85 episodes

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.

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SubRant Catherine Lynn & James Fryer

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    • 5.0 • 5 Ratings

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.

SubRant Website

    Episode #86: "Luxury Vinyl"

    Episode #86: "Luxury Vinyl"

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    Houses and 'Performance Art' suck but dogs are awesome

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    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

    • 29 min
    Episode #85: Artists & Thieves

    Episode #85: Artists & Thieves

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    Stolen, painted over, and exploited: the many horrible lives of modern 'art'

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    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?

    • 29 min
    Episode #84: Not So S3XY

    Episode #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...

    • 36 min
    Episode #83: The Orlando Museum of Fake Art

    Episode #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

    • 29 min
    Episode #82: Klimt Goes to Yellowstone

    Episode #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

    • 31 min
    Episode #81: Recycling Economies and Dead Artists

    Episode #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

    • 29 min

Customer Reviews

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5 Ratings

mommalabs ,

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Absolutely love your podcast, hopef you continue to grow!

NickieToo ,

Oddly And Surprisingly Entertaining

Listened in entirety to this quirky yet relatable “rant” about “nothing” that left me amused and wanting to hear more. Enjoyable banter! Will listen again to hear this morph into “something”!

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