Best Nathan Merz Podcasts (2025)

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S6 E6 1:23:34

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8th Period. Thanks to the TV Team for the episode artwork! Segment order: The Teacher's Lounge Above the Rim (4:23) Sideline Hustle (16.52) Pitch Perfect (27:13) Total Futbol (31:20) Ballers FC (40:16) Field Level (47:21) Top Bins (52:47) TV Team (58:49) A.A.S. (1:08:29)

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S6 E5 1:38:25

6h ago1:38:25

1:38:25

4th Period. Thanks to the Royal Huddle group for the episode art!

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Pin Oak FC (BONUS Episode) 3:09

5d ago3:09

3:09

This group got left out of the main pod this week by mistake, so enjoy a bonus segment!

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S6 E4 1:09:31

5d ago1:09:31

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8th Period. Thanks to the Above the Rim group for the episode art! Segment order: The Teacher's Lounge The Pitch Podcast (5:10) A.A.S. (9:35) Field Level (23:48) Above the Rim (28:56) Total Futbol (38:25) Ballers FC (45:17) Sideline Hustle (50:18) The TV Team (1:00:44)

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S6 E3 1:18:12

7d ago1:18:12

1:18:12

4th Period. Thanks to the On the Mound group for the episode art! Segment order: The Teacher's Lounge Rising Champs (10:45) On the Mound (24:32) Hail Mary Football Podcast (37:31 Clash of Pads (47:14) Champions FC (55:21) BBFL (1:01:28) Volley Talk (1:09:40)

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S6 E2 45:29

13d ago45:29

45:29

8th Period. Thanks to the All Around Sports group for this episode's art!

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S6 E1 1:03:07

14d ago1:03:07

1:03:07

4th Period's first episode of the school year. Thanks to the BBFL group for this episode's art!

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The Teachers' Lounge 8-29-25 20:27

27d ago20:27

20:27

Mr. Merz checks in after a SHORT summer to give an update on this upcoming season of OHSW, the Houston Dynamo, and College Football (including OU, of course).

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167: Nathan Bell 1:02:42

3M ago1:02:42

1:02:42

When Nathan Bell announced his latest solo show was to be called "Conversations with Inanimate Objects" and it would showcase a series of what he called "guidance paintings," I was hooked. I've known Nathan for years but mostly as a designer. So being able to speak to him in this context, inside the gallery These Days in downtown LA as the show was…

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166: Salomón Huerta 1:06:38

4M ago1:06:38

1:06:38

We kick off Season 20 of The Unibrow's Radio Juxtapoz podcast with a conversation with Mexican-American, Los Angeles-based painter, Salomón Huerta. What started as scheduling a conversation with Huerta around the opening of his solo show Stillness, which opened at Harper's in NYC in the spring, and he and I wanting to catch up after Huerta lost his…

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S5 E53 1:26:25

4M ago1:26:25

1:26:25

4th Period. Season finale. Have a great summer!

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S5 E52 1:02:57

4M ago1:02:57

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8th Period finale. Happy Memorial Day!

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165: Dan Nadel, author of "Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life" 1:27:57

4M ago1:27:57

1:27:57

Author and curator Dan Nadel is a hero of mine and a bit of a renaissance man. He was the publisher of the brilliant and influential PictureBox for decades and was a champion of much of what Juxtapoz was founded on but took it to a whole new level of intricate historical research and creating a voice of record for so many artists who time wasn't gi…

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S5 E51 1:26:01

4M ago1:26:01

1:26:01

4th Period.

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S5 E50 1:02:55

4M ago1:02:55

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8th Period.

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164: Shyama Golden 1:06:16

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"'Too Bad, So Sad, Maybe Next Birth' was a phrase my parents would say whenever something was out of my control and didn’t go exactly according to plan," Shyama Golden wrote on the subject of her new solo show of the same name for PM/AM in London. "It feels to me like a short phrase that embodies the entire human struggle, like Sisyphus pushing the…

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S5 E49 1:26:32

5M ago1:26:32

1:26:32

4th Period.

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S5 E48 1:10:21

5M ago1:10:21

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8th Period.

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163: Corita Kent's Legacy with Nellie Scott 53:00

5M ago53:00

53:00

The first thing I said to Nellie Scott, Executive Director of the Corita Art Center in downtown Los Angeles that preserves and promotes Corita Kent’s art, teaching, and passion for social justice, was that I wish we didn't need to do this. I wish Corita Kent's work had already done its work, that the world was free of oppression, racism, inequality…

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S5 E47 1:17:13

5M ago1:17:13

1:17:13

4th Period. No Teachers' Lounge this time.

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S5 E46 1:05:26

5M ago1:05:26

1:05:26

8th Period.

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162: Adele Renault 47:42

5M ago47:42

47:42

Adele Renault's studio is an old converted Korean church in Los Angeles. It's a large, fascinating old building just down the road from some of the biggest gallery names in the world like Zwirner, but here, there is a quiet hum of the 10 freeway and a massive painting area that could almost be an old cinema in terms of scale. Here, the Belgian-born…

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S5 E45 1:30:08

5M ago1:30:08

1:30:08

4th Period.

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S5 E44 52:03

5M ago52:03

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8th Period.

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S5 E43 1:22:53

5M ago1:22:53

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4th Period.

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161: Katie Merz 58:41

5M ago58:41

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“No hierarchies are implied.” If you need to know anything about Katie Merz, start with that. The Brooklyn-born and bred artist has been playing on the streets both metaphorically and recently literally, for most of her life. Hierarchies would have got in the way if she let them. Art was all around, or perhaps better stated, it could be all around.…

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S5 E42 54:13

5M ago54:13

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8th Period. No Teachers' Lounge this time, but Mr. Merz is predicting a 2-1 victory for the Dynamo on Saturday night. VAMOS!

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S5 E41 1:16:32

5M ago1:16:32

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4th Period. The Teachers' Lounge returns...

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S5 E40 56:53

6M ago56:53

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8th Period. No Teachers' Lounge this time.

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160: David Altmejd 55:39

6M ago55:39

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The serpent has been around for a quite some time. It's biblical stature as the representation of the temptation of the devil to Eve in the Garden of Eden has often been part of Western thought, but the asp was a powerful symbol in ancient Egyptian culture, representing "divine authority of the pharaohs." The serpent has been a protector and mischi…

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S5 E39 1:22:08

6M ago1:22:08

1:22:08

4th Period. GO COOGS!!!

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S5 E38 1:08:28

6M ago1:08:28

1:08:28

8th Period

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S5 E37 1:19:05

6M ago1:19:05

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4th Period

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159: Noelia Towers 1:04:55

6M ago1:04:55

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Barcelona-born Noelia Towers has been painting a form deconstructing power structures for years now, but it seems like over the last few years her subject matter has received a heightened attention. And importance. Not like a typical activist painter, Noelia is placing herself right in the center of both a personal biography and a universal appeal …

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S5 E36 1:05:38

6M ago1:05:38

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8th Period

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S5 E35 1:22:39

6M ago1:22:39

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4th Period.

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158: Mark Whalen 46:57

6M ago46:57

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Mark Whalen has been with us for almost 20 years, from the streets of Sydney, Australia to a new life of a sculpture studio in Los Angeles. Now it is time we are with him: after losing his home in the Altadena fire of January 2025, I got in touch with Mark about a visit to The Unibrow's Radio Juxtapoz, but also to catch up on an immersive, darkly h…

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S5 E34 1:05:02

6M ago1:05:02

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8th Period

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157: Daniel Gibson 52:14

6M ago52:14

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Daniel Gibson is a painter of the California landscape, a visualizer of a certain kind of desert oasis dreamt of in a surreal dream as opposed to a place you have been. But to be honest, I wasn't aware of this fantastical world of desert sun, flora and fauna in Gibson's work; I just wanted it all to be real. I don't think that is important; what is…

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156: Nehemiah Cisneros 1:01:10

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There have been many iterations of the man we know as Nehemiah Cisneros, but right now, in the most moment, he is most himself. If you know Nehemiah, he is a thoughtful, insightful and evolving figure in art who is a filmmaker in a painters' body. We met him as AUGOR, the graffiti writer who took over Los Angles in the late aughts with billboards a…

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S5 E33 1:22:55

7M ago1:22:55

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4th Period. Happy Spring Break everyone!

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S5 E32 1:02:56

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8th Period.

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S5 E31 1:24:14

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4th Period.

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S5 E30 1:00:46

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8th Period.

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S5 E29 1:24:59

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4th Period.

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155: Hannah Lupton Reinhard 49:23

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Hannah Lupton Reinhard's paintings always have a consistency in intent, and yet an interpretation of intention seems to be flexible for some, perhaps even malleable. The theme of moving goal posts to secure your own meaning is rife in modern society, perhaps more so than ever as we all have the unique ability to erase our own history so easily. We …