Episode 229: Trump: Teachers Need Arms!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq end up discussing the fact that for the first time in America, to our recollection, there's been a number of kids shot and the ensuing silence didn't stay silent! It's been a week and it's still in the news! Also, Ulta is restocking things they shouldn't? Heather Locklear arrested? And Kevin Smith had a heart attack! We also discuss California living in this episode. It's quite a spread of information now that Voretaq rejoined us!

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Show Notes:

• California Dreaming
• "Arming teachers"
• Feedback
• Sheriff Israel...coward? Or following procedure?
• Trump would have valiantly rushed into the shooter situation, despite overwhelming evidence he's a cowardly twit
• Voretaq's FB Link
• The First Purge
• NRA getting cut from some businesses
• Georgia GOP threatens Delta over political stance
• Ivanka's "don't ask me about Daddy's cheating" whine is why nepotism is a bad thing
• Ulta Beauty restocking used stuff?
• Harrisburg school employee accused of stealing $170K+ 
• Bart's fat status update - down 38.5 lbs
• Heather Locklear arrest
• Kevin Smith heart attack
• Voretaq hates pants that wear out too soon
• West Virginia teacher strike

Episode 228: Farting on Planes, Sexist Carts, and Flat Earth Fails

Bart and Norma have a holiday news night! Not news about the holiday...it is a holiday, so we go over news. News stuff. Like guns. And Leonia, NJ whining. And a flat Earther truther who has money for a rocket that doesn't work. And planes that land due to farting. Stuff like that...

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Show Notes:

• Feedback
• Arming teachers
• Jordan Klepper - Good Guy with a Gun
• School shooting drills
• School walkouts planned
• America's gun problems
• Stupid Leonia, NJ at it again...businesses are not happy chasing away customers!
• KFC chicken shortage in the UK
• Tesco and their sexist carts
• Flat Earther fail...again...
• Trump ranked last in Presidential rankings
• Trump whines about Oprah
• Fergie makes headlines over the anthem
• Farts force plane to land
• Carnival Cruise brawl
• Sledge Hammer 

Episode 227: Food Allergy Bullying, Girls Can't Say "No" Dance

Bart, Norma and Voretaq review a school that won't let girls say no, intelligence agencies pretend they care about following rules, and Aetna is in the hotseat for admitting they rubber stamp denials, and that's just the highlights!

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Show Notes:

• "Food allergy bullying"
• Norma is fascinated with per-capita murders
• Ad blocker discussion
• Ads are allowed to do bad things for no good reason
• Santa's Slay
• Doctors in our area are moving away from the diagnosis that everything wrong with you is you're fat
• Aetna doesn't read your case before rejecting your requests
• Amazon, et al is trying to "disrupt" medical costs
• Medicare. For. All.
• Have ER bills? Send them to VOX!
• Missouri would be "happy" to host the fascist's parade
• Mr. Rogers gets a stamp
• Woman gets eyeball worms
• School won't let girls say "no" at dance
• Teens running for Governor
• Trump and Hair Force One
• Trump changed recorded height so he's not "obese"
• Transformers: The Only Real Transformers Movie Because Bay Movies Aren't Worth It had swearing
• Intelligence Agencies squash whistleblower report because whistleblowers are ignored or disappeared...
• Girl Scout was a smart cookie; draws criticism from morons
• Jeff Sessions: Racist #$%
• Dwarven Forge

Episode 226: Bankruptcies, Presidential Screwups, and Christians Don't Do Yoga!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss all sorts of items in the news, both current and past! Regulations, the Dow drop, insurance fun, getting fined for driving while not a local, and learn how picking on someone who didn't rapture during the rapture can get you shot! And that's just SOME of the highlights!

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Show Notes:

• "Rethinking drinking" with the NIH
• Regulation: the necessary pain in the ass...
• Trump's team loses, and more about the "stupidbowl" (Yes, Bart dislikes sportsball)
• Dow Jones falls...weird how when it's up, Trump did it! When it's down, it's the previous President (great leadership...)
• Kmart woes
• Book on Kmart Mismanagement
• Whole Foods inventory screwups
• President Cheetos screwed up statement about national healthcare via NHS
• Insurers want you to basically be diagnosed before going to the ER for treatment
• Thanks Trump! Equifax gets out-of-jail-free card regarding data loss to thieves
• Town fines people who are non-local driving through town
• Bon-Ton Bankruptcy filing
• Stores expected to be filing bankruptcy this year...
• STOP FILLING SPACE WITH UMMM
• Nora cancer free
• Apparently you shouldn't pick on idiots when rapture fails
• Study finds providing healthcare to poor yields benefits!
• Million dollar lotto winner dies
• Lotto winner suing to stay anonymous
• John Mahoney died
• PA court case: NO GERRYMANDERING, A-HOLES; PA weasels fight back
• Nunes said Trumpy never met him; Trump campaign RELEASED A PHOTO of them
• Catholic blogger: CHRISTIANS DON'T DO YOGA
• Waymo vs. Uber trial!
• Homeland Security incompetence leaves classified info on plane
• Levar Burton sued over Reading Rainbow

Episode 225: Public School Layoffs, Unemployment Rates and Eggert Accuses Baio

Bart and Norma chastise an absent Voretaq, give an update on the weight progress, talk about unemployment rates, and discuss store closings due to the economy as well as tuition reimbursements and schools cutting and cutting and cutting staff.

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Show Notes:

• How long have we been doing this? (since October 15th, 2013)
• Weight update - down 22.5 lbs since the 10th
• Feedback
• When a big business with influence wants their money, you need to pay NOW, but when you are owed, they'll pay when they feel like it
• Schools are a-holes when it comes to paying bills on time
• SOTU tickets have a typo (technically not the White House's fault, though)
• Fire and Fury - highly recommended for your book club
• Unemployment rate is misleading
• Vox wrote about the misleading unemployment rate
• Grand Orange Leader likes to say he reduced unemployment for black people, but that's a crap claim
• Closing stores that are still selling off stock are "living ghost towns"...or a preview of our small town's future...
• Scranton public school laying off 51 teachers
• ...even though it may have been illegal
• McTuition Reimbursement
• F-35 piece of super expensive defective military toy
• Border wall prototypes are a cost-sink fiasco
• Truth behind "chain migration"
• UK court ends life support for another baby without parental consent
• Melania costs taxpayers more than Michele, already...
• Nicole Eggert and Scott Baio allegations
• Spicer feels bad...awwwww

Episode 224: Skype, Autobot Jazz, 13 Reasons Why and Suicide...RANDOM DAY!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Skype, small planes trafficking pot, revisits Aziz, Megyn Kelly (WHY ARE YOU ON TV STILL?!), and does 13 Reasons Why cause suicides or are people just stupid? Also: Transformers were MAGA supporters? (Spoiler: no)

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Show Notes:

• Skype requires attribution when used in podcasts?!
• Transformers - Autobot Jazz, Trump supporter?
• PA Gerrymandering struck down (for now)?
• Heinz (the senator, not the ketchup)
• Small plane lands in small town with 200lbs of pot
• Bart's weight project status update
• Feedback
• Raw milk
• Children held captive by family in California
• Congress incompetence
• Aziz revisited
• babe.net writer made herself look petulantly unprofessional
• Whoopi Goldberg comments
• Wells Fargo screwed over auto-bill pay system customers
• Megyn Kelly (why is she still on TV?) - attacking Jane Fonda again
• 13 Reasons Why: encouraging suicide, or are you just #$% illiterate with comprehension problems?
• Intel Spectre update issues?
• Pronouncing Gal Godot
• Trump stupidly helps China with an energy tariff?

Transformers MAGA?!

Episode 223: Raw Milk is a Thing

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss iPhone and Apple quirks, teachers being arrested, dieting...which will probably be an ongoing theme...raw milk and food documentaries, and the Aziz Ansari story!

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Show Notes:

• Apple product quirks and bugs (we bought new phones from Verizon and had fun reconfiguring them)
• iOS 11 can share wifi passwords to iDevices in proximity
• Implants to track your child (Black Mirror episode)
• Don't use an iPhone as your single iDevice...tie it to a Mac
• Verizon iPhone activation can be a "problem"
• Phone decided to use iCloud features I told it not to...#$^%
• Adblocking via VPN on the phone continued
• MITM (Man In The Middle) attacks via root certificate replacement discussed
• Twitter upset Twitter devs can see DMs
• Encryption of your "professional" emails
• Warrant Canaries
• Cranberries lead singer died
• LA teacher arrested for questioning superintendent raise
• School district arresting teacher getting backlash. Deservedly, in my opinion.
• Soda is called Soda. "Pop" is wrong.
• Norma thinks weight loss studies are fringe excuses, like this prison experiment
• Raw milk movement is a thing
• Netflix series: Rotten
• Organic food
• Dairy farms are disappearing
• Norma is ninja-food logging
• Bart discusses Lose-It
• #metoo
• The Aziz Ansari story discussion
• James Franco creepy behavior account in book
• "Shithole countries"