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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty Strong. Hey,
I'm Strong and Getty. We're featuring our podcast One More Thing.
Find it wherever you find all your.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Podcasts, drama in real life.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
What was the last time you took over the One
More Thing podcast?
Speaker 5 (00:41):
What was that one about? Was that your health? Say?
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Yeah, it was type two diabetes?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Right?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
That was an interesting story, unfortunate for you, obviously interesting.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
How is that going by?
Speaker 7 (00:50):
That's going very well? Actually, now I have a funny
story about that. They want to pump me forward. They
wanted to give you a bunch of drugs, and I said,
I will change my diet, I will exercise.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
I've been doing all these things.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
And one doctor said no, no, no, no, you got
to be on these drugs for life. And I've been
able to do it without it pretty much, and so
I'm not going back to that doctor.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Two interesting things about that.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
One, I think the doctor's recognizing reality that like ninety
five percent of people don't do anything about their diet.
But two, the fact that they would push the drugs
on you rather than like really push the diet part.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I was just reading about the incredible pressure that is
on doctors now to see thirty seven patients in a
single day, and they are just pushed and pushed and
pushed by their corporate overlords.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
And so this doc, I don't know, you're Doc Michael,
and I'm just.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Guessing, but it could be he's thinking, I don't have
time for the You got to take care of yourself,
and here's how lecture. And then when you hem and
haw say all right, here's the other alternative, blah blah blah,
or why didn't you come back and see me in
a week because you can't get an appointment for three
and a half months. So he just thinks, let's cut
to the chase. Take these pills, get now, get I
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gotta go.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
See thirty six more patients. Well there's that.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
And then not to be the conspiracy guy, but I mean,
if you prescribe medicine, somebody's paying for it and somebody's
receiving money, so.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
There's got to be some incentive.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Someone might not be the doctor, but there's got to
be an incentive somewhere along the line to have you
taking drugs as opposed to eating better?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Right? I mean, people make money if you don't eat better.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
I was told that they have medical reps come by
all the time.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh yeah, promoting drugs now Well and big Pharma allegedly.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
And I don't know whether this motivates people a little
or a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
We'll have a four day conference on how Zunetra can
help your patients. It's in Maui. It's at the fourth Seasons.
There's a twenty five minute meeting each morning where you
talk about Zunetra. Then you're free for the rest of
the day expenses paid.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, I haven't talked about this in years, but I
used to be friends with somebody who was a pharmaceutical
rep and just lived two houses down for me, and
so she would book these really excit spensive dinners at
the most expensive place in town. But if they didn't
have all the seats filled, they were gonna get paid
for anyway. She'd say, hey, I got two extra seats.
So we would go and eat the meals and hang around.
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And sometimes I'd have to like kind of pretend I
was a doctor or.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Something like that. If somebody asked me a question.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
But they were getting wined and dined at the most
expensive place in town with the open bar and everything
like that. To tell them about some drug and there'd
be a five minute slideshow about the drugs and then
you get like a three hundred dollars meal for free.
Oh I'd make hay with that opportunity. Man, I'd turn
to my left and say, what do you prefer? Viruses
or bacteria?
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Oh my god, to be at the same table with
you two pretending to be doctors.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
I know.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I was always dreading if somebody actually asked me if
fractures there's something, aren't they.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I don't know what I would say. Oh, I tell
you what.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yeah, I hate to see it, but you gotta deal
with it. M So I told him, don't do that anyway.
Let's wait for the stake to show up. Oh the
other thing there? I knew there were there were actually
there was another thing.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Now forgotten it.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I'm Joe Biden, like man, I do notice when I
don't get enough sleep that I can't remember near as
well my sentences now, my sentences in the middle, and
I can't finish.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I can't remember the end.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
The oh, the direct relationship between eating better and your
your body changing or getting better numbers. Even though that's
obviously clearly true, I'm always still somewhat surprised, like I
eat really good and look I'm a couple of pounds lighter,
or the opposite, I eat really bad and I'm a
couple of pounds every year. It's just, even though I
know it's true, to see it like in black and
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white in front of me is always just a little something.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, it's like the old I feel better after a
drink or two the next morning than I did after
the night I had seven. I'll be damned, I've only
learned that lesson five million times.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Right.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Anyway, what's your tale today, Michael?
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Okay, So here we go yesterday, ha to get my
teeth cleaned. And I have a very good dental hygienist
who I've had for years. He's really gentle, she does
teeth well, she doesn't no hurt.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
No pain. Nice.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
So I show up the dentist yesterday and it turns
out she's not there, and I had to know this.
She goes, we have somebody else though that will take you.
And so I get this person and let me put
it this way. I'm still tasting blood today from them scraping.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Brunhilda the cruel.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
No, nobody in this scenario speaks English. And it was
in a garage and Rielnda correct, No, no, no, actual
dental practice.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Actual dental practice. Good place.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
But I don't know if this was a new employee
or what the deal was, but uh, she was really rough.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
You know.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
You put the tube in to suck the water out,
and she was just jamming it down there.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Physical reaction, this was crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
When did she leaves?
Speaker 10 (05:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
And then I guess she got behind on our schedule,
and so the doctor had come to her and said, said,
you know, is he almost done? She goes, well, it's
gonna be a few minutes, just a few minutes. And
then all of a sudden, she starts putting the Paul
Show my teeth and rubbing as fast as you can,
starts grabs the water and just starts squirting my mouth.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
You know, just it's just crazy.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
So wow, that's terrible.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So you pick your wash, yeah, literally, so just we're
running out of time. So you picked up the poker
and you stabbed her with it, and you wonder what
were you in the right.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Somebody that doesn't like conflicts.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
So I just held on for dear life and I
just put up with it and I'm fine, But I'm
debating do I call him and let them know, Hey,
this person was really rough. This is terrible because I
got to go back there in a few months and
it was really painful.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Well, yeah, asked two questions.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
The first one I've had before where it's like the
last person's better at this, but I don't want to
make another appointment. I need to get this done now,
and so it's not just conflict avoid and it's like
the reality of trying to get the person you like better.
So that's that's one thing. But then the complain, Hell,
y is I'm complaining?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You know?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
It was funny is during the whole procedure though, she
goes like, yes, you're just laying there. She goes, I
take that as a compliment. It means that I'm not
hurting you. And I'm thinking, is this a common thing?
Are people saying to her?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
If you scream? She thinks everything's going fine. Yes, that's
a really weird thing. She said, that's so odd.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
I would definitely call Michael and maybe just say something
along the lines of could I not be with this
individual next time because that was.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
A little uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, but I would go ahead and say why it
was extremely uncomfortable. It was the most painful cleaning I've
ever had say that.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, that's that's perfectly reasonable to say.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
It's like when I used to talk about my man
Pong the phlotomus draw blood for me. I would always
call and see if Pong was there because he could
do it where you didn't feel a thing. And I
love Pong, but he quit and uh, and other people
aren't as good. But I've never had anybody jab me
in the side of the year with the needle and
say sorry about that.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
I just want her to look at me next time
I go and say, oh, you're the one that called.
You're the one that got me in trouble, or something
like that.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah, my brother, don't think it would go like that.
I told the story years ago when my brother went
into the hospital is here here in the local area,
and man, the president of the hospital, ended up meeting
me in the parking lot. After I told this story
on the air, they were so worried. But anyway, they
were trying to put an IV in my brother, and
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the guy just kept having to do it over and
over and over again and jab him over and over again.
And my brother's incredibly stoic as a military dude and
all that sort of stuff. It's part of his whole
personality that he would never ever act like anything hurt
underneath circumstance.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
But they really guy was it. And the guy actually
says to him, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Man.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I was at the casinos really late last night and just.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Kept jo oh, and I was like, dude, you gotta
tell someone.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Nah.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
The only time I've ever had someone miss I know. Oh,
we're into the Oh yeah, it's good for you. Oh yeah,
she missed three times and I went three strikes and
you're out.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You're done.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
I'm not doing this again. And I walked out, made
another appointment. This was before it took eight months to
get your blood drawn.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Though, But yeah, wow, wow.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's interesting because getting back to the whole doctors more
than dentists. But it's just in my lifetime, the whole
doctor patient relationship has evolved from I know you for
years and years. You're like my partner in health. There's
a great deal of respect for you. There's concern for me. Now,
it's more like getting a burger out of a fast
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food joint. To some extent, I've got a great doc
right now, but I've had a couple that were terrible,
that were just they well, it was like eating a
burger from a fast food joint.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
So I don't you know, Michael, I would.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I would remember, you're a customer who's paying a great
deal for a service, and there are other service providers
and dentists are are skilled people and they're airing and
the rest of it.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
But they're not They're not gods, they're not priests.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I don't think this would be a bad way to
handle you say, this is a deal I make with everybody.
Whatever you do to me, I'm gonna do to you.
So just keep that in mind.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Yeah, that's an idea.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I brought my tools, and so you know you might
own to think that over.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You show up with your own tool, right and you say,
I'm gonna give as much pain as I get. Somebody's
get started.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
If it to you, exactly, it's because of your move.
Ball is in your court. If I feel nothing, you
feel nothing.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
That's what I'll do.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
I'll walk up the receptionist, scrape your teeth a little bit.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Say does that hurt? Well, guess what that's what she
did to me?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Plot your hose, spray her with it, right a face?
How do you like it? Eh?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Okay, hold still, lady, you're gonna feel a little pressure.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
And Getty show.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
So maybe became aware of this meme, this clip that
went viral. As they do, I'm gonna start saying that
just to annoy people the clip went viral. Oh, let's
start with the number six. This is the lady standing
next to the partition in the plane, looking back toward
the back section of the plane, chewing somebody out.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
I'm telling you, and there's a reason be it or
you not believe it. And I am telling you right
now there is not real, and you can tell it not.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I'm not going to it's a little while now.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
And I just saw a little bit of it, and
there was something about the pitch of her voice.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I just thought, I'm out. So I haven't paid any
attention to it.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Attractive white girl pointing to the back of the plane, saying.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
This m effort is not real.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
The bast part is when the entire plane. They all
turn around to look at what is she talking about?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Is what?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Not real? What do you mean? Not real? Not real?
And then she hit some with you can die on
this plane, but I'm not. I'm getting off. Who's not real?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
So you know, it obviously lent itself beautifully to various
memes about you know, who was on the who was
in the plane that was not real?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Or what she meant and that sort of thing. It
exploded as those things do. Well.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Here she is, I guess her name's Tiffany, which is perfect.
She's explaining what the hell happened?
Speaker 11 (12:31):
First and foremost. I want to take full accountability for
my actions. They were completely unacceptable. Distress or not I
should have been. I should have been in control of
my emotions and.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
That was not the case.
Speaker 11 (12:49):
My use of profanity was completely unnecessary, and I want
to apologize to everyone on that plane, especially those that
had children aboard. We all have are bad moments, some
far worse than others, and mine happened to be caught
on camera for the whole world to see multiple times.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Sorry, all right, sound like mini mouths.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
It has been really comic goal for everyone, and I
have highly enjoyed so many of the means on the
flip side, it is very invasive and unkind, and I
don't know what I would do without the love and
support of my friends and family. I hope they use
this experience and you do a little bit of good
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in the world and that goes I hope that you
guys can accept my apologies.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Please make it in just now. You don't know me
an apology. I don't care now. I'd read that she
got in a dispute with some family members she was
traveling with about whether they stole her earbuds or EarPods
or whatever, and that it escalated the where it turned
to this plane's gonna crash, You're gonna die, I'm getting off.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I don't know whether she was psychotic.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
She didn't sound drunk, but she might be one of
those people who sounds pretty, you know, sharp, even when
she's hammered.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Yes, No, I was just gonna say that video explained nothing.
She did not tell us how many acid tablets she
dropped before getting on that plane.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yes, she never got to the realness or lack thereof,
of the gentleman in the back of the plane, which
is the is the thing and I didn't know is
apologizing for hilarious memes a thing? Now you have to
go and post a video where I take full responsibility
for this hilarious meme.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Ian what is that?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
I kind of felt bad for her because after this
video surfaced, you know, it went everywhere, and then the
next headline following was the Internet trying to figure out
who she was, right, So all these you know, Internet
sleuths were digging to get her information.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
And now she finally, you know, she had.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
To block all of her stuff on social media, so
it was a headline on top of a headline.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
So I was just trying to clear her.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
God help you if you ever become one of these people,
because I'm sure it gets into They get into every
aspect of your life, and you know, what you did
in high school and your ex boyfriend from college and
everything else all of a sudden appears in the world.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
But does she?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
So, is there still any explanation for the.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
The that mf or isn't real?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, there's there's more to the clip that I don't know,
but there was more to the clip. You can sit
on this plane and you can effing die with them
or not. I'm not going to as we heard. She
demanded that the crew quote stop the plane, and the
aircraft was brought back to the gate and she was ejected.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
We've all had our bad moments, Joe. She takes full responsibility.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
It's a good point.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
She then allegedly refused to leave the boarding area, continued
to rent while being escorted outside the terminal, where she
repeatedly scored officers insisted the plane would explode after takeoff.
She then snuck through security a couple of more times,
or attempted to, or went through security a couple more times,
and they kicked her out of the terminal again.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Man, she's lucky she did this in twenty twenty three
and not in like twenty twelve, or she would have
been duct taped to the cargo hold of the plane
back when we took all this sort of stuff. So seriously,
how do you.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Get ejected from a flight and then get back through security?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
How does that happen? Because aren't you on some list
or something? Well, I don't know, she's just they said, look,
you gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Go.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
She said hey, then turn around, walked over to the
security again and went through again, got screamed can I
hear the.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Original clip again, because that's that's that's new to me,
the whole He's not real, I'm telling.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
You, and there's a reason why can you either believe
it or cannot believe it? And I am telling you
right now.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
There is not real.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
And you can die.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I'm not I'm not going to sour. Yeah, everybody's like,
who's not real? Who's not? Everybody back there looks real
to me.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
And the Internet, my gosh, it's totally the Internet I
signed up for. All these people were taking this video
and splicing it, so with that, I'm ever right there,
and then they.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Turned the camera to themselves. It's like, I'm here.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
A good story. Oh boy, the poor lady. I'm glad
you did responsibility though.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
The Armstrong and Getty show or Jack or show podcasts
and our hot links.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Armstrong and Getty conveying our love panel.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
So you said love in bloom or Crazy Stoker Psycho biatch, Yes, exactly, Okay, but.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
That question will be decided by the love panel.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
That's always the problem with that is just it's it's
it's it's whether or not the other person's interested in
you all love like chasing someone's stuff is just so
romantic and well received if the other person's interested, if
they're not.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
And he never gave up, and now we've been married
for fifty years, right, beautiful, And I said no five
times and I came out aside and he was waiting
by my car with a rose.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
If you kind of liked the guy, that's just awesome.
If you don't like the guy, you call the police
and get a restraining order and maybe pepper spray him.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Or send your brothers to beat him down. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Ah, yes, but this is a gal on a mission.
Love and Bloom are crazy stalker psychobiac. Let's find out.
Thirteen Michael.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
I saw this really cute guy at the grocery store
the other day, so naturally I followed him to the
checkout counter, and when he gave the cashier his credit card,
I peeped it to see what his name was, and
then I googled him and found his social media profiles,
and I was able to tell that he was single.
So I went through his friends list and I found
his mother's page, and then I looked through his mother's
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page and I saw that she was a member of.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
This book club. That's in my area.
Speaker 10 (19:06):
So I went to the book club meeting and I
met his mom there, and she just thought I was
so nice, And I brought it up randomly in conversation
that I was single, and she let me know that
she had a son that was single also that lived
in the area, and maybe it would be cool for
us to get together in chat sometime. So I gave
her my number, which she gave to her son, and
this morning he texted me and asked if I'd like
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to get together this weekend and do something. So I
guess we're going to go on a date. I'm really excited.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Wait until he sees this video and goes, oh my god,
who did I go on a date with?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Wow, that's a pretty successful uh effort she made there.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
I don't know how it's going to turn out. That's insane.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Well, we have a little update for you. That young
man is now dissolving in a clause Psycho decided he
wasn't worthy of living. She is now wearing his skin
as his garment and his fingerbones as a necklace. Follow
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up segment. All right, all right, so.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Dude, run from her. God, she actually went to the
book club meeting and got to know his mom.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh wow, because he's a cute guy. I mean, look,
let's all recognize. I can see a dozen attractive women,
there will be one that'll like make my brain explode
for whatever, genetic, anthropolo anthropological, who knows why it happens. Reason,
doctor Freud had his own opinions, whatever, and maybe it
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was one of those. Maybe it was one of those.
She saw him and just her jaw dropped. It was like,
oh my god, for whatever reason. Now, certainly concocting some
sort of can you help me out to the car
with this or that would have been a hell of
a lot more normal than the whole Sherlock Holmes routine.
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How troubled are we by the detective job in the roots.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
She took man, the uh, the going to the book
club and meeting mom and getting to know her, that
is that is a that's a different level.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That really feels to me like something that ends up
with somebody's cat getting murdered.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
So, Katie, you're more up on the modern world of
how this is handling, how do we feel about just
like noticing the name on the credit card and doing
a little research on online.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
So that see, I think that it was.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
It got weird the second she looked at his credit
credit card to get his name. I like Joe's idea,
just hey, could you help me to the car with this,
or like a regular approach. But I would be lying
if I said that I hadn't met a guy and
he had given me his name and I went home
and looked him up. I've done that before, but not
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to the extent to go meet his mom at a
book club and then wear his skin later.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
That's weird.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Michael thoughts, Yeah, pretty psycho, I wouldn't. I'm like Katie.
I mean, maybe you look him up online, do a
little background check, but that's it.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Well, here's a little he gives.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
You his name, you don't look at his credit card
to like, kind of I don't this.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
She sounds like a serial killer to me, Well, there's
a little surprise. We're gonna talk to him live now.
He's chained the radiator in her basement. Help me, somebody
helped me. Gosh, yeah, it's like a part of the story.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
He goes missing and she's helping his mom look for
him at that point.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
That's how these horror movies go. She's putting up posters, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I've only become aware recently, and for reasons I won't
get into about how all you need is somebody. If
you have somebody's phone number, for instance, you can find
out everything and it costs you like a buck online,
and you got every place they've ever lived, every phone
they've ever had, all their friends, family members. Yeah, it's
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it's horrifying. I mean, it's less worrisome as a dude,
but man, if I'm a young woman knowing that any
guy who gets a hold of my phone number at
all now knows where I live and where my friends
live and where I work and and everything.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
It's just yeah, it's it's just different world for that
sort of thing. Of course.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
On the other hand, buddy of mine pointing this out
to me their date, I remember when we were younger,
all of our names were in the phone book with
our address, all of us, all of us. If you
knew somebody's name, you could look up their address. And
it's not like everybody got abducted every day, right, And
everybody's name was in the phone book with their address.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Did the unlisted thing come later? Is that now unlisted existed?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
But I never knew a girl that was unlisted, every
girl she was writing the phone book.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Okay, yeah, real rarity.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Getting back to the whole meeting mom book class book
club happened to randomly mention I was single and but
subterfuge that just that that is a willingness to be
sneaky and duplicitous.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
That isn't her first rodeo, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yes, yes, I think we're a little bit into the
modern attitude where everybody's so paranoid of what would you
rather run into a bear or a man in the
woods for a woman?
Speaker 5 (24:28):
I mean, just you saying?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Was that before unlisted was available, like you wouldn't want
your name listed in the phone everybody had their address
to the name in the phone book, and everybody was
fine with it, and everybody wasn't paranoid thinking, oh my god,
that's dangerous.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
A guy could look up my address. It worked out.
I mean, so, is is.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Culture that much worse or we just way more paranoid
than we? Well?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I would point out that if I had the hots
for Jenny Smith, or even unless her name was true,
her last name was truly rare and distinctive, there'd be
eleven of them in the phone book.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I couldn't tell which one that was my experience at all,
because I lived in small towns. Everybody everybody's name. There
was only one Jenny Smith, and every town, everybody's address
was right there. And I don't remember anybody abusing it,
or anybody even talking.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
About it being abused. No, nope.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
So what changed our parent the reality of stalkers or
our paranoia.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Both. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
People aren't brave anymore.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
They don't want to just go and ask something, ask
someone out right in person, you know, just hey, would
you like to go out?
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Would you like to get some coffee?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
That's like old skills take developing, though, and we're not
letting our kids develop those social skills. I had chatted
up so many girls by the time I started college.
Just the idea of oh my god, I can't I
can't say hello to or it was just foreign to me.
It was not like I have some sort of bold
master gamesmen or anything. It was just so familiar to me.
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You know, hey, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Well?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Please? Phones and internet have completely smashed that skill.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I think, you know, this is a weird grab, but
it popped in my head for some reason. I can't
remember why the other day, I was thinking about the
old like the first Bob Seeger song with the uh
what was the name of his band, Bob Seger and
the Silver bullibin No. No, that was before he was
a solo artist, when he was a Detroit rocker, but
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a rambling gambling man. The line is ain't good looking,
but you know, I ain't shy, ain't afraid to look
a girl in the eye. And hey, I've always kind
of liked that line because he was a regular guy.
But b we've got a couple of generations who were
terrified to look a girl in the.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Eye and say, hey, how you doing. So that gets right?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
You think if she she found him alluring enough to
go through all that work, she should have made her move.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
He then, yeah, she's equipped with the tools to do that.
Of course, if you're an all attractive young woman, all
you have to say is.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
So, I see you like cereal. That's good enough ice
breaker right there, exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
I just I have a real issue with her going
on a date with him after having done all of
this and acting like it didn't go down like that.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Oh yeah, well yeah, like, oh, we just so happened
to meet. I met your mom at book club.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Like the whole the start of whatever relationship this might
be is gonna be bs anyway.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yeah, that's that's a decent point there. You can't start
with a lie and then go from there. Yeah, yeah,
this ends with a dead cat, trust me.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Yeah, if you.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
If you, uh yeah, if you're out with somebody and
everything like that, and then she mentions, yeah, I was
talking to your mom. Wait a second, and you know
my mom? Why do you know my mom?
Speaker 5 (27:53):
This is weird. Okay, well let me tell you how
this went down.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
So I saw your credit card at the store the.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Book club that your mom is in.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Twenty three year old woman, you're in a book club
with a bunch of sixty four year olds.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Why I like to read?
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Pretending you want to read the Bridges of Madison County
so you can get to meet this old woman.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
That is going too far.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Now my son, who's fourteen and graduating from eighth grade
this week graduating, So he actually asked, why do they
have eighth grade graduation?
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Well?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I don't know the real answer, but where I grew
up I thought it was because a lot of people
stopped going to school at eighth grade. There was a
good chunk of the class that or a particular religion,
the Mennonites, they stopped at eighth grade. So I thought
that's why we had eighth grade graduation, because they were done.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Then found out they have eighth grade graduations other places,
So why does eighth grade graduation exist?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
You know, I've actually heard a really interesting argument about
this once, where the one point of view was, hey,
they've finished a level of school. Let's say let's show them, Hey,
education is important. We're proud of you, a good job.
Let's reinforce wanting to stay in school and pass everything,
which I think is a perfectly reasonable point of view.
(29:28):
The opposition was a woman who was saying, they haven't
accomplished anything. They're getting the very basics of education their kids.
They've got several more years of mandatory schooling. They haven't
accomplished anything. They barely gotten started. Quit with the ceremonies.
Too many ceremonies.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I lean more towards that point of view.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
But anything that would less than the number of ceremonies
I have to go to, I'm in favor of Yes.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
My mom has a picture of my Is it my
kindergarten graduation or my preschool graduation?
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I don't remember it. I'm wearing a robe. I if
she had to buy a robe.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
Yeah, I had a little green graduation cap and robe.
And they took pictures that she obviously paid for because
we have it something you got money sucked out of that.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Oh, yeah we did.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
We had to do kindergarten graduation and there was like
a certificate and stuff. But I don't think there was
no robe involved.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
But you know, I hate to blame the gals for this,
but it reminds me of little seven year old kids
in full uniform playing Little League and they have opening
ceremonies and closing ceremonies every season, and the parade of
the teams and lots of pictures in the rest of it.
Back in the day, you just went and played ball.
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There's no opening ceremony. What the hell do you have
an opening ceremony. First game of the year is on Saturday,
Go play it. That was the opening ceremony, play ball.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So my eighth grader has the graduation is actually on Thursday,
and you're supposed to wear a tie. So we have
to go out and get a tie at some point
this week. You gonna wear my shirt and my pants
because we're the same size. Oh, and it's gonna be hot.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
He can't wear my shoes because he has bigger feet
than me. But so I have to get him some
dress shoes and a tie, and it is going to
be hot. But the night before there's a big dance,
the very first dance of his life.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
And he said the other day, I sure hope there's
chairs because I planned to sit.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
It's so funny the difference between guys and gals with
this one, Like I was so excited and you.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Want to share to sit?
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Yes, yeah, I know, I know that that's true. I'm
sure the girls are very very excited. I was gonna
talk I haven't talked to him about that I hinted at,
but I was going to talk to him specifically about
And I haven't completely crafted it into my head yet,
And it probably won't do any good anyway, because it's
different when you're fourteen than when you're older and looking
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back on being fourteen, but man, oh man, oh man,
there's so many things that I chickened out of or
kind of wish I had done or whatever. You only
live once. We freaking live once. That girl over there,
you kind of like, go ask.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Her to dance?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Good God, I gotta figure out how I want to
present it. Not like that, but I mean, looking at
talking to my eighth grade me, I mean, just life
is short. Yeah, one go round. Yeah, here's here's what
you gotta do. Maybe I'll offer this service.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I'll come over with half a dozen middle school young ladies,
have your boy ask each one of them to dance.
Each one of them will say thanks, but no, I'm
not interested. And by the end of maybe we'll even
do two rounds. By the end of it, the kid'll
be like, that's fine.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Oh, they just get used to get it, used to
be rejected a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah, they might be completely demoralized. But uh no, maybe
you have that thirteenth one say yeah, I'd love to.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Did you ask so many to dance? Michael, Yeah, I
think I did. I usually got rejected. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
I didn't ask anybody to dance. Somebody asked me to
dayance for the last slow dance of the night, and
I've never been more nervous in my life. I can
I still feel the sweat running down my armpits as
we were slow dancing.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
I was so nervous and scared. But why wouldn't you?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
I mean, and I kind of wanted to dance, but
I was scared at one of being rejected and two
of dancing in front of other people. It's just God,
when you get older, it just seems like, why would
you freaking care? But that's just the perspective of age.
You can't you know, you can't inject that into someone.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
Well, yeah, and dances are so small in our lives now.
It's such a big thing to them, right, Well, yeah,
of course it is.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
And I'm you know, so on one hand, I don't
know about his friends, but it's probably true for his
friends too. On one hand, he's I hope they have
chairs there. I might bring my own camping chair just
so I make sure it possessed it.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
But he has.
Speaker 11 (33:45):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
We got a haircut two weeks ago and he wasn't
quite happy with that, so we went and got another haircut,
and uh, you know, he's been picking out his clothes.
So I mean, you wouldn't get two haircuts and pick
out your clothes and all this sort of stuff if
you didn't care at all. You care, but you just
don't want to look like you care, because I'm sure
none of your friends are looking like they care. As
the boys again, as the girls you get you can
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be as thrilled as you want to be. Lots of
exclamation points off your group.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah, I played the records at the dances I didn't
do in middle school. I volunteered for that. I think
it's one of the reasons I became a musician. If
I'm playing, you can't ask me to dance. I'm busy.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
All the high school dances, I was the DJ, which
kind of got me out of it. I got to
be there, but I had a job. Yeah, but uh yeah,
so I don't know. I'm going to try to craft
some sort of go for it type speech. See how
it lands. I can just think of several examples of
like why why didn't you? Why didn't you do this?
Why didn't you do that? There's no downside. The worst
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case scenario is nothing. The well, actually, the worst case
scenario is not doing anything and wishing the rest of
your life.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
You would have tried. So yeah, hear hair.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
So that said, he bought a fake Rolex off a Amazon.
He totally cares. He totally cares. He does it's cool
to not care, but yeah, he cares. He bought this
fake real legs. It's forty dollars and it's so shockingly great.
I mean it's really really good. It's like really heavy
and nice and yeah, very cool. I think you may
(35:18):
be admitting to a federal offense.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Harboring a known importer of repov the counterfeit goods got
it off Amazon
Speaker 1 (35:29):
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