Episode #51: Mona Lisa Eats Cake

Themes - Deep dig into Minecraft - Plumber shout out! - Multiple follow-ups - MET does good website! - People and art students suck - Betty Rubble Notes - 00:18 - Catherine chooses coffee over Bedrock - 01:00 - Microsoft emails James - 01:30 - History of Minecraft, the original blocky world - 03:15 - Scripting, cross-platform, running native? What? - 03:55 - SubRant embraces “tech geek world” - 04:30 - Everything leads to “The Flintstones” - 05:20 - Plumber shout out! https://georgebrazilplumbingelectrical.com - 06:20 - Expansion tank saves the day! - 06:44 - Nicholas is also a “Grocery Store Superstar”! - 07:55 - Fake bird surveillance joke follow up https://youtu.be/l30_APBNPXg - 09:25 - We’re not art lawyers, but Catherine will test the waters - 10:00 - We’re not scientists either, so below are alternate sources - - 1 - Kat Epidemiologist https://www.epidemiologistkat.com - - 2 - Very Bad Wizards https://www.verybadwizards.com - - 3 - Andy Does Healthy https://www.tiktok.com/@andydoeshealthy - 11:25 - James is a ruthless self-promoter (not) - 12:05 - Now here’s a really good museum website! https://www.metmuseum.org - 12:26 - Fly-through videos! https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/met-360-project - 13:00 - “Fake” follow-up about curator responsibility - 14:45 - Mona Lisa eats cake https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/05/mona-lisa-attacked-at-louvre-museum-by-vandal-with-patisserie - 16:40 - Breaking News: “People suck” - 17:12 - James makes a case for cannibalism - 17:50 - Groceries going MIA - 18:58 - Forget Durango, just camp in San Francisco - 21:15 - Details are important (and interesting) - 22:10 - Marks of the mono print - 23:26 - Intaglio embarrassment: Catherine gets mocked in art class - 25:17 - Garbage torso painting is difficult because it’s garbage! - 26:20 - Education theory according to James - 26:55 - Betty Rubble - 27:25 - At least the plumbers are listening!