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Geeking After Dark

312 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★ - 1 rating

We're a couple of geeks discussing whatever comes to mind. We may talk about systems administration, public speaking, conventions, security news,...it's hard to tell what we're going to rant about next.

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Geeking After Dark Episode 426: Valentine's Day Stuffs

February 15, 2022 22:30 - 51 minutes - 50.3 MB

Bart and Norma discuss the StupidBowl, Valentine's holiday, Mazda radios getting stuck on a particular channel, and the Gazpacho police are raiding the GOP!

Geeking After Dark Episode 425: In Memoriam: Cate

February 08, 2022 22:30 - 58 minutes - 57 MB

Bart and Norma discuss truckers in Canada that don't like needles, Chick-Fil-A and "weather pods" for (some) employees, recruiter forgets the bubble in which she works and regrets letting the quiet part be heard out loud, reminder that PA forced people to pay to know the laws they're expected to live by, and the whole episode is dedicated to Cate the Goodest Girl Puppers. She went to a place where fleas never bite, cats can't steal her bed, and everything is made of biscuits.  You did a ...

Episode 424: Adblockers

February 01, 2022 22:32 - 1 hour - 96.3 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss online adblockers, a BU student accidentally gets cremated remains, Ted Cruz hates black nominees, and a school bans Maus!

Episode 423: Thedacare Wants Government to Prop Up Business

January 25, 2022 22:34 - 56 minutes - 55.2 MB

Bart and Norma discuss an expensive comic book page (yes, a single comic book page), robots make the best friends, and Bart predicted the tiered substitution of teaching positions as actual teachers leave or fall ill...and now it's happening!

Geeking After Dark Episode 422

January 11, 2022 22:30 - 1 hour - 81.9 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss fart jars, passing of stars (still), idiots running our government, and crypto-mining by antivirus software!

Geeking After Dark Episode 421

January 04, 2022 22:30 - 57 minutes - 57.3 MB

Bart and Norma discuss Bubonic Plague, Dr. Oz, Microsoft starts the new year off on a whoopsie, and Toyota blames dealers for the keyfob backlash!

Geeking After Dark Episode 420

December 21, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 72.7 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Joe Manchin's politics, things you need to own to be a lady, Emma Thorne's YouTube channel, and Kent Hovind's "dissertation", and a fond recollection of Ray Comfort (the Banana Man!)...

Geeking After Dark Episode 419

December 14, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 66.9 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss celebrity deaths, Puppers training, Toyota is reminding customers that they don't matter, My Pillow CEO thinks rumored celebrity dating is what tarnishes his reputation and not his Trump boot-licking, and Alex Jones reminds us the Conservative movement is bat@#$ nutters!

Geeking After Dark Episode 418

December 07, 2021 22:30 - 51 minutes - 50.6 MB

Bart and Norma discuss Dr Oz running for government in a state he doesn't live, parents of school shooter can't escape to Canada because they're Trump turnips that didn't vax?, cop abuses power in school again, and gunshop owner shoots his employee in a whoopsie. Also, Better.com CEO fires hundreds over a Zoom call. Life is wonderful!

Geeking After Dark Episode 417

November 30, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 66.1 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Ghostbusters, the new Covid variant making the rounds, and an American shoots herself in the cooch! So American you'd think it's July 4th!

Geeking After Dark Episode 416

November 23, 2021 22:30 - 35 minutes - 35.2 MB

Bart and Norma discuss a unique photographer, attending NYC "big events", Rittenhouse was found not guilty of murder, and prison issues

Geeking After Dark Episode 415

November 16, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 78 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Zillow and their home Zestimate failure, civil forfeiture is a crock of poo, and cow poo ruins the planet

Geeking After Dark Episode 414

November 09, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 63.6 MB

Bart and Norma discuss pretty spiders, magic water, a school in our state is cuckoo bananas, and Ted Cruz just won't shut the @#$% up

Geeking After Dark Episode 413

October 26, 2021 21:30 - 51 minutes - 52.1 MB

Bart and Norma discuss supply chain issues, swords of Atlantis, don't mess with Alec Baldwin, Trump once again steals things (unethical behavior? Trump?! Say it ain't so...), Rolling Stone reveals where stupid MAGAt's got their nutso ideas about not getting in trouble for an insurrection, and the last season of Supergirl has terrible writing...

Geeking After Dark Episode 412

October 19, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 75.1 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss vaccines, "Hackerman" journalist knows how to use view source on a web page and the governor wants to throw him in jail for using view source, a British judge says you shouldn't spy on neighbors with a web cam, and wealth as a pile of rice!

Geeking After Dark Episode 411

October 12, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 64 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the OAN network funding, Squid Game, selective service registration, and plane crashes into a neighborhood...also, how do people keep hitting a huge rock that's not even in the road or parking lot?!

Geeking After Dark Episode 410

October 05, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 70.2 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq focused on just a couple items...one, rich people once again encounter a leak with details on their legal loopholes, and two, FaceBook disappeared from the Internet!

Geeking After Dark Episode 409

September 28, 2021 21:30 - 51 minutes - 50.3 MB

Bart and Norma discuss the role of teachers vs. practical role of teachers, book bans, and fascists in data leak have subpoenas exposed!

Geeking After Dark Episode 408

September 21, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 60.6 MB

Bart and Norma discuss FaceBook and Conservative whining, Omega Mart at Area 15 in Nevada, Slab City in California, and Anti-Maskers are the latest iteration of Anti-Seatbelters!

Geeking After Dark Episode 407

September 14, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 78.2 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss QAnon, Texas is still stupid, abortions, loss of information because of Adobe Flash, and the politics of (Covid) vaccination. Also, we now have the newest kitchen Covid cure: BETADINE! Also, some Murder, She Wrote.

Geeking After Dark Episode 406

August 31, 2021 21:30 - 49 minutes - 49.1 MB

Bart and Norma discuss a Nirvana lawsuit, naked bike rides (is that a banana-seat?), the effects of the Sturgis Spreadneck Rally (POOR KID ROCK!), and remote bricking of your Samsung TV!

Geeking After Dark Episode 405

August 24, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Jeopardy! hosts, OnlyFans, hospital prices and morons who may have COVID but not worms!

Geeking After Dark episode 404

August 17, 2021 21:30 - 59 minutes - 59.6 MB

Bart and Norma discuss reboots, filtering advertising crap using a PiHole, transgender issues and there's been some kind of a middle east war going on?

Geeking After Dark Episode 403

August 10, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 80.7 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss rising airline violence, Apple wants to check your phone for child pornography, trans people in space, and expensive cat toilets! What more could you want from episode 403?!

Geeking After Dark Episode 402

August 03, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 79.9 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a Black Widow lawsuit, racism in movie casting, SPAM!, please don't eat the cow de-wormer, and Amnesty International releases a kit to check for malware on your phone!

Geeking After Dark Episode 401

July 27, 2021 21:30 - 57 minutes - 57.6 MB

Bart and Norma discuss casting choices in movies, the Olympics have started, and Covid is on the climb!

Geeking After Dark Episode 400

July 20, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 69.8 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss a phantom Verizon payment, invasive goldfish, Haiti's leader is killed by a Florida Man, Frito-Lay's workforce strike, and the cost of visiting Jurassic Park! All in EPISODE 400!

Geeking After Dark Episode 399

July 13, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 64.1 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss The Unvaxxed, Bradford County has problems with officials ending up in court, Tomi Lahren defends Caitlyn Jenner despite speaking out against transgendered people, Github is navigating a legal and ethical gray area, and Bart was right about the outcome of a court case for a cheerleader who wasn't allowed to cheer!

Geeking After Dark Episode 398

June 29, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 72.4 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss bribing people to do the minimum amount of decency, software magnate and possible murderer found dead, Florida is being Florida, and Peloton continues acting like a luxury brand in the most luxury brand way possible!

Geeking After Dark Episode 397

June 22, 2021 21:30 - 23 minutes - 25.3 MB

There were some tech issues (not my fault this time!) (Okay, the weird scratchy noise against the mic was my fault...but not the issues that I'm referring to) so Bart isn't keeping tight notes on this one. Next week the notes and links should be properly set, but this week,...I don't get paid promotion or large enough following to worry about this... The show is only Bart this time, and he talks about ride sharing sting operations, Texans losing control of their thermostats because apparen...

Geeking After Dark Episode 396

June 15, 2021 21:30 - 42 minutes - 44.9 MB

Bart, Jameson (the pupper) and Voretaq discuss burying the homeless and indigent in NYC, a woman tests school security without telling them, yet another Republican moron asks an innocent WTF-worthy question about moving Earth's orbit, and we review some tricky tax tricks for the wealthy!

Geeking After Dark Episode 395

June 08, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 77.1 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the bobcat that wasn't, Pride Month shilling, citizenship, and the news of Stack Overflow purchased for over a billion dollars. Yeah, a BILLION. And we have a pupdate on our newest family member!

Geeking After Dark Episode 394

June 01, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 67 MB

Bart and Norma introduce the new Doberman/hound rescue puppers with the weird name Jameson, supply chain woes, the GOP supports replacing a non-Trump-supporter with a candidate that impregnated a 14 year old when he was 18, NERF at home leads to no school for a student over Zoom, and the CDC doesn't seem to know how to properly incentivize morons!

Geeking After Dark Episode 393

May 18, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 70.4 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Bloomsburg University ridding itself of Greek life, Pharma execs pretend they didn't mean to make fun of "pillbillies", and Ricky Schroder is yet another painful reminder that our childhood heroes aren't necessarily worth meeting!

Geeking After Dark Episode 392

May 11, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 60.6 MB

Quite possibly more offensive than our usual episodes; we talk about the Bradford County DA quitting after his arrest and guilty plea to raping/assaulting several women and discuss some "cancel culture" confusion!

Geeking After Dark Episode 391

May 04, 2021 23:00 - 2 hours - 128 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the explosion (implosion?) of Basecamp, a tech company run by rockstars that apparently shone too bright. No politics here, just plain of WTF! We also discuss a right-to-repair editorial in the WSJ and the totems of NYC! It's a long episode, so buckle in and hold on to your butts!

Geeking After Dark Episode 390

April 27, 2021 21:30 - 44 minutes - 44.1 MB

Bart and Norma discuss the (American) Conservative mindset, drought in the west and the effect on farming, India's COVID problem, Geico has a data breach, and the UK post office kept sending innocent employees to jail because...why?

Geeking After Dark Episode 389

April 20, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 64.6 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the disappearance of Pizza Hut, the FBI breaks into company computers for national safety and public good (and definitely nothing suspicious), Norma searches for gnomes and Florida Conservatives look for children's yahoos in girl's sports!

Geeking After Dark Episode 388

April 13, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 74.4 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss "Free Guvmint' Money", dead bodies, "living wages", and Snape is a Potter? Oh, and apprentice contract killing. And Voretaq may have been replaced by an android.

Geeking After Dark Episode 387

April 06, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 100 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the National Deficit, robbing banks on bikes (the robber, not the bank), trusting the government, and a cheerleader goes to the Supreme Court to defend her right to say "f*ck the school!" after not making a varsity team and being booted from cheerleading completely!

Geeking After Dark Episode 386

March 30, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 64.8 MB

Bart and Norma discuss the protection afforded to those with social justice disorders, Amazon declares war on government criticism of Amazon, and MSCHF is...well, we're not sure what they are.

Geeking After Dark Episode 385

March 23, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 81.2 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss weird Trump Buddha statues, scammers and scambaiting, more on the G4 cube and a poop analysis startup that angered the wrong folks! 

Geeking After Dark Episode 384

March 16, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 86.7 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss cancel culture, nostalgia computing, and ignorance of the law as a defense among other topics on this episode of GAD!

Geeking After Dark Episode 383

March 09, 2021 22:30 - 6 minutes - 9.09 MB

Voretaq had work trouble, Norma was on the road most of the day, so Bart is recording a quick and short episode to test out some new equipment and see how it sounds while delivering feedback of the non-microphone kind...

Geeking After Dark Episode 382

March 02, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 74 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss potato wiener branding, the buck that stops with the intern, and Rand Paul is very worried about more than just potatoes classifying their wieners!

Geeking After Dark Episode 381

February 23, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 62.4 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss Texas, the government's role in services to citizens, and share some stories of candles, cancer, and a hate for Linux!

Geeking After Dark Episode 380

February 16, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 87.1 MB

Voretaq calls in from his mobile command center (his car) while Norma and Bart record on a new computer system, so it's interesting recording challenges all around! Ever hear of the school STAR program? Are SRO's in schools effective? Is it a bad idea to pass cars on the right? All this and a discussion of Malcolm Gladwell's book Talking to Strangers!

Geeking After Dark Episode 379

February 09, 2021 22:30 - 53 minutes - 53.5 MB

Bart and Norma discuss maternity leave, poverty, bird poop cocaine, truth default, and it's a bad idea to leave industrial controls open to the Internet!

Geeking After Dark Episode 378

February 02, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 69.4 MB

A more remote show than usual! Norma is in another city, joining a conference call with Bart and Voretaq! We discuss bearded dragon chefs, the passing of Screech Powers, Jewish space lasers, and stock market madness!

Geeking After Dark Episode 377

January 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MB

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the perks of being the President, Larry King and Delenn have passed away, the government (well, law enforcement) are getting around having to find a pesky warrant to track your whereabouts, and Cauliflower isn't a food substitute. Don't care if you think otherwise.