Episode 171: Inauguration Coming

Bart, Norma and Voretaq review the inauguration, healthcare, and Bart tried to review the fact that Apple's Cook was right about back door hacks...just a few more days before inauguration...sigh

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Show Notes:

• Trump press conference fun
• Two more groups backed out of inauguration performances
• One of them is a cover band
• Goodbye, healthcare
• Joss Whedon gives anti-Ryan Twitter tweet
• Feedback
• Trump's cabinet picks dropping or leaving? Definitely not supporting him...
• Pro-life group no longer partnering with women's march group
• Cellebrite hacked
• Rob Schneider lectured a civil rights leader about civil rights?
• DB Cooper evidence he worked for Boeing?

Episode 170: Religious Illiteracy!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss that Voretaq is back! Today: religious illiteracy!

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Show Notes:

• Weather talk (OH NO END OF THE WORLD SNOW oh nope)
• Feedback
• Performers live vs. performers in studio (Mariah, give up the blame game)
• ...although she denies it
• Voretaq's impression of Sausage Party
• America's religious illiteracy?
• Ezekiel 23:20 is fun and many Xtians don't seem to know it's there
• Chick tracts are fun
• The Jefferson Bible
• Voretaq's statement on studying religion
• Put your face...in the book...
• Meryl Streep anti-Trump (maybe) speech...
• Trump is our oldest President ever
• Could we have another oil embargo-type relations disaster under Trump?
• Texas and Planned Parenthood defunding
• Guthrie now has Guthrie Now

Episode 169: No New Year's Resolutions!

Bart and Norma wonder where Voretaq went, don't go over New Year's resolutions, and talk about Sausage Party!

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Show Notes:

• More celebrity deaths TOLD YOU SO
• Feedback
• Sausage Party was a mainstream atheist tale
• Yes, the boob is an actual gift stress ball
• Trump vs. Kid President
• No New Year's resolutions...
• Mariah Carey has a meltdown/malfunction
• Rebecca Ferguson may perform at Trump fest with one stipulation...
• Bristol Palin whines again
• Jedi Junior High...Star Wars the Musical...Uh...
• Sense8 fired actor after fight with transgender series runner?
• Voltron Season 2 IS COMING

Episode 168: Survived the Christmas

Bart and Norma discuss the recent holiday and people's infuriating misconceptions/lies, along with a dose of healthcare.

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Show Notes:

• Holiday survived: check that off the list
• Fallon Crappy Holidays list
• Feedback
• 2600 Magazine
• "They" are trying to pass laws to outlaw talking about God in public!? (No)
• There was an extension to a theism protection law
• Christmas history (hint: today's Christmas is nothing like the "good old days")
• Are priests/ministers just oral bloggers?
• Trump's education secretary will lead to higher taxes from schools
• America's Bitter Pill
• Christmas Horror Story
• Followup on labeling food containing DNA
• Yes, the President can nuke at will. And Trump whines about SNL, so...

Episode 167: One More Week Until Xmas!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss mostly non-holiday stuff as we slide into the final week before Xmas...WAR ON XMAS!

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Show Notes:

• Angry cat yowls in the background way too much
• Feedback
• Would it be bad to skip the holiday?
• Electors elected...and the job is a joke
• Label foods containing DNA...
• MERRY CHRISTMAS BECAUSE IT'S NOT A HOLIDAY RAWR
• What is the War on Christmas?
• Tillerson as Secretary of State is happy with Russia and vice-versa
• If you're unemployed in Germany...
• Pediatrician charged in child porn case found dead
• Alan Thicke died
• Zsa-Zsa Gabor died
• Nike's shoes that require recharging
• MS Surface doing better than Apple Mac sales? Hmm...
• Google Jamboard
• What things will today's pre-teens not see that the parents grew up with?
• Autopsy of Jane Doe for Xmas viewing?

Episode 166: Trying To Wage a War On Christmas

Bart and Norma try to avoid talking about Trump. Well, Bart did. Otherwise we talk about a couple of news stories and Xmas movies and tangential Trump...

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Show Notes:

• Feedback
• John Glenn punched moon hoaxer in the face! (RIP John Glenn)
• Electors search for intelligence before casting vote for Trump
• We have a lot of local churches...
• Yankee Candle laceration recall
• Emmy Rossum SHAMELESSly wants more money... (get it?)
• VA Throws Away Tree
• Starbucks War On Christmas: Cups 2016 Edition
• Amazon and the overpriced Trump ornament...read the reviews (also, the price dropped the day after recording...)
• Deadpool takes a nomination
• Russia interfered in elections?
• Brazilian soccer team survivor wakes
• Cindy Brady fired for homophobic insults (and being a Trumper)
• Xmas movie viewing list
• Saving Christmas...what? (I forgot Kirk Cameron's horrible holiday treat)
• McD's Butt Cup
• Supermansion: War On Christmas
• Boy dies with Santa
• Star Wars: Rogue One news just another troll on Trumpers

Episode 165: Hoping The Bad Away

Bart and Norma go over what's been tossed in the news...and swear next week is for the war on Xmas. Really. It's time.

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Show Notes:

• Feedback
• Cost to taxpayers to protect Trump Tower family
• Favorite Xmas movies
• TRUMP SAVES (a small number of misleading) JOBS
• ...and GOP won't support Trump tariffs?
• Trump vote betrayals opinion piece
• The ACA (ObamaCare) isn't the problem
• Rural America missing out on tech jobs
• Freakonomics: how to make a bad decision
• FaceBook BS Detector plugin (and update)
• Moron rescues nonexistent kids from pizza shop
• Trump circle member continues to spread fake news
• Tombstone doesn't fit the decor...
• SNL pokes fun at Trump Twitter compulsion
• Next week...let's talk about the state of the War on Xmas!