Episode 460: Talking Turkey

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk turkey about turkey pardons, subscription services for things that shouldn't be subscriptions, and police matters!

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Show Notes:

• No show last week because illness (and holiday?)
• Coffee is terrible
• School off for Hunting Day (animals this time, not each other)
• Great News! Trump is Running for PRESIDENT AGAIN (That's sarcasm)
• Bezos is "giving away to charity"...the rest of us pay taxes
• Spooky cellphone interference near Lockheed Martin plant
• Turkey pardoning
• Samsung can brick your TV...or anyone who hacks Samsung can brick your TV
• Subscription services will get out of hand...
• EV mode on hybrids won't run heater while in EV mode (non-engine use)
• Ring doorbells spying on you...
• Norma's story of a relative getting arrested...but not in trouble...and she won't say why she was arrested or released...
• Police don't get in trouble for murder
• Cop shot Tamir Rice, moved to PA, took job in Tioga...
• Anti-grooming candidate lost teaching job for grooming
• Candace Cameron seems to take after her brother...

Episode 459: Is Elon Tired of Winning Yet?

Bart and Norma discuss the new Black Panther, dog anxiety, another crypto currency failure, charities, and Elon Musk's Twitter dumpster fire!

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Show Notes:

• Everything is coming up Milhouse
• Jennifer Aniston is an old woman shaking her fist at the sky?
• Dog anxiety
• It's Christmas TIME! It MUST BE!...in...40 days?
• Meta layoffs
• Physics Girl
• Long Covid update
• A little bit of Black Panther 2
• Crypto currency FTX failure
• Bezos gives 100 million to Dolly Parton for charity
• Illuminaughtii - YouTuber against MLM's, scams, and a-hole companies; some resources for charity research:
• https://give.org/
• https://www.charitywatch.org/
• https://www.charitynavigator.org/
• Some history behind Jewish immigration and film studios
• Elon Musk antagonizes a senator...is he poking a bear? Stupid? Incompetent? All of the above?
• So many articles are trickling steadily covering the Twitter fiasco...it's hard to keep up when the fire continues to blaze
• Another for good measure
• Bully superintendent from Katy ISD story

Episode 458: Free Speech, as Long as Elon Likes It

Bart and Norma discuss fancy dog-themed restaurants, just enough election bull@#% to make you angry, and the dumpster fire that is the Elon-era Twitter!

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Show Notes:

• Fancy San Francisco dog restaurant with a fancy price to match
• Election bullshit (Tell the GOP to "fuck off" to stop getting texts)
• Trello features
• "Sorry we tried to recruit a psychotic sociopath, we're not inviting him anymore to stop damaging our brand."
• More background
• Twitter post-Musk-purchase is a Trump-sized dumpster fire

Episode 457: HALLOWEEN 2022!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Fashion Week, the PA "debates," and Bart's getting old! Also, Voretaq returns!

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Show Notes:

• MacOS Updates
• HALLOWEEN!
• Getting a New Mac, maybe
• Fashion Week and Unpaid Slaves Interns
• Fashionable fashion
• Subway Crime
• 6 Million (extra) dollars poured into GOP PA race
• PA "Debates"
• fracking fracking fracking
• Texas once again makes us so proud (sarcasm...)

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