Episode 10: FaceBook Spying, Affluenza and Santa is White!

Norma fills in again...I think she's now a cohost at this point. Warning: if you believe in Santa, this is not the podcast for you...

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Show notes:

• Feedback: Pete's drunken hotel trip elicits laughter
• LinkedIn creeps Bart out
• Does knowing exactly who is looking at your profile make a difference?
• FaceBook stores the status you start to type but don't post
• NSA spying via metadata
• 'Murica!
• Obamacare vs. the ACA
• Hearing the wrong information still "sticks" in your mind
• Stereotypes are brain shortcuts
• Affluenza!
• Sex additions just means a bigger party...
• Wealth means no consequences?
• Why are people surprised?
• Get enough press, they might make an example...
• Fox "News" - Santa is white!
• This leads to discussing Doctor Who...
• The reason for the season?
• Teacher makes a comment that DESTROYS Xmas for a high schooler
• KRAMPUS!

Episode 9: Tech Campus Housing and Living Wages!

Norma fills in again as Pete flies home from overseas. We have tech companies creating housing for employees, talk of school stuffs and a discussion about living wages for striking fast food workers!

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Show notes:

• A story of phallusies
• Voretaq7 tweeted feedback!
• Being fined for bad reviews of a business?
• Non-disparagement clauses in terms of use!
• Litigious society and liability
• Tech companies going too far with culture by creating company housing?
• Teachers work all the time, if you count good behavior...
• Haha..."doody pay."
• What good are contracts if you get fired for following them?
• Remember the "company man?"
• Companies will get rid of you, ethically or by other means.
• Is a campus housing community good?
• Golfing for promotions!
• Food strikes!
• Minimum wage...what was it for?
• Surely no one foresaw what exists today when making laws then...
• But fast food would cost SO MUCH!
• Living wages are evil why?
• Unskilled? Worthy of contempt? But they handle your food!
• We subsidize corporations paying low wages!

Episode 8: Sex Ed and Black Friday!

Pete's on a business trip, so Norma filled in.

Warning, we're a little more explicit than in past episodes...

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Show notes:

•  Norma fills in as cohost!
• Feedback: none. But Norma did find the "training up" quote from the Bible (see previous episode)
• Focus on the Family article
• Discipline is necessary because people are horrible
• Abstinence education in school
• "Woody the Dong" story
• Remember the sex ed films?
• School sex ed presenters are crappy
• "Vaginas are like Hoover vacuums"
• I should have become a lecturer
• What is your dateability?
• Love vs. infatuation at first sight
• Check out Lookadoo for yourself
• Showing your paycheck on Instagram can get you fired
• Is it practical to just get a better job?
• His fault, or Streisand effect?
• "Responsible social media use"
• Are parents enabling kids now? No consequences for behavior?
• Black Friday!
• Why is it a big deal to be open on Thanksgiving?
• If there wasn't a demand for it...

Episode 7: The Pearls are Swine, Plus Disney!

Pete returns bearing stories of oversized mice and steins of alcohol!

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Show notes:

• Pete's back!
• No feedback, but Pete had some notes
• Norma's head will inflate a little
• Pete enjoyed the colony except for the overly scripted feel
• Norma didn't expect her students to ruin things?
• Is y'all an interjection?
• The Pearls who are Swine, not to be mistaken for the PERL that makes you drink wine.
• We talk about kids on subways...when is it okay for them to travel alone?
• While I couldn't recall it in the podcast, the 12 year old captain was David Farragut, given a temporary command of a captured ship headed to port
• Is the world more dangerous today than when we were kids?
• What does the Bible say about child rearing?
• Pete was at Disney! He brings us STORIES!
• Did everyone else know Disney serves alcohol? I didn't.
• TSA = security theater
• We talk about the ACA website (Healthcare.gov) and costs.

Episode 6: Fired Fiance' Fondler and Reality Shows

In this episode our guest co-host returns to discuss the case of the fired fiance' fondler and some not-so-real reality shows, along with a little bit of a crackhead mayor thrown in for good measure!

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Show notes:

Our guest host returns

Wheelchairs at comic-con would make weary feet happy

Ever been to a bulk-book sale?

Pete and Norma fight by proxy

How about giving some feedback?

News story! Fiance' fondler gets fired from public school job!

I mention "boobies" because I'm a rebel like that

Teachers apparently can't have a past

Solidarity? What's that?

Bart watched The Colony

How realistic are these reality shows for the participants?

We both enjoyed Solitary, though

People are horrible. Or maybe we have watched too much Walking Dead...

Norma rants about Rob Ford the Crackhead Mayor

A freediver died doing what he loved

Episode 5: Boycotts and Vacations

In this episode we focus on boycotts and an upcoming family vacation! FUN TIME!

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Show notes:

•  Pete returns from a trip to LISA
• Norma was convinced Pete would be angry with her...was he?
• Windows 8.1...do we loves it, or do we hates it?
• Pete confesses he's a closet OS X user
• Disney World it thataway...
• Pete is participating in a trial of Disney RFID. It's like the NSA, only with more musical numbers.
• The best part of travel; the TSA freedom gropes
• We discuss Ender's Game. One of us saw the movie.
• Should we have boycotted the move because the author is a jerk?
• Searching for drugs in all the wrong places...so wrong...
• Pete confesses to certain travel fears. 
• Bart's son tries to get Mommy arrested
• Pete expresses appreciation for Norma paving trails on the podcast. I knew there's a reason I have an explicit tag set.

Episode 4: 80's Show Edition

In this episode we review some old TV shows, Airwolf in particular.

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Show notes:

• We had some feedback, even if it wasn't through the usual channels.
• Pete's prepping for a conference, so we have a guest co-hosting!
• Discuss Halloween candy and trick or treating last week
• Someone decided to make the Cannonball Run again...were they irresponsible?
• Remember Airwolf?
• We review The Greatest American Hero
• Do they have to recycle footage so much in old shows?
• The continuity edits were atrocious...
• Airwolf's star had other problems, though
• Norma discusses Blue Thunder and her Blue Thunder club
• TV Trivia for Knight Rider
• There's going to be an Airwolf documentary. (Follow @AirwolfDoc for information)
• Please...don't reboot Airwolf...we saw what you did with Knight Rider.
• Christmas shopping just isn't the same today
• The underwear section of the Sears Catalog was a gateway drug
• Drone crashes in Manhattan?!
• Sensationalism from "authoritative" sources
• My son drives Mommy nuts with his own