Episode 424: Adblockers

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss online adblockers, a BU student accidentally gets cremated remains, Ted Cruz hates black nominees, and a school bans Maus!

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Show Notes:

• Older celebrities are dying, but the Meatloaf was tainted
• Becoming Batman
• Cremains to Binghamton University student
• Ted Cruz hates Biden's declared Supreme Court nominee preference
• Texting your tickets
• Police openly abused power in this small town
• Adblocker lawsuit; blocker company won
• People with ad blockers have a totally different experience on the Internet?
• Chrome security changing soon
• Who owns StackOverflow now?
• School bans Maus because of course they would

Episode 423: Thedacare Wants Government to Prop Up Business

Bart and Norma discuss an expensive comic book page (yes, a single comic book page), robots make the best friends, and Bart predicted the tiered substitution of teaching positions as actual teachers leave or fall ill...and now it's happening!

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Show Notes:

• Spider-Man record-breaker
• Health official in Florida tells staff it's shameful how few are vaccinated; gets suspended for doing job
• Prince Andrew still getting into trouble for screwing under-age kids...raise your hand if you're surprised!
• Robot emotional support pets
• Teacher
• positions
• redefined
• The Batman discussion
• Puppers comes to visit during recording again
• Video Norma is referring to in the political humor story
• Thedacare fiasco
• Late breaking news...Thedacare loses injunction, workers can now go to work at competitor company/hospital
• What's up, Maureen?
• Woman threatens to shoot up school, leads to debate over the nice white lady didn't mean it that way

Episode 422: Antivirus Crypto-Mining

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss fart jars, passing of stars (still), idiots running our government, and crypto-mining by antivirus software!

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Show Notes:

• Doggy had a good training session and was a GOOD BOY
• Sidney Poitier passes away
• Sneakers...must-see movies...
• Florida man: drugs on my wiener aren't mine!
• Teachers crawling for cash for classrooms
• Theres a crypto currency for "Lets Go Brandon"
• "Man in the storm" story
• State legislator from the party of Fascism doesn't like teachers saying Fascism is bad
• Critical Race Theory has Conservatives crying about teaching actual history
• Crisis in education
• Moron gov. Mike Parson still thinks reading HTML ("view source") is "hacking", and is confident reporter will be prosecuted, because of course he's an idiot
• Now your antivirus has crypto mining...
• Developer gets mad, corrupts behavior of his own libraries used by large number of users/products, people get mad when free software goes boom
• Chip shortage means printer companies are spinning the non-availability of their own DRM lock-in chips as okay, and how to bypass their own lock-in issues
• Clippy's pronouns?
• Farts in jars...worth LOTS OF MONEY 

Episode 421: Oprah's Non-Endorsement of Dr. Oz

Bart and Norma discuss Bubonic Plague, Dr. Oz, Microsoft starts the new year off on a whoopsie, and Toyota blames dealers for the keyfob backlash!

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Show Notes:

• Betty White passed away at 99, just short of 100
• Least affordable housing...
• Toyota revisits key fob debacle, makes excuses
• Followup on mention of a Tesla repo happening automatically?
• Finland Tesla owner destroys car rather than pay 20K bill to replace batteries
• Microsoft Exchange (malware scan part) fell over on New Year's (check your INT's!)
• Oprah has zero support for Dr. Oz political aspirations
• Dr. Oz needs to learn how to hang up the phone before speaking about frank opinions
• Plague discussion
• Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos fame found kind of guilty
• Colorado trucker has prison sentenced commuted to 10 years from over a century
• Doggy behavior discussion

Episode 420: The Banana Man

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Joe Manchin's politics, things you need to own to be a lady, Emma Thorne's YouTube channel, and Kent Hovind's "dissertation", and a fond recollection of Ray Comfort (the Banana Man!)...

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Show Notes:

• Opening has a lot of crinkling as Norma is playing with things she ordered
• Planes and 5G problems
• Critical Drinker and Spider-Man
• Radiation effects
• We believe Joe Manchin is a terrible person
• Things to own TO BE A LADY
• Ray Comfort: Moron
• Emma Thorne YouTube channel
• Kent Hovind "dissertation"
• School TikTok problem
• Followup from last week: Verizon signed us up for their tracking program AGAIN

Episode 419: Biden Has a Storm Gun

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss celebrity deaths, Puppers training, Toyota is reminding customers that they don't matter, My Pillow CEO thinks rumored celebrity dating is what tarnishes his reputation and not his Trump boot-licking, and Alex Jones reminds us the Conservative movement is bat@#$ nutters!

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Show Notes:

• WORMS (for Racket the Bearded Dragon)
• Brief mention of computer backups
• Gum for Covid. Wear a mask instead.
• Michael Nesmith of the Monkees passes away
• ...among others, like Anne Rice and someone Norma can't remember...
• Covid spike in the area
• And more Covid
• Puppy has a diagnosis! (First day at puppy academy)
• Verizon is tracking users by default
• Puppy comes to visit the studio
• Toyota requiring customers to pay per month for their KEY FOB to remote start the car
• California hates guns, uses abortion strategy from Texas to hit gun-lovers
• Norma can't find her keys. Again.
• MyPillow fool sues because he was rumored to date an actress
• Trump loves lawsuits
• Alex Jones thinks Biden has a weather weapon causing tornadoes, ignoring the Jewish Space Lasers in orbit
• Also, the Texas powergrid was sabotaged by Biden in the big storm outage last year...
• Kardashian wants to be a lawyer and is one baby-step closer

Episode 418: Pro-Trump Parents Flee When Kid Arrested for Shooting Schoolmates

Bart and Norma discuss Dr Oz running for government in a state he doesn't live, parents of school shooter can't escape to Canada because they're Trump turnips that didn't vax, cop abuses power in school again, and gunshop owner shoots his employee in a whoopsie. Also, Better.com CEO fires hundreds over a Zoom call. Life is wonderful!

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Show Notes:

• Google Pizza game
• "Dr Oz" running for government <puke>
• Reddit talks about Oz
• The latest publicized school shooting is from such a Trumpy family that the escapades just kept going
• 11-year-old girl had school police use excessive force, officer finally resigns after a year or two...
• Guess she shouldn't have taken "too much" milk...
• 21 Chump Street
• Should the school be held liable? Also, NANNY STATE, GOVERNMENT OVERREACH...oh, and you should have searched his bag and person for liquids in oversized containers, nail clippers, AK-47s...the usual...
• Scamming via "Geek Squad"
• Nancy Mace thinks vaccines are terrible, you shouldn't get the Covid vaccine, natural immunity all the way, but you should definitely get the Covid vaccine...that's your GOP Congressional rep, SC!
• His dad saw him win
• Sorry about your face, bro, it was just a prank...uh...I fear for my life?...
• Devin Nunes' Cow does happy dance
• So punchable-face Tucker Carlson sent thank-you to Hunter Biden for endorsing his kid to alma mater college? What happened to the Hunter Biden conspiracies, Tucker?
• Covid scare
• Better.Com CEO fires 900 people via Zoom (don't worry, he has million dollar bonuses, so the CEO will be okay, despite how hard it is for him to fire people. Via Zoom.) Afterwards, he accused the ex-employees of stealing time by working only 2 hours a day?