Geeking After Dark

Bart and Norma discuss measles, Tim Allen/Home Improvement, and viewing iconic and/or symbolic movies from our past with our Dude. Also some passing comments of people who are wealthy, popular, and problematic despite their transgressions, because society is terrible.

Bart and Norma discuss shortened work weeks, citizenship tests, Kyle Rittenhouse runs away from questions because...snowflake? And all the Conservatives want to make an appearance for the cameras in Texas!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss school preparedness (kind of), problems with planning school trips, big men in military cammo are lurking in NYC subways because security theater is a thing, explore Dead Domain's video channel for their fun infiltration videos (and more!), and you missed buying a Soprano's booth off eBay!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss some recent news items, celebrate the rumored downstepping of Mitch McConnell, Love on the Spectrum and the portrayal of people on the spectrum, police retaliation suits and Congress is as productive as you'd expect at this point! And we touch on Project 2025...be afraid. Seriously.

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss more shootings (surprise), bed bugs, the police wage war on acorns, and embryos are now children in Alabama but you can't apparently claim them legally as children on taxes? WHY? Also, vending machines are spying on you.

Bart and Norma had a relatively quiet week...we've had a few of those, for the most part, recently? Maybe? Now we're going to be cursed for thinking that. This week we discuss the successful Superbowl brainwashing of America with Operation TayTay, Trump insists TayTay would be a disloyal traitor if she didn't endorse him since he made her such a rich superstar, Paramount+ pretended their Superbowl streaming failures were minor and somehow Rob Schneider became a topic, mostly about mental health. 

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Taylor Swift's (potential?) Super Bowl appearance and the rabid turmoil from the GOP idiots over her rumored appearance at the Super Bowl, hate-speech books loved by bigots, Elon Musk, from South Africa, rails against immigrants, Ted Cruz wants special secret treatment at airports, and Tennessee loves guns too much to care about statistics!

Voretaq is back with Bart and Norma, discussing dating and "upscale" restaurants, Trump (NOT MY FAULT it came up!) and running for President from prison, and a DJ was found dead in a weird circumstance...

Bart and Norma mainly go over news items, and it's been kind of slow...which is really good for January, especially on an election year in the US! The only "election" discussion centers on everyone's favorite punchable face, DeSantis, officially quitting his bid for the big chair. Also discussed, Alec Baldwin, Taylor Swift, stupid lawsuits and whining about school uniform design. Are we a gossip cast now?

Bart and Norma discuss weather, notes from...another dimension?...celebrities continue to die, and did you know you can open bags of snacks with lighters?

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?

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!

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!

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!

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 at all weird, is it Mr. Johnson!?

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 products...

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.