Episode 463: Elon Outsources CEO Work

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Trump's latest attempts to stay relevant and out of jail, Congress's latest attempt to pretend they care about Trump's crimes, Elon Musk proves that being CEO doesn't mean you're a genius, and healthcare is still a mess! Oh, and advent calendars can get REALLY REALLY expensive...

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Show Notes:

• They're jerks
• Trump's (stolen) NFTs
• Trump (scam) bucks
• GIANT aquarium in a hotel shatters. Really, really big aquarium.
• UFO spotting increases?
• Trump/Jan 6th committee hearing
• Elon Musk, very much genius CEO, uses Twitter polls to dictate his decisions, and when results don't match what he wants, he changes the rules...
• Musk donated to...Musk?
• Discussion about pensions (public school)
• Weinstein's idiotic defense
• Holiday coming up...no show next week
• A list of expensive advent calendars
• Another list of...WTF?

Episode 462: Whelan and Dealing

Bart and Norma discuss a prisoner exchange, a followup to last week's killbot story and the Walker senate race!

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Show Notes:

• Whelan brother reacts to Trump pretend-to-care statements
• Smores
• Loud kitty
• San Francisco killbot update
• Killbots have been used before by police...
• Schools united (or at least 3 colleges have)
• Elon gets booed with Chappelle on stage
• Walker editorial

Episode 461: Deploying Killbots

Bart and Voretaq (and later Norma) discuss killer robots for police departments, stealing Covid funds, Brenden Fraser, noisy hospital equipment, Pooty-bear's ongoing war in Ukraine, and the Pentagon seems to have misplaced a few trillion dollars in their military-grade sofas!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_461.mp3

Show Notes:

• So many episodes...
• Police killbots
• Covid funds hack...China stole it this time?
• Princess Di jewelry in the news
• Brenden Fraser comeback performance
• Oxygen machine shut off by hospital patient when her roommate was too noisy to live
• Dog shoots owner
• Police robot told woman to go away, played a happy tune as it rolled away
• PPP "Loans" (GRANTS) by zip code...take a look!
• Drag show canceled because of Conservative pearl clutching and domestic terrorists threats
• Pentagon audit shows massive waste and irresponsibility to the tune of trillions of dollars "lost"
• Pooty-bear Putin and Ukraine
• Justice Alito and graphic designer case against gay people...
• Warnock/Walker voting race
• This idiot would support a nominee that wants to suspend the Constitution

Episode 460: Talking Turkey

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk turkey about turkey pardons, subscription services for things that shouldn't be subscriptions, and police matters!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_460.mp3

Show Notes:

• No show last week because illness (and holiday?)
• Coffee is terrible
• School off for Hunting Day (animals this time, not each other)
• Great News! Trump is Running for PRESIDENT AGAIN (That's sarcasm)
• Bezos is "giving away to charity"...the rest of us pay taxes
• Spooky cellphone interference near Lockheed Martin plant
• Turkey pardoning
• Samsung can brick your TV...or anyone who hacks Samsung can brick your TV
• Subscription services will get out of hand...
• EV mode on hybrids won't run heater while in EV mode (non-engine use)
• Ring doorbells spying on you...
• Norma's story of a relative getting arrested...but not in trouble...and she won't say why she was arrested or released...
• Police don't get in trouble for murder
• Cop shot Tamir Rice, moved to PA, took job in Tioga...
• Anti-grooming candidate lost teaching job for grooming
• Candace Cameron seems to take after her brother...

Episode 459: Is Elon Tired of Winning Yet?

Bart and Norma discuss the new Black Panther, dog anxiety, another crypto currency failure, charities, and Elon Musk's Twitter dumpster fire!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_459.mp3

Show Notes:

• Everything is coming up Milhouse
• Jennifer Aniston is an old woman shaking her fist at the sky?
• Dog anxiety
• It's Christmas TIME! It MUST BE!...in...40 days?
• Meta layoffs
• Physics Girl
• Long Covid update
• A little bit of Black Panther 2
• Crypto currency FTX failure
• Bezos gives 100 million to Dolly Parton for charity
• Illuminaughtii - YouTuber against MLM's, scams, and a-hole companies; some resources for charity research:
• https://give.org/
• https://www.charitywatch.org/
• https://www.charitynavigator.org/
• Some history behind Jewish immigration and film studios
• Elon Musk antagonizes a senator...is he poking a bear? Stupid? Incompetent? All of the above?
• So many articles are trickling steadily covering the Twitter fiasco...it's hard to keep up when the fire continues to blaze
• Another for good measure
• Bully superintendent from Katy ISD story

Episode 458: Free Speech, as Long as Elon Likes It

Bart and Norma discuss fancy dog-themed restaurants, just enough election bull@#% to make you angry, and the dumpster fire that is the Elon-era Twitter!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_458.mp3

Show Notes:

• Fancy San Francisco dog restaurant with a fancy price to match
• Election bullshit (Tell the GOP to "fuck off" to stop getting texts)
• Trello features
• "Sorry we tried to recruit a psychotic sociopath, we're not inviting him anymore to stop damaging our brand."
• More background
• Twitter post-Musk-purchase is a Trump-sized dumpster fire

Episode 457: HALLOWEEN 2022!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Fashion Week, the PA "debates," and Bart's getting old! Also, Voretaq returns!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_457.mp3

Show Notes:

• MacOS Updates
• HALLOWEEN!
• Getting a New Mac, maybe
• Fashion Week and Unpaid Slaves Interns
• Fashionable fashion
• Subway Crime
• 6 Million (extra) dollars poured into GOP PA race
• PA "Debates"
• fracking fracking fracking
• Texas once again makes us so proud (sarcasm...)

Episode 456: Slicing Signs for Senate

Bart and Norma discuss space photos, Britain is still mucked up, slapping people for fun and profit, dark fiber, and spammers complaining they're classified as spammers! Also, Fiona Apple reminds us that our court system is a farce!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_456.mp3

Show Notes:

• Pillars of Creation
• Liz Truss Resigns as British PM
• Slap Fighting Championships
• Dark Fiber
• Police in Old Forge (PA) School
• Every Girl's Crazy for a Sharp-Dressed Sign
• 1993 Video Game Violence Congressional Hearings
• Republicans complain their spam mail is caught in spam filters but refuses to stop sending spam
• Fiona Apple discusses yet another way our court system is horrible (and Maryland courts are retaliating when held accountable)
• Trailer: Violent Night
• Trailer: M3gan

Episode 455: College Search and Prison

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss college touring and prison system philosophy; we also end with a short news bit regarding the passing of Racket, our in-studio helper and companion bearded dragon.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_455.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq is back after fighting with phone companies
• Alec Baldwin reaches settlement in shooting, shooting of Rust to resume
• Trump's rambling response to subpoena 
• Oz delivers speech in front of Hitler's car
• College tour time
• spam filtering
• Imodium crackdown
• It's the Great Pumpkin
• School shooting verdicts...
• Criminalization of homelessness driven by for-profit prisons
• Biden finally FINALLY finally calls out hypocrite Republicans publicly
• NASCAR caused mental derpness in brains near the racetracks
• Prison system purpose
• RIP Racket the Bearded Dragon

Episode 454: Too Political

Bart and Norma discuss a rainbow fence feud, Oz and his fake felons for Fetterman stunt, and DeSantis pulls a migrant stunt that more or less backfires as it turns out "liberal elites" aren't "racist fascists". Oh, and they found the Perla Huerta that helped traffic the immigrants. Turns out "Perla" wasn't a pseudonym...

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_454.mp3

Show Notes:

• Father sentenced for assaulting infant son
• Crossing the rainbow fence
• Oz hired actors to pose as felons at Fetterman appearances, too stupid not to out themselves
• See the story with pictures
• Another that is mostly the story, but with video
• Immigrant trafficker Perla found, but she doesn't want to talk...
• Show: Some More News featuring that time the GOP Trump Wannabe DeSantis trafficking 5-50 humans to another part of the country for $600K only to have the stunt backfire so the party starts lying to spin this as "we meant to do this"!
• It's not the first time these kind of people trafficked people to make a point as a stunt. And it's not the first time it backfired. Click here to learn about the Reverse Freedom Rides.
• Court gives okay for Dominion billion-dollar lawsuit against Mike "MyPillow Guy" Lindell to move forward
• Another book about the Trump shitshow: Confidence Man
• The Onion writes to Supreme Court to defend man parodying his local police department

Episode 453: Cat Butts

Bart and Norma discuss who is allowed to die first, Ron Desantis' migrant stunt may haunt him yet (think he'll get away with human trafficking still?) and whether the Cats CGI movie butthole release was a real thing...We also discuss how the economy works, from the viewpoint of people who don't understand economics.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_453.mp3

Show Notes:

• Phantom of the Opera closing
• Sailing Millennial Falcon YouTube Channel
• Iran protests
• Desantis migrant stunt sounds more and more like a movie villain plot come to life
• Validity of the Cats (CGI movie) "butthole" cut
• How Economics Works (a work of speculative fiction)
• Golden Oak - Now you can live IN Disney World!
• Article about it, so less ad-copy, more opinion
• Milk + brains + formaldehyde 
• Trump ran for President because he wanted more fame

Episode 452: Litterboxes are for Jury Doody

Bart and Voretaq lament Voretaq's upcoming jury duty assignment, the fate of the queen's dogs, are all gameshow hosts terrible people?, be more careful with your DNA and a crypto company misplaces 10 million (aus) dollars...and didn't notice for 7 months.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_452.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq has to go to jury duty to see if they want him
• Queen's dogs...
• Rape kits can get you arrested. As the victim.
• Glenn Thompson doubles down on anti-same-sex marriage vote shortly before attending gay son's wedding
• Pat Sajak + Marjorie Greene
• A governor trafficked humans across state lines?
• Google accidentally sends quarter million dollars to random blogger
• Crypto firm misplaced 10 million Australian dollars into a woman's account...didn't notice for 7 months
• Kate Mulgrew hated Jeri Ryan on Voyager
• Quiet Quitting
• Zero Days documentary
• How do you prefer to watch your streaming shows and why is it binge-able watching?

Episode 451: Your Mascot Can't Go Potty

Welcome back Voretaq! Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss glaciers, the death of the Queen, Dr Oz (AGAIN...WHY WON'T HE GO AWAY...) and mental defectives protesting non-existent litter boxes in schools.

This is the first time I recall the episode having such stupid that my brain twitched and now the podcast episode page looks like something an unhinged FaceBook user would paste together in a scrapbook.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_451.mp3

Show Notes:

• Fentanyl Candy
• Vegetable oil price surge
• Glaciers are melting. Surprise.
• RIP Queen Elizabeth - her bees have been given the news
• Dr Oz forgot how many houses he owns
• "Dr" Oz finds humor mocking someone for having a stroke
• Pregnant woman ticketed for HOV lane use...again
• Musicians using "poop" in title see profits in the age of Alexa
• Should I rename the podcast to "Pooping After Dark"?
• Pandemic TP hoarders lead to rise in bidet purchases
• Local schools refuse to allow school mascot to use bathroom

Callous superintendents refuse to allow Wildcats a potty space

"I had Taco Bell!" - Wegners Wildcat

• JUST TO BE CLEAR since there are so many f#% idiots out there...I'm making fun of the idiots that found it necessary to make this Onion-level story a "thing". Opinions expressed here are my own. Want to hear it firsthand? Listen to the podcast. The writeup/summary is created by me. "Me" being Bart. "You" being the reader. Unless you actually believed the rumored litterboxes are in schools. Then you're a f#% idiot. Images are snapshots available from web search; the news story has the author listed in the image, the kitty image was in the Googles for a school mascot. Captions are satirical in nature, written by me. Having to spell this out makes me even more sad. Check next week for my next Modest Proposal.
• Man loses millions by accidentally throwing out hard drive with bitcoin stored on it
• Add water for milky cereal
• Texas still insists separation of church and state isn't a thing
• Obama and Biden Novels (no, don't have any affiliate links, I get no money if you clicked these)
• Play Quake on Apple Watch

Bonus: Signs of Fascism

From that site:

EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF FASCISM

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Rampant sexism
5. Controlled mass media
6. Obsession with national security
7. Religion and government intertwined
8. Corporate power protected
9. Labor power suppressed
10. Disdain for intellectual and the arts
11. Obsession with crime and punishment
12. Rampant cronyism and corruption

Episode 450: White House Gets Sassy

Bart and Norma discuss PPP loan shenanigans, what happened to Richard Simmons?, racist couple throws racist party while insisting they're not racists, Google destroys digital life of a man because he dared get medical advice for his kid, and the Megan Coyne is hitting back against hypocrite GOP online!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_450.mp3

Show Notes:

• Secret service working on pulling back millions/billions in misused pandemic money 
• Where's Richard Simmons?
• He has a website with some kind-of recent news!
• Nearby haunted B&B
• "Totally not racist" couple throws racist party and gets embroiled in lawsuit after a black firefighter was coerced into attending their racist party
• "Totally not crazy" Marjorie Taylor Greene swatted by police. Twice.
• White House/Democrats are FINALLY getting a little salty at online critics, hitting them in the hypocrisy!
• Great summary of the situation
• Who is Megan Coyne? Conservatives hate her because she doesn't take their @#$%!
• Father takes photos of son for medical care, has Google account flagged for porn despite police involvement and clearance of wrongdoing
• Fun with student loans
• "Trump's not in the White House now because he offended the LORD!" - Latino's for Trump leader says Trump stopped going to church, so God got mad, while ignoring that Trump didn't go to church before White House run

Episode 449: Time for Crudités!

Bart and Norma discuss buying human body parts, the funeral racket, bulletproof bags, McConnell vs. Trump, and taking a crudités break!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_449.mp3

Show Notes:

• Abortion ban affects more than abortions (duh)
• Man buys human parts, gets in trouble
• Mushroom death-suit
• Menstrual cycle stickers
• Bulletproof Zone!
• Trump Used US!
• McConnell trying to derail pro-Trump candidates' funding
• Did Rick Scott "lose" millions of Republican cash?
• Rick Scott: ties to Medicare fraud
• Dr. Oz: Let Them Eat Crudités!
• "Quiet Quitting"

Episode 448: Nursing Homes Coming After You

Bart and Norma discuss nursing homes abusing legal loopholes, Lake Mead is drying up, John Oliver (is there a time I don't enjoy his show?) and vandals on a golf course!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_448.mp3

Show Notes:

• You can be sued by nursing homes...?
• Yes, you might be sued, and it sucks
• Lake Mead empties still, uncovering more bodies
• Experimental studies beagles finding new homes
• Why beagles?
• Local Camp Brule is now Camp Bye Bye
• Mentally disabled girl "consented" because she walked with him down the hall
• FaceBook turns over conversations that imply a teen forced a secret abortion
• Police have concrete evidence who is behind golf club vandalism amid drought ban exceptions for rich people
• John Oliver on Afghanistan withdrawal, one year later

Episode 447: Trump Hosts FBI Egg Hunt In Florida Home

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss guns in North Carolina schools (on purpose), The View is told not to call Turning Point USA a group of Nazis anymore, drivers who can't drive, Alex Jones apparently hires Trump-level legal talent, and Trump has the FBI drop in for milk and cookies in his Florida grift-ranch!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_447.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq returned!
• Guns in NC schools...because yee-haw...?
• "The View" vs. Nazis-Not-Nazis
• Windsor Hills accident, charged with killing 6
• Alex Jones
• Griner: political prisoner in Russia
• Trump once again claims to be the victim...because of course he is
• Senate protects the poor drug companies from losing insulin profits
• Yes, the smallpox vaccine stockpile largely expired

Episode 446: Ivana is Useful to Donny!

Bart and Norma discover that Ivana Trump is finally useful to someone...as a tax break. After a thorough roasting by her "family" giving their twisted versions of eulogies, she was laid to rest in a GOLF COURSE so Donny Sr. could enjoy tax breaks for his golf/farm/cemetery! Congratulations!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_446.mp3

Show Notes:

• Audio Hijack upgrade
• Groom sentenced for assaulting bridesmaid
• Trump says 9/11 unsolved, uses that as a defense to play golf with Saudis
• Nichelle Nichols RIP
• "In My Opinion" Mastriano would be a disastrous governor for PA
• Shatner issues
• Have you heard of a Yahoo?
• Processed food
• Strowger Switch history
• Google, like Amazon, hands video from customers over to police without notification
• Arizona voter (non-)fraud...
• Ivana Trump buried at a golf course so she'd finally be useful (as a TAX BREAK)
• Interesting definition of "eulogy"
• Man wants to shoot people at Atlanta festival, festival says they'll just cancel major event instead
• Reddit story (or part of it) about the plantation company outing anecdote
• There were photos

Episode 445: A Quiet Week

Bart and Norma had a relatively quiet week. This episode we cover a lot of mind-bendingly idiotic stories of cognitive dissonance, a pastor robbed of quadrillions of dollars of jewelry during a livestreamed service, and a chess robot that insists you play by the rules!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_445.mp3

Show Notes:

• The pope is wearing a...headdress? Oh, and "apologizes" for church abuse of Canadian indigenous people.
• No more political compromise
• Texas Conservative LGBTQ group denied access to Conservative event...well...duh?
• Voted to support deporting immigrants, surprised immigrant spouse stopped at the border
• Chess robot insists 7 year old play by the rules
• Jason Mamoa ACCIDENT SURVIVOR
• Assistant principal mad that the story of Christians contributing to the death of Matthew Shepard make Christians look bad
• Ohio GOP wants to look at high school girl's crotches if she's a "little too good" at sports
• Brooklyn pastor robbed during livestreamed service
• Presidential spiritual advisor sentenced to jail
• Trump claims to be the most persecuted man in history

Episode 444: I Always Feel Like Someone is Watching Me

Bart and Norma discuss cars requiring subscriptions to work, the 10 year old from Ohio having an abortion was a bigger controversy than Bart thought it would be, celebrities using more water for...whatever...in a drought, and police/Amazon/etc. abuse information collection to spy on people!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_444.mp3

Show Notes:

• Bart's getting older...bifocals!
• Vasectomy popularity spike
• 10 year old Ohio resident gets abortion, religious people pretend they care and manufacture outrage as they can't lie out of the news story easily
• Celebrity water use in drought area...because rules don't apply to people with money
• Family trees, not family wreaths
• Car features working only with subscriptions
• Audi
• BMW 1
• BMW 2
• Our own Toyota story
• NASA analyzed Toyota car software
• NHTSA fuller report information
• Amazon gives police your video recordings from Ring devices without warrant or consent
• Homeland security is tracking you without warrant or consent

Episode 443: The BeBox Encounter!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss giddy-upping while drinking, Christian oppression in America, guns in Japan, our trip to the computer museum in Wall, NJ (I touched an ACTUAL BEBOX!) as well as the new e-assist on the trike!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_443.mp3 Show Notes:

• Trello. Bleh.
• Drunk buggy driving
• Turpin twins, social system failure
• Japan had a shooting. OMG LAWS DON'T WORK
• Poor oppressed Christians!
• Banning something isn't 100% effective, therefore we shouldn't...not a sound argument
• Suicide talk
• Pregnant woman in Texas fights HOV lane ticket, claiming the law says her fetus is a whole actual little citizen human
• Mentioned: TikTok blackout challenge leads to lawsuit
• "Unintended side effects" of Roe V. Wade being overturned, like you can't have a medicine that MIGHT be used in or help cause an abortion...
• Mentioned: Prison labor 
• Fred Trump (grandpa to orangeman) and the KKK
• Trump and Trump Sr and racism
• A BeBox!
• Computer Museum!
• Moon Nazis!
• Trike upgrade! E-ASSIST!
• Rich people living on debt...
• American Rail Trail

Episode 442: The Zombie Episode (Almost Live!)

It's a hectic time! We have trips, holidays, and general tons-o'-stuff to do! But I didn't want to go too long without an episode, so this is a recording of a "raw" recording session. No editing. No music. So if you've ever wondered what the episodes are like without removing the pauses, "um"s, and occasional verbal meandering (yes, as bad as it gets, I actually edit them down...), here's your chance to hear it!

Most of the episode focuses on the latest Roe V. Wade judgement from the SCOTUS, but there are some occasional mentions of things like Hooters and PornHub. So...listener, beware!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_442.mp3

Show Notes:

• SCOTUS is terrible
• PornHub publishes stats to show how pervy the Bible Belt is
• Hooters

Episode 441: It's Mostly the Movies

Bart and Norma discuss mostly movies time, since we saw not one, but TWO movies this weekend. Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World: Dominion! Also, did you know you can sue if you get an STD from someone you barely know in their car? One woman has a few million reasons to celebrate after doing just that!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_441.mp3

Show Notes:

• 4-day workweek example
• States mooching off government are usually of the party accusing others of mooching off government
• NC Conservatives want to kill EV charging stations
• Movies...Jurassic World and Top Gun
• Forced mandatory binding arbitration is only that when it benefits the company that pushes you into mandatory binding arbitration?
• Trump hand-waves away his daughter's testimony
• Tump had an obligatory meltdown

Episode 440: Let Us Talk About Guns. Again.

Bart and Norma mostly talk guns. I mean, it's what has been happening lately. Again. This time, police sat outside and had a tailgate party while listening to the "bad guy" shoot the victims...just kidding. They were holding back parents and onlookers to keep them from going in while listening to the "bad guy" shoot people. 

But we also talk about brain scans, adult toys, and not swallowing meth when running from police.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_440.mp3

Show Notes:

• A better METHod of hiding drugs?
• Donating coffins
• Caitlin Doughty - Ask a mortician, writer, YouTuber, advocate, etc...read the books!
• Stranger Things Season 5
• Old cat lady murdered kittens in a freezer
• Legal Eagle talks police duty and the recent school shootings
• Good Parent with a Gun Shoots Stupid Parent with a Gun (himself)
• Mass shootings happen when women get rights!
• Conservative brains
• Rich people hire disabled people to get easy Disney ride passes
• Texas: all the guns you want to own, but illegal to own more than 5 sex toys...?
• 100 Humans gun episode (bias)
• Kinder-Guardians
• John Oliver and police in schools
• The kid that was grenaded in botched raid: of course there wasn't any repercussions 
• Well, not ENTIRELY true, since insurance payments covered the incident...but the cops involved didn't directly pay for their negligence
• 4-day workweek being "tested" in UK

Episode 439: "Don't say gay, say Takei!"

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Dr. Oz and his stance on THE DEVIL'S WEED, Bloomsburg wants to murder geese, Lauren Boebert illustrates the long history of GOP calling immigration reform a backdoor to WHITE REPLACEMENT THEORY because she's an idiot, and a graduate at a school for the gifted talks about being gay in a coded secret language to outsmart Floridians!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_439.mp3

Show Notes:

• Monkeypox
• Foreign baby formula coming?
• Goose murders
• Dr. Oz thinks marijuana is magical anti-work drug
• Apparently a Conservative idiot thinks DC is powering the grid with burning babies
• Lauren Boebert has been pushing "white replacement" for quite awhile
• Student told can't talk about being gay in graduation speech, instead uses references to non-straight hair
• "Don't say gay? Say Takei!"
• Red Ranger is in trouble...
• Red Ranger denies having anything to do with it

Episode 438: USA is Back to Normal?

Bart and Norma discuss baby formula, Arby's testing a new milk shake flavor, why you shouldn't track your period using your phone apps anymore, Floriduh changes tack to continue their idiot plans to fight Disney, and Tucker Carlson may have helped push America back to pre-pandamic normalcy with a fresh rash of mass shootings in the name of "replacement theory"!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_438.mp3 

Show Notes:

•  James Cromwell wants fake milk to cost as much as milk (at Starbucks)
• A small digression into Succession
• Baby formula problem
• A "nearby" town may be losing a hospital and retirement home...
• Accidentally a winner
• Arby's now offering pee-milkshakes?
• Conservative authoritarians want to eliminate Roe v Wade, and in that world you definitely should get rid of period-tracking applications unless you want it used in court
• And Florida continues their "fight against Disney pedophiles!" 
• The US must be getting back to "normal"...several mass shootings in a matter of days!
• Did Tucker Carlson encourage the Buffalo shooter? (opinion: yes.)

Episode 437: Handmaid's Tale Redux

Bart and Norma discuss Covid deniers (again), The Batman, Aldi's, and some current news headlines...and the future is a Handmaid's Tale!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_437.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq: sick! 
• Thought Covid was "just a cold or flu"?
• Homemade Wanderlust YouTube Channel
• Andrew Garfield, Mormon detective
• streaming, in general
• Aldi's
• The Batman movie
• Three dead at Sandals resort in Bahamas
• Inmate and officer on the run were caught
• Bodies being found in Lake Mead as water levels continue to fall
• Government food stockpiles in history
• America's future...Handmaid's Tale!
• College closes after ransomware attack

Episode 436: Q-Anon Queens of Congress Hate Each Other

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the latest pedo-craze sweeping the conservative radar, Florida hates Disney, and the QAnon Queens of Congress hate each other!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_436.mp3

Show Notes:

• Trump's Truth Social experiences another embarrassment
• Now there's two kinds of Methodists?
• Q-Anon Queens hate each other in Congress...?
• Youth pastor accused of sex assault
• News anchor implicated in vigilante pedophile sting
• Florida political theatrics against Disney isn't that simple to execute
• News about flight attendant pay
• The Depp-Heard trial is a #%$show
• Rochester teacher in trouble for cotton-picking lesson on slavery

Episode 435: Over and Over and Over and Over

Bart and Norma discuss feedback regarding questions of ice (not ICE), gas and ethanol ratios, and forged documents, along with Dippy Donny held in contempt of court, Twitter's new owner, Marjorie Taylor Greene suddenly can't remember anything she definitely did do, and Kim Kardashian apparently had a sex tape?

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Show Notes:

• Voretaq's out today...because BROKEN
• Vacations
• Skittles are terrible
• Jelly Ice Cubes
• Jell-O Museum
• Gas changes
• Forged a judge's signature to drive
• Donny Trump held in contempt of court, as if he'll ever pay anything in fines
• Bob Newhart
• Twitter's new owner
• Trump's Truth Social network shares fell on news of Musk's Twitter takeover
• MISHA COLLINS IS NOT BI...(who's Misha Collins?)
• full disclosure, I thought this was Mischa Barton when I saw some headlines, but still didn't care enough to check but still...good for you, I guess?
• Cawthorn playing pretty pretty princess
• Marjorie Taylor Greene advocated Trump call "Marshall Law"
• It's normal to pick up a girl by destroying her tires, right?
• Followup: he claims it was a "joke"
• Kardashian jury picking didn't go as they planned...

Episode 434: Morbius...No

Bart and Norma discuss Morbius and method acting, the background of Hermione Granger, unions, the Metaverse, and you're an idiot for trusting companies not to hand out your information. Also, ice cream related bicycles.

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Show Notes:

• Morbius discussion 
• A new Firestarter movie?
• Hermione Granger and race - I looked it up, there was a controversy because of a stage play in the Potterverse where the Hermione actress was dark-skinned and people blew up. Rowling just said she was the best choice for the job. In the books, there's not (apparently) a specific statement of race, but cover art and original casting was all decided by Rowling and it was pretty much concluded that Hermione is light skinned in the books, and speculated that a non-light-skinned actress was cast in the play as a calculated decision by Rowling for public appeal.
• Union busting (Amazon/Starbucks discussion)
• "Metaverse"
• Because "trust" is stupid, and you're a product, and your information is for-profit (and for-spying)
• Bird murders motorcycle driver
• Applebees exec fired for saying the quiet part out loud
• Baskin Robbins PR release (every @#$% article is the same @#$% stuff)

Episode 433: Russian Army...DERP

Bart and Norma discuss idiot Russian invaders at a nuclear plant, what names are "normal", Vizio is added to the list of companies that are watching you watching things, and reminder: Matt Gaetz still isn't in jail but probably should be!

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Show Notes:

• Eric Smith is out of jail after having murdered Derrek Robie 
• Prison opinions
• Companies that benefit from prison labor
• Buycott app can help identify prison labor companies (among other boycott topics)
• "Don't Say Gay" revisited
• What is a "normal" name?
• Nyota Uhura name history
• Russian idiots now glow (until they liquify, anyway) (also, Putin "Pootybear" McPuddinghead is a war criminal)
• The Elephant's Foot
• Vizio TVs now showing their own banner ads over live TV while monitoring what you're watching
• What, no "good guys with guns" around again?
• Capitol rioter ("alleged") had an arsenal collected, hauled to jail...guess the gunz didn' help keep the guvment away?
• Got the diabeetus? Jus' lose weight! (And go bankrupt getting medication)
• Psst...remember when Matt Gaetz was (ALLEGEDLY!) banging a teenager?

Episode 432: Paper Beats Rock

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss tornado safety on the road, guns in government buildings, reading brainwaves to communicate, and long Covid, with a few other digressions thrown in! 

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Show Notes:

• Drunk woman stopped for suspected DUI, released, proceeds to murder the cops and a pedestrian
• Too light to stay grounded, too heavy to go to Oz
• Will Smith demonstrates how to leave Fresh Prints
• "Responsible gun owner" in CO government
• Possible help for people in lock-in syndrome situation
• If you didn't get Coronavirus, you have no friends
• Discussing long covid
• Homemade Wanderlust discusses her long-covid sense issue while hiking
• Ignorance of history may correlate to racist Conservative views

Episode 431: A Relatively Quiet Week

Bart and Norma discuss the proposed time change changes, car on building roof followup, swimming while trans, and what a (relatively) quiet week it's been.

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Show Notes:

• LI Crash aftermath
• 13 year old driver kills several, including self
• Proposed permanent time change
• Did Marco Rubio (R) accidentally push this as a public stunt, only to backfire and do something people wanted?
• Car on restaurant roof followup
• Trans woman swimming controversy?
• Trump doesn't even use his own Truth Social network
• Maury Povich going off the air
• Private schooling