I went to the Art Museum and learned something about myself my name is Philip and my name is Victor we’re from Oslo Norway let’s talk about that now stuck on there good mythical morning this episode is brought to you by our music go to rhettandlink.com/store we’d love it if you were to buy I am a thoughtful guy and also leave a review on iTunes yeah you know rub some bacon on it actually Pete and number eleven on the iTunes comedy charts link that’s the best we’ve ever done if you guys would go and buy I am a thoughtful guy comment on it rate it maybe it’ll peak maybe it’ll get up there maybe you’ll break it into the top ten Oh anything you take ourselves out for dinner I know what bread you deserve it I’m taking you out for dinner we broke in the top ten I’m gonna buy you uh-oh cheeseburger now you told me that you recently visited a place that I have visited just prior to you the Getty Museum this is a human there instantly art museum I went there like three months ago so world-famous art museum um right down the road from the pin on traffic it’s anywhere from 10 minutes to 48 hours from my house yes right you know that’s how LA were never know the Getty the Getty it’s named after a dude with a lot of money who I think paid the most money to have the thing made your last name was Getty it’s like it’s not just a music it’s a campus I mean this thing is looks like a small university up there on the hill as you go by on the 405 well it was it was in celebration with Father’s Day that we decided to go and Father’s Day thank you forgot to tell you thank you for that tap on my shoulder a little late I’m sorry Father’s Day belated pat on the shoulder yeah um see you know I’m happy birthday by the way a couple weeks ago I never told you that either thanks red jeez good good friend you know it it makes me feel like more of a father if I feel like I’m culturing my children cultural icing huh especially if you don’t have to buy tickets I love that now you’d have to pay for parking so it’s $15 yeah so jam as many people as you can don’t pay for tickets yeah but you have to go up to the top of this hill parked on there no you park at the bottom and then you take a ramp up the tram is free it’s a work of art the Train really what not really it’s just a tramp it’s very artistic when you get out yeah it’s amazing everything’s white and it looks like you’re you know you’re some castle at the top of the thing odds so I’d say I’ll take my kids up there and we’re strolling around before we go into one of the many buildings that contains art mm-hmm and I’m very quickly struck with the fact there’s a lot of sophisticated Europeans with pursed lips drinking Heinekens really yeah that’s kind of the vibe you kind of gotta open your mouth though to get a Heineken in here no not really you guys say why man no bhai Nikken does it come in why they should it’s not like a Coors Light King that was kind of man that was the joke so so yeah so they’re all Heineken with a straw you know paying $15 apart they’re just going out there drinking they’re drinking they’re Heinekens now I love you Europeans we love this tequila you make me feel inferior and that ease is great the cheese is great that’s is where this is going they did I that do you think so is there a cheese exhibit no moldy cheese that’s in the modern art section no or the grocery I don’t you just think you’re sorry you’re getting it confused you’re the one with the purple v-neck on you should yeah I saw you looking at my shirt I can tell you about to say something about the purple I have two purple v-neck so I’m not gonna see if you would have been up there I guarantee you that 80% of the people had purple shirts on pursed lips in sipping Heinekens straws and you know what I am now that sophisticated or at least like thing to have artistic glasses so we we we have this what is it family yeah it’s a wife and a couple of kids and we got a call him apart we got together people pod what I call it what we we sign up for this family tour and the woman you know she’s quintessential she’s wearing black pants with big black riding boots coming up to her thighs and big thick rimmed black glasses quintessential whore seems like Triana know quintessential art later art house lady so she’s I we want to make this a family a family exercise we want everyone to be involved I’m going to take you through the gallery and I’m going to show you some things and you’re actually going to create some art based on what I show this is exciting but before we start we didn’t do that I want to tell you rule number one don’t touch anything is like they are obsessed we’re not touch anything and then she says she’s not even looking at the kid she’s looking at me like she’s picking me out it’s you’re responsible for the kids well because she knows I like I like touch things I guess they’re something she said now if you look at this tile that we’re walking on the floor she said if you touch that there’s oils on your hand and if we all decided to touch the floor the floor would eventually disintegrate so don’t touch don’t look a thousand years is like we’re walking on the floor and that’s stupid and when you know and it I just remembered at one point a little bit later my kids took their shoes off and they were walking around and somebody came up and said Oh show shoes are like the fact that they’re all possessed that’s good about touch it no don’t touch stuff well when we got to a painting and it doesn’t mean paws you because when we went in there we went into one of the modern art exhibits cuz I’m always just sort of amazed by what people there’s no modern Artic they get it if there is there’s a whole building with Modern Art in it oh and and there is there was an artist that was a resin artist you know this dude’s art was very simply it was just blocks of resin and I was looking why you shaped until I was like where is the art that this is holding up is that you thought no it is the art and we walk around and it’s like there’s a huge Tower of resin I mean we’re talking about one of the most resilient thanks its resin you patch canoes with this I mean this that’s gonna be here a thousand years from now and so of course it’s in the middle of this room so my kids just go up and just start swinging on it I mean they like this go up and just get on it like let’s see how we can get to the top Oh No and then there’s good and there’s a huge sign that says do not touch do not walk on the platform that isn’t even the art that is holding the art that looks like a platform itself which my kids are now on and woman is like she’s like cheap she turned into Satan is what she pretty good don’t cost artwork I know it looks like a pedestal and I had to apologize for my kids I said sorry sorry lady sorry yeah I remember the first trip we ever took to LA we went to the Getty Museum on with like a group of people remember everything I remember going up to a Renoir no you’re not you’re not an l-sit I can’t I don’t think it’s a renewing actually no so I remember going up to it and I wanted to get a good close look and then I was like oh yeah look at the brush details around here and then out of nowhere somebody comes up and over your face no paint exert slapped my finger Lancet to not point I don’t pay a gene and I felt I was like what there’s no signs that say no point we should make a movie that’s about exercising the people who work in the art museum do not point at the painting do you know why because because because I asked why and the person said because you know the voice cleared up they said when you get close to a painting your your brain tends to feel like you’ve entered a world so then when you point you will point farther than you realize you can and what will happen you’ve touched a renu-it and in your gosh GG and there’s no coming back from that there’s no coming back and then so I did not touch anything my kids don’t touch anything because you know I’m a good father yep how’s that but there was some 60 year old dude who was walking on piece of art with a big French piece of furniture underneath it with like a marl top and a sudden I see him walk across the room I’m like meeting him and he’s like going he’s walking out thinking he’s going like a solid touching it retort hundreds of times and he’s halfway down the thing is like just like it’s like he’s slathering mayonnaise on it he’s like loving that maybe he Mario maybe he was the artist and I not know life some some dude Sprint’s across there was pretty do not touch the heart and the dude was smiling and he was just like he didn’t think he was talking to him because the artists hanging up on the wall just a piece of furniture I guess this is how I enjoy art I touch the nearest piece of furniture but the thing that I learned was the thing that I appreciated most was the garden if you if you go to the Getty go outside to the gardens they are amazing the landscape and I realized I am I can appreciate this garden with the waterfall I like the manicured bushes and stuff but I just felt because I just felt like I couldn’t get anything from the paintings and the because I concluded at least this is my theory is that in order to truly appreciate something you have to experience it you know I I don’t think I can appreciate the Rinne white Renault 8 what did you call it just savor in while before the people say it’s true yeah boy hey because I’ve never attempted to paint and if you attempt something and fail you’re even more likely to appreciate the people who are like painting these things that are there building edifices to then placard them on the wall I mean I never have made I have pet knowing why that’s worthy I have patched a canoe with resin but I’ve never just made a block of resin so and I don’t appreciate the blocks of resin now I’ve never gardened before but it’s pretty easy to to you know imagine how you can how tough it is to shape a bush into a slinky just what has ever been done I don’t think that’s right I mean it’s like a slinky book I don’t think you’re incorrect but I think your your theory is incomplete because golf you know no so I can’t watch golf unless you’ve tried to play it there’s a dude who just this past weekend we took a tight walked a tightrope across Niagara Falls I’ve never experienced that but I can appreciate that but you you’ve you’ve tried to balance on like a line of bricks yeah they’re into it already has a point of reference or something but it’s just like but the point of reference for balancing I don’t think your universe I don’t think it’s necessarily experiencing something that causes you to appreciate it I think it’s understanding something and that may come with experience see the thing I don’t like about just understanding something is that someone can teach you how to look at or to taste fine wine and to kind of pick it apart but it’s but it’s still not the experience of and trust me I tried to make wine and it tasted like dirt and cough syrup or I tried to paint something and it looked like an alien and it wasn’t an alien you know I I don’t think you can replace it just by someone teaching you how to appreciate something I think the first step to appreciation is understanding in the second step to really appreciating is experiencing put that on a bumper sticker and let’s end this episode I just know what you think oh goodness go to the go to the local art museum don’t touch the art and tell us you know how it makes you feel and try to do this try to do a Monday through Friday talk show with a dude yeah that’s right and then you might appreciate this move come on people team with headphones link old man so you’re the team with headphone hey you want to go get a pack of NAB’s hey boy turn off your headphones yeah all the time I look at you you wearing them headphones well here you grab turn it let’s turn off their hair for what is that you listening to I asked you if 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