September 2, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of the Monday September 2, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay features..
- Jack's Elliptical / Inertia of Things
- Movie Brain/ PE Class is different now
- Trump Interrupted at Debates /Trump Mics /Women Use Tools
- Bidets/ Circus
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Catty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Armstrong, and Jettie and he Armstrong and Catty Strong and
so I wish I knew the actual number on this.
I don't.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Maybe you'd have a guess what do you think I
paid for my used elliptical I bought fifteen years ago.
It's a really good one. It's actually from a gym,
so it's the heavy duty commercial quality, sure, like you
use at the gym. It's freaking really really good. But
I bought it used. Did you have a guess what
(00:59):
I probably paid for?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It? Knew when it was new used.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
When I bought it from Craigslist, five hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I was going to go seven hundred. You think it
was a gym quality?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, more than that, because I bought one much more
recently than that.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I'm just trying to figure hundreds too low, Like twelve
hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah might have been anyway, because I just moved it.
For see, I was living in that house, moved to
that house, moved to this house. This is the fourth
place I've had it in and I've I've used it.
I don't know what the total I've spent on moving it.
I just googling to see roughly what it costs. But
(01:45):
this is the fourth place I've moved it to, and
so because it weighs more than three hundred pounds, there's
a special price for that.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So I paid a couple of hundred bucks to have
it moved again.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
The total amount of time cumulative that I've spent on
that elliptical machine has got to be less than twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
In fifteen years. And fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Wow, you can get like a high dollar hooker for
a lower hourly rate than that.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, I'm not worried about the price.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I'm putting it in the category of is this the stupidest, craziest,
least sensical thing I've ever done in my life?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And that's a high bar, trust me.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
They like, do you have a plan in life where
you're like, I'm gonna I'm gonna get on that thing
that's gonna be after work going home thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I guess, Okay, I guess I do.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's hard to get a good quality gym level used
elliptical for less than fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Okay, I might just essentially what I remember.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I might have spent one thousand dollars on it, but
I've spent another thousand dollars moving it four times at
least and again cumulative over fifteen years twenty minutes, and
I'm probably on the high end. Use it or sell
it in a minute and a half per year. Yeah,
(03:12):
I mean, use it or sell it, Jack, You used
it or sell it at what point?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now? Yeah, it's not. It's sort of become like a
I don't know, almost like a joke. Now.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I was one of those sorry folks that fell victim
to the Peloton during COVID, the Peloton bikes, and I
used that thing twice and then it turned into a
really nice clothing rack, and I was like, I gotta
get rid of this thing.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Right, Wow, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I've used a Peloton more than that at the gym,
but not for some time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So the seat and that it.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Did not love the seats, and I got a piece
of gear. You don't actually said, yeah where were we?
Oh yeah, give yourself two weeks and then get rid
of the damn thing. Quit throwing good money after bad.
Although you say, it's kind of become almost a family.
It's kind of be an heirloom of futility a Charlie Brownish.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I kept thinking my kids might use it. Yes, Michael, No,
I say just dump it, just take it to the dump. No, no, no,
it's definitely too nice.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I would I would give it to a family or
something before I take it to the dump, because it's
a great piece of equipment.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It really really is high quality, really good one.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Here's what you do. I got a brilliant idea. You
just you're in a store, you're walking down the street.
You come across a heavy set person and you say, hey,
I noticed you're pretty porky.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I have an elliptical for you. You probably have bad knees,
right carrying that luggage around. Huh. You don't want to
run or walk. That's what it's great about the ellipticals.
All you have to do is pick.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
It up as I'll walk up there and say, you're
probably what thirty three, thirty four thirty four?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
What bmi? Probably thirty four BMI? Wow, I an elliptical.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Yeah, go up and put a measuring tape around their waist.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Jeez, oh my god. Yeah, I'll tell you what there.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
What's underrated by people who don't understand economies and markets
and that sort of thing is the concept of and
I don't know the technical term, but it's the infrastructure
to sell, the ability to you know, obviously, take in
money and give out a product.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's the obvious part, that's the easy part.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
But to hold an inventory, to ship it, to deliver it,
to be a place where multiple buyers can come and
the price can be set by the free market as
opposed to add dude with analyptical who wants to get
rid of it?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You are in such a weak position.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I will tell you Facebook marketplace and offer up as
where I've gotten rid of both of my pieces of
exercise equipment that were large, and you can select by
pickup only.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh okay, it's worked easily.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So Joe and I both had had Nordic tracks twenty
five years ago because we were endorsing Nordic track thank
you Gladys. And it was the nicest Nordic tracks they made,
so they were kind of expensive and I used that
one like I don't know five minutes anyway, when I
went to move, I wasn't gonna haul that across the country,
(06:17):
and I uh, I think I put an ad in
the paper for it. That's how long it was ago,
and nobody was interested. And then I asked people around
and nobody was interested. And then I took it to
the good Will and they said look over there, and
in the corner they had like fifteen norder tracks.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Said, we're not taking any more tracks. And I tried.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I drove around with that thing in the back of
my truck to different good Wills and various those kinds
of places, Salvation Army, and nobody would take it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
You literally couldn't give it away.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I finally, out of frustration after dark, drove behind the
good Will, pushed it out of the back of my
truck and drove off.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh, confess to felony littering because exercise equipment. Just it's
amazing that they sell so much of it new. There
are stores. There's a store not far from here from
the radio station that sells that stuff new all the time.
May been in business for a long time, so they
must sell stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Man by that you host you two hundred dollars to
get rid of it. That's my prediction. We're probably right.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I'll keep it. I'll keep it in this house. Maybe
next move I'll finally decide. You know, one of the
problems this This makes me feel better by myself, so
maybe I'm just kidding myself. One of the reasons I
don't use it as much is I live someplace northern
California where the climate is so good. I always think
I'd rather go outside and do it. So I like,
I walk a half hour forty five minutes almost every
(07:38):
single night. But the weather's perfect, so I'm gonna go outside. Yeah,
I'm not gonna Why you're.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Not exercising on that thing because the weather's so.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Nice, right, Well, I am getting exercise a stroll, yeah,
or I ride my bike just.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sure, ambling down the street.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yes, walking into the doughnut shop, walking back out of
the donor's.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Looking for somebody heavy to give your elliptical to.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
One other thing on the move in my crap was
I have so many things that I've moved that like
it's a like a kind of a bookshelf where it's
a lamp or whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Like I would never buy it.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
It's it's it's crappy and I don't even need it,
but I move it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's just it's weird. The inertia of stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I kept thinking about that merry condo woman and the
the what did she call that whole thing where you're
supposed to hold up You hold up every item and
see if it makes your heart singing. If it doesn't,
you're supposed to throw it away, which makes more sense
than not. I got so many things. It's just like
I would never purchase this if somebody offered it to
me in the street, I wouldn't say yes.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But I have it, and I move it from house
to house. What is that? It's weird.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, the inertia of stuff or things that belong I
don't even know what it is. Depends on your personality
type and how you grew up too. The throwing something
away that's perfectly good would not happen in my house
as a kid.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, right, exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I've I've been familiar with spoiled, little rich kids who.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
They would waste crap or get rid of crap or whatever,
I mean anything to them.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
It's an odd It's like the flip side of a
good quality. Like you say, you're not going to get
rid of something that has value that's usable. You're gonna
use it until it's crap and then you'll replace it.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
But yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Hanson asked, the question is a dad, how many boxes
of kids artwork do I have? I got several, not
very big boxes, because you know, it doesn't take a
lot of space, but I got quite a bit kids
art work through the years. I always think I'm going
to go through those one at a time someday, and
maybe I will or maybe I won't. What did you
do finally you still have that? Or down to one
box per kid?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay? And the flat plastic boxes that are did you
go through it painstakingly and pick out your favorite stuff?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Or yeah, we we curated it like a museum. Two
Revolutionary War soldier uniforms is plenty, we don't need thirteen.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Then let's get a couple of Civil War era and
then you know it's kind of curated it now.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Every every birthday card, Father's Day card that I get
in from my kids, I got all those still in
one spot.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Those aren't going anywhere until I die. No, agreed. I
don't know if I need every stick figure on a
bike from every grade.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
I think that Well, if anybody wants a Buns of
Steel DVD, contact me.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Well and a thigh.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Master, right, Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
The arms Strong and Getty Show, so.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
A couple of completely non political stories that I found
very interesting, both about.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
The human brain.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Love love, I love love. When you feel love, how
does your brain light up?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It was funny that I came across this because just
the other day I was chatting with my daughter video chatting.
I love her to my bones, and she's a pretty girl.
But of course my feeling for her is completely different
than that for my wife, for instance, which is different
for my feeling for my dog, which is different from
(11:41):
my feeling for music, which I love. And I was
contemplating this, and lo and behold, here this comes out.
Researchers at a prominent university in Finland set out to
explore the neural basis of love, and they came up
with six different types.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Romantic love, parental love, love for friends, love for strangers
whatever that means, love for pets, and love for nature.
Have you ever read Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's I think I did.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
That's the whole premise of the book, and it was
written very long time ago. But just he gets a
crush on this girl when he's in grade school and
then goes clear to their elderly all the different stages
of the different ways he loved this person, and it's
really interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah. Wow, yeah, I read that years and years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Anyway, Their findings, published in Cerebral Cortex, suggested while all
forms of love share a fair amount of overlap in
your neural pathways, there are distinct differences in how our
brains process.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
These various types of affection, which is not that you know, revelatory.
It's not shocking or anything. But as we understand the
brain more and more and can see it and measure
what it's doing more and more, I just I thought
that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah, I would agree. And I had a conversation. I
guess this would be well, it could be love and sex.
But conversation with my son yesterday. We're talking about somebody
and I said, I don't know, is that person you know,
sixteen or twenty three? I can't tell the difference and
at this point in my life, and I said, oh,
but that's an I think that's an evolutionary thing. It's
(13:15):
so you know, more, seventy year old guys aren't hitting
on twenty year old women. You can't tell a child
from a twenty five year old, so you just kind
of stay away from that whole area of age for
the most part, not entirely, you know, exceptions of billionaires
and whatnot, But I think for the most part, they're
all children to me. Now, even you know, people in
(13:35):
the early twenties, so who are arguably grown women, Yeah,
who are grown up. But I think it just keeps
you away. I think I don't know that. Yeah, I've
got a bit of a gripe with that, but we
don't really have time, you know what, Instead of rushing
through the next neurological study, I came across that I
found really really interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Maybe we'll do it next segment. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Part part of what you're talking about, I think is cultural,
the way people dress and act and wear makeup and stuff, which.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Has changed very much.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
You just you would not see a middle schooler back
in the day dressed in a provocative way wearing makeup
has so eff happened.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Or even a high school kid, not that you know,
not too many decades ago.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, And I would say, just from a strictly biological
point of view, I think a male would just look
at a female and say of reproductive age or not
of reproductive age on a purely cave men, I don't
suggest we run our society like that.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So you think it's cultural that keeps me away from
most men as they get older, away from that younger cent.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It's complicated. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Streaking question, I don't actually know the answer to that
mentioned badminton reminded me yesterday when I was out of
gym class.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Was like this for you when you were in school,
or you Michael or U Katie.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But back when I was younger and in school gym
class they were so into like teaching us the rules
of various games. We spend a lot time, like learning
to play volleyball and the rules and stuff like that.
I remember learning to play badminton and the rules of
badminton and just all these different things. And my son
pe this year at the grade level he's in right now,
(15:16):
it's all like they go into the gym and work out,
like you have a gym membership and you learn how
to do that or stretching or stuff like that. That
seems like a way better idea, A lifelong understanding of
this is a habit you should form. This is how
you do it, and do it the rest of your life.
Weightlifting and stretching and stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
As opposed to.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Learning the rules of badminton, Oh I disagree completely. Learning
how to play games that will keep you fit for
a lifetime.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Is that what you've been doing. You've been playing badminton
your whole life to stay in shape. Played a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
He couldn't have picked up volleyball at some point quite easily. Yeah,
you hit the ball back and forth in that. If
it hits a ground, it's a point. Okay, here we go.
Am I allowed to catch it and throw it?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
No? Okay, I got it.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I thought that's awesome that he's learned about you know,
how many reps, many sets, you know, spreading out the
different parts of your body. That is kind of cool,
way handier. Don't we have time for both?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Probably? Or what maybe I said? All arn nothing with you?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
When I when I was in high school, weightlifting was
an elective, so that was like a special class you
could take. But it would have been way more beneficial
to just have that BPE right.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, yeah, at the very least. Yeah, you pe three
times a week. You're getting in the gym three times
a week. Seems like a great idea for a teenager.
Can I wear earbuds so you're thing?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You get you to be able to listen to music? Well, yeah,
what's your workout? Always hated? You're probably classical music your type?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Listening to mostly string quartets, Yes, Yoma, especially if it's
a leg day, the different stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I can't work out without headphones.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
At the gym. I got them listening to the news.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I can't because I'm constantly rewinding because I realized I
was focused on the number of reps or whatever, and
I just missed what Charlie Cook just said or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, I got Jake Tapper on while I'm doing get
my swool on.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
You know, Mike used to smoke in the van. She
would sit in the van and smoke while we ran. No,
he'd the wield sit in his van.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, correct, Ye, I'll be burning darts in my van
if you need me.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Ten more years of this before I can retire with
my picture. I think he had tenure learning lung darts.
Armstrong and Getty. I think I can ward fast. Don't
you think it's a little odd? Absolutely, there's no doubt
in my mind.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
This is the arm Strong and Getty Show, Jack Armstrong
and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Donald supported the invasion of a rock that.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Is absolutely wrong, proved over.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
And over again. He actually is assuming he can't figure
out how to get out of it. But what we
want to do is to replenish this such nasty trust fund.
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of
Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in
our country.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Because you'd be in jail was justice rational left.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Shut up, listen who is on your list? Joe.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
So that's what debate sounded like when you could interrupt,
and Donald Trump used it to his great advantage most
of the time. I think it helped him more than
it hurt him, which is why it was weird yesterday.
That least, it was portrayed in the mainstream media as
Donald Trump was threatening to back out of the debate
if they left the mics live, which is the opposite.
(18:41):
I think what he wants, or maybe this is him
being a clever negotiator.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I don't know. Well, a couple of comments.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Number one, I think you're right it did help him
in the debate with Hillary. I would suggest that first
debate when he was the incumbent, when he had just
come down with COVID, which is we frequently forgotten, and
was off his game, and he constantly bickered with Biden
and interrupt him and was obnoxious.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
They lost him the election. That was that was too much. Yeah, yeah,
so it's it's a question of how much.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
But so anyway, it seems clear to me, and uh,
Jeff Blair in the National Review agrees that a kamalaw.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Wants Trump to be obnoxious.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
In fact, given her weakness on policy, her inability to
speak off to Coff the rest of it, she wants
her opponent to make the mistake he's known for. So
they're desperate to leave the mics on this time. That's interesting,
it's funny. But now you don't think that you don't
(19:48):
think that Trump actually wants them off, do you. Well,
let's listen to because we played this later in the
show yesterday. So maybe early risers and you people who
get up earlier and listen earlier, you're just you're sharper.
You're sharper, You run the country. The people that are
listening later in the show, we have to talk a
lot slower.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Oh, yes, simpler words.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
So this is Trump yesterday on the whole back and
forth thirty one Michael, we agree.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
To the same rules. I don't know. It doesn't matter
to me. I'd rather have it probably on.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
But the agreement was that it would be the same
as it was last time.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
In that case, it was muted.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I didn't like it the last time, but it worked
out fine.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
We asked Biden how it worked out. It was fine,
and I think it should be the same. We agree
to the same rules, same rules.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
The same specification, and I think that's probably what it
should be.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But they're trying to change it. The truth is they're trying.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
To get out of it because she doesn't want a debate.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
She's not a good debater, she's not a smart person.
She doesn't want a debate.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You know, often is the case with Trump. If you
were to diagram that whole little thing, I have no
idea what he said for most of it. Oh, I
can read between the lines what he was what he
was saying.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yes, between the lines he was saying I hated being
muzzled and not being able to interrupt. But my aides
have pointed out that it actually really helped me I
don't want to admit it, but they're probably right. So
you think yes, and why this is critically important? I
mean it was somewhat important about against Biden.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yes, it's fine either way, but with Kamala, do not
forget that kamalaw has played the aggrieved woman. Listen to
that man interrupting me. How dare he card over and
over again, clipped thirty six Michael.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Well, let's go on.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
No, but this is important, and I want to add,
mister Vice President, I'm speaking.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm speaking.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
This is supposed to be a debate based on fact
and truth, and the truth in the fact is Joe
Biden has been very clear he will not raise taxes
on anybody who makes less than four hundred thousand Trump
tax cart. Mister Vice President, I'm speaking, I'm speaking.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Important is the truth.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
I'm so glad we went through a little history lesson.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Let's do that a little more in eighteen sixteen. Well,
i'd like you to answer the question.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Yes, her Vice president speak, I'm speaking.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh that's annoying.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
So any back and forth is greeted by how dare
you I'm speaking?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Is that your sexist?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Katie's got a weigh in on this, Katie's speaking for
all women. Katie has been put in the position of
speaking for all women. Congratulations. Is it just misogyny that
I hate her saying that in the way she said it,
and everything like that. If it was a guy saying that,
would I be bothered?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
No, she comes off like a total rhymes with witch
when she talks like that. I'm speaking, it's a condescending
power trip on her move. That's how I heard it. Yeah,
it is witchy, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I feel like she she recognizes that as a woman
she has she has a way to portray that in
a way that another due couldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's actually an advantage.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Right, instead of hey I'm still talking, let me finish
my sentence, You finish it, I may finish right, it's
an I'm a victim, I'm interrupting a woman exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah, that's that's what the way she can portray it
exactly well.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
And there there are a number of women in politics
who I admire a great deal.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I was thinking about it the other day.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
If I had to list my six favorite columnist thinkers
to around half of them would be women. And I'm
a certainly no misogynist. But there is a tool women
can use in politics and business sometimes that they will
be assertive as hell, and then when they're met with assertiveness,
(23:42):
they will claim you're bullying me because I'm a woman,
or you're just saying that because I'm a woman, which.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Is highly highly annoying, and how does it all the time?
Trump could be pretty susceptible to play and rights pncisely
because they are.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
They have a list of five things to say that
will absolutely get him off his game. This is their strategy.
Tease him, poke him, get him to be rude and
bullying toward a woman.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
End of strategy here interacting, I'm talking on policy, I'm talking.
You're interrupting me. What are you gonna do next?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You're gonna grab me by my yuhu because you think
that's okay, We're gonna.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Do that would probably be a decent line.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Ah, excuse me, mister Trump, I am still speaking. Oh yeah, ew,
this could be a cringey debate.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Could be.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
If there's like a collective thirty seconds of it that's
not cringey, I'd be shocked.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh this could be so uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, Trump couldn't be terrible Trump could fall into that
so easily. Well, and you can brief them all week
long that hey, this is what they're going to try
to do. But if she gets off a few you
at twenty twenty, why don't you admit it? Or you're
not that great a real estate tycoon, or you're not
(25:06):
that rich or whatever. So on. I was watching MSNBC
last night their late show, and their panel got into
all the panelists were concerned about Kamala not doing interviews,
Kamala not being prepared for the debate, them saying they
used the example of Joe Biden. Joe Biden hadn't done
(25:27):
any confrontational interviews in a very very long time, and
he hadn't He didn't He did less press conferences than
any president for the past to half a century, so
he wasn't used to being challenged. And then you end
up in a debate and you're being challenged for the
first time on live TV in front of you know,
eighty million people or whatever. That's not the time to practice.
And that Kamala is in the same situation. This is
(25:47):
the MSNBC panel saying this that she needs to get
out there and do town halls and adversarial interviews. She's
ready for having to address that on her feet. So
I thought that was interesting that the MSNBC people were
worried about that, because that seems like a reasonable concern.
Her first light, the first time perhaps that we hear
(26:09):
her speaking off the top of her head, is going
to be in a debate with Donald Trump looking at her.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
That's not a good idea.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I'm trying to find a great column I came across.
I just really like the writing. It's a point we've made,
but and I'll dig it up. But the point he
was making was, can you imagine being told as a candidate,
you just gotta shut up. You can't say anything about
any policy. We're not gonna let you. You can't do
(26:35):
any interviews, you're not gonna make any off the cuff
statements of any kind because you're so dumb, you're so
week on policy.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
You gotta shut up.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I find it hard to believe that they sold it
to her like that, But that's the clear.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Unspoken message though. Look that's the message.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Look, this ain't bean bag, I got I got a
level with you. You're dumb, don't talk. Do you know
what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Though?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I don't know if she's she's not good at off
the cuff speaking. No, that is clearly true. As I've
said before, we have data points for this, quite a few, right, right,
if so? The rumor going around it, so she promised
they would try to arrange an interview by the end
of the month. That was on the eighth of August,
(27:22):
a full month after she had become the candidate. So
with so, she said, a month from now, basically three
weeks from now, we'll try to arrange an interview. The
month's only got a couple of days left in it.
The rumor is or reporting, I don't know if it's
nailed down yet or not, that she and Tim Walls
are going to do it together. It's going to be
one of those joint interviews. Could you you have a
(27:43):
guess as to why that? Who she would want to
do that?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Because he's the good talker, because he's the same reason
it was like the number of times I'm trying to
remember who it was specifically, but a number of times
Joe Biden would be with somebody else and they oh,
like Barack Obama, that big rally in l A right,
for instance, that it turned out according to George Chloda
to be one of the bricks in the ges.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That would be a bad look.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
If Kamala gets into digging herself one of her holes
and Tim Wallas has to jump in and rescue her,
you know, it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
It'd be a bad.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Look, all right. Yeah, And he is a good extemporaneous speaker. Yeah,
he's very good. He's full of crap, but he's good
at it. Oh yeah, Tommy, I'm.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Telling you, this is such such an insulting campaign strategy.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Shouldn't I be out there like advocating her? No? No, no,
shouldn't I answer something? No?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Isn't kind of weird that I haven't done a press conference.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I mean, everything that went down there and now we
don't need to still work in a schedule.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We're still working on it. It's it. We thought we
had a Tuesday nail down. But that's your that's your
volleyball night. So can't do it. That's your volleyball night.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I don't play volleyb or whatever. Don't just don't say
anything to anyone about anything that's good. The leader of
the free world in about six months, So don't utter
a word because you're not capable of it.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That's a garbage night, and we have a lot of
recyclables to separate. So seventy days from today is the election?
Is that a long time to try to get her
nailed down to have to do an interview? Or can
she ride seventy days? Surely not? Oh, I'm wondering anyway.
A bit of a lull in the news day yesterday.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I was reading Mark Alpern's newsletter and he said that
was the slowest news day yesterday in recent memory. Maybe
that's why they tried to make a or had to
make a big deal out of the back and forth
over the microphone. There was no other news because it
just seemed dumb to me. But we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Armstrong, heyyetdy.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
The Armstrong and Getty Show, speak of technology, There is
a better transition. I moved into a home, has a
bi day in the master bedroom. I've never used a
bidet before. I don't know how to.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Turn the thing on or I'm familiar with what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Do you mean an actual bidet or like a bidet
toilet seat.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Explain to me the difference.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
What's well, if you have a bidet, that's you got
your toilet and then you've got a completely other struggle.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
That's right. Stayed.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I stayed in a hotel in Italy that had that. Yeah,
it's a completely different thing. She get up off the
toilet and then go sit on the bedet exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Now I guess I have a bidet toilet seat. Yes, yes, Katie, No,
I'm just listening. I didn't realize that there was a difference.
I thought it was just the toilet that's right. That
day is its own separate thing.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
So I have a bed day, which is unnecessarily, you know,
unnecessarily uses up space and porcelain and the rest of them.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
No.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
So okay, So as a man, uh who has been
talking up the be day for years, I'm surprised you
don't have an endorsement for those good. Uh you feel
that the toilet seat version is is adequate?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, absolutely, that makes more sense. I don't know if
I'm ever going to use this thing, did? I don't
know what? Change your life? Man? You change your life?
You think I will? Oh you will? I think you will.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Anyway, we got a clip here. I haven't heard this
of people reacting to using a bidet for the first
time here we go.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
It seems like an unnecessary splashy car wash experience.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
It Yeah, oh man, here we go. This is like
a nice little shower without taking a shower. Accuracy is
a pinpoint.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You could warm the water up to that's a nice
little touch. I feel like I gave birth to like
eighteen waters. So am I gonna am? I gonna make
that noise at some point though, Yeah, I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I mean to your pressures to the pressure is too high.
If you do what percentage of people have ever used
to bidet in America. It's got to be very small,
but it's less than two. I don't know if you
can imagine attachments on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Joy to be a two percenter, then proud to be, Oh,
please change your life. The Heinee shower I call it.
It's uh, that's not oh, it's so good. When I'm
on vacation, I can't wait to get home. I like
the French word better than the heine shower. Then this story,
this tragic story.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Some terrifying moments at a surf to delay performance an
organ this weekend, an artists performing on an aerial hoop
losing her grip the artist was rushed to the hospital
in stable condition.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
She is expected to recover. What what exact trick was
she doing when she fell?
Speaker 5 (32:44):
She was on the the hula hoop, hanging from the rope,
which I've been to lots of circu delight, circu us
of suck, circu della suck if they fall off.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I didn't pay you to watch somebody fall to their death.
I can get that anywhere. The other day, you're complaining
about death, defying feats that didn't define death. No, No,
I'm pro this. It needs to happen every so often,
or there's no excitement to it at all. Ho home,
If you're not actually defying death, or can't even get hurt,
can't even break a nail, what's the point of watching.
But so she was spinning on the hoop and fell out.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
M m, she slips.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I'll admit I wouldn't want my kids to see that.
I just feel like it wouldn't be a good thing
to see.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
What.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Oh no, No, too many nightmares, to too many waking
up cryings.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Unfortunately, the video that they had of it that was
featured in that newscast.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Was shot by a kid when I was young. There
were lots of tricks and stuff that were done with
no nets, but I feel like they're mostly nets almost
all the time now when you do tricks right.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Yes, I believe that has to do with liability laws
in the audience's lack of desire to see somebody dead.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I'm really paralyzed. Maybe it's just me.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I'm always disappointed when I see a net, or when
they stretch out the net. It's like, what so, worst
case scenario, You've fallen a net and wave to the crowd,
what is this? I know what you're saying. It's not
the sort of thing many people say out loud. I
don't want them to fall and die, but that's the
that's they fall.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I want them to die, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
You're cheating me if you don't at risk death or
permanent disrememberable.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
But you can't. You can't.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
You're you're insinuating. This is a death defying act. Yeah,
there's a giant net there.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I was parodying Jack, not agreeing with him. Apparently he
missed that. But I will tell you I do get
this part of it though.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Part of the pleasure of watching an act like that,
and I remember this as a kid is the fear, right,
fear that they are going to slip and fall, and
when they don't, relief is part of why you cheer
and clap so loud.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
And so there's none of that with a net. All right,
whoop do do they fall in the net?
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Ooh?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
He landed in a net. I just don't get it. Weak.
Not the sort of position again, most people take.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
It on some sort of with no netsu. I was
gonna say, oh, liability, it's gonna have to do it offshore.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
You know, you think.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
To do south of the border exactly, so you think
it's a liability thing.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
You telling me that you can't have.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Somebody say look with four lawyers present, and they get
lectured for an hour about I don't know gravity and
sign a piece of paper saying I know what I'm doing.
I'm taking the risks. Are they a worker making a
check in the United States of America?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Wow, that's ridiculous. Or they just don't want to break
their necks.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Why don't you move to Afghanistan, Jack, and you can
stage circuses where people die or paralyzed regularly, and you
can be proud of what you've achieved.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
If that's that important to you wow not come out
on the good end of this.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Armstrong, and Jettie and he Armstrong and Catty Strong and
so I wish I knew the actual number on this.
I don't.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Maybe you'd have a guess what do you think I
paid for my used elliptical I bought fifteen years ago.
It's a really good one. It's actually from a gym,
so it's the heavy duty commercial quality, sure, like you
use at the gym. It's freaking really really good. But
I bought it used. Did you have a guess what
(00:59):
I probably paid for?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It? Knew when it was new used.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
When I bought it from Craigslist, five hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I was going to go seven hundred. You think it
was a gym quality?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, more than that, because I bought one much more
recently than that.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I'm just trying to figure hundreds too low, Like twelve
hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah might have been anyway, because I just moved it.
For see, I was living in that house, moved to
that house, moved to this house. This is the fourth
place I've had it in and I've I've used it.
I don't know what the total I've spent on moving it.
I just googling to see roughly what it costs. But
(01:45):
this is the fourth place I've moved it to, and
so because it weighs more than three hundred pounds, there's
a special price for that.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So I paid a couple of hundred bucks to have
it moved again.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
The total amount of time cumulative that I've spent on
that elliptical machine has got to be less than twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
In fifteen years. And fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Wow, you can get like a high dollar hooker for
a lower hourly rate than that.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, I'm not worried about the price.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I'm putting it in the category of is this the stupidest, craziest,
least sensical thing I've ever done in my life?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And that's a high bar, trust me.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
They like, do you have a plan in life where
you're like, I'm gonna I'm gonna get on that thing
that's gonna be after work going home thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I guess, Okay, I guess I do.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's hard to get a good quality gym level used
elliptical for less than fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Okay, I might just essentially what I remember.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I might have spent one thousand dollars on it, but
I've spent another thousand dollars moving it four times at
least and again cumulative over fifteen years twenty minutes, and
I'm probably on the high end. Use it or sell
it in a minute and a half per year. Yeah,
(03:12):
I mean, use it or sell it, Jack, You used
it or sell it at what point?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now? Yeah, it's not. It's sort of become like a
I don't know, almost like a joke. Now.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I was one of those sorry folks that fell victim
to the Peloton during COVID, the Peloton bikes, and I
used that thing twice and then it turned into a
really nice clothing rack, and I was like, I gotta
get rid of this thing.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Right, Wow, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I've used a Peloton more than that at the gym,
but not for some time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So the seat and that it.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Did not love the seats, and I got a piece
of gear. You don't actually said, yeah where were we?
Oh yeah, give yourself two weeks and then get rid
of the damn thing. Quit throwing good money after bad.
Although you say, it's kind of become almost a family.
It's kind of be an heirloom of futility a Charlie Brownish.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I kept thinking my kids might use it. Yes, Michael, No,
I say just dump it, just take it to the dump. No, no, no,
it's definitely too nice.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I would I would give it to a family or
something before I take it to the dump, because it's
a great piece of equipment.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It really really is high quality, really good one.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Here's what you do. I got a brilliant idea. You
just you're in a store, you're walking down the street.
You come across a heavy set person and you say, hey,
I noticed you're pretty porky.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I have an elliptical for you. You probably have bad knees,
right carrying that luggage around. Huh. You don't want to
run or walk. That's what it's great about the ellipticals.
All you have to do is pick.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
It up as I'll walk up there and say, you're
probably what thirty three, thirty four thirty four?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
What bmi? Probably thirty four BMI? Wow, I an elliptical.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Yeah, go up and put a measuring tape around their waist.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Jeez, oh my god. Yeah, I'll tell you what there.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
What's underrated by people who don't understand economies and markets
and that sort of thing is the concept of and
I don't know the technical term, but it's the infrastructure
to sell, the ability to you know, obviously, take in
money and give out a product.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's the obvious part, that's the easy part.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
But to hold an inventory, to ship it, to deliver it,
to be a place where multiple buyers can come and
the price can be set by the free market as
opposed to add dude with analyptical who wants to get
rid of it?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You are in such a weak position.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I will tell you Facebook marketplace and offer up as
where I've gotten rid of both of my pieces of
exercise equipment that were large, and you can select by
pickup only.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh okay, it's worked easily.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So Joe and I both had had Nordic tracks twenty
five years ago because we were endorsing Nordic track thank
you Gladys. And it was the nicest Nordic tracks they made,
so they were kind of expensive and I used that
one like I don't know five minutes anyway, when I
went to move, I wasn't gonna haul that across the country,
(06:17):
and I uh, I think I put an ad in
the paper for it. That's how long it was ago,
and nobody was interested. And then I asked people around
and nobody was interested. And then I took it to
the good Will and they said look over there, and
in the corner they had like fifteen norder tracks.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Said, we're not taking any more tracks. And I tried.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I drove around with that thing in the back of
my truck to different good Wills and various those kinds
of places, Salvation Army, and nobody would take it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
You literally couldn't give it away.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I finally, out of frustration after dark, drove behind the
good Will, pushed it out of the back of my
truck and drove off.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh, confess to felony littering because exercise equipment. Just it's
amazing that they sell so much of it new. There
are stores. There's a store not far from here from
the radio station that sells that stuff new all the time.
May been in business for a long time, so they
must sell stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Man by that you host you two hundred dollars to
get rid of it. That's my prediction. We're probably right.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I'll keep it. I'll keep it in this house. Maybe
next move I'll finally decide. You know, one of the
problems this This makes me feel better by myself, so
maybe I'm just kidding myself. One of the reasons I
don't use it as much is I live someplace northern
California where the climate is so good. I always think
I'd rather go outside and do it. So I like,
I walk a half hour forty five minutes almost every
(07:38):
single night. But the weather's perfect, so I'm gonna go outside. Yeah,
I'm not gonna Why you're.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Not exercising on that thing because the weather's so.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Nice, right, Well, I am getting exercise a stroll, yeah,
or I ride my bike just.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sure, ambling down the street.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yes, walking into the doughnut shop, walking back out of
the donor's.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Looking for somebody heavy to give your elliptical to.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
One other thing on the move in my crap was
I have so many things that I've moved that like
it's a like a kind of a bookshelf where it's
a lamp or whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Like I would never buy it.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
It's it's it's crappy and I don't even need it,
but I move it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's just it's weird. The inertia of stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I kept thinking about that merry condo woman and the
the what did she call that whole thing where you're
supposed to hold up You hold up every item and
see if it makes your heart singing. If it doesn't,
you're supposed to throw it away, which makes more sense
than not. I got so many things. It's just like
I would never purchase this if somebody offered it to
me in the street, I wouldn't say yes.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But I have it, and I move it from house
to house. What is that? It's weird.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, the inertia of stuff or things that belong I
don't even know what it is. Depends on your personality
type and how you grew up too. The throwing something
away that's perfectly good would not happen in my house
as a kid.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, right, exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I've I've been familiar with spoiled, little rich kids who.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
They would waste crap or get rid of crap or whatever,
I mean anything to them.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
It's an odd It's like the flip side of a
good quality. Like you say, you're not going to get
rid of something that has value that's usable. You're gonna
use it until it's crap and then you'll replace it.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
But yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Hanson asked, the question is a dad, how many boxes
of kids artwork do I have? I got several, not
very big boxes, because you know, it doesn't take a
lot of space, but I got quite a bit kids
art work through the years. I always think I'm going
to go through those one at a time someday, and
maybe I will or maybe I won't. What did you
do finally you still have that? Or down to one
box per kid?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay? And the flat plastic boxes that are did you
go through it painstakingly and pick out your favorite stuff?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Or yeah, we we curated it like a museum. Two
Revolutionary War soldier uniforms is plenty, we don't need thirteen.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Then let's get a couple of Civil War era and
then you know it's kind of curated it now.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Every every birthday card, Father's Day card that I get
in from my kids, I got all those still in
one spot.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Those aren't going anywhere until I die. No, agreed. I
don't know if I need every stick figure on a
bike from every grade.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
I think that Well, if anybody wants a Buns of
Steel DVD, contact me.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Well and a thigh.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Master, right, Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
The arms Strong and Getty Show, so.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
A couple of completely non political stories that I found
very interesting, both about.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
The human brain.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Love love, I love love. When you feel love, how
does your brain light up?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It was funny that I came across this because just
the other day I was chatting with my daughter video chatting.
I love her to my bones, and she's a pretty girl.
But of course my feeling for her is completely different
than that for my wife, for instance, which is different
for my feeling for my dog, which is different from
(11:41):
my feeling for music, which I love. And I was
contemplating this, and lo and behold, here this comes out.
Researchers at a prominent university in Finland set out to
explore the neural basis of love, and they came up
with six different types.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Romantic love, parental love, love for friends, love for strangers
whatever that means, love for pets, and love for nature.
Have you ever read Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's I think I did.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
That's the whole premise of the book, and it was
written very long time ago. But just he gets a
crush on this girl when he's in grade school and
then goes clear to their elderly all the different stages
of the different ways he loved this person, and it's
really interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah. Wow, yeah, I read that years and years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Anyway, Their findings, published in Cerebral Cortex, suggested while all
forms of love share a fair amount of overlap in
your neural pathways, there are distinct differences in how our
brains process.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
These various types of affection, which is not that you know, revelatory.
It's not shocking or anything. But as we understand the
brain more and more and can see it and measure
what it's doing more and more, I just I thought
that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah, I would agree. And I had a conversation. I
guess this would be well, it could be love and sex.
But conversation with my son yesterday. We're talking about somebody
and I said, I don't know, is that person you know,
sixteen or twenty three? I can't tell the difference and
at this point in my life, and I said, oh,
but that's an I think that's an evolutionary thing. It's
(13:15):
so you know, more, seventy year old guys aren't hitting
on twenty year old women. You can't tell a child
from a twenty five year old, so you just kind
of stay away from that whole area of age for
the most part, not entirely, you know, exceptions of billionaires
and whatnot, But I think for the most part, they're
all children to me. Now, even you know, people in
(13:35):
the early twenties, so who are arguably grown women, Yeah,
who are grown up. But I think it just keeps
you away. I think I don't know that. Yeah, I've
got a bit of a gripe with that, but we
don't really have time, you know what, Instead of rushing
through the next neurological study, I came across that I
found really really interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Maybe we'll do it next segment. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Part part of what you're talking about, I think is cultural,
the way people dress and act and wear makeup and stuff, which.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Has changed very much.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
You just you would not see a middle schooler back
in the day dressed in a provocative way wearing makeup
has so eff happened.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Or even a high school kid, not that you know,
not too many decades ago.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, And I would say, just from a strictly biological
point of view, I think a male would just look
at a female and say of reproductive age or not
of reproductive age on a purely cave men, I don't
suggest we run our society like that.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So you think it's cultural that keeps me away from
most men as they get older, away from that younger cent.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It's complicated. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Streaking question, I don't actually know the answer to that
mentioned badminton reminded me yesterday when I was out of
gym class.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Was like this for you when you were in school,
or you Michael or U Katie.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But back when I was younger and in school gym
class they were so into like teaching us the rules
of various games. We spend a lot time, like learning
to play volleyball and the rules and stuff like that.
I remember learning to play badminton and the rules of
badminton and just all these different things. And my son
pe this year at the grade level he's in right now,
(15:16):
it's all like they go into the gym and work out,
like you have a gym membership and you learn how
to do that or stretching or stuff like that. That
seems like a way better idea, A lifelong understanding of
this is a habit you should form. This is how
you do it, and do it the rest of your life.
Weightlifting and stretching and stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
As opposed to.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Learning the rules of badminton, Oh I disagree completely. Learning
how to play games that will keep you fit for
a lifetime.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Is that what you've been doing. You've been playing badminton
your whole life to stay in shape. Played a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
He couldn't have picked up volleyball at some point quite easily. Yeah,
you hit the ball back and forth in that. If
it hits a ground, it's a point. Okay, here we go.
Am I allowed to catch it and throw it?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
No? Okay, I got it.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I thought that's awesome that he's learned about you know,
how many reps, many sets, you know, spreading out the
different parts of your body. That is kind of cool,
way handier. Don't we have time for both?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Probably? Or what maybe I said? All arn nothing with you?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
When I when I was in high school, weightlifting was
an elective, so that was like a special class you
could take. But it would have been way more beneficial
to just have that BPE right.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, yeah, at the very least. Yeah, you pe three
times a week. You're getting in the gym three times
a week. Seems like a great idea for a teenager.
Can I wear earbuds so you're thing?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You get you to be able to listen to music? Well, yeah,
what's your workout? Always hated? You're probably classical music your type?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Listening to mostly string quartets, Yes, Yoma, especially if it's
a leg day, the different stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I can't work out without headphones.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
At the gym. I got them listening to the news.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I can't because I'm constantly rewinding because I realized I
was focused on the number of reps or whatever, and
I just missed what Charlie Cook just said or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, I got Jake Tapper on while I'm doing get
my swool on.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
You know, Mike used to smoke in the van. She
would sit in the van and smoke while we ran. No,
he'd the wield sit in his van.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, correct, Ye, I'll be burning darts in my van
if you need me.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Ten more years of this before I can retire with
my picture. I think he had tenure learning lung darts.
Armstrong and Getty. I think I can ward fast. Don't
you think it's a little odd? Absolutely, there's no doubt
in my mind.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
This is the arm Strong and Getty Show, Jack Armstrong
and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Donald supported the invasion of a rock that.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Is absolutely wrong, proved over.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
And over again. He actually is assuming he can't figure
out how to get out of it. But what we
want to do is to replenish this such nasty trust fund.
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of
Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in
our country.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Because you'd be in jail was justice rational left.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Shut up, listen who is on your list? Joe.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
So that's what debate sounded like when you could interrupt,
and Donald Trump used it to his great advantage most
of the time. I think it helped him more than
it hurt him, which is why it was weird yesterday.
That least, it was portrayed in the mainstream media as
Donald Trump was threatening to back out of the debate
if they left the mics live, which is the opposite.
(18:41):
I think what he wants, or maybe this is him
being a clever negotiator.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I don't know. Well, a couple of comments.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Number one, I think you're right it did help him
in the debate with Hillary. I would suggest that first
debate when he was the incumbent, when he had just
come down with COVID, which is we frequently forgotten, and
was off his game, and he constantly bickered with Biden
and interrupt him and was obnoxious.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
They lost him the election. That was that was too much. Yeah, yeah,
so it's it's a question of how much.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
But so anyway, it seems clear to me, and uh,
Jeff Blair in the National Review agrees that a kamalaw.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Wants Trump to be obnoxious.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
In fact, given her weakness on policy, her inability to
speak off to Coff the rest of it, she wants
her opponent to make the mistake he's known for. So
they're desperate to leave the mics on this time. That's interesting,
it's funny. But now you don't think that you don't
(19:48):
think that Trump actually wants them off, do you. Well,
let's listen to because we played this later in the
show yesterday. So maybe early risers and you people who
get up earlier and listen earlier, you're just you're sharper.
You're sharper, You run the country. The people that are
listening later in the show, we have to talk a
lot slower.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Oh, yes, simpler words.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
So this is Trump yesterday on the whole back and
forth thirty one Michael, we agree.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
To the same rules. I don't know. It doesn't matter
to me. I'd rather have it probably on.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
But the agreement was that it would be the same
as it was last time.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
In that case, it was muted.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I didn't like it the last time, but it worked
out fine.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
We asked Biden how it worked out. It was fine,
and I think it should be the same. We agree
to the same rules, same rules.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
The same specification, and I think that's probably what it
should be.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But they're trying to change it. The truth is they're trying.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
To get out of it because she doesn't want a debate.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
She's not a good debater, she's not a smart person.
She doesn't want a debate.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You know, often is the case with Trump. If you
were to diagram that whole little thing, I have no
idea what he said for most of it. Oh, I
can read between the lines what he was what he
was saying.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yes, between the lines he was saying I hated being
muzzled and not being able to interrupt. But my aides
have pointed out that it actually really helped me I
don't want to admit it, but they're probably right. So
you think yes, and why this is critically important? I
mean it was somewhat important about against Biden.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yes, it's fine either way, but with Kamala, do not
forget that kamalaw has played the aggrieved woman. Listen to
that man interrupting me. How dare he card over and
over again, clipped thirty six Michael.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Well, let's go on.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
No, but this is important, and I want to add,
mister Vice President, I'm speaking.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm speaking.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
This is supposed to be a debate based on fact
and truth, and the truth in the fact is Joe
Biden has been very clear he will not raise taxes
on anybody who makes less than four hundred thousand Trump
tax cart. Mister Vice President, I'm speaking, I'm speaking.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Important is the truth.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
I'm so glad we went through a little history lesson.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Let's do that a little more in eighteen sixteen. Well,
i'd like you to answer the question.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Yes, her Vice president speak, I'm speaking.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh that's annoying.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
So any back and forth is greeted by how dare
you I'm speaking?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Is that your sexist?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Katie's got a weigh in on this, Katie's speaking for
all women. Katie has been put in the position of
speaking for all women. Congratulations. Is it just misogyny that
I hate her saying that in the way she said it,
and everything like that. If it was a guy saying that,
would I be bothered?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
No, she comes off like a total rhymes with witch
when she talks like that. I'm speaking, it's a condescending
power trip on her move. That's how I heard it. Yeah,
it is witchy, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I feel like she she recognizes that as a woman
she has she has a way to portray that in
a way that another due couldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's actually an advantage.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Right, instead of hey I'm still talking, let me finish
my sentence, You finish it, I may finish right, it's
an I'm a victim, I'm interrupting a woman exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah, that's that's what the way she can portray it
exactly well.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
And there there are a number of women in politics
who I admire a great deal.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I was thinking about it the other day.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
If I had to list my six favorite columnist thinkers
to around half of them would be women. And I'm
a certainly no misogynist. But there is a tool women
can use in politics and business sometimes that they will
be assertive as hell, and then when they're met with assertiveness,
(23:42):
they will claim you're bullying me because I'm a woman,
or you're just saying that because I'm a woman, which.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Is highly highly annoying, and how does it all the time?
Trump could be pretty susceptible to play and rights pncisely
because they are.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
They have a list of five things to say that
will absolutely get him off his game. This is their strategy.
Tease him, poke him, get him to be rude and
bullying toward a woman.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
End of strategy here interacting, I'm talking on policy, I'm talking.
You're interrupting me. What are you gonna do next?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You're gonna grab me by my yuhu because you think
that's okay, We're gonna.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Do that would probably be a decent line.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Ah, excuse me, mister Trump, I am still speaking. Oh yeah, ew,
this could be a cringey debate.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Could be.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
If there's like a collective thirty seconds of it that's
not cringey, I'd be shocked.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh this could be so uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, Trump couldn't be terrible Trump could fall into that
so easily. Well, and you can brief them all week
long that hey, this is what they're going to try
to do. But if she gets off a few you
at twenty twenty, why don't you admit it? Or you're
not that great a real estate tycoon, or you're not
(25:06):
that rich or whatever. So on. I was watching MSNBC
last night their late show, and their panel got into
all the panelists were concerned about Kamala not doing interviews,
Kamala not being prepared for the debate, them saying they
used the example of Joe Biden. Joe Biden hadn't done
(25:27):
any confrontational interviews in a very very long time, and
he hadn't He didn't He did less press conferences than
any president for the past to half a century, so
he wasn't used to being challenged. And then you end
up in a debate and you're being challenged for the
first time on live TV in front of you know,
eighty million people or whatever. That's not the time to practice.
And that Kamala is in the same situation. This is
(25:47):
the MSNBC panel saying this that she needs to get
out there and do town halls and adversarial interviews. She's
ready for having to address that on her feet. So
I thought that was interesting that the MSNBC people were
worried about that, because that seems like a reasonable concern.
Her first light, the first time perhaps that we hear
(26:09):
her speaking off the top of her head, is going
to be in a debate with Donald Trump looking at her.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
That's not a good idea.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I'm trying to find a great column I came across.
I just really like the writing. It's a point we've made,
but and I'll dig it up. But the point he
was making was, can you imagine being told as a candidate,
you just gotta shut up. You can't say anything about
any policy. We're not gonna let you. You can't do
(26:35):
any interviews, you're not gonna make any off the cuff
statements of any kind because you're so dumb, you're so
week on policy.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
You gotta shut up.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I find it hard to believe that they sold it
to her like that, But that's the clear.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Unspoken message though. Look that's the message.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Look, this ain't bean bag, I got I got a
level with you. You're dumb, don't talk. Do you know
what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Though?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I don't know if she's she's not good at off
the cuff speaking. No, that is clearly true. As I've
said before, we have data points for this, quite a few, right, right,
if so? The rumor going around it, so she promised
they would try to arrange an interview by the end
of the month. That was on the eighth of August,
(27:22):
a full month after she had become the candidate. So
with so, she said, a month from now, basically three
weeks from now, we'll try to arrange an interview. The
month's only got a couple of days left in it.
The rumor is or reporting, I don't know if it's
nailed down yet or not, that she and Tim Walls
are going to do it together. It's going to be
one of those joint interviews. Could you you have a
(27:43):
guess as to why that? Who she would want to
do that?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Because he's the good talker, because he's the same reason
it was like the number of times I'm trying to
remember who it was specifically, but a number of times
Joe Biden would be with somebody else and they oh,
like Barack Obama, that big rally in l A right,
for instance, that it turned out according to George Chloda
to be one of the bricks in the ges.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That would be a bad look.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
If Kamala gets into digging herself one of her holes
and Tim Wallas has to jump in and rescue her,
you know, it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
It'd be a bad.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Look, all right. Yeah, And he is a good extemporaneous speaker. Yeah,
he's very good. He's full of crap, but he's good
at it. Oh yeah, Tommy, I'm.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Telling you, this is such such an insulting campaign strategy.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Shouldn't I be out there like advocating her? No? No, no,
shouldn't I answer something? No?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Isn't kind of weird that I haven't done a press conference.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I mean, everything that went down there and now we
don't need to still work in a schedule.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We're still working on it. It's it. We thought we
had a Tuesday nail down. But that's your that's your
volleyball night. So can't do it. That's your volleyball night.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I don't play volleyb or whatever. Don't just don't say
anything to anyone about anything that's good. The leader of
the free world in about six months, So don't utter
a word because you're not capable of it.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That's a garbage night, and we have a lot of
recyclables to separate. So seventy days from today is the election?
Is that a long time to try to get her
nailed down to have to do an interview? Or can
she ride seventy days? Surely not? Oh, I'm wondering anyway.
A bit of a lull in the news day yesterday.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I was reading Mark Alpern's newsletter and he said that
was the slowest news day yesterday in recent memory. Maybe
that's why they tried to make a or had to
make a big deal out of the back and forth
over the microphone. There was no other news because it
just seemed dumb to me. But we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Armstrong, heyyetdy.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
The Armstrong and Getty Show, speak of technology, There is
a better transition. I moved into a home, has a
bi day in the master bedroom. I've never used a
bidet before. I don't know how to.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Turn the thing on or I'm familiar with what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Do you mean an actual bidet or like a bidet
toilet seat.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Explain to me the difference.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
What's well, if you have a bidet, that's you got
your toilet and then you've got a completely other struggle.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
That's right. Stayed.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I stayed in a hotel in Italy that had that. Yeah,
it's a completely different thing. She get up off the
toilet and then go sit on the bedet exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Now I guess I have a bidet toilet seat. Yes, yes, Katie, No,
I'm just listening. I didn't realize that there was a difference.
I thought it was just the toilet that's right. That
day is its own separate thing.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
So I have a bed day, which is unnecessarily, you know,
unnecessarily uses up space and porcelain and the rest of them.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
No.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
So okay, So as a man, uh who has been
talking up the be day for years, I'm surprised you
don't have an endorsement for those good. Uh you feel
that the toilet seat version is is adequate?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, absolutely, that makes more sense. I don't know if
I'm ever going to use this thing, did? I don't
know what? Change your life? Man? You change your life?
You think I will? Oh you will? I think you will.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Anyway, we got a clip here. I haven't heard this
of people reacting to using a bidet for the first
time here we go.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
It seems like an unnecessary splashy car wash experience.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
It Yeah, oh man, here we go. This is like
a nice little shower without taking a shower. Accuracy is
a pinpoint.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You could warm the water up to that's a nice
little touch. I feel like I gave birth to like
eighteen waters. So am I gonna am? I gonna make
that noise at some point though, Yeah, I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I mean to your pressures to the pressure is too high.
If you do what percentage of people have ever used
to bidet in America. It's got to be very small,
but it's less than two. I don't know if you
can imagine attachments on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Joy to be a two percenter, then proud to be, Oh,
please change your life. The Heinee shower I call it.
It's uh, that's not oh, it's so good. When I'm
on vacation, I can't wait to get home. I like
the French word better than the heine shower. Then this story,
this tragic story.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Some terrifying moments at a surf to delay performance an
organ this weekend, an artists performing on an aerial hoop
losing her grip the artist was rushed to the hospital
in stable condition.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
She is expected to recover. What what exact trick was
she doing when she fell?
Speaker 5 (32:44):
She was on the the hula hoop, hanging from the rope,
which I've been to lots of circu delight, circu us
of suck, circu della suck if they fall off.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I didn't pay you to watch somebody fall to their death.
I can get that anywhere. The other day, you're complaining
about death, defying feats that didn't define death. No, No,
I'm pro this. It needs to happen every so often,
or there's no excitement to it at all. Ho home,
If you're not actually defying death, or can't even get hurt,
can't even break a nail, what's the point of watching.
But so she was spinning on the hoop and fell out.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
M m, she slips.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I'll admit I wouldn't want my kids to see that.
I just feel like it wouldn't be a good thing
to see.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
What.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Oh no, No, too many nightmares, to too many waking
up cryings.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Unfortunately, the video that they had of it that was
featured in that newscast.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Was shot by a kid when I was young. There
were lots of tricks and stuff that were done with
no nets, but I feel like they're mostly nets almost
all the time now when you do tricks right.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Yes, I believe that has to do with liability laws
in the audience's lack of desire to see somebody dead.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I'm really paralyzed. Maybe it's just me.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I'm always disappointed when I see a net, or when
they stretch out the net. It's like, what so, worst
case scenario, You've fallen a net and wave to the crowd,
what is this? I know what you're saying. It's not
the sort of thing many people say out loud. I
don't want them to fall and die, but that's the
that's they fall.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I want them to die, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
You're cheating me if you don't at risk death or
permanent disrememberable.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
But you can't. You can't.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
You're you're insinuating. This is a death defying act. Yeah,
there's a giant net there.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I was parodying Jack, not agreeing with him. Apparently he
missed that. But I will tell you I do get
this part of it though.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Part of the pleasure of watching an act like that,
and I remember this as a kid is the fear, right,
fear that they are going to slip and fall, and
when they don't, relief is part of why you cheer
and clap so loud.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
And so there's none of that with a net. All right,
whoop do do they fall in the net?
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Ooh?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
He landed in a net. I just don't get it. Weak.
Not the sort of position again, most people take.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
It on some sort of with no netsu. I was
gonna say, oh, liability, it's gonna have to do it offshore.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
You know, you think.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
To do south of the border exactly, so you think
it's a liability thing.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
You telling me that you can't have.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Somebody say look with four lawyers present, and they get
lectured for an hour about I don't know gravity and
sign a piece of paper saying I know what I'm doing.
I'm taking the risks. Are they a worker making a
check in the United States of America?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Wow, that's ridiculous. Or they just don't want to break
their necks.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Why don't you move to Afghanistan, Jack, and you can
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can be proud of what you've achieved.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
If that's that important to you wow not come out
on the good end of this.
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