July 29, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of the Monday July 29, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay features our other podcast, Armstrong & Getty One More Thing!
- MichaelAngelo Causes a Scene...
- Embracing "The Break" on SNL...
- Splitting the Bill on a Date...
- A Splendid Summer Book List!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jettie Armstrong and Hey, it's the Armstrong and Getty Show,
featuring our podcast One More Thing. We do a new
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one every day. Find it wherever you find your podcasts. Hey,
it's just my opinion.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's time for one more Thing, arm one more.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So before we get to a Michelangelo hosted One More Thing.
I didn't pay off one of my teases during the
Armstrong and Getty Radio Show. If you enjoyed these bitter foods,
you might have psychopathic tendencies. And the list is gin
and tonics love them, black coffee every day, and dark
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chocolate love it. Yes, virtually the only thing I'll eat
for dessert.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
All Right, I'm two out of three?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Which one don't you like? You don't drink.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm not a gin drinker you.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
See at the psychopath party, though, Katie, So two out
of three is plenty welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And if you're not a psychopath, you you probably have
everyday sadism. It says here, which is a person who
takes pleasure from ordinary experiences in which cruelty is vicarious.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Oh yeah, vicarious cruelty gets me through the day.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That and a little dark chocolate to nibblon. Exactly. I
watched down My Cruelty with a nice Gin and Tonic
and a little dark chocolate, so satisfying. Or a cup
of coffee to help you stay up later to watch
more of the cruelty, you know, if there's a good
cruelty on TV, yeah, I'll want a cup of coffee
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to keep my eyes wide. All right, now your story,
Michael Angelo.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Okay, let me go back about six months ago. My
wife and I purchased these tickets to a show that
was we thought would be high action, entertaining, musical, very cool,
and so I didn't realize it was the NFL playoff
week on ice No, nothing like that. But I didn't
realize it was the NFL playoff week, and I didn't
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think ahead.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh yeah, that before too. Yeah, I've done that before too.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So of course this thing comes up and I realized
it's now the NFL playoff weekend, and I say, you know, look,
I really don't want to go. She goes, don't worry
about it. It's going to be great. You know, we
bought these tickets. There are one hundred dollars. You know,
it's going to be fantastic. You're going to really enjoy it.
And I thought, all right, I'm going to enjoy it.
I'll go along. So we get to the show and
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the show's not what we expected. It's not any action
at all. In fact, it's people talking on stage, doing
an occasional song, talking on stage doing it's super.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Too much Grover, not enough Elmo for Elmo on Ice exactly, Yeah,
you call it Almo on ice. But there's the freaking
blue thing.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
So intermission comes, they say, hey, we got more great
action for you in the second half. Hang around, and
I'm thinking I don't want to hang around. So I
tell my wife. I say, hey, listen, this isn't my
cup of tea. This is not what you sold it
as and she goes, yeah, I know, I'm sorry. I
thought it was something different. I thought it was, you know,
different type of show.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Were you just missing a game though over this or
is that what's going on?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So meanwhile, I'm you know, and we lived about five
minutes away, and I'm missing the Cowboys and Packers game,
and you know, I'm just trying to I enjoy NFL football.
And so I tell her listen, I want to get
out of here, and she goes, really, you didn't enjoy
any of this. I said, no, I haven't enjoyed any
of this at all. I think it's slow. I think,
you know, the music's not very good, et cetera, et cetera.
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And so I'm listening this off. Well, I guess I
was talking too loud. And I must mention that during
part of the show wanted to speak talks about gratitude
and being grateful. So I'm just having a private conversation
with my wife's you know, it's oh boy.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
In the lobby.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
No, I'm not being loud. I mean, you know, just regular,
regular voice. And all of a sudden, a woman in front
of us turns around and says, my wife, well, I
guess he missed the part about gratitude. Oh, so she
has decided to interject yourself into a private conversation.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And so I kind of looked at her and I
didn't say anything. How many teeth did you knock out?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I didn't, but it just made me more angry, and
I said, we're getting out here now. Let's go. Let's go,
let's go. Grab her by the arm, and I said,
you know, and she goes and we you know, we
go storming out and I'm not happy.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Wow, Michael Angelo, get me out of here before I
punch a woman.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
No, and she says, I caused the scene. Well wait,
but I was trying to explain to her.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I said, you know, your wife said you caused the scene,
or that lady said you caused the scene.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
My wife said I caused the scene, but mine I
had a regular voice. It was a private conversation, and
this stranger decided to interject into Obviously they were eaves
dropping into our conversation. She apparently was upset because I
didn't like the show.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well, that's yeah. It's a fine line between somebody eavesdropping
on a private conversation or being so loud that you
are they are part of your conversation. That's a fine line.
It's in the eye of the beholder. Well, so I
almost need to get a decibel reading to know where
to come down on this one, honestly, exactly. I mean,
you know, I think by definition a scene happened, whether
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you caused it or not, is I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I think that's why we've convened this court of hasty opinions.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, this is why I'm here. I want to know
did I cause a scene or was this? I thought
the woman, you know, the strange woman, was completely out
of line. I would never introduct myself into somebody else's conversation.
Did you ever do that?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yes, Kenny, that's what I was just going to go with.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
You have to think about the person who is standing
there listening to a couple have a conversation and goes,
I'm justumping in there. Yeah, I want to get in that.
I mean that that's some nosy. I don't think you've started.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That is a certain sort of person that you're right decides, Hey,
there's a looks to me a married couple. I think
I'll jump into the middle of their arguments.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Not only that, but the superior tone she strikes. Yes,
I guess you missed the part about gratitude.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh, I'll show you some gratitude.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah I hear that. Yeah, I think that that that's
one of those things.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
She showed her who she is with that comment. I
mean not, Hey, dude, some of us are really enjoying this.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Can you let up? On the negativity. Even that would
be like what do you what do you mind your business?
Ignore me? Or stand there thinking, boy, this a hole
has no appreciation for fine art. I mean I would
tell her to leave.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Yeah, you didn't say anything to her period.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Like you didn't say anybody who likes this as an
fing idiot or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
No, nothing like that at all. Now I'm getting into
dangerous territory. How long was this uncomfortable between you and
your wife?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh it was just like a minute.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Okay, it's not very long. And this wasn't a steely
silence all the way home?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, no, no? But was who made the scene? Me
or this woman? I argued, this woman created the scene,
not me?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Right, I have a volume is the key key question.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I just can't see you causing a scene.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Michaelangelo and causing a scene don't go together.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
No, they don't.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
I know.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, yeah, And I'm glad it was a minor thing
because the whole steely silence all the way home is
a Oh that's a rough one. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Sver think he wants to know more about the show
in question, But I don't want to go there.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I get the feeling you don't want to go there.
So so I want to either how old was it
the woman that butted in?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh, I'd say she was in her fifties, tight late fifties.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Man, that is certainly an interesting personality trait to do that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Now, one thing about the theater is I noticed that
as soon as we sat down, everybody was much older
than us. And so I was like, Okay, this is
a different type of crowd. I mean, everybody was older.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Did that woman look like she might have participated in
like a woman's march?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I can see that. I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm sorry that there was a rancor.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But there was two things that bothered me. Two things
that ranked me. Was first of all, I don't like
having my time wasted and second condescension. Those two things
I think bug me more than anything.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, just not digging the show. I mean that's a
that's a that's a tough one. I mean, if you're
if you're the person you're with is digging into sat
through that.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I wasn't exactly digging innumerable but she wasn't digging it in.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
No, So that wasn't Yeah, that wasn't the issue.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
She was screaming that the show effing sucked.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I mean, you know, I'm gonna start doing that. When
I hear people arguing, I'm just gonna jump in them.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
In like.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You know what. I think.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
You didn't ask me, but I think I'm with him.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
All right, thanks guys. So I didn't create a scene, right, correct?
All right?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I feel good? Armstrong And it's The Armstrong and Getty Show,
featuring our podcast. One more thing, Download it, subscribe to
it wherever you'd like to get podcasts. So let's getting
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some attention in some circles for people who watch Saturday
Night Live Saturday Night as last weekend that there was
so much of the cast of breaking up and laughing
during sketches. I mean, more than I've ever seen ever
combined in forty years of watching the show in one episode.
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And well, an interesting thing about that, Katie, you're not
old enough to re to have lived through the Carol
Burnett Show, which was a big popular sitcom, like the
number one show in America back in the seventies, but legendary.
These various clips were Harvey Corman and Tim Conway would
break each other up and laugh and as a kid,
I really enjoyed it and a lot of people enjoyed it,
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and they're still popular YouTube clips. But it would seem
that there's a limit to how much of that you
can take based on Saturday Night Live. And we're gonna
play some examples. There's some famous Saturday Night Live clips.
I mean Jimmy Fallon used to break up a lot.
I mean he just for some reason, some people can't
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hold it together as well as other people. And I've
watched those clips over and over again and cried laughing.
It was so funny him breaking up. But it's just
like it's a good flavor, it can't be the whole
thing or something. Ryan Gosling, the host, for whatever reason,
he can't make it through thirty seconds of any sketch
without starting to laugh. That's an interesting personality thing, isn't
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it now? Yeah? I think it is. I don't think
it's like a question of discipline. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
I don't think so either. But it's pretty interesting that
you're just so giggly even though you've got the script,
you've rehearsed it over and over again, you know what's coming,
and you can't keep from busting up, right, Yeah, And
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well I should have maybe started with this. I'm a
Saturday Night Live freak. I've been so into it since
the first year. I've watched documentaries about it, I watched
the podcasts where the old cast members talk about various sketches.
I mean, just I'm super into Saturday Night Live. And
Lorne Michaels hates it when people break up, Like that's
his rule number one, do not break up during a sketch.
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We wrote these sketches in a certain way to be funny,
in a certain way. They'll be funniest if you don't
break up, do it the way you're supposed to. I mean,
he hates it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
So I haven't seen this Ryan Gosling thing.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Is the laughter?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Does it seem forced or.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Is it genuine? No, It's definitely genuine, really, and most
of it makes me laugh because it's funny stuff happening.
And then he can't come from like but there is
so the the one that's getting so much attention. And
I read the article in the Hollywood Reporter. Heidi Gardner,
who's one of the regular cast members, completely lost it
during the Beavis and butt Heead thing and which you're
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going to hear a clip of here in just a
little bit, and it's really visual. I don't know how
well this is going to come across very funny sketch.
It's just it was. It was a news program. It
was like one of those town halls, political town halls
like you'd see on CNN or something like that. And
the host is talking to Kean Thompson about AI and
stuff like that. Well, Ryan Gosling is over her shoulder,
looking exactly like Beavis from Beavis and butt Heead, I mean,
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like the hair, the outfit, the everything like that. And
he's just sitting there and very intently listening and everything
like that. And when Keenan Thompson points out, sorry, just
the person behind you looks just like Beavis, and Ryan
Gosling's looking around like, who's he talking? But when the
butt Heead character comes out, who's really got makeup on?
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Heide Gardner turns around the season for the first time,
and then she can't talk for like a minute, and
at some point the whole thing falls apart and it
just doesn't work anymore. But and I've got some of
her quotes about that from a Hollywood reporter I can
hit you with. Well, let's listen to the clip first.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
But if human beings created the AI, can't we just
program it to not do that?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, it's oh my god, are you saying.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
What I think that's a valid question.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
No, Now they're the gentleman behind you that looks like
butthead professor.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Just because our audience members aren't as informed on the
issue as you doesn't make them butt heads.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Butt head from the cartoon. He Beavis is free.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
He really like to move on and discuss AI. So
would you like him to move? Yes, thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
The man with the gray shirt and exposed gums.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Sir, kindly move seats.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
She's talking to you.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
Oh, I'm sorry, I am so sorry. I'm confused. I'm
just here to learn about.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
AI, so you know. And then they set to get
him out of the line of view of the AI experts,
so he's not they're not distracting. They sit the person
who looks like Beavis, whose name is like Ralph, and
the guy because I don't they don't even know what
they're talking about. I've never heard of this cartoon, they say.
But they sit him next to each other and they're
sitting the same way, and then they're laughing at things.
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So I have two comments.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Number One, it's not her fault that Keenan Thompson is
the funniest human being ever and everything he says is hilarious. Secondly,
the answer is the audience that they loved it. They're
laughing so hard they were crying.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Stop.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
There's the end of discussion. Let's all have fun, people,
come on, we don't need more fun.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
From the sound of it.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
It also kind of sounds like they might have set
her up for that, like they hid from her what
that cast member was going to look like, just for
the shock value.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, So what I was wondering is because they do
dress rehearsal right before they do the show, which I
can't imagine what a long, grueling night that is. They
do a full dress rehearsal and then do the show.
But they didn't put the prosthetics on, and he had
these prosthetics on his face that made him look like, yeah,
butt head is an odd looking human, and so she
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hadn't seen him before. And then she turns around asking
to move in that and then when she couldn't talk
for like a minute. But so that was like, I
don't know, a third of the way through the show,
and Ryan Gosling broke up every sketch well by the
time he gets toward the end of the show, and
like the sketches toward the end is like, all right, okay,
can you just I mean I actually was and Henry,
I was watching with my son. Henry said that ruins
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it when they laugh, and because we watched a whole
bunch of them, and I mean, there must just be
a limit to it, because like famously, like I said,
those Carol Burnett clips are the most famous Carol Burnett
clips of all time of a very popular comedy show
when they would break each other up. Maybe it's just
a limit. Maybe that's it. Oh sure, yeah, yeah, odd
that Ryan Gosling cannot get through a line without laughing.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I think it's like people who cry a lot versus
people who cry a little. It's just it's part of
your makeup. Which reminds me of my favorite conundrum, Katie.
I don't think I've ever hit.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
This hit you with us.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I may have if I have, forgive me, I'm getting old.
Have I ever done the I told you, the one
about punching yourself in the face. No, okay, So if
I punch myself in the face, so hard it makes
me cry.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Does that make me a tough guy or.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
A you know, I've never thought of it that way.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
That's like Einstein level riddle right there. Yeah, you gotta
get Oppenheimer on that one. It's not quantum mechanics in
it or something makes you a mental case. But the
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featuring our podcast one more thing, get it wherever you
like to get podcasts. This here's the man versus woman
battle of the sexist thing. It was so popular in
morning radio and rock stations. Uh, this has gotten to
do with splitting the bill on a date.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
That where oh sorry, go ahead, but is that the
game where you'd like to ask the uh, the guy
how many teaspoons in a table spot? And then you'd
ask the woman how many points do you get for
a safety in football?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And see you scored better? Is that it more or not?
I've heard those sorts of things. Do you still do
that in the monitory? Very entertaining? Yeah, I don't know.
Here's this anyway? Why are we spitting the bill?
Speaker 9 (18:31):
Well, I mean it's our first date, so I thought
we should.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Maybe I can't believe you made us with the bill.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
I mean, you ordered an appetizer that I didn't even touch.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Why do you think that I should? Who asked me out?
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I know, but you ordered something? Asked me out? All right,
I'll just take you home, all.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Right, I see you bye.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Now He gives the reasoning why he did that, all right.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
What I don't understand is you ask for the date,
so you pay. It's not like I'm forcing anybody to
go on a date with me. Clearly fifty on the date.
She wants to be there just as much as I
want to be there. It's not like I'm forcing her
to date me or go on a date with me.
We both want to be there equally. Therefore we should
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split the bill equally.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I am on the older end, so I don't have
any idea what people do. Now. There's a lot more
first dates going on with online dating, do is there?
Do you know, Katie, is there still an expectation that
the man pays with all the first date online stuff?
Or is it? Does it go one fifty to fifty
at least for the first day.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Well in today's day in age, I would assume that
it's changed, you know, with all the equality and you
know that stuff. I I I still am by the
you know, usually the guy pays for the first date.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, I just I know. I know a number of
people do the online dating thing. It's just a completely
different world than anything I've ever been involved in. They
date so much. I mean, if you're attractive man or woman,
and I know several people like this, they go on
three four dates a week with people they've never met
in their lives. Wow, I mean, so it's a lot.
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You know, how many first dates have I have in
my whole life. It's not that many people I know
that who do the online dating. They do as many
in a month as I did in my life. So
it's a different it's a different world. Two or three
first dates a week. That sounds like somebody you do
something you would do to somebody because they're in isis
as a punishment. Well, from what I can understand from
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talking to people I know, the women are getting a
lot of I mean you get in treat you to
get in the first date treatment as a woman, which
a lot of women really really like. You know, guy
gets stressed up, takes you to a nice restaurant, treat
you really really nice. A lot of women really really
like that, and you get to do that a bunch
The guy is hoping that at least some of the
time it's turned into sex. So that's what they're doing.
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And I know a bunch of people that engage in
that constantly. I mean constantly. I not done it at all.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
In the less than a handful of first dates that
I've been on. I've always come prepared to pay my
own way just to you know, like I would never
because you hear about the girls that like don't even
show up with their purse, you know that are going
to get taken care of. So I've always, you know,
taken care of my own way. What that clip sounded
like to me is he didn't like her that much,
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because if he really liked her, he would have taken
care of it.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Short and an appetizer. He didn't even touch it. Well,
it's being to being an old and bitter and out
of touch. I can't get past the utterly plain effort
to go viral here, and I just it's difficult for
me to get to the analysis part.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
But I will do that because I'm a disciplined, broadcast professional.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Awesome. So the whole well, you ordered an appetizer that
I didn't even touch.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I mean, if that is your standard, then explain to
me the scenario in which you would have paid for
her meal. She would have had to have asked for
and received permission for every expenditure during that date. I
was thinking of asking for a refill on my coke.
Now it's not clear to me whether that's free or not.
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May I please?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It's very simple. The appetizer was chick six chicken wings.
You ate four, I ate two, so you're gonna have
to pay for seventy five percent of it. At the
majority takes a pencil out from behind his ear.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
He throws the figures down. Sure you are never getting
a second date. Never he picked her up. She didn't
look like what she did in her pictures. He was
trying to end it. You want to pay for That's
what I'm thinking happened here.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I would say from the and I'm trying to be
very nice because there's the people I like and everything
like that. But if you're above a certain level of attractiveness,
and that's the whole picture looks, you know, your your
verbal game, your texting game, whatever. If you can play
in that world, I don't know how you'd ever stop.
It looks to me like you'd get addicted to it
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pretty easily, Like why would you want to give up
the whole Guys are constantly taking me into nice restaurants
and treat me like a queen for a couple of weeks,
and then I just did go onto a different one
to a different one, and the guy end of it is,
I'm constantly meeting hot chicks pretty regularly. We end up
sleeping together. Why would I ever stop? Because I know
several people that have been doing this for a long time.
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I don't know. I don't know where this goes for
the future. Maybe you age out of it someone you
have to quit when you get too old to be
able to do that. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
There's this story from the New York Post today that
a girl was on TikTok and she didn't buy groceries
for two years. I saw proceeded to go on a
date six days a week.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. I like, I know people
and not to that extreme, but it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Hey, Katie, how would you feel if a guy bought
a coupon to pay for the date.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
My honey, I've never had a problem with that. I
don't understand why that would be frond of pound. I've
heard that mocked many times, and he got out of coupon?
Why why? Why is that a bad thing at all?
Saving the Bogo lifestyle? Man? Hell you, that's pretty funny,
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that's the Well, not only do I appreciate thriftiness just
in general, it's just I don't understand why that would
be a Why is this better if I'm paying more
for it? I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I think it's as simple as this is my note,
my level of sincerity. This is how much I am
spending on you. I am spending a lot willingly showing
my generosity an interest in you.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, And then if you get a a coupon for
a free sight of ribs or something like that with
a coke, showing less enthusiasm, yes, essentially okay.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
But getting back to the many first dates, and why
would you give it up to each their own?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I guess that sounds like a miserable hell to me. Well,
it would be like I said, I must rather have
somebody I love, who I can trust and we can
just be comfortable please. Yes, yeah, no, I've not done
any online dating for those reasons. But I know people
that it's just like every night is prom night. You
get treated like a queen every time you go on
these dates with people that are suitors. So you get
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the full laughing at your jokes, paying for stuff, that thing,
and they enjoy it. And then on the other side
is the sex, which is their motivator. Sounds that, Yeah,
that crowd could I don't know what. I don't know
how that's gonna end up for that crowd. But and
it's it's a fairly new phenomenon. It didn't exist until
what a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
What would Dante say about shallow pleasure seeking jack.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
H it's not gonna lead you anywhere. Good to each
their own.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I went on one first date where the girl cut
her meat with two hands and it just turned me off.
So she literally used it like a saw. It was
just bizarre.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Two hands on the knife, yes, trying to picture this, Yeah, like.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
A big giant steak knife and put both hands on
this and shoes a stabbing at her.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I think it has a comment on the quality of
this steak you had bought for the poor girl right
saying I need both hands to get through this steak
you bought me. Here's the Sizzlers your coupon.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I knew the Sizzler had a must sell special tables.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Anyway, Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And Gaddy Show. There's a new book coming out in August.
I just listened to a podcast with the author the
other day. I'm going to try to read it. It's
about I don't even know if I can explain what
it's about. Complex. Well, the simple thing is what is life? Well,
(27:11):
that's got to be quite a book which has never
been answered. Nobody knows that. There's no good did you know?
I didn't even know this. There's no good definition for
what life is as opposed to something that's not alive.
Nobody has any idea why life started, how it started,
what it is, how to define it? Anyway, this new
book is supposed to get closer to that or trapped
(27:32):
in the matrix.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, exactly, Well that's true. Yeah, I remember having it
defined in college.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Butsatisfactor, there's not an agreed upon definition because every definition
you can come up with has all kinds of flaws.
Then you would say, okay, well, then why isn't this
life or why isn't that life? Or you know that
sort of thing? So well says you, Life's a bit.
I learned that long ago. There's your definition, like to say,
(28:01):
what I was in high school? Life and then you
die and life's a party. That's me My definition life
is a highway.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I got a question for you, guys, Yes, do you
consider working to be life? And the reason I'm asking
this is I knew somebody that they were retiring. I asked,
why are you retiring? He said, so I can finally
do something, I can finally live.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Wow. They must have hated their job a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
It's funny for in a special circumstance. Is this fun
to make?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
True? I do always have to remember that I have
a job I really enjoy doing and get tremendous satisfaction
out of. But I also know a guy real recently.
I talked to him last Friday who retired from a
job he hated like six months ago, and he's more
miserable now than when he worked his job. Wow. So's yeah,
it's you know, work is a lot of your life,
(28:49):
it's a lot of who you are. Yeah, there's just
no question that you cross that bridge and some people
land on that new shore quite comfortably goes great. I
have friends like that. I play golf with them, and
some it's a lot of trouble and they struggle. Just
who knows.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Anyway, back to the question of a Beatrie jack as
Summer read Alert listener Alnonymous, good old friend of the
Armstrong and Getty Show and of me personally sent this
along the first Partner's Summer Book Club from the govt
CA dot gov website. The first Partner's Summer Book Club
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California for All Kids, launched in partnership with the California
State Library. The first partner, that's Jennifer Sebel Newsom, who
is a far left neo Marxist activist loon her.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Book, I'm I'm offended by the mere idea of the
governor's wife putting out a reading list that anybody would
look at to come up with what they want to
read or what they want their kids to read. That
just the idea of a offends me. Really, If that's
why it's going to get your reading information from a
(30:04):
politician's spouse, all right, who's.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
A far well known far left activist. Yeah, when we
read with our children early and off, and it encourages
young readers. Blah blah blah, which is absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I agree with that. But here's here's your book list.
Let's start with preschoolers.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Here's what the first partner recommends preschoolers read or have
read to them. Nana the Great Ghost camping Okay in
our garden. Millie has recently moved to a new city
from a place more than an ocean away. She misses
her garden used to grow food. Amara's farm. Mamara is
hosting a pot luck for friends on her farm. She
needs help finding her pumpkins. Blah blah blah. All our neighbors.
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When a new family moves in, the whole neighborhood comes
together to celebrate their diverse community and the tree in me.
Through poetic text and exquisite illustrations of children reveling in nature,
this book explores various ways we as human beings are strong, creative,
and connected. That sounds it's just fine, Okay, as that's
your preschoolers, Let's let's move on.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
She was more than I wanted, but not into the
I'm angry territory yet. Yeah, you're gonna see certain patterns
Emerging here K through two.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Just Like Me a collection of poetry filled with engaging
mini stories about girls of all kinds, girls who feel
happy said don't love their.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Better I mean and Brunette or different Kinds.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Water Day a joyful picture book about a young girl
in her community celebrating the arrival of something of water.
I Am Enough, a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who
you are, respecting others, being kind to one another.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
She Persisted in Sports.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
In the third She Persisted book, Chelsea Clinton introduces the
readers to women who have excelled in their sports.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
The pattern I'm supposed to pick up on here is
are all girl oriented? Finding my dance?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Follow along is Ria Thundercloud shares her dance journey from
blah blah blah. Grades three through five, Plant Cookiet discover
how plant seeds and patio containers blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
It's food harvest. Just ask, be different, be brave, be you.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomoyor shares her blah blah blah.
The Oldest Student, How Mary Walker learned to read Mexic Kid,
The Trip of a Lifetime. Along the Way, Pedro finally
connects with zab Willito and learns what it and then
Arelli is a dreamer. A story about Aurelli moraleis a
DACA recipient. So you got to be a chick or
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an immigrant. Otherwise your story is book. Nobody wants to
hear it. All right, you can be a chick or
an immigrant.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
So no, two boys like the Hardy Boys. One of
the reasons boys liked The Hardy Boys so much as
was boys doing boys stuff. Popular book series from when
we were young.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Yeah, Mexicans can't be irish, lad I've got ages eleven
through fourteen. Here it's a teens who are in the
autism spectrum. Obviously I have no problem with that. Let's see,
here's another immigrant too's swimming at a swimming pool. Apparently
than the Blackbird Girls, Brown Girl Dreaming, Rebel Girls Celebrate Pride,
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twenty five Tales of Self Love, Community Inspiring Tales Chicks
only from the lgbt QIABCD Barbecue Community Women in Art.
Let's skip to the grades nine through twelve. Brave Plucky
Eliza deals.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
With lung lingering trauma or your girl on Earthed and
I Am not your perfect Mexican daughter rounds out the choices.
I know we talk about it, but at some point
it's got to reach national consensus that, Okay, we went,
we went plenty far and making sure girls are getting
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an education and have an opportunity to go to college,
and blah blah blah. We kind of left boys out
of it somewhere along the way, and we better turn
our attention to that, because well, the reading list and
all kinds there's all kinds of stats out there. I
got two boys. All the girls are super into learning
and straight a students. A lot of the boys are
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kind of meh about school, and I think that's because
of the way it's structured. It's structured. It's very girl
centered focused, designed for your personality and interests.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I never talk about politicians' children and never will in
any substantive way. I happen to know the nwsoms have
a couple of sons, and I have a sick feeling
in my stomach, which I hope is wrong. I'm sure
they love their sons very much and want the best
for them, But to grow with a mom who is
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so openly disdainful of males that her reading list includes
not a single boys adventure unless they're an immigrant.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
That just that. It's my Angelou's When people try to
show you or tell you who they are, believe them. Yeah. No,
book about two guys building a fort and climbing a
mountain and you know whatever, fishing or ething like. Right now,
she's openly disdainful of that. That's interesting. Yeah, but don't
get your reading lists for your kids from politicians anyway.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Yeah, unless your dearest dream is that your child become
a little Marxist, then this list is perfect for them.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jettie Armstrong and Hey, it's the Armstrong and Getty Show,
featuring our podcast One More Thing. We do a new
(00:32):
one every day. Find it wherever you find your podcasts. Hey,
it's just my opinion.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's time for one more Thing, arm one more.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So before we get to a Michelangelo hosted One More Thing.
I didn't pay off one of my teases during the
Armstrong and Getty Radio Show. If you enjoyed these bitter foods,
you might have psychopathic tendencies. And the list is gin
and tonics love them, black coffee every day, and dark
(01:08):
chocolate love it. Yes, virtually the only thing I'll eat
for dessert.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
All Right, I'm two out of three?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Which one don't you like? You don't drink.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm not a gin drinker you.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
See at the psychopath party, though, Katie, So two out
of three is plenty welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And if you're not a psychopath, you you probably have
everyday sadism. It says here, which is a person who
takes pleasure from ordinary experiences in which cruelty is vicarious.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Oh yeah, vicarious cruelty gets me through the day.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That and a little dark chocolate to nibblon. Exactly. I
watched down My Cruelty with a nice Gin and Tonic
and a little dark chocolate, so satisfying. Or a cup
of coffee to help you stay up later to watch
more of the cruelty, you know, if there's a good
cruelty on TV, yeah, I'll want a cup of coffee
(01:59):
to keep my eyes wide. All right, now your story,
Michael Angelo.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Okay, let me go back about six months ago. My
wife and I purchased these tickets to a show that
was we thought would be high action, entertaining, musical, very cool,
and so I didn't realize it was the NFL playoff
week on ice No, nothing like that. But I didn't
realize it was the NFL playoff week, and I didn't
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think ahead.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh yeah, that before too. Yeah, I've done that before too.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So of course this thing comes up and I realized
it's now the NFL playoff weekend, and I say, you know, look,
I really don't want to go. She goes, don't worry
about it. It's going to be great. You know, we
bought these tickets. There are one hundred dollars. You know,
it's going to be fantastic. You're going to really enjoy it.
And I thought, all right, I'm going to enjoy it.
I'll go along. So we get to the show and
(02:50):
the show's not what we expected. It's not any action
at all. In fact, it's people talking on stage, doing
an occasional song, talking on stage doing it's super.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Too much Grover, not enough Elmo for Elmo on Ice exactly, Yeah,
you call it Almo on ice. But there's the freaking
blue thing.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
So intermission comes, they say, hey, we got more great
action for you in the second half. Hang around, and
I'm thinking I don't want to hang around. So I
tell my wife. I say, hey, listen, this isn't my
cup of tea. This is not what you sold it
as and she goes, yeah, I know, I'm sorry. I
thought it was something different. I thought it was, you know,
different type of show.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Were you just missing a game though over this or
is that what's going on?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So meanwhile, I'm you know, and we lived about five
minutes away, and I'm missing the Cowboys and Packers game,
and you know, I'm just trying to I enjoy NFL football.
And so I tell her listen, I want to get
out of here, and she goes, really, you didn't enjoy
any of this. I said, no, I haven't enjoyed any
of this at all. I think it's slow. I think,
you know, the music's not very good, et cetera, et cetera.
(03:52):
And so I'm listening this off. Well, I guess I
was talking too loud. And I must mention that during
part of the show wanted to speak talks about gratitude
and being grateful. So I'm just having a private conversation
with my wife's you know, it's oh boy.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
In the lobby.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
No, I'm not being loud. I mean, you know, just regular,
regular voice. And all of a sudden, a woman in front
of us turns around and says, my wife, well, I
guess he missed the part about gratitude. Oh, so she
has decided to interject yourself into a private conversation.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And so I kind of looked at her and I
didn't say anything. How many teeth did you knock out?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I didn't, but it just made me more angry, and
I said, we're getting out here now. Let's go. Let's go,
let's go. Grab her by the arm, and I said,
you know, and she goes and we you know, we
go storming out and I'm not happy.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Wow, Michael Angelo, get me out of here before I
punch a woman.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
No, and she says, I caused the scene. Well wait,
but I was trying to explain to her.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I said, you know, your wife said you caused the scene,
or that lady said you caused the scene.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
My wife said I caused the scene, but mine I
had a regular voice. It was a private conversation, and
this stranger decided to interject into Obviously they were eaves
dropping into our conversation. She apparently was upset because I
didn't like the show.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well, that's yeah. It's a fine line between somebody eavesdropping
on a private conversation or being so loud that you
are they are part of your conversation. That's a fine line.
It's in the eye of the beholder. Well, so I
almost need to get a decibel reading to know where
to come down on this one, honestly, exactly. I mean,
you know, I think by definition a scene happened, whether
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you caused it or not, is I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I think that's why we've convened this court of hasty opinions.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, this is why I'm here. I want to know
did I cause a scene or was this? I thought
the woman, you know, the strange woman, was completely out
of line. I would never introduct myself into somebody else's conversation.
Did you ever do that?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yes, Kenny, that's what I was just going to go with.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
You have to think about the person who is standing
there listening to a couple have a conversation and goes,
I'm justumping in there. Yeah, I want to get in that.
I mean that that's some nosy. I don't think you've started.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That is a certain sort of person that you're right decides, Hey,
there's a looks to me a married couple. I think
I'll jump into the middle of their arguments.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Not only that, but the superior tone she strikes. Yes,
I guess you missed the part about gratitude.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh, I'll show you some gratitude.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah I hear that. Yeah, I think that that that's
one of those things.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
She showed her who she is with that comment. I
mean not, Hey, dude, some of us are really enjoying this.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Can you let up? On the negativity. Even that would
be like what do you what do you mind your business?
Ignore me? Or stand there thinking, boy, this a hole
has no appreciation for fine art. I mean I would
tell her to leave.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Yeah, you didn't say anything to her period.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Like you didn't say anybody who likes this as an
fing idiot or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
No, nothing like that at all. Now I'm getting into
dangerous territory. How long was this uncomfortable between you and
your wife?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh it was just like a minute.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Okay, it's not very long. And this wasn't a steely
silence all the way home?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, no, no? But was who made the scene? Me
or this woman? I argued, this woman created the scene,
not me?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Right, I have a volume is the key key question.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I just can't see you causing a scene.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Michaelangelo and causing a scene don't go together.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
No, they don't.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
I know.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, yeah, And I'm glad it was a minor thing
because the whole steely silence all the way home is
a Oh that's a rough one. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Sver think he wants to know more about the show
in question, But I don't want to go there.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I get the feeling you don't want to go there.
So so I want to either how old was it
the woman that butted in?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh, I'd say she was in her fifties, tight late fifties.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Man, that is certainly an interesting personality trait to do that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Now, one thing about the theater is I noticed that
as soon as we sat down, everybody was much older
than us. And so I was like, Okay, this is
a different type of crowd. I mean, everybody was older.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Did that woman look like she might have participated in
like a woman's march?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I can see that. I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm sorry that there was a rancor.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But there was two things that bothered me. Two things
that ranked me. Was first of all, I don't like
having my time wasted and second condescension. Those two things
I think bug me more than anything.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, just not digging the show. I mean that's a
that's a that's a tough one. I mean, if you're
if you're the person you're with is digging into sat
through that.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I wasn't exactly digging innumerable but she wasn't digging it in.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
No, So that wasn't Yeah, that wasn't the issue.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
She was screaming that the show effing sucked.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I mean, you know, I'm gonna start doing that. When
I hear people arguing, I'm just gonna jump in them.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
In like.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You know what. I think.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
You didn't ask me, but I think I'm with him.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
All right, thanks guys. So I didn't create a scene, right, correct?
All right?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I feel good? Armstrong And it's The Armstrong and Getty Show,
featuring our podcast. One more thing, Download it, subscribe to
it wherever you'd like to get podcasts. So let's getting
(09:33):
some attention in some circles for people who watch Saturday
Night Live Saturday Night as last weekend that there was
so much of the cast of breaking up and laughing
during sketches. I mean, more than I've ever seen ever
combined in forty years of watching the show in one episode.
(09:54):
And well, an interesting thing about that, Katie, you're not
old enough to re to have lived through the Carol
Burnett Show, which was a big popular sitcom, like the
number one show in America back in the seventies, but legendary.
These various clips were Harvey Corman and Tim Conway would
break each other up and laugh and as a kid,
I really enjoyed it and a lot of people enjoyed it,
(10:16):
and they're still popular YouTube clips. But it would seem
that there's a limit to how much of that you
can take based on Saturday Night Live. And we're gonna
play some examples. There's some famous Saturday Night Live clips.
I mean Jimmy Fallon used to break up a lot.
I mean he just for some reason, some people can't
(10:36):
hold it together as well as other people. And I've
watched those clips over and over again and cried laughing.
It was so funny him breaking up. But it's just
like it's a good flavor, it can't be the whole
thing or something. Ryan Gosling, the host, for whatever reason,
he can't make it through thirty seconds of any sketch
without starting to laugh. That's an interesting personality thing, isn't
(10:58):
it now? Yeah? I think it is. I don't think
it's like a question of discipline. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
I don't think so either. But it's pretty interesting that
you're just so giggly even though you've got the script,
you've rehearsed it over and over again, you know what's coming,
and you can't keep from busting up, right, Yeah, And
(11:19):
well I should have maybe started with this. I'm a
Saturday Night Live freak. I've been so into it since
the first year. I've watched documentaries about it, I watched
the podcasts where the old cast members talk about various sketches.
I mean, just I'm super into Saturday Night Live. And
Lorne Michaels hates it when people break up, Like that's
his rule number one, do not break up during a sketch.
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We wrote these sketches in a certain way to be funny,
in a certain way. They'll be funniest if you don't
break up, do it the way you're supposed to. I mean,
he hates it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
So I haven't seen this Ryan Gosling thing.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Is the laughter?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Does it seem forced or.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Is it genuine? No, It's definitely genuine, really, and most
of it makes me laugh because it's funny stuff happening.
And then he can't come from like but there is
so the the one that's getting so much attention. And
I read the article in the Hollywood Reporter. Heidi Gardner,
who's one of the regular cast members, completely lost it
during the Beavis and butt Heead thing and which you're
(12:16):
going to hear a clip of here in just a
little bit, and it's really visual. I don't know how
well this is going to come across very funny sketch.
It's just it was. It was a news program. It
was like one of those town halls, political town halls
like you'd see on CNN or something like that. And
the host is talking to Kean Thompson about AI and
stuff like that. Well, Ryan Gosling is over her shoulder,
looking exactly like Beavis from Beavis and butt Heead, I mean,
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like the hair, the outfit, the everything like that. And
he's just sitting there and very intently listening and everything
like that. And when Keenan Thompson points out, sorry, just
the person behind you looks just like Beavis, and Ryan
Gosling's looking around like, who's he talking? But when the
butt Heead character comes out, who's really got makeup on?
(12:59):
Heide Gardner turns around the season for the first time,
and then she can't talk for like a minute, and
at some point the whole thing falls apart and it
just doesn't work anymore. But and I've got some of
her quotes about that from a Hollywood reporter I can
hit you with. Well, let's listen to the clip first.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
But if human beings created the AI, can't we just
program it to not do that?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, it's oh my god, are you saying.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
What I think that's a valid question.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
No, Now they're the gentleman behind you that looks like
butthead professor.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Just because our audience members aren't as informed on the
issue as you doesn't make them butt heads.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Butt head from the cartoon. He Beavis is free.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
He really like to move on and discuss AI. So
would you like him to move? Yes, thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
The man with the gray shirt and exposed gums.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Sir, kindly move seats.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
She's talking to you.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
Oh, I'm sorry, I am so sorry. I'm confused. I'm
just here to learn about.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
AI, so you know. And then they set to get
him out of the line of view of the AI experts,
so he's not they're not distracting. They sit the person
who looks like Beavis, whose name is like Ralph, and
the guy because I don't they don't even know what
they're talking about. I've never heard of this cartoon, they say.
But they sit him next to each other and they're
sitting the same way, and then they're laughing at things.
(15:01):
So I have two comments.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Number One, it's not her fault that Keenan Thompson is
the funniest human being ever and everything he says is hilarious. Secondly,
the answer is the audience that they loved it. They're
laughing so hard they were crying.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Stop.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
There's the end of discussion. Let's all have fun, people,
come on, we don't need more fun.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
From the sound of it.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
It also kind of sounds like they might have set
her up for that, like they hid from her what
that cast member was going to look like, just for
the shock value.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, So what I was wondering is because they do
dress rehearsal right before they do the show, which I
can't imagine what a long, grueling night that is. They
do a full dress rehearsal and then do the show.
But they didn't put the prosthetics on, and he had
these prosthetics on his face that made him look like, yeah,
butt head is an odd looking human, and so she
(15:56):
hadn't seen him before. And then she turns around asking
to move in that and then when she couldn't talk
for like a minute. But so that was like, I
don't know, a third of the way through the show,
and Ryan Gosling broke up every sketch well by the
time he gets toward the end of the show, and
like the sketches toward the end is like, all right, okay,
can you just I mean I actually was and Henry,
I was watching with my son. Henry said that ruins
(16:17):
it when they laugh, and because we watched a whole
bunch of them, and I mean, there must just be
a limit to it, because like famously, like I said,
those Carol Burnett clips are the most famous Carol Burnett
clips of all time of a very popular comedy show
when they would break each other up. Maybe it's just
a limit. Maybe that's it. Oh sure, yeah, yeah, odd
that Ryan Gosling cannot get through a line without laughing.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I think it's like people who cry a lot versus
people who cry a little. It's just it's part of
your makeup. Which reminds me of my favorite conundrum, Katie.
I don't think I've ever hit.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
This hit you with us.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I may have if I have, forgive me, I'm getting old.
Have I ever done the I told you, the one
about punching yourself in the face. No, okay, So if
I punch myself in the face, so hard it makes
me cry.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Does that make me a tough guy or.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
A you know, I've never thought of it that way.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
That's like Einstein level riddle right there. Yeah, you gotta
get Oppenheimer on that one. It's not quantum mechanics in
it or something makes you a mental case. But the
Armstrong and Getty Show more John your Joe podcasts and
our hot lakes. This is the Armstrong and Getty Show
(17:43):
featuring our podcast one more thing, get it wherever you
like to get podcasts. This here's the man versus woman
battle of the sexist thing. It was so popular in
morning radio and rock stations. Uh, this has gotten to
do with splitting the bill on a date.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
That where oh sorry, go ahead, but is that the
game where you'd like to ask the uh, the guy
how many teaspoons in a table spot? And then you'd
ask the woman how many points do you get for
a safety in football?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And see you scored better? Is that it more or not?
I've heard those sorts of things. Do you still do
that in the monitory? Very entertaining? Yeah, I don't know.
Here's this anyway? Why are we spitting the bill?
Speaker 9 (18:31):
Well, I mean it's our first date, so I thought
we should.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Maybe I can't believe you made us with the bill.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
I mean, you ordered an appetizer that I didn't even touch.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Why do you think that I should? Who asked me out?
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I know, but you ordered something? Asked me out? All right,
I'll just take you home, all.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Right, I see you bye.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Now He gives the reasoning why he did that, all right.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
What I don't understand is you ask for the date,
so you pay. It's not like I'm forcing anybody to
go on a date with me. Clearly fifty on the date.
She wants to be there just as much as I
want to be there. It's not like I'm forcing her
to date me or go on a date with me.
We both want to be there equally. Therefore we should
(19:28):
split the bill equally.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I am on the older end, so I don't have
any idea what people do. Now. There's a lot more
first dates going on with online dating, do is there?
Do you know, Katie, is there still an expectation that
the man pays with all the first date online stuff?
Or is it? Does it go one fifty to fifty
at least for the first day.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Well in today's day in age, I would assume that
it's changed, you know, with all the equality and you
know that stuff. I I I still am by the
you know, usually the guy pays for the first date.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, I just I know. I know a number of
people do the online dating thing. It's just a completely
different world than anything I've ever been involved in. They
date so much. I mean, if you're attractive man or woman,
and I know several people like this, they go on
three four dates a week with people they've never met
in their lives. Wow, I mean, so it's a lot.
(20:22):
You know, how many first dates have I have in
my whole life. It's not that many people I know
that who do the online dating. They do as many
in a month as I did in my life. So
it's a different it's a different world. Two or three
first dates a week. That sounds like somebody you do
something you would do to somebody because they're in isis
as a punishment. Well, from what I can understand from
(20:42):
talking to people I know, the women are getting a
lot of I mean you get in treat you to
get in the first date treatment as a woman, which
a lot of women really really like. You know, guy
gets stressed up, takes you to a nice restaurant, treat
you really really nice. A lot of women really really
like that, and you get to do that a bunch
The guy is hoping that at least some of the
time it's turned into sex. So that's what they're doing.
(21:06):
And I know a bunch of people that engage in
that constantly. I mean constantly. I not done it at all.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
In the less than a handful of first dates that
I've been on. I've always come prepared to pay my
own way just to you know, like I would never
because you hear about the girls that like don't even
show up with their purse, you know that are going
to get taken care of. So I've always, you know,
taken care of my own way. What that clip sounded
like to me is he didn't like her that much,
(21:34):
because if he really liked her, he would have taken
care of it.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Short and an appetizer. He didn't even touch it. Well,
it's being to being an old and bitter and out
of touch. I can't get past the utterly plain effort
to go viral here, and I just it's difficult for
me to get to the analysis part.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
But I will do that because I'm a disciplined, broadcast professional.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Awesome. So the whole well, you ordered an appetizer that
I didn't even touch.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I mean, if that is your standard, then explain to
me the scenario in which you would have paid for
her meal. She would have had to have asked for
and received permission for every expenditure during that date. I
was thinking of asking for a refill on my coke.
Now it's not clear to me whether that's free or not.
(22:24):
May I please?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It's very simple. The appetizer was chick six chicken wings.
You ate four, I ate two, so you're gonna have
to pay for seventy five percent of it. At the
majority takes a pencil out from behind his ear.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
He throws the figures down. Sure you are never getting
a second date. Never he picked her up. She didn't
look like what she did in her pictures. He was
trying to end it. You want to pay for That's
what I'm thinking happened here.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I would say from the and I'm trying to be
very nice because there's the people I like and everything
like that. But if you're above a certain level of attractiveness,
and that's the whole picture looks, you know, your your
verbal game, your texting game, whatever. If you can play
in that world, I don't know how you'd ever stop.
It looks to me like you'd get addicted to it
(23:09):
pretty easily, Like why would you want to give up
the whole Guys are constantly taking me into nice restaurants
and treat me like a queen for a couple of weeks,
and then I just did go onto a different one
to a different one, and the guy end of it is,
I'm constantly meeting hot chicks pretty regularly. We end up
sleeping together. Why would I ever stop? Because I know
several people that have been doing this for a long time.
(23:33):
I don't know. I don't know where this goes for
the future. Maybe you age out of it someone you
have to quit when you get too old to be
able to do that. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
There's this story from the New York Post today that
a girl was on TikTok and she didn't buy groceries
for two years. I saw proceeded to go on a
date six days a week.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. I like, I know people
and not to that extreme, but it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Hey, Katie, how would you feel if a guy bought
a coupon to pay for the date.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
My honey, I've never had a problem with that. I
don't understand why that would be frond of pound. I've
heard that mocked many times, and he got out of coupon?
Why why? Why is that a bad thing at all?
Saving the Bogo lifestyle? Man? Hell you, that's pretty funny,
(24:24):
that's the Well, not only do I appreciate thriftiness just
in general, it's just I don't understand why that would
be a Why is this better if I'm paying more
for it? I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I think it's as simple as this is my note,
my level of sincerity. This is how much I am
spending on you. I am spending a lot willingly showing
my generosity an interest in you.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, And then if you get a a coupon for
a free sight of ribs or something like that with
a coke, showing less enthusiasm, yes, essentially okay.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
But getting back to the many first dates, and why
would you give it up to each their own?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I guess that sounds like a miserable hell to me. Well,
it would be like I said, I must rather have
somebody I love, who I can trust and we can
just be comfortable please. Yes, yeah, no, I've not done
any online dating for those reasons. But I know people
that it's just like every night is prom night. You
get treated like a queen every time you go on
these dates with people that are suitors. So you get
(25:31):
the full laughing at your jokes, paying for stuff, that thing,
and they enjoy it. And then on the other side
is the sex, which is their motivator. Sounds that, Yeah,
that crowd could I don't know what. I don't know
how that's gonna end up for that crowd. But and
it's it's a fairly new phenomenon. It didn't exist until
what a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
What would Dante say about shallow pleasure seeking jack.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
H it's not gonna lead you anywhere. Good to each
their own.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I went on one first date where the girl cut
her meat with two hands and it just turned me off.
So she literally used it like a saw. It was
just bizarre.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Two hands on the knife, yes, trying to picture this, Yeah, like.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
A big giant steak knife and put both hands on
this and shoes a stabbing at her.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I think it has a comment on the quality of
this steak you had bought for the poor girl right
saying I need both hands to get through this steak
you bought me. Here's the Sizzlers your coupon.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I knew the Sizzler had a must sell special tables.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Anyway, Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And Gaddy Show. There's a new book coming out in August.
I just listened to a podcast with the author the
other day. I'm going to try to read it. It's
about I don't even know if I can explain what
it's about. Complex. Well, the simple thing is what is life? Well,
(27:11):
that's got to be quite a book which has never
been answered. Nobody knows that. There's no good did you know?
I didn't even know this. There's no good definition for
what life is as opposed to something that's not alive.
Nobody has any idea why life started, how it started,
what it is, how to define it? Anyway, this new
book is supposed to get closer to that or trapped
(27:32):
in the matrix.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, exactly, Well that's true. Yeah, I remember having it
defined in college.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Butsatisfactor, there's not an agreed upon definition because every definition
you can come up with has all kinds of flaws.
Then you would say, okay, well, then why isn't this
life or why isn't that life? Or you know that
sort of thing? So well says you, Life's a bit.
I learned that long ago. There's your definition, like to say,
(28:01):
what I was in high school? Life and then you
die and life's a party. That's me My definition life
is a highway.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I got a question for you, guys, Yes, do you
consider working to be life? And the reason I'm asking
this is I knew somebody that they were retiring. I asked,
why are you retiring? He said, so I can finally
do something, I can finally live.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Wow. They must have hated their job a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
It's funny for in a special circumstance. Is this fun
to make?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
True? I do always have to remember that I have
a job I really enjoy doing and get tremendous satisfaction
out of. But I also know a guy real recently.
I talked to him last Friday who retired from a
job he hated like six months ago, and he's more
miserable now than when he worked his job. Wow. So's yeah,
it's you know, work is a lot of your life,
(28:49):
it's a lot of who you are. Yeah, there's just
no question that you cross that bridge and some people
land on that new shore quite comfortably goes great. I
have friends like that. I play golf with them, and
some it's a lot of trouble and they struggle. Just
who knows.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Anyway, back to the question of a Beatrie jack as
Summer read Alert listener Alnonymous, good old friend of the
Armstrong and Getty Show and of me personally sent this
along the first Partner's Summer Book Club from the govt
CA dot gov website. The first Partner's Summer Book Club
(29:31):
California for All Kids, launched in partnership with the California
State Library. The first partner, that's Jennifer Sebel Newsom, who
is a far left neo Marxist activist loon her.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Book, I'm I'm offended by the mere idea of the
governor's wife putting out a reading list that anybody would
look at to come up with what they want to
read or what they want their kids to read. That
just the idea of a offends me. Really, If that's
why it's going to get your reading information from a
(30:04):
politician's spouse, all right, who's.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
A far well known far left activist. Yeah, when we
read with our children early and off, and it encourages
young readers. Blah blah blah, which is absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I agree with that. But here's here's your book list.
Let's start with preschoolers.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Here's what the first partner recommends preschoolers read or have
read to them. Nana the Great Ghost camping Okay in
our garden. Millie has recently moved to a new city
from a place more than an ocean away. She misses
her garden used to grow food. Amara's farm. Mamara is
hosting a pot luck for friends on her farm. She
needs help finding her pumpkins. Blah blah blah. All our neighbors.
(30:44):
When a new family moves in, the whole neighborhood comes
together to celebrate their diverse community and the tree in me.
Through poetic text and exquisite illustrations of children reveling in nature,
this book explores various ways we as human beings are strong, creative,
and connected. That sounds it's just fine, Okay, as that's
your preschoolers, Let's let's move on.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
She was more than I wanted, but not into the
I'm angry territory yet. Yeah, you're gonna see certain patterns
Emerging here K through two.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Just Like Me a collection of poetry filled with engaging
mini stories about girls of all kinds, girls who feel
happy said don't love their.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Better I mean and Brunette or different Kinds.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Water Day a joyful picture book about a young girl
in her community celebrating the arrival of something of water.
I Am Enough, a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who
you are, respecting others, being kind to one another.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
She Persisted in Sports.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
In the third She Persisted book, Chelsea Clinton introduces the
readers to women who have excelled in their sports.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
The pattern I'm supposed to pick up on here is
are all girl oriented? Finding my dance?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Follow along is Ria Thundercloud shares her dance journey from
blah blah blah. Grades three through five, Plant Cookiet discover
how plant seeds and patio containers blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
It's food harvest. Just ask, be different, be brave, be you.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomoyor shares her blah blah blah.
The Oldest Student, How Mary Walker learned to read Mexic Kid,
The Trip of a Lifetime. Along the Way, Pedro finally
connects with zab Willito and learns what it and then
Arelli is a dreamer. A story about Aurelli moraleis a
DACA recipient. So you got to be a chick or
(32:25):
an immigrant. Otherwise your story is book. Nobody wants to
hear it. All right, you can be a chick or
an immigrant.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
So no, two boys like the Hardy Boys. One of
the reasons boys liked The Hardy Boys so much as
was boys doing boys stuff. Popular book series from when
we were young.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Yeah, Mexicans can't be irish, lad I've got ages eleven
through fourteen. Here it's a teens who are in the
autism spectrum. Obviously I have no problem with that. Let's see,
here's another immigrant too's swimming at a swimming pool. Apparently
than the Blackbird Girls, Brown Girl Dreaming, Rebel Girls Celebrate Pride,
(33:11):
twenty five Tales of Self Love, Community Inspiring Tales Chicks
only from the lgbt QIABCD Barbecue Community Women in Art.
Let's skip to the grades nine through twelve. Brave Plucky
Eliza deals.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
With lung lingering trauma or your girl on Earthed and
I Am not your perfect Mexican daughter rounds out the choices.
I know we talk about it, but at some point
it's got to reach national consensus that, Okay, we went,
we went plenty far and making sure girls are getting
(33:50):
an education and have an opportunity to go to college,
and blah blah blah. We kind of left boys out
of it somewhere along the way, and we better turn
our attention to that, because well, the reading list and
all kinds there's all kinds of stats out there. I
got two boys. All the girls are super into learning
and straight a students. A lot of the boys are
(34:11):
kind of meh about school, and I think that's because
of the way it's structured. It's structured. It's very girl
centered focused, designed for your personality and interests.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I never talk about politicians' children and never will in
any substantive way. I happen to know the nwsoms have
a couple of sons, and I have a sick feeling
in my stomach, which I hope is wrong. I'm sure
they love their sons very much and want the best
for them, But to grow with a mom who is
(34:48):
so openly disdainful of males that her reading list includes
not a single boys adventure unless they're an immigrant.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
That just that. It's my Angelou's When people try to
show you or tell you who they are, believe them. Yeah. No,
book about two guys building a fort and climbing a
mountain and you know whatever, fishing or ething like. Right now,
she's openly disdainful of that. That's interesting. Yeah, but don't
get your reading lists for your kids from politicians anyway.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Yeah, unless your dearest dream is that your child become
a little Marxist, then this list is perfect for them.
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