Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm.
Speaker 2: Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty Strong. Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm Strong and Getty. We're featuring our podcast One More Thing.
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Speaker 3: Podcasts, drama in real life.
Speaker 4: What was the last time you took over the One
Speaker 4: More Thing podcast?
Speaker 5: What was that one about? Was that your health? Say?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was type two diabetes?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: That was an interesting story, unfortunate for you, obviously interesting.
Speaker 5: How is that going by?
Speaker 7: That's going very well? Actually, now I have a funny
Speaker 7: story about that. They want to pump me forward. They
Speaker 7: wanted to give you a bunch of drugs, and I said,
Speaker 7: I will change my diet, I will exercise.
Speaker 6: I've been doing all these things.
Speaker 7: And one doctor said no, no, no, no, you got
Speaker 7: to be on these drugs for life. And I've been
Speaker 7: able to do it without it pretty much, and so
Speaker 7: I'm not going back to that doctor.
Speaker 5: Two interesting things about that.
Speaker 4: One, I think the doctor's recognizing reality that like ninety
Speaker 4: five percent of people don't do anything about their diet.
Speaker 4: But two, the fact that they would push the drugs
Speaker 4: on you rather than like really push the diet part.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was just reading about the incredible pressure that is
Speaker 3: on doctors now to see thirty seven patients in a
Speaker 3: single day, and they are just pushed and pushed and
Speaker 3: pushed by their corporate overlords.
Speaker 5: And so this doc, I don't know, you're Doc Michael,
Speaker 5: and I'm just.
Speaker 3: Guessing, but it could be he's thinking, I don't have
Speaker 3: time for the You got to take care of yourself,
Speaker 3: and here's how lecture. And then when you hem and
Speaker 3: haw say all right, here's the other alternative, blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: or why didn't you come back and see me in
Speaker 3: a week because you can't get an appointment for three
Speaker 3: and a half months. So he just thinks, let's cut
Speaker 3: to the chase. Take these pills, get now, get I
Speaker 3: gotta go.
Speaker 5: See thirty six more patients. Well there's that.
Speaker 4: And then not to be the conspiracy guy, but I mean,
Speaker 4: if you prescribe medicine, somebody's paying for it and somebody's
Speaker 4: receiving money, so.
Speaker 5: There's got to be some incentive.
Speaker 4: Someone might not be the doctor, but there's got to
Speaker 4: be an incentive somewhere along the line to have you
Speaker 4: taking drugs as opposed to eating better?
Speaker 5: Right? I mean, people make money if you don't eat better.
Speaker 6: I was told that they have medical reps come by
Speaker 6: all the time.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, promoting drugs now Well and big Pharma allegedly.
Speaker 5: And I don't know whether this motivates people a little
Speaker 5: or a lot.
Speaker 3: We'll have a four day conference on how Zunetra can
Speaker 3: help your patients. It's in Maui. It's at the fourth Seasons.
Speaker 3: There's a twenty five minute meeting each morning where you
Speaker 3: talk about Zunetra. Then you're free for the rest of
Speaker 3: the day expenses paid.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't talked about this in years, but I
Speaker 4: used to be friends with somebody who was a pharmaceutical
Speaker 4: rep and just lived two houses down for me, and
Speaker 4: so she would book these really excit spensive dinners at
Speaker 4: the most expensive place in town. But if they didn't
Speaker 4: have all the seats filled, they were gonna get paid
Speaker 4: for anyway. She'd say, hey, I got two extra seats.
Speaker 4: So we would go and eat the meals and hang around.
Speaker 4: And sometimes I'd have to like kind of pretend I
Speaker 4: was a doctor or.
Speaker 5: Something like that. If somebody asked me a question.
Speaker 4: But they were getting wined and dined at the most
Speaker 4: expensive place in town with the open bar and everything
Speaker 4: like that. To tell them about some drug and there'd
Speaker 4: be a five minute slideshow about the drugs and then
Speaker 4: you get like a three hundred dollars meal for free.
Speaker 4: Oh I'd make hay with that opportunity. Man, I'd turn
Speaker 4: to my left and say, what do you prefer? Viruses
Speaker 4: or bacteria?
Speaker 8: Oh my god, to be at the same table with
Speaker 8: you two pretending to be doctors.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 4: I was always dreading if somebody actually asked me if
Speaker 4: fractures there's something, aren't they.
Speaker 5: I don't know what I would say. Oh, I tell
Speaker 5: you what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hate to see it, but you gotta deal
Speaker 4: with it. M So I told him, don't do that anyway.
Speaker 4: Let's wait for the stake to show up. Oh the
Speaker 4: other thing there? I knew there were there were actually
Speaker 4: there was another thing.
Speaker 5: Now forgotten it.
Speaker 4: I'm Joe Biden, like man, I do notice when I
Speaker 4: don't get enough sleep that I can't remember near as
Speaker 4: well my sentences now, my sentences in the middle, and
Speaker 4: I can't finish.
Speaker 5: I can't remember the end.
Speaker 4: The oh, the direct relationship between eating better and your
Speaker 4: your body changing or getting better numbers. Even though that's
Speaker 4: obviously clearly true, I'm always still somewhat surprised, like I
Speaker 4: eat really good and look I'm a couple of pounds lighter,
Speaker 4: or the opposite, I eat really bad and I'm a
Speaker 4: couple of pounds every year. It's just, even though I
Speaker 4: know it's true, to see it like in black and
Speaker 4: white in front of me is always just a little something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like the old I feel better after a
Speaker 3: drink or two the next morning than I did after
Speaker 3: the night I had seven. I'll be damned, I've only
Speaker 3: learned that lesson five million times.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: Anyway, what's your tale today, Michael?
Speaker 7: Okay, So here we go yesterday, ha to get my
Speaker 7: teeth cleaned. And I have a very good dental hygienist
Speaker 7: who I've had for years. He's really gentle, she does
Speaker 7: teeth well, she doesn't no hurt.
Speaker 5: No pain. Nice.
Speaker 7: So I show up the dentist yesterday and it turns
Speaker 7: out she's not there, and I had to know this.
Speaker 7: She goes, we have somebody else though that will take you.
Speaker 7: And so I get this person and let me put
Speaker 7: it this way. I'm still tasting blood today from them scraping.
Speaker 5: Brunhilda the cruel.
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 4: No, nobody in this scenario speaks English. And it was
Speaker 4: in a garage and Rielnda correct, No, no, no, actual
Speaker 4: dental practice.
Speaker 6: Actual dental practice. Good place.
Speaker 7: But I don't know if this was a new employee
Speaker 7: or what the deal was, but uh, she was really rough.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: You put the tube in to suck the water out,
Speaker 7: and she was just jamming it down there.
Speaker 6: Physical reaction, this was crazy.
Speaker 5: When did she leaves?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 7: And then I guess she got behind on our schedule,
Speaker 7: and so the doctor had come to her and said, said,
Speaker 7: you know, is he almost done? She goes, well, it's
Speaker 7: gonna be a few minutes, just a few minutes. And
Speaker 7: then all of a sudden, she starts putting the Paul
Speaker 7: Show my teeth and rubbing as fast as you can,
Speaker 7: starts grabs the water and just starts squirting my mouth.
Speaker 6: You know, just it's just crazy.
Speaker 5: So wow, that's terrible.
Speaker 3: So you pick your wash, yeah, literally, so just we're
Speaker 3: running out of time. So you picked up the poker
Speaker 3: and you stabbed her with it, and you wonder what
Speaker 3: were you in the right.
Speaker 6: Somebody that doesn't like conflicts.
Speaker 7: So I just held on for dear life and I
Speaker 7: just put up with it and I'm fine, But I'm
Speaker 7: debating do I call him and let them know, Hey,
Speaker 7: this person was really rough. This is terrible because I
Speaker 7: got to go back there in a few months and
Speaker 7: it was really painful.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, asked two questions.
Speaker 4: The first one I've had before where it's like the
Speaker 4: last person's better at this, but I don't want to
Speaker 4: make another appointment. I need to get this done now,
Speaker 4: and so it's not just conflict avoid and it's like
Speaker 4: the reality of trying to get the person you like better.
Speaker 4: So that's that's one thing. But then the complain, Hell,
Speaker 4: y is I'm complaining?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 7: It was funny is during the whole procedure though, she
Speaker 7: goes like, yes, you're just laying there. She goes, I
Speaker 7: take that as a compliment. It means that I'm not
Speaker 7: hurting you. And I'm thinking, is this a common thing?
Speaker 7: Are people saying to her?
Speaker 5: If you scream? She thinks everything's going fine. Yes, that's
Speaker 5: a really weird thing. She said, that's so odd.
Speaker 8: I would definitely call Michael and maybe just say something
Speaker 8: along the lines of could I not be with this
Speaker 8: individual next time because that was.
Speaker 5: A little uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I would go ahead and say why it
Speaker 3: was extremely uncomfortable. It was the most painful cleaning I've
Speaker 3: ever had say that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's perfectly reasonable to say.
Speaker 4: It's like when I used to talk about my man
Speaker 4: Pong the phlotomus draw blood for me. I would always
Speaker 4: call and see if Pong was there because he could
Speaker 4: do it where you didn't feel a thing. And I
Speaker 4: love Pong, but he quit and uh, and other people
Speaker 4: aren't as good. But I've never had anybody jab me
Speaker 4: in the side of the year with the needle and
Speaker 4: say sorry about that.
Speaker 7: I just want her to look at me next time
Speaker 7: I go and say, oh, you're the one that called.
Speaker 7: You're the one that got me in trouble, or something
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my brother, don't think it would go like that.
Speaker 4: I told the story years ago when my brother went
Speaker 4: into the hospital is here here in the local area,
Speaker 4: and man, the president of the hospital, ended up meeting
Speaker 4: me in the parking lot. After I told this story
Speaker 4: on the air, they were so worried. But anyway, they
Speaker 4: were trying to put an IV in my brother, and
Speaker 4: the guy just kept having to do it over and
Speaker 4: over and over again and jab him over and over again.
Speaker 4: And my brother's incredibly stoic as a military dude and
Speaker 4: all that sort of stuff. It's part of his whole
Speaker 4: personality that he would never ever act like anything hurt
Speaker 4: underneath circumstance.
Speaker 5: But they really guy was it. And the guy actually
Speaker 5: says to him, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: I was at the casinos really late last night and just.
Speaker 4: Kept jo oh, and I was like, dude, you gotta
Speaker 4: tell someone.
Speaker 5: Nah.
Speaker 8: The only time I've ever had someone miss I know. Oh,
Speaker 8: we're into the Oh yeah, it's good for you. Oh yeah,
Speaker 8: she missed three times and I went three strikes and
Speaker 8: you're out.
Speaker 5: You're done.
Speaker 8: I'm not doing this again. And I walked out, made
Speaker 8: another appointment. This was before it took eight months to
Speaker 8: get your blood drawn.
Speaker 5: Though, But yeah, wow, wow.
Speaker 3: It's interesting because getting back to the whole doctors more
Speaker 3: than dentists. But it's just in my lifetime, the whole
Speaker 3: doctor patient relationship has evolved from I know you for
Speaker 3: years and years. You're like my partner in health. There's
Speaker 3: a great deal of respect for you. There's concern for me. Now,
Speaker 3: it's more like getting a burger out of a fast
Speaker 3: food joint. To some extent, I've got a great doc
Speaker 3: right now, but I've had a couple that were terrible,
Speaker 3: that were just they well, it was like eating a
Speaker 3: burger from a fast food joint.
Speaker 5: So I don't you know, Michael, I would.
Speaker 3: I would remember, you're a customer who's paying a great
Speaker 3: deal for a service, and there are other service providers
Speaker 3: and dentists are are skilled people and they're airing and
Speaker 3: the rest of it.
Speaker 5: But they're not They're not gods, they're not priests.
Speaker 4: I don't think this would be a bad way to
Speaker 4: handle you say, this is a deal I make with everybody.
Speaker 4: Whatever you do to me, I'm gonna do to you.
Speaker 4: So just keep that in mind.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's an idea.
Speaker 4: I brought my tools, and so you know you might
Speaker 4: own to think that over.
Speaker 5: You show up with your own tool, right and you say,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give as much pain as I get. Somebody's
Speaker 5: get started.
Speaker 4: If it to you, exactly, it's because of your move.
Speaker 4: Ball is in your court. If I feel nothing, you
Speaker 4: feel nothing.
Speaker 6: That's what I'll do.
Speaker 7: I'll walk up the receptionist, scrape your teeth a little bit.
Speaker 6: Say does that hurt? Well, guess what that's what she
Speaker 6: did to me?
Speaker 5: Plot your hose, spray her with it, right a face?
Speaker 5: How do you like it? Eh?
Speaker 4: Okay, hold still, lady, you're gonna feel a little pressure.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong.
Speaker 6: And Getty show.
Speaker 3: So maybe became aware of this meme, this clip that
Speaker 3: went viral. As they do, I'm gonna start saying that
Speaker 3: just to annoy people the clip went viral. Oh, let's
Speaker 3: start with the number six. This is the lady standing
Speaker 3: next to the partition in the plane, looking back toward
Speaker 3: the back section of the plane, chewing somebody out.
Speaker 9: I'm telling you, and there's a reason be it or
Speaker 9: you not believe it. And I am telling you right
Speaker 9: now there is not real, and you can tell it not.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to it's a little while now.
Speaker 4: And I just saw a little bit of it, and
Speaker 4: there was something about the pitch of her voice.
Speaker 5: I just thought, I'm out. So I haven't paid any
Speaker 5: attention to it.
Speaker 3: Attractive white girl pointing to the back of the plane, saying.
Speaker 5: This m effort is not real.
Speaker 8: The bast part is when the entire plane. They all
Speaker 8: turn around to look at what is she talking about?
Speaker 3: Is what?
Speaker 5: Not real? What do you mean? Not real? Not real?
Speaker 5: And then she hit some with you can die on
Speaker 5: this plane, but I'm not. I'm getting off. Who's not real?
Speaker 3: So you know, it obviously lent itself beautifully to various
Speaker 3: memes about you know, who was on the who was
Speaker 3: in the plane that was not real?
Speaker 5: Or what she meant and that sort of thing. It
Speaker 5: exploded as those things do. Well.
Speaker 3: Here she is, I guess her name's Tiffany, which is perfect.
Speaker 3: She's explaining what the hell happened?
Speaker 11: First and foremost. I want to take full accountability for
Speaker 11: my actions. They were completely unacceptable. Distress or not I
Speaker 11: should have been. I should have been in control of
Speaker 11: my emotions and.
Speaker 5: That was not the case.
Speaker 11: My use of profanity was completely unnecessary, and I want
Speaker 11: to apologize to everyone on that plane, especially those that
Speaker 11: had children aboard. We all have are bad moments, some
Speaker 11: far worse than others, and mine happened to be caught
Speaker 11: on camera for the whole world to see multiple times.
Speaker 5: Sorry, all right, sound like mini mouths.
Speaker 11: It has been really comic goal for everyone, and I
Speaker 11: have highly enjoyed so many of the means on the
Speaker 11: flip side, it is very invasive and unkind, and I
Speaker 11: don't know what I would do without the love and
Speaker 11: support of my friends and family. I hope they use
Speaker 11: this experience and you do a little bit of good
Speaker 11: in the world and that goes I hope that you
Speaker 11: guys can accept my apologies.
Speaker 3: Please make it in just now. You don't know me
Speaker 3: an apology. I don't care now. I'd read that she
Speaker 3: got in a dispute with some family members she was
Speaker 3: traveling with about whether they stole her earbuds or EarPods
Speaker 3: or whatever, and that it escalated the where it turned
Speaker 3: to this plane's gonna crash, You're gonna die, I'm getting off.
Speaker 5: I don't know whether she was psychotic.
Speaker 3: She didn't sound drunk, but she might be one of
Speaker 3: those people who sounds pretty, you know, sharp, even when
Speaker 3: she's hammered.
Speaker 8: Yes, No, I was just gonna say that video explained nothing.
Speaker 8: She did not tell us how many acid tablets she
Speaker 8: dropped before getting on that plane.
Speaker 4: Yes, she never got to the realness or lack thereof,
Speaker 4: of the gentleman in the back of the plane, which
Speaker 4: is the is the thing and I didn't know is
Speaker 4: apologizing for hilarious memes a thing? Now you have to
Speaker 4: go and post a video where I take full responsibility
Speaker 4: for this hilarious meme.
Speaker 5: Ian what is that?
Speaker 8: I kind of felt bad for her because after this
Speaker 8: video surfaced, you know, it went everywhere, and then the
Speaker 8: next headline following was the Internet trying to figure out
Speaker 8: who she was, right, So all these you know, Internet
Speaker 8: sleuths were digging to get her information.
Speaker 5: And now she finally, you know, she had.
Speaker 8: To block all of her stuff on social media, so
Speaker 8: it was a headline on top of a headline.
Speaker 5: So I was just trying to clear her.
Speaker 4: God help you if you ever become one of these people,
Speaker 4: because I'm sure it gets into They get into every
Speaker 4: aspect of your life, and you know, what you did
Speaker 4: in high school and your ex boyfriend from college and
Speaker 4: everything else all of a sudden appears in the world.
Speaker 5: But does she?
Speaker 4: So, is there still any explanation for the.
Speaker 5: The that mf or isn't real?
Speaker 3: Well, there's there's more to the clip that I don't know,
Speaker 3: but there was more to the clip. You can sit
Speaker 3: on this plane and you can effing die with them
Speaker 3: or not. I'm not going to as we heard. She
Speaker 3: demanded that the crew quote stop the plane, and the
Speaker 3: aircraft was brought back to the gate and she was ejected.
Speaker 4: We've all had our bad moments, Joe. She takes full responsibility.
Speaker 5: It's a good point.
Speaker 3: She then allegedly refused to leave the boarding area, continued
Speaker 3: to rent while being escorted outside the terminal, where she
Speaker 3: repeatedly scored officers insisted the plane would explode after takeoff.
Speaker 3: She then snuck through security a couple of more times,
Speaker 3: or attempted to, or went through security a couple more times,
Speaker 3: and they kicked her out of the terminal again.
Speaker 4: Man, she's lucky she did this in twenty twenty three
Speaker 4: and not in like twenty twelve, or she would have
Speaker 4: been duct taped to the cargo hold of the plane
Speaker 4: back when we took all this sort of stuff. So seriously,
Speaker 4: how do you.
Speaker 8: Get ejected from a flight and then get back through security?
Speaker 5: How does that happen? Because aren't you on some list
Speaker 5: or something? Well, I don't know, she's just they said, look,
Speaker 5: you gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1: Go.
Speaker 3: She said hey, then turn around, walked over to the
Speaker 3: security again and went through again, got screamed can I
Speaker 3: hear the.
Speaker 4: Original clip again, because that's that's that's new to me,
Speaker 4: the whole He's not real, I'm telling.
Speaker 9: You, and there's a reason why can you either believe
Speaker 9: it or cannot believe it? And I am telling you
Speaker 9: right now.
Speaker 5: There is not real.
Speaker 6: And you can die.
Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not going to sour. Yeah, everybody's like,
Speaker 5: who's not real? Who's not? Everybody back there looks real
Speaker 5: to me.
Speaker 8: And the Internet, my gosh, it's totally the Internet I
Speaker 8: signed up for. All these people were taking this video
Speaker 8: and splicing it, so with that, I'm ever right there,
Speaker 8: and then they.
Speaker 5: Turned the camera to themselves. It's like, I'm here.
Speaker 4: A good story. Oh boy, the poor lady. I'm glad
Speaker 4: you did responsibility though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was good.
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Speaker 3: Ah, yes, but this is a gal on a mission.
Speaker 3: Love and Bloom are crazy stalker psychobiac. Let's find out.
Speaker 3: Thirteen Michael.
Speaker 10: I saw this really cute guy at the grocery store
Speaker 10: the other day, so naturally I followed him to the
Speaker 10: checkout counter, and when he gave the cashier his credit card,
Speaker 10: I peeped it to see what his name was, and
Speaker 10: then I googled him and found his social media profiles,
Speaker 10: and I was able to tell that he was single.
Speaker 10: So I went through his friends list and I found
Speaker 10: his mother's page, and then I looked through his mother's
Speaker 10: page and I saw that she was a member of.
Speaker 5: This book club. That's in my area.
Speaker 10: So I went to the book club meeting and I
Speaker 10: met his mom there, and she just thought I was
Speaker 10: so nice, And I brought it up randomly in conversation
Speaker 10: that I was single, and she let me know that
Speaker 10: she had a son that was single also that lived
Speaker 10: in the area, and maybe it would be cool for
Speaker 10: us to get together in chat sometime. So I gave
Speaker 10: her my number, which she gave to her son, and
Speaker 10: this morning he texted me and asked if I'd like
Speaker 10: to get together this weekend and do something. So I
Speaker 10: guess we're going to go on a date. I'm really excited.
Speaker 8: Wait until he sees this video and goes, oh my god,
Speaker 8: who did I go on a date with?
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a pretty successful uh effort she made there.
Speaker 5: I don't know how it's going to turn out. That's insane.
Speaker 3: Well, we have a little update for you. That young
Speaker 3: man is now dissolving in a clause Psycho decided he
Speaker 3: wasn't worthy of living. She is now wearing his skin
Speaker 3: as his garment and his fingerbones as a necklace. Follow
Speaker 3: up segment. All right, all right, so.
Speaker 5: Dude, run from her. God, she actually went to the
Speaker 5: book club meeting and got to know his mom.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, because he's a cute guy. I mean, look,
Speaker 3: let's all recognize. I can see a dozen attractive women,
Speaker 3: there will be one that'll like make my brain explode
Speaker 3: for whatever, genetic, anthropolo anthropological, who knows why it happens. Reason,
Speaker 3: doctor Freud had his own opinions, whatever, and maybe it
Speaker 3: was one of those. Maybe it was one of those.
Speaker 3: She saw him and just her jaw dropped. It was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, for whatever reason. Now, certainly concocting some
Speaker 3: sort of can you help me out to the car
Speaker 3: with this or that would have been a hell of
Speaker 3: a lot more normal than the whole Sherlock Holmes routine.
Speaker 3: How troubled are we by the detective job in the roots.
Speaker 4: She took man, the uh, the going to the book
Speaker 4: club and meeting mom and getting to know her, that
Speaker 4: is that is a that's a different level.
Speaker 3: That really feels to me like something that ends up
Speaker 3: with somebody's cat getting murdered.
Speaker 4: So, Katie, you're more up on the modern world of
Speaker 4: how this is handling, how do we feel about just
Speaker 4: like noticing the name on the credit card and doing
Speaker 4: a little research on online.
Speaker 5: So that see, I think that it was.
Speaker 8: It got weird the second she looked at his credit
Speaker 8: credit card to get his name. I like Joe's idea,
Speaker 8: just hey, could you help me to the car with this,
Speaker 8: or like a regular approach. But I would be lying
Speaker 8: if I said that I hadn't met a guy and
Speaker 8: he had given me his name and I went home
Speaker 8: and looked him up. I've done that before, but not
Speaker 8: to the extent to go meet his mom at a
Speaker 8: book club and then wear his skin later.
Speaker 5: That's weird.
Speaker 7: Michael thoughts, Yeah, pretty psycho, I wouldn't. I'm like Katie.
Speaker 7: I mean, maybe you look him up online, do a
Speaker 7: little background check, but that's it.
Speaker 5: Well, here's a little he gives.
Speaker 8: You his name, you don't look at his credit card
Speaker 8: to like, kind of I don't this.
Speaker 5: She sounds like a serial killer to me, Well, there's
Speaker 5: a little surprise. We're gonna talk to him live now.
Speaker 5: He's chained the radiator in her basement. Help me, somebody
Speaker 5: helped me. Gosh, yeah, it's like a part of the story.
Speaker 8: He goes missing and she's helping his mom look for
Speaker 8: him at that point.
Speaker 5: That's how these horror movies go. She's putting up posters, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4: I've only become aware recently, and for reasons I won't
Speaker 4: get into about how all you need is somebody. If
Speaker 4: you have somebody's phone number, for instance, you can find
Speaker 4: out everything and it costs you like a buck online,
Speaker 4: and you got every place they've ever lived, every phone
Speaker 4: they've ever had, all their friends, family members. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: it's horrifying. I mean, it's less worrisome as a dude,
Speaker 4: but man, if I'm a young woman knowing that any
Speaker 4: guy who gets a hold of my phone number at
Speaker 4: all now knows where I live and where my friends
Speaker 4: live and where I work and and everything.
Speaker 5: It's just yeah, it's it's just different world for that
Speaker 5: sort of thing. Of course.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, buddy of mine pointing this out
Speaker 4: to me their date, I remember when we were younger,
Speaker 4: all of our names were in the phone book with
Speaker 4: our address, all of us, all of us. If you
Speaker 4: knew somebody's name, you could look up their address. And
Speaker 4: it's not like everybody got abducted every day, right, And
Speaker 4: everybody's name was in the phone book with their address.
Speaker 5: Did the unlisted thing come later? Is that now unlisted existed?
Speaker 4: But I never knew a girl that was unlisted, every
Speaker 4: girl she was writing the phone book.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, real rarity.
Speaker 3: Getting back to the whole meeting mom book class book
Speaker 3: club happened to randomly mention I was single and but
Speaker 3: subterfuge that just that that is a willingness to be
Speaker 3: sneaky and duplicitous.
Speaker 5: That isn't her first rodeo, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I think we're a little bit into the
Speaker 4: modern attitude where everybody's so paranoid of what would you
Speaker 4: rather run into a bear or a man in the
Speaker 4: woods for a woman?
Speaker 5: I mean, just you saying?
Speaker 4: Was that before unlisted was available, like you wouldn't want
Speaker 4: your name listed in the phone everybody had their address
Speaker 4: to the name in the phone book, and everybody was
Speaker 4: fine with it, and everybody wasn't paranoid thinking, oh my god,
Speaker 4: that's dangerous.
Speaker 5: A guy could look up my address. It worked out.
Speaker 5: I mean, so, is is.
Speaker 4: Culture that much worse or we just way more paranoid
Speaker 4: than we? Well?
Speaker 3: I would point out that if I had the hots
Speaker 3: for Jenny Smith, or even unless her name was true,
Speaker 3: her last name was truly rare and distinctive, there'd be
Speaker 3: eleven of them in the phone book.
Speaker 4: I couldn't tell which one that was my experience at all,
Speaker 4: because I lived in small towns. Everybody everybody's name. There
Speaker 4: was only one Jenny Smith, and every town, everybody's address
Speaker 4: was right there. And I don't remember anybody abusing it,
Speaker 4: or anybody even talking.
Speaker 5: About it being abused. No, nope.
Speaker 4: So what changed our parent the reality of stalkers or
Speaker 4: our paranoia.
Speaker 5: Both. I don't know.
Speaker 6: People aren't brave anymore.
Speaker 7: They don't want to just go and ask something, ask
Speaker 7: someone out right in person, you know, just hey, would
Speaker 7: you like to go out?
Speaker 6: Would you like to get some coffee?
Speaker 3: That's like old skills take developing, though, and we're not
Speaker 3: letting our kids develop those social skills. I had chatted
Speaker 3: up so many girls by the time I started college.
Speaker 3: Just the idea of oh my god, I can't I
Speaker 3: can't say hello to or it was just foreign to me.
Speaker 3: It was not like I have some sort of bold
Speaker 3: master gamesmen or anything. It was just so familiar to me.
Speaker 3: You know, hey, how you doing.
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: Please? Phones and internet have completely smashed that skill.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, this is a weird grab, but
Speaker 3: it popped in my head for some reason. I can't
Speaker 3: remember why the other day, I was thinking about the
Speaker 3: old like the first Bob Seeger song with the uh
Speaker 3: what was the name of his band, Bob Seger and
Speaker 3: the Silver bullibin No. No, that was before he was
Speaker 3: a solo artist, when he was a Detroit rocker, but
Speaker 3: a rambling gambling man. The line is ain't good looking,
Speaker 3: but you know, I ain't shy, ain't afraid to look
Speaker 3: a girl in the eye. And hey, I've always kind
Speaker 3: of liked that line because he was a regular guy.
Speaker 3: But b we've got a couple of generations who were
Speaker 3: terrified to look a girl in the.
Speaker 5: Eye and say, hey, how you doing. So that gets right?
Speaker 4: You think if she she found him alluring enough to
Speaker 4: go through all that work, she should have made her move.
Speaker 3: He then, yeah, she's equipped with the tools to do that.
Speaker 3: Of course, if you're an all attractive young woman, all
Speaker 3: you have to say is.
Speaker 5: So, I see you like cereal. That's good enough ice
Speaker 5: breaker right there, exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I just I have a real issue with her going
Speaker 8: on a date with him after having done all of
Speaker 8: this and acting like it didn't go down like that.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, well yeah, like, oh, we just so happened
Speaker 5: to meet. I met your mom at book club.
Speaker 8: Like the whole the start of whatever relationship this might
Speaker 8: be is gonna be bs anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's a decent point there. You can't start
Speaker 4: with a lie and then go from there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: this ends with a dead cat, trust me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you.
Speaker 4: If you, uh yeah, if you're out with somebody and
Speaker 4: everything like that, and then she mentions, yeah, I was
Speaker 4: talking to your mom. Wait a second, and you know
Speaker 4: my mom? Why do you know my mom?
Speaker 5: This is weird. Okay, well let me tell you how
Speaker 5: this went down.
Speaker 8: So I saw your credit card at the store the.
Speaker 5: Book club that your mom is in.
Speaker 3: Twenty three year old woman, you're in a book club
Speaker 3: with a bunch of sixty four year olds.
Speaker 5: Why I like to read?
Speaker 4: Pretending you want to read the Bridges of Madison County
Speaker 4: so you can get to meet this old woman.
Speaker 5: That is going too far.
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Speaker 4: Now my son, who's fourteen and graduating from eighth grade
Speaker 4: this week graduating, So he actually asked, why do they
Speaker 4: have eighth grade graduation?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: I don't know the real answer, but where I grew
Speaker 4: up I thought it was because a lot of people
Speaker 4: stopped going to school at eighth grade. There was a
Speaker 4: good chunk of the class that or a particular religion,
Speaker 4: the Mennonites, they stopped at eighth grade. So I thought
Speaker 4: that's why we had eighth grade graduation, because they were done.
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 4: Then found out they have eighth grade graduations other places,
Speaker 4: So why does eighth grade graduation exist?
Speaker 3: You know, I've actually heard a really interesting argument about
Speaker 3: this once, where the one point of view was, hey,
Speaker 3: they've finished a level of school. Let's say let's show them, Hey,
Speaker 3: education is important. We're proud of you, a good job.
Speaker 3: Let's reinforce wanting to stay in school and pass everything,
Speaker 3: which I think is a perfectly reasonable point of view.
Speaker 3: The opposition was a woman who was saying, they haven't
Speaker 3: accomplished anything. They're getting the very basics of education their kids.
Speaker 3: They've got several more years of mandatory schooling. They haven't
Speaker 3: accomplished anything. They barely gotten started. Quit with the ceremonies.
Speaker 3: Too many ceremonies.
Speaker 4: I lean more towards that point of view.
Speaker 3: But anything that would less than the number of ceremonies
Speaker 3: I have to go to, I'm in favor of Yes.
Speaker 8: My mom has a picture of my Is it my
Speaker 8: kindergarten graduation or my preschool graduation?
Speaker 5: I don't remember it. I'm wearing a robe. I if
Speaker 5: she had to buy a robe.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I had a little green graduation cap and robe.
Speaker 8: And they took pictures that she obviously paid for because
Speaker 8: we have it something you got money sucked out of that.
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah we did.
Speaker 4: We had to do kindergarten graduation and there was like
Speaker 4: a certificate and stuff. But I don't think there was
Speaker 4: no robe involved.
Speaker 3: But you know, I hate to blame the gals for this,
Speaker 3: but it reminds me of little seven year old kids
Speaker 3: in full uniform playing Little League and they have opening
Speaker 3: ceremonies and closing ceremonies every season, and the parade of
Speaker 3: the teams and lots of pictures in the rest of it.
Speaker 3: Back in the day, you just went and played ball.
Speaker 3: There's no opening ceremony. What the hell do you have
Speaker 3: an opening ceremony. First game of the year is on Saturday,
Speaker 3: Go play it. That was the opening ceremony, play ball.
Speaker 4: So my eighth grader has the graduation is actually on Thursday,
Speaker 4: and you're supposed to wear a tie. So we have
Speaker 4: to go out and get a tie at some point
Speaker 4: this week. You gonna wear my shirt and my pants
Speaker 4: because we're the same size. Oh, and it's gonna be hot.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: He can't wear my shoes because he has bigger feet
Speaker 4: than me. But so I have to get him some
Speaker 4: dress shoes and a tie, and it is going to
Speaker 4: be hot. But the night before there's a big dance,
Speaker 4: the very first dance of his life.
Speaker 5: Oh boy.
Speaker 4: And he said the other day, I sure hope there's
Speaker 4: chairs because I planned to sit.
Speaker 8: It's so funny the difference between guys and gals with
Speaker 8: this one, Like I was so excited and you.
Speaker 5: Want to share to sit?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I know, I know that that's true. I'm
Speaker 4: sure the girls are very very excited. I was gonna
Speaker 4: talk I haven't talked to him about that I hinted at,
Speaker 4: but I was going to talk to him specifically about
Speaker 4: And I haven't completely crafted it into my head yet,
Speaker 4: And it probably won't do any good anyway, because it's
Speaker 4: different when you're fourteen than when you're older and looking
Speaker 4: back on being fourteen, but man, oh man, oh man,
Speaker 4: there's so many things that I chickened out of or
Speaker 4: kind of wish I had done or whatever. You only
Speaker 4: live once. We freaking live once. That girl over there,
Speaker 4: you kind of like, go ask.
Speaker 5: Her to dance?
Speaker 4: Good God, I gotta figure out how I want to
Speaker 4: present it. Not like that, but I mean, looking at
Speaker 4: talking to my eighth grade me, I mean, just life
Speaker 4: is short. Yeah, one go round. Yeah, here's here's what
Speaker 4: you gotta do. Maybe I'll offer this service.
Speaker 3: I'll come over with half a dozen middle school young ladies,
Speaker 3: have your boy ask each one of them to dance.
Speaker 3: Each one of them will say thanks, but no, I'm
Speaker 3: not interested. And by the end of maybe we'll even
Speaker 3: do two rounds. By the end of it, the kid'll
Speaker 3: be like, that's fine.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 4: Oh, they just get used to get it, used to
Speaker 4: be rejected a couple of times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they might be completely demoralized. But uh no, maybe
Speaker 3: you have that thirteenth one say yeah, I'd love to.
Speaker 5: Did you ask so many to dance? Michael, Yeah, I
Speaker 5: think I did. I usually got rejected. It's okay.
Speaker 4: I didn't ask anybody to dance. Somebody asked me to
Speaker 4: dayance for the last slow dance of the night, and
Speaker 4: I've never been more nervous in my life. I can
Speaker 4: I still feel the sweat running down my armpits as
Speaker 4: we were slow dancing.
Speaker 5: I was so nervous and scared. But why wouldn't you?
Speaker 4: I mean, and I kind of wanted to dance, but
Speaker 4: I was scared at one of being rejected and two
Speaker 4: of dancing in front of other people. It's just God,
Speaker 4: when you get older, it just seems like, why would
Speaker 4: you freaking care? But that's just the perspective of age.
Speaker 4: You can't you know, you can't inject that into someone.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, and dances are so small in our lives now.
Speaker 8: It's such a big thing to them, right, Well, yeah,
Speaker 8: of course it is.
Speaker 4: And I'm you know, so on one hand, I don't
Speaker 4: know about his friends, but it's probably true for his
Speaker 4: friends too. On one hand, he's I hope they have
Speaker 4: chairs there. I might bring my own camping chair just
Speaker 4: so I make sure it possessed it.
Speaker 5: But he has.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: We got a haircut two weeks ago and he wasn't
Speaker 4: quite happy with that, so we went and got another haircut,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, he's been picking out his clothes.
Speaker 4: So I mean, you wouldn't get two haircuts and pick
Speaker 4: out your clothes and all this sort of stuff if
Speaker 4: you didn't care at all. You care, but you just
Speaker 4: don't want to look like you care, because I'm sure
Speaker 4: none of your friends are looking like they care. As
Speaker 4: the boys again, as the girls you get you can
Speaker 4: be as thrilled as you want to be. Lots of
Speaker 4: exclamation points off your group.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I played the records at the dances I didn't
Speaker 3: do in middle school. I volunteered for that. I think
Speaker 3: it's one of the reasons I became a musician. If
Speaker 3: I'm playing, you can't ask me to dance. I'm busy.
Speaker 4: All the high school dances, I was the DJ, which
Speaker 4: kind of got me out of it. I got to
Speaker 4: be there, but I had a job. Yeah, but uh yeah,
Speaker 4: so I don't know. I'm going to try to craft
Speaker 4: some sort of go for it type speech. See how
Speaker 4: it lands. I can just think of several examples of
Speaker 4: like why why didn't you? Why didn't you do this?
Speaker 4: Why didn't you do that? There's no downside. The worst
Speaker 4: case scenario is nothing. The well, actually, the worst case
Speaker 4: scenario is not doing anything and wishing the rest of
Speaker 4: your life.
Speaker 5: You would have tried. So yeah, hear hair.
Speaker 4: So that said, he bought a fake Rolex off a Amazon.
Speaker 4: He totally cares. He totally cares. He does it's cool
Speaker 4: to not care, but yeah, he cares. He bought this
Speaker 4: fake real legs. It's forty dollars and it's so shockingly great.
Speaker 4: I mean it's really really good. It's like really heavy
Speaker 4: and nice and yeah, very cool. I think you may
Speaker 4: be admitting to a federal offense.
Speaker 3: Harboring a known importer of repov the counterfeit goods got
Speaker 3: it off Amazon
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