Episode 339: Do You Want to Eat a Jellyfish?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss (Americentrically) eccentric foods, guerilla fruit tree grafting in NYC, the Tiger King, Trump being incompetent (as usual), and soon we'll have no post office because Amazon makes Trump feel bad!

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Show Notes:

• Food shopping in quarantine days
• Bart's aunt seems to be afraid of the plague
• What's the right amount of terrified?
• Microwaves don't work like that
• Preacher holds services, dies of virus
• Remote learning from the teacher's side
• Weird foods
• NYC activists graft fruit to trees on sidewalks
• ATV's on the roads
• Stimulus checks...maybe? Does anyone know what's going on thanks to communication from our fabulous government leaders?
• "Doctors" giving advice...don't inhale hydrogen peroxide, you idiot
• Please be careful insisting you're a "doctor" and calling during a quarantine out of the blue...
• Suing Fox News. Someday.
• Tiger King
• John Oliver followup to his long-ago coverage of Joe Exotic
• YouTube views up during quarantine, but pay is down for content creators
• Looking forward to Space Force
• Trump decided to put his idiot kid and in-law in charge of reopening America? Wonder if there's backlash...
• NRA: "Shooting people is ESSENTIAL for BUSINESS"
• Trump goes full dictator when governors give him the virtual finger; "YOU WILL RESPECT MY AUTHORI-TAY!"
• Republicans want to kill 600,000+ jobs and your ability to vote by mail... Because Amazon makes Trump cry

Episode 338: Zoom: Who Needs Privacy?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq continue to weather the COVID-19 quarantine with stories of Zoom security issues, NJ is asking for COBOL volunteers to fix the systems they couldn't bother to have fixed before now, MyPillow CEO and Trump suck-up running for public office, and Centralia is removing a (somewhat) famous highway!

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Show Notes:

• Quarantines are a new normal for now...
• Running out of quota on the podcast account sucks
• Tigers can get Coronavirus, apparently...
• Food distribution talk
• Fox News prepares for possible lawsuits
• Cruise ships searching for a place to dock...
• Voretaq's computer broke
• "We need COBOL volunteers" in NJ (yeah, right...)
• LGR talks Y2K
• Boeing 787's must be restarted before hitting 50 days uptime
• Zoom conferencing faces yet another problem
• Gender reveal party sparks Florida fire
• Dumbass in charge of MyPillow encouraged to run for office by human Cheeto
• We watched Star Trek: Picard, Bloodline, and Derry Girls
• ST:Picard discussion
• Centralia graffiti highway is going away
• Some insurers returning premiums?
• "Pro-life" pastor gives silly excuses for having services against quarantine orders
• More voters would hurt GOP
• Wisconsin voters hurt by court decision
• Next week: TIGER KING

Episode 337: Quarantine Days

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss stimulus relief, school during the days of Corona, Trump is still an incompetent twit, and Congress likes to partake in insider trading AND read your email.

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Show Notes:

• School's Out Forever! (At least in PA)
• 777 is a HOLY NUMBER
• Sunday School Dropouts podcast
• Alcohol stores and being "essential"
• AIDS discussion
• Uranus is leaking gas
• Pastor touts CoronaVirus as hoax against Trump, first to die in Virginia after telling Mardi Gras festival goers they're goin' to hell
• What is going on with the "relief checks?"
• What are the parts of speech?
• Javits Center is now a hospital
• Congressional insider trading used to be legal; here's the STOCK act meant to stop it
• Trump blames hospitals for equipment shortage, while shipping equipment overseas
• Congress uses the pandemic to hide their attempt to block encryption on the Internet, making it easier for criminals to get your information

Episode 336: Rise of the Plague and Theremin Theater!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Wegmans, the idiots in Congress are angry they can't enrich themselves because of those meddling Democrats, Cats: the Butthole cut, and Voretaq is making a theremin!

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Show Notes:

• New York is on "pause"
• There is a Wegman's in Brooklyn
• Why love Wegmans?
• Trump mishandled this and is still too stupid to understand he is mishandling this
• Dupont: Dark Waters
• Stimulus stalled. Surprised Congress is doing jack shit yet?
• This is pure America
• Trump kills Trump supporters
• Followup: someone in the US decided to try it. He's dead.
• 3D print a filter to save Coronavirus lives, get sued?
• Threats under Theranos patents...
• Cats: the Butthole Cut
• Percussive maintenance on Mars
• The Doom song (Invader Zim)
• You can't get in the hospital if you're sick...
• Voretaq is going to get some new lizards!
• Voretaq's been making a theremin!
• Clara Rockmore plays the theremin
• Apple: PLEASE STOP ABANDONING YOUR APPLICATIONS
• Will Apple introduce ARM-based Macs?

Episode 335: Hoarding and Gouging

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Coronavirus related headlines,  price gouging, saving those poor rich company owners and an Aussie family that accidentally bought more TP than they can use in years!

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Show Notes:

• We're not directly quarantined. Yet.
• Medical equipment, inspections, and regulations discussion
• Insurance. YAY
• Is the current response to the Coronavirus an overreaction?
• Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have (had?) Coronavirus
• School district helping kids get meals while schools is out
• Bart's Sam's Club adventure
• Trump's Euro-ban
• Trump tries stealing a possible vaccine for profit
• Capitalist in trouble for hoarding and gouging supplies
• Same capitalist donates stuff he's getting in trouble for having
• AT&T promised 7000 new jobs with the Trump tax cuts. They cut 23000.
• AT&T CEO pay rises to 32 MILLION as reward for cutting thousands of jobs after profiting from Trump tax cuts
• Australian family accidentally buys years of toilet paper
• Hose replacement on a sink...fun!
• Walking with a weight vest (I had 52.5 pounds in it at the time, I checked afterwards...)
• "Tele-learning" online with the shutdowns

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