Episode 427: Frozen Sausage at the Olympics

Bart and Norma discuss 3D printing, advertising your weapons for coolness can lead to problems, tracking DNA of victims to identify them as suspects, paper vendor lock-in and frozen wieners on the ski slopes!

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Show Notes:

• 3D printing
• Remington settlement with Sandy Hook families
• Fun with Truth Social
• Problems (or at the beginning of launch, anyway) with the service
• Rape kit DNA tracking
• A printer that only works with certain paper from a certain company
• What the EFF says about it
• Frozen wiener at the Olympics
• Resetting a lightbulb

Episode 426: Valentine's Day Stuffs

Bart and Norma discuss the StupidBowl, Valentine's holiday, Mazda radios getting stuck on a particular channel, and the Gazpacho police are raiding the GOP!

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Show Notes:

• Valentines day stuff, while Wal-Mart is adding Easter stuff
• Superbowl stuff
• NFTs for the Beatles
• Mazda radios are stuck on one particular channel
• Fun discussion about it
• The 99% Invisible episode spoke of a previous bug that crashed the Mazda "infotainment" system; here's a writeup on what caused it
• Bored security guard defaces artwork in Russia
• Allegedly possibly insane Congress representative walks back on Gazpacho Police comment
• Drug cartels in Mexico love avocados 
• Texas voting laws...GOP is getting their goals of preventing people who aren't them from voting?
• Accountants drop Trump
• Palin loses case where she bombed her testimony

Episode 425: In Memoriam: Cate

Bart and Norma discuss truckers in Canada that don't like needles, Chick-Fil-A and "weather pods" for (some) employees, recruiter forgets the bubble in which she works and regrets letting the quiet part be heard out loud, reminder that PA forced people to pay to know the laws they're expected to live by, and the whole episode is dedicated to Cate the Goodest Girl Puppers who went to a place where fleas never bite, cats can't steal her bed, and everything is made of biscuits. 

You did a good job, Cate. 

It's okay to sleep now.

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Show Notes:

• Whoopie Goldberg vs. Holocaust
• Outlander
• Snowflake truckers
• Right to repair (cars)
• Trivia for day: KITT was "rebuilt" because cars in real-life were talking and they wanted to differentiate KITT to stay relevant...
• Chick-Fil-A "cares" about employees
• Thrifting is RUINED
• Recruiter never bitten by self-awarewolf
• Trivia for day: PA is the 50th state to make statutes public

Episode 424: Adblockers

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss online adblockers, a BU student accidentally gets cremated remains, Ted Cruz hates black nominees, and a school bans Maus!

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Show Notes:

• Older celebrities are dying, but the Meatloaf was tainted
• Becoming Batman
• Cremains to Binghamton University student
• Ted Cruz hates Biden's declared Supreme Court nominee preference
• Texting your tickets
• Police openly abused power in this small town
• Adblocker lawsuit; blocker company won
• People with ad blockers have a totally different experience on the Internet?
• Chrome security changing soon
• Who owns StackOverflow now?
• School bans Maus because of course they would