December 25, 2024 • 34 mins
Featured during Hour 3 of the Wednesday, December 25, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Katie Katie the News Lady Questions
- Transition Music Shift to Serious--9/11 AF Pilot Retires
- CA Lawsuit/does PHD = Dr?/Disney Secret Revealed
- Buzzfeed CIA Files
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Armstrong and Getty Show, featuring our podcast
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So back to the Katie Katie the News.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Later, we got a text with a couple of questions
that I don't think we've ever.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Asked you before. I'll just it this way.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Katie Green is a great addition to Armstrong and Getty,
A real pro. But I do have some questions. One,
how many pushups can she do?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
What the hell you know?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I don't I don't know. I know that I've done
I think it was twenty eight and thirty seconds? How recently,
like two months ago? Okay, that's pretty rare. I think
that number's probably gone out. Yeah, if it's fairly recently,
that's okay. I've never I don't like people tell me
how like? This always comes up with running.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
On thousand and six.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
This always comes up with running with me and how
long to take you to run the ten k or whatever?
I used to run a ten k and whatever? Yeah,
how long ago was that? When's the last time you
ran a ten k? And if you haven't done it
in fifteen years, I don't freaking care. All right, what
difference does it make do it now nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
By the way, as long as she asked, literally, the
last time you ran a ten k that might have
been seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm gonna do one in the next year. That's what
I'm building up too. I'm gonna run a ten k
in the next year.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I am one of those I need to get that
zero point zero sticker for my car because I've never
run a ten k and will never run a ten k.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I've ever seen that. That's hilarious. Zero point zero in
the same font. Yeah, it's perfect, and it says I
don't run.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
If a bear chases me for ten kilometers, I will
do a ten k. There you go turn to the
bear and say how long are we going to do this?
Because if it's going to be more than six point
one miles, I might well just lay down, right? Why
would I want you to eat me when I'm tired?
And you just get this omes no advantage to either
(01:46):
one of us. Cut to the chis cut the chase
to the catch. So you've done that many push ups
fairly recently. That's a good chunk of push ups right there.
I have not done a one since my back problem
started last summer, so I think I need to start
working my way back. I haven't even tried it.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I'm three out of the last five days, I think,
so I'm on a bit of a role here eating
an exercise. Have you ever been arrested? No, No, there's
a hesitation.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
No, there was a dumb situation when I was in.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Middle school that it resulted in me getting in a
lot of trouble momentarily before the truth came out.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But you weren't arrested. No, I've never been arrested.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So your hesitation wasn't should I say this out loud
on the air or not? Your hesitation was because I
went through the.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Most of the everything other than getting booked. I went
through the process up. Some kid ripped the Mercedes emblem
off of the vice principal's car and stuck it in
my backpack because I had come from a Christian school
and he was all anti Jesus and God and all that.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Wow, And then told and then told the school.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And the best part was when the the assistant principal
came and got me from class and she pulls me
out and she says, you know, I think you have
something of mine, and I'm like, oh no, she goes,
you might be wearing it around your neck, because all
the kids were like wearing the big fake car emblems
around their chain.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I remember, yeah, yeah, And so.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I pulled out the Catholic, you know, the Celtic cross
that my mom had got me, and I'm like, I'm clueless.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
At this point.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
She opens my backpack and there was a Mercedes emblem
in there.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So this kid went and said, Katie Green stole the
Mercedes emblem.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yea said he saw me take it, and he did
it to another girl that transferred to the school from
the same school with me. So we both got pulled
into the office and we're talking to the cops and.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, and how long did it take you to straighten
the sound? Flavor? Flavor?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
How did you how did you clear yourself it?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It took about I think I was in the office
for four and a half hours writing a statement and everything.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And then the whole time, I'm going, my dad's a judge,
just we'll clear this.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Up, you know, because he was a judge at the time.
And yeah, it took a lot. It was traumatic. Now,
for some reason, this reminds me of one of my
more embarrassing stories before we get there, Katie, what does
it take to become a judge?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Because Jack knows this. I've been saying for years I
ought to be a judge. Do you know why? Because
I'm so judgmental that I didn't want to say it.
I think I'd be really good at it. So did
your dad get elected or was he an appointed judge?
Or he was? He was appointed by Duke Majon Oh okay,
a governor of Yesteryear. Yes, okay. Was he a TV judge?
(04:38):
A TV judge on TV?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He could give Judge Judy a run for money. Oh,
I still want to be a TV judge anyway, Jack
has an embarrassing story.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I'm gladys I was in high school. I didn't believe
I was a sophomore in the band. And this is
embarrassing for odd reasons. So the trumpet section had decided
that bring this rest arrest. If you don't know music
is silence, or you'd stop playing. But in this case,
it was actually silence during the song. During the rest,
(05:10):
all the trumpet players were gonna, I forget what the
noise was, even pretend to burp or something like that.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So it's like get.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
About about about about about about bout about about but
everybody was gonna do that and then and and I didn't,
but all the other trumpet players did. And the band
teacher went back crazy, like band teachers do over anything.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yes, yes, because they hate because they hate life.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
They hate the fact that they're genius musicians usually, and
now they're teaching a bunch of teenagers who couldn't give
a crap about music, and it makes them so angry
that they drink and yell at children.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
This is when you exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yes, he throw his keys at people, this whole city
keys or the baton. He threw the baton at people, erasers,
all kinds of stuff. But anyway, he got so mad
at people burping during the rest, and he went one
by one who did it?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Who did that?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then everybody's just kind of sitting there and some
people were smirking whatever, And he went one by one
and looked them in the eye and put their finger
right in their face. Did you make that sound during
the rest, And most of the man most of them
fessed up and said yes. But it got to me
and I said no because I didn't, so I had
I was like it was like a triple whammy of awful.
(06:22):
I don't think the band teacher believed me. The other
kids were like, what a puss because I didn't, And
then I was fine. I was feeling horrible for fever
thinking I was lying and that my peers thought I
was weak for not joining them in the completely meaningless hijinks.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But that's kind of person I was. I didn't join
them hijinks. And here we are, all these years later,
and it's still affecting me.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's still affecting me, not because it bothers me because
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I'd feel better if I had. Well, you may have
been a trumpeter, but you've certainly earned the sad trombone.
Wah wah wah. It's exact, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I didn't join in the meaningless nobody gets hurt teenage
hijinks because I was too straight laced. Isn't that incredible?
And you still got yelled at for it? And I
still got in trouble for it because he didn't believe me.
I could tell he didn't believe me. So are there
any more questions?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
For Katie? Yes, we enjoying this. Have you ever been arrested?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Uh, what's the biggest celebrity you've ever met?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh, I interviewed the cast of Jackass, So Johnny Knoxville
and all those guys, Okay, and Robin Williams.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's a big one. That's a really big one. He
was really sweet at what point in his life later
Actually this.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Was in twenty eleven, so that's towards the end.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Then.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, he was at I was at a comedy show
and his daughter was performing, and he was there to
watch his daughter. Ah, it's a cool Bay Area guy,
so yeah, easier to run into's got a purple onion.
Do you get anything out of meeting celebrities at this
point in your life? Not really, Yeah, I don't really
after you meet up there ahead, everybody should get to
(08:07):
have the experience of meeting enough celebrities to realize it
ain't nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I mean, it's just it ain't nothing. Used to fairly awkward.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Or like, I mean, you guys know this be in
a position where some people might look at you as
one and you're just like, no.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, exactly, not at all. Yeah, And that's the weird
thing about celebrity. It's all in the other person's head.
It doesn't actually exist as a thing and you can't
measure it or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Right, right, And while I actually ninety eight percent of
the time really enjoy meeting folks who say, hey, I
recognize you, I just want to say I like the show.
It's because people are very nice that you often end
up being really nice people who I enjoy chatting with. Yeah,
the greatest experience or experience rather to illustrate what Jack's
talking about is and this has happened many many times,
(08:55):
will meet like a super avid listener who has a
friend with them who doesn't listen, or has never heard
of us, or was from a different part of the
country or whatever. You had one person about to go
to pieces and the other like, hey, how's it going.
So is some people have observed fame isn't something you have,
it's something they have. That's a great way to put it. Yeah,
(09:18):
and don't still it's it's so anybody who aspires to fame,
don't trust me when I say this. If you aspire
to have a successful business, I consider our quote unquote
fame just to be like an after effect of having
a successful business. But the idea that your self image
(09:39):
will rise and fall based on the number of people
who think you're cool or whatever. Now you don't don't
get into that. Thee Armstrong and Getty show or Jack
your show podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So here's the serious thing I was going to do,
which feels weird now, but maybe I need transition music
in my mind.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Have we ever used transmission transmission music?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
This is when you shift from second to third gear,
transition music from silly to serious.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Can we do that, Michael? Yeah, I think this one
will work.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Actually both ways here, Okay, you know you're right.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We used to have different silly to serious music than
are serious to silly music. This is a song, This
does work. This is a song. Sam is going to
be dancing too.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You're a.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Great In the fifties when the twist was popular. Anybody
can twist awesome, when there were dances and a monkey
to swim anything that you just like you knew what
you're supposed to do with your.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Dands and it was cross.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, I'm not doing a good job of transitioning to
something serious. This Air Force pilot retired over the weekend
who was involved in nine to eleven. And I had
never heard this story, or I had, and I forgot
it because I can hide my own Easter eggs. Anyway,
this Air Force sixteen pilot retired over the weekend after
forty years in the Air Force. He his job was
(11:05):
to take out Flight ninety three, the last plane that
was still in the air, on nine to eleven. And
I had never heard this story in completion. I knew
that we had scrambled fighter jets and that that was
a possibility. I didn't know this. He's sixty one years
old now. He was in his late thirties at the time,
and him and this other female pilot, Heather Penny, who
(11:27):
was twenty six at the time, were ordered to go up.
This is after you know, two planes that at the
World Trade Center. One it hit the Pentagon and there
was another plane in the air and we figured it out.
And this had all occurred in like seconds, and this
was all happening really really fast, and they were scrambled
and told to go up, and what was the actual phrase,
stop it? Their orders were to locate flight ninety three
(11:50):
and stop it. That's all they were told. So him
and this other woman went up, and he was the
guy in charge, and he went up because he didn't
want to ask anybody else to do this, because he
had a an idea of how awful this would be.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
They decided him and this woman that if required, they
would hit the hijacked plane with their jets, making it
a suicide mission.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
They were got.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, he said that we couldn't figure out how to
it first because our fighter jets were not armed with missiles. Oh,
we didn't have any weapons. We were just we just
went up and were told to stop that plane. Oh
my lord. I so you hadn't heard this either, I know.
So he and this woman said they they planned to
ram the front of the jetliner and he was gonna
(12:33):
hit it from the front. She was going to hit
it from the back at the same time, flying it,
you know, six hundred miles an hour, and that's what
they were going to do. But right before they were
already in the air and screaming toward the plane. Before
it happened, they got word that the plane had gone down.
Because we all know, the passengers took over the plane
(12:54):
and it crashed into the ground and they all died.
This guy, the woman was single and childless. But this
dude's I should give his name. I haven't given his name.
Yet have I He's a freaking hero. Mark Sassville. He
had a wife and two young children, ages three and
five at the time. He said, it's a testament to
those people that brought down that plane that changed my
(13:14):
life's family forever.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
He was gonna die.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh, wife and two young kids, going Okay, this is
what I have to do.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
He said.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
He didn't even think about it at the time. He said,
training just kicked in. It all happened so fast. They
were given the order to take down the plane okay,
and he talked to the woman, this is what we'll do.
We'll fly into the plane, and it's just all I'm sure.
It was happening very very fast.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, yeah, more toxic masculinity from him and her. Yeah. Wow,
that's that's incredible. How many people did those passengers on
flight ninety three save. It's a number that'll never be known. Well,
were the flight was believed to be headed for? What?
The White House? That guy's going to say. They're not
certain still on that yet.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
There were some beliefs that it was the White House,
some that was the capital, but either way.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It was going to be the Capitol. Yeah, yeah, either way,
it was gonna be bad.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, it'd be interested to know if he called his
wife prior to getting in that jet.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh, like what you would say.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
From reading just this short description of there was no
time for that. This was a this is what's happened.
There's still a flight in the air, like a run
to the plane, get in the air and just go
and go.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah. Wow. Well, and if you read the nine to
eleven report, it was amazing how much confusion there was
and uh trying to get planes in the air to
defend DC or whatever. There's nobody even knew who to
call to suddenly defend the homeland, and so enormous amounts
of time elapsed before they got like a significant force
(14:45):
up in the air. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Somehow, I just happened to see the video the other
day of George Bush reading the reading to those kids,
and the person came and whispered in his ear mister President,
were under attack. I understand why he did this, how
he did it because he was in shock himself.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
He says he didn't want to like freak out the kids.
He should have stood up right there and just walked out.
The kids will be fine. The whole America is the
whole country is about to be freaked out, So yeah,
waiting another However many minutes it was before he did anything.
I don't know that was the best choice, but I
can understand. Yeah, that's a lot to comprehend in a
very you know, all of a sudden, sitting in front
(15:27):
of the press. He was sitting there because I just
for some reason. Oh, I was some more recent interview
where he talks about it, because now he is an
old man. It's interesting to see the videos of him
now he's an old man, and he was such a
young man at the time. But he was talking about
how he was looking at the back of the room
and seeing all the press. They were all getting the alerts,
(15:50):
so he knew they knew. And that's a lot to
have a ridle through your brain at one time.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I actually know a couple of people who know W.
One a little bit, one very very well. He was
in the press uh office for h W and then
New W and his family too, and everybody who knows
George W really really likes him. And this guy who
(16:17):
worked for h W for a number of years, he
he echoes the impression I'd always gotten. He said, he's
one of the most honorable and decent people he's ever known. Yeah, well,
lots of people say that, which is interesting. What happened.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That he choosing we choose our candidates, not the way
we choose our candidates. Yeah, we don't have any requirements
for decency or experience or.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Really anything mental capacity coherence.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
This story out of California. I guess this is a
problem in a number of different states, but this particular
lawsuit is in California. If you're a nurse, or you
work at a hospital, for instance, in any capacity, really,
but you have your PhD, do you get to call
yourself doctor so and so? If I have a PhD
in history but I work at a hospital, yes, do
(17:23):
I get to call myself doctor Jack Armstrong? Yes, Well,
apparently you can't in a lot of states. That's against
the law. It's not as clearing California. And this woman
who is told not to call herself doctor anymore. She's
a nurse, but she introduces herself as doctor so and
so and has that on her little tag and signs
things that way. It confuses the patient obviously, and she
(17:48):
is told not to do that. She is suing saying,
you know, hey, I worked really hard to spend a
lot of money. I got this degree. This is the
title I get to call myself this.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
So they're trying to I would suggest that the further
it is from medical science, I answer science at all,
the more enthusiastic I am about this idea. You have
a PhD in women's studies, you ought to call yourself
doctor in the hospital and walk into patients rooms and
they say, doctor, I don't know if this drug is working.
(18:17):
You say, well, I wouldn't know. I don't know anything
about medicine, and then walk out again and leave them
wondering what the hell is going on here?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But I can tell you about Napoleon's loss at Waterloo,
because that's what I have.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
My PhD. Wow, the whole I got a PhD. So
I you got to call me doctor.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You know, I've known a few, Uh, well, I've known
quite a few people with PhDs, but uh, I've only
known a few that really trotted out a lot. Usually
it's only when it's contextually makes sense, like if uh
you know, if you're if you're having a meeting about
business and you got somebody there who's got a PhD
in business to introduce him as doctor. So and so
(18:57):
I went to Stanford. That's I think that's perfectly fun.
It's a stretch, but that's not even necessary. But they
just like regularly casual. You're out for dinner and you
introduce yourself as doctor so and so.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Eh, come on, well, how about freaking doctor Jill Biden?
Exactly what I was thinking. She's got what a PhD
in library or something library science or whatever it is English.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I've had more acquaintances or friends that actually kind of
hide the fact that they have a PhD unless it
like really comes up in conversation and you would kind
of get into a weird territory to not mention it.
They don't mention it because of the way it comes off.
So this particular woman who's suing California to be able
to call herself doctor says she always tells patients as
(19:43):
a nurse when she goes in there and they say, uh,
oh hi, doctor Janine.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I have her name here, but it doesn't matter, And
she says, I'm not a medical doctor, have my PhD
in something else.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
My first thought would be, then, why do you call
yourself doctor at a freaking hospital? Would not be your
first thought?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, came into that I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
She pretty you know what you're doing, pretending you don't
know what you're doing, walking around a hospital with a
badge that's doctor so and so on it.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I can't remember did you tell us what her PhD
is in? I'm only mildly interested. I just had that
in front of you, and I don't remember. I'm just
curious how ridiculous it is. What about DJs who referred
to themselves as doctors may be allowed to identify themselves
thusly in a hospital doctor Johnny Fever. I have spinned
(20:44):
or spun many platters to get this nickname. I deserve
credit for it. She has a doctorate of nursing practice,
whatever that is. Well, that's funny. I'm a doctor of nursing.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's weird. I'm a nursing of doctor. You want to
go out sometimes.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Wow, I would just say this if you have a PhD,
and you probably know this. Most people, I think the
vast majority of people kind of roll their eyes if
you introduce yourself as doctor so and so, or your
wife does, her husband does or whatever?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
All right, I think most people do. They make fun
of you after you leave certainly. I like what Joe said.
She basically has this.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
She has a doctorate and it's the highest level of
nurse training, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So she's doctor nurse.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, are you someone who can fix my knee or
take out my gall bladder?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
No? Well, then shot at I agree with you, Katie.
Woman sounds annoying. I'm a doctor of nursing. That's so funny.
I'm trying to think, is there anything like, uh, anything
similar to that. I don't know. It is a pretty
uni doctor of nursing. It'd be like I'm an engineer
(22:05):
of Now, there's nothing analogous. I don't think so, because
a nurse is kind of sort of an assistant to doctors.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'm the president of vice presidents. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, yeah, I'm the president of the Vice President's Association.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I don't know that that's something I would walk around
pointing out every day. That's why I think she's obnoxious.
What is you know, what good is she doing herself
or anyone else she encounters.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
So you're super well educated in your profession, good for you.
Go out and prove it. That's fine. I'm the captain
of the second Mate's division. So moving on to Disney.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I haven't heard what this is, but it's labeled as
the Secrets of Disney World.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I have never been to Disney World. Oh maybe I'll
learn something here. One a magic Kingdom.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
All cast members are in powered to create magical moments.
These are designed for If you see a kid lose
their turkey leg to a seagull, you can go get
them a brand new one for free. Have you ever
seen a janitor move s fash through the park. The
answer is no, that would destroy the magic. Every trash
can that you see is not actually a trash can,
but a shoot that goes directly into Disney's trash compactor
system called the Utilidor nobody throws up at Disney World.
(23:15):
That's gross. They have protein spills and every cast member
has protein spill powder. You throw it on top of
the throw up, it drives it up and the janitor
will come and clean it up a few minutes later.
I would have to call Chop Protective Services, the police,
and Disney management at least once a month while working
at Space Mountain. Why their parents thought it would be
a great idea to wait in a two and a
half hour line to get onto Space Mountain and leave
(23:36):
their kid out front. Well, by the time they get
off that ride, the police greet them and no one
leaves happy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And it's not very magical. Wow. So a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
One, I think we need to start editing TikTok clips
to put space between thoughts. I understand why they do
it on TikTok, but for me, my mind, I get
interested in something and then you hit with me with
something else, and okay, I get to do that. You
have ruined for me, just like a beat. So I
got boomer brain. Maybe I have a boomer brain. Yeah,
(24:07):
I mean because TikTok's the most successful thing and ever.
I guess young people can handle that. But I get
I hear it like, well that's and then they're on
to the next thing. AnyWho.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
So you don't see janitors going to empty the garbage bins,
which is kind of gross because it goes down into
a shoot. All right. Interesting they call vomiting protein spills,
and every cast member has the powder got like utility
beilt like batman, right ready to throw a little powder
on the protein spill. Immediately a little puke powder and then.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
There were a couple other things in there.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I wanted to comment them, but my boomer brain couldn't
comprehend them because it was coming at me so fast.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, you have the people leaving their kid to fend
for themselves, their little kid as they wait two and
a half hours for ride. Just sit there on the bench, Jenny,
I'll be back.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I did wait with my kids for I think to
and a half hours for the Mario Ride at Nintendo
Land or whatever that thing is called. Is that what
it's called, Nintendo Land, I don't even know what, No clue,
Universal Studios, Nintendo World. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and the Mario Ride,
which it had just opened, and it was like the
hottest thing going and it goes half your day, right yeah, yeah,
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it's a lot of your day. But that's why we went.
The reason we went was to ride that ride. So
and it was all thirty year olds, right, A lot
of thirty year olds in costume. A lot of thirty
year olds by themselves in costume. Oh that I don't get. No,
it makes me sad, But I would say that it
(25:43):
was the quickest moving two and a half hours I've
ever done in my life. I mean, I don't think
I stood for more than a few seconds. You're kind
of constantly shuffling or walking, and usually in the Disney style,
and this was their genius.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You come across something interesting and entertaining as you're waiting.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, you walk through the castle. So you go up
these stairs around a corner, and then you're in a
room and there's a couple of things to look at,
and then you go down this.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Stair and intern corner.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Hey, there's something interesting. So I went by fairly quickly.
I don't know whoever invented that. That was very cleverly
understood psychology in an amazing way.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
But I don't know that I'd ever do it again.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
My one kid said it was absolutely worth it, and
my other kid said he was a teenager. Of course,
nothing's worth it to him, right, My definition is a teenager.
Nothing's cool, nothing's worth it.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
The Armstrong and Getdy Show. It's The Armstrong and Getty Show,
featuring our podcast One More Thing. Download it, subscribe to
it wherever you'd like to get podcasts.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I angered some people by not taking Nicky Haley seriously
enough or something. I feel like I've taken it fairly seriously.
From the beginning, but.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I can vouch for that he has. Yes, mm hm.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
But I guess if you don't do it every single time,
and somebody only hears one comment, like me commenting on
her dress today, I feel like that's the only thing
I've ever thought about her. She was wearing a red dress,
and I said, man, that's some nice dress. In defense
of Jack, red is a bold color for a politician
to wear.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
It is.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
If you wear a bright red dress, I assume you're
trying to do some attention to yourself.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
But isn't there some forbidding of doing that in the
Book of Leviticus or something like that wearing a red dress.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
But this person went on to say, if a man
made a speech wearing a red suit, I'll bet you
would have mentioned that first as well. And then the
women get that you have all the options for all
these different clothes you can wear. If Mitt Romney came
out in a bright red suit, I mean, the first
thing anybody said, holy crap, like he's sindbad or something. Yes,
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for instance, for a professional pool player or something out of.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
It's always struck me. You see the Senate chamber or
the House chamber, and you have every single guy in
a dark suit, a white or light blue shirt, and
a red or blue tie, every single damn one of them.
And then you've got the many colors of the rainbow
of the coals. They're wearing white and yellow and red
and blue and whatever they want.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Dresses, pants, suits, brooches, no brooches. You got all the
options to you if you're a woman, Katie, but only
of course. The downside is, I know I've heard women
say this before, is I got to come up with
something to wear where you get to just throw on
a suit and always call yourself dressed up correct, Which
is handy.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, absolutely well, especially because it's also simpler. You have
your your pants, your shirt, your jacket, which is what
you guys wear usually.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Anyway, I wear a suit to work most every day,
and it is it is It is easier than dressing
casual to wear a suit.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh yeah, absolutely true. If you have two suits, you've
covered it. If you have three, you're trying too hard.
And the other thing is about suits is you can
gain five pounds lose five pounds. They fit fine.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, I got four suits. I rotate a bunch of
dress shirts. It's super easy to dress. But if I
was trying to dress up without a suit, I'd take
a lot of money in time.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, dresses are not forgiving, guys. I'll tell you that
those things do not give.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Either it fits the way it did when you bought
it or not, yes, or and it'll never fit that
way again.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah. Interesting, I've not had that situation. I haven't tried
on many dresses.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So the CIA has done a lot of wacky things
throughout the years, and a whole bunch of it has
been to classified because after twenty five years or thirty
years or fifty years, there are different rules for different
levels of stuff. Some of this stuff comes out. Some
of this I've heard before. Some of this I'd never like.
All this stuff about the way these ways we tried
to kill fidela Castro I've heard many many times.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Oh, a classic.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
We actually did try to poisonous cigars or have exploding
cigars and kill him, or at least considered it, and
a bunch of other stuff. But some of this new
stuff I had not heard. The Osama bin Laden demon toy.
The plan after nine eleven was to make figurines that
look like Osama bin Laden and give them to kids
in South Asia. After being left in the sun for
a certain amount of time, its face would peel off
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to reveal a demon like vision with red skin, green eyes,
and black markings. The objective was to scare kids on
their parents, so Ben Laden al Qaida would lose support
points for creativity.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Geese, how about a stick with me? Now? How about
a melting faced demon figurine?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I look like they were on some bad acid. Yeah, wow,
there are no bad ideas, Joe. Let's go with the
Osama bin Laden deemon face. This one's from the Cold War,
but I don't think i'd heard this one before.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
The Cold War.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Condom drop plan, CIA operatives drew up a plan to
have packets of extra large condoms labeled small, dropped on
the USSR.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
The idea was to lower their morale. That would work.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Wow, I can't This small condom is still way too
big for me. Wow, my must be tiny compared to
the West. You know what, this tiny? I see no
reason to fight for the Motherland. If I had a giant,
I would lay down my life gladly for this correct
till the end. But with this minuscule I'm just going home, right.
(31:15):
This is a devilish plan.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It's hilarious. Wow. The acoustic kitty.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
They basically put a microphone in a radio and a
cat and released it in the Soviet embassy to wander
around eavesdropping since nobody suspects a wandering cat.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Wow, Wow, poor a cat.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
All of these ideas just sound like somebody was really high.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
To me, they really do. Dude. What if you're to like,
put a microphone up a cat and then turn it
loose because nobody's going to think of cat's a spy?
Most what if the cat spy pooped out the mic, Dude,
(32:00):
then it totally be busted. What are they gonna do?
Question the cat man? Most cats evert.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Most places of work I've been in, you just don't
ignore wandering stray cats in the hallways.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Oh it's a different time, another straight cat.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Anyway, Jim as I was saying, the place to attack
the United States is eh boy, But this is the
one I wanted to get on because it backs up.
I believe Hitler and I agree on one thing, and
that is modern art is bogus.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
But modern art as a CIA weapon. Back during the sixties,
the CIA noticed that artists tend to lean towards socialism communism.
They realized the best way to prevent this or discredit
these political positions was to make them wealthy so that
they would be more invested in capitalism. To do this,
the CAA anonymously bought modern art pieces matter how nonsensical,
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for very high prices, making a whole bunch of modern
artists rich so they would embrace capitalism. So a lot
of that modern art that got successful and sold was
a CIA plot, not some discerning art collector.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Hmmm, that makes the cat like sounds like a really
good idea. I mean, good, lord, really, what the wow?
It's like a massive waste of money. I know it
will do. I mean what if they just like donated
(33:37):
to the communist party? I mean, I don't like that's
just that is weak.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
She liked the cat microphone store better than the big
fan of that by modern art, huge fan.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Did they give any any specific examples? I mean, like
and he wrehol entirely a product of the CIA's right,
you know, writing checks.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Nobody had any interest in those soup cans except for
the CIA.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Could be I don't know, doesn't say wow, wow, how interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Cat microphone that's your favorite idea for a number.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Of reasons, exactly of course. The way they walk around
with their tails up in the air. You could a camera,
you know.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yes, yes, when he turns that towards you at the
camera at the wide angle, well.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
It has to be. I'm here a love.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I'm not a cat, says the cat wandering around the embassy.
This is the Armstrong and Getty Show, featuring our podcast
one more Thing, get it wherever you like to get podcasts.
So back to the Katie Katie the News.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Later, we got a text with a couple of questions
that I don't think we've ever.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Asked you before. I'll just it this way.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Katie Green is a great addition to Armstrong and Getty,
A real pro. But I do have some questions. One,
how many pushups can she do?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
What the hell you know?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I don't I don't know. I know that I've done
I think it was twenty eight and thirty seconds? How recently,
like two months ago? Okay, that's pretty rare. I think
that number's probably gone out. Yeah, if it's fairly recently,
that's okay. I've never I don't like people tell me
how like? This always comes up with running.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
On thousand and six.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
This always comes up with running with me and how
long to take you to run the ten k or whatever?
I used to run a ten k and whatever? Yeah,
how long ago was that? When's the last time you
ran a ten k? And if you haven't done it
in fifteen years, I don't freaking care. All right, what
difference does it make do it now nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
By the way, as long as she asked, literally, the
last time you ran a ten k that might have
been seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm gonna do one in the next year. That's what
I'm building up too. I'm gonna run a ten k
in the next year.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I am one of those I need to get that
zero point zero sticker for my car because I've never
run a ten k and will never run a ten k.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I've ever seen that. That's hilarious. Zero point zero in
the same font. Yeah, it's perfect, and it says I
don't run.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
If a bear chases me for ten kilometers, I will
do a ten k. There you go turn to the
bear and say how long are we going to do this?
Because if it's going to be more than six point
one miles, I might well just lay down, right? Why
would I want you to eat me when I'm tired?
And you just get this omes no advantage to either
(01:46):
one of us. Cut to the chis cut the chase
to the catch. So you've done that many push ups
fairly recently. That's a good chunk of push ups right there.
I have not done a one since my back problem
started last summer, so I think I need to start
working my way back. I haven't even tried it.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I'm three out of the last five days, I think,
so I'm on a bit of a role here eating
an exercise. Have you ever been arrested? No, No, there's
a hesitation.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
No, there was a dumb situation when I was in.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Middle school that it resulted in me getting in a
lot of trouble momentarily before the truth came out.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But you weren't arrested. No, I've never been arrested.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So your hesitation wasn't should I say this out loud
on the air or not? Your hesitation was because I
went through the.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Most of the everything other than getting booked. I went
through the process up. Some kid ripped the Mercedes emblem
off of the vice principal's car and stuck it in
my backpack because I had come from a Christian school
and he was all anti Jesus and God and all that.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Wow, And then told and then told the school.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And the best part was when the the assistant principal
came and got me from class and she pulls me
out and she says, you know, I think you have
something of mine, and I'm like, oh no, she goes,
you might be wearing it around your neck, because all
the kids were like wearing the big fake car emblems
around their chain.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I remember, yeah, yeah, And so.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I pulled out the Catholic, you know, the Celtic cross
that my mom had got me, and I'm like, I'm clueless.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
At this point.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
She opens my backpack and there was a Mercedes emblem
in there.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So this kid went and said, Katie Green stole the
Mercedes emblem.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yea said he saw me take it, and he did
it to another girl that transferred to the school from
the same school with me. So we both got pulled
into the office and we're talking to the cops and.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, and how long did it take you to straighten
the sound? Flavor? Flavor?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
How did you how did you clear yourself it?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It took about I think I was in the office
for four and a half hours writing a statement and everything.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And then the whole time, I'm going, my dad's a judge,
just we'll clear this.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Up, you know, because he was a judge at the time.
And yeah, it took a lot. It was traumatic. Now,
for some reason, this reminds me of one of my
more embarrassing stories before we get there, Katie, what does
it take to become a judge?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Because Jack knows this. I've been saying for years I
ought to be a judge. Do you know why? Because
I'm so judgmental that I didn't want to say it.
I think I'd be really good at it. So did
your dad get elected or was he an appointed judge?
Or he was? He was appointed by Duke Majon Oh okay,
a governor of Yesteryear. Yes, okay. Was he a TV judge?
(04:38):
A TV judge on TV?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He could give Judge Judy a run for money. Oh,
I still want to be a TV judge anyway, Jack
has an embarrassing story.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I'm gladys I was in high school. I didn't believe
I was a sophomore in the band. And this is
embarrassing for odd reasons. So the trumpet section had decided
that bring this rest arrest. If you don't know music
is silence, or you'd stop playing. But in this case,
it was actually silence during the song. During the rest,
(05:10):
all the trumpet players were gonna, I forget what the
noise was, even pretend to burp or something like that.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So it's like get.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
About about about about about about bout about about but
everybody was gonna do that and then and and I didn't,
but all the other trumpet players did. And the band
teacher went back crazy, like band teachers do over anything.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yes, yes, because they hate because they hate life.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
They hate the fact that they're genius musicians usually, and
now they're teaching a bunch of teenagers who couldn't give
a crap about music, and it makes them so angry
that they drink and yell at children.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
This is when you exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yes, he throw his keys at people, this whole city
keys or the baton. He threw the baton at people, erasers,
all kinds of stuff. But anyway, he got so mad
at people burping during the rest, and he went one
by one who did it?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Who did that?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then everybody's just kind of sitting there and some
people were smirking whatever, And he went one by one
and looked them in the eye and put their finger
right in their face. Did you make that sound during
the rest, And most of the man most of them
fessed up and said yes. But it got to me
and I said no because I didn't, so I had
I was like it was like a triple whammy of awful.
(06:22):
I don't think the band teacher believed me. The other
kids were like, what a puss because I didn't, And
then I was fine. I was feeling horrible for fever
thinking I was lying and that my peers thought I
was weak for not joining them in the completely meaningless hijinks.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But that's kind of person I was. I didn't join
them hijinks. And here we are, all these years later,
and it's still affecting me.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's still affecting me, not because it bothers me because
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I'd feel better if I had. Well, you may have
been a trumpeter, but you've certainly earned the sad trombone.
Wah wah wah. It's exact, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I didn't join in the meaningless nobody gets hurt teenage
hijinks because I was too straight laced. Isn't that incredible?
And you still got yelled at for it? And I
still got in trouble for it because he didn't believe me.
I could tell he didn't believe me. So are there
any more questions?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
For Katie? Yes, we enjoying this. Have you ever been arrested?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Uh, what's the biggest celebrity you've ever met?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh, I interviewed the cast of Jackass, So Johnny Knoxville
and all those guys, Okay, and Robin Williams.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's a big one. That's a really big one. He
was really sweet at what point in his life later
Actually this.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Was in twenty eleven, so that's towards the end.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Then.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, he was at I was at a comedy show
and his daughter was performing, and he was there to
watch his daughter. Ah, it's a cool Bay Area guy,
so yeah, easier to run into's got a purple onion.
Do you get anything out of meeting celebrities at this
point in your life? Not really, Yeah, I don't really
after you meet up there ahead, everybody should get to
(08:07):
have the experience of meeting enough celebrities to realize it
ain't nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I mean, it's just it ain't nothing. Used to fairly awkward.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Or like, I mean, you guys know this be in
a position where some people might look at you as
one and you're just like, no.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, exactly, not at all. Yeah, And that's the weird
thing about celebrity. It's all in the other person's head.
It doesn't actually exist as a thing and you can't
measure it or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Right, right, And while I actually ninety eight percent of
the time really enjoy meeting folks who say, hey, I
recognize you, I just want to say I like the show.
It's because people are very nice that you often end
up being really nice people who I enjoy chatting with. Yeah,
the greatest experience or experience rather to illustrate what Jack's
talking about is and this has happened many many times,
(08:55):
will meet like a super avid listener who has a
friend with them who doesn't listen, or has never heard
of us, or was from a different part of the
country or whatever. You had one person about to go
to pieces and the other like, hey, how's it going.
So is some people have observed fame isn't something you have,
it's something they have. That's a great way to put it. Yeah,
(09:18):
and don't still it's it's so anybody who aspires to fame,
don't trust me when I say this. If you aspire
to have a successful business, I consider our quote unquote
fame just to be like an after effect of having
a successful business. But the idea that your self image
(09:39):
will rise and fall based on the number of people
who think you're cool or whatever. Now you don't don't
get into that. Thee Armstrong and Getty show or Jack
your show podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So here's the serious thing I was going to do,
which feels weird now, but maybe I need transition music
in my mind.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Have we ever used transmission transmission music?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
This is when you shift from second to third gear,
transition music from silly to serious.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Can we do that, Michael? Yeah, I think this one
will work.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Actually both ways here, Okay, you know you're right.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We used to have different silly to serious music than
are serious to silly music. This is a song, This
does work. This is a song. Sam is going to
be dancing too.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You're a.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Great In the fifties when the twist was popular. Anybody
can twist awesome, when there were dances and a monkey
to swim anything that you just like you knew what
you're supposed to do with your.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Dands and it was cross.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, I'm not doing a good job of transitioning to
something serious. This Air Force pilot retired over the weekend
who was involved in nine to eleven. And I had
never heard this story, or I had, and I forgot
it because I can hide my own Easter eggs. Anyway,
this Air Force sixteen pilot retired over the weekend after
forty years in the Air Force. He his job was
(11:05):
to take out Flight ninety three, the last plane that
was still in the air, on nine to eleven. And
I had never heard this story in completion. I knew
that we had scrambled fighter jets and that that was
a possibility. I didn't know this. He's sixty one years
old now. He was in his late thirties at the time,
and him and this other female pilot, Heather Penny, who
(11:27):
was twenty six at the time, were ordered to go up.
This is after you know, two planes that at the
World Trade Center. One it hit the Pentagon and there
was another plane in the air and we figured it out.
And this had all occurred in like seconds, and this
was all happening really really fast, and they were scrambled
and told to go up, and what was the actual phrase,
stop it? Their orders were to locate flight ninety three
(11:50):
and stop it. That's all they were told. So him
and this other woman went up, and he was the
guy in charge, and he went up because he didn't
want to ask anybody else to do this, because he
had a an idea of how awful this would be.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
They decided him and this woman that if required, they
would hit the hijacked plane with their jets, making it
a suicide mission.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
They were got.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, he said that we couldn't figure out how to
it first because our fighter jets were not armed with missiles. Oh,
we didn't have any weapons. We were just we just
went up and were told to stop that plane. Oh
my lord. I so you hadn't heard this either, I know.
So he and this woman said they they planned to
ram the front of the jetliner and he was gonna
(12:33):
hit it from the front. She was going to hit
it from the back at the same time, flying it,
you know, six hundred miles an hour, and that's what
they were going to do. But right before they were
already in the air and screaming toward the plane. Before
it happened, they got word that the plane had gone down.
Because we all know, the passengers took over the plane
(12:54):
and it crashed into the ground and they all died.
This guy, the woman was single and childless. But this
dude's I should give his name. I haven't given his name.
Yet have I He's a freaking hero. Mark Sassville. He
had a wife and two young children, ages three and
five at the time. He said, it's a testament to
those people that brought down that plane that changed my
(13:14):
life's family forever.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
He was gonna die.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh, wife and two young kids, going Okay, this is
what I have to do.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
He said.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
He didn't even think about it at the time. He said,
training just kicked in. It all happened so fast. They
were given the order to take down the plane okay,
and he talked to the woman, this is what we'll do.
We'll fly into the plane, and it's just all I'm sure.
It was happening very very fast.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, yeah, more toxic masculinity from him and her. Yeah. Wow,
that's that's incredible. How many people did those passengers on
flight ninety three save. It's a number that'll never be known. Well,
were the flight was believed to be headed for? What?
The White House? That guy's going to say. They're not
certain still on that yet.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
There were some beliefs that it was the White House,
some that was the capital, but either way.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It was going to be the Capitol. Yeah, yeah, either way,
it was gonna be bad.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, it'd be interested to know if he called his
wife prior to getting in that jet.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh, like what you would say.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
From reading just this short description of there was no
time for that. This was a this is what's happened.
There's still a flight in the air, like a run
to the plane, get in the air and just go
and go.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah. Wow. Well, and if you read the nine to
eleven report, it was amazing how much confusion there was
and uh trying to get planes in the air to
defend DC or whatever. There's nobody even knew who to
call to suddenly defend the homeland, and so enormous amounts
of time elapsed before they got like a significant force
(14:45):
up in the air. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Somehow, I just happened to see the video the other
day of George Bush reading the reading to those kids,
and the person came and whispered in his ear mister President,
were under attack. I understand why he did this, how
he did it because he was in shock himself.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
He says he didn't want to like freak out the kids.
He should have stood up right there and just walked out.
The kids will be fine. The whole America is the
whole country is about to be freaked out, So yeah,
waiting another However many minutes it was before he did anything.
I don't know that was the best choice, but I
can understand. Yeah, that's a lot to comprehend in a
very you know, all of a sudden, sitting in front
(15:27):
of the press. He was sitting there because I just
for some reason. Oh, I was some more recent interview
where he talks about it, because now he is an
old man. It's interesting to see the videos of him
now he's an old man, and he was such a
young man at the time. But he was talking about
how he was looking at the back of the room
and seeing all the press. They were all getting the alerts,
(15:50):
so he knew they knew. And that's a lot to
have a ridle through your brain at one time.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I actually know a couple of people who know W.
One a little bit, one very very well. He was
in the press uh office for h W and then
New W and his family too, and everybody who knows
George W really really likes him. And this guy who
(16:17):
worked for h W for a number of years, he
he echoes the impression I'd always gotten. He said, he's
one of the most honorable and decent people he's ever known. Yeah, well,
lots of people say that, which is interesting. What happened.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That he choosing we choose our candidates, not the way
we choose our candidates. Yeah, we don't have any requirements
for decency or experience or.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Really anything mental capacity coherence.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
This story out of California. I guess this is a
problem in a number of different states, but this particular
lawsuit is in California. If you're a nurse, or you
work at a hospital, for instance, in any capacity, really,
but you have your PhD, do you get to call
yourself doctor so and so? If I have a PhD
in history but I work at a hospital, yes, do
(17:23):
I get to call myself doctor Jack Armstrong? Yes, Well,
apparently you can't in a lot of states. That's against
the law. It's not as clearing California. And this woman
who is told not to call herself doctor anymore. She's
a nurse, but she introduces herself as doctor so and
so and has that on her little tag and signs
things that way. It confuses the patient obviously, and she
(17:48):
is told not to do that. She is suing saying,
you know, hey, I worked really hard to spend a
lot of money. I got this degree. This is the
title I get to call myself this.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
So they're trying to I would suggest that the further
it is from medical science, I answer science at all,
the more enthusiastic I am about this idea. You have
a PhD in women's studies, you ought to call yourself
doctor in the hospital and walk into patients rooms and
they say, doctor, I don't know if this drug is working.
(18:17):
You say, well, I wouldn't know. I don't know anything
about medicine, and then walk out again and leave them
wondering what the hell is going on here?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But I can tell you about Napoleon's loss at Waterloo,
because that's what I have.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
My PhD. Wow, the whole I got a PhD. So
I you got to call me doctor.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You know, I've known a few, Uh, well, I've known
quite a few people with PhDs, but uh, I've only
known a few that really trotted out a lot. Usually
it's only when it's contextually makes sense, like if uh
you know, if you're if you're having a meeting about
business and you got somebody there who's got a PhD
in business to introduce him as doctor. So and so
(18:57):
I went to Stanford. That's I think that's perfectly fun.
It's a stretch, but that's not even necessary. But they
just like regularly casual. You're out for dinner and you
introduce yourself as doctor so and so.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Eh, come on, well, how about freaking doctor Jill Biden?
Exactly what I was thinking. She's got what a PhD
in library or something library science or whatever it is English.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I've had more acquaintances or friends that actually kind of
hide the fact that they have a PhD unless it
like really comes up in conversation and you would kind
of get into a weird territory to not mention it.
They don't mention it because of the way it comes off.
So this particular woman who's suing California to be able
to call herself doctor says she always tells patients as
(19:43):
a nurse when she goes in there and they say, uh,
oh hi, doctor Janine.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I have her name here, but it doesn't matter, And
she says, I'm not a medical doctor, have my PhD
in something else.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
My first thought would be, then, why do you call
yourself doctor at a freaking hospital? Would not be your
first thought?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, came into that I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
She pretty you know what you're doing, pretending you don't
know what you're doing, walking around a hospital with a
badge that's doctor so and so on it.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I can't remember did you tell us what her PhD
is in? I'm only mildly interested. I just had that
in front of you, and I don't remember. I'm just
curious how ridiculous it is. What about DJs who referred
to themselves as doctors may be allowed to identify themselves
thusly in a hospital doctor Johnny Fever. I have spinned
(20:44):
or spun many platters to get this nickname. I deserve
credit for it. She has a doctorate of nursing practice,
whatever that is. Well, that's funny. I'm a doctor of nursing.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's weird. I'm a nursing of doctor. You want to
go out sometimes.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Wow, I would just say this if you have a PhD,
and you probably know this. Most people, I think the
vast majority of people kind of roll their eyes if
you introduce yourself as doctor so and so, or your
wife does, her husband does or whatever?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
All right, I think most people do. They make fun
of you after you leave certainly. I like what Joe said.
She basically has this.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
She has a doctorate and it's the highest level of
nurse training, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So she's doctor nurse.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, are you someone who can fix my knee or
take out my gall bladder?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
No? Well, then shot at I agree with you, Katie.
Woman sounds annoying. I'm a doctor of nursing. That's so funny.
I'm trying to think, is there anything like, uh, anything
similar to that. I don't know. It is a pretty
uni doctor of nursing. It'd be like I'm an engineer
(22:05):
of Now, there's nothing analogous. I don't think so, because
a nurse is kind of sort of an assistant to doctors.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'm the president of vice presidents. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, yeah, I'm the president of the Vice President's Association.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I don't know that that's something I would walk around
pointing out every day. That's why I think she's obnoxious.
What is you know, what good is she doing herself
or anyone else she encounters.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
So you're super well educated in your profession, good for you.
Go out and prove it. That's fine. I'm the captain
of the second Mate's division. So moving on to Disney.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I haven't heard what this is, but it's labeled as
the Secrets of Disney World.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I have never been to Disney World. Oh maybe I'll
learn something here. One a magic Kingdom.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
All cast members are in powered to create magical moments.
These are designed for If you see a kid lose
their turkey leg to a seagull, you can go get
them a brand new one for free. Have you ever
seen a janitor move s fash through the park. The
answer is no, that would destroy the magic. Every trash
can that you see is not actually a trash can,
but a shoot that goes directly into Disney's trash compactor
system called the Utilidor nobody throws up at Disney World.
(23:15):
That's gross. They have protein spills and every cast member
has protein spill powder. You throw it on top of
the throw up, it drives it up and the janitor
will come and clean it up a few minutes later.
I would have to call Chop Protective Services, the police,
and Disney management at least once a month while working
at Space Mountain. Why their parents thought it would be
a great idea to wait in a two and a
half hour line to get onto Space Mountain and leave
(23:36):
their kid out front. Well, by the time they get
off that ride, the police greet them and no one
leaves happy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And it's not very magical. Wow. So a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
One, I think we need to start editing TikTok clips
to put space between thoughts. I understand why they do
it on TikTok, but for me, my mind, I get
interested in something and then you hit with me with
something else, and okay, I get to do that. You
have ruined for me, just like a beat. So I
got boomer brain. Maybe I have a boomer brain. Yeah,
(24:07):
I mean because TikTok's the most successful thing and ever.
I guess young people can handle that. But I get
I hear it like, well that's and then they're on
to the next thing. AnyWho.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
So you don't see janitors going to empty the garbage bins,
which is kind of gross because it goes down into
a shoot. All right. Interesting they call vomiting protein spills,
and every cast member has the powder got like utility
beilt like batman, right ready to throw a little powder
on the protein spill. Immediately a little puke powder and then.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
There were a couple other things in there.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I wanted to comment them, but my boomer brain couldn't
comprehend them because it was coming at me so fast.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, you have the people leaving their kid to fend
for themselves, their little kid as they wait two and
a half hours for ride. Just sit there on the bench, Jenny,
I'll be back.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I did wait with my kids for I think to
and a half hours for the Mario Ride at Nintendo
Land or whatever that thing is called. Is that what
it's called, Nintendo Land, I don't even know what, No clue,
Universal Studios, Nintendo World. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and the Mario Ride,
which it had just opened, and it was like the
hottest thing going and it goes half your day, right yeah, yeah,
(25:22):
it's a lot of your day. But that's why we went.
The reason we went was to ride that ride. So
and it was all thirty year olds, right, A lot
of thirty year olds in costume. A lot of thirty
year olds by themselves in costume. Oh that I don't get. No,
it makes me sad, But I would say that it
(25:43):
was the quickest moving two and a half hours I've
ever done in my life. I mean, I don't think
I stood for more than a few seconds. You're kind
of constantly shuffling or walking, and usually in the Disney style,
and this was their genius.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You come across something interesting and entertaining as you're waiting.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, you walk through the castle. So you go up
these stairs around a corner, and then you're in a
room and there's a couple of things to look at,
and then you go down this.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Stair and intern corner.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Hey, there's something interesting. So I went by fairly quickly.
I don't know whoever invented that. That was very cleverly
understood psychology in an amazing way.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
But I don't know that I'd ever do it again.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
My one kid said it was absolutely worth it, and
my other kid said he was a teenager. Of course,
nothing's worth it to him, right, My definition is a teenager.
Nothing's cool, nothing's worth it.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
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Speaker 2 (26:41):
I angered some people by not taking Nicky Haley seriously
enough or something. I feel like I've taken it fairly seriously.
From the beginning, but.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I can vouch for that he has. Yes, mm hm.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
But I guess if you don't do it every single time,
and somebody only hears one comment, like me commenting on
her dress today, I feel like that's the only thing
I've ever thought about her. She was wearing a red dress,
and I said, man, that's some nice dress. In defense
of Jack, red is a bold color for a politician
to wear.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
It is.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
If you wear a bright red dress, I assume you're
trying to do some attention to yourself.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
But isn't there some forbidding of doing that in the
Book of Leviticus or something like that wearing a red dress.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
But this person went on to say, if a man
made a speech wearing a red suit, I'll bet you
would have mentioned that first as well. And then the
women get that you have all the options for all
these different clothes you can wear. If Mitt Romney came
out in a bright red suit, I mean, the first
thing anybody said, holy crap, like he's sindbad or something. Yes,
(27:42):
for instance, for a professional pool player or something out of.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
It's always struck me. You see the Senate chamber or
the House chamber, and you have every single guy in
a dark suit, a white or light blue shirt, and
a red or blue tie, every single damn one of them.
And then you've got the many colors of the rainbow
of the coals. They're wearing white and yellow and red
and blue and whatever they want.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Dresses, pants, suits, brooches, no brooches. You got all the
options to you if you're a woman, Katie, but only
of course. The downside is, I know I've heard women
say this before, is I got to come up with
something to wear where you get to just throw on
a suit and always call yourself dressed up correct, Which
is handy.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, absolutely well, especially because it's also simpler. You have
your your pants, your shirt, your jacket, which is what
you guys wear usually.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Anyway, I wear a suit to work most every day,
and it is it is It is easier than dressing
casual to wear a suit.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh yeah, absolutely true. If you have two suits, you've
covered it. If you have three, you're trying too hard.
And the other thing is about suits is you can
gain five pounds lose five pounds. They fit fine.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, I got four suits. I rotate a bunch of
dress shirts. It's super easy to dress. But if I
was trying to dress up without a suit, I'd take
a lot of money in time.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, dresses are not forgiving, guys. I'll tell you that
those things do not give.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Either it fits the way it did when you bought
it or not, yes, or and it'll never fit that
way again.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah. Interesting, I've not had that situation. I haven't tried
on many dresses.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So the CIA has done a lot of wacky things
throughout the years, and a whole bunch of it has
been to classified because after twenty five years or thirty
years or fifty years, there are different rules for different
levels of stuff. Some of this stuff comes out. Some
of this I've heard before. Some of this I'd never like.
All this stuff about the way these ways we tried
to kill fidela Castro I've heard many many times.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Oh, a classic.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
We actually did try to poisonous cigars or have exploding
cigars and kill him, or at least considered it, and
a bunch of other stuff. But some of this new
stuff I had not heard. The Osama bin Laden demon toy.
The plan after nine eleven was to make figurines that
look like Osama bin Laden and give them to kids
in South Asia. After being left in the sun for
a certain amount of time, its face would peel off
(30:02):
to reveal a demon like vision with red skin, green eyes,
and black markings. The objective was to scare kids on
their parents, so Ben Laden al Qaida would lose support
points for creativity.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Geese, how about a stick with me? Now? How about
a melting faced demon figurine?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I look like they were on some bad acid. Yeah, wow,
there are no bad ideas, Joe. Let's go with the
Osama bin Laden deemon face. This one's from the Cold War,
but I don't think i'd heard this one before.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
The Cold War.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Condom drop plan, CIA operatives drew up a plan to
have packets of extra large condoms labeled small, dropped on
the USSR.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
The idea was to lower their morale. That would work.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Wow, I can't This small condom is still way too
big for me. Wow, my must be tiny compared to
the West. You know what, this tiny? I see no
reason to fight for the Motherland. If I had a giant,
I would lay down my life gladly for this correct
till the end. But with this minuscule I'm just going home, right.
(31:15):
This is a devilish plan.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It's hilarious. Wow. The acoustic kitty.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
They basically put a microphone in a radio and a
cat and released it in the Soviet embassy to wander
around eavesdropping since nobody suspects a wandering cat.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Wow, Wow, poor a cat.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
All of these ideas just sound like somebody was really high.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
To me, they really do. Dude. What if you're to like,
put a microphone up a cat and then turn it
loose because nobody's going to think of cat's a spy?
Most what if the cat spy pooped out the mic, Dude,
(32:00):
then it totally be busted. What are they gonna do?
Question the cat man? Most cats evert.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Most places of work I've been in, you just don't
ignore wandering stray cats in the hallways.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Oh it's a different time, another straight cat.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Anyway, Jim as I was saying, the place to attack
the United States is eh boy, But this is the
one I wanted to get on because it backs up.
I believe Hitler and I agree on one thing, and
that is modern art is bogus.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
But modern art as a CIA weapon. Back during the sixties,
the CIA noticed that artists tend to lean towards socialism communism.
They realized the best way to prevent this or discredit
these political positions was to make them wealthy so that
they would be more invested in capitalism. To do this,
the CAA anonymously bought modern art pieces matter how nonsensical,
(33:01):
for very high prices, making a whole bunch of modern
artists rich so they would embrace capitalism. So a lot
of that modern art that got successful and sold was
a CIA plot, not some discerning art collector.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Hmmm, that makes the cat like sounds like a really
good idea. I mean, good, lord, really, what the wow?
It's like a massive waste of money. I know it
will do. I mean what if they just like donated
(33:37):
to the communist party? I mean, I don't like that's
just that is weak.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
She liked the cat microphone store better than the big
fan of that by modern art, huge fan.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Did they give any any specific examples? I mean, like
and he wrehol entirely a product of the CIA's right,
you know, writing checks.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Nobody had any interest in those soup cans except for
the CIA.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Could be I don't know, doesn't say wow, wow, how interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Cat microphone that's your favorite idea for a number.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Of reasons, exactly of course. The way they walk around
with their tails up in the air. You could a camera,
you know.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yes, yes, when he turns that towards you at the
camera at the wide angle, well.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
It has to be. I'm here a love.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I'm not a cat, says the cat wandering around the embassy.
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