Episode 71: GarageBand Ate My Homework

Bart, Norma and Voretaq have a discussion that covers Apple, email, and school tech. We also review feedback!

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Show Notes:

• Apple help & support fun
• Email is fun
• School district talk
• Schools and their budget issues
• Feedback: wrong dead guy, remakes suck, dirty dirt, the Slap, ER priorities, little kid with a gun
• Senator No Yoga Pants ("Ha ha I was totally mostly kidding!")
• Feedback: Uber, powerplant fun, boycotting corporations
• Train station movie - The Station Agent
• Australia will kill you
• Yay, snow
• More Siri fun...

The graphic as promised:

Episode 70: Out Of Control Conversation

Bart and Voretaq have a ping-pong conversation spanning topics like airlines, schools, rat poison and women marrying amusement rides!

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Show Notes:

• Ferrets, lizards, civets, capybara's...weird pets
• Airlines intentionally make travel miserable
• Schoolteachers and work-to-rule
• Jon Oliver and pharma billions
• Jon Oliver says goodbye to Radio Shack
• Feedback - Death From the Skies!
• Feedback - Coumadin is rat poison
• Medicare is fun
• Jenkem is a hoax
• Woman eats cushions
• Guy has relations with Airwolf, woman marries an amusement park ride
• Childhood ruined! By new Ghostbusters!
• Fan-made Voltron!
• Drone footage wasn't encrypted. Dumbasses.
• Iggy Azalea and Papa John's problems.
• Bart doesn't like Papa John's anyway...
• Uber is too convenient to be evil, dammit!

Episode 69: The Feedbackening

Bart and Norma talk a little about a near-hit asteroid, horrific diets and lots of feedback discussion!

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Show Notes:

• Insurance companies suck
• Medical horseshit
• Feedback: Congress sucks
• "Respect the office" is a PR spin
• Marriage is a "property" thing, not a "propriety" thing
• Feedback: Gypsy diet
• Feedback: Old couple trapped in a car
• Feedback: The big winter storm
• Feedback: 5:2 Fast Diet
• Horrific diets
• Japan - blood type testing
• Breatharianism idiocy
• An asteroid passed the Earth...with its own moon!
• Death from the Skies!

Episode 68: Yoga Pants, Sysadmin Rites of Passage and Snowpocalypse

Bart and Voretaq have a long conversation covering feedback, what the hell are Yoga Pants, sysadmin hazing and the weather being frightful!

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Show Notes:

• Snowpocalypse 2015!
• After-note: Bart did not walk in to work...
• Feedback: school closings, parents are pains, and over-testing
• Feedback discussion: NCLB article
• Diet update
• Thinner
• Voretaq hates leggings
• Rites of Passage for System Administrators
• "You have to learn why things work on a starship."
• Locked in a car! Oh no!
• State of the Republican Douchebaggery: Climate Change edition
• Fictional Presidents are More Effective
• Weather problems...

Episode 67: Feedback, Dieting Update and Hacking Korea!

Bart and Norma discuss feedback, some dieting updates, hacking North Korea and education-related irritations.

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Show Notes:

• MLK Day is a national day of service
• Feedback: Salads and diets
• Feedback: Richard Simmons
• Feedback: YouTube game recordings
• Feedback: Reality TV
• Biggest Loser behind the scenes
• Feedback: Gas companies
• City cuts taxes to the rich, does nothing good for the city
• Drug testing for welfare consistently fails...
• Diet update!
• Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (Now there's a part 2!)
• Juicing! Whee!
• Orlistat = pants lube
• We "hacked" North Korea
• School lesson plans require teaching
• "Preparing students for the future" is bullshit

Episode 66: Diet Update, CENTCOM Hacked, and So Much More!

Bart and Voretaq go over dieting, outrage on Twitter, nuclear accidents...the list just goes on and on! This is a special extended length Geeking After Dark!

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Show Notes:

• Happy birthday Mom! Happy anniversary Mom and Dad!
• Tax fun
• Feedback: Diets
• Weight Watchers works?
• My habits change status
• Silver Ghost has more videos up on YouTube
• "My Husband's Not Gay"
• Outrage to be outraged
• Patton Oswalt Twitter trouble
• Gay? Trans? No Russian drivers license for you!
• Zimbra and Apple Mail
• Too many alerts: Alert Fatigue
• Stack Exchange's open source monitor system: Bosun
• CENTCOM Twitter and YouTube channels "hacked"
• Apartment fires
• US bureacracy and a nuclear "incident"
• Airplanes have to be registered now
• If corporations are people banks are horrible people
• Oil prices are DOWN! TIME TO PANIC
• Unions and teachers
• Year-round schooling
• Taser from a camera

Episode 65: New Year New Diet

Bart and Norma talk about Silver Ghost's channel, documentaries, and diets!

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Show Notes:

• Feedback: stories are repeating
• Silver Ghost's YouTube channel: Roblox and Minecraft!
• Bereghost: Silver Ghost has your (Roblox) shirt!
• United and Orbitz sue over a website: Skiplagged.com
• Another great documentary: Inequality for All
• Diets, yay!
• Vox: What Diet is the Best Diet?
• A Huge List of Diets
• Cracked's list of actually legal dieting methods
• Vegucated: another good documentary
• The China Study
• Vegan foods list was rather surprising (The link is from PETA so you know it's nutty extreme)