Episode 555: Taking Bets on a Musk Interview

Voretaq's back! He's been missing so long, the recording setup has rusted, so there's some glitches getting him recorded. But this time, Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss celebrity deaths, a new season of THE ORVILLE!? IS IT TRUE??, Musk is a terrible rat in our opinion, the fourth turning is here and you DEFINITELY shouldn't send false reports of DEI to the Department of Education...

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Show Notes:

• Michelle Trachtenberg dead at 39
• Gene Hackman's household dead, authorities suspicious
• The Orville new season FINALLY being made??
•  Canada: Let's Revoke Musk's Citizenship!
• Musk says he'll go on Daily Show for an interview with caveat that it's unedited. We know he probably won't.  
• Musk already couches the offer in wording to back out of appearance
• Not the first time Musk talks big, delivers nothing
  
• Book: The Fourth Turning is Here
• West Virginia wants to pretend the Bible is historically accurate, and use it as a history book. There's a reason West Virginia has terrible education scores.
• You definitely should not place complaints to this Department of Education federal government site that are invalid or misleading, and definitely do not waste storage and resources on false reports to this site: https://enddei.ed.gov/ 
• Probably can't get a flu shot this year...

Episode 554: Is It Time to Leave the US?

Bart and Norma discuss scams and thefts, a woman dared to question a GOP town hall and was hauled out by what appears to be jackbooted fascists, Musk is a terrible father who wants to know 5 things you did at work this week and is it time to leave the country?

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Show Notes:

• Thieves steal belongings, use bank card to buy lotto ticket, wins lots of money. Victim offering to split winning if they return wallet.
•  Story: employer changes direct deposit info because scammers wanted money
• Lotto talk - some states don't have lottery ticket sales
  
•  Why tomatoes won't kill you when they totally should
•  Captain America movie mention
•  Woman dragged from town hall for daring to oppose fascist conservatives, non-uniformed "security" refusing to identify themselves plus non-uniformed "sheriff" instigated jackbooted event
• More update info, and they still sound like fascist thugs
• AI Trump licking Elon Musk's toes in government building 
• Musk is a terrible father, claims world 
• Mother of Musk's 13th child...
• Musk didn't walk away from little Meatshield, the clip is misleading, but I still wouldn't have such a small child in that position in the first place...but that's me.
•  Feel free to email hr@opm.gov or directly to any of the HR1, HR2, HR3...HR-whatever-it-goes-to...@opm.gov addresses with five accomplishments this week. Because Elon is an idiot!
•  Feli: German Election Explanation
• Is it time to leave the country?
  

Episode 553: Sailing the Gulf of Stupid

Bart and Norma discuss mostly the chaos and crazy of the current oligarchy because credit where due, Trump is actually doing things...bad things, pointless things, but he's doing things.

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Show Notes:

• Executive orders list for the Trump version 2.0 Gilead program
• UnitedHealth continues to be utterly terrible people
• Privatization in public schools...
• Flu Fun
• Leaving the country for retirement
• Feli from Germany
  

Episode 552: Sea of Stupid

Bart and Norma discuss stupidity. There's way too much stupidity. And it's only getting worse.

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Show Notes:

• Tax time, complications, society is ruled by f$#%$ idiots with #@$%^ rules that are arbitrarily complicated and stupid
• "Who is Stephen King?"...duh. 
• Police departments, tanks, splitting hairs...stop being stupid.
• Shauna Rae and her unique challenges as a 20-something looking like an 8 year old
  
• Shark gives birth when it shouldn't have been able to give birth
• Plane Crash One: Washington DC
• Plane Crash Two: Philly
• Plane Accident Three: Chicago
• Groundhog sees bad weather ahead
• Visit EllBat's YT channel. Or don't. You do you.
• RFK did say AIDS was different in Africa versus the US. Among other blatant lies.
  

Episode 551: Sliding Into (Project) 2025!

Bart and Norma discuss work/life balance in Denmark, an alternative to health insurance that isn't really much of an alternative, weighted blankets and hug machines, pardons, and Trump's sudden interest in executing Project 2025, which he said he knows nothing about!

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Show Notes:

• Work/Life Balance and Happiness with the Danes
• A Health Care Alternative: Less Regulation, Greater Risk!
• Weighted Blankets
• JPod
• New Dinosaur Discovered from Pre-Bombed Museum
• Pardons, plus...bonus!...one already rearrested, another shot fighting police
  
• Ancient Pants
• Trump's executive actions
• Trump is following Project 2025 objectives
  

Episode 550: A Dangerous "Educated Proletariat"

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss government-as-a-business, Reagan was a disaster in slow motion, Musk is in my opinion a man-toddler, deregulation and running government as a business are definitely not good ideas, and we have a recommended YouTube creator for you to check out!

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Show Notes:

• Trump wants Canada because he's an idiot
• Reagan was a #@$^% that started dumbing down Americans out of fear that smart people were smart
• Article: The Origin of Student Debt
• Musk's fragile toddler ego forces him to pretend he can play video games...
• Scary terrible teddy bears will cause women to forget how uteruses and babies work
• McMedia phone number...STAY CALM
• Deregulate businesses, see how that works for you...Boar's Head tries killing people with Listeria outbreak
• Feli from Germany becomes a citizen
• Fighter booted from plane for non-compliance over exit row help
  

Episode 549: A Fungus Among Us

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss radiation and kitchen decor, drug development costs vs. subsidies from taxpayers, the kitten likes getting attention before having to go to the vet for surgery, and Tesla vehicles are remotely controlled and spy on their drivers...but don't worry, it's only used for GOOD THINGS by someone who may possibly very likely be a narcissistic man-toddler (the label is only my opinion)...

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Show Notes:

• Snow...in Long Island.
• Talking about kitchens and windows and radioactive radon
• Old people in Congress, money influencing Congress, Congress is just bad
• Drug costs/development. Why can't we get drugs cheaper if tax money subsidizes them?
• Kitten wants food before her food cutoff time (surgery the next day...)
• A weird mammary-involved thing at the mall
  
• World's largest organism
• New Orlean's rampage
• So...Tesla vehicles DEFINITELY DON'T spy on their owners...
• Dude in Kentucky turned to swiss cheese over a weed eater he didnt' have...police shrug and claim dude started it...