It’s our 100th episode! To celebrate the milestone and the start of 2026, we’re making this month’s Weather Report — a retrospective of the best culture of 2025, with Ruby Justice Thelot — free for everybody to listen to. We’re also offering 26% off on annual subscriptions through Monday, January 5. That means you get access to monthly Weather Report episodes like this one, the CUJOPLEX Discord, and more for the cool, cool price of $37 — all while supporting independent media.Join now, and we’ll send you an invite to our next reading group meetup, scheduled for Sunday, January 11. It’s a discussion of Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s seminal 1995 essay, “The Californian Ideology,” and Fred Turner’s recent article for The Baffler, “The Texan Ideology.” Get 26% off for 1 yearWas 2025 a good year for culture, or was it mostly just a good year for talking about culture? On this special year-end edition of The Weather Report, we chat with writer, designer, and cyberethnographer Ruby Justice Thelot about his year-long experiment in setting strict limits on his media consumption, with the goal of escaping what he saw as a suffocating deluge of “paracontent,” Ruby’s term for content about content. Think: One Battle After Another is 2 hours and 42 minutes long. But fans of the film will probably end up spending a lot more time than that reading commentary about it on X or watching YouTube videos dissecting the significance of the French 75, explaining who Thomas Pynchon is, or breaking down the film’s third act. We also go long on our favorite cultural outputs from 2025, from movies/TV, music, and books to food, style trends, and cultural memes. And we each share what we’re most excited to leave behind in the exquisitely garbage year that was 2025. Ruby Justice Thelot. Photo courtesy of Ruby Justice Thelot.Love this episode? Send us a tip!Learn more about Ruby’s Do Not Disturb projectSubscribe to Ruby’s Substack, being on-line. Follow Ruby on Instagram.