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

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!