Episode 249: Triple Bypass and Being Self-Made

Bart and Norma talk healthcare, recumbent trikes, mall collapses, self-made billionaires that are completely self-made, and Papa John is exposed as a racist...

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Show Notes:

• Norma's family update
• Feedback
• Information on the movie Wonder
• The recumbent trikes have arrived!
• Eff the Customs and Border Protection, eff the insurance companies...
• Mexican mall collapse
• Korean building collapse...
• Papa John is a racist? REALLY?!
• What it means to be "Self Made"
• Michelle Wolf comments on this...
• Healthcare ICU costs...
• Trump exonerates Russia for voting interference, Russia gives Trump a soccer ball...

Episode 248: Grilled Cheese at the Street Art Fair

Bart and Voretaq discuss why Norma is out for this episode, the 4th didn't feel like "The Fourth," government officials heckled in public places, cave rescues and NYC life vs. country life!

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Show Notes:

• Norma's father is in the hospital...
• Feedback
• Fireworks without fireworks
• Didn't feel like the 4th as a holiday this year, did it?
• How we spent the previous week
• Little dude wanted grilled cheese, so we got some at the art fair
• WHERE'S MY TRIKE?!
• Atheist Shoes shipping to America fun...
• James Woods: I'M A TRUMP SUPPORTER AND THAT'S WHY EVERYONE HATES ME
• Trump supporter immigrant surprised he's getting deported
• Trump avoids London on UK trip; fears the giant baby balloon?
• Turtle Head McConnell
• Ant Man and the Wasp
• Trump campaign wants to use slogan that's oddly familiar to The Purge...
• Russia embarrasses US over breast milk
• Trump had called breast feeding "disgusting"
• Woman calls police for black man wearing socks at the pool
• Cave rescue in Thailand
• Take it for granted; you can't swim? Drive? etc... (City vs. Country)
• Moving in NYC: SO MUCH FUN (no, that's sarcasm)
• Bedbugs in NYC
• "Exercise is supposed to be miserable" - Voretaq
• Finger Lakes discussion

Episode 247: Customs and Border Protection SUCK (GIVE ME MY TRIKE!)

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk bath salts, Customs and Border Protection are "randomly inspecting" my trikes, responsible law-abiding gun owners in IKEA, and Equifax insider trading!

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Show Notes:

• F*#$ Customs and Border Protection...GIVE ME MY TRIKE
• Pair on bath salts fires at lightning bugs, mistaking them for laser-toting aliens
• "Stealin' our jobs"
• Feedback
• Norma got a surprise test
• Medical fun
• MALL ALARM
• Fat update - 117.8 lbs lost since 1/10/18...
• Corning trooper shot story
• Kid finds gun in IKEA BoomenKouchen
• Equifax engineer charged with insider trading fun
• JANUS ruling; anti-union thugs win?
• ROMEOs at a restaurant
• All My Friends are Dead
• We need a Poopasaurus, right?!
• "If you want to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" - Sagan
• Australian woman feeds sharks, surprised when it doesn't go as planned

Episode 246: You'll Pop Your Eye Out

Bart and Norma have a relatively quiet podcast...sort of...as Voretaq skips out to work on something at $EMPLOYER.

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Show Notes:

• Norma's computer is old
• Feedback
• Talking about movie sequel callbacks
• Walgreen's pharmacist won't help miscarrying woman
• Insurance Sucks: Reason 234
• Pro-Trumper businessman begs Democrat to save his business from Trump policies
• Making America great apparently means making business go out of business
• Taxing Internet companies
• Johnny Knoxville pops his eye out (whoops)

Episode 245: They Don't Like the Word "Cage"

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the weather (it sucks), the trikes are coming, Chris Hardwick is in trouble, Microsoft helps the domestic fascists, and apparently some people wonder why babies get brain bleeds when they don't get vitamin K shots...

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Show Notes:

• We agree the weather sucks
• Trikes should be offloaded from the Tayma now...
• Weight update: down 106lbs so far...
• NYC helps immunize you from sweat self-consciousness
• Half-arse work on road update

Er...better, I guess?

• Steve Jobs info
• Feedback
• School Guardians (har har)
• Voting gets you jailed?
• Woman gets no consequences for voting as dead mother
• Children in cages explained
• They don't like the word "cage"
• Microsoft helping our domestic SS
• Chris Hardwick in trouble
• Religious nuts use stuffed lion lawyer to talk to God in court
• Idiots reject science, wonder why babies die of brain bleeds
• Cancer discussion
• Don't Google rule 34

Episode 244: Schools and Cell Phones

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk road work, Trump is still a moron, tech support and corporate-sponsored community work!

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Show Notes:

• "Illustrated a half-ass job":

...Why?

• Net neutrality now dead
• Frontier Internet story...
• Old people complaining about DSL time
• Feedback
• USB fans at the dictator summit
• Trump: kill drug dealers. Also Trump: Kim K. smiled at me. Release a drug dealer.
• Sara Gilbert and Roseanne comments
• "Two dictators meet..."
• Bourdain discussion
• It's Obama's fault Pooty-Bear isn't allowed in the G-7!
• State Department spokesmoron says D-Day shows our long friendship with Germany
• Office 365 support...why call?!
• Schools + cellphone use
• Country Time sponsors lemonade stands
• Dominos and pot holes
• Gay pride baseball
• Advisor has a heart attack
• MELANIA SIGHTED
• Bike conversations

Episode 243: Rowcycles are Nifty

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a Rowcycle (via Sports 'N Spokes Magazine), Babylon 5, Solo, the "Cake Bigot" and the Microsoft Github deal!

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Show Notes:

• Bart discovers some articles about a Rowcycle, thanks to Sports 'N Spokes Magazine
• Norma is out of school for the Summer
• Teacher school awards given out
• Weight update: down 102.3lbs since 1/10/18...
• Bart learns something new about canceled gym memberships
• Trike discussion
• Feedback
• Solo movie
• Babylon 5 is online now
• Terminator 2 was 1991, Jurassic Park was 1993
• Colorado cake case
• Yelpers don't like the Colorado cake shop
• Vox explains the Cake bigot case
• Carroll O'Connor information
• Microsoft bought Github
• The Trump cancels sportsball meet and greet event
• Graduate trolls audience with quote