SubRant

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 charging stations?
• Why Is Martha's Vineyard Going Vegan? It's All About Tick Bites.
• Ticks triggering allelic reaction to red meat
• Granny rage bates with A.I. non-sense but she's just a grubby 'creator' leeching your attention to farm clicks and YouTube revenue and I hate her so much that I'm not going to even link to her.

SHOW THEMES:

Dorothy gets A.I.ed, Drones vs A.I., and James's blackout

SHOW NOTES:

• Trump calls National Guard to DC
• LARPing
• 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 is power"
• The Wizard of Oz goes to Las Vegas
• TCM colorized films
• "People calling it disgraceful on twitter... you know what's disgraceful? Still being on twitter."
• 'Whether rich or poor, it was the longest of nights': How a 2003 blackout brought New York City to a standstill
• James's blackout story

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 runs on porn
• Kennedy cancels mRNA vaccine research
• Aanand L Rai slams AI version of 'Raanjhanaa': "Betrayal of everything we built"
• Destruction of the creative intent
• Han shot first
• Will the Kennedy Center become the Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts?
• John F. Kennedy's grandson Jack Scholossberg responded angrily to moves to rename the institution, posting
• Catherine assaults her ears
• Turn off the internet and read
• Book Corner:
• The Color of Magic
• The Wicked series

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
• "Alternative facts is now a life style brand"
• "A lot of rich people (in the 1930s) were Nazis."
• A little bit of tolerance so we all just don't kill each other
• Boycott Star Trek!?
• Shari Redstone, Paramount, Skydance, David Ellison, all just yuck
• "South Trek"
• We have become South Park
• "Full frontal animated nudity"
• South Park Muhammad controversy
• Powell corrects Trump on Fed renovation
• RIP Corner
• Ozzy
• Malcolm Jamal Warner
• Hulk Hogan
• Chuck Mangione
• So is Ozzy dead NOW?

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 is almost as old ad Judge Smails
• Sgt. Hulka
• "What is a ute?"
• My Cousin Vinny
• It's called 'dated', Catherine
• Epstein, Epstein, Epstein
• Colbert get's cancelled by, wait for it... the party of free speech absolutists
• Fuck Paramont
• Captain Sisko
• Rosie O'Donnell responds to Trump threatening to 'revoke' how US citizenship
• We fear for our neighbors now, thanks Trump
• Immigrant worker dies as he flees from ICE
• Musk and is American Party
• "The corrupt current status quo"
• Cracker Barrel looses its vibe
• "Eat the pancakes and be happy"
• The Place
• The Found:RE Contemporary is the best gallery ever. Ever.
• Tim Sprague
• Best 100th episode ever

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: What if they're right?
• "T-minus 20"
• P(doom)
• Will AI kill us all, well maybe if it's like Elon Musk, then maybe
• "Evil is stupid"
• "Fingers and toes"
• Do humans have free will? Does AI?
• Bentley Gallery closes
• Cathrine laments the closure of Bentley, James does not because it represents 'artists' like William Anastasi
• "Bullshit art"
• NewArtTV
• The Hive
• Modified Arts
• Five15 arts
• Catherine homework: go to all the galleries
• James goes to the protests the day after
• 100th episode?
• Nap time

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 UI?
• AI destroys Photoshop?
• AI is a new type of tool, it does the work
• As I type this, AI is finishing my sentence...
• “Anticipatory prompting”
• Of course Catherine has a typewriter
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 
• Catherine is very special
• Stardust
• Taylor Swift is Catherine’s Muse
• The history of fonts
• 1984 by Taylor Swift

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 the creative mind"
• Knitting corner
• Vax Corner
• HHS cancels Moderna's $590M bird flu vaccine award
• Difference between first and third world
• Poultry at Hickman's Family Farms tests positive for avian flu
• Arizona egg farmer wants to vaccinate chickens from bird flu, but government won’t allow it
• 1950s values or, when everything was more expensive
• Who is eligible for a COVID shot? What to know about the latest U.S. changes
• Doing t-shirts wrong
• MAGA translates to wickedness
• "Snopes is full of lies"
• Is there any time to rant about art?
• TACO! But not Tuesday? Trump Always Chickens Out
• Haiku Corner
• From Nowhere to Somewhere

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
• Jessie Class - PerfectlyClassy Etsy shop
• Quiet time
• Nose straight up against the internet
• Offline Xbox = dead Xbox
• Hegseth still using Signal
• Need tech support? Don't chat, just call.
• Bringing god to the Department of Defense
• "Integrage" with the internet
• First immortal human cell line
• Psychology + Warhol = James dies a little inside
• Freehug bear
• The four seasons
• Talk to the mic

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
• "Our vide has always been the news that is one inch away from an Onion Headline but is real"
• Invisible "Art"
• Trump surrounds himself with drunks
• Coping with Starbucks
• Catherine buys a washing machine but gets a dishwasher
• Trump Meme coin a scam
• "58 crypto wallets have made millions on Trump's meme coin while 764,000 have lost money, data shows"
• Crypto wallet - "a fake wallet for your fake money"
• World Liberty Financial
• Damien Hirst "The Currency"
• "If Damien Hirst was President"
• End Crypto Corruption Act
• "No beans!"
• Tariffs on movies
• James hates on Hollywood
• Mubi
• Verizon sucks
• Google Fi doesn't suck
• Pop-up tariffs
• Hot and dizzy