July 31, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of the Wednesday July 31, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay features our other podcast, Armstrong & Getty One More Thing!
- Using the Office Gym
- Alien Visits, Perplexed
- Roger Waters, Tony Bennett
- Aussie Advice
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Catty arms.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Strong and Jettie.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I'm not Pee.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Armstrong and Strong. Hey, we're Armstrong and Getty. We're featuring
our podcast. One more thing. Find out wherever you find
all your podcasts.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Hold my calls. I got to work in a couple
of sets of squats. It's one more thing, one more.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I can't I can't imagine where there's this going.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
So even the radio ranch, full of slackers and fatties
and stoned idiots, has a gym, an office gym.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
That's right. I've never I've been in it. I've never
used it.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was seriously about to use it when COVID hit,
and then of course they had to lock it up
so nobody would exercise this or something. Right, Oh the
freaking idiocy. Anyway, This from the Journal of Wall Street.
Forget the office, Jim, Welcome to the gym. Office working
out or just working more. Gyms are encouraging remote working
(01:24):
members to stay all day and do both. It's like
a Starbucks with a bunch of weight equipment and ellipticals
and then treadmills and stuff. So you stay all day,
You work a little bit, then you do a couple
of sets of squats, and you come back. You make
a call, then you throw the iron, you bench press
(01:47):
three hundred and fifty pounds ten times, like I like
to relax in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I stand on that thing with the band around you
that shakes you. That's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Beautiful.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You guys doing this show from a gym. I wouldn't
work for this profession.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Have you ever worked anywhere? This was very popular around
here for a while. Have you ever worked anywhere, Katie
where people sat on the ball too, Yeah, just strengthen
their core.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I'm surprised you guys didn't see me doing that in
the San Francisco building.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Mmm.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
May have. I just didn't want to.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Do you feel like it works? Yeah? And it keeps
you moving? Yeah, it seems like a good idea.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
And all the rage on the internet right now. Are
these treadmills that go under your desk?
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well wait a second. They go under your desk, So
you're sitting and you move your feet yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Really wait yeah, or you're standing.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
You can do both if you have one of the
standing desks, like you can walk on it, and then
they have a feature where you put it under the
desk and you just keep your legs moving at a
sense of.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It seems like really uncomfortable and weird to me. I
understand the walking on a treadmill while I work, but
the sitting with my legs moving and.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Like passively having your legs pushed along by the treadmill.
What good would that do keep your knee's limber? I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
All the idea is you're supposed to move with the treadmill,
not just drag your.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Las, but but just moving anything. I suppose better is
better than sitting still.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, breaking news, breaking news. I just got
a text from Don Donald Trump Junior. It was a
long text. Well, it includes a picture of his bearded countenance.
Look at that. Hi, Joseph Don Junior here as a
loyal supporter of my father. I'm reaching out on the
(03:31):
behalf of Senate Republicans because they desperately need your help.
After reviewing your donor profile, I believe you're the right
person for this job. Your donor profile is you have money, ah,
and I'm certainly a crazed right winger. So he's trying
to raise money allegedly for the Senate Republicans. That's not
super on brand for the Trump family. I don't get
(03:56):
these fundraising emails at a lot of courts. This might
be completely a scammed.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Right, right right, You have to watch out for that.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Hey, back to the working out at work thing. Ah, yes, yes,
so Katie, you've actually seen people with the treadmills under
the desk.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Not the treadmills. I saw a woman who had a
bike like the pedals under her desk.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
She used to have that also in Santanisco. But I
can see doing that that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I feel like that's a habit that once you got
into you could just you could work regularly and it'd
be great for you.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I think that's a terrific idea. I'm not going to
try the ball maybe at home because the desks are
too high in the studio. But I have I haven't
talked about this on the air at all, but just
sitting on the exercise ball thing. But I am suffering
terribly from sciatica at this point. Oh it's it's it's
like crazy painful. I know what it is, and I
(04:46):
know it can be dealt with. So I observed many
years ago, just to myself, that fear is the worst
component of pain. Now, pain itself is bad, but like
as a kid, things that that hurt also terrified you
because you know you're supposed to be terrified, so you
avoid them, so you survived. But as an adult, like
(05:08):
getting a shot, getting dental work done, you know, there
are a hundred things that are they hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
None of it hurts as much as stubbing your toe
really hard. Oh right, that, yeah, that's true, that's that's brutal.
But anyway, seven feet all the time, and you don't
fall apart over it when you stub your toe or
hit your head and getting on the cabinet or what.
All that stuff hurts more than getting a shot. And
you're trying to psych yourself out with those. Yeah, but
it is the fear. It's the fear part that makes
it so right.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You know you're gonna be okay in thirty seconds to
two minutes, right, so you don't freak out in the
same way. And it's the same with me. I know
what sciatic it is, I know how to treat it.
I know eventually it'll be fine, but it's it's brutally painful.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
But so I'm trying to work on my core. Is
that a disease or a back thing? I mean, I
know it's a back thing, but is it? It's pressure
on the sciatic nerve general. You know a number of
things can cause it.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Most commonly, it's that like you're getting older and you
aren't flexible enough and your muscles are so tight they're
in effect pulling your spine in a way. That's bad.
That puts pressure on the sciatic nerve. It can also
be like a serious slip disc or a tumor or
something like that. But with the vast majority of people,
you just need to work on fitness and flexibility. So
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that's what I'm doing. It's fine, but I think sitting
on the ball might help.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I bought a motorcycle from a guy who got sciatica
and he couldn't ride it anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Mmm.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Wow, So I really I really ben him over. I
mean because he had no choice.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
He had to sell it because he was in so
much pain. Yeah, that's just smart business, Jesus.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I didn't literally bend him over because that had been
too painful.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yes, yeah, because he's got siatic. That's the thing. Anyway,
back to the gym. So the idea is you go
and you hang out all day long and you do
work as necessary, but during your breaks you pump iron
or get on the treadmill or whatever, like the people
who hang out in the Starbucks all damn day long.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Remember we had the two guys in the newsroom Michael
throw around the medicine ball, medicine ball, and they brought
donuts every day.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Do you remember that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
That that was just a mocking all the rest of us.
That was that was that was a level beyond Katie.
This was before your time. So these guys, they were
super workout fiends and like really buff and everything like that.
Nice guys. But they would have a medicine ball and
while they were working in the like newspit, they'd throw
the net medicine ball back and forth while they're talking,
kind of like what Joe was talking about. But they
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also would buy donuts and they wouldn't eat any of
them themselves, just to like prey upon the weakness of
the rest of us who weren't as fit as them. Oh,
I don't like that at all.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
That's that's satanic. Yeah, I mean literally like Satan being
the Great Temp Tour, you know, the.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
The gym Planet Fitness. Yeah, sure so I I this
was years ago. I'm hoping they don't still do this,
but I I dropped my membership there because I went
in and I found out that on Friday nights they
have pizza, Yes, and pizza, and then there was a
bowl of TUTSI rolls on the way out by the
(08:05):
register and I'm going, what.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Are we doing?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I don't know what that is. This is exactly like
politicians who want to have the problem, not solve the problem.
Because if you're super fit and healthy and all, you
might think, you know, I need to go belong to
a gym. I'll just say in reasonable shape. No, they
got to keep you fat.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm into fitness, fitness. Pizza into my mouth, yem.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So here's one GALLO does this By going into this
space and not coming back home. I'm going through these
movements of the day more intentionally. There's less distraction, and
I'm able to set up work more efficient.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's what I'm not doing, going through my movements intentionally.
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I didn't want to say anything, but right, Yes, gym's
were once wary of letting the remote work vases zoom
from their lobbies and locker rooms. Now they see an
opportunity and offering extra desks, offices, and outlets. Some are
creating coworking spaces to separate the extension court wielders from
the spandex crowd. I mean, you don't have to be
that clever. Other gyms are charging extra and offering entire
(09:07):
floors for clients to stay and work all day.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
A lot of what this is pointing out, though, is
the fact that we all could exercise a lot more
than we want. The excuse that I make, I'll just
focus on myself of being too busy or whatever. It's
just it's just a lie. I mean, there's all kinds
of things I could. I could. I could be doing
curls while I'm watching the news, or on the treadmill
more often like you do, or whatever. I just don't.
(09:31):
I mean, there's lots of stuff we could all do.
We just don't. You know why, because I don't want to.
Because it's easier not to. That's why.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That's fair, that's remarkable honesty. Yeah. My my only tip.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Is start with a little yeah. Yeah, that's that is
the key. Doing something is so much better than doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent. Like every level of doing
something makes you healthier, live longer, and happier. And so
if all you can muster up is kind of me
do men.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I did this to myself recently, and I've been preaching
this for years, but I did this to myself recently
when I came out with this workout thing, because I
got a bench and dumbbells and all this sort of stuff,
and there's like three exercises I was doing every day. Well,
it took like a half an hour, and so I
did that routinely for like nine months or something like that.
But then in the half an hour ever a time
and the kids got out of school in his business something, Well,
(10:19):
how about instead of doing the whole half hour, you
just do one of those things for ten minutes. I
could do that. Yeah, it's the if you got to
change clothes, drive to the gym, work out for an
hour and a half, take a shour, change clothes, drive back,
and you got like this two hour commitment. No, you
can't fit that into.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Your life right right now. I'm a big fan, and
partly it's the nature of my job so maybe easier
for me than others. But I never exercised that. I'm
not taking in news or information or a podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I can't. I can't. I just I don't have the
I know plenty of meattheads worked out of gym's all
the time. Maybe they're healthier than me mentally. They probably are,
But could just just lift weights and do all that
sort of stuff, just staring at the ceiling all day long.
I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
No, it makes me insane. Yeah. Now, I do like
to strip shirtless and look at my shaved, oiled body taking.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I do a lot of poising in the mirror.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
None of these oh yeah, oh that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
One of those. Oh look at that one.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, don't ever do that again.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
This is fantastic. Took a turn, folks. You know, I
resent those two guys that we used to work with.
They get themselves strong and they'd fat and the rest
of us up suck. As we learned in the hearing yesterday,
we have been visited by aliens, and one actually came
(11:42):
down and met with a bunch of Earth leaders about
the whole human gender situation. So this alien comes to
planet Earth, particularly the United States, and finds out that
we have a thing about genders and more than one
gender that they hadn't encountered on their play. That's the
setup to this Babylon Bee comedy bit. So you're gonna
(12:04):
hear kind of a weird voice. That's the alien sitting
at the hall, at the head of a boardroom table.
I don't know how this occurs, but they're like in
the boards, kind of the take me to your leader thing.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
He's come into the you know, the halls of power
and said, all right, I'm in charge now.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And he's talking to a whole bunch of business people
or Americans or something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Government officials, government officials.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Okay, well here's how it goes. General Floyd, thank.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
You for agreeing to me with us today.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Well, I'm giving you a chance to begone. We just
joy your pan. It is my favorite partner. The job
is do destroyer way don't deserve it. The looks on
their faces, it's a hoot.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Perhaps we should start out by introducing ourselves. I'm Chief
of Space Operations, General Foreman. He him Undersecretary of State
Angus Miller.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
He him Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Amanda Williams.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Shee heer.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
And what exactly is a chief Diversity and inclusion officer.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It's my job to be a black woman.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Well, good job, then, And what is this? This?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
He?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Him, she her, which you are all speaking.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Those are our gender pronouns, so you know it's gender
we identify as.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
I appreciate that, but I am pretty good at telling
the difference between the two genders.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
A man man woman. Now that I was a lucky guess.
But there are way more than just two genders.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Fascinating.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
We've been probing humans for years and I've only discovered
the two.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
How many genders are there?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I see that you too.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
It's hard to know. Really, it's changing all the time.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
So your species is evolving that rapidly remarkable. Perhaps while
you are sitting here you will grow additional limbs or
developed the ability to breathe underwater.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
No, that's not what we meant. It's too bad. I
breathe under water. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
If you threw twenty pennies into a pool, I could
dive down and pick them all up with.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Wool.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
What no applause?
Speaker 10 (14:06):
So what are these genders and how do they function?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Function? I don't understand why, yes, on.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
My planets, the female gender is the giver of life,
raising and nurturing our young, preserving our civilization for eons to.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Come, while the males mostly just mow.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Our space loans and make multiple trips to space home depot.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
What you're talking about is sex.
Speaker 9 (14:30):
Gender is something different exactly.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
People can identify with genders different than their natal sex,
or with none at all.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
But why, it's just the way we feel.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
No, it was the way we're born.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Well, of course, a lot of times they don't realize
how they were born until someone tells them, someone like
a teacher, social media influencer.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
And what exactly are these various genders? You have me
very curious.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Well, there's non binary, which is someone who identifies as
both genders.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Doesn't saying I identify as both genders imply that there
are only two genders.
Speaker 11 (15:08):
No, it's shut up.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Actually, it's gender queer.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
That is the term that refers to people who identify
as both genders, you know, like my nephew.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I thought that was gender fluid, like my niece.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
No, No, that shifts around.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
No, by gender shifts around like my step son.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
We can well, oh, unless you're Native American which case
it's too spirit like my cousin who got into Harvard
because they's one sixteenth Native Americans.
Speaker 10 (15:37):
Oh, I understand on this planet there are people who
are men, and people who are women, and people who
are mentally ill.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
I can understand that it's confusing. It can be difficult
to keep track of all the different genders. There's so
many of them. There's gender vague, there's gray gender, demigender,
audi gender, omnigender, polygender, and about.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Ten diferent kinds of trands.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
And those are just the ones that my nephew has
identified as in the last month. I was also by gender,
which is two genders, those genders being male and female,
or a combination of all genders, including a gender which
is no gender at all, so simultaneously be no gender
at all plus a gender.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
It's pretty cool. Huh.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
The planet has no sign of intelligent life. Official recommendation destroyed.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Please don't destroy it. We don't deserve it. Were that.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Look, my favorite part of that whole thing is when
they're laying out of that stuff and he says why
the question no one can answer.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I can answer it. It's so young adolescents feel special
and get praised by their mentors. I'm not just a
regular dude anymore. I'm I don't know, under fluid. Oh Joe,
that's so wonderful. We'll support you.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You're so brave.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Come on, why.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Please do not use gendered language to address everyone.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You get the hell out of here. See Armstrong and
Getty Show.
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Speaker 3 (17:35):
Before we get to the great Tony Bennett National Treasure,
I'm told this is Roger Waters of the Pink Floyd
as they were known in London, with a new version
of his classic from Dark Side of the Moon Money, Michael.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Money.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Wow, you're right. This is kind of Leonard cohenesque.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Get job with Moby and you.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Okay, that's a great song. It's kind of a weird
version of it. You know. Roger Waters is ancient and nuts. Snap.
Can we just acknowledge that he.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Sounds like he's going to kill me in my sleep?
What is he going for?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Cash?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
If you knew your politics, you probably would Okay, I
suppose that's enough of that. That's weirdly appealing. Honestly, Look,
he's a brilliant artist. It's always been all kind of quirky.
Now he's ancient nuts. It doesn't diminish what he's done.
I don't hate him for it. He's wrong about a
lot of stuff. But you know, if you're a conservative
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and Jack, I'm sure you'd agree a katie anybody if
you eliminated all of your favorite creative artists because their
politics were wacky, it would leave you with a fairly
narrow range of things to listen to, right, Sure we
should shut up about it, though, Yeah, he could do that,
(19:03):
except for I guess country music is the bastion of
at least some conservatism. I don't listen to much modern country.
If you were to, like take a wild guest jacket,
it's a political orientation like percentage wise or however you
want to.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Such a lot of musicians, I still would bet it's
overwhelming left. Overwhelmingly left leaning, I would guess, hmmm, yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Or do they just act like that so that they
don't get canceled?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah? They probably know. You got to keep it to yourself.
As the guitar player with Miranda Lambert, who voted for
Bernie Sanders. I'm sure I don't know that, but I mean,
I'm sure you'd have to keep it to yourself. I'm
sure you pick up on that pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
But a lot of those like pickup truck, I'm the
best girl by the lake drinking beer. That that strikes
me as kind of maga ish.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I don't have any idea.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, which just when I was there in my pickup truck.
I never had a pickup truck with my best girl
by the lake. It may have been by lake. It
was by Lake, Michigan, drinking beer, check and make it out,
et cetera. It's funny our politics didn't come up, so
who cares anyway. Speaking of ancient singers, the great Tony
(20:21):
Bennett has passed. Perhaps you heard that five hundred times
over rated. I thought he was fine, that's exactly. He
had a long career, and he had a really, really
long career. It's like Tina Turner, who was amazingly talented,
especially in her younger days, but it became one of
those things where the longer she lived. Oh, she had
a great story of courage and overcoming abuse. In the
(20:42):
rest of it. I'm not demeaning her as a person
or a performer at all, but if you're around long enough,
you get like this sainthood thing put on.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Here's why I don't like Tony Bennett and Katie. You're
no enough to the show. You don't know. It's kind
of my thing to say negative things about people who
just passed. Okay, it really makes people angry. Yeah, I
was gonna say, wow, Jack too soon. I just beg him,
let a dake go by.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But no, he's got to stick in the night.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I don't know why that is. I just I need
to point it out the day they die. I just
thought I just.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Said it was so weak.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Tony Bennett, you we know you left your heart in
San Francisco. We've known that quirk quite a few decades.
Just do something, do something else. Just quit quit with
that all the time. Well, a lot of my favorite arts,
you have a big hit when you're younger, and then
you move on to completely different things, maybe like reinvent
yourself completely. Not just do the same freaking thing over
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and over and over every show you're ever on until
you're too old.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
But walk what he became a painter. He's a pretty
good painter. But good for him. Again, if you want
to hear him warble the old songs or team up
with Lady Gaga, go ahead. It's just a whole Oh
my god, Tony Bennett, Oh my god, he's such a
such a legend. It's like he's a singer. It's fine,
(21:58):
he's a good singer. But that's all he is. Was
he a nice fella? Tell me about it?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
What he did?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
All these people that when there's a celebrity death, their
day gets ruined like they personally knew them.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, that's pretty hard for me. That doesn't happen very
often with me. What was I going to say? What
he died from? Time?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah? Okay, being ancient, Yeah, yeah, Michael tells us that
let's see, this is a he was on the first
Tonight Show episode. Let's hear that clip number five.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
There's one of the great singers in the world.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I think Frank Sanon from once said about Tony, he
is the greatest singer in the world. And he was
a guest to mine on the very first show we
did October one in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 11 (22:40):
Two out of New York. You remember the very first.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Show, Yeah, very well. It was a great exciting night
like tonight.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
It was you know, you were on the show with
a late Joan Crawford, Rudy Valley, mel Brooks, Bell Brooks.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
It looks like a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It was a long time ago. And is uh six
just part of that, Michael or is that different?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I know it's different, is Larry King?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Oh boy, I'm sorry it has.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
I gained four notes on the bottom and thank god
I'm sixty six, but the top.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
No losses on the time.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
The great Tony Bennett.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
We're gonna pause is to Benett the singer singers. So
not to call him the.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Best, I mean he lived forever.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
That's interesting. So I got older and he got the
ability to sing lower notes but didn't lose any of
us highend I didn't know that was a thing.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Good for good for him. He's a good singer. I've
conceded that.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Johnny Carson in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah. Wow. The only defense I can make of being
like sad when a uh a celebrity passes, if you're
especially I mean, if you really really admired them and
thought they had more to do and all or that,
it's just sometimes it's a slap in the face that
(24:03):
reminds you of mortality right or in the third. Although
I tend not to like wallow around in nostalgias, just
not the way I'm made. Although you know I have
no right to, I guess criticize people who do. But
sometimes it reminds you of what I was discussing with
my daughter over the weekend. We had a bit of
(24:23):
a family reunion. I talked on the air about my
brother's retirement ceremony from the Navy, and my daughter was
talking about going back to the town she grew up
in and seeing that the park they used to hang
up with hang out in rather is now surrounded by
apartment buildings, and it used to be in that beautiful
hillside is now a parking lot, and the past isn't
there anymore. And sometimes you're reminded of that, and because
(24:48):
you have this weird feeling that all you have to
do is go back and visit it. Anybody who's ever
gone to a class reunion knows that the past ain't
there anymore. It's gone. And sometimes when one of your
beloved you know, artists or creative artists or whatever from
your youth goes, you realize that's right, my youth is
gone and Nate coming back. Ever, can you come up
(25:09):
with a celebrity whose death would.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Affect you like really affect Wold or has Even when
when Neil Pierret, the drummer from Rush and Lyricists, died,
I knew that band was dead forever and one of
the great musicians ever on earth was gone, and I thought.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Oh crap. I mean, it's not like I was devastated.
It was just sad.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Oh crap. It's not the same as like like our
old newsperson. She once said that if Madonna dies, I
will have to take the next day off of work.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Right, That's the reaction that I was kind of going with,
like the people that go straight to the internet and post,
oh god, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
No, I'm not big on making a show of my
grief either, But no, I don't think so. I mean,
I'm thinking about my musical heroes because I don't particularly
give a damn about actors. I mean, they're really good
at their jobs, but I don't think they're e's either. No,
my my greatest musical heroes, if they pass, I'll just
(26:05):
be sad and think, you know, that's too bad.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Who's what's the name of the you know what I mean?
Vern guy? Yeah, that was the one that hit me.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Jim Varney, Nat Jim Jim Earnest Vernest? What Ernest? Was
that his character?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That's his character?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah? Right right, the great. Let me try this again.
We can edit this and post the Great Jim Ernest Varney.
His passing was devastating.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Can you come up with one Katie celebrity that would
affect you?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I think well, the one that the one that I
really I was sad about was Robin Williams. That one
was brutal because I mean I grew up my mom
and I still do that Hello from Missus, Doubtfire.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And stuff like that. So I mean I grew up
with those movies. That one.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
That one hit well, and he was young and his
death was was terrible.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
So on a human level, yeah, Okay, I'm trying to
think anybody else, I mean, Jack, I mean, if but
that would be more.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, I mean, if you guys died, that would be
a bummer on a number of levels, more of a
practical difficulty.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Gavin Newsom has prayed for that, but has so far unfulfilled. Nope, no,
I would be sad, like if speaking of rush, if
Getty Lee died it was one of my greatest musical heroes,
that would be very sad. But I'll go on, I'll
still show up for work.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I wonder if that does coincide with views of the world.
I'll bet it does. I'll bet it does too. I mean,
the other the flip side of it sure sounds right,
the lefty worship of well musicians and writers and actors,
(27:55):
And you don't tend to if you're more conservative in
your politics, you don't tend to worship these people in
the first place. So you kind of have to worship
in the first place to get super busted up when
they die.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, well, are you a rationalist or an emotionalist? And
emotions are good and healthy, and obviously you need to
be rational. But I think some people are one or
the other. I've always said that. One of the reasons
I'm so adamant about not letting emotionalists take over government
and the constitution and the courts and the rest of
it is I'm enough of one to know how crazy
(28:30):
that would be. If the rationalist part of us loses control,
we're doomed, Like I always say, compassion without order is chaos.
In order without compassion is brutality. We don't want either
one of those.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Hey, well Armstrong and Getty. We're featuring our podcast one
more thing. Find it wherever you find all your podcasts.
Used to be that.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
The moron Nobody's of the world. Didn't have a TV studio,
didn't have a broadcast tower, didn't have a distribution deal.
But now everybody does, which is actually kind of entertaining
at times, and some fabulous talent has, you know, come
to people's attention. On the other hand, you got your TikTok,
where jackasses and freaks and weirdos of every description are
(29:29):
sharing their freak azoid weird onness with you. And often
it's annoying, sometimes it's amusing, sometimes it's educational. I haven't
heard this one yet, Michael has described it to us.
Does it need any introduction?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Really, Michael? Actually, I'm not familiar with this clip.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Are you not?
Speaker 11 (29:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Did you find this one?
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
This is one of mine. Not really. She's just walking
through a neighborhood running her mouth.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
And she's from Australia. Apparently. All right, let's listen to it.
Speaker 12 (29:56):
I'm just gonna say it. There are too many American
flags like their own houses. There are cars sew them
on couch cushions, like I don't know who's making these
American flags, but they'd be making a bloody fortune. And like,
you're the only country that I know that does this.
Like the other time I think I've ever seen an
Australian flag is like on the Harbor Bridge. Could not
(30:17):
tell you what it looks like. Like, I know it's
like blue and it's got some stars on it.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
But I think I could draw the.
Speaker 12 (30:23):
American flag from memory, Like I think I could make
a bloody sculpture out of it. That's how many times
I've seen it. It's enough, Let's pull back on it, Okay,
let's stay humble.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
So I'm torn by twin impulses. Number One, you're an
ignoran amus, you're the young twit with a TikTok account.
Why would I dignify your stupidity with any sort of response.
She got kicked in the head bag kangaroo. Yeah, well played, Michael.
So that's one of my responses. And that's about running
(30:57):
fifty to fifty with explain to her, sweetheart, You're a
commonwealth of the Crown, and Australia has some reasonably enlightened
twentieth century Western ideas in it, and that's a nice
enough country. There are problems with dear governance, but I
don't want to get into Australian politics, partly because I
(31:18):
don't give it. But what you need to understand, my
Aussie darling, is that the United States is the first
country ever formed not on a nationality, like an actual
you know, a community of people of the same origin,
her faith or whatever. It was founded on a set
(31:39):
of ideas, and it succeeded wildly and became the most
important country maybe in the history of the world, the
Roman Empire, notwithstanding they lasted for quite a while, but
certainly in the modern era. And we're super duper proud
of not only our success but our ideas. We feel
like we've carved out a big, giant area where the
(32:04):
worst of humanity can't do. Its worst were oppressors and
kings and torturers and despots. We don't let them in here.
We have a set of principles and we live by them.
And everybody's got the opportunity to be happy and successful.
Australia is great, but it's nothing close to what we're
(32:27):
talking about. And I would suggest if people aren't like
super proud of Australia, they're kind of just eh, well,
that kind of that's the answer that makes the question irrelevant.
Y'all don't care? We do? Why don't you spend a
couple of minutes figuring out why we all care so much?
Why a lot of us care so much? Right?
Speaker 4 (32:48):
And if you think about her mentality behind making that video,
she obviously.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Thought that she had a point, right, that she wanted
to get out there. Yeah, my advice to her, don't
use like every third word why like America have like
so many like bloody.
Speaker 13 (33:04):
Flags like like like like like like like I don't love.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Ear blood, Yeah, I don't. I don't want to call
for the silencing of people in their teens and early twenties,
certainly speaking of the principles by which we live here
first minute, etc.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Woof and the others. High Horse Joe.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
On the other hand, as I've said before, perhaps even
in my own offspring, Okay, you just walked into the giant,
vast shopping mall of ideas. You're literally in the lobby
and you're explaining to me what all the best ideas are.
(33:49):
How about you walk around the mall for a few years,
try some of those ideas, kick them around, see how
they work out. Maybe even walk to the other end
of the mall and back before you start like mature
in people who've lived in the mall for a long time.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I like that a lot. I like that a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Of course, the mall of ideas is shut down because
everybody's shopping for their ideas of.
Speaker 13 (34:10):
The Internet that Amazon, Yeah, exactly, exactly, so many bloody
flags like Marxists, shrimp on the Barbie eaten.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I'm sorry, I should I apologize.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Yeah, look at Australia, what do you guys have a
lot of bloody spiders and bugs that make people not
even want to visit.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
You goat like literally like the most animals like that
can kill you, like of any country on like Earth. Seriously,
look at the Crocodile Hunter r ip oh. I always
hated it.
Speaker 13 (34:50):
Yeah, and I always hated the Crocodile Dundee movies as well.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Remember those, By the way, have you seen his son?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
His son is a miniature version of him doing the
exact same thing that his dad was doing, total nature
conservation and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
But a twin, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, they ran the daughter up the flagpole for a
while and I don't know if she didn't catch on
or didn't like it much or whatever, but yeah, the
sun is the spitting image of the late dad.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, the daughter went off.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
She had she got married and had a family and whatnot,
so she kind of went out in the limelight. But
the son, Robert is his name, Oh bloody.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Amazing, like right with his face right up next to
some sort of pit viper and all, and it.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Bites him like, oh that's fun.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Oh no, I wonder why that happened. Typical lossy. I'm
back to being bitter.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
I'm not Pee.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
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our podcast. One more thing. Find out wherever you find
all your podcasts.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Hold my calls. I got to work in a couple
of sets of squats. It's one more thing, one more.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I can't I can't imagine where there's this going.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
So even the radio ranch, full of slackers and fatties
and stoned idiots, has a gym, an office gym.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
That's right. I've never I've been in it. I've never
used it.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was seriously about to use it when COVID hit,
and then of course they had to lock it up
so nobody would exercise this or something. Right, Oh the
freaking idiocy. Anyway, This from the Journal of Wall Street.
Forget the office, Jim, Welcome to the gym. Office working
out or just working more. Gyms are encouraging remote working
(01:24):
members to stay all day and do both. It's like
a Starbucks with a bunch of weight equipment and ellipticals
and then treadmills and stuff. So you stay all day,
You work a little bit, then you do a couple
of sets of squats, and you come back. You make
a call, then you throw the iron, you bench press
(01:47):
three hundred and fifty pounds ten times, like I like
to relax in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I stand on that thing with the band around you
that shakes you. That's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Beautiful.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You guys doing this show from a gym. I wouldn't
work for this profession.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Have you ever worked anywhere? This was very popular around
here for a while. Have you ever worked anywhere, Katie
where people sat on the ball too, Yeah, just strengthen
their core.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I'm surprised you guys didn't see me doing that in
the San Francisco building.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Mmm.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
May have. I just didn't want to.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Do you feel like it works? Yeah? And it keeps
you moving? Yeah, it seems like a good idea.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
And all the rage on the internet right now. Are
these treadmills that go under your desk?
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well wait a second. They go under your desk, So
you're sitting and you move your feet yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Really wait yeah, or you're standing.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
You can do both if you have one of the
standing desks, like you can walk on it, and then
they have a feature where you put it under the
desk and you just keep your legs moving at a
sense of.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It seems like really uncomfortable and weird to me. I
understand the walking on a treadmill while I work, but
the sitting with my legs moving and.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Like passively having your legs pushed along by the treadmill.
What good would that do keep your knee's limber? I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
All the idea is you're supposed to move with the treadmill,
not just drag your.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Las, but but just moving anything. I suppose better is
better than sitting still.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, breaking news, breaking news. I just got
a text from Don Donald Trump Junior. It was a
long text. Well, it includes a picture of his bearded countenance.
Look at that. Hi, Joseph Don Junior here as a
loyal supporter of my father. I'm reaching out on the
(03:31):
behalf of Senate Republicans because they desperately need your help.
After reviewing your donor profile, I believe you're the right
person for this job. Your donor profile is you have money, ah,
and I'm certainly a crazed right winger. So he's trying
to raise money allegedly for the Senate Republicans. That's not
super on brand for the Trump family. I don't get
(03:56):
these fundraising emails at a lot of courts. This might
be completely a scammed.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Right, right right, You have to watch out for that.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Hey, back to the working out at work thing. Ah, yes, yes,
so Katie, you've actually seen people with the treadmills under
the desk.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Not the treadmills. I saw a woman who had a
bike like the pedals under her desk.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
She used to have that also in Santanisco. But I
can see doing that that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I feel like that's a habit that once you got
into you could just you could work regularly and it'd
be great for you.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I think that's a terrific idea. I'm not going to
try the ball maybe at home because the desks are
too high in the studio. But I have I haven't
talked about this on the air at all, but just
sitting on the exercise ball thing. But I am suffering
terribly from sciatica at this point. Oh it's it's it's
like crazy painful. I know what it is, and I
(04:46):
know it can be dealt with. So I observed many
years ago, just to myself, that fear is the worst
component of pain. Now, pain itself is bad, but like
as a kid, things that that hurt also terrified you
because you know you're supposed to be terrified, so you
avoid them, so you survived. But as an adult, like
(05:08):
getting a shot, getting dental work done, you know, there
are a hundred things that are they hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
None of it hurts as much as stubbing your toe
really hard. Oh right, that, yeah, that's true, that's that's brutal.
But anyway, seven feet all the time, and you don't
fall apart over it when you stub your toe or
hit your head and getting on the cabinet or what.
All that stuff hurts more than getting a shot. And
you're trying to psych yourself out with those. Yeah, but
it is the fear. It's the fear part that makes
it so right.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You know you're gonna be okay in thirty seconds to
two minutes, right, so you don't freak out in the
same way. And it's the same with me. I know
what sciatic it is, I know how to treat it.
I know eventually it'll be fine, but it's it's brutally painful.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
But so I'm trying to work on my core. Is
that a disease or a back thing? I mean, I
know it's a back thing, but is it? It's pressure
on the sciatic nerve general. You know a number of
things can cause it.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Most commonly, it's that like you're getting older and you
aren't flexible enough and your muscles are so tight they're
in effect pulling your spine in a way. That's bad.
That puts pressure on the sciatic nerve. It can also
be like a serious slip disc or a tumor or
something like that. But with the vast majority of people,
you just need to work on fitness and flexibility. So
(06:16):
that's what I'm doing. It's fine, but I think sitting
on the ball might help.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I bought a motorcycle from a guy who got sciatica
and he couldn't ride it anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Mmm.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Wow, So I really I really ben him over. I
mean because he had no choice.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
He had to sell it because he was in so
much pain. Yeah, that's just smart business, Jesus.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I didn't literally bend him over because that had been
too painful.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yes, yeah, because he's got siatic. That's the thing. Anyway,
back to the gym. So the idea is you go
and you hang out all day long and you do
work as necessary, but during your breaks you pump iron
or get on the treadmill or whatever, like the people
who hang out in the Starbucks all damn day long.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Remember we had the two guys in the newsroom Michael
throw around the medicine ball, medicine ball, and they brought
donuts every day.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Do you remember that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
That that was just a mocking all the rest of us.
That was that was that was a level beyond Katie.
This was before your time. So these guys, they were
super workout fiends and like really buff and everything like that.
Nice guys. But they would have a medicine ball and
while they were working in the like newspit, they'd throw
the net medicine ball back and forth while they're talking,
kind of like what Joe was talking about. But they
(07:27):
also would buy donuts and they wouldn't eat any of
them themselves, just to like prey upon the weakness of
the rest of us who weren't as fit as them. Oh,
I don't like that at all.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
That's that's satanic. Yeah, I mean literally like Satan being
the Great Temp Tour, you know, the.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
The gym Planet Fitness. Yeah, sure so I I this
was years ago. I'm hoping they don't still do this,
but I I dropped my membership there because I went
in and I found out that on Friday nights they
have pizza, Yes, and pizza, and then there was a
bowl of TUTSI rolls on the way out by the
(08:05):
register and I'm going, what.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Are we doing?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I don't know what that is. This is exactly like
politicians who want to have the problem, not solve the problem.
Because if you're super fit and healthy and all, you
might think, you know, I need to go belong to
a gym. I'll just say in reasonable shape. No, they
got to keep you fat.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm into fitness, fitness. Pizza into my mouth, yem.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So here's one GALLO does this By going into this
space and not coming back home. I'm going through these
movements of the day more intentionally. There's less distraction, and
I'm able to set up work more efficient.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's what I'm not doing, going through my movements intentionally.
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I didn't want to say anything, but right, Yes, gym's
were once wary of letting the remote work vases zoom
from their lobbies and locker rooms. Now they see an
opportunity and offering extra desks, offices, and outlets. Some are
creating coworking spaces to separate the extension court wielders from
the spandex crowd. I mean, you don't have to be
that clever. Other gyms are charging extra and offering entire
(09:07):
floors for clients to stay and work all day.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
A lot of what this is pointing out, though, is
the fact that we all could exercise a lot more
than we want. The excuse that I make, I'll just
focus on myself of being too busy or whatever. It's
just it's just a lie. I mean, there's all kinds
of things I could. I could. I could be doing
curls while I'm watching the news, or on the treadmill
more often like you do, or whatever. I just don't.
(09:31):
I mean, there's lots of stuff we could all do.
We just don't. You know why, because I don't want to.
Because it's easier not to. That's why.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That's fair, that's remarkable honesty. Yeah. My my only tip.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Is start with a little yeah. Yeah, that's that is
the key. Doing something is so much better than doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent. Like every level of doing
something makes you healthier, live longer, and happier. And so
if all you can muster up is kind of me
do men.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I did this to myself recently, and I've been preaching
this for years, but I did this to myself recently
when I came out with this workout thing, because I
got a bench and dumbbells and all this sort of stuff,
and there's like three exercises I was doing every day. Well,
it took like a half an hour, and so I
did that routinely for like nine months or something like that.
But then in the half an hour ever a time
and the kids got out of school in his business something, Well,
(10:19):
how about instead of doing the whole half hour, you
just do one of those things for ten minutes. I
could do that. Yeah, it's the if you got to
change clothes, drive to the gym, work out for an
hour and a half, take a shour, change clothes, drive back,
and you got like this two hour commitment. No, you
can't fit that into.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Your life right right now. I'm a big fan, and
partly it's the nature of my job so maybe easier
for me than others. But I never exercised that. I'm
not taking in news or information or a podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I can't. I can't. I just I don't have the
I know plenty of meattheads worked out of gym's all
the time. Maybe they're healthier than me mentally. They probably are,
But could just just lift weights and do all that
sort of stuff, just staring at the ceiling all day long.
I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
No, it makes me insane. Yeah. Now, I do like
to strip shirtless and look at my shaved, oiled body taking.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I do a lot of poising in the mirror.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
None of these oh yeah, oh that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
One of those. Oh look at that one.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, don't ever do that again.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
This is fantastic. Took a turn, folks. You know, I
resent those two guys that we used to work with.
They get themselves strong and they'd fat and the rest
of us up suck. As we learned in the hearing yesterday,
we have been visited by aliens, and one actually came
(11:42):
down and met with a bunch of Earth leaders about
the whole human gender situation. So this alien comes to
planet Earth, particularly the United States, and finds out that
we have a thing about genders and more than one
gender that they hadn't encountered on their play. That's the
setup to this Babylon Bee comedy bit. So you're gonna
(12:04):
hear kind of a weird voice. That's the alien sitting
at the hall, at the head of a boardroom table.
I don't know how this occurs, but they're like in
the boards, kind of the take me to your leader thing.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
He's come into the you know, the halls of power
and said, all right, I'm in charge now.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And he's talking to a whole bunch of business people
or Americans or something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Government officials, government officials.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Okay, well here's how it goes. General Floyd, thank.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
You for agreeing to me with us today.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Well, I'm giving you a chance to begone. We just
joy your pan. It is my favorite partner. The job
is do destroyer way don't deserve it. The looks on
their faces, it's a hoot.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Perhaps we should start out by introducing ourselves. I'm Chief
of Space Operations, General Foreman. He him Undersecretary of State
Angus Miller.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
He him Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Amanda Williams.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Shee heer.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
And what exactly is a chief Diversity and inclusion officer.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It's my job to be a black woman.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Well, good job, then, And what is this? This?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
He?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Him, she her, which you are all speaking.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Those are our gender pronouns, so you know it's gender
we identify as.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
I appreciate that, but I am pretty good at telling
the difference between the two genders.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
A man man woman. Now that I was a lucky guess.
But there are way more than just two genders.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Fascinating.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
We've been probing humans for years and I've only discovered
the two.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
How many genders are there?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I see that you too.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
It's hard to know. Really, it's changing all the time.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
So your species is evolving that rapidly remarkable. Perhaps while
you are sitting here you will grow additional limbs or
developed the ability to breathe underwater.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
No, that's not what we meant. It's too bad. I
breathe under water. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
If you threw twenty pennies into a pool, I could
dive down and pick them all up with.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Wool.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
What no applause?
Speaker 10 (14:06):
So what are these genders and how do they function?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Function? I don't understand why, yes, on.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
My planets, the female gender is the giver of life,
raising and nurturing our young, preserving our civilization for eons to.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Come, while the males mostly just mow.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Our space loans and make multiple trips to space home depot.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
What you're talking about is sex.
Speaker 9 (14:30):
Gender is something different exactly.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
People can identify with genders different than their natal sex,
or with none at all.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
But why, it's just the way we feel.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
No, it was the way we're born.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Well, of course, a lot of times they don't realize
how they were born until someone tells them, someone like
a teacher, social media influencer.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
And what exactly are these various genders? You have me
very curious.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Well, there's non binary, which is someone who identifies as
both genders.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Doesn't saying I identify as both genders imply that there
are only two genders.
Speaker 11 (15:08):
No, it's shut up.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Actually, it's gender queer.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
That is the term that refers to people who identify
as both genders, you know, like my nephew.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I thought that was gender fluid, like my niece.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
No, No, that shifts around.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
No, by gender shifts around like my step son.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
We can well, oh, unless you're Native American which case
it's too spirit like my cousin who got into Harvard
because they's one sixteenth Native Americans.
Speaker 10 (15:37):
Oh, I understand on this planet there are people who
are men, and people who are women, and people who
are mentally ill.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
I can understand that it's confusing. It can be difficult
to keep track of all the different genders. There's so
many of them. There's gender vague, there's gray gender, demigender,
audi gender, omnigender, polygender, and about.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Ten diferent kinds of trands.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
And those are just the ones that my nephew has
identified as in the last month. I was also by gender,
which is two genders, those genders being male and female,
or a combination of all genders, including a gender which
is no gender at all, so simultaneously be no gender
at all plus a gender.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
It's pretty cool. Huh.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
The planet has no sign of intelligent life. Official recommendation destroyed.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Please don't destroy it. We don't deserve it. Were that.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Look, my favorite part of that whole thing is when
they're laying out of that stuff and he says why
the question no one can answer.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I can answer it. It's so young adolescents feel special
and get praised by their mentors. I'm not just a
regular dude anymore. I'm I don't know, under fluid. Oh Joe,
that's so wonderful. We'll support you.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You're so brave.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Come on, why.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Please do not use gendered language to address everyone.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You get the hell out of here. See Armstrong and
Getty Show.
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Speaker 3 (17:35):
Before we get to the great Tony Bennett National Treasure,
I'm told this is Roger Waters of the Pink Floyd
as they were known in London, with a new version
of his classic from Dark Side of the Moon Money, Michael.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Money.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Wow, you're right. This is kind of Leonard cohenesque.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Get job with Moby and you.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Okay, that's a great song. It's kind of a weird
version of it. You know. Roger Waters is ancient and nuts. Snap.
Can we just acknowledge that he.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Sounds like he's going to kill me in my sleep?
What is he going for?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Cash?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
If you knew your politics, you probably would Okay, I
suppose that's enough of that. That's weirdly appealing. Honestly, Look,
he's a brilliant artist. It's always been all kind of quirky.
Now he's ancient nuts. It doesn't diminish what he's done.
I don't hate him for it. He's wrong about a
lot of stuff. But you know, if you're a conservative
(18:43):
and Jack, I'm sure you'd agree a katie anybody if
you eliminated all of your favorite creative artists because their
politics were wacky, it would leave you with a fairly
narrow range of things to listen to, right, Sure we
should shut up about it, though, Yeah, he could do that,
(19:03):
except for I guess country music is the bastion of
at least some conservatism. I don't listen to much modern country.
If you were to, like take a wild guest jacket,
it's a political orientation like percentage wise or however you
want to.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Such a lot of musicians, I still would bet it's
overwhelming left. Overwhelmingly left leaning, I would guess, hmmm, yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Or do they just act like that so that they
don't get canceled?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah? They probably know. You got to keep it to yourself.
As the guitar player with Miranda Lambert, who voted for
Bernie Sanders. I'm sure I don't know that, but I mean,
I'm sure you'd have to keep it to yourself. I'm
sure you pick up on that pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
But a lot of those like pickup truck, I'm the
best girl by the lake drinking beer. That that strikes
me as kind of maga ish.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I don't have any idea.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, which just when I was there in my pickup truck.
I never had a pickup truck with my best girl
by the lake. It may have been by lake. It
was by Lake, Michigan, drinking beer, check and make it out,
et cetera. It's funny our politics didn't come up, so
who cares anyway. Speaking of ancient singers, the great Tony
(20:21):
Bennett has passed. Perhaps you heard that five hundred times
over rated. I thought he was fine, that's exactly. He
had a long career, and he had a really, really
long career. It's like Tina Turner, who was amazingly talented,
especially in her younger days, but it became one of
those things where the longer she lived. Oh, she had
a great story of courage and overcoming abuse. In the
(20:42):
rest of it. I'm not demeaning her as a person
or a performer at all, but if you're around long enough,
you get like this sainthood thing put on.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Here's why I don't like Tony Bennett and Katie. You're
no enough to the show. You don't know. It's kind
of my thing to say negative things about people who
just passed. Okay, it really makes people angry. Yeah, I
was gonna say, wow, Jack too soon. I just beg him,
let a dake go by.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But no, he's got to stick in the night.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I don't know why that is. I just I need
to point it out the day they die. I just
thought I just.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Said it was so weak.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Tony Bennett, you we know you left your heart in
San Francisco. We've known that quirk quite a few decades.
Just do something, do something else. Just quit quit with
that all the time. Well, a lot of my favorite arts,
you have a big hit when you're younger, and then
you move on to completely different things, maybe like reinvent
yourself completely. Not just do the same freaking thing over
(21:34):
and over and over every show you're ever on until
you're too old.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
But walk what he became a painter. He's a pretty
good painter. But good for him. Again, if you want
to hear him warble the old songs or team up
with Lady Gaga, go ahead. It's just a whole Oh
my god, Tony Bennett, Oh my god, he's such a
such a legend. It's like he's a singer. It's fine,
(21:58):
he's a good singer. But that's all he is. Was
he a nice fella? Tell me about it?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
What he did?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
All these people that when there's a celebrity death, their
day gets ruined like they personally knew them.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, that's pretty hard for me. That doesn't happen very
often with me. What was I going to say? What
he died from? Time?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah? Okay, being ancient, Yeah, yeah, Michael tells us that
let's see, this is a he was on the first
Tonight Show episode. Let's hear that clip number five.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
There's one of the great singers in the world.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I think Frank Sanon from once said about Tony, he
is the greatest singer in the world. And he was
a guest to mine on the very first show we
did October one in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 11 (22:40):
Two out of New York. You remember the very first.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Show, Yeah, very well. It was a great exciting night
like tonight.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
It was you know, you were on the show with
a late Joan Crawford, Rudy Valley, mel Brooks, Bell Brooks.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
It looks like a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It was a long time ago. And is uh six
just part of that, Michael or is that different?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I know it's different, is Larry King?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Oh boy, I'm sorry it has.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
I gained four notes on the bottom and thank god
I'm sixty six, but the top.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
No losses on the time.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
The great Tony Bennett.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
We're gonna pause is to Benett the singer singers. So
not to call him the.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Best, I mean he lived forever.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
That's interesting. So I got older and he got the
ability to sing lower notes but didn't lose any of
us highend I didn't know that was a thing.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Good for good for him. He's a good singer. I've
conceded that.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Johnny Carson in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah. Wow. The only defense I can make of being
like sad when a uh a celebrity passes, if you're
especially I mean, if you really really admired them and
thought they had more to do and all or that,
it's just sometimes it's a slap in the face that
(24:03):
reminds you of mortality right or in the third. Although
I tend not to like wallow around in nostalgias, just
not the way I'm made. Although you know I have
no right to, I guess criticize people who do. But
sometimes it reminds you of what I was discussing with
my daughter over the weekend. We had a bit of
(24:23):
a family reunion. I talked on the air about my
brother's retirement ceremony from the Navy, and my daughter was
talking about going back to the town she grew up
in and seeing that the park they used to hang
up with hang out in rather is now surrounded by
apartment buildings, and it used to be in that beautiful
hillside is now a parking lot, and the past isn't
there anymore. And sometimes you're reminded of that, and because
(24:48):
you have this weird feeling that all you have to
do is go back and visit it. Anybody who's ever
gone to a class reunion knows that the past ain't
there anymore. It's gone. And sometimes when one of your
beloved you know, artists or creative artists or whatever from
your youth goes, you realize that's right, my youth is
gone and Nate coming back. Ever, can you come up
(25:09):
with a celebrity whose death would.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Affect you like really affect Wold or has Even when
when Neil Pierret, the drummer from Rush and Lyricists, died,
I knew that band was dead forever and one of
the great musicians ever on earth was gone, and I thought.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Oh crap. I mean, it's not like I was devastated.
It was just sad.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Oh crap. It's not the same as like like our
old newsperson. She once said that if Madonna dies, I
will have to take the next day off of work.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Right, That's the reaction that I was kind of going with,
like the people that go straight to the internet and post,
oh god, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
No, I'm not big on making a show of my
grief either, But no, I don't think so. I mean,
I'm thinking about my musical heroes because I don't particularly
give a damn about actors. I mean, they're really good
at their jobs, but I don't think they're e's either. No,
my my greatest musical heroes, if they pass, I'll just
(26:05):
be sad and think, you know, that's too bad.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Who's what's the name of the you know what I mean?
Vern guy? Yeah, that was the one that hit me.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Jim Varney, Nat Jim Jim Earnest Vernest? What Ernest? Was
that his character?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That's his character?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah? Right right, the great. Let me try this again.
We can edit this and post the Great Jim Ernest Varney.
His passing was devastating.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Can you come up with one Katie celebrity that would
affect you?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I think well, the one that the one that I
really I was sad about was Robin Williams. That one
was brutal because I mean I grew up my mom
and I still do that Hello from Missus, Doubtfire.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And stuff like that. So I mean I grew up
with those movies. That one.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
That one hit well, and he was young and his
death was was terrible.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
So on a human level, yeah, Okay, I'm trying to
think anybody else, I mean, Jack, I mean, if but
that would be more.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, I mean, if you guys died, that would be
a bummer on a number of levels, more of a
practical difficulty.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Gavin Newsom has prayed for that, but has so far unfulfilled. Nope, no,
I would be sad, like if speaking of rush, if
Getty Lee died it was one of my greatest musical heroes,
that would be very sad. But I'll go on, I'll
still show up for work.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I wonder if that does coincide with views of the world.
I'll bet it does. I'll bet it does too. I mean,
the other the flip side of it sure sounds right,
the lefty worship of well musicians and writers and actors,
(27:55):
And you don't tend to if you're more conservative in
your politics, you don't tend to worship these people in
the first place. So you kind of have to worship
in the first place to get super busted up when
they die.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, well, are you a rationalist or an emotionalist? And
emotions are good and healthy, and obviously you need to
be rational. But I think some people are one or
the other. I've always said that. One of the reasons
I'm so adamant about not letting emotionalists take over government
and the constitution and the courts and the rest of
it is I'm enough of one to know how crazy
(28:30):
that would be. If the rationalist part of us loses control,
we're doomed, Like I always say, compassion without order is chaos.
In order without compassion is brutality. We don't want either
one of those.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
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Speaker 2 (28:55):
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Used to be that.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
The moron Nobody's of the world. Didn't have a TV studio,
didn't have a broadcast tower, didn't have a distribution deal.
But now everybody does, which is actually kind of entertaining
at times, and some fabulous talent has, you know, come
to people's attention. On the other hand, you got your TikTok,
where jackasses and freaks and weirdos of every description are
(29:29):
sharing their freak azoid weird onness with you. And often
it's annoying, sometimes it's amusing, sometimes it's educational. I haven't
heard this one yet, Michael has described it to us.
Does it need any introduction?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Really, Michael? Actually, I'm not familiar with this clip.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Are you not?
Speaker 11 (29:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Did you find this one?
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
This is one of mine. Not really. She's just walking
through a neighborhood running her mouth.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
And she's from Australia. Apparently. All right, let's listen to it.
Speaker 12 (29:56):
I'm just gonna say it. There are too many American
flags like their own houses. There are cars sew them
on couch cushions, like I don't know who's making these
American flags, but they'd be making a bloody fortune. And like,
you're the only country that I know that does this.
Like the other time I think I've ever seen an
Australian flag is like on the Harbor Bridge. Could not
(30:17):
tell you what it looks like. Like, I know it's
like blue and it's got some stars on it.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
But I think I could draw the.
Speaker 12 (30:23):
American flag from memory, Like I think I could make
a bloody sculpture out of it. That's how many times
I've seen it. It's enough, Let's pull back on it, Okay,
let's stay humble.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
So I'm torn by twin impulses. Number One, you're an
ignoran amus, you're the young twit with a TikTok account.
Why would I dignify your stupidity with any sort of response.
She got kicked in the head bag kangaroo. Yeah, well played, Michael.
So that's one of my responses. And that's about running
(30:57):
fifty to fifty with explain to her, sweetheart, You're a
commonwealth of the Crown, and Australia has some reasonably enlightened
twentieth century Western ideas in it, and that's a nice
enough country. There are problems with dear governance, but I
don't want to get into Australian politics, partly because I
(31:18):
don't give it. But what you need to understand, my
Aussie darling, is that the United States is the first
country ever formed not on a nationality, like an actual
you know, a community of people of the same origin,
her faith or whatever. It was founded on a set
(31:39):
of ideas, and it succeeded wildly and became the most
important country maybe in the history of the world, the
Roman Empire, notwithstanding they lasted for quite a while, but
certainly in the modern era. And we're super duper proud
of not only our success but our ideas. We feel
like we've carved out a big, giant area where the
(32:04):
worst of humanity can't do. Its worst were oppressors and
kings and torturers and despots. We don't let them in here.
We have a set of principles and we live by them.
And everybody's got the opportunity to be happy and successful.
Australia is great, but it's nothing close to what we're
(32:27):
talking about. And I would suggest if people aren't like
super proud of Australia, they're kind of just eh, well,
that kind of that's the answer that makes the question irrelevant.
Y'all don't care? We do? Why don't you spend a
couple of minutes figuring out why we all care so much?
Why a lot of us care so much? Right?
Speaker 4 (32:48):
And if you think about her mentality behind making that video,
she obviously.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Thought that she had a point, right, that she wanted
to get out there. Yeah, my advice to her, don't
use like every third word why like America have like
so many like bloody.
Speaker 13 (33:04):
Flags like like like like like like like I don't love.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Ear blood, Yeah, I don't. I don't want to call
for the silencing of people in their teens and early twenties,
certainly speaking of the principles by which we live here
first minute, etc.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Woof and the others. High Horse Joe.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
On the other hand, as I've said before, perhaps even
in my own offspring, Okay, you just walked into the giant,
vast shopping mall of ideas. You're literally in the lobby
and you're explaining to me what all the best ideas are.
(33:49):
How about you walk around the mall for a few years,
try some of those ideas, kick them around, see how
they work out. Maybe even walk to the other end
of the mall and back before you start like mature
in people who've lived in the mall for a long time.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I like that a lot. I like that a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Of course, the mall of ideas is shut down because
everybody's shopping for their ideas of.
Speaker 13 (34:10):
The Internet that Amazon, Yeah, exactly, exactly, so many bloody
flags like Marxists, shrimp on the Barbie eaten.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I'm sorry, I should I apologize.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Yeah, look at Australia, what do you guys have a
lot of bloody spiders and bugs that make people not
even want to visit.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
You goat like literally like the most animals like that
can kill you, like of any country on like Earth. Seriously,
look at the Crocodile Hunter r ip oh. I always
hated it.
Speaker 13 (34:50):
Yeah, and I always hated the Crocodile Dundee movies as well.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Remember those, By the way, have you seen his son?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
His son is a miniature version of him doing the
exact same thing that his dad was doing, total nature
conservation and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
But a twin, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, they ran the daughter up the flagpole for a
while and I don't know if she didn't catch on
or didn't like it much or whatever, but yeah, the
sun is the spitting image of the late dad.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, the daughter went off.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
She had she got married and had a family and whatnot,
so she kind of went out in the limelight. But
the son, Robert is his name, Oh bloody.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Amazing, like right with his face right up next to
some sort of pit viper and all, and it.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Bites him like, oh that's fun.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Oh no, I wonder why that happened. Typical lossy. I'm
back to being bitter.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
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