Hey Teresa did you know that Batman's friend Jim Gordon loves buying art? No. That's why they call him the Commissioner.

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Hello Internet, I'm your husband who's Travis McRoy. I'm your wife host Teresa McElroy. And you're listening to Schmiener. It's extraordinary etiquette.

For ordinary occasions a little bit of. Hello dear. How are you? That was such a bad joke. I know. Like, are you okay?

Like, I know it's just such a bad. And like I thought of it because I've all of the word commissioner. Right. And it makes sense. But it's bad. It's so bad. I liked I liked the little.

Yeah. Well, when you know what you are. Yeah. And you know, my tummy hurts a little bit. I don't know why it's fine. Just old. Let me take your mind off of things.

Okay, please. Imagine if you would a world. Uh-huh. Without art. No. That what is that supposed to even feel better? I like art. I know just taking your mind off of it.

Yeah. But like usually when someone's like, Hey, I'm going to take your mind off it by making you feel worse than you do now. That's not usually how that works.

I wasn't trying to make you. I thought you were going to tell me like imagine a world with more art. No. What I'm saying is art has existed as long as people.

And stuff have existed. As long as people have stuff. We are off to just a banger start. Okay. So art is good. Is what you're telling me as a people like it. And people make it.

People make it. Yeah. Okay. Um, first I want to say thank you to all of the submissions for this. We had a lot of people suggest this topic.

Um, I mean, in the internet age, it is possible to contact an artist from anywhere. Yeah commission a work. So this is something that the people they want to know.

Well, and not just that. I would say with the advent of digital. Uh, it has made it has lowered the materials cost.

It has made it easier to get the art to the person as well. You know, you're not shipping, you know, a big canvas. You're not having to buy.

So it takes some computer know how and some programs and skill. But you're not buying Jesso. Right.

Some people are still buying Jesso. Some people are still. We used to buy Jesso for the theater. I know what Jesso is. Don't act like I don't. I know you know. Okay. So commissioning art.

Right. Begin in 1956. No. Okay. Uh, we're not going to start at the beginning because it started at the beginning. We are going to start.

So first time somebody said, Hey, fellow K man, paint me that buffalo or whatever. Yeah. Basically. I like that buffalo. And I want to be able to look at it again when it's not around. Could you put it on something?

I'll give you this handful of seeds and nuts. Yeah. If you give me that leather with a picture of the buffalo on it. Cause I like that buffalo dang it. I don't know why something about that buffalo makes me feel emotions. Okay. So we're going to start in Rome. Okay.

The Atlantic artworks were being commissioned to satisfy the ego of, you know, whoever was in charge because the ruling class like to pay people money to show off how much money they have. Yeah. And not only that.

Uh, you know, it is true. A lot in, I don't know, going back to Egypt and then into Rome and Greece and then in England that not everybody could read. So if you wanted to show off your exploits. If you wanted to broadcast the history of why you deserve to be in charge.

And how cool you are. Visual representation of it was a much better way to broadcast that than written. And that's why there's so many paintings of like conquest and stuff because you can look at it and understand it without having to be exactly.

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