Episode 253: An Amish Tale

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a big set of news like Vegas hotels barging into customer rooms for "security", Chris Hardwick returns, and someone decided to steal a plane, and these are in addition to Bart and Norma spending nearly a week in Lancaster!

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Show Notes:

• Hiltons in Amish country
• A simple trick to eliminate verbal fillers that isn't a $%^ trick
• Feedback, including the missed feedback last episode
• Chiropractors, continued
• Weight update - down 126.3 lbs since 1/10/2018
• Eating out, Lancaster edition
• Norma loses a soda
• Ephesians 5:21 commentary
• Stolen plane
• Alpaca trike carrier
• Breaking into hotel customer rooms for "security"
• Trump star of fame voted to be removed (sort of)
• "Artist" sticks fake Trump stars all over
• Most people don't know walk of fame stars are paid for
• Hardwick is back! And people walked off...
• Voretaq's Twitter account was locked out...but doesn't know why
• Trump can't comprehend maps and timezones?
• Omarosa tapes
• Mayo Clinic medically kidnapped someone?
• EAT AT TRES HERMANOS
• Post-closing theme: Hershey factory tour discussion

Episode 252: Recumbent Trikes and More Medical Updates

Bart and Voretaq talk about updates on cancer, heart surgery/stroke rehab, and recumbent riding, along with some of the usual TRUMP IS TERRIBLE wrapup and duckboats modified by a non-engineer!

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Show Notes:

• Minecraft updates are terrible
• Liz is getting pretty big
• Little Dude goes to the doctor for sleepy time
• Norma's father returns
• Norma's mother has the last cancer treatment
• Old people care
• RIP Charlotte Rae
• Update on our trike rides
• Exercise sucks (but is necessary)
• The big aquarium
• Trump (doesn't) go grocery shopping
• Coke raises prices (THANKS TRUMP)
• Trump is winning the war on Xmas
• Drone attack in Venezuela
• Duckboats in the news
• Chiro-craptic
• The Meg

Episode 251: Medical Problems Edition

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the medical issues faced over the past few weeks in this household, a small triking incident, and discussion of some drama dramatics on this episode of Geeking After Dark!

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Show Notes:

• There's no intro; we fall into a recount of recent events almost right off the bat...
• Hospitals are terrible
• HSAs are worse
• Rehab for fun and someone's profit
• Trike incident where a bungee entangled the hub (update: company rep said it is a decorative cover and isn't needed...)
• Bariatric followup and hospital outcomes
• Sacha Baron Cohen's new show gets idiots to expose themselves as idiots
• "Who Is America" gets idiots to agree and advocate arming elementary schoolers
• Borat wands Roy Moore with pedo detector on "Who Is America"
• Voretaq has been sick
• Paul Manafort drops lawsuit against Mueller
• Guardians of the Galaxy cast calls for Gunn reinstatement
• Man follows black man home to tell him what a "N-XXX" he is, claims he regrets it after Internet reminds him of the existence of consequences
• Family drama is dramatic
• Why aren't hospital ceiling tiles painted?

Episode 250: Recumbent Trikes, and Elderly Care Homes

Bart and Norma have had a tiring few days, so we talk about care of elderly people in homes and Bart and Little Dude's first "official" ride on our trikes!

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Show Notes:

• Bart has sun exposure weariness
• Norma reviews her odd family tree
• Voretaq is ill this week
• Memory of The Colony
• Trike ride! Little Dude made us proud!
• What do we do with older parents?
• Tales from the rehab home...
• Feedback
• Trump's still a moron
• Bicycle drive-by shooting
• Cuddle cots
• Norma saw Nora

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