I Don't Watch the News

On the Monday September 8, 2025 edtion of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...

• First, we celebrate a wonderful anniversary...
• Next, Jack goes to a neighborhood picnic!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't watch the news.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty, one more thing.
So we had our called a sack of barbecue, which
I guess they have every year on my cul De Sack.
I've only been there a year, so it's my first one,
and I was that's nice though.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
That's a very traditional American thing to do.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
It is awesome, It is fantastic. I wish I didn't
dread those sorts of things because I'm always happy when
I go. I'll talk about that in a second. First,
I want to get this on. I was just I
got fed this on my Instagram feed for some reason
and I clicked on it. We've played clips from this
for years, but I hadn't seen the whole thing in

(00:43):
a very very long time. Just wanted to get it
back on in case you haven't heard it. It's very charming.
It's a little kid. He's at a county fair and
it's just your typical local news interviewing kids on the
midway and they stick a microphone in the face of
this kid and ask him about a ride, and it's
it's very charming.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
What did you think about the ride? It's great.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
You're probably I've never been alive television before.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
But approbably sometimes I don't watch the I don't watch
the news because I'm a kid and a prol Every
time grandfather just gives me your romote. After you watch
the power Ball, tell me about the ride. What do
you think about the ride? Was great?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Why? Because apparently you're spinning around and the prole every
time you get dizzy, so your studs get dizzy.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
And I've never ever been a live television I never
ever be all live television. You're excited? Yeah, and apparently
I already went down to super slide and I went
down watl scared half to death.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
I just streak out what I need.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh, that is so freaking cute that it really is.
We have that video on our website Armstrong and Geeddy
dot com because of.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
The currently kid ten years ago.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
The video is good too. I hope he isn't something.
He isn't something horrific now is he?

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Don't cant him?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
I don't want to know that he's a grown up.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, being cute ten years ago is not an excuse
for everybody to dig into your life.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
No. And the great thing is she just goes to
ask his little question this, we'll kid a question about
the ride and uh and he just he takes the
microphone from her right microphone.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Well, apparently I've never been a live news before. Yeah,
I don't watch the news. Apparently you do.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh god, that is great. Anyway, I love kids. Kids
are so fantastic and well and the.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Way he he mimics the you know, the foe very
interested in this voice. After Grandpa watches the power ball,
I got off the slide, I get very dizzy.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
So there were kids at the call the Sack barbecue.
So I get I move into this called a sack
and there's like six houses there in a little circle there,
which is how call the sacks work. And uh. One
of the neighbors shortly after we moved there came over
and introduced herself and was very interested in me and
my life and my kids and their ages and what

(03:33):
school they go to and everything like that. And we
ended up exchanging numbers and she always says hello. And
then I've gotten to know my very next door neighbors
who are younger. They're quite a bit younger. They're like
in their mid thirties and got two young kids. And
I really like them. And then they I got a
text from the older couple they've all been there for
decades and that they're having a we have an annual

(03:55):
barbecue and we'd like you to come, and they told
me what to bring and when it is and all
that sort of stuff. So and because I'm a what
do you call people who don't like to be around
other people, introvert? Introvert? Because I'm an introvert, I just
I dread those sorts of things. I wish I didn't.
I mean, there was nothing to not like about any

(04:15):
of these people, but it is going to be around people.
I don't know when I could just be in my house,
in my cave in the dark alone or with my kids.
But I forced myself to go because I wanted the
kids to go, because I know it's good for them
and to show that getting to know your neighbors is
a really good idea and all the benefits that come
with that and all that sort of stuff. So we went.

(04:35):
Food was freaking fantastic. Some of these old older people,
they look for the opportunity to bring out their recipes,
you know, because their kids are all grown and gone
and everything like that. They were like two different kinds
of homemade nochi and just all this different sort of stuff.
It's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Wow. I know.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
It was so good, and my kids ended up really
really liking it, and the the old guys were talking
to my kids, and one of the old guys has
got a couple of cool cars, so my son is
super into cars, got into conversation with them, and they
just they had a really great time. And some of
the people had little kids, and there was even a
baby there, and it was just it was so flipping wholesome.

(05:16):
This is out of control wholesome.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah. I was at a similar gathering and what I
said to the kids was, whatever happened to jello? Why
don't you young people eat jello? It's a perfectly delicious
side dish, sometimes without fruit, sometimes with fruit, variety of colors.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
And I don't have any points.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
It's ground up cattles.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
I don't have any point to this story other than
if you are an introvert like me, go to these things.
I've never regretted going to something like this. And then,
of course once we spent we ended up being there
for wow, like two hours, sitting around in folding chairs
in a circle with the kids playing in the middle
and all of us eating and talking. And once you've

(06:04):
gone and you get to know people, then you don't
your introvert is. You don't have to worry about your
introvert anymore because you know these people. They aren't people
you don't know, they're people you do know.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yes, And then the exactly the same experience. And now
I've finally learned it to the point I say, you'll
be glad you went. You will be glad you went go,
and I do.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, And I'm glad my kids had the experience because,
like I said, I want them to realize the advantage
of knowing your neighbors and all that sort of stuff.
And I've already got that with my next door neighbors.
Now I have with more of them. Are like, you know, hey,
I'm gonna be gone for the next week. Of a
moving van shows up and starts unloading everything for my house.
That's not me, you know that sort of thing, or
in the house, or the other day it was a
text my neighbor and I'm not gonna be home for

(06:46):
a while. Is there any chance one of your kids
could go let the dog out? I'll pay them a
little bit. You know, just that sort of stuff. It's
so handy for your neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Now, the red jello is allegedly cherry, and it tastes
somewhat like cherry. But the green lime. Have you ever
had a lime in your mouth? It tastes nothing like lime.
It's a lie. That jello is a lie.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
A couple of them ended up being listeners, which was interesting,
and uh so that was cool. I like that they
were they were happy. I was there. One guy, though,
younger guy. He was the youngest adult male there and
he's like forty two. I think like that he had
a heart attack last year, and I made the mistake
of asking me asking him about it because I couldn't

(07:26):
handle the story. You ever had anybody tell you their
story about a heart attack?

Speaker 1 (07:30):
I have it.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh. I had to sit down.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
I'm getting shortness of breath thinking about having heard the story,
never mind actually listening to Michael.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I can't take it. Oh, he's started telling the story
and how it unfolded over the day and everything like that.
I was getting light headed. Thanks for killing you. Why
does that happen?

Speaker 1 (07:50):
I know it's it's practically universal, though, I think, oh
my god, I had somebody want you into a story
like that the other day and I had to sit
down and so funny.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
But the most amazing thing at the end of it
was with modern medicine and everything they do. Total time,
he said, from when he his wife parked the car
and he walked into the er to where he was
headed home a new man was forty seven hours. Wow,
that's just modern miracles.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Man. Wow, boy got that young? That's Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Am getting a little lightheaded just thinking about the story.
I should have Oh oh, sorry I brought that up.
That's weird that a story like that can have had
an effect on you. I know, is it your brains?
Is it your brain thinking this could happen to you?

Speaker 1 (08:42):
But shouldn't your brain be thinking? Okay, listen carefully to this.
This is a way to avoid Well, that's why I
ask make a good decision, right, this is important. And
oh I'm glad I heard that. No, No, instead, you
just want to faint.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Crack your head on the noki bowl. That's no good anyway.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
And unlike side dishes, jello can be molded into a
series of pleasing shapes.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh and what's the other saying about neighbors? Which is true.
You can pick your nose, you can pick your friends,
but you can't pick your neighbors. They tell me your family. Anyway,
I'm very, very blessed. I have great neighbors, Thank God.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
You can pick your nose, but you can't pick your neighbors.
And you certainly can't pick your neighbors. No, or you shouldn't,
I believe, but you certainly shouldn't. Right, make sure you
know your neighbors. Well, I had him come over to
feed my pets, and uh, well they squatted in my house.
So you're still trying to get them out.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, I guess that's it.