September 29, 2025 • 8 mins
On the Monday September 29, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...
- Jack brings us some oddball trivia!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've gotten desperate. It's One More Thing, Armstrong and Getty.
Before I get to the desperation of the One More
Thing podcast, I will tell a story I've told on
the Armstrong and Getty radio show a couple of different times,
but I think it fits in with the looming government shutdown,
which I don't care about at all. It's just a
(00:21):
fascinating story from one of Bob Woodward's books. Several years ago,
when Obama was president, we were facing a government shutdown
and Nancy Pelosi and John Bayner could not come to
an agreement on some terms to avoid the government shutdown.
And the person trying to put the deal together was
(00:42):
ramam Manuel, who you may know was Obama's chief of staff,
became the mayor of Chicago, and I think has a
decent chance of becoming the Democratic nominee for president and
the next president of the United States. Anyway, Rama Manuel
is in the room when Nancy Pelosi and a Bayner
are saying we're at an impasse. There's just no solving
this problem. There's just no solving it. We're gonna have
(01:03):
to have a shutdown, and they decide they're gonna go home,
and Ram Emmanuel says, hold on, hold on, before you
go home. Just Nancy, right down the lowest number you're
willing to take. And then he said to Baynard, right
down the highest number you're willing to take, you know.
And I don't know what the numbers wire, it doesn't matter,
but they were like Nancy's was like four and his
(01:25):
was like six or whatever. And he said, how about it,
and ram Emmanniel said, okay, how about if we do five?
And they looked at each other and said, yeah, I'd
go for five. I would too, And that's how they
settled it, just pointing out that sometimes it's just that
basic and moronic, and nobody hadn't occurred to anybody to
(01:47):
do that. I guess I just thought that was fascinating.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right right. Well, that's why arbitration is a thing, because
if you get the two parties just dealing with their
s on their own, they'll never do something that calm
and obvious because they got their dukes up and they're
just somebody says, it's that's simple, and oh, oh, so
(02:14):
you do have you do have a overlap?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
How are we split the overlap in half?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And I'll go home.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, exactly anyway, so that's probably what will happen in
the next twenty four hours. So to my opening where
I said, it's come to this or we're down to this,
or we've gotten this desperate. I have random pieces of
trivia that I think are mildly to above interesting, including Katie.
(02:41):
I just went to Grock chat GPT and what's the
other one that I use? Gemini, Gemini, Claude, would I use?
I use Claude and I just said, give me a
piece of interesting trivia? Chat GPTs was somewhat interesting. Dolphins
can rectognize themselves in mirrors. One of the very few
(03:02):
beasts that can do this. They've done tests to show
that this, but there's only like that and the chimpanzees
are pretty much it that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Really interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
For what is it, I don't I'm not sure it is.
According to groc, an octopus has three hearts. I found
that less than interesting. This is the one I actually
liked from Claude. And then I've got a couple more.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Cows have four stomachs.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Ah yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Although they all have different like jobs. Right.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, there's a very famous thing at UC Davis. I
live in Davis, California. They've got I think the cow
used to be alive. I don't think it's alive anymore,
but they had a living cow with a window in
its side.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Of Illinois, one of the great agricultural schools on Earth
has had mirrored windowed cows for ages. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, and then you can look at their stomachs
and how the whole thing works. Here's your piece of
trivia from.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Some of the undergrads have Chindo's Michael Awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Did you miss out on the Chindo trend?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Okay, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It was hot for like a week. You know how
some people get their ear lobe stretched out? You did that, right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I did, like an idiot.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Get your ear lobes stretched out, a variety of other
things to like shock their parents or whatever you're trying
to do. People getting a window, oh hole cut out
in the bottom of their like below your lip, so
you can see their teeth through there.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
They're doing those does. Now they're doing the nostrils nose does.
I just made that word up, But they're they're gauging
their sides of their nose so you can see into
their noses.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yes, it's oh seriously, uh huh, oh.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
My god, I hope neither one of my kids does that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Come on in China?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, come on in.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Or a volcano eruption or ai or something. It's over.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Can't you just wear a T shirt that says I'm
mad at my parents or or uh whenever an interval.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
With conforming with the norms of society as it currently.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Exists, instead of doing something like that. Here's what it
is gross. I do not want to stare into your
skull like that. Get away from me. Just hand me
my coffee, let me go, because I assume you're a barista.
This piece of trivia from Claude. Cleopatra lived closer in
time to the moon landing than to the construction of
(05:26):
the Great Pyramid of Giza. That's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I've heard that sort of comparison before. Yeah, the ancient
world was so much more ancient than I think a
lot of people understand.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Was one of the greatest parts of the British Museum
in London was their collection of just mind bogglingly old
and antiquities and just to think of people writing and
recording what they wanted to do and their thoughts and
their complaints and all thousands and thousands of years ago,
and as it turns out, they were usually pretty mundane.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yep, Three more little pieces of trivia. Four are you?
The word muscle comes from the Latin musculus, meaning little mouse,
because flexed biceps resemble mice. I don't think they do, No,
they don't.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's a stupid origin of a word.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Bad job Latin Latinos, Who do I blame for this?
LATINX is the term a blue whale's tongue alone can
weigh as much as an elephant, about three tons. Just
a blue whaless tongue waste three tons? And then finally
this one.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Is whale tongue meet a delicacy anywhere among the Menuit
people perhaps, or maybe it is you.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Have you ever seen those videos when they get washed
up on the beach and they have to blow them up?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh sure, sure videos.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You get a big chunk of whale goo on you.
And then finally this one. Ancient Romans used to brush
their teeth with their urine. Okay, me too, actually does
actually doesn't save their urine. It just says urine, So
I guess it's up somebody's could be somewhat. Steve's here exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Hey Steve, I've run a little dry. Yeah, here's a
take this cup brush out.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Ancient Romans used to brush their teeth with urine, yes,
because the ammonia whitened them effectively. They wanted white teeth,
just like we do today. They just didn't have the
modern crush strips. So glad we found a way around
that one.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yes, the urine, it's a money saver.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
To Michael, huh, you know who is not concerned with
having white teeth. I just came across this the other
day because I think he's got a new album out,
the British Van Morrison, who is Irish from the British Isles. Uh.
Van Morrison is not concerned with how white his teeth are.
If you see a recent picture of him, it's like
he's got little baked beans there.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
How old is the great songmeister?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Pretty Old got an album out. Boy is interested in
the people, the people that he's not as old as
I thought. His teeth his teeth look like.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Teeth one hundred and six and yeah, oh yeah, that's bad.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Who he's giving up? He just doesn't brush anymore. Yes,
he has decided I am not going to worry about
a white White teeth.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Are so gross.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Well join us. Next time.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We will discuss obscure scrabble words.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well, I guess that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Uses a que
We've gotten desperate. It's One More Thing, Armstrong and Getty.
Before I get to the desperation of the One More
Thing podcast, I will tell a story I've told on
the Armstrong and Getty radio show a couple of different times,
but I think it fits in with the looming government shutdown,
which I don't care about at all. It's just a
(00:21):
fascinating story from one of Bob Woodward's books. Several years ago,
when Obama was president, we were facing a government shutdown
and Nancy Pelosi and John Bayner could not come to
an agreement on some terms to avoid the government shutdown.
And the person trying to put the deal together was
(00:42):
ramam Manuel, who you may know was Obama's chief of staff,
became the mayor of Chicago, and I think has a
decent chance of becoming the Democratic nominee for president and
the next president of the United States. Anyway, Rama Manuel
is in the room when Nancy Pelosi and a Bayner
are saying we're at an impasse. There's just no solving
this problem. There's just no solving it. We're gonna have
(01:03):
to have a shutdown, and they decide they're gonna go home,
and Ram Emmanuel says, hold on, hold on, before you
go home. Just Nancy, right down the lowest number you're
willing to take. And then he said to Baynard, right
down the highest number you're willing to take, you know.
And I don't know what the numbers wire, it doesn't matter,
but they were like Nancy's was like four and his
(01:25):
was like six or whatever. And he said, how about it,
and ram Emmanniel said, okay, how about if we do five?
And they looked at each other and said, yeah, I'd
go for five. I would too, And that's how they
settled it, just pointing out that sometimes it's just that
basic and moronic, and nobody hadn't occurred to anybody to
(01:47):
do that. I guess I just thought that was fascinating.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right right. Well, that's why arbitration is a thing, because
if you get the two parties just dealing with their
s on their own, they'll never do something that calm
and obvious because they got their dukes up and they're
just somebody says, it's that's simple, and oh, oh, so
(02:14):
you do have you do have a overlap?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
How are we split the overlap in half?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And I'll go home.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, exactly anyway, so that's probably what will happen in
the next twenty four hours. So to my opening where
I said, it's come to this or we're down to this,
or we've gotten this desperate. I have random pieces of
trivia that I think are mildly to above interesting, including Katie.
(02:41):
I just went to Grock chat GPT and what's the
other one that I use? Gemini, Gemini, Claude, would I use?
I use Claude and I just said, give me a
piece of interesting trivia? Chat GPTs was somewhat interesting. Dolphins
can rectognize themselves in mirrors. One of the very few
(03:02):
beasts that can do this. They've done tests to show
that this, but there's only like that and the chimpanzees
are pretty much it that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Really interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
For what is it, I don't I'm not sure it is.
According to groc, an octopus has three hearts. I found
that less than interesting. This is the one I actually
liked from Claude. And then I've got a couple more.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Cows have four stomachs.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Ah yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Although they all have different like jobs. Right.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, there's a very famous thing at UC Davis. I
live in Davis, California. They've got I think the cow
used to be alive. I don't think it's alive anymore,
but they had a living cow with a window in
its side.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Of Illinois, one of the great agricultural schools on Earth
has had mirrored windowed cows for ages. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, and then you can look at their stomachs
and how the whole thing works. Here's your piece of
trivia from.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Some of the undergrads have Chindo's Michael Awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Did you miss out on the Chindo trend?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Okay, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It was hot for like a week. You know how
some people get their ear lobe stretched out? You did that, right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I did, like an idiot.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Get your ear lobes stretched out, a variety of other
things to like shock their parents or whatever you're trying
to do. People getting a window, oh hole cut out
in the bottom of their like below your lip, so
you can see their teeth through there.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
They're doing those does. Now they're doing the nostrils nose does.
I just made that word up, But they're they're gauging
their sides of their nose so you can see into
their noses.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yes, it's oh seriously, uh huh, oh.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
My god, I hope neither one of my kids does that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Come on in China?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, come on in.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Or a volcano eruption or ai or something. It's over.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Can't you just wear a T shirt that says I'm
mad at my parents or or uh whenever an interval.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
With conforming with the norms of society as it currently.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Exists, instead of doing something like that. Here's what it
is gross. I do not want to stare into your
skull like that. Get away from me. Just hand me
my coffee, let me go, because I assume you're a barista.
This piece of trivia from Claude. Cleopatra lived closer in
time to the moon landing than to the construction of
(05:26):
the Great Pyramid of Giza. That's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I've heard that sort of comparison before. Yeah, the ancient
world was so much more ancient than I think a
lot of people understand.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Was one of the greatest parts of the British Museum
in London was their collection of just mind bogglingly old
and antiquities and just to think of people writing and
recording what they wanted to do and their thoughts and
their complaints and all thousands and thousands of years ago,
and as it turns out, they were usually pretty mundane.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yep, Three more little pieces of trivia. Four are you?
The word muscle comes from the Latin musculus, meaning little mouse,
because flexed biceps resemble mice. I don't think they do, No,
they don't.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's a stupid origin of a word.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Bad job Latin Latinos, Who do I blame for this?
LATINX is the term a blue whale's tongue alone can
weigh as much as an elephant, about three tons. Just
a blue whaless tongue waste three tons? And then finally
this one.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Is whale tongue meet a delicacy anywhere among the Menuit
people perhaps, or maybe it is you.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Have you ever seen those videos when they get washed
up on the beach and they have to blow them up?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh sure, sure videos.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You get a big chunk of whale goo on you.
And then finally this one. Ancient Romans used to brush
their teeth with their urine. Okay, me too, actually does
actually doesn't save their urine. It just says urine, So
I guess it's up somebody's could be somewhat. Steve's here exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Hey Steve, I've run a little dry. Yeah, here's a
take this cup brush out.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Ancient Romans used to brush their teeth with urine, yes,
because the ammonia whitened them effectively. They wanted white teeth,
just like we do today. They just didn't have the
modern crush strips. So glad we found a way around
that one.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yes, the urine, it's a money saver.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
To Michael, huh, you know who is not concerned with
having white teeth. I just came across this the other
day because I think he's got a new album out,
the British Van Morrison, who is Irish from the British Isles. Uh.
Van Morrison is not concerned with how white his teeth are.
If you see a recent picture of him, it's like
he's got little baked beans there.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
How old is the great songmeister?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Pretty Old got an album out. Boy is interested in
the people, the people that he's not as old as
I thought. His teeth his teeth look like.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Teeth one hundred and six and yeah, oh yeah, that's bad.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Who he's giving up? He just doesn't brush anymore. Yes,
he has decided I am not going to worry about
a white White teeth.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Are so gross.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Well join us. Next time.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We will discuss obscure scrabble words.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well, I guess that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Uses a que
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