Episode 506: Holiday Are Coming! Hide!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq record what turns out to be the last show of the year! YAY! Discussions range over Clark Griswold's bonus, Apple Watch news just in time for the holidays, toll roads are a private company scam, a brief mention of Xmas Economics, and did you know "fortune telling"/Tarot readings are illegal in PA?

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Show Notes:

• NY middle fingers are amazing
• If it works, don't touch it. Ever. For years. 
• C64 networking?
  
• Amazon "breach?" Nope
  
• Matthew Perry cause of death made public
• Here are two conversations about Clark Griswold's bonus...
• Thread 1
• Thread 2
• Raises? What's that?
• Toll roads are mostly a private profit scam (Some More News)
• acollierastro talks A Peek at Christmas Economics
• Police chief visits Hanover shop to say fortune telling is illegal

Episode 505: "The mind...wobbles."

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a couple RIP celebrities, Tim Allen is...Tim Allen, everyone should listen to Legal Eagle analyses, Alina Habba is an unethical ogre and the mind...wobbles!

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Show Notes:

• Recycling actors, continued
• Closing a library
• In a largely Conservative area, can the residents even read?
• Norman Lear passes away
• Kevin McCarthy leaving Congress (because WAAAAHHHH)
• She claimed Tim Allen was a "bitch", to no one's surprise...?
• Localish school apparently has whiny students
• Ryan O'Neal passes away
• LegalEagle information
• Project Veritas CEO quits because they're scum
• Bart accidentally rants about TV/video/streaming ads...
• Alina Habba might get disbarred for being an unethical idiot
• "The mind...wobbles."
  

Episode 504: Santos says, "Sayonara, Suckers!"

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Kissinger (war criminal?), Santos shifts career goals from grifter to grifter outside Congress, Windows thinks you own an HP, and the holiday spirit is growing!

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Show Notes:

• How do phones work?!
• Kissinger dead
• First woman supreme court judge died
• George Santos is FINALLY out (of Congress)
• Where was AOC for the Santos vote?!
• Why Montana’s Two-Spirit people are challenging a state law that defines sex as binary
• Remembering Highway to Heaven 
• Panera and Super Lemonade
  
•  Windows printer problem...everyone has an HP now?
• It's QUICHE. KEEEESH.
  

Episode 503: Survived the Holiday: Thanksgiving

Bart and Norma discuss "What is democracy if not the power accumulated in the hands of a few wealthy people?", no-fault divorce packaged with your lack of Roe-vs-Wade and red handmaid's dress, fast food is about the cost of a sit-down restaurant meal and the average sit-down restaurant meal is now the cost of a Michelin-star restaurant meal and a Michelin-star restaurant meal costs approximately 2 Instagram food influencers paychecks!

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Show Notes:

• Post-Thanksgiving report
• Colorful Underwear Robber Caught
• Fast food costs TOO MUCH and it's obviously Biden's fault
• No-fault divorce ABSOLUTELY RUINS MARRIAGES so the GOP wants to outlaw it
• Cards Against Humanity launches social network "Yowza"
• Democracy is letting others vote then doing what you want anyway if you're the one with the money
• US Health
• US Health, revisited
  

Episode 502: OpenAI Goes Boom

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the presentation and misunderstanding of how the medical system works (or at least part of it), Elon demonstrates he's still an insufferable human brain tumor, Saucon Valley School District shows they're actually having to pay something for their idiocy while denying they're idiots and OpenAI has a slight management problem.

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Show Notes:

• Voretaq got Amazon monthly supply delivery...
• Medical students
• Medical supplies
• Elon doesn't like being called anti-Jew when he is anti-Jew (also discovers that for some reason big companies don't like being associated with Nazis when Nazis aren't popular)
• Saucon Valley School district discriminates against anti-religion-in-public-places-preferential-treatment group, denies they discriminated, but must pay some legal fees after discriminating against them but don't worry because they are paying through insurance paid for by taxes instead of directly through taxes
• OpenAI, ChatGTP, WTF?
• Per conversation in the recording, information may be obscured over semantics and technicalities, but there's quite a bit of proof that yes, IBM knew. They knew.
• The word "squelchy" will now haunt me
• YouTube and ad blocking...screw you
• Republicans approve amendment to cut Pete Buttigieg's salary to $1
  

Episode 501: Addlebrained

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss frozen turkey and food banks, GOP race becomes less racy, Trump is still addle-brained and LA will have some traffic problems! (Have to point out there's traffic problems since LA residents probably won't notice)

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_501.mp3

Show Notes:

• Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack (Not sponsored...unfortunately...)
• Norma's late. WHERE IS NORMA?
• Turkey bowling
• Wireless headphone discussion
• Euphemism discussion
• Food bank use in PA
• GOP primary race runner drops from race possibly because of race
• "Privileged white women can't get into medical schools..."
• Collectors afraid to come forward with copies of "lost" BBC shows
• States/Hospitals are stealing...and profiting...from your baby's blood
• Trump is brain-addled toddler making gaffes left and right
• Gas prices (no, the President doesn't control that with a magic switch you @#$ morons)
• LA fire damages freeway, time to blame homeless people!
• Tioga Downs racino fire

Episode 500: Covenant Eyes, Not At All Weird

Bart, Norma and Voretaq celebrate the 500th episode by breaking the recording software! Updates are great! We also discuss Clever Hans (though not by name since my memory isn't great), idiots vs. scammers, Ape NFTs are still a thing apparently and that can lead to fake sunburns in your eyes, the origins of "salty" (thanks Siri!) and software for sharing your porn habits with your kids! That's not at all weird, is it Mr. Johnson!?

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_500.mp3

Show Notes:

• Son likes Mexican Coke
• Weirdly colored foods
• The recording software upgrade makes the session goes nuts
• Norma broke a mirror! That's probably why nothing is working right!
• The horse in question was Clever Hans
• Knee replacement
• Convoluted tale of idiocy and murder
• Trump's lawyer told the judge what?
• Bored Yacht Club ApeFest: let's burn our eyeballs!
• As much as I dislike YouTube now, here's a possible cause of the NFT event burn, link forwarded to me by Voretaq
• Student accountability
• How did we get to the recollection of the "learn the facts" sticker? Upon listening to the audio, it was the part about "do your own research" to look something up that reminded me of it. That's why.
• Kinda salty
• Speaker of the House Mike Johnson likes sharing his phone and computer information with an outside third party company in the name of sharing porn habits
• Apple announced hardware updates, new M3 models

Episode 499: Paying Teachers to Shoot, But Not Pay For Supplies

Bart and Norma discuss YET ANOTHER proposal to give teachers incentive to shoot people in schools (yet pay out of pocket for actual schools supplies) after yet another shooting, more celebrities pass away, the House speaker is elected and he's yet another terrible person in my opinion, and candy corn is terrible and people are finally realizing it!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_499.mp3

Show Notes:

• Main shooter found dead
• Georgia Republican wants to pay teachers to shoot kids and intruders as cost savings to schools, but not pay them for things like...classroom supplies. BECAUSE MAGA?
• Richard Moll passes away
• Matthew Perry passes away
• Kitty made a gross on Norma
• Mike Johnson unanimously voted house speaker despite being yet another terrible human
• 15 fun facts about the new house speaker, thinks Handmaids Tale was a how-to?
• Surprise! Being dependent on a few really rich d-bags means kowtowing to rich d-bag demands!
• Candy corn is the devil's delight
• Apple is holding a streamed product announcement event...

Episode 498: Lemon Amazon Energy Drink

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss responsible legislation, sex ed in schools, education in general, Panera is getting sued, Amazon sells driver pee (supposedly?), Fall of the House of Usher is great and Jim Jordan is still terrible in our opinions!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_498.mp3

Show Notes:

• Darkwing Duck!
• Responsible driving and legislation
• Sex ed in schools
• Apparently you can't get out of prostitution by using a camera
• School shop class
• Kevin Smith and Prince movie
• Panera lawsuit over "energy drink lemonade"
• StackOverflow fires (sorry, "lays off") 28% staff in yet another round of layoffs
• Selling Amazon drivers' pee as energy drinks, on Amazon?
• Lebanon bologna!
• Jim Jordan couldn't bully his way into speakership
• Governor Shapiro-adjacent lawsuit settlement for harassment
• Fall of the House of Usher

Episode 497: Weaponized Printers

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss pensions, stupidity of our penal system, and 3D printers as weapons! Bonus: we seem to be in agreement that Elon Musk is an idiot.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_497.mp3

Show Notes:

• Pensions, retirement, COLA...
• We manage to refer to Swift's Modest Proposal
• Jailed for endangering a fetus, forced to give birth in a prison shower
• Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
• New York proposed bill would require background check/special licensing for 3D printer ownership
• Rich doesn't mean smart
• Cheating anecdote at school

Episode 496: Living on a Negative Income

Bart and Norma end up spending quite a bit of time talking about the affordability of just existing in our country now (See what I did there? Spending quite a bit of time??), along with a couple short news items...the collapse of society will be televised!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_496.mp3

Show Notes:

• Cat attack
• Return-To-Office is...
• On social security...
• Small-town airplane lands wrong
• FEMA test on smart phones...you can't opt out...
• The Hawaii false alarm incident
• Lockdown drill talk
• Getting rid of McCarthy as speaker
• Tom Hanks AI warning...it's not him!
• Disney sued over taco wedgie waterslide

Episode 495: Cool Blue Spiders

Bart and Norma discuss newly discovered blue tarantulas, another Congressperson getting in trouble for...bribery, I guess? (Still not sure the difference between bribery and lobbying...) The Tax Man wants to talk to you if you sold tickets for too much money, and Canada accidentally loves Nazis!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_495.mp3

Show Notes:

• Cool blue spiders!
• Democrat Menendez strongly encouraged to GTFO for bribery charges
• Farewell David McCallum
• Presidential terms
• Supposedly the lightsaber reference didn't happen; the photo of Luke staring down the hilt exists, but may have been Hamill playing with the prop on set, and the movie doesn't have such a scene. Others think Lucas edited it out in one of the many re-edits since the movie was released. Even Hamill doesn't seem to know the true story at this point...
• Ticket sales and the tax man cometh
• Boomers going broke
• Homemade Wanderlust and what to expect from an SOS on the trail
• Canada honors a Nazi
• Trump violates parole with gun violation
• Don't worry, the law apparently doesn't apply to him...

Episode 494: Subsidized by Spying

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss ghostwriters for celebrity stories, "coolers" that hide what's inside until you watch an ad, a stealth plane that was *really* stealthy and a visit to the Statue of Liberty. Oh, and Bobo, now being labeled as "Bimbo", managed to get kicked out of a family musical performance after groping her boyfriend's joystick and being disruptive...but it's not her fault, she swears!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_494.mp3

Show Notes: 

• Voretaq broke the sound. Stop playing with buttons.
• Minks on the loose in PA
• Ashton Kutcher steps down from foundation
• Backlash, canceling, blah blah...
• Billy Bobbie Brown, new novel, and ghostwriters "controversy"
• James Patterson is...a...kind of author?
• Walgreen's old cooler screens didn't work well...
• They done got sued
• Biden, gas, and somehow it's his fault...
• Stealth plane couldn't be found
• They later updated the story to say they did find it
• Subsidized by spying...cars are really really really bad
• Wyze cameras decided to show random user feeds to other people for a little while...
• Visiting the Statue of Liberty
• The referenced Wall Street bombing
• Lauren "Bobo" "Bimbo" Boebert got in trouble...

Episode 493: Biblically Inappropriate

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss school rules, Danny Masterson and the cult that protected him, Instant Pots are great, and the Bible breaks the Bible-believer's own rules while trying to hurt them sinners!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_493.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq comes in fashionably late
• Little Dude is in college...and the dog doesn't like it...
• New rules are born when someone gets a bug up their butt
• How can people be this incompetent at driving?
• Blue moon
• Jimmy Buffett cause of death
• Dumping school kids off the bus in random places
• Danny Masterson spending some time in jail
• The Bob Barker estate fate
• Chris Evans married
• Much talk of Instant Pots
• Bible has inappropriate material!? WAT?
• Defund police?! And no one notices??

Episode 492: AI Writing Detection (Academia Edition)

Bart and Norma discuss the ultimate porch pirate, Bob Barker has passed as close to a dollar without going over, completely trusting anti-cheat detection for writing is...not wise, and the government...and our justice system...well, trust is all relative, I suppose...

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_492.mp3

Show Notes:

• No Voretaq...not his fault...just one of those days...etc...
• The super porch pirate
• Bob Barker passes away
• Testing anti-cheat websites detecting AI-written material
• Another article that wasn't mentioned in the podcast
• Married with Children and affording a home + family with one income followup
• NSA discussion "with Respect and Dignity"
• Trump's trying to weasel out of a trial until he can pardon himself

Episode 491: AI Isn't Smart, Nor Are School Officials...

Bart and Norma discuss the (de-)merits of fracking, schools that think ChatGPT is KITT, killing people because the funeral industry will bribe with more money than EMT paychecks provide and we even bring up poop knives which are apparently a real thing now!

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Show Notes:

• Fracking bad? Duh
• Flammable water
• Basic job, still afford to support a family
• Post card search
• Storm report
• Cuban coach missing
• Iowa public school banning books by the word of ChatGPT
• Can't-miss tourist dining: a food bank
• Newscasters following the same script across so so many "news stations"
• The original poop knife
• Skin Hunters scandal

Episode 490: Sky Sharks!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Meg 2, Sky Sharks (because they're AWESOME), Conservative efforts to justify hateful laws just make them onerous and stupid, Orlando apparently doesn't like losing gay dollars, and church is FUN! (No, it's not)

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Show Notes:

• Norma complains about having to destroy my office every recording day
• IP space unavailable but unused
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds discussion
• Meg 2
• Sky Sharks!
• Funerals
• There's law for poor people and law for rich people
• Stupid school laws, name edition: "Benjamin wants to be called Ben and you need to sign paperwork to authorize it..."
• Ezekiel 23:20. Enjoy.
• It's all fun and games until there's an exorcism
• Pence doesn't know how pumps work
• No, really, Orlando is VERY friendly for LGBTQ people...definitely not lying...
• Texas thinks it's okay to slice people to shreds in the Rio Grand because the Bible says so
• Desantis wants to drone strike Mexico
• You can get a FreeShell account

Episode 489: Incandescently Stupid

Bart and Norma discuss the passing of Bart's grandmother, old people shouldn't be running Congress, Zoom apparently doesn't believe remote work works, and shows like The Witcher are dumbed down because, they say, the American audience is too stupid to understand their nuanced and complicated stories!

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Show Notes:

• Maybe we should remove people from government when they're too addle-brained to function...?
• McConnell heckled with calls to retire
• Idiot tells Stephen King to "get a job"
• "Incandescently stupid"...writing memos to Trump
• Miss Teen USA 2007 goes uhhhhhhhh
• Remote work enabling champ Zoom insists workers return to the office
• Elite Panic
• "Our stories are stupid because Americans are stupid"
• The Critical Drinker - How the Witcher Destroyed Itself
• Note: I re-watched his review of the Witcher situation, and I remembered only one aspect; he reviewed several big issues with the show's trajectory and how they culminated into a #$%show. The one that stuck in my memory was the first season focusing on the sorceress/witch character, and the second on the character being trained, and the titular Witcher has very little focus for a show literally called The Witcher.
• The "Trump's lawyer is dumber than Trump" article I was referencing
• Gaslighting

Episode 488: Mitch Finally Shuts Up

Bart and Norma discuss the headlines of the week, which for some reason mostly consisted of dead celebrities, along with more from the Twit of Twitter and unions being blamed for corporate incompetence...

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_488b.mp3

Show Notes:

• Retirement homes
• Yes, Trump said he'll run from prison, and yes, there's nothing to stop him, and surprisingly, it's been done before
• Write a @#$^% will, people
• Medical system in America still sucks
• Speaking of horse manure, the history of HSA's...
• Mitch McConnell goes brrrrrrrrr
• RIP Paul Reubens
• Sinead was right, RIP
• Joe Pesci. It was Joe Pesci that jumped on the bandwagon against her post-photo-rip on SNL. But she was right.
• Statement from Morrissey
• S-Club performer passed away
• Cardi B being sued
• Murder mystery...Lori Vallow Daybell
• Canada hid children's bodies...
• Squeal like a British head of state?
• X Twitter leader still a twit, as demonstrated by his Twit Beacon
• Billionaire Philanthropy is Kind Of A Scam - SOME MORE NEWS
• IT'S ALL THE UNION'S FAULT and f@#! taxpayers, too
• Man discovers mansion being built on his property

Episode 487: "BARBIE BAD MAKES BOYS FEEL BAD"

Bart and Norma welcome Voretaq back from his hiatus! Marjorie Taylor Greene is nearly as infatuated with Biden as she was with a CrossFit instructor, Musk is infatuated with the letter X, and Conservatives everywhere are infatuated with Barbie!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_487.mp3

Show notes:

• Trump and the Long Island Gilgo Serial Killer relationship...SO SURPRISING
• Trump and teens in dressing rooms
• Miranda Sings
• Marjorie Taylor Greene likes peen photos, and he's not even a Crossfit instructor!
• Did we forget her Crossfit workouts involving squats on guys who aren't her husband?
• Twitter is now X
• ...except...does Musk own "X"?
• Scammers and the kid-in-trouble script
• Jason Aldean small town BS
• Desantis, slavery, and WTF...
• Tony Bennett RIP
• "Barbenheimer"

Episode 486: Supreme Court Caucus

Bart and Norma discuss our Internet provider, Hollywood taking a break for a fair cut to make a living, and Tom Cruise pretends to not be shady as @#$%. Also didn't know how to title this one, so I mashed together two things that just make me angry yet I liked the sounds of the result when put together.

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Show Notes:

• We lost Internet access today, but our provider, Empire Access, is most excellent
• Woman steals money from an old relative. Evidently this isn't nice.
• Supreme Court is populated by multi-millionaires...
• Organizations and companies pretending to care
• Hollywood is fully on strike
• A new option for contraception, maybe
• Tom Cruise and $cientology
• They're not...really...clean...
• Transcript of Titan (update: it wasn't real)
• Murdaugh settlement
• What exactly is a caucus?

Episode 485: Elon's Sanity Hanging By a Threads

Bart and Norma discuss too many stories somehow related to assault...weird that's in the news? Also Elon Musk is having full on tantrums (maybe go suck your emerald pacifier for a bit and calm down?) and a Canadian teaching assistant fired for having an OnlyFans account, since she can't afford to live on the pay alone. Weird how profits vs. pay seems to work.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_485.mp3

Show Notes:

• What's a "Kidult"?
• Jehovah's Witnesses caught diddling kids
• "Nuclear Boy Scout"
• Larry Nassar, gymnast' doctor and sex assault aggressor, stabbed in jail
• Allison Mack out early after turning in evidence and...whatever. Guess she's a bad cult member.
• Mormons do love their tax evasion scams
• Discussion: qualifications vs. being elected into (certain) positions in PA
• Trans contestant wins Miss Netherlands; next stop, Miss Universe competition
• Elon is having an all-out toddler meltdown over Twitter rival Threads
• Canadian teaching assistant fired for having an OnlyFans account
• Coach films self assaulting unconscious boys, left phone in restaurant
• Trump offers free food to restaurant customers, then walks out on the bill

Episode 484: Don't Go Chasing Titanic Wrecks in Home Made Subs

Bart and Norma discuss the government (well, the G-Word), Desantis drops drag, AI nonsense and idiots outsourcing their smarthomes to companies that don't give a #$^% about them...

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Show Notes:

• Unhappy Christians vs. AI bibles
• AI isn't intelligent, it just sounds like it, like Fox News...
• SOME MORE NEWS - Are Drag Queens Coming For Your Kids?
• The G-Word with Adam Conover
• Desantis' targeted law targets his newest attempt to target a group of people
• Eating disorder chatbot goes off the rails during union-busting transition
• Amazon smart home lockout
• Irish names

Episode 483: Some RIP News, Some Bible News, Some Felon News

Everyone is back this time around! Now we get to test the new filters with other people! We talk about felons, potential felons and hopefully soon to be fully convicted felons, along with SCIF whoopsies, social safety nets and violence, creationism and a little DeSantis supporters protesting Disney complete with Nazi flags!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_483.mp3

Show Notes:

• Mentioned Google not getting paid by Twitter...
• Canadian wildfire fun in the US
• Personally, Pat Robertson can Rest In Hell
• Ted Kaczynski has died possibly by his own hand, and his history is...complicated...
• More Bible drama in Utah
• Jamie Foxx is NOT sick due to Covid vaccines
• Of course it's not suspicious to drain a pool into the server room...
• No, Hillary didn't do what Trump is indicted for
• Nazis for DeSantis (pro-DeSantis "protesters" fly Nazi flags outside Disney)
• Jefferson Bible
• Gutsick Gibbon

Episode 482: Trump Bucks Are a SCAM?

This is a solo, and thus shorter, episode this time around. Bart is going over feedback and a couple of stories in the news: more shootings (surprise!), MAGA people conned by con artist that wasn't (supposedly) Trump this time, and religious nuts don't like their vulgar book being banned because it's hurting the WRONG PEOPLE!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_482.mp3

Show Notes:

• "Let me off the plane!..." "Can't we land first?"
• 9 shot in Florida, not enough guns to protect them from guns
• Bearly survived a collision
• I'm not a doctor, but this person is insane
• Oh no MAGA Trump supporters were conned...not directly by Trump this time...
• Short sighted book banning fascism bites Gilead fans in the arse...bye bye Bible!

Episode 481: GPT

Bart, Voretaq and (eventually) Norma discuss racing around NYC, greedflation (although they don't like calling it that, apparently...), and extended conversations about ChatGPT and senior pranks. Not ChatGPT used in pranks, there are two separate discussions where one is about ChatGPT and the other is pranks. This was an extended episode...

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_481.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma arrived late
• NOT THE BEES NOT THE BEES
• Harry and Meghan NYC race chase
• Autopsy to be released of a man who died in custody
• "Greedflation" real?
• Professor is ChatGPT ignorant, apparently proud of it
• Arguing with ChatGPT and HuggingChat
• What is Grammarly?
• High school "senior prank" didn't go well

Episode 480: History Lesson Day

Bart and Norma discuss some history behind the Democrat/Republican flip in philosophy, justice vs. money, what is Title 42?, and the fetus employee without a paycheck! Also, eggs are finally affordable again!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_480.mp3

Show Notes:

• Please don't pee on the police
• History lesson: stopping Lincoln from winning the White House
• History lesson: when the parties flipped
• History lesson (from podcast): when parties flipped
• Florida teacher shows Disney movie to 5th graders, is now being harassed and attacked in retaliation
• Title 42
• Fetal employee
• Money buys freedom even in small town politics, apparently
• Remember the Panama Papers?
• Immigrant-supporters call for boycott on shipping supplies to Florida over new bigoted laws
• Eggs. Finally affordable again?

Episode 479: Suspicious Spaghetti Solved

Bart and Norma discuss the origin of this podcast, solar farm proposal, hospital acquisition in the near-area, and mysterious New Jersey pasta mounds mystery solved...Also, autonomous puppy cars. Or are they car puppies?

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_479.mp3

Show Notes:

• This show is kind of old...
• Why the hell can't people present with some kind of effort or skill? UMM...UMM...UMMM
• New Covid variant...now with Pinkeye
• Vesper wants to install a solar farm
• No-Mow-May
• Kaiser Permanente + Geisinger
• "Ed Sheeran" wins lawsuit battle
• WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN as a latent workforce we don't have to pay?
• Sub-minimum pay for sub-human work? Is that what they're saying?
• Jenny Craig closes its doors, almost notified employees beforehand
• Doug McLinko was at the insurrection party, running again for seat
• Mystery of the Macaroni solved
• "BAD CAR! STAY!"

Episode 478: After School Satan Club WINS!

Bart and Norma have several followups from previous conversations (like Elon's rocket-wiener blowup and more Twitter problems) sprinkled in with newer headlines (lithium trash, whiny Supreme Court learning what "consequences" are...)

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_478.mp3

Show Notes:

• Robo-Alpaca
• RIP Jerry Springer
• Red states love shooting each other
• "Stalking with a broom"
• After school satan club ruling: school must allow them to meet
• Margot Robbie in the rumor mill
• Dust storm havoc
• Moron gives more on rocket launch
• NYC MTA tells Twitter to go twit itself
• Amanda "Swell Entertainment" Golka forced to get Twitter Blue to use 2-Factor
• Lithium fire hazard
• Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito actively fights against anything that would take away his right to fondle firearms...
• ...now whines he might get shot, like the whiny little fear-mongering snowflake he is.
• ...why would you be afraid when more guns means more free-dums and more safer society?
• Scammers finally doing something good while stealing money

Episode 477: BYE BYE TUCKER

Bart and Norma review feedback and wrap up a relatively slow week with a relatively short episode. But we do discuss a meat-grilling robot alpaca, and there's a last minute breaking news tidbit that brings great joy to North America...TUCKER CARLSON IS OUT!

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Show Notes:

• PSP road chase, death
• Alpaca, gatling gun, sausages, definitely not weird
• SpaceX ship launches, goes boom
• Black footed ferret cloned
• Uber driver died in crash
• Fox "loses" Dominion lawsuit, but won't have to pay the full amount
• TUCKER CARLSON FIRED
• HAHA
• HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK
• SUCH SAD NEWS BOO HOO

Episode 476: Alpaca My Things And Go

Bart, Norma and Voretaq have a post-Easter catchup discussing alpaca farming as a career, grandkid scams and scambaiting in general, empathy only applies when it happens to ME, depression, and the Satanic Temple is highlighting public school bullsh## politics! Oh, and definitely check out Useless Farm. It's useless but entertaining.

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Show Notes:

• I was wrong. This is episode 476.
• Voretaq wants to give up on "this tech bullshit" and become an alpaca farmer
• "Maintaining this site fucking sucks"
• Useless farm - entertaining content with a side of aggressive emu
• Baron case
• "grandkid scam"
• Naked mad man charged with assault
• Hoarder house fire
• Well, now this affects ME...
• "The only moral abortion is my abortion"
• Ongoing saga of the public school DEFINITELY NOT promoting religion
• Reddit comment on the school idiocy
• Depression talk
• Fridge go boom

Episode 475: Feedback Tangentials

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss...mostly stories from feedback, actually. How times have changed, changing citizenship, school safety, credit cards, lawsuits, and a little bit about why you shouldn't die near cats...

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Show Notes:

• Changing countries
• You have to pay to renounce citizenship?
• Safety in schools and what's right
• (School) Plans, plans, blah blah plans
• Credit cards over time
• Norma waxes poetic over music
• Robert Baron murder suspect arrested
• Teacher shot by 6 year old sues school
• CATS ARE TERRIBLE

Episode 474: Shocking...more school shootings

Bart and Norma discuss the latest round of school shootings, the latest health trend of IV's for fun, Little Wooden Boy!, and college visits!

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Show Notes:

• Where's Voretaq? We don't know
• Student shooter shot self
• Should students labeled ... uh... troubled?...be in schools?
• "Schools are shot because we took God out of schools!" says idiot before realizing this shooting was in a private Christian school
• "You can't protest being shot if you can't tell the difference between a clip and a magazine!"
• Drip Bar opens
• A fungus among us
• Rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, taser beats 2x4
• Little Wooden Boy!
• Chocolate factory explosion
• Let's pretend this is "educational" and not a pet project
• "Stop calling us with this bullshit"
• Lil' Dicky Earth video
• Yes it was Bobo's husband who did that...
• College visit
• Pooper app

Episode 473: Norma Hates Our WiFi

Bart and Norma are left to their own devices when reviewing a relatively quiet week, especially since Norma's wifi use is severely hampered and she wants to fix it during the podcast recording session. That did not end well, and Bart is never putting up with the jabs of "doesn't test changes before recording time and causing problems during recording time" after this...

Other than that, we review Jeopardy! making a whoopsie, an aquarium gets sued for reasons aquariums don't normally get sued for, Google acts non-Googly and some people are feeling the effects of the laws they supported but those effects affect them in the wrong way so I guess empathy is no longer quite theoretical when it becomes personal? I guess? Maybe?

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Show Notes:

• Jeopardy! makes a whoops
• Monterey Bay Aquarium says not to eat this, Maine gets mad. IT'S LAWSUIT TIME!
• "But now it affects ME!"
• Google's (mis)handling of layoffs

Episode 472: Fascist Snowflakes

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss more weird weather, topless swimming in Berlin, child marriage, ice cream made from bugs, dirty license plates, the give of snowflakes for DeSantis and company, Jodi Picoult on book bans, and hospital stays for fun and discomfort!

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Show Notes:

• Storms...snowpocalypse? Or just yuck?
• Topless Swimming
• Child marriage ban in West Virginia had amendments that allowed it to pass...I guess they need some backtracking on legal kiddie plonking?
• Cricket Ice Cream
• Cat vs. Ice Cream
• Homelessness, inequality, police violence...but we need to clamp down on naughty license plates!
• Fascist snowflakes
• Different word, same meaning, no one will know the difference?
• Jodi Picoult on book bans
• Elderly woman murdered by police after breaking into her home and cuffing her as she bled out, then planted evidence
• Thief goes squish
• Hospital fun

Episode 471: "I work in a home facade"

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Siri as an Assistant, Trump continues his festival of lies, Ford wants cars that drive away if you don't pay them enough, religious non-vaxed get an opportunity to show how Jesus protects them from measles, and a company has a nifty way of decorating workspaces!

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Show Notes:

• Jurassic Bug
• I was trying to remember the site "Dangerous Things"
• They are "Bio hackers", that's the term I was searching for...
• Brain Dead Miracle
• Pence doesn't want to testify...he might look guilty?
• Trump CPAC 2023: lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie
• VW: Don't pay our fee, don't find your car
• Ford wants their cars to repossess themselves - What could go wrong?
• Morons get Measles
• Salesforce can't afford workers, lays off 8K+ employees, but can afford Superbowl ads (about $5 million) and Matthew McConaughey (about $10 million)...
• My office is a cubicle is a house is an office...(okay, I think they're neat for what they are, but I love themed surreal environments)
• Cardboard desks (and more)
• Why is Marjorie Taylor Greene blaming Jewish Space Lasers?

Episode 470: Scott Adams "Cancelled"

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss TikTok trends, liability when criminals get hurt on a victim's property (or when they're stealing your catalytic converter and you run them over), a Republican that thinks dead kids are better than kids who need long-term care at the State's expense, Scott Adams once again proves he's a terrible person (in my opinion) and the company making the most money off him decide to disassociate themselves (for awhile?), and some AI and school talk happens.

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Show Notes:

• Raquel Welch RIP
• Monster spider
• PA UFOs
• Danica McKeller: Bible Thumper
• Disney's newest attraction: Parking Garage Diving
• New TikTok Trend: Dying in a Stupid Manner
• Picard season 3 doing well...
• Liability for burglars hurting themselves while breaking into your home
• Running over catalytic converter thief
• Teal'c (Stargate SG1) takes down a thief (yes, the video says stone, but it was an avacado)
• "Sure, the kid dies, but isn't that a benefit in the long run? We save MONEY!" - Alaska republican representative
• School decides bad publicity means they should do something about bullies killing students
• Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams crying into his 8-figure bank account after losing distribution for racist ramblings
• This has been a long time coming...
• Elon simp learns licking boots doesn't guarantee anything to egocentric jack-holes
• John Oliver: AI discussion