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August 21, 2025 14 mins

On the Thursday August 21, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...

  • I your ancestry really that significant?  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You met Grandma and to Kegger and you're both drunk.
I'll be damned. It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty,
one more thing.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Before we get to whatever horror that is. I'm going
to do an in podcast tease of the radio show,
or I guess our other podcasts I've never done before.
So we talked about shreking on the radio today. Shreking
is the concept of women dating guys who are unattractive

(00:32):
on purpose, with the idea that the guy will treat
them better. You feel like, we'll be so grateful. It
includes the term dating down, which I find horrific. Anybody
who ever uses that term should be Joe said, thrown
into a volcano. Ye ye, if you're dating down, that
is that is not good dating down whatever the hell

(00:54):
that means.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Evil.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
But if you want to hear more about that horrible
concept of shrekking, which actually exists, apparently according to a
friend of mine who texted me and said, oh yeah,
lots of her friends in La do it. They date
have done it. They date less attractive guys than they deserve,
which is an interesting term, thinking they'll treat them better.
But we did that an hour two of the Armstrong

(01:16):
and Getty show, so look for the podcast Armstrong and
Getty on demand.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Horrified by that, I know anyway, So I thought this
was actually semi charming at first. It doesn't seem so,
but hang with it. Ordering having somebody write a memoir.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
For you of you, unless you've done something really interesting
her historic in your life, does there need to be
a memoir?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
I like this headline you met Grandma at a keg party.
The rich order one hundred thousand dollars memoirs for family
only grab her headline kind of click baity. Subhead's kind
of amusing too. Some just want their heirs to know
they worked hard for their money, while others are more forthcoming.
By one and only acid trip blah blah blah. But

(02:04):
they profile this gal who's ninety two. Rudy is her
name with an eye. She paid twelve thousand dollars, so
I don't know where the headline with one hundred grand
came from there. I don't think they mentioned anybody paid
anywhere near that. But she paid twelve thousand dollars for
one hundred and eighty five page book about her family

(02:25):
and her life history and her family history from life
book memoirs. The book, entitled From Mensingen to Lake Chellen,
starts off with her German immigrant grandparents living in a
sad dugout on a Nebraska farm. At the end of
the nineteenth century, five of the couple's fourteen children died,
including two in a lightning strike. Ooh Ms Paully and

(02:47):
her late husband Jim were the majority owners of a
Washington State fruit business that packed two million boxes of
apples and cherries a year, which is now very big
and successful. But she says, quote, I want to my
kids to realize is realize the sacrifice is made by
the family which led to our current lifestyle. I think
that could be so lost. And again again it's funny

(03:13):
the clickbaity headlines like trying to make you resent the rich,
but a couple of the stories they go through are
utterly charming. And I'm reminded, Jack of your stories about
your dad who didn't have indoor plumbing till what college.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
When he left home. When he graduated high school, they
still didn't have electricity or plumbing.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Right late thirties or nineteen forty issues more.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Than thirty seven. He graduated high school in fifty five. Yeah, Katie,
you grew up in San Francisco. It's hard to imagine
in nineteen fifty five in Iowa they didn't have electricity,
because in San Francisco they had electricity in like eighteen eighty. Yeah,
that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
But I think like your kids are, if grandkids ever
come along them, hearing that is really good and interesting
and helps them understand history and how what is now
hasn't always been.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
And yeah, no, I agree, because then.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
You realize what is now won't necessarily always be, so
you can change it if you like.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
I agree with that for two generations. I was somebody
was talking about this the other day, and I agreed
that for whatever reason, you really only can wrap your
head around or have much interest in, like your parents
you're interested in and your grandparents, who you've probably met.
But you go back one more generation to people you've
never even met, and maybe there aren't even pictures of it.
It drops off pretty quickly, which is your interest in them?

(04:36):
I think?

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh, I disagree. I disagree. I mean, if you're not
into the whole genealogy thing, I get that, But if
I knew more about my great grandparents and their lives
and their struggles. I think that's fascinating.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
The problem is because I went I did. I got
shortly really into the ancestry dot com thing, and I
paid the huge price to be on it for a
while and filled in all the stuff and everything. But
then I quickly realized you don't have to go back
very many generations before you're like looking at one of
sixteen and then one of thirty two, and it just

(05:09):
it's such a minor part of your history. That's where
I lose interest.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Well, especially because there's generally very little that's recorded or
to be said. But if it was something more memoirsh
if my great great grandfather, even my great grandfather had
written a memoir, uh, I would find that absolutely fascinating.
But I see your point. If it's like an inch
deep and there's some guy named Jebediah Getty who lived

(05:37):
from eighteen seventy to nineteen oh seven, I mean, okay, and.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
There one sixty fourth or one hundred and twenty eighth
of your lineage.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Right right, it can be interesting the whole I have
an ancestor who dot dot dot. We've discussed this before.
I don't mean to squash people's innocent fun. I really do.
But it's not that significant. Like the whole pathetic and

(06:07):
I mean pathetic celebrity who finds out that fourteen generations
ago or whatever it is one of their ancestors' own
slaves and they're just devastated by it. You have a
soft effing head. Get over it. You had heroes, you
had villains, You had people who worked hard, never got

(06:29):
very far, but their loved ones loved them and everything
in between. And so does everybody else. Now if you
were like your direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln, all right,
I'll raise a glass to you. Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Were the Mayflower families? I know they have a shin
dig every year if you're a direct descendant of the Mayflower.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, okay, great, I'm sorry to me. That's that's the
little pathetic.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
But you'd be one. I don't even want it to be,
but it would have to be one. Like at this point,
eight thousandth of your lineage.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
What does that mean.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
I don't know what it means. I'll tell you what
it means. It means absolutely nothing.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, yeah, but be finds out.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Having everybody doing some sort of well, there will be
a memoir for everybody starting like twenty years ago going forward.
That's the norm McDonald routine of like, you know, everybody
had one picture of their great grandpa. He's standing there
looking like a farmer. It's the only picture you've ever seen,
have you great grandpa?

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Right?

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, in the future, you'll say, hey, do you want
to see fifty thousand pictures of my great grandfather? Because
you'll have everything that ever happened in their entire lives
that was on Instagram or Facebook or whatever it was.
So they kind of will have a memoir of everybody
starting in like two thousand and ten and going forward,
whether they wrote one or not.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Katie, I think you've heard this that I found out.
I've known for a long time that on my dad's
mom's side of the family, they're directly descended from Lincoln
Secretary War who helped save the Union. And it turns
out on my mom's side of the family, her mom's
side of the family, they're all from South Carolina and

(08:07):
we're movers and shakers in the secession movement. So which
color do I wear in the Civil War? Reenact? What
part of my identity should I really rest on? Which side? See,
that's the point y'all had a murderer and you had
a copper arrested murderers. You had a hero, you had

(08:28):
a villain, and everything in between. Just be you, you be you,
and then pay ten thousand dollars and have your memoir
written because in a couple of generations it might be
mildly interesting.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
When things go south for you and the media comes
to me, I won't mention that you were a descended
of slaveholders, so.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
It makes sense, you know, yeah, figures liberal. The liberal
media would print that without comment, absolutely easily, absolutely, like
you're making some sort of really important point.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
So the people writing these memoirs, I'm assuming they obviously
sit down and talk to the people.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Get their hours and hours of interviews.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Hours and hours. So can you take that part of
it out, insert all of that information into chat GPT
and get this done for nothing?

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Probably?

Speaker 1 (09:21):
What an interesting question.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Because I would think you give us the prom chat.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
GPT, take all of that stuff and write a memoir
for me that's.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Exactly two hundred and fifteen pages long or whatever.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, I would have to have a Mike the lawyer
from Chicago who was one of my best friends from
uh middle school on and has a dozen unbelievable stories
about me that I have no memory of. Wow, until
he tells them. Then I'm like, oh wow, I can

(09:56):
picture that scene, but unrecalled, no memory, I'd never think
of him again. As long as I love, I love
people like that. I remember so little of my youth.
It's it's kind of tragic and might have to do
with concussions. I don't know, but I would need him,
and I would need a panel of people, because if
you just interview me, it's like, you know, I for

(10:16):
whatever reason, I read musician autobiographies and stuff because I'm
music freak, and some of them telling long detailed stories
about the nineteen seventy one tour when we blah blah blah.
I'm like, how the hell do you remember that stuff?
But it's a gift. I guess. I envy people like that.
I am.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I recently had somebody tell me a story that I
didn't know anything about with me in it because of drinking.
But it was just like and I had no idea
and they didn't even know I was drunk at the time,
but so and to find out, I was like, God,
I wonder how many stories I have either forgotten from
childhood or forgotten from adult drinking of like just my

(10:57):
own life, my own life story. I can watch a
movie of things like and be all news to me,
things that have happened in my life.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Well right, yeah, you want to hear something crazy? I
have on two different occasions, probably saved somebody's life. And
the one I had practically no memory of alcohol was
involved in that one. And the other one the guy
I hadn't seen him in the years, and he greeted
with me with, oh my god, there's it's the guy
who saved my life, Joe, how are you? And I'm like, eh, what,

(11:30):
And I totally i'd forgotten about it. I remember that
incident pretty clearly now that he reminded me. But yeah,
I just my.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Brain just doesn't work like I would have thought jumping
in front of that charging bowl you would have remember that.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
But yeah, yeah, well he only took out one of
my testicles with his horns, so I just I guess
I just think about the others left. Yeah, yeah, I
would have respond. One was the guy, Oh go ahead,
how would you respond?

Speaker 3 (11:55):
I would have responded, I'm sorry, I've saved a lot
of lives, can you?

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Professor kind of thing, kind of my thing, freighting live.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
So one guy was going over a high railing and
I just grabbed him with both hands and hauled him
back because he was hammered. God knows, it would have
been very bad damage. He might not have died. He
might have just, you know, severe concussion or something. Do
you see the other guy? Pardon me, you saved a
concussion at minimum. And the other guy was had viral meningitis,

(12:26):
and nobody knew what to do. They're like, just let
him sleep, and I said, he's not asleep, he's unconscious.
We're calling nine to one one right now. And I
called him and they came and he would have died
within what they said six hours or something. Wow geese anyway,
but I didn't remember. That's why I have such clarity
in an emergency, because I'm unencumbered by, like any other thoughts.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Just a quick reminder that if you do any of
the ancestrus stuff, give him usalive sample, not a stool sample, right,
all right.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Hey, it screws up the results. Yes, that's right, Michael,
before you go, before we go, ever you go, and
he's got to have to off the top of their head.
What is the title of your memoir that you have
ghost written. Now, because I've put this demand upon you,
I will go first.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
I know what minded me. I'll give you time to think.
This is something I say all the time, and I'm
not proud of it. Shooting for a bee, that's my
entire life. Shooting for Jack Armstrong is not excellent, just
you know, slightly above average. That's all I ever really
hoped for.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Mine would be focus, try to focus the Joe Getty story,
Michael or Katie. Who's up next? I think Mike, Michael
looks like he's he's I'm still thinking.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Oh, you're still thinking it.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
I would be something along the lines of like more
coffee or something i'd like because I'm always tired, coffee or.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
IV of caffeine. That sucks being always tired. My son's
like that too, just always exhausted for some reason.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, yeah, I can relate. As the great Eric Clapton said, Jack,
you hit me with this quote many years ago, speaking
of things I do and don't remember. There's never been
a moment of my life I haven't wanted to lie
down or felt like lying down.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
That's my memoir.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah, Yeah, mine would be meteorocity like a warm bath.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
There you go. That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
That's nice, good imagery.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well, I guess that's it.
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