February 17, 2025 • 36 mins
Monday Feb 17,2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- I wanna be a cowboy (Jack's Son's Career Plan)
- Electric Tongue
- Emilia Perez Movie
- DC Restaurants Have Changed
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
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one more thing we said you'll enjoy it, sir, I
want to be a cowboy.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's one more thing Armstrong and Getty one. So my
kind my kids are kind of in that age.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Joined My oldest son is in the where you like
seriously have to start thinking about what you might want
to do with your life. But my younger son is
at the kind of more fanciful age of what do
you want to be when you grow up? And so
we have these conversations on a regular basis. You know,
like when you're a really little kid, you want to
be a I don't know, astronaut or a cowboy. Rearranging
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cattle is honorable work. It is cowboy I actually ended
up working in a place where I could have been
become a cowboy. That's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Are a cowboy, you wear boots on the beach.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That was the actual job was. I was working at
the feed lot. And at some point you take the
do you want to do go the feed truck driver
route or do you want to go the cowboy route?
And I went the feed truck driver route because I
wasn't planning on be a cowboys more like a life profession.
That's not something you just do for a year. That's
like you're it's going to be your life. But uh,
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I was going to ask everybody before I give. One
of my youngest son's current plan is which is kind
of funny for you, what he wants to do is life.
What did you want to be when you grew up, Katie?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I wanted to be a marine biologist.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
That's a good one because you saw Seinfeld and that's
what George Costanza said. He exactly, I've always wanted to
pretend to be a marine biologist.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I think both of my daughters may have had a
time where they wanted to do that. You see dolphins
and sea turtles and all sorts of endearing creatures, and
you hear the risk you wanted to do.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, it's fine profession, And what at what point did
you decide you didn't want to be that or maybe
you don't even remember, because like some of my stuff,
I don't remember ever making a decision, or it's not
like I looked into it now. It looks to me like,
according to the actuary tables, that people died at a
young age in this profession. And he only make this
much money, So perhaps I'll turn my gaze towards something else.
That's not the way it usually works.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
But yeah, that's not how it happened. I went from
marine biologists to archaeologist, and then another good one ended
up in radio.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Ended up in radio. I don't know if that.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
No, that's because what I ended up actually wanting to do.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Oh, okay, wanting to do that. At what point? At
what point in your life did you decide you wanted
to be on the radio.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Around the time that I was a teenager? So thirteen?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Oksh yeah? Interesting?
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Oh, in love of the Morning show, was listening to
Rush with my dad all the time. Found out dad
did some radio, and here we are.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's awesome, cool, Michael.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
I also wanted to be in radio as a little kid,
believe or not. But I like the technical stuff. I
used to take tinker toys and build tall towers all
the way to the ceiling of the house.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, that's interesting. We've worked with you for twenty five
years and I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Yeah, it was a little kid, but I would play.
I remember i'd have a little record player of official
price record player and now pretend I was a DJ,
but I always Yeah, I ended up wanting to play
with you know, buttons and things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So that's kind of what I'm doing now. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, with great skill and a plumb Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Fairly standard American Midwestern boy, a cycle of paleontologist, hockey player,
baseball player, professional musician, lawyer.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Than this dead end job. Do you you know there
was definitely a progression. Do you remember why you changed
your mind on various stuff? Because I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I think running up against reality honestly realizing I'm not
really good enough for that and I have other interests.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Now, I think it was as simple as that. Yeah,
I mean, if I go way back to the beginning,
I think it was cowboy. Now. For a very long time,
I wanted to be a carpenter and I really liked
working with building stuff and all that sort of things.
Still do, but like, I don't remember it any at
any point deciding, I don't know, I probably hit my
thumb a lot, so maybe i'll I mean, I just,
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you know, just stopped being my interest for whatever reason. Yeah,
I think that's it. You just develop other interests, get
passion for something else. I was hardcore. I was going
to join the Marines for most of high school. I mean,
this wasn't even when I was a little kid. I
mean that was just absolutely my plan. Why change that,
I don't know, huh, I honestly don't know. It has
something to do with hearing about a radio program. I
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think I was I was in I never did any
sort of like drama musical stuff until my senior year
of high school, and I did that and I got
kind of sucked into that world of performing entertaining the
adulation that comes with it. And then I heard about
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a radio program at a nearby community college where practically
everybody who went there found a full time job in radio.
At least that was the stat at the time. Which
is amazing now. It was true then but impossible now.
There's not three full time radio jobs available in the country.
But I just thought, oh, that'd be awesome. I always
had listened to radio, always liked the idea of being
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on the radio, and then I was full speed on
that after that. But I don't remember why I changed
my mind like that. You would think you'd remember that,
but I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
The Marines thing, yes, unless it's you know, as I said,
you just develop other passions and you kind of get
led away.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
And I've sometimes wondered what my life would have been
like if I had gone that direction. I kind of
wish I would have, just for the challenge of it
and everything that comes with it. But I'm really happy
with the way things turned out in my career this way,
so I wouldn't want to mess with it too much.
But yeah, sometime, when Elon gets the right rocket, I
will travel to the parallel universe where I joined the
Marine Corps, see where I ended up. Here's my son's
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current plan. He wants to double up on his school work. Currently,
he does a combination of homeschool and independent study. He's
not in a traditional school setting. He is he wants
to double up on his school work. He wants to
pass the GED at sixteen so he'll have his high
school education. Then he wants to spend two years getting jacked.
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And wow, there was a twist there. Did not see
that coming?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Did not That was not on my Bengo card.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, me, neither. It made me laugh out loud, just
like this yesterday when he told me this is my plan.
Now I'm gonna double up my studying so i can
get my GED at sixteen. Then I'm gonna spend two
years getting jacked.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, all right, So now he's educated in Swollen and
then what next?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And then he's going to join the mill because he
wants to do like my brother Jeff, who was career military,
because he's seen somebody do the other end of it.
He also it's just an odd he's a different sort
of human being in it. He seems to understand like
time horizons as a kid, the way that you only
usually do as an adult. But to him, twenty years
in the military where you get you know, the all
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the benefits that come with him. He thinks I'd only
be thirty eight, so it's just see, I'd have all
these other opportunities to do this, and that it's like,
that's not usually the way you think when you're young. Now,
you know, being thirty eight seems like you might as
well be dead, So there's no way I'm going to
commit to do it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
But that's the way he looks at that. That is
utterly unique. I now continually reminded my kids of that reality,
because it does not seem that way when you're young.
I remember being practiced, not panic stricken, but extremely concerned
at age twenty two and a half that I wasn't
completely certain what I wanted to do, right right, go
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off and do something for five years. Then you'll be
twenty seven and a half. Oh, you know, from this perspective,
it's crazy. But man, that is that is so nuts.
That he's in a good way that he's got that perspective.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well, you know, because we all just went through all
our different iterations of things we want to do. I
don't expect him to stay on this plan, but he's
been with it for quite a while. He's always asking
my brother about the military. This military then, and it
would it's actually a good plan if you if you
can handle the idea at a young age of twenty
(09:27):
year commitment or something, and you don't have to commit
for twenty years at a time. You sign up for
chunks at a time.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
But uh, boy, understanding that age is that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Because you're so young when you're thirty eight. Good lord,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I just had a conversation with a girl over the weekend.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
She lost her job unfortunately on Friday, and she's losing it.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
She is twenty six years old.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Oh boy, She's like, I'm.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Already twenty six.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
I went, first of all, shut up about already being
twenty six.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Okay, not for that, Yeah, yeah, Second, you're fine, go
find the twenty three year old who to hear that
the rest of us not so much.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, that's pretty funny. But I had never heard anybody
who had the plan of taking two years off to
get jacked. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So, just as an aside on a semi serious note,
it's one of the reasons I really believe in mentoring
programs and am like crazy super passionate about not papering
over deficiencies in schools in like inner city areas, rough
areas wherever schools are suffering, and then just admitting the
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kids anyway because my and Jack knows this story, the
fact that it didn't even occur to me to pursue
a career in radio until I was at a band
rehearsal and one of the guitar players said he was
going to his radio class, and I thought, oh, is
that how you do that? I'd be better than him,
and I enrolled in a radio class. It was as
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if I'd spent my entire life wandering around saying, you know,
I'd really like to cure people of disease and by
pharmacology and knives don't bother me. And I understand that
surgery is important, and boy oh boy, I like science
and again healing people.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
And it never occurred to me to be a doctor.
I mean, it was that dense that it had never
occurred to me. It just didn't. For some reason, I
thought they import.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Space aliens to do that, or you're hatched, or I
don't know someone. By God, it never occurred to me. No,
you just make a couple of basic steps and then
you explore it. And the fact that I could have
that that's lack of vision.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Just because I didn't know what those steps were.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I realized there are lots and lots of kids like
that that are kind of doomed to not pursue their
dreams or even understand what their dreams are because they
haven't seen somebody do it. And so that's what's so
important about mentoring programs. And like the NFL one of
the best Super Bowl ads this is the day after
the Super Bowl, we're taping this.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
One of the best ones was that I am somebody.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Or they go into neighborhoods and they tell kids, Hey,
this is a real possibility people like you do this.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I think those are great. Yeah, that's a weird thing
about the human mind. It's putting limitations on yourself just
for like things you aren't aware of a variety of
area areas, and it's just it's odd. Yeah, I can't
explain it. It's just weird. Little kid walking around in
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a lab coat and just fascinated by disease.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I just wish you could do something with that.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, I guess I'll go manage a grocery store. Armstrong,
the armstrong and getty sharp.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
British woman, recently said againness world record by finishing an
ice marathon in less than five hours while wearing a
polar bear costume, it beat the previous record of no
one's ever done that.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Did they get the record? Of course you did. That's funny.
Seth Myers was a big fan of Norm McDonald, and
that is a Norm MacDonald joke right there.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
The way that's worded, well, that reminds me. It's one
of my favorite weird experiences. And it's hard to explain
exactly why it was so delightful. But when we were
walking back and forth to the convention hall in Milwaukee
this past summer, and we walked going in opposite directions
on the sidewalk, walked past these climate protesters who were
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clearly not pleased to be there and weren't really enthusiastic
about their work. But they were walking around with their
polar bear costume that they were going to don to
make some vague point about climate change. And the guy
walking around with walking by with the big polar bear
head under his arm, looking miserable like anybody going off
to their crop crappy job. Another day, another friggin day,
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we're in the polar.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Bear ahead and the heat to make some point about
climate change. I guess.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
They all just looks so miserable anyway, A couple of
stories from the world of health. This is interesting and
I've my mom used to talk about this, God Rest
your soul. And I remember in college how like finals week,
everybody would get sick either that week or after it
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
And what was it? Working too art, staying up too late?
What was it?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Scientists are getting more are getting closer to understanding how
psychological stress hijacks the body's immune defenses. And they're talking
specifically about allergies and skin diseases here, but it applies
to a lot of different things. Psychological stress and pairs
specialized immune cells and called microphages by making them forget
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quote unquot how to clean up certain scales cells in
the skin, leading to worse allergy symptoms that can persist
for up to a week after the stressful event. Our
researchers discover the stress hormones again, with the hormones underappreciated
create a kind of cellular memory and immune cells, offering
the first molecular explanation for why stress can worsen allergic
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skin conditions like ezema after stress.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
So that's interesting. And I remember the same experience too,
final as week of getting sick. Uh, it's interesting that
a moderate level of stress does this and it breaks
down our immune system and we get sick. But people
were under tremendous stress, their body goes into some sort
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of superman mode. Because I've seen this, I've known people
who have done this scene this before, Like a guy
who was taking care of his wife when she was
like at the end of her life, and he was
taking care of her all the time, and then she
died and he immediately is in the hospital. Was some
sort of liver disease thing that his body had been
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completely ignoring the whole time because he was needed. I mean,
he was in a very stressful then. I've I've heard
of that sort of thing before. So yeah, yeah, really interesting.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Moving along quickly, the ability to detect spoiled food, which
is a particular interest, probably to Katie.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You had no such thing to you get a cold enough,
hot enough, you keep eating it.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Oh boy, Katie got some funky chick can yesterday and
it made her sick. But this electric tongue can taste
spoiled milk.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Humans, Where do I get one of these? I tell
you what. You give the old lady the electric tongue,
It'll make a bigger young again. Huh. Now, I bring
up this story nearly to use the term electric tongue.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Sure, can I plug it into my cigarette lighter and
bring it in the car. Don't it'll distract you while
you're driving. You're liable to have a fatal wreck. They're
detecting spoiled food electronically. That's it. You get to say
electric tongue. And then, finally, major new study shows that
sedentary work is linked to about a forty percent increase
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in insomnia symptoms. The problem being eighty percent of the
workforce has does sedentary work, non physically demanding work.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
And I found one that's battery powered. I can take
it hiking.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Oh boy, oh boy, I'm not going to look in
your tent.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Jack Armstrong and Joey, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
You haven't seen Amelia Perez the movie Nobody has, even
though it's been nominated for the second most oscars of
any movie in motion picture history and is up for
Best Picture, and according to Vulture magazine or website, it's
currently the most likely movie to win Best Picture. Of
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course it is it stars a trans person. The Hollywood's
not gonna give a trans movie Best Picture? Are you
kidding me?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Currently twenty four on Rotten Tomatoes twenty four percent ranking,
which is abysinsal.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You tried too hard with this one.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Well, it's being hailed jack as the greatest, most nakedly
Oscar baby movie ever produced. Yeah, they went too far,
like I said, Yeah, they dished away over the top
with it. But not only that. The real and this
is let me depart for a second. This is the
final fatal self beclownment of Hollywood, and I am more
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delighted than I can tell.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, that's awesome anyway, So half.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Of the story is that it is the most blatantly
Oscar baby woke movie Hollywood has ever come up with.
But the hilarious part is it's also terrible, but they've
still rewarded it with this stunning number of nominations, including
the first ever nomination for Best Actress for a trans woman.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
That's a dude, by the way. Yeah, it's gonna get
me to watch the Oscars because I want to hate
watch it. When they stand up there and give their
acceptance speeches and everybody just standing ovations all over the place.
It's good. Yes, remember that one year the Super Bowl
where all the ads were so woke and you got
some little girl climbing over the border wall.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
To get a Coca cola, or right, oh my god,
that kind of Oscars.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Charlie Cook of The National Review recently unleashed a screed
that contained roughly these words. The idea that we should
restructure our constitutional order because George Floyd died is a
is it not a very compelling or argument anyway? But
pop culture is more than willing.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
It's there.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
They're feverish to win the approval of their their lefty overlords. Anyway,
where was I? So it is just nakedly Oscar baid.
It's unwatchable, it's hilarious. It's bombed in Mexico. Here is
the plot. Friends, Oh oh, you know what I wanted
to say you were talking about? You want to watch
the Oscars the Oscar night. Here's your drinking game. You
have to take a shot every time someone utters the
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word brave, oh good one to have emt standing by.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You gotta do a keg stand for every standing ovation.
You're gonna be lee walking drunk. All right, So here's
the deal the movie.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
If you haven't heard this or even if you have
is about a Mexican drug cartel head, an El Chapo
type who is secretly a woman inside it becomes to
be and longs to become transgender and.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Has been tortured by it. Their entire lives, right and.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
His her girl boss Mexican lawyer who helps her achieve
quote unquote her her true you know, calling as a
crusading feminist Mexican drug cartel transgender person.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
O Ham another one of those come on.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Boy meets girl plays formula anyway, anyway, as if the
coffin needed another nail.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It's a freaking musical, that's right.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
And not only is it a musical, is it a
foreign language film. It was made by French filmmakers in Spanish. Uh,
Mexican audience is one of the reasons poor little confused
fame was the worst thing that could have happened to her.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
What's her face, Jelena Gomez? Remember she had a meltdown
earlier in the week, posted a video about kids being
deported or something like that by evil Trump administration, and she.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Cried exactly anyway, she's she's she was born in Texas,
She's of Mexican heritage, but doesn't really speak Spanish Spanish
or didn't, and Mexican audiences were laughing at her Spanish.
And there's some speculation that the crying jag was to
to kind of regain her bona fides as an up
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with Mexicans person.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I just think she's a young woman with mental health
health issues.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Anyway, Having said that, so you got your transgender cartel Boss,
girl Boss, Crusading feminist something or other musical And if
the songs were any damn good, that might save it.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
But this is what it sounds like.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
That very nice to meet.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I'd like to know about change.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
I see, I see, I see men two women, a woman,
two men, men, two women from p and two vagina?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Is it for you?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
For me?
Speaker 9 (23:02):
What would you like to know about it?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
I want to know it all?
Speaker 9 (23:08):
What is the protocol, the techniques under risks?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
How many operations?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
How much I do you need?
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Mamo Breastie yes, Specio Blesti, yes, Breno Blessi, Lavino Blasti, yes,
Marmo Brestyespeco Brest, Pino Bressi, Larvin Blasti, Lavin Blasti. That
Adams reduction, yes?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
What that is?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
The Great Zoe Saldana, by the way, known for the
Garden Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
But and yes, I was doing the trump dance during
the song to Yeah were You Off the day we
played this, Katie, because we played this earlier in the week.
It's hilarious. It's like it's a It's like it's a
joke that I was just going to say.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
That sounds like something I would have heard on Family Guy.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Right, Yes, what sounds exactly like Family Guy when Seth
McFarlane mocked musicals by just basically, you know, talking through
songs about what the what the plot is. I can't
believe that's real.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I know, getting back to the final fatal self declouement
of Hollywood, that song is impossible to parody. You cannot
do an exaggerated version of its, of its ridiculousness and terribleness.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I'm thinking of getting a sex change. Do you know
what that means? Yes, it's getting rid of my vagina
and getting a penis. I mean kind of lyrics those y.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
You give it an oscar Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Second most nominations of any movie in movie history. Yet
in other words, it's one of the all time great
pieces of cinematic art. It's just a coincidence at this
moment of trans hysteria, this movie has come along, and
that's just unbelievable, you know, Thank God, and this moment
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of great sympathy for drug artel bosses as well.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You know. I feel like I went to Hollywood and
said I'd like to I'd like to finally kill your
cultural influence, and Hollywood said, oh, we'll commit suicide.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
If I was at a less busy point of my life,
I would go to that movie and sit through the
whole thing, just for just to talk be able to
talk about it on the radio. I will go.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
If I can find it playing anywhere. God, but I've
got to go incognito. I don't want to be seen
in it.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
So I don't know if you know this aspect of
the whole Oscar thing. I didn't in late in life
when I became aware of how Dog eat Dog vying
for the awards it gets leading up to Oscars. They
all take out ads and then try to knife each
other to try to get the votes of the Academy
and everything like that. So that star who is singing
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the song there, the trans star, the Amelia Perez star
currently campaigning for an Oscar apologized yes after her islamophobic,
anti Asian and anti black former Twitter posts resurfaced. So
somebody dug up some old stuff that they could damage
her with and got it out, and then she had
to apologize yesterday, hoping not to lose the Oh darn it,
(26:16):
now we got a problem. Trent singing about a trans
person but has islamophobic Twitter posts from the past. Oh
how do I vote? As in an enlightened, woke member
of the Academy dammage. He just keeps getting better and better.
That is a delightful development.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
We would delight to know about it.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
By the way.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Zoe Saldana stars as the girl Boss lawyer standing up
for her transgender cartel crusading feminist transgender boss.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Man, you went too far with your so funny, like
when the hurt Locker came out in the midst of
our wars and our conversations over wars, and it had
a you know, a fair amount of America causes as
many enemies as as friends. You know, at least it
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was subtle enough. It was a good war movie. I mean,
you haven't hit me over the head with it. But
during the trans discussion, that's going on in America right now.
To come out with this is just too much.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I want this pacifics on what the nominated newly minted
quote unquote woman said about these various groups, I.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Don't I don't want my.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I hate when quotes are characterized, because then the characterizer
is in charge of you know what I think about them.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
But the fact that the leading light, who is probably
counting on standing ovations at the Oscars as tears streamed
down their face for being so brave having this show
up yesterday, anah, crap, that's right. I said some bad
things about the Asians. Well, it's it's it's great. The
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beast is eating itself. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
That's why I'm enjoying it so much. It's it's I
went there to kill it and it's in the midst
of self destruction. Has anybody actually seen this movie? If
you have, and I doubt you have, but if you have,
you can text us at four one, five, two nine
five kftc H.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Is that song nominated for Best It's not it. They
have to have a song nominated for Best Song. There's
no way you get the most OSCAR nominations, second most
ever without Best Song being in there somewhere. I don't know, Katie.
Can you look that up? That'd be great. But that
song is hilarious. I mean I can't even wrap my
head around it. Give us a little more.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Michael mast yes, blessed, yes, bless yes.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
All right.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
What I take from that song is that wait minute,
that many surgical interventions are required to make me who
I really am.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
That does not make sense. Why did they decide to
go with a cartel leader. I can't imagine. It'sking me
to crawl inside their crazy heads. I don't like it
in here. Were they just trying to bring too many
different things together? It's like the way back. If you
remember the Sopranos, Christopher wanted to be a you know,
a movie maker, and he makes he combine Saw with
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the Godfather too. It seems kind of like that you're
combining whatever, a cartel, some sort of immigration thing with
the tram story and put them together. And all right, well, Jack,
The way I interpret it is that a cartel boss
would have to be so brave, so brave, all right.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
That's that's two shots to embrace their real transgender self
in spite of the pressures given to a put upon
them by Mexican society and their.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Tough guy image.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
But it's important that you go ahead and have fiftyies
if you feel like a girl, yep, standing up to
the macho culture. Amelia Perez looking at rotten tomatoes, you
want to recognize oscar bait. Look at the difference between
the critics poll and the audience polled the tomato meter,
which is critics seventy four percent positive. That's that's pretty good,
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the popcorn meter actual movie viewers nineteen percent.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
From renegade to auteur, Jacques Audiard comes Amelia Perez and
audisious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. I do
like artsy movies, but through liberating songs and dance in
bold visuals. Liberating wasn't the word that came to mind
when we listened to that last song. This Odyssey follows
the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing
their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Amelia, and let's Rita,
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an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead end job to
help her fake her death so that Amelia can finally
live authentically as.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Her true self. There you go. No, I love art movies.
Last year's winner I saw on one of my favorite
movies ever, The Everything All at On Solid Time whatever.
I mean. You can't get much more ardy than that
movie that is not a mainstream film. You got some
Forst Katie.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Uh yeah, just to let you know if you don't
want to be seen going into her out of the theater.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
This gem is on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Oh you can watch it at home? Okay? Oh, yes,
that's better. That is good to know. Yeah, I'll be
sure to draw my drapes.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The Armstrong and Getty show, yeah, or Jack or show
podcasts and our hot lakes, the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
So it was I've waited on more people at this
restaurant that you have in your goddamn life, say the
waiters and waitresses of Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Jack, where you just were.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
The Washingtonian, which is read in the self Obsessination's Capital,
has a piece about how DC restaurants have long been
like politically neutral spaces.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Obviously, to cite the cliched example.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
You got Reagan coming in, you got tip O'Neil coming in, right,
so you treat everybody with respectfully. But that changed during
the Trump years, restaurant owners became much more politically outspoken.
They were part of the resistance, and Trump officials became
social pariahs when dining out. You remember several incidents involving
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Ted Cruz and Sarah Huckabee Sanders who got kicked out
of a restaurant in West Lexington, Virginia. Homeland Secretary Kirsten
Nielsen's dinner at a DC Mexican Mexican restaurant was interrupted
as they yelled shame Steven Miller tossing eighty dollars worth
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of takeout sushi after somebody cursed him and flipped him
off at a sushi place, somebody on the staff. But anyway,
in the Washington Washingtonian, anyway, you got all these restaurant
tours and waiters and bartenders saying, we're not going to
be silent, We're not going to be quote unquote civil.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Let's see, here's this guy. What does he do.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
He's a DC restaurant. He's a manager at a club,
big club in DC. If you're just going out for
a nice dinner at your anniversary or birthday, and God forbid,
RFK Junior is sitting s to you now, you're going
to be dealing with whatever repercussions happened from that. He's
saying all this restaurants to have is justified cursing these
people out and yelling at him and kicking him out. Well,
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we'll see if this actually happens or not.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Like I said, bumping around d C, it was quite
a bit different than the last time I was in
DC when Trump got elected. He was being treated like
a regular president. I mean, the number of Trump shirts,
hats pins, inauguration forty seventh president stuff that I saw.
There was nothing like that in twenty seventeen when I
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was there for the inauguration.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Right.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
In fact, that was my question. I wonder if this
is just big talk by little people, I'd be my guess.
Here's a woman who's a server and manager at a
saloon on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Quote.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
People were a lot more motivated the first time around
to do these kinds of shows of passion. This time around,
there's kind of a sense of defeat and acceptance. But
I hope that people will still do stand up to
this administration and tell them their thoughts on their misbehavior
as they're trying to get a ham sandwich at lunchtime.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Here's my biggest question about restaurants DC restaurants, because I
had this and I tweeted it out, and it's the
most controversial tweet I've ever put out ever. It got
more responses than anything I've ever tweeted this question. So
I mean it Gordon Ramsay's restaurant, which I wish I'd
spent the time to look into what it costs to
eat there, because it's the most expensive meal I've ever
paid for for me and my two kids. Partially because
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there was the we've added to twenty percent already thing
that restaurants are doing sometimes now, and so service charge
is that what they call it? Earth It just said, yeah,
we've added a twenty percent service charge to your bill,
and then it's got the line for the tip, and
I thought, do I tip on top of it or not?
And I tweeted that out. I googled it and tweeted it,
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and same result either way. Plenty of people say, absolutely,
that's not the tip. You need to tip on top
of that ere screwing your server or one hundred percent
that's the tip, No way you should give any more money.
I still don't know what the answer is on that.
But obviously, if they add twenty percent, and I didn't
know they were gonna do that, or I wouldn't have gone.
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If they add twenty percent and I'm supposed to tip
twenty percent, that's forty percent on top of my meal,
that's a no go. That's a I think second group
that is the tip, No freaking way I'm eating there.
A whole bunch of people adamantly said no, that goes
to the restaurant, that the server will get nothing, and
you absolutely need to tip on top of that. Maybe
that's true, but I'll never eat at a restaurant that
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does that. You can't pay forty percent on top of
your bill. Nobody's doing that. That's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. Well,
I don't know what the correct answer is either or
if it varies from restaurant to restaurant, if you know
text line four one five two nine five k f TC.
But what the hell Armstrong and Getty
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want to be a cowboy.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's one more thing Armstrong and Getty one. So my
kind my kids are kind of in that age.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Joined My oldest son is in the where you like
seriously have to start thinking about what you might want
to do with your life. But my younger son is
at the kind of more fanciful age of what do
you want to be when you grow up? And so
we have these conversations on a regular basis. You know,
like when you're a really little kid, you want to
be a I don't know, astronaut or a cowboy. Rearranging
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cattle is honorable work. It is cowboy I actually ended
up working in a place where I could have been
become a cowboy. That's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Are a cowboy, you wear boots on the beach.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That was the actual job was. I was working at
the feed lot. And at some point you take the
do you want to do go the feed truck driver
route or do you want to go the cowboy route?
And I went the feed truck driver route because I
wasn't planning on be a cowboys more like a life profession.
That's not something you just do for a year. That's
like you're it's going to be your life. But uh,
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I was going to ask everybody before I give. One
of my youngest son's current plan is which is kind
of funny for you, what he wants to do is life.
What did you want to be when you grew up, Katie?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I wanted to be a marine biologist.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
That's a good one because you saw Seinfeld and that's
what George Costanza said. He exactly, I've always wanted to
pretend to be a marine biologist.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I think both of my daughters may have had a
time where they wanted to do that. You see dolphins
and sea turtles and all sorts of endearing creatures, and
you hear the risk you wanted to do.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, it's fine profession, And what at what point did
you decide you didn't want to be that or maybe
you don't even remember, because like some of my stuff,
I don't remember ever making a decision, or it's not
like I looked into it now. It looks to me like,
according to the actuary tables, that people died at a
young age in this profession. And he only make this
much money, So perhaps I'll turn my gaze towards something else.
That's not the way it usually works.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
But yeah, that's not how it happened. I went from
marine biologists to archaeologist, and then another good one ended
up in radio.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Ended up in radio. I don't know if that.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
No, that's because what I ended up actually wanting to do.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Oh, okay, wanting to do that. At what point? At
what point in your life did you decide you wanted
to be on the radio.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Around the time that I was a teenager? So thirteen?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Oksh yeah? Interesting?
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Oh, in love of the Morning show, was listening to
Rush with my dad all the time. Found out dad
did some radio, and here we are.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's awesome, cool, Michael.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
I also wanted to be in radio as a little kid,
believe or not. But I like the technical stuff. I
used to take tinker toys and build tall towers all
the way to the ceiling of the house.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, that's interesting. We've worked with you for twenty five
years and I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Yeah, it was a little kid, but I would play.
I remember i'd have a little record player of official
price record player and now pretend I was a DJ,
but I always Yeah, I ended up wanting to play
with you know, buttons and things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So that's kind of what I'm doing now. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, with great skill and a plumb Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Fairly standard American Midwestern boy, a cycle of paleontologist, hockey player,
baseball player, professional musician, lawyer.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Than this dead end job. Do you you know there
was definitely a progression. Do you remember why you changed
your mind on various stuff? Because I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I think running up against reality honestly realizing I'm not
really good enough for that and I have other interests.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Now, I think it was as simple as that. Yeah,
I mean, if I go way back to the beginning,
I think it was cowboy. Now. For a very long time,
I wanted to be a carpenter and I really liked
working with building stuff and all that sort of things.
Still do, but like, I don't remember it any at
any point deciding, I don't know, I probably hit my
thumb a lot, so maybe i'll I mean, I just,
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you know, just stopped being my interest for whatever reason. Yeah,
I think that's it. You just develop other interests, get
passion for something else. I was hardcore. I was going
to join the Marines for most of high school. I mean,
this wasn't even when I was a little kid. I
mean that was just absolutely my plan. Why change that,
I don't know, huh, I honestly don't know. It has
something to do with hearing about a radio program. I
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think I was I was in I never did any
sort of like drama musical stuff until my senior year
of high school, and I did that and I got
kind of sucked into that world of performing entertaining the
adulation that comes with it. And then I heard about
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a radio program at a nearby community college where practically
everybody who went there found a full time job in radio.
At least that was the stat at the time. Which
is amazing now. It was true then but impossible now.
There's not three full time radio jobs available in the country.
But I just thought, oh, that'd be awesome. I always
had listened to radio, always liked the idea of being
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on the radio, and then I was full speed on
that after that. But I don't remember why I changed
my mind like that. You would think you'd remember that,
but I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
The Marines thing, yes, unless it's you know, as I said,
you just develop other passions and you kind of get
led away.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
And I've sometimes wondered what my life would have been
like if I had gone that direction. I kind of
wish I would have, just for the challenge of it
and everything that comes with it. But I'm really happy
with the way things turned out in my career this way,
so I wouldn't want to mess with it too much.
But yeah, sometime, when Elon gets the right rocket, I
will travel to the parallel universe where I joined the
Marine Corps, see where I ended up. Here's my son's
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current plan. He wants to double up on his school work. Currently,
he does a combination of homeschool and independent study. He's
not in a traditional school setting. He is he wants
to double up on his school work. He wants to
pass the GED at sixteen so he'll have his high
school education. Then he wants to spend two years getting jacked.
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And wow, there was a twist there. Did not see
that coming?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Did not That was not on my Bengo card.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, me, neither. It made me laugh out loud, just
like this yesterday when he told me this is my plan.
Now I'm gonna double up my studying so i can
get my GED at sixteen. Then I'm gonna spend two
years getting jacked.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, all right, So now he's educated in Swollen and
then what next?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And then he's going to join the mill because he
wants to do like my brother Jeff, who was career military,
because he's seen somebody do the other end of it.
He also it's just an odd he's a different sort
of human being in it. He seems to understand like
time horizons as a kid, the way that you only
usually do as an adult. But to him, twenty years
in the military where you get you know, the all
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the benefits that come with him. He thinks I'd only
be thirty eight, so it's just see, I'd have all
these other opportunities to do this, and that it's like,
that's not usually the way you think when you're young. Now,
you know, being thirty eight seems like you might as
well be dead, So there's no way I'm going to
commit to do it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
But that's the way he looks at that. That is
utterly unique. I now continually reminded my kids of that reality,
because it does not seem that way when you're young.
I remember being practiced, not panic stricken, but extremely concerned
at age twenty two and a half that I wasn't
completely certain what I wanted to do, right right, go
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off and do something for five years. Then you'll be
twenty seven and a half. Oh, you know, from this perspective,
it's crazy. But man, that is that is so nuts.
That he's in a good way that he's got that perspective.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well, you know, because we all just went through all
our different iterations of things we want to do. I
don't expect him to stay on this plan, but he's
been with it for quite a while. He's always asking
my brother about the military. This military then, and it
would it's actually a good plan if you if you
can handle the idea at a young age of twenty
(09:27):
year commitment or something, and you don't have to commit
for twenty years at a time. You sign up for
chunks at a time.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
But uh, boy, understanding that age is that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Because you're so young when you're thirty eight. Good lord,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I just had a conversation with a girl over the weekend.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
She lost her job unfortunately on Friday, and she's losing it.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
She is twenty six years old.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Oh boy, She's like, I'm.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Already twenty six.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
I went, first of all, shut up about already being
twenty six.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Okay, not for that, Yeah, yeah, Second, you're fine, go
find the twenty three year old who to hear that
the rest of us not so much.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, that's pretty funny. But I had never heard anybody
who had the plan of taking two years off to
get jacked. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So, just as an aside on a semi serious note,
it's one of the reasons I really believe in mentoring
programs and am like crazy super passionate about not papering
over deficiencies in schools in like inner city areas, rough
areas wherever schools are suffering, and then just admitting the
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kids anyway because my and Jack knows this story, the
fact that it didn't even occur to me to pursue
a career in radio until I was at a band
rehearsal and one of the guitar players said he was
going to his radio class, and I thought, oh, is
that how you do that? I'd be better than him,
and I enrolled in a radio class. It was as
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if I'd spent my entire life wandering around saying, you know,
I'd really like to cure people of disease and by
pharmacology and knives don't bother me. And I understand that
surgery is important, and boy oh boy, I like science
and again healing people.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
And it never occurred to me to be a doctor.
I mean, it was that dense that it had never
occurred to me. It just didn't. For some reason, I
thought they import.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Space aliens to do that, or you're hatched, or I
don't know someone. By God, it never occurred to me. No,
you just make a couple of basic steps and then
you explore it. And the fact that I could have
that that's lack of vision.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Just because I didn't know what those steps were.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I realized there are lots and lots of kids like
that that are kind of doomed to not pursue their
dreams or even understand what their dreams are because they
haven't seen somebody do it. And so that's what's so
important about mentoring programs. And like the NFL one of
the best Super Bowl ads this is the day after
the Super Bowl, we're taping this.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
One of the best ones was that I am somebody.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Or they go into neighborhoods and they tell kids, Hey,
this is a real possibility people like you do this.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I think those are great. Yeah, that's a weird thing
about the human mind. It's putting limitations on yourself just
for like things you aren't aware of a variety of
area areas, and it's just it's odd. Yeah, I can't
explain it. It's just weird. Little kid walking around in
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a lab coat and just fascinated by disease.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I just wish you could do something with that.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, I guess I'll go manage a grocery store. Armstrong,
the armstrong and getty sharp.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
British woman, recently said againness world record by finishing an
ice marathon in less than five hours while wearing a
polar bear costume, it beat the previous record of no
one's ever done that.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Did they get the record? Of course you did. That's funny.
Seth Myers was a big fan of Norm McDonald, and
that is a Norm MacDonald joke right there.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
The way that's worded, well, that reminds me. It's one
of my favorite weird experiences. And it's hard to explain
exactly why it was so delightful. But when we were
walking back and forth to the convention hall in Milwaukee
this past summer, and we walked going in opposite directions
on the sidewalk, walked past these climate protesters who were
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clearly not pleased to be there and weren't really enthusiastic
about their work. But they were walking around with their
polar bear costume that they were going to don to
make some vague point about climate change. And the guy
walking around with walking by with the big polar bear
head under his arm, looking miserable like anybody going off
to their crop crappy job. Another day, another friggin day,
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we're in the polar.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Bear ahead and the heat to make some point about
climate change. I guess.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
They all just looks so miserable anyway, A couple of
stories from the world of health. This is interesting and
I've my mom used to talk about this, God Rest
your soul. And I remember in college how like finals week,
everybody would get sick either that week or after it
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
And what was it? Working too art, staying up too late?
What was it?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Scientists are getting more are getting closer to understanding how
psychological stress hijacks the body's immune defenses. And they're talking
specifically about allergies and skin diseases here, but it applies
to a lot of different things. Psychological stress and pairs
specialized immune cells and called microphages by making them forget
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quote unquot how to clean up certain scales cells in
the skin, leading to worse allergy symptoms that can persist
for up to a week after the stressful event. Our
researchers discover the stress hormones again, with the hormones underappreciated
create a kind of cellular memory and immune cells, offering
the first molecular explanation for why stress can worsen allergic
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skin conditions like ezema after stress.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
So that's interesting. And I remember the same experience too,
final as week of getting sick. Uh, it's interesting that
a moderate level of stress does this and it breaks
down our immune system and we get sick. But people
were under tremendous stress, their body goes into some sort
(15:43):
of superman mode. Because I've seen this, I've known people
who have done this scene this before, Like a guy
who was taking care of his wife when she was
like at the end of her life, and he was
taking care of her all the time, and then she
died and he immediately is in the hospital. Was some
sort of liver disease thing that his body had been
(16:04):
completely ignoring the whole time because he was needed. I mean,
he was in a very stressful then. I've I've heard
of that sort of thing before. So yeah, yeah, really interesting.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Moving along quickly, the ability to detect spoiled food, which
is a particular interest, probably to Katie.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You had no such thing to you get a cold enough,
hot enough, you keep eating it.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Oh boy, Katie got some funky chick can yesterday and
it made her sick. But this electric tongue can taste
spoiled milk.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Humans, Where do I get one of these? I tell
you what. You give the old lady the electric tongue,
It'll make a bigger young again. Huh. Now, I bring
up this story nearly to use the term electric tongue.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Sure, can I plug it into my cigarette lighter and
bring it in the car. Don't it'll distract you while
you're driving. You're liable to have a fatal wreck. They're
detecting spoiled food electronically. That's it. You get to say
electric tongue. And then, finally, major new study shows that
sedentary work is linked to about a forty percent increase
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in insomnia symptoms. The problem being eighty percent of the
workforce has does sedentary work, non physically demanding work.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
And I found one that's battery powered. I can take
it hiking.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Oh boy, oh boy, I'm not going to look in
your tent.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Jack Armstrong and Joey, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
You haven't seen Amelia Perez the movie Nobody has, even
though it's been nominated for the second most oscars of
any movie in motion picture history and is up for
Best Picture, and according to Vulture magazine or website, it's
currently the most likely movie to win Best Picture. Of
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course it is it stars a trans person. The Hollywood's
not gonna give a trans movie Best Picture? Are you
kidding me?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Currently twenty four on Rotten Tomatoes twenty four percent ranking,
which is abysinsal.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You tried too hard with this one.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Well, it's being hailed jack as the greatest, most nakedly
Oscar baby movie ever produced. Yeah, they went too far,
like I said, Yeah, they dished away over the top
with it. But not only that. The real and this
is let me depart for a second. This is the
final fatal self beclownment of Hollywood, and I am more
(18:46):
delighted than I can tell.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, that's awesome anyway, So half.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Of the story is that it is the most blatantly
Oscar baby woke movie Hollywood has ever come up with.
But the hilarious part is it's also terrible, but they've
still rewarded it with this stunning number of nominations, including
the first ever nomination for Best Actress for a trans woman.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
That's a dude, by the way. Yeah, it's gonna get
me to watch the Oscars because I want to hate
watch it. When they stand up there and give their
acceptance speeches and everybody just standing ovations all over the place.
It's good. Yes, remember that one year the Super Bowl
where all the ads were so woke and you got
some little girl climbing over the border wall.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
To get a Coca cola, or right, oh my god,
that kind of Oscars.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Charlie Cook of The National Review recently unleashed a screed
that contained roughly these words. The idea that we should
restructure our constitutional order because George Floyd died is a
is it not a very compelling or argument anyway? But
pop culture is more than willing.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
It's there.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
They're feverish to win the approval of their their lefty overlords. Anyway,
where was I? So it is just nakedly Oscar baid.
It's unwatchable, it's hilarious. It's bombed in Mexico. Here is
the plot. Friends, Oh oh, you know what I wanted
to say you were talking about? You want to watch
the Oscars the Oscar night. Here's your drinking game. You
have to take a shot every time someone utters the
(20:18):
word brave, oh good one to have emt standing by.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You gotta do a keg stand for every standing ovation.
You're gonna be lee walking drunk. All right, So here's
the deal the movie.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
If you haven't heard this or even if you have
is about a Mexican drug cartel head, an El Chapo
type who is secretly a woman inside it becomes to
be and longs to become transgender and.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Has been tortured by it. Their entire lives, right and.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
His her girl boss Mexican lawyer who helps her achieve
quote unquote her her true you know, calling as a
crusading feminist Mexican drug cartel transgender person.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
O Ham another one of those come on.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Boy meets girl plays formula anyway, anyway, as if the
coffin needed another nail.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It's a freaking musical, that's right.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
And not only is it a musical, is it a
foreign language film. It was made by French filmmakers in Spanish. Uh,
Mexican audience is one of the reasons poor little confused
fame was the worst thing that could have happened to her.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
What's her face, Jelena Gomez? Remember she had a meltdown
earlier in the week, posted a video about kids being
deported or something like that by evil Trump administration, and she.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Cried exactly anyway, she's she's she was born in Texas,
She's of Mexican heritage, but doesn't really speak Spanish Spanish
or didn't, and Mexican audiences were laughing at her Spanish.
And there's some speculation that the crying jag was to
to kind of regain her bona fides as an up
(22:20):
with Mexicans person.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I just think she's a young woman with mental health
health issues.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Anyway, Having said that, so you got your transgender cartel Boss,
girl Boss, Crusading feminist something or other musical And if
the songs were any damn good, that might save it.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
But this is what it sounds like.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
That very nice to meet.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I'd like to know about change.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
I see, I see, I see men two women, a woman,
two men, men, two women from p and two vagina?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Is it for you?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
For me?
Speaker 9 (23:02):
What would you like to know about it?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
I want to know it all?
Speaker 9 (23:08):
What is the protocol, the techniques under risks?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
How many operations?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
How much I do you need?
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Mamo Breastie yes, Specio Blesti, yes, Breno Blessi, Lavino Blasti, yes,
Marmo Brestyespeco Brest, Pino Bressi, Larvin Blasti, Lavin Blasti. That
Adams reduction, yes?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
What that is?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
The Great Zoe Saldana, by the way, known for the
Garden Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
But and yes, I was doing the trump dance during
the song to Yeah were You Off the day we
played this, Katie, because we played this earlier in the week.
It's hilarious. It's like it's a It's like it's a
joke that I was just going to say.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
That sounds like something I would have heard on Family Guy.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Right, Yes, what sounds exactly like Family Guy when Seth
McFarlane mocked musicals by just basically, you know, talking through
songs about what the what the plot is. I can't
believe that's real.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I know, getting back to the final fatal self declouement
of Hollywood, that song is impossible to parody. You cannot
do an exaggerated version of its, of its ridiculousness and terribleness.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I'm thinking of getting a sex change. Do you know
what that means? Yes, it's getting rid of my vagina
and getting a penis. I mean kind of lyrics those y.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
You give it an oscar Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Second most nominations of any movie in movie history. Yet
in other words, it's one of the all time great
pieces of cinematic art. It's just a coincidence at this
moment of trans hysteria, this movie has come along, and
that's just unbelievable, you know, Thank God, and this moment
(24:58):
of great sympathy for drug artel bosses as well.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You know. I feel like I went to Hollywood and
said I'd like to I'd like to finally kill your
cultural influence, and Hollywood said, oh, we'll commit suicide.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
If I was at a less busy point of my life,
I would go to that movie and sit through the
whole thing, just for just to talk be able to
talk about it on the radio. I will go.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
If I can find it playing anywhere. God, but I've
got to go incognito. I don't want to be seen
in it.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
So I don't know if you know this aspect of
the whole Oscar thing. I didn't in late in life
when I became aware of how Dog eat Dog vying
for the awards it gets leading up to Oscars. They
all take out ads and then try to knife each
other to try to get the votes of the Academy
and everything like that. So that star who is singing
(25:53):
the song there, the trans star, the Amelia Perez star
currently campaigning for an Oscar apologized yes after her islamophobic,
anti Asian and anti black former Twitter posts resurfaced. So
somebody dug up some old stuff that they could damage
her with and got it out, and then she had
to apologize yesterday, hoping not to lose the Oh darn it,
(26:16):
now we got a problem. Trent singing about a trans
person but has islamophobic Twitter posts from the past. Oh
how do I vote? As in an enlightened, woke member
of the Academy dammage. He just keeps getting better and better.
That is a delightful development.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
We would delight to know about it.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
By the way.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Zoe Saldana stars as the girl Boss lawyer standing up
for her transgender cartel crusading feminist transgender boss.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Man, you went too far with your so funny, like
when the hurt Locker came out in the midst of
our wars and our conversations over wars, and it had
a you know, a fair amount of America causes as
many enemies as as friends. You know, at least it
(27:18):
was subtle enough. It was a good war movie. I mean,
you haven't hit me over the head with it. But
during the trans discussion, that's going on in America right now.
To come out with this is just too much.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I want this pacifics on what the nominated newly minted
quote unquote woman said about these various groups, I.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Don't I don't want my.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I hate when quotes are characterized, because then the characterizer
is in charge of you know what I think about them.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
But the fact that the leading light, who is probably
counting on standing ovations at the Oscars as tears streamed
down their face for being so brave having this show
up yesterday, anah, crap, that's right. I said some bad
things about the Asians. Well, it's it's it's great. The
(28:14):
beast is eating itself. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
That's why I'm enjoying it so much. It's it's I
went there to kill it and it's in the midst
of self destruction. Has anybody actually seen this movie? If
you have, and I doubt you have, but if you have,
you can text us at four one, five, two nine
five kftc H.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Is that song nominated for Best It's not it. They
have to have a song nominated for Best Song. There's
no way you get the most OSCAR nominations, second most
ever without Best Song being in there somewhere. I don't know, Katie.
Can you look that up? That'd be great. But that
song is hilarious. I mean I can't even wrap my
head around it. Give us a little more.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Michael mast yes, blessed, yes, bless yes.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
All right.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
What I take from that song is that wait minute,
that many surgical interventions are required to make me who
I really am.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
That does not make sense. Why did they decide to
go with a cartel leader. I can't imagine. It'sking me
to crawl inside their crazy heads. I don't like it
in here. Were they just trying to bring too many
different things together? It's like the way back. If you
remember the Sopranos, Christopher wanted to be a you know,
a movie maker, and he makes he combine Saw with
(29:28):
the Godfather too. It seems kind of like that you're
combining whatever, a cartel, some sort of immigration thing with
the tram story and put them together. And all right, well, Jack,
The way I interpret it is that a cartel boss
would have to be so brave, so brave, all right.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
That's that's two shots to embrace their real transgender self
in spite of the pressures given to a put upon
them by Mexican society and their.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Tough guy image.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
But it's important that you go ahead and have fiftyies
if you feel like a girl, yep, standing up to
the macho culture. Amelia Perez looking at rotten tomatoes, you
want to recognize oscar bait. Look at the difference between
the critics poll and the audience polled the tomato meter,
which is critics seventy four percent positive. That's that's pretty good,
(30:17):
the popcorn meter actual movie viewers nineteen percent.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
From renegade to auteur, Jacques Audiard comes Amelia Perez and
audisious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. I do
like artsy movies, but through liberating songs and dance in
bold visuals. Liberating wasn't the word that came to mind
when we listened to that last song. This Odyssey follows
the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing
their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Amelia, and let's Rita,
(30:46):
an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead end job to
help her fake her death so that Amelia can finally
live authentically as.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Her true self. There you go. No, I love art movies.
Last year's winner I saw on one of my favorite
movies ever, The Everything All at On Solid Time whatever.
I mean. You can't get much more ardy than that
movie that is not a mainstream film. You got some
Forst Katie.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Uh yeah, just to let you know if you don't
want to be seen going into her out of the theater.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
This gem is on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Oh you can watch it at home? Okay? Oh, yes,
that's better. That is good to know. Yeah, I'll be
sure to draw my drapes.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The Armstrong and Getty show, yeah, or Jack or show
podcasts and our hot lakes, the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
So it was I've waited on more people at this
restaurant that you have in your goddamn life, say the
waiters and waitresses of Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Jack, where you just were.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
The Washingtonian, which is read in the self Obsessination's Capital,
has a piece about how DC restaurants have long been
like politically neutral spaces.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Obviously, to cite the cliched example.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
You got Reagan coming in, you got tip O'Neil coming in, right,
so you treat everybody with respectfully. But that changed during
the Trump years, restaurant owners became much more politically outspoken.
They were part of the resistance, and Trump officials became
social pariahs when dining out. You remember several incidents involving
(32:24):
Ted Cruz and Sarah Huckabee Sanders who got kicked out
of a restaurant in West Lexington, Virginia. Homeland Secretary Kirsten
Nielsen's dinner at a DC Mexican Mexican restaurant was interrupted
as they yelled shame Steven Miller tossing eighty dollars worth
(32:44):
of takeout sushi after somebody cursed him and flipped him
off at a sushi place, somebody on the staff. But anyway,
in the Washington Washingtonian, anyway, you got all these restaurant
tours and waiters and bartenders saying, we're not going to
be silent, We're not going to be quote unquote civil.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Let's see, here's this guy. What does he do.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
He's a DC restaurant. He's a manager at a club,
big club in DC. If you're just going out for
a nice dinner at your anniversary or birthday, and God forbid,
RFK Junior is sitting s to you now, you're going
to be dealing with whatever repercussions happened from that. He's
saying all this restaurants to have is justified cursing these
people out and yelling at him and kicking him out. Well,
(33:28):
we'll see if this actually happens or not.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Like I said, bumping around d C, it was quite
a bit different than the last time I was in
DC when Trump got elected. He was being treated like
a regular president. I mean, the number of Trump shirts,
hats pins, inauguration forty seventh president stuff that I saw.
There was nothing like that in twenty seventeen when I
(33:50):
was there for the inauguration.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Right.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
In fact, that was my question. I wonder if this
is just big talk by little people, I'd be my guess.
Here's a woman who's a server and manager at a
saloon on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Quote.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
People were a lot more motivated the first time around
to do these kinds of shows of passion. This time around,
there's kind of a sense of defeat and acceptance. But
I hope that people will still do stand up to
this administration and tell them their thoughts on their misbehavior
as they're trying to get a ham sandwich at lunchtime.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Here's my biggest question about restaurants DC restaurants, because I
had this and I tweeted it out, and it's the
most controversial tweet I've ever put out ever. It got
more responses than anything I've ever tweeted this question. So
I mean it Gordon Ramsay's restaurant, which I wish I'd
spent the time to look into what it costs to
eat there, because it's the most expensive meal I've ever
paid for for me and my two kids. Partially because
(34:43):
there was the we've added to twenty percent already thing
that restaurants are doing sometimes now, and so service charge
is that what they call it? Earth It just said, yeah,
we've added a twenty percent service charge to your bill,
and then it's got the line for the tip, and
I thought, do I tip on top of it or not?
And I tweeted that out. I googled it and tweeted it,
(35:04):
and same result either way. Plenty of people say, absolutely,
that's not the tip. You need to tip on top
of that ere screwing your server or one hundred percent
that's the tip, No way you should give any more money.
I still don't know what the answer is on that.
But obviously, if they add twenty percent, and I didn't
know they were gonna do that, or I wouldn't have gone.
(35:25):
If they add twenty percent and I'm supposed to tip
twenty percent, that's forty percent on top of my meal,
that's a no go. That's a I think second group
that is the tip, No freaking way I'm eating there.
A whole bunch of people adamantly said no, that goes
to the restaurant, that the server will get nothing, and
you absolutely need to tip on top of that. Maybe
that's true, but I'll never eat at a restaurant that
(35:46):
does that. You can't pay forty percent on top of
your bill. Nobody's doing that. That's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. Well,
I don't know what the correct answer is either or
if it varies from restaurant to restaurant, if you know
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