Episode 369: THANKSGIVING 2020

Bart and Norma discuss Sweden's herd immunity total fail, strawberry turkey treats, Sia's new movie and the controversy that followed, and Ricky Schroder is helping to bail out alleged Conservative murderers!

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Show Notes:

• Popeyes offers churkey meals
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• Something about the OED and word of the year
• Ice Bucket Challenge cofounder passes away
• Sweden's "herd immunity" approach to Covid failed
• Ricky Schroder helps pay bail for "alleged" murderer
• Sia makes an autism inspirational movie that isn't autistic enough to qualify as okay to do
• 160+ business leaders threaten to cut financial ties to GOP if Trump doesn't start the transition...so they start the transition
• Apparently a Trump supporter is charged for breathing deliberately on women

Episode 368: Lawsuits, Debt Collectors, and Your Computer Isn't Yours

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss some varying topics like Transgender Awareness Week, selling your organs, Prop 22 passing in California, lawsuits against the states from the Trumpers, and some upgrades for the Mac that can, in some lights, be...bothersome.

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Show Notes:

• We missed some of the recording because Bart was an idiot
• loser.com points to Trump's Wikipedia page
• Metal detectorist finds 222 year old coin
• Arc of the Scythe series
• Liberals have different brains compared to Conservatives. That's why they make more sense.
• Lawsuit against the states for recounts, and frivolous lawsuits
• Transgender Awareness Week
• Vaccine transportation and spoilage
• Selling your organs...
• Man pursues debt collector
• Prop 22 passed in California
• Your Computer Isn't Yours
• When HP printers stopped working on Macs
• Apologies for the SUPER LOUD TYPING. Norma was...I have no idea what she was doing.
• Google lawsuit about Android phones stealing cell data
• Accelerometer data can get more information about you than you might think
• Theragun discussion

Episode 367: Trump's a LOSER!

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss our favorite LOSER, Donald J. Trump! We also talk about iOS update weirdness, new TVs and cars, and the cost of Playstation repairs vs. new consoles!

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Show Notes:

• Trump lost!
• The amount of stupid with this election is astonishing
• Two Virginia loons arrested for toting guns near PA ballot counting facility
• RIP Trebek
• Yay, Corona in the schools!
• Weird iOS behavior...Bart's phone really really likes listening to autotuned Trump singing Xmas songs
• Trump Sings XMas
• Voretaq gets a new TV
• Verizon no longer uses contracts?
• Playstation 4/5 discussion
• Voretaq is looking at cars
• How voting works

Episode 366: Yay, Voting...

Could politics GET any more fun? No? The only thing for sure is we are making American history...and I can understand Germany's slide into what led to WWII.

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Show Notes:

• Texas Conservatives try suppressing votes
• Bart is still struggling with a verbal tic
• White House adds non-scaling fencing
• Postal worker in trouble for not delivering ballots...
• Jordan Klepper at his last Trump rally
• A clip of Lets Be Real
• Post Gazette is terrible 
• Bias in media
• When Google terminates you
• 18 year old bought an IBM mainframe
• Time fun
• Voretaq will become a lizard dad
• Show endings

Episode 365: A Very Covid Halloween

 Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the continuing Covid state tour, Trump visits PA and we review his racism record, some dogs are born green, and Ivanka and Jared follow Daddy's footsteps and threaten to sue when they don't like what they're hearing!

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Show Notes:

• After 364 unbirthdays, we're calling this the birthday show!
• Voretaq is back!
• Our county is number 2 in the state for infections!
• Trump visits PA to lie about his love of fracking
• Vexations of hair cutting
• Trump stumps in PA...with fake Amish people?
• Trump 60 Minutes interview
• The comment is made that it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that Aunt Lydia will get on the Supreme Court...note: she got on the Supreme Court
• Trump and the Central Park 5
• Trump and his housing racism...among other things...
• Paltrow kissing RDJ
• Green dogs
• Google's lawsuit, explained
• Santas won't get early vaccines for Covid now
• Racket joins the podcast to run around as much as his zoomies feet can carry him
• Trials for vaccines
• Social media accounts being "fun" representing companies
• Young guy makes a McIcecreamChecker website
• Ivanka and Jared want to sue over billboards
• Rudy Giuliani is...being himself. 

Episode 364: We Knew It Was a Water Wiggler

Bart and Norma discuss elder abuse, a mystery rocketman, Water Wigglers were a thing creating controversies and Trump is one rung shy of claiming he doesn't need to poo (for the reference, see "North Korean Dear Leader")

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Show Notes:

• Racket decides roaches are good to eat...sometimes.
• 364 un-episodes!
• Stan Lee elder abuse story
• Things to not take from a vacation
• Jetpack flier sighted again
• Reinfections documented
• "We totally knew water wigglers weren't sex toys..."
• FaceBook fires employee that exposed right-wing bias
• Trump searches for dirt, comes up with nothing
• Hunter Biden laptop fact check
• Trump thinks "reinfection of covid" was invented after his superior immune system fought off the virus to discredit him.
• 3 days, 66 lies: a weekend with Trump

Episode 363: Don't Steal from Pompeii

Bart and Norma talk about the Hulk smashing Trump's walk of fame star with a pickaxe, a T-Rex skeleton is sold to a rich person, Eddie VanHalen passed away and police in Texas don't see anything wrong with leading a black person through the streets with a rope. Also, Republicans see absentee voting and mail-in voting as two different things, despite being the same?

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Show Notes:

• Racket likes baby food
• Hulk Smash Nazis
• T-Rex skeleton auctioned
• Eddie VanHalen RIP
• Perhaps we know what one part of MAGA is...whiny Conservatives miss blurting out racist, bigoted crap and being told they're racist bigots?
• Handcuffed and led through the streets by rope, man sues police department for being displayed as a slave for trespassing charge
• GOP: Mail in ballots are fake, terrible, corrupt. Absentee ballots are fine. The mind...wobbles.
• Don't steal from Pompeii
• A question of Trump's stamina post-Covid