Episode 334: Geofence Warrants

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss CA certificate validity, Seti@Home is closing down and the possibility of being accused of a crime just for being in an area at the wrong time thanks to your phone. Apologies for the bass thrum in the background...slightly different setup means the microphone picked up extra noise...

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Show Notes:

•  Excedrin has been discontinued for the time being...
• Melissa Benoist pregnant
• Gal Gadot "hid" pregancy during Wonder Woman shoot
• Medical insurance discussion
• Seti@Home closing down
• BOINC project
• Government and police use casting of net via geo-fencing to "catch" possible criminals

Episode 333: Coronavirus Makes People Dumb

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Coronavirus, jets with...stuff...in the fuel tanks, America is not the paragon of values it pretends to be, hospital bills and a Christian college recruiter is fired after racist high school lineup!

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Show Notes:

• Corona Virus - tracking map, again, for convenience
• Stupid people don't want their shrines/holy sites closed to contain the virus, so they lick things. Because...well, they're stupid.
• Stock market fun...how's your 401K doing with the Corona Plummet?
• News report performed with an accidental filter on FaceBook active
• Some Democrats drop from the race
• Washington, DC's non-statehood is rooted in racism
• AP story: Boeing 737's found to have debris in fuel tanks
• Another story following the debris story
• Followup to cars being hacked remotely; older story about a Jeep being hacked for WIRED journalist
• Windows 10 start menu live tiles may be going away
• Wikileaks' Julian Assange spied on while in foreign embassy by the US
• James Lipton passed away
• Flavor Flav fired from Public Enemy
• People are stupid, part II: Coronavirus; Chinese businesses suffer in NYC because of virus fears
• Norma talks about her father's last hospital bill
• Our local area has an actual drive-by! (Although the idiots were already caught)
• Oklahoma college recruiter fired after lining up students by skin color and hair texture

Episode 332: Cults and Cutlery

Bart and Norma discuss assault allegations and domestic violence, a flat-Earther dies in the desert, Brexit cognitive dissonance, Bart reminds Norma that Oneida silverware was born from a sex cult, and a Maryland public school enrages GOP for pointing out the GOP is acting like Nazis and Communist China. Not that they're not doing it, but that it's pointed out. Rawr!

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Show Notes:

• Are we becoming the next crappy-generation time, like the Depression-era?
• Boy Scouts, the apex of good, moral American-way living, going bankrupt due to abuse allegations. Good thing they kept out evil, immoral atheists and gays...
• High school girls bring lawsuit to keep transgender students from competing in girls sports
• Weinstein trial...guilty
• Possible religious group/cult headquartered in PA has slum-like "orphanage" burn down in Haiti
• Oneida cutlery? More like Oneida Smutlery!
• Wendy Williams, professional not nice person, makes joke about domestic abuse and gets family angry at her
• Flat Earther dies proving what we already know
• Brexit: Good job keeping jobs in Britain, morons
• Maryland GOP unhappy that they get compared to  communist and Nazi history in public school lesson
• Parasite movie distributor responds to Trump criticism, saying it's understandable he makes those comments because he's illiterate
• Reminder: there's a map of Coronavirus cases online 
• YouTuber fakes a Bali vacation 
• Ariah Cook, young cancer victim, has candlelight vigil held in hometown area for support 

Episode 331: Mayo for the Mayo and Medicare for All

Bart, Norma, and Voretaq discuss Medicare for All, the Mayo clinic screwed up, Shipt demonstrates another reason the gig economy is pushing the country towards a bleak future, losing features because you didn't subscribe properly (to your CAR), and Avast is discovered to be monitoring your every online action so they can resell it; this and more in episode 331!

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Show Notes:

• GUEST CO-HOST: RACKET!
• Are people with condos rich?
• Local are charter school resolution...thing...
• Flying across the border for prescriptions
• John Oliver on Medicare for All
• Shipt and buying gifts out of pocket
• More in-depth article on Shipt shenanigans
• Ivanka and her "Rich people are poor too" attitude
• Mayo Clinic whoopsie
• I don't think the GoFundMe is going well, though
• Voretaq joins the show, just a little behind
• Tesla disables a major set of features remotely
• Movie: Ready or Not
• Avast monitors and sells (well, sold) your every click and activity on the computer
• Irony, or just bull?
• A back door just for "good guys" has been monitoring us by China for a decade or more
• If you ride Uber, you can't sue in an accident?
• Amie Harwick (allegedly?) murdered
• How long should a laptop last?
• Nevada caucus this week

Episode 330: SOTU FU

Bart and Norma have a relatively quiet newsweek. We talk about the importance of who you know, not what you know. We talk about Secret Hitler. We talk about Trump's clownface photo making rounds. We talk about Adam Sandler and the Oscars. And we finish off with a short roundup of recent entertainment on Netflix!

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Show Notes:

• Stars passing away
• It's who you know, not actual rules in society
• Discuss Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos CEO
• Book about Theranos: Bad Blood
• "Stop making fun of our fascist leader!" - GOP State Rep
• Information on "Secret Hitler" game
• You can print the game for free from their site...
• Trump's clown face
• Limbaugh, holder of Medal of Honor thanks to Impeached Trump, called a 13 year old a dog
• Trump "gifts" voucher to girl so she can attend a school that's not a failing terrible school, but she already attends a top-ranked charter school
• Adam Sandler roasts the Oscars
• Omniscient TV series
• The Magicians

Episode 329: Inequality Pie

Bart and Norma discuss wealth inequality, creepy puppets, the Woo of Goop and the Witcher!

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Show Notes:

• Inequality as shown through pie
• People are terrible with numbers
• Wealth inequality over time
• Farmer bankruptcies hitting a high
• Land of Confusion (with Reagan among others...)
• Katie Hopkins pranked for her reputedly bigoted views
• "Woo" is hated because PATRIARCHY
• Yes, Paltrow-endorsed vaginal steaming, and it caused problems
• Julianne Hough "treatment"
• The Witcher on Netflix
• Trump and the Kansas mixup (derp...)

Episode 328: Star Trek and Plagues!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the first episode of Picard, Diet Soda ISN'T BAD (but caffeine withdrawal is a @#$%), the Corona Virus isn't as terrible as it seems (is it?), and why bother with impeachment when you know they won't do anything?

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Show Notes:

• Couple of house showings...no bites yet though (sigh)
• Audio Hijack...getting better, I think
• Two charged with abuse of mentally disabled person (involves chicken)
• Star Trek: Picard discussion
• Star Trek's timeline
• Trolling online, differing opinions online
• Diet soda, caffeine, bleh
• Plague, Inc game; fun for everyone!
• Plague, Inc sales rising!
• Corona Virus outbreak information...real-time map of the breakout
• Flu vaccination discussion
• Definitely not black cop identifies as black on forms to get a raise (also defends shooting black people, called Tamir Rice a "thug", etc...) 
• Kobe Bryant died (and some other people)
• "The Great Bathroom Incident"