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!

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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!

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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!

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• 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