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Episode #79: Ancient Artifacts: Anthropology or Morbid Fascination?

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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? (No)
  • 05:30 - The perfect movie!
  • 07:15 - Skimming the sarcophagus
  • 08:30 - Fayium (portrait) vs faience (glaze technique)
  • 10:10 - Remnants of a Roman Egypt 
  • 11:06 - Difference is... mummies are real
  • 12:32 - Unwrapping colonial entitlement
  • 15:00 - Art, anthropology, or morbid fascination?
  • 16:25 - Humanity's eve of destruction? The Precipice: existential risk and the future of humanity - Toby Ord
  • 21:35 - Ancient alien afterlife destruction?
  • 22:40 - Ancient Egyptian Instagram Influencers
  • 24:15 - Inherent Vice: What to do with Decaying Masterpiece?
  • 25:00 - Miami Vice fashion rant
  • 28:28 - Naum Gabo: "If it's gone it's gone"
  • 29:30 - Artwork will eventually fail, so throw it out! 
  • 31:00 - Use of dead animals, chocolate and lard is not super edgy but is dumb and or, gross
  • 32:25 - Recalling ASU's "Vague Art Show" and ditching painting at RISD
  • 35:44 - Hirst "props" can't touch "Jaws"
  • 37:00 - "Jaws" the musical
  • 38:05 - Back to the garbage heap! 
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    SubRantBy Catherine Lynn & James Fryer
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