Episode 506: Holiday Are Coming! Hide!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq record what turns out to be the last show of the year! YAY! Discussions range over Clark Griswold's bonus, Apple Watch news just in time for the holidays, toll roads are a private company scam, a brief mention of Xmas Economics, and did you know "fortune telling"/Tarot readings are illegal in PA?

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Show Notes:

• NY middle fingers are amazing
• If it works, don't touch it. Ever. For years. 
• C64 networking?
  
• Amazon "breach?" Nope
  
• Matthew Perry cause of death made public
• Here are two conversations about Clark Griswold's bonus...
• Thread 1
• Thread 2
• Raises? What's that?
• Toll roads are mostly a private profit scam (Some More News)
• acollierastro talks A Peek at Christmas Economics
• Police chief visits Hanover shop to say fortune telling is illegal

Episode 505: "The mind...wobbles."

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a couple RIP celebrities, Tim Allen is...Tim Allen, everyone should listen to Legal Eagle analyses, Alina Habba is an unethical ogre and the mind...wobbles!

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Show Notes:

• Recycling actors, continued
• Closing a library
• In a largely Conservative area, can the residents even read?
• Norman Lear passes away
• Kevin McCarthy leaving Congress (because WAAAAHHHH)
• She claimed Tim Allen was a "bitch", to no one's surprise...?
• Localish school apparently has whiny students
• Ryan O'Neal passes away
• LegalEagle information
• Project Veritas CEO quits because they're scum
• Bart accidentally rants about TV/video/streaming ads...
• Alina Habba might get disbarred for being an unethical idiot
• "The mind...wobbles."
  

Episode 504: Santos says, "Sayonara, Suckers!"

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Kissinger (war criminal?), Santos shifts career goals from grifter to grifter outside Congress, Windows thinks you own an HP, and the holiday spirit is growing!

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Show Notes:

• How do phones work?!
• Kissinger dead
• First woman supreme court judge died
• George Santos is FINALLY out (of Congress)
• Where was AOC for the Santos vote?!
• Why Montana’s Two-Spirit people are challenging a state law that defines sex as binary
• Remembering Highway to Heaven 
• Panera and Super Lemonade
  
•  Windows printer problem...everyone has an HP now?
• It's QUICHE. KEEEESH.
  

Episode 503: Survived the Holiday: Thanksgiving

Bart and Norma discuss "What is democracy if not the power accumulated in the hands of a few wealthy people?", no-fault divorce packaged with your lack of Roe-vs-Wade and red handmaid's dress, fast food is about the cost of a sit-down restaurant meal and the average sit-down restaurant meal is now the cost of a Michelin-star restaurant meal and a Michelin-star restaurant meal costs approximately 2 Instagram food influencers paychecks!

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Show Notes:

• Post-Thanksgiving report
• Colorful Underwear Robber Caught
• Fast food costs TOO MUCH and it's obviously Biden's fault
• No-fault divorce ABSOLUTELY RUINS MARRIAGES so the GOP wants to outlaw it
• Cards Against Humanity launches social network "Yowza"
• Democracy is letting others vote then doing what you want anyway if you're the one with the money
• US Health
• US Health, revisited
  

Episode 502: OpenAI Goes Boom

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the presentation and misunderstanding of how the medical system works (or at least part of it), Elon demonstrates he's still an insufferable human brain tumor, Saucon Valley School District shows they're actually having to pay something for their idiocy while denying they're idiots and OpenAI has a slight management problem.

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Show Notes:

• Voretaq got Amazon monthly supply delivery...
• Medical students
• Medical supplies
• Elon doesn't like being called anti-Jew when he is anti-Jew (also discovers that for some reason big companies don't like being associated with Nazis when Nazis aren't popular)
• Saucon Valley School district discriminates against anti-religion-in-public-places-preferential-treatment group, denies they discriminated, but must pay some legal fees after discriminating against them but don't worry because they are paying through insurance paid for by taxes instead of directly through taxes
• OpenAI, ChatGTP, WTF?
• Per conversation in the recording, information may be obscured over semantics and technicalities, but there's quite a bit of proof that yes, IBM knew. They knew.
• The word "squelchy" will now haunt me
• YouTube and ad blocking...screw you
• Republicans approve amendment to cut Pete Buttigieg's salary to $1
  

Episode 501: Addlebrained

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss frozen turkey and food banks, GOP race becomes less racy, Trump is still addle-brained and LA will have some traffic problems! (Have to point out there's traffic problems since LA residents probably won't notice)

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Show Notes:

• Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack (Not sponsored...unfortunately...)
• Norma's late. WHERE IS NORMA?
• Turkey bowling
• Wireless headphone discussion
• Euphemism discussion
• Food bank use in PA
• GOP primary race runner drops from race possibly because of race
• "Privileged white women can't get into medical schools..."
• Collectors afraid to come forward with copies of "lost" BBC shows
• States/Hospitals are stealing...and profiting...from your baby's blood
• Trump is brain-addled toddler making gaffes left and right
• Gas prices (no, the President doesn't control that with a magic switch you @#$ morons)
• LA fire damages freeway, time to blame homeless people!
• Tioga Downs racino fire

Episode 500: Covenant Eyes, Not At All Weird

Bart, Norma and Voretaq celebrate the 500th episode by breaking the recording software! Updates are great! We also discuss Clever Hans (though not by name since my memory isn't great), idiots vs. scammers, Ape NFTs are still a thing apparently and that can lead to fake sunburns in your eyes, the origins of "salty" (thanks Siri!) and software for sharing your porn habits with your kids! That's not at all weird, is it Mr. Johnson!?

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Show Notes:

• Son likes Mexican Coke
• Weirdly colored foods
• The recording software upgrade makes the session goes nuts
• Norma broke a mirror! That's probably why nothing is working right!
• The horse in question was Clever Hans
• Knee replacement
• Convoluted tale of idiocy and murder
• Trump's lawyer told the judge what?
• Bored Yacht Club ApeFest: let's burn our eyeballs!
• As much as I dislike YouTube now, here's a possible cause of the NFT event burn, link forwarded to me by Voretaq
• Student accountability
• How did we get to the recollection of the "learn the facts" sticker? Upon listening to the audio, it was the part about "do your own research" to look something up that reminded me of it. That's why.
• Kinda salty
• Speaker of the House Mike Johnson likes sharing his phone and computer information with an outside third party company in the name of sharing porn habits
• Apple announced hardware updates, new M3 models