Episode 423: Thedacare Wants Government to Prop Up Business

Bart and Norma discuss an expensive comic book page (yes, a single comic book page), robots make the best friends, and Bart predicted the tiered substitution of teaching positions as actual teachers leave or fall ill...and now it's happening!

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Show Notes:

• Spider-Man record-breaker
• Health official in Florida tells staff it's shameful how few are vaccinated; gets suspended for doing job
• Prince Andrew still getting into trouble for screwing under-age kids...raise your hand if you're surprised!
• Robot emotional support pets
• Teacher
• positions
• redefined
• The Batman discussion
• Puppers comes to visit during recording again
• Video Norma is referring to in the political humor story
• Thedacare fiasco
• Late breaking news...Thedacare loses injunction, workers can now go to work at competitor company/hospital
• What's up, Maureen?
• Woman threatens to shoot up school, leads to debate over the nice white lady didn't mean it that way

Episode 422: Antivirus Crypto-Mining

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss fart jars, passing of stars (still), idiots running our government, and crypto-mining by antivirus software!

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Show Notes:

• Doggy had a good training session and was a GOOD BOY
• Sidney Poitier passes away
• Sneakers...must-see movies...
• Florida man: drugs on my wiener aren't mine!
• Teachers crawling for cash for classrooms
• Theres a crypto currency for "Lets Go Brandon"
• "Man in the storm" story
• State legislator from the party of Fascism doesn't like teachers saying Fascism is bad
• Critical Race Theory has Conservatives crying about teaching actual history
• Crisis in education
• Moron gov. Mike Parson still thinks reading HTML ("view source") is "hacking", and is confident reporter will be prosecuted, because of course he's an idiot
• Now your antivirus has crypto mining...
• Developer gets mad, corrupts behavior of his own libraries used by large number of users/products, people get mad when free software goes boom
• Chip shortage means printer companies are spinning the non-availability of their own DRM lock-in chips as okay, and how to bypass their own lock-in issues
• Clippy's pronouns?
• Farts in jars...worth LOTS OF MONEY 

Episode 421: Oprah's Non-Endorsement of Dr. Oz

Bart and Norma discuss Bubonic Plague, Dr. Oz, Microsoft starts the new year off on a whoopsie, and Toyota blames dealers for the keyfob backlash!

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Show Notes:

• Betty White passed away at 99, just short of 100
• Least affordable housing...
• Toyota revisits key fob debacle, makes excuses
• Followup on mention of a Tesla repo happening automatically?
• Finland Tesla owner destroys car rather than pay 20K bill to replace batteries
• Microsoft Exchange (malware scan part) fell over on New Year's (check your INT's!)
• Oprah has zero support for Dr. Oz political aspirations
• Dr. Oz needs to learn how to hang up the phone before speaking about frank opinions
• Plague discussion
• Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos fame found kind of guilty
• Colorado trucker has prison sentenced commuted to 10 years from over a century
• Doggy behavior discussion