April 17, 2025 • 10 mins
On the Thursday April 17, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...
- We have a new duty for Sleeve Boy...
- Joe's problem with the child prodigy...
- The big difference between American & posh British schools.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, you want to go out and get wasted on
juice boxes. It's one more thing, one more thing. It'll
all make sense, Katie, Okay, shy. Why am I making
these hands in moments? I don't know. It's scaring me.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Stop it. So before we get to whatever that is,
the concept of being a human footstool came up on
the Armstrong and Getty showed today. Oh my god, yes
it did.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We got an email that suggesting that sleeve boy should
add that to his duties. Sleeve boy, sleeve boy, hands
and knees right now, Daddy's legs are tired.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I make him call me daddy. Oh man, that's rough.
I was reading this book and it was a kid
that went to a private prep school in England. And
one of the weird things that happened at this horrible school,
in addition to the bullying and sexual abuse, was the
headmaster's wife would make two of the kids be a
(00:59):
foot stool for her in the evening so she could
rest her feet on top of them. And this was
an elite, yeah, private where you sent your rich family,
and you send your rich kids because you want them
to be also, you know, movers and shakers in England. Yeah,
really amazing. But and it reminded me I'd heard it
in a podcast last year. I wish I could dig
it up. I got to try to figure out where
it was. Some war in the Middle East way back
(01:22):
in the day, and like some sultan you know, takes
over another piece of land there in the Middle East
and makes that king be his footstool for like the
rest of his life, be a human footstool for like
twenty years or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I just don't know if I'd go along. I think
I might. I might, I might check out.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Before I'd be somebody's footstool for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I think that would. Yeah, it'd be tough on your
back and your knees. I mean, if it had her execution.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I wasn't thinking about it physically as much as just
it's kind of demeaning, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
What are you I woke up demeans this morning? I've
done worse.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What kind of life is that being someone's footstool. Well,
it's demeaning, yeah, But if it's that or execution the guy.
The guy's not sitting all day and all night you
get time off.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
You have no self respect I'd rather be alive.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'm not sure I would.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I could write poetry in my head as I sat
there with his feet on my back. I could think
about anything I wanted. I could write songs. I could
have a happy and productive life when I'm not being
in footstool. I don't know. You live and you endure,
you overcome.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I have so many questions, like if on your downtime,
when you're not a footstool, how.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Much freedom do you have?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Do I have a car?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Can I go about my regular day, but make sure
i'm back for footstool hour or whatever?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Seeing the get You're down at the mall shopping and
they just text you and my feet are a little
on the ground. If you know what I'm saying, I'm
on my way home.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
We've been walking a lot. Twenty minute warning. I could
deal I mean, I could deal with that.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, I mean it is demeaning, but yeah, as long
as it's fairly civil. Something tells me in the ancient
Middle East it wasn't quite that enlightened.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah you get a beating on the way in and
one on the way out, well, then yeah, I'd hurtl
myself off the castle wall or onto a sword or something.
But the fact that the guy hung in there for
twenty years says to me, you know, it's all right.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know that's a that's a decent comment right there.
That great benefits. You're off hours, hit a creep, got
a four wooden k.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, and I'm traded very well. Yeah, it's dirty
feet around my back. Other than that, it's pretty enlightened.
He's got great taste in music, and I get to
listen to it. Obviously, I'm there.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I'm furniture for a rich guy. But every now and
then he clips his toenails, you.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Know, and you know the harem girls. I'm not supposed
to look, but I'd grab a glance. I mean, he's
not looking at me. It's it's fine. Beat's getting your
head sawed off anyway. So my reference to getting wasted
on juice box is a ten year old California girl
is set to graduate from college this spring. She says,
I just enjoy learning. There's so many interesting things out there,
(04:09):
which is true.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Ten. Is this the youngbe eleven at the ceremony? Is
this the youngest ever?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I've heard, you know, we've all heard the sixteens, fifteen thirteen.
I don't think I've ever heard of ten.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah. She learned how to read at two years old
and began doing algebra at the age of five. Started
taking classes at a community college in Ukaypa, California, when
she was eight. It's very fun to me, she says.
It's almost as fun as playing outside or riding a
bike or doing whatever. I just enjoy learning. There's so
many interesting things out there, you know, it's it's funny people.
(04:46):
Uh no, I don't think so. Let me let me
say probably not. I mean she's a child. Oh there,
she is, lovely gal, Oh what a cutie. Anyway, she's
not gonna end up a human footstool. People react with
incredulity and wonder and amazement at this sort of thing.
(05:07):
And I've for years and years and you just thought
it's so silly. And it reminds me of one thing
I hate, Katie. That's very odd. I hate when people
gush over a child who can sing like an adult.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That is something that sets Joe off, Katie out of
you didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well. People are like, oh my god, she's amazing. Listen
to that voice. Oh my god, and she's only a child.
Oh my god, it's like this little girl. It's not
merit that she's that intelligent. I mean she has a
fair amount of character and a curious mind, which I
think is great. She's not better than you. Her brain
(05:45):
just works differently. It's like being exceptionally tall. I don't
point at somebody who's very tall and say, oh my god,
he's six foot five. That's much taller than average people.
Because sand a certain number of people fall outside the
averages and stuff like that. So some kid's throat is
formed in a way that she sounds somewhat like an
(06:06):
adult when she sings. Who cares you know what she's
gonna sound like when she is an adult, like a
sing an adult. It's not like she got anywhere worth getting.
She's just there earlier. It's not like she's going to
continue to be so much better a singer than the
rest of humanity by the time she's an adult. Her
her voice can some of the angels and care cancer.
(06:28):
That's not the way it works. I have never heard
someone this upset about Oh I'm implementing get upset. I'm
upset about stupid people who gush about someone who can
sing like an adult at age twelve.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Honest to god, if my kids started reading really well
at age two and everything, I'd think, WHOA, we have
got a situation to manage. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
I mean, if I could choose it or not, I'd
choose not. I'd rather have a kid of normal intelligence.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, I don't know's It's definitely a challenge and an opportunity. Now,
unlike the singing youngster, this young lady might continue to
learn throughout her lifetime and achieve great things.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I certainly hope that for or only fans.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, a lot of super geniuses don't end up happy.
So oh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, No, I was just gonna say a crack a dumb joke,
so continue.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Oh I'm sorry I missed it. Yeah. I've known more
than one person who is of like a crazy intelligence
that can't get their act together and or their borderline,
or actually just mentally ill and fantastically intelligent. It's just
as we've said for a long time, genius is another
(07:52):
brand of my brain. Doesn't work like other people's brains,
and sometimes it can be great, but not always.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Uh. I meant I wouldn't not from a parenting standpoint
for my kid, I wouldn't choose them to have that
brain just because. Okay, so now you're at community college
and you're eight. That's not a comfortable situation. Now and
you're at college at ten, you're not going to have
the college experience that you'd have with an average intelligence
that is, and having a high school experience, none of it.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's just and so I actually know somebody. I'm going
to be very very vague about this for obvious reasons,
but mom is exceptionally bright and her daughter is off
the charts, and it's tough sometimes for the kid to
relate to kids her age. Sure she has nothing to
(08:42):
say to them. Well, I don't want to go any
further than that, because I'm not like intimately in their lives.
But I'm reminded of a great line from the best
incarnation of Sherlock Holmes that's ever existed, the Benedict Cumberbatch
with Mark what's his who's Mycroft homes? But that's Sherlock
(09:04):
homes smarter older brother who says to Sherlock, you think
it's difficult for you, For me, it's like living in
a world of goldfish, which is you know, obviously a
tad demeaning sort of fellow who might use you as
a stool school. But yeah, to be that bright as
a child, maybe you're still into playing with Dolly's and
(09:27):
think puppies are cute and stuff like that and want
to draw rainbows. But it'd be tough.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And uh, what is a kid going to major in?
Do we know that?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I don't know. But her dream is to someday work
in artificial intelligence. She's talking about building a startup with
her dad, which is sweet.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
We're all going to be her footstool someday. I'd be
happy to be a hunter. Indeed.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Now I'm going to grunt a little as I get
to the ground as an old older fellow. But let's
get this started. Imagine being a singing human footstool, not
only letting them put your feet on their back, sing
me a song, footstool. Yeah, I could see that being
part of the deal. I mean, if you're a human footstool,
(10:17):
you're not going to say no, I don't want to sing. No,
I'd say you're a human footstool. You're gonna do what
you're told.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Everybody cut everybody cut foot loose now, don't sing foot
related songs. I want other stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I am going to kick you if you make another
joke like that footstool.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, I guess that's it.
Hey, you want to go out and get wasted on
juice boxes. It's one more thing, one more thing. It'll
all make sense, Katie, Okay, shy. Why am I making
these hands in moments? I don't know. It's scaring me.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Stop it. So before we get to whatever that is,
the concept of being a human footstool came up on
the Armstrong and Getty showed today. Oh my god, yes
it did.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We got an email that suggesting that sleeve boy should
add that to his duties. Sleeve boy, sleeve boy, hands
and knees right now, Daddy's legs are tired.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I make him call me daddy. Oh man, that's rough.
I was reading this book and it was a kid
that went to a private prep school in England. And
one of the weird things that happened at this horrible school,
in addition to the bullying and sexual abuse, was the
headmaster's wife would make two of the kids be a
(00:59):
foot stool for her in the evening so she could
rest her feet on top of them. And this was
an elite, yeah, private where you sent your rich family,
and you send your rich kids because you want them
to be also, you know, movers and shakers in England. Yeah,
really amazing. But and it reminded me I'd heard it
in a podcast last year. I wish I could dig
it up. I got to try to figure out where
it was. Some war in the Middle East way back
(01:22):
in the day, and like some sultan you know, takes
over another piece of land there in the Middle East
and makes that king be his footstool for like the
rest of his life, be a human footstool for like
twenty years or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I just don't know if I'd go along. I think
I might. I might, I might check out.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Before I'd be somebody's footstool for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I think that would. Yeah, it'd be tough on your
back and your knees. I mean, if it had her execution.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I wasn't thinking about it physically as much as just
it's kind of demeaning, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
What are you I woke up demeans this morning? I've
done worse.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What kind of life is that being someone's footstool. Well,
it's demeaning, yeah, But if it's that or execution the guy.
The guy's not sitting all day and all night you
get time off.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
You have no self respect I'd rather be alive.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'm not sure I would.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I could write poetry in my head as I sat
there with his feet on my back. I could think
about anything I wanted. I could write songs. I could
have a happy and productive life when I'm not being
in footstool. I don't know. You live and you endure,
you overcome.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I have so many questions, like if on your downtime,
when you're not a footstool, how.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Much freedom do you have?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Do I have a car?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Can I go about my regular day, but make sure
i'm back for footstool hour or whatever?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Seeing the get You're down at the mall shopping and
they just text you and my feet are a little
on the ground. If you know what I'm saying, I'm
on my way home.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
We've been walking a lot. Twenty minute warning. I could
deal I mean, I could deal with that.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, I mean it is demeaning, but yeah, as long
as it's fairly civil. Something tells me in the ancient
Middle East it wasn't quite that enlightened.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah you get a beating on the way in and
one on the way out, well, then yeah, I'd hurtl
myself off the castle wall or onto a sword or something.
But the fact that the guy hung in there for
twenty years says to me, you know, it's all right.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know that's a that's a decent comment right there.
That great benefits. You're off hours, hit a creep, got
a four wooden k.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, and I'm traded very well. Yeah, it's dirty
feet around my back. Other than that, it's pretty enlightened.
He's got great taste in music, and I get to
listen to it. Obviously, I'm there.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I'm furniture for a rich guy. But every now and
then he clips his toenails, you.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Know, and you know the harem girls. I'm not supposed
to look, but I'd grab a glance. I mean, he's
not looking at me. It's it's fine. Beat's getting your
head sawed off anyway. So my reference to getting wasted
on juice box is a ten year old California girl
is set to graduate from college this spring. She says,
I just enjoy learning. There's so many interesting things out there,
(04:09):
which is true.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Ten. Is this the youngbe eleven at the ceremony? Is
this the youngest ever?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I've heard, you know, we've all heard the sixteens, fifteen thirteen.
I don't think I've ever heard of ten.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah. She learned how to read at two years old
and began doing algebra at the age of five. Started
taking classes at a community college in Ukaypa, California, when
she was eight. It's very fun to me, she says.
It's almost as fun as playing outside or riding a
bike or doing whatever. I just enjoy learning. There's so
many interesting things out there, you know, it's it's funny people.
(04:46):
Uh no, I don't think so. Let me let me
say probably not. I mean she's a child. Oh there,
she is, lovely gal, Oh what a cutie. Anyway, she's
not gonna end up a human footstool. People react with
incredulity and wonder and amazement at this sort of thing.
(05:07):
And I've for years and years and you just thought
it's so silly. And it reminds me of one thing
I hate, Katie. That's very odd. I hate when people
gush over a child who can sing like an adult.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That is something that sets Joe off, Katie out of
you didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well. People are like, oh my god, she's amazing. Listen
to that voice. Oh my god, and she's only a child.
Oh my god, it's like this little girl. It's not
merit that she's that intelligent. I mean she has a
fair amount of character and a curious mind, which I
think is great. She's not better than you. Her brain
(05:45):
just works differently. It's like being exceptionally tall. I don't
point at somebody who's very tall and say, oh my god,
he's six foot five. That's much taller than average people.
Because sand a certain number of people fall outside the
averages and stuff like that. So some kid's throat is
formed in a way that she sounds somewhat like an
(06:06):
adult when she sings. Who cares you know what she's
gonna sound like when she is an adult, like a
sing an adult. It's not like she got anywhere worth getting.
She's just there earlier. It's not like she's going to
continue to be so much better a singer than the
rest of humanity by the time she's an adult. Her
her voice can some of the angels and care cancer.
(06:28):
That's not the way it works. I have never heard
someone this upset about Oh I'm implementing get upset. I'm
upset about stupid people who gush about someone who can
sing like an adult at age twelve.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Honest to god, if my kids started reading really well
at age two and everything, I'd think, WHOA, we have
got a situation to manage. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
I mean, if I could choose it or not, I'd
choose not. I'd rather have a kid of normal intelligence.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, I don't know's It's definitely a challenge and an opportunity. Now,
unlike the singing youngster, this young lady might continue to
learn throughout her lifetime and achieve great things.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I certainly hope that for or only fans.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, a lot of super geniuses don't end up happy.
So oh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, No, I was just gonna say a crack a dumb joke,
so continue.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Oh I'm sorry I missed it. Yeah. I've known more
than one person who is of like a crazy intelligence
that can't get their act together and or their borderline,
or actually just mentally ill and fantastically intelligent. It's just
as we've said for a long time, genius is another
(07:52):
brand of my brain. Doesn't work like other people's brains,
and sometimes it can be great, but not always.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Uh. I meant I wouldn't not from a parenting standpoint
for my kid, I wouldn't choose them to have that
brain just because. Okay, so now you're at community college
and you're eight. That's not a comfortable situation. Now and
you're at college at ten, you're not going to have
the college experience that you'd have with an average intelligence
that is, and having a high school experience, none of it.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's just and so I actually know somebody. I'm going
to be very very vague about this for obvious reasons,
but mom is exceptionally bright and her daughter is off
the charts, and it's tough sometimes for the kid to
relate to kids her age. Sure she has nothing to
(08:42):
say to them. Well, I don't want to go any
further than that, because I'm not like intimately in their lives.
But I'm reminded of a great line from the best
incarnation of Sherlock Holmes that's ever existed, the Benedict Cumberbatch
with Mark what's his who's Mycroft homes? But that's Sherlock
(09:04):
homes smarter older brother who says to Sherlock, you think
it's difficult for you, For me, it's like living in
a world of goldfish, which is you know, obviously a
tad demeaning sort of fellow who might use you as
a stool school. But yeah, to be that bright as
a child, maybe you're still into playing with Dolly's and
(09:27):
think puppies are cute and stuff like that and want
to draw rainbows. But it'd be tough.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And uh, what is a kid going to major in?
Do we know that?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I don't know. But her dream is to someday work
in artificial intelligence. She's talking about building a startup with
her dad, which is sweet.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
We're all going to be her footstool someday. I'd be
happy to be a hunter. Indeed.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Now I'm going to grunt a little as I get
to the ground as an old older fellow. But let's
get this started. Imagine being a singing human footstool, not
only letting them put your feet on their back, sing
me a song, footstool. Yeah, I could see that being
part of the deal. I mean, if you're a human footstool,
(10:17):
you're not going to say no, I don't want to sing. No,
I'd say you're a human footstool. You're gonna do what
you're told.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Everybody cut everybody cut foot loose now, don't sing foot
related songs. I want other stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I am going to kick you if you make another
joke like that footstool.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, I guess that's it.
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