SubRant

By Catherine Lynn & James Fryer

SubRant: a podcast wherein Catherine and James, two wildly (mildly) creative and cosmopolitan (provincial) Parisians (Phoenicians), wander in and out of conversations about art and other stuff that an... more

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How many episodes does SubRant have?

The podcast currently has 85 episodes available.

SubRant episodes:

November 25, 2023Episode #86: "Luxury Vinyl"
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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
...more
30min
September 21, 2023Episode #85: Artists & Thieves
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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?
...more
30min
September 04, 2023Episode #84: Not So S3XY
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Muddy Hippies, the true origin of "Prompt Engineer", and ridiculous rich white men
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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...
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37min
September 01, 2023Episode #83: The Orlando Museum of Fake Art
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Catherine and James put Florida art museums and wannabe politicians in time-out
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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
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30min
July 24, 2023Episode #82: Klimt Goes to Yellowstone
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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
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32min
June 16, 2023Episode #81: Recycling Economies and Dead Artists
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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
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30min
May 19, 2023Episode #80: The Art Judges
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Prom wear, vomiting Keurigs, Brutalist 'art', and the questionable artistic judgement of the Supreme Court
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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?

30:20 - A derivative slippery slope

31:10 - Siding with Warhol in a "bathtub full of bland"

32:20 - Just use Midjourney

34:14 - It's all derivative
...more
35min
April 21, 2023Episode #79: Ancient Artifacts: Anthropology or Morbid Fascination?
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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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39min
April 14, 2023Episode #78: Good Enough to Steal?
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James and Catherine dip their toes into hope before tackling plagiarism vs appropriation in pop-art
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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?

32:21 - Intellectually interesting, but not analogous

33:27 - Lichtenstein IS pop-art, Warhol isn't

34:16 - Not a transformative soup can, but good enough to steal!

35:24 - "Come play with us forever"
...more
37min
April 07, 2023Episode #77: David vs Florida
Show Theme
SubRant touches on 3-D printers and lauds Chewy before breaking down the rise of Chinese apps, fear of a marble penis and “loving them some Google”.

Show Notes
00:01 - “Zoom hates me”

01:13 - Multiple states of disarray

02:45 - Metal mushrooms & 3-D printers

03:00 - Better call Chewy! https://www.chewy.com

03:10 - Dara Starr Tucker feeds cats https://www.tiktok.com/@darastarrtucker/video/7215400337438543146

05:29 - Buying a 3-D printer tips!

08:00 - Hooked on Chinese apps https://www.axios.com/2023/03/27/americans-hooked-on-chinese-apps

08:29 - Temu “haul” https://www.temu.com

10:00 - More socks and dog harnesses!

11:05 - James ruins Catherine’s day

12:07 - American tech dulling us down?

13:15 - TikTok attack!

14:55 - Stupid folks saying hateful things

15:25 - Everyone hates JK Rowling?

17:05 - Mainstreaming vitriol

17:25 - Contemplating Tennessee

18:40 - “John McCain Party” is dead

19:30 - More bad news from Florida: Italian art experts astonished by David statue uproar in Florida https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65087218

20:50 - Defining pornography, duh!

21:25 - “David” takeaways

22:40 - Deconstructing the ding-dong

23:37 - “Tyranny of the minority”

24:30 - Section-off the “wacky”, please!

26:40 - Good luck re-investing in a loser!

27:04 - “I wish you well”, Gwyneth Paltrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov-FGOPxqcY

27:59 - Gen Z loves them some Google https://www.axios.com/2023/04/04/gen-z-jobs-employers-google-tesla-patagonia

29:30 - NASA or Disney more interesting!

31:00 - Follow up on “Fake-squiat”

33:10 - Insta-spam!

35:00 - Cleo, unleashed!

35:55 - Riding on the Metro!
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37min

FAQs about SubRant:

How many episodes does SubRant have?

The podcast currently has 85 episodes available.