Episode 346: Treasure Hunt!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss black lives matter, touches on racism, modern construction vs. the old days, how to properly extend a network, and the end of a real-life treasure hunt!

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Show Notes:

• "I'm a coffee pot"
• Flooring sample discussion
• Stores are starting to "reopen?"
• So THAT'S why my hands are peeling apart?!
• "Black lives matter"
• Holderness Family Podcast: Working on being a better ally (Black Lives Matter)
• Community redlining
• How dangerous is being a cop?
• How do Co-Ops work?
• Throwing things away...
• Old construction vs. modern wireless
• End of a treasure hunt

Episode 345: Webcam Shortages and Aunt Becky Goes to Prison

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss looting, rioting, and covid status, along with news of Full House's Aunt Becky pleading guilty to get out of a bigger sentence. Norma reviews a Darknet Diaries episode and Bart talks of black ice cream made from charcoal. Yum!

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Show Notes:

• Curfews, looting, rioting, etc.
• We're OPEN as a county now! The DISEASE IS GONE!
• Sean Hannity seems to understand his base of idiots is susceptible to the virus
• George Floyd protesters at White House drove Mr. Definitely Not Weak into a bunker
• House is slowly coming together. Or, at least, progress is being made
• We have a refrigerator that warns when the door is left open
• Full House's Aunt Becky offers to go to jail for a few months in deal for getting caught doing what most rich people don't get caught doing
• Norma recounts episode 66 of Darknet Diaries
• Who are the "real" looters?
• Webcam shortages spur knock-off brand sales and price gouging
• Black ice cream
• Jason Bateman and Ozark
• Remember the Hogan Family?
• Voretaq is working on his smart-home-hub setup
• We lack AC at this time...
• We talk about our new Internet connection

A Short Note

Taking a short rest because:
a) Recording fell on a holiday weekend
b) We're trying to get the house in order. It's like the Enterprise-A at the moment. Livable, but the damn turbolift isn't working...
c) We're tired, and the periodic heatwaves with lack of A/C isn't helping
d) We're not being paid

BUT we plan on coming back next week, so join us then!

Episode 343: MOVING TIME (Ready or Not)

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Elon Musk going alt-right, anti-pandemic means new surveillance for people by the government, dead people can't have money so neither will you, and we discuss the new house situation!

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Show Notes:

• We missed last week...but we explain why...
• First time recording from the NEW STUDIO
• Voretaq is not out of quarantine yet
• Bart wants to make a tech-helmet instead of using a mask
• Voretaq thinks a fan would work better
• If you didn't test for the disease, you wouldn't have any more disease found
• Elon Musk going alt-right with the red pill references? 
• Musk and his misogyny streak
• Mystery disease from Covid-19 in kids
• Australia/New Zealand measures to stop the plague
• Did you get a stimulus check for a dead person? You get to give it back!
• Government now can spy on your browsing history without a warrant
• KITTY BUTT
• It's been quite the week for moving!
• Adventures in moving, commence...
• Holiday memories
• Critique on the new home architecture
• Internet connection setup
• Raspberry Pi's and home automation
• Voretaq convinces Norma she wants a combination washer/dryer unit

Episode 342: Murder Hornets and Biden Accusations

Bart, Norma and Voretaq try to discuss news in a news-sparse week. Everything is about the virus or hornets! So we talk about masks, mask vending machines, quarantine reasons, and murder hornets! Along with some news about police shooting police and incompetent government checks.

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Show Notes:

• Automating setup of a program on the Mac (sort of...) with Automator
• Hypercard
• Hitler's descendents live in Long Island
• Lincoln saved by Booth
• The Pepcid cure
• Why Quarantine?
• Bill Maher on Covid...
• Bull semen in Red Bull
• Mask vending machines
• Murder hornets
• "Keep yourself healthy (so our costs will be low!)"
• Cop shoots cop in LA
• Biden accusation news
• House moving fun
• "Stimulus check"...what a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.
• Business bankruptcies 

Episode 341: Covid Spread, Software Testing

Bart, Norma and Voretaq (and some occasional additions from Norma's mom)  discuss some software testing, a skate park turned (accidentally?) into a dirt bike park, Covid spread and the effect on GOP voters (spoiler: more of them are dying in their Trumpy-states), and UV light kills germs AND you!

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Show Notes:

• Lizard tales
• Software Testing
• Especially Go(lang) testing
• Since we mentioned it, Ditch Diggers podcast
• Covid and pulse/Ox monitors for fingers
• Skate park filled with sand, now it's a dirt bike park!
• As older voters succumb to Coronavirus, the GOP loses votes for November
• CovidActNow.org
• Big companies manage to snatch bailout money (SURPRISE) and the Treasury is "threatening" that there will be "consequences" if they don't return it (yeah, right...)
• Let MAGA supporters inject bleach if they want...
• UV does kill germs. And your cells.
• Hand sanitizer burns. Surprised?
• Celebration of life needs more fire
• Home buying/selling fun...

Episode 340: Quaratine Masks

Bart, Norma and Voretaq continue lamenting weekly lowlights over quarantinis. We talk about masks, testing, and people we know getting ill. We also mention oil problems, why the clown in charge is orange, and stimulus eff-ups!

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Show Notes:

• Masks, masks, masks everywhere
• Cloth mask effectiveness
• NOTE don't actually use plastic bags as masks
• We have a coworker testing positive and someone related die from COVID
• Did Trump refuse WHO tests?
• Trump's head of virus response was fired from previous job...
• He wasn't a "team player"?
• Two proposed reasons Trump is orange
• One
• Two
• Charlie and the Racist Chocolate Factory
• Oil prices go boop
• Loans loaned to companies that didn't need it...
• Comic con and LGBTQ parade canceled
• Stimulus check eff-ups
• Try giving money to the PEOPLE
• Next week...mortgages...oil...OS/2 reborn...
• What does a house wear?