Episode 559: Somewhat Almost Quiet Week

Bart and Norma discuss tax day (a still looming dark cloud), more celebrity deaths, Trump hates his portrait which for some reason he has an odd fixation against, we mentioned in passing the Maitland Ward and Danielle Fishel "feud" (if there is one), and there were protests against President Musk and VP Trump over the weekend that seemed to go pretty well...

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Show Notes:

• Tax day cometh
• Val Kilmer passed away at 65
• Someone forced RFK to say measles shot would maybe kind of stopped some child deaths...
• Jay North passed away
• Painter of Trump portrait that Trump has weird fascination with says presidential whining has threatened her business...surprise. 
• The Orville may be returning, probably not, but maybe? 
• Maitland Ward vs Danielle Fishel
•  Idaho afraid of boobs and truck nuts, because there's nothing of higher priority to do?
• April 5th anti-Trump anti-Musk protests...success? 
• Stock market continues plummet into financial hell

 

Episode 558: The Turd Reich Marches Forth Over COBOL

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss airbags for old people, the continuing adventures of the Turd Reich, Broligarch and fake brogrammer Elon Musk and his Doggies want to rewrite the ENTIRE BACKEND OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION in a matter of months because apparently he's a slow learner, Tesla is sketchy (surprise), and Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress...can she win? Also, our RIP our old NYC grocery cart...hello our new GROCERY WAGON!

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Show Notes:

• Mythbusters used dead pigs in concrete in part of an episode to look for Jimmy Hoffa. I miss that show.
•  Airbag vests for motorcyclists, old people, etc.
•  Der Turd Führer wants a third term
•  "Capitalism killed the movie start"
•  Ivermectin over-the-counter in Arkansas because they're idiots
• Our take: it's fine when idiots let Darwinism win
•  Doggy wants to rewrite the entire back-end of Social Security; if they do this, SSA will most likely collapse
• Looking at getting rid of our old car. 
• Tesla vehicles turn off Autopilot moments before a crash, not at all suspicious
•  Florida child labor fun
•  Kat Abughazaleh for Congress
• Want to learn about German expat process? Feli from Germany 
• "The Furred Reich" ... furry Republicans?
• Note: the book in the article has since been pulled and title changed on Amazon. 
• The entire Conservative party in the USA is based on a platform of targeting and hurting someone. Some group, some person, some party, always hurt "them" and followers assume they are the exception, one of the "good ones." Then they're shocked when they're not in that exception club. Screw those people, you knew what you signed up for.
• Doggy hates Pinchy the Arm Extender
  

Episode 557: DUI Hire Shares Military Plans With Reporter?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss tax chaos, Trump's brought "competence" to the government if you have a really special definition of competence (and keeping military secrets), Snow White is somehow worth headlines, and someone decided to make a website where you can find Tesla owners and property in case you want to "support" Tesla and Musk's efforts to make America more Nazi again.

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Show Notes:

•  Norma talks "4th concussion"
•  Taxes: to pay, or not to pay...that is the question...
•  Hegseth the DUI hire among those that sent military plans to reporter over Signal chat group
•  Trump "pimping out White House" by grifting Easter Egg Hunt to "sponsors"
•  Snow White live-action Disney remake causing polarization. Followup side note - it appears to be getting review bombed now
•  Guy voted Trump, immigrant wife detained and possibly deported,...
• ...dude doesn't care
• Trump reminded Canadians why people like Trump are bad people just as they were starting to warm up to electing a Trump
• Dogequest website definitely wasn't tacitly encouraging anti-Tesla behavior 
• Dogequest Unleashed now (re-)launched via dark web
• Former US attorney found dead, definitely doesn't appear suspicious 
• Toddler picture of former President FDR:
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• Careless People: The book FaceBook execs really really don't want you to read

 

Episode 556: ICE Ain't Nice

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss so many contemporary actors and celebrities are dying now, I guess the US now disappears people they don't like (due process is not a thing anymore?), sports are stupid and yet another week where leaving the country seems to be an attractive option...

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Show Notes:

•  Norma was stopped by the police...
• Hackman & family causes of death ruled
•  One legged pants because...why?
•  South Carolina: death by firing squad...
•  David Hasselhoff ex Pam Bach dead by suicide
•  ICE now "disappears" people who disagree with Trump and/or his policies
•  Discussion of leaving the country comes up again as a friend has decided to take the steps to leave overseas permanently
•  The stupid just...hurts.
•  George Lowe, voice of Space Ghost, passed away
• Dumbass thinks being mean to Tesla owners should be a "hate crime"
•  JD Vance confused about memes of himself circulating Internet
• Why not separate people by ability instead of sex?
  

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...