SubRant q1771

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 ? 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 istration 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

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 an export economy that we no longer have Market does better when not if office, Trump points out Even the Nigerian princes stopped calling South's trade war killed the South Washing machine woes The M4 MacBook Air - buy now! Pro tip - laptops go in the washing machine Costco has gone bananas Targeting Target Gas burping Boring the audience with shopping 'news'

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' Crypto expert who lost money says still safe to use The Catherine test - maybe it really just doesn’t make sense Google monopoly Advertising “innovation” RFK is dumb AND dumber Autism list DON’T DRINK THE WATER!?

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 strength" is Christian? The Ultimate Guide to Adequately Dismantle MAGA Arguments "When a man lies, he murders some part of the world" - Merlin - Excalibur "Truth telling is an expression of active resistance" - Robert Jay Lifton Trump, like Hitler, has created a "mystical cult" around himself Is Murkowsky a coward? "Deeply un-American" America was founded to destroy tyrants Trump ers are traitors, not patriots This Is How Democracies Die: One Man, One Cell, No Charges They are concentration camps Auschwitz isn't in Ozone hole Acid rain "If you're not first, you're last." - Ricky Bobby Catherine's house is talking to her Let them drink coffee James's cat is growling at the UPS guy Wiz off

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 turned his back on the foundation of US economic might - the fallout will be messy - BBC Trump hates income tax Horses and outhouses, is that what you want? Bananas in the gas tank Bush's fast food manufacturing "This reflects America's political choices" Freight train of prosperity My cow for your daughter? Chihuahua Deficit "no one has any idea when they don't die" - Hank Green Tariff = VAT, Trump turned USA into Europe

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 can really tell" "Groceries" is performance art So full of stupid Destiny of humanity An AI voting receipt Elon is a meme Pete Buttigieg TikTok Phil DeFranco report Rewriting history is fascism Old Indian School Exhibit The truth about human birth

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 lying and also breaking all the laws The director of Defense doesn't understand what classified information is "A degree in expert" Jan Brewer's abortion ban Deport Catherine back to Arizona Lamps galore

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's now" YouTube podcast / YouTube Music? SubRant on YouTube Music Therapy and giggles YouTube's Creator Demographics "Am I qualified to be on YouTube?" Andy Warhol Diaries Soup can triggers Catherine

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 Tsinhnahjinnie Turn your notifications off How is Jasmine Crockett 44!? DUMP Meta Ok, well now where just go full political On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder "Do not obey in advance" DUMP Amazon and the Washington Post Dump it all, it's not easy, but do it anyway The list of No-No words "Language is everything" Catherine's terrible five years

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 life better X's brand assests live on... Twitter.com Apple invented USB-C

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 This is the whole show Jens Haaning Take the money and run, literally... "Almost as embarrassing as The Orlando Museum of Art" The "Art" of North West My only hope is that no one knows who North West is Sylvestor Stallone paints Thrift Store Ghost Painting Ghosts on everything Is A.I. writing the article?

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 Trump took the cookies X is useless "Twatter" "You need better notes" Elon Musk = Howard Hughes S3XY He's bad at jokes Prompt Engineer Large Language Model explained Reddit explained Adversarial prompting SubRant gets spiritual Anyway...

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 a negative attitude towards negative people Drennon Davis and his cats "Can't trust the art world" Catherine is addicted to Pumpkin Spice Latte... Vegan pancakes at The Coronado Toast

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 the ugly bison Bison are, in fact, mangy mutated cows (and I don't like cows) A short story of James being the responsible one Glacier National Park is best Klimt's "Lady with a fan" sells for stupid amount What actual Klimt paintings look like: WikiArt and ArtViewer The Japanese influence on Post Impressionism Chance the dog begins to cough because Catherine is painting (nail polish) in the house and poisoning everyone "Stylized elsewhere" Let's sell some Faquiats Martin Mull's renegade art show Nail polish removal process is too much for James

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 the Apple Vision Pro (definitely not a VR headset) Catherine is desperate to be part of the circular economy, but James keeps her straight  "Circularity is the hottest topic in the fashion industry right now" iPhones are already circular, they never go to the landfill Catherine's mother doesn't do recycled bricks Recycling news is what we do

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 - Brutalist art find in backyard barn 11:30 - Milk glass and Phoenix Lamps 12:04 - Brutalist "art" is a stretch  13:55 - Possibly Marcello Fantoni? 14:35 - Brass, bronze, steel, who knows 17:08 - Just clobber me with basic form  19:20 - Brutalist pieces will survive! 21:15 - Keurig catastrophe  23:00 - Feeling guarana 24:45 - Non sentient AI: Tool or threat? 25:45 - Warhol not transformative! 27:55 - Should judges "judge" art" 32:20 - Just use Midjourney 34:14 - It's all derivative

SHOW THEME Even with no f***s to give, James and Catherine fill 38 minutes with movies and mummies before pondering humanity's precipice and agreeing that most art (other than "Jaws" props) is disposable.  SHOW NOTES 00:12 - Catherine is finally on mic 00:48 - Good sleep yields not giving a f*** 01:45 - Know your puppy limitations  03:25 - Sinking the coffee cup  04:35 - Have we got Ancient Egypt's mummies all wrong" the musical 38:05 - Back to the garbage heap! 

SHOW THEME James and Catherine dip their toes into hope before tackling plagiarism vs appropriation in pop-art SHOW NOTES 00:30 - Hope and bikes on the ceiling 02:30 - Ghosted by a chihuahua 04:15 - It's gonna take years!  05:00 - Normal American hoarder? 07:00 - No boxes from Temu! 08:40 - James debunks a dog harness  10:20 - Instagram algorithm whiners  12:45 - More whining about Lichtenstein 'It's called stealing': new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein 13:54 - Seeing the "Ben-Day" dots 15:00 - Disposable illustration, pop-art 16:00 - "It's called stealing", said Hy Eisman, but James has a different take!  18:00 - Appropriation vs plagiarism  20:29 - Seeing "BLAM"! 21:25 - American Art Industrial Complex squashes comic collage  23:18 - Isn't art disposable? 26:15 - Chinese website snatched James' image and used it for a logo! 29:21 - "WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein And The Art Of Appropriation" documentary  31:10 - AI similarities"