Geeking After Dark

Bart and Norma have several followups from previous conversations (like Elon's rocket-wiener blowup and more Twitter problems) sprinkled in with newer headlines (lithium trash, whiny Supreme Court learning what "consequences" are...)

Bart and Norma review feedback and wrap up a relatively slow week with a relatively short episode. But we do discuss a meat-grilling robot alpaca, and there's a last minute breaking news tidbit that brings great joy to North America...TUCKER CARLSON IS OUT!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq have a post-Easter catchup discussing alpaca farming as a career, grandkid scams and scambaiting in general, empathy only applies when it happens to ME, depression, and the Satanic Temple is highlighting public school bullsh## politics! Oh, and definitely check out Useless Farm. It's useless but entertaining.

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss...mostly stories from feedback, actually. How times have changed, changing citizenship, school safety, credit cards, lawsuits, and a little bit about why you shouldn't die near cats...

Bart and Norma discuss the latest round of school shootings, the latest health trend of IV's for fun, Little Wooden Boy!, and college visits!

Bart and Norma are left to their own devices when reviewing a relatively quiet week, especially since Norma's wifi use is severely hampered and she wants to fix it during the podcast recording session. That did not end well, and Bart is never putting up with the jabs of "doesn't test changes before recording time and causing problems during recording time" after this... Other than that, we review Jeopardy! making a whoopsie, an aquarium gets sued for reasons aquariums don't normally get sued for, Google acts non-Googly and some people are feeling the effects of the laws they supported but those effects affect them in the wrong way so I guess empathy is no longer quite theoretical when it becomes personal? I guess? Maybe?

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss more weird weather, topless swimming in Berlin, child marriage, ice cream made from bugs, dirty license plates, the give of snowflakes for DeSantis and company, Jodi Picoult on book bans, and hospital stays for fun and discomfort!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Siri as an Assistant, Trump continues his festival of lies, Ford wants cars that drive away if you don't pay them enough, religious non-vaxed get an opportunity to show how Jesus protects them from measles, and a company has a nifty way of decorating workspaces!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss TikTok trends, liability when criminals get hurt on a victim's property (or when they're stealing your catalytic converter and you run them over), a Republican that thinks dead kids are better than kids who need long-term care at the State's expense, Scott Adams once again proves he's a terrible person (in my opinion) and the company making the most money off him decide to disassociate themselves (for awhile?), and some AI and school talk happens.

Bart and Norma discuss catching last week's zoo monkey kidnapper, "I'm not hiding a body, just cooking meth!" (spoiler: he had both), Jenners loving the headlines for the weirdest things, and it's totally fine when conservatives THINK OF THE CHILDREN obsess over what's going on in children's underwear (WHAT?!) as well as making it blatantly clear they don't understand scientific theory being difference from Scooby Doo mystery-solving theories!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss what the old PDP-11 computers were like to use, stolen monkeys, fun with Apple Airtags, school computer hacking and tech company layoffs (and how they're like fancy restaurant farts!)

Bart and Norma spend time on ChatGPT and how old we are. We also go over news about Jay Leno and citizen's alcohol consumption, and angry Chinese people getting Covid. It's a conversational episode.

Bart, Norma and Voretaq (yes, he's back today!) discuss the Goonies real-life house, more shootings (yawn), George Santos (or is he?), Alec Baldwin's gun problems, Tim Allen waving his little Tim at Pamela Anderson, ChatGPT, and cocaine pancakes. And that's not all! (PS...Frontier sucks. My opinion, I stand by it.)

Voretaq is out again, leaving Bart and Norma to discuss the sh@^show that was the Speaker of the House voting. It was an amazingly spectacular clusterf@#$! I couldn't believe how entertaining it was, and it's a sign of the idiocy that's coming for the next few years, no doubt!

This episode is unedited with Bart and Norma talking about feedback submitted and the recent holiday goings-on. There's some rambling, there's some...whatever...it's off the cuff and raw. Tell Norma how much she um's and er's through the episode.

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Trump's latest attempts to stay relevant and out of jail, Congress's latest attempt to pretend they care about Trump's crimes, Elon Musk proves that being CEO doesn't mean you're a genius, and healthcare is still a mess! Oh, and advent calendars can get REALLY REALLY expensive...

Bart and Norma discuss a prisoner exchange, a followup to last week's killbot story and the Walker senate race!

Bart and Voretaq (and later Norma) discuss killer robots for police departments, stealing Covid funds, Brenden Fraser, noisy hospital equipment, Pooty-bear's ongoing war in Ukraine, and the Pentagon seems to have misplaced a few trillion dollars in their military-grade sofas!

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

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