December 24, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in Hour Three of the Wednesday December 24, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Smart phones before age 12 & social media...
- Joe got pissed over break at a headline...
- Affordability!...
- Jack & the $48K Used Mattress
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No, we're not working on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We worked really hard to get it in our contract
that we wouldn't be working today, so you're not hearing
us alive.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I'd hate to make both Jesus and Santa Claus angry.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
So yes, we're taking the day off.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
But hope you're enjoying some really good A and G
replays dig In Harry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Dying just little, he choked.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
So, coming up on the twelve mile mark, did most
T shirts worn for half marathon?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Previous record one twenty seven. I've got one hundred thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Seven T shirts on my back is toats or my hands?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Are hosts want thirteen miles? We're gonna make it?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
What the hell was that?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
It's a guy running a marathon wearing one hundred and
thirty seven T shirts. I guess the previous record was
one hundred and thirty one. So he added six more
and random marathon and he said again, it's worth yeah
half marathon.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah. He's a content creator, and his content is he
does weird, freaky, kind of funny things that are also painful, strenuous.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Okay, well, you know there's two ends of the equation
for the whole content creator thing. There have to be
people that watch and or listen to this stuff to
make it worthwhile, and apparently there are given the fact that,
you know what, the average kid spends seven hours on
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TikTok or whatever it is. You know, that makes it
worthwhile because then the advertisers get enough eyeballs to pay
money to the content creator. The vicious cycle and stupidess
like so people scrolling through their phones all day long
taking in this crap leads to more of this crap,
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and it's just it'll never end.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
In a related story, a smartphone before age twelve could
carry health risks. According to a study, researchers found higher
rates of depression, poor sleep, and obesity among tweens who
had early access to cell phones.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I think cell phone are horrible, and the younger the
kid the worst, But smartphones, but I would like to
know what other factors go with that. You know, it's
a parents who give their kids a smartphone at age
ten probably do other things in addition to giving their
kid a smartphone that aren't next necessarily in line with
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good parenting.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
In my mind, I think that is entirely possible. Tough
to tease that out of the study, but an excellent point.
The younger that children under twelve were when they got
their first smartphones, that study found, the greater their risk
of obesity and poor sleep. The researchers also focused on
a subset of children who had not received a phone
by age twelve and found that a year later, those
who acquired one had more harmful mental health symptoms and
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worse sleep than those who hadn't.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
For instance, the yes, for instance, what I was just saying,
The parent that gives their ten year old a smartphone
probably doesn't give a crap what they eat, so the
obesity thing doesn't surprise me. The parent that gives their
ten year old a smartphone probably doesn't supervise it at all.
So the fact that they are spending more on time
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on social media, which makes you depressed, it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You mentioned earlier the intense pressure from the kid to
get a smartphone, partly because that's how tweens and teens
stay in touch and if they want to be part
of the group, which every adolescent desperately wants, it's tough
if you don't have a smartphone. Counterbalance, and this is
the lead author of the study, in a child A
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child an adolescent psychiatrist at Children's Hospital Philadelphia quote, when
you give your kid a phone, you need to think
of it as something that is significant for the kid's
health and behave accordingly. Here's the upside of how much
they want the phone, though, it's the greatest. I'm going
to take this away from you if you don't get
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your grades up or whateverever. I mean, there's never been
a parenting stick opposed to a carrot as great as
taking away your phone for a week.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Because I've done it. I'm just taking away a care
at a stick. I don't know that's a good one.
But man, you you have a kid or an adult,
anybody who's addicted to their smartphone, and it's so much
of your life, and you don't get that until you
get your grades up or you start taking the trash
out or whatever it is your Thingum.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It is powerful. Powerful.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
What what percentage your parents actually have the spine to
carry out that sanction?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Hanson does that. Yeah, I do that, and several some
of my son's friends do that also. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I don't know if the answer is ten percent or
ninety percent. I truly made it.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Interesting, but it's even worse than it makes it difficult
though for the parent. I must say, when my kid
didn't have his cell phone for a couple of weeks,
it changed everything in terms of like trying to get
a hold of him.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
So putting a putting aside depression, poor sleep, and obesity,
which is a hell of a phrase.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
How about this.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Here is a school teacher clip number fourteen talking about
her classroom experience.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
I think that you guys don't know what's going on
in education right now. That's fine, like, how could you
know unless you are working in it. But I think
that I think you need to know. So here is
exactly what it's like right now working in public education.
First of all, the kids have no ability to be
bored whatsoever. They live on their phones and they're just
that a constant stream of dopemine from the minute their
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eyes wake up in the morning until they go to
sleep at night. Because they're in a constant state of dopamine. WITHDRALD. School,
they behave like addicts. They're super emotional, like the smallest
thing sets them off, and when you are standing in
front of them trying to teach, they're vacant. They have
no ability to tune in if your communication isn't packaged
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in short little clips, or if it doesn't have like
bright flashing lights. That's actually the way harder part for
me than just the outright behaviors is just being up
at the talking to a group of kids who have
their eyes open. They're looking at me, but they're not there.
They're not there, and they have a level of apathy
that I've never seen before in my whole career. Punishments
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don't work because they don't care about them. They don't
care about grades, they don't care about college. It's like
you are interacting with them briefly in between hits of
the internet, which is their real life.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Wow ah, that last part.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I've run into that not caring about stuff, and I
just don't quite get it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
How does that? How did that come out of using
cell phones in the dopamine hit thing? That's all we want?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's interesting because I've run into that, and I've talked
to other parents who are having a bit of that
problem too.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Is like they just don't care, Like I cared when
I was in school about my grades, and they just
don't care. And I'm like, yeah, why don't you care.
I don't remember why I cared. I just did. That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, that squares pretty comfortably with addiction in general, doesn't it,
I guess yeah, now.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, I was just trying to picture when she was
talking about the standing up there in front of the
class and they're used to getting dopamine.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It's all day long.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Remember if you're older, remember how incredibly boring your ninth
grade social studies teacher was. Now, try to imagine it
with your current brain that's used to.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Getting you know, bad bad bam bam, bam, bam bam
all day long.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Not you're I was fifteen years old back in the
time when you know, my brain much.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Was much slower. You were bored then.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Imagine it now, Oh my god, imagine you're a child
who's never gone through that stage of development that we did.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, that's worse.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Than we can imagine it. Because I have a hard
time reading long form myself. I have to like really
discipline myself to make myself do it because it seems
so boring for a while until I get back in
the groove because I've ruined my brain. And my brain
worked fairly well up until two thousand and eight and
I started staring at a smartphone. So yeah, if you've
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never had that, I don't know. We're we're gonna have
to figure out a way. They might have to craft
lessons in school to where they're all videos and they
come at you're really really fast with music and lights.
That might be the only way to reach kids. Yeah, yeah, interesting,
I mean, because I really do think it's if you
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can't beat them and join them sort of situation. There's
no point in well, you're gonna sit here and you're
gonna listen to me drone on about the stamp Act
whether you like it or not.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
That ain't gonna work, no, because they won't absorb any
ofth it. Now, Yeah, you'll have lost the war. Yeah,
i'd agree. I don't know exactly what to do with it.
I keep here seeing this metal picture of a god
and I don't know what's your favorite talking to God
cliche saying Peter, and God's saying, you know, the humans
have had their run time to clear the way for
the ants or the beavers or whatever. Say Peter saying,
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how are you going to get rid of the humans?
And God will say, don't worry about it, They'll do it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Themselves.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
God, sometimes school was so boring, and that was with
my pre smartphone brain.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Sure, I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What it would be like for your average junior in
high school now or college kid to have somebody up
there droning on and on versus the competition is your phone,
Instagram or TikTok.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Holy crap.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
O, that's a problem, Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and
Getty show.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The long tradition of my brothers giving me crap from
putting cream in my coffee continued while I was around
everybody for the holiday as what brother if he could
pass the cream and he said, do you need some
high heels with that?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Also, yes, that sort of thing appropriate.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Everybody looks down on me for putting your cream in
my coffee.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh well, what are you going?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
So there, I was in a lovely mood, surrounded by
family over the holiday week. All three of our kids,
both of my siblings, my dad, my brother's family were
all in town for Thanksgiving week, partly because, as I
mentioned earlier, my dad's eighty fifth birthday was Thanksgiving Day,
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and we celebrated lavishly and also played eighteen holes of golf.
At age eight eighty five, my brother and my dad
and I played. It was absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I mean, he's obviously not the player that he used
to be in all and gets annoyed about it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Evidently that continues till the end of your life. Golf
is really annoying. But it was eighty five. You're like,
how could I hit that shot?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
My yeah exactly. I'm like, Dad, this is incredible. It
is a blessing. He's like, I just keep shoving it
to the right. What the hell's going on here? Am
I wind up wrong?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Who cares? Hilarious?
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I know it's something, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Anyway, But there I was in just such a lovely
frame of mind, ignoring the news more or less, and
I so come to, I don't know why, to the temptation.
I think it was Satan himself who said, take a
look at.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
The New York Post. Why don't you see what they're
rating about? Why don't you see if there's something that
you want to click on?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Here?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And so I opened the New York Post app for
some reason, there's this article Aaron Andrews fires back at
sports personalities after holiday comments backlash, and.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I violated a sacred rule.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Any journalism about internet arguments is not journalism.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It's crap.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I wish everybody, I wish the president would give an
Oval office address about this. Any news story built around
a couple of comments on social media, those people should
be drummed out of journalism.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Right, But it was the spirit of it that pissed
me off so much so. Aaron Andrews, the longtime female
sports reporter, sideline reporter et cetera, does very good job.
She was doing a podcast that I'm not familiar with.
She was the guest and they were talking to her
about her career and they asked her, and this isn't
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made clear at the beginning of the article, I think
to draw you into the rage bait, they asked her,
for young girls or young women who are thinking to
get thinking about getting into your line of work, what
are some of the things they don't know about it,
some of the downsides?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And one of the things she said was, well, you miss.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
A lot of holidays that you'd like to be home
with your family, but you're on the road and you're
doing your job.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Okay, simple as that.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Well, you got this Jenna Lane, who's a reporter covering
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for ESPN ways in saying so
Aaron Andrews remarks about the challenges in this business above
starting at a low age and not having holidays. I
appreciate what she's trying to say, but let's consider the
folks working two to three jobs in retail, in warehouses
and in the service industry right now, just trying to
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make against meat.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They're not getting time with their families either. Oh my god, your.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Life would be a dream for them. I mean, let's
keep this in perspective. Let's have some perspective. Oh my god.
And then you got hack loser Trey Wingo, former NFL
host back in the nineties at ESPN.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
That's literally what they pay you for.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You posted on X because you've got to be angry,
including a headline about her remarks.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Aaron said it herself.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Once they pay you for the traveling sacrifices, because doing
the games is the fun part. And these people just
what bothers me the most about it is how obvious
it is that they're just saying, look at me, look
at me, I'm morally superior to Aaron Andrews. What about
the poor working people? I got a question for you halfwits.
If Aaron Andrews was in a car wreck and broke
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her leg in two places and the pain was horrible,
can she say the pain is horrible?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Or would you say, how about a little perspective, Aaron?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
How about a single mom who has to work the
night jiff to Denny's.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
She knows what pain is.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
If her like broken two places, she'd be having paid
and she's gotta go work at denny She wants to
have a little perspective.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
General, or what's your erin?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Oh my god, you people are perth pathetic. God, your
need to be morally superior to somebody is so bad
you actually go with a criticism that bad. She's telling
little girls, Look, you're gonna be away a lot, You've
got to travel, You're gonna miss your family.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Oh but a little perspective.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Oh god, that just pissed me off, And I thought,
what are you doing? Look you get the internet, you idiot,
Go deal with the people in your life who are
actually there, which reminded me of one of my you know,
my vows that I have to renew every now and again.
I hate the expression touch grass because it's gotten such
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it's such a cliche, but make your life your life.
The people you actually we see and talk to and
deal with, interact with, do business with, play sports with,
not everybody online.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That's not your life.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I saw somebody write eloquently about this sort of news
story where they grab two comments, often not even you know,
well known people like in your case, just random random
commenters on social media, and they build a story around it.
That needs to be outlawed. And I'm a free speech guy.
It needs to be outlawed. But too many people fall
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for it. And sometimes I'll click on a story and
then I'll get halfway through it and think, wait a second,
is the only thing to the story is Jim and omaha,
some something mean on Twitter about this thing.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's it. That's the whole story that ed in Miami
had said, frank right, God.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
That's the worst journalism out there. We need to do
better as a company.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
To College Chang Controls wait in and said sarcastic things.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
The Internet did not like this person's version of the
national anthem, and they'll pick two random cults from people
and build a story around it. We got to stop
doing that. It's the consumer that drives it though you
read it. They know how much time you spent on
the article. They got the algorithm. So to two final
points about this.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Number one, I'm a little surprised that Aaron Andrews dignified
that jackass a couple of comments with responses, but she
also took aim at NFL News aggregator Dove Climan, who
I've never heard of in my life, whose headline was
Andrews under heavy fire for her holiday's remarks under.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Heavy from losers online? Who cares?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Oh my lord, is there a way to break out
of this? I don't know if there is no. I
was just gonna say, can you get a shot? I
need a shot where I see a headline like that
and think that's stupid.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Just pass it.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Jack Armstrong and Joe arm Strong and yet show.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You told me you had confidence in me. I'd make
the right choice.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
I did, ring, and this represents our commitment to love
to give us time to figure out together for our future.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Folks. Wait a second, what do you think? I agree?
Definitely a match that's for day show.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
I'm not for everybody, He's not for everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But we're definitely for each other.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Okay, that's from The Golden Bachelor last night? Man, that
has some sappyesque music that they played in the background.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Michael, you said you have family members that were into
The Golden Bachelor. Yeah, my mom and my sister. They
watch it. So it's like The Bachelor, except that it's
an old guy. Yeah. How old was he? Ninety seven?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I think it was sixty three? Sixty three years old.
She's sixty six and she's sixty three. I believe dude.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
How long have you pulled this act where you like,
tell a girl and I've bought you this ring to
signify the fact that we're going to seriously consider being
together and talk it over and see how things turn out.
WHOA wait, A second kind of come inment is.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That maybe the shows, those shows got tired of announcing
the engagement of the winner and his chosen one and
they always break up, and they'd become a running joke.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
What because they've known each other for two weeks on
a television show? The concept is so crazy, but it continues,
all right, Who are the family members that like to
watch it?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Michael, Oh, it's just my mom and my sister. Yeah,
your sister, your mom? Okay, well I know chicks. It get.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Bluff bluff blooming. Everybody likes that, right teach there on.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I could see, you know, he'd meet somebody and really
hit it off with him, for sure, entirely possible on
a TV show.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Idea that you're then going to get married is idiotic.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Man on a TV show, they have a band that
because it's like just all the weird stuff that's going on.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
In other news, this coming out of the shutdown, President
Trump's approval on the economy in an apee pole is
thirty three percent, But the Treasury Secretary urges Americans worried
about affordability to be patient.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
There is the inflation line we've got that under controls
leveled out, that is going to start turning down. Then
there's the income line I would expect in the first quarter,
second quarter of next year, those two lines are going
to cross, and the American people are going to start
feeling better, are they?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I actually heard what I thought was a pretty good
story on NPR today about this. They're going with the
angle that when inflation was bad, Joe Biden was telling
Americans that it wasn't and you could say all day
long the economy was great. Joe Biden was out there
saying the economies is the best in the world, and
you go to the grocery store and get gas and
everything like that, and you'd think, holy crap. Now you
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have almost exactly the same thing going on with Donald
Trump going around saying the economy is the best in
the world, of the best it's ever been. Man, it
don't feel the stock market, yeah, but don't feel that
way when you go to the grocery store or buy anything. Now,
the White House messaging in Trump in particular, have been
terrible on this issue. I mean, like almost suicidally bad.
I don't get it. As we talked about yesterday, he
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ran on, I'm going to lower prices, which is not
really what he meant, but that's what he said. And
people who don't know a lot about how inflation works
thought the prices were actually going to go back to
what prices used to be. But that's not the way
inflation works, right. So yeah, So even if you got
inflation down to two percent, people still be a lot
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of people would still be pretty unhappy because things are expensive.
Like I've been saying, since the inflation thing took I
don't know how long it takes before you get used
to new prices to where it no longer shocks you.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But I'm not there yet. I'm not there yet.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I don't know about everybody else. Oh no, no, not
even close. You know, it's very much like the whole
solved the Ukraine Russia thing in one day, which I
realized was her hyperbole.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
How about one month, how about one year?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
How about ever, and just making out landish promises about
the economy, then when they don't materialize, telling Americans, no,
you're wrong, it's great.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
That's just that's insane messaging. Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You could have come into office and say, you know,
the day of the inauguration, you could say, look, the
economy super screwed up because Biden was terrible at it.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
True, it's probably.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Gonna take a solid year to two years to straighten
things out, but we're gonna bring down that inflation level.
We're gonna see if we can even roll prices back
a little bit. That's gonna be tough because the way
inflation works, but by god, we're gonna do everything we
can to make your life more affordable. That would have
been great, and then people would have had a little
bit of patience. But between the bad messaging and the
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tariff thing, it's just I'm not shocked his approval numbers
are that low thirty percent. That was his like bulletproof
number that he was so good on all through the
first and while he was running that in immigration, he
as we've said many many times, he's got the common man,
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the common touch, better than practically anybody who's ever run
for president in the history of this country. But it
is quite possible on this one, and that a guy
that looks at the stock market to see how the
economy is doing doesn't get that. For everybody else who
that isn't their number one concern. Every single time you
go to the grocery store, you're shocked. Every time you
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eat out, you're shocked at what it costs m h.
Shot for your kids' clothes whatever. Oh yeah, this is amazing,
And I don't know what you do about that. So
that's that's one angle. I find the psychology of all
this interesting because at some point we'll get used to
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the new prices and they will no longer shock us,
and that will just be will be back to regular life.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Like I don't know how long that takes. That's kind
of an emotional thing. And it's also kind of an
emotional thing. Oh, whether you're happy or not. It's got
a lot to do with comparing yourself to other people.
And if you perceive that other people have more than you,
you're less happy, Whereas if you perceive that other people
have the same as you, you're happy with the same stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It's just human nature, and it's interesting. Comparison is the
thief of joy. Yeah, and everybody does it. Wait a second,
where's my watch? I try very very hard not to
do it.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Every time I catch myself doing it, I say, dumb,
stop it.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Comparing yourself to other people. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
To get sidetracked, but I don't know my watch on
it and I never take my watch off. I must
have taken it off in my sleep. Was it when
you strip searched Michelangelo? I know you do that before
every show, just to make sure he's not hiding any weapons,
you know, prison style.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I took my watch off to strip search Michaelangelo. Well, yeah,
I do you know? Oh oh God took him a minute, folks,
I got it. I got sidetracked.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
So then the other thing is, because this affordable issue
is going to be the issue that both parties are
wrangling over, no doubt, for the next year leading up
to the midterms. And I don't know if there is
an answer from either side the politically, the answer is
to seem like the party that cares the most about it.
In terms of actually doing anything about it, that's a
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whole different question. But you got to seem like the
party of the complicator that cares about it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Well, then let me just say, if the Republicans lose
on that point after the debacle of the Biden administration
and the Democratic Congress, I mean, that'd be like losing
a football game.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You're up fifty to nothing in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That well, I'm going to don my Armstrong and Getty
f Yolikin party T shirt proudly on that day.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Well, if you're gonna run for president, honestly, completely honestly
to me, because I don't think there's that much you
can do about it. It had said, Look, this is the
way inflation works. You know how a new car cost
two thousand dollars in nineteen sixty five and now they
cost forty thousand dollars. Inflation just things get more and
more of overtime. We had a period here where inflation
happened really, really fast, and it's shocking to us, and
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it's gonna take years before we get used to these
prices or wages catch up, and there's nothing I can
do about it. I mean, that's the way I mean,
that would have been the honest thing.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, Or you could rephrase that and just say we're
going to stop prices from rising anymore, from rising so quickly.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
We've got to slow it down, and we have the
plan to do it. That'd be good enough, I think.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But he said prices will come down, and then the
idiotic media, much of whom I don't think understand how
inflation works either, talk regularly about and prices haven't come
down yet. Well they're not going too. They're gonna stop
going up so fast. AnyWho, this meme is seems to
be back, at least on social media. I heard Ben
Shapiro on somebody Else's podcast the other day addressing it.
(25:48):
He got hit with the whole but look, in the fifties,
on a single.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Salary, you could own a home.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
It was based on the stat that got everybody's attention
last week that the median first time home buyer is
now forty It was twenty nine, nineteen eighty one, it
is now forty years old. Started there, so you used
to be able to just dad working, buy a home,
live the American dream. And Ben Shapiro, in that he's
(26:15):
a very smart guy, sort of way broke it down
the way we have broken it down many times over
the years. That the combination of that was a blip
in time after World War Two, when the entire manufacturing
sector of the world disappeared and we were the only
manufacturer of everything, combined.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
With the fact that those people were living a much
less extravagant, extravagant lifestyle than everybody.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Does now tonight way, tiny houses. Ben Shapiro actually said it,
and I think he was right. If you had to
live in the house your parents or grandparents lived in,
depending on your age, you would think this is a crapple.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Because it's tiny and a little run down.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
That's what I grew up in, a tiny, a little
rundown home, not you know, the giant McMansion everybody thinks
they ought to have. And so so from both ends,
it was a blip in time historically and just a
completely fanciful view of what life used to be.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Nobody flew anywhere back then. Nobody you drove to the
local lake in the summer for vacation or.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Their grandma's house. Sure. Right.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
My final point on this, just because we've talked about
this a lot, The key to this, though that I
haven't said yet, is we've got to do away with
this whole comparing life today to the fifties and acting
like we're getting screwed, whether it's by Republicans or Democrats.
It doesn't make any sense in all the ways that's
been laid out a bunch of different times. But as
long as we're going to hang on to that, we're doomed.
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The comparison is the thief of joy.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
We're comparison selves to something that one was a blip
and two never really happened the way it's being displayed.
So our politics are going to be miserable until we
finally come to grips with that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
All right.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Two points number one, Yes, you're right, it's not just
not apples to apples or apples oranges like apples to
golden retrievers. Comparing our lifestyle right now to the nineteen fifties,
for instance. Second, fascinating Joe Getty revelation. I have never
in my life had my own room. Everybody has their
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own room in most modern American households, right.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I was with my sister in our little apartment when
we were young, and then my brother was born. We
moved to a new house and I was roomed with
my brother. Then I went to college, I always had roommates,
and then I got married while I was still in college.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I've never had my own room. It's pretty great. Yeah,
I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I shared a bedroom with my brother, and it would
it would have seemed crazy to make my kids share
a bedroom. It would have seemed crazy. I don't know why.
I mean, But that's a difference in lifestyle, right there.
Of course, everybody needs.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
To have their own room. No, that was the exact opposite.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
When I was a kidd and we're not one hundred
and fifty years old, everybody there and I would play
nerf hoops for hours time, and everybody I knew if
you went over to their house to play, they they
shared a bedroom, their brother or sister was there.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Everybody. So again apples to Golden nurse savers. Come on, folks,
that's a good one the Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yeah, Marha, your show podcasts and our hot Lakes.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Liz Warrant fell down on the Senate floor yesterday and
to everyone's surprise, didn't even yell Geronimo. Their new Indian
name is fall on Ass.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's pretty funny. Uh, how y'all doing? So we got
some good Newsy stuff for you. We talked about this
expensive bed on the One More Thing podcast a while back,
this really expensive mattress which oh I remember that. Yeah,
I'll hit you at the price here in a moment,
because if you haven't heard about this, it's shocking. We
actually walked by one of these stores. It's Houstin's. I
(30:09):
don't know how you pronounce it, h A S T
e ns. It's Scandinavian, so hi Houston's. I don't know
how they pronounce it. But they don't have many stores.
The beds are ridiculously expensive. And we walked by one
of the stores on Park Avenue in New York. We
were leaving Central Park and we were walking along all
these ridiculously expensive stores and oh my god, it's one
(30:30):
of those bed stores. But you had to have an appointment,
and we were not dressed for people to go in
and look at these kind of mattresses. I would love
to have laid down one. I don't even know if
they know. Let us try, poor people, we can't allow
you in here. So I don't remember how I came
across this over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And it it reignited my interest in this sort of
thing that it exists. But so I went on eBay
and there's one available on eBay that's used, so they
only want forty eight.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Thousand dollars for it.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
This used mattress comes with the box spring, so it's
mattress and box spring for forty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, and the owner of it, since I put it
on my watch, sent me an offer yesterday took four
thousand dollars off. They're only asking forty thousand dollars now
for this mattress and box spring. This mattress is made
of horsehair and some particular rare kind of horse and cotton.
(31:26):
It's all natural materials, it is said by reviewers. I
remember when I talked about this on our podcast, the
person who reviewed it, I think for the New York
Times said it's ridiculously overpriced and nobody is ever going
to buy one of these. But it is unlike sleeping
on anything you've ever slept on. It's as if you're suspended.
You're just floating. You can't even tell her anything, there's
any pressure on any of your body.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You're just kind of floating there. And it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
But the original price on this particular mattress in box
Springs that I'm I'm you know, I'm trying. I'm deciding
whether or not to pull the trigger at forty grand
was eighty four thousand dollars eighty three Please eighty four
thousand dollars for a mattress in box Spring.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Look, if you fly private all the time, go ahead
and buy the Horrors hair mattress. We prefer sex workers hair.
By the way, Jack these horse the beast of burden. Oh,
I apologize, I'd misunderstood. But if that's your lifestyle, go ahead.
If not, that's insane. Don't you remember that email we
got from a gal She said, yeah, we bought one
(32:30):
of these things, and you've got to like have the
Horrors hair massage every two weeks.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's the most uncomfortable thing ever. No, that's part of
the upkeep. Yes, you have to have.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
It's what is it called a rejuvenation or something like that.
Somebody needs to come into your home at least once
a year and re massage it to make it. But
it's just reinterview from somebody who's got one on Reddit.
They said, if you have the person come and rejuvenate
it all the time, it feels they've had it for
four years, feels exactly like.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
It did on day one.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
If you don't get it rejuvenated, you have a very
expensive sack of garbage, they said. But wow, I would
like to lay down on one. There's a store in
uh Silicon Valley, No surprise, I might. I might have
to go over there sometime and I'll I'll wear my
suit jacket and try to look like I belong there
and make an appointment and lay down on one Seaton
(33:19):
repull back. Isn't it amazing though, that anybody would ever
pulled the trigger on a four eighty four thousand dollars
mattress in box spring Like a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I think it exists, so you can mention that you
have it, but.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I can't believe they sell enough of them to be
able to even be a company.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
You wouldn't think you'd sell to a year. It's at THEO.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
There are thousands of billionaires and more every day. I
don't know that's supposed to last billionaire.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I don't know. Maybe they get you. They sleep very
you know.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I would think if I walk into the I would
think if i'd have walked into that store in Park Avenue,
I had been the first customer in six months, you
saw one of I don't know anyway, you here on purpose, sir? Yes, yes,
Oh my lord, oh my god, oh my god. Okay, okay, okay,
it'll be okay, all right, here we go, all right. Yeah,
you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
I was just reading that according to several organizations, companies,
people that would know, American consumers are going way towards
thrifty now. A lot of luxury buying is down, generics
are up, bulk buying is on the rise. Even your
fancier burritos are going unordered in your eateries.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Your fancier burritos.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, well, trust me when I tell you, like Chipotle,
they keep very very careful track of what is being
ordered and what's not, and they're seeing a trend toward
lower dollar orders.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
So matched out credit cards, student loan payments coming back,
probably a certain amount of uneasiness about the future.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
That'd be rist center.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I would never buy that bet any but I would
never be able to sleep because I'd be thinking, God,
if the economy really crashes, I'm going to feel like
an idiot on this eighty three thousand dollars
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty The Armstrong and Getty Joe
No, we're not working on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We worked really hard to get it in our contract
that we wouldn't be working today, so you're not hearing
us alive.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I'd hate to make both Jesus and Santa Claus angry.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
So yes, we're taking the day off.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
But hope you're enjoying some really good A and G
replays dig In Harry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Dying just little, he choked.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
So, coming up on the twelve mile mark, did most
T shirts worn for half marathon?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Previous record one twenty seven. I've got one hundred thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Seven T shirts on my back is toats or my hands?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Are hosts want thirteen miles? We're gonna make it?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
What the hell was that?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
It's a guy running a marathon wearing one hundred and
thirty seven T shirts. I guess the previous record was
one hundred and thirty one. So he added six more
and random marathon and he said again, it's worth yeah
half marathon.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah. He's a content creator, and his content is he
does weird, freaky, kind of funny things that are also painful, strenuous.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Okay, well, you know there's two ends of the equation
for the whole content creator thing. There have to be
people that watch and or listen to this stuff to
make it worthwhile, and apparently there are given the fact that,
you know what, the average kid spends seven hours on
(01:21):
TikTok or whatever it is. You know, that makes it
worthwhile because then the advertisers get enough eyeballs to pay
money to the content creator. The vicious cycle and stupidess
like so people scrolling through their phones all day long
taking in this crap leads to more of this crap,
(01:43):
and it's just it'll never end.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
In a related story, a smartphone before age twelve could
carry health risks. According to a study, researchers found higher
rates of depression, poor sleep, and obesity among tweens who
had early access to cell phones.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I think cell phone are horrible, and the younger the
kid the worst, But smartphones, but I would like to
know what other factors go with that. You know, it's
a parents who give their kids a smartphone at age
ten probably do other things in addition to giving their
kid a smartphone that aren't next necessarily in line with
(02:20):
good parenting.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
In my mind, I think that is entirely possible. Tough
to tease that out of the study, but an excellent point.
The younger that children under twelve were when they got
their first smartphones, that study found, the greater their risk
of obesity and poor sleep. The researchers also focused on
a subset of children who had not received a phone
by age twelve and found that a year later, those
who acquired one had more harmful mental health symptoms and
(02:43):
worse sleep than those who hadn't.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
For instance, the yes, for instance, what I was just saying,
The parent that gives their ten year old a smartphone
probably doesn't give a crap what they eat, so the
obesity thing doesn't surprise me. The parent that gives their
ten year old a smartphone probably doesn't supervise it at all.
So the fact that they are spending more on time
(03:06):
on social media, which makes you depressed, it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You mentioned earlier the intense pressure from the kid to
get a smartphone, partly because that's how tweens and teens
stay in touch and if they want to be part
of the group, which every adolescent desperately wants, it's tough
if you don't have a smartphone. Counterbalance, and this is
the lead author of the study, in a child A
(03:33):
child an adolescent psychiatrist at Children's Hospital Philadelphia quote, when
you give your kid a phone, you need to think
of it as something that is significant for the kid's
health and behave accordingly. Here's the upside of how much
they want the phone, though, it's the greatest. I'm going
to take this away from you if you don't get
(03:54):
your grades up or whateverever. I mean, there's never been
a parenting stick opposed to a carrot as great as
taking away your phone for a week.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Because I've done it. I'm just taking away a care
at a stick. I don't know that's a good one.
But man, you you have a kid or an adult,
anybody who's addicted to their smartphone, and it's so much
of your life, and you don't get that until you
get your grades up or you start taking the trash
out or whatever it is your Thingum.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It is powerful. Powerful.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
What what percentage your parents actually have the spine to
carry out that sanction?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Hanson does that. Yeah, I do that, and several some
of my son's friends do that also. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I don't know if the answer is ten percent or
ninety percent. I truly made it.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Interesting, but it's even worse than it makes it difficult
though for the parent. I must say, when my kid
didn't have his cell phone for a couple of weeks,
it changed everything in terms of like trying to get
a hold of him.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
So putting a putting aside depression, poor sleep, and obesity,
which is a hell of a phrase.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
How about this.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Here is a school teacher clip number fourteen talking about
her classroom experience.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
I think that you guys don't know what's going on
in education right now. That's fine, like, how could you
know unless you are working in it. But I think
that I think you need to know. So here is
exactly what it's like right now working in public education.
First of all, the kids have no ability to be
bored whatsoever. They live on their phones and they're just
that a constant stream of dopemine from the minute their
(05:28):
eyes wake up in the morning until they go to
sleep at night. Because they're in a constant state of dopamine. WITHDRALD. School,
they behave like addicts. They're super emotional, like the smallest
thing sets them off, and when you are standing in
front of them trying to teach, they're vacant. They have
no ability to tune in if your communication isn't packaged
(05:50):
in short little clips, or if it doesn't have like
bright flashing lights. That's actually the way harder part for
me than just the outright behaviors is just being up
at the talking to a group of kids who have
their eyes open. They're looking at me, but they're not there.
They're not there, and they have a level of apathy
that I've never seen before in my whole career. Punishments
(06:11):
don't work because they don't care about them. They don't
care about grades, they don't care about college. It's like
you are interacting with them briefly in between hits of
the internet, which is their real life.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Wow ah, that last part.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I've run into that not caring about stuff, and I
just don't quite get it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
How does that? How did that come out of using
cell phones in the dopamine hit thing? That's all we want?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's interesting because I've run into that, and I've talked
to other parents who are having a bit of that
problem too.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Is like they just don't care, Like I cared when
I was in school about my grades, and they just
don't care. And I'm like, yeah, why don't you care.
I don't remember why I cared. I just did. That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, that squares pretty comfortably with addiction in general, doesn't it,
I guess yeah, now.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, I was just trying to picture when she was
talking about the standing up there in front of the
class and they're used to getting dopamine.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It's all day long.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Remember if you're older, remember how incredibly boring your ninth
grade social studies teacher was. Now, try to imagine it
with your current brain that's used to.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Getting you know, bad bad bam bam, bam, bam bam
all day long.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Not you're I was fifteen years old back in the
time when you know, my brain much.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Was much slower. You were bored then.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Imagine it now, Oh my god, imagine you're a child
who's never gone through that stage of development that we did.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, that's worse.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Than we can imagine it. Because I have a hard
time reading long form myself. I have to like really
discipline myself to make myself do it because it seems
so boring for a while until I get back in
the groove because I've ruined my brain. And my brain
worked fairly well up until two thousand and eight and
I started staring at a smartphone. So yeah, if you've
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never had that, I don't know. We're we're gonna have
to figure out a way. They might have to craft
lessons in school to where they're all videos and they
come at you're really really fast with music and lights.
That might be the only way to reach kids. Yeah, yeah, interesting,
I mean, because I really do think it's if you
(08:30):
can't beat them and join them sort of situation. There's
no point in well, you're gonna sit here and you're
gonna listen to me drone on about the stamp Act
whether you like it or not.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
That ain't gonna work, no, because they won't absorb any
ofth it. Now, Yeah, you'll have lost the war. Yeah,
i'd agree. I don't know exactly what to do with it.
I keep here seeing this metal picture of a god
and I don't know what's your favorite talking to God
cliche saying Peter, and God's saying, you know, the humans
have had their run time to clear the way for
the ants or the beavers or whatever. Say Peter saying,
(09:01):
how are you going to get rid of the humans?
And God will say, don't worry about it, They'll do it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Themselves.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
God, sometimes school was so boring, and that was with
my pre smartphone brain.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Sure, I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What it would be like for your average junior in
high school now or college kid to have somebody up
there droning on and on versus the competition is your phone,
Instagram or TikTok.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Holy crap.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
O, that's a problem, Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and
Getty show.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The long tradition of my brothers giving me crap from
putting cream in my coffee continued while I was around
everybody for the holiday as what brother if he could
pass the cream and he said, do you need some
high heels with that?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Also, yes, that sort of thing appropriate.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Everybody looks down on me for putting your cream in
my coffee.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh well, what are you going?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
So there, I was in a lovely mood, surrounded by
family over the holiday week. All three of our kids,
both of my siblings, my dad, my brother's family were
all in town for Thanksgiving week, partly because, as I
mentioned earlier, my dad's eighty fifth birthday was Thanksgiving Day,
(10:21):
and we celebrated lavishly and also played eighteen holes of golf.
At age eight eighty five, my brother and my dad
and I played. It was absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I mean, he's obviously not the player that he used
to be in all and gets annoyed about it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Evidently that continues till the end of your life. Golf
is really annoying. But it was eighty five. You're like,
how could I hit that shot?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
My yeah exactly. I'm like, Dad, this is incredible. It
is a blessing. He's like, I just keep shoving it
to the right. What the hell's going on here? Am
I wind up wrong?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Who cares? Hilarious?
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I know it's something, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Anyway, But there I was in just such a lovely
frame of mind, ignoring the news more or less, and
I so come to, I don't know why, to the temptation.
I think it was Satan himself who said, take a
look at.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
The New York Post. Why don't you see what they're
rating about? Why don't you see if there's something that
you want to click on?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Here?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And so I opened the New York Post app for
some reason, there's this article Aaron Andrews fires back at
sports personalities after holiday comments backlash, and.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I violated a sacred rule.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Any journalism about internet arguments is not journalism.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It's crap.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I wish everybody, I wish the president would give an
Oval office address about this. Any news story built around
a couple of comments on social media, those people should
be drummed out of journalism.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Right, But it was the spirit of it that pissed
me off so much so. Aaron Andrews, the longtime female
sports reporter, sideline reporter et cetera, does very good job.
She was doing a podcast that I'm not familiar with.
She was the guest and they were talking to her
about her career and they asked her, and this isn't
(12:10):
made clear at the beginning of the article, I think
to draw you into the rage bait, they asked her,
for young girls or young women who are thinking to
get thinking about getting into your line of work, what
are some of the things they don't know about it,
some of the downsides?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And one of the things she said was, well, you miss.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
A lot of holidays that you'd like to be home
with your family, but you're on the road and you're
doing your job.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Okay, simple as that.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Well, you got this Jenna Lane, who's a reporter covering
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for ESPN ways in saying so
Aaron Andrews remarks about the challenges in this business above
starting at a low age and not having holidays. I
appreciate what she's trying to say, but let's consider the
folks working two to three jobs in retail, in warehouses
and in the service industry right now, just trying to
(12:59):
make against meat.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They're not getting time with their families either. Oh my god, your.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Life would be a dream for them. I mean, let's
keep this in perspective. Let's have some perspective. Oh my god.
And then you got hack loser Trey Wingo, former NFL
host back in the nineties at ESPN.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
That's literally what they pay you for.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You posted on X because you've got to be angry,
including a headline about her remarks.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Aaron said it herself.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Once they pay you for the traveling sacrifices, because doing
the games is the fun part. And these people just
what bothers me the most about it is how obvious
it is that they're just saying, look at me, look
at me, I'm morally superior to Aaron Andrews. What about
the poor working people? I got a question for you halfwits.
If Aaron Andrews was in a car wreck and broke
(13:49):
her leg in two places and the pain was horrible,
can she say the pain is horrible?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Or would you say, how about a little perspective, Aaron?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
How about a single mom who has to work the
night jiff to Denny's.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
She knows what pain is.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
If her like broken two places, she'd be having paid
and she's gotta go work at denny She wants to
have a little perspective.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
General, or what's your erin?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Oh my god, you people are perth pathetic. God, your
need to be morally superior to somebody is so bad
you actually go with a criticism that bad. She's telling
little girls, Look, you're gonna be away a lot, You've
got to travel, You're gonna miss your family.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Oh but a little perspective.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Oh god, that just pissed me off, And I thought,
what are you doing? Look you get the internet, you idiot,
Go deal with the people in your life who are
actually there, which reminded me of one of my you know,
my vows that I have to renew every now and again.
I hate the expression touch grass because it's gotten such
(14:52):
it's such a cliche, but make your life your life.
The people you actually we see and talk to and
deal with, interact with, do business with, play sports with,
not everybody online.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That's not your life.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I saw somebody write eloquently about this sort of news
story where they grab two comments, often not even you know,
well known people like in your case, just random random
commenters on social media, and they build a story around it.
That needs to be outlawed. And I'm a free speech guy.
It needs to be outlawed. But too many people fall
(15:32):
for it. And sometimes I'll click on a story and
then I'll get halfway through it and think, wait a second,
is the only thing to the story is Jim and omaha,
some something mean on Twitter about this thing.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's it. That's the whole story that ed in Miami
had said, frank right, God.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
That's the worst journalism out there. We need to do
better as a company.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
To College Chang Controls wait in and said sarcastic things.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
The Internet did not like this person's version of the
national anthem, and they'll pick two random cults from people
and build a story around it. We got to stop
doing that. It's the consumer that drives it though you
read it. They know how much time you spent on
the article. They got the algorithm. So to two final
points about this.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Number one, I'm a little surprised that Aaron Andrews dignified
that jackass a couple of comments with responses, but she
also took aim at NFL News aggregator Dove Climan, who
I've never heard of in my life, whose headline was
Andrews under heavy fire for her holiday's remarks under.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Heavy from losers online? Who cares?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Oh my lord, is there a way to break out
of this? I don't know if there is no. I
was just gonna say, can you get a shot? I
need a shot where I see a headline like that
and think that's stupid.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Just pass it.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Jack Armstrong and Joe arm Strong and yet show.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You told me you had confidence in me. I'd make
the right choice.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
I did, ring, and this represents our commitment to love
to give us time to figure out together for our future.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Folks. Wait a second, what do you think? I agree?
Definitely a match that's for day show.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
I'm not for everybody, He's not for everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But we're definitely for each other.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Okay, that's from The Golden Bachelor last night? Man, that
has some sappyesque music that they played in the background.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Michael, you said you have family members that were into
The Golden Bachelor. Yeah, my mom and my sister. They
watch it. So it's like The Bachelor, except that it's
an old guy. Yeah. How old was he? Ninety seven?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I think it was sixty three? Sixty three years old.
She's sixty six and she's sixty three. I believe dude.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
How long have you pulled this act where you like,
tell a girl and I've bought you this ring to
signify the fact that we're going to seriously consider being
together and talk it over and see how things turn out.
WHOA wait, A second kind of come inment is.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That maybe the shows, those shows got tired of announcing
the engagement of the winner and his chosen one and
they always break up, and they'd become a running joke.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
What because they've known each other for two weeks on
a television show? The concept is so crazy, but it continues,
all right, Who are the family members that like to
watch it?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Michael, Oh, it's just my mom and my sister. Yeah,
your sister, your mom? Okay, well I know chicks. It get.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Bluff bluff blooming. Everybody likes that, right teach there on.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I could see, you know, he'd meet somebody and really
hit it off with him, for sure, entirely possible on
a TV show.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Idea that you're then going to get married is idiotic.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Man on a TV show, they have a band that
because it's like just all the weird stuff that's going on.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
In other news, this coming out of the shutdown, President
Trump's approval on the economy in an apee pole is
thirty three percent, But the Treasury Secretary urges Americans worried
about affordability to be patient.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
There is the inflation line we've got that under controls
leveled out, that is going to start turning down. Then
there's the income line I would expect in the first quarter,
second quarter of next year, those two lines are going
to cross, and the American people are going to start
feeling better, are they?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I actually heard what I thought was a pretty good
story on NPR today about this. They're going with the
angle that when inflation was bad, Joe Biden was telling
Americans that it wasn't and you could say all day
long the economy was great. Joe Biden was out there
saying the economies is the best in the world, and
you go to the grocery store and get gas and
everything like that, and you'd think, holy crap. Now you
(19:58):
have almost exactly the same thing going on with Donald
Trump going around saying the economy is the best in
the world, of the best it's ever been. Man, it
don't feel the stock market, yeah, but don't feel that
way when you go to the grocery store or buy anything. Now,
the White House messaging in Trump in particular, have been
terrible on this issue. I mean, like almost suicidally bad.
I don't get it. As we talked about yesterday, he
(20:21):
ran on, I'm going to lower prices, which is not
really what he meant, but that's what he said. And
people who don't know a lot about how inflation works
thought the prices were actually going to go back to
what prices used to be. But that's not the way
inflation works, right. So yeah, So even if you got
inflation down to two percent, people still be a lot
(20:42):
of people would still be pretty unhappy because things are expensive.
Like I've been saying, since the inflation thing took I
don't know how long it takes before you get used
to new prices to where it no longer shocks you.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But I'm not there yet. I'm not there yet.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I don't know about everybody else. Oh no, no, not
even close. You know, it's very much like the whole
solved the Ukraine Russia thing in one day, which I
realized was her hyperbole.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
How about one month, how about one year?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
How about ever, and just making out landish promises about
the economy, then when they don't materialize, telling Americans, no,
you're wrong, it's great.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
That's just that's insane messaging. Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You could have come into office and say, you know,
the day of the inauguration, you could say, look, the
economy super screwed up because Biden was terrible at it.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
True, it's probably.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Gonna take a solid year to two years to straighten
things out, but we're gonna bring down that inflation level.
We're gonna see if we can even roll prices back
a little bit. That's gonna be tough because the way
inflation works, but by god, we're gonna do everything we
can to make your life more affordable. That would have
been great, and then people would have had a little
bit of patience. But between the bad messaging and the
(21:49):
tariff thing, it's just I'm not shocked his approval numbers
are that low thirty percent. That was his like bulletproof
number that he was so good on all through the
first and while he was running that in immigration, he
as we've said many many times, he's got the common man,
(22:11):
the common touch, better than practically anybody who's ever run
for president in the history of this country. But it
is quite possible on this one, and that a guy
that looks at the stock market to see how the
economy is doing doesn't get that. For everybody else who
that isn't their number one concern. Every single time you
go to the grocery store, you're shocked. Every time you
(22:33):
eat out, you're shocked at what it costs m h.
Shot for your kids' clothes whatever. Oh yeah, this is amazing,
And I don't know what you do about that. So
that's that's one angle. I find the psychology of all
this interesting because at some point we'll get used to
(22:54):
the new prices and they will no longer shock us,
and that will just be will be back to regular life.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Like I don't know how long that takes. That's kind
of an emotional thing. And it's also kind of an
emotional thing. Oh, whether you're happy or not. It's got
a lot to do with comparing yourself to other people.
And if you perceive that other people have more than you,
you're less happy, Whereas if you perceive that other people
have the same as you, you're happy with the same stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It's just human nature, and it's interesting. Comparison is the
thief of joy. Yeah, and everybody does it. Wait a second,
where's my watch? I try very very hard not to
do it.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Every time I catch myself doing it, I say, dumb,
stop it.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Comparing yourself to other people. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
To get sidetracked, but I don't know my watch on
it and I never take my watch off. I must
have taken it off in my sleep. Was it when
you strip searched Michelangelo? I know you do that before
every show, just to make sure he's not hiding any weapons,
you know, prison style.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I took my watch off to strip search Michaelangelo. Well, yeah,
I do you know? Oh oh God took him a minute, folks,
I got it. I got sidetracked.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
So then the other thing is, because this affordable issue
is going to be the issue that both parties are
wrangling over, no doubt, for the next year leading up
to the midterms. And I don't know if there is
an answer from either side the politically, the answer is
to seem like the party that cares the most about it.
In terms of actually doing anything about it, that's a
(24:19):
whole different question. But you got to seem like the
party of the complicator that cares about it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Well, then let me just say, if the Republicans lose
on that point after the debacle of the Biden administration
and the Democratic Congress, I mean, that'd be like losing
a football game.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You're up fifty to nothing in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That well, I'm going to don my Armstrong and Getty
f Yolikin party T shirt proudly on that day.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Well, if you're gonna run for president, honestly, completely honestly
to me, because I don't think there's that much you
can do about it. It had said, Look, this is the
way inflation works. You know how a new car cost
two thousand dollars in nineteen sixty five and now they
cost forty thousand dollars. Inflation just things get more and
more of overtime. We had a period here where inflation
happened really, really fast, and it's shocking to us, and
(25:05):
it's gonna take years before we get used to these
prices or wages catch up, and there's nothing I can
do about it. I mean, that's the way I mean,
that would have been the honest thing.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, Or you could rephrase that and just say we're
going to stop prices from rising anymore, from rising so quickly.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
We've got to slow it down, and we have the
plan to do it. That'd be good enough, I think.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But he said prices will come down, and then the
idiotic media, much of whom I don't think understand how
inflation works either, talk regularly about and prices haven't come
down yet. Well they're not going too. They're gonna stop
going up so fast. AnyWho, this meme is seems to
be back, at least on social media. I heard Ben
Shapiro on somebody Else's podcast the other day addressing it.
(25:48):
He got hit with the whole but look, in the fifties,
on a single.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Salary, you could own a home.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
It was based on the stat that got everybody's attention
last week that the median first time home buyer is
now forty It was twenty nine, nineteen eighty one, it
is now forty years old. Started there, so you used
to be able to just dad working, buy a home,
live the American dream. And Ben Shapiro, in that he's
(26:15):
a very smart guy, sort of way broke it down
the way we have broken it down many times over
the years. That the combination of that was a blip
in time after World War Two, when the entire manufacturing
sector of the world disappeared and we were the only
manufacturer of everything, combined.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
With the fact that those people were living a much
less extravagant, extravagant lifestyle than everybody.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Does now tonight way, tiny houses. Ben Shapiro actually said it,
and I think he was right. If you had to
live in the house your parents or grandparents lived in,
depending on your age, you would think this is a crapple.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Because it's tiny and a little run down.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
That's what I grew up in, a tiny, a little
rundown home, not you know, the giant McMansion everybody thinks
they ought to have. And so so from both ends,
it was a blip in time historically and just a
completely fanciful view of what life used to be.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Nobody flew anywhere back then. Nobody you drove to the
local lake in the summer for vacation or.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Their grandma's house. Sure. Right.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
My final point on this, just because we've talked about
this a lot, The key to this, though that I
haven't said yet, is we've got to do away with
this whole comparing life today to the fifties and acting
like we're getting screwed, whether it's by Republicans or Democrats.
It doesn't make any sense in all the ways that's
been laid out a bunch of different times. But as
long as we're going to hang on to that, we're doomed.
(27:48):
The comparison is the thief of joy.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
We're comparison selves to something that one was a blip
and two never really happened the way it's being displayed.
So our politics are going to be miserable until we
finally come to grips with that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
All right.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Two points number one, Yes, you're right, it's not just
not apples to apples or apples oranges like apples to
golden retrievers. Comparing our lifestyle right now to the nineteen fifties,
for instance. Second, fascinating Joe Getty revelation. I have never
in my life had my own room. Everybody has their
(28:23):
own room in most modern American households, right.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I was with my sister in our little apartment when
we were young, and then my brother was born. We
moved to a new house and I was roomed with
my brother. Then I went to college, I always had roommates,
and then I got married while I was still in college.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I've never had my own room. It's pretty great. Yeah,
I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I shared a bedroom with my brother, and it would
it would have seemed crazy to make my kids share
a bedroom. It would have seemed crazy. I don't know why.
I mean, But that's a difference in lifestyle, right there.
Of course, everybody needs.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
To have their own room. No, that was the exact opposite.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
When I was a kidd and we're not one hundred
and fifty years old, everybody there and I would play
nerf hoops for hours time, and everybody I knew if
you went over to their house to play, they they
shared a bedroom, their brother or sister was there.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Everybody. So again apples to Golden nurse savers. Come on, folks,
that's a good one the Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yeah, Marha, your show podcasts and our hot Lakes.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Liz Warrant fell down on the Senate floor yesterday and
to everyone's surprise, didn't even yell Geronimo. Their new Indian
name is fall on Ass.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's pretty funny. Uh, how y'all doing? So we got
some good Newsy stuff for you. We talked about this
expensive bed on the One More Thing podcast a while back,
this really expensive mattress which oh I remember that. Yeah,
I'll hit you at the price here in a moment,
because if you haven't heard about this, it's shocking. We
actually walked by one of these stores. It's Houstin's. I
(30:09):
don't know how you pronounce it, h A S T
e ns. It's Scandinavian, so hi Houston's. I don't know
how they pronounce it. But they don't have many stores.
The beds are ridiculously expensive. And we walked by one
of the stores on Park Avenue in New York. We
were leaving Central Park and we were walking along all
these ridiculously expensive stores and oh my god, it's one
(30:30):
of those bed stores. But you had to have an appointment,
and we were not dressed for people to go in
and look at these kind of mattresses. I would love
to have laid down one. I don't even know if
they know. Let us try, poor people, we can't allow
you in here. So I don't remember how I came
across this over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And it it reignited my interest in this sort of
thing that it exists. But so I went on eBay
and there's one available on eBay that's used, so they
only want forty eight.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Thousand dollars for it.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
This used mattress comes with the box spring, so it's
mattress and box spring for forty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, and the owner of it, since I put it
on my watch, sent me an offer yesterday took four
thousand dollars off. They're only asking forty thousand dollars now
for this mattress and box spring. This mattress is made
of horsehair and some particular rare kind of horse and cotton.
(31:26):
It's all natural materials, it is said by reviewers. I
remember when I talked about this on our podcast, the
person who reviewed it, I think for the New York
Times said it's ridiculously overpriced and nobody is ever going
to buy one of these. But it is unlike sleeping
on anything you've ever slept on. It's as if you're suspended.
You're just floating. You can't even tell her anything, there's
any pressure on any of your body.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You're just kind of floating there. And it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
But the original price on this particular mattress in box
Springs that I'm I'm you know, I'm trying. I'm deciding
whether or not to pull the trigger at forty grand
was eighty four thousand dollars eighty three Please eighty four
thousand dollars for a mattress in box Spring.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Look, if you fly private all the time, go ahead
and buy the Horrors hair mattress. We prefer sex workers hair.
By the way, Jack these horse the beast of burden. Oh,
I apologize, I'd misunderstood. But if that's your lifestyle, go ahead.
If not, that's insane. Don't you remember that email we
got from a gal She said, yeah, we bought one
(32:30):
of these things, and you've got to like have the
Horrors hair massage every two weeks.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's the most uncomfortable thing ever. No, that's part of
the upkeep. Yes, you have to have.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
It's what is it called a rejuvenation or something like that.
Somebody needs to come into your home at least once
a year and re massage it to make it. But
it's just reinterview from somebody who's got one on Reddit.
They said, if you have the person come and rejuvenate
it all the time, it feels they've had it for
four years, feels exactly like.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
It did on day one.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
If you don't get it rejuvenated, you have a very
expensive sack of garbage, they said. But wow, I would
like to lay down on one. There's a store in
uh Silicon Valley, No surprise, I might. I might have
to go over there sometime and I'll I'll wear my
suit jacket and try to look like I belong there
and make an appointment and lay down on one Seaton
(33:19):
repull back. Isn't it amazing though, that anybody would ever
pulled the trigger on a four eighty four thousand dollars
mattress in box spring Like a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I think it exists, so you can mention that you
have it, but.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I can't believe they sell enough of them to be
able to even be a company.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
You wouldn't think you'd sell to a year. It's at THEO.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
There are thousands of billionaires and more every day. I
don't know that's supposed to last billionaire.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I don't know. Maybe they get you. They sleep very
you know.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I would think if I walk into the I would
think if i'd have walked into that store in Park Avenue,
I had been the first customer in six months, you
saw one of I don't know anyway, you here on purpose, sir? Yes, yes,
Oh my lord, oh my god, oh my god. Okay, okay, okay,
it'll be okay, all right, here we go, all right. Yeah,
you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
I was just reading that according to several organizations, companies,
people that would know, American consumers are going way towards
thrifty now. A lot of luxury buying is down, generics
are up, bulk buying is on the rise. Even your
fancier burritos are going unordered in your eateries.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Your fancier burritos.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, well, trust me when I tell you, like Chipotle,
they keep very very careful track of what is being
ordered and what's not, and they're seeing a trend toward
lower dollar orders.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
So matched out credit cards, student loan payments coming back,
probably a certain amount of uneasiness about the future.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
That'd be rist center.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I would never buy that bet any but I would
never be able to sleep because I'd be thinking, God,
if the economy really crashes, I'm going to feel like
an idiot on this eighty three thousand dollars
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