July 29, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of the Monday July 29, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay features our other podcast, Armstrong & Getty One More Thing!
- The time Jack's college buddy made a move on him...
- The time Jack was stampeded & the benefit Joe exploited while working at a restaurant...
- Campus Madness...
- Do Human's Have Empathy?
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Getty, Armstrong and Jetty and He Armstrong and Getty Strong.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
And this is the Armstrong and Getty Show, featuring our
podcast One More Thing. Get it wherever you like to
get podcasts.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
This article I'm just reading about Hunter Biden's sugar brother,
Kevin Morris, the guy that we all just became aware
of recently when he was sitting there in Congress on
TV and his crazy wild sport jacket and his really
long hair for a sixty year old. He's got party
guy written all over him. I've been around the world
(00:59):
enough to know what party guy looks like, and he
looks like party guy.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
He is.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He is, have a good time, knows lots of people.
We're gonna stay out all night.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Guy, high dollar hookers, like a big spending party guy.
Yeah yeah, lots of crushed beer cans on our heads
and get wasted. Lots of really hot young woman hanging
around a guy who's sixty in, greasy and not that attractive.
But he's got a lot of money. That guy. He
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gave Hunter almost five million dollars to cover back taxes
eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollars for his art.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
What is up with this dude? I mean, so he's
party guy and giving hundred tons of money.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
For what reason. I don't know what he got out
of it. Well, and Hunter's not doing the the drugs,
guns and hookers thing anymore. So it's not that.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
We don't think he's doing the drugs, guns and hookers
thing anymore, just like nobody thought Matthew Perry was doing
drugs anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, yeah, uh yeah. So but what does this guy
want political influence? He just wants to be connoyting it.
Maybe it was just cool to be, yeah, just in
with that crowd. He's got tons of money. I don't know.
Maybe that opened up different world of party friends. I
don't know. Tell you what if I got a buddy
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who just lays tons of money on me, I'm thinking
he's going to reach for for the for the junk
at some point. I want something. He wants something. Katie
is right, He's gonna reach for the junk. Oh yeah,
he says, sooner or later, it's gonna be hey, whoa hey, bro,
Wait a minute, But I thought I.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Had I had an acquaintance in college who did that.
It was very disappointing, very.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Clear, huh to him. It was disappointing to me.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Very cool guy, and I thought I was kind of
in with the cool crowd. And it turns out that
that's what he was after.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And and I guess we weren't.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Actually he wasn't really, And I realized, if you're a woman, Katie,
this is an old experience to find out that the
guy is only interested in you physically and you're not
as good a friends as you thought.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
But it was it was new to me. I'm shocked.
You're shocked at what that happens.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Yeah, yeah, oh so how did you handle that? Just
tell him you're not interested? And then the friendship's over.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I it happened late at night. She passed out on
the couch and h.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And I just I just wriggled away and went to
another room and then never brought it up.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And then that when just kind of parted ways. M
fair enough. I mean, I don't know, is there a
better way to handle it? No? No, no, I mean
message sent on his end right overseer on my end.
A reply occurred, No need to discuss it any further,
(04:12):
I don't think. Yeah, fair enough, all right. It was
shocking to me though, I mean shocking. Oh that's right,
sugar brother. I was like, how did we get here?
I can't remember conversationally now I remember Hunter's sugar brother.
You brought it up. You thought at some point Hunters
sugar brother is going to reach for his junk. Yeah, yeah,
(04:32):
that's what I would think. Why are you laying all
this money? Oh wait a minute, But he's in a
difficult position.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
He can't just like wriggle off the couch and go
to another room and not talk about it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Hey, dude, I gave you five million dollars penitentiary for
tax problems right now if I hadn't paid them for
you bro. So anyway, yeah, so come on now, be
a little more, be a little more open minded.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Accommodating of Hunter Biden's track record. I mean, he might
have a shot, you know. That's true.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
That's true. That's true.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
At least he can't get pregnant Hunter, that's the upside.
So I opened the segment with Peter holding my ears back.
That's from a famous Family Guy clip in which they
all vomit a lot.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You can look it up on YouTube. It is hilarious.
It is one of the funniest things I've ever seen
in my life. It is disgusting, but it is funny.
Me and the kids probably watch it twice a year.
Laughed to we cry.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
But my son, who caught strap from me, I didn't
know one of the symptoms of strap is you vomit
a lot when you try to eat or take medicine.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
You know, I don't know that it is. I don't
remember that being an aspect of it either. When you
were talking about this earlier.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I looked it up, and not one of the websites
on the Google said anything about nausea or vomiting when
it comes to store.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That is interesting because the doctor brought it up to
me and I and I said, yeah, I've been I
didn't ever throw up, but I had to pull over
to the side of the road and get out of
the car when I was taking the kids to the
park and spit on the ground for like five minutes,
thinking I was going to throw up before I got
back in the car and drove off. And the uh,
the doctor said, yeah, that's a that's a thing that
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can go with STRAP, and so I stopped taking any medicine.
So that's one of the reasons I felt so horrible.
Every time I tried to take ibuprofen or tailand all
or anything like that, I would think I was gonna yeah. Anyway,
So my son was having the same situation yesterday all
day long, and he probably threw up half a dozen times,
and I was thinking, how fortunate it is that I
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do not have the if I cease, I don't do
the chain reaction thing. Seeing somebody else throw up doesn't
make me throw up, doesn't make it doesn't bother me
at all, has no effect on me whatsoever. It's it's
the same as if they I don't know, you know,
they left breadcrumbs on the couch and I had to
clean them up. It just luckily.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
But if you are you that way, either one of you,
anybody Michael that you other people make you sick if
they're sick, because.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's particularly enjoy cleaning it up or anything. But no,
it wouldn't. There was no chain reaction. I mean, I'm
sickened by it. It doesn't make me physically sick, though.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, I've known a number of people that if they
see somebody vomit they vomit.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
It's so funny. My husband's like that, and it actually
makes me laugh because you know, we're somewhere and somebody
gets sick and I'll see them getting Like we went
to a theme park and some kid was puking and
I saw the kid and I.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Just looked at Drew like, oh here it comes, you know.
Oh man, Well, so yaws are contagious, and the technical
or yawn is contagious as well. Yeah, technical or yawn
also contagious. I don't know how you deal with your
kids if you have that. That would make for a
really long day. They're sick, then you're sicking, and it's
(08:05):
just and then you get into that every parent's been
in this and just the non stop washing machine, dryer,
going of towels and blankets and everything. Everybody's walking around
equipped with a trash can. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Somebody wanning to have children. I'm excited about all of this.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Well, yeah, it's part of the deal. Definitely part of
the deal. Luckily, he was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He was he's getting older, got it, got the bowl
most of the time, So that's good as opposed to
when they're little kids and it's just everywhere all the time.
Oh my god, you sorry? Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Well no, when he says the bowl, is that the
universal big plastic bowl that is used as.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Having a born, having a big Yeah, the big popcorn bowl?
Or are we serve salad in it? That was the
Oh lord, no, that's too shallow.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
The trash cans the perfect receptacle, the bathroom size trash can.
That's what you keep next to people when they are
feeling ill. It doesn't seem like a handy. Doesn't seem
that handy for laying on the couch or and better whatnot?
In what sense? I mean? Is you put the trash
can in the bed? Oh next next to it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah, I feel like that's asking for an extra step.
I like to have the bowl like right next to
their head and then just turn over and do their thing.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well, I mean, if their health was like extremely terrible,
we never had any Yeah, I was reaching for it
and there's just no time. So how does everybody feel
about it?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
So then I will wash that bowl and it'll be
the same bowl we serve salad in like Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I would throw that bowl away. Yeah really, yes, no,
of course not. You wash it out. It's fine, don't
be a baby.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I've been using the same bowl for popcorn and salads
since they were little kids.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And also the VOMITBA. You're right, you're right, You're right, Michael.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
It costs like a dollar and a half, I think,
so having a separate one probably wouldn't be that big
a deal.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But Joe thinks you're too fancy. Yeah, what are you
talking about? Wash it and it'll be fine. Stop it.
Puking is actually an evolutionary a miracle in that kids
and pregnant ladies are much more likely to puke kids
because their immune system isn't fully formed and is robust
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as an adults. And so if the body thinks, you know,
I'm not sure this should be in me, let's just
get rid of it. In the same way that the
pregnant woman is, you know, dealing with herself and her fetus.
It's like, em, I'm not sure about this, We're getting
rid of it. You go to it. It's like having
a different safety protocol for what goes into your stomach.
So it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I wonder how many of us have had our lives
saved by vomiting, whether we vomited up some bad food
or too much alcohol that might have killed us of
it actually stayed in our stomach.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Saved by vomiting.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
The Joe Getty Story, The Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah,
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Speaker 3 (11:09):
It's the Armstrong and Getdy Show featuring our podcast. One
more thing. Download it, subscribe to it wherever you like
to get podcasts. I'm reading Old Yeller. My son and
I are reading it together, so Old Yeller is a
decent description for a middle aged talk show host. It
occurs to me liberals a couple of old Yellers. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
In one chapter of Old Yeller, the main character there,
who ends up shooting Old Yeller gets stampeded by cattle.
And I mentioned to my son that that happened to
me one time before, and he was quite shocked by that.
And I know I've told this story before, but not
for many, many years.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
And it's got.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
A legal immigration twist to it. I worked with a
lot of not a lot of a handful of illegal
immigrants when I worked in feed lots when I was
in high school.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Gladys, can you play that? Yeah, this is going back
to my high school.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
At that time, it was still mostly local high school
kids that worked these jobs with a handful of illegal immigrants.
From what I understand since then, it's all immigrants, illegal
or not, and it's not a job you could get
as a high school kid. Anyway, I'm working there at
the feed lot, and it was one guy I worked with,
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the Pedro.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Super good dude, really hard worker.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I loved working with him whenever I got teamed up
with him, like if we were bailing a all day long.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Man.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
He was tough as hell and could really sling hay
bails around, never got tired.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Good dude.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I liked working with him, but he didn't speak English
and use a nice guy to me. I just treat
him like I treat him anywhere anybody else. A lot
of the like the head cowboy though, and a lot
of the other people. They'd make him ride in the
back of the truck, wouldn't matter if it was freezing, cold,
raining outside whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
He had to ride in the bed of the truck
as we drove around. Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Which cool, But you know, I didn't think much of it.
As a fourteen year old, I wasn't you know. I
was just doing what I was told. But he was
a good dude, and we worked together a lot. And
I remember one time one of the guys brought up
to said at lunch, said, hey, Pedro, what do you
think of the border patrol?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
He said, no border patrol? Wow, And this story is
taking a dark turn.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I did.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But super good dude.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
And one other guy who is a cowboys, like the
best cowboy I ever saw, riding horses and stuff like
that and with a lasso.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Really cool dude. He was also from Mexico. Well, so
I'm chasing this.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I heard it all these like a couple of hundred
cattle into this pen in this alley they call it.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It's a long, thin pet. As you're heading up somewhere else,
they started to turn around and come back his cattle
off and do they have a herd mentality? Cattle?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
And for whatever reason, they started to turn around and
run back toward it, and they were gonna get out.
So I had to run and close the gate before
they got out, because then.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
We're going to have a mess. We have to bring
in the cowboys, round them all up and get them
a cycle.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
So I'm running as fast as I can to try
to get the gate shut before they're running back towards
this gate. I get to the gate just in time
to slam it shut, but I didn't quite get it
slam shut, and they hit the gate.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Oh, these cattle, and.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
It knocked me over backwards, and then it was just
nothing but dust and hoofs and noise. I'm rolled up
in a ball on the ground and there's just hooves
founding all around me. Oh l as they all ran
past me, and uh and dust everywhere, And luckily I
didn't get stepped on. I don't know how I didn't
get stepped on. I could have been killed pretty easily.
I was mostly hurt. I had the wind knocked out
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of me from the gate, hitting me so hard in
the chest, and I own over background, so I was
having trouble getting my breath. So I was more worried
about that than the cattle stepping on me at that moment.
Plus I'm a kid and I'm stupid. But Pedro comes
running over Jackjack, Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Jack? Are you okay? This guy that I.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Didn't think could speak a word of English. The bosses
was always just like shrugged his shoulders. Didn't understand what
they were saying. At least that much spoke I was like, yeah,
I'm okay, Pedro, you can talk now.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
What's the deal? Am I dreaming?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Exactly. It was so odd. Maybe it's just pretending he
didn't speak English. Yeah he was. He was obviously pretending
he didn't speak English, so he just didn't have to
deal with the boss. Well, not only that, if your
bosses assume that, then they'll say things around him. Then
he would like to know, Yeah, that's probably true, HIPPERI
gives you a little bit of info. Yeah, yeah, and
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he'll picked me up and dust me off and then
went back to no no English for the rest of
the time I worked with him.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
My mom's first husband was Chinese, so she speaks She
used to speak fluent Mandarin, but she still sometimes can
pick it up every now and then. And when she
the amount of times where she caught people talking oh wow,
especially at restaurants, because she you know, they'd sit down
and she'd be looking at them menu, and then she
would bust out like they'd you know, they'd say something,
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and then they'd come back to the table for her
to order, and she'd order and pristine Mandarin and they'd
look at her like, oh, whoops.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
That's awesome that you got a story like that from
a Mexican restaurant, don't you You figured out something they
were saying to you?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh yeah, yeah. When I was in high school, working
at a nice Mexican restaurant is like, sit down, you
bring your date there type Mexican restaurant, and the chefs
were all Mexican and they would, you know, frequently we
the bussers and we'd bring food out and stuff like that.
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We'd have to ask them to do things or say hey,
this that we need more of this or whatever, and
sometimes we were a pain in their ass and they
would respond with a variety of cheerfully said shref thing,
pandejo that sort of thing, or you got a capron
And capron can just mean dude, but it also means
like bastard or like depending on the context, it can
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be like an anti gay thing, what have you. But
so they would just casually call us and gay fellas
and whatever with a cheerful look on their face. And
it never occurred to us, well what are you gonna do?
You can't like look that up in nineteen eighty two, right, So,
but they would say it with the intonation of like
they were saying yes, sir or some sure thing, budd Yes,
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my friend, sure thing penis, nice job you ball us
wonder sure thing? Yeah? But good No, I'm sorry that
was the wrong turn of voice. Yeah, give me two minutes.
Wouldn't that be funny to say? Thanks? This is the
(17:40):
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Speaker 4 (17:53):
This might be the most annoying sixty seconds of audio
we've ever done since we're over Taylor Swift and as
everybody is, and now I've got Royal Family news.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Boy, that might be this might be the worst. Okay, Katie,
you are I'm with you, sister. I disavow this podcast.
I disavowed Are you cooking the show? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
This just came across the where King Charles has cancer.
They were doing prostate surgery and found cancer, which I
find an interesting way to word it. I wouldn't think
they'd be doing prostate cancer unless they knew he had
can or they would have Yeah, I would have thought anyway.
The only reason I bring this up at all is
if he's at all very ill, the conversation is going
(18:41):
to start among some of the whole.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So who's next in line? Will Harry, Megan? Was Meghan? Next? Online?
I hope so awesome Megan was Queen England. Maybe that
would kill off this whole stupid experiment. No, it's stignified, bald.
He did William right and his cute wife and Kate
Kate Ate Middleton. That's right. Embarrassed that I'm embarrassed that
(19:07):
I did too. I'm embarrassed that you knew that. So
he'd be the King of England. Yes, yeah, and with
all the duties and responsibilities thereof whatever. I don't care.
Make a monkey the care or the redhead with the
obnoxious Meghan girlfriend. I don't care, wife, I don't care.
I think we all want Harry and Meghan to be
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king and queen though, right, because I'd be just more
entertaining for the world all the way around. If you
put it, go into my head and make me choose, Yeah,
I'd go for that exactly, because then you got the
whole South Park thing of where's that privacy? Give us
a privacy? Stand on top of their house with the
light beam and band playing, we want privacy. Yeah, I've
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got to admit that if the royal family is going well,
there's nothing in it for me. It's only when it
cracks up that it becomes something that I have any interest.
Maybe we could make William the King of England and
shoot him and Taylor Swift into space at the same time,
and both of the conversations. I think we ought to
have like a debate between William and Harry for who
(20:13):
ought to be the king, and they can just bring
out old grievances and like really go after each other, right,
including that you're not, you know, even related? Sure, yeah,
whatever you say. Red. It's funny. It's kind of weird,
isn't it funny how you don't look like dad at all?
(20:35):
Watch so the my Truth thing. I've been meaning to
squeeze this into the radio show, but it's really long.
I gotta tell you, I gotta just tell you this.
I'm looking at the cable news channels, all the TV's
breaking news, King Charles diagnosed with cancer? Who cares need
(20:55):
to know news? I mean, seriously, do you know? I know?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I don't know. I I personally don't know my entire
world of people. I know, I don't think I know
a single person that would give.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I'm trying to think. But the fact that I'm having
to try to think kind of answers the question.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
I know one, you know one, who'd care? I know one,
and I know one, and I'm going to avoid this
conversation with that person.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
At all costs. And what are their other qualities this.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
They watch the Kardashians, Oh okay, okay, that type of
stuff gotcha.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
So it's a soap opera then for them? Then yeah,
the Crown on Netflix was like a big deal. Ah oh,
I just find this all so exhausting. Do you feel
do you feel like getting dumber? Because I do? Oh yeah?
And if we ever because you've invited this to various
get togethers with you and your parents' stuff, if we
ever are ever able to make it, can you make
sure that person is not there? They're not a chance,
(21:52):
they're No. I don't want a country. I don't want
to meet that person. Nope, wan't subjected to that. I
promise I will give you one thousand United States dollars
if you invite that person and tell them Jack wants
to hear all about the Royal Fair. Joe we all
talk after the podcast, and that would be a bargain.
(22:14):
I would just watch his face the whole night. Oh god,
oh boy. So anyway, I was hoping to get to
this during the show, but it's a little longish in
its entirety. It's a piece written by Josh Barrow, and
it has to do with the you know, it's a
campus madness story about you know, universities and how so
much of research and the research papers that everybody the
(22:38):
peer reviewed this and that, how a lot of it's crap.
And he was part of that world. And he's writing,
especially in the social sciences, not only can you not
replicate the results of some of these surveys and experiments
and stuff, nobody even tries, nobody even thinks of it.
So it's completely phony and everybody knows it.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, the replication problem is a serious issue for the
university world right now.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, and even in some of the harder sciences. And
this guy is talking about the fake sciences, the grievance
studies and stuff like that, and how there again, nobody
even asks them to be accurate or for their research
to have an ounce of rigor to it. It's just
not even asked, which is I think would be shocking
(23:24):
to a lot of Americans. But this was my favorite part.
And he quotes a guy who wrote about a paper
by Jenny Bolstrode, a historian of science at the University
of London. So this is one of the great universities
on Earth, who alleges that a moderately notable metallurgical technique
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patented in England in the late seventeen hundreds was in
fact stolen from the black Jamaican metallurgists who really developed it. Okay,
so this is incredibly obscure. But this guy, this seventeen
hundreds guy England, I think Henry Court was his name.
He's been credited for one hundreds of years developing whatever
(24:05):
this metal technique is. But she says, no, it was
actually stolen from black Jamaicans. But her paper failed to
show that such a technique was ever even used in Jamaica,
much less that the guy he credits with developing ever
did anything with this. I mean, it's like it's like
(24:29):
claiming that I commanded the troops at Antietam or something.
There's no evidence of it whatsoever. I'm going to quote
now the paper because it fit into the fashionable category
of historian finds yet another thing that is racist garnered
a lot. It got a lot of press coverage, and
when people pointed out that the paper didn't have the goods,
the editors of the journal published it came out with
(24:50):
a what is truth anyway type word salad in defense
of the article, including this couple of sentences. I by
no means hold that fiction is a meaningless category. Dishonesty
and fabrication and academic scholarship are ethically unacceptable. But we
do believe that what counts as accountability to our historical
subject our readers in our communities is not singular or
(25:13):
to be dictated prior to engaging in a historical study.
If we are to confront the anti blackness of Euro
American intellectual traditions as those have been explicated over the
last century by any names of scholars and scholars of
the subsequent generations, we must grasp that what is experienced
by dominant actors in Euro American cultures as empiricism is
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deeply conditioned by the predicating logics of colonialism and racial capitalism.
To do otherwise is to reinstitate or reinstate older forms
of profoundly selective historicism that support white domination. That was
their answer to UH there weren't any black Jamaicans doing this,
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and the guy you named never did anything like this. Well,
the historicism of the predating logics of colonialism, racial capitalism.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
So that's a long paragraph of nonsense that says, we
sure would like this to be true, though, wouldn't we
all feel better? Wouldn't we all feel better if this
were true?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Idea? If this fits the sort of thing we'd like
to be true, then you bringing up facts, man, is
just a drag. And these are leading journals publishing the
work by leading professional professors from the top universities. Yeah,
we're in a crazy time, it is. Yeah, it's overwhelming
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how far into crazyville you would have to go to
even start fixing this problem.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I remember, what was that story we had about debates?
Was it high school or college debates? That blew my mind.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, it's no longer about arguments and facts. It's whoever
expressed their emotions the most effectively about their truth. They're
the winner of the debate. And the other teams don't
even challenge that because it would look so bad for
them to challenge it, so they just kind of, oh,
that's all right, bow out. Yeah, yeah, if you are
outnumbered by people of color or gay people or whatever
(27:16):
on the other team. You don't even argue with them
because that would make you a racist and a homophobe
and a transfer or whatever you say. They win, They
totally win. We're sorry we even came here today. Heavy
Lay's the prostate that whears the crown. That's what I.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Say, Jack, Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And Getty Show. It's The Armstrong and Getdy Show, featuring
our podcast One More Thing. Download it, subscribe to it
wherever you like to get podcasts two one, three, two
one see you. The last words of a British daredevil
(27:56):
as he attempted to base jump off a twenty nine
story building in Thailand. His shot did not open, he
went splat on the cement and he is no more.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
My question was, and I think this is an interesting one.
Do human beings have a limited amount of empathy individual
human beings? Because when I hear a story like that,
I have no feeling whatsoever, like of sadness or you're
dead inside, because I feel like I've only got so
(28:29):
much empathy and I'm gonna save it for those soldiers
that died sleeping in their barracks and Jordan the other day,
and their families, and you know a million other examples
you come across every single day in the news or
maybe even your own personal life. But somebody who decides
to be a daredevil, and the whole point of being
a daredevil is sometimes it doesn't work. Otherwise you're not
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a daredevil. You're I mean, it's as similar to sitting
in an office chair every day. I mean, if there's
no risk, there's no excitement to it, and if now
and then it doesn't go right, I just I feel
nothing for that person. So it's it. There's death defying
stunt and death said you know today I went or
would you say, Look, there's no limit on empathy. You
can be empathetic toward the you know, the parents of
(29:11):
the child who was abducted, or those people who died
in Jordan, and this guy who got squashed because he
has people who love him also. Which is it, Katie?
Why are you putting me on the spot to make
you uncomfortable? Very good? I think, I don't know. Well,
what do you feel when they died? Well, no part
(29:32):
of me is with you.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
I'm like, Okay, Well, if you hadn't jumped off the building,
you wouldn't be dead, correct, right, So obviously my heart
goes out more to those people where it's an uncontrollable situation.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
But then again, of course I.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Think about this guy's family too, and I kind of
you know that sucks.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, I don't know, Yeah, I don't. I don't have
a lot of empathy for him. I don't have antipathy though.
I'm not like a to the guy and thinking, yes,
what you get? No, no, no, I don't have that
at all. I just got nothing. I have no feeling
whatsoever for it. Huh. Sometimes it doesn't work. Didn't work
this time. He struck a bargain he was comfortable with.
He had a life I'll bet he enjoyed very much,
(30:07):
and an all an ever present possibility came true. Fair deal. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I think it's a big scale of people's emotions too,
because I mean, there'll be so many times where I'll
see a.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Video and somebody will be like, oh, I'm crying. Why
is there we go? My phone won't silence, so there
we go, Sorry about that.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Or somebody will be like, oh, I'm watching this and
I'm crying and I'm going why why are you what
is what about this is making you cry?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
It'll be some harp touching thing. But I don't know.
I think it's a different range and emotion for people. Hmm,
somebody might be that in reaction. Maybe you're dead inside,
just like Jack. I don't know. Well, more likely I
was trying to figure out if I'm a bad person.
But as Joelay says, there are plenty of examples of
why you're a bad person. You don't need to look
to this one. Again. We could hold another staff vote
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if you'd like, but I'd like to be in on
that vote. Staff vote. Everyone say I I any of both. No.
I admire a guy like that on one level, but no,
I'm not going to pretend to be heartbroken. He lived
an exciting, wild, short short as it turns out, was
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he married. It doesn't say I doubt it. He's like
in his I think he's twenty nine or something.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I was just gonna say that would be that's I
dated a daredevil who used to love to do things
that would end up in injury, and it was the
most frustrating relationship I've ever been in.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I'll bet I don't know so anyway, So you've got
that do you feel anything for that? And then this
one came across this yesterday, and I'll just tell you
that our friend Tim sand Online responded to this with
I guess I must be dead inside. Then a phrase
that several of us have already used about this story.
Here's what it was. Somebody tweeted out the picture of
(31:59):
Travis kissing Taylor Swift when they met on the football
field after the game, and he said, hey, sweetie, and
she walks up and kisses him, and I thought it
was cute. But anyway, here is the tweet. I love
this photo because it invokes primal reactions in people. They
are the couple everyone wishes they were in high school.
They represent the summon of popularity and success. Those who
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fall short this ideal cannot help but feel the sting
of envy, a mirror into your soul. And Tim said
I must feel dead inside them because I feel nothing
about this. I thought it was cute. I thought, oh,
two young people in love. We should leave them alone.
When I saw it. Yeah, okay, I'm trying to process that. Okay,
So in Syria, I reacted badly to it because I'm
(32:40):
jealous of them from my high school inadequacy, and I PHO. No, No,
he's saying you like it because they portray what you
wanted you wanted to be. See. I don't know if
I buy this or not, although I think you're lying
if you didn't. If you if you say I want
to be the high school football star or homecoming queen
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or in love or popular, really, I mean I don't know.
I mean I was not envious of those people, Like
I didn't walk around envious. But I'd be lying, wouldn't
if I said I really don't want to be that. No,
I legitimately wanted nothing to do with that in high school.
I think I did not to hear that I did too,
(33:25):
but I think it was it was some sort of
protection mechanism for my psyche or something. It seems weird
to like, you don't want to be popular or attractive
and in love. Who doesn't want to be popular or
attractive and in love? Yeah, I'm just and I don't
want to be rejected. Premise out of hand guy, because
I haven't thought about this. I just I don't know.
(33:48):
Maybe it's because I'm soft and thoughtful and have the
heart of a poet. What But when the day when
I see, Michael says, what, I'll come in there slap
you silly if you don't admit I have the heart
of a poet, Michael. But if I see like an
(34:13):
old couple holding hands and I think that's really sweet,
it's you secretly want to be elderly. Yeah, I just
I don't know if I buy it. I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I get way more of a reaction out of an
elderly couple than a younger couple.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah, a couple of young hot people are in love.
I don't. Again, I don't have antipathy for them, mad
at them for that, but I don't particularly you two
hotties go off to get a room. So I guess
I got both going at the same time in that.
Like when they when they put the camera on Taylor
and she's jumping up and down in a hugging Patrick
(34:52):
Mahomes's wife, I think, Okay, you're young, you're beautiful, you're
unbelievably rich and famous. Of course you're happy. I mean,
it disgusts me on many levels. But on the other hand,
to say I don't want to be young, rich, attractive
and admired would be who am I trying to kid of? Course,
everybody wants that, don't they. I don't know. I guess
(35:15):
I'm just questioning whether that was any part of my
reaction to the two of them smooching at midfield. Yeah,
if that has anything to do with the other, I agree.
I don't think it was that deep. Yeah, I wish
I were that deep. I just thought, oh, that's cute.
I love love. I'm pro love. I hope those two
kids are happy. Okay, So you're uh okay with not
(35:40):
having much of a reaction to a guy going splat
on the pavement if it was his choice, and not
much of a reaction to the people kissing at the
fifty yard line. Okay, correct. I'm not dead inside. I'm
just mostly numb. It's like two hours after a dental applant.
My lips sagging and I'm getting spit all over my chin.
But I can feel a little bit. Yeah, still can
drink out of a straw.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:39):
This article I'm just reading about Hunter Biden's sugar brother,
Kevin Morris, the guy that we all just became aware
of recently when he was sitting there in Congress on
TV and his crazy wild sport jacket and his really
long hair for a sixty year old. He's got party
guy written all over him. I've been around the world
(00:59):
enough to know what party guy looks like, and he
looks like party guy.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
He is.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He is, have a good time, knows lots of people.
We're gonna stay out all night.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Guy, high dollar hookers, like a big spending party guy.
Yeah yeah, lots of crushed beer cans on our heads
and get wasted. Lots of really hot young woman hanging
around a guy who's sixty in, greasy and not that attractive.
But he's got a lot of money. That guy. He
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gave Hunter almost five million dollars to cover back taxes
eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollars for his art.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
What is up with this dude? I mean, so he's
party guy and giving hundred tons of money.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
For what reason. I don't know what he got out
of it. Well, and Hunter's not doing the the drugs,
guns and hookers thing anymore. So it's not that.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
We don't think he's doing the drugs, guns and hookers
thing anymore, just like nobody thought Matthew Perry was doing
drugs anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, yeah, uh yeah. So but what does this guy
want political influence? He just wants to be connoyting it.
Maybe it was just cool to be, yeah, just in
with that crowd. He's got tons of money. I don't know.
Maybe that opened up different world of party friends. I
don't know. Tell you what if I got a buddy
(02:25):
who just lays tons of money on me, I'm thinking
he's going to reach for for the for the junk
at some point. I want something. He wants something. Katie
is right, He's gonna reach for the junk. Oh yeah,
he says, sooner or later, it's gonna be hey, whoa hey, bro,
Wait a minute, But I thought I.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Had I had an acquaintance in college who did that.
It was very disappointing, very.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Clear, huh to him. It was disappointing to me.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Very cool guy, and I thought I was kind of
in with the cool crowd. And it turns out that
that's what he was after.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And and I guess we weren't.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Actually he wasn't really, And I realized, if you're a woman, Katie,
this is an old experience to find out that the
guy is only interested in you physically and you're not
as good a friends as you thought.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
But it was it was new to me. I'm shocked.
You're shocked at what that happens.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Yeah, yeah, oh so how did you handle that? Just
tell him you're not interested? And then the friendship's over.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I it happened late at night. She passed out on
the couch and h.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And I just I just wriggled away and went to
another room and then never brought it up.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And then that when just kind of parted ways. M
fair enough. I mean, I don't know, is there a
better way to handle it? No? No, no, I mean
message sent on his end right overseer on my end.
A reply occurred, No need to discuss it any further,
(04:12):
I don't think. Yeah, fair enough, all right. It was
shocking to me though, I mean shocking. Oh that's right,
sugar brother. I was like, how did we get here?
I can't remember conversationally now I remember Hunter's sugar brother.
You brought it up. You thought at some point Hunters
sugar brother is going to reach for his junk. Yeah, yeah,
(04:32):
that's what I would think. Why are you laying all
this money? Oh wait a minute, But he's in a
difficult position.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
He can't just like wriggle off the couch and go
to another room and not talk about it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Hey, dude, I gave you five million dollars penitentiary for
tax problems right now if I hadn't paid them for
you bro. So anyway, yeah, so come on now, be
a little more, be a little more open minded.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Accommodating of Hunter Biden's track record. I mean, he might
have a shot, you know. That's true.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
That's true. That's true.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
At least he can't get pregnant Hunter, that's the upside.
So I opened the segment with Peter holding my ears back.
That's from a famous Family Guy clip in which they
all vomit a lot.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You can look it up on YouTube. It is hilarious.
It is one of the funniest things I've ever seen
in my life. It is disgusting, but it is funny.
Me and the kids probably watch it twice a year.
Laughed to we cry.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
But my son, who caught strap from me, I didn't
know one of the symptoms of strap is you vomit
a lot when you try to eat or take medicine.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
You know, I don't know that it is. I don't
remember that being an aspect of it either. When you
were talking about this earlier.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I looked it up, and not one of the websites
on the Google said anything about nausea or vomiting when
it comes to store.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That is interesting because the doctor brought it up to
me and I and I said, yeah, I've been I
didn't ever throw up, but I had to pull over
to the side of the road and get out of
the car when I was taking the kids to the
park and spit on the ground for like five minutes,
thinking I was going to throw up before I got
back in the car and drove off. And the uh,
the doctor said, yeah, that's a that's a thing that
(06:31):
can go with STRAP, and so I stopped taking any medicine.
So that's one of the reasons I felt so horrible.
Every time I tried to take ibuprofen or tailand all
or anything like that, I would think I was gonna yeah. Anyway,
So my son was having the same situation yesterday all
day long, and he probably threw up half a dozen times,
and I was thinking, how fortunate it is that I
(06:52):
do not have the if I cease, I don't do
the chain reaction thing. Seeing somebody else throw up doesn't
make me throw up, doesn't make it doesn't bother me
at all, has no effect on me whatsoever. It's it's
the same as if they I don't know, you know,
they left breadcrumbs on the couch and I had to
clean them up. It just luckily.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
But if you are you that way, either one of you,
anybody Michael that you other people make you sick if
they're sick, because.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's particularly enjoy cleaning it up or anything. But no,
it wouldn't. There was no chain reaction. I mean, I'm
sickened by it. It doesn't make me physically sick, though.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, I've known a number of people that if they
see somebody vomit they vomit.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
It's so funny. My husband's like that, and it actually
makes me laugh because you know, we're somewhere and somebody
gets sick and I'll see them getting Like we went
to a theme park and some kid was puking and
I saw the kid and I.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Just looked at Drew like, oh here it comes, you know.
Oh man, Well, so yaws are contagious, and the technical
or yawn is contagious as well. Yeah, technical or yawn
also contagious. I don't know how you deal with your
kids if you have that. That would make for a
really long day. They're sick, then you're sicking, and it's
(08:05):
just and then you get into that every parent's been
in this and just the non stop washing machine, dryer,
going of towels and blankets and everything. Everybody's walking around
equipped with a trash can. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Somebody wanning to have children. I'm excited about all of this.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Well, yeah, it's part of the deal. Definitely part of
the deal. Luckily, he was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He was he's getting older, got it, got the bowl
most of the time, So that's good as opposed to
when they're little kids and it's just everywhere all the time.
Oh my god, you sorry? Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Well no, when he says the bowl, is that the
universal big plastic bowl that is used as.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Having a born, having a big Yeah, the big popcorn bowl?
Or are we serve salad in it? That was the
Oh lord, no, that's too shallow.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
The trash cans the perfect receptacle, the bathroom size trash can.
That's what you keep next to people when they are
feeling ill. It doesn't seem like a handy. Doesn't seem
that handy for laying on the couch or and better whatnot?
In what sense? I mean? Is you put the trash
can in the bed? Oh next next to it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah, I feel like that's asking for an extra step.
I like to have the bowl like right next to
their head and then just turn over and do their thing.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well, I mean, if their health was like extremely terrible,
we never had any Yeah, I was reaching for it
and there's just no time. So how does everybody feel
about it?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
So then I will wash that bowl and it'll be
the same bowl we serve salad in like Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I would throw that bowl away. Yeah really, yes, no,
of course not. You wash it out. It's fine, don't
be a baby.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I've been using the same bowl for popcorn and salads
since they were little kids.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And also the VOMITBA. You're right, you're right, You're right, Michael.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
It costs like a dollar and a half, I think,
so having a separate one probably wouldn't be that big
a deal.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But Joe thinks you're too fancy. Yeah, what are you
talking about? Wash it and it'll be fine. Stop it.
Puking is actually an evolutionary a miracle in that kids
and pregnant ladies are much more likely to puke kids
because their immune system isn't fully formed and is robust
(10:27):
as an adults. And so if the body thinks, you know,
I'm not sure this should be in me, let's just
get rid of it. In the same way that the
pregnant woman is, you know, dealing with herself and her fetus.
It's like, em, I'm not sure about this, We're getting
rid of it. You go to it. It's like having
a different safety protocol for what goes into your stomach.
So it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I wonder how many of us have had our lives
saved by vomiting, whether we vomited up some bad food
or too much alcohol that might have killed us of
it actually stayed in our stomach.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Saved by vomiting.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
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Speaker 3 (11:09):
It's the Armstrong and Getdy Show featuring our podcast. One
more thing. Download it, subscribe to it wherever you like
to get podcasts. I'm reading Old Yeller. My son and
I are reading it together, so Old Yeller is a
decent description for a middle aged talk show host. It
occurs to me liberals a couple of old Yellers. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
In one chapter of Old Yeller, the main character there,
who ends up shooting Old Yeller gets stampeded by cattle.
And I mentioned to my son that that happened to
me one time before, and he was quite shocked by that.
And I know I've told this story before, but not
for many, many years.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
And it's got.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
A legal immigration twist to it. I worked with a
lot of not a lot of a handful of illegal
immigrants when I worked in feed lots when I was
in high school.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Gladys, can you play that? Yeah, this is going back
to my high school.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
At that time, it was still mostly local high school
kids that worked these jobs with a handful of illegal immigrants.
From what I understand since then, it's all immigrants, illegal
or not, and it's not a job you could get
as a high school kid. Anyway, I'm working there at
the feed lot, and it was one guy I worked with,
(12:25):
the Pedro.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Super good dude, really hard worker.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I loved working with him whenever I got teamed up
with him, like if we were bailing a all day long.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Man.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
He was tough as hell and could really sling hay
bails around, never got tired.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Good dude.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I liked working with him, but he didn't speak English
and use a nice guy to me. I just treat
him like I treat him anywhere anybody else. A lot
of the like the head cowboy though, and a lot
of the other people. They'd make him ride in the
back of the truck, wouldn't matter if it was freezing, cold,
raining outside whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
He had to ride in the bed of the truck
as we drove around. Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Which cool, But you know, I didn't think much of it.
As a fourteen year old, I wasn't you know. I
was just doing what I was told. But he was
a good dude, and we worked together a lot. And
I remember one time one of the guys brought up
to said at lunch, said, hey, Pedro, what do you
think of the border patrol?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
He said, no border patrol? Wow, And this story is
taking a dark turn.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I did.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But super good dude.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
And one other guy who is a cowboys, like the
best cowboy I ever saw, riding horses and stuff like
that and with a lasso.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Really cool dude. He was also from Mexico. Well, so
I'm chasing this.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I heard it all these like a couple of hundred
cattle into this pen in this alley they call it.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It's a long, thin pet. As you're heading up somewhere else,
they started to turn around and come back his cattle
off and do they have a herd mentality? Cattle?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
And for whatever reason, they started to turn around and
run back toward it, and they were gonna get out.
So I had to run and close the gate before
they got out, because then.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
We're going to have a mess. We have to bring
in the cowboys, round them all up and get them
a cycle.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
So I'm running as fast as I can to try
to get the gate shut before they're running back towards
this gate. I get to the gate just in time
to slam it shut, but I didn't quite get it
slam shut, and they hit the gate.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Oh, these cattle, and.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
It knocked me over backwards, and then it was just
nothing but dust and hoofs and noise. I'm rolled up
in a ball on the ground and there's just hooves
founding all around me. Oh l as they all ran
past me, and uh and dust everywhere, And luckily I
didn't get stepped on. I don't know how I didn't
get stepped on. I could have been killed pretty easily.
I was mostly hurt. I had the wind knocked out
(14:35):
of me from the gate, hitting me so hard in
the chest, and I own over background, so I was
having trouble getting my breath. So I was more worried
about that than the cattle stepping on me at that moment.
Plus I'm a kid and I'm stupid. But Pedro comes
running over Jackjack, Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Jack? Are you okay? This guy that I.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Didn't think could speak a word of English. The bosses
was always just like shrugged his shoulders. Didn't understand what
they were saying. At least that much spoke I was like, yeah,
I'm okay, Pedro, you can talk now.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
What's the deal? Am I dreaming?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Exactly. It was so odd. Maybe it's just pretending he
didn't speak English. Yeah he was. He was obviously pretending
he didn't speak English, so he just didn't have to
deal with the boss. Well, not only that, if your
bosses assume that, then they'll say things around him. Then
he would like to know, Yeah, that's probably true, HIPPERI
gives you a little bit of info. Yeah, yeah, and
(15:28):
he'll picked me up and dust me off and then
went back to no no English for the rest of
the time I worked with him.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
My mom's first husband was Chinese, so she speaks She
used to speak fluent Mandarin, but she still sometimes can
pick it up every now and then. And when she
the amount of times where she caught people talking oh wow,
especially at restaurants, because she you know, they'd sit down
and she'd be looking at them menu, and then she
would bust out like they'd you know, they'd say something,
(15:57):
and then they'd come back to the table for her
to order, and she'd order and pristine Mandarin and they'd
look at her like, oh, whoops.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
That's awesome that you got a story like that from
a Mexican restaurant, don't you You figured out something they
were saying to you?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh yeah, yeah. When I was in high school, working
at a nice Mexican restaurant is like, sit down, you
bring your date there type Mexican restaurant, and the chefs
were all Mexican and they would, you know, frequently we
the bussers and we'd bring food out and stuff like that.
(16:31):
We'd have to ask them to do things or say hey,
this that we need more of this or whatever, and
sometimes we were a pain in their ass and they
would respond with a variety of cheerfully said shref thing,
pandejo that sort of thing, or you got a capron
And capron can just mean dude, but it also means
like bastard or like depending on the context, it can
(16:54):
be like an anti gay thing, what have you. But
so they would just casually call us and gay fellas
and whatever with a cheerful look on their face. And
it never occurred to us, well what are you gonna do?
You can't like look that up in nineteen eighty two, right, So,
but they would say it with the intonation of like
they were saying yes, sir or some sure thing, budd Yes,
(17:18):
my friend, sure thing penis, nice job you ball us
wonder sure thing? Yeah? But good No, I'm sorry that
was the wrong turn of voice. Yeah, give me two minutes.
Wouldn't that be funny to say? Thanks? This is the
(17:40):
Armstrong and Getty Show, featuring our podcast One more Thing,
get it wherever you like to get podcasts? Boy, do
you want to?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
This might be the most annoying sixty seconds of audio
we've ever done since we're over Taylor Swift and as
everybody is, and now I've got Royal Family news.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Boy, that might be this might be the worst. Okay, Katie,
you are I'm with you, sister. I disavow this podcast.
I disavowed Are you cooking the show? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
This just came across the where King Charles has cancer.
They were doing prostate surgery and found cancer, which I
find an interesting way to word it. I wouldn't think
they'd be doing prostate cancer unless they knew he had
can or they would have Yeah, I would have thought anyway.
The only reason I bring this up at all is
if he's at all very ill, the conversation is going
(18:41):
to start among some of the whole.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So who's next in line? Will Harry, Megan? Was Meghan? Next? Online?
I hope so awesome Megan was Queen England. Maybe that
would kill off this whole stupid experiment. No, it's stignified, bald.
He did William right and his cute wife and Kate
Kate Ate Middleton. That's right. Embarrassed that I'm embarrassed that
(19:07):
I did too. I'm embarrassed that you knew that. So
he'd be the King of England. Yes, yeah, and with
all the duties and responsibilities thereof whatever. I don't care.
Make a monkey the care or the redhead with the
obnoxious Meghan girlfriend. I don't care, wife, I don't care.
I think we all want Harry and Meghan to be
(19:30):
king and queen though, right, because I'd be just more
entertaining for the world all the way around. If you
put it, go into my head and make me choose, Yeah,
I'd go for that exactly, because then you got the
whole South Park thing of where's that privacy? Give us
a privacy? Stand on top of their house with the
light beam and band playing, we want privacy. Yeah, I've
(19:52):
got to admit that if the royal family is going well,
there's nothing in it for me. It's only when it
cracks up that it becomes something that I have any interest.
Maybe we could make William the King of England and
shoot him and Taylor Swift into space at the same time,
and both of the conversations. I think we ought to
have like a debate between William and Harry for who
(20:13):
ought to be the king, and they can just bring
out old grievances and like really go after each other, right,
including that you're not, you know, even related? Sure, yeah,
whatever you say. Red. It's funny. It's kind of weird,
isn't it funny how you don't look like dad at all?
(20:35):
Watch so the my Truth thing. I've been meaning to
squeeze this into the radio show, but it's really long.
I gotta tell you, I gotta just tell you this.
I'm looking at the cable news channels, all the TV's
breaking news, King Charles diagnosed with cancer? Who cares need
(20:55):
to know news? I mean, seriously, do you know? I know?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I don't know. I I personally don't know my entire
world of people. I know, I don't think I know
a single person that would give.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I'm trying to think. But the fact that I'm having
to try to think kind of answers the question.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
I know one, you know one, who'd care? I know one,
and I know one, and I'm going to avoid this
conversation with that person.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
At all costs. And what are their other qualities this.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
They watch the Kardashians, Oh okay, okay, that type of
stuff gotcha.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
So it's a soap opera then for them? Then yeah,
the Crown on Netflix was like a big deal. Ah oh,
I just find this all so exhausting. Do you feel
do you feel like getting dumber? Because I do? Oh yeah?
And if we ever because you've invited this to various
get togethers with you and your parents' stuff, if we
ever are ever able to make it, can you make
sure that person is not there? They're not a chance,
(21:52):
they're No. I don't want a country. I don't want
to meet that person. Nope, wan't subjected to that. I
promise I will give you one thousand United States dollars
if you invite that person and tell them Jack wants
to hear all about the Royal Fair. Joe we all
talk after the podcast, and that would be a bargain.
(22:14):
I would just watch his face the whole night. Oh god,
oh boy. So anyway, I was hoping to get to
this during the show, but it's a little longish in
its entirety. It's a piece written by Josh Barrow, and
it has to do with the you know, it's a
campus madness story about you know, universities and how so
much of research and the research papers that everybody the
(22:38):
peer reviewed this and that, how a lot of it's crap.
And he was part of that world. And he's writing,
especially in the social sciences, not only can you not
replicate the results of some of these surveys and experiments
and stuff, nobody even tries, nobody even thinks of it.
So it's completely phony and everybody knows it.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, the replication problem is a serious issue for the
university world right now.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, and even in some of the harder sciences. And
this guy is talking about the fake sciences, the grievance
studies and stuff like that, and how there again, nobody
even asks them to be accurate or for their research
to have an ounce of rigor to it. It's just
not even asked, which is I think would be shocking
(23:24):
to a lot of Americans. But this was my favorite part.
And he quotes a guy who wrote about a paper
by Jenny Bolstrode, a historian of science at the University
of London. So this is one of the great universities
on Earth, who alleges that a moderately notable metallurgical technique
(23:45):
patented in England in the late seventeen hundreds was in
fact stolen from the black Jamaican metallurgists who really developed it. Okay,
so this is incredibly obscure. But this guy, this seventeen
hundreds guy England, I think Henry Court was his name.
He's been credited for one hundreds of years developing whatever
(24:05):
this metal technique is. But she says, no, it was
actually stolen from black Jamaicans. But her paper failed to
show that such a technique was ever even used in Jamaica,
much less that the guy he credits with developing ever
did anything with this. I mean, it's like it's like
(24:29):
claiming that I commanded the troops at Antietam or something.
There's no evidence of it whatsoever. I'm going to quote
now the paper because it fit into the fashionable category
of historian finds yet another thing that is racist garnered
a lot. It got a lot of press coverage, and
when people pointed out that the paper didn't have the goods,
the editors of the journal published it came out with
(24:50):
a what is truth anyway type word salad in defense
of the article, including this couple of sentences. I by
no means hold that fiction is a meaningless category. Dishonesty
and fabrication and academic scholarship are ethically unacceptable. But we
do believe that what counts as accountability to our historical
subject our readers in our communities is not singular or
(25:13):
to be dictated prior to engaging in a historical study.
If we are to confront the anti blackness of Euro
American intellectual traditions as those have been explicated over the
last century by any names of scholars and scholars of
the subsequent generations, we must grasp that what is experienced
by dominant actors in Euro American cultures as empiricism is
(25:35):
deeply conditioned by the predicating logics of colonialism and racial capitalism.
To do otherwise is to reinstitate or reinstate older forms
of profoundly selective historicism that support white domination. That was
their answer to UH there weren't any black Jamaicans doing this,
(25:57):
and the guy you named never did anything like this. Well,
the historicism of the predating logics of colonialism, racial capitalism.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
So that's a long paragraph of nonsense that says, we
sure would like this to be true, though, wouldn't we
all feel better? Wouldn't we all feel better if this
were true?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Idea? If this fits the sort of thing we'd like
to be true, then you bringing up facts, man, is
just a drag. And these are leading journals publishing the
work by leading professional professors from the top universities. Yeah,
we're in a crazy time, it is. Yeah, it's overwhelming
(26:43):
how far into crazyville you would have to go to
even start fixing this problem.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I remember, what was that story we had about debates?
Was it high school or college debates? That blew my mind.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, it's no longer about arguments and facts. It's whoever
expressed their emotions the most effectively about their truth. They're
the winner of the debate. And the other teams don't
even challenge that because it would look so bad for
them to challenge it, so they just kind of, oh,
that's all right, bow out. Yeah, yeah, if you are
outnumbered by people of color or gay people or whatever
(27:16):
on the other team. You don't even argue with them
because that would make you a racist and a homophobe
and a transfer or whatever you say. They win, They
totally win. We're sorry we even came here today. Heavy
Lay's the prostate that whears the crown. That's what I.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Say, Jack, Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And Getty Show. It's The Armstrong and Getdy Show, featuring
our podcast One More Thing. Download it, subscribe to it
wherever you like to get podcasts two one, three, two
one see you. The last words of a British daredevil
(27:56):
as he attempted to base jump off a twenty nine
story building in Thailand. His shot did not open, he
went splat on the cement and he is no more.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
My question was, and I think this is an interesting one.
Do human beings have a limited amount of empathy individual
human beings? Because when I hear a story like that,
I have no feeling whatsoever, like of sadness or you're
dead inside, because I feel like I've only got so
(28:29):
much empathy and I'm gonna save it for those soldiers
that died sleeping in their barracks and Jordan the other day,
and their families, and you know a million other examples
you come across every single day in the news or
maybe even your own personal life. But somebody who decides
to be a daredevil, and the whole point of being
a daredevil is sometimes it doesn't work. Otherwise you're not
(28:50):
a daredevil. You're I mean, it's as similar to sitting
in an office chair every day. I mean, if there's
no risk, there's no excitement to it, and if now
and then it doesn't go right, I just I feel
nothing for that person. So it's it. There's death defying
stunt and death said you know today I went or
would you say, Look, there's no limit on empathy. You
can be empathetic toward the you know, the parents of
(29:11):
the child who was abducted, or those people who died
in Jordan, and this guy who got squashed because he
has people who love him also. Which is it, Katie?
Why are you putting me on the spot to make
you uncomfortable? Very good? I think, I don't know. Well,
what do you feel when they died? Well, no part
(29:32):
of me is with you.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
I'm like, Okay, Well, if you hadn't jumped off the building,
you wouldn't be dead, correct, right, So obviously my heart
goes out more to those people where it's an uncontrollable situation.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
But then again, of course I.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Think about this guy's family too, and I kind of
you know that sucks.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, I don't know, Yeah, I don't. I don't have
a lot of empathy for him. I don't have antipathy though.
I'm not like a to the guy and thinking, yes,
what you get? No, no, no, I don't have that
at all. I just got nothing. I have no feeling
whatsoever for it. Huh. Sometimes it doesn't work. Didn't work
this time. He struck a bargain he was comfortable with.
He had a life I'll bet he enjoyed very much,
(30:07):
and an all an ever present possibility came true. Fair deal. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I think it's a big scale of people's emotions too,
because I mean, there'll be so many times where I'll
see a.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Video and somebody will be like, oh, I'm crying. Why
is there we go? My phone won't silence, so there
we go, Sorry about that.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Or somebody will be like, oh, I'm watching this and
I'm crying and I'm going why why are you what
is what about this is making you cry?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
It'll be some harp touching thing. But I don't know.
I think it's a different range and emotion for people. Hmm,
somebody might be that in reaction. Maybe you're dead inside,
just like Jack. I don't know. Well, more likely I
was trying to figure out if I'm a bad person.
But as Joelay says, there are plenty of examples of
why you're a bad person. You don't need to look
to this one. Again. We could hold another staff vote
(30:56):
if you'd like, but I'd like to be in on
that vote. Staff vote. Everyone say I I any of both. No.
I admire a guy like that on one level, but no,
I'm not going to pretend to be heartbroken. He lived
an exciting, wild, short short as it turns out, was
(31:22):
he married. It doesn't say I doubt it. He's like
in his I think he's twenty nine or something.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I was just gonna say that would be that's I
dated a daredevil who used to love to do things
that would end up in injury, and it was the
most frustrating relationship I've ever been in.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I'll bet I don't know so anyway, So you've got
that do you feel anything for that? And then this
one came across this yesterday, and I'll just tell you
that our friend Tim sand Online responded to this with
I guess I must be dead inside. Then a phrase
that several of us have already used about this story.
Here's what it was. Somebody tweeted out the picture of
(31:59):
Travis kissing Taylor Swift when they met on the football
field after the game, and he said, hey, sweetie, and
she walks up and kisses him, and I thought it
was cute. But anyway, here is the tweet. I love
this photo because it invokes primal reactions in people. They
are the couple everyone wishes they were in high school.
They represent the summon of popularity and success. Those who
(32:19):
fall short this ideal cannot help but feel the sting
of envy, a mirror into your soul. And Tim said
I must feel dead inside them because I feel nothing
about this. I thought it was cute. I thought, oh,
two young people in love. We should leave them alone.
When I saw it. Yeah, okay, I'm trying to process that. Okay,
So in Syria, I reacted badly to it because I'm
(32:40):
jealous of them from my high school inadequacy, and I PHO. No, No,
he's saying you like it because they portray what you
wanted you wanted to be. See. I don't know if
I buy this or not, although I think you're lying
if you didn't. If you if you say I want
to be the high school football star or homecoming queen
(33:01):
or in love or popular, really, I mean I don't know.
I mean I was not envious of those people, Like
I didn't walk around envious. But I'd be lying, wouldn't
if I said I really don't want to be that. No,
I legitimately wanted nothing to do with that in high school.
I think I did not to hear that I did too,
(33:25):
but I think it was it was some sort of
protection mechanism for my psyche or something. It seems weird
to like, you don't want to be popular or attractive
and in love. Who doesn't want to be popular or
attractive and in love? Yeah, I'm just and I don't
want to be rejected. Premise out of hand guy, because
I haven't thought about this. I just I don't know.
(33:48):
Maybe it's because I'm soft and thoughtful and have the
heart of a poet. What But when the day when
I see, Michael says, what, I'll come in there slap
you silly if you don't admit I have the heart
of a poet, Michael. But if I see like an
(34:13):
old couple holding hands and I think that's really sweet,
it's you secretly want to be elderly. Yeah, I just
I don't know if I buy it. I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I get way more of a reaction out of an
elderly couple than a younger couple.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah, a couple of young hot people are in love.
I don't. Again, I don't have antipathy for them, mad
at them for that, but I don't particularly you two
hotties go off to get a room. So I guess
I got both going at the same time in that.
Like when they when they put the camera on Taylor
and she's jumping up and down in a hugging Patrick
(34:52):
Mahomes's wife, I think, Okay, you're young, you're beautiful, you're
unbelievably rich and famous. Of course you're happy. I mean,
it disgusts me on many levels. But on the other hand,
to say I don't want to be young, rich, attractive
and admired would be who am I trying to kid of? Course,
everybody wants that, don't they. I don't know. I guess
(35:15):
I'm just questioning whether that was any part of my
reaction to the two of them smooching at midfield. Yeah,
if that has anything to do with the other, I agree.
I don't think it was that deep. Yeah, I wish
I were that deep. I just thought, oh, that's cute.
I love love. I'm pro love. I hope those two
kids are happy. Okay, So you're uh okay with not
(35:40):
having much of a reaction to a guy going splat
on the pavement if it was his choice, and not
much of a reaction to the people kissing at the
fifty yard line. Okay, correct. I'm not dead inside. I'm
just mostly numb. It's like two hours after a dental applant.
My lips sagging and I'm getting spit all over my chin.
But I can feel a little bit. Yeah, still can
drink out of a straw.
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