Joey

You can read about history, but when you see someone's grainy old footage of their Christmas and you really see what people are wearing, what the furniture looks like, how many like electrical cords are going into the wall in some unsafe way.

What?

Really?

Well, yeah, you just see these little things that don't exist now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you see mannerisms.

And also you see, I think people have become very media savvy and camera savvy.

And, you know, everyone has a video device in their pocket right now, their phone.

And everybody's very aware and knows how to behave.

And there's a real innocence when you see that old footage.

People wave at the camera.

They're excited.

And I love, I'm addicted to, Instagram is always serving me up, film that was taken in like 1903 in New York.

Because I just look at how people walk, how they dress, the kind of, and they're very, they're kind of shy, but sometimes they're very excited.

They're not knowing and ironic and cynical about the camera, the way people can be now.

Is that true?

I think that's pretty true.

It doesn't feel like it's not special anymore.

Whereas when you look at really old home movie footage, there's kind of a, oh, wow, they've got a moving camera.

And even when, because the Kennedy family, it was a very wealthy family, and Joe Kennedy Sr.