Episode 547: Shooting Down Drones over Jersey!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss voting, Medicare Advantage, the Goonies celebrates another decade, drones and Cash 4 Kids judge is free again...

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Show Notes:

• Whoops...episode 547...not 546
• Starting was a little weird again because updates are terrible
• Why avoid Medicare Advantage?
• Goonies turns 40
• Turns out the story I recalled was from an interview with Josh Brolin, and yes, he kind of ruined the take with his genuine reaction to the ship
• Voting discussion
• PA governor Shapiro reacts to Cash-4-Kids judge being pardoned by Biden
• Fetterman: Republican Ackshually?
• Hegseth: definitely won't drink when getting Trump-granted power
• Kid went on 10 mile walk, parent arrested
• Drones over NJ...PA...etc
  

Episode 546: Robin Hood Denied Insurance Claim

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss props and blood sugar, but mainly we talk about insurance and how horrible human beings with money try to spin a narrative that they're actually nice people who don't deserve being shot just because they profit off pain.

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Show Notes:

• Green (insecure?) text bubbles are going away on iOS
• G7 glucose monitors come with FREE MINI MAGNET!
• Bye bye Goop
• Ruby Slippers auctioned for millions
• Prop talk
• Health insurance CEO killed, millions cheer
• Whoops...weird disconnect paused the discussion momentarily...
• School memories
  

Episode 545: Advertisements are Terrible

Bart and Norma discuss advertising, why relying on third party companies for your company's success is probably a bad idea, Niantic has been using collected data for other purposes, and there's snow in part of our state! Plus we survived the holiday that isn't really acknowledged as a holiday anymore!

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Show Notes:

• Bart hates Python
• Amazon ruins small business with a returns-as-new screwup
• Much traffic/engagement/interaction on the Internet is from bots
• Advertising is SO out of hand now
• Niantic using Pokemon Go as a covert mapping project/AI training system
• Why do I have to submit information that agencies already have, or worse, pay to send information that is already collected by government/companies?
• Infamous drum-of-lubricant from Amazon back in the conversation
• People are full of germs. Ew.
• Erie getting lake effect snow
  

Episode 544: Convention Visit in Bean Town

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a million dollar banana, shopping carts that revolutionize annoying customers, Norma's adventures in Boston and the latest holiday is coming around the corner!

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Show Notes:

• Banana artwork for millions of dollars
• Expensive revolutionary shopping carts with batteries
• Bubble Tea Adventure
• Listening to a Supreme Court Judge
• Adventures in losing things at big conventions
• Conservative evil is still creeping in to schools
• Wheel of Privilege
• Man arrested for drug/rape charges that are rather staggering for a small town area...
• Tis' the season for idiot to cry OPPRESSION and pretend they're victims falalalala
  

Episode 543: The Votes Are In And We're Doomed

Bart and Norma spend a lot of time wishing we weren't in this country now that it's marching down a path to fascism. Also, plastic rain is the new acid rain, and karma bites an ex-GOP rep right in the healthcare. Because they're clowns and deserve bad karma.

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Show Notes:

• Don't know where Voretaq is. Haven't heard from him since Election Day.
• Kitten visits the studio
• Eyeballs and smarts
• Plastic rain...the new reason we're growing stupid and infertile?
• Scam question: No, Musk isn't selling a power saver, despite being a grifter and all around terrible person in my opinion
• Yes, the US had concentration camps in WWII
• Generational wealth, Congress, and slaveowners
• Musk making friends with other Trumpets' advisors
• Oklahoma superintendent forces schools to bow to (Trump) Christianity in bid to get picked for Trump grifting position
• Former GOP rep has GoFundMe trolled after disabling injury due to his attempts to deprive Americans of affordable healthcare
  

Episode 542: Election Day Horrors

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss computing and...much of it is the election. Trump. How is Trump still a candidate? Why? Are his supporters pretending they don't understand why he's terrible? Are they just knowingly lying? Or are they legitimate fascist morons? Also a local celebrity squirrel is murdered by New York State and people are not happy about it.

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Show Notes:

• Food is better from the fridge
• Ads load great, the content I'm actually trying to view, not so much.
• Bird flu farm animals
• MS Teams migrated away from Electron to something that seems worse unless you're running Windows...
• That time Dude almost got himself murdered
• Computing and the "children of plenty"
• Election coming up. Trump. You knew that would happen.
• NYS murdered a squirrel
• Parody: I Kissed a Squirrel (And I Liked It)
  

Episode 541: Ballot Box Burnings

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss MS Teams, McDonald's just happens to spread E. Coli after the Orange Man serves hamberders to his cult followers, election results are in the air along with ashes of ballots in at least 3 states, and Jimmy Pesto goes to jail!

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Show Notes:

• Microsoft Teams takes up 1 GIGABYTE on the hard drive...WHY?
• Spam/scams in email and filtering
• Celebrities writing children's books...
• McColi - obviously a conspiracy to make Trumps McCosplay look bad?
  
• Standing desks are healthy except when they aren't
• Ballot box burnings
• Apartment manager commits fraud to vote Trump multiple times
• McD's flurry machines broken?
• Right to repair talk (mostly copiers)
• Jimmy Pesto actor sentenced in insurrection participation
  

Episode 540: Reagan Was Terrible

Kitten is visiting. Bart hates college costs. Bart blames Reagan, because it's his fault. The others act like Bart's insane and women have always had college opportunities, which Bart thinks is insane. Also the US government helped fuel the early prepper culture.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_540.mp3

Show Notes:

• The Bunker book Bart referred to
• CVS/Walgreen's woes
• EV car battery disposal/recycling
• Haunted castles around the world
• "Flavored gay people"
• Gender and "effective communication"
• Paying for college is a pain. WHY?
  
• Reagan and his obsession with destroying education
• Plane boarding strategies
• Trump cosplays McD's worker, gets roasted because he's a moron
• Seems Cards Against Humanity has ended their http://apologize.lol campaign, their lawsuit against SpaceX is ongoing...
  

Episode 539: Democanes! Democrats Control the Weather!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the Democrat Hurricane Machine, credit stuffs, organ donations and some information on flying without seeing where you're going. Oklahoma confounds Bart with blatant corruption by sending millions of taxpayer dollars to Donald Trump in exchange for Bibles in schools. And a PA school adds windows to middle school student bathrooms because Conservatives are obsessed with underage perversion?

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Show Notes:

• Marjorie Taylor Greene insists, despite backlash, that liberals are controlling the weather in an effort to stop Trump from winning election (hurricanes are created by Democrats!)
• Financial/debt/credit/etc. discussion
• Flying/piloting discussion
  
• Soap opera and child actor discussion
• Vaccinations
• TikToker passed away at 25...
  
• Oklahoma Department of Education wants to purchase three million dollars' worth of Bibles for school curriculum, but purchase requirements suspiciously only match Trump Bibles
• Trump promised Musk a position as head of his own "efficiency commission" if elected
• Melania's book tour and promotion are...different.
• Republican candidate claims the wrong side won WWII
• Flood insurance discussion
• A Pennsylvania school district puts windows into student bathrooms
• There's a holiday next week...no show!

Episode 538: Hacking the Kia!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss shots for the season, language models actually being helpful when condescending programmers aren't, more people passed away who were important in shaping entertainment, and how you can hack Kias from the comfort of the keyboard!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_538.mp3

Show Notes:

• Sometimes you just want the $%^# question answered...and this is why language models endanger average programmer's future (in part, at least...)
• Adam Savage - eliminate "why don't you just..."
   
• Maggie Smith of Harry Potter fame passed away
• Kris Kristofferson passed away
• RSV in adults
• "Gen Z are unhireable" say employers who don't like change
• Hacking a Kia via the web
  

Episode 537: OctoGrandma

Bart and Norma discuss Octomom becoming a grandma, school cop has a gun whoopsie, and someone is peeing in scented candles...

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_537.mp3

Show Notes:

• What storms are out there now? Anything?
• Pee-scented candles
• "Octomom" now a grandmother
• School Resource Office (school cop) shoots self in whoopsie-doodle incident
• Melania is getting paid to speak. Don't know why or how, so it's all suspicious, but she is...

Episode 536: Tay-Tay Doesn't Like Trump Trump

Bart and Norma discuss a little gun in the oven and a lot of Taylor Swift hate from GOP weirdos who have no problem with celebrities like Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock playing at their rallies so that seems even more super weird. Also a local-ish comic-con event will have Atreyu from Neverending Story coming to the area, so that might be neat?

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Show Notes:

• Is it a kitten or a small horse?
• Storing your guns in the oven
• Airplanes go *boop* on runway field
• Jeremy Renner's family evacuated due to wildfires
• Tito Jackson died
• Taylor Swift and other celebrities regarding advertising, platform to the people, and politics (Trump bigly mad)
• Someone tried to kill Trump again, supposedly, and again, didn't accomplish anything other than headaches and fundraising opportunities for Trump
• When "Leon" fired his personal handler...
• local comic-con information, featuring Atreyu
• Wednesday season 2 isn't coming until 2025?!
  

Episode 535: Bullets and Books: The Apalachee School Story

Bart and Norma discuss recent celebrity deaths, "cat eyes" for your hands and yet another US school shooting in a seemingly endless parade of school shootings. Oh, and Apple had another event announcing new super expensive toys.

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Show Notes:

• Medicare stuff
• Let's pretend Norma is paying attention
  
• TSA hates "Cat Eyes"
• Adam Savage blade vs TSA story
  
• RIP Obi Ndefo
• Norma whines about her sleep schedule
  
• RIP James Earl Jones
• Trump "weaves" intricate confabulations using multidimensional dementia 
• "Third gender" 
• Hundred Rabbits
  
• Big surprise, another school shooting
• Apple announcements at Apple Event
  

Episode 534: In Memoriam: Mongo Kitty

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a supercommuting douche, Reagan was terrible for education (and more), the Living Computer Museum is being completely disassembled, and we touch on the passing of one of our feline family members and periodic uninvited podcast guest, Mongo Kitty.

Farewell, Mongo. You will be missed, buddy.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_534.mp3

Show Notes:

• Cobol "Beebs" Kitty is playing and doesn't want recording to interrupt playtime
• School has started
• Why do we have summer off in the US for school students?
• Starbucks CEO gets to supercommute 1000+ miles
• People are not happy about it
• Reagan: we need to make sure Americans are stupid and can't get into colleges
• Oklahoma does NOT like teachers teaching about banned book titles
• Companies are posting "ghost jobs"
• Dave Plummer and the Living Computer Museum
• Big tech complying with the government
• One of the NSA exploits stolen from them and unleashed on the public
• RFK not only played with a bear carcass, he sawed the head off a whale and toddled home with it strapped to the roof of a minivan
• Mongo Kitty passed away and will be missed
  

Mongo - Thank You For the Memories

 

Episode 533: Mostly Feedback Day

Bart, Norma and Voretaq mostly discuss feedback this week...Olympics, Kirk Cameron being Kirk Cameron, homeschooling, auctioning props, and MAGA is definitely not weird. You know, the usual stuff.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_533.mp3

Show Notes:

• Where do old people go?
• Olympics and drugs
  
• Kirk Cameron thinks you raise your kids wrong
• Homeschooling
  
• RIP Phil Donahue
• Bart first saw BEHEMOTH on Phil's show
• Indiana Jones hat goes to auction
• Link to the Prop Store
• Scotty, Enterprise Chief Engineer, has been in space awhile. Or some of him, anyway.
• Once again, MAGA proves they're definitely not weird, this time by proudly displaying semen sample cups for JD Vance, which is definitely not weird.
  

Episode 532: Let's Talk Olympics

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the Olympics, controversies, "couch f*cker" Vance, and car repairs, among other things...relatively quiet week but full of little little little things.

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_532.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq is a ghost on the recording line for a short period, but that's fixed
• AOC and asthma among her constituents
• Olympics and Eiffel Tower climber
• Woman dies on baggage conveyor at airport
• One of the best videos, in my opinion, on why the Olympics are actually bad for so many reasons
• Nigerian Olympian had to borrow a bike
• Tenacious D "cancelled" after Trump comments
• Were older homes just assembled from stuff that was found around the neighborhood??
• School merging, costs, feasibility study, etc.

Episode 531: You Don't Understand That WE Are The Victims!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss movie parody/satire/commentary and American Christian need to be persecuted/the victim, Louisiana requires religious indoctrination in public classrooms, and Kyle Rittenhouse won't vote for Trump until he does because Trump followers swear he's a she!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_531.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq back after 2 missed recordings
• Deadpool and Wolverine backlash because it "mocks Jesus"
• Bear has picnic in person's kitchen
• Offended at the movies
  
• DUI offender kills another person
• Idiot motorcyclist commits crime, boasts about it
• 10 commandments required in Louisiana schools "Constitutionally"
• Even better 10 commandments for the classroom
• Kyle Rittenhouse declares he won't vote for Trump due to not possibly allowing him to shoot people, immediately turns around when MAGA decides he's trans and must die or be threatened with death
• Couch rumors and JD Vance: what a weirdo

Episode 530: When Furballs Attack

Bart and Norma have another cat visiting the studio as a guest in addition to the usual sidekick furball. We also discuss the use of kinematics, the release of the Massey massacre video, and how Google's autocomplete suggestions are kind of revealing more than some idiots think they do!

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Show Notes:

• Pet snake found alive
• Project 2025 facts and myths
• Splitting TV seasons into sub-seasons is annoying as hell
• Fact of Live revival dead because of one particular "star"
• "Kinematics" is a word, yes. Used in animation, along with other purposes
• Norma knows words
• Massey massacre
• Video (granted, it's on a @#$-awful site, but...oh well...)
• How do autocomplete suggestions work on Google?
• Adam Savage and the TSA...security theater
  

Episode 529: Biden' His Time

Bart and Norma discuss more guns in schools...because of course that solves the problem...Twiki can drive cars, cellphones are going to be removed from PA schools (HA!) and the GOP is really mad they got their way and Biden is stepping down.

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Show Notes:

•  Superintendent plays police officer
• Bob Newhart added to the list of recent celebrity deaths
• Twiki driving a car
• Marijuana and pregnancy
• GOP searching for ways to sue DNC for Biden dropping out when they weren't ready to get their way
• Cellphones in PA schools
• Project 2025 IS BAD

 

Episode 528: Death Parade

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss what else, the attempted assassination of the Orange Man. Along with a parade of celebrity deaths this week... (Also, ALF was a terrible show for the actors and crew to work on.)

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Show Notes:

• Deaths...so many...
• Shelly Duvall
• ALF's Benji Gregory
• Richard Simmons, RIP you delightfully wonderful gentleman
• Dr. Ruth, the OG Huck Tuah girl
• Shannon Doherty
• Martin Mull
  
• James Sikking
• William "Rusty" Golden
  
• Joe Bonsall
  
• The TV show ALF was a nightmare for the cast and crew...
• What we know of the Trump (attempted) shooter so far
• Another what-we-know
• Trump stealing classified documents isn't a concern for Trump-appointed judge
• Stupid cat likes scaling doors
• Kitten storytime
• Daily Show won't broadcast from RNC post-shooting...
• Persona non-grata Nikki Haley suddenly allowed to attend AND speak at RNC,...are they trying to use her as bait for another shooter?
• Fire chief sad Trump survived, says so, and quits after bomb threats made to fire department
  

Episode 527: Hawk Tuah That Thing

Bart and Norma discuss adult crayons, surviving the 4th of July, Hawk Tuah girl is handed a media empire (good luck with that...), Cobol the Meth-head Kitten makes her presence known in the recording studio, and insurance in America is terrible...did we miss anything?

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Show Notes:

• Someone escaped a prison because they just...walked out of a hospital. Then it was noticed three days later and they were "recaptured" within hours
• Missing comment but it wasn't missing it was just...kind of missing
• Awesome adult crayons
• Gaston has died in the most American way possible
• When Kittens Attack!
• Hawk Tuah girl Hailey Welch launching social media brand from viral spitting-on-weenis video
• Cow tax propaganda...
• Who's to blame for pollution?
• Drug/insurance costs...this country is terrible
• Legal Eagle video describing why the Supreme Court's latest display of Trump corruption is one of the worst decisions ever with long-reaching effects...
  

Episode 526: Dental Dilemmas and Dummies in Debates

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the #$%^ called "Presidential debate", Swedish prison breaks and prison labor in the US, local dentistry and the most unlucky bear in the world!

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Show Notes:

• AI customer service
• Dental support stories
• Where was everyone?
• Debate? That was a debate? What the hell was that?
• Donald "Von ShitzInPantz" continues to hold title after pooping on debate stage
• Representative Andy Ogles finds another way to not do his job while wasting time and money
• Mike Johnson disagrees that Biden would be on drugs, but might be juiced on energy drinks instead...
• Trump terrified of sharks...because...who the hell knows?
• Robot anti-Biden text messages during recording...
• Tractor Supply idiotic corporate statement on why they can't be nice to people anymore
• Swedish jailbreak leads to chocolate cake and movie night
• Find out who owns your representatives!
• Companies that use prison labor...you might be surprised
• Red Box parent files for bankruptcy
• Streaming discussion
• Unluckiest bear in the world
  

Episode 525: Short Update Show

Bart gives a quick solo update podcast and runs through some feedback

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Show Notes:

• Farmers on roads
• Mower video from David Plummer
  
• Donald Sutherland, RIP
• Upcoming: Trump vs Biden "Debate"

Episode 524: Be Proud This Month

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss moving-day troubles, living on a boat, pride month problems, and Trump agreed to a debate without an audience to play to?!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_524.mp3

Show Notes:

• Cobol is not a good helper in studio recording
• When did we record? How long as Voretaq been gone? Voretaq knew about Cobol??
• Troubles when moving
• LET'S LIVE ON A BOAT
• Lets talk houses
• Pride month makes insecure people feel bad
• Bridge vs. truck, ended in a tie
• There's an agreed-to "debate" for Biden vs. Trump...which may prove interesting?
• Fred Trump information...is dementia inherited?
• Trump vs...battery...sharks?
  

Episode 523: GOP Doesn't Hate Gays, They Just SAY They Do

Bart and Norma discuss a cute kitten, Walmart giving a pittance penalty, Trump was scummy before getting into the White House, an Amish skirmish, an idiot thinks he's somehow a special gay person that the GOP doesn't hate because...why? And some employers are complaining that employees treat phones like fax machines as a communications medium.

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Show Notes:

• Cobol is being cute while traveling
  
• Walmart non-settlement
• Trump housing discrimination legal troubles, pre-White House
  
• PA pretends it cares about education
• Amish farm issue in local-ish area
  
• GOP doesn't hate gays, they just say they do! (says gay GOP member)
• Young(er) workers don't want to use the phone because talking to people is a stupid waste of time
• Hints of Pat Sajak's bad people cardholder status...
  

Episode 522: TRUMP IS FOUND GUILTY

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Slack AI being trained on (unwitting?) customers, a kitten named Cobol, graduation time has arrived, and making alcohol with your own gut. Oh, and an orange former President is found guilty of several felonies (not that he'll have consequences...we'll have to wait and see if there are actual consequences...)

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_522.mp3

Show Notes:

• Episode starts weird with an oddly silent Voretaq. Turns out he wasn't recorded on his channel. It was mostly fixed.
• He hates traffic
• Slack users mad about private conversations not being private...
• Yes, there's a kitten crying over the mic in the background. Her name is Cobol, named after COBOL.
• Graduation stuffs
• The story of Cobol (not COBOL)
• The video Dude overheard and thus named Cobol after
• Making alcohol with your tummy and some bread
• Trump GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY
• More graduation stuffs
  

Episode 521: Trans Agenda Hits (Near) Home

Voretaq rejoins! At least for today. He has testing coming up so he may miss next week, but it doesn't matter since it's a holiday and we'll all miss it.

In this episode we discuss the invasion of the trans agenda in small town podunk schools, Red Lobster going bankrupt and Conservatives seem to like child marriage a little bit...suspiciously too much...

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_521.mp3

Show Notes:

• Sound problems start the show off, making the intro a little weirder than usual but probably at this point is par for the course...
• Trans people peeing in schools becomes a local issue...and it's just mind blowing.
• On being offended
• "We don't have racism in Pennsylvania"...wut?
• PA hate/antigovernment groups
• McDonald's outpaces McInflation
• Trying to remember the Big Mac Index
• Norma got older. Now on Cosequin regimen
• Furry information/education site. In case you're a moron, they're not pooping in litter boxes in schools
• The state of Red Lobster
• Disney employees and shared underwear
• Conservatives really really really seem to like marrying and impregnating teens
  

Episode 520: Summer is coming, Hide!

Bart and Norma discuss Voretaq's disappearance, busy with holiday and recent events, flight attendants don't serve peanuts when they're paid peanuts, podunk town problems, and Christians show love by acting with hate!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_520.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq might return next week...
• Recent goings-on kept us busy
• On the idea of gifts in today's economy
• Awesome video I transferred, only the online version here
• McDonalds, renown for keeping employees poor, laments not getting enough business from poor people
• Flight attendants aren't paid enough to live on
• Who owns the news?
• Dog Treat Traps
• Mini-Mart in podunk town sells million-dollar ticket
• Podunk town supervisor, Republican, investigated for child porn, still not a drag queen accused of the abuse...
• School insisting Christians are welcoming and kind attack high school artist for questioning how welcoming and kind Christians are
• School thinks mural is satanic and evil due to pretty colors, declares it must be destroyed

Episode 519: Roid Rage in Blue

Bart and Norma discuss upcoming elections (from a comment, not my usual ranting!), turns out "Log Cabin Republicans" are the most anti-gay pro-gay GOP group, protests, and police don't like being told they can't use their non-prescription roid-drugs! Also, why is there a vocal group of men so very very angry that women would rather risk being mauled by a bear instead of encountering them? WHY? TELL THEM WHY! WHY WOULD YOU CHOOSE THAT?! <picks up rocks and sharp sticks> TELL THEM NOW!

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Show Notes:

• Election mention
• My mistake, Feinstein died in office in 2023 at the age of 90...at some point, they noticed.
  
• Log Cabin Republicans are...pro...gay...? What?
• Narcan availability
• The current college protest movement
• NYPD mad there's a crackdown on non-prescribed steroids for the roid-raged-in-blue
• STOP TRUSTING LARGE COMPANIES TO HOLD YOUR DATA WITHOUT SPYING/CENSORSHIP/ANY OF A NUMBER OF OTHER BAD THINGS HAPPENING
• Pool-house mentioned in podcast
• Miss USA resigning...why?
• Man Vs. Bear...BEAR WINS! Men get very mad at this...why?
  

Episode 518: Buppy is Visiting the Studio

Bart and Norma discuss her trip, our mentally ill dog, a rock/gem show, a guy who set himself on fire and a school that's afraid an icky man will make their kids icky. Also, streaming services suck at software!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_518.mp3

Show Notes:

• Buppy missed his mother and Dude being gone for an extended period of time, making his mental anxiety issues worse...
• Can cats sense death?
• Bart and Dude to go a rock and mineral show
• Lips, butt, similar?
  
• Man sets self on fire outside Trump hearing in NYC
• PA school decides gay "lifestyle" is icky, cancels anti-bullying talk for fear of students turning gay
• Dead Boy Detectives, Baby Reindeer, and Stargate link to Dead Boy Detectives
• Paramount news, why streamers suck
  

Episode 517: Why Florida?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss an upcoming trip to our most terrible effed-up state, Florida! OJ Simpson no longer worries about his ex-wife's killer on the loose, Starship Troopers was a great movie, Nike wants you to "Just Do This", and the Trump Trial begins!

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_517.mp3

Show Notes:

• The latest form of weirdness in our audio is fun, but it's working well enough...
• Norma leaves before the next show...
• Telling field trip stories
• OJ died
• Should schools teach "pop-culture"?
• Movie nights with dude 
• Starship Troopers
  
• Nike wants you to see female athlete hoo-ha's
• Trump trial begins today! Only...it's just jury selection, and he still got in some idiotic trouble...
• Human trafficking...
• Trump's stock fell because he's such a business genius
• After that recording, it fell...again.
  

Episode 516: Movie Nights with Dude

Bart and Norma discuss measles, Tim Allen/Home Improvement, and viewing iconic and/or symbolic movies from our past with our Dude. Also some passing comments of people who are wealthy, popular, and problematic despite their transgressions, because society is terrible.

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Show Notes:

• Measles redux
• Home Improvement star in legal problems again
• Talks of Home Improvement reboot are false, says Home Improvement mom
• Pamela Anderson talks Tim Allen behavior in memoir
• "The Rock" keeps politics to himself by appearing on Fox and Friends
• Discussed Mark Wahlberg's past and problematic behavior
• Matthew Broderick's past...incident.
  
• Louis Gossett Junior passes away
• Watching movies from our past with our Dude
  

Episode 515: Texas Needs PA Protection!

Bart and Norma discuss shortened work weeks, citizenship tests, Kyle Rittenhouse runs away from questions because...snowflake? And all the Conservatives want to make an appearance for the cameras in Texas!

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Show Notes:

• Audio triggers that make the brain wobble
• Selling blood for wedding costs
• Shorter work week
• Bullshit Jobs 
• Taking a citizenship test to graduate...
  
• Town tries to kill local industry by discouraging "illegal people" they rely on
  
• Measles making a comeback
• You shouldn't drink mold
• New claims about Princess' disappearance
• Watch Rittenhouse Run
• Turning Point feels Memphis plotted against them to coordinate violent protest and endanger poor weak turd Rittenhouse, complaint allegedly alleges
• PA Republicans must take advantage of Conservative fearmongering in Texas border standoff by sending paramilitary groups for photo op
• Apparently there's a holiday next week, so no show...
  

Episode 514: Time Change is Terrible

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss school preparedness (kind of), problems with planning school trips, big men in military cammo are lurking in NYC subways because security theater is a thing, explore Dead Domain's video channel for their fun infiltration videos (and more!), and you missed buying a Soprano's booth off eBay!

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Show Notes:

• Server problem followup
• Trip planning tribulations
• PA school emergency preparedness
• Surgery speculation
• Cinnamon recall
• NYC and the National Guard in the subways
• Mistake: It was BoBo that threw away the pin of the Uvalde victim
• Dead Domain YouTube channel
• Soprano's booth prop/location sold on eBay
  

Episode 513: Project 2025: Order A Red Cloak Now, Ladies!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss some recent news items, celebrate the rumored downstepping of Mitch McConnell, Love on the Spectrum and the portrayal of people on the spectrum, police retaliation suits and Congress is as productive as you'd expect at this point! And we touch on Project 2025...be afraid. Seriously.

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Show Notes:

• Moscow Mitch stepping down?
• Request Tracker problem...
  
• "Where we're going, we don't need roads!" Yes, yes you do...
• Daylight savings changes sucks
• Amish woman murdered
• Fire trucks collide
• Love on the Spectrum
• Least productive Congress in decades
• Look at the Axios graph!
• Project 2025 - If you're not a theocratic fascist, you should probably be pretty damn afraid...
• Police retaliation
• payuptrump.com
  

Episode 512: Squirrels vs Cops

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss more shootings (surprise), bed bugs, the police wage war on acorns, and embryos are now children in Alabama but you can't apparently claim them legally as children on taxes? WHY? Also, vending machines are spying on you.

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Show Notes:

• Facetime interface is terrible. And RedditUI. Interfaces are terrible.
• Outer Banks actor arrested at hospital
• Superbowl parade shooting suspects
• Taytay donates to parade shooting victim
• Bed bug invasion
• New thermos cup released by Stanley
• Cops unload on squad car when first cop is attacked by vicious acorn
• The videos from body cams via NBC news
• Corporations with billions in profits pay less proportionately than average Americans. Ridiculously less. Like equivalent of fractions of pennies. Except when they get refunds. Negative taxes.
• lump of cells are now children in Alabama
  
• Clinics: we can't just re-open
• GOP Congress person who used IVF supports bill that would ban IVF, insists she's not a moron and ginormous hypocrite
  
• Missouri, Texas, Arizona, Arkansas: we don't care if you're being abused or threatened with death, you can't get a divorce when there's a babby in your belly!
• Marriage as contracts 
• University removes vending machine after facial recognition system is discovered 
• That quote is apparently from the vending machine vendor??
  
• Duck facts
• Yes, a high pitched alarm beeeeeeeeep happens around this time of the show. It goes away. Sorry.
• Castle doctrine in the state of PA
• Bored teachers comedy tour
  

Episode 511: TayTay Wins the Superbowl

Bart and Norma had a relatively quiet week...we've had a few of those, for the most part, recently? Maybe? Now we're going to be cursed for thinking that.

This week we discuss the successful Superbowl brainwashing of America with Operation TayTay, Trump insists TayTay would be a disloyal traitor if she didn't endorse him since he made her such a rich superstar, Paramount+ pretended their Superbowl streaming failures were minor and somehow Rob Schneider became a topic, mostly about mental health.

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Show Notes:

• Superbowl done, Tay Tay has endorsed Biden with the help of the Pentagon, FBI and Antifa enforced by BLM, and all the Conservatives were murdered by fumes from her private plane flying over the stadium behind the F16s in a massive patriotic display except for their children that were hidden in a pizza shop basement under the stadium.
• Trump states that Swift would be "disloyal" if she endorsed Biden, since he made her so much many the most money...
• Paramount+ did not fare well in the Superbowl streaming
• Insurance company tracking driving for potential discounts
• Rob Schneider is...something
• Holiday (sort of?) coming up...join us in two weeks for the next episode!
  

Episode 510: Tay Tay at the Super Bowl-ay!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Taylor Swift's (potential?) Super Bowl appearance and the rabid turmoil from the GOP idiots over her rumored appearance at the Super Bowl, hate-speech books loved by bigots, Elon Musk, from South Africa, rails against immigrants, Ted Cruz wants special secret treatment at airports, and Tennessee loves guns too much to care about statistics!

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Show Notes:

• Taylor Swift: Will she or Won't She?!...(appear at the super bowl...)
• Ann Coulter suggests Trump would best serve the country by dying 
• "Meth Valley" discussion 
• Ever hear of "The Turner Diaries"?
• Elon the Musk rants about immigration (How far into the Q Pool is this idiot diving?) 
• Ted Cruz wants to escape the US on vacations without people seeing him leave 
• GOP loosens rules leading to skyrocketing gun thefts from cars in Tennessee; morons still defend it as a good decision
  
• Predator and Rocky star Carl Weathers dead
• Charles: From King to Cancer
  

Episode 509: Date Night Destinations

Voretaq is back with Bart and Norma, discussing dating and "upscale" restaurants, Trump (NOT MY FAULT it came up!) and running for President from prison, and a DJ was found dead in a weird circumstance...

Direct Download: https://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_509.mp3

Show Notes:

• Applebees promos creates a stir at quick sellout for dating nights discount
• Yes, you can run for President while behind bars in the US
• Drive it like you stole it
• Slick Rick (the DJ, not rapper) decapitated
• Viagra to fight Alzheimer's?
• White House in the Trump years had a pharmacy that handed out uppers and downers like candy
  
• Amelia Earhart's plane found?
• Absenteeism in schools
  

Episode 508: Slow News is Snooze News

Bart and Norma go over news items, and it's been kind of slow...which is really good for January, especially on an election year in the US! The only "election" discussion centers on everyone's favorite punchable face, DeSantis, officially quitting his bid for the big chair. Also discussed, Alec Baldwin, Taylor Swift, stupid lawsuits and whining about school uniform design. Are we a gossip cast now?

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Show Notes:

• Adan Canto passes away of cancer of the appendix
• Taylor Swift's cat is very wealthy?
• Alec Baldwin indicted again
• Human impersonator DeSantis drops from Presidential race
• Frivolous lawsuit: "My Reeses Halloween pumpkin doesn't have a face!"
• Oklahoma and their b@%sh@t crazy GOP lawmaker...
• Was this H&M ad sexualizing children?
• Stanley cup craze
• Reese Witherspoon ate snow, morons flip out
  

Episode 507: Not Yet Episode 601

Bart and Norma discuss weather, notes from...another dimension?...celebrities continue to die, and did you know you can open bags of snacks with lighters?

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Show Notes:

• The weather outside is doubtful... 
• School cancellation and delays discussion
• Ghostbusters sequel sequel
  
• Stiff Person Syndrome
• Weird Notes
• Reddit Notes
• RIP Tommy Smothers
• New Year's quake
• RIP Hutch of Starsky and Hutch
• "X, formerly known as Twitter..." Hence, "Xitter."
  
• The things you find in a closet...
• He used a...lighter?
• $10K in the wrong gift cards...?
• Fort Worth explosion