April 8, 2026 • 11 mins
On the Wednesday April 8, 2026 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...
- The most hated feature on modern cars is going away...
- A tech industry job interview takes an unusual turn.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What men.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm totally South Korean. Seoul Soul, great city. You should
come visit me someday. It's one more thing. I like
the noise, the classic Simpson's tugging at the collar noise.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
A couple of things. First, this was a good clickbait
meat for me. The other day in the Wall Street Journal,
the thing on modern cars that people hate the most
is going away. Oh did you see that, bait?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I have no idea, but I'm hoping that it's what
I'm thinking.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
The automatic shut off thing, yes, oh my god, it
stops running for like thirty seconds, accomplishing freaking nothing. I
don't care what anybody says. They can't add up to anything.
They showed some studies. Some studies show yeah, studies from
universities where they reward scientists who talk about climate change.
You can't convince me it makes any difference to have
(01:01):
your car stop running from idling for thirty seconds A
couple of times a day.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Dangerous, It can be, definitely. I had the problem where
I need to go when my car is dead, but
trying to make a left turn and you break enough
that it cuts the engine. Then you go to go
and it hesitates and.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yep, next thing you know, you're getting rear ended. Oh
I hate that feature hardly.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
My car, I can turn it off, but some cars
you have to, like order, you have to have a
mechanic install some gizmo to defeat it.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I can hit a button to turn it off in
my car, but I have to do it every time
I turn the car on.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, just stupid. Is stupid? Forced climate change bullshit, accomplished
nothing so maddening. But anyway, it's love it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
When it cuts off my engine while I'm in the
diamond lane because I'm doing so much against climate change.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh you people, God, you have no grasp of reality.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And guess why it's going away? Trump Trump administration said
it's bullshit. It doesn't do anything. We're getting rid of it.
I mean yeah, and people hate it. So there you go.
There's that one. To mention this before we get to
the h I'm from kurtin No, North Korea, South Korea.
The dumb list of the top party schools for college
(02:14):
in America came out, as it always does every year.
Oh yeah, and the older I get, the dumb. I
thought the list was dumb when I was young. I mean,
for each individual human being. There's nothing stopping you from
partying as hurt as much as you want.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I can attest to that.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, everyone can attest to that. So yeah, so well,
I would have really partied a lot harder if I'd
have been at this school instead of that school. Give
me a break.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Boy, am drunken out of my mind on shrooms and
listening to a great band. But I sure wish I
was at a good party school.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Right Anyway, this year the number one party school is
Santa Barbara. You see Santa Barbara. Man, if you're going
to you see Santa Barbara. You're partying, You're on the beach,
You're like the nice spot on planet Earth. Practically while
you're in your pretending to go to college, in many
cases learning nothing, doing nothing but partying. That's quite the lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
My kid could have gotten into UC Santa Barbara and
said no, no, the program's not strong enough, and I'm like, wow,
you're better than me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I spent a couple of days in Santa Barbara a
year before last with the kids. Were at a hotel.
I don't remember where we were going, but anyway, I
thought people go to college and live here and that's
just it's stunning.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Okay, yeah, there was, and it would be wonderful. On
the other hand, there was absolutely zero to recommend where
I went to school, Like, geographically, there's nothing Champagne or
ban Illinois.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Go there sometime.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Trust me, there's no reason to be there except that
there's a university there.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And we managed to have a hell of a time.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, yeah, the same. I mean, I went to college
in a place where most people don't want to be,
and it's all about people. I mean, you're hanging out
with people, you really really like, you're having the time
of your life. You could be you could be somewhere
looking at the ocean. If you don't have good friends
you're hanging out with, you would I mean, it's not
like you're not going to make friends at that college.
But that's the key, is the the people thing.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yep here here, So speaking of collegen careers and getting
ahead and that sort of thing, this is amusing slash interesting.
I brought the story at least once to the show
that North Korea is profiting enormously by providing remote technical
workers for US tech firms because they have so many
(04:44):
you know, computer geeks and all that work all over
the world, but they're not allowed to hire North Koreans,
and so the North Koreans go to a great deal
of trouble to hide the fact that they're North Korean.
Sometimes they'll hire a Meamurricans or other people around the
world to do a video interview. Then they actually take
(05:05):
over and do the work to bring revenue to the
North Korean regime, which is desperate for hard currency. Also
they gather intelligence through that. But anyway, this is actual
audio and video, which won't do you much good in
this context of an Asian IT worker who has claimed
to be South Korean and the interviewer wants to make sure.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah, I mean, I was in the process of saying, like,
we get like a lot of impost candidates, you know,
particularly North Koreans, like posing as like people that they're not.
So one of the tests that we do is trying
to get them to say something like Kim Johnan is
a fat ugly pig.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Could you say that for me? No, Kim Johnan, you know,
the leader of North Korea.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Yeah, I sort I see, yeah, yeah, if you could,
because because it's it's one test so that I know
that you're not not North Korean.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Yeah, okay, say damn, he really don't want to say it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He got up and left and we cut out some
of the hesitation because it got a little long. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Wow, I don't know how was looking wide eyed.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Into the camera.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I don't know how comfortable I am with that. Yeah.
I mean, you don't want to put money in the
pocket of the North Korean government. But maybe that guy
gets to feed his family on something other than three
kernels of corn if he does the job, and if
he gets caught, he's going to be murdered, and perhaps
his old family and the thing they do in North
Korea like the next two generations or whatever to make
(06:57):
sure that they made their point.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You're a compassionate man, Jack, but a sap I will
point out that these companies they can't hire North Koreans,
and that's a full proof test.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, I'd say that's a full proof test. How often
is that to live in a country where you couldn't
even come close to whispering that you don't approve of
the current leader, or you'll end a ball.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh my god, you couldn't even say, you know, there
are moments I wonder whether the regime is making the
right decisions.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You execute a fag paper.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Kim Jong un is a fat, ugly pig. He is.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Somebody should play that audio for all of the people
touting the big fat Trump wearing a diaper things that
these no kids saying no dictator.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You want to see a dictator?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, well said yeah, jack asses.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Wow, it's heavy.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I mean it's it's It was amusing on one level,
but it's it's heavy.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You don't think Kim jong un is a he's big boned,
You just think you think he's no.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I think he's.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Big guy, handsome, not a bad looking fella. If I
swung that way, you know, was his dad friend he
could to give you a hell of a lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Was his dad or granddad fat? I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yes, they're all rotund.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Is that a flex? Like just look at me and
I guess so much.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I've got all this food while you starve kind of
a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't know if it's a flex or just a
function of having that much food and booze.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Probably not very flex.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
A bull.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Good, but he probably has people to put his shoes
on for him. And his daughter's just as evil as
he is. Oh yeah, and she's gonna be in charge his.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Thirteen year old daughter.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Oh yeah, there aparent, Yeah she was. They did some
big weapons displayed the other day, and there's video her
driving around in a tank and she I mean, she's
gonna she's gonna be him with hormones.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
She's a bad one though.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Kind of a looker.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wow, she's a great analysis there, she's thirteen.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Jesus dude. Wow, sounded like Trump back in the day. Okay,
she was disturbing.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Ah yeah, So they have her dressing like him. They
altered her haircut so it looks a little more like
his girl version.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And then are they feeding her cake all day long?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And again, the weight, I don't think is that significant
an aspect of this. But she's also now consistently pictured
right next to him and official important state functions, and
the one thing Korea watchers know is proximity at those
events is everything. That is the pecking order.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Got those dictators in your old daughter, those dictatorships. And
I can't believe that they actually do this because I
would think it would be counterproductive at some point. But
I was listening to about when the Soviets tested their
first atomic weapon to let the world know. Hey, ain't
just the United States got an atomic weapon. We got
one too. Stalin was there to see it. All the
(10:08):
scientists knew they were going to be executed if it
didn't work. Wow, they were told that. So if you're
a nuclear scientist on the bomb, you were there hoping
it went off because you were going to be executed. Yeah,
and it went off and it went off. Okay, so
they got an award.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Hey boss, Seeing the nature of sciences, you fail and
you learn from it and then you do better next time.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah. Right, do you want this cigarette? Or don't you?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Or or I can think of more clearly, and my
hands are a little more steady if I don't think
I'm going to be executed if I screw up. I'm
just surprised they think it's a productive way to do things.
And there's there's like eight of me in the whole
country that know how to do this. You're gonna execute
me if this one doesn't work. But that was the
plan and they all knew it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Kidnap a German and make him do it. Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Crazy, So we're anti dictatorship then, okay, yes, decided yep.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Guess well, he don't want war. That's one thing he
don't want.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Said in the past that he would destroy the United States.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
People run in the world, run a world. You know.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
One of the weirdest things I saw on sixty Minutes
one time about North Korea is they have traffic guards
that stand out on these empty roads directing traffic that
doesn't exist. They just they just wave track it traffic through,
tell him to stop. But it's just a guards standing
out there doing that for hours a day.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
And Dennis Rodman, the greatest rebounder of all time in
the NBA, went to visit.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Right strike a piece of cord for some reason.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
Well, I guess that's it.
What men.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm totally South Korean. Seoul Soul, great city. You should
come visit me someday. It's one more thing. I like
the noise, the classic Simpson's tugging at the collar noise.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
A couple of things. First, this was a good clickbait
meat for me. The other day in the Wall Street Journal,
the thing on modern cars that people hate the most
is going away. Oh did you see that, bait?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I have no idea, but I'm hoping that it's what
I'm thinking.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
The automatic shut off thing, yes, oh my god, it
stops running for like thirty seconds, accomplishing freaking nothing. I
don't care what anybody says. They can't add up to anything.
They showed some studies. Some studies show yeah, studies from
universities where they reward scientists who talk about climate change.
You can't convince me it makes any difference to have
(01:01):
your car stop running from idling for thirty seconds A
couple of times a day.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Dangerous, It can be, definitely. I had the problem where
I need to go when my car is dead, but
trying to make a left turn and you break enough
that it cuts the engine. Then you go to go
and it hesitates and.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yep, next thing you know, you're getting rear ended. Oh
I hate that feature hardly.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
My car, I can turn it off, but some cars
you have to, like order, you have to have a
mechanic install some gizmo to defeat it.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I can hit a button to turn it off in
my car, but I have to do it every time
I turn the car on.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, just stupid. Is stupid? Forced climate change bullshit, accomplished
nothing so maddening. But anyway, it's love it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
When it cuts off my engine while I'm in the
diamond lane because I'm doing so much against climate change.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh you people, God, you have no grasp of reality.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And guess why it's going away? Trump Trump administration said
it's bullshit. It doesn't do anything. We're getting rid of it.
I mean yeah, and people hate it. So there you go.
There's that one. To mention this before we get to
the h I'm from kurtin No, North Korea, South Korea.
The dumb list of the top party schools for college
(02:14):
in America came out, as it always does every year.
Oh yeah, and the older I get, the dumb. I
thought the list was dumb when I was young. I mean,
for each individual human being. There's nothing stopping you from
partying as hurt as much as you want.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I can attest to that.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, everyone can attest to that. So yeah, so well,
I would have really partied a lot harder if I'd
have been at this school instead of that school. Give
me a break.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Boy, am drunken out of my mind on shrooms and
listening to a great band. But I sure wish I
was at a good party school.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Right Anyway, this year the number one party school is
Santa Barbara. You see Santa Barbara. Man, if you're going
to you see Santa Barbara. You're partying, You're on the beach,
You're like the nice spot on planet Earth. Practically while
you're in your pretending to go to college, in many
cases learning nothing, doing nothing but partying. That's quite the lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
My kid could have gotten into UC Santa Barbara and
said no, no, the program's not strong enough, and I'm like, wow,
you're better than me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I spent a couple of days in Santa Barbara a
year before last with the kids. Were at a hotel.
I don't remember where we were going, but anyway, I
thought people go to college and live here and that's
just it's stunning.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Okay, yeah, there was, and it would be wonderful. On
the other hand, there was absolutely zero to recommend where
I went to school, Like, geographically, there's nothing Champagne or
ban Illinois.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Go there sometime.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Trust me, there's no reason to be there except that
there's a university there.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And we managed to have a hell of a time.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, yeah, the same. I mean, I went to college
in a place where most people don't want to be,
and it's all about people. I mean, you're hanging out
with people, you really really like, you're having the time
of your life. You could be you could be somewhere
looking at the ocean. If you don't have good friends
you're hanging out with, you would I mean, it's not
like you're not going to make friends at that college.
But that's the key, is the the people thing.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yep here here, So speaking of collegen careers and getting
ahead and that sort of thing, this is amusing slash interesting.
I brought the story at least once to the show
that North Korea is profiting enormously by providing remote technical
workers for US tech firms because they have so many
(04:44):
you know, computer geeks and all that work all over
the world, but they're not allowed to hire North Koreans,
and so the North Koreans go to a great deal
of trouble to hide the fact that they're North Korean.
Sometimes they'll hire a Meamurricans or other people around the
world to do a video interview. Then they actually take
(05:05):
over and do the work to bring revenue to the
North Korean regime, which is desperate for hard currency. Also
they gather intelligence through that. But anyway, this is actual
audio and video, which won't do you much good in
this context of an Asian IT worker who has claimed
to be South Korean and the interviewer wants to make sure.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah, I mean, I was in the process of saying, like,
we get like a lot of impost candidates, you know,
particularly North Koreans, like posing as like people that they're not.
So one of the tests that we do is trying
to get them to say something like Kim Johnan is
a fat ugly pig.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Could you say that for me? No, Kim Johnan, you know,
the leader of North Korea.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Yeah, I sort I see, yeah, yeah, if you could,
because because it's it's one test so that I know
that you're not not North Korean.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Yeah, okay, say damn, he really don't want to say it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He got up and left and we cut out some
of the hesitation because it got a little long. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Wow, I don't know how was looking wide eyed.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Into the camera.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I don't know how comfortable I am with that. Yeah.
I mean, you don't want to put money in the
pocket of the North Korean government. But maybe that guy
gets to feed his family on something other than three
kernels of corn if he does the job, and if
he gets caught, he's going to be murdered, and perhaps
his old family and the thing they do in North
Korea like the next two generations or whatever to make
(06:57):
sure that they made their point.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You're a compassionate man, Jack, but a sap I will
point out that these companies they can't hire North Koreans,
and that's a full proof test.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, I'd say that's a full proof test. How often
is that to live in a country where you couldn't
even come close to whispering that you don't approve of
the current leader, or you'll end a ball.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh my god, you couldn't even say, you know, there
are moments I wonder whether the regime is making the
right decisions.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You execute a fag paper.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Kim Jong un is a fat, ugly pig. He is.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Somebody should play that audio for all of the people
touting the big fat Trump wearing a diaper things that
these no kids saying no dictator.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You want to see a dictator?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, well said yeah, jack asses.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Wow, it's heavy.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I mean it's it's It was amusing on one level,
but it's it's heavy.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You don't think Kim jong un is a he's big boned,
You just think you think he's no.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I think he's.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Big guy, handsome, not a bad looking fella. If I
swung that way, you know, was his dad friend he
could to give you a hell of a lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Was his dad or granddad fat? I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yes, they're all rotund.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Is that a flex? Like just look at me and
I guess so much.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I've got all this food while you starve kind of
a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't know if it's a flex or just a
function of having that much food and booze.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Probably not very flex.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
A bull.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Good, but he probably has people to put his shoes
on for him. And his daughter's just as evil as
he is. Oh yeah, and she's gonna be in charge his.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Thirteen year old daughter.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Oh yeah, there aparent, Yeah she was. They did some
big weapons displayed the other day, and there's video her
driving around in a tank and she I mean, she's
gonna she's gonna be him with hormones.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
She's a bad one though.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Kind of a looker.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wow, she's a great analysis there, she's thirteen.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Jesus dude. Wow, sounded like Trump back in the day. Okay,
she was disturbing.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Ah yeah, So they have her dressing like him. They
altered her haircut so it looks a little more like
his girl version.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And then are they feeding her cake all day long?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And again, the weight, I don't think is that significant
an aspect of this. But she's also now consistently pictured
right next to him and official important state functions, and
the one thing Korea watchers know is proximity at those
events is everything. That is the pecking order.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Got those dictators in your old daughter, those dictatorships. And
I can't believe that they actually do this because I
would think it would be counterproductive at some point. But
I was listening to about when the Soviets tested their
first atomic weapon to let the world know. Hey, ain't
just the United States got an atomic weapon. We got
one too. Stalin was there to see it. All the
(10:08):
scientists knew they were going to be executed if it
didn't work. Wow, they were told that. So if you're
a nuclear scientist on the bomb, you were there hoping
it went off because you were going to be executed. Yeah,
and it went off and it went off. Okay, so
they got an award.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Hey boss, Seeing the nature of sciences, you fail and
you learn from it and then you do better next time.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah. Right, do you want this cigarette? Or don't you?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Or or I can think of more clearly, and my
hands are a little more steady if I don't think
I'm going to be executed if I screw up. I'm
just surprised they think it's a productive way to do things.
And there's there's like eight of me in the whole
country that know how to do this. You're gonna execute
me if this one doesn't work. But that was the
plan and they all knew it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Kidnap a German and make him do it. Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Crazy, So we're anti dictatorship then, okay, yes, decided yep.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Guess well, he don't want war. That's one thing he
don't want.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Said in the past that he would destroy the United States.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
People run in the world, run a world. You know.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
One of the weirdest things I saw on sixty Minutes
one time about North Korea is they have traffic guards
that stand out on these empty roads directing traffic that
doesn't exist. They just they just wave track it traffic through,
tell him to stop. But it's just a guards standing
out there doing that for hours a day.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
And Dennis Rodman, the greatest rebounder of all time in
the NBA, went to visit.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Right strike a piece of cord for some reason.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
Well, I guess that's it.
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