December 25, 2024 • 34 mins
Featured during Hour 4 of the Wednesday, December 25, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Final Dead & Co Shows
- LBJ Pants
- Jack's Grilling
- Brazil Dead Uncle
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I saw an article in New York Times about the
final Dead Shows shows of their tour. They said there's
chances they'll get back together again for a benefit or something,
but they're never going to tour again, they claim. I
don't think they probably actually are. They've made that claim
many times. Are the years they're very old. Yeah, Barbweer's
like Joe biden Ol and I noticed him well, it
was he was gigging as an adult during the Summer
(00:22):
of Love in nineteen sixty seven. Yeah, that's one of
the things I want to bring up with this phenomenon. So,
speaking of it being a phenomenon, one of the reasons
I went was, it's a phenomenon. I haven't been to
a concert in I think fifteen years, so it's been
a long time. So i'd been to a concert and
Dead and Company was coming to the area. It's sixty
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miles from my house, and I kind of thought about
it a couple of times, and I looked at prices.
They're too high. Anyway, I finally decided, you know what,
I'm going to do it. So I bought a ticket
two hours before, three hours before the show started, hopped
on my motorcycle rode into San Francisco to the baseball
line yea, and didn't even pay a ton for it. Luckily,
I think people started to panic. Some of the people
(01:04):
that had put I'll sell you one for eight thousand
dollars for starting to panic if they had some left,
so it didn't get a bad price anyway. I was
trying to figure out while I was sitting there in
the concert, I was trying to figure out what is
the phenomenon of the whole grateful dead thing.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
As you mentioned, they've been doing this.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
For fifty five years, fifty seven years something like that,
with only a couple of exceptions. Every song they play
is fifty plus years old. They haven't created they haven't
created anything new and forever. And the crowd and the place,
I don't know if it was sold out, but I
(01:39):
didn't see any empty seats up in the stands. The
crowd varied. There were lots of twenty somethings, there were
lots of thirty somethings, forty something, fifty something, sixty something,
seventy somethings, every age group there.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And I don't know what they.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Created or why. I just I was just looking around
trying to take it all in, trying to figure out
what what happened here?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Why has nobody else ever been able to do this.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I remember when we were in Charlotte, North Carolina, the
Grateful Dead came through in the mid nineties, and I
didn't know anything about the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I've never really been into the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
They came through town and I didn't go to the concert,
but I was at a party that night at a
house and a number of people had been to the
Dead concert and they this is pre internet. So in
the Internet era, obviously you can go online and check
what the set list is for every concert and they
would be posted as soon as the.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Concert is over. But this was before the internet.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So these guys would run home and some of them
took scraps of paper and pens with them. Some of
them were just using their knowledge, and they were sitting
there at the kitchen table at this party saying, okay,
so what did they play first set? Well, they opened
with this open with that. They're writing it all down.
They kept the log of all the concerts they'd seen
in the set list in a way that just I
don't think happens that often with bands part of it
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is they don't play that many songs because each song
is thirteen to fifteen minutes long. So you play like
four songs, take a break, play four more songs, and
your three hours are up.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's one weird aspect of the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The other thing is they don't come out and say
a word, and never have, according to the New York Times.
They don't say, hey, Atlanta, good to be here. Here's
one from the new while, you know, thanks for coming,
or nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
They don't see it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
They wander out and start playing.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
They wander I'll start playing, and when they're done, they
walk off and that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And and from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Another interesting thing is they've always encouraged people recording it
and posting live recordings, and they got gazillions a live.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Albums and just well, do you tell.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Me what is different about that band that allowed them
to tour for fifty some years. I was just looking
up still one of the top grossing concert tours out there.
They didn't play that many shows, but they're making gazillions
of dollars yea in ticket sales and t shirt sales
and everything like that thing before I let you you
(04:01):
answer the question, because you know more about it than
I do. So they walk out, they start playing, and
it's got a drum beat to it that I don't
quite recognize off the top of my head, because all
the songs kind of have a similar drum beat and
a similar thing. And everybody's twirling. All the girls are
twirling in their thing, and then everybody's dancing everything like that.
Not a single person in that stadium that I saw
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sat for one second three and a half hours.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I've never been to a concert like that.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I've been to plenty of concerts with people stand for
the big hits, then sit back down for a slow
song or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Not a person I was expecting to get to sit
for a while. None of that happened.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So they do the drumbeat, drum beat, and they opened
with the Buddy Holly song that they.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Do regularly, probably not fade away, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And so then the drum the drum stop, and then
the whole crowd in Unison says I'm gonna tell you
what I'm gonna do it, and then everybody saying every
word to every song for three and a half hours,
never said down.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I've never seen anything like that. Why is that. Can
you tell me why that is?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I'm sure there are multiple books written to address that
very question, and they are book length, as books often are.
I would say, I mean number one. At the beginning,
they were just a whale of a band. I mean,
just a terrific band that was incredible. Well, you know,
there's a couple of sayings among musicians ragged but right
(05:24):
or loose but tight. They had a combination of being
extremely good and extremely loose and improvisational and really fun
music to listen to if you're stoned. Plus they have
a weird like hippie community thing going like, we're all here,
we're all friends, nobody's gonna get ugly, it's going to
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be great. Everybody's gonna enjoy themselves, nobody's gonna judge anybody else.
We're gonna listen to the jams and have a great time,
you know.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
There.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
And there are actually other bands that have it, you
just don't hear about.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It as much.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Fish has an enormous following that's very grateful, deadlike, and
there are a couple others Dave Vatsey's band, surely.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But not on that scale for that long. Without ever
putting any news out.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, no, no, that's what's just like you.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And how do you grow new fans in their twenties
with fifty five year old songs?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I mean it's I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, part of it's that the songs hold up pretty
well and it's a jam. Part of it's just there's
an attraction to being part of that that draws young people.
The whole i'm a hippie thing is is hot amongst
your your twenty somethings, at least in some quarters. Oregon
for instance, right, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The people sitting next to me were from Oregon and
they were going to all three shows. Everybody around me
was going to all three shows. I was the only
one that was just going to the one the one show,
and it was a mom and dad roughly my age,
with their high school kids. They brought all their kids,
and their kids knew all the words every song. It's
unlike anything I've ever been around. I've been I got
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plenty of acts that I like that do that on
a smaller scale, like there's several hundred people that are
that into it, but not hundreds of thousands. For six decades.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's just yeah, I don't And then I wonder how
much of it was.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It like grew on itself, like you know, becomes a thing,
and a thing is that it's nothing draws like a crowd,
that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Right, Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It's it's such an attractive like vibe, an attractive corner
of human kind that people who weren't there at the beginning,
or if you know, they didn't grow up with the
songs or whatever. Just the idea that that many people
could get together and have their energy be so positive
and a lack of conflict and a lack of people
(07:51):
being a holes like people tend to be, and listening
to the music and dancing and stuff. It's just it's
an attractive proposition. And you know why, you know why?
It's it's on a scale that nobody else has ever matched.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I don't know. It's it's hard, it's magic, it's culture,
it's a vibe.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I thought, at some point, surely we're gonna sit down
during one of these slow songs, aren't we. I mean,
we's a Friday night, We've all worked all week long,
We're all a little tired. Come on, a lot of
you are way older than I am. Surely Nope, nobody
was sitting down at any point, even for a moment.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Well, I am a fan, I am not a dead head.
I have some good friends who are here. Is my
horrifying Well, I'm sorry, it's my impressive but horrifying, grateful,
dead claim to fame. I was at Jerry Garcia's last
show before he died in Chicago. Did you play a
(08:46):
role or many years ago? And I fell sound asleep
halfway through it? Fell asleep because I may have been
over served. Fell Well, yeah, okay, you call it what
you want. It was a very hot summer day in Chicago.
Oh my god, if drinking beer and all getting rid
of it and then sitting there baking in the sun
(09:07):
and Soldier Field just baking. I'm surprised that has this
all been Maybe I'm dead. Maybe I died that day
and this has all been a prolonged illucination.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It was like fifty five degrees in the middle of
the concert for this one, So yeah, I didn't have
that problem.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah you were better off, trust me.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
John Mayer plays guitar with a giant winter coat on
zipped up around his ears. The way he did, He's
flicked flipping phenomenal. By the way, John Mayer is just
freaking unreal. Yeah, he's a monster, but he's not happy
to have it come to an end.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
There's not much said about why they decided to wrap
it up. New York Times went deep on that over
the weekend. But I didn't notice that Bob Weir, he
would play for a while and then he would take
his hand off and shake his hand a lot. And
I hadn't seen that in videos before because I've watched
a lot of Dead and Company videos over the last
several years. Because I just like got into it when
John Mayor joined, which I know makes me something something
(10:04):
uncool among real Dead advances and Jerry Come Lately yeah something.
But anyway, he wasn't doing that before. I wonder if
he doesn't have something that physical it's happened. I mean,
he just can't play every night like that.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Handful of my favorite musicians have had to give it
up because Arthrit asserted something, But how are.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You standing up there for three and a half hours
and paying attention to what you're doing. I'm dying out
here standing for three and a half I don't know.
Maybe they think about how much money they're making.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Maybe they enjoy playing music. Listen to you, y Sinek,
you couldn't be a deadhead. I'm surprised you weren't drummed
out of the stadium. I'm getting bad vibes from the
bald man over here.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Man get out. It was definitely the single best vibe
at that scale that I've ever been around in my life.
And man, that's a heck of a thing to pull off.
I doubt it'll ever be recreated, certainly, not for that length.
Not possible, not in the modern world. No, The New
(11:02):
York Times with a hilariously long article about pants and
how wide pants are in now and skinny pants are out,
which it was hilarious. I read quite a bit of
it just because I found it hilarious, how seriously they
took this topic and how in depth they went in
(11:22):
The New York Times about it. But anyway that we
then played a little clip of Lyndon Baines Johnson, president
of the United States from sixty three to sixty eight,
talking to his tailor on the phone about his pants,
and Katie had never heard it before because Katie's new
to the show.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Roughly how long you've been here a year. Yeah, wow,
time flies.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yikes. So this is Lindon made Johnson who had his
pants special made by a Taylor back in Texas and LBJ.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
A corn Pone.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's actually what the Kennedy people called him, Colonel corn
Pone to his face.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Uh wow, that's a nice relationship. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
He's from small town, Texas and he's talking to his
tailor about getting a new pair of pants ordered, and
it sounded something like this, miss.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Tager Joe Hager Joe is your father, the one that
makes clothes.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yet there we're all together.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Uh. You all made me some real light weight slacks. Uh.
He just made up on his own sentiment or four
months ago. It's a kind of a light brown and
a light green, rather soft green and soft brown, and
the real light weight. I need about six pairs way
(12:40):
around in the evening when I come in from work,
and I need about a half inch too tight in
the waist.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
He recalled it back then that didn't wanted to want
to deal with.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Get him right, fat you know, I don't know. You
all just guessed out of my things. So but once
you have the measurements there, we'll find for you I
can send you a pair. I want them a half
inch larger in the waist than the where before, except
I want two or three inches of stuff left back
in there so I can take them up. I bury
ten or fifteen pounds a month, all right, So leave
(13:14):
me at least two and a half three inches in
the back where I can let them out, or take
them up and make these a half inch bigger than
the waist. Make the pockets at least an inch longer. Money,
my money, and my knife everything fall out now the pockets.
When you sit down in the chair, the knife and
your money comes out. So I need at least another
(13:36):
inch in the pockets. Yeah. Now another thing with critch
down where you hang is always a little too tight.
So when you make them up, give me an inch
that I can let out there, because they cut me.
It's just like riding a wire fence. These are almost
the best that I've had anywhere in the United States.
(13:58):
But when I get ain't a little weight, they cut
me under there. So leave me. You never do have
much margin that, But see if you can't leave me
about it an age from the word of zippering and
around under my back to my hole. So I grit
it out there. If I need to be sure he
(14:20):
got the best zippers in them. These are good that
I have and if you get those coming out, I
will sure be grateful.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
There you go in a historical moment, actual phone call with
president of the United States and cut me like I'm
shitting on a wire fencer. Oh the fact.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Leave me my margin. You gotta have margin.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
The fact that he burps right before he uses the
word is my favorite part.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
That is that's one of my favorite pieces of amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Oh it shows you who he was. He was from
poor to hill country to his bones.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That's what he was.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Uh huh right, And it's probably worth the tip of
the cap that he was calling the Hagar family who became,
you know, one of the great clothiers of that time
of history.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
About five inches right back to my that's the best
part of not crotch, you know where money, Yeah, we
know what a crotch is. The reason people use the
word crotch is so they don't have to say where
you're maney money has some plain talk there and if
(15:39):
you're actually into you know, history and this sort of stuff.
The Carol book about the relationship between LBJ and the
Kennedy family is amazing because you just.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Heard who the guy was.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's way different than the Kennedy clan, the Kennedys of Harvard. Yeah, yeah,
highennus Port Kennedy's and there, you know, golf clubs and
tennis clubs and that sort of stuff. No wonder they
didn't get along with when vice versa with LBJ.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Oh my god, where their patrician accents and their crisp
suits and the rest of it with practically no margin whether.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
They'reang or banged at the time from there.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, it seem in the minimum, it's like riding a
rail fence.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I mean, it's just, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Something my grandfather would say. Well, that's how I gained
some weight back, and it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Cuts me, cuts me.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show, we
got this is about the way I grill and the
pictures I've tweeted out and Katie's complain about my grilling
re IQ differences, which we were talking about differences different
kinds of intelligence earlier in the show. Somebody texted Jack
(16:57):
seems to be brilliant at history, but then he puts
his grilling utensils on the ground.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So, yes, there are different kinds of intelligence. That's a
great point. Yes, the contrast shocking. I don't know why
I put the spatul on the ground.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
And well, not just that, but then we brought When
we pointed it out to you said, well where else where?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Should I put them anywhere else?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Jack?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yes, even on a paper towel on the ground, although
that's just partial credit. Did get this note from Dan
in North Carolina. I'm with you, Jack, I have zero
interest in grilling, and am convinced that half the men
that claim to be interested are latent junior high schooler's
desperate to fit in. So, like the brave, masked intellectual
walking your parade route, I say f you to those
(17:41):
who boast.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, I don't mean. I don't think there's got to
be a flaw in other people that liked grill. I
just I just don't enjoy it, and I have no
interest in learning to be better at it.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
And then Dan spends a tale worth telling as an aside,
I have a relative by marriage.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Of course, fancy himself a master griller.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
So the propane grill was too bourgeois, so he purchased
the same charcoal grill you have, except apparently he couldn't
figure out how to install the legs, so he just
put it on top of a deck railing. Then he
lit the fire in there, burned a hole almost completely
through a plywood table, and emblazoned the leaves around the
(18:22):
car port, which led to a fire department visit.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Emblazoned. He is in quotes like that reporter bet his
stakes are great, though, Yeah, the grillest and the anti grillist.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Ye is that the newest fault line, the dividing line
in American society.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, so I'm giving up on that manly skill, but
hoping I make for it and other manly areas, like
if you couldn't put the legs on that grill, you
really have no ability to fix or work on anything.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Holy crap. They're like, yeah, two screws in a wing nut. Yes, Katie,
Ye man card is at risk.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I just think that if you if you had a
different grill, it might change your experience a little bit. Yeah,
it can't be comfortable being down in that position grilling
at all.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
No, it's not comfortable in that position doing anything, right.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
How much did you spend for that grill Jack, I
honestly think it was on sale. I think it was
eight dollars because it was on sale. It was like
they had two left. Should you spend.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Dollar a grill? A guy? Now he's lying.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
He stole it from the guy that lives in front
of the radio station.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right, who lives in his beaten down RV.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It's the mini Weber, right that sits like a foot
off the ground.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
The top of it. It's a foot foot of maybe a
foot and a half. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I think it's designed to take with your camping or something.
It's not designed to tailgate the grill you have in
your backyard, right.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's kind of funny when I've been looking for a
house and some of these houses, you know, they got
the built in grill with the refrigerator and just all
heading a fan above it and all these differments. I think,
I think this is slightly different than what I hearently have.
Hanson said, he knows the place you could buy, but
she used grills here you go, Well, I should do
one with legs.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Would be handy if I didn't have to bend over.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That's probably enough of that. This was from the Daily
Show last night. Once a week, the old host of
The Daily Show, John Stewart is on there. Pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Well, he's actually funny, which is in contrast with the
other hosts, certainly Trevor Noah.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
This features a word I knew, I never said and
never will say. And other people think this sort of
humor is funny, and so we didn't air it on
the air. But I realize other people find this humorous.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
As I was.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Explaining, though, the media has systematically failed to contest Sean.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Please, you're killing me, my poor sweet naive older than
I remember, John, We need this messy spectacle. Every other
news story is a massive bummer. This Trump trial is
like an open window and a greyhound bus full of farts.
Why are you trying to close the window, John.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Why are you trying to make a smell starts?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I'm not trying to make yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
And hands. Our executive producer thought that was funny. I
don't like that word. I don't say that word to me.
That is the F word, and so I will never
understand that. I don't understand it myself. But I'm appalled
by that word. And I do not find there any
humor in the topic.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Okay, all right, Captain Cuckoo whatever, I'm interested in the
angle of we need this story. It's a breath of
fresh air. I mean, it's a is that just lefty insanity?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Or I find focusing on what time he arrived, what
his hair looked like, did he fall asleep? Just something
that's just that as opposed to super heavy duty, wore abortion,
et cetera. I guess yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
The weaponizing of the justice system against political candidates is
is light fair.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It's hilarious. Uh, I think I could stay awake.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I thought it was pretty funny that that young correspondent
said older than I remember John Stewart. She probably was
watching him in like junior high and really into it.
Now she's on the Daily Show.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
He's a sixties So how it is if you see
somebody then see him five years later, It's like, oh.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
God, I had one of those the other day. I
ran into somebody, thought, did did I have I aged
the same amount since the last time I saw.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You as you have? That can't possibly be true? Yeah, well, okay, time, I.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Think I'm pretty sure I didn't take a lot of physics,
but I'm pretty sure time moves the same rate for
all of us, right.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Unless one finds one's self in a black hole. Yes,
that is my understanding of.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So if I run into somebody and they've aged a
certain amount, what lead me to believe that I've aged
the same amount too? I just haven't recognized him? I correct, there,
sure see yourself every day. This probably doesn't happen to you,
does it, Katie? You're too young for that.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
No, but it has. I've seen some people from high school.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm like, ooh, you're aging, dreamer. Can you tell them that?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
No?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
My face probably does and I am the master of
saying it with my facial expressions.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Unfortunately. All right, people do age a different rates, though.
I mean, there's the biggest swing is fifteen years. They say,
in what age you look once you get older, depending
on genetics and lifestyle. So it's not completely true that
we aged the same amount.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
And I'm realizing the ultimate do you want to look
good now or later?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Is sun exposure? Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I have a female friend who, uh, all her friends
say why do you look so young? And it's all
because she did not tan when she was younger like
they all did, and she does look she's fifteen years
younger than her contemporaries at least. Wow, So it is tough.
Do you want to be pale person at the pool
when you're twenty two or do you want to be
(23:56):
looks forty at age fifty person when you're older.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
That's a tough oh, leather face.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, I definitely find myself as I am rapidly aging.
Among you got your tans too much, young woman, Then
you got your tens too much forty year old woman,
and you're starting to see the signs of what might
be described as a catcher's mit like.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Dermis uh.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
And then you have your sixty plus tanned too much woman,
and manim birds have come home to rooms right at
Hey about.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
A Yeah, that's a heck of a price to pay
to be good in tan when you were twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It really is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
And again I don't I don't mean to be cruel.
I don't measure people by their looks. But there's no
better term than leathery.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I remember we had a salesperson we referred to as
tan guy.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Well he was he was Yeah, he was super tan. Yeah,
he was tan or was it actual tank?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
It was?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I know it was real tan because we went to
a company remember there was a company barbecue once and
he did the really odd thing at this company barbecue
everybody stand out, where he took off his shirt and
sat in a lawn chair with everybody around at the
company barbecue so he could get more sons.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
So I guess, I guess he was tan guy.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
All right, Yeah, work function, Yeah, but hey, sun's out,
guns out and teats.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Apparently exactly. Guy was in really good shape.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
But yeah, he was not gonna waste a single opportunity
to get more UFI raising.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Armstrong and Getty. They're gonna work fast. Don't you think
it's a little hot. Absolutely, there's no doubt in my mind.
This is the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So Katy brought us this headline earlier in the show.
Now I have the details. It's really something in the
headline being a woman in Brazil was arrested after she
attempted to get a dead body in a wheelchair to
sign for a bank loan.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I was on Twitter or x or whatever the hell
it's called now when this video went viral. So I
saw the unedited version, because now it's been blurred all
over the place. This guy was dead dead like oh
not just not just like just dead, but like megadead.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh really been dead a while? Maybe not? Can you
be more precise?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Not Riga mortis dead because she was able to kind
of move him around, but.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
He was super deadok it out, So here we go.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Woman in Brazil arrested Tuesday suspicion of theft by fraud
and violating a corpse. You know, as I've said many times,
when I'm dead, you can do whatever you want to me.
Don't charge with a crime. I don't care. It doesn't
make any difference. I mean, you're a little weird, but
you have violated me in any way.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I don't care. I may get a couple of licks,
you know. Some frustrations.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Jack Pinata after she brought her dead uncle to a
bank to sign a loan agreement. She had raised suspicion
after she entered the small bank there in Rio with
a man in a wheelchair who she called her uncle.
Well that's not that would why would that raise suspicion?
That's not weird. The woman and they give her name here,
(27:12):
which I can't pronounce, reportably told the clerk that they
were to sign off on this seventeen thousand reass loan
that's all.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
That's h and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
In security cambridge footage which Katie has seen, the woman
can be seen picking up the man's hand and repositioning
his head to try to get him to sign the
document in front of him.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
This guy's head was flopping all over the place. Oh
my forward backward, mouth open. And then she finally gets
irritated enough to just get a grip on the back
of his neck, and she's holding him steady. With the
other hand, she's trying to pick up his arm and get.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It to hold the pen.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
It is good, good plot. And you say that didn't work.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
His head's gone all over the place.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Oh yeah, I can be picking up the hand reposition.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
He said, uncle, are you listening? You need to sign.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
If you don't sign, there's no way because I can't
sign for you. She can be heard saying on the audio,
I would just steady your hand, all right, uncle, are
you listening? You need to sign. He doesn't say anything.
That's just how he is. She tells the clerk when
he doesn't reply, if you're not okay, I'm going to
take you to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
But the man's don't bother.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
The man's unresponsive nature and lolling head, has described me
by Katie Green, caused concern among bank employees, who called
local ambulance services. Dude is megade on arriving the doctor's
confirmed the sixty year old man had been dead for
quite some time. His body was taken directly to a morgue,
and she's been arrested. Creative idea. Her lawyers are arguing, no, no, no, no,
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he was fine. He must have died in the wheelchair
as I was rolling.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Into the bank, because just before he signed, because we
talked about this, or dried out on the sidewalk before
I rolled him in, And he must have died right beforehand.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
And I just didn't notice, not an effing chance not.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
And he is, you know, he was never that energetic
in life, so I didn't notice the difference.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
And his eyes just naturally sunk into his head like that.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
He always looked that, oh megadad.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Preliminary preliminary friendsic analysis says he had died at least
several hours before the trying and sign for the loan,
if not longer.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah, but if your uncle Enrique kicks it, I mean,
just between you is to decide, all right, we're going
in on this loan together. He croaks just before you
go to the bank. It's frustrating, it's inconvenience. I say,
we stick with plan A and see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Will you come up with a workaround?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
That's what that is.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It's a work around.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, you try not to let his head flop all
over and you lift his hand up.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
There as big a hit as Weekend at Bernie's was,
it's amazing to me that dragging a corpse around comedy
didn't become a more important genre.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Right there's only one movie to refer to, that one.
They're in like a whole bunch of them, I mean
American Pie. He spawned dozens of imitators.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
For instance, rightly, there was a few years ago where
the Weekend at Bernie's Funeral went viral?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Do you guys remember that. I don't know that, I
do the headline.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
There were like a series of funerals.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
I think BuzzFeed did like an article about it and
compiled a list of people that, instead of just having
like a regular visitation or whatever, had themselves like dressed
and propped up with like cigarettes put in their hands.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And they love that and the families.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Were coming up and like taking pictures with them, And
there was another one that was a weightlifter and they
actually attached their hands to like a deadlift.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh you see. It depends on the situation though, clearly,
because like my friends would think it was fine, yeah,
but my kids might not.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
It depends on the relationship with who it is. So
I'm picturing all right.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
I mean if you had me sitting in a chair
with my telecaster in my lap, right, you know that's
not bad.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Or maybe like some bass lying down the couch.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
With a half empty Scotch next to me, like I
was watching a golf tournament and fell asleep my weight
My wife would appreciate that one.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Okay, well, yeah, I guess it depends, but yeah, I
could see that, yeah my own. Yeah, there's a lot
of caveats to the whole idea, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
The weightlifting one got my attention though, because the way
that they have her her propped up and then they
have a bench press over her face like she's about
to just do a big old lift.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I can't decide if this idea is is more charming
or horrifying.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I keep going back and forth. Right, I agree, Is.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It like like you want to see him more like
like he lived.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Or I guess that could be charming yes, or it's horrifying.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah. You know.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
One thing that I'm in favor of is like for
an obituary or a memorial service or something like that.
I don't like it when they have like the most
recent picture when the person is ancient, because as anybody
past the age of fifty especially can tell you in
your heart your soul, who you are is your young
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self and you just have aches and pains and more
memories and a little more wisdom and that sort of thing.
But the old dude is kind of a stranger, Like
how the hell did that happen? So I just when
they were youngest, vital, most vital, energetic, when they were
forming who they are.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Give me that picture. Yeah. New York Times is good
at that.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
They use you and your prime picture for all their
obituaries of famous people like I see them every Sunday
in the New York Times book Review whatever author died,
and they have their when they were you know, sexy
woman or a cool young guy or whatever or whatever
they were that had so much to do with the
things you wrote, not like just an old person. Yeah,
the time of their life they look back on fondly. Yeah,
(33:11):
and what they probably became famous for. And now we're
not talking just about famous people, but like in yeah,
and just for everybody.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Now, I've kind of been a Doey Dip from age
twelve through the grave, so it'd be easier for me.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
But yes, yeah, I was gonna say, what what point
do I get to choose ahead of time?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
What point? Because like you know, we'll pick him a
when was he young and vital?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
High school?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Here's a good high school picture. No, young but not vital.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Let's keep looking at I'm writing down my new favorite slam,
A doe dip.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, there you go. You're right a Doey dip. Can't
you all right?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
For my funeral, I'm gonna do radio stuff. I'm gonna
have open casket with me sitting up.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
With headphones on my head, holding up three fingers exactly
countless down and a lot of Jack and Joe.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
They're screaming at you.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
And then oh, oh hey, hey, then you can donate
money to pay any FCC fines.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
So we did.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
We would say, I don't know why we're assuming we
are going to oulive you, because I don't think we are.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
We would be.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
There, they say, Just where's the clip, Michael.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Just for old time's sake, that would be great. No
clip forty two? Forty two? Oh, that's Righty's past. God
rest is sold.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Fuck.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
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Speaker 3 (34:46):
Heyety
I saw an article in New York Times about the
final Dead Shows shows of their tour. They said there's
chances they'll get back together again for a benefit or something,
but they're never going to tour again, they claim. I
don't think they probably actually are. They've made that claim
many times. Are the years they're very old. Yeah, Barbweer's
like Joe biden Ol and I noticed him well, it
was he was gigging as an adult during the Summer
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of Love in nineteen sixty seven. Yeah, that's one of
the things I want to bring up with this phenomenon. So,
speaking of it being a phenomenon, one of the reasons
I went was, it's a phenomenon. I haven't been to
a concert in I think fifteen years, so it's been
a long time. So i'd been to a concert and
Dead and Company was coming to the area. It's sixty
(00:43):
miles from my house, and I kind of thought about
it a couple of times, and I looked at prices.
They're too high. Anyway, I finally decided, you know what,
I'm going to do it. So I bought a ticket
two hours before, three hours before the show started, hopped
on my motorcycle rode into San Francisco to the baseball
line yea, and didn't even pay a ton for it. Luckily,
I think people started to panic. Some of the people
(01:04):
that had put I'll sell you one for eight thousand
dollars for starting to panic if they had some left,
so it didn't get a bad price anyway. I was
trying to figure out while I was sitting there in
the concert, I was trying to figure out what is
the phenomenon of the whole grateful dead thing.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
As you mentioned, they've been doing this.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
For fifty five years, fifty seven years something like that,
with only a couple of exceptions. Every song they play
is fifty plus years old. They haven't created they haven't
created anything new and forever. And the crowd and the place,
I don't know if it was sold out, but I
(01:39):
didn't see any empty seats up in the stands. The
crowd varied. There were lots of twenty somethings, there were
lots of thirty somethings, forty something, fifty something, sixty something,
seventy somethings, every age group there.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And I don't know what they.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Created or why. I just I was just looking around
trying to take it all in, trying to figure out
what what happened here?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Why has nobody else ever been able to do this.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I remember when we were in Charlotte, North Carolina, the
Grateful Dead came through in the mid nineties, and I
didn't know anything about the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I've never really been into the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
They came through town and I didn't go to the concert,
but I was at a party that night at a
house and a number of people had been to the
Dead concert and they this is pre internet. So in
the Internet era, obviously you can go online and check
what the set list is for every concert and they
would be posted as soon as the.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Concert is over. But this was before the internet.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So these guys would run home and some of them
took scraps of paper and pens with them. Some of
them were just using their knowledge, and they were sitting
there at the kitchen table at this party saying, okay,
so what did they play first set? Well, they opened
with this open with that. They're writing it all down.
They kept the log of all the concerts they'd seen
in the set list in a way that just I
don't think happens that often with bands part of it
(02:54):
is they don't play that many songs because each song
is thirteen to fifteen minutes long. So you play like
four songs, take a break, play four more songs, and
your three hours are up.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's one weird aspect of the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The other thing is they don't come out and say
a word, and never have, according to the New York Times.
They don't say, hey, Atlanta, good to be here. Here's
one from the new while, you know, thanks for coming,
or nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
They don't see it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
They wander out and start playing.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
They wander I'll start playing, and when they're done, they
walk off and that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And and from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Another interesting thing is they've always encouraged people recording it
and posting live recordings, and they got gazillions a live.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Albums and just well, do you tell.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Me what is different about that band that allowed them
to tour for fifty some years. I was just looking
up still one of the top grossing concert tours out there.
They didn't play that many shows, but they're making gazillions
of dollars yea in ticket sales and t shirt sales
and everything like that thing before I let you you
(04:01):
answer the question, because you know more about it than
I do. So they walk out, they start playing, and
it's got a drum beat to it that I don't
quite recognize off the top of my head, because all
the songs kind of have a similar drum beat and
a similar thing. And everybody's twirling. All the girls are
twirling in their thing, and then everybody's dancing everything like that.
Not a single person in that stadium that I saw
(04:22):
sat for one second three and a half hours.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I've never been to a concert like that.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I've been to plenty of concerts with people stand for
the big hits, then sit back down for a slow
song or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Not a person I was expecting to get to sit
for a while. None of that happened.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So they do the drumbeat, drum beat, and they opened
with the Buddy Holly song that they.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Do regularly, probably not fade away, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And so then the drum the drum stop, and then
the whole crowd in Unison says I'm gonna tell you
what I'm gonna do it, and then everybody saying every
word to every song for three and a half hours,
never said down.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I've never seen anything like that. Why is that. Can
you tell me why that is?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I'm sure there are multiple books written to address that
very question, and they are book length, as books often are.
I would say, I mean number one. At the beginning,
they were just a whale of a band. I mean,
just a terrific band that was incredible. Well, you know,
there's a couple of sayings among musicians ragged but right
(05:24):
or loose but tight. They had a combination of being
extremely good and extremely loose and improvisational and really fun
music to listen to if you're stoned. Plus they have
a weird like hippie community thing going like, we're all here,
we're all friends, nobody's gonna get ugly, it's going to
(05:45):
be great. Everybody's gonna enjoy themselves, nobody's gonna judge anybody else.
We're gonna listen to the jams and have a great time,
you know.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
There.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
And there are actually other bands that have it, you
just don't hear about.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It as much.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Fish has an enormous following that's very grateful, deadlike, and
there are a couple others Dave Vatsey's band, surely.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But not on that scale for that long. Without ever
putting any news out.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, no, no, that's what's just like you.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And how do you grow new fans in their twenties
with fifty five year old songs?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I mean it's I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, part of it's that the songs hold up pretty
well and it's a jam. Part of it's just there's
an attraction to being part of that that draws young people.
The whole i'm a hippie thing is is hot amongst
your your twenty somethings, at least in some quarters. Oregon
for instance, right, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The people sitting next to me were from Oregon and
they were going to all three shows. Everybody around me
was going to all three shows. I was the only
one that was just going to the one the one show,
and it was a mom and dad roughly my age,
with their high school kids. They brought all their kids,
and their kids knew all the words every song. It's
unlike anything I've ever been around. I've been I got
(07:04):
plenty of acts that I like that do that on
a smaller scale, like there's several hundred people that are
that into it, but not hundreds of thousands. For six decades.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's just yeah, I don't And then I wonder how
much of it was.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It like grew on itself, like you know, becomes a thing,
and a thing is that it's nothing draws like a crowd,
that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Right, Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It's it's such an attractive like vibe, an attractive corner
of human kind that people who weren't there at the beginning,
or if you know, they didn't grow up with the
songs or whatever. Just the idea that that many people
could get together and have their energy be so positive
and a lack of conflict and a lack of people
(07:51):
being a holes like people tend to be, and listening
to the music and dancing and stuff. It's just it's
an attractive proposition. And you know why, you know why?
It's it's on a scale that nobody else has ever matched.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I don't know. It's it's hard, it's magic, it's culture,
it's a vibe.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I thought, at some point, surely we're gonna sit down
during one of these slow songs, aren't we. I mean,
we's a Friday night, We've all worked all week long,
We're all a little tired. Come on, a lot of
you are way older than I am. Surely Nope, nobody
was sitting down at any point, even for a moment.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Well, I am a fan, I am not a dead head.
I have some good friends who are here. Is my
horrifying Well, I'm sorry, it's my impressive but horrifying, grateful,
dead claim to fame. I was at Jerry Garcia's last
show before he died in Chicago. Did you play a
(08:46):
role or many years ago? And I fell sound asleep
halfway through it? Fell asleep because I may have been
over served. Fell Well, yeah, okay, you call it what
you want. It was a very hot summer day in Chicago.
Oh my god, if drinking beer and all getting rid
of it and then sitting there baking in the sun
(09:07):
and Soldier Field just baking. I'm surprised that has this
all been Maybe I'm dead. Maybe I died that day
and this has all been a prolonged illucination.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It was like fifty five degrees in the middle of
the concert for this one, So yeah, I didn't have
that problem.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah you were better off, trust me.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
John Mayer plays guitar with a giant winter coat on
zipped up around his ears. The way he did, He's
flicked flipping phenomenal. By the way, John Mayer is just
freaking unreal. Yeah, he's a monster, but he's not happy
to have it come to an end.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
There's not much said about why they decided to wrap
it up. New York Times went deep on that over
the weekend. But I didn't notice that Bob Weir, he
would play for a while and then he would take
his hand off and shake his hand a lot. And
I hadn't seen that in videos before because I've watched
a lot of Dead and Company videos over the last
several years. Because I just like got into it when
John Mayor joined, which I know makes me something something
(10:04):
uncool among real Dead advances and Jerry Come Lately yeah something.
But anyway, he wasn't doing that before. I wonder if
he doesn't have something that physical it's happened. I mean,
he just can't play every night like that.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Handful of my favorite musicians have had to give it
up because Arthrit asserted something, But how are.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You standing up there for three and a half hours
and paying attention to what you're doing. I'm dying out
here standing for three and a half I don't know.
Maybe they think about how much money they're making.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Maybe they enjoy playing music. Listen to you, y Sinek,
you couldn't be a deadhead. I'm surprised you weren't drummed
out of the stadium. I'm getting bad vibes from the
bald man over here.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Man get out. It was definitely the single best vibe
at that scale that I've ever been around in my life.
And man, that's a heck of a thing to pull off.
I doubt it'll ever be recreated, certainly, not for that length.
Not possible, not in the modern world. No, The New
(11:02):
York Times with a hilariously long article about pants and
how wide pants are in now and skinny pants are out,
which it was hilarious. I read quite a bit of
it just because I found it hilarious, how seriously they
took this topic and how in depth they went in
(11:22):
The New York Times about it. But anyway that we
then played a little clip of Lyndon Baines Johnson, president
of the United States from sixty three to sixty eight,
talking to his tailor on the phone about his pants,
and Katie had never heard it before because Katie's new
to the show.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Roughly how long you've been here a year. Yeah, wow,
time flies.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yikes. So this is Lindon made Johnson who had his
pants special made by a Taylor back in Texas and LBJ.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
A corn Pone.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's actually what the Kennedy people called him, Colonel corn
Pone to his face.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Uh wow, that's a nice relationship. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
He's from small town, Texas and he's talking to his
tailor about getting a new pair of pants ordered, and
it sounded something like this, miss.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Tager Joe Hager Joe is your father, the one that
makes clothes.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yet there we're all together.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Uh. You all made me some real light weight slacks. Uh.
He just made up on his own sentiment or four
months ago. It's a kind of a light brown and
a light green, rather soft green and soft brown, and
the real light weight. I need about six pairs way
(12:40):
around in the evening when I come in from work,
and I need about a half inch too tight in
the waist.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
He recalled it back then that didn't wanted to want
to deal with.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Get him right, fat you know, I don't know. You
all just guessed out of my things. So but once
you have the measurements there, we'll find for you I
can send you a pair. I want them a half
inch larger in the waist than the where before, except
I want two or three inches of stuff left back
in there so I can take them up. I bury
ten or fifteen pounds a month, all right, So leave
(13:14):
me at least two and a half three inches in
the back where I can let them out, or take
them up and make these a half inch bigger than
the waist. Make the pockets at least an inch longer. Money,
my money, and my knife everything fall out now the pockets.
When you sit down in the chair, the knife and
your money comes out. So I need at least another
(13:36):
inch in the pockets. Yeah. Now another thing with critch
down where you hang is always a little too tight.
So when you make them up, give me an inch
that I can let out there, because they cut me.
It's just like riding a wire fence. These are almost
the best that I've had anywhere in the United States.
(13:58):
But when I get ain't a little weight, they cut
me under there. So leave me. You never do have
much margin that, But see if you can't leave me
about it an age from the word of zippering and
around under my back to my hole. So I grit
it out there. If I need to be sure he
(14:20):
got the best zippers in them. These are good that
I have and if you get those coming out, I
will sure be grateful.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
There you go in a historical moment, actual phone call with
president of the United States and cut me like I'm
shitting on a wire fencer. Oh the fact.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Leave me my margin. You gotta have margin.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
The fact that he burps right before he uses the
word is my favorite part.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
That is that's one of my favorite pieces of amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Oh it shows you who he was. He was from
poor to hill country to his bones.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That's what he was.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Uh huh right, And it's probably worth the tip of
the cap that he was calling the Hagar family who became,
you know, one of the great clothiers of that time
of history.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
About five inches right back to my that's the best
part of not crotch, you know where money, Yeah, we
know what a crotch is. The reason people use the
word crotch is so they don't have to say where
you're maney money has some plain talk there and if
(15:39):
you're actually into you know, history and this sort of stuff.
The Carol book about the relationship between LBJ and the
Kennedy family is amazing because you just.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Heard who the guy was.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's way different than the Kennedy clan, the Kennedys of Harvard. Yeah, yeah,
highennus Port Kennedy's and there, you know, golf clubs and
tennis clubs and that sort of stuff. No wonder they
didn't get along with when vice versa with LBJ.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Oh my god, where their patrician accents and their crisp
suits and the rest of it with practically no margin whether.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
They'reang or banged at the time from there.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, it seem in the minimum, it's like riding a
rail fence.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I mean, it's just, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Something my grandfather would say. Well, that's how I gained
some weight back, and it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Cuts me, cuts me.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show, we
got this is about the way I grill and the
pictures I've tweeted out and Katie's complain about my grilling
re IQ differences, which we were talking about differences different
kinds of intelligence earlier in the show. Somebody texted Jack
(16:57):
seems to be brilliant at history, but then he puts
his grilling utensils on the ground.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So, yes, there are different kinds of intelligence. That's a
great point. Yes, the contrast shocking. I don't know why
I put the spatul on the ground.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
And well, not just that, but then we brought When
we pointed it out to you said, well where else where?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Should I put them anywhere else?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Jack?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yes, even on a paper towel on the ground, although
that's just partial credit. Did get this note from Dan
in North Carolina. I'm with you, Jack, I have zero
interest in grilling, and am convinced that half the men
that claim to be interested are latent junior high schooler's
desperate to fit in. So, like the brave, masked intellectual
walking your parade route, I say f you to those
(17:41):
who boast.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, I don't mean. I don't think there's got to
be a flaw in other people that liked grill. I
just I just don't enjoy it, and I have no
interest in learning to be better at it.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
And then Dan spends a tale worth telling as an aside,
I have a relative by marriage.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Of course, fancy himself a master griller.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
So the propane grill was too bourgeois, so he purchased
the same charcoal grill you have, except apparently he couldn't
figure out how to install the legs, so he just
put it on top of a deck railing. Then he
lit the fire in there, burned a hole almost completely
through a plywood table, and emblazoned the leaves around the
(18:22):
car port, which led to a fire department visit.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Emblazoned. He is in quotes like that reporter bet his
stakes are great, though, Yeah, the grillest and the anti grillist.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Ye is that the newest fault line, the dividing line
in American society.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, so I'm giving up on that manly skill, but
hoping I make for it and other manly areas, like
if you couldn't put the legs on that grill, you
really have no ability to fix or work on anything.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Holy crap. They're like, yeah, two screws in a wing nut. Yes, Katie,
Ye man card is at risk.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I just think that if you if you had a
different grill, it might change your experience a little bit. Yeah,
it can't be comfortable being down in that position grilling
at all.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
No, it's not comfortable in that position doing anything, right.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
How much did you spend for that grill Jack, I
honestly think it was on sale. I think it was
eight dollars because it was on sale. It was like
they had two left. Should you spend.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Dollar a grill? A guy? Now he's lying.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
He stole it from the guy that lives in front
of the radio station.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right, who lives in his beaten down RV.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It's the mini Weber, right that sits like a foot
off the ground.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
The top of it. It's a foot foot of maybe a
foot and a half. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I think it's designed to take with your camping or something.
It's not designed to tailgate the grill you have in
your backyard, right.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's kind of funny when I've been looking for a
house and some of these houses, you know, they got
the built in grill with the refrigerator and just all
heading a fan above it and all these differments. I think,
I think this is slightly different than what I hearently have.
Hanson said, he knows the place you could buy, but
she used grills here you go, Well, I should do
one with legs.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Would be handy if I didn't have to bend over.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That's probably enough of that. This was from the Daily
Show last night. Once a week, the old host of
The Daily Show, John Stewart is on there. Pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Well, he's actually funny, which is in contrast with the
other hosts, certainly Trevor Noah.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
This features a word I knew, I never said and
never will say. And other people think this sort of
humor is funny, and so we didn't air it on
the air. But I realize other people find this humorous.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
As I was.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Explaining, though, the media has systematically failed to contest Sean.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Please, you're killing me, my poor sweet naive older than
I remember, John, We need this messy spectacle. Every other
news story is a massive bummer. This Trump trial is
like an open window and a greyhound bus full of farts.
Why are you trying to close the window, John.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Why are you trying to make a smell starts?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I'm not trying to make yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
And hands. Our executive producer thought that was funny. I
don't like that word. I don't say that word to me.
That is the F word, and so I will never
understand that. I don't understand it myself. But I'm appalled
by that word. And I do not find there any
humor in the topic.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Okay, all right, Captain Cuckoo whatever, I'm interested in the
angle of we need this story. It's a breath of
fresh air. I mean, it's a is that just lefty insanity?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Or I find focusing on what time he arrived, what
his hair looked like, did he fall asleep? Just something
that's just that as opposed to super heavy duty, wore abortion,
et cetera. I guess yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
The weaponizing of the justice system against political candidates is
is light fair.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It's hilarious. Uh, I think I could stay awake.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I thought it was pretty funny that that young correspondent
said older than I remember John Stewart. She probably was
watching him in like junior high and really into it.
Now she's on the Daily Show.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
He's a sixties So how it is if you see
somebody then see him five years later, It's like, oh.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
God, I had one of those the other day. I
ran into somebody, thought, did did I have I aged
the same amount since the last time I saw.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You as you have? That can't possibly be true? Yeah, well, okay, time, I.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Think I'm pretty sure I didn't take a lot of physics,
but I'm pretty sure time moves the same rate for
all of us, right.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Unless one finds one's self in a black hole. Yes,
that is my understanding of.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So if I run into somebody and they've aged a
certain amount, what lead me to believe that I've aged
the same amount too? I just haven't recognized him? I correct, there,
sure see yourself every day. This probably doesn't happen to you,
does it, Katie? You're too young for that.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
No, but it has. I've seen some people from high school.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm like, ooh, you're aging, dreamer. Can you tell them that?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
No?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
My face probably does and I am the master of
saying it with my facial expressions.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Unfortunately. All right, people do age a different rates, though.
I mean, there's the biggest swing is fifteen years. They say,
in what age you look once you get older, depending
on genetics and lifestyle. So it's not completely true that
we aged the same amount.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
And I'm realizing the ultimate do you want to look
good now or later?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Is sun exposure? Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I have a female friend who, uh, all her friends
say why do you look so young? And it's all
because she did not tan when she was younger like
they all did, and she does look she's fifteen years
younger than her contemporaries at least. Wow, So it is tough.
Do you want to be pale person at the pool
when you're twenty two or do you want to be
(23:56):
looks forty at age fifty person when you're older.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
That's a tough oh, leather face.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, I definitely find myself as I am rapidly aging.
Among you got your tans too much, young woman, Then
you got your tens too much forty year old woman,
and you're starting to see the signs of what might
be described as a catcher's mit like.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Dermis uh.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
And then you have your sixty plus tanned too much woman,
and manim birds have come home to rooms right at
Hey about.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
A Yeah, that's a heck of a price to pay
to be good in tan when you were twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It really is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
And again I don't I don't mean to be cruel.
I don't measure people by their looks. But there's no
better term than leathery.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I remember we had a salesperson we referred to as
tan guy.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Well he was he was Yeah, he was super tan. Yeah,
he was tan or was it actual tank?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
It was?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I know it was real tan because we went to
a company remember there was a company barbecue once and
he did the really odd thing at this company barbecue
everybody stand out, where he took off his shirt and
sat in a lawn chair with everybody around at the
company barbecue so he could get more sons.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
So I guess, I guess he was tan guy.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
All right, Yeah, work function, Yeah, but hey, sun's out,
guns out and teats.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Apparently exactly. Guy was in really good shape.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
But yeah, he was not gonna waste a single opportunity
to get more UFI raising.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Armstrong and Getty. They're gonna work fast. Don't you think
it's a little hot. Absolutely, there's no doubt in my mind.
This is the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So Katy brought us this headline earlier in the show.
Now I have the details. It's really something in the
headline being a woman in Brazil was arrested after she
attempted to get a dead body in a wheelchair to
sign for a bank loan.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I was on Twitter or x or whatever the hell
it's called now when this video went viral. So I
saw the unedited version, because now it's been blurred all
over the place. This guy was dead dead like oh
not just not just like just dead, but like megadead.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh really been dead a while? Maybe not? Can you
be more precise?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Not Riga mortis dead because she was able to kind
of move him around, but.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
He was super deadok it out, So here we go.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Woman in Brazil arrested Tuesday suspicion of theft by fraud
and violating a corpse. You know, as I've said many times,
when I'm dead, you can do whatever you want to me.
Don't charge with a crime. I don't care. It doesn't
make any difference. I mean, you're a little weird, but
you have violated me in any way.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I don't care. I may get a couple of licks,
you know. Some frustrations.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Jack Pinata after she brought her dead uncle to a
bank to sign a loan agreement. She had raised suspicion
after she entered the small bank there in Rio with
a man in a wheelchair who she called her uncle.
Well that's not that would why would that raise suspicion?
That's not weird. The woman and they give her name here,
(27:12):
which I can't pronounce, reportably told the clerk that they
were to sign off on this seventeen thousand reass loan
that's all.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
That's h and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
In security cambridge footage which Katie has seen, the woman
can be seen picking up the man's hand and repositioning
his head to try to get him to sign the
document in front of him.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
This guy's head was flopping all over the place. Oh
my forward backward, mouth open. And then she finally gets
irritated enough to just get a grip on the back
of his neck, and she's holding him steady. With the
other hand, she's trying to pick up his arm and get.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It to hold the pen.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
It is good, good plot. And you say that didn't work.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
His head's gone all over the place.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Oh yeah, I can be picking up the hand reposition.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
He said, uncle, are you listening? You need to sign.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
If you don't sign, there's no way because I can't
sign for you. She can be heard saying on the audio,
I would just steady your hand, all right, uncle, are
you listening? You need to sign. He doesn't say anything.
That's just how he is. She tells the clerk when
he doesn't reply, if you're not okay, I'm going to
take you to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
But the man's don't bother.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
The man's unresponsive nature and lolling head, has described me
by Katie Green, caused concern among bank employees, who called
local ambulance services. Dude is megade on arriving the doctor's
confirmed the sixty year old man had been dead for
quite some time. His body was taken directly to a morgue,
and she's been arrested. Creative idea. Her lawyers are arguing, no, no, no, no,
(28:56):
he was fine. He must have died in the wheelchair
as I was rolling.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Into the bank, because just before he signed, because we
talked about this, or dried out on the sidewalk before
I rolled him in, And he must have died right beforehand.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
And I just didn't notice, not an effing chance not.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
And he is, you know, he was never that energetic
in life, so I didn't notice the difference.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
And his eyes just naturally sunk into his head like that.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
He always looked that, oh megadad.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Preliminary preliminary friendsic analysis says he had died at least
several hours before the trying and sign for the loan,
if not longer.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah, but if your uncle Enrique kicks it, I mean,
just between you is to decide, all right, we're going
in on this loan together. He croaks just before you
go to the bank. It's frustrating, it's inconvenience. I say,
we stick with plan A and see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Will you come up with a workaround?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
That's what that is.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It's a work around.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, you try not to let his head flop all
over and you lift his hand up.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
There as big a hit as Weekend at Bernie's was,
it's amazing to me that dragging a corpse around comedy
didn't become a more important genre.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Right there's only one movie to refer to, that one.
They're in like a whole bunch of them, I mean
American Pie. He spawned dozens of imitators.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
For instance, rightly, there was a few years ago where
the Weekend at Bernie's Funeral went viral?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Do you guys remember that. I don't know that, I
do the headline.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
There were like a series of funerals.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
I think BuzzFeed did like an article about it and
compiled a list of people that, instead of just having
like a regular visitation or whatever, had themselves like dressed
and propped up with like cigarettes put in their hands.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And they love that and the families.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Were coming up and like taking pictures with them, And
there was another one that was a weightlifter and they
actually attached their hands to like a deadlift.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh you see. It depends on the situation though, clearly,
because like my friends would think it was fine, yeah,
but my kids might not.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
It depends on the relationship with who it is. So
I'm picturing all right.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
I mean if you had me sitting in a chair
with my telecaster in my lap, right, you know that's
not bad.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Or maybe like some bass lying down the couch.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
With a half empty Scotch next to me, like I
was watching a golf tournament and fell asleep my weight
My wife would appreciate that one.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Okay, well, yeah, I guess it depends, but yeah, I
could see that, yeah my own. Yeah, there's a lot
of caveats to the whole idea, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
The weightlifting one got my attention though, because the way
that they have her her propped up and then they
have a bench press over her face like she's about
to just do a big old lift.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I can't decide if this idea is is more charming
or horrifying.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I keep going back and forth. Right, I agree, Is.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It like like you want to see him more like
like he lived.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Or I guess that could be charming yes, or it's horrifying.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah. You know.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
One thing that I'm in favor of is like for
an obituary or a memorial service or something like that.
I don't like it when they have like the most
recent picture when the person is ancient, because as anybody
past the age of fifty especially can tell you in
your heart your soul, who you are is your young
(32:27):
self and you just have aches and pains and more
memories and a little more wisdom and that sort of thing.
But the old dude is kind of a stranger, Like
how the hell did that happen? So I just when
they were youngest, vital, most vital, energetic, when they were
forming who they are.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Give me that picture. Yeah. New York Times is good
at that.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
They use you and your prime picture for all their
obituaries of famous people like I see them every Sunday
in the New York Times book Review whatever author died,
and they have their when they were you know, sexy
woman or a cool young guy or whatever or whatever
they were that had so much to do with the
things you wrote, not like just an old person. Yeah,
the time of their life they look back on fondly. Yeah,
(33:11):
and what they probably became famous for. And now we're
not talking just about famous people, but like in yeah,
and just for everybody.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Now, I've kind of been a Doey Dip from age
twelve through the grave, so it'd be easier for me.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
But yes, yeah, I was gonna say, what what point
do I get to choose ahead of time?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
What point? Because like you know, we'll pick him a
when was he young and vital?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
High school?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Here's a good high school picture. No, young but not vital.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Let's keep looking at I'm writing down my new favorite slam,
A doe dip.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, there you go. You're right a Doey dip. Can't
you all right?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
For my funeral, I'm gonna do radio stuff. I'm gonna
have open casket with me sitting up.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
With headphones on my head, holding up three fingers exactly
countless down and a lot of Jack and Joe.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
They're screaming at you.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
And then oh, oh hey, hey, then you can donate
money to pay any FCC fines.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
So we did.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
We would say, I don't know why we're assuming we
are going to oulive you, because I don't think we are.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
We would be.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
There, they say, Just where's the clip, Michael.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Just for old time's sake, that would be great. No
clip forty two? Forty two? Oh, that's Righty's past. God
rest is sold.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Fuck.
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