So from your vantage point, what is broken or inadequate about our current musical diet? And if someone wanted a healthier and more intentional musical life diet, what might that actually look like?

Oh, it's such a good question.

And I really tried to avoid being the scoldy old guy in this who is like, you should listen to you people.

You've blown off our most important music, and you're all wasting your minds with this pop crap.

I'm not that guy.

This is something that's been, these trends have been done to us, not with our consent, not with our involvement.

It has not been a democratic system.

So against that backdrop of opaque feeds and bots and deep fakes and a lot of generalized mistrust, what does authenticity mean to you right now in music? And what do you wish listeners would pay attention to or insist on when they decide what's real and worth their attention?