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