July 30, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Tuesday July 30, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay features our other podcast, Armstrong & Getty One More Thing!
- Single, Silent and Obese...
- Good ol' Fashioned Silly shows...
- Driving a Ship...
- Jack's Birthday Text Ill Wishes.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio and the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack arms Strong and Joe Caddy
arms Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And Jettie.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Arms and Caddy Strong. It's the Armstrong and Giddy Show,
featuring our podcast One More Thing Downloaded. Subscribe to it
wherever you like to get podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
When I was single and childless, Thank you. What is
your name, glad I want to call us, Sorry, Gladys.
I want to call her Lola. For some reason, Lola
doesn't play the harp. Thank you, Gladys for laying the
harp of me reminiscing about something. When I was a
single and childless, there were a few weeks where I
(01:01):
would realize on Monday morning, as I'm driving to work
to do the radio show, that I hadn't said a
word since I left work on Friday, because I hadn't
interacted with another human being at all. I just saidn't
a word to anybody. Hmmm, I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I don't really know what to say to that. What
percentage of the population can make that same claim. I
did not interact with another human being the entire weekend,
did not speak a word. Fairly limited I would guess,
but you know you do you what would you guess?
And if you as angry hermit.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I would guess that both my brothers have done it
semi regularly recently with their kids older and out of
the house.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Like not even a phone call, Like that's bizarre, mean, nobody.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Talks on the phone. And I don't know if that's
a good example. Now back in the day, No, we're talking.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Back in the day. Yeah, right, you had Gladys play
the damn harp, then you called her Lola, and now
we're the present day. On what's going on here? Somebody
explain the crowd roles.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
We all lost what.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Does Walter say in The Big Lebowski something about it?
We all lost our minds. Nobody cares about the rules anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How much an outliar do you think I am? You
think I'm in the one percent of the population that
has ever done that? Or its five five pretty small?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No, it's not five. It's one to one to two tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I don't think it's probably good for you. I also
had to do with like like, uh, you know, I
have a really big Friday night, maybe a long watching
movies or something. You don't feel so good on Saturday,
maybe part of Sunday, you just don't leave the house.
You order a pizza. You know, it might be an
exaggeration to have not said a word. Anybody might have
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said thanks to the pizza guy when he handed me
to pizza, but it wouldn't have been more than a
couple of words.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh, in this day and age, even with phones, I've
done that where you take the recovery day, you turn
the phone off.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Oh yeah, So think about this though. The younger crowd
now with their lifestyle, like you know, our producer Sean
or whatever. I'll but he had weekends where he never
said a word to anybody other than through maybe a headset, plane,
video games or a number of young people. Now that
you know, you can DoorDash or whatever, you don't have
to call anybody to order food or something. Ill, But
it happens more often than you think. It'd still be
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a small number. It makes me sad. All I know
is we're moving more that direction than away from it.
I would guess, which is good.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You can see all the statistics on how happy and
care free young people are these days.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, I don't think I ever came out of a
weekend like thinking that was like a really good time
or what an awesome weekend that was or something. I'm
not claiming that.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
See, And I'm of the day and age of cell
phones and whatnot, and it's amazing the hoops I will
jump through to avoid having to talk to somebody else. Yeah,
like you know, scheduling appointments online, ordering online, all that stuff.
I would much rather do that then have to call
and interact with someone.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, I avoid it now, not because I don't want
to talk to it. If I thought I could talk
to human being, i'd call right away. I don't want
to call and get your impossible to use automated phone
system that takes me twenty minutes and doesn't work. I'll
see if I can do it online. And the reason
it takes twenty minutes and doesn't work is because you
want me to do it online because it's the cheapest
thing for you. But that's a different topic. A couple
(04:25):
of quick things here. I just came across this. Don't
usually talk about this sort of thing on this podcast.
This money circulating in US is expanding rapidly. We have
a money supply surge going on right now. It's the
highest level in over a year. They think that will
likely lead to inflation surging higher. Don't like that story.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It ought to if the laws of monetary physics are
still true, and they.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Are, and then this one. This is an actual survey.
This isn't one of those done by According to walk
in hub dot com, older people always look at who
paid for the survey. A lot of times surveys have
just a crap because of who they paid for. This
is actual research done by a team of German researches
in Germany and the United States Journal of Psychology. Stuff
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about how what we where we think old age begins
has been moving higher. This is not surprising at all.
Last July, that's what do you think old age began
for you?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yes? Absolutely, last time. I feel like I screwed up.
My back really started the shuffling like I'm ninety and
it's a lot better now. But that has a lot
to do with it, because I was gonna mention my
mom and dad have different numbers on that, and for
those reasons. My mom's physical health is not near where
my dad's is. So I don't know what she would say,
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but she would probably say old age starts.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, I can tell you. The average now is seventy five.
If you actually ask a senior when does old age begin,
it's now seventy five. Seventy five is the new sixty five,
Because it used to be not that many years ago
people said old age started at sixty five. Now that
would seem kind of crazy, I think for a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
For me, it started at forty eight when you start
hurting yourself, you know, just doing the most basic things
like walking or something.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah. I was just in the lunch room in one
of the saleswomen who is now in her forties, was
talking about all forties or not what I thought they
would be talking about trying to work out, and she
keeps getting hurt and blah blah blah. Yeah. But so
now it's seventy five is pos sixty five? My dad
says eighty eighties when old age starts, but that's because
he was still riding his horse up till eighty two.
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My mom has not been as physically as gifted as him,
and would put it a little earlier, but probably about surprisingly.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
The horse was seventy five. What it's an old horse,
Joe horse?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
When are you going to get off of me? That
is the question when do I have when do I
get to be an old age? That do only makes sense.
I suppose life expectancy and help. But my mom regularly
said when she was a kid, people in their sixties
were considered old, that you were done with life in
your sixties. Nobody would have thought you played golf or
rode a horse or rode bikes or vacationed or anything
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in your sixties.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You were just in a new career.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You were just in a rocking chair in your sixties,
which now, of course, seems crazy. You're the youngest amongst
Katie and he thoughts on this, or does everything over
the age of forty five just seem ancient to you?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
No, both my parents are in their early to mid seventies,
and they're both young as can be, So I don't
even think seventy five is old in my perspective.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
And I, dude, everything started hurting on me last year.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
And I had a stroke when I was thirty one,
So I'm ninety.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's why we get along, So that's all better.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Having a stroke at thirty one would change your view
of it. I didn't have any health situation really at
all until I got cancer at forty nine, But.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Dude, my health went nuts. At twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
A kidney problem came up out of nowhere, a quote
mutated gene. I have a hereditary condition that is a
mutated gene because nobody else in my family has it.
And then I stroked out in twenty twenty. It was wild,
no idea.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
What caused that?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The stroke?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, well it was a mixture of not taking care
of myself in stress.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Okay, they said, oh really, but some of it was
in your control.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, I just I I wasn't exercising at all.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I was obese big time.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Were you really? I can't picture you obese at all?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Two hundred and ten pounds?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Were you really? This is new information, so that that's
why you're always talking about working out and you eat
so healthy.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, I had I had to make a change.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The doctors were like this, you don't They actually call
said that I dodged a bullet because I had three
tias over the course.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Of a week. Yeah. Yeah, well it'll get your attention,
want it? Yeah? Yeah? Huge?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Kind of like what I mean.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Michael Angelo had had the big shock diabetes diagnosis and
to make a complete change on his life, eye opening.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That's why I've been saying for a long time that
I'd like to have a minor heart attack. Yeah, I
think a minor heart attack would get my attention and
I wouldn't need donuts and stuff anymore. I don't want
a major heart attack and don't want to die. I
got kids to raise. But I think a minor heart
attack just a little a huh, like flicking my ear huh.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Wake up. Well, good luck with that plan. That's between
you and the almighty, who you'll be meeting sooner than later.
But that's an interesting way to approach life. Note to self,
take blood pressure this afternoon. Yes, oh yeah, it's always
a good idea. One final note on brain health, because
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I during your little screen about not having contact with
any human being for an entire weekend, you know, so
much of what we are is neurologically pre determined, honestly,
and if you're a neurological outsider or outlier, you just are.
And you can, as I always say, you can operate
within a certain narrowish lane of the way you're made.
(10:02):
You can intentionally be more outgoing because you know it's
good for you, blah blah blah. But you are who
you are having said that, we were talking about handwriting
and why so many states are trying to bring back
handwriting incursive. I was intrigued because there wasn't a lot
of information in the article we had, and I was
reading into it. And apparently, according to neuropsychologists, there's something
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about handwriting that involves all sorts of different parts of
your brain that govern language and creativity and physical stuff
and whatever, and they all have to interconnect and work
together to yield handwriting and it's really good for your brain. Well,
(10:44):
I mean, it's a use it or lose it thing
with your brain.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I'm completely aware of that, and of just the idea
of That's why journaling and that sort of stuff is
so important. There's something about writing down thoughts that can
get them out of your head and arrange them in
way that they don't get arranged otherwise. And people have
known this for centuries and if you don't do it,
you should try it. I do it every day, sometimes
twice a day. But writing things down organizes them in
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your head or gets them out of your head, like
if you got to you know, why do I keep
thinking about this thing that's driving me nuts? Write it?
Down a couple of times and it can go away.
Trust me, I've done it. I don't know how many times,
but I do. They know that printing doesn't do the
same thing as cursive because I print everything. I've had
success with it. And that's why I just don't understand
why they're bringing back cursive specifically.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I really can't imagine why it would be different. I can't,
I don't. I don't know, which doesn't mean that it's not.
I just can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
One question that I don't think they've answered, because I've
looked into this and read some stuff about it. They're
not sure if typing works the same way as I
was just talking about or not, because you are picking
specific letters and having to manipulate your fingers and everything
like that.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, well, and what about playing a musical instrument And
although you can't compel a kid to play the guitar,
but you can have them right in school and it's
good for the brains.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
They brought back. If you didn't hear us talking about this,
they brought back cursive, I think down twenty two states,
and I just wondered, why, what's the argument for it.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm seeing that curse According to the Google cursive.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Engages more areas of the brain than when you print.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I if that's true, it's true, right, I do know
because I know some of these people. There's just a
hanging onto cursive because I've always done it. I'm good
at it, and my grandma did it, and that's why
that drives some of it. But if it's better for you,
it's better for you, and I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
All I know is that the environment of the beast,
the human beast, is evolving at five thousand times the
speed that the beast can adapt to it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
M yeah, probably more like five hundred thousand times of speed.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, all right, how about five million times?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But the point being, yeah, what are we going to
do with that?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I was hoping he'd say, yeah, how about fifty million times? Huh.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And we're not even close to how fast it's going
to go as soon as AI and everything kicks in.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
So well, we're all doomed, doomed to insanity, misery, drug addiction,
public fornication.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Who knows, we who knows we wish public fornication? Maybe
some babies would be born. So if I was one
percent of the population that didn't talk, to anybody over
the weekend. That number will be seventy five percent here
in about ten years, I.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Think, and the survivors will write that history, but not
incursive because their brains have stuffed working. That's something too
funny not to end.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
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Speaker 1 (13:58):
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Speaker 2 (14:09):
But this, this was actually real. Remember this promo. I
never watched the showad.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
The most horrifying dumpy attack ever caught on tam That
was when animals attack, right, that was in the heyday
when Big Fox went with like super pandery shows like
when animals attack in celebrity boxing and stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Well, that would so the world's most terrifying donkey attack
caught on tape.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yes, the most horrifying dumpy ever caught on team Yeah,
not like a somewhat horrifying or one of your second
or third most horrifying donkey attacks. They got the mcgilla,
they got the the all time champ.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
The most horrifying donkey attack. Right, take the top five,
Take that other s and get it out of here,
your marginally dangerous donkey exactly, somewhat horrifying donkey attacks.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Oh I watched that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's also when they were doing the Man versus Beast,
which I loved.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That was so crap horrific.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Those were so funny.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Then Michael Phelps go against a shark too, Yeah, that
was that was more reason. But Katie, this is when
you were but a wee girl. But yeah, Fox Big
Fox used to do some great idiotic pandering TV shows.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
They had whoever was the current fastest runner raced a
giraffe I think for inexplicable reasons, and a guy what
did he wrestle up there?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh, he tried to out eat It was a hot
dog eating content.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yashi at the time before Joey Chestnut, the top hot
dog eater in the world. Kobyashi tried to played a
hot dogs faster than a and the bear just like just.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Went like golden entertainment.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Oh it was.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It was.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It was terrible because they'd show like the only really
good piece of footage to promote it and at the
beginning and over and over again. Then you had to
wait till the end of the show and sit through,
you know, just just stupidity.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, and the.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Animals usually won, like just very easily as you would expect.
There was some NFL linemen or some big tough guy
who did a tuggle war with the rang Attack.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I'd forgotten about that one. Now this is good stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Stupid show. I just remember you had the guy in
the giraffe and they released him and the guys run
as fast again in the giraffe just disagreed.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What's the point of this? When Animals Attack was on
for weeks? Right that that was an ongoing show, Right
that was the heyday of Fox. Bring that back. I
think they just ran out of ideas. And sometimes they'd
have real footage, but because not everybody had a cell
phone at that point, and ring cameras weren't omnipress, and
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it was a lot of reenactments, very disciplined. I don't
care how good your reenactment is, it's not the same
as actual footage. So quick question.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
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Speaker 1 (17:45):
What the heck happened? An expert weighs in, it's one
more thing.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Before we get to that. Two quick things. One. I
just looked up at the Twitter machine and there is
something on there about young people in New York talking
about how they all got punched in the face because
of a recent TikTok challenge in which the thing was
to just walk up and punch people in the face,
and some of the morons do it. I want a
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TikTok challenge that is, it's the leave your parents' house,
get a job, and support yourself challenge, the follow the law,
pay your taxes, and raise your kids right challenge.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
See if that catches on, It'll be waiting forever for that.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
God. I saw one the other day where there's a
whole bunch of iterations of this of like it's just
abusing old people, scaring them basically, and.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's just horrific, harsh and draconian penalty.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Act like somebody broke into the house for grandma and
then and you know get her reaction. Yeah, because she's
an old woman who thinks somebody broke into her home.
That's why she reacted that way. Why is that funny?
You freaking more and you should be in jail just
for this.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You know, it's concerning the people who do that and
the people who laugh at it.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh my god, this one was a I guess this
was a Jackass thing originally from the Jackass movie. I
saw this on TikTok the other day. It was you
push a stroller with a baby in it, a fake
baby at toy the doll doll is the term fake baby? Yeah,
and bother short and the like. You know, the stroller
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you accidentally trip and push it into traffic in a
car hits it or something like that, and then you
get the reaction of people who are horrified that a
baby just got ran over. Why is that funny?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Or you get the people that run out into traffic
trying to stop it.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
There's another guy.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
That's going he went viral the other day that was
going through like walmarts and targets and going up to
people that had full carts families, I mean everything, and
just pulling the cart and knocking it over and knocking
this stuff everywhere, and then running away for no reason
at all other than to be a dick.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Right, And then and then their friends film that and
put it on TikTok and then people watch it, and
I think that's okay. I guess I. Well, them with.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
The algorithm, is the more attention they get, they get paid.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I'm glad you're young and complaining about this, because when
Joe and I complain about this, we just sound like,
you know, old men about modern culture. But this is
a change in society.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Oh yes, yeah, well you're complaining about it. I'm even
now sketching out my plan to form a vigilante group
that's going to find these Internet scoundrels and hunt them
down and give them some real world ass kickings.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Oh I know what it was. So you take the
car carrier thing that you put your baby in, like
when you go in to the grocery store, and then
come back and snap it into the car seat. The
person puts it on top of the car, it does
some stuff and then drives off with on top of
the car, and then you film the reactions of everybody
freaking out that you drove off with your baby on
top of your car.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I do love that.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
In New York, there's a hashtag I punch back, and
there are a series of videos of people I'll.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Tell you what you come and knock over my cart
full of stuff with my kids there. I'm gonna have
to fight myself to not tackle you.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And we're running around and find out, oh god, damn it.
All right, Well, this is troubling and disturbing in the
world is ugly and full of evil. Anyway, So it
turns out a giant cargo ship took out a bridge
in Baltimore on the day that we are recording this podcast.
The death toll is yet on unknown, but at a
terrible disaster and incredibly dramatic video as well. This posted
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at Armstrong and Giddy dot com Tuesday, March twenty sixth Anyway,
got this note from twenty thirty two.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm speaking to you from the moon colony while Jack
remains on Earth.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Trump is in his fifteenth term.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Finally, finally one party rule, as we dreamed of secretly
all those years we were talking about the constitution. So
al the Mariner. We'll just call him al anonymous. I
don't think he'd mind, but does this sort of thing
for a living, big ship shipping, and has corresponded with
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us through the years whenever something in his realm comes up,
and he's quite knowledgeable and appreciate the note. But I'll
read you parts of his email to us. I watched
this with my captain and cadet. I don't know what
a cadet is. Apparently that's something on a ship, and
from what we can tell, it looks like they lost
the plant the ship's power and or propulsion and collided
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with the northern span of the bridge. Yeah. Actually twice
they lost power. She meaning the boat most definitely had
at least a harbor pilot on board, and may even
have had a docking pilot on board too. Harbor or
bay pilots get the ship from the sea buoy to
the port, and docking pilots park the ship. Driving a
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conning a ship, or driving it isn't nearly as simple
as most people think it is.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I don't think it's simple. I mean it's probably really hard.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Oh I thought it was hard, and it's harder than
I thought. This ship has a bow thruster, one s okay, whoo.
I'm trying so hard not to laugh. I don't want
to give him the encouragement.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That was great, Jack, Thank you for that child.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
God, my child is right, my son who's twelve, and
I don't think he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Drop to.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
That's what she said on me the other day. Because
it's popular in school, and I don't think they most
of them know what they're really talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
But I don't see that gives me hope for the
next generation? Is it? It really does? Were they discussing
China on the playground? Oh boy? So the ship has
a bow thruster just like Jack, one slow speed diesel engine,
and one fixed pitch propeller. In order for most of
these types of ships to reverse propulsion, the engineers first
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have to have to unclutch the shaft I want, I
won't good, shut down the engine, stop the shaft from spinning,
restart the engine backwards, and clutch in the shaft. These
ships are built to run most of their lives going
forward as efficiently as possible, so they are incredibly inefficient
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trying to make way a stern backing up. In a
perfect world, it would take a few minutes to start
backing down. Well, this isn't a perfect world.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Wow, I didn't know they could just start going backwards
that fast. I figured it took longer than that.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Longer than what. No, in a perfect world it would
take a few minutes to start backing down. But this
is not a perfect world. With ships, you can't just
put it in reverse. First, you are trying to take
off tens of thousands of long tons of momentum. It's
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a term I'm completely unfamiliar with, with the added delay
of the plant going through its process of getting the
stern bell going. So for the most part, mariners have
to maneuver their way out of an open moment. If
you don't have power, you can't move the hydraulics involved
with the rudder to push your stern over most cargoes,
vessel pivot point is a third of the ship's length
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from the bow to the bow, So even if we
were able to start a turn, the ship may still
have hit the bridge on the side of the vessel
like a glancing blow. Also, with a fixed pitch prop,
you will back up the opposite side your screw pins
oh back up to the opposite side your screw pins.
For example, if your prop spins clockwise going forward, this
(25:41):
is called the right handed propeller. Well, you're trying to
back up, your stern will get pushed to the left.
Then he goes into how the rudder works. But the
point is it is a nightmare to maneuver these things,
and you've got to be extremely good at it because
there's so much energy, that much weight in motion.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Well, I know you're seafaring people, Katie. Your dad has
a boat and everything, but if you've ever driven a
boat at all, you know how difficult it can be to,
you know, go a certain direction or stop from going
a certain direction if you miscalculate.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Oh yeah, and everything takes extra time. There is no
immediate maneuver on anything on the water.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
And then so our Joe and I's friend Dave, who
lives on a boat down San Diego. Last time I
was with it, I guess it was last Friday, fourth
of July. So we're on his boat and we come
back and he lost motors. He lost one of his motors,
so he lost the motor on one side, so he
could only navigate one direction. And man, we ended up
having a bad thing happen, but we were all on
(26:43):
one side of boat, trying to keep us from smashing
into all these other boats and smashing his boat up
against the poles. Because once you start drifting and you
got no motors, like that guy was talking about, if
you got no power, you're just going the direction you
were going.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Yeah, and I don't know if you guys saw that
video where it's sped up where you can see where
this ship is heading towards the bridge.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I mean the power goes out twice.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
So they're clearly having some big issues, let alone trying
to maneuver this thing.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Right, And I'll get to that in just a second,
but he points out the description of how the rudder
works that and anybody who has a boat knows this.
You can't turn a boat that isn't moving. It's got
to be moving to turn, and if you need it
to turn quickly, it needs to be going fast.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
If you've driven on snow or ice, you know this
phenomenon is also right.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
So anyway, so they had that problem, and it takes
a long damn time to move a ship like that significantly,
especially at the speeds they were going. Then he says
all of that being said, the loss of power adds
a massive delay to try to make any corrective action.
In the video you can see the lights cut off
and back on again. We timed it. It took well
over a minute to get power back on. The regulations
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say that the emergency diesel generators should only take a
most forty five seconds to restore power to the emergency systems.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Reminds me of the text we got that said I
didn't know Boeing made ships.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Now uh yeah, yeah, uh. With this, you'll probably hear
why didn't they just drop an anchor? Well, it doesn't
work like that in the movie Battleship or Contraband. In
order for the flukes of modern anchors to fetch up,
you have to be going almost one knot. I had
a captain tell me one time, never run aground with
two anchors on board. They don't do. But it makes
(28:26):
it looks like you tried everything.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Oh okay, so that such just First of all, I
didn't think of the anchor thing. If I'd thought of it,
I would have said that myself, why didn't they drop
the anchor? But don't run aground without having dropped both anchors,
or at least it looks like you tried that.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah. Wow wow. Things like this can have a number
of things go wrong, ranging from misjudgment from the pilot,
a miscommunication between the pilot and captain, or a mistake
in the engine room that caused a loss of power
and or a propulsion shoot. It could be all three.
I highly recommend keeping an eye on the YouTube channel
what is going on with shipping. The guy there does
(29:01):
a great job at explaining maritime and navy stuff, and
he'll break this down as soon as he has info.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
So these great, big, giant tanker ships that got all
those containers on them and railroad cars and stuff like that,
or trailers for semis. I mean that gives you the perspective.
That's the only way you can get any perspective on
these things. As they're sitting out in the ocean with
nothing next to them. You look at those things and
think he's one of those as like a train car
or a container or whatever it is. Yeah, and you think,
oh my god, that's a giant ship.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
But remember so we were at a port in West
Sacramento where they ship lots of rice in and out
from around the world. Remember that guy telling us stories
about those giant ships that come in and there aren't
very many people on those ships, and how weird they
all were.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yes, that story I do.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Have you ever heard this, Katie before? But they're out
there for months, and a lot of people that work
on these ships are very strange people, because you're somebody
that wants to be on a ship with no other
human beings and like no entertainment or anything like that
for months by yourself down in the dark of a
ship's people.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
These guys, uh, don't even have visas, so they can't
come off the ship. So they'll dock in the US
or dock in some port that sounds interesting. They're not
allowed to get off the ship.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
They just stay in their dark ship.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Yeah, that special kind of personality for that job.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
That was Frank Right, wasn't that his name?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That was super interesting though.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah, And whenever I see those ships, that's what I
think of. Now, got some really strange mole people living
on that ship.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Romanian mole people must not be allowed off.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
It comes out of my mouth every time we go
on the boat with my family, because we'll go out
of the estuary and we're down on the sea level
looking up at those things, and I'm always like, how
do those how do they float?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah? Yeah, oh yeah there are You know, some terms
are overused. They are quite literally breasthtaking to see from
anywhere close to them.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Well, they displaced more than the weight of the water
technically is how they float. But that's hard to imagine
that that even happened.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah they what Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Keep your shaft oiled?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Yah?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Am right, damn right? Wow?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And a clip from shaft. Yeah, that was just all
sorts of interface. It was a multi media presentation.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
You gave us there the Armstrong and Getty Show, yeah,
or Jack your Shoe podcasts and our hot lakes.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
It's the Armstrong and Getty Show featuring our podcast. One
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to get podcasts.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
A couple of texts before we get to Joe. Why
Joe hates Canadians?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I do not hate Canadians.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
But that's what you said. No, I wasn't paying attention.
I have to share this, says a texture. I took
my six year old granddaughter to San Francisco. While we're
walking to lunch, a group of men rode by in
their bikes. Absolutely naked. My granddaughter said Nana, who is
running this place out of the mouths of babes.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yep, oh wow.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Thing you will see in San Francisco completely naked men
on bicycles, And some people think that's wonderful for some reason,
that that's like progress for some reason, I'll ever understand.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
A bunch of twist Tooids.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Also mentioned at the end of the radio show on
the twenty first that it was my birthday and for
some reason, I've never cared less about my birthday than now.
And I'm not exactly sure if it's wisdom and maturity
or depression and I've lost the ability to enjoy life.
But we did get this text your birthday. Everyone has
(32:35):
when you're not special.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Wow, Well thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
All right, that's that's a person I really pity. Yeah,
imagine being that unhappy.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I don't even know. I don't even know. When I
see that sort of stuff on social media, and you
see a lot, it's always like, wow.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
First of all, Jack, happy birthday. Second of all, that person.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Oooh there you go. Yeah, that has nothing to do
with you, obviously, I know you know that Jack. No, no, no, boy,
that's that's entirely about that person.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
When I come across that stuff on social media, really,
honest to God, the thing I think is I need
to make sure my kids don't end up like that,
to where they're so miserable at the with the lure
lives that they have to strike out at anything that
might be pleasant or happy for someone to get through
the day. I mean, Jesu, it's so awful.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Or someone that that maybe isn't so miserable that they
do that, but does it for joy?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You know there are those.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
People that that, I mean, you see them all over
the Internet that create these accounts just to troll people.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Can they enjoy it?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I've only know, I've only I've only personally known two trolls,
but they both had the same attitude. So I'm just
assuming that that's kind of common among the troll community.
They really get such enjoyment of there's somebody happy. I'm
gonna try to take some of that. And it's just
think a so weird. I've never had that feeling.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
You know, somebody, somebody's sickness, somebody got.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Somebody got a new car and I say I heard
they suck or just something like that. What what is
that like? Why?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Well, as I've always said, people who are too dopey
or lazy to build things, the only satisfaction they get
is from breaking things. And again that's pathetic.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yeah, it's like the person who vandalizes the playground equipment.
I mean, it's the same sort of thing. It's just awful.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
The only effect they will ever have on the world
before they are dead is to break things and hurt people.
So that's what they do. And and again it's it's
just painfully pathetic. What is a birthday dinner for you?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Well, I'm gonna go eat steak tonight and some sort
of ill advised dessert. Be my guess. It's more for
my kids than me. I don't know if I would
even leave the house tonight if it w birthday. Bang
bang Oh boy, that sounds like a challenge.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Steak five pushups, that's the that's the deal.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
A bang bang is back to back meals of completely
different kinds. So what do I follow steak with pizza?
Stop and get a pizza?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Oh? Oh, steak is a dense, dense first blow.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It's gonna leave a mark.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah, wow, following up steak something completely different nice uh
Ramen restaurant or something that's a little hipster for you.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Maybe Italian though in the noodle the noodle realm.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well right, let's go Raman adjacent i like the spaghetti
and meatballs.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, I did an accidental bang bang with my brother
when he was in town when I had cancer. We
ate a pizza not knowing my wife was making dinner.
And then we got home and she had made a
big dinner, like a big homemade dinner, because my brother
was in town and so you can't, you know, so
she colum's the word, and we had stuffed ourselves with pizza,
but then brought it hard for that homemade dinner.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Also, well, wait, a man up.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yeah, I commend you for that.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
It's just a polite thing to do.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
When I was single and childless, Thank you. What is
your name, glad I want to call us, Sorry, Gladys.
I want to call her Lola. For some reason, Lola
doesn't play the harp. Thank you, Gladys for laying the
harp of me reminiscing about something. When I was a
single and childless, there were a few weeks where I
(01:01):
would realize on Monday morning, as I'm driving to work
to do the radio show, that I hadn't said a
word since I left work on Friday, because I hadn't
interacted with another human being at all. I just saidn't
a word to anybody. Hmmm, I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I don't really know what to say to that. What
percentage of the population can make that same claim. I
did not interact with another human being the entire weekend,
did not speak a word. Fairly limited I would guess,
but you know you do you what would you guess?
And if you as angry hermit.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I would guess that both my brothers have done it
semi regularly recently with their kids older and out of
the house.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Like not even a phone call, Like that's bizarre, mean, nobody.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Talks on the phone. And I don't know if that's
a good example. Now back in the day, No, we're talking.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Back in the day. Yeah, right, you had Gladys play
the damn harp, then you called her Lola, and now
we're the present day. On what's going on here? Somebody
explain the crowd roles.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
We all lost what.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Does Walter say in The Big Lebowski something about it?
We all lost our minds. Nobody cares about the rules anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How much an outliar do you think I am? You
think I'm in the one percent of the population that
has ever done that? Or its five five pretty small?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No, it's not five. It's one to one to two tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I don't think it's probably good for you. I also
had to do with like like, uh, you know, I
have a really big Friday night, maybe a long watching
movies or something. You don't feel so good on Saturday,
maybe part of Sunday, you just don't leave the house.
You order a pizza. You know, it might be an
exaggeration to have not said a word. Anybody might have
(02:49):
said thanks to the pizza guy when he handed me
to pizza, but it wouldn't have been more than a
couple of words.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh, in this day and age, even with phones, I've
done that where you take the recovery day, you turn
the phone off.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Oh yeah, So think about this though. The younger crowd
now with their lifestyle, like you know, our producer Sean
or whatever. I'll but he had weekends where he never
said a word to anybody other than through maybe a headset, plane,
video games or a number of young people. Now that
you know, you can DoorDash or whatever, you don't have
to call anybody to order food or something. Ill, But
it happens more often than you think. It'd still be
(03:22):
a small number. It makes me sad. All I know
is we're moving more that direction than away from it.
I would guess, which is good.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You can see all the statistics on how happy and
care free young people are these days.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, I don't think I ever came out of a
weekend like thinking that was like a really good time
or what an awesome weekend that was or something. I'm
not claiming that.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
See, And I'm of the day and age of cell
phones and whatnot, and it's amazing the hoops I will
jump through to avoid having to talk to somebody else. Yeah,
like you know, scheduling appointments online, ordering online, all that stuff.
I would much rather do that then have to call
and interact with someone.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, I avoid it now, not because I don't want
to talk to it. If I thought I could talk
to human being, i'd call right away. I don't want
to call and get your impossible to use automated phone
system that takes me twenty minutes and doesn't work. I'll
see if I can do it online. And the reason
it takes twenty minutes and doesn't work is because you
want me to do it online because it's the cheapest
thing for you. But that's a different topic. A couple
(04:25):
of quick things here. I just came across this. Don't
usually talk about this sort of thing on this podcast.
This money circulating in US is expanding rapidly. We have
a money supply surge going on right now. It's the
highest level in over a year. They think that will
likely lead to inflation surging higher. Don't like that story.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It ought to if the laws of monetary physics are
still true, and they.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Are, and then this one. This is an actual survey.
This isn't one of those done by According to walk
in hub dot com, older people always look at who
paid for the survey. A lot of times surveys have
just a crap because of who they paid for. This
is actual research done by a team of German researches
in Germany and the United States Journal of Psychology. Stuff
(05:16):
about how what we where we think old age begins
has been moving higher. This is not surprising at all.
Last July, that's what do you think old age began
for you?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yes? Absolutely, last time. I feel like I screwed up.
My back really started the shuffling like I'm ninety and
it's a lot better now. But that has a lot
to do with it, because I was gonna mention my
mom and dad have different numbers on that, and for
those reasons. My mom's physical health is not near where
my dad's is. So I don't know what she would say,
(05:52):
but she would probably say old age starts.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, I can tell you. The average now is seventy five.
If you actually ask a senior when does old age begin,
it's now seventy five. Seventy five is the new sixty five,
Because it used to be not that many years ago
people said old age started at sixty five. Now that
would seem kind of crazy, I think for a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
For me, it started at forty eight when you start
hurting yourself, you know, just doing the most basic things
like walking or something.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah. I was just in the lunch room in one
of the saleswomen who is now in her forties, was
talking about all forties or not what I thought they
would be talking about trying to work out, and she
keeps getting hurt and blah blah blah. Yeah. But so
now it's seventy five is pos sixty five? My dad
says eighty eighties when old age starts, but that's because
he was still riding his horse up till eighty two.
(06:39):
My mom has not been as physically as gifted as him,
and would put it a little earlier, but probably about surprisingly.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
The horse was seventy five. What it's an old horse,
Joe horse?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
When are you going to get off of me? That
is the question when do I have when do I
get to be an old age? That do only makes sense.
I suppose life expectancy and help. But my mom regularly
said when she was a kid, people in their sixties
were considered old, that you were done with life in
your sixties. Nobody would have thought you played golf or
rode a horse or rode bikes or vacationed or anything
(07:12):
in your sixties.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You were just in a new career.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You were just in a rocking chair in your sixties,
which now, of course, seems crazy. You're the youngest amongst
Katie and he thoughts on this, or does everything over
the age of forty five just seem ancient to you?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
No, both my parents are in their early to mid seventies,
and they're both young as can be, So I don't
even think seventy five is old in my perspective.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
And I, dude, everything started hurting on me last year.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
And I had a stroke when I was thirty one,
So I'm ninety.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's why we get along, So that's all better.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Having a stroke at thirty one would change your view
of it. I didn't have any health situation really at
all until I got cancer at forty nine, But.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Dude, my health went nuts. At twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
A kidney problem came up out of nowhere, a quote
mutated gene. I have a hereditary condition that is a
mutated gene because nobody else in my family has it.
And then I stroked out in twenty twenty. It was wild,
no idea.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
What caused that?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The stroke?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, well it was a mixture of not taking care
of myself in stress.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Okay, they said, oh really, but some of it was
in your control.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, I just I I wasn't exercising at all.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I was obese big time.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Were you really? I can't picture you obese at all?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Two hundred and ten pounds?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Were you really? This is new information, so that that's
why you're always talking about working out and you eat
so healthy.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, I had I had to make a change.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The doctors were like this, you don't They actually call
said that I dodged a bullet because I had three
tias over the course.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Of a week. Yeah. Yeah, well it'll get your attention,
want it? Yeah? Yeah? Huge?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Kind of like what I mean.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Michael Angelo had had the big shock diabetes diagnosis and
to make a complete change on his life, eye opening.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That's why I've been saying for a long time that
I'd like to have a minor heart attack. Yeah, I
think a minor heart attack would get my attention and
I wouldn't need donuts and stuff anymore. I don't want
a major heart attack and don't want to die. I
got kids to raise. But I think a minor heart
attack just a little a huh, like flicking my ear huh.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Wake up. Well, good luck with that plan. That's between
you and the almighty, who you'll be meeting sooner than later.
But that's an interesting way to approach life. Note to self,
take blood pressure this afternoon. Yes, oh yeah, it's always
a good idea. One final note on brain health, because
(09:39):
I during your little screen about not having contact with
any human being for an entire weekend, you know, so
much of what we are is neurologically pre determined, honestly,
and if you're a neurological outsider or outlier, you just are.
And you can, as I always say, you can operate
within a certain narrowish lane of the way you're made.
(10:02):
You can intentionally be more outgoing because you know it's
good for you, blah blah blah. But you are who
you are having said that, we were talking about handwriting
and why so many states are trying to bring back
handwriting incursive. I was intrigued because there wasn't a lot
of information in the article we had, and I was
reading into it. And apparently, according to neuropsychologists, there's something
(10:24):
about handwriting that involves all sorts of different parts of
your brain that govern language and creativity and physical stuff
and whatever, and they all have to interconnect and work
together to yield handwriting and it's really good for your brain. Well,
(10:44):
I mean, it's a use it or lose it thing
with your brain.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I'm completely aware of that, and of just the idea
of That's why journaling and that sort of stuff is
so important. There's something about writing down thoughts that can
get them out of your head and arrange them in
way that they don't get arranged otherwise. And people have
known this for centuries and if you don't do it,
you should try it. I do it every day, sometimes
twice a day. But writing things down organizes them in
(11:11):
your head or gets them out of your head, like
if you got to you know, why do I keep
thinking about this thing that's driving me nuts? Write it?
Down a couple of times and it can go away.
Trust me, I've done it. I don't know how many times,
but I do. They know that printing doesn't do the
same thing as cursive because I print everything. I've had
success with it. And that's why I just don't understand
why they're bringing back cursive specifically.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I really can't imagine why it would be different. I can't,
I don't. I don't know, which doesn't mean that it's not.
I just can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
One question that I don't think they've answered, because I've
looked into this and read some stuff about it. They're
not sure if typing works the same way as I
was just talking about or not, because you are picking
specific letters and having to manipulate your fingers and everything
like that.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, well, and what about playing a musical instrument And
although you can't compel a kid to play the guitar,
but you can have them right in school and it's
good for the brains.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
They brought back. If you didn't hear us talking about this,
they brought back cursive, I think down twenty two states,
and I just wondered, why, what's the argument for it.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm seeing that curse According to the Google cursive.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Engages more areas of the brain than when you print.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I if that's true, it's true, right, I do know
because I know some of these people. There's just a
hanging onto cursive because I've always done it. I'm good
at it, and my grandma did it, and that's why
that drives some of it. But if it's better for you,
it's better for you, and I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
All I know is that the environment of the beast,
the human beast, is evolving at five thousand times the
speed that the beast can adapt to it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
M yeah, probably more like five hundred thousand times of speed.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, all right, how about five million times?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But the point being, yeah, what are we going to
do with that?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I was hoping he'd say, yeah, how about fifty million times? Huh.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And we're not even close to how fast it's going
to go as soon as AI and everything kicks in.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
So well, we're all doomed, doomed to insanity, misery, drug addiction,
public fornication.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Who knows, we who knows we wish public fornication? Maybe
some babies would be born. So if I was one
percent of the population that didn't talk, to anybody over
the weekend. That number will be seventy five percent here
in about ten years, I.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Think, and the survivors will write that history, but not
incursive because their brains have stuffed working. That's something too
funny not to end.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
On Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, the Armstrong and Getdy Show.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It's the Armstrong and Giddy featuring our podcast One more
Thing Downloaded, subscribe to it whatever you'd like to get podcasts.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But this, this was actually real. Remember this promo. I
never watched the showad.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
The most horrifying dumpy attack ever caught on tam That
was when animals attack, right, that was in the heyday
when Big Fox went with like super pandery shows like
when animals attack in celebrity boxing and stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Well, that would so the world's most terrifying donkey attack
caught on tape.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yes, the most horrifying dumpy ever caught on team Yeah,
not like a somewhat horrifying or one of your second
or third most horrifying donkey attacks. They got the mcgilla,
they got the the all time champ.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
The most horrifying donkey attack. Right, take the top five,
Take that other s and get it out of here,
your marginally dangerous donkey exactly, somewhat horrifying donkey attacks.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Oh I watched that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's also when they were doing the Man versus Beast,
which I loved.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That was so crap horrific.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Those were so funny.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Then Michael Phelps go against a shark too, Yeah, that
was that was more reason. But Katie, this is when
you were but a wee girl. But yeah, Fox Big
Fox used to do some great idiotic pandering TV shows.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
They had whoever was the current fastest runner raced a
giraffe I think for inexplicable reasons, and a guy what
did he wrestle up there?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh, he tried to out eat It was a hot
dog eating content.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yashi at the time before Joey Chestnut, the top hot
dog eater in the world. Kobyashi tried to played a
hot dogs faster than a and the bear just like just.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Went like golden entertainment.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Oh it was.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It was.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It was terrible because they'd show like the only really
good piece of footage to promote it and at the
beginning and over and over again. Then you had to
wait till the end of the show and sit through,
you know, just just stupidity.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, and the.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Animals usually won, like just very easily as you would expect.
There was some NFL linemen or some big tough guy
who did a tuggle war with the rang Attack.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I'd forgotten about that one. Now this is good stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Stupid show. I just remember you had the guy in
the giraffe and they released him and the guys run
as fast again in the giraffe just disagreed.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What's the point of this? When Animals Attack was on
for weeks? Right that that was an ongoing show, Right
that was the heyday of Fox. Bring that back. I
think they just ran out of ideas. And sometimes they'd
have real footage, but because not everybody had a cell
phone at that point, and ring cameras weren't omnipress, and
(17:00):
it was a lot of reenactments, very disciplined. I don't
care how good your reenactment is, it's not the same
as actual footage. So quick question.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
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Speaker 1 (17:45):
What the heck happened? An expert weighs in, it's one
more thing.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Before we get to that. Two quick things. One. I
just looked up at the Twitter machine and there is
something on there about young people in New York talking
about how they all got punched in the face because
of a recent TikTok challenge in which the thing was
to just walk up and punch people in the face,
and some of the morons do it. I want a
(18:14):
TikTok challenge that is, it's the leave your parents' house,
get a job, and support yourself challenge, the follow the law,
pay your taxes, and raise your kids right challenge.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
See if that catches on, It'll be waiting forever for that.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
God. I saw one the other day where there's a
whole bunch of iterations of this of like it's just
abusing old people, scaring them basically, and.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's just horrific, harsh and draconian penalty.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Act like somebody broke into the house for grandma and
then and you know get her reaction. Yeah, because she's
an old woman who thinks somebody broke into her home.
That's why she reacted that way. Why is that funny?
You freaking more and you should be in jail just
for this.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You know, it's concerning the people who do that and
the people who laugh at it.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh my god, this one was a I guess this
was a Jackass thing originally from the Jackass movie. I
saw this on TikTok the other day. It was you
push a stroller with a baby in it, a fake
baby at toy the doll doll is the term fake baby? Yeah,
and bother short and the like. You know, the stroller
(19:27):
you accidentally trip and push it into traffic in a
car hits it or something like that, and then you
get the reaction of people who are horrified that a
baby just got ran over. Why is that funny?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Or you get the people that run out into traffic
trying to stop it.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
There's another guy.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
That's going he went viral the other day that was
going through like walmarts and targets and going up to
people that had full carts families, I mean everything, and
just pulling the cart and knocking it over and knocking
this stuff everywhere, and then running away for no reason
at all other than to be a dick.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Right, And then and then their friends film that and
put it on TikTok and then people watch it, and
I think that's okay. I guess I. Well, them with.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
The algorithm, is the more attention they get, they get paid.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I'm glad you're young and complaining about this, because when
Joe and I complain about this, we just sound like,
you know, old men about modern culture. But this is
a change in society.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Oh yes, yeah, well you're complaining about it. I'm even
now sketching out my plan to form a vigilante group
that's going to find these Internet scoundrels and hunt them
down and give them some real world ass kickings.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Oh I know what it was. So you take the
car carrier thing that you put your baby in, like
when you go in to the grocery store, and then
come back and snap it into the car seat. The
person puts it on top of the car, it does
some stuff and then drives off with on top of
the car, and then you film the reactions of everybody
freaking out that you drove off with your baby on
top of your car.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I do love that.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
In New York, there's a hashtag I punch back, and
there are a series of videos of people I'll.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Tell you what you come and knock over my cart
full of stuff with my kids there. I'm gonna have
to fight myself to not tackle you.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And we're running around and find out, oh god, damn it.
All right, Well, this is troubling and disturbing in the
world is ugly and full of evil. Anyway, So it
turns out a giant cargo ship took out a bridge
in Baltimore on the day that we are recording this podcast.
The death toll is yet on unknown, but at a
terrible disaster and incredibly dramatic video as well. This posted
(21:34):
at Armstrong and Giddy dot com Tuesday, March twenty sixth Anyway,
got this note from twenty thirty two.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm speaking to you from the moon colony while Jack
remains on Earth.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Trump is in his fifteenth term.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Finally, finally one party rule, as we dreamed of secretly
all those years we were talking about the constitution. So
al the Mariner. We'll just call him al anonymous. I
don't think he'd mind, but does this sort of thing
for a living, big ship shipping, and has corresponded with
(22:16):
us through the years whenever something in his realm comes up,
and he's quite knowledgeable and appreciate the note. But I'll
read you parts of his email to us. I watched
this with my captain and cadet. I don't know what
a cadet is. Apparently that's something on a ship, and
from what we can tell, it looks like they lost
the plant the ship's power and or propulsion and collided
(22:40):
with the northern span of the bridge. Yeah. Actually twice
they lost power. She meaning the boat most definitely had
at least a harbor pilot on board, and may even
have had a docking pilot on board too. Harbor or
bay pilots get the ship from the sea buoy to
the port, and docking pilots park the ship. Driving a
(23:01):
conning a ship, or driving it isn't nearly as simple
as most people think it is.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I don't think it's simple. I mean it's probably really hard.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Oh I thought it was hard, and it's harder than
I thought. This ship has a bow thruster, one s okay, whoo.
I'm trying so hard not to laugh. I don't want
to give him the encouragement.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That was great, Jack, Thank you for that child.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
God, my child is right, my son who's twelve, and
I don't think he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Drop to.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
That's what she said on me the other day. Because
it's popular in school, and I don't think they most
of them know what they're really talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
But I don't see that gives me hope for the
next generation? Is it? It really does? Were they discussing
China on the playground? Oh boy? So the ship has
a bow thruster just like Jack, one slow speed diesel engine,
and one fixed pitch propeller. In order for most of
these types of ships to reverse propulsion, the engineers first
(24:05):
have to have to unclutch the shaft I want, I
won't good, shut down the engine, stop the shaft from spinning,
restart the engine backwards, and clutch in the shaft. These
ships are built to run most of their lives going
forward as efficiently as possible, so they are incredibly inefficient
(24:26):
trying to make way a stern backing up. In a
perfect world, it would take a few minutes to start
backing down. Well, this isn't a perfect world.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Wow, I didn't know they could just start going backwards
that fast. I figured it took longer than that.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Longer than what. No, in a perfect world it would
take a few minutes to start backing down. But this
is not a perfect world. With ships, you can't just
put it in reverse. First, you are trying to take
off tens of thousands of long tons of momentum. It's
(25:00):
a term I'm completely unfamiliar with, with the added delay
of the plant going through its process of getting the
stern bell going. So for the most part, mariners have
to maneuver their way out of an open moment. If
you don't have power, you can't move the hydraulics involved
with the rudder to push your stern over most cargoes,
vessel pivot point is a third of the ship's length
(25:20):
from the bow to the bow, So even if we
were able to start a turn, the ship may still
have hit the bridge on the side of the vessel
like a glancing blow. Also, with a fixed pitch prop,
you will back up the opposite side your screw pins
oh back up to the opposite side your screw pins.
For example, if your prop spins clockwise going forward, this
(25:41):
is called the right handed propeller. Well, you're trying to
back up, your stern will get pushed to the left.
Then he goes into how the rudder works. But the
point is it is a nightmare to maneuver these things,
and you've got to be extremely good at it because
there's so much energy, that much weight in motion.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Well, I know you're seafaring people, Katie. Your dad has
a boat and everything, but if you've ever driven a
boat at all, you know how difficult it can be to,
you know, go a certain direction or stop from going
a certain direction if you miscalculate.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Oh yeah, and everything takes extra time. There is no
immediate maneuver on anything on the water.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
And then so our Joe and I's friend Dave, who
lives on a boat down San Diego. Last time I
was with it, I guess it was last Friday, fourth
of July. So we're on his boat and we come
back and he lost motors. He lost one of his motors,
so he lost the motor on one side, so he
could only navigate one direction. And man, we ended up
having a bad thing happen, but we were all on
(26:43):
one side of boat, trying to keep us from smashing
into all these other boats and smashing his boat up
against the poles. Because once you start drifting and you
got no motors, like that guy was talking about, if
you got no power, you're just going the direction you
were going.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Yeah, and I don't know if you guys saw that
video where it's sped up where you can see where
this ship is heading towards the bridge.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I mean the power goes out twice.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
So they're clearly having some big issues, let alone trying
to maneuver this thing.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Right, And I'll get to that in just a second,
but he points out the description of how the rudder
works that and anybody who has a boat knows this.
You can't turn a boat that isn't moving. It's got
to be moving to turn, and if you need it
to turn quickly, it needs to be going fast.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
If you've driven on snow or ice, you know this
phenomenon is also right.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
So anyway, so they had that problem, and it takes
a long damn time to move a ship like that significantly,
especially at the speeds they were going. Then he says
all of that being said, the loss of power adds
a massive delay to try to make any corrective action.
In the video you can see the lights cut off
and back on again. We timed it. It took well
over a minute to get power back on. The regulations
(27:52):
say that the emergency diesel generators should only take a
most forty five seconds to restore power to the emergency systems.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Reminds me of the text we got that said I
didn't know Boeing made ships.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Now uh yeah, yeah, uh. With this, you'll probably hear
why didn't they just drop an anchor? Well, it doesn't
work like that in the movie Battleship or Contraband. In
order for the flukes of modern anchors to fetch up,
you have to be going almost one knot. I had
a captain tell me one time, never run aground with
two anchors on board. They don't do. But it makes
(28:26):
it looks like you tried everything.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Oh okay, so that such just First of all, I
didn't think of the anchor thing. If I'd thought of it,
I would have said that myself, why didn't they drop
the anchor? But don't run aground without having dropped both anchors,
or at least it looks like you tried that.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah. Wow wow. Things like this can have a number
of things go wrong, ranging from misjudgment from the pilot,
a miscommunication between the pilot and captain, or a mistake
in the engine room that caused a loss of power
and or a propulsion shoot. It could be all three.
I highly recommend keeping an eye on the YouTube channel
what is going on with shipping. The guy there does
(29:01):
a great job at explaining maritime and navy stuff, and
he'll break this down as soon as he has info.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
So these great, big, giant tanker ships that got all
those containers on them and railroad cars and stuff like that,
or trailers for semis. I mean that gives you the perspective.
That's the only way you can get any perspective on
these things. As they're sitting out in the ocean with
nothing next to them. You look at those things and
think he's one of those as like a train car
or a container or whatever it is. Yeah, and you think,
oh my god, that's a giant ship.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
But remember so we were at a port in West
Sacramento where they ship lots of rice in and out
from around the world. Remember that guy telling us stories
about those giant ships that come in and there aren't
very many people on those ships, and how weird they
all were.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yes, that story I do.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Have you ever heard this, Katie before? But they're out
there for months, and a lot of people that work
on these ships are very strange people, because you're somebody
that wants to be on a ship with no other
human beings and like no entertainment or anything like that
for months by yourself down in the dark of a
ship's people.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
These guys, uh, don't even have visas, so they can't
come off the ship. So they'll dock in the US
or dock in some port that sounds interesting. They're not
allowed to get off the ship.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
They just stay in their dark ship.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Yeah, that special kind of personality for that job.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
That was Frank Right, wasn't that his name?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That was super interesting though.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah, And whenever I see those ships, that's what I
think of. Now, got some really strange mole people living
on that ship.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Romanian mole people must not be allowed off.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
It comes out of my mouth every time we go
on the boat with my family, because we'll go out
of the estuary and we're down on the sea level
looking up at those things, and I'm always like, how
do those how do they float?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah? Yeah, oh yeah there are You know, some terms
are overused. They are quite literally breasthtaking to see from
anywhere close to them.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Well, they displaced more than the weight of the water
technically is how they float. But that's hard to imagine
that that even happened.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah they what Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Keep your shaft oiled?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Yah?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Am right, damn right? Wow?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And a clip from shaft. Yeah, that was just all
sorts of interface. It was a multi media presentation.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
You gave us there the Armstrong and Getty Show, yeah,
or Jack your Shoe podcasts and our hot lakes.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
It's the Armstrong and Getty Show featuring our podcast. One
more thing, download it, subscribe to it wherever you like
to get podcasts.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
A couple of texts before we get to Joe. Why
Joe hates Canadians?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I do not hate Canadians.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
But that's what you said. No, I wasn't paying attention.
I have to share this, says a texture. I took
my six year old granddaughter to San Francisco. While we're
walking to lunch, a group of men rode by in
their bikes. Absolutely naked. My granddaughter said Nana, who is
running this place out of the mouths of babes.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yep, oh wow.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Thing you will see in San Francisco completely naked men
on bicycles, And some people think that's wonderful for some reason,
that that's like progress for some reason, I'll ever understand.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
A bunch of twist Tooids.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Also mentioned at the end of the radio show on
the twenty first that it was my birthday and for
some reason, I've never cared less about my birthday than now.
And I'm not exactly sure if it's wisdom and maturity
or depression and I've lost the ability to enjoy life.
But we did get this text your birthday. Everyone has
(32:35):
when you're not special.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Wow, Well thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
All right, that's that's a person I really pity. Yeah,
imagine being that unhappy.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I don't even know. I don't even know. When I
see that sort of stuff on social media, and you
see a lot, it's always like, wow.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
First of all, Jack, happy birthday. Second of all, that person.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Oooh there you go. Yeah, that has nothing to do
with you, obviously, I know you know that Jack. No, no, no, boy,
that's that's entirely about that person.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
When I come across that stuff on social media, really,
honest to God, the thing I think is I need
to make sure my kids don't end up like that,
to where they're so miserable at the with the lure
lives that they have to strike out at anything that
might be pleasant or happy for someone to get through
the day. I mean, Jesu, it's so awful.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Or someone that that maybe isn't so miserable that they
do that, but does it for joy?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You know there are those.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
People that that, I mean, you see them all over
the Internet that create these accounts just to troll people.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Can they enjoy it?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I've only know, I've only I've only personally known two trolls,
but they both had the same attitude. So I'm just
assuming that that's kind of common among the troll community.
They really get such enjoyment of there's somebody happy. I'm
gonna try to take some of that. And it's just
think a so weird. I've never had that feeling.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
You know, somebody, somebody's sickness, somebody got.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Somebody got a new car and I say I heard
they suck or just something like that. What what is
that like? Why?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Well, as I've always said, people who are too dopey
or lazy to build things, the only satisfaction they get
is from breaking things. And again that's pathetic.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yeah, it's like the person who vandalizes the playground equipment.
I mean, it's the same sort of thing. It's just awful.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
The only effect they will ever have on the world
before they are dead is to break things and hurt people.
So that's what they do. And and again it's it's
just painfully pathetic. What is a birthday dinner for you?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Well, I'm gonna go eat steak tonight and some sort
of ill advised dessert. Be my guess. It's more for
my kids than me. I don't know if I would
even leave the house tonight if it w birthday. Bang
bang Oh boy, that sounds like a challenge.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Steak five pushups, that's the that's the deal.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
A bang bang is back to back meals of completely
different kinds. So what do I follow steak with pizza?
Stop and get a pizza?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Oh? Oh, steak is a dense, dense first blow.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It's gonna leave a mark.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah, wow, following up steak something completely different nice uh
Ramen restaurant or something that's a little hipster for you.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Maybe Italian though in the noodle the noodle realm.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well right, let's go Raman adjacent i like the spaghetti
and meatballs.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, I did an accidental bang bang with my brother
when he was in town when I had cancer. We
ate a pizza not knowing my wife was making dinner.
And then we got home and she had made a
big dinner, like a big homemade dinner, because my brother
was in town and so you can't, you know, so
she colum's the word, and we had stuffed ourselves with pizza,
but then brought it hard for that homemade dinner.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Also, well, wait, a man up.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yeah, I commend you for that.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
It's just a polite thing to do.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
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