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Speaker 1: So back to the Katie Katie the News.
Speaker 2: Later, we got a text with a couple of questions
Speaker 2: that I don't think we've ever.
Speaker 1: Asked you before. I'll just it this way.
Speaker 2: Katie Green is a great addition to Armstrong and Getty,
Speaker 2: A real pro. But I do have some questions. One,
Speaker 2: how many pushups can she do?
Speaker 1: What the hell you know?
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know. I know that I've done
Speaker 3: I think it was twenty eight and thirty seconds? How recently,
Speaker 3: like two months ago? Okay, that's pretty rare. I think
Speaker 3: that number's probably gone out. Yeah, if it's fairly recently,
Speaker 3: that's okay. I've never I don't like people tell me
Speaker 3: how like? This always comes up with running.
Speaker 1: On thousand and six.
Speaker 2: This always comes up with running with me and how
Speaker 2: long to take you to run the ten k or whatever?
Speaker 2: I used to run a ten k and whatever? Yeah,
Speaker 2: how long ago was that? When's the last time you
Speaker 2: ran a ten k? And if you haven't done it
Speaker 2: in fifteen years, I don't freaking care. All right, what
Speaker 2: difference does it make do it now nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1: By the way, as long as she asked, literally, the
Speaker 1: last time you ran a ten k that might have
Speaker 1: been seventy nine.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do one in the next year. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm building up too. I'm gonna run a ten k
Speaker 2: in the next year.
Speaker 3: I am one of those I need to get that
Speaker 3: zero point zero sticker for my car because I've never
Speaker 3: run a ten k and will never run a ten k.
Speaker 2: I've ever seen that. That's hilarious. Zero point zero in
Speaker 2: the same font. Yeah, it's perfect, and it says I
Speaker 2: don't run.
Speaker 1: If a bear chases me for ten kilometers, I will
Speaker 1: do a ten k. There you go turn to the
Speaker 1: bear and say how long are we going to do this?
Speaker 1: Because if it's going to be more than six point
Speaker 1: one miles, I might well just lay down, right? Why
Speaker 1: would I want you to eat me when I'm tired?
Speaker 1: And you just get this omes no advantage to either
Speaker 1: one of us. Cut to the chis cut the chase
Speaker 1: to the catch. So you've done that many push ups
Speaker 1: fairly recently. That's a good chunk of push ups right there.
Speaker 1: I have not done a one since my back problem
Speaker 1: started last summer, so I think I need to start
Speaker 1: working my way back. I haven't even tried it.
Speaker 2: I'm three out of the last five days, I think,
Speaker 2: so I'm on a bit of a role here eating
Speaker 2: an exercise. Have you ever been arrested? No, No, there's
Speaker 2: a hesitation.
Speaker 1: No, there was a dumb situation when I was in.
Speaker 3: Middle school that it resulted in me getting in a
Speaker 3: lot of trouble momentarily before the truth came out.
Speaker 1: But you weren't arrested. No, I've never been arrested.
Speaker 2: So your hesitation wasn't should I say this out loud
Speaker 2: on the air or not? Your hesitation was because I
Speaker 2: went through the.
Speaker 3: Most of the everything other than getting booked. I went
Speaker 3: through the process up. Some kid ripped the Mercedes emblem
Speaker 3: off of the vice principal's car and stuck it in
Speaker 3: my backpack because I had come from a Christian school
Speaker 3: and he was all anti Jesus and God and all that.
Speaker 1: Wow, And then told and then told the school.
Speaker 3: And the best part was when the the assistant principal
Speaker 3: came and got me from class and she pulls me
Speaker 3: out and she says, you know, I think you have
Speaker 3: something of mine, and I'm like, oh no, she goes,
Speaker 3: you might be wearing it around your neck, because all
Speaker 3: the kids were like wearing the big fake car emblems
Speaker 3: around their chain.
Speaker 1: I remember, yeah, yeah, And so.
Speaker 3: I pulled out the Catholic, you know, the Celtic cross
Speaker 3: that my mom had got me, and I'm like, I'm clueless.
Speaker 1: At this point.
Speaker 3: She opens my backpack and there was a Mercedes emblem
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So this kid went and said, Katie Green stole the
Speaker 2: Mercedes emblem.
Speaker 3: Yea said he saw me take it, and he did
Speaker 3: it to another girl that transferred to the school from
Speaker 3: the same school with me. So we both got pulled
Speaker 3: into the office and we're talking to the cops and.
Speaker 1: Well, and how long did it take you to straighten
Speaker 1: the sound? Flavor? Flavor?
Speaker 2: How did you how did you clear yourself it?
Speaker 3: It took about I think I was in the office
Speaker 3: for four and a half hours writing a statement and everything.
Speaker 1: And then the whole time, I'm going, my dad's a judge,
Speaker 1: just we'll clear this.
Speaker 3: Up, you know, because he was a judge at the time.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it took a lot. It was traumatic. Now,
Speaker 3: for some reason, this reminds me of one of my
Speaker 3: more embarrassing stories before we get there, Katie, what does
Speaker 3: it take to become a judge?
Speaker 1: Because Jack knows this. I've been saying for years I
Speaker 1: ought to be a judge. Do you know why? Because
Speaker 1: I'm so judgmental that I didn't want to say it.
Speaker 1: I think I'd be really good at it. So did
Speaker 1: your dad get elected or was he an appointed judge?
Speaker 1: Or he was? He was appointed by Duke Majon Oh okay,
Speaker 1: a governor of Yesteryear. Yes, okay. Was he a TV judge?
Speaker 1: A TV judge on TV?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: He could give Judge Judy a run for money. Oh,
Speaker 1: I still want to be a TV judge anyway, Jack
Speaker 1: has an embarrassing story.
Speaker 2: I'm gladys I was in high school. I didn't believe
Speaker 2: I was a sophomore in the band. And this is
Speaker 2: embarrassing for odd reasons. So the trumpet section had decided
Speaker 2: that bring this rest arrest. If you don't know music
Speaker 2: is silence, or you'd stop playing. But in this case,
Speaker 2: it was actually silence during the song. During the rest,
Speaker 2: all the trumpet players were gonna, I forget what the
Speaker 2: noise was, even pretend to burp or something like that.
Speaker 1: So it's like get.
Speaker 2: About about about about about about bout about about but
Speaker 2: everybody was gonna do that and then and and I didn't,
Speaker 2: but all the other trumpet players did. And the band
Speaker 2: teacher went back crazy, like band teachers do over anything.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, because they hate because they hate life.
Speaker 2: They hate the fact that they're genius musicians usually, and
Speaker 2: now they're teaching a bunch of teenagers who couldn't give
Speaker 2: a crap about music, and it makes them so angry
Speaker 2: that they drink and yell at children.
Speaker 1: This is when you exactly.
Speaker 2: Yes, he throw his keys at people, this whole city
Speaker 2: keys or the baton. He threw the baton at people, erasers,
Speaker 2: all kinds of stuff. But anyway, he got so mad
Speaker 2: at people burping during the rest, and he went one
Speaker 2: by one who did it?
Speaker 1: Who did that?
Speaker 2: And then everybody's just kind of sitting there and some
Speaker 2: people were smirking whatever, And he went one by one
Speaker 2: and looked them in the eye and put their finger
Speaker 2: right in their face. Did you make that sound during
Speaker 2: the rest, And most of the man most of them
Speaker 2: fessed up and said yes. But it got to me
Speaker 2: and I said no because I didn't, so I had
Speaker 2: I was like it was like a triple whammy of awful.
Speaker 2: I don't think the band teacher believed me. The other
Speaker 2: kids were like, what a puss because I didn't, And
Speaker 2: then I was fine. I was feeling horrible for fever
Speaker 2: thinking I was lying and that my peers thought I
Speaker 2: was weak for not joining them in the completely meaningless hijinks.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of person I was. I didn't join
Speaker 1: them hijinks. And here we are, all these years later,
Speaker 1: and it's still affecting me.
Speaker 2: It's still affecting me, not because it bothers me because
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I'd feel better if I had. Well, you may have
Speaker 1: been a trumpeter, but you've certainly earned the sad trombone.
Speaker 1: Wah wah wah. It's exact, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2: I didn't join in the meaningless nobody gets hurt teenage
Speaker 2: hijinks because I was too straight laced. Isn't that incredible?
Speaker 2: And you still got yelled at for it? And I
Speaker 2: still got in trouble for it because he didn't believe me.
Speaker 2: I could tell he didn't believe me. So are there
Speaker 2: any more questions?
Speaker 1: For Katie? Yes, we enjoying this. Have you ever been arrested?
Speaker 2: Uh, what's the biggest celebrity you've ever met?
Speaker 3: Oh, I interviewed the cast of Jackass, So Johnny Knoxville
Speaker 3: and all those guys, Okay, and Robin Williams.
Speaker 1: That's a big one. That's a really big one. He
Speaker 1: was really sweet at what point in his life later
Speaker 1: Actually this.
Speaker 3: Was in twenty eleven, so that's towards the end.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was at I was at a comedy show
Speaker 3: and his daughter was performing, and he was there to
Speaker 3: watch his daughter. Ah, it's a cool Bay Area guy,
Speaker 3: so yeah, easier to run into's got a purple onion.
Speaker 3: Do you get anything out of meeting celebrities at this
Speaker 3: point in your life? Not really, Yeah, I don't really
Speaker 3: after you meet up there ahead, everybody should get to
Speaker 3: have the experience of meeting enough celebrities to realize it
Speaker 3: ain't nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it ain't nothing. Used to fairly awkward.
Speaker 3: Or like, I mean, you guys know this be in
Speaker 3: a position where some people might look at you as
Speaker 3: one and you're just like, no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, not at all. Yeah, And that's the weird
Speaker 2: thing about celebrity. It's all in the other person's head.
Speaker 2: It doesn't actually exist as a thing and you can't
Speaker 2: measure it or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Right, right, And while I actually ninety eight percent of
Speaker 1: the time really enjoy meeting folks who say, hey, I
Speaker 1: recognize you, I just want to say I like the show.
Speaker 1: It's because people are very nice that you often end
Speaker 1: up being really nice people who I enjoy chatting with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the greatest experience or experience rather to illustrate what Jack's
Speaker 1: talking about is and this has happened many many times,
Speaker 1: will meet like a super avid listener who has a
Speaker 1: friend with them who doesn't listen, or has never heard
Speaker 1: of us, or was from a different part of the
Speaker 1: country or whatever. You had one person about to go
Speaker 1: to pieces and the other like, hey, how's it going.
Speaker 1: So is some people have observed fame isn't something you have,
Speaker 1: it's something they have. That's a great way to put it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and don't still it's it's so anybody who aspires to fame,
Speaker 1: don't trust me when I say this. If you aspire
Speaker 1: to have a successful business, I consider our quote unquote
Speaker 1: fame just to be like an after effect of having
Speaker 1: a successful business. But the idea that your self image
Speaker 1: will rise and fall based on the number of people
Speaker 1: who think you're cool or whatever. Now you don't don't
Speaker 1: get into that. Thee Armstrong and Getty show or Jack
Speaker 1: your show podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 2: So here's the serious thing I was going to do,
Speaker 2: which feels weird now, but maybe I need transition music
Speaker 2: in my mind.
Speaker 1: Have we ever used transmission transmission music?
Speaker 2: This is when you shift from second to third gear,
Speaker 2: transition music from silly to serious.
Speaker 1: Can we do that, Michael? Yeah, I think this one
Speaker 1: will work.
Speaker 2: Actually both ways here, Okay, you know you're right.
Speaker 1: We used to have different silly to serious music than
Speaker 1: are serious to silly music. This is a song, This
Speaker 1: does work. This is a song. Sam is going to
Speaker 1: be dancing too.
Speaker 3: You're a.
Speaker 2: Great In the fifties when the twist was popular. Anybody
Speaker 2: can twist awesome, when there were dances and a monkey
Speaker 2: to swim anything that you just like you knew what
Speaker 2: you're supposed to do with your.
Speaker 1: Dands and it was cross.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not doing a good job of transitioning to
Speaker 2: something serious. This Air Force pilot retired over the weekend
Speaker 2: who was involved in nine to eleven. And I had
Speaker 2: never heard this story, or I had, and I forgot
Speaker 2: it because I can hide my own Easter eggs. Anyway,
Speaker 2: this Air Force sixteen pilot retired over the weekend after
Speaker 2: forty years in the Air Force. He his job was
Speaker 2: to take out Flight ninety three, the last plane that
Speaker 2: was still in the air, on nine to eleven. And
Speaker 2: I had never heard this story in completion. I knew
Speaker 2: that we had scrambled fighter jets and that that was
Speaker 2: a possibility. I didn't know this. He's sixty one years
Speaker 2: old now. He was in his late thirties at the time,
Speaker 2: and him and this other female pilot, Heather Penny, who
Speaker 2: was twenty six at the time, were ordered to go up.
Speaker 2: This is after you know, two planes that at the
Speaker 2: World Trade Center. One it hit the Pentagon and there
Speaker 2: was another plane in the air and we figured it out.
Speaker 2: And this had all occurred in like seconds, and this
Speaker 2: was all happening really really fast, and they were scrambled
Speaker 2: and told to go up, and what was the actual phrase,
Speaker 2: stop it? Their orders were to locate flight ninety three
Speaker 2: and stop it. That's all they were told. So him
Speaker 2: and this other woman went up, and he was the
Speaker 2: guy in charge, and he went up because he didn't
Speaker 2: want to ask anybody else to do this, because he
Speaker 2: had a an idea of how awful this would be.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: They decided him and this woman that if required, they
Speaker 2: would hit the hijacked plane with their jets, making it
Speaker 2: a suicide mission.
Speaker 1: They were got.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said that we couldn't figure out how to
Speaker 2: it first because our fighter jets were not armed with missiles. Oh,
Speaker 2: we didn't have any weapons. We were just we just
Speaker 2: went up and were told to stop that plane. Oh
Speaker 2: my lord. I so you hadn't heard this either, I know.
Speaker 2: So he and this woman said they they planned to
Speaker 2: ram the front of the jetliner and he was gonna
Speaker 2: hit it from the front. She was going to hit
Speaker 2: it from the back at the same time, flying it,
Speaker 2: you know, six hundred miles an hour, and that's what
Speaker 2: they were going to do. But right before they were
Speaker 2: already in the air and screaming toward the plane. Before
Speaker 2: it happened, they got word that the plane had gone down.
Speaker 2: Because we all know, the passengers took over the plane
Speaker 2: and it crashed into the ground and they all died.
Speaker 2: This guy, the woman was single and childless. But this
Speaker 2: dude's I should give his name. I haven't given his name.
Speaker 2: Yet have I He's a freaking hero. Mark Sassville. He
Speaker 2: had a wife and two young children, ages three and
Speaker 2: five at the time. He said, it's a testament to
Speaker 2: those people that brought down that plane that changed my
Speaker 2: life's family forever.
Speaker 1: He was gonna die.
Speaker 3: Oh, wife and two young kids, going Okay, this is
Speaker 3: what I have to do.
Speaker 1: He said.
Speaker 2: He didn't even think about it at the time. He said,
Speaker 2: training just kicked in. It all happened so fast. They
Speaker 2: were given the order to take down the plane okay,
Speaker 2: and he talked to the woman, this is what we'll do.
Speaker 2: We'll fly into the plane, and it's just all I'm sure.
Speaker 2: It was happening very very fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, more toxic masculinity from him and her. Yeah. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's that's incredible. How many people did those passengers on
Speaker 1: flight ninety three save. It's a number that'll never be known. Well,
Speaker 1: were the flight was believed to be headed for? What?
Speaker 1: The White House? That guy's going to say. They're not
Speaker 1: certain still on that yet.
Speaker 2: There were some beliefs that it was the White House,
Speaker 2: some that was the capital, but either way.
Speaker 1: It was going to be the Capitol. Yeah, yeah, either way,
Speaker 1: it was gonna be bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be interested to know if he called his
Speaker 3: wife prior to getting in that jet.
Speaker 1: Oh, like what you would say.
Speaker 2: From reading just this short description of there was no
Speaker 2: time for that. This was a this is what's happened.
Speaker 2: There's still a flight in the air, like a run
Speaker 2: to the plane, get in the air and just go
Speaker 2: and go.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow. Well, and if you read the nine to
Speaker 1: eleven report, it was amazing how much confusion there was
Speaker 1: and uh trying to get planes in the air to
Speaker 1: defend DC or whatever. There's nobody even knew who to
Speaker 1: call to suddenly defend the homeland, and so enormous amounts
Speaker 1: of time elapsed before they got like a significant force
Speaker 1: up in the air. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Somehow, I just happened to see the video the other
Speaker 2: day of George Bush reading the reading to those kids,
Speaker 2: and the person came and whispered in his ear mister President,
Speaker 2: were under attack. I understand why he did this, how
Speaker 2: he did it because he was in shock himself.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: He says he didn't want to like freak out the kids.
Speaker 2: He should have stood up right there and just walked out.
Speaker 2: The kids will be fine. The whole America is the
Speaker 2: whole country is about to be freaked out, So yeah,
Speaker 2: waiting another However many minutes it was before he did anything.
Speaker 2: I don't know that was the best choice, but I
Speaker 2: can understand. Yeah, that's a lot to comprehend in a
Speaker 2: very you know, all of a sudden, sitting in front
Speaker 2: of the press. He was sitting there because I just
Speaker 2: for some reason. Oh, I was some more recent interview
Speaker 2: where he talks about it, because now he is an
Speaker 2: old man. It's interesting to see the videos of him
Speaker 2: now he's an old man, and he was such a
Speaker 2: young man at the time. But he was talking about
Speaker 2: how he was looking at the back of the room
Speaker 2: and seeing all the press. They were all getting the alerts,
Speaker 2: so he knew they knew. And that's a lot to
Speaker 2: have a ridle through your brain at one time.
Speaker 1: I actually know a couple of people who know W.
Speaker 1: One a little bit, one very very well. He was
Speaker 1: in the press uh office for h W and then
Speaker 1: New W and his family too, and everybody who knows
Speaker 1: George W really really likes him. And this guy who
Speaker 1: worked for h W for a number of years, he
Speaker 1: he echoes the impression I'd always gotten. He said, he's
Speaker 1: one of the most honorable and decent people he's ever known. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: lots of people say that, which is interesting. What happened.
Speaker 2: That he choosing we choose our candidates, not the way
Speaker 2: we choose our candidates. Yeah, we don't have any requirements
Speaker 2: for decency or experience or.
Speaker 1: Really anything mental capacity coherence.
Speaker 2: This story out of California. I guess this is a
Speaker 2: problem in a number of different states, but this particular
Speaker 2: lawsuit is in California. If you're a nurse, or you
Speaker 2: work at a hospital, for instance, in any capacity, really,
Speaker 2: but you have your PhD, do you get to call
Speaker 2: yourself doctor so and so? If I have a PhD
Speaker 2: in history but I work at a hospital, yes, do
Speaker 2: I get to call myself doctor Jack Armstrong? Yes, Well,
Speaker 2: apparently you can't in a lot of states. That's against
Speaker 2: the law. It's not as clearing California. And this woman
Speaker 2: who is told not to call herself doctor anymore. She's
Speaker 2: a nurse, but she introduces herself as doctor so and
Speaker 2: so and has that on her little tag and signs
Speaker 2: things that way. It confuses the patient obviously, and she
Speaker 2: is told not to do that. She is suing saying,
Speaker 2: you know, hey, I worked really hard to spend a
Speaker 2: lot of money. I got this degree. This is the
Speaker 2: title I get to call myself this.
Speaker 1: So they're trying to I would suggest that the further
Speaker 1: it is from medical science, I answer science at all,
Speaker 1: the more enthusiastic I am about this idea. You have
Speaker 1: a PhD in women's studies, you ought to call yourself
Speaker 1: doctor in the hospital and walk into patients rooms and
Speaker 1: they say, doctor, I don't know if this drug is working.
Speaker 1: You say, well, I wouldn't know. I don't know anything
Speaker 1: about medicine, and then walk out again and leave them
Speaker 1: wondering what the hell is going on here?
Speaker 2: But I can tell you about Napoleon's loss at Waterloo,
Speaker 2: because that's what I have.
Speaker 1: My PhD. Wow, the whole I got a PhD. So
Speaker 1: I you got to call me doctor.
Speaker 2: You know, I've known a few, Uh, well, I've known
Speaker 2: quite a few people with PhDs, but uh, I've only
Speaker 2: known a few that really trotted out a lot. Usually
Speaker 2: it's only when it's contextually makes sense, like if uh
Speaker 2: you know, if you're if you're having a meeting about
Speaker 2: business and you got somebody there who's got a PhD
Speaker 2: in business to introduce him as doctor. So and so
Speaker 2: I went to Stanford. That's I think that's perfectly fun.
Speaker 2: It's a stretch, but that's not even necessary. But they
Speaker 2: just like regularly casual. You're out for dinner and you
Speaker 2: introduce yourself as doctor so and so.
Speaker 1: Eh, come on, well, how about freaking doctor Jill Biden?
Speaker 1: Exactly what I was thinking. She's got what a PhD
Speaker 1: in library or something library science or whatever it is English.
Speaker 2: I've had more acquaintances or friends that actually kind of
Speaker 2: hide the fact that they have a PhD unless it
Speaker 2: like really comes up in conversation and you would kind
Speaker 2: of get into a weird territory to not mention it.
Speaker 2: They don't mention it because of the way it comes off.
Speaker 2: So this particular woman who's suing California to be able
Speaker 2: to call herself doctor says she always tells patients as
Speaker 2: a nurse when she goes in there and they say, uh,
Speaker 2: oh hi, doctor Janine.
Speaker 1: I have her name here, but it doesn't matter, And
Speaker 1: she says, I'm not a medical doctor, have my PhD
Speaker 1: in something else.
Speaker 2: My first thought would be, then, why do you call
Speaker 2: yourself doctor at a freaking hospital? Would not be your
Speaker 2: first thought?
Speaker 1: Yeah, came into that I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: She pretty you know what you're doing, pretending you don't
Speaker 2: know what you're doing, walking around a hospital with a
Speaker 2: badge that's doctor so and so on it.
Speaker 1: I can't remember did you tell us what her PhD
Speaker 1: is in? I'm only mildly interested. I just had that
Speaker 1: in front of you, and I don't remember. I'm just
Speaker 1: curious how ridiculous it is. What about DJs who referred
Speaker 1: to themselves as doctors may be allowed to identify themselves
Speaker 1: thusly in a hospital doctor Johnny Fever. I have spinned
Speaker 1: or spun many platters to get this nickname. I deserve
Speaker 1: credit for it. She has a doctorate of nursing practice,
Speaker 1: whatever that is. Well, that's funny. I'm a doctor of nursing.
Speaker 2: That's weird. I'm a nursing of doctor. You want to
Speaker 2: go out sometimes.
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 2: Wow, I would just say this if you have a PhD,
Speaker 2: and you probably know this. Most people, I think the
Speaker 2: vast majority of people kind of roll their eyes if
Speaker 2: you introduce yourself as doctor so and so, or your
Speaker 2: wife does, her husband does or whatever?
Speaker 1: All right, I think most people do. They make fun
Speaker 1: of you after you leave certainly. I like what Joe said.
Speaker 1: She basically has this.
Speaker 3: She has a doctorate and it's the highest level of
Speaker 3: nurse training, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So she's doctor nurse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you someone who can fix my knee or
Speaker 2: take out my gall bladder?
Speaker 1: No? Well, then shot at I agree with you, Katie.
Speaker 1: Woman sounds annoying. I'm a doctor of nursing. That's so funny.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, is there anything like, uh, anything
Speaker 1: similar to that. I don't know. It is a pretty
Speaker 1: uni doctor of nursing. It'd be like I'm an engineer
Speaker 1: of Now, there's nothing analogous. I don't think so, because
Speaker 1: a nurse is kind of sort of an assistant to doctors.
Speaker 2: I'm the president of vice presidents. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm the president of the Vice President's Association.
Speaker 3: I don't know that that's something I would walk around
Speaker 3: pointing out every day. That's why I think she's obnoxious.
Speaker 3: What is you know, what good is she doing herself
Speaker 3: or anyone else she encounters.
Speaker 1: So you're super well educated in your profession, good for you.
Speaker 1: Go out and prove it. That's fine. I'm the captain
Speaker 1: of the second Mate's division. So moving on to Disney.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard what this is, but it's labeled as
Speaker 2: the Secrets of Disney World.
Speaker 1: I have never been to Disney World. Oh maybe I'll
Speaker 1: learn something here. One a magic Kingdom.
Speaker 4: All cast members are in powered to create magical moments.
Speaker 4: These are designed for If you see a kid lose
Speaker 4: their turkey leg to a seagull, you can go get
Speaker 4: them a brand new one for free. Have you ever
Speaker 4: seen a janitor move s fash through the park. The
Speaker 4: answer is no, that would destroy the magic. Every trash
Speaker 4: can that you see is not actually a trash can,
Speaker 4: but a shoot that goes directly into Disney's trash compactor
Speaker 4: system called the Utilidor nobody throws up at Disney World.
Speaker 4: That's gross. They have protein spills and every cast member
Speaker 4: has protein spill powder. You throw it on top of
Speaker 4: the throw up, it drives it up and the janitor
Speaker 4: will come and clean it up a few minutes later.
Speaker 4: I would have to call Chop Protective Services, the police,
Speaker 4: and Disney management at least once a month while working
Speaker 4: at Space Mountain. Why their parents thought it would be
Speaker 4: a great idea to wait in a two and a
Speaker 4: half hour line to get onto Space Mountain and leave
Speaker 4: their kid out front. Well, by the time they get
Speaker 4: off that ride, the police greet them and no one
Speaker 4: leaves happy.
Speaker 1: And it's not very magical. Wow. So a couple of things.
Speaker 2: One, I think we need to start editing TikTok clips
Speaker 2: to put space between thoughts. I understand why they do
Speaker 2: it on TikTok, but for me, my mind, I get
Speaker 2: interested in something and then you hit with me with
Speaker 2: something else, and okay, I get to do that. You
Speaker 2: have ruined for me, just like a beat. So I
Speaker 2: got boomer brain. Maybe I have a boomer brain. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean because TikTok's the most successful thing and ever.
Speaker 2: I guess young people can handle that. But I get
Speaker 2: I hear it like, well that's and then they're on
Speaker 2: to the next thing. AnyWho.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: So you don't see janitors going to empty the garbage bins,
Speaker 2: which is kind of gross because it goes down into
Speaker 2: a shoot. All right. Interesting they call vomiting protein spills,
Speaker 2: and every cast member has the powder got like utility
Speaker 2: beilt like batman, right ready to throw a little powder
Speaker 2: on the protein spill. Immediately a little puke powder and then.
Speaker 1: There were a couple other things in there.
Speaker 2: I wanted to comment them, but my boomer brain couldn't
Speaker 2: comprehend them because it was coming at me so fast.
Speaker 1: Well, you have the people leaving their kid to fend
Speaker 1: for themselves, their little kid as they wait two and
Speaker 1: a half hours for ride. Just sit there on the bench, Jenny,
Speaker 1: I'll be back.
Speaker 2: I did wait with my kids for I think to
Speaker 2: and a half hours for the Mario Ride at Nintendo
Speaker 2: Land or whatever that thing is called. Is that what
Speaker 2: it's called, Nintendo Land, I don't even know what, No clue,
Speaker 2: Universal Studios, Nintendo World. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and the Mario Ride,
Speaker 2: which it had just opened, and it was like the
Speaker 2: hottest thing going and it goes half your day, right yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of your day. But that's why we went.
Speaker 2: The reason we went was to ride that ride. So
Speaker 2: and it was all thirty year olds, right, A lot
Speaker 2: of thirty year olds in costume. A lot of thirty
Speaker 2: year olds by themselves in costume. Oh that I don't get. No,
Speaker 2: it makes me sad, But I would say that it
Speaker 2: was the quickest moving two and a half hours I've
Speaker 2: ever done in my life. I mean, I don't think
Speaker 2: I stood for more than a few seconds. You're kind
Speaker 2: of constantly shuffling or walking, and usually in the Disney style,
Speaker 2: and this was their genius.
Speaker 1: You come across something interesting and entertaining as you're waiting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you walk through the castle. So you go up
Speaker 2: these stairs around a corner, and then you're in a
Speaker 2: room and there's a couple of things to look at,
Speaker 2: and then you go down this.
Speaker 1: Stair and intern corner.
Speaker 2: Hey, there's something interesting. So I went by fairly quickly.
Speaker 2: I don't know whoever invented that. That was very cleverly
Speaker 2: understood psychology in an amazing way.
Speaker 1: But I don't know that I'd ever do it again.
Speaker 2: My one kid said it was absolutely worth it, and
Speaker 2: my other kid said he was a teenager. Of course,
Speaker 2: nothing's worth it to him, right, My definition is a teenager.
Speaker 2: Nothing's cool, nothing's worth it.
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Speaker 2: I angered some people by not taking Nicky Haley seriously
Speaker 2: enough or something. I feel like I've taken it fairly seriously.
Speaker 2: From the beginning, but.
Speaker 1: I can vouch for that he has. Yes, mm hm.
Speaker 2: But I guess if you don't do it every single time,
Speaker 2: and somebody only hears one comment, like me commenting on
Speaker 2: her dress today, I feel like that's the only thing
Speaker 2: I've ever thought about her. She was wearing a red dress,
Speaker 2: and I said, man, that's some nice dress. In defense
Speaker 2: of Jack, red is a bold color for a politician
Speaker 2: to wear.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: If you wear a bright red dress, I assume you're
Speaker 2: trying to do some attention to yourself.
Speaker 1: But isn't there some forbidding of doing that in the
Speaker 1: Book of Leviticus or something like that wearing a red dress.
Speaker 2: But this person went on to say, if a man
Speaker 2: made a speech wearing a red suit, I'll bet you
Speaker 2: would have mentioned that first as well. And then the
Speaker 2: women get that you have all the options for all
Speaker 2: these different clothes you can wear. If Mitt Romney came
Speaker 2: out in a bright red suit, I mean, the first
Speaker 2: thing anybody said, holy crap, like he's sindbad or something. Yes,
Speaker 2: for instance, for a professional pool player or something out of.
Speaker 1: It's always struck me. You see the Senate chamber or
Speaker 1: the House chamber, and you have every single guy in
Speaker 1: a dark suit, a white or light blue shirt, and
Speaker 1: a red or blue tie, every single damn one of them.
Speaker 1: And then you've got the many colors of the rainbow
Speaker 1: of the coals. They're wearing white and yellow and red
Speaker 1: and blue and whatever they want.
Speaker 2: Dresses, pants, suits, brooches, no brooches. You got all the
Speaker 2: options to you if you're a woman, Katie, but only
Speaker 2: of course. The downside is, I know I've heard women
Speaker 2: say this before, is I got to come up with
Speaker 2: something to wear where you get to just throw on
Speaker 2: a suit and always call yourself dressed up correct, Which
Speaker 2: is handy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely well, especially because it's also simpler. You have
Speaker 3: your your pants, your shirt, your jacket, which is what
Speaker 3: you guys wear usually.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I wear a suit to work most every day,
Speaker 2: and it is it is It is easier than dressing
Speaker 2: casual to wear a suit.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely true. If you have two suits, you've
Speaker 1: covered it. If you have three, you're trying too hard.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is about suits is you can
Speaker 1: gain five pounds lose five pounds. They fit fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got four suits. I rotate a bunch of
Speaker 2: dress shirts. It's super easy to dress. But if I
Speaker 2: was trying to dress up without a suit, I'd take
Speaker 2: a lot of money in time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dresses are not forgiving, guys. I'll tell you that
Speaker 3: those things do not give.
Speaker 2: Either it fits the way it did when you bought
Speaker 2: it or not, yes, or and it'll never fit that
Speaker 2: way again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Interesting, I've not had that situation. I haven't tried
Speaker 1: on many dresses.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 2: So the CIA has done a lot of wacky things
Speaker 2: throughout the years, and a whole bunch of it has
Speaker 2: been to classified because after twenty five years or thirty
Speaker 2: years or fifty years, there are different rules for different
Speaker 2: levels of stuff. Some of this stuff comes out. Some
Speaker 2: of this I've heard before. Some of this I'd never like.
Speaker 2: All this stuff about the way these ways we tried
Speaker 2: to kill fidela Castro I've heard many many times.
Speaker 1: Oh, a classic.
Speaker 2: We actually did try to poisonous cigars or have exploding
Speaker 2: cigars and kill him, or at least considered it, and
Speaker 2: a bunch of other stuff. But some of this new
Speaker 2: stuff I had not heard. The Osama bin Laden demon toy.
Speaker 2: The plan after nine eleven was to make figurines that
Speaker 2: look like Osama bin Laden and give them to kids
Speaker 2: in South Asia. After being left in the sun for
Speaker 2: a certain amount of time, its face would peel off
Speaker 2: to reveal a demon like vision with red skin, green eyes,
Speaker 2: and black markings. The objective was to scare kids on
Speaker 2: their parents, so Ben Laden al Qaida would lose support
Speaker 2: points for creativity.
Speaker 1: Geese, how about a stick with me? Now? How about
Speaker 1: a melting faced demon figurine?
Speaker 3: I look like they were on some bad acid. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 3: there are no bad ideas, Joe. Let's go with the
Speaker 3: Osama bin Laden deemon face. This one's from the Cold War,
Speaker 3: but I don't think i'd heard this one before.
Speaker 1: The Cold War.
Speaker 2: Condom drop plan, CIA operatives drew up a plan to
Speaker 2: have packets of extra large condoms labeled small, dropped on
Speaker 2: the USSR.
Speaker 1: The idea was to lower their morale. That would work.
Speaker 2: Wow, I can't This small condom is still way too
Speaker 2: big for me. Wow, my must be tiny compared to
Speaker 2: the West. You know what, this tiny? I see no
Speaker 2: reason to fight for the Motherland. If I had a giant,
Speaker 2: I would lay down my life gladly for this correct
Speaker 2: till the end. But with this minuscule I'm just going home, right.
Speaker 2: This is a devilish plan.
Speaker 1: It's hilarious. Wow. The acoustic kitty.
Speaker 2: They basically put a microphone in a radio and a
Speaker 2: cat and released it in the Soviet embassy to wander
Speaker 2: around eavesdropping since nobody suspects a wandering cat.
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, poor a cat.
Speaker 3: All of these ideas just sound like somebody was really high.
Speaker 1: To me, they really do. Dude. What if you're to like,
Speaker 1: put a microphone up a cat and then turn it
Speaker 1: loose because nobody's going to think of cat's a spy?
Speaker 1: Most what if the cat spy pooped out the mic, Dude,
Speaker 1: then it totally be busted. What are they gonna do?
Speaker 1: Question the cat man? Most cats evert.
Speaker 2: Most places of work I've been in, you just don't
Speaker 2: ignore wandering stray cats in the hallways.
Speaker 1: Oh it's a different time, another straight cat.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Jim as I was saying, the place to attack
Speaker 2: the United States is eh boy, But this is the
Speaker 2: one I wanted to get on because it backs up.
Speaker 2: I believe Hitler and I agree on one thing, and
Speaker 2: that is modern art is bogus.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: But modern art as a CIA weapon. Back during the sixties,
Speaker 2: the CIA noticed that artists tend to lean towards socialism communism.
Speaker 2: They realized the best way to prevent this or discredit
Speaker 2: these political positions was to make them wealthy so that
Speaker 2: they would be more invested in capitalism. To do this,
Speaker 2: the CAA anonymously bought modern art pieces matter how nonsensical,
Speaker 2: for very high prices, making a whole bunch of modern
Speaker 2: artists rich so they would embrace capitalism. So a lot
Speaker 2: of that modern art that got successful and sold was
Speaker 2: a CIA plot, not some discerning art collector.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, that makes the cat like sounds like a really
Speaker 1: good idea. I mean, good, lord, really, what the wow?
Speaker 1: It's like a massive waste of money. I know it
Speaker 1: will do. I mean what if they just like donated
Speaker 1: to the communist party? I mean, I don't like that's
Speaker 1: just that is weak.
Speaker 2: She liked the cat microphone store better than the big
Speaker 2: fan of that by modern art, huge fan.
Speaker 1: Did they give any any specific examples? I mean, like
Speaker 1: and he wrehol entirely a product of the CIA's right,
Speaker 1: you know, writing checks.
Speaker 2: Nobody had any interest in those soup cans except for
Speaker 2: the CIA.
Speaker 1: Could be I don't know, doesn't say wow, wow, how interesting.
Speaker 2: Cat microphone that's your favorite idea for a number.
Speaker 1: Of reasons, exactly of course. The way they walk around
Speaker 1: with their tails up in the air. You could a camera,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, when he turns that towards you at the
Speaker 2: camera at the wide angle, well.
Speaker 1: It has to be. I'm here a love.
Speaker 2: I'm not a cat, says the cat wandering around the embassy.