman's in Brooklyn
• Why love Wegmans?
• Trump mishandled this and is still too stupid to understand he is mishandling this
• Dupont: Dark Waters
• Stimulus stalled. Surprised Congress is doing jack shit yet?
• This is pure America
• Trump kills Trump supporters
• Followup: someone in the US decided to try it. He's dead.
• 3D print a filter to save Coronavirus lives, get sued?
• Threats under Theranos patents...
• Cats: the Butthole Cut
• Percussive maintenance on Mars
• The Doom song (Invader Zim)
• You can't get in the hospital if you're sick...
• Voretaq is going to get some new lizards!
• Voretaq's been making a theremin!
• Clara Rockmore plays the theremin
• Apple: PLEASE STOP ABANDONING YOUR APPLICATIONS
• Will Apple introduce ARM-based Macs?

Episode 335: Hoarding and Gouging

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Coronavirus related headlines,  price gouging, saving those poor rich company owners and an Aussie family that accidentally bought more TP than they can use in years!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_335.mp3

Show Notes:

• We're not directly quarantined. Yet.
• Medical equipment, inspections, and regulations discussion
• Insurance. YAY
• Is the current response to the Coronavirus an overreaction?
• Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have (had?) Coronavirus
• School district helping kids get meals while schools is out
• Bart's Sam's Club adventure
• Trump's Euro-ban
• Trump tries stealing a possible vaccine for profit
• Capitalist in trouble for hoarding and gouging supplies
• Same capitalist donates stuff he's getting in trouble for having
• AT&T promised 7000 new jobs with the Trump tax cuts. They cut 23000.
• AT&T CEO pay rises to 32 MILLION as reward for cutting thousands of jobs after profiting from Trump tax cuts
• Australian family accidentally buys years of toilet paper
• Hose replacement on a sink...fun!
• Walking with a weight vest (I had 52.5 pounds in it at the time, I checked afterwards...)
• "Tele-learning" online with the shutdowns

Episode 334: Geofence Warrants

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss CA certificate validity, Seti@Home is closing down and the possibility of being accused of a crime just for being in an area at the wrong time thanks to your phone. Apologies for the bass thrum in the background...slightly different setup means the microphone picked up extra noise...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_334.mp3

Show Notes:

•  Excedrin has been discontinued for the time being...
• Melissa Benoist pregnant
• Gal Gadot "hid" pregancy during Wonder Woman shoot
• Medical insurance discussion
• Seti@Home closing down
• BOINC project
• Government and police use casting of net via geo-fencing to "catch" possible criminals

Episode 333: Coronavirus Makes People Dumb

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Coronavirus, jets with...stuff...in the fuel tanks, America is not the paragon of values it pretends to be, hospital bills and a Christian college recruiter is fired after racist high school lineup!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_333.mp3

Show Notes:

• Corona Virus - tracking map, again, for convenience
• Stupid people don't want their shrines/holy sites closed to contain the virus, so they lick things. Because...well, they're stupid.
• Stock market fun...how's your 401K doing with the Corona Plummet?
• News report performed with an accidental filter on FaceBook active
• Some Democrats drop from the race
• Washington, DC's non-statehood is rooted in racism
• AP story: Boeing 737's found to have debris in fuel tanks
• Another story following the debris story
• Followup to cars being hacked remotely; older story about a Jeep being hacked for WIRED journalist
• Windows 10 start menu live tiles may be going away
• Wikileaks' Julian Assange spied on while in foreign embassy by the US
• James Lipton passed away
• Flavor Flav fired from Public Enemy
• People are stupid, part II: Coronavirus; Chinese businesses suffer in NYC because of virus fears
• Norma talks about her father's last hospital bill
• Our local area has an actual drive-by! (Although the idiots were already caught)
• Oklahoma college recruiter fired after lining up students by skin color and hair texture