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Katie or Joe or anybody can answer this question. Do you know who Keith Jarrett is?
Michael
I know the name, which is where.
Joe Getty
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 any 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 all time greatest pianists list the other day. Who are the goats? Are you familiar that people now refer to goats as plural? It's a plural. It's not a. It's not.
Michael
No, no, no, that doesn't work at all.
Joe Getty
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.
Michael
The greatests of all time.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't get it, but that's the way people refer to it.
Michael
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.
Joe Getty
So now you say you're name a.
Michael
Bunch of people around the very top tier. Great. That's fine.
Joe Getty
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'd try 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.
Unknown
Is this like, is this a new artist or is this.
Joe Getty
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 Bedo, 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 idea before he goes out there. He just wants to feel it as he goes. And it's just.
Michael
Okay, start you to hear some if that were me.
Joe Getty
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 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. This is part.
Michael
Where does the singing start?
Joe Getty
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.
Michael
Yeah. Where do you get off solo?
Joe Getty
There's no drum solo. And. And good, crank it up because 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 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 some to some people.
Michael
It's just.
Joe Getty
It affected me in so much, in such a way. Now I'm getting to the punchline that you're gonna find quite hilarious.
Michael
Oh, boy.
Joe Getty
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?
Michael
What?
Joe Getty
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 3. 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, actually reading this.
Michael
This is freaky. Yeah.
Joe Getty
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 chords 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.
Michael
Now this is freaking me out.
Joe Getty
Turn it up just a little bit, Michael, because now where I think we're into the. You realize you're divorced and you're raising your kids on your own part. I guess.
Katie
I don't know.
Michael
Now, did Keith Jarrett say any of this? Or this is just the reviewer figuring, quote, unquote, figuring this out? Yeah.
Unknown
This is one of the tweenies.
Joe Getty
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?
Unknown
That is weird.
Joe Getty
It is weird.
Unknown
Holy smokes.
Katie
I know.
Joe Getty
Isn't that strange? Well.
Michael
Hey, you got anything for angsty Empty nesters that like to play golf.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Michael
Yeah. Wow. Wow.
Joe Getty
What a trip. Isn't that strange though?
Michael
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.
Joe Getty
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.
Unknown
Right.
Joe Getty
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.
Unknown
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.
Michael
Right, right.
Joe Getty
I agree. In any other context, I would have been the same way. And, and I probably would have listened to like a minute and thought, n 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.
Michael
Well, see, I'm into that normally, that.
Joe Getty
Kind of music, Well, I agree with Hitler. It's, it's a ruse. But that kind of music usually I think is 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.
Unknown
Yeah.
Michael
Okay, so here's, here's the deal. Obviously we're, 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 that.
Joe Getty
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.
Michael
As you're sitting there thinking of little Fluffy and admiring the brush strokes. That's just freaky, man.
Unknown
Man. We want to go find all of my favorite songs and read the reviews on it just to see right it lines up.
Joe Getty
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.
Michael
And you're a coffee addict.
Unknown
Yep.
Joe Getty
I would I have done that as a. I was wrong.
Michael
The hack.
Unknown
And he left out going to get McDonald's on the way home.
Michael
Yeah, that's true. Doesn't know anything.
Joe Getty
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.
Michael
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. In 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.
Joe Getty
So I don't know what I'm saying.
Michael
You got to look more into this McSweeney dude.
Joe Getty
Because he's a witch or following me around?
Michael
Yeah, that'd be my guess.
Joe Getty
Although he wrote this years ago.
Michael
Well, right? That's weird, man.
Joe Getty
I know. That's why I brought it to the podcast. I just thought this is too effing. Freaky.
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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.
Joe Getty
Why did it take until Gen Z to figure that out?
Michael
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.
Joe Getty
You'll have to.
Michael
Crazy.
Joe Getty
You'll have to weigh in on this, Katie, because. But my experience is I was out at the bars lots of times where we're like at a quiet kind of.
Michael
Bar and everybody's talking.
Joe Getty
I say, oh, it's 11:00. We got to go over to the Web. 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. Why?
Michael
Go ahead, Katie.
Unknown
Well, no, I, I've, I went through the phase of, of every weekend at the bars and all that, and I.
Joe Getty
Did too, for 22 years. Go ahead.
Unknown
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 yelling.
Joe Getty
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.
Michael
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, 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, 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.
Joe Getty
I want no energy, less energy.
Michael
I bring no energy, and I want none thrust upon me.
Joe Getty
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?
Unknown
I guess where 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.
Michael
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.
Joe Getty
Well, but are you arguing that the percentage of people that are introverts is higher among Gen Z or did they just wise up to why are we standing in this super loud bar?
Michael
Interesting question. Good lord, I can't come close to answering it. Here's. Here are the stats. Let's see. Survey finds that 2 and 3 Gen Z wine enthusiasts so this people who rather drink wine for what that's worth, two out of three out for the comfort of their homes when it comes to drinking, specifically home Polar 2000American 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.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that wasn't the right kind of bar. I like the more like the, 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.
Unknown
You're that guy.
Joe Getty
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Michael
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Joe Getty
But we, so we got to talking on the RA show about the, the editing of photos just in general because so many people do it. It's so effortless. Now I don't have the Google phone, but I was just reading so the Wall Street Journal had an article when is it okay to alter the family photo? Who doesn't alter big family photos? And, and if you didn't before the, I mean like back in the old days when you'd go get a professional photo done and everything like that, they were altering them for you. They were all brightening them up or list them or whatever.
Unknown
And every, every group photo I take, I make sure everybody looks top notch because I don't want to hear it afterwards.
Joe Getty
Oh yeah, post that one.
Unknown
I look bad in that one. Oh, what? No, I went through. I made my best effort to make all of you look good.
Michael
So. Doing what?
Unknown
For instance, sometimes someone's eyes will be closed. You can open them, somebody's not smiling when they usually would. You can give them a smile.
Joe Getty
What, what, what app or phone are you using to do that?
Unknown
Facetune.
Joe Getty
Facetune. Yeah. So the Google Pixel thing, you've probably seen the ads. It looks fantastic. But they've got a thing called Best Take where you do a blast of photos and then you, you can pick each individual face. This is the best one from this one. This is the best one in, you know, In a group photo that's. Which sounds like was more or less what they did there at Kensington palace with the Royal family. I'm surprised they don't have more sophisticated software than they did. Well, according to their statement, Prince Will. I don't even hardly know these people's names.
Michael
Prince Will.
Joe Getty
Prince Will took the picture last week and Kate edited. Then she edited it, I guess, like a lot of wives probably do if their husband takes a bad photo. I don't know.
Unknown
This whole thing is because there was a big conspiracy theory that she was dead after this abdominal surgery she had because she hadn't been seen in the public. And now they're trying to find any reason they can to keep that conspiracy alive. I. E. They edited this photo and she's not really around or something. That's what I've been reading.
Michael
Yeah. Okay, that's, that's. That doesn't explain all of the coverage, but certainly some of it. Now, I'm willing to concede that I may be an outlier in this stuff. I. You know, to Katie's point, I don't hang out with people who'd give a single crap. I mean, unless they're like, I take a picture and in the background they're with their lover and their wife doesn't know about it. They might be worried about that, but.
Joe Getty
So you chop that out.
Michael
Their lover, certainly. Yeah, they'd ask me to, but I've just, I'm now, if we're talking about bringing out a little contrast or something like that, a filter, because it was a little bright there or something. I mean, that's just, that's how you make decent looking photographs. But like slimming people and, you know, give them a better smile or whiten their teeth and stuff like that. I just, I. It makes me uncomfortable. I feel like it's divorcing reality from perception in a way that's unhealthy.
Joe Getty
Do you ever. Do you ever slim people, Katie? No.
Unknown
No, that's not. That's not cool. But I see your point, Joe, is you're drawing the line basically at contrast and lighting.
Joe Getty
Well, Joe's drawing very bright lines between good people and bad people. So we got to figure out which end of the line we're all on.
Michael
This must be what it's like to be in a hearing in Congress.
Joe Getty
So we need to find out which side of Joe's good people, bad people line we're on. So you're okay with contrast and brightness?
Michael
We have a format. Okay, great.
Joe Getty
But.
Michael
Yes.
Joe Getty
Are you okay with the you got a bunch of photos and you put the smile on everybody's best smile in the photo. Are you okay with that or not?
Michael
It seems ridiculous to me. Although if each of those individual images existed, just not at the same time, I will allow it.
Joe Getty
Like a fly lands in somebody's face and you make a weird face trying to get the fly off. You're just gonna leave it like that for that guy?
Michael
Or here's, here's a question. What have you gained by and what have you lost by not including that image?
Joe Getty
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Michael
You are serving the idea of always looking unrealistically beautiful or great as opposed to capturing a moment where something really funny hat.
Joe Getty
Well, speaking for myself, it's, it's hard for me to wrap my head around this because I don't have the motivation because I don't have any social media that I post pictures on. So nobody ever sees them but me and other people in my family. Sometimes me and the kids go through my phone. But. So I'm not posting these for any stuff. So maybe I would be more motivated to if I posted these where anybody would see them. But like I know someone who, who, who clearly uses the thinning thing whenever they post pictures because I see them on a regular basis and I know that that's not what they look like. And that one I, that I wonder.
Michael
About, I just think that's fundamentally unhealthy. To thine own self be true is like my, my guiding principle for everything in life because, and it's not, I'm not coming off as high handed. I, I think I may be better than some people at least at recognizing my weaknesses and realizing you are really tempted to do that. That's one of the things you really need to be careful about. And one of them is, you know, self delusion or you know, how would I put this? And I'm more than willing to concede that I may be an outlier and a little bit weird about this and you live your own life. I honestly don't care. I don't care enough, enough about the way you live your life to judge you unless you're hurting other people. So don't take anything I say is some sort of like Jack tried to frame it as your person.
Joe Getty
Exactly. That's probably, you know what?
Michael
Honestly, that's probably a better way to frame this discussion. It's more entertaining.
Unknown
This is called Joe's the Jerk.
Michael
I just. What are you doing? Why are you doing that? So people think you're better looking than you Are why?
Unknown
For dating apps.
Joe Getty
For. For. If you're single and you're dating. If I was doing that, and I've never done online dating and I'm never going to, but if I was, God, it'd be. I don't think I could stop myself from just slightly slimming your face. I mean, why not?
Michael
Completely different question. Post pictures of guys who weren't even me.
Joe Getty
That is a completely different question, though. Although at a point, though, you're really misleading people. I mean, because I've heard people talk about showing up to meet somebody and it's like, you're the same person from that photo. Come on. Yeah, I wouldn't want that. That'd be hurtful. I wouldn't want. I wouldn't want that myself. I don't want to meet somebody that I lured them in by making myself look different. They're like, whoa, dude, how much time did you spend editing that photo? But, man, you can. I messed around with Facetune a while just to see what it was like. Then I don't even have it anymore because I'm. I'm not going to spend that much time. But, man, just. It takes so little effort to like, slim your face just so you think, wow, I look so much better with just that much effort. All right, here's.
Michael
Here's the standard. And Katie cannot comment on this because she's super pretty. The, like, the best non retouched photo of you because we all have them. Wow, I look good in that pic. You know, that's as high as you can go. That's as handsome or pretty or whatever.
Joe Getty
That is a line.
Michael
Go.
Joe Getty
If all you're doing is bringing the photo up to your best real photo.
Katie
Yes.
Joe Getty
That's not bad. As a standard, if you are exceeding.
Michael
The possibilities of a real photo of yourself, then you're doing things in your mind that are not healthy. Yeah.
Joe Getty
If you change it to something, you've never actually looked that good. Now that is a different category.
Michael
Unless, again, you're trying to get laid, then anything goes, baby.
Joe Getty
Here's a funny one. I was disappointed that my Costco card expired because I had a great picture on my Costco card. It was like one of my better pictures of me ever. For some reason.
Michael
I had a driver's license once. I look like an action star. Yes.
Unknown
My first driver's license was money.
Michael
It all came together. I had a really good beard at that point. I looked like a guy out of the movies. Who would, you know, is. He turned out to be, you know, some sort of master criminal. Oh, so good.
Joe Getty
You know how when you end up. You know how if you end up in the news, the media grabs, like your driver's license photo, and that becomes the photo going everywhere. I've thought about that before. If something happened. And now the current driver's license photo I have is just awful. I wish I could get it changed. That would be the picture of what I look like for any story.
Unknown
You want. You want it to be your Costco card photo?
Joe Getty
Yes, yes, if you have to. If something happens where I end up in the news, good or bad, use my Costco card photo. You let your Costco card expire? Yeah, somehow.
Michael
Okay, so why don't we go through a checklist of different. Go ahead, Michael. Did you have more criticism?
Joe Getty
No, I was just going to say, you know, do you let your kids starve, too?
Unknown
That was judgy.
Michael
Yeah, that's what I was looking for. That's what I was hoping for, Michael. All right, so throw out scenarios, and I'll. I'll rule whether they're okay or not. For instance, family picture. Your kid has acne problems and is super sensitive about it.
Joe Getty
They're super sensitive about it. That's different. The family picture, like the one that's going to go on the wall in the hallway.
Michael
Maybe a Christmas card.
Unknown
See, I'd be okay with it because that acne isn't forever. You're gonna grow up. And if they want that picture up the way, you know, and it is.
Michael
Strictly speaking, a disease.
Unknown
Yeah.
Michael
I realize that makes it sound more serious than it. But it can be very serious for people and the way they feel about themselves.
Joe Getty
Certainly for my own personal use. The pictures, my phone. I've never altered my kids to make them look better. Ever. Not once.
Michael
No. Yeah.
Joe Getty
I want to know what they look like.
Michael
Right. Yeah.
Joe Getty
Me, on the other hand. What do you want to do with.
Michael
Me ever using slimming software other than, like, for dating functions?
Joe Getty
I never have. For real. I don't think I ever would, except for dating situations. But so, you know, all of this is. There's lots of gray areas. You're. I guess men do this, too, but. But women do it more. I think you're wearing some sort of slimming garment. How's that different? If you're wearing your slimming garment under your dress at the wedding, isn't that. How's that different than if you use the Photoshop to slim yourself a little bit? Why?
Michael
Well, because it's. It's possible in the real world.
Joe Getty
So that's your Standard again is if you could get yourself to look like that in the real world.
Michael
You know, it's funny, between the radio show and recording this, I went and got some more ice water from the kitchen and just everybody's getting ready and. All right, let's go do the podcast. I've been thinking hard about all the things we've talked about today, and I've got to form it all into a unified philosophy. And it's going to be something like a realistarian or something like that. Because the only thing that's going to keep me from becoming like an angry nihilist, because I think the artificial world, the virtual world, is incredibly unhealthy and is drawing humanity and individual people into just terrible psychological places and addictions and self hatred and suicide and depression and anxiety. I think it is so effing unhealthy. We have not scratched the surface of it. But the only way I can, like live in that world is if I have an alternative that I'm focused on. And it's going to be something about anything that departs from what is real more than just a little bit. I'm just gonna reject.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I wonder, I wonder if that'll happen for anybody on the younger end, though, like Katie. You're younger, so wouldn't smartphones come out? You're a kid probably once.
Unknown
No, I was in high school. High school graduating.
Joe Getty
If you're, if you're a young person, especially women, but if you, if you've never lived in a world where you couldn't easily manipulate your photos and make yourself better, look better, how would you ever not?
Michael
To answer your question, which I think is a really interesting one, whether young people will, you know, go along with what I'm talking about or ever get a chance to, the answer is clearly yes, 100% yes. The question is how many? I read something interesting the other day. 20 somethings who've jettisoned TikTok and other social media and how happy they are now. That's not like 70 million in the United States, but it's thousands. And just like, you know, whether you want to cite Christianity or healthy eating or regular exercise or whatever, just because most people aren't is not a good reason to stop advocating, advocating for what's good and what's healthy. If I'm on the losing side again, that's fine. I can live with that.
Joe Getty
I was just singing for young people altering their photos. One, they will have always had that in their lives, and two, you kind of always are on a dating App when you're. It seems to me from observing social media for young people, your life is a dating app.
Michael
It's an interesting point. Yeah.
Joe Getty
So you're going to be adjusting your phone. I mean, how you couldn't have stopped me and like, if I had. Whereas in high school now. From altering my photos to make myself look better. Are you kidding? Not a chance. You couldn't stop me with a gun from altering my photos to make myself look better.
Michael
Yeah, yeah, it's a good point.
Joe Getty
Oh, wow.
Unknown
What if you had an uncle that had he was a pirate and he.
Joe Getty
Had a peg leg? Would you airbrush? No. Or put a different type of leg on there?
Unknown
Like on his shoulder?
Michael
Well, of course.
Joe Getty
It's an odd scenario.
Michael
Michael, what's your pirate uncle's name? It's hard for me to go forward without a name. Art.
Unknown
Oh, God.
Joe Getty
Oh, boy.
Unknown
I'm really sorry about that. Okay, well.
Joe Getty
I was right. We need to airbrush this out of the podcast. I'm really sorry about that.
Michael
Shiver me timbers.
Joe Getty
You gave me scurvy without.
Unknown
Okay.
Michael
All right.
Katie
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Joe Getty
Oh, what?
Michael
Including one. One woman. I think I can tell this story.
Unknown
I'm sure you can.
Michael
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Joe Getty
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Unknown
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Joe Getty
Right?
Unknown
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Joe Getty
Well, pain aside, even without the pain, just as a lifestyle choice.
Michael
Right? And sometimes it's just in the suburbs but and not in the city center. But can I say this? You know what? I can't say it. I'm gonna make this up completely. This is Joe Getty lying and creating fiction that is in no way based on any truth ever spoken by anybody. One gal who is well on in years had a boxing glove to either side and the caption hit it like a champ.
Joe Getty
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Unknown
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Joe Getty
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Michael
Oh.
Joe Getty
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Michael
Love each other very much.
Joe Getty
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Michael
Unless that tattoo is like a week old. Yeah, I'm gonna have questions.
Unknown
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Joe Getty
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Michael
And yes, Michael, do you bring a.
Joe Getty
Boxing belt to bed? Let's get ready. Yeah, you do that.
Unknown
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Michael
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Joe Getty
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Michael
Got a whole set of tattoos.
Joe Getty
That's my goal, regardless of your signage anyway, right?
Unknown
You didn't.
Michael
I.
Unknown
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Michael
Right, right, Exactly. It's extraneous motivation.
Unknown
This is reminding me.
Michael
That's my general practice.
Unknown
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Unknown
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Joe Getty
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand – "The A&G Replay Wednesday Hour One"
Release Date: December 25, 2024
Host/Author: iHeartPodcasts
In this episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand, hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into a series of engaging discussions, ranging from the profound impact of jazz maestro Keith Jarrett's music to contemporary social behaviors among Gen Z and the ethics of photo editing in family snapshots. Interspersed with light-hearted banter and insightful commentary, the episode offers listeners a blend of cultural analysis and personal reflections.
Timestamp: [02:54] - [12:56]
The episode kicks off with Joe Getty posing a thought-provoking question about the legendary pianist Keith Jarrett, sparking a deep dive into Jarrett's musical prowess and his ability to convey complex emotions through improvisation.
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The discussion also touches upon the philosophical aspects of abstract art and how it can elicit diverse emotional responses from different listeners.
Timestamp: [16:55] - [21:43]
Transitioning from music, the conversation shifts to observing generational changes in social behaviors, particularly focusing on Gen Z’s preference for quieter, more intimate gatherings over the traditional loud bar scene.
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The hosts also discuss the implications of these changes for businesses and social norms, pondering whether this trend reflects a broader cultural shift towards more introspective and financially conscious lifestyles.
Timestamp: [25:27] - [45:59]
One of the most engaging segments revolves around the increasing prevalence of photo editing in family photographs, raising questions about authenticity, self-perception, and societal pressures.
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The hosts also share humorous anecdotes about their own experiences with photo editing, illustrating the fine line between enhancing photos for better presentation and compromising authenticity. The segment concludes with reflections on how these practices reflect broader societal values and personal ethics.
Throughout "The A&G Replay Wednesday Hour One," Armstrong and Getty offer listeners a nuanced exploration of topics that blend personal experience with cultural commentary. From the sublime improvisations of Keith Jarrett to the evolving social landscapes shaped by Gen Z, and the ethical quandaries of digital photo manipulation, the hosts provide thoughtful insights that resonate with a diverse audience. Their candid discussions encourage listeners to reflect on their own experiences and the societal trends influencing modern life.
This detailed summary captures the essence of the episode, highlighting the main discussions, insights, and memorable moments, while providing a structured and engaging overview for those who haven't listened to the full podcast.