Geeking After Dark

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...

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.

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)

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...

Bart and Norma discuss YET ANOTHER proposal to give teachers incentive to shoot people in schools (but pay out of pocket for actual schools supplies) after yet another shooting, more celebrities pass away, the House speaker is elected and he's yet another terrible person in my opinion, and candy corn is terrible and people are finally realizing it! Oh, and Apple is holding an event to announce new...

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss responsible legislation, sex ed in schools, education in general, Panera is getting sued, Amazon sells driver pee (supposedly?), Fall of the House of Usher is great and Jim Jordan is still terrible in our opinions!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss pensions, stupidity of our penal system, and 3D printers as weapons! Bonus: we seem to be in agreement that Elon Musk is an idiot.

Bart and Norma end up spending quite a bit of time talking about the affordability of just existing in our country now (See what I did there?  Spending  quite a bit of time??), along with a couple short news items...the collapse of society will be televised!

Bart and Norma discuss newly discovered blue tarantulas, another Congressperson getting in trouble for...bribery, I guess? (Still not sure the difference between bribery and lobbying...) The Tax Man wants to talk to you if you sold tickets for too much money, and Canada accidentally loves Nazis!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss ghostwriters for celebrity stories, "coolers" that hide what's inside until you watch an ad, a stealth plane that was *really* stealthy and a visit to the Statue of Liberty. Oh, and Bobo, now being labeled as "Bimbo", managed to get kicked out of a family musical performance after groping her boyfriend's joystick and being disruptive...but it's not her fault, she sw...

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss school rules, Danny Masterson and the cult that protected him, Instant Pots are great, and the Bible breaks the Bible-believer's own rules while trying to hurt them sinners!

Bart and Norma discuss the ultimate porch pirate, Bob Barker has passed as close to a dollar without going over, completely trusting anti-cheat detection for writing is...not wise, and the government...and our justice system...well, trust is all relative, I suppose...

Bart and Norma discuss the (de-)merits of fracking, schools that think ChatGPT is KITT, killing people because the funeral industry will bribe with more money than EMT paychecks provide and we even bring up poop knives which are apparently a real thing now!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Meg 2, Sky Sharks (because they're AWESOME), Conservative efforts to justify hateful laws just make them onerous and stupid, Orlando apparently doesn't like losing gay dollars, and church is FUN! (No, it's not)

Bart and Norma discuss the passing of Bart's grandmother, old people shouldn't be running Congress, Zoom apparently doesn't believe remote work works, and shows like The Witcher are dumbed down because, they say, the American audience is too stupid to understand their nuanced and complicated stories!

Bart and Norma discuss the headlines of the week, which for some reason mostly consisted of dead celebrities, along with more from the Twit of Twitter and unions being blamed for corporate incompetence...

Bart and Norma welcome Voretaq back from his hiatus! Marjorie Taylor Greene is nearly as infatuated with Biden as she was with a CrossFit instructor, Musk is infatuated with the letter X, and Conservatives everywhere are infatuated with Barbie!

Bart and Norma discuss our Internet provider, Hollywood taking a break for a fair cut to make a living, and Tom Cruise pretends to not be shady as @#$%. Also didn't know how to title this one, so I mashed together two things that just make me angry yet I liked the sounds of the result when put together.

Bart and Norma discuss too many stories somehow related to assault...weird that's in the news? Also Elon Musk is having full on tantrums (maybe go suck your emerald pacifier for a bit and calm down?) and a Canadian teaching assistant fired for having an OnlyFans account, since she can't afford to live on the pay alone. Weird how profits vs. pay seems to work.

Bart and Norma discuss the government (well, the G-Word), Desantis drops drag, AI nonsense and idiots outsourcing their smarthomes to companies that don't give a #$^% about them...

Everyone is back this time around! Now we get to test the new filters with other people! We talk about felons, potential felons and hopefully soon to be fully convicted felons, along with SCIF whoopsies, social safety nets and violence, creationism and a little DeSantis supporters protesting Disney complete with Nazi flags!

This is a solo, and thus shorter, episode this time around. Bart is going over feedback and a couple of stories in the news: more shootings (surprise!), MAGA people conned by con artist that wasn't (supposedly) Trump this time, and religious nuts don't like their vulgar book being banned because it's hurting the WRONG PEOPLE!

Bart, Voretaq and (eventually) Norma discuss racing around NYC, greedflation (although they don't like calling it that, apparently...), and extended conversations about ChatGPT and senior pranks. Not ChatGPT used in pranks, there are two separate discussions where one is about ChatGPT and the other is pranks. This was an extended episode...

Bart and Norma discuss some history behind the Democrat/Republican flip in philosophy, justice vs. money, what is Title 42?, and the fetus employee without a paycheck! Also, eggs are finally affordable again!

Bart and Norma discuss the origin of this podcast, solar farm proposal, hospital acquisition in the near-area, and mysterious New Jersey pasta mounds mystery solved...Also, autonomous puppy cars. Or are they car puppies?