July 21, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Katty and he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Hetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It was halftime of the w NBA All Star Game,
a lopsided affair, which brought this analysis all.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Right cool again. We hope it gets a little bit
more competitive because like a girl trip to kankun right now,
there's no deed. He's a twenty two point gamer.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Like a girl's trip to kangkuon, there was.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
No d Did she mean to imply? Was she failing
to spell out a common euphemism for the male genitals?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I thought that was funny.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, d That's that went by me. It's like, well,
what oh do you mean? Dick?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Wow? Thanks for saying that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh speaking of witch, how not to be one? And
speaking of sports, I'm gonna hurt some feelings here. I'm
gonna do some damage, oh boy, And I'm glad on
a Monday. I can't wait. There are two kinds of people, Jack,
those who tend to group people into two kinds and
(01:28):
those who don't know it's a joke. Our topic here
is sports and sports events, and somebody says to you, hey,
don't tell me what happened. I can't wait to watch
it on the DVR. Okay, there are two kinds of people,
(01:49):
and the second kind are not welcome on the camp
CanCon trip cause they're dicks. Group number one here is, hey,
don't tell me who won the British Open, because I
really want to go watch it on the dvr. Group
one says, cool, you got it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No, I says, hey, but you're gonna be disappointed.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Right Group two dicks say, well, you're gonna love it,
especially if you're rooting for Scottie Scheffler. I despise you.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I despise you.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
You are I'm going to psychoanalyze you. All you're doing.
There is saying I know something you don't do, and
I have power over you, and I'm going to tell
you it's pathetic. It's sad. You have the choice between
an act of kindness and showing off like a four
year old that you know something, and you have chosen
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the second. Damn you, Damn you.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I think I was four years old when I ran
into the house one time and said to my dad,
would it be a big problem if mam rand into
the garage with the car, why do you ask son?
Oh man, uh yeah, I know, I know. Or it's
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similar with the movie I'm going to see whatever. Oh boy,
waite till you see what happens with and then they
lay something out.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Why why did you do that? Up? I get to
show off knowledge.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You've seen it.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And I haven't.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I mean, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, I just I probably shouldn't go on.
I've hurt enough feelings as I do everywhere I go.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
My problem is, you know, I suppose I could avoid
this by not having my phone handy all the time. Oh,
the problem is I watch almost all sports on my phone.
I'm behind on a baseball game, football game, basketball game, whatever,
particularly championships, and then well the news bulletin will scroll
down on my thing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You know, the Yankees when they're fourth time.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Ah, why did you do that? I'm still watching, you know.
I meant to mention that it's in if if you
if that happens, that's entirely on you. Oh of course
you got to go to full radio silence. That's happened
to me before. And a buddy said, dude, if you
don't want to hear about it, turn off your you know,
go to do not disturb so you don't see my
text come in. That's not on me. And I said,
you know what, you're absolutely right, yeah, yea, so sure anyway,
(04:25):
that's what I did. But and oddly enough, the guy
who said something to me about the British open history
said something so weird and vague. It turned out not
to give anything away, but it felt like he had
to say something very strange. All right, speaking of hurting feelings,
(04:47):
we are both fully cognizant of the fact that we
are a nation of immigrants quote unquote how the country
got formed the believes of immigrants through history. Blah yeah,
huddle as, that's right, that's that the old statue of liberty.
Ought to mind your own damn business as just like
a seventy foot tall woman, you know, gotta give her opinion. Anyway,
(05:09):
that's kind of a lead up to a discussion. I
saw a headline in the Pinia section of the Journal
Colbert in the end of Late night TV, and I'm like, what,
I don't care. That doesn't matter to me whether Colbert
has a show or not. That's a stupid article. I'm
canceling my subscription then I saw it was written by
(05:31):
Ben Sass, of all people, former Midwestern senator, a president
of the University of Florida system helped them get away
from woke, reformed them. And I admire Ben as a
thinker a great deal. And so I read this and
the first part was about the dollars and cents a
little bit and the politicization blah blah blah. But then
he got into his main point, which ought to be
(05:57):
incredibly controversial, except nobody read this and knows it happened
back when it used to be crazy fashionable to say
diversity is our greatest strength. And that was said over
and over and over again. It was the classic lie
that becomes the truth just through repetition, and I would
(06:19):
frequently respond, no, unity is our greatest strength. Diversity can
be cool and interesting, but clearly unity is our greatest strength.
And Ben's main point in this part about the Colbert
Show is that we are seeing the fading of the
final vestiges of common culture. And he talks about, you know,
(06:40):
it's not nearly as significant as Carson and Letterman and
that sort of thing, but it is a national show
people watch even fairly small numbers, and how we're losing that.
He writes, here's the main point. As much as the
big guys made a meaningful mark on American culture, they
weren't essential to the life of the republic. But this
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fading of an era is occasional to acknowledge that having
some shared things does matter to a stable political culture.
The Founders fully understood this. Here's the controversial part. When Poplius,
which was a pen name, obviously wrote about the preconditions
for a free society In Federalists Too, he declared Americans
quote one united people, speaking the same language, professing the
(07:25):
same religion, attached to the same principles of.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Government, were none of those things.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Now, the Constitution requires a certain amount of unity, at
least a minimal shared conception of the common good. The
monoculture of the twentieth century was by no means robust
enough for what the Founders thought we must share. But
as it fades to black and were increasingly siloed by
algorithms in the digitization of daily life, it's important to
understand together that will likely never have a shared mass
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culture to unite us again, and America depends on a
shared sense of we. I'd say the.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Closest thing we have at this point.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I think about this with music a lot, because like
my one son was really into one kind of music
and my other son's into a different kind. But when
like Joe and I were young, because we're one hundred
years old, like, there's there's like everybody listened to mostly
the same thing pretty much. I mean, there's this if
if a song was a hit, if a song was
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a big hit, everybody knew it, even if it wasn't
your cup of tea, everybody knew the big hit. But
there's nothing close to that now. I think the only
thing we have left is the NFL. The NFL would
be the closest to it.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, I think so. And then his final final point
is the task of rebuilding a shared constitutional CIVIX thus
has never been more urgent, his point being m we
don't have a common one united people exactly speaking the
same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same
(09:00):
principles of government, watching the same shows. So we'd better
make sure that the same principle as a government thing
is taught and understood by everybody. In other words, yeah,
the universal support for the Constitution came from universally held values,
and we don't really have those anymore. So we really
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really need to teach the kids why our system is
great and why it works so well. I don't and
in schools they're doing the opposite.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I don't actually know how big a deal this is.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
The no common experiences, it makes life less fun. It
certainly doesn't seem like having less in common does this
any good. No, You're gonna have music that certain groups
listen to, and TV shows and movies that certain groups
watch and listen to. And I guarantee you like we
(09:54):
play a lot of clips from Greg Guttfeld, who actually
has pretty good ratings compared to the the late night shows.
Sometimes he's the number one. I guarantee you there's giant
chunks of America have never even heard his name.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Oh yeah, well, I was just gonna say. That's part
of the reason our politics is so corrosive at this
point is people are siloing themselves in a lot of
different ways, whether you know just their social circles or
their online circles or where they live. And they don't
know if they're progressives, liberals, they don't know conservatives and
(10:32):
vice versa. So it makes it much more easy to
imagine them some sort of horrific demons. I remember that
was one of the main thrusts of the gay rights
movement and why so many were enthusiastic about urging people
to come out of the closet. It's because when you
found out that your accountant, your neighbor, your co worker,
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your whatever, was gay, and they seemed perfectly fine, they
just swung a different way that made it much more
difficult to indulge some sort of weird conception you might
have had in your mind.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, I agree with Ben Sass overall. I don't think
Colbert is the reason to write this article.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Though.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
He had abandoned any sense of trying to talk to
all of America a long time ago, so people who
lean right haven't been watching him for years. He was
only speaking to lefties already.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I think Ben Sass was just looking for an excuse
to write what he really wanted to write. Gotcha, it'll
be interesting to see going forward. Unity is our greatest strength.
I stand by those words. Will you be around to
see the future. Take these simple tests at home to
see how well you're aging or wherever you are.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I remember when we did the one about how many
times you could stand up from a chair with your
arms crossed over your chest was a really good predictor
of your life expectancy.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
That's actually one of them.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Okay, my parents did that when they heard us talking
about that, and scored very well. I look forward to this,
stay tuned, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Obviously, Bill could not work as Billy Joel, so he
got a job at a place called the Executive Room.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
My full name is William Martin Joel, so I was
Bill Martin at the keyboards.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It was a small local.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Bar and it had one of these pianos that had
a leatherette rim around it so people could lean on
the piano while they were drinking. I knew this is
a real life experience, and I thought I got to
get a song out of this. And that's where the
Piano Man song came from.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
New documentary about Billy Joel coming out and he is
explaining where Piano Man came from. I as a Billy
Joel fanatic back when I was in high school, I
knew that story is on the run from some people
and didn't want to be found. Back when you could
do that sort of thing just went by his middle name,
any who.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Lovely fella getting older. I had to cancel some shows lately.
Billy Well crashed into the same house twice. It's a
nice house right there at the corner. What are you
gonna do? Billy should take a number of these simple
home tests that can give you a good idea of
how well you're aging, how you ought to pick up
(13:23):
your effort. Yes, I'm exemplary. My aging process is amazing.
These simple home tests can give you a good idea.
No fancy lab require just a toothbrush. Just stop watch
any sense of humor? What do I gotta do with
that toothbrush? Oh boy? One and surprisingly useful way to
test your balance is to stand on one leg while
brushing your teeth.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I'm not good at it, saying, but I never have been. Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I don't want to get us distracted. But I've never
been good at standing on one lady.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Uh, yeah, you know. It's funny part of the fitness
thing I'm doing, which is partly golf related. But they
work on your balance, that's import and for any sport.
And I am a miserable failure at standing on one
leg with my eyes closed, and so there are different
increments that you practice on, but they want you to
get to a certain number of seconds, and it's really
hard for me.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
One of my kids can do that. He could do
it all day long. Wow, for some reason.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So if you can stand on one leg while brushing
your teeth for thirty seconds or more, that's a great
sign of lower body strength, coordination, and postural stability.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Oh that's what I'm always looking for.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
The ps A twenty twenty two study found that people
who could not balance on one leg for ten seconds
had an eighty four percent higher risk.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Of falling over to death.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No death over a median follow up of seven years,
compared to those who could.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
That's incredible, I mean that's quite a number. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Well, and most er doctors could tell you why. Balance
is like a superpower for healthy aging. It reduces falls,
which is a huge source of damage and death and infection,
supports mobility, and can be improved at any age.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Okay, yeah, one thing.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
In the way of my joint replates replacements, I realized
a lot of my muscles had shortened an atrophied in
ways I hadn't understood. And the stabilizing muscles that are
like you know, everybody knows the quads and the hamstrings
and stuff like that, but it's the little muscles around
the edges that stabilize you that are really important anyway,
So there's the uh, standing on one leg for as
long as you can at least ten seconds. Grip strength
(15:30):
is more than just opening jars. It's a powerful indicator
of overall health, predicting heart health, cognitive function, and even
mortality risk. You can test grip strength mind is outstanding
using a hand dynamomeiter or.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Simply we'll get mine out, oh.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, or simply taking a note of everyday tasks, is
opening bottles, carrying groceries, or using tools becoming harder.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well, we've talked about this before.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Grip strength has been going down for males generation by
generational lot.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh yeah, yeah. Let's see the floor to feet feet
Now this has got two versions. Can you sit on
the floor and stand without using your hands? Yes, but
there's going to be a hell of a lot of grunting.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I don't know that I can, Like, I don't know floor,
how how am I sitting?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
However you want?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I don't know if there's a way I could sit
that I could stand up without using my hands. I
have to think about that.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
This is a test of a it's a true measure
of your lower body strength and flexibility, which are essential
for daily activities and again reduce the risk of falls.
If you can do it, you're in great shape. If
it's too tough, tough, try the sit to stand test,
which you mentioned in the prior segment, using a chair
no arms. See how many sit to stand transitions you
can do in thirty seconds that I was.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Really good on. I'll have to try this sitting down
and standing up thing. I'll do that during the commercials.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I will not because of all the grunting there is that.
There are actually a couple of mental tests that we
don't have time for. We can get to those next segment. Okay, yeah,
they're super easy too. I want to know when I'm
going to die so I can spend accordingly.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I mean, if it's going to be like next year,
I'm going to go out and get a new car.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Might as well. Okay, all that's on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Stay here, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
So we're discussing various physical things you do can do
to measure how likely it is you're going to live
to a ripe, old age or die soon and a
couple of them I tried during the commercial break. Now
I simulated brushing my teeth standing on one leg. I
can do that as long as I need to do it.
So I'm okay on that one. But the okay before
we move on, Well, I was doing that one.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I thought, you know, it'd be funny if I lost
my balance doing this, fell over, crack my head, and died.
That would be He was trying to do a test
to assess how well he was aging and whether he
might die when he lost his balance. It's a sad story.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So but the get up from sit on the floor
and get up from the floor without using your hands.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I think, go ahead? Sorry, Well, how do everybody who
did that during the commercial break? Pardon me? Has the
same question? The same question I have. Do your elbows count?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I wasn't thinking about that, but that's a good question. Uh,
how do you sit on the floor? I don't know
how I would sit. Nobody's made me sit on the
floor since I was in like fifth grade, and good
luck trying sit on the floor. I'm not sitting on
the floor. You asked hat tell me while I'm standing up,
or get me a chimmy chair.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Shut up.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
So I haven't I haven't sat upon a floor. How
would you sit on a floor?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well, I have certainly been amongst youngsters, particularly teenage girls
in my coaching career, who could sit Indian style. See
and at Trump's behest, I've stopped saying Chris Cross applesauce
number one because I'm not five years old number two. Anyway,
they would and they would just like push themselves up
like they or on some sort of scissors machine to
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rise up. And there's no freaking way I was doing that.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I can't sit Indian leg style, which might be a
sign if I sit on my butt with my legs out,
there's no way I can stand up without using my hands.
I can't even imagine how you could. And I'm in
like the best shape.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Exactly my experience. I was like, wait a minute, I
can't even conceive from.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Right, and I'm like the best shape of my life
in terms of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
But I so, I don't know how you'd sit on
the floor.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
If I'm if I were were to sit on the floor,
and I'm like kneeling, but sitting on my heels, is that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Considered sitting on the floor, I can stand up from there.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I don't know sitting I think your your butt is
in full contact.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I can't even imagine the way in which I would
try to stand from me.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Interestingly, it said without using your hands. Well it's got
to mean arms.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
You can't use your elbows, and yeah, that'd be the
same thing as using your hands.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
What percentage of grown ass men can possibly get up
from sitting without using their arms? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Maybe not very many.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Anyway, so very very briefly, if you're just tuning in
where were you? Secondly, test your balance standing on one leg.
Will brushing your teeth thirty seconds or more as great,
But if you can't do it for ten seconds, you'll
probably be dead by the end of the week. Grip
strength in general, but your teeth will be shiny and white.
(20:27):
We did that. We did the floor to feet feet
and the sit to stand test using a chair no arms.
See how many sit to stand transitions you can do
in thirty seconds? And they don't really give a scale,
but I would suggest if you can't do you know
a good I could.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Look that up.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
The New York Times had it when we did it
last year, they had the number you should have at
each age range, and my dad was like doing it
like a twenty five year old.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Sitting on the edge of the chair, hands folded over
your chest and you stand up, sit by down, stand up,
sit back down.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
And for probably interrelated reasons, you can figure out it's
a good measure of lower limb function, balance and muscle strength,
but can also predict people at risk and falls in
cardiovascular issues, probably because the one is that leads directly
to the other.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, it's interesting. The thing was from the New York
Times article.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It was.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
The ability to like quickly catch your balance if you
stumble is a real big deal when you're old, and
do you have that or not? Like you trip or something,
can you get that other leg out to stop yourself
from all going all the way down.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Or not right? Which is why I constantly practice my
soft shoe dancing.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Skills' thy, I'm in my tap. That's why I'm constantly
tripping people. I stand bying corners and I just stick
my leg out. I'm helping you.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Say you have a deficit, you wouldn't be sprawled out
on the floor like that if you have normal react
blah blah bah cognitive function. There are all sorts of
complex and sophisticated tests, but some basic home tests are
surprisingly telling. Try naming as many animals as you can
in thirty seconds. Fewer than twelve might indicate concern Taylor,
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more than eighteen is it?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That is an idiot? Human?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Right?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Indeed, as many animals as you can in thirty seconds? Yeah,
and how many do I need to do to not
be insane?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Get more than fewer than twelve is a problem. More
than eighteen is a really good sign.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Okay, I might try that later.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah. Try spelling the word world backwards d l r
ow d lr, you got it? Or recalling a short
list of three items after a few minutes. It's an
important strategy to enhance memory and older adults. And then
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they get in something of hippopotamus. They'd never heard anybody
do it that well, Apple, hippopotamus. Doctor. These kinds of oh,
challenge yourself with puzzles, sudoko, learn a new skill. These
kinds of verbal fluency and memory recall tests are simple
ways to spot early changes and brain health. But don't
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panic if you blank. Occasionally, everyone forgets where they left
their keys sometimes or names and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It's just an inevitable part of aging. Start a thirty
second time, or somebody, somebody do this for me. You ready, Michael,
Here we go thirty. I'm gonna go cat, dog, wildebeast, rhinoceros, giraffe, lion, pig, duck, snake, fish, Uh.
(23:38):
Out of animals already? But how many did I have there?
Didn't wake out?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You think you got eleven? Okay, so I'm no, oh, no,
wow at eleven when you know what you know what
I found, I'd like to analyze your performance. I would
have stuck, like, gone from geographic area a geographic area
because you hit like some African creatures, then immediately went
(24:05):
like one or two farm creatures and a domestic I
would have exhausted all domestic creatures, moved on to the farm.
If I had it to Africa, if I had time.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
To strategize, I would do that, and I think I
would do well. But off the top of the see
it came to me in the blink of an eye. Well,
clearly that's a difference. I'm not gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
As I'm rolling around, grunting on my elbows trying to
get up in the air. Oh yeah, I'm a model
a youth. Me me.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I can I can walk around stand on one leg fine,
But there I am lacking.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Animals to shout at people.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Here is I believe this practically like a religion puzzles
and learning new skills and the fact that it's when
you feel frustrated that you're doing yourself some good. It
can't be you know, like the Monday New York Times
crossword puzzle to get harder through the weeks, Saturdays really hard,
Sunday's got a weird theme, and it takes brain power
(25:02):
to figure out if I'm just doing the Monday Tuesday
cross for puzzles not doing me any good. It's the
hard ones that I think, damn it, that's when you're
really improving your brain. Or you've talked a great deal
about practicing an instrument and struggling with getting down a
particular you know, liquor technique or whatever, that's when your
brain is like de aging.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yeah, so I've got that pretty good because I work
on that almost every single day, learning a piano part
or whatever, and it's like so frustrating. It's like, God,
sometimes I have to get and walk away from it.
It's like, how could I not get this?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I need to do that more? All right? I did
were very good on those animals. Oh that was really troubling,
really troubling. Come on that.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
So my body's gonna hold up, but I'm gonna have
severe dementia.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Cow, pig, horse, donkey, sheep, terrible, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Dear, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I'm disturbed by this getting up off the floor with
no hands thing, because because I'm pretty happy with like
I said, I go to the gym every day. I'm stretching,
I'm doing all the stuff I should have been doing
my whole life. I'm like the peak performance of my life.
There's no way I can get up off the floor
without using my hands.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I just don't think it's possible. No, But I'm not
sure I ever could have.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, is it like I'm tempted to go over there
and try it, But is it You've gotta no, I
just can't. Is it somehow you get a leg er
under you and twist around like you're trying to escape
the Houdini over here? Trying to contort myself out of
my chains before I drown.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Right, I'm gonna try it again during commercials. I'm gonna
try the sitting Indian leg style and then standing up
from there. I think that's my only chane. I am
wearing jeans and cowboy boots too, so that's probably doesn't.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Help, but not exactly. Jim Ware, Yeah, all.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Right, I'll work on that.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
People want us to post this because they want to
try it themselves and see.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Absolutely will make sure the link is available on under
hot links at armstrong and geddy dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Everybody wants to know how long they're gonna live in
the brains are gonna work. We'll finish strong coming up next.
One of the fun things about Gavin Newsom, governor of California,
is so obviously running for president and not hiding it
is you get to like watch the machinery of the process,
(27:38):
knowing it while it's happening. A lot of times this
stuff is kind of done more subtly and behind closed doors.
I think we're all more savvy now too. When a
politician puts out a book, he's probably gonna put out
a book, almost guaranteed gonna put out a book at
some point. I mean that that's a I'm running for president,
and he's doing all these different interviews and taking various
positions to get himself ready to run for the nomination
(27:59):
and then run for president. He's been going on some
supposedly hostile podcasts and then saying some supposedly gutty things
that I've always found incredibly tipid. Like I thought his
answer on the should boys being girls' sports.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Was a nothing?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It was like a nothing, Well.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It's an issue of fairness.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And then he never said where he was on it,
What are you talking about to me? Does the same
thing here? I shouldn't have given it away. I should
have let you figured out on your own. He's on
Sean Ryan's podcast. I know people who like are big
fans of Sean Ryan. Guy Lean's right. So Gavin Newsom
went on there. Sean Ryan asks him about sex changes
for kids who believe they're you know, got that trans
(28:44):
thingy going. You know, how old is too young? He
actually asked, Gavin Newsom, is eight years old too young
to have, you know, the medical treatments?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And this is what Gavin said, what about for your values?
I mean, is eight years old too young?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I mean, look, I now that I have a nine
year old just became nine. Come on, man, I get it.
So those are legit. You know, it's interesting just the
issue of age. I haven't.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I'm as I and there's someone that's been so focused
on equality broadly LGBT rights, particularly gay marriage.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
The trans issue for me is also novel. It's it's
over the last few years. I'm trying to understand as
much as anyone else, whole pronoun thing.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Trying to understand all of that.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Well, you know that was like the hell, I mean
all that stuff, I get it, this, all this stuff
started to collapse on us. I joked with Charlie about LATINX.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, he never says anything. He just makes noises about, Hey,
we're all dealing with this. I get it, I understand,
I get it. Yeah, I get Wait, yeah, so like
my question or yeah to my proposition, or it's so
naked what he's trying to do. Well, I thought I
was trying to seem sympathetic and like I totally agree
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with you, but never saying well.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I thought it was transparent.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
But then that answer he gave whenever That was a
couple of months ago on that podcast about the look
it's an issue of fairness, and it was he got
attacked by people on the woke left for you know,
betraying the LGBTQ community, and then everybody thought, wow.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Look at him trying to tack toward the center.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
What he didn't say a freaking thing. Well that that indicates, though,
that you have to if you are part of that cult,
you know exactly what you're supposed to say in that moment,
and there's only one acceptable answer, and that's to say
that depends on the child. Wow, the child's parent.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
That counts as adventurous to just not go all in yes.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Wow, Well I don't have to convince you of that.
You saw it happen.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
True.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
All he said was it's an issue fairness. I think
underlying we all sense that it's about a fairness. But
he never actually said anything, and for that he was
whipped by the progressive left.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Well, how about this one on the medical treatment for
eight year old? How could you possibly.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
See to me?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
This works in reverse the fact that he's unwilling to
immediately say, no freaking way you should be giving drugs
or doing operations.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
On an eight year old?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Right, Yeah, anything short of that is you're way too
close to being an agreement, but.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
For him trying to have it both ways obviously, and.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Then after he hums and hawns, well, I got a
nine year old, so you know, wow, you know you
know what I'm saying. I mean, come on, I get it,
you get what And then he retreats quickly to gay marriage.
I mean, I've been a big support of it. We're
not talking about gay marriage. We're talking about.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Trapperdes kind of new you know, I feel you.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Way to retreat to great gay marriage, which has like
seventy five eighty percent approval by everyone in America when
we're talking about should you cut the penis off an.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Eight year old?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Right?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
That is pretty weak tea man, But maybe that'll work,
I don't know in terms of trying to get the nomination.
Or he just doesn't want to have anything like Kamala had,
which was stupid on Kamala's part because she had all
those quotes out there that were indefensible. You raised your
hand for free sex changes for legal prisoners, right, murderers.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's so weak. I want him to run.
You know, it's funny. I'm of two minds on that.
I really want him to run because I want to
see him just absolutely spiked like a volleyball. I spiked
like a volleyball by a male player on a women's team. Wow.
But at same time, history has a way of doing
(32:56):
funny things like you know that jackass gets the nomination,
then something crazy happens on the Republican side. Before you
know it, he's president.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Ah, it's final thoughts twas so well comments and entertain us.
Yess closure for the show.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Here's your host for final thoughts and Joe Getty hmmm stirring.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
To wrap up the day. There is Michael Angeluilo, our
technical director, to lead us off.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Michael, I just remember one year ago, all of us
watching the Biden speech together at home, and then two
minutes in we started texting each other like we got
a problem here, there's something seriously wrong.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, quite a moment. Jack, Katie Green or
Steve Newswoman is off today. Do you have a final thought?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Well, yeah, since it's a one year anniversary, that'd beat
But none of us were shot. It was just, oh,
now they're gonna have to deal with this. That was
the exciting part. It wasn't I can't believe his mind
doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Who was shucked by that? The whole world was shocked Jack.
According to Jake Tapper my final talk, congratulations to Scotti
Scheffler winning the British Open. He's the greatest golfer on
the planet, the best since Tiger Woods. And like Jack
Nicholas who had a family and wife and kids and
kind of got less hungry for it, and Tiger Woods
who got tired of being the best golfer on the
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planet and decided to become a Navy seal. At some point,
Scott's gonna say, I can't approve that I have other
things I want to do. Becoming great is tough. Staying
great maybe tougher, or what's the point?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
And staying great is that they all wonder Armstrong in
Getty wra pick up under They're grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
So many people think, so little time, so many people
trying to stand up without using their hands. Got Armstrong
in geddy dot com. We've got that article for you
under hot links.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I did it.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I figured it out. I can't and stand up from
the floor without using my hands. We'll see tomorrow. God
bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I'm Strong and Getty. I think it takes two to
tango Heaven. I think your star spangled ball so.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Good, so let's go. And according to JD power drivers
are underwhelmed by gesture controls, where one can say, increase
the volume by rotating an imaginary knob in the air.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
You're an imaginary knob. Wow, arm Strong and Getty.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Katty and he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Hetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It was halftime of the w NBA All Star Game,
a lopsided affair, which brought this analysis all.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Right cool again. We hope it gets a little bit
more competitive because like a girl trip to kankun right now,
there's no deed. He's a twenty two point gamer.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Like a girl's trip to kangkuon, there was.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
No d Did she mean to imply? Was she failing
to spell out a common euphemism for the male genitals?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I thought that was funny.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, d That's that went by me. It's like, well,
what oh do you mean? Dick?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Wow? Thanks for saying that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh speaking of witch, how not to be one? And
speaking of sports, I'm gonna hurt some feelings here. I'm
gonna do some damage, oh boy, And I'm glad on
a Monday. I can't wait. There are two kinds of people, Jack,
those who tend to group people into two kinds and
(01:28):
those who don't know it's a joke. Our topic here
is sports and sports events, and somebody says to you, hey,
don't tell me what happened. I can't wait to watch
it on the DVR. Okay, there are two kinds of people,
(01:49):
and the second kind are not welcome on the camp
CanCon trip cause they're dicks. Group number one here is, hey,
don't tell me who won the British Open, because I
really want to go watch it on the dvr. Group
one says, cool, you got it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No, I says, hey, but you're gonna be disappointed.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Right Group two dicks say, well, you're gonna love it,
especially if you're rooting for Scottie Scheffler. I despise you.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I despise you.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
You are I'm going to psychoanalyze you. All you're doing.
There is saying I know something you don't do, and
I have power over you, and I'm going to tell
you it's pathetic. It's sad. You have the choice between
an act of kindness and showing off like a four
year old that you know something, and you have chosen
(02:51):
the second. Damn you, Damn you.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I think I was four years old when I ran
into the house one time and said to my dad,
would it be a big problem if mam rand into
the garage with the car, why do you ask son?
Oh man, uh yeah, I know, I know. Or it's
(03:18):
similar with the movie I'm going to see whatever. Oh boy,
waite till you see what happens with and then they
lay something out.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Why why did you do that? Up? I get to
show off knowledge.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You've seen it.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And I haven't.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I mean, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, I just I probably shouldn't go on.
I've hurt enough feelings as I do everywhere I go.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
My problem is, you know, I suppose I could avoid
this by not having my phone handy all the time. Oh,
the problem is I watch almost all sports on my phone.
I'm behind on a baseball game, football game, basketball game, whatever,
particularly championships, and then well the news bulletin will scroll
down on my thing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You know, the Yankees when they're fourth time.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Ah, why did you do that? I'm still watching, you know.
I meant to mention that it's in if if you
if that happens, that's entirely on you. Oh of course
you got to go to full radio silence. That's happened
to me before. And a buddy said, dude, if you
don't want to hear about it, turn off your you know,
go to do not disturb so you don't see my
text come in. That's not on me. And I said,
you know what, you're absolutely right, yeah, yea, so sure anyway,
(04:25):
that's what I did. But and oddly enough, the guy
who said something to me about the British open history
said something so weird and vague. It turned out not
to give anything away, but it felt like he had
to say something very strange. All right, speaking of hurting feelings,
(04:47):
we are both fully cognizant of the fact that we
are a nation of immigrants quote unquote how the country
got formed the believes of immigrants through history. Blah yeah,
huddle as, that's right, that's that the old statue of liberty.
Ought to mind your own damn business as just like
a seventy foot tall woman, you know, gotta give her opinion. Anyway,
(05:09):
that's kind of a lead up to a discussion. I
saw a headline in the Pinia section of the Journal
Colbert in the end of Late night TV, and I'm like, what,
I don't care. That doesn't matter to me whether Colbert
has a show or not. That's a stupid article. I'm
canceling my subscription then I saw it was written by
(05:31):
Ben Sass, of all people, former Midwestern senator, a president
of the University of Florida system helped them get away
from woke, reformed them. And I admire Ben as a
thinker a great deal. And so I read this and
the first part was about the dollars and cents a
little bit and the politicization blah blah blah. But then
he got into his main point, which ought to be
(05:57):
incredibly controversial, except nobody read this and knows it happened
back when it used to be crazy fashionable to say
diversity is our greatest strength. And that was said over
and over and over again. It was the classic lie
that becomes the truth just through repetition, and I would
(06:19):
frequently respond, no, unity is our greatest strength. Diversity can
be cool and interesting, but clearly unity is our greatest strength.
And Ben's main point in this part about the Colbert
Show is that we are seeing the fading of the
final vestiges of common culture. And he talks about, you know,
(06:40):
it's not nearly as significant as Carson and Letterman and
that sort of thing, but it is a national show
people watch even fairly small numbers, and how we're losing that.
He writes, here's the main point. As much as the
big guys made a meaningful mark on American culture, they
weren't essential to the life of the republic. But this
(07:01):
fading of an era is occasional to acknowledge that having
some shared things does matter to a stable political culture.
The Founders fully understood this. Here's the controversial part. When Poplius,
which was a pen name, obviously wrote about the preconditions
for a free society In Federalists Too, he declared Americans
quote one united people, speaking the same language, professing the
(07:25):
same religion, attached to the same principles of.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Government, were none of those things.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Now, the Constitution requires a certain amount of unity, at
least a minimal shared conception of the common good. The
monoculture of the twentieth century was by no means robust
enough for what the Founders thought we must share. But
as it fades to black and were increasingly siloed by
algorithms in the digitization of daily life, it's important to
understand together that will likely never have a shared mass
(07:53):
culture to unite us again, and America depends on a
shared sense of we. I'd say the.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Closest thing we have at this point.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I think about this with music a lot, because like
my one son was really into one kind of music
and my other son's into a different kind. But when
like Joe and I were young, because we're one hundred
years old, like, there's there's like everybody listened to mostly
the same thing pretty much. I mean, there's this if
if a song was a hit, if a song was
(08:23):
a big hit, everybody knew it, even if it wasn't
your cup of tea, everybody knew the big hit. But
there's nothing close to that now. I think the only
thing we have left is the NFL. The NFL would
be the closest to it.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, I think so. And then his final final point
is the task of rebuilding a shared constitutional CIVIX thus
has never been more urgent, his point being m we
don't have a common one united people exactly speaking the
same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same
(09:00):
principles of government, watching the same shows. So we'd better
make sure that the same principle as a government thing
is taught and understood by everybody. In other words, yeah,
the universal support for the Constitution came from universally held values,
and we don't really have those anymore. So we really
(09:22):
really need to teach the kids why our system is
great and why it works so well. I don't and
in schools they're doing the opposite.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I don't actually know how big a deal this is.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
The no common experiences, it makes life less fun. It
certainly doesn't seem like having less in common does this
any good. No, You're gonna have music that certain groups
listen to, and TV shows and movies that certain groups
watch and listen to. And I guarantee you like we
(09:54):
play a lot of clips from Greg Guttfeld, who actually
has pretty good ratings compared to the the late night shows.
Sometimes he's the number one. I guarantee you there's giant
chunks of America have never even heard his name.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Oh yeah, well, I was just gonna say. That's part
of the reason our politics is so corrosive at this
point is people are siloing themselves in a lot of
different ways, whether you know just their social circles or
their online circles or where they live. And they don't
know if they're progressives, liberals, they don't know conservatives and
(10:32):
vice versa. So it makes it much more easy to
imagine them some sort of horrific demons. I remember that
was one of the main thrusts of the gay rights
movement and why so many were enthusiastic about urging people
to come out of the closet. It's because when you
found out that your accountant, your neighbor, your co worker,
(10:52):
your whatever, was gay, and they seemed perfectly fine, they
just swung a different way that made it much more
difficult to indulge some sort of weird conception you might
have had in your mind.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, I agree with Ben Sass overall. I don't think
Colbert is the reason to write this article.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Though.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
He had abandoned any sense of trying to talk to
all of America a long time ago, so people who
lean right haven't been watching him for years. He was
only speaking to lefties already.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I think Ben Sass was just looking for an excuse
to write what he really wanted to write. Gotcha, it'll
be interesting to see going forward. Unity is our greatest strength.
I stand by those words. Will you be around to
see the future. Take these simple tests at home to
see how well you're aging or wherever you are.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I remember when we did the one about how many
times you could stand up from a chair with your
arms crossed over your chest was a really good predictor
of your life expectancy.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
That's actually one of them.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Okay, my parents did that when they heard us talking
about that, and scored very well. I look forward to this,
stay tuned, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Obviously, Bill could not work as Billy Joel, so he
got a job at a place called the Executive Room.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
My full name is William Martin Joel, so I was
Bill Martin at the keyboards.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It was a small local.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Bar and it had one of these pianos that had
a leatherette rim around it so people could lean on
the piano while they were drinking. I knew this is
a real life experience, and I thought I got to
get a song out of this. And that's where the
Piano Man song came from.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
New documentary about Billy Joel coming out and he is
explaining where Piano Man came from. I as a Billy
Joel fanatic back when I was in high school, I
knew that story is on the run from some people
and didn't want to be found. Back when you could
do that sort of thing just went by his middle name,
any who.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Lovely fella getting older. I had to cancel some shows lately.
Billy Well crashed into the same house twice. It's a
nice house right there at the corner. What are you
gonna do? Billy should take a number of these simple
home tests that can give you a good idea of
how well you're aging, how you ought to pick up
(13:23):
your effort. Yes, I'm exemplary. My aging process is amazing.
These simple home tests can give you a good idea.
No fancy lab require just a toothbrush. Just stop watch
any sense of humor? What do I gotta do with
that toothbrush? Oh boy? One and surprisingly useful way to
test your balance is to stand on one leg while
brushing your teeth.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I'm not good at it, saying, but I never have been. Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I don't want to get us distracted. But I've never
been good at standing on one lady.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Uh, yeah, you know. It's funny part of the fitness
thing I'm doing, which is partly golf related. But they
work on your balance, that's import and for any sport.
And I am a miserable failure at standing on one
leg with my eyes closed, and so there are different
increments that you practice on, but they want you to
get to a certain number of seconds, and it's really
hard for me.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
One of my kids can do that. He could do
it all day long. Wow, for some reason.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So if you can stand on one leg while brushing
your teeth for thirty seconds or more, that's a great
sign of lower body strength, coordination, and postural stability.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Oh that's what I'm always looking for.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
The ps A twenty twenty two study found that people
who could not balance on one leg for ten seconds
had an eighty four percent higher risk.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Of falling over to death.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No death over a median follow up of seven years,
compared to those who could.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
That's incredible, I mean that's quite a number. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Well, and most er doctors could tell you why. Balance
is like a superpower for healthy aging. It reduces falls,
which is a huge source of damage and death and infection,
supports mobility, and can be improved at any age.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Okay, yeah, one thing.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
In the way of my joint replates replacements, I realized
a lot of my muscles had shortened an atrophied in
ways I hadn't understood. And the stabilizing muscles that are
like you know, everybody knows the quads and the hamstrings
and stuff like that, but it's the little muscles around
the edges that stabilize you that are really important anyway,
So there's the uh, standing on one leg for as
long as you can at least ten seconds. Grip strength
(15:30):
is more than just opening jars. It's a powerful indicator
of overall health, predicting heart health, cognitive function, and even
mortality risk. You can test grip strength mind is outstanding
using a hand dynamomeiter or.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Simply we'll get mine out, oh.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, or simply taking a note of everyday tasks, is
opening bottles, carrying groceries, or using tools becoming harder.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well, we've talked about this before.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Grip strength has been going down for males generation by
generational lot.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh yeah, yeah. Let's see the floor to feet feet
Now this has got two versions. Can you sit on
the floor and stand without using your hands? Yes, but
there's going to be a hell of a lot of grunting.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I don't know that I can, Like, I don't know floor,
how how am I sitting?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
However you want?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I don't know if there's a way I could sit
that I could stand up without using my hands. I
have to think about that.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
This is a test of a it's a true measure
of your lower body strength and flexibility, which are essential
for daily activities and again reduce the risk of falls.
If you can do it, you're in great shape. If
it's too tough, tough, try the sit to stand test,
which you mentioned in the prior segment, using a chair
no arms. See how many sit to stand transitions you
can do in thirty seconds that I was.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Really good on. I'll have to try this sitting down
and standing up thing. I'll do that during the commercials.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I will not because of all the grunting there is that.
There are actually a couple of mental tests that we
don't have time for. We can get to those next segment. Okay, yeah,
they're super easy too. I want to know when I'm
going to die so I can spend accordingly.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I mean, if it's going to be like next year,
I'm going to go out and get a new car.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Might as well. Okay, all that's on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Stay here, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
So we're discussing various physical things you do can do
to measure how likely it is you're going to live
to a ripe, old age or die soon and a
couple of them I tried during the commercial break. Now
I simulated brushing my teeth standing on one leg. I
can do that as long as I need to do it.
So I'm okay on that one. But the okay before
we move on, Well, I was doing that one.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I thought, you know, it'd be funny if I lost
my balance doing this, fell over, crack my head, and died.
That would be He was trying to do a test
to assess how well he was aging and whether he
might die when he lost his balance. It's a sad story.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So but the get up from sit on the floor
and get up from the floor without using your hands.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I think, go ahead? Sorry, Well, how do everybody who
did that during the commercial break? Pardon me? Has the
same question? The same question I have. Do your elbows count?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I wasn't thinking about that, but that's a good question. Uh,
how do you sit on the floor? I don't know
how I would sit. Nobody's made me sit on the
floor since I was in like fifth grade, and good
luck trying sit on the floor. I'm not sitting on
the floor. You asked hat tell me while I'm standing up,
or get me a chimmy chair.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Shut up.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
So I haven't I haven't sat upon a floor. How
would you sit on a floor?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well, I have certainly been amongst youngsters, particularly teenage girls
in my coaching career, who could sit Indian style. See
and at Trump's behest, I've stopped saying Chris Cross applesauce
number one because I'm not five years old number two. Anyway,
they would and they would just like push themselves up
like they or on some sort of scissors machine to
(19:02):
rise up. And there's no freaking way I was doing that.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I can't sit Indian leg style, which might be a
sign if I sit on my butt with my legs out,
there's no way I can stand up without using my hands.
I can't even imagine how you could. And I'm in
like the best shape.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Exactly my experience. I was like, wait a minute, I
can't even conceive from.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Right, and I'm like the best shape of my life
in terms of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
But I so, I don't know how you'd sit on
the floor.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
If I'm if I were were to sit on the floor,
and I'm like kneeling, but sitting on my heels, is that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Considered sitting on the floor, I can stand up from there.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I don't know sitting I think your your butt is
in full contact.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I can't even imagine the way in which I would
try to stand from me.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Interestingly, it said without using your hands. Well it's got
to mean arms.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
You can't use your elbows, and yeah, that'd be the
same thing as using your hands.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
What percentage of grown ass men can possibly get up
from sitting without using their arms? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Maybe not very many.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Anyway, so very very briefly, if you're just tuning in
where were you? Secondly, test your balance standing on one leg.
Will brushing your teeth thirty seconds or more as great,
But if you can't do it for ten seconds, you'll
probably be dead by the end of the week. Grip
strength in general, but your teeth will be shiny and white.
(20:27):
We did that. We did the floor to feet feet
and the sit to stand test using a chair no arms.
See how many sit to stand transitions you can do
in thirty seconds? And they don't really give a scale,
but I would suggest if you can't do you know
a good I could.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Look that up.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
The New York Times had it when we did it
last year, they had the number you should have at
each age range, and my dad was like doing it
like a twenty five year old.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Sitting on the edge of the chair, hands folded over
your chest and you stand up, sit by down, stand up,
sit back down.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
And for probably interrelated reasons, you can figure out it's
a good measure of lower limb function, balance and muscle strength,
but can also predict people at risk and falls in
cardiovascular issues, probably because the one is that leads directly
to the other.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, it's interesting. The thing was from the New York
Times article.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It was.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
The ability to like quickly catch your balance if you
stumble is a real big deal when you're old, and
do you have that or not? Like you trip or something,
can you get that other leg out to stop yourself
from all going all the way down.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Or not right? Which is why I constantly practice my
soft shoe dancing.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Skills' thy, I'm in my tap. That's why I'm constantly
tripping people. I stand bying corners and I just stick
my leg out. I'm helping you.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Say you have a deficit, you wouldn't be sprawled out
on the floor like that if you have normal react
blah blah bah cognitive function. There are all sorts of
complex and sophisticated tests, but some basic home tests are
surprisingly telling. Try naming as many animals as you can
in thirty seconds. Fewer than twelve might indicate concern Taylor,
(22:07):
more than eighteen is it?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That is an idiot? Human?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Right?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Indeed, as many animals as you can in thirty seconds? Yeah,
and how many do I need to do to not
be insane?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Get more than fewer than twelve is a problem. More
than eighteen is a really good sign.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Okay, I might try that later.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah. Try spelling the word world backwards d l r
ow d lr, you got it? Or recalling a short
list of three items after a few minutes. It's an
important strategy to enhance memory and older adults. And then
(22:51):
they get in something of hippopotamus. They'd never heard anybody
do it that well, Apple, hippopotamus. Doctor. These kinds of oh,
challenge yourself with puzzles, sudoko, learn a new skill. These
kinds of verbal fluency and memory recall tests are simple
ways to spot early changes and brain health. But don't
(23:11):
panic if you blank. Occasionally, everyone forgets where they left
their keys sometimes or names and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It's just an inevitable part of aging. Start a thirty
second time, or somebody, somebody do this for me. You ready, Michael,
Here we go thirty. I'm gonna go cat, dog, wildebeast, rhinoceros, giraffe, lion, pig, duck, snake, fish, Uh.
(23:38):
Out of animals already? But how many did I have there?
Didn't wake out?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You think you got eleven? Okay, so I'm no, oh, no,
wow at eleven when you know what you know what
I found, I'd like to analyze your performance. I would
have stuck, like, gone from geographic area a geographic area
because you hit like some African creatures, then immediately went
(24:05):
like one or two farm creatures and a domestic I
would have exhausted all domestic creatures, moved on to the farm.
If I had it to Africa, if I had time.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
To strategize, I would do that, and I think I
would do well. But off the top of the see
it came to me in the blink of an eye. Well,
clearly that's a difference. I'm not gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
As I'm rolling around, grunting on my elbows trying to
get up in the air. Oh yeah, I'm a model
a youth. Me me.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I can I can walk around stand on one leg fine,
But there I am lacking.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Animals to shout at people.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Here is I believe this practically like a religion puzzles
and learning new skills and the fact that it's when
you feel frustrated that you're doing yourself some good. It
can't be you know, like the Monday New York Times
crossword puzzle to get harder through the weeks, Saturdays really hard,
Sunday's got a weird theme, and it takes brain power
(25:02):
to figure out if I'm just doing the Monday Tuesday
cross for puzzles not doing me any good. It's the
hard ones that I think, damn it, that's when you're
really improving your brain. Or you've talked a great deal
about practicing an instrument and struggling with getting down a
particular you know, liquor technique or whatever, that's when your
brain is like de aging.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yeah, so I've got that pretty good because I work
on that almost every single day, learning a piano part
or whatever, and it's like so frustrating. It's like, God,
sometimes I have to get and walk away from it.
It's like, how could I not get this?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I need to do that more? All right? I did
were very good on those animals. Oh that was really troubling,
really troubling. Come on that.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
So my body's gonna hold up, but I'm gonna have
severe dementia.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Cow, pig, horse, donkey, sheep, terrible, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Dear, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I'm disturbed by this getting up off the floor with
no hands thing, because because I'm pretty happy with like
I said, I go to the gym every day. I'm stretching,
I'm doing all the stuff I should have been doing
my whole life. I'm like the peak performance of my life.
There's no way I can get up off the floor
without using my hands.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I just don't think it's possible. No, But I'm not
sure I ever could have.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, is it like I'm tempted to go over there
and try it, But is it You've gotta no, I
just can't. Is it somehow you get a leg er
under you and twist around like you're trying to escape
the Houdini over here? Trying to contort myself out of
my chains before I drown.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Right, I'm gonna try it again during commercials. I'm gonna
try the sitting Indian leg style and then standing up
from there. I think that's my only chane. I am
wearing jeans and cowboy boots too, so that's probably doesn't.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Help, but not exactly. Jim Ware, Yeah, all.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Right, I'll work on that.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
People want us to post this because they want to
try it themselves and see.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Absolutely will make sure the link is available on under
hot links at armstrong and geddy dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Everybody wants to know how long they're gonna live in
the brains are gonna work. We'll finish strong coming up next.
One of the fun things about Gavin Newsom, governor of California,
is so obviously running for president and not hiding it
is you get to like watch the machinery of the process,
(27:38):
knowing it while it's happening. A lot of times this
stuff is kind of done more subtly and behind closed doors.
I think we're all more savvy now too. When a
politician puts out a book, he's probably gonna put out
a book, almost guaranteed gonna put out a book at
some point. I mean that that's a I'm running for president,
and he's doing all these different interviews and taking various
positions to get himself ready to run for the nomination
(27:59):
and then run for president. He's been going on some
supposedly hostile podcasts and then saying some supposedly gutty things
that I've always found incredibly tipid. Like I thought his
answer on the should boys being girls' sports.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Was a nothing?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It was like a nothing, Well.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It's an issue of fairness.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And then he never said where he was on it,
What are you talking about to me? Does the same
thing here? I shouldn't have given it away. I should
have let you figured out on your own. He's on
Sean Ryan's podcast. I know people who like are big
fans of Sean Ryan. Guy Lean's right. So Gavin Newsom
went on there. Sean Ryan asks him about sex changes
for kids who believe they're you know, got that trans
(28:44):
thingy going. You know, how old is too young? He
actually asked, Gavin Newsom, is eight years old too young
to have, you know, the medical treatments?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And this is what Gavin said, what about for your values?
I mean, is eight years old too young?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I mean, look, I now that I have a nine
year old just became nine. Come on, man, I get it.
So those are legit. You know, it's interesting just the
issue of age. I haven't.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I'm as I and there's someone that's been so focused
on equality broadly LGBT rights, particularly gay marriage.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
The trans issue for me is also novel. It's it's
over the last few years. I'm trying to understand as
much as anyone else, whole pronoun thing.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Trying to understand all of that.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Well, you know that was like the hell, I mean
all that stuff, I get it, this, all this stuff
started to collapse on us. I joked with Charlie about LATINX.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, he never says anything. He just makes noises about, Hey,
we're all dealing with this. I get it, I understand,
I get it. Yeah, I get Wait, yeah, so like
my question or yeah to my proposition, or it's so
naked what he's trying to do. Well, I thought I
was trying to seem sympathetic and like I totally agree
(30:10):
with you, but never saying well.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I thought it was transparent.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
But then that answer he gave whenever That was a
couple of months ago on that podcast about the look
it's an issue of fairness, and it was he got
attacked by people on the woke left for you know,
betraying the LGBTQ community, and then everybody thought, wow.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Look at him trying to tack toward the center.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
What he didn't say a freaking thing. Well that that indicates, though,
that you have to if you are part of that cult,
you know exactly what you're supposed to say in that moment,
and there's only one acceptable answer, and that's to say
that depends on the child. Wow, the child's parent.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
That counts as adventurous to just not go all in yes.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Wow, Well I don't have to convince you of that.
You saw it happen.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
True.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
All he said was it's an issue fairness. I think
underlying we all sense that it's about a fairness. But
he never actually said anything, and for that he was
whipped by the progressive left.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Well, how about this one on the medical treatment for
eight year old? How could you possibly.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
See to me?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
This works in reverse the fact that he's unwilling to
immediately say, no freaking way you should be giving drugs
or doing operations.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
On an eight year old?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Right, Yeah, anything short of that is you're way too
close to being an agreement, but.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
For him trying to have it both ways obviously, and.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Then after he hums and hawns, well, I got a
nine year old, so you know, wow, you know you
know what I'm saying. I mean, come on, I get it,
you get what And then he retreats quickly to gay marriage.
I mean, I've been a big support of it. We're
not talking about gay marriage. We're talking about.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Trapperdes kind of new you know, I feel you.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Way to retreat to great gay marriage, which has like
seventy five eighty percent approval by everyone in America when
we're talking about should you cut the penis off an.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Eight year old?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Right?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
That is pretty weak tea man, But maybe that'll work,
I don't know in terms of trying to get the nomination.
Or he just doesn't want to have anything like Kamala had,
which was stupid on Kamala's part because she had all
those quotes out there that were indefensible. You raised your
hand for free sex changes for legal prisoners, right, murderers.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's so weak. I want him to run.
You know, it's funny. I'm of two minds on that.
I really want him to run because I want to
see him just absolutely spiked like a volleyball. I spiked
like a volleyball by a male player on a women's team. Wow.
But at same time, history has a way of doing
(32:56):
funny things like you know that jackass gets the nomination,
then something crazy happens on the Republican side. Before you
know it, he's president.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Ah, it's final thoughts twas so well comments and entertain us.
Yess closure for the show.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Here's your host for final thoughts and Joe Getty hmmm stirring.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
To wrap up the day. There is Michael Angeluilo, our
technical director, to lead us off.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Michael, I just remember one year ago, all of us
watching the Biden speech together at home, and then two
minutes in we started texting each other like we got
a problem here, there's something seriously wrong.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, quite a moment. Jack, Katie Green or
Steve Newswoman is off today. Do you have a final thought?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Well, yeah, since it's a one year anniversary, that'd beat
But none of us were shot. It was just, oh,
now they're gonna have to deal with this. That was
the exciting part. It wasn't I can't believe his mind
doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Who was shucked by that? The whole world was shocked Jack.
According to Jake Tapper my final talk, congratulations to Scotti
Scheffler winning the British Open. He's the greatest golfer on
the planet, the best since Tiger Woods. And like Jack
Nicholas who had a family and wife and kids and
kind of got less hungry for it, and Tiger Woods
who got tired of being the best golfer on the
(34:31):
planet and decided to become a Navy seal. At some point,
Scott's gonna say, I can't approve that I have other
things I want to do. Becoming great is tough. Staying
great maybe tougher, or what's the point?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
And staying great is that they all wonder Armstrong in
Getty wra pick up under They're grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
So many people think, so little time, so many people
trying to stand up without using their hands. Got Armstrong
in geddy dot com. We've got that article for you
under hot links.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I did it.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I figured it out. I can't and stand up from
the floor without using my hands. We'll see tomorrow. God
bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I'm Strong and Getty. I think it takes two to
tango Heaven. I think your star spangled ball so.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Good, so let's go. And according to JD power drivers
are underwhelmed by gesture controls, where one can say, increase
the volume by rotating an imaginary knob in the air.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
You're an imaginary knob. Wow, arm Strong and Getty.
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