Episode 491: AI Isn't Smart, Nor Are School Officials...

Bart and Norma discuss the (de-)merits of fracking, schools that think ChatGPT is KITT, killing people because the funeral industry will bribe with more money than EMT paychecks provide and we even bring up poop knives which are apparently a real thing now!

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Show Notes:

• Fracking bad? Duh
• Flammable water
• Basic job, still afford to support a family
• Post card search
• Storm report
• Cuban coach missing
• Iowa public school banning books by the word of ChatGPT
• Can't-miss tourist dining: a food bank
• Newscasters following the same script across so so many "news stations"
• The original poop knife
• Skin Hunters scandal

Episode 490: Sky Sharks!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Meg 2, Sky Sharks (because they're AWESOME), Conservative efforts to justify hateful laws just make them onerous and stupid, Orlando apparently doesn't like losing gay dollars, and church is FUN! (No, it's not)

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Show Notes:

• Norma complains about having to destroy my office every recording day
• IP space unavailable but unused
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds discussion
• Meg 2
• Sky Sharks!
• Funerals
• There's law for poor people and law for rich people
• Stupid school laws, name edition: "Benjamin wants to be called Ben and you need to sign paperwork to authorize it..."
• Ezekiel 23:20. Enjoy.
• It's all fun and games until there's an exorcism
• Pence doesn't know how pumps work
• No, really, Orlando is VERY friendly for LGBTQ people...definitely not lying...
• Texas thinks it's okay to slice people to shreds in the Rio Grand because the Bible says so
• Desantis wants to drone strike Mexico
• You can get a FreeShell account

Episode 489: Incandescently Stupid

Bart and Norma discuss the passing of Bart's grandmother, old people shouldn't be running Congress, Zoom apparently doesn't believe remote work works, and shows like The Witcher are dumbed down because, they say, the American audience is too stupid to understand their nuanced and complicated stories!

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Show Notes:

• Maybe we should remove people from government when they're too addle-brained to function...?
• McConnell heckled with calls to retire
• Idiot tells Stephen King to "get a job"
• "Incandescently stupid"...writing memos to Trump
• Miss Teen USA 2007 goes uhhhhhhhh
• Remote work enabling champ Zoom insists workers return to the office
• Elite Panic
• "Our stories are stupid because Americans are stupid"
• The Critical Drinker - How the Witcher Destroyed Itself
• Note: I re-watched his review of the Witcher situation, and I remembered only one aspect; he reviewed several big issues with the show's trajectory and how they culminated into a #$%show. The one that stuck in my memory was the first season focusing on the sorceress/witch character, and the second on the character being trained, and the titular Witcher has very little focus for a show literally called The Witcher.
• The "Trump's lawyer is dumber than Trump" article I was referencing
• Gaslighting

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