Episode 420: The Banana Man

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Joe Manchin's politics, things you need to own to be a lady, Emma Thorne's YouTube channel, and Kent Hovind's "dissertation", and a fond recollection of Ray Comfort (the Banana Man!)...

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Show Notes:

• Opening has a lot of crinkling as Norma is playing with things she ordered
• Planes and 5G problems
• Critical Drinker and Spider-Man
• Radiation effects
• We believe Joe Manchin is a terrible person
• Things to own TO BE A LADY
• Ray Comfort: Moron
• Emma Thorne YouTube channel
• Kent Hovind "dissertation"
• School TikTok problem
• Followup from last week: Verizon signed us up for their tracking program AGAIN

Episode 419: Biden Has a Storm Gun

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss celebrity deaths, Puppers training, Toyota is reminding customers that they don't matter, My Pillow CEO thinks rumored celebrity dating is what tarnishes his reputation and not his Trump boot-licking, and Alex Jones reminds us the Conservative movement is bat@#$ nutters!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_419.mp3

Show Notes:

• WORMS (for Racket the Bearded Dragon)
• Brief mention of computer backups
• Gum for Covid. Wear a mask instead.
• Michael Nesmith of the Monkees passes away
• ...among others, like Anne Rice and someone Norma can't remember...
• Covid spike in the area
• And more Covid
• Puppy has a diagnosis! (First day at puppy academy)
• Verizon is tracking users by default
• Puppy comes to visit the studio
• Toyota requiring customers to pay per month for their KEY FOB to remote start the car
• California hates guns, uses abortion strategy from Texas to hit gun-lovers
• Norma can't find her keys. Again.
• MyPillow fool sues because he was rumored to date an actress
• Trump loves lawsuits
• Alex Jones thinks Biden has a weather weapon causing tornadoes, ignoring the Jewish Space Lasers in orbit
• Also, the Texas powergrid was sabotaged by Biden in the big storm outage last year...
• Kardashian wants to be a lawyer and is one baby-step closer

Episode 418: Pro-Trump Parents Flee When Kid Arrested for Shooting Schoolmates

Bart and Norma discuss Dr Oz running for government in a state he doesn't live, parents of school shooter can't escape to Canada because they're Trump turnips that didn't vax, cop abuses power in school again, and gunshop owner shoots his employee in a whoopsie. Also, Better.com CEO fires hundreds over a Zoom call. Life is wonderful!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_418.mp3

Show Notes:

• Google Pizza game
• "Dr Oz" running for government <puke>
• Reddit talks about Oz
• The latest publicized school shooting is from such a Trumpy family that the escapades just kept going
• 11-year-old girl had school police use excessive force, officer finally resigns after a year or two...
• Guess she shouldn't have taken "too much" milk...
• 21 Chump Street
• Should the school be held liable? Also, NANNY STATE, GOVERNMENT OVERREACH...oh, and you should have searched his bag and person for liquids in oversized containers, nail clippers, AK-47s...the usual...
• Scamming via "Geek Squad"
• Nancy Mace thinks vaccines are terrible, you shouldn't get the Covid vaccine, natural immunity all the way, but you should definitely get the Covid vaccine...that's your GOP Congressional rep, SC!
• His dad saw him win
• Sorry about your face, bro, it was just a prank...uh...I fear for my life?...
• Devin Nunes' Cow does happy dance
• So punchable-face Tucker Carlson sent thank-you to Hunter Biden for endorsing his kid to alma mater college? What happened to the Hunter Biden conspiracies, Tucker?
• Covid scare
• Better.Com CEO fires 900 people via Zoom (don't worry, he has million dollar bonuses, so the CEO will be okay, despite how hard it is for him to fire people. Via Zoom.) Afterwards, he accused the ex-employees of stealing time by working only 2 hours a day?

Episode 417: She Is So AMERICAN!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Ghostbusters, the new Covid variant making the rounds, and an American shoots herself in the cooch! So American you'd think it's July 4th!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_417.mp3

Show Notes:

• The newest FaceTime interface sucks
• Tamaqua hazing incident followup...board president unhappy people are talking about sex-abuse rumors
• Ghostbusters III: Hellbent
• Sondheim tribute
• Puppy wants to get on the show
• FaceBook tells LAPD to stop using their platform the way FaceBook uses their platform. And China. And Russia. And stalkers. And ad companies. And...
• So American! Woman shoots self accidentally in the crotch
• Final episode of Supergirl on the CW streamed...
• Death row inmate dies of cancer instead of botched execution attempt
• New COVID variant, Omicron, spreading, and skipping Greek letters causes outrage among idiots
• Bioweapons, Covid, Fauci, and outraged GOP congressmorons
• Yes, there was a weird Coronavirus-romance novel "Kissing the Coronavirus"

Episode 416: Almost a Holiday

Bart and Norma discuss a unique photographer, attending NYC "big events", Rittenhouse was found not guilty of murder, and prison issues

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_416.mp3.mp3

Show Notes:

• Moron in Congress pretends to know what Attack on Titan is while attacking his coworkers in "subtle" threats
• Times Square on New Year's Eve
• Rittenhouse freed
• Christmas ("Holiday") parade murders in Wisconsin
• What are prisons for?
• Eric Smith...toddler-murdering child...
• Man with proof of voter fraud was right, because it was him
• Juergen Teller, photographer

Geeking After Dark Episode 415: Cow Toots, Tamaqua, and Other Terrible Things

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Zillow and their home Zestimate failure, civil forfeiture is a crock of poo, and cow poo ruins the planet

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_415.mp3

Show Notes:

• Bart upgraded MacOS to 12.0.1...what broke?
• 2021's Sexiest Man Alive
• When murderbugs attack
• Norma and "Friends"
• Red Notice has a huge Netflix opening
• Zillow "reiterates" the inaccuracy of their home "Zestimate"
• Southwest Airlines pilot felt the need to declare his bigotry
• Texas power idiocy
• Civil Forfeiture 
• Cow farts
• Tamaqua, PA school issues revisited
• Jordan Klepper

Episode 414: Ted Cruz: Birdbrain

Bart and Norma discuss pretty spiders, magic water, a school in our state is cuckoo bananas, and Ted Cruz just won't shut the @#$% up

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_414.mp3 

Show Notes:

• Note: Dean Stockwell, RIP. Didn't discover until after recording.
• UPS makes record profit, but is increasing prices
• Pretty spiders invade the who-cares-about-Georgia state
• Neat...a phase of water that affects our magnetic field on Earth
• School known for anti-mask sentiment now rumored to have sexual assault committed by football team, won't be playing A GAME left in their schedule as punishment?
• Why yes, celebrate your "win" for legalizing more hazardous form of food prep by drinking that product and pretending you didn't get sick because of it...
• Ted Cruz vs Big Bird and Seth MacFarlane
• YOU'RE NOT CUTTING MY GRASS!
• But she's not too stupid to go to jail, apparently

Episode 413: Trump Steals Mastodon

Bart and Norma discuss supply chain issues, swords of Atlantis, don't mess with Alec Baldwin, Trump once again steals things (unethical behavior? Trump?! Say it ain't so...), Rolling Stone reveals where stupid MAGAt's got their nutso ideas about not getting in trouble for an insurrection, and the last season of Supergirl has terrible writing...

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_413.mp3

Show Notes:

• Conspiracy theories and Laundrie
• Sword found in Mediterranean
• Hospital drug shortages and supply chain discussion
• Alec Baldwin shoots someone with a PROP gun
• Trump company steals open-source Twitter-work-alike for his "Truth" social network; but really, do you expect him NOT to steal other people's work?
• So...it appears the nuttier portions of Congress and the Trump administration coordinated and had meetings with the Jan 6 rioters before the attempted overthrow?
• Dumbass in Texas offers bounty on election fraud convictions, ends up with his first payment going to a Democrat reporting a now-convicted Republican of election voting fraud (SURPRISE!)
• Fauci, NIH, dogs, vaccines, they think this is more significant than it is
• Started the new Supergirl season and wonder why the writers are pulled from high school...the dialog is TERRIBLE
• If you're on a sitcom, don't go upstairs

Episode 412: In the UK, Only the UK Can Cam You

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss vaccines, "Hackerman" journalist knows how to use view source on a web page and the governor wants to throw him in jail for using view source, a British judge says you shouldn't spy on neighbors with a web cam, and wealth as a pile of rice!

Direct Download:  https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_412.mp3

Show Notes:

• Colin Powell died of Covid (plus cancer)
• Childhood nicknames
• Squid Game
• NBA stars indicted on insurance fraud
• How vaccines work; they're not miracles
• Governor thinks "view source" makes you a hacker
• Spying on the neighbor?
• I'm not doing anything to our network
• PiHole
• Richest 10% owns 89% of stock!
• Wealth as rice
• Apple announces new toys
• SEPTA public rape
• Boat discussion - Sailing Millennial Falcon

Episode 411: AT&T Loves the OAN

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the OAN network funding, Squid Game, selective service registration, and plane crashes into a neighborhood...also, how do people keep hitting a huge rock that's not even in the road or parking lot?!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geedking_After_Dark_Episode_411.mp3

Show Notes:

• Slack and API access...WHY SO HARD
• The ultrawealthy avoid taxes by taking loans against their wealth
• Examining the Carefully Crafted Images of Billionaires
• Shatner is going into space, reluctantly bringing him back too
• Mr. Scott beat Kirk into space by a significant amount of time
• The coffee on the airline story
• OAN, the voice of the right, of Qanon, Conservatives and conspiracy theorists, is a shadow arm of AT&T
• Some people are not happy about AT&T funding right-wing wackadoos
• Covid rates rising in 5 states
• School being sued for not following mandates
• Plane crash
• Jon Kent, son of Lois and Clark Kent, causes a sexuality stir
• Selective Service discussion
• Discussion: must be getting "back to normal" now that we have school shootings again
• Note that in editing, I discovered what sounds like a gunshot in the recording...I did NOT edit that in. I don't even know where it came from, and don't recall it occurring while recording...
• Squid Game!
• Guy killed by bystanders after he tried crashing into a store

Episode 410: FaceBook's Down and I'm Not Sad About It

Bart, Norma and Voretaq focused on just a couple items...one, rich people once again encounter a leak with details on their legal loopholes, and two, FaceBook disappeared from the Internet!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_410.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback: Britney, skilled nursing COVID vaccines, and movie making documentaries
• FaceBook died. So sad.
• Pandora Papers leak
• Andrew Yang runs from the Democratic party

Episode 409: Book Bans by Boneheads

Bart and Norma discuss the role of teachers vs. practical role of teachers, book bans, and fascists in data leak have subpoenas exposed!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_409.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma has cat problems
• Big Sur 11.6 was released awhile ago, relatively speaking...UPDATE ALREADY
• Google's 23rd birthday...
• BOOK BANS!
• York, PA schools decide maybe they shouldn't ban books like a bunch of #@$^ morons
• The role of teachers
• Stephen King, On Writing
• Ted Cruz is still a moron, this time on racist voting restrictions
• John Oliver on voting
• Racists and fascists exposed in Epik registrar data breach...overlap with Trump supporters is utterly baffling...
• R Kelly found guilty
• Canada and passports

Episode 408: Try Area 15

Bart and Norma discuss FaceBook and Conservative whining, Omega Mart at Area 15 in Nevada, Slab City in California, and Anti-Maskers are the latest iteration of Anti-Seatbelters!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_408.mp3

Show Notes:

• FaceBook loves shoving pseudo-Nazi GOP-centric posts despite GOP groups are "blocked from expressing themselves on social media"
• Starship Equinox
• Anti Maskers and Anti Seatbelters
• The word is apocryphal
• Area 15/Omega Mart
• Theranos case
• ExpressVPN CIO admits to hacking phones and computers for foreign governments
• I mentioned the multiple news stations reading the same script; it was a news story about the Sinclair media cartel pushing an agenda of "fake news" to their affiliate stations. Here's that story and video.
• Slab City
• Concrete City in PA

Episode 407: Update Your Apple Devices

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss QAnon, Texas is still stupid, abortions, loss of information because of Adobe Flash, and the politics of (Covid) vaccination. Also, we now have the newest kitchen Covid cure: BETADINE! Also, some Murder, She Wrote.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_407.mp3 

Show Notes:

• Update your iOS and MacOS devices
• What is QAnon?
• Texas outlaws social media kicking people for politics because idiots cheer for idiotic things
• Abortion discussion
• News footage lost to Flash format
• Disparity in Trump v. Biden states shows Covid vaccinations are political, not just idiotic, issue
• Betadine is the new Ivermectin

Episode 406: Spreadnecks

Bart and Norma discuss a Nirvana lawsuit, naked bike rides (is that a banana-seat?), the effects of the Sturgis Spreadneck Rally (POOR KID ROCK!), and remote bricking of your Samsung TV!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_406.mp3

Show Notes:

• Nirvana sued by a baby chasing money, decades after being photographed as a baby chasing money
• Naked Bike Ride
• OnlyFans reverses course on sex workers
• Little Nas X points out disingenuous complaints about blood paints
• Sturgis Spreadnecks (Spreadnecks! My new favorite term!)
• Kid Rock's band gets COVID...OH NO!
• What was left behind in Afghanistan?
• Inequality
• Samsung remotely bricks stolen televisions

Episode 405: Ivermectin Fever!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Jeopardy! hosts, OnlyFans, hospital prices and morons who may have COVID but not worms!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_405.mp3

Show Notes:

• Henri storms through but we are fine
• Norma and I somehow trigger earthquakes when in bathrooms
• Jeopardy! host leaves because derp
• Mayim Bialik and vaccinations
• OnlyFans morality clause issues
• Private fire-fighting groups...more common than most think
• Hospital prices and insurance are bat#$% insane
• They won't get the shot, but will lick livestock de-wormer
• Biomass on Earth as a graphic

Episode 404: ERROR: Voretaq Not Found

Bart and Norma discuss reboots, filtering advertising crap using a PiHole, transgender student issues and there's been some kind of a middle east war going on?

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_404.mp3

Show Notes:

• What is PiHole?
• Fantasy Island re-reboot
• CSI: Vegas
• Hear about the Afghanistan mess?
• Teacher resigns because trans students just make her bubble head explode
• Transgender sports, politics, etc.
• Church kicks out masked attendees
• Trillions spend on war
• T-Mobile data breach
• My Pillow Moron blames the anti-fa's for his cyber symposium stupidity

Episode 403: A Bad Apple Computer

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss rising airline violence, Apple wants to check your phone for child pornography, trans people in space, and expensive cat toilets! What more could you want from episode 403?!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_403.mp3

Show Notes:

• Rise in airline violence
• Whiny "It's my right!" morons
• Lambda variant spread
• Apple is going to search for your porn, just to make sure it's legal porn...but it's totally private and secure and accurate, we promise!
• There are way too many articles on this subject right now to list perspectives here. Feel free to Google it...
• Australian pornography laws
• Norma wants a super expensive box for cat poop
• Roadwork
• Aliens' Lambert was trans
• Matt Damon on why movies aren't made for people anymore
• Markie Post passed

Episode 402: No Vaccine, No Sympathy

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a Black Widow lawsuit, racism in movie casting, SPAM!, please don't eat the cow de-wormer, and Amnesty International releases a kit to check for malware on your phone!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_402.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma refuses to sort things from a year ago...in the living room...in boxes...piled up...
• Headless body dumped, died of stab wounds?
• Police beat man with gun, choke him, another office shrugs it off as it happens?
• County coroner (former), quit when allegedly trying to meet a teen for sex, now arrested for theft
• Black Widow Vs Disney lawsuit
• Almost didn't have Will Smith in Independence Day
• Spam museum
• MAGA moron train keeps chugging along: not-vaccinated and Covid-positive woman loses grandmother (who was vaccinated), fiancé, and mother within days of each other to Covid
• Give.org - Check the charity before donating
• Tractor Supply pleads with customers to stop eating cow de-wormer
• Threatened for a short username; endless pizza deliveries
• Amnesty International's tool for checking your phone for Pegasus malware

Episode 401: AMERICA! EFF YEAH!

Bart and Norma discuss casting choices in movies, the Olympics have started, and Covid is on the climb!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_401.mp3

Show Notes:

• Shooting near a park causes issues
• AMERICA! F^#$ YEAH! <- That's the song I couldn't remember the source of
• Actors and characters with characteristics vs. casting choices
• Sign language discussion
• Toyota subscription to "features" for something we spend 5-figures to purchase
• Buying a car from the manufacturer?
• Women in Olympic history, and Covid cases spike at the Olympics!
• US Flag Code
• Axios Coronavirus graph/article
• A US state capitol removed a KKK statue. Klan leader. Confederate. WHY WAS THIS IN A US CAPITOL?

Episode 400: Masks and Monster Energy

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a phantom Verizon payment, invasive goldfish, Haiti's leader is killed by a Florida Man, Frito-Lay's workforce strike, and the cost of visiting Jurassic Park! All in EPISODE 400!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_400.mp3

Show Notes:

• Who paid on our bill? Not that we're complaining
• We discuss cell plans
• Verizon, feel free to sponsor us
• Invasive goldfish
• Theater owners blame Disney for Black Widow dropoff, not the crappy experience of the theater
• The Alamo showing Jaws
• Olympic sex beds
• Red vs Blue states divide vaccination rates
• Haiti President killed by...A FLORIDA MAN
• MASKS ARE FOR SATANISM
• Truth of the Kool-Aid day?
• Frito-Lay problems
• Employee Appreciation Day = $78/hr
• Cost of visiting Jurassic Park
• Dual-enrollment credits...bullshit system?
• Stimulus cost vs. military budget
• Bezos cash as rice
• Monster shortage due to aluminum and caffeine shortage!?

Episode 399: Bart Was Right, They Was Wrong, Cheerleader Won

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss The Unvaxxed, Bradford County has problems with officials ending up in court, Tomi Lahren defends Caitlyn Jenner despite speaking out against transgendered people, Github is navigating a legal and ethical gray area, and Bart was right about the outcome of a court case for a cheerleader who wasn't allowed to cheer!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_399.mp3

Show Notes:

• CPAP recall fun
• The unvaccinated
• Puppy is being a pain
• Bradford county coroner (and also the DA) have issues
• Jenner gets harassed by CPAC attendees, happy when "Nazi Barbie" Lahren defends her despite Lahren's previous anti-trans statements
• Cosby free, Rumsfeld dead
• Britney Spears' conservatorship
• PA cheerleader wins supreme court case against school
• Github Copilot controversy
• Koko couldn't speak

Week of July 4th: No Episode

 No episode this week!

Nothing bad happened. It's just been a long holiday week, a cohost wasn't available, and I (Bart) was working on a project that was actually making some progress. After weighing the options and remembering that the show wasn't sponsored, I (again, Bart) made the decision to take a night off from the podcast.

We plan to return next week with episode 399!

Have a great week!

Episode 398: Peloton's Most Expensive Clothing Racks

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss bribing people to do the minimum amount of decency, software magnate and possible murderer found dead, Florida is being Florida, and Peloton continues acting like a luxury brand in the most luxury brand way possible!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_398.mp3

Show Notes:

• "Joints for Jabs" program
• Exorcism on aisle four
• John McAfee found dead in prison cell after extradition to the US was okay'd
• Florida starts thought police program against higher education
• Peloton sells $4K bricks unless you also subscribe to their monthly service
• Spanking doesn't work
• Lil' Nas X is in the headlines again
• Western Digital MyBook drives remotely wiped by hackers; WD says solution is to unplug them from the network
• Paul Manafort and the Ukraine...
• Moron rapes woman, 14 years later submits DNA to family tree sites and is caught by police for cold case rape

Episode 397:There Can Be Only One (Independence Day)

There were some tech issues (not my fault this time!) (Okay, the weird scratchy noise against the mic was my fault...but not the issues that I'm referring to) so Bart isn't keeping tight notes on this one. Next week the notes and links should be properly set, but this week,...I don't get paid promotion or large enough following to worry about this...

The show is only Bart this time, and he talks about ride sharing sting operations, Texans losing control of their thermostats because apparently they can't read, and the GOP pretends that making a holiday out of Juneteenth is too confusing for people and definitely not because they're bigoted trash. Have a great week!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_397.mp3

Episode 396: Taxes for the One Percent

Bart, Jameson (the pupper) and Voretaq discuss burying the homeless and indigent in NYC, a woman tests school security without telling them, yet another Republican moron asks an innocent WTF-worthy question about moving Earth's orbit, and we review some tricky tax tricks for the wealthy!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_396.mp3

Show Notes:

• Jameson did something not nice and we don't know why...
• Taking care of old people (feedback)
• Homeless, indigent, unwanted, etc. are buried...somewhere...in NYC
• Woman poses as 13 year old girl to "test" school security...almost got away with it, except for video she posted and suspicious teacher at the end of the day...
• An idiot asks if the orbit of the moon or Earth could be altered to fix climate change
• "Oh look rich people don't pay much in taxes AT ALL..."
• An explanation of some of the "tax tricks" used by the ultra-wealthy
• Voretaq hates Python because it won't open an SSL connection (ssl 'module' object has no attribute 'SSLContext')

Episode 395: Pupdate!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the bobcat that wasn't, Pride Month shilling, citizenship, and the news of Stack Overflow purchased for over a billion dollars. Yeah, a BILLION. And we have a pupdate on our newest family member!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_395.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma: Poop Whisperer
• Pupdate
• "Bobcat" attack in PA school
• School shooting training...a waste? Discussion
• Jumping from cars? (Funny skit)
• Nerf gun that wasn't a Nerf gun
• Companies love PRIDE money, but not people associated with PRIDE
• Burger King vs Chick-Fil-A
• Citizenship
• Stimulus
• Stack Overflow purchased for 1.8 BILLION dollars
• From the desk of a TOTAL LOSER

Episode 394: Guest Puppy Invasion

Bart and Norma introduce the new Doberman/hound rescue puppers with the weird name Jameson, supply chain woes, the GOP supports replacing a non-Trump-supporter with a candidate that impregnated a 14 year old when he was 18, NERF at home leads to no school for a student over Zoom, and the CDC doesn't seem to know how to properly incentivize morons!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_394.mp3

Show Notes:

• Puppy visits the office while recording
• Few cars in the lots lately (yes, most likely due to the chip shortage issue in the supply chains)
• Mentioned Jupiter's Legacy on Netflix a few times
• Canadian wood tariffs and construction costs
• Anthony Bouchard, potential Liz Cheney GOP replacement, knocked up a 14 year old girl when he was 18, married her to avoid statutory rape charges, divorced her when she aged enough, she killed herself, the kid is in jail on sex charges, and he thinks it's some romance story...and the GOP likes this guy (surprise!)
• That Bouchard story with a bit of sassy
• Suicide rates in teens
• Naomi Osaka drops out of tournament rather than face media hounding
• Kid had a NERF gun over Zoom...so the school called the police
• CDC relaxation of mask requirements was a failed attempt to encourage vaccinations
• Principal escorted away from graduation after speech explaining he's not voluntarily quitting, but was fired because the school board are morons
• -> Principal's speech on YouTube
• "We've reached cruising altitude, time to strip and watch porn..."

Episode 393: Silver Spoonies, Far Right Loonies

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Bloomsburg University ridding itself of Greek life, Pharma execs pretend they didn't mean to make fun of "pillbillies", and Ricky Schroder is yet another painful reminder that our childhood heroes aren't necessarily worth meeting!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_393.mp3

Show Notes:

• Chinese rocket debris made Earthfall
• Bloomsburg U: no more Greek life
• Gas shortage fun
• Kentucky blue people
• Big pharma execs' emails discuss "Pillbillies" of Virginia
• Ricky Schroder harasses Costco employee, shows his far-right nuttery views
• DISAPPOINTED!
• The pipeline shutdown was related to BILLING, not the functionality
• Self-host your @#$%
• Attack of the ants

Episode 392: Cancel Culture Confusion

Quite possibly more offensive than our usual episodes; we talk about the Bradford County DA quitting after his arrest and guilty plea to raping/assaulting several women and discuss some "cancel culture" confusion!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_392.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma won a gift card
• More about the Gates
• The Chad Salsman, Bradford County DA, saga
• Tik-Tok of OZ
• Alabama and the southern rebels: still WTF
• Lindsay Ellis' CANCELLED video "Mask Off"

Episode 391: Basecamp or Ground Zero

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the explosion (implosion?) of Basecamp, a tech company run by rockstars that apparently shone too bright. No politics here, just plain of WTF! We also discuss a right-to-repair editorial in the WSJ and the totems of NYC! It's a long episode, so buckle in and hold on to your butts!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_391.mp3

Show Notes:

• Five inch or eight inch floppies?
• What did you learn to type on?
• The GIANT MOnSter 6502 circuit
• Commander X16
• Joy of oral surgery
• Local school is in the news...a senior trip to remember
• Bill and Melinda divorce
• Supreme Court rape case
• PA PPE NDA issue
• Jeld-Wen must sell Towanda plant
• Kevin Spacey accuser must reveal identity
• Twitter response to WSJ article on right to repair
• The article from WSJ in question
• BASECAMP. The start of it all
• The reveal of the Basecamp laundry
• Inside the all-hands meeting
• Totems of NYC

Episode 390: The Mindset of...

Bart and Norma discuss the (American) Conservative mindset, drought in the west and the effect on farming, India's COVID problem, Geico has a data breach, and the UK post office kept sending innocent employees to jail because...why?

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Show Notes:

• TV series on DVD
• Climate fun
• Conservative mindset
• Hypocrisy...*sigh*
• The Boys' Stormfront (character) quote: "People love what I have to say. They believe in it. They just don't like the word "Nazi", that's all."
• DC Statehood
• Western megadrought and farming
• India has a COVID problem
• Homemade Wanderlust can't smell anymore...
• Geico breach
• Post office (UK) sends people to jail for crimes they (possibly knew they) didn't commit

Episode 389: Where Is Pizza Hut!?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the disappearance of Pizza Hut, the FBI breaks into company computers for national safety and public good (and definitely nothing suspicious), Norma searches for gnomes and Florida Conservatives look for children's yahoos in girl's sports!

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Show Notes:

• Norma bought me MEAT
• I didn't cut out, YOU cut out
• We went to a place
• Beet eggs, properly made, are too sugary...whoops
• Pizza Hut disappearing
• Pizza Hut buildings in the wild
• Also a Twitter account
• FBI breaking into websites to "save" them
• ...which isn't suspicious at all...
• Stephen King film festival
• Gnome Named Gnorm
• Engendered backpacks and bathrooms
• Florida Conservatives want to check your kids' cooch
• Tesla has an impossible crash
• Richard Stallman is back to the FSF
• Cars monitoring your driving...or the manufacturer monitoring...well, someone's probably watching
• Mentioned: bird poop = cocaine (excuse for cop to harass someone)

Episode 388: Handouts and Ignorance

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss "Free Guvmint' Money", dead bodies, "living wages", and Snape is a Potter? Oh, and apprentice contract killing. And Voretaq may have been replaced by an android.

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Show Notes:

• Bugs
• Government "handouts" are going to mostly working people?...
• ...like Walmart, McDonalds employees?
• Local restaurant controversy of sorts
• Tips, wages, etc...
• Keep daylight savings in PA?
• "You're on bath salts, 'Arry!"
• My Pillow pro-Trump crony thinks there's an anti-Trump conspiracy keeping him off Fox News, definitely not lies and conspiracy theories and lawsuits and not wanting someone off the rocker spouting lies and conspiracy theories and adding more lawsuit ammunition on their shows...
• Matt Gaetz is...jaw droppingly WTF
• "Taser taser taser..." is the new "I fear for my life"?
• Dried squid, and matcha tiramisu KitKat...
• Talking Trump out of a Gaetz pardon...

Episode 387: Varsity Sues

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the National Deficit, robbing banks on bikes (the robber, not the bank), trusting the government, and a cheerleader goes to the Supreme Court to defend her right to say "f*ck the school!" after not making a varsity team and being booted from cheerleading completely!

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Show Notes:

• Epoch Times - crazy crap for crazy Conservatives
• the National Deficit with John Oliver
• Who owns our debt?
• Debt by the dollar
• Taxes stuffs
• Bank robbery on a motorized bicycle
• Cop in our area gets suspended for being a racist bigot...in uniform...while working...
• Google angers US or ally spies playing with software bugs
• NSA weakened a crypto standard
• Teen gets dropped from cheer team for going on short tirade, going to Supreme Court
• Oracle vs. Google: Court sort of found for Google?
• Amazon fired people they didn't like talking too much about problems

Episode 386: Satanic Shoes

Bart and Norma discuss the protection afforded to those with social justice disorders, Amazon declares war on government criticism of Amazon, and MSCHF is...well, we're not sure what they are.

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Show Notes:

• Blood butt testing
• Gift card scam
• Covid and game shows
• Chris Hardwick, Depp, Heard, and "canceling" 
• Reddit and their own politics problem (subreddits went dark, pedophelia, the usual...)
• Amazon isn't happy with US representatives...
• Satan shoes...Nike unhappy
• MSCHF, the art collective of viral WTF-ery
• Virginia Beach shooting
• Virtue signaling is such a PITA to hear

Episode 385: Meow Meow Skin Graft

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss weird Trump Buddha statues, scammers and scambaiting, more on the G4 cube and a poop analysis startup that angered the wrong folks! 

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Show Notes:

• Norma decided she didn't need her knee
• She needed her own crutches because Dude and Bart are too tall for their old crutches to work
• Trump statues
• Scam calls and scam mails
• Kitboga scambaiting
• G4 Cube on EBay admiration
• Like Theranos, only for poop...uBiome!
• Shooting in Colorado (surprise...)
• Texas Roadhouse founder commits suicide
• There's a chip production problem
• Republicans vote to approve of abusing women
• Law enforcement and abuse study
• Another Covid breakout
• Axe throwing venue...

Episode 384: Canceled?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss cancel culture, nostalgia computing, and ignorance of the law as a defense among other topics on this episode of GAD!

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Show Notes:

• Food in NYC
• Pepe LePew "cancelled"
• Christians LOVE "cancel culture" (they invented it!) unless they feel criticized...
• Was Jesus big on humiliation? I don't remember him being big on humiliating people...
• Bunny with(out) boobs leave morons something to whine about
• Vaccine supply problems
• Chesapeake settlement announced
• Are you the rich friend...
• Bart really really wants to get an Apple G4 Cube in really good shape...
• Woman accused of bullying daughter's cheerleader rivals with "deep fakes" (NO THEY'RE NOT)
• Ignorance of the law is actually a defense sometimes...
• Amazon dares to choose what they sell on their platform
• "Hail to the technoking, baby!"

Episode 383: A Short Microphone Test

Voretaq had work trouble, Norma was on the road most of the day, so Bart is recording a quick and short episode to test out some new equipment and see how it sounds while delivering feedback of the non-microphone kind...

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Show Notes:

• Testing a lavalier microphone...how does it sound?
• Laws are confusing
• New breakfast pizza
• Reading a bill

Episode 382: Potatoes without P's

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss potato wiener branding, the buck that stops with the intern, and Rand Paul is very worried about more than just potatoes classifying their wieners!

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Show Notes:

• Discussions of traffic and driving
• Cities to live in
• Potato gets a gender rebrand
• Dr. Seuss controversy over reading across America day and blah blah
• Solar Winds CEO: The Intern Did It. Damn Interns...
• Rand Paul confirms he's an idiot
• M1 Macs have problems
• Republican CPAC convention doesn't mind their Nazi imagery used for stage design

Episode 381: Texas Tarnation

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Texas, the government's role in services to citizens, and share some stories of candles, cancer, and a hate for Linux!

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Show Notes:

• Cuomo coverup?
• Deadpool anniversary special
• Texas...is run by idiots
• Trump had some Supreme Court losses
• 8-Bit Guy
• What is the government's obligation to the tax-paying public?
• Candle story
• Cancer story
• Voretaq hates Linux

Episode 380: Road Trip Recording

Voretaq calls in from his mobile command center (his car) while Norma and Bart record on a new computer system, so it's interesting recording challenges all around! Ever hear of the school STAR program? Are SRO's in schools effective? Is it a bad idea to pass cars on the right? All this and a discussion of Malcolm Gladwell's book Talking to Strangers!

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Show Notes:

• Zoom calls
• Norma recalls her first teaching times
• Vaccine accessibility
• Young Jeopardy! champion dies of surgery complications
• Trump acquitted. Again.
• Criminal Minds discussion
• Revisit the Florida story about the water hacker
• Buffalo NY police will work with bounty hunters to ignore your rights
• Discussion: SROs and S.T.A.R. program
• Don't put glue on your scalp or face
• Don't run over people
• Weird weather
• Reference to Reality Winner
• Malcolm Gladwell: Talking to Strangers

Episode 379: Questionable Judgement

Bart and Norma discuss maternity leave, poverty, bird poop cocaine, truth default, and it's a bad idea to leave industrial controls open to the Internet!

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Show Notes:

• Another celeb death
• Treadmill desks
• The cat, Mongo, is being weird
• Walking vs driving to an appointment
• Silos in organizations
• Federal employees have maternity leave?
• Racket has a snack break
• Universal Basic Income
• Norma's poverty map
• Bird poop arrest
• Truth Default Theory
• "Punishing a slave"
• "Hacker" alters water chemistry in a Florida town

Episode 378: Jewish Space Lasers

A more remote show than usual! Norma is in another city, joining a conference call with Bart and Voretaq! We discuss bearded dragon chefs, the passing of Screech Powers, Jewish space lasers, and stock market madness!

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Show Notes:

• Yes, Facetime can conference call
• "Flexible teaching" protocol
• Chef Lenny the Beardie cookbook
• Dustin Diamond passed away
• The legacy of Screech and the gang
• Compromise. Democrats shouldn't. 
• JEWISH SPACE LASERS
• Former Q-Anon Conservative says "sorry" to Anderson Cooper...guess he doesn't eat babies?
• Australians are venomous
• Hedge fund fun
• fractional share information
• Hotel TV programs
• Vaccine talk

Episode 377: A New Era Dawns

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the perks of being the President, Larry King and Delenn have passed away, the government (well, law enforcement) are getting around having to find a pesky warrant to track your whereabouts, and Cauliflower isn't a food substitute. Don't care if you think otherwise.

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Show Notes:

• New President, new normal, back to the old ways for the GOP
• Presidential perks from the position
• VORETAQ GETS A VISITOR definitely not a mugger
• Pillowguy sheets...overpriced fascist crap?
• Larry King RIP
• Delenn died!
• Who needs a warrant to track you?
• Cauliflower isn't a proper food substitute
• Jojo Siwa comes out
• Harriet Tubman on the $20

Episode 376: The Art of the Steal

Bart and Norma discuss a winery light display, Meghan McCain decides women should have maternity leave (now that she experienced problems), Trump may or may not be stealing White House art, Hot Pockets recall asks if you'd like some glass with your lava, and My Pillow guy is experiencing problems because he just loves the Trump too darn much!

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Show Notes:

• Light display trip at the winery
• Greta Thunberg to be on Stamp
• Meghan McCain changes her mind on a subject once SHE had to go through it
• Conservative brain, liberal brain
• Black market vaccines
• The Art of the Steal: We Swear We're Not Stealing White House Stuff Edition
• Github fires Jewish employee for stating concern for other employees in DC area because of rioting Nazis, then walks back on firing because there were Trump-supported Nazis rioting in DC
• Hot Pockets recalled because of glass, plastic, not because of lava
• MyPillow Mike Lindell getting "cancelled" by vendors; snowflakes complain
• Trump anti-education group issues racist report on MLK day