Episode 236: Zuckerberg (Kind Of) Testifies

Voretaq returns and discusses Zuckerberg's Congressional softball session, Hannity acknowledges the real reason he's been cuckoo for Cohen, Harry Anderson goes to the magic top hat in the sky, and Universal Basic Income as an interesting idea...

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Show Notes:

• Cohen/Hannity disclosure
• Alex Jones loses his #$% over Trump bombs
• Harry Anderson, RIP
• Voretaq has a new laptop, but don't ask how
• Feedback
• Cannabis oils/creams/lubes
• Hungry for Change
• Zuckerberg testifies
• Didn't really answer questions
• FaceBook hired one of the people who "stole" data
• Zuckerberg stole login credentials to steal email (many moons ago...)
• FaceBook accidentally reveals a now-soon-to-be-feature of "unsend" after being caught using it for execs
• The people questioning Zuckerberg have nicely lined financial pockets
• Universal Basic Income
• Finland's experiment
• Wiki has a short list with overviews of similar projects
• Native American basic income-type "experiment"
• Casino pay dispersal
• "Trump's rich because God loves him" type thinking
• Ivanka wishes there were some way government promotes healthy living for kids...uh...
• Is it wrong to eat a PB&J in public?
• Binghamton U. stabbing
• Starbucks and Racial Bias Training (story linked to what we talked about...)

Episode 235: Recumbent Trike Fun!

Bart and Norma discuss the latest Trumpy trouble, recumbent bikes, a Winky-Eyed Jesus, and a quiet movie!

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Show Notes:

• Michael Cohen may be in trouble...YAY!
• Trump's Tower murders one, injures others, Trump calls it "well built building"
• Norma gets an OS X update
• A Quiet Place
• Norma and Bart have a recumbent trike discussion - Bicycle Man!
• ALA list of top 10 banned books
• Feedback
• NRA grant rejected by school
• "NRA isn't racist"-type defense...yeah, right
• Condom snorting challenge
• White supremacist podcast host/teacher (alleged) resigns
• Metabolisms can't really be easily "sped up"
• Woman embalmed alive
• First Senator to give birth while holding office
• Fox accidentally admits they aren't trusted...whoops
• "Did you pack the explosives?"
• Download your Facebook account data
• Winky-Eyed Jesus and Other Undescribables: An elite, feral recumbent cyclo-tourist wages human-powered jihad against the force of gravity and the awesome span of the North American continent
• Tour de Shunk

Episode 234: Welfare Music to Shame By

Bart and Norma discuss taxpayer-funded music, GOP group admits they hate poor people, and teachers in PA are armed with rocks to fight gun toting rampagers!

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Show Notes:

• Welfare to Work taxpayer-funded music
• This was funded by taxpayers for a public government department...
• Lead vocal: Lavern Scott
• Background vocals: Wilny Audain, Regina Clayton, Christopher Gray, Carol Rogers
• Lyrics: DPSS Income Maintenance Staff, Keith Rogers
• Music composed, performed, arranged, and produced by Keith Rogers
• 99% Invisible podcast episode about the taxpayer-funded music and the magic bureaucrat
• Apologies for the keyboard clatter; Bart had after-hours work related work to do...
• Colorado Alamosa GOP group admits they hate poor people; apologizes
• Feedback
• Kyle Kashuv wasn't invited to speak at March for our Lives rallies...
• ...complains he's ignored by "mainstream media"...in the media...
• ...but if true, there might be a reason...
• Arm teachers with rocks! (Original link gone; instead linked to Daily Show)
• Student shot in school shooting gets detention for protesting school shootings
• Frank Stallone apologizes for saying what he thinks and discovering people think his opinion is reprehensible
• Hybrid car shutoff is #$% stupid
• McJob employee stats
• Panera Bread customer data leak...and they try to hide it?
• They didn't respond to the person who reported it...so he went public
• Trump taxes revisit...
• "Fake Weed" deaths
• Protein powder may not be just protein...

Episode 233: GOP vs. Kids Who Don't Want to be Shot

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss broadband access, the politics of conservatives teasing kids who protest being shot, and insurance fraud!

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Show Notes:

• Children running around the mall
• Feedback
• Broadband expansion money in PA
• AT&T cell service apparently plays with video content
• March for our Lives
• Bart feels Rick Santorum's an idiot
• Yes, she wore a Cuban flag patch. She's half Cuban. Idiots.
• Randy Pausch on the World Book Encyclopedia vs. Wikipedia
• Stranger Things star wore jacket that honored those killed, draws criticism from nutters
• Tomi Lahren and yoga pants gun storage
• Insurance fraud via redirecting lab results
• No, Israel isn't arming their teachers
• Trump had a book of Hitler speeches by the bed
• Suspicious packages sent to military sites around DC
• Ryan Zinke: Diversity isn't important

Episode 232: RIP Stephen Hawking

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss updates, the passing of a modern genius, and Marlon Bundo writes a second, better book!

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Show Notes:

• Computer updates suck
• What's a condo?
• Exercise update
• United vs. Overhead Bins
• ...But don't worry, United is going to "fix" this pet murder problem
• Stephen Hawking passed away
• Ricky Gervais vs. transgender people
• Clinton slipped, oh no...
• Supreme court to PA GOP whining about gerrymandering: F-U
• Marlon Bundo children's book (and why Mike Pence is terrible)
• Spam. The food.
• Cambridge Analytica and Trump troubles
• Shooter's brother arrested at high school for trespassing
• Man who calls school shooting survivor a "lesbian skinhead" drops from race
• The View gets Stormy

Episode 231: Alexa Needs an Exorcism, McWomen's Day Logo and Issues

Bart and Norma discuss a new purchase and give Bart's weight update. The secretary of education shows her education knowledge (or lack thereof). Monster drinks are apparently EVIL (as are Alexa devices) and McDonald's tries celebrating Women's Day while weathering some criticism for do as I say and ignore what I'm doing behavior...

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Show Notes:

• Feedback
• Sexual harassment settlements for Congressmembers-turn-harassers
• Norma bought a car
• Weight update
• White house blocks purchase attempt of Qualcomm
• Betsy DeVos, education secretary, doesn't seem educated in interview...
• Are charter schools doing better as she claims?
• Teacher salaries vs. inflation...
• Trump lawyers want to stop 60 minutes interview
• Trump pardons lawbreaker because of Fox and Friends
• NSA spying through Cisco hardware
• Monster drinks are EVIL
• Alexa laughing...IS IT EVIL?
• A book about an armless girl's life
• McDonald's women's day flipped logo
• ...but there were problems?

Episode 230: Lawsuit Against John Oliver Dropped and Racism is Still Rampant

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss exercise convenience, school shooting marketing opportunities, the lawsuit against John Oliver and Mr. Nutterbutter has been dropped and racism is still rampant in schools...

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Show Notes:

• Trump tariff announcement: SAD
• Trump affair in the White House, hinted in Fire and Fury
• West Virginia teacher strikes
• Weight loss tally: 47.7 lbs
• New weight loss thing: under desk bike
• WHY HEATERS UNDER THE DESK IT'S A FIRE HAZARD, PEOPLE...
• Old people essentially get single payer
• School shootings: a marketing opportunity!
• School shooters and MAGA
• Florida white supremacist teacher removed from classroom...
• Update: She claims it was "satire"
• Gun injuries down when gun nutters gather to celebrate gun nuttery
• Mr. Nutterbutter lawsuit against John Oliver dropped
• Easton School District whistleblower case:
• One
• Two
• Three
• Four
• Lynching: southerners teach them young
• Racist NYU lunch menus...