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!

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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