SubRant

SubRant

By Catherine Lynn & James FryerArtsVisual Arts
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SubRant episodes

  • Episode #94: Ethernet Cables and Washing Machines

    Show Themes:

    Sorry not sorry to Warhol, Hegy goes (more) rogue, Costco goes bananas, and Catherine buys a new washing machine

    Show Notes

    • Doing it raw
    • Trying to apologize to Warhol, yet we still end up crucifying him
    • Not trusting TikTok
    • Hegy breaks the most secure place on the planet
    • Trump shrinks the economy
    • Hoarding beans
    • We don't actually need American farmers
    • A weaker dollar is good for an export economy that we no longer have
    • Market does better when not if office, Trump points out
    • Even the Nigerian princes stopped calling
    • South's trade war killed the South
    • Washing machine woes
    • The M4 MacBook Air - buy now!
    • Pro tip - laptops go in the washing machine
    • Costco has gone bananas
    • Targeting Target
    • Gas burping
    • Boring the audience with shopping 'news'
    32 min
  • Episode #93: The New Frankensteins

    Show Themes

    The new Frankenstein experiments, Crypto stupidity, the Googleopoly, and water you can’t drink.

    Show Notes

    • All the murdering
    • Apology to Murkowski
    • We, like the founding fathers, are now radical liberals
    • Brain cells from dead musician
    • Organoid
    • Post death experience
    • The new Frankensteins
    • French fry transplant
    • 'I was careful and followed instructions closely, but still lost my crypto'
    • Crypto expert who lost money says still safe to use
    • The Catherine test - maybe it really just doesn’t make sense
    • Google monopoly
    • Advertising “innovation”
    • RFK is dumb AND dumber
    • Autism list
    • DON’T DRINK THE WATER!?
    35 min
  • Episode #92: They're All Going To Jail

    Show Themes

    It's lies, all the way down. Dogma is stupid. And growling cats.

    Show Notes

    • No follow-up, we are perfect
    • The BIG Social Security LIE
    • For the good of the country, we're taking your money
    • DOGE = data leaks
    • They're all going to jail
    • When A Nation Embraces A False Reality
    • Dan McClellan: Overcoming Dogma
    • "This One Weird Trick"
    • Think critically
    • "Power through strength" is Christian?
    • The Ultimate Guide to Adequately Dismantle MAGA Arguments
    • "When a man lies, he murders some part of the world" - Merlin - Excalibur
    • "Truth telling is an expression of active resistance" - Robert Jay Lifton
    • Trump, like Hitler, has created a "mystical cult" around himself
    • Is Murkowsky a coward?
    • "Deeply un-American"
    • America was founded to destroy tyrants
    • Trump supporters are traitors, not patriots
    • This Is How Democracies Die: One Man, One Cell, No Charges
    • They are concentration camps
    • Auschwitz isn't in Germany
    • Ozone hole
    • Acid rain
    • "If you're not first, you're last." - Ricky Bobby
    • Catherine's house is talking to her
    • Let them drink coffee
    • James's cat is growling at the UPS guy
    • Wiz off
    36 min
  • Episode #91: Horses & Outhouses

    Show Themes

    In this episode you will learn how to be thankful for gifts and about basic economic principles

    Show Notes

    • James broke the bathroom
    • Catherine reverts to a prehistoric kitchen
    • Garbage disposals are stupid
    • Plumbing World
    • The horror of a free Banksy
    • Panic Googling
    • Work with the shmuck
    • "Valentine's day mascara"
    • "What is art?"
    • Banksy Seagull
    • Catherine drowning in Trump shitstorm
    • Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might - the fallout will be messy - BBC
    • Trump hates income tax
    • Horses and outhouses, is that what you want?
    • Bananas in the gas tank
    • Bush's fast food manufacturing
    • "This reflects America's political choices"
    • Freight train of prosperity
    • My cow for your daughter?
    • Chihuahua Deficit
    • "no one has any idea when they don't die" - Hank Green
    • Tariff = VAT, Trump turned USA into Europe
    28 min
  • Episode #90: Groceries & Tariffs

    Show Themes

    You know, just the continued implosion of our country

    Show Notes

    • Tariff or trade deficit?
    • God Damn Penguins
    • Three months of ongoing disaster
    • NATO sit and spins
    • Checks and balances don’t balance
    • Violence = power
    • AI "receipts"
    • Pets.com
    • Why always a scam?
    • AI nonsense
    • "WhiskeyLeaks"
    • The Bulwark
    • Meidas Touch
    • Trey Gowdy bullshit
    • "Dementia or performance art. Who can really tell"
    • "Groceries" is performance art
    • So full of stupid
    • Destiny of humanity
    • An AI voting receipt
    • Elon is a meme
    • Pete Buttigieg TikTok
    • Phil DeFranco report
    • Rewriting history is fascism
    • Old Indian School Exhibit
    • The truth about human birth
    30 min
  • Episode #89: Deport Catherine

    SHOW THEMES

    James kinda hates Google and we blowup over SignalGate

    SHOW NOTES

    • Aggressive Number 3
    • Carbon monoxide alarm
    • Weaner
    • YouTube Music Sucks
    • YouTube absorbs all
    • Google Kill List
    • Google Reader
    • Picasa
    • Lightroom Classic
    • Apple Photos
    • Google Photos
    • Google Domains
    • Watching YouTube on Brave with built in ad block
    • Orkut
    • Chromecast
    • SignalGate
    • Jamelle Bouie TikTok on Signal debacle
    • Lying liars are lying and also breaking all the laws
    • The director of Defense doesn't understand what classified information is
    • "A degree in expert"
    • Jan Brewer's abortion ban
    • Deport Catherine back to Arizona
    • Lamps galore
    34 min
  • Episode #88: Bluesky, Google & Andy Warhol

    SHOW THEMES

    James bores Catherine with Bluesky and YouTube, then Catherine bores James with Andy Warhol

    SHOW NOTES

    • Bluesky
    • Skylight: TikTok replacement
    • Flashes: Instagram replacement
    • Pixelated: Instgram replacement
    • Reject "Learned hopelessness"
    • SubRant on Bluesky
    • Jay Graber video
    • Crying Tesla designers
    • Blipfoto - low key photo sharing
    • Google Podcasts is dead
    • "We are YouTuber's now"
    • YouTube podcast / YouTube Music?
    • SubRant on YouTube Music
    • Therapy and giggles
    • YouTube's Creator Demographics
    • "Am I qualified to be on YouTube?"
    • Andy Warhol Diaries
    • Soup can triggers Catherine
    31 min
  • Episode #87: "Meta or Death"

    SHOW THEMES

    Catherine and James cancel everyone

    SHOW NOTES

    • Catherine's terrible year
    • James is undone by performance art
    • The continuing drama of Orlando Museum of Art
    • De Groft is dead (?)
    • An 1840 selfie to 1960s advertising: Eight images that tell the story of America
    • "American Photography" at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
    • "This is not a commercial, this is my homeland" (1998) by Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie
    • Turn your notifications off
    • How is Jasmine Crockett 44!?
    • DUMP Meta
    • Ok, well now where just go full political
    • On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
    • "Do not obey in advance"
    • DUMP Amazon and the Washington Post
    • Dump it all, it's not easy, but do it anyway
    • The list of No-No words
    • "Language is everything"
    • Catherine's terrible five years
    31 min
  • Episode #86: "Luxury Vinyl"

    SHOW THEMES

    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
    • 30 min
    • Episode #85: Artists & Thieves

      SHOW THEMES

      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?
      • 30 min

      About SubRant

      From the publisher's feed

      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 annoys them.