Episode 502: OpenAI Goes Boom

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the presentation and misunderstanding of how the medical system works (or at least part of it), Elon demonstrates he's still an insufferable human brain tumor, Saucon Valley School District shows they're actually having to pay something for their idiocy while denying they're idiots and OpenAI has a slight management problem.

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Show Notes:

• Voretaq got Amazon monthly supply delivery...
• Medical students
• Medical supplies
• Elon doesn't like being called anti-Jew when he is anti-Jew (also discovers that for some reason big companies don't like being associated with Nazis when Nazis aren't popular)
• Saucon Valley School district discriminates against anti-religion-in-public-places-preferential-treatment group, denies they discriminated, but must pay some legal fees after discriminating against them but don't worry because they are paying through insurance paid for by taxes instead of directly through taxes
• OpenAI, ChatGTP, WTF?
• Per conversation in the recording, information may be obscured over semantics and technicalities, but there's quite a bit of proof that yes, IBM knew. They knew.
• The word "squelchy" will now haunt me
• YouTube and ad blocking...screw you
• Republicans approve amendment to cut Pete Buttigieg's salary to $1
  

Episode 501: Addlebrained

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss frozen turkey and food banks, GOP race becomes less racy, Trump is still addle-brained and LA will have some traffic problems! (Have to point out there's traffic problems since LA residents probably won't notice)

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Show Notes:

• Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack (Not sponsored...unfortunately...)
• Norma's late. WHERE IS NORMA?
• Turkey bowling
• Wireless headphone discussion
• Euphemism discussion
• Food bank use in PA
• GOP primary race runner drops from race possibly because of race
• "Privileged white women can't get into medical schools..."
• Collectors afraid to come forward with copies of "lost" BBC shows
• States/Hospitals are stealing...and profiting...from your baby's blood
• Trump is brain-addled toddler making gaffes left and right
• Gas prices (no, the President doesn't control that with a magic switch you @#$ morons)
• LA fire damages freeway, time to blame homeless people!
• Tioga Downs racino fire

Episode 500: Covenant Eyes, Not At All Weird

Bart, Norma and Voretaq celebrate the 500th episode by breaking the recording software! Updates are great! We also discuss Clever Hans (though not by name since my memory isn't great), idiots vs. scammers, Ape NFTs are still a thing apparently and that can lead to fake sunburns in your eyes, the origins of "salty" (thanks Siri!) and software for sharing your porn habits with your kids! That's not at all weird, is it Mr. Johnson!?

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Show Notes:

• Son likes Mexican Coke
• Weirdly colored foods
• The recording software upgrade makes the session goes nuts
• Norma broke a mirror! That's probably why nothing is working right!
• The horse in question was Clever Hans
• Knee replacement
• Convoluted tale of idiocy and murder
• Trump's lawyer told the judge what?
• Bored Yacht Club ApeFest: let's burn our eyeballs!
• As much as I dislike YouTube now, here's a possible cause of the NFT event burn, link forwarded to me by Voretaq
• Student accountability
• How did we get to the recollection of the "learn the facts" sticker? Upon listening to the audio, it was the part about "do your own research" to look something up that reminded me of it. That's why.
• Kinda salty
• Speaker of the House Mike Johnson likes sharing his phone and computer information with an outside third party company in the name of sharing porn habits
• Apple announced hardware updates, new M3 models

Episode 499: Paying Teachers to Shoot, But Not Pay For Supplies

Bart and Norma discuss YET ANOTHER proposal to give teachers incentive to shoot people in schools (yet pay out of pocket for actual schools supplies) after yet another shooting, more celebrities pass away, the House speaker is elected and he's yet another terrible person in my opinion, and candy corn is terrible and people are finally realizing it!

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Show Notes:

• Main shooter found dead
• Georgia Republican wants to pay teachers to shoot kids and intruders as cost savings to schools, but not pay them for things like...classroom supplies. BECAUSE MAGA?
• Richard Moll passes away
• Matthew Perry passes away
• Kitty made a gross on Norma
• Mike Johnson unanimously voted house speaker despite being yet another terrible human
• 15 fun facts about the new house speaker, thinks Handmaids Tale was a how-to?
• Surprise! Being dependent on a few really rich d-bags means kowtowing to rich d-bag demands!
• Candy corn is the devil's delight
• Apple is holding a streamed product announcement event...

Episode 498: Lemon Amazon Energy Drink

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss responsible legislation, sex ed in schools, education in general, Panera is getting sued, Amazon sells driver pee (supposedly?), Fall of the House of Usher is great and Jim Jordan is still terrible in our opinions!

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Show Notes:

• Darkwing Duck!
• Responsible driving and legislation
• Sex ed in schools
• Apparently you can't get out of prostitution by using a camera
• School shop class
• Kevin Smith and Prince movie
• Panera lawsuit over "energy drink lemonade"
• StackOverflow fires (sorry, "lays off") 28% staff in yet another round of layoffs
• Selling Amazon drivers' pee as energy drinks, on Amazon?
• Lebanon bologna!
• Jim Jordan couldn't bully his way into speakership
• Governor Shapiro-adjacent lawsuit settlement for harassment
• Fall of the House of Usher

Episode 497: Weaponized Printers

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss pensions, stupidity of our penal system, and 3D printers as weapons! Bonus: we seem to be in agreement that Elon Musk is an idiot.

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Show Notes:

• Pensions, retirement, COLA...
• We manage to refer to Swift's Modest Proposal
• Jailed for endangering a fetus, forced to give birth in a prison shower
• Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
• New York proposed bill would require background check/special licensing for 3D printer ownership
• Rich doesn't mean smart
• Cheating anecdote at school

Episode 496: Living on a Negative Income

Bart and Norma end up spending quite a bit of time talking about the affordability of just existing in our country now (See what I did there? Spending quite a bit of time??), along with a couple short news items...the collapse of society will be televised!

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Show Notes:

• Cat attack
• Return-To-Office is...
• On social security...
• Small-town airplane lands wrong
• FEMA test on smart phones...you can't opt out...
• The Hawaii false alarm incident
• Lockdown drill talk
• Getting rid of McCarthy as speaker
• Tom Hanks AI warning...it's not him!
• Disney sued over taco wedgie waterslide