December 10, 2025 • 6 mins
On the Wednesday December 10, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...
- This story was too good to pass up...some folks just a a different way of grieving.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Different ways to handle grieving. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm strong, and one more thing.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It's an impactful topic. Yeah, heavy, perhaps.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Kind of Well, I don't know if it's so much
because we're gonna play a clip a story about Conan O'Brien. Actually,
I don't know if this fits in or not. I
remember when I was reading Christopher Hitchen's book When He
Got Cancer, which made an impact on me. Then when
I ended up getting cancer not long after it is
he said it's okay for me to make jokes about
(00:37):
my cancer, not okay for other people to make jokes
about my cancer. So it's God, there's a bit of
that when you're when you're talking about grieving, uh, you know,
death or whatever it is you're grieving or illness or
something like that. The the person involved kind of gets
to set the bar for how far we're willing to
(00:58):
go with this generally.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Well, and it's very very different coming out of someone
else's mouth, even if they like, see where the bar
is and think, Okay, now I can make a joke.
Roughly now you can't.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Just don't.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
But I have quite a bit of leeway with like
where I would be in terms of joking around about
very very serious subjects, just kind of the way I'm built.
I'm not even close to where Conan O'Brien is, though
he's about to hear from the sty I always liked
the Conan O'Brien show. I think he's absolutely brilliant. Wrote
(01:31):
for The Simpsons, went to Harvard, wrote for Saturday Night Live,
and then had his own very successful talk show. Now
he does a podcast, video podcast, and he has guests
on all the time. The voice you're going to hear
talking to Conan will Arnett from Arrested Development.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
He was also a very very funny guy.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What was his name on Arrested develop Job? He was
the brother job yet the magician anyway, and they're talking
about Conan O'Brien's parents. Conan had a great relationship with
his parents, which is important to the story because it's
not like he hated his parents, ade that he talked
about him all the time. His parents both died really
close together, like really close together, at the same time.
(02:12):
And so they also mentioned the star of Arrested Development,
Jason Bateman is involved in this and the texting and
everything that goes on, and I think that's enough of
a setup to understand the story.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
This is real personal subject for you in the family,
my parents as well. First, let me just say the
timeline because I have it here. I wrote it down
last year because the timeline was so good. And so
I hear that that your your dad passes away, and
I text you that day or the next day, and
I said, hey, listen, I'm sorry to hear about your
(02:46):
dad's passing, sending love from our family to yours, and
you wrote thank you. Will to be honest, I blame
Bateman for the death of my for the death of
my father. The day after his father dies, yeah, so
I wrote, it's not a terrible theory, and con texted
me back, he killed my dad, my dad, can I say,
(03:10):
in fairness, my dad would have loved.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
This so so so uh so then Baban Baban, I
tell Babman this, we're dying.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
We're doing a thing that day, so he the next day,
Bateman texts you and he says, Arnette tells me you're
on to me, yes, and ConA texts baby. He says, Baban,
do yourself a fan favor, turn yourself in.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Two days after your dad passes. Of course, your mom
passed away yeah, which we didn't. I did not see coming,
but did not see coming. So I text you two
days after I knew you were a boss. I said,
Bateman is asking for your sister street addressing.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah, okay, give yeah, And you were busy that weekend,
and like a day and a half later, you're texted
back just seeing this now fantastic six twenty five Boston Street,
Department twelve's.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He tell Bateman to make it look like a robbery.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Okay, that's the whole thing. Oh, I agree, that is
so pretty. Can you there?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You go?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
H that is some pretty edgy joking. Yeah, that's just
that speaks to their relationship. I guess that's that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Codan's response, Bateman killed my father.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That's wow. I would not be engaged in that. I
take it that he's like one of those people where
that's actually healing for him.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Oh yeah, he actually he actually, after they talk about
some other stuff, he actually said that's the way I grieve.
He said, that's just way I'm built. I mean that
that was helpful for me to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, I'm fair enough, but that's that's at the very.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Edge man of a push on that sort of thing. Yeah,
there's my sister's address. Make it look like an accident.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You know what really pisses people off who deal with grief,
like grief counselors and and and and ministers and what
do you call my mom? Was one chaplain at like
a hospice or something. Is where somebody watches the news
story and says, uh, you know, whether it's I think
they did it or they're something, because nobody acts like
(05:39):
that after their husband dies or their wife or their
mom or whatever. That's not the way somebody would act,
because everybody has a different way of processing. You know.
Some people just go to pieces and stay in pieces
for a while and pounce right back. Some people remain
very very stoic. They've got to keep it between the
(06:00):
es for a while, you know. So yeah, that's freaking hilarious.
And I just I'm trying to picture that like in
my own life somebody else And if my brother initiated it,
I would be all in. But I'm not sure I would.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Think to initiate it.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Wow, what was the initial blast? I blame Bateman or
something like that, because Conan initiated it, obviously, that's funny. Well,
I guess that's it.
Different ways to handle grieving. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm strong, and one more thing.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It's an impactful topic. Yeah, heavy, perhaps.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Kind of Well, I don't know if it's so much
because we're gonna play a clip a story about Conan O'Brien. Actually,
I don't know if this fits in or not. I
remember when I was reading Christopher Hitchen's book When He
Got Cancer, which made an impact on me. Then when
I ended up getting cancer not long after it is
he said it's okay for me to make jokes about
(00:37):
my cancer, not okay for other people to make jokes
about my cancer. So it's God, there's a bit of
that when you're when you're talking about grieving, uh, you know,
death or whatever it is you're grieving or illness or
something like that. The the person involved kind of gets
to set the bar for how far we're willing to
(00:58):
go with this generally.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Well, and it's very very different coming out of someone
else's mouth, even if they like, see where the bar
is and think, Okay, now I can make a joke.
Roughly now you can't.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Just don't.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
But I have quite a bit of leeway with like
where I would be in terms of joking around about
very very serious subjects, just kind of the way I'm built.
I'm not even close to where Conan O'Brien is, though
he's about to hear from the sty I always liked
the Conan O'Brien show. I think he's absolutely brilliant. Wrote
(01:31):
for The Simpsons, went to Harvard, wrote for Saturday Night Live,
and then had his own very successful talk show. Now
he does a podcast, video podcast, and he has guests
on all the time. The voice you're going to hear
talking to Conan will Arnett from Arrested Development.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
He was also a very very funny guy.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What was his name on Arrested develop Job? He was
the brother job yet the magician anyway, and they're talking
about Conan O'Brien's parents. Conan had a great relationship with
his parents, which is important to the story because it's
not like he hated his parents, ade that he talked
about him all the time. His parents both died really
close together, like really close together, at the same time.
(02:12):
And so they also mentioned the star of Arrested Development,
Jason Bateman is involved in this and the texting and
everything that goes on, and I think that's enough of
a setup to understand the story.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
This is real personal subject for you in the family,
my parents as well. First, let me just say the
timeline because I have it here. I wrote it down
last year because the timeline was so good. And so
I hear that that your your dad passes away, and
I text you that day or the next day, and
I said, hey, listen, I'm sorry to hear about your
(02:46):
dad's passing, sending love from our family to yours, and
you wrote thank you. Will to be honest, I blame
Bateman for the death of my for the death of
my father. The day after his father dies, yeah, so
I wrote, it's not a terrible theory, and con texted
me back, he killed my dad, my dad, can I say,
(03:10):
in fairness, my dad would have loved.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
This so so so uh so then Baban Baban, I
tell Babman this, we're dying.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
We're doing a thing that day, so he the next day,
Bateman texts you and he says, Arnette tells me you're
on to me, yes, and ConA texts baby. He says, Baban,
do yourself a fan favor, turn yourself in.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Two days after your dad passes. Of course, your mom
passed away yeah, which we didn't. I did not see coming,
but did not see coming. So I text you two
days after I knew you were a boss. I said,
Bateman is asking for your sister street addressing.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah, okay, give yeah, And you were busy that weekend,
and like a day and a half later, you're texted
back just seeing this now fantastic six twenty five Boston Street,
Department twelve's.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He tell Bateman to make it look like a robbery.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Okay, that's the whole thing. Oh, I agree, that is
so pretty. Can you there?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You go?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
H that is some pretty edgy joking. Yeah, that's just
that speaks to their relationship. I guess that's that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Codan's response, Bateman killed my father.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That's wow. I would not be engaged in that. I
take it that he's like one of those people where
that's actually healing for him.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Oh yeah, he actually he actually, after they talk about
some other stuff, he actually said that's the way I grieve.
He said, that's just way I'm built. I mean that
that was helpful for me to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, I'm fair enough, but that's that's at the very.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Edge man of a push on that sort of thing. Yeah,
there's my sister's address. Make it look like an accident.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You know what really pisses people off who deal with grief,
like grief counselors and and and and ministers and what
do you call my mom? Was one chaplain at like
a hospice or something. Is where somebody watches the news
story and says, uh, you know, whether it's I think
they did it or they're something, because nobody acts like
(05:39):
that after their husband dies or their wife or their
mom or whatever. That's not the way somebody would act,
because everybody has a different way of processing. You know.
Some people just go to pieces and stay in pieces
for a while and pounce right back. Some people remain
very very stoic. They've got to keep it between the
(06:00):
es for a while, you know. So yeah, that's freaking hilarious.
And I just I'm trying to picture that like in
my own life somebody else And if my brother initiated it,
I would be all in. But I'm not sure I would.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Think to initiate it.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Wow, what was the initial blast? I blame Bateman or
something like that, because Conan initiated it, obviously, that's funny. Well,
I guess that's it.
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Joe Getty
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