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Jack Armstrong
Katie or. Or anybody can answer this question. Do you know who Keith Jarrett is?
Joe Getty
I know the name, which is where.
Jack Armstrong
I was about a week ago. Okay, so I Jarrett I like all kinds of music. Like there is on a song by song basis. There is no genre I don't like really except for metal. I just have never been able to get in metal. But other than that, every genre there are songs I like and songs I don't with songs I like. And so I'm like really into learning to play the piano the last couple of years and I watch a lot of videos about piano and some guys I like were doing an all time greatest pianists list the other day. Who were the goats? Are you familiar that people now refer to goats as plural? It's a plural. It's not a. It's not.
Joe Getty
No, no, that doesn't work at all.
Jack Armstrong
Sorry, you're wrong. Apparently I'm wrong too. I've just become aware enough times now. You name goats. These three are the goats.
Joe Getty
The greatest of all time.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I don't get it. But that's the way people refer to it.
Joe Getty
You know what, honestly, although that is silly, you know, grammatically speaking, I much prefer that. Who's the greatest guitar player? That's an idiotic question.
Jack Armstrong
So now you say you're.
Joe Getty
If you want to name a bunch of people around the very top tier, great, that's fine.
Jack Armstrong
That's what people mean when they say go now. Anyway, so one of the goats was this Keith Jarrett piano player who I'd heard of but like I tried to listen to before and couldn't get into maybe I just wasn't ready for it yet. Sometimes that is the case with music. You're not ready for it yet for a variety of reasons. Fairly complex.
Katie
Is this like, is This a new artist or is this.
Jack Armstrong
No, he's still alive. He doesn't perform anymore because he had some strokes and can't play the piano anymore. But he is considered among jazz musicians, like one of the top. Rick Beto, the music producer, has got a YouTube video that millions of people have watched an interview with Keith Jarrett and calls him one of the great music composers of the last century, at least. I mean, he's just an absolute genius. And a genius in the fact that most of his famous albums are completely improvised. That was his thing. He walks into a stadium and the feel of the piano, the crowd, the room, the day, he just makes it up, you know, like four songs he plays and. And he even says that like if he has an idea, he discounts it. He doesn't want to have an ide before he goes out there. He just wants to feel it as he goes and it's just. Okay, start.
Joe Getty
You'd hear some if that were me.
Jack Armstrong
So go ahead and start the song, Michael, because I'm going to talk about it over this. And so one of the recommendations I was. I was looking up to some of the best Keith Jarrett stuff and one of the recommendations was this song. It's from live Bordeaux concert live. Most of his famous stuff is live. Like I said, all improvised. Crank it up enough that we can hear it. This is part.
Joe Getty
When does the singing start?
Jack Armstrong
There's no singing. It's instrumental. This is part three. There's just four parts. Like I said, he's improvising it. So he just does four songs ranging from four to 15 minutes long. Just however long he's feeling it. Crowd goes wild. If the crowd reacts poorly, he yells at them. He's very touchy artist sort of person.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Where do you get off drum solo?
Jack Armstrong
There's no drum solo. And, and, and good. Crank it up, cuz this is what's interesting. So I became obsessed with this song on Sunday after the Grammys. Interestingly enough, I became aware of it and I listened to the whole thing while I was walking the dog. And it hit me in a way like I don't remember the last time a song has hit me like this. And I probably listened to it 10 times that night, including in bed with my headphones on while I was falling asleep maybe 10 times the next day in the rain. I sent it to some people.
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Jack Armstrong
It affected me in so much in such a way. Now I'm getting to the punchline that you're gonna find quite hilarious.
Joe Getty
Oh boy.
Jack Armstrong
On this song Affecting me so much. It's like, man, this isn't really like, even my sort of thing. I mean, it's just so. And it gets slightly more complex. I mean, it's just very pretty, sweet piano music. It's four minutes. Here, let me read this. So I started doing a little research on famous Keith Jarrett albums, and this album has four and five stars from all your big jazz magazines and top reviewers of all time and that sort of stuff, and particularly this song. Here's one of the reviews for this song from McSweeney's. It's one of the most respected jazz critics of all time. A note for Divorced Dads on Keith Jarrett's Bordeaux Concert, Part 3. And I thought, what?
Joe Getty
What?
Jack Armstrong
One would have a difficult time finding a musical composition that better suits the emotions of a recently divorced dad than Keith Jarrett's Bordeaux Concert, Part three? If I happened upon a divorced dad driving around looking for coffee in his 2018 Ford F150 or something, I would stop him and play it for him. It gives me goosebumps. I was actually reading this.
Joe Getty
This is freaky. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
As a guy who drove a 2015 Ford F150, the entirety of the piece is four minutes and four seconds. I cannot think of a reason why a recently divorced dad couldn't find that kind of time. Once the divorced dad and I had an understanding, we would venture into the composition. It begins with the stable rolling cords that gently root the piece, drawing up imagery of a young couple holding hands in a tall grass, their one entity, a zygite of relationship. And it goes on and on like this, through the whole relationship. Falling in love, being in love, deciding to have kids, having kids, it becoming difficult, it falling apart, the divorce happening. You trying to raise your kids on your own at the end of this song. And then he ends actually with, now go pick up your kid from karate practice.
Joe Getty
Now this is freaking me out.
Jack Armstrong
Turn it up just a little bit, Michael, because now I think we're into the. You realize you're divorced and you're raising your kids on your own part? I guess. I don't know.
Joe Getty
Now, did Keith Jarrett say any of this? Or this is just the reviewer figuring, quote, unquote, figuring this out?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Katie
This is one of the Sweeneys.
Jack Armstrong
This is one of the most famous jazz reviewers of all time. That's the way he interpreted this music. And me as a recently divorced dad, laying in bed listening to it 10 times in a row. Because it touched me in a way I can't remember music ever touching me what the hell is that?
Katie
That is weird.
Jack Armstrong
It is weird.
Katie
Holy smokes.
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Jack Armstrong
Isn't that strange? Well.
Joe Getty
Hey, you got anything for angsty empty nesters?
Jack Armstrong
They like to play golf.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Wow, what a trip. Isn't that strange though?
Joe Getty
Yeah, I mean, that's, that's beyond strange. That's. Does he. Well, I guess he kind of sort of explains why, but not in a way that I would find terribly compelling. If I came across it anywhere else in any other context, I'd think, well, wait a minute. There are a lot of, you know, trips people go through in their lives that maybe start like super exciting, promising, then get kind of rocky, and then you've just got to make the most of it and move on. I mean, there are a lot of things like that, but here we are.
Jack Armstrong
Well, there are also a million pieces of music that are kind of sweet but maudlin. But you know, whatever the fact that this well known jazz critic picks out one of the most respected jazz pieces in history and assigns this particular meaning to it, and then I, not knowing that it'd be one thing if I'd read that first, right? But not knowing that at all, get pulled into this song in a way. I don't, I don't remember the last time I've been pulled into a song where I listened to it that many times in a row, if ever in my life.
Katie
It's amazing how different music works. That's how you felt with that. And I felt like I was on hold waiting for a prescription from like CVS listening.
Jack Armstrong
Right. I agree. In any other context, I would have been the same way and I probably would have listened to like a minute and thought and not for me, and gone to the next song. And it makes me question my understanding of, you know, abstract art and stuff like that. When I look at a piece of art on a wall and think, geez, my 3 year old could do that. That doesn't mean anything because that music. Well, see, I'm into that normally, that kind of music. Well, I agree with Hitler, it's a ruse. But that kind of music, usually, I think it's just kind of meandering. And I understand some people like it, but it's not really my bag. The fact that it had such a specific. The fact that even mentions a Ford F150.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Okay, so here's, here's the deal. Obviously we're sitting here, you know, rolling around in the wonder of it. We need to know more about this, this guru, this sage, this omniscient McSweeney person. What the hell's going on there? What sort of psychic witchery is. Is.
Jack Armstrong
Is that. Does he have that ability with all songs and art? That painting over there. If your cat just got hit by a car, that's the perfect painting.
Joe Getty
As you're sitting there thinking of little Fluffy and admiring the brush strokes. That's just freaky, Man.
Katie
Man. One to go find all of my favorite songs and read the reviews on it just to see if anything lines up.
Jack Armstrong
One would have a difficult time finding a musical composition that better suits the emotions of a recently divorced dad. If I happened upon a divorced dad driving around looking for coffee in his 2018 Ford F150.
Joe Getty
And you're a coffee addict.
Katie
Yep.
Jack Armstrong
I would I have done that as a. I was stopping you.
Joe Getty
Wrong. The hack.
Katie
And he left out going to get McDonald's on the way home.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
That's true.
Joe Getty
Doesn't know anything.
Jack Armstrong
That was freaky, man. Laying in bed listening to it in my headphones in the dark. Moved by music in a way maybe I never have been in my life. Weird.
Joe Getty
Now I've been trying to think if there's anything that's been anything similar, Any song or music similar to that. And all I can come up with is I discovered an album several years after it was out by a band from Indiana called Hound Mouth. And the song is My Cousin Greg. And the opening line is, my cousin Greg is a greedy son of a bitch. And I'm just. I'm not sure what McSweeney would say about that. I have no cousin Greg who's a greedy son of a bitch. So obviously it's not that close a fit. That's freaky.
Jack Armstrong
So I don't know what I'm saying.
Joe Getty
You gotta look more into this McSweeney dude.
Jack Armstrong
Because he's a witch or following me around.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that'd be my guess.
Jack Armstrong
Although he wrote this years ago.
Joe Getty
Well.
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
I know. That's why I brought it to the podcast. I just thought this is too effing freaky. Next time I'm gonna show a slow saxophone solo that expresses the feelings of a man. His broken TV and no extended warranty.
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Joe Getty
Turning to a new poll. Gen Z doesn't want to go out to the bars and scream at each other over loud music or 50,000 other people. It seems like sometimes having conversation, they'd rather sit around at home and have a drink or two with their friends.
Jack Armstrong
Why did it take until Gen Z to figure that out?
Joe Getty
I don't know. And I don't want to, like, over. I don't want to dominate the podcast because I'm a team player. But I have never, even when I was young and slightly hip and somewhat popular, I didn't want to go to bars and yell at each other.
Jack Armstrong
You'll have crazy. You'll have to weigh in on this, Katie, because. But my experience was I was out at the bars lots of times where we're like at a quiet kind of bar and everybody talking. I say, oh, it's 11:00. We got to go over to the wherever. And I think, why? We're having a perfectly good time here. We can hear each other. We're sitting. We're going to go to some place where we're like shuffled around shoulder to shoulder, screaming at the top of our lungs or not talking.
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Joe Getty
Go ahead, Katie.
Katie
Well, no, I've. I went through the phase of every weekend at the bars and all of.
Jack Armstrong
That, and I did too, for 22 years. Go ahead.
Katie
It wasn't for 22 years, but it was, it was a solid seven, you know, and it got exhausting. Now when I go out to the bars, it's more of that environment where it's just chilling, it's very quiet, some music, but there's not a lot of yellow.
Jack Armstrong
No, I never, never. When I was, When I was 20 years old, the drinking age was 18. Where. When I went to college when I was 20 years old, I had no interest in going to the big throbbing Club and yelling at the person next to me. Thank God for.
Joe Getty
Please refrain from saying big throbbing club if you can. Yeah, I've just, I've never had that in me. This golf club where I play golf mostly opened up a new bar and it's like quiet and classy and set up for like conversation areas where four to six people can sit and chat and have a drink and all. And Judy and I went there and we were like, oh my God, this is perfect. And then we ran into some friends of ours who really aren't great people. But the dude was like, oh my God, did they waste that space? Oh, I couldn't hate it off. Where the, where are the TVs with the play by play going and the energy. We want energy.
Jack Armstrong
I want no Energy, less energy.
Joe Getty
I bring no energy and I want none thrust upon me.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, and same with restaurants. I hope Gen Z kills loud restaurants. You know, whenever it was in the mid-90s that they decided to take all the baffling out of the ceilings and have it be open brick and pipes so you can get as much sound reverberating as possible. So it's just deafeningly loud and every clink of every glass and fork and the whole place echoes in your head. Who wants that?
Katie
I guess lots of people or it's just acceptable to be obnoxiously loud at the table. Like I remember when being in a restaurant, you know, you had manners and you had to be kind of quiet and polite and then you've got tables next to you just screaming and having a full blown party and it's normal now.
Joe Getty
Well, speaking of being a team player, obviously we're a group of at least somewhat grumpy, somewhat introverted people. But some people obviously are energized by that. They like it, it gives them more energy. As they say about extroverts and introverts, being around people energizes extroverts and it drains the energy from introverts. And it must be that way with like loud bars and restaurants and stuff like that.
Jack Armstrong
Well, but are you arguing that the percentage of people that are introverts is higher among Gen Z or do they just wise up to why are we standing in this super loud bar?
Joe Getty
Interesting question. Good lord, I can't come close to answering it. Here are the stats. Let's the new survey finds that 2 and 3 Gen Z wine enthusiasts so this people who'd rather drink wine, for what that's worth, two out of three opt for the comfort of their homes when it comes to drinking. Specifically home poll of 2,000American adults between 21 and 26 found those who enjoy wine only 23% would choose to go to a bar and only 18% would opt for drinking at some sort of live event. For Gen Z wine enthusiasts, having a glass is an opportunity to be social as hanging out with friends tops the list of activities they prefer to partake in while drinking, but they'd really rather do it at home than out anywhere. Maybe that's because the cost of living so high for young people and they're trying to save money. That was the other thing, especially because I was pretty poor when I was young is I could afford like a beer. If we went out, I could have a couple at home. End of discussion.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that wasn't the right kind of bar. I like the more like the more like people in booths bars because that's where I could sidle up to a table of girls and they wouldn't notice that I was drinking all their pitcher beer because I couldn't afford to buy beer.
Joe Getty
You're that guy.
Jack Armstrong
And well, girls oftentimes get pitchers of beer. They aren't going to drink them. They're not really drinkers. They just they need to have it sitting there. It's kind of a prop. I'll take care of that for you.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
What the heck happened? An expert weighs in. It's One More Thing.
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. One more thing. Before we get to that, two quick things. 1. I just looked up at the Twitter machine and there is something on there about young people in New York talking about how they all got punched in the face because of a recent TikTok challenge in which the thing was to just walk up and punch people in the face and some of morons do it. I want a tick tock challenge. That is. It's the leave your parents house, get a job and support yourself challenge. The follow the law, pay your taxes and raise your kids right challenge. See if that catches on.
Katie
It'll be waiting forever for that.
Jack Armstrong
God, I Saw one the other day where there's a whole bunch of iterations of this of like, it's just abusing old people, scaring them, basically. And.
Joe Getty
And it's just horrific, harsh, and draconian penalties.
Jack Armstrong
Like, act like somebody broke into the house for grandma and then, you know, get her reaction. Yeah. Because she's an old woman who thinks somebody broke into her home. That's why she reacted that way. Why is that funny? You freaking. You should be in jail just for this.
Katie
You know, it's concerning the people who do that and the people who laugh at it.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God. This one was a. I guess this was a Jackass thing. Originally from the Jackass movie. But I saw this on Tick Tock the other day. It was. You push a stroller with a. A baby in it. A fake baby. A toy. The doll. Doll is the term. Fake baby.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And you know, like, you know, the stroller, you accidentally trip and into traffic and a car hits it or something like that. And then you get the reaction of people who are horrified that a baby just got ran over. Why is that funny?
Katie
Or you get the people that run out into traffic trying to stop it.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Katie
There's another guy that's going.
Joe Getty
He.
Katie
He went viral the other day that was going through like Walmarts and targets and going up to people that had full carts, families, I mean, everything, and just pulling the cart and knocking it over and knocking the stuff everywhere and then running away for no reason at all other than to be a dick.
Jack Armstrong
Right. And then. And then their friends film that and put it on TikTok, and then people watch it, and I think that's okay.
Katie
I guess I hate with the algorithm is the more attention they get, they get paid.
Jack Armstrong
I'm glad you're young and complaining about this, because when Joe and I complain about this, we just sound like, you know, old men about modern culture. But this is a change in society.
Katie
Oh, yeah?
Joe Getty
Yes. Yeah. Well, you're complaining about it. I'm even now sketching out my plan to form a vigilante group that's going to find these Internet scoundrels and hunt them down and give them some real world ass kickings.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, I know what it was. So you take the. The car carrier thing that you put your baby in, like when you go into the grocery store and then come back and snap it into the car seat. The. The person puts it on top of the car and then does some stuff and then drives off with. On top of the car. And then you film the reactions of Everybody freaking out that you drove off with your baby on top of your car.
Katie
I do love that in New York. There is a hashtag I punch back and there are a series of videos of people.
Jack Armstrong
I'll tell you what, you come and knock over my, my cart full of stuff with my kids there, I'm gonna have to fight myself to not tackle you.
Joe Getty
And we're rolling around and find out. Huh?
Jack Armstrong
Oh, God dang it.
Joe Getty
All right, well, this is troubling and disturbing and the world is ugly and full of evil. Anyway, so it turns out a giant cargo ship took out a bridge in Baltimore on the day that we are recording this podcast. The death toll is yet unknown, but it's a terrible disaster and incredibly dramatic video as well that's posted at Armstrong and getty.com Tuesday, March 26th. Anyway, got this note from 2032.
Katie
Very good.
Joe Getty
I'm speaking to you from the moon colony while Jack remains on Earth.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Finally, finally, one party rule, as we dreamed of secretly all those years we were talking about the Constitution. So Al the Mariner, we'll just call him Al Anonymous. I don't think he'd mind, but does this sort of thing for a living. Big shit ship shipping. And has corresponded with us through the years whenever something in his realm comes up. And he's quite knowledgeable and appreciate the note, but I'll read you parts of his email to us. I watched this with my captain and cadet. I don't know what a cadet is. Apparently that's something on a ship and from what we can tell, it looks like they lost the plant, the ship's power and or propulsion and collided with the northern span of the bridge. Yeah, actually twice they lost power. She, meaning the boat, most definitely had at least a harbor pilot on board and may even have had a docking pilot on board too. Harbor or bay pilots get the ship from the sea buoy to the port and docking pilots park the ship. Driving a. Conning a ship or driving it isn't nearly as simple as most people think it is.
Jack Armstrong
I don't think it's simple. I think it's probably really hard.
Joe Getty
Oh, I thought it was hard. And it's harder than I thought. This ship has a bow thruster, one slow speed. Okay, I'm trying so hard not to laugh. I don't want to give him the encouragement.
Katie
That was great, Jack. Thank you for that child.
Joe Getty
God, my child is right.
Jack Armstrong
My son, who's 12 and I don't think he knows what he's talking about. Dropped a that's what she said on me the other day because it's popular in school and I don't think they, most of them know what they're really talking about, but.
Joe Getty
Well, see, that gives me hope for the next generation. It really does. Yes, it does.
Jack Armstrong
Were they discussing China on the playground?
Joe Getty
Oh, boy. So the ship has a bow thruster just like Jack, one slow speed diesel engine, and one fixed pitch propeller. In order for most of these types of ships to reverse propulsion, the engineers first have to unclutch the shaft. Good. Shut down the engine, stop the shaft from spinning, restart the engine backwards and clutch in the shaft. These ships are built to run most of their lives going forward as efficiently as possible. So they are incredibly inefficient. Trying to make way astern, backing up. In a perfect world, that would take a few minutes to start backing down. Well, this isn't a perfect world.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. I didn't know they could start going backwards that fast. I figured it took longer than that.
Joe Getty
Longer than what, a few minutes? No, in a perfect world, it would take a few minutes to start backing down. But this is not a perfect world. With ships, you can't just put it in reverse first. You are trying to take off tens of thousands of long tons of momentum. It's a term I'm completely unfamiliar with with the added delay of the plant going through its process of getting the stern bell going. So for the most part, mariners have to maneuver their way out of oh moment. If you don't have power, you can't move the hydraulics involved with the rudder to push your stern over. Most cargo's vessel pivot point is a third of the ship's length from the bow to the bow. So even if we were able to start a turn, the ship may still have hit the bridge on the side of the vessel like a glancing blow. Also, with a fixed pitch prop, you will back up the opposite side your screw pins. Oh, back up to the opposite side your screw pins. For example, if your prop spins clockwise going forward, this is called the right handed propeller. While you're trying to back up, your stern will get pushed to the left. Then he goes into how the rudder works. But the point is, it is a nightmare to maneuver these things and you've got to be extremely good at it because there's so much energy, that much weight in motion.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I know you're seafaring people, Katie. Your dad has a boat and everything, but if you've ever driven a boat at all, you know how difficult it can Be to, you know, go a certain direction or stop from going a certain direction if you miscalculate.
Katie
Oh, yeah. And everything takes extra time. There is no immediate maneuver on anything on the water.
Jack Armstrong
And then so our Joe and I's friend Dave, who lives on a boat down San Diego, last time I was with him, I guess it was last Friday, 4th of July. So we're on his boat and we come back and he lost motors. He lost one of his motors. So he lost the motor on one side. So he could only navigate one direction. And man, we ended up having a bad thing happen. But we were all on one side of boat trying to keep us from smashing into all these other boats and. And smashing his boat up against the poles. Because once you start drifting and you got no motors like that guy was talking about, if you got no power, you're just going the direction you were going.
Katie
Yeah. And I don't know if you guys saw that video where it's sped up where you can see where this. This ship is heading towards the bridge. I mean, the power goes out twice. So they're clearly having some big issues, let alone trying to maneuver this thing.
Joe Getty
Right. And I'll get to that in just a second. But he points out the description of how the rudder works. That and anybody who has a boat knows this. You can't turn a boat that isn't moving. Right. It's got to be moving to turn. And if you need it to turn quickly, it needs to be going fast.
Jack Armstrong
If you've driven unseen or ice, you know this phenomenon also.
Joe Getty
Right. So anyway, so they had that problem. And it takes a long damn time to move a ship like that significantly, especially at the speeds they were going. Then he says, all of that being said, the loss of power adds a massive delay to try to make any corrective action. In the video, you can see the lights cut off and back on again. We timed it. It took well over a minute to get power back on. The regulations say that the emergency diesel generators should only take at most 45 seconds to restore power to the emergency system.
Jack Armstrong
Ye. That reminds me of the text we got that said, I didn't know Boeing made ships now, huh?
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. With this you'll probably hear, why didn't they just drop an anchor? Well, it doesn't work like that in the movie Battleship or Contraband. In order for the flukes of modern anchors to fetch up, you have to be going almost one knot. I had a captain tell me one time, never run aground with two anchors on board. They don't do, but it makes. It looks like you tried everything.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, okay.
Joe Getty
So that's interest.
Jack Armstrong
First of all, I didn't think of the anchor thing. If I'd have thought of it, I would have said that myself. Why didn't they drop the anchor? But don't run aground without having dropped both anchors. Or at least it looks like you tried.
Joe Getty
That's pretty good. Wow. Wow. Things like this can have a number of things go wrong, ranging from misjudgment from the pilot, a miscommunication between the pilot and captain, or a mistake in the engine room that caused loss of power and. Or propulsion. Shoot, it could be all three. I highly recommend keeping an eye on the YouTube channel. What is going on with shipping? The guy there does a great job at explaining maritime and navy stuff, and he'll break this down as soon as he has info.
Jack Armstrong
So these great big giant tanker ships that got all those containers on them and railroad cars and stuff like that, or trailers for semis. I mean, that gives you the perspective. It's the only way you can get any perspective on these things. As they're sitting out in the ocean with nothing next to them. You look at those things and think, each one of those is like a train car or a container or whatever it is.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And you think, oh, my God, that's a giant ship.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
But remember. So we were at a port in West Sacramento where they ship lots of rice in and out from around the world. Remember that guy telling us stories about those giant ships that come in and they. There aren't very many people on those ships and how weird they all were?
Joe Getty
Yes, I do. 100.
Jack Armstrong
You've ever heard this, Katie before? But they're out there for months. And a lot of people that work on these ships are very strange people because you're somebody that wants to be on a ship with no other human beings and, like, no entertainment or anything like that for months by yourself down in the dark of a ship. It's very people.
Joe Getty
These guys don't even have visas, so they can't come off the ship. So they'll dock in the US or dock in some port. That sounds interesting. They're not allowed to get off the ship.
Jack Armstrong
They just stay in their dark ship.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Katie
That takes a special kind of personality for that job.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
That was Frank, right? Wasn't that his name?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
Joe Getty
That was super interesting, though.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And whenever I see those ships, that's what I think of now. Got some really strange mole people living on that ship.
Joe Getty
Romanian mole people must not be allowed off.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Katie
It comes out of my mouth every time we go on the boat with my family because we'll go out of the estuary and we're down on the sea level looking up at those things and I'm always like, like, how do those. How do they float?
Jack Armstrong
Right? Yeah.
Joe Getty
Oh yeah. They're, you know, some terms are overused. They are quite literally breathtaking to see from anywhere close to them.
Jack Armstrong
Well, they displace more than the weight of the water, technically, is how they float, but that's hard to imagine that that even happened.
Joe Getty
Yeah, they what?
Jack Armstrong
Keep your shaft oiled.
Joe Getty
Damn right.
Jack Armstrong
Damn right.
Joe Getty
Wow. And a clip from Shaft. Yeah, that was just all sorts of information.
Jack Armstrong
That was a multimedia presentation you gave.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Texts before we get to Joe. Why Joe? Ha.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
I thought that's what you said. No, I wasn't paying attention. I have to share this, says a texter. I took my 6 year old granddaughter to San Francisco. While we're walking to lunch, a group of men rode by on their bikes, absolutely naked. My granddaughter said, nana who is running this place out of the mouths of babes. Yep.
Joe Getty
Oh wow.
Jack Armstrong
Sort of thing you will see in San Francisco. Completely naked men on bicycles. And some people think that's that's wonderful for some reason that that's like progress for some reason. I'll Never understand.
Joe Getty
Bunch of twistoids.
Jack Armstrong
Also mentioned at the end of the radio show on the 21st that it was my birthday. And for some reason, I've never cared less about my birthday than now. And I'm not exactly sure if it's wisdom and maturity or depression and I've lost the ability to enjoy life. But we did get this text, your birthday. Everyone has one. You're not special.
Katie
Jeez.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Thank you for that.
Katie
All right.
Joe Getty
That's. That's a person I really pity.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Imagine being that unhappy.
Jack Armstrong
I don't even know. I don't even know when I see that sort of stuff on social media. And you see a lot.
Katie
It's always like, wow, first of all, Jack, happy birthday. Second of all, that person. There you go.
Joe Getty
Yeah. That has nothing to do with you, obviously. I know you know that, Jack.
Jack Armstrong
No, no, no, no.
Joe Getty
Boy, that's. That's entirely about that person. Oh, no.
Jack Armstrong
When I come. When I come across that stuff on social media, really, Honest to God, the thing I think is I need to make sure my kids don't end up like that. To where they're so miserable with their lives that they have to strike out at anything that might be pleasant or happy for someone.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
To get through the day. I mean, jeez, that's so awful.
Katie
Or someone that. That maybe isn't so miserable that they do that, but does it for joy.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Katie
You know, there are those people that.
Joe Getty
That.
Katie
I mean, you see them all over the Internet that create these accounts just to troll people because they enjoy it.
Joe Getty
I've only known sadists.
Jack Armstrong
I've only. I've only personally known two trolls, but they both had the same attitude. So I'm just assuming that that's kind of common among the troll community. They really get such enjoyment of. There's somebody happy. I'm gonna try to take some of that. It. And I just think that's so weird. I've never had that feeling, you know.
Joe Getty
Somebody that's a sickness.
Jack Armstrong
Somebody got. Somebody got a new car. And I say, I heard they suck. Or, you know, just something like that. What. What is that like?
Katie
Why?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, why?
Joe Getty
Well, as I've always said, people who are too dopey or lazy to build things, the only satisfaction they get is from breaking things.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's.
Joe Getty
Again, that's pathetic.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's like the person who vandalizes the playground equipment. I mean, it's the same sort of thing. It's just awful.
Joe Getty
Right. The only effect they will ever have on the world before they are dead is to break things and hurt people. So that's what they do. And. And again it's. It's just painfully pathetic on a lighter.
Jack Armstrong
Jack, what is a birthday dinner for you. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna go eat steak tonight. Okay.
Katie
So it's steak.
Jack Armstrong
Some sort of ill advised dessert be my guess. It's more for my kids than me. I don't know if I would even leave the house tonight if it would come.
Katie
Didn't have my kids birthday bang bang.
Jack Armstrong
Oh boy, that sounds like a challenge.
Katie
Steak followed by 25 push ups. That's the, that's the deal.
Jack Armstrong
A bang bang is back to back meals of completely different kinds. So what do I follow? Steak with pizza. Stop and get a pizza.
Joe Getty
Oh wow. Steak is a dense, dense first blow. It is.
Jack Armstrong
It's going to leave a mark.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Wow. Following up steak. Something completely different. Nice ramen restaurant or something. That's a little hipster for you.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Katie
Maybe Italian though. In the noodle. The noodle realm.
Joe Getty
Well, right. Let's go Ramen adjacent. I like the spaghetti and meatballs.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. I didn't accidental bang bang with my brother when he was in town when I had cancer. We ate a pizza not knowing my wife was making dinner. And then we got home and she had made a big dinner, like a big homemade dinner dinner because my brother was in town and so you can't, you know, mum's the word. We had stuffed ourselves with pizza but then brought it hard for that homemade dinner also.
Joe Getty
Well, way to man up.
Katie
Yeah, I commend you for that.
Jack Armstrong
It's just the polite thing to do. Armstrong and Getty.
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Detailed Summary of "The A&G Replay Wednesday Hour Four"
Podcast Information:
Discussion Highlights: Jack Armstrong opens the episode by sharing his recent deep dive into the works of renowned jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. He expresses how Jarrett’s improvisational style has profoundly affected him, particularly highlighting the piece "Bordeaux Concert, Part 3."
Notable Quotes:
Insights: Armstrong discusses the emotional resonance of Jarrett’s music, referencing a McSweeney's review that interprets the piece as encapsulating the feelings of a recently divorced dad. This sparks a conversation about the personal connections listeners can form with instrumental music, even when the composer hasn't explicitly stated such narratives.
Conclusion: The segment underscores the universal language of music and its ability to evoke deep personal emotions, illustrating how instrumental pieces can mirror complex human experiences.
Discussion Highlights: The hosts delve into a recent poll revealing Generation Z's preference for quieter, more intimate social settings over traditional loud bars and clubs. They explore the reasons behind this shift, including economic factors and changing social dynamics.
Notable Quotes:
Insights: They discuss how Gen Z's inclination towards at-home gatherings for socializing reflects broader societal changes, such as the high cost of living and a desire for more meaningful interactions. The conversation touches on how even as nightlife evolves, personal preferences for comfort and connection remain paramount.
Conclusion: The segment highlights the evolving landscape of socializing, emphasizing that younger generations prioritize quality interactions over traditional, high-energy venues.
Discussion Highlights: A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing a recent maritime disaster where a large cargo ship collided with a bridge in Baltimore. The hosts analyze the technical challenges faced by the ship's crew during the incident.
Notable Quotes:
Insights: Drawing from their personal experiences and expert analysis from a marine specialist named Al the Mariner, Armstrong and Getty explain the complexities of maneuvering large vessels, especially when faced with power loss. They discuss the delayed response in power restoration and the inherent difficulties in reversing such massive ships.
Conclusion: The discussion provides listeners with an in-depth understanding of maritime operations and the severe consequences that can arise from technical failures, emphasizing the necessity for skilled navigation and prompt emergency responses.
Discussion Highlights: The hosts address the troubling trends of trolling and harmful content on social media platforms. They express concern over viral challenges that promote negative and destructive behavior.
Notable Quotes:
Insights: Armstrong and Getty critique the motivations behind online trolling, questioning the enjoyment some individuals derive from disrupting others' happiness. They discuss the psychological impact of such behaviors and the broader implications for online communities.
Conclusion: This segment serves as a critical examination of modern digital interactions, highlighting the need for greater accountability and positive engagement on social media platforms.
Discussion Highlights: Throughout the episode, the hosts share and react to listener-submitted stories, blending humor with empathetic responses.
Notable Quotes:
Insights: Listeners contribute personal anecdotes ranging from bizarre public behaviors to poignant reflections on personal celebrations like birthdays. The hosts use these stories to explore themes of societal norms, personal fulfillment, and the impact of public behavior on family values.
Conclusion: By sharing listener stories, Armstrong and Getty foster a sense of community and relatability, allowing for a diverse range of topics that resonate with a broad audience.
Discussion Highlights: The episode wraps up with light-hearted banter about birthday traditions and final advertisements for sponsors like NFL Shop, Vizio, Bartesian, and Chumba Casino.
Notable Quotes:
Insights: The hosts conclude the episode by sharing their personal plans for celebrating birthdays, juxtaposing traditional festivities with humorous takes on modern challenges. They emphasize maintaining personal connections amidst life's complexities.
Conclusion: The closing segments reinforce the show's blend of humor, personal reflection, and practical advice, leaving listeners with a sense of camaraderie and anticipation for future episodes.
Overall Summary: In "The A&G Replay Wednesday Hour Four," Armstrong and Getty navigate a rich tapestry of topics, from the emotional depths of jazz music to generational shifts in socializing preferences, a harrowing maritime disaster, and the darker aspects of online behavior. Through personal anecdotes, listener interactions, and insightful discussions, the hosts offer a compelling and engaging narrative that resonates with a diverse audience. Their blend of humor, empathy, and expertise ensures that both regular listeners and newcomers find value and connection in each episode.