SubRant

SHOW THEMES: Dorothy gets A.I.ed, Drones vs A.I., and James's blackout SHOW NOTES: Trump calls  National Guard  to DC LARP ing Big Balls gets roughed up  and Trump takes over DC police,  Minnesota congress people are shot and killed  and Trump does nothing AOL turns off dial-up Drone vs A.I. - which is the more transformative technology? "A dragon can't fight dial-up" "Power...

Show Themes: Cracker Barrel gets boring, Costco electrifying, and Martha's 'Vegan'-yard Show Notes: Catherine is in hot water Cracker Barrel's logo  controversy , explained BORING 'American Stupid' is charming GEN-X is messing everything up Waffle House? Over heated Chihuahua tanks  Desert Democracy Local business owner Kelly Yu  detained by ICE Costco putting in EV chargin...

Show Themes: Meta trades porn form books, Han shoots first, and "remaking" the past Show Notes: Moving to Tucson? Project Blue "Superflorious" Water and data centers Buy and RV, drive to where the water is AZRVExpert Oh-oh, here comes the Bittorrent explainer... Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says "Sharing porn so he can steal books" Meta...

Show Themes: Throwing made up shit at Clinton to distract from Trump/Epstein, Catherine rants, and the death of Star Trek Show Notes: Trump sues the WSJ for...  sharing the story? Bondi attacking Clinton (email server!) Gabbard attacking Clinton  (tranquilizers?!) IT'S ALWAYS THE COVER UP THAT GETS YOU! Trump has THIN SKIN Catherine's SubRant Flood the zone with lies Hasan Jubilee "Al...

Show Themes: Murkowski sucks, Republicans suck, and Paramount sucks too Show Notes: Fine toothed comb Senator Murkowski  fucked the rest of the country Don't vote for bad bills Republicans renege on their past deals - Recessions (or clawback) Bill Deport Murkowski! (to Alaska) Trump is A.I. (uses a  small  language model) FEMA leaves the stage Remembering Kerrville and their  arts center James...

Show Themes: The chaotic state of A.I. and the galleries of Phoenix Show Notes: Nuclear really is  safe Vax Corner - RFK sucks Biden's pardons AI image generators getting better Tested: The Best AI Image Generators for 2025 Google Whisk Best AI Image Generators of 2025 The 4 best AI image generators of 2025  — compare their photos Hair Club for Men -  I'm also a client Behind the Curtain: ...

SHOW THEMES: Nuclear, A.I., and... thrifting SHOW NOTES: NASA count down The OG cross Dad, the food thief Crucifixions on the plane Rifle vs toe clippers How to bring a hammer on a plane Podcast everyday? Coverup covering the coverup’s coverup Trump’s Pardon  erases restitution  and  deletes justice Nuclear  is  best ! AI leaves web in the lurch James had a  blog  and people used to read it AI and...

Show Themes: Bluesky, vaccines, and the REAL meaning of MAGA finally EXPOSED! Show Notes: Sundae Gurl Jamelle Bouie SubRant "Trump is too immoral to have virtues that are laudable and too stupid to have vices that are interesting." Michi Pottery Nationalism vs patriotism Ready or not, AI is starting to replace people  - Is it though? Fashion is accessible Joann Fabric = "Jails for t...

Show Themes: Safari's 'poofing' super power, Tucson as a fashion hub, and the ongoing derangement of the Department of Defense Show Notes: Cover art photo by Janet Ryan of  Models Melange Hide Distracting Items (Safari tech tip) IT guys are scared of Macs Go Mac, don't go back Windows NT  is the GOAT Playful Paradox   Show Fashion Design  at Pima Community College Frohar Akbary Jes...

Show Themes: SignalGate gets worse, White House news nonsense has replaced Art news nonsense, and crypto scams Show Notes: "The Trump Administration Signal Scandal, Somehow, Gets Worse" We started talking about the silly nonsense of the art world, but the shit coming out of the White House blows all that away, so we pivoted to "politics" Should have been an Onion headline &quot...

Show Themes: Sorry not sorry to Warhol, Hegy goes (more) rogue, Costco goes bananas, and Catherine buys a new washing machine Show Notes Doing it raw Trying to apologize to Warhol, yet we still end up crucifying him Not trusting TikTok Hegy  breaks the most secure place  on the planet Trump  shrinks the economy Hoarding beans We don't actually need American farmers A weaker dollar is good for...

Show Themes The new Frankenstein experiments, Crypto stupidity, the Googleopoly, and water you can’t drink. Show Notes All the murdering Apology to Murkowski We, like the founding fathers, are now radical liberals Brain cells  from  dead musician Organoid Post death experience The new Frankensteins French fry transplant 'I was careful and followed instructions closely, but still lost my crypto...

Show Themes It's lies, all the way down. Dogma is stupid. And growling cats. Show Notes No follow-up, we are perfect The BIG Social Security LIE For the good of the country, we're taking your money DOGE = data leaks They're all going to jail When A Nation Embraces A False Reality Dan McClellan:  Overcoming Dogma "This One Weird Trick" Think critically "Power through stre...

Show Themes In this episode you will learn how to be thankful for gifts and about basic economic principles Show Notes James broke the bathroom Catherine reverts to a prehistoric kitchen Garbage disposals are stupid Plumbing World The horror of a  free Banksy Panic Googling Work with the shmuck "Valentine's day mascara" "What is art?" Banksy  Seagull Catherine drowning in Trump shitstorm Trump has...

Show Themes You know, just the continued implosion of our country Show Notes Tariff or trade deficit? God Damn  Penguins Three months of ongoing disaster NATO sit and spins Checks and balances don’t balance Violence = power AI "receipts" Pets.com Why always a scam? AI nonsense "WhiskeyLeaks" The Bulwark Meidas Touch Trey Gowdy  bullshit "Dementia or performance art. Who ca...

SHOW THEMES James kinda hates Google and we blowup over SignalGate SHOW NOTES Aggressive Number 3 Carbon monoxide alarm Weaner YouTube Music Sucks YouTube absorbs all Google Kill List Google Reader Picasa Lightroom Classic Apple Photos Google Photos Google Domains Watching YouTube on  Brave  with built in ad block Orkut Chromecast SignalGate Jamelle Bouie TikTok on  Signal debacle Lying liars are...

SHOW THEMES James bores Catherine with Bluesky and YouTube, then Catherine bores James with Andy Warhol SHOW NOTES Bluesky Skylight : TikTok replacement Flashes : Instagram replacement Pixelated : Instgram replacement Reject "Learned hopelessness" SubRant  on Bluesky Jay Graber  video Crying Tesla designers Blipfoto  - low key photo sharing Google Podcasts is dead "We are YouTuber&#...

SHOW THEMES Catherine and James cancel everyone SHOW NOTES Catherine's terrible year James is undone by performance art The continuing drama of Orlando Museum of Art De Groft is dead (?) An 1840 selfie to 1960s advertising: Eight images that tell the story of America "American Photography"  at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam "This is not a commercial, this is my homeland"  (1998) by Hulleah Tsinhnahjin...

SHOW THEMES Houses and 'Performance Art' suck but dogs are awesome SHOW NOTES The house falls apart Good vs bad home inspectors Marina Abramovic Performance art is... not art Barry Lyndon  vs  Ferris Bueller's Day Off Free Hug Bear Polluting  the store  with AI nonsense Will AI destroy the world? The tragic story of Sam Altman Did the internet exist before the smartphone? Dogs make lif...

SHOW THEMES Stolen, painted over, and exploited: the many horrible lives of modern 'art' SHOW NOTES Stealing art? Why bother? Ruthless People Judge Reinhold The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring Arthur Brand  - the "Indiana Jones of the art world" Indiana Jones is a thief Drug smuggler steals art to reduce sentence Sex, three times a week! James, the art thief King not Ing Thi...

SHOW THEMES Muddy Hippies, the true origin of "Prompt Engineer", and ridiculous rich white men SHOW NOTES X - the most powerful letter... Burning Man What should a modern Hippie drive? "Nordstrom was in my soul" "Where does the water come from?" "Goodwill for bikes" Offer-Up sucks Fakesquiat t-shirts The Lexus of fakes Scion xB Trump mug shot = Zoolander Tru...

SHOW THEMES Catherine and James put Florida art museums and wannabe politicians in time-out SHOW NOTES Vivek Ramaswamy is an asshole Orlando Museum of Art is on probation Aaron De Groft Dinosaurs aren't real Mitch McConnell freeze Age limits? Lock em up! (Catherine's chihuahuas) Fakesquiat with BTS "You're a puddle" Elle Cordova "So much stupid online" Catherine has...

SHOW THEMES SubRant disembowels an article about an unfinished Klimt and James goes on vacation SHOW NOTES Catherine's bathroom woes continue "Post mid-century design aesthetic"? James explains art pricing Cabin  fever  in Phoenix James was attacked by the idea of being attacked by a bear and it ruined his vacation "Tourons"  - moronic tourists blocking traffic to look at t...

SHOW THEMES A new show for a dead artist, art vandals go to Vatican jail, and Apple reinvents Virtual Reality. Oh, and circular economies. SHOW NOTES Catherine is excited about a  NEW Basquiat show , but James is not  More Fakesquiats "A myth building exercise" James identifies that he is, in fact, an asshole Art hooligans / environmental activists go to Vatican jail James breaks down th...

SHOW THEME Prom wear, vomiting Keurigs, Brutalist 'art', and the questionable artistic judgement of the Supreme Court SHOW NOTES 00:20 - In sync and slacking! 02:40 - Local suit maker saves the day! 03:35 - Graduate, and graduate again 05:45 - Prepping for Yellowstone  06:05 - Bathroom beat goes on 07:00 - cannabis and basil plants equally doomed under Catherine's care 10:05 - Brutalis...