Episode 393: Silver Spoonies, Far Right Loonies

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Bloomsburg University ridding itself of Greek life, Pharma execs pretend they didn't mean to make fun of "pillbillies", and Ricky Schroder is yet another painful reminder that our childhood heroes aren't necessarily worth meeting!

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Show Notes:

• Chinese rocket debris made Earthfall
• Bloomsburg U: no more Greek life
• Gas shortage fun
• Kentucky blue people
• Big pharma execs' emails discuss "Pillbillies" of Virginia
• Ricky Schroder harasses Costco employee, shows his far-right nuttery views
• DISAPPOINTED!
• The pipeline shutdown was related to BILLING, not the functionality
• Self-host your @#$%
• Attack of the ants

Episode 392: Cancel Culture Confusion

Quite possibly more offensive than our usual episodes; we talk about the Bradford County DA quitting after his arrest and guilty plea to raping/assaulting several women and discuss some "cancel culture" confusion!

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Show Notes:

• Norma won a gift card
• More about the Gates
• The Chad Salsman, Bradford County DA, saga
• Tik-Tok of OZ
• Alabama and the southern rebels: still WTF
• Lindsay Ellis' CANCELLED video "Mask Off"

Episode 391: Basecamp or Ground Zero

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the explosion (implosion?) of Basecamp, a tech company run by rockstars that apparently shone too bright. No politics here, just plain of WTF! We also discuss a right-to-repair editorial in the WSJ and the totems of NYC! It's a long episode, so buckle in and hold on to your butts!

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Show Notes:

• Five inch or eight inch floppies?
• What did you learn to type on?
• The GIANT MOnSter 6502 circuit
• Commander X16
• Joy of oral surgery
• Local school is in the news...a senior trip to remember
• Bill and Melinda divorce
• Supreme Court rape case
• PA PPE NDA issue
• Jeld-Wen must sell Towanda plant
• Kevin Spacey accuser must reveal identity
• Twitter response to WSJ article on right to repair
• The article from WSJ in question
• BASECAMP. The start of it all
• The reveal of the Basecamp laundry
• Inside the all-hands meeting
• Totems of NYC

Episode 390: The Mindset of...

Bart and Norma discuss the (American) Conservative mindset, drought in the west and the effect on farming, India's COVID problem, Geico has a data breach, and the UK post office kept sending innocent employees to jail because...why?

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Show Notes:

• TV series on DVD
• Climate fun
• Conservative mindset
• Hypocrisy...*sigh*
• The Boys' Stormfront (character) quote: "People love what I have to say. They believe in it. They just don't like the word "Nazi", that's all."
• DC Statehood
• Western megadrought and farming
• India has a COVID problem
• Homemade Wanderlust can't smell anymore...
• Geico breach
• Post office (UK) sends people to jail for crimes they (possibly knew they) didn't commit

Episode 389: Where Is Pizza Hut!?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the disappearance of Pizza Hut, the FBI breaks into company computers for national safety and public good (and definitely nothing suspicious), Norma searches for gnomes and Florida Conservatives look for children's yahoos in girl's sports!

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Show Notes:

• Norma bought me MEAT
• I didn't cut out, YOU cut out
• We went to a place
• Beet eggs, properly made, are too sugary...whoops
• Pizza Hut disappearing
• Pizza Hut buildings in the wild
• Also a Twitter account
• FBI breaking into websites to "save" them
• ...which isn't suspicious at all...
• Stephen King film festival
• Gnome Named Gnorm
• Engendered backpacks and bathrooms
• Florida Conservatives want to check your kids' cooch
• Tesla has an impossible crash
• Richard Stallman is back to the FSF
• Cars monitoring your driving...or the manufacturer monitoring...well, someone's probably watching
• Mentioned: bird poop = cocaine (excuse for cop to harass someone)

Episode 388: Handouts and Ignorance

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss "Free Guvmint' Money", dead bodies, "living wages", and Snape is a Potter? Oh, and apprentice contract killing. And Voretaq may have been replaced by an android.

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Show Notes:

• Bugs
• Government "handouts" are going to mostly working people?...
• ...like Walmart, McDonalds employees?
• Local restaurant controversy of sorts
• Tips, wages, etc...
• Keep daylight savings in PA?
• "You're on bath salts, 'Arry!"
• My Pillow pro-Trump crony thinks there's an anti-Trump conspiracy keeping him off Fox News, definitely not lies and conspiracy theories and lawsuits and not wanting someone off the rocker spouting lies and conspiracy theories and adding more lawsuit ammunition on their shows...
• Matt Gaetz is...jaw droppingly WTF
• "Taser taser taser..." is the new "I fear for my life"?
• Dried squid, and matcha tiramisu KitKat...
• Talking Trump out of a Gaetz pardon...

Episode 387: Varsity Sues

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the National Deficit, robbing banks on bikes (the robber, not the bank), trusting the government, and a cheerleader goes to the Supreme Court to defend her right to say "f*ck the school!" after not making a varsity team and being booted from cheerleading completely!

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Show Notes:

• Epoch Times - crazy crap for crazy Conservatives
• the National Deficit with John Oliver
• Who owns our debt?
• Debt by the dollar
• Taxes stuffs
• Bank robbery on a motorized bicycle
• Cop in our area gets suspended for being a racist bigot...in uniform...while working...
• Google angers US or ally spies playing with software bugs
• NSA weakened a crypto standard
• Teen gets dropped from cheer team for going on short tirade, going to Supreme Court
• Oracle vs. Google: Court sort of found for Google?
• Amazon fired people they didn't like talking too much about problems