Episode 488: Mitch Finally Shuts Up

Bart and Norma discuss the headlines of the week, which for some reason mostly consisted of dead celebrities, along with more from the Twit of Twitter and unions being blamed for corporate incompetence...

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Show Notes:

• Retirement homes
• Yes, Trump said he'll run from prison, and yes, there's nothing to stop him, and surprisingly, it's been done before
• Write a @#$^% will, people
• Medical system in America still sucks
• Speaking of horse manure, the history of HSA's...
• Mitch McConnell goes brrrrrrrrr
• RIP Paul Reubens
• Sinead was right, RIP
• Joe Pesci. It was Joe Pesci that jumped on the bandwagon against her post-photo-rip on SNL. But she was right.
• Statement from Morrissey
• S-Club performer passed away
• Cardi B being sued
• Murder mystery...Lori Vallow Daybell
• Canada hid children's bodies...
• Squeal like a British head of state?
• X Twitter leader still a twit, as demonstrated by his Twit Beacon
• Billionaire Philanthropy is Kind Of A Scam - SOME MORE NEWS
• IT'S ALL THE UNION'S FAULT and f@#! taxpayers, too
• Man discovers mansion being built on his property

Episode 487: "BARBIE BAD MAKES BOYS FEEL BAD"

Bart and Norma welcome Voretaq back from his hiatus! Marjorie Taylor Greene is nearly as infatuated with Biden as she was with a CrossFit instructor, Musk is infatuated with the letter X, and Conservatives everywhere are infatuated with Barbie!

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Show notes:

• Trump and the Long Island Gilgo Serial Killer relationship...SO SURPRISING
• Trump and teens in dressing rooms
• Miranda Sings
• Marjorie Taylor Greene likes peen photos, and he's not even a Crossfit instructor!
• Did we forget her Crossfit workouts involving squats on guys who aren't her husband?
• Twitter is now X
• ...except...does Musk own "X"?
• Scammers and the kid-in-trouble script
• Jason Aldean small town BS
• Desantis, slavery, and WTF...
• Tony Bennett RIP
• "Barbenheimer"

Episode 486: Supreme Court Caucus

Bart and Norma discuss our Internet provider, Hollywood taking a break for a fair cut to make a living, and Tom Cruise pretends to not be shady as @#$%. Also didn't know how to title this one, so I mashed together two things that just make me angry yet I liked the sounds of the result when put together.

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Show Notes:

• We lost Internet access today, but our provider, Empire Access, is most excellent
• Woman steals money from an old relative. Evidently this isn't nice.
• Supreme Court is populated by multi-millionaires...
• Organizations and companies pretending to care
• Hollywood is fully on strike
• A new option for contraception, maybe
• Tom Cruise and $cientology
• They're not...really...clean...
• Transcript of Titan (update: it wasn't real)
• Murdaugh settlement
• What exactly is a caucus?

Episode 485: Elon's Sanity Hanging By a Threads

Bart and Norma discuss too many stories somehow related to assault...weird that's in the news? Also Elon Musk is having full on tantrums (maybe go suck your emerald pacifier for a bit and calm down?) and a Canadian teaching assistant fired for having an OnlyFans account, since she can't afford to live on the pay alone. Weird how profits vs. pay seems to work.

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Show Notes:

• What's a "Kidult"?
• Jehovah's Witnesses caught diddling kids
• "Nuclear Boy Scout"
• Larry Nassar, gymnast' doctor and sex assault aggressor, stabbed in jail
• Allison Mack out early after turning in evidence and...whatever. Guess she's a bad cult member.
• Mormons do love their tax evasion scams
• Discussion: qualifications vs. being elected into (certain) positions in PA
• Trans contestant wins Miss Netherlands; next stop, Miss Universe competition
• Elon is having an all-out toddler meltdown over Twitter rival Threads
• Canadian teaching assistant fired for having an OnlyFans account
• Coach films self assaulting unconscious boys, left phone in restaurant
• Trump offers free food to restaurant customers, then walks out on the bill

Episode 484: Don't Go Chasing Titanic Wrecks in Home Made Subs

Bart and Norma discuss the government (well, the G-Word), Desantis drops drag, AI nonsense and idiots outsourcing their smarthomes to companies that don't give a #$^% about them...

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Show Notes:

• Unhappy Christians vs. AI bibles
• AI isn't intelligent, it just sounds like it, like Fox News...
• SOME MORE NEWS - Are Drag Queens Coming For Your Kids?
• The G-Word with Adam Conover
• Desantis' targeted law targets his newest attempt to target a group of people
• Eating disorder chatbot goes off the rails during union-busting transition
• Amazon smart home lockout
• Irish names

Episode 483: Some RIP News, Some Bible News, Some Felon News

Everyone is back this time around! Now we get to test the new filters with other people! We talk about felons, potential felons and hopefully soon to be fully convicted felons, along with SCIF whoopsies, social safety nets and violence, creationism and a little DeSantis supporters protesting Disney complete with Nazi flags!

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Show Notes:

• Mentioned Google not getting paid by Twitter...
• Canadian wildfire fun in the US
• Personally, Pat Robertson can Rest In Hell
• Ted Kaczynski has died possibly by his own hand, and his history is...complicated...
• More Bible drama in Utah
• Jamie Foxx is NOT sick due to Covid vaccines
• Of course it's not suspicious to drain a pool into the server room...
• No, Hillary didn't do what Trump is indicted for
• Nazis for DeSantis (pro-DeSantis "protesters" fly Nazi flags outside Disney)
• Jefferson Bible
• Gutsick Gibbon

Episode 482: Trump Bucks Are a SCAM?

This is a solo, and thus shorter, episode this time around. Bart is going over feedback and a couple of stories in the news: more shootings (surprise!), MAGA people conned by con artist that wasn't (supposedly) Trump this time, and religious nuts don't like their vulgar book being banned because it's hurting the WRONG PEOPLE!

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Show Notes:

• "Let me off the plane!..." "Can't we land first?"
• 9 shot in Florida, not enough guns to protect them from guns
• Bearly survived a collision
• I'm not a doctor, but this person is insane
• Oh no MAGA Trump supporters were conned...not directly by Trump this time...
• Short sighted book banning fascism bites Gilead fans in the arse...bye bye Bible!