Jack's Very, Very Unpopular Pet Adoption Theory

From the fourth hour of the Friday, January 24th broadcast of The Armstrong & Getty Show...Jack shares a completely over-the-top theory about pet adoption--much to the dismay of Joe & Katie! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Armstrong and Getting show.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I probably shouldn't even repeat it. This is the least
popular theory I've ever had around pets.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Why would you do?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
This?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Is going so well career wise, and I've never understood
the really the pushback on it. Okay, given the fact
that the shelters are full of dogs and cats that
would love to be your pet and are going to
be euthanized this week or next week because there aren't
enough people to adopt them, why wouldn't it make sense

(00:29):
to if you have a dog, it's your dog, you
need to go and it's sick or you got to
go on vacation or whatever, you put it down, and
then when you come back, you get another one from
the pound. You're you know Jack?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Okay, Yeah, the sick thing, I'll discuss the I'm going
on vacation. I could either pay for a pet sitter
or wait a minute, or kill execute my dog and
get a new one. I logically think I'm on solid
ground here bringing a dog out of a shelter who's
gonna be executed.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
So one of these dogs is gonna die. So I
just flipped the script. Now it's this dog that's been
living in my house is gonna die. The other one
at the shelter is now going to live. No, what's
the difference. Net number of dogs saved is the same.
It's take one I know versus one I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
You've taken an animal into your home, gained its trust,
and because you want to go to Disneyland, you're gonna
put it down and then get a new one.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
That will also get my trust.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Logically speaking, you're correct. On the other hand, if you
do that, that makes you a psychopath.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I think it makes if you're comfortable with psychopathy, and
please enact this plan nine from outer space of yours.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
So you're okay, okay, pretending all these dogs at the
shelter don't exist, aren't cute and lovable, and aren't gonna
be put to sleep.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Nobody said that, not one person on this show.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Way to knock down a straw dog.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
I just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Understand the difference.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
There's a huge difference.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Get butt the two dogs in from of me. This
one's from the shelter. This is the one that's lived
in my house for the last year. One of them
has to die, might as well. Full of going I mean,
what difference does it make.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh, you're just ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Now I get the new dogs in the shelter that
we have attachment issues here, that really need years of
couch time. Now I get the new dog from the shelter,
and it might say to the old dog that's headed,
that went to the shelter while I went on vacation,
it might say, hey, get a calendar circle June for
two weeks. Wow, that's how long you got.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Wow. Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
So okay, I'm going to go down this road with you,
just just for the sake.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I would like to say, I have not done this,
but I just like to hear the logical fallacy in this,
because I don't think there is one.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
I really don't want to get these emails.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
I really don't way too late to not wanting.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
So if I were to, in a loyally fashioned argue
your side of the.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Argument, I would think, all right, dogs don't like say
I never went to Paris. You know, in their final days.
That's not the nature of dogs. You can either give
one dog many years of happiness, or multiple dogs some

(03:21):
of an affection.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Before they go to doggy heaven.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Which means nothing to them. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well, no, no, no, I'm not advocating it.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I have the ability, Katie, Oh my god, I almost
said something that would get me even more emails than
Jack is going to get. I have the ability to
examine an argument that I don't agree with, to see
how reasonable it.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Is and what its strengths and weaknesses are.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
I think it's monstrous. After you did that the third time,
you would be so like weirdly numbed by the experience.
You would you would go through the rest of your
life a gibbering psychopath.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
The weird part would be because you do get attached
to animals. The weird part would be putting down the
dog you're attached to and getting a new dog. Will
you get attached to the new dog.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
And then you'd put it down again when you have
another family vacation. I don't like the cycle.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Or anybody wants to well, right exactly, and that's what
I'm I'm doing a poor job of conveying it.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
But you would have to numb yourself.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, total attachment to an extent that would make you
mentally just completely cuckoo.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Nuts and the dog says I thought I had till
June you say, I am my buddy of mine got
concert tickets.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
So wow wow, oh this has been a joy.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Is there another podcast looking for a co host? I
gotta look at my contract. I've i've, I've played in
this band too long. I will read the text when
the band you're in starts playing different tunes.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Hey, pig Floyd, huh okay Yetty