A Short Note

Taking a short rest because:
a) Recording fell on a holiday weekend
b) We're trying to get the house in order. It's like the Enterprise-A at the moment. Livable, but the damn turbolift isn't working...
c) We're tired, and the periodic heatwaves with lack of A/C isn't helping
d) We're not being paid

BUT we plan on coming back next week, so join us then!

Episode 343: MOVING TIME (Ready or Not)

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Elon Musk going alt-right, anti-pandemic means new surveillance for people by the government, dead people can't have money so neither will you, and we discuss the new house situation!

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Show Notes:

• We missed last week...but we explain why...
• First time recording from the NEW STUDIO
• Voretaq is not out of quarantine yet
• Bart wants to make a tech-helmet instead of using a mask
• Voretaq thinks a fan would work better
• If you didn't test for the disease, you wouldn't have any more disease found
• Elon Musk going alt-right with the red pill references? 
• Musk and his misogyny streak
• Mystery disease from Covid-19 in kids
• Australia/New Zealand measures to stop the plague
• Did you get a stimulus check for a dead person? You get to give it back!
• Government now can spy on your browsing history without a warrant
• KITTY BUTT
• It's been quite the week for moving!
• Adventures in moving, commence...
• Holiday memories
• Critique on the new home architecture
• Internet connection setup
• Raspberry Pi's and home automation
• Voretaq convinces Norma she wants a combination washer/dryer unit

Episode 342: Murder Hornets and Biden Accusations

Bart, Norma and Voretaq try to discuss news in a news-sparse week. Everything is about the virus or hornets! So we talk about masks, mask vending machines, quarantine reasons, and murder hornets! Along with some news about police shooting police and incompetent government checks.

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Show Notes:

• Automating setup of a program on the Mac (sort of...) with Automator
• Hypercard
• Hitler's descendents live in Long Island
• Lincoln saved by Booth
• The Pepcid cure
• Why Quarantine?
• Bill Maher on Covid...
• Bull semen in Red Bull
• Mask vending machines
• Murder hornets
• "Keep yourself healthy (so our costs will be low!)"
• Cop shoots cop in LA
• Biden accusation news
• House moving fun
• "Stimulus check"...what a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.
• Business bankruptcies 

Episode 341: Covid Spread, Software Testing

Bart, Norma and Voretaq (and some occasional additions from Norma's mom)  discuss some software testing, a skate park turned (accidentally?) into a dirt bike park, Covid spread and the effect on GOP voters (spoiler: more of them are dying in their Trumpy-states), and UV light kills germs AND you!

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Show Notes:

• Lizard tales
• Software Testing
• Especially Go(lang) testing
• Since we mentioned it, Ditch Diggers podcast
• Covid and pulse/Ox monitors for fingers
• Skate park filled with sand, now it's a dirt bike park!
• As older voters succumb to Coronavirus, the GOP loses votes for November
• CovidActNow.org
• Big companies manage to snatch bailout money (SURPRISE) and the Treasury is "threatening" that there will be "consequences" if they don't return it (yeah, right...)
• Let MAGA supporters inject bleach if they want...
• UV does kill germs. And your cells.
• Hand sanitizer burns. Surprised?
• Celebration of life needs more fire
• Home buying/selling fun...

Episode 340: Quaratine Masks

Bart, Norma and Voretaq continue lamenting weekly lowlights over quarantinis. We talk about masks, testing, and people we know getting ill. We also mention oil problems, why the clown in charge is orange, and stimulus eff-ups!

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Show Notes:

• Masks, masks, masks everywhere
• Cloth mask effectiveness
• NOTE don't actually use plastic bags as masks
• We have a coworker testing positive and someone related die from COVID
• Did Trump refuse WHO tests?
• Trump's head of virus response was fired from previous job...
• He wasn't a "team player"?
• Two proposed reasons Trump is orange
• One
• Two
• Charlie and the Racist Chocolate Factory
• Oil prices go boop
• Loans loaned to companies that didn't need it...
• Comic con and LGBTQ parade canceled
• Stimulus check eff-ups
• Try giving money to the PEOPLE
• Next week...mortgages...oil...OS/2 reborn...
• What does a house wear? 

Episode 339: Do You Want to Eat a Jellyfish?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss (Americentrically) eccentric foods, guerilla fruit tree grafting in NYC, the Tiger King, Trump being incompetent (as usual), and soon we'll have no post office because Amazon makes Trump feel bad!

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Show Notes:

• Food shopping in quarantine days
• Bart's aunt seems to be afraid of the plague
• What's the right amount of terrified?
• Microwaves don't work like that
• Preacher holds services, dies of virus
• Remote learning from the teacher's side
• Weird foods
• NYC activists graft fruit to trees on sidewalks
• ATV's on the roads
• Stimulus checks...maybe? Does anyone know what's going on thanks to communication from our fabulous government leaders?
• "Doctors" giving advice...don't inhale hydrogen peroxide, you idiot
• Please be careful insisting you're a "doctor" and calling during a quarantine out of the blue...
• Suing Fox News. Someday.
• Tiger King
• John Oliver followup to his long-ago coverage of Joe Exotic
• YouTube views up during quarantine, but pay is down for content creators
• Looking forward to Space Force
• Trump decided to put his idiot kid and in-law in charge of reopening America? Wonder if there's backlash...
• NRA: "Shooting people is ESSENTIAL for BUSINESS"
• Trump goes full dictator when governors give him the virtual finger; "YOU WILL RESPECT MY AUTHORI-TAY!"
• Republicans want to kill 600,000+ jobs and your ability to vote by mail... Because Amazon makes Trump cry

Episode 338: Zoom: Who Needs Privacy?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq continue to weather the COVID-19 quarantine with stories of Zoom security issues, NJ is asking for COBOL volunteers to fix the systems they couldn't bother to have fixed before now, MyPillow CEO and Trump suck-up running for public office, and Centralia is removing a (somewhat) famous highway!

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Show Notes:

• Quarantines are a new normal for now...
• Running out of quota on the podcast account sucks
• Tigers can get Coronavirus, apparently...
• Food distribution talk
• Fox News prepares for possible lawsuits
• Cruise ships searching for a place to dock...
• Voretaq's computer broke
• "We need COBOL volunteers" in NJ (yeah, right...)
• LGR talks Y2K
• Boeing 787's must be restarted before hitting 50 days uptime
• Zoom conferencing faces yet another problem
• Gender reveal party sparks Florida fire
• Dumbass in charge of MyPillow encouraged to run for office by human Cheeto
• We watched Star Trek: Picard, Bloodline, and Derry Girls
• ST:Picard discussion
• Centralia graffiti highway is going away
• Some insurers returning premiums?
• "Pro-life" pastor gives silly excuses for having services against quarantine orders
• More voters would hurt GOP
• Wisconsin voters hurt by court decision
• Next week: TIGER KING