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Episode #104: Episode #104: The Chihuahua Problem August 14, 2025

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Three chihuahuas on their backs with legs in air and their tongues hanging out looking over heated on the table

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Cracker Barrel gets boring, Costco electrifying, and Martha's 'Vegan'-yard

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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.

Episode #103: We're Not In 1939 Anymore August 14, 2025

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Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz looking up and around at the sights of Las Vegas

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

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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

Episode #102: Just Read a Book August 6, 2025

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Meta trades porn form books, Han shoots first, and "remaking" the past

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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:

Episode #101: We Have Become South Park Jule 25, 2025

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cartoon figure with tussled brown on the bridge of the star ship enterprise

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Throwing made up shit at Clinton to distract from Trump/Epstein, Catherine rants, and the death of Star Trek

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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?

Episode #100: "Eat the pancakes and be happy" Jule 18, 2025

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60 year old woman with head in hands crying sitting at a table in a Cracker Barrel restaurant with a plate of pancakes - image created with Google Whisk AI

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Murkowski sucks, Republicans suck, and Paramount sucks too

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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

Episode #99: Maybe it's time for some A.I. overlords June 19, 2025

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Giant AI overlord kneeling down over two humans fighting, trying to stop them fighting

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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

Episode #98: Confessions of a Thrifter June 13, 2025

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woman holding a typewriter with a nuclear plant in the background

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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

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