February 14, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & The Kennedy Art Center
- SNL 50th anniversary!
- Why you should push back against health insurance companies
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong, Joe, Getty, arm Strong and Getty and know
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
A couple of things I want to get to this
hour as I am by myself today. Joe is celebrating
his major birthday milestone by adding the day off. I'm
doing the same thing next Friday because our birthdays are
ten days apart, we're the same age, and he will
work solo next Friday while I'm doing whatever it is
I'm going to do for my birthday, and I don't
have any idea what it's going to be. It this
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hour though, why you should at least make the minimum
effort to fight your health insurance company when they say
no to acclaim, because the chances it's going to work
out are very high, and that's worth knowing. So I
want to talk about Saturday Night Live, which don't groan
some of you grown immediately you have a negative reflex
(01:07):
reaction to the term Saturday Night Live. Their big anniversary
specialis Sunday Night, and I want to talk a little
bit about that and maybe turn you around if you're
adamantly anti Saturday Night Live, although you got to blame
them for people that are turned off after several years
of just ridiculous partisan politics to open the show every week,
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I can see why a lot of people decided screw that.
But more on all that coming up a little bit.
This is what we do every week at this time.
We call it cow C period, oh period, w period.
It's an acronym. It stands for not stands for It
stands for clips up the week.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I don't want to be here. That's crazy, those whips
of the week.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
President Donald Trump's pledging to enforce the existing twenty five
percent on all steel imported into the US.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
In just the last month, more than twenty million birds
have been impacted by bird fluid.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
For Bustin's show, I choose the giant.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Chnellsy, who has used the unfortunate nickname big Balls.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Big Balls.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Here mister Trump's wearing in the ever controversial Robert F.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Now, I'm not going to take away anybody's vaccine. If
people are happy with their vaccines, they ought to be
able to get them.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Pennsylvania teacher Mark Foegel is all smiles. He says he
is thrilled to be back on US soil.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I feel like the luckiest man on earth right now.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
President Trump saying that if a moss doesn't release those
remaining hostages, then he thinks that ceasefire deal should be canceled.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Let hell break out.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I don't want to spend an hour applying glitter on
my face so that you will hear and see me.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Where side are you on? They're in the Oval Office.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It was clear just how powerful Elon Musk is in
this White House.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
We'd have to if you're sorry, until your gravitas can
be difficult.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Sometimes we'll fight Elons no way lanscap within our walls.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
We'll fight from down to das.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
If the bureaucracy is in charge, and then what meaning
does democracy actually have?
Speaker 9 (03:35):
Elon must bring your ass over here.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well, we are basically on the cost of a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh, I'd like it to be closed immediately. Look, the
Department of Education is a big kanjab.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
So they ranked the top forty countries in the world.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We're ranked number fortieth.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
It is an attempt to take the funding and take
the right from each and every charge.
Speaker 9 (04:02):
The United States does not believe that NATO membership for
Ukraine is a realistic outcome.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I want him to succeed, but I think he's been
a little bit of over skis the last the last
few days.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
You Ukraine as an equal member of this peace process.
That's an interesting question.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
The Eagle's try to get it in a couple by
the homes. This the turnover at Sicks. It's coberga Kin.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Look las Eagle's team in modern history, Eagles fans Savors
and what are you s.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
What an interesting speaking style? The great steels teaman? What
they all start talking like that? Am I the only
one that feels like the super Bowl was not this
last year? Again, that happens.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's one of the reasons we do clips of the
week regularly. There's stuff in there like that was this week?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It feels like it was a month and a half.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Absolutely that. But that's the modern pace of life, man,
which can't be good for us. We're all aging like
presidents because of that. A couple of things in there. Uh.
Pete Haggzeth earlier in the week he's the Secretary of
Defense said, uh, no way that were United States would
get involved or troops on the ground, or they're getting
any e their territory back or anything like that, and
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jd Vance, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal
day walked back a lot of that. Jd Vance flat
out said, I mean, he states, it's not off the
table having US troops in Ukraine to fight Russia if
they don't agree to whatever we want to do. So
Mike lyons, who we have on earlier we hour two
if you want to grab it in the podcast Armstrong
(06:03):
and Getty on Demand, saying, and he's a Pete hegsath fan.
He wants Pete to be successful, but he thinks Pete
was like off the reservation, you know, still hasn't quite
figured out where his role is or how far he
should go on his own, said some things he shouldn't
have said. And that's why Jade Vance did that interview
with the Wall Street Journal to make it clear no, no, no, no,
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that's not the policy. We're not giving up our negotiations already.
So I thought that was pretty interesting. There's one other that.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I wanted to mention, but I don't remember what it was.
It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So I was looking at Mark Alpern's newsletter today and
he and he lists a whole bunch of big stories
that are out there right now, and I'll just give
you some of them, because there's so many that the
mainstream media is focused on. Is Trump, you know, being
too friendly with Putin with the Ukraine thing? Trump taking
over the Kennedy Arts Center and going to be the chairman.
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Now Elon and Doe Ojin? Is it legal in the
court cases and all that sort of stuff. Is Elon
trying to profit? I have a point for listing all
these before I make the point, Oh, it's closing down
the Department of Education, Mitch McConnell voting with the Democrats
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on some of these, all these different stories that are
out there. And Mark Halpin writes, the dirtiest little open
secret of all, known to only about five percent of Washington,
is this the American people in Maine. In other words,
the bulk of the American people do not know about,
or carry about care about any of the items on
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this list, above all those things I just mentioned.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That is just flat out true.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
The bulk of voters out there don't know about And
if you tried to explain it to them, they'd say,
why are you telling me this? Care about any of
these stories? And when you're in media, especially left wing media.
It's easy to believe because all your friends care about
it so much. Can you believe Trumps take it over
chairman of the Kennedy Center Arts. Yeah, there's not one
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person in one thousand that knows that or cares that
all about it. So that's one of the reasons. It'll
be interesting to see how this turns out over time.
It's gonna lot matter a lot more with the price
of gases or price of eggs. Is yes, then whether
or not Trump's running the Kennedy Arts Center. God, So
the Kennedy Arts Center is a is a I learned
this from reading Charlie Wilson's War fantastic book if you've
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ever read it. I didn't dig the movie as much
as the book the Tom Hanks movie, but the book
is absolutely fantastic. But anyway, in the book, Charlie Wilson's
for is when I first learned about the importance of
the Kennedy Arts Center in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Because they have comedians and.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Orchestras and plays and like just all the big arts
from around the world they have come there. But it's
not a very big place, and you got to be
a somebody in Washington, d C. To have, you know,
season tickets or really good seats, and it's it's like
the number one indicator of how big a deal you
are in Washington, d C. The seats you have at
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the Kennedy Arts Center and getting to go to all
that stuff. It's just a it's just it's a flex
It's like Kevin. It's a complete status thing. It's a
you know, look what a big deal. Oh you sit
over there, I sit down here, you know, marking of
your territory thing. The Kennedy Art Center. Well, Trump doesn't
like the Kennedy Art Center for all the kind of
reasons you can probably imagine. I mean that my explanation
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of it just there made me throw up in my
mouth a little. States. But Kennedy just or Kennedy. Trump
just took over, fired a bunch of people and said
I'm in charge now. I'm the chairman of the board
for the Kennedy Art Center. I mean, he's going to
run the thing now, which is uh. But anyway, they're
quoting somebody here in the Washington Post. Trump's comments collapsed
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all the nuance of what we do, said one staffer
at the Kennedy Art Center, who described the work as
a lot more than a job or a passion. My
identity is in this place and now I don't feel safe.
Oh shut up anybody who uses the phrase I don't
feel safe unless you're on the front lines in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
If you say I don't feel safe, I want you
out and kidnapped. Unless you're in the.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Trunk of a car with duct tape on your mouth
and you're trying to go. I don't want you working
for my tax payer money. Anybody that would ever use
the phrase I don't feel safe, I don't want to
pay you.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You're not the right kind of person.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
You're you work at the Kennedy Arts Center and somebody
you got laid off and you say I don't feel safe.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Don't you feel pathetic? You should feel pathetic. God, that's weak.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
It's kind of the party of pathetic though, because they all,
you know, band together for their safe spaces and there
whatever the hell else they it's it's they're triggered movement.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
As Joe always says, speaking of status symbols, for some reason,
for a certain segment of society, the more afraid and
and and bad you feel, you like go up the
status ladder.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, it's trauma bonding. Trauma bonding. Did you make that
up or is that a thing? No, I've read that somewhere.
That's good, we're aware. But that's what it is.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
All these people, they they it's almost like they try
to one up each other on what they've gone through
and then they all have such a good time, like
just laying in their their sadness.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, it's like and you sitting around the table drinking
wine on Gallentine's Day, telling you know how, oh you
think you've got it bad, listen to what happened to me.
And then if you get you get to be the
queen or king of the downtrodden or aggrieved or offended
or whatever exactly.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
And then one of them says something and then somebody
at the end of the table gets triggered, and then
I mean, now, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, god, gosh, yeah, yep, that's exactly right. It's very
very weird.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
SNL sixtieth anniversary of Sunday Night. I want to tell
you a little bit about that, some interesting stuff. I
think I can't wait to watch it all, watch every
minute of it. And then why you should fight your
insurance company all in the way.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Times to everybody. This is very interesting.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
I saw a survey that said fifty six percent of
Americans are planning to celebrate, and they'll each spend an
average of one hundred and eighty eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That's a lot of money. Let's look at some other stats.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
When it comes to making a dinner reservation, forty percent
made it a month before, thirty five percent made it
a week before, twenty five percent just winging pretend chilies was.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
All part of the plan. Don't know you lay you
love chili.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
When it comes to when it comes.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
To expensive presents, seventy percent choose diamond earrings, twenty five
percent choose a gold bracelet, five percent choose half a
dozen eggs.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's very sad because zigs are expensive. Talked about enough
Valentine's Day, probably enough today. But I just I just
think it's a it's there's it's created. There's this created
like myth that Valentine's Day is a real thing for
like loving successful couples. And as I say, every single year,
every successful long term cup well I know more or
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less ignores Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So it's for all the unsuccessful people out there to
feel bad.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I don't even know what it is, but actual loving,
great couples that have been together for a long time,
in my experience of the time, pretty much ignore Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
That's because they love each other every day dated, yes,
you know exactly and all that and or don't let
card companies or restaurants convince you of when you express
your love.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But so it's it's almost designed for the people who
don't have what we want out of Valentine's Day. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
I have a funny tweet on my Twitter. I posted
the picture of the meat hearts that I got my
husband for Valentine's Day. It's just beef jerky, but they
have a little funny sayings on them.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And somebody tweeted me back and said, next year is
still beating Elkhart If you really care for them.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You So that joke was from Jimmy Fallon, who was
one of the anchors of the news on Saturday Night
Live when he was like twenty three years old, and
now he hosts a Tonight show. And lots of people
who have been on Saturday Now I've gone on too
big careers. Anyway, their big sixtieth anniversary is a sixty
or fifty fiftieth anniversary show is Sunday Night right because
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they started in nineteen seventy five, and the simple math
on that is it's fifty years. So I remember watching
the fortieth anniversary. I kept up on my DVR because
it was ten years ago DVR time, and I watched
it over and over again.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It was so good.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
They brought back so many cast members. And I know
a lot of you are turned off by Saturday Night
Live because of the politics, and they're so left and
unfair and one sided and all that, which they've done
a little less of lately. They've absolutely done less of
that lately. And also, if you don't watch Saturay Live,
it's a minor portion of the show. It's almost always
the cold open and then some of the jokes, but
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all the other sketches.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Are just about random stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's like, you know, a couple at a restaurant on
Valentine's Day or something like that, and it's often flipping hilarious.
And like, I think the current cast they've got right
now is about as good as any cast they've had.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I just think they're really great.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But the special on NBC Sunday Night is three hours long.
The one they did for the fortieth was three hours
long because they got to get all these different great
tons of great music guests, like huge music guests that
they got Sunday Night and bringing back the host, and
there'll be a lot of sketch comedy.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I expect it to be a great show. My son
and I are gonna watch it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But here's a cool thing they're doing on Saturday Night,
because obviously they're not going to do a live Saturday
Night Live on Saturday. On Saturday Night eleven thirty Eastern
or one of the cool things about being on the
West Coast, Saturday Night Live is on at.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Eight thirty out here. I don't know if you all
know that.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's great to be able to watch live at eight thirty.
They're rerunning the very first episode of Saturday Night Live
from October nineteen seventy five, the whole episode, which I've
never seen, with George Carlin as the host, and check
that's going to seem very dated and interesting and making
fun of President Ford.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I guess, yeah, yeah, different style of comedy then too.
Oh absolutely, Oh that's going to be great. I'm going
to watch that.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Uh have a big announcement to make re Radio, re Baseball,
re Armstrong and Getty. I'll get to coming up that
we finally can talk about. And also this story that
was in the Wall Street Journal about why you should
push back against your health insurance company when they deny something.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Definitely news you can use.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I just want to share this with everybody because I've
had pretty good success with it in my lifetime. So
all that coming up. If you miss a segment, get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. I hope all
your dreams come true on this Valentine's Today today. And remember,
if your loved one doesn't go absolutely all out, it
means they don't love you. Oh stop it, knock it off,
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and you should probably break up with them and or
get a lawyer if it's more serious than that.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Anyway, all that stuff on the way, stay here Armstrong
and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Twenty years, I've gotten up every morning on my knees
and prayed that God would put me in a position
where I can end the childhood chronic disease epidemic in
this country. On August twenty third of last year, God
sent me President Trump.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Wow, that's RFK Junior. He is our new Secretary of
Health and Human Services. As we learned earlier in the show,
that is the biggest government bureaucracy on planet Earth by
a lot, and he's going to be running it now.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
And I'm going to talk about insurance just a second,
but I need to tease this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We've got coming up in just a few minutes breaking
Barack Obama romance news. I don't know if you remember
the rumors, Obama, your life's a joke, You're broke. It's
love lives, So stay tuned for that. So this article
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on the Wall Street Journal about why you should put
pushback about health claims, I thought was interesting because I
think we've all been in this situation.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You get a bill for something kind of normal. It's
like I have to pay for this? What is the
deal here? And sometimes out of you know, it's thirty
four dollars, I'll just pay it. Well, why isn't this cupboard?
You just pay it? Or sometimes out of.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Well, this is the second letter I've gotten and they
say they're going to turn it over to collection services,
and it's sixty two dollars. I'll just pay it because
I don't want to end up with a mark on
my credit or whatever. But this Wall Street Journal article
says that the insurance companies reject five billion claims or
there are five billion total claims a year, eight hundred
and fifty million are rejected. And according to the journal,
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people who challenge that are regularly successful. And I know
I've had that situation before a lot of times, just
with benign neglect. They send me the bill, I don't
pay it. They send me the second bill.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I don't pay it.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Then all of a sudden it just gets paid because
they realize something they're supposed to pay. I think Joe
thinks Joe's not here today. I think they run it
up the flagpole a lot. This is something we should cover.
But it's not a very big bill, and I'll bet
they'll just go ahead and pay it. Oh well, imagine
how many billions of dollars that adds up to if
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you operate with that.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Idea.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So, according to the Lostreet Journal, if you push back regularly,
you will win.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I've got one.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
They use a story in the journal today actually about
a family whose kid has pans, which got my attention
because that's what my son has. And we've been dealing
with for many, many many years, and it's very very
expensive and difficult. Another aside, I don't know if you
knew this, Katie. When my son had his most complicated
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medical procedure because of his pans, which was going to
be a really big deal. Friend of the Armstrong and
Getty Show with connections to the President at the time,
Henry got a signed letter from President Trump saying, Hey, Henry,
I know you got a tough thing you're going to
do today. I'm thinking about you sign Donald Trump. That
just gave me chill, actual signed letter from Trump in
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the leather bound thing and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Very very cool. That's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I mean, I realize he's probably signs, you know, one
hundred of those a day or whatever, but it was
still very very cool and it meant something to Henry.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
So he still takes time to sit down and sign
a hundred of those a day, you know what I mean, Tuda,
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, it was cool, and I appreciate the dude, uh
who facilitated that. Anyway, back to the insurance stuff. When
I was going through cancer treatment. After my cancer treatment,
my doctor, my cancer doctor, the main one who I
really really like suggested I do this maintenance thing for
my cancer. So I'd just done nine on some chemotherapy
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and radiation and was physically at the lowest point in
my life and feeling horrible and uh and all this
and you know, rattled from the whole experience, and my
doctor tells me to do this. Doctor told me all
kinds of things to do over the previous nine months.
I was going to like two doctor's appointments a day
for months and months and months and months. Anyway, doctor
tells me do this. I go in and get this thing.
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I get a bill for twenty one thousand dollars in
the mail, WHOA and the insurance company telling me, we
don't we don't cover that. What do you mean you
don't cover it?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
We don't cover it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You should have checked to see if we cover it
before you went and did it. And was I supposed
to check with the one thousand and fifty things that
I've done in the last months. I didn't check with
any of those things to see if they cover it.
I just I just assumed the doctor recommended it and
the hospital did it. It was part of the I
mean I did. How are you gonna even do that.
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How long would that take?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I mean, I want to ask about it. Don't they
ask about insurance prior to doing stuff?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Ways?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, I mean, And I hadn't had I'd had so
many different drugs and appointments and biop season, so many
different things that none of them had been rejected. So
I just kind of thought I was on the elevator
or escalator of this. This were this is the process. Yeah,
And so I went ahead and did the thing and
built for twenty one thousand.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Dollars, and oh, I would have thrown up. I was
pretty worried about it because that's a chunk of money.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And I pushed I pushed back on it, and eventually
they did the insurance company said okay, well we'll cover it,
but don't do it again. But if I hadn't pushed
back and I did it with the help of our
friend Craig, the healthcare guru who knows how these things work.
He helped me write the letter and approach it and
everything like that. If I and also my position in
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the company, if I wasn't who I was and had
the help I had, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I don't know if I'd have gotten it knocked off
or not.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
But that was scary, and I don't know what they
what the advice is there, because you can't check, especially
when you're in the middle of a health like emergency,
you can't check every single thing. It just it doesn't
work that way. You go to the doctor and they
say you need to be in here Tuesday because your
blood shows this, and we got to get you that,
and I mean, you can't check on every one of
those things.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It's it's unreasonable.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Yeah, hang on, doc, I got to call my insurance
first and then we'll figure out if you can save
my life. This is this seems like there should be
a law against what happened to you because you're already
going through something that is awful and you're very sick,
and then now you've got an insurance company going.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Pay up when you didn't even have.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
To, right I yeah, well I don't know, or maybe
I was supposed to and they the out of the
kindness of their heart. Again, I think my position in
the corporation helped me quite a bit there. But uh yeah,
that's that's that's that's my tale of uh be aware,
got a big announcement to make Michael you're the show historian.
(23:53):
How how long have we been on the air on
our original radio station? We're now on whatever we are,
sixty seventy radio stations. How long have we been on
our original radio station where we started KSDE in Sacramento, California.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
About say twenty a little over twenty six years? My gosh, yeah,
that is just crazy. So in August it will be
twenty seven years. I think you're right, and I say
that it's crazy just because that if that doesn't happen
in radio.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Right, and then we've been on in San Francisco for
twenty two years, but and then add in different stations,
but our original home station KSDAN Sacramento, and we can
now say this out loud. Partnering with iHeartRadio, who owns
KSTE is the home radio station for the Oakland A's.
So this is should be interesting to you if you're
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a baseball fan anywhere in the country. It's just it's
just interesting that a Triple A team like the Sacramento
river Cats, there's little stadium is now going to have
the Oakland A's baseball team playing in it for the
next three years, and the stadium only hol I was
talking to the guy in charge of the other day
holds about thirteen thousand people.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Thirteen thousand. The average major.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
League baseball park's like forty to fifty thousand people, even
the intimate ones. It's not like thirteen thousand people. And
you know, the way baseball works, every team in the
major leagues pretty much is going to come through this
little stadium to play the Oakland A's. So if you're
a fan of you know, the Arizona Diamondbacks or whatever,
check the schedule and see went over the next three years,
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they'll be playing at this tiny little baseball field and
to co watch like a major League Baseball game in
the Triple A, you know, little compressed version. Oh well,
baseball fans are so excited about it. They're absolutely sold out.
I mean every ticket the whole whole year and the
Oakland A's. If you're not a baseball fan, you don't
(25:47):
know this. They've been putting like five to six thousand
people in there every night to watch games. I mean,
like nobody has been going to Oakland A's games for years.
That's why they're moving to Vegas. But they don't have
the Vegas stadium built yet, so they're playing in Sacramento
for the extra years, and Joe and I are working
at the home station where the broadcast will be, which
would be very cool, Which means we're going to be
there on opening day that morning, will be broadcasting from
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the stadium and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
It'll be It'll just be kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Hopefully we get to at some point, I don't know,
throw out a first pitch or hot dog cannon or something.
I don't hot dog cannon, I should we I did
get to do the T shirt cannon out there one time,
and man, you just see somebody you don't like to
look at them.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And I like to look at you. Pow blast blast
right in the face with the T shirt. Yes, Michael
ian to say, with the stadium so small, bring a
glove you might be Yeah. Yeah, bring a glove and
keep your head on a swivel. Yeah, you're gonna be
close to the action.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
That is.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
That is And I think one of the reasons it
sold out so fast is so many fans of other
teams that think cool, I get to see my favorite
team in this little stadium.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And they they've you know, they tried to rearrange to
fit more people and everything like that. But you can't, like,
unless you're gonna rebuild the place or something. There is
not that much you can do. That's a pretty fun
baseball story. We're gonna finish strong.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Next Armstrong and yetty. This is a good one right here.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The best bum air supply huh, Jammic, come on, crack
it up if you want listen to air supply.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I want it loud. I want to be able to
hear the bass thumping. I believe this much, Toupid Man.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Jo.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
That's a woosy song right there. I was just gonna say,
I couldn't tell if you're ring serious or not. Oh no, no, no,
no no. Guy back in the day could like air supply. No, no, no,
no way.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Although this sucks, this isn't my favorite air supply song,
lying alone with my head on my phone is that that's.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The best air supply song. And we all know just enough.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
My favorite Saturday Night Live thing they ever did for
combining Valentine's Day in SNL was a teddy bear holding
a last minute Valentine's Day, and it was you didn't
do this last minute at all, You didn't forget Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
A teddy bear holding a heart, and it's.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
The idea of a little stuffed teddy bear with a
heart in its hands that you can buy. As it
says on the Saturday Night Live fake ad, you can
get anywhere they sell milk. I mean you can get
it at the seven eleven. You could get it at
the grocery store, you can get it at a gas station.
You can buy it absolutely anything. It is the expression
of I did the very least I could do to
(28:35):
acknowledge that we.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Have our relationship. Here's a child's toy. Yeah, exactly, a
teddy bear holding a heart. Oh that is so funny.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
My son has a Valentine's Day dance at his high
school tonight and he doesn't have a date. His last
couple of dances he actually had he was in a
relationship with a girl. But he doesn't this time, and
he's going so long. I don't know if he's planning
to dance or not. I don't really know if he
he's a well, ask a a girl to dance, or
stands around with his friend. Dude's you know, whyse cracking
(29:08):
or what what what he's planning to do?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
But he goes.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
He likes going, and he tries to dress well, So
he said, a couple of girlfriends already. He said, he's
ahead of.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Me by a lot, So you get dressed up.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, if I Could's funny. I was just texted with
somebody about that. If you could tell that it was somebody.
Somebody texted me that when they were a little girl,
they were the one that got skunks, the skunk Valentine Day,
Valentine's daycards. If you haven't heard about this, it's something
that used to happen back in the day.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
It was awful, but she was not.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
She says she was very awkward when she was a kid.
She's definitely not now. And I said, wouldn't it be
nice if you could go back and tell that person's
going to be fine, that you are someday going to
be attractive to the other sex, have many, many options,
it's going to be fine. Oh my god, the amount
of pain that would be lifted. Yeah, you know, it's
just maybe it's part of the human experience or whatever.
(30:04):
But I was thinking about in terms of the dance,
if I could go back and tell the young me,
would be go freaking ask her to dance?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Good lord? If she says no, one laughs In your face.
Who freaking cares? Good Lord, fourteen year old Jack would
have cared. She laughed in his face.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I just wish that you could have the maturity of
age at that time. And you don't care.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
You're laughing at me. I know how you're gonna turn out.
I've seen the future. Keep your laughs to yourself. I
got rusher tooth. Oh my god, Oh the torture of
that sort of thing. And I admire the guys. I
can picture some of the guys in high school that
didn't have any of those I don't know, nervousness or
any of that sort of stuff. They did go ask
(30:48):
the person to dance, or ask them out of the
date or whatever. I was not that person. Yeah, and
I wish I could go back. If I had a
time machine, I'd go back and say, you have to
ask her. I probably still wouldn't have. Of course, you know,
you ask her, she dances with you. Next next thing,
you know, you go to the Sonic, you have a burger,
(31:09):
you're dating, You get her pregnant. Your life changes for oh,
maybe I'm related quickly. Here's the SNL thing. I don't
know if we have time for all of it.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Your girlfriend is beautiful, sexy and one of a kind.
So this Valentine's Day, get her a gift that's as
special and unique as she is. Some dumb little thing
from CBS because you're already bear mind torna paper and
mother man, it's Valentine's Day. The CBS says, all the
(31:44):
heartfelt gifts your long term girlfriend wants, like a small
bear dressed like a bee with hearts that say be mine.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh when did you get this?
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Explosit gifts she'll treasure for a her And if your
woman loves jewelry, look no further than I'll ate the
front half. The back half is dog food. There you'll
find this beautiful hardpin and necklace for only a dollar
ninety nine, recommended by our season jewelry associate.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Ye, it's really good.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Or get her a gift that really screams her. A
tiny heart shaped box of chocolates with the teenage mutant
Ninja turtles on the front. They really put the chalk
in chocolate for a naughty surprise.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
You know she'll love.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
Pickup some g rated CBS brand sex guys.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's okay, So you get the point. And as Joel
always says about this sort of stuff. These businesses are
multi gazillion dollar conglomerates. They know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
They wouldn't stock that stuff if they weren't selling it.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Somebody's going in there and buying the dollar ninety nine
jewelry and little crappy candies the day of Valentine's because
it's in the aisle right now.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Somebody's doing that. Hey kids, it's that time again with
Armstrong and Getty. Oh that's nice. When did you When
did you get this one minute ago? Here's your host
for final thoughts.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Me.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Here's our techno director Michaelangelo on Valentine's Day, dressed as
a giant heart, dressed as cubanes.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
What's your final thought, Michael, Well.
Speaker 9 (33:26):
I gotta go home, touch up my red paint, put
the flowers, you know, rose petals on the bed, and
I got the ten dollars bill for the Chilis hostess,
so I can get a window seat.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
So we're all set.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
We're gonna slip for a ten a ten so you
can sit by the window and keep an eye on
your car. Yeah, here's a newsperson, Katie Green. Katie, Oh,
what's some news?
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Barack and Michelle Obama have been seen together for the
first time in weeks in a Valentine's Day selfie, which
means he's not boinking.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Wow, First of all, haven't heard blinking in a long time.
That's a good one. And secondly, I.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Feel like that's trying a little too hard.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
You didn't show up to the inauguration, lots of rumors around,
and then on Valentine's Day you oppost to selfie.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
It's simple, they love each other. That didn't end the rumor.
To me, I think that accentuated the rumor.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
My final thought is, uh, don't let this dumb.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Day put any pressure on you, regardless of your relationship situation,
whether you've got a good one or none or whatever.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, meaningful, Armstrong and.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour work day. Monday
is a holiday President's Day. We'll see on Tuesday because
there'll be lots of news. There are a lot of
government employees, like thousands and thousands and thousands across the
country getting the letters that they're no longer needed, and
that's going to have political implications, I guarantee you, among
other things, God bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
And I said, boy, they look like two people that
like each other.
Speaker 9 (34:57):
Yes, just yes, I mean obviously it's not very listen here,
we grab your ass up my hair, stand up.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Let hell break out. I have no idea why you
would do something like that. You could do practically anything else.
The one final message, let's go bye bye, a great Friday,
you mother, Armstrong and Gaddy.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong, Joe, Getty, arm Strong and Getty and know
he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
A couple of things I want to get to this
hour as I am by myself today. Joe is celebrating
his major birthday milestone by adding the day off. I'm
doing the same thing next Friday because our birthdays are
ten days apart, we're the same age, and he will
work solo next Friday while I'm doing whatever it is
I'm going to do for my birthday, and I don't
have any idea what it's going to be. It this
(00:43):
hour though, why you should at least make the minimum
effort to fight your health insurance company when they say
no to acclaim, because the chances it's going to work
out are very high, and that's worth knowing. So I
want to talk about Saturday Night Live, which don't groan
some of you grown immediately you have a negative reflex
(01:07):
reaction to the term Saturday Night Live. Their big anniversary
specialis Sunday Night, and I want to talk a little
bit about that and maybe turn you around if you're
adamantly anti Saturday Night Live, although you got to blame
them for people that are turned off after several years
of just ridiculous partisan politics to open the show every week,
(01:29):
I can see why a lot of people decided screw that.
But more on all that coming up a little bit.
This is what we do every week at this time.
We call it cow C period, oh period, w period.
It's an acronym. It stands for not stands for It
stands for clips up the week.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I don't want to be here. That's crazy, those whips
of the week.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
President Donald Trump's pledging to enforce the existing twenty five
percent on all steel imported into the US.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
In just the last month, more than twenty million birds
have been impacted by bird fluid.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
For Bustin's show, I choose the giant.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Chnellsy, who has used the unfortunate nickname big Balls.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Big Balls.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Here mister Trump's wearing in the ever controversial Robert F.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Now, I'm not going to take away anybody's vaccine. If
people are happy with their vaccines, they ought to be
able to get them.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Pennsylvania teacher Mark Foegel is all smiles. He says he
is thrilled to be back on US soil.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I feel like the luckiest man on earth right now.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
President Trump saying that if a moss doesn't release those
remaining hostages, then he thinks that ceasefire deal should be canceled.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Let hell break out.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I don't want to spend an hour applying glitter on
my face so that you will hear and see me.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Where side are you on? They're in the Oval Office.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It was clear just how powerful Elon Musk is in
this White House.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
We'd have to if you're sorry, until your gravitas can
be difficult.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Sometimes we'll fight Elons no way lanscap within our walls.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
We'll fight from down to das.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
If the bureaucracy is in charge, and then what meaning
does democracy actually have?
Speaker 9 (03:35):
Elon must bring your ass over here.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well, we are basically on the cost of a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh, I'd like it to be closed immediately. Look, the
Department of Education is a big kanjab.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
So they ranked the top forty countries in the world.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We're ranked number fortieth.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
It is an attempt to take the funding and take
the right from each and every charge.
Speaker 9 (04:02):
The United States does not believe that NATO membership for
Ukraine is a realistic outcome.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I want him to succeed, but I think he's been
a little bit of over skis the last the last
few days.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
You Ukraine as an equal member of this peace process.
That's an interesting question.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
The Eagle's try to get it in a couple by
the homes. This the turnover at Sicks. It's coberga Kin.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Look las Eagle's team in modern history, Eagles fans Savors
and what are you s.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
What an interesting speaking style? The great steels teaman? What
they all start talking like that? Am I the only
one that feels like the super Bowl was not this
last year? Again, that happens.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's one of the reasons we do clips of the
week regularly. There's stuff in there like that was this week?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It feels like it was a month and a half.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Absolutely that. But that's the modern pace of life, man,
which can't be good for us. We're all aging like
presidents because of that. A couple of things in there. Uh.
Pete Haggzeth earlier in the week he's the Secretary of
Defense said, uh, no way that were United States would
get involved or troops on the ground, or they're getting
any e their territory back or anything like that, and
(05:42):
jd Vance, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal
day walked back a lot of that. Jd Vance flat
out said, I mean, he states, it's not off the
table having US troops in Ukraine to fight Russia if
they don't agree to whatever we want to do. So
Mike lyons, who we have on earlier we hour two
if you want to grab it in the podcast Armstrong
(06:03):
and Getty on Demand, saying, and he's a Pete hegsath fan.
He wants Pete to be successful, but he thinks Pete
was like off the reservation, you know, still hasn't quite
figured out where his role is or how far he
should go on his own, said some things he shouldn't
have said. And that's why Jade Vance did that interview
with the Wall Street Journal to make it clear no, no, no, no,
(06:23):
that's not the policy. We're not giving up our negotiations already.
So I thought that was pretty interesting. There's one other that.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I wanted to mention, but I don't remember what it was.
It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So I was looking at Mark Alpern's newsletter today and
he and he lists a whole bunch of big stories
that are out there right now, and I'll just give
you some of them, because there's so many that the
mainstream media is focused on. Is Trump, you know, being
too friendly with Putin with the Ukraine thing? Trump taking
over the Kennedy Arts Center and going to be the chairman.
(06:56):
Now Elon and Doe Ojin? Is it legal in the
court cases and all that sort of stuff. Is Elon
trying to profit? I have a point for listing all
these before I make the point, Oh, it's closing down
the Department of Education, Mitch McConnell voting with the Democrats
(07:17):
on some of these, all these different stories that are
out there. And Mark Halpin writes, the dirtiest little open
secret of all, known to only about five percent of Washington,
is this the American people in Maine. In other words,
the bulk of the American people do not know about,
or carry about care about any of the items on
(07:39):
this list, above all those things I just mentioned.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That is just flat out true.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
The bulk of voters out there don't know about And
if you tried to explain it to them, they'd say,
why are you telling me this? Care about any of
these stories? And when you're in media, especially left wing media.
It's easy to believe because all your friends care about
it so much. Can you believe Trumps take it over
chairman of the Kennedy Center Arts. Yeah, there's not one
(08:03):
person in one thousand that knows that or cares that
all about it. So that's one of the reasons. It'll
be interesting to see how this turns out over time.
It's gonna lot matter a lot more with the price
of gases or price of eggs. Is yes, then whether
or not Trump's running the Kennedy Arts Center. God, So
the Kennedy Arts Center is a is a I learned
this from reading Charlie Wilson's War fantastic book if you've
(08:27):
ever read it. I didn't dig the movie as much
as the book the Tom Hanks movie, but the book
is absolutely fantastic. But anyway, in the book, Charlie Wilson's
for is when I first learned about the importance of
the Kennedy Arts Center in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Because they have comedians and.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Orchestras and plays and like just all the big arts
from around the world they have come there. But it's
not a very big place, and you got to be
a somebody in Washington, d C. To have, you know,
season tickets or really good seats, and it's it's like
the number one indicator of how big a deal you
are in Washington, d C. The seats you have at
(09:04):
the Kennedy Arts Center and getting to go to all
that stuff. It's just a it's just it's a flex
It's like Kevin. It's a complete status thing. It's a
you know, look what a big deal. Oh you sit
over there, I sit down here, you know, marking of
your territory thing. The Kennedy Art Center. Well, Trump doesn't
like the Kennedy Art Center for all the kind of
reasons you can probably imagine. I mean that my explanation
(09:27):
of it just there made me throw up in my
mouth a little. States. But Kennedy just or Kennedy. Trump
just took over, fired a bunch of people and said
I'm in charge now. I'm the chairman of the board
for the Kennedy Art Center. I mean, he's going to
run the thing now, which is uh. But anyway, they're
quoting somebody here in the Washington Post. Trump's comments collapsed
(09:50):
all the nuance of what we do, said one staffer
at the Kennedy Art Center, who described the work as
a lot more than a job or a passion. My
identity is in this place and now I don't feel safe.
Oh shut up anybody who uses the phrase I don't
feel safe unless you're on the front lines in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
If you say I don't feel safe, I want you
out and kidnapped. Unless you're in the.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Trunk of a car with duct tape on your mouth
and you're trying to go. I don't want you working
for my tax payer money. Anybody that would ever use
the phrase I don't feel safe, I don't want to
pay you.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You're not the right kind of person.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
You're you work at the Kennedy Arts Center and somebody
you got laid off and you say I don't feel safe.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Don't you feel pathetic? You should feel pathetic. God, that's weak.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
It's kind of the party of pathetic though, because they all,
you know, band together for their safe spaces and there
whatever the hell else they it's it's they're triggered movement.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
As Joe always says, speaking of status symbols, for some reason,
for a certain segment of society, the more afraid and
and and bad you feel, you like go up the
status ladder.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, it's trauma bonding. Trauma bonding. Did you make that
up or is that a thing? No, I've read that somewhere.
That's good, we're aware. But that's what it is.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
All these people, they they it's almost like they try
to one up each other on what they've gone through
and then they all have such a good time, like
just laying in their their sadness.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, it's like and you sitting around the table drinking
wine on Gallentine's Day, telling you know how, oh you
think you've got it bad, listen to what happened to me.
And then if you get you get to be the
queen or king of the downtrodden or aggrieved or offended
or whatever exactly.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
And then one of them says something and then somebody
at the end of the table gets triggered, and then
I mean, now, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, god, gosh, yeah, yep, that's exactly right. It's very
very weird.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
SNL sixtieth anniversary of Sunday Night. I want to tell
you a little bit about that, some interesting stuff. I
think I can't wait to watch it all, watch every
minute of it. And then why you should fight your
insurance company all in the way.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Times to everybody. This is very interesting.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
I saw a survey that said fifty six percent of
Americans are planning to celebrate, and they'll each spend an
average of one hundred and eighty eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That's a lot of money. Let's look at some other stats.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
When it comes to making a dinner reservation, forty percent
made it a month before, thirty five percent made it
a week before, twenty five percent just winging pretend chilies was.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
All part of the plan. Don't know you lay you
love chili.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
When it comes to when it comes.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
To expensive presents, seventy percent choose diamond earrings, twenty five
percent choose a gold bracelet, five percent choose half a
dozen eggs.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's very sad because zigs are expensive. Talked about enough
Valentine's Day, probably enough today. But I just I just
think it's a it's there's it's created. There's this created
like myth that Valentine's Day is a real thing for
like loving successful couples. And as I say, every single year,
every successful long term cup well I know more or
(13:01):
less ignores Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So it's for all the unsuccessful people out there to
feel bad.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I don't even know what it is, but actual loving,
great couples that have been together for a long time,
in my experience of the time, pretty much ignore Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
That's because they love each other every day dated, yes,
you know exactly and all that and or don't let
card companies or restaurants convince you of when you express
your love.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But so it's it's almost designed for the people who
don't have what we want out of Valentine's Day. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
I have a funny tweet on my Twitter. I posted
the picture of the meat hearts that I got my
husband for Valentine's Day. It's just beef jerky, but they
have a little funny sayings on them.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And somebody tweeted me back and said, next year is
still beating Elkhart If you really care for them.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You So that joke was from Jimmy Fallon, who was
one of the anchors of the news on Saturday Night
Live when he was like twenty three years old, and
now he hosts a Tonight show. And lots of people
who have been on Saturday Now I've gone on too
big careers. Anyway, their big sixtieth anniversary is a sixty
or fifty fiftieth anniversary show is Sunday Night right because
(14:21):
they started in nineteen seventy five, and the simple math
on that is it's fifty years. So I remember watching
the fortieth anniversary. I kept up on my DVR because
it was ten years ago DVR time, and I watched
it over and over again.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It was so good.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
They brought back so many cast members. And I know
a lot of you are turned off by Saturday Night
Live because of the politics, and they're so left and
unfair and one sided and all that, which they've done
a little less of lately. They've absolutely done less of
that lately. And also, if you don't watch Saturay Live,
it's a minor portion of the show. It's almost always
the cold open and then some of the jokes, but
(14:57):
all the other sketches.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Are just about random stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's like, you know, a couple at a restaurant on
Valentine's Day or something like that, and it's often flipping hilarious.
And like, I think the current cast they've got right
now is about as good as any cast they've had.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I just think they're really great.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But the special on NBC Sunday Night is three hours long.
The one they did for the fortieth was three hours
long because they got to get all these different great
tons of great music guests, like huge music guests that
they got Sunday Night and bringing back the host, and
there'll be a lot of sketch comedy.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I expect it to be a great show. My son
and I are gonna watch it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But here's a cool thing they're doing on Saturday Night,
because obviously they're not going to do a live Saturday
Night Live on Saturday. On Saturday Night eleven thirty Eastern
or one of the cool things about being on the
West Coast, Saturday Night Live is on at.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Eight thirty out here. I don't know if you all
know that.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's great to be able to watch live at eight thirty.
They're rerunning the very first episode of Saturday Night Live
from October nineteen seventy five, the whole episode, which I've
never seen, with George Carlin as the host, and check
that's going to seem very dated and interesting and making
fun of President Ford.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I guess, yeah, yeah, different style of comedy then too.
Oh absolutely, Oh that's going to be great. I'm going
to watch that.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Uh have a big announcement to make re Radio, re Baseball,
re Armstrong and Getty. I'll get to coming up that
we finally can talk about. And also this story that
was in the Wall Street Journal about why you should
push back against your health insurance company when they deny something.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Definitely news you can use.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I just want to share this with everybody because I've
had pretty good success with it in my lifetime. So
all that coming up. If you miss a segment, get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. I hope all
your dreams come true on this Valentine's Today today. And remember,
if your loved one doesn't go absolutely all out, it
means they don't love you. Oh stop it, knock it off,
(16:58):
and you should probably break up with them and or
get a lawyer if it's more serious than that.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Anyway, all that stuff on the way, stay here Armstrong
and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Twenty years, I've gotten up every morning on my knees
and prayed that God would put me in a position
where I can end the childhood chronic disease epidemic in
this country. On August twenty third of last year, God
sent me President Trump.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Wow, that's RFK Junior. He is our new Secretary of
Health and Human Services. As we learned earlier in the show,
that is the biggest government bureaucracy on planet Earth by
a lot, and he's going to be running it now.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
And I'm going to talk about insurance just a second,
but I need to tease this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We've got coming up in just a few minutes breaking
Barack Obama romance news. I don't know if you remember
the rumors, Obama, your life's a joke, You're broke. It's
love lives, So stay tuned for that. So this article
(18:07):
on the Wall Street Journal about why you should put
pushback about health claims, I thought was interesting because I
think we've all been in this situation.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You get a bill for something kind of normal. It's
like I have to pay for this? What is the
deal here? And sometimes out of you know, it's thirty
four dollars, I'll just pay it. Well, why isn't this cupboard?
You just pay it? Or sometimes out of.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Well, this is the second letter I've gotten and they
say they're going to turn it over to collection services,
and it's sixty two dollars. I'll just pay it because
I don't want to end up with a mark on
my credit or whatever. But this Wall Street Journal article
says that the insurance companies reject five billion claims or
there are five billion total claims a year, eight hundred
and fifty million are rejected. And according to the journal,
(19:01):
people who challenge that are regularly successful. And I know
I've had that situation before a lot of times, just
with benign neglect. They send me the bill, I don't
pay it. They send me the second bill.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I don't pay it.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Then all of a sudden it just gets paid because
they realize something they're supposed to pay. I think Joe
thinks Joe's not here today. I think they run it
up the flagpole a lot. This is something we should cover.
But it's not a very big bill, and I'll bet
they'll just go ahead and pay it. Oh well, imagine
how many billions of dollars that adds up to if
(19:33):
you operate with that.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Idea.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So, according to the Lostreet Journal, if you push back regularly,
you will win.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I've got one.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
They use a story in the journal today actually about
a family whose kid has pans, which got my attention
because that's what my son has. And we've been dealing
with for many, many many years, and it's very very
expensive and difficult. Another aside, I don't know if you
knew this, Katie. When my son had his most complicated
(20:03):
medical procedure because of his pans, which was going to
be a really big deal. Friend of the Armstrong and
Getty Show with connections to the President at the time,
Henry got a signed letter from President Trump saying, Hey, Henry,
I know you got a tough thing you're going to
do today. I'm thinking about you sign Donald Trump. That
just gave me chill, actual signed letter from Trump in
(20:25):
the leather bound thing and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Very very cool. That's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I mean, I realize he's probably signs, you know, one
hundred of those a day or whatever, but it was
still very very cool and it meant something to Henry.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
So he still takes time to sit down and sign
a hundred of those a day, you know what I mean, Tuda,
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, it was cool, and I appreciate the dude, uh
who facilitated that. Anyway, back to the insurance stuff. When
I was going through cancer treatment. After my cancer treatment,
my doctor, my cancer doctor, the main one who I
really really like suggested I do this maintenance thing for
my cancer. So I'd just done nine on some chemotherapy
(21:01):
and radiation and was physically at the lowest point in
my life and feeling horrible and uh and all this
and you know, rattled from the whole experience, and my
doctor tells me to do this. Doctor told me all
kinds of things to do over the previous nine months.
I was going to like two doctor's appointments a day
for months and months and months and months. Anyway, doctor
tells me do this. I go in and get this thing.
(21:22):
I get a bill for twenty one thousand dollars in
the mail, WHOA and the insurance company telling me, we
don't we don't cover that. What do you mean you
don't cover it?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
We don't cover it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You should have checked to see if we cover it
before you went and did it. And was I supposed
to check with the one thousand and fifty things that
I've done in the last months. I didn't check with
any of those things to see if they cover it.
I just I just assumed the doctor recommended it and
the hospital did it. It was part of the I
mean I did. How are you gonna even do that.
(21:53):
How long would that take?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I mean, I want to ask about it. Don't they
ask about insurance prior to doing stuff?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Ways?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, I mean, And I hadn't had I'd had so
many different drugs and appointments and biop season, so many
different things that none of them had been rejected. So
I just kind of thought I was on the elevator
or escalator of this. This were this is the process. Yeah,
And so I went ahead and did the thing and
built for twenty one thousand.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Dollars, and oh, I would have thrown up. I was
pretty worried about it because that's a chunk of money.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And I pushed I pushed back on it, and eventually
they did the insurance company said okay, well we'll cover it,
but don't do it again. But if I hadn't pushed
back and I did it with the help of our
friend Craig, the healthcare guru who knows how these things work.
He helped me write the letter and approach it and
everything like that. If I and also my position in
(22:44):
the company, if I wasn't who I was and had
the help I had, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I don't know if I'd have gotten it knocked off
or not.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
But that was scary, and I don't know what they
what the advice is there, because you can't check, especially
when you're in the middle of a health like emergency,
you can't check every single thing. It just it doesn't
work that way. You go to the doctor and they
say you need to be in here Tuesday because your
blood shows this, and we got to get you that,
and I mean, you can't check on every one of
those things.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It's it's unreasonable.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Yeah, hang on, doc, I got to call my insurance
first and then we'll figure out if you can save
my life. This is this seems like there should be
a law against what happened to you because you're already
going through something that is awful and you're very sick,
and then now you've got an insurance company going.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Pay up when you didn't even have.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
To, right I yeah, well I don't know, or maybe
I was supposed to and they the out of the
kindness of their heart. Again, I think my position in
the corporation helped me quite a bit there. But uh yeah,
that's that's that's that's my tale of uh be aware,
got a big announcement to make Michael you're the show historian.
(23:53):
How how long have we been on the air on
our original radio station? We're now on whatever we are,
sixty seventy radio stations. How long have we been on
our original radio station where we started KSDE in Sacramento, California.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
About say twenty a little over twenty six years? My gosh, yeah,
that is just crazy. So in August it will be
twenty seven years. I think you're right, and I say
that it's crazy just because that if that doesn't happen
in radio.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Right, and then we've been on in San Francisco for
twenty two years, but and then add in different stations,
but our original home station KSDAN Sacramento, and we can
now say this out loud. Partnering with iHeartRadio, who owns
KSTE is the home radio station for the Oakland A's.
So this is should be interesting to you if you're
(24:42):
a baseball fan anywhere in the country. It's just it's
just interesting that a Triple A team like the Sacramento
river Cats, there's little stadium is now going to have
the Oakland A's baseball team playing in it for the
next three years, and the stadium only hol I was
talking to the guy in charge of the other day
holds about thirteen thousand people.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Thirteen thousand. The average major.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
League baseball park's like forty to fifty thousand people, even
the intimate ones. It's not like thirteen thousand people. And
you know, the way baseball works, every team in the
major leagues pretty much is going to come through this
little stadium to play the Oakland A's. So if you're
a fan of you know, the Arizona Diamondbacks or whatever,
check the schedule and see went over the next three years,
(25:26):
they'll be playing at this tiny little baseball field and
to co watch like a major League Baseball game in
the Triple A, you know, little compressed version. Oh well,
baseball fans are so excited about it. They're absolutely sold out.
I mean every ticket the whole whole year and the
Oakland A's. If you're not a baseball fan, you don't
(25:47):
know this. They've been putting like five to six thousand
people in there every night to watch games. I mean,
like nobody has been going to Oakland A's games for years.
That's why they're moving to Vegas. But they don't have
the Vegas stadium built yet, so they're playing in Sacramento
for the extra years, and Joe and I are working
at the home station where the broadcast will be, which
would be very cool, Which means we're going to be
there on opening day that morning, will be broadcasting from
(26:10):
the stadium and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
It'll be It'll just be kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Hopefully we get to at some point, I don't know,
throw out a first pitch or hot dog cannon or something.
I don't hot dog cannon, I should we I did
get to do the T shirt cannon out there one time,
and man, you just see somebody you don't like to
look at them.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And I like to look at you. Pow blast blast
right in the face with the T shirt. Yes, Michael
ian to say, with the stadium so small, bring a
glove you might be Yeah. Yeah, bring a glove and
keep your head on a swivel. Yeah, you're gonna be
close to the action.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
That is.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
That is And I think one of the reasons it
sold out so fast is so many fans of other
teams that think cool, I get to see my favorite
team in this little stadium.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And they they've you know, they tried to rearrange to
fit more people and everything like that. But you can't, like,
unless you're gonna rebuild the place or something. There is
not that much you can do. That's a pretty fun
baseball story. We're gonna finish strong.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Next Armstrong and yetty. This is a good one right here.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The best bum air supply huh, Jammic, come on, crack
it up if you want listen to air supply.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I want it loud. I want to be able to
hear the bass thumping. I believe this much, Toupid Man.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Jo.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
That's a woosy song right there. I was just gonna say,
I couldn't tell if you're ring serious or not. Oh no, no, no,
no no. Guy back in the day could like air supply. No, no, no,
no way.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Although this sucks, this isn't my favorite air supply song,
lying alone with my head on my phone is that that's.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The best air supply song. And we all know just enough.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
My favorite Saturday Night Live thing they ever did for
combining Valentine's Day in SNL was a teddy bear holding
a last minute Valentine's Day, and it was you didn't
do this last minute at all, You didn't forget Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
A teddy bear holding a heart, and it's.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
The idea of a little stuffed teddy bear with a
heart in its hands that you can buy. As it
says on the Saturday Night Live fake ad, you can
get anywhere they sell milk. I mean you can get
it at the seven eleven. You could get it at
the grocery store, you can get it at a gas station.
You can buy it absolutely anything. It is the expression
of I did the very least I could do to
(28:35):
acknowledge that we.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Have our relationship. Here's a child's toy. Yeah, exactly, a
teddy bear holding a heart. Oh that is so funny.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
My son has a Valentine's Day dance at his high
school tonight and he doesn't have a date. His last
couple of dances he actually had he was in a
relationship with a girl. But he doesn't this time, and
he's going so long. I don't know if he's planning
to dance or not. I don't really know if he
he's a well, ask a a girl to dance, or
stands around with his friend. Dude's you know, whyse cracking
(29:08):
or what what what he's planning to do?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
But he goes.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
He likes going, and he tries to dress well, So
he said, a couple of girlfriends already. He said, he's
ahead of.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Me by a lot, So you get dressed up.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, if I Could's funny. I was just texted with
somebody about that. If you could tell that it was somebody.
Somebody texted me that when they were a little girl,
they were the one that got skunks, the skunk Valentine Day,
Valentine's daycards. If you haven't heard about this, it's something
that used to happen back in the day.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
It was awful, but she was not.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
She says she was very awkward when she was a kid.
She's definitely not now. And I said, wouldn't it be
nice if you could go back and tell that person's
going to be fine, that you are someday going to
be attractive to the other sex, have many, many options,
it's going to be fine. Oh my god, the amount
of pain that would be lifted. Yeah, you know, it's
just maybe it's part of the human experience or whatever.
(30:04):
But I was thinking about in terms of the dance,
if I could go back and tell the young me,
would be go freaking ask her to dance?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Good lord? If she says no, one laughs In your face.
Who freaking cares? Good Lord, fourteen year old Jack would
have cared. She laughed in his face.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I just wish that you could have the maturity of
age at that time. And you don't care.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
You're laughing at me. I know how you're gonna turn out.
I've seen the future. Keep your laughs to yourself. I
got rusher tooth. Oh my god, Oh the torture of
that sort of thing. And I admire the guys. I
can picture some of the guys in high school that
didn't have any of those I don't know, nervousness or
any of that sort of stuff. They did go ask
(30:48):
the person to dance, or ask them out of the
date or whatever. I was not that person. Yeah, and
I wish I could go back. If I had a
time machine, I'd go back and say, you have to
ask her. I probably still wouldn't have. Of course, you know,
you ask her, she dances with you. Next next thing,
you know, you go to the Sonic, you have a burger,
(31:09):
you're dating, You get her pregnant. Your life changes for oh,
maybe I'm related quickly. Here's the SNL thing. I don't
know if we have time for all of it.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Your girlfriend is beautiful, sexy and one of a kind.
So this Valentine's Day, get her a gift that's as
special and unique as she is. Some dumb little thing
from CBS because you're already bear mind torna paper and
mother man, it's Valentine's Day. The CBS says, all the
(31:44):
heartfelt gifts your long term girlfriend wants, like a small
bear dressed like a bee with hearts that say be mine.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh when did you get this?
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Explosit gifts she'll treasure for a her And if your
woman loves jewelry, look no further than I'll ate the
front half. The back half is dog food. There you'll
find this beautiful hardpin and necklace for only a dollar
ninety nine, recommended by our season jewelry associate.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Ye, it's really good.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Or get her a gift that really screams her. A
tiny heart shaped box of chocolates with the teenage mutant
Ninja turtles on the front. They really put the chalk
in chocolate for a naughty surprise.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
You know she'll love.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
Pickup some g rated CBS brand sex guys.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's okay, So you get the point. And as Joel
always says about this sort of stuff. These businesses are
multi gazillion dollar conglomerates. They know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
They wouldn't stock that stuff if they weren't selling it.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Somebody's going in there and buying the dollar ninety nine
jewelry and little crappy candies the day of Valentine's because
it's in the aisle right now.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Somebody's doing that. Hey kids, it's that time again with
Armstrong and Getty. Oh that's nice. When did you When
did you get this one minute ago? Here's your host
for final thoughts.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Me.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Here's our techno director Michaelangelo on Valentine's Day, dressed as
a giant heart, dressed as cubanes.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
What's your final thought, Michael, Well.
Speaker 9 (33:26):
I gotta go home, touch up my red paint, put
the flowers, you know, rose petals on the bed, and
I got the ten dollars bill for the Chilis hostess,
so I can get a window seat.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
So we're all set.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
We're gonna slip for a ten a ten so you
can sit by the window and keep an eye on
your car. Yeah, here's a newsperson, Katie Green. Katie, Oh,
what's some news?
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Barack and Michelle Obama have been seen together for the
first time in weeks in a Valentine's Day selfie, which
means he's not boinking.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Wow, First of all, haven't heard blinking in a long time.
That's a good one. And secondly, I.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Feel like that's trying a little too hard.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
You didn't show up to the inauguration, lots of rumors around,
and then on Valentine's Day you oppost to selfie.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
It's simple, they love each other. That didn't end the rumor.
To me, I think that accentuated the rumor.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
My final thought is, uh, don't let this dumb.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Day put any pressure on you, regardless of your relationship situation,
whether you've got a good one or none or whatever.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, meaningful, Armstrong and.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour work day. Monday
is a holiday President's Day. We'll see on Tuesday because
there'll be lots of news. There are a lot of
government employees, like thousands and thousands and thousands across the
country getting the letters that they're no longer needed, and
that's going to have political implications, I guarantee you, among
other things, God bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
And I said, boy, they look like two people that
like each other.
Speaker 9 (34:57):
Yes, just yes, I mean obviously it's not very listen here,
we grab your ass up my hair, stand up.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Let hell break out. I have no idea why you
would do something like that. You could do practically anything else.
The one final message, let's go bye bye, a great Friday,
you mother, Armstrong and Gaddy.
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