Hey, Peter.

Hey, Adam. You know, these episodes, they're supposed to be 20 to 30 minutes long, and sometimes they feel like they're two or three hours long. And I'm just wondering, what do we do? Yes, I can tell you exactly what that is. Okay. Yeah, your incessant need for perfection. Oh, that's what's causing this to happen, sir. Yeah, that's true. Oh, by the way, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.

Chast talk. Chast talk. Chast talk. Just talk. Question for you. Yes. Right out the gate. Okay. Do you know what vlogmas is? Have you ever heard of that? Excuse you? What? Vlogmas. Say it? V-L-O-G-M-A-S. vlog miss. Oh, is it like a Merry Christmas vlog? Is it like a Christmas? But did you know that? Are you just guessing? No, I just guessed. Okay, it's a thing. Go on YouTube. Some of my favorite shout out some of my favorite YouTubers. I forget their names. But there's a bunch of them. they're your favorite no once you watch one vlog miss YouTube will serve you up

another what the hell is that it's like you're starting on December 1st and you vlog

every day all the way up to Christmas vlog miss vlog miss it's like an advent

calendar for vlogs and what's funny is some of my uh favorite YouTubers

are actually as part of their vlogness, they're opening

up an Advent calendar every day. Well, yeah, that would be like a perfect thing. It's like a hat

within a hat. Within a hat. Yeah. How many hats you got to have on Chris? You got a Santa

hat. You got a beanie. I can tell you one thing. You know what one of my favorite hats

is is our... What? I'm a little nervous because you force us through 37 takes of this episode, sorry. Um, okay, just, we're going to give people a little bit of premonition as to what's to come, because this is actually very exciting. The reason we did 37 takes is we have a very exciting episode that's going to be forthcoming if we can ever get through it. It's not this one. Yeah. This one's going to be great too. It has to do with an influence on Keith Jarrett.

Yes. And it's super excited, but we're so nervous because Keith is so great that we don't want to screw it up. And we assume he watches every episode. Exactly. We know we do. No, but I was going to say one of my favorite hats is a little thing called Open Studio Pro, which is a, not only is it a hat,

it's a feather in your cap. It's a feather. It's a cap that comes with a feather.

And it's a feather in your cap. It's a feather. It's a cap and that comes with a feather. And it's also a feathered boa that's that's around you as you perform. We do. We do get fancy occasionally. Yeah. So tell us what's happening over at Open Studio Pro. Man, over at Open Studio Pro, we have an amazing lineup of instructors, and we also have

an incredible community, and this community got a lot larger.

We opened the gate for the first time in a couple of months.

Come on in!

Now get back out!

It was amazing how many people joined, and so we just have the best time over there every day,

multiple times a day. We've got classes hosted by myself, you, the great Chris Parks from the things I learned from Barry Harris YouTube channel, the great Jeremy Siskin from his own YouTube channel and his amazing books. We've got John O'Leary, we've got Bob DeBoo. It's just an incredible group of instructors over there. And just to be clear, when you say several lessons a day, we were talking about live lessons via Zoom with folks on there in real time from around the world. That's right. It started during the pandemic, March 2020. I just started going live on Zoom every day at noon. Yeah. And that group ballooned to such a big group. Everyone was just me and you?

That was weird.

That was weird. That's where it started. I was like, why does Peter want to watch me practice? This is strange. No, but it got to be such a huge part of our daily lives when there's nothing else going on that it turned into this incredible experience. experience. And I say it all the time, but it's like, we accidentally stumbled upon the thing

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