Episode 577: Agent Donny FBI Snitch

Bart and Norma discuss Florida being Floriduh, Epstein victims speaking out, autism has an OFFICIAL SINGLE CAUSE thanks to RFK Jr, and Howard Stern isn't leaving Sirius. Yet. Also, Trump was an FBI SNITCH, NOT A KIDDIE DIDDLER! Well, that implies he was a diddler, but was caught and turned snitch to get off the hook...regardless, the White House officials are insisting they don't know what the hell the idiot Speaker is talking about, so Johnson said he didn't know what he was talking about. The real reason is Mike Johnson wanted MAGA to have something to use as an excuse, but he won't acknowledge that.

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Show Notes:

•  Robot Chicken applicable today
• Epstein victim voted for Trump...why?!
•  Agent Dumbass was an FBI informant, White House says they don't know what he's talking about
•  Taylor Swift has 13 as a lucky number
•  Florida is MAGA filth...and wants to get rid of vaccines
• Rob Schneider is still alive, apparently 
• The 'tism is caused by...TYLENOL 
• Phillies Karen got in trouble... 
• Howard Stern not leaving SiriusXM 
• Steven Tyler, scarves on mic stands, drugs 

Episode 576: Oh Dear School Is Here

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss school...well, public school...words as weapons, data centers in PA revisited, Texas wants a theocracy (yay Handmaid's Tale!), Cracker Barrel pretend Conservative whining, and Pamela Anderson apparently likes pickles? You can buy some and help a wildlife sanctuary!

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Show Notes:

• Discussion: teachers return to school. Yay.
• PBIS is not Pbis and Putthead. 
• New squeezie gel cube
• Teachers spent a lot of time reiterating stuff these idiots should have learned years ago. Or in a handbook.
• There's a custodian shortage in schools now too? 
• Weaponized Semantics... "woke", "clip", "magazine" 
• Texas can't force kids to view 10 Commandments posters in a school
• PA data center proposal causes distress to a mobile home park
• Cracker Barrel is the latest Eugenics Barbie. Release the Epstein files.
• Some interesting Snopes research on the term "cracker barrel".
• Editing/Notes Bart: There was some discussion about the origin of public education. I think we're all kind of wrong. Public education in the US seems to have origins in religious roots, and it grew from there as states defined requirements and society evolved. It's a topic unto itself.
• Want to buy some pickles from Pam Anderson's family recipes, for a good cause?  

Episode 575: MAGA is Slow to Learn

Bart and Norma discuss some feedback and what little news there is this week. My highlight is an article about the morons who actually thought Russia was a nice place to live until they criticized their lives there...big mistake, dumbass.

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Show Notes:

• Cats visit. Mainly Princess Meow Meow.
• One-hit wonders stuff. Sort of. 
• Amazon outsourcing deliveries (yes you can become an Uberazon Driver!) 
• Super old astronauts die under odd circumstances...
• Hurricane Erin won't be adding local drama
• MAGAts move to Russia and discover they are morons.  Is "MAGA" the new "Slow Learner"?
• A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear 
• Felony sandwich-throwing, but only if it's targeted at a MAGA SS goon squad 

Episode 574: Dean Cain as Homelander

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss zoo donations, nukes on the moon, Dean Caine now starring as real-life Homelander, the iPad as a laptop replacement, and that's about it, so...mainly crappy people who happen to be actors of fondly remembered characters?

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Show Notes:

•  Denmark zoo wants your unwanted animals
•  Next on the space race: nuke plant on the moon
•  Dean Cain: from Superman to Homelander
• Screen refresh rate discussion
• Norma wants to look at an iPad-as-a-computer-replacement 
• Justice Department fires spouse of app developer 
• Rapper claims Tesla disabled his vehicle remotely, Tesla issues rare denial 
• Silver Couch Surfer 

Episode 573: Friendship Goals and Leopards Eating Faces

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Disney, a new Star Trek story about Khan featuring Tuvok and Sulu, a Tennessee school district doesn't like the optics of teachers asking for supplies the school won't get for them, American Eagle is courting the MAGA Nazi crowd with their latest ad about superior genes, and a reminder that leaded gas was poisoning people for half a century because some companies loved their profit more than not killing customers...also, voting has consequences, you're experiencing them, please stop complaining about getting what you wanted.

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Show Notes:

• Shooting in NYC (mentioned last week, I think?)
• Fantastic Four
• George Takei  and Tim Russ reunite for the podcast Star Trek: Khan
• George Lucas and his artist museum
• Disney is a law firm that happens to make movies 
• Loni Anderson RIP, and aging actress surgery syndrome discussion 
• TN superintendent won't let teachers post Amazon wish lists because it makes them look bad; "People will think we aren't getting you supplies that you aren't getting."
• County that rejected installation of weather warning system, had the camp apply for exceptions to flood zone building, supported Trump cuts to NOAA and FEMA, now complains they aren't getting relief/disaster support and funds...
• American Eagle likes eugenics? Voretaq doesn't care. I think it's wrong to tacitly normalize Nazi tactics. But whatever, right? Some say it's just an ad, or you're reading into it,...this link makes the connection between AE CEO and Trump means it's a little less coincidence they're celebrating Aryan-appearing Sweeney as having the best genes.
• They knew leaded gas was a poison. It was also profitable. So...we had leaded gas. 
• Building 100% American 

Episode 572: Was It Quiet?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss what few headlines have passed our way this week, which mostly was fallout of pissing off Stephen Colbert and the South Park gang, and Hulk Hogan died, countering the idea that terrible horrible people live longer.

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Show Notes:

•  Voretaq: developing for iOS is terrible
•  Syncing music between iPhone and Mac is more difficult than it should be. The note in the discussion isn't mentioned in online troubleshooting, and there's more to it than I think is mentioned, involving a small matrix of possibilities (probably due to licensing issues for Apple), and it looks like it had changed over time what does and doesn't work.
•  Funeral Home(s) accused of mishandling remains
•  YouTuber and author Caitlin Doughty mentioned in our conversation that discusses questions, history, news, etc. regarding funeral homes and mortician work
•  Walmart stabby stabby attack
•  More on the Memex
•  Hulk Hogan died. Nothing of value was lost. He was a terrible person. In my opinion.
•  Colbert advertises South Park link to YouTube PSA about how much Trump loves us
• We have been watching The Pitt, apparently it's pretty medically accurate 

Episode 571: Trump and Epstein...Really?

Bart and Norma discuss her recent surgery to explain her speaking issues, Superman is too "woke" (what the hell does that even mean?!), a Christian camp washes away after being built in a flood-prone area that lacks flood warning equipment in an area so Republikan they refused to used Biden-sourced funds to upgrade warning systems, Epstein not only had no "files" but he didn't even exist let alone kill himself!

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Show Notes:

• Surgery worked, still recovering, will take awhile...
• Christian camp washed away. Didn't really spend much time on that, didn't even get into how the county thumbed their nose at funds that would have installed a warning system and likely saved lives. 
• Superman is "too woke"
• Dean Cain is the Kevin Sorbo of the Superman franchise? 
• Superman and history
• Memex - a device, or vision, that could perhaps save us from the age of AI
• Malcolm Jamal Warner RIP
• Data centers coming to PA
• Robot delivery agents riding subways, distributing to 7-Elevens in China
• Epstein discussion from comment question
• "Gen Z Stare" - Current "Get off my lawn" whining of old people vs. young people 

Episode 570: Red GOP, Blue Dems,...White MAGA?

Bart and Norma discuss some general chatter, but there's some focus on idiots. I suppose many of our topics are about idiots, so we'll narrow this one down to having a "political" party that sooner believes in magic weather machines murdering Christian conservatives instead of climate change being ignored.

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Show Notes:

• It's raining, but there's still all sorts of (illegal) fireworks going off 
• ScarJo had a fear to face in Jurassic World
• NextDoor
• Guess he didn't throw his kid overboard on a Disney cruise...
• Star Wars actor dies of Covid + pneumonia
• Marjorie Taylor Greene uses deaths in Texas from NOAA shutdown and DOGE cuts to instead outlaw imaginary chemtrails 
• Kennedy wants you to wear health trackers to make you healthier. Bonus: government tracks what you're doing, and lobbyists profit off the collected data, and insurance companies can use it against you. Yay! 
• "You must quickly pass state budget before I pass the federal Big Beautiful Bill that will defund hospitals and make people vote me out of office!" I paraphrase, but...well... 
• Mean girl Elon threatens mean girl Trump with 3rd political party, tanks stock in the process (again)  
• Children in US keep dying more than children in comparable countries 
• Medicaid, insurance, new glasses, it's all a giant suck of energy and time where people dealing with it have given up and the companies behind it are profiting 

Episode 569: Battle for LA

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss rice, rich people wedding problems, farming, and streaming show schedules. General discussion. It's somewhat quiet compared to previous episodes, but still some WTF-ery from people that hate poor people because they're poor.

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Show Notes:

• Norma is not Will Smith
• Rice production in the US 
• Bezos weddings and protests go hand in hand 
• Smile and say "Cheese"
• Dead Domain and the Battle for LA
• Companies gaming the system by posting ghost jobs or other method to check a box for a regulation or grant or other government incentive
• AI and cheating 
• Nebraska, farmer, immigrant, government handouts, Trump still sucks 
• Really long periods between show releases on streaming hurts viewerships 

Episode 568: So Much Local Education Stuff

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss mostly school-related issues, but there are a couple of news items. Surprisingly not centered on just Trump bombing Iran and being surprised that it didn't go the way he thought it would. Oh, and Spaceballs 2 is on the roster for upcoming movie projects!

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Show Notes:

• Insurance is terrible still
• For comparison, Sidewinder missiles cost half a million dollars apiece. Keep in mind the military blows these up for fun but your employer doesn't think you're worth your salary. 
• Rick Moranis returns for the Search for More Money
• Bea Arthur and Betty White: Oil and Water
• Live updates on BBC site for Trump's middle east screwups

Episode 567: Parade Day Can't Beat Protest Day

This one was pretty much in limited topic, moreso than usual. We focused on educational shortcomings and protest. Because that's the highlight of the weekend. Idiots, and people protesting idiots. I'm betting Trump is going to be bigly mad that his big boy birthday parade was a giant f@&king flop, and we're going to feel the brunt of his tantrum...

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Show Notes:

• "You have a stupid job that makes you work stupid hours."
• We're at the age that celebrities we knew growing up are dying
• Insurance is a f@cking joke
• Erin Moriarty and Grave's Disease
• Angela Collier Car Talk Video
• Education systems exist with better outcomes; the US can model these for possibly better outcomes, but it's not about better education despite what talking heads and pundits say 

Episode 566: Thin Skin of Fascists

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss high school mascots, nepo-relationships in high places, the White House Fox News venue, shows that stream but still aren't released on a decent schedule and apparently there was a WWDC event recently...

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Show Notes:

•  One of Trump's new friends in charge of NASA and pisser-offer of Musk
• Wrestler-lady whines about high school mascots in Long Island
• Obama daughter doesn't want people to know her as Obama daughter in her movie making career
•  White House mulls idea of creating Fox News-type news snippets to brief illiterate Trump
•  Kkkaroline Leavitt ditches wearing performative Christian cross after Jon Stewart makes giggles at her lies
•  New Trump FEMA head didn't know the US has a hurricane season
•  Bill Atkinson, one of the genius programmers behind Macintosh, passes away
• Television shows and their release schedules and age of actors 
• Apple WWDC event recently happened apparently...

Episode 565: Elon's K-Hole Adventures

Bart and Norma discuss pennies finally going away, people who are friendly to a fault, and Elon should not be allowed to give presentations in addition to not being interviewed. He's an idiot that spent his life failing upwards. I will choose that hill to die on...Musk is super wealthy despite his lack of intelligence. He's a white-supremacist man-child in my opinion and have yet to see any indication of his brilliance.

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Show Notes:

• Pennies going bye-bye 
• They're just too nice: Williams Syndrome
• Where you can still get floppies
• Musk drug use, pants peeing 
• ULINE, in my opinion, are one step away from requiring goose-stepping around the office
• Ukraine launches massive attack on Russian bombers, taking out ~30% of their forces, and didn't bother telling the US because why would they tell Russia their plans?...but did tell Europe. Congratulations Ukraine! 
• King of the Hill voice actor murdered, possibly by homophobe with a gun...in Texas...red state...big surprise?
• Fake jobs are a growing problem 
• Tis' the season to whine about gay people having a Pride Month... 

Episode 564: Privacy vs. Convenience

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss cars, vacuums, and humidifiers spying on you and your home, along with the continued use of discontinued Windows and schools combined with "back in my day..."

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Show Notes:

• The leak is from the dehumidifier, so we have a new dehumidifier with built-in spy capabilities via network connection
• Mice are a-holes
• Indirectly using Windows
• Biden is sick
• Majority speaker says Congress needs insider trading because they're poor
• iRobot collecting data via Roomba
• Robot vacuums remotely hacked to chase pets, swear at owners
• Discussing privacy and car data collection
• Privacy4Cars - see what data your car may be collecting on you 
• School board candidate interviews/article 
• Brooklyn Bridge vs. Boat

Episode 563: The Conclave Concluded

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss floppies in airports, Trump's still bad, the conclave has concluded and Last of Us is a good show. Also, Farscape is a good show, but Norma hates it because she doesn't appreciate good shows.

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Show Notes:

• Leaving Frontier for Hughes Net satellite Internet then back to Frontier for the fiber
• Newark ATC outages causing flight problems...
• India and Pakistan are unhappy with each other. Still.
• Where floppies are still used for data transfers
• "Can't make paint that looks like gold!" - an orange moron
• Trump definitely-not-wannabe-dictator looking forward to new personal "Airforce One" flying golden bathroom from Qatar
• Highlights of Bill Gates interview on CBS
• Pope conclave information in charts
• Employee training video: Cardinals watch Conclave movie for insight on what they're supposed to do
  
• Active underwater eruption observed for the first time
• Definitely don't look up mechanophilia 
• And most definitely don't read about Edward Smith
• Newark mayor arrested, MAGA rejoices, but mostly fabricates what they celebrate 
• More details on arrest - Legal Eagle
• Last of Us (show) discussion
• Ben Browder's actual daughter played John Crichton's daughter on Farscape 
• Class action lawsuit against Apple for Siri spying

Episode 562: Conservatives: "Let's Deport Cancer Kids"

Bart and Norma discuss pay for sportsball players vs. actual people doing work for society as a whole, Thunderbolts is released, remember Mike Lindell? He's still apparently an idiot, this time in legal circles. Well, again in legal circles. Republicans refuse to agree that it's bad to deport American children with cancer. Trump wants to be Pope. We now all live in an Onion article.

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Show Notes:

• Baseball pay
• Thunderbolts discussion
•  MyPillow founder and Trump buddy hired a lawyer that filed 30+ errors in court filing due to using ChatGPT to do the work for them. This is what could go wrong...
• Lo'la on Farscape
•  PA: Do I Need a Real ID?
• Trump memecoin dinner raising millions using blatant corruption to self-enrich  
• Republicans think it's fine to deport kids being treated for cancer
•  Trump wants to be Pope
• May the 4th stuffs
• Met Gala time 
• Trump wants to redefine Veteran's Day as Victory Day. I wonder why.

Episode 561: Arkansas Told "No"

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss JD Vance's alleged murder spree, coal isn't "clean", language models lie because artificial intelligences aren't, and life brings giggles when storms get a "red state" to beg for money they condemn others for trying to get...and are finally told "no".

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Show Notes:

• JD killed the Pope?
• Did MASH have a terrible ending?
• Trump doesn't know what coal is because he's a demented bungling idiot
• Redefining words because words have no meaning, apparently
• Conservatives still hate gays
• Language models running locally vs. A/UX
• Trump-loving Huckabee-Sanders reduced to begging Trump for government financial help after disasters, but finally has to practice what they preach for anti-FEMA sentiment
• Trump-loving pillow huckster files court brief with fabricated material via language model because of course he did. Idiot.
• "No, Trump did not legalize corporal punishment in schools..."
  

Episode 560: Trump Is In PERFECT HEALTH

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Jurassic Wolves, MAGA firebugs, Elon still can't play games online, kids in school need A1 for the secret sauce of success, the White House is lying about Trump being supernaturally healthy and more anti-US travel advisory and anti-immigrant news...land of the free!

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Show Notes:

• What is "caprice"
• Dire Wolves
• What's a (Shakespearean) tragedy?
•  Great shows that stumbled the ending
•  Child pornography sting nabs 6
•  PA governor targeted by loon (Bart thinks he's MAGA)
•  Elon "Destroy People's Lives" Musk Trolled While Pretending He Can Play a Game
•  Genius Secretary of Education Can't Tell Steak Sauce From Artificial Intelligence
•  Binghamton University now has people being targeted by government anti-immigrant sentiment
•  White House dabbles in writing fantasy novels with release of Trump health report
• Warrants aren't always warrants...know your rights 
• Check out Droobiee the Marshmallow
• Feli from Germany - Travel Advisory Against USA
  

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