Episode 281: Inappropriate Awards, Bernie!, and FaceBook is Watching You?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk about FaceBook shenanigans, school trips, high school cheerleaders at a school not unfamiliar with controversy is in the news again, NEST and their hidden Google microphones, Bernie rides again, Tesla batteries vs. the cold, and tax implications of gifts!

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Show Notes:

• FaceBook Stupidity - The government doesn't fund abortions...*sigh*
• Norma's speech problems
• Voretaq is amazed at PA's student trip traditions
• Bernie discussion...he's in the race again!
• Reminiscing about Trump's batshit crazy behavior from last year...
• Trump: What's an MOU? We don't want an MOU. We need a contract! (And he was literally laughed at by the Chinese...)
• Jussie Smollett story
• Tax lessons from Schitt's Creek
• High school cheerleaders get awards for butts and boobs
• Remember Trump admiring a child?
• FaceBook may be watching you on their BOLO list...
• The NEST was not so empty...(Google forgot to tell people it has a microphone)
• Patriots owner caught doing something bad
• Bluetooth credit card/ATM skimmers
• More cardiac fun; don't be a douchecanoe roommate
• FaceBook and anti-vax
• Crazy People ad
• Tesla owners: you mean batteries don't like the cold?!
• Gas well income (and lack thereof)
• Voretaq's mortgage sold again...
• John Oliver and tax implications of forgiving massive debt
• Student loans and your paycheck; more of the Conservative war on education

Episode 280: Taxes with a Side of Taxes

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss personal taxes, corporate taxes and blame for taxes along with a hemp store in Lancaster, Liam Neeson's scandalous racism,  and some recent box office releases!

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Show Notes:

• Feedback
• Amazon vs. New York
• Taxes fun
• Fox and Friends: It's YOUR fault you didn't get a refund!
• Amazon doubled profits, paid nothing in taxes...(discussion)
• ...thanks to carryforwards...
• Liam Neeson controversy
• Floyd Landis, former cycling star, plans to open hemp/cafe/bike store in Lancaster
• More info on Floyd Landis' shop
• Banking and X-Rated (but LEGAL) companies...
• Florida boy vs. pledge?
• Thanks, Smokey!
• Republican election/ballot fraud?! NEVER!
• Brief discussion: Alita, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Happy Death Day 2U

Episode 279: Long Day

Bart had a long day...so it's a short show

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Show Notes:

• Kid wakes up saying he's sick. Again. "Go to school anyway."
• Weight update - sad day
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield can't do math...
• Tax season! YAY!
• Trump has screwed his base again with refunds
• Other countries seem to do taxes better
• TRIKING (can't...weather sucks)
• Fun car insurance facts
• Cold Pursuit
• Feedback
• Jubilee!
• Screw the local hospital system

Episode 278: Gerry Brooks, DNA tests, and TempleOS (and insurance sucks in the US)

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss TempleOS, Gerry Brooks and his take on cold weather school cancellations, the Superbowl happened, DNA testing is a great way to shed your (and your family's) privacy, and insurance is terrible...as is our local hospital system...

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Show Notes:

• Blue Snowball mics are pretty nice...
• The microphone cover is called a "Dead Cat"...
• Dead cat drone is now a whole taxidermy industry?
• Need to replace that blasted circuit breaker sometime...
• Down the Rabbit Hole: TempleOS
• TempleOS...was...uh...
• Feedback
• Too cool for school
• Gerry Brooks on education
• President's schedule leak...again...
• Superbowl happened, it seems
• Trump Inaugural Committee is in trouble
• Don't get your DNA tested...
• Amazon Rekognition system draws flak
• Insurance fun
• Insurance sabotage by the Conservative GOP showing effects in California
• In our experience, the local hospital is incompetent with billing
• Racist governor; to forgive and move on, or dwell and resign?

Episode 277: Holter monitors, MAGA boy, and licking random teenagers on bridges will get you cited!

Bart and Norma follow up on the MAGA smirker after discussing the weird schedule-jolting day they've had, complete with Bart having a jury summons. They also talk about Grand Central Station, people licking random people, and worries of advanced video animation and the future of fooling people!

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Show Notes:

• It's been a weird day
• Schedule is all weirdsy
• Apologies for the clickety-clack of keys as Bart multitasks due to crunched schedules
• Jury Duty
• It's your "civic duty", which you can tell is important by how they mistreat jurors
• No lunch. $9/day. No parking. Mailing the form back isn't even prepaid. THANKS.
• Holter Monitors are fun
• Norma had inservice. That's about it. Inservicy things.
• Feedback
• Facebook "Friendly Fraud" against parent credit cards
• Smug MAGA kid update
• Bart still stands by the notion these are bad people...MAGA supporters that Trump cheered on Twitter...that says it all
• Licking requires THE WALL
• Edited video that fools people and benefits conspiracy nutters
• Brain in a jar problem, explained
• Secrets of Central Station

Episode 276: Hotels (Or, Where Do We Retire?)

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss technology mis-use, hotel abuse, and where we're retire to die. And Alinkers. We're going to get Alinkers.

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Show Notes:

• Baby, it's really f*cking cold outside...
• Bart had a day off but it was sort of a day off but became a half day off but...well, you know
• Feedback
• Scams for old people
• On the death of malls
• Cro-MAGAnons face-off with native Americans?
• FaceBook and "Hate Speech"..."Americans are stupid!"
• FaceBook using 10 year challenge as a simple way to harvest face recognition?
• Chris Hansen turned in for not paying a vendor
• IBM and the Holocaust
• Robot hotel lays off robo-workers
• Smart locks on apartments...and it's not good...
• Get an Alinker
• Real estate, Long Island edition
• Russian pop star and Trump (possibly) co-conspirator cancels US tour over legal worries
• Tioga Downs casino somehow knows what their guests are getting in the mail? 
• Information on John Taylor Gatto, critic of public compulsory education

Episode 275: Are Old People the Fake News Problem?

Bart, Norma and a battery-worn Voretaq discuss a study that finds that old people are spreading the Fake News, Trump seems to love his Russian handlers according to many stories, the White House serves athletes an elegant McDinner, and Sears may go bye bye!

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Show Notes:

• Feedback: Bugs
• Fake News: Old people are the problem?
• How the Times got the FBI-Trump Russian asset story
• Trump shuts down government, confused why he's blamed
• Trump won't answer if he's an asset for Russia...on Fox News!
• Trump served...fast food...to Clemson athletes?...
• Steve King removed from committees for racism, doesn't understand why...
• Ocasio-Cortez hits Trump where it hurts
• Chris Pratt getting married
• AT&T/Verizon layoffs despite huge financial windfalls
• Voretaq gets a new battery
• Good-bye, Sears...
• Sharing some Sears memories
• A moving story
• Bet a fat-tire trike could have let her pedal to work in a snowstorm...
• Jayme Closs kidnapping recounting
• Tim Tebow engaged
• PG&E CEO gets 2.5 million severance after wildfire woes