SubRant

SubRant

By Catherine Lynn & James FryerArtsVisual Arts
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SubRant episodes

  • Episode #33: Interview with Mary Fortney
    SHOW TOPICS
    • Welcome Mary Fortney, Campaign Manager for Representative Judy Schwiebert, AZ LD2
    • All politics is local!
    • Stop messing with Arizona education
    • Voting is key to democratic processes
    • Keep the legislature working for the people!
    • Pay attention Arizonans!
    • SHOW NOTES
      • 00:20 - Mary describes her political journey
      • 3:050 - Why the State Legislature is important
      • 05:00 - “Local is where you start!”
      • 06:05 - 1980 returns to haunt Arizona education! (Aggregate Expenditure Limit explained)
      • 09:20 - No medals for 49th place Arizona!
      • 10:20 - ALEC, privatization, AZ as “test market”
      • 12:00 - Tweets and trolls!
      • 13:30 - Lottery, land sales, misinformation
      • 15:40 - Let’s expand voter engagement!
      • 17:25 - Voting is core element of democracy
      • 18:40 - Voter suppression hurts across party lines
      • 20:00 - AZ’s mail-in voting historic “street cred”
      • 22:15 - Judy Schwiebert cares about Arizona!
      • 24:20 - “Tier 1 Districts” and the “single shot”
      • 28:00 - Redistricting, revisiting Ken Clark
      • 28:40 - Campaign Manager’s Day, never boring!
      • 32:20 - What about the “outer-space” base?
      • 33:10 - Mary’s masterful burger pivot!
      • 34:25 - The Question Purple and recap!
      • 39 min
      • Episode #32: "The Bank of Fred"
        SHOW TOPICS

         - Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate

         - "Fight Club" rewind to original ending

         - Security guard's first day: vandalize painting

         - Crypto fail and "Crypto-pocalypse"

         - Valentine's Day and Super Bowl silliness

         - "Mask-iety"?

         - Tucson might be boring, but...

        SHOW NOTES

         - 00:05 - Hive box update

         - 00:25 - Where do Instagram stories go?

         - 01:50 - Raising chocolate awareness

         - 04:10 - Chocolate migraine

         - 04:50 - SubRant controls narrative, again!

         - 05:50 - James teaches "power driving"

         - 06:30 - The clout of 12 listeners

         - 07:00 - "Improving" the art is not your job

         - 07:50 - Countdown: Yeltsin Gallery name change

         - 08:50 - "Don't re-doodle what I drew!"

         - 10:55 - Back to crypto with NFT fail

         - 11:49 - The "mint-post-buy" full circle

         - 13:23 - Horrifying Bitcoin bailout prediction

         - 13:45 - Stable or unstable coin?

         - 15:15 - "The Bank of Fred"

         - 17:45 - A loophole speculation kind of market

         - 20:41 - Stable is a myth bro

         - 22:07 - James is not too old for crypto

         - 23:00 - "Web 1" reminiscing

         - 25:00 - James wields a hammer as a gift

         - 25:45 - Flowers in car vs pre-packaged holiday

         - 27:00 - What is a "Super Bowl"?

         - 28:20 - Maskless dreams

         - 29:00 - Systematic desensitization, our own research, friends with COVID

         - 30:05 - Catherine simplifies football culture

         - 31:55 - Don't trash Tuc-son or Tubac!

         - 34:10 - Horrible sense of direction exposed

         - 35:45 - Missile silo, airplane graveyard, done

        36 min
      • Episode #31: "Fight Flub"
        SHOW TOPICS

         - Cookies, groceries, shrinking commodities

         - Cruising is rife with piracy and betrayal

         - Fight Club segue to China rant

         - News articles: Spotify, Palin, fast-food COVID

         - Cracks in Pieta reveal nothing

        SHOW NOTES

         - 00:10 - (Bad) Girl Scout cookies (and James is done)

         - 02:10 - Boxes are shrinking!

         - 03:00 - Is "supply chain" code for inflation?

         - 03:45 - Aargh! Pirates are trending!

         - 04:50 - Catherine's island mutiny!

         - 06:50 - Sailing is not as gross as camping

         - 08:00 - "Fight Flub" new Chinese ending

         - 09:20 - Who buys the lies?

         - 10:15 - Media bias v. indoctrination

         - 11:00 - ChinaRant

         - 13:10 - Grandfather of Grunge" throws down

         - 14:15 - Activism, Music, Spotify, Joe Rogan

         - 15:45 - Money talks, 1970 walks

         - 18:50 - Opposition to misinformation is the point

         - 20:00 - Sarah has COVID and flips off NYC

         - 22:50 - How much are you willing to be sick?

         - 24:00 - What happened to this podcast?

         - 25:00 - "Mask-In-The-Box"

         - 27:25 - Will "the real Pieta" please stand up?

         - 30:00 - Art IS finished

         - 32:30 - Nothing but an art-free art podcast

        33 min
      • Episode #30: The Emerging Artist $?

         - 00:10 - The cat vs pigeon story

         - 01:00 - Lying podcasts

         - 01:15 - RIP Meatloaf

         - 02:20 - Dark humor fail

         - 02:50 - Huel challenge fail changes the rules

         - 03:35 - Targeted ads peg Catherine 100%

         - 03:55 - The $53 "free" Hive gift box!

         - 05:35 - Just walk to Seoul Market

         - 06:20 - No Huel for James, he has an air fryer

         - 06:55 - James riffs on the art world

         - 07:15 - What is an "emerging artist"?

         - 08:15 - James defines the terms

         - 10:25 - Article

         - 11:00 - A guide for new art collectors

         - 13:25 - James is technically an established artist!

         - 14:10 - How about "pre-emerging zygote artist"?

         - 15:35 - Investors, galleries, art "pump-n-dump"

         - 16:55 - James quotes Duchamp’s still relevant perspective

         - 18:00 - Zombie Formalism’s abstract regurgitation

         - 19:00 - Curator pressure evades regulation

         - 20:30 - James and a a "Houston Gallerist" subrant!

         - 22:20 - Catherine’s emerging art purchase

         - 24:20 - Unwelcoming galleries shred naivete

         - 26:20 - James relives an excruciating studio experience

         - 28:00 - Leave 'em wanting more!

        29 min
      • Episode #29: "Wealth Adjacent"

         - 00:10 - James tells a joke

         - 00:40 - James's psychiatry subrant

         - 01:40 - Good "dad jokes" gone bad

         - 03:30 - Bike science says "fatter is faster"

         - 03:52 - Catherine falls asleep

         - 04:07 - "Zero-Resolution" January

         - 05:15 - Alcohol-adjacent sushi beach getaway

         - 06:18 - How bleak is your love (of February)?

         - 06:55 - Every day is "Air Fryer Day"

         - 08:05 - From "Movember" to "No-spender"

         - 11:00 - No bees or trees in suburbs

         - 11:21 - Huel does not sponsor this podcast

         - 12:28 - Couture camp food?

         - 13:05 - Catherine's camping horror stories

         - 14:30 - Sleeping with wolves and bears

         - 15:45 - Thirty acres of gunshots and chanting

         - 19:05 - house hunting is as close to camping as Catherine wants to get

         - 19:58 - Short sales and Satanic rituals

         - 20:52 - "Air Fryer February" started here

         - 21:50 - James can't stop, won't stop frying

         - 23:33 - Brussel sprouts can be heinous

         - 25:40 - Immersion blender fan-gurl

         - 27:03 - Why are we discussing kitchen ovens?

         - 29:05 - We really need to talk about art!

        30 min
      • Episode #28: "Babies & NFTs: Nascent Technologies Full of Crap"

         - 00:15 - Drilling for earbuds

         - 00:40 - Babies are gross

         - 01:35 - Creativity hits a TikTok wall

         - 02:44 - Copy & paste TikTok garbage

         - 04:25 - Mind violence and "Moonstruck"

         - 07:07 - Don't buy it, just TAKE IT!

         - 07:37 - It's all about microbiology

         - 08:12 - A "hard out" at Sprouts

         - 08:57 - James gets his cut

         - 09:43 - NFTs - an idea perfect for the "nothing" podcast

         - 10:39 - James gets triggered by "jar" article

         - 12:20 - Catherine explains NFTs

         - 13:05 - For this podcast, NFT = "art"

         - 14:25 - NFT "ART" = "visual diarrhea"

         - 15:15 - "Devoid of content, but still selling"

         - 15:36 - Artist who started selling NFTs less than a year ago is now making six figures

         - 16:20 - Catherine's NFT rant

         - 17:56 - James deconstructs Web 3

         - 18:55 - "Remember GeoCities? No you don't!"

         - 19:48 - Make way for smarter greedier people

         - 22:20 - NFTs are the new Beanie Babies

         - 24:00 - The comic book bubble

         - 26:00 - Artists can benefit from NFT sales

         - 28:00 - James describes blockchain and more

         - 31:15 - Exiting the paywall

        32 min
      • Episode #27: "What do I have but time?"

         - 00:03 - "Warning: Art Emergency!"

         - 00:33 - Cultural apocalypse?

         - 01:00 - James's paintings at The Children's Museum of Phoenix

         - 02:30 - "No ice" Phoenix skating rink!

         - 03:09 - Buying memories through scars and art

         - 03:15 - Shout out to Betsy Ferman, COO

         - 03:48 - Ignoring Warhol's "Art Signal"

         - 04:45 - Catherine is a hermit, except for Costco

         - 05:20 - Suspicious pizza cheese

         - 07:20 - Restaurants are hard

         - 07:48 - Cookbook spurs 25-year fantasy

         - 09:05 - From "Tuck Shop" to "The Coronado"

         - 10:15 - "Take-out" cures "cooking burn-out"

         - 11:00 - Co-opted by collective consciousness!

         - 12:15 - Mobile Knitting Mobile

         - 13:15 - Video game birthday van is just sad

         - 14:12 - James "Frankenstein-ed" an X-Box!

         - 15:24 - Dreams of a Cookie Mobile

         - 16:30 - Simplicity is a life hack

         - 17:30 - Vegan with a dash of meat please!

         - 18:03 - Bring back restaurant upholstery

         - 19:30 - Background noise is an energetic suck

         - 20:49 - Italian food with a side of international abduction

         - 22:00 - Tutti a tavola a mangiare cibo Messicano?

         - 22:46 - "Covert Vegan" restaurant for adults only

         - 23:37 - Jolly pancakes and tofu dogs

         - 24:30 - Running through streets craving steak?

         - 24:58 - "Forget About Meat Cookbook", Karen Brooks

         - 25:55 - "What do I have but time?"

         - 27:06 - Cruisin' for black bean burgers

         - 29:00 - Air fryers, washing grills, lame content

         - 30:32 - Is this even worth publishing?

        31 min
      • Episode #25: Ravioli vs Christmas

         - 00:30 - Lights up on Thanksgiving

         - 01:30 - Holiday "No Compete Clause"

         - 02:00 - Catherine loathes Christmas

         - 02:50 - Leering snowman on the roof

         - 04:15 - Catherine's Childhood Santa photo trauma

         - 07:22 - James's Mom gave great gifts

         - 07:41 - The 40-year-old Legos

         - 08:30 - "Christmas comes but once a year..."

         - 09:30 - James is a titanium trendsetter

         - 10:13 - Ravioli is better than Christmas (says Catherine)

         - 11:15 - RISD Alumnus rant

         - 11:53 - What the hell is a "proof point"?

         - 12:45 - Capacity, branding, and RISD exclusivity

         - 15:50 - Catherine and department store windows

         - 17:50 - Robot Ai-Da is a poet/artist/printer

         - 18:30 - Allegedly deeply emotive algorithms

         - 19:10 - Let's not shit on Ai-Da (no, let's)

         - 20:00 - Catherine reads alleged poem

         - 20:52 - YouTube is a deep dive for Catherine

         - 21:25 - Creation vs curation vs programming

         - 22:45 -  Gendering of a garbage bag

         - 24:00 - James is a robot

         - 25:31 - Catherine questions efficacy of AI

         - 26:26 - James explains "humans are not smart"

         - 27:38 - "Meaty" substrate vs consciousness?

         - 28:54 - "AI" movie was sad and creepy

         - 29:30 - Catherine's phone is "Hellbound"

         - 30:30 - Susan's phone besieged by "The Beatles"

         - 32:00 - Data points and monetization

         - 34:10 - Bob Dylan's art show

         - 37:40 - Was there ever a young Dylan?

         - 38:30 - Lateral thumb on celebrity "art"

         - 39:24 - The 'Super Bowl' of the 'Art World': Miami Art Week

         - 39:31 - "No."

        40 min
      • Episode #24: Transition to Authentic Self

         - 00:20 - Dr. Mischa Cohen Peck

         - 00:35 - Mischa explains Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy

         - 02:40 - Psychoactive drug therapy

         - 03:14 - Timothy (not Thomas) Leary

         - O4:00 - Activism, Act Up, Queer Nation

         - 05:17 - Drugs are not a path to authenticity

         - 09:05 - Trans identity and pronouns

         - 09:27 - The false dichotomy of binary

         - 09:40 - Replace "or" with "and" to expand!

         - 11:31 - Labeling in "reaction to" binary construct

         - 14:45 - Critical thinking breeds empathy

         - 15:48 - Mischa's "super power"?

         - 17:10 - Adapting to more expansive thinking

         - 19:55 - "Gender is nothing and everything"

         - 20:47 - Facts exist AND can evolve

         - 21:24 - Epigenetic download, observation, survival

         - 23:15 - Education and critical thinking

         - 25:05 - CriticalThinking.org

         - 29:26 - Brain Operating System and 'manufacture's defects'

         - 34:08 - Fear is a 4-letter word

         - 35:40 - Brain as unreliable witness

         - 39:00 - Deep conversations or (and) great meds?

         - 40:00 - Gender affirming surgery = ego-integration

         - 41:26 - When Catherine met Mischa

         - 43:00 - Love, be loved, born for connection

         - 45:00 - Younger generation disconnect?

         - 48:22 - James is the "get off my lawn" guy!

         - 51:56 - "Nothing has meaning except the meaning you give it" (Thanks Hector)

         - 53:13 - "Marlena Miata", stick-shift (of course), "2NonQ"

         - 59:00 - Bat shit crazy as diagnosis?

         - 1:02:40 - Trans-generational transmission of trauma and family connection

         - 1:03:58 - Three random questions in closing

         - 1:04:17 - Shout out to Manny!

         - 1:05:37 - Dog person, cat tolerant!

        1 hr 7 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.