Episode 456: Slicing Signs for Senate

Bart and Norma discuss space photos, Britain is still mucked up, slapping people for fun and profit, dark fiber, and spammers complaining they're classified as spammers! Also, Fiona Apple reminds us that our court system is a farce!

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Show Notes:

• Pillars of Creation
• Liz Truss Resigns as British PM
• Slap Fighting Championships
• Dark Fiber
• Police in Old Forge (PA) School
• Every Girl's Crazy for a Sharp-Dressed Sign
• 1993 Video Game Violence Congressional Hearings
• Republicans complain their spam mail is caught in spam filters but refuses to stop sending spam
• Fiona Apple discusses yet another way our court system is horrible (and Maryland courts are retaliating when held accountable)
• Trailer: Violent Night
• Trailer: M3gan

Episode 455: College Search and Prison

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss college touring and prison system philosophy; we also end with a short news bit regarding the passing of Racket, our in-studio helper and companion bearded dragon.

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Show Notes:

• Voretaq is back after fighting with phone companies
• Alec Baldwin reaches settlement in shooting, shooting of Rust to resume
• Trump's rambling response to subpoena 
• Oz delivers speech in front of Hitler's car
• College tour time
• spam filtering
• Imodium crackdown
• It's the Great Pumpkin
• School shooting verdicts...
• Criminalization of homelessness driven by for-profit prisons
• Biden finally FINALLY finally calls out hypocrite Republicans publicly
• NASCAR caused mental derpness in brains near the racetracks
• Prison system purpose
• RIP Racket the Bearded Dragon

Episode 454: Too Political

Bart and Norma discuss a rainbow fence feud, Oz and his fake felons for Fetterman stunt, and DeSantis pulls a migrant stunt that more or less backfires as it turns out "liberal elites" aren't "racist fascists". Oh, and they found the Perla Huerta that helped traffic the immigrants. Turns out "Perla" wasn't a pseudonym...

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Show Notes:

• Father sentenced for assaulting infant son
• Crossing the rainbow fence
• Oz hired actors to pose as felons at Fetterman appearances, too stupid not to out themselves
• See the story with pictures
• Another that is mostly the story, but with video
• Immigrant trafficker Perla found, but she doesn't want to talk...
• Show: Some More News featuring that time the GOP Trump Wannabe DeSantis trafficking 5-50 humans to another part of the country for $600K only to have the stunt backfire so the party starts lying to spin this as "we meant to do this"!
• It's not the first time these kind of people trafficked people to make a point as a stunt. And it's not the first time it backfired. Click here to learn about the Reverse Freedom Rides.
• Court gives okay for Dominion billion-dollar lawsuit against Mike "MyPillow Guy" Lindell to move forward
• Another book about the Trump shitshow: Confidence Man
• The Onion writes to Supreme Court to defend man parodying his local police department

Episode 453: Cat Butts

Bart and Norma discuss who is allowed to die first, Ron Desantis' migrant stunt may haunt him yet (think he'll get away with human trafficking still?) and whether the Cats CGI movie butthole release was a real thing...We also discuss how the economy works, from the viewpoint of people who don't understand economics.

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Show Notes:

• Phantom of the Opera closing
• Sailing Millennial Falcon YouTube Channel
• Iran protests
• Desantis migrant stunt sounds more and more like a movie villain plot come to life
• Validity of the Cats (CGI movie) "butthole" cut
• How Economics Works (a work of speculative fiction)
• Golden Oak - Now you can live IN Disney World!
• Article about it, so less ad-copy, more opinion
• Milk + brains + formaldehyde 
• Trump ran for President because he wanted more fame

Episode 452: Litterboxes are for Jury Doody

Bart and Voretaq lament Voretaq's upcoming jury duty assignment, the fate of the queen's dogs, are all gameshow hosts terrible people?, be more careful with your DNA and a crypto company misplaces 10 million (aus) dollars...and didn't notice for 7 months.

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Show Notes:

• Voretaq has to go to jury duty to see if they want him
• Queen's dogs...
• Rape kits can get you arrested. As the victim.
• Glenn Thompson doubles down on anti-same-sex marriage vote shortly before attending gay son's wedding
• Pat Sajak + Marjorie Greene
• A governor trafficked humans across state lines?
• Google accidentally sends quarter million dollars to random blogger
• Crypto firm misplaced 10 million Australian dollars into a woman's account...didn't notice for 7 months
• Kate Mulgrew hated Jeri Ryan on Voyager
• Quiet Quitting
• Zero Days documentary
• How do you prefer to watch your streaming shows and why is it binge-able watching?

Episode 451: Your Mascot Can't Go Potty

Welcome back Voretaq! Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss glaciers, the death of the Queen, Dr Oz (AGAIN...WHY WON'T HE GO AWAY...) and mental defectives protesting non-existent litter boxes in schools.

This is the first time I recall the episode having such stupid that my brain twitched and now the podcast episode page looks like something an unhinged FaceBook user would paste together in a scrapbook.

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Show Notes:

• Fentanyl Candy
• Vegetable oil price surge
• Glaciers are melting. Surprise.
• RIP Queen Elizabeth - her bees have been given the news
• Dr Oz forgot how many houses he owns
• "Dr" Oz finds humor mocking someone for having a stroke
• Pregnant woman ticketed for HOV lane use...again
• Musicians using "poop" in title see profits in the age of Alexa
• Should I rename the podcast to "Pooping After Dark"?
• Pandemic TP hoarders lead to rise in bidet purchases
• Local schools refuse to allow school mascot to use bathroom

Callous superintendents refuse to allow Wildcats a potty space

"I had Taco Bell!" - Wegners Wildcat

• JUST TO BE CLEAR since there are so many f#% idiots out there...I'm making fun of the idiots that found it necessary to make this Onion-level story a "thing". Opinions expressed here are my own. Want to hear it firsthand? Listen to the podcast. The writeup/summary is created by me. "Me" being Bart. "You" being the reader. Unless you actually believed the rumored litterboxes are in schools. Then you're a f#% idiot. Images are snapshots available from web search; the news story has the author listed in the image, the kitty image was in the Googles for a school mascot. Captions are satirical in nature, written by me. Having to spell this out makes me even more sad. Check next week for my next Modest Proposal.
• Man loses millions by accidentally throwing out hard drive with bitcoin stored on it
• Add water for milky cereal
• Texas still insists separation of church and state isn't a thing
• Obama and Biden Novels (no, don't have any affiliate links, I get no money if you clicked these)
• Play Quake on Apple Watch

Bonus: Signs of Fascism

From that site:

EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF FASCISM

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Rampant sexism
5. Controlled mass media
6. Obsession with national security
7. Religion and government intertwined
8. Corporate power protected
9. Labor power suppressed
10. Disdain for intellectual and the arts
11. Obsession with crime and punishment
12. Rampant cronyism and corruption

Episode 450: White House Gets Sassy

Bart and Norma discuss PPP loan shenanigans, what happened to Richard Simmons?, racist couple throws racist party while insisting they're not racists, Google destroys digital life of a man because he dared get medical advice for his kid, and the Megan Coyne is hitting back against hypocrite GOP online!

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Show Notes:

• Secret service working on pulling back millions/billions in misused pandemic money 
• Where's Richard Simmons?
• He has a website with some kind-of recent news!
• Nearby haunted B&B
• "Totally not racist" couple throws racist party and gets embroiled in lawsuit after a black firefighter was coerced into attending their racist party
• "Totally not crazy" Marjorie Taylor Greene swatted by police. Twice.
• White House/Democrats are FINALLY getting a little salty at online critics, hitting them in the hypocrisy!
• Great summary of the situation
• Who is Megan Coyne? Conservatives hate her because she doesn't take their @#$%!
• Father takes photos of son for medical care, has Google account flagged for porn despite police involvement and clearance of wrongdoing
• Fun with student loans
• "Trump's not in the White House now because he offended the LORD!" - Latino's for Trump leader says Trump stopped going to church, so God got mad, while ignoring that Trump didn't go to church before White House run