Episode 353: Dunk Tanks and Star Trek Copyright

Bart and Norma discuss conspiracy theories (sort of), stupidity of CBS and Star Trek copyright enforcement, and a giant Gundam robot!

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Show Notes:

• Judge detains kid who didn't do her homework
• A Reddit link with some more comments, another article
• PA dunk tank controversy
• More about the non-apology
• Sharks disappearing
• Liberty lightning
• Gone with the Wind actress dies at 104
• Conspiracy theorists are idiots. Don't bother reasoning with them
• Stores say they'll enforce mask rules, then don't enforce mask rules
• CBS forgets to tell their copyright bots not to cut off their own material during virtual Comic-Con
• Star Trek fan film was Axanar
• 60 foot Gundam robot to debut in October

Episode 352: Volleyball on Cybertron

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss cardboard cutouts in the stands, the GOP doesn't want your boss to get sued if you get infected when ordered to work, Portland is under attack by American storm troopers, Hasbro is releasing its biggest blatant money grab yet, and the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds hosted a carnival that made fun of the trans community!

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Show Notes:

• Bill O'Reilly is still alive, it seems
• Bars "get around" rules for serving at bars
• Frederick Douglass statue defaced
• Slave work is capitalism at its peak
• Cardboard cutouts at the games (although the fake face incident wasn't in the US)
• GOP wants to make sure your employer can't be sued for making you work and negligently getting you infected
• Tax racket
• Portland has a small invasion of government storm troopers problem
• Trump is planning to invade more Democrat-run cities with federal storm troopers
• Trump now wears a mask, pretends he supported it all along
• VPN providers leak terabytes of information
• Outsourcing stuff
• Getting electrical things fixed in the house
• Hasbro is releasing another franchise tie-in for Transformers. This time, Top Gun. It is a jet. With a helmet. And a volleyball. Yes. A volleyball.
• An idiot governor
• An idiot Christian camp
• Clintons are apparently murdering people again in the deep dark shadows of nutbag minds
• Grant Imahara passed away
• Transphobic Bloomsburg Fair carnival event?
• Bloomsburg wants to backpedal as quickly as possible
• Voretaq is having issues getting a 4TB drive

Episode 351: School Bells as Corona Swells

Voretaq returns to join Bart and Norma in discussing standards in technology, living on boats, TV shows with curses, and schools reopening in the age of the Corona!

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Show Notes:

• Older people like airports?
• Lets live on a boat!
• Sailing Millennial Falcon
• Standards...so many to choose from
• Mary Trump book
• PA wants to roll back fireworks law (but sees no issue with letting people run around with guns and other explosives?)
• Glee actress found dead in lake
• Glass vial shortage could impact Coronavirus vaccine research
• Power Rangers who have died...
• School reopening risks
• The people who brought you child trafficking in the basement of a pizza parlor that doesn't have a basement now presents: Wayfair trafficking kids via over-priced furniture!
• Catholic church gets millions in tax money they didn't pay into, at least partially because they had to pay lawsuits for raping kids

Episode 350: Summer of Disease

Bart and Norma discuss Hamilton and Beetlejuice, 4th of July stuff, the summer spread of Covid, Home Depot has a rope racism problem, and the Rancid Mango gives another speech of idiocy!

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Show Notes:

• Hamilton on Disney+
• Beetlejuice on Broadway
• Ft. Hood soldier's body found
• Charlie Daniels passed away
• 4th of July stuff
• Summer Covid
• Gatherings and the disease
• Home Depot changes the way it sells rope
• Home Depot cofounder is a Trump supporter
• Boris Johnson's fiancee wants a ban on monkey labor
• Trump and the Central Park 5
• The Rancid Mango's speech at Mount Rushmore, critiqued
• Outsourcing rant

Episode 349: Yummy Yummy Sanitizer

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the American Rule, white privilege, some fringe group gets punked but they TOTALLY KNEW IT ALL ALONG, cults, and qualifications for becoming a magistrate!

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Show Notes:

• Bike rules, and asset forfeiture is bull$#%
• American Rule in attorney fees
• Legal Eagle speaks about SLAPP and the American Rule
• The NASCAR noose incident
• Kimmel white privilege speech
• John Bolton...yeah
• Trump gearing up to invalidate the November election
• Here comes the dust
• Trump is still a moron. We had to put in our reminder about his failed rally
• Far right group unhappy they got punked
• ...They're really unhappy Apparently they said the part they're supposed to keep silent?
• Lawmaker admits he didn't bother researching ectopic pregnancy when passing law mandating implantation of0 ectopic pregnancy when it's impossible
• Yet another encryption bill introduced by idiots who don't understand encryption
• Yummy hand sanitizer
• A story about crabs
• A talk about cults (well, one in particular...)
• Should Bart run for Magistrate?...

Episode 348: Apples to Arms

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the new Mac processor announcement, COVID status, Copaganda, and Trump's wonderfully disastrous rally!

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Show Notes:

• Apple is switching to ARM processors
• Steve Jobs: touchscreen laptops suck
• Processors used in the Microsoft Surface
• How's the weather?
• Into the Wild bus/van removed due to idiots trying to hike to it in the wilderness, some dying
• "Black Wall Street" in Tulsa
• COVID warning levels
• Trump's weak, pathetic rally
• Trump has a new favorite propaganda network (Sorry, Fox!)
• NY retirement homes
• "Copaganda" on Today, Explained
• Fruit causes near-evacuation
• Lincoln Project

Episode 347: After 30 Seasons, COPS is Gone With the Wind

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Mac updating, VP nominees, older movies with "hidden" racism, COPS is off the air, roofie-ing yourself with Aqua Dots, owning a piece of KITT, and squirrels!

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Show Notes:

• MacOS updates are fun
• Is the Orange Man leading through incompetence, dementia, or both?
• VP talk for 2020
• Can Obama be VP then become President again?
• Please don't steal a Senator for VP
• Social distancing in restaurants
• for NY, check forward.ny.gov
• Coronavirus shows macho leaders are weak leaders
• Gone with the Wind going bye bye (temporarily)
• These "southern" statues were erected during the civil rights movement, not after the Civil War
• COPS is off TV after 30+ years
• Gin, or hand sanitizer?
• Aqua Dots, the toy that doubles as a roofie
• You can get a 3-vial set of vehicle fluids from a screen-used KITT car
• JK Rowling and not being okay with transgender people
• Ball Wash
• Voretaq shares a squirrel story