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Speaker 2: Sir, I went to god Zilla minus one over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Had you all heard of that? Katie, Joe, Michael, anybody
Speaker 2: have you ever even heard of that?
Speaker 4: Never heard of it? I missed that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not getting the publicity that normally a blockbuster
Speaker 2: movie like a Godzilla or King Kong would get because
Speaker 2: it's not that kind of a movie at all. I
Speaker 2: just heard that there actually is. Our friend Tim Sanderfer,
Speaker 2: who is a man of letters, had twenty six of them,
Speaker 2: had impressive, had tweeted out that this is the this
Speaker 2: is finally a great monster movie. Godzilla mines one thought, oh, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: and I was still just picturing like a regular Like
Speaker 2: we've seen all the god Zilla movies, the modern ones,
Speaker 2: all the King Kong movies. We've seen Godzilla versus King Kong.
Speaker 2: We've seen Megaladon one and two, which are the stupidest
Speaker 2: movies ever made. They're they're they're they're basically Shark Nato
Speaker 2: with a giant shark. More expensive cast, yeah, more expensive actors,
Speaker 2: but that's I was kind of picturing that, but like
Speaker 2: maybe better, but no, it's not at all. Godzilla Minus
Speaker 2: one is a Japanese movie subtitles black and white, and
Speaker 2: it's a hardcore art film. It's like the sort of
Speaker 2: thing they would make you watch in a college class
Speaker 2: and then you'd have to write a paper about it.
Speaker 2: It's way closer to that than a blockbuster movie, and
Speaker 2: so you don't hear as much about it. And it
Speaker 2: was huge in Japan. It's doing pretty well in the
Speaker 2: United States. It has had some Oscar nominations. I don't
Speaker 2: know how to explain it minus one. I guess it's
Speaker 2: a translation thing. It means Japan was so far beaten
Speaker 2: down at the end of World War Two that they
Speaker 2: were like below World something. That's what the minus one means.
Speaker 2: And this movie is featured at the very end of
Speaker 2: World War Two and the aftermath, when we had just
Speaker 2: reduced it to rubble, even before we dropped to the
Speaker 2: atomic bombs, it was rubble. And it's featured in Tokyo mostly,
Speaker 2: and they're just people living like cavemen, the people that
Speaker 2: are still alive, scrounging for food, trying to push some
Speaker 2: boards and rocks together to have something to keep you
Speaker 2: out of the rain. You know, you're by yourself because
Speaker 2: your whole family's dead, and you team up with some
Speaker 2: old lady who the rest of her family is dead,
Speaker 2: and you try to make a go of it.
Speaker 3: Is this a comedy.
Speaker 2: It's a comedy sort of in line with like sort
Speaker 2: of The Three Stooges meets Jim Carrey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, No.
Speaker 2: It is not a comedy obviously, and starring Will Ferrell
Speaker 2: exactly a lot of Will Ferrell makes a comedy cameo.
Speaker 2: Jack Black plays a prominent role.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: Now it's a very heavy movie and uh long, parts
Speaker 2: of it are silent. There's not a sound, no music,
Speaker 2: nobody talking, no nothing, And it's so quiet in the theater.
Speaker 2: It's just like weird. I don't think I've ever been
Speaker 2: to a movie that got silent for that long before.
Speaker 3: Wow. Wow, that's that's interesting.
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to try to describe it because
Speaker 2: I couldn't, but just making the point that by the
Speaker 2: climactic scene, where like with all Godzilla King Kong movies,
Speaker 2: you know it's time to finally, like really confront the
Speaker 2: monster with your best plan to bring him down and
Speaker 2: save humanity. You know that has featured in all of
Speaker 2: those Megalodon or Jaws or whatever. When it gets to
Speaker 2: that final scene, you feel way more like you're watching
Speaker 2: Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers or something. Then
Speaker 2: you do a monster movie. I mean, like the director
Speaker 2: managed to make it like you don't even think about
Speaker 2: it being Godzilla in a giant radioactive creature that can
Speaker 2: stomp on people and crushed buildings somehow, like that doesn't
Speaker 2: even matter anymore. It's all about humanity in wartime and
Speaker 2: sticking together and overcoming adversity and just you know, it's
Speaker 2: just it's hard to explain. I thought it was phenomenal
Speaker 2: and no longer seems it doesn't even seem weird that
Speaker 2: you're like tugging at my heartstrings. Is it a Godzilla movie?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow, that's such an interesting like union of being
Speaker 3: invested in characters and how that affects your willingness to
Speaker 3: suspend disbelief.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yes, that is exactly it.
Speaker 3: I think that was like the Harry Potter formula, although
Speaker 3: that's obviously fantasy and everybody knows it well.
Speaker 2: And this was as gritty, realistic as any movie I've
Speaker 2: ever seen. And it featured a giant monster that can
Speaker 2: crush buildings under its feet, which doesn't seem like it'd
Speaker 2: be possible in terms of the theater going experience. And
Speaker 2: there was hardly anybody at this Saturday night seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: I think there were a total of ten people in there. Wow,
Speaker 2: because nobody's heard of it, and that's an art film.
Speaker 2: And my youngest kid didn't like it much. He didn't
Speaker 2: like the reading. There's a lot of reading really fast
Speaker 2: and his reading is not quite up to and a
Speaker 2: lot of really hard words, so he just couldn't quite
Speaker 2: keep up with it. But my eighth grader love it,
Speaker 2: thought it was really really good. It was it was
Speaker 2: a powerful movie, but the whole movie going experience in
Speaker 2: the modern world everybody's got such a great TV with
Speaker 2: a cool sound system. You got that whole thing. Although
Speaker 2: I've noticed this before, I have walked out of many
Speaker 2: movie theaters in my life, like rattled in some way,
Speaker 2: either like you know, down emotionally or inspired emotionally, or
Speaker 2: fired up emotionally or something like that. And I don't
Speaker 2: know if that ever happens when I watch on TV.
Speaker 2: I think it probably does.
Speaker 3: I think being at home, you get back to your
Speaker 3: set point a lot more quick.
Speaker 2: You think that's it.
Speaker 4: Well, and you have control to turn it off and
Speaker 4: change it.
Speaker 2: But I always feel like I always feel like a
Speaker 2: walk out of movie theaters and everybody's quiet because they're
Speaker 2: just like so affected by what you saw in one
Speaker 2: way or another. And I never feel that way at home.
Speaker 5: Hm.
Speaker 2: Really, I don't think anyway.
Speaker 3: Maybe there's a I think there's something about and I
Speaker 3: think I was right the first time. When you leave
Speaker 3: a movie, other than like zipping up your jacket, all
Speaker 3: you're doing is walking to your.
Speaker 2: Putting on my shoes, putting on my shoes, because I
Speaker 2: take off my shoes and socks put them on the
Speaker 2: seat in front of me. That guy, No, I do not,
Speaker 2: But that's funny.
Speaker 3: So even if you're checking your phone or whatever, you
Speaker 3: have three to five minutes where you're doing nothing but
Speaker 3: thinking about what you've just s Maybe that's it. Whereas
Speaker 3: you know, you turn off the TV at home and
Speaker 3: then you go.
Speaker 2: Do something and get the kids to bed or whatever.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, but the dude did when your kids were younger,
Speaker 2: did you buy them treats to go to the movie occasionally? See,
Speaker 2: I grew up in a family where we never did.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even a consideration. It's like, we're not getting
Speaker 2: that stuff because it's too expensive. That's fine, Yep, already eight.
Speaker 2: I'm not thirsty. If I'm thirsty, I'll go get a
Speaker 2: drink of water at the drinking vun.
Speaker 4: I knew a family that would hide the treats and
Speaker 4: mom's purse.
Speaker 3: But you know I used to bring we'd smuggle in
Speaker 3: uh popcorn in our pockets. Sometimes.
Speaker 2: I used to bring beer to the movies all the time.
Speaker 2: You gotta wait for a loud part. You gotta wait
Speaker 2: for God's willa to scream before we open your beer.
Speaker 2: If you open your beer during the silent, is the
Speaker 2: baby gonna die? Or not seen.
Speaker 4: Your girl has mastered. Opening a bottle of champagne a movie.
Speaker 3: Nice style points.
Speaker 2: I remember one time when I kicked over my empty
Speaker 2: bottle of beer and it rolled all the way down,
Speaker 2: clicking it, clicking it click, oh yeah.
Speaker 6: And then what you do is you start looking around,
Speaker 6: like what is that you're who is doing that?
Speaker 2: Somebody brought in some unauthorized food or drink And.
Speaker 3: I can't wait. If somebody would do that and I'll
Speaker 3: see it.
Speaker 2: I think we should pause the movie and go through
Speaker 2: everybody's pockets until we can find out who this mister
Speaker 2: into is. But I think I am gonna tell my kids,
Speaker 2: mostly for the noise reason, partly for the money reason. No,
Speaker 2: we're not doing this next time. Let's eat before we go.
Speaker 2: We can even stop and get a treat, but we're
Speaker 2: not gonna buy stuff at the theater.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 2: I don't want to listen to you eating and drinking.
Speaker 2: Oh right. If I took the drink away from one
Speaker 2: of my kids, like doneough, because he kept doing the
Speaker 2: at the bottom, you know, trying to get the last
Speaker 2: two SIPs through the ice thing, like yeah, you quit.
Speaker 2: I took it out of his hand and put it
Speaker 2: in my cup.
Speaker 6: O you blessed every other person with the same sound
Speaker 6: issue in that in that theater.
Speaker 2: That right, So between the noise the cost, we spent
Speaker 2: fifty bucks at the concession stand. Jeez, that's nuts with
Speaker 2: the modern inflation. Yeah, two kids. I got smalls, but
Speaker 2: I got in the largest.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I had to get a loan. I had to apply
Speaker 2: for a loan, and somebody had to be there to
Speaker 2: fill out my paperwork and look at my credit score.
Speaker 3: So if this movie is successful, they've got to, you know,
Speaker 3: continue the theme. And I you know, on the radio show,
Speaker 3: I it's throughout the idea King Cang it ant eat
Speaker 3: them then, I don't know, maybe sas Squatch in a
Speaker 3: house fire where a family loses their house and he
Speaker 3: takes them in or eats them, or I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, if Frankenstein's list, if Frankenstein had done Shindler's List.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: Now you're thinking, yeah, I'd watch it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I told people, and I got a date. I said,
Speaker 2: it's way closer to Dos Boot than it is to
Speaker 2: King Kong.
Speaker 3: Right. Count Dracula is a gifted cancer doctor, but he
Speaker 3: has a blood addiction. Right, But he's noble, but he
Speaker 3: just can't. He's a junkie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be a hit.
Speaker 2: The Mummy in Philadelphia. So you got the dying Aids
Speaker 2: guy and the Mummy.
Speaker 3: Yeah they're hanging out together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, plot twist solving crimes or something.
Speaker 3: They're actually lovers who soft crimes.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: The teos was too many pansy ass kids. This is
Speaker 2: referring to this particular mom who went on the screed
Speaker 2: in her kitchen with a glass of wine in her hand.
Speaker 7: I got a call from my kid's assistant principal today
Speaker 7: because he and his other friend were playing soccer with
Speaker 7: this other kid at recess. The other kid happened to
Speaker 7: want to be the goalie and apparently he sucked, and
Speaker 7: so he got really upset because the other boys kept
Speaker 7: scoring goals on him. And there was no teasing involved.
Speaker 7: I verified, it was just he was so upset that
Speaker 7: the kids kept scoring goals that he went to the
Speaker 7: teacher and cried about it, and my kid and the
Speaker 7: other kid got brought to the principal's office. Do not
Speaker 7: call me because some soft ass kids feelings got hurt
Speaker 7: because some kid is better than him at sports. Stop
Speaker 7: coddling your kids, especially your sons, because let me tell
Speaker 7: you right now, what no woman wants someday is to
Speaker 7: have to coddle their fire husband. Stop raising pansy ass kids.
Speaker 7: Teach your kids how to be confident in themselves and
Speaker 7: how to emotionally freaking figure their out, and stop with
Speaker 7: the bs.
Speaker 2: We got this text in response to playing that earlier.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I love that recording you just played.
Speaker 2: This is so true. Mike Kids' school has a no
Speaker 2: running on the playground rule.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Always what Mike.
Speaker 3: Spy is that I could I could throw on the
Speaker 3: black bandana and slit throats to quote H. L. Menkin
Speaker 3: over that.
Speaker 4: No, I'm just missing something.
Speaker 2: No, you're not too dangerous. My kids' school they don't
Speaker 2: have it all the time, but if it has rained
Speaker 2: anytime in the last week, you're not allowed to run
Speaker 2: because the grass could be do it.
Speaker 3: I think I'm a fascist for even talking about this.
Speaker 3: According to something I read, but when we conduct the
Speaker 3: great experiment of conservatives get half the country and progressives
Speaker 3: get the other half, and we see how it goes,
Speaker 3: there's going to be all the run and you I
Speaker 3: almost dropped an F bomb, which I can't I suppose,
Speaker 3: but I'd prefer not too. You can run all the
Speaker 3: f and much you want. In conservative America. Kids go
Speaker 3: out there, play soccer, skin your knees, get sweaty, get
Speaker 3: to blow off steam. Then we'll get back to school
Speaker 3: and learn, and well we'll compare test scores at the
Speaker 3: end of it. Bitches. Huh.
Speaker 2: We used to love the play soccer on wet fields
Speaker 2: and we would slide in the Yeah, well it was
Speaker 2: part of the fun.
Speaker 4: Even after it would rain on the on the cement outside.
Speaker 6: We used to run and pretend we were skateboarding and
Speaker 6: try to see who could slide the farthest.
Speaker 4: Oh, I got my I hurt myself so many times
Speaker 4: doing that.
Speaker 3: But it was a blood none of that, None of
Speaker 3: that anymore. Good lord, think of the liability, Katie, you
Speaker 3: maniac god.
Speaker 2: And we played kill the man with the ball and
Speaker 2: the poorn rain all the time, and I mean that
Speaker 2: was a violent game.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: I realized people are self selecting and to some extent anyway,
Speaker 3: and I'm.
Speaker 2: Not exactly a Navy seal.
Speaker 3: Nor I please what uh, but uh, people are self
Speaker 3: selecting to some extent anyway, But I so want to
Speaker 3: figure out a way to do this because they're like schools,
Speaker 3: charter schools, like the John Adams Academy, and there are
Speaker 3: other examples that like do school the way school ought
Speaker 3: to be done, and you can run all you want
Speaker 3: at recess and you learn and you learn the important
Speaker 3: stuff and you behave in class and the kids come
Speaker 3: out all smart and educated. It works. It works. And
Speaker 3: the fact that government union schools now don't work, as
Speaker 3: you know, an indictment on them. But I would love
Speaker 3: to start some sort of I don't know, colony or outpost.
Speaker 3: I guess it's called idoh Conservatania, and there would be
Speaker 3: no ugliness, no racism, no, you know, it would not
Speaker 3: be some sort of you know Mika Brazinski's fever dream
Speaker 3: of what a conservative place would be. Everybody would get
Speaker 3: their constitutional rights and by god, we would enforce that
Speaker 3: and if you break anybody's rights, we break your neck.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I would so love to conduct that experiment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like to see it play out. Also,
Speaker 2: so she finishes up, my son got sent to the
Speaker 2: office and received a citation for running on the playground.
Speaker 2: So there's that issue that's mostly to do with lawyers
Speaker 2: and the way our court system works and juries. So
Speaker 2: I don't even know what to do about that because
Speaker 2: the school would tell you. Look, I think it's freaking
Speaker 2: stupid too, But we are just told we're going to
Speaker 2: lose our insurance policy if we let kids run in
Speaker 2: the school in school and get to anybody gets hurt.
Speaker 2: So what are you going to do so that? I
Speaker 2: hate that for that's own thing, then you have this
Speaker 2: different topic. The school also told the kids they are
Speaker 2: no longer allowed to play kickball because the kids spent
Speaker 2: so much time arguing about the kids cheating. Way to
Speaker 2: teach the kids, not how to work through conflict. That's
Speaker 2: not the lawyers or the insurance company. That's the We
Speaker 2: think conflict is always bad, and so we're going to
Speaker 2: solve the conflict by not letting them play. They do
Speaker 2: this at my kid's school too. Like when I was
Speaker 2: a kid, a lot of us would bring our own nerve, football,
Speaker 2: our own ball or bat or whatever. You're not allowed
Speaker 2: to bring any sporting equipment because one kids might fight
Speaker 2: over it, or you might have a nicer football than
Speaker 2: the other kid does, and that'd make them feel bad
Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: I know. We're doomed, Katie, We're doomed as a society.
Speaker 2: So they have a limited number they have a limited
Speaker 2: number of balls, and there's like three and whoever gets
Speaker 2: to him first gets to play during recess with him,
Speaker 2: and nobody else gets.
Speaker 6: To Okay, I apologize for taking it back to this place.
Speaker 6: But so all of this is going on. But these
Speaker 6: kids can decide to identify as something else or right all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly, you can. You can change into a
Speaker 2: different sex, a secret be can't run in the yard.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can make moves to mess them up hormonally
Speaker 6: for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 4: But don't you run on that wet grass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty amazing that those two things are happening
Speaker 2: at the same time.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Speaking of which, and here's a preview of a screed
Speaker 3: you'll hear on the air in the next day or two.
Speaker 3: There are some fairly high profile lawsuits that are going
Speaker 3: to go the right way against the gender bending, cruel
Speaker 3: experiments on kid's crowd. They're going to bring him to
Speaker 3: their knees and we need more and more and more
Speaker 3: of that. These And I don't mean to seem like
Speaker 3: I'm gloating because it's tragedy, but some of the victims
Speaker 3: of these ideological lunatics are starting to move into adulthood
Speaker 3: and realize what's been done to them and are not
Speaker 3: happy about it. It can't happen.
Speaker 1: Fast enough, Jack Armstrong and Joe Fretty The Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty Show.
Speaker 3: Before we get to the great Tony Bennett National Treasure,
Speaker 3: I'm told this is Roger Waters of the Pink Floyd
Speaker 3: as they were known in London, with a new version
Speaker 3: of his classic from Dark Side of the Moon Money,
Speaker 3: Michael Money. Wow, you're right. It is kind of Leonard cohenesque.
Speaker 2: Yuh more may and you Okay.
Speaker 3: That's a great song. It's kind of a weird version
Speaker 3: of it. You know, Roger Waters is ancient and nuts.
Speaker 2: Can we just acknowledge that he sounds like he's gonna
Speaker 2: kill me in my sleep?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 2: What is he going for?
Speaker 3: Cash? If he knew your politics, he probably would. Okay,
Speaker 3: I suppose that's enough of that. That's weirdly appealing. Honestly, Look,
Speaker 3: he's a brilliant artist. He's always been all kind of quirky.
Speaker 3: Now he's ancient nuts. It doesn't diminish what he's done.
Speaker 3: I don't hate him for it. He's wrong about a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff. But you know, if you're a conservative
Speaker 3: and Jack, I'm sure you'd agree, Katie, anybody if you
Speaker 3: eliminated all of your favorite creative artists because their politics
Speaker 3: were wacky, it would leave you with a fairly narrow
Speaker 3: range of things to listen to, right.
Speaker 2: Sure we should shut.
Speaker 3: Up about it, though, Yeah, he could do that, except
Speaker 3: for I guess country music is the bastion of at
Speaker 3: least some conservatism. I don't listen to much modern country.
Speaker 3: If you were to like take a wild guest jacket,
Speaker 3: it's a political orientation like percentage wise or however you
Speaker 3: want to.
Speaker 2: Put on such a lot of musicians, I still would
Speaker 2: bet it's overwhelming left, overwhelmingly left leaning, I would.
Speaker 3: Guess, hmm, yeah, Well, or do they just act like
Speaker 3: that so that they don't get canceled?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: They probably know. You got to keep it to yourself.
Speaker 2: As the guitar player with Miranda Lambert who voted for
Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders, I'm sure I don't know that, but I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure you'd have to keep it to yourself. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you pick up on that pretty quickly.
Speaker 3: But a lot of those like pickup truck, I'm a
Speaker 3: best girl by the lake drinking beer. That strikes me
Speaker 3: as kind of maga ish. I don't have any idea, Yeah,
Speaker 3: which is fine when I was there in my pickup truck.
Speaker 3: I never had a pickup truck with my best girl
Speaker 3: by the lake. It may have been by lake, yes,
Speaker 3: by Lake Michigan, drinking beer, check and make it out,
Speaker 3: et cetera. It's funny. Our politics didn't come up, so
Speaker 3: who cares anyway. Speaking of ancient singers, the great Tony
Speaker 3: Bennett has passed. Perhaps you heard that five hundred times overrated.
Speaker 3: I thought he was fine, that's exactly. He had a
Speaker 3: long career, and he had a really, really long career.
Speaker 3: It's like Tina Turner, who was amazingly talented, especially in
Speaker 3: her younger days, but it became one of those things
Speaker 3: where the longer she lived. Oh and she had a
Speaker 3: great story of courage and overcoming abuse and the rest
Speaker 3: of it. I'm not demeaning her as a person or
Speaker 3: a performer at all, but if you're around long enough,
Speaker 3: you get like this sainthood thing put on.
Speaker 2: Here's why I don't like Tony Bennett and Katie, You're
Speaker 2: you're no enough to the show. You don't know. It's
Speaker 2: kind of my thing to say negative things about people
Speaker 2: who just passed, which really makes people angry.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, wow, Jack too soon.
Speaker 3: I just beg him let a day go by. But no,
Speaker 3: I gotta stick in the knife.
Speaker 2: I don't know why that is. I just I need
Speaker 2: to point it out the day they die. I just
Speaker 2: thought I just said it was so weak. Tony Bennett,
Speaker 2: you we know you left your heart in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: We've known that quirre quite a few decades. Just do something,
Speaker 2: do something else. Just quit quit with that all the time. Well,
Speaker 2: a lot of my favorite arts, you have a big
Speaker 2: hit when you're younger, and then you move on to
Speaker 2: completely different things, maybe like reinvent yourself completely, not just
Speaker 2: do the same freaking thing over and over and over
Speaker 2: every show you're ever on until you're too old.
Speaker 3: But walk what ever. He became a painter. He's a
Speaker 3: pretty good painter.
Speaker 2: But good for him.
Speaker 3: Again, if you want to hear him warble the old
Speaker 3: songs or team up with Lady Gaga, go ahead. It's
Speaker 3: just a whole Oh my god, Tony Bennett. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: he's such a such a legend. It's like he's a singer.
Speaker 3: It's fine, he's a good singer, but that's all he is.
Speaker 3: Was he a nice fella? Tell me about it?
Speaker 6: What do you do all these people that when there's
Speaker 6: a celebrity death, their day gets ruined like they personally
Speaker 6: knew them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty hard for me. That doesn't happen
Speaker 2: very often with me. What was I going to say?
Speaker 2: What he died from time?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, being ancient, Yeah, yeah, Michael tells us that,
Speaker 3: let's see, this is a he was on the first
Speaker 3: Tonight Show episode. Let's hear that clip number five.
Speaker 5: There's one of the great singers in the world. I
Speaker 5: think Frank Sinatrom once said about Tony, he is the
Speaker 5: greatest singer in the world. And he was a guest
Speaker 5: of mine on the very first show we did October one,
Speaker 5: nineteen sixty two, out of New.
Speaker 3: York from New York Show Johnny, Johnny's.
Speaker 5: Guest Tonight or John Robert Ruddy Valley.
Speaker 3: Tony mel Rock. You remember the very first show?
Speaker 5: Yeah, very well.
Speaker 3: It was a great exciting night like Tonight.
Speaker 5: It was, you know, you were on the show with
Speaker 5: the late Joan Crawford, Rudy Valley and mel Brooks.
Speaker 3: Mel Brooks, it seems like a long time ago. It
Speaker 3: was a long time ago. And is uh six just
Speaker 3: part of that, Michael, Or is that different? I know
Speaker 3: it's different, just Larry King. Oh, I'm sorry it has.
Speaker 1: I've gained four notes on the bottom and thank god
Speaker 1: I'm sixty six, but the top.
Speaker 3: No losses on the top. The great Tony Bennett.
Speaker 5: We're gonna pause, mister Bennett, the singer singers, so not
Speaker 5: to call him the best.
Speaker 3: I mean he lived forever.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. So I got older and he got the
Speaker 2: ability to sing lower notes but didn't lose any of
Speaker 2: us high end.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that was a thing. Good for good
Speaker 3: for him. He's a good singer. I've conceded that.
Speaker 2: Johnny Carson in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow. The only defense I can make of being
Speaker 3: like sad when ah a celebrity passes if you're especially
Speaker 3: I mean, if you really really admired them and thought
Speaker 3: they had more to do and or that. It's just
Speaker 3: sometimes it's a slap in the face that reminds you
Speaker 3: of mortality, right or in the Third, although I tend
Speaker 3: not to like wallow around in Nostalgia's just not the
Speaker 3: way I'm made. Although you know I have no right to,
Speaker 3: I guess criticize people who do. But sometimes it reminds
Speaker 3: you of what I was discussing with my daughter over
Speaker 3: the weekend. We had a bit of a family reunion.
Speaker 3: I talked on the air about my brother's retirement ceremony
Speaker 3: from the Navy, and my daughter was talking about going
Speaker 3: back to the town she grew up in and seeing
Speaker 3: that the park they used to hang up with hang
Speaker 3: out in rather is now surrounded by apartment buildings, and
Speaker 3: it didn't used to be in that beautiful hillside is
Speaker 3: now a parking lot, and the past isn't there anymore.
Speaker 3: And sometimes you're reminded of that, and because you have
Speaker 3: this weird feeling that all you have to do is
Speaker 3: go back and visit it. Anybody who's ever gone to
Speaker 3: a class reunion knows that the past ain't there anymore.
Speaker 3: It's gone. And sometimes when one of your beloved you know,
Speaker 3: artists or creative artists or whatever from your youth goes,
Speaker 3: you realize that's that's right, my youth is gone. And
Speaker 3: Nate coming back.
Speaker 2: Ever, can you come up with a celebrity whose death
Speaker 2: would affect you, like really affect would or has either?
Speaker 3: When when Neil Pierre, the drummer from Rush and Lyricists, died,
Speaker 3: I knew that band was dead forever and one of
Speaker 3: the great musicians ever on earth was gone. And I thought,
Speaker 3: oh crap. I mean, it's not like I was devastated.
Speaker 3: It was just sad.
Speaker 2: Oh crap. It's not the same as like like our
Speaker 2: old newsperson. She once said that if Madonna dies, I
Speaker 2: will have to take the next day off of work.
Speaker 6: Right, That's the reaction that I was kind of going with,
Speaker 6: like the people that go straight to the internet and post,
Speaker 6: oh god, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not big on making a show of my
Speaker 3: grief either, But no, I don't think so. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about my musical heroes because they don't particularly
Speaker 3: give a damn about actors. I mean, they're really good
Speaker 3: at their jobs, but I don't think they're saints either. No,
Speaker 3: my greatest musical heroes, if they pass, I'll just be
Speaker 3: sad and think, you know, that's too bad.
Speaker 2: Who's what's the name of the you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Vern guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the one that hit me. Jim Varney.
Speaker 3: Jim Jim Earnest Arnest What Ernest? Was that his character?
Speaker 4: That's his character?
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right, the great. Let me try this again.
Speaker 3: We can edit this and post the Great Jim Ernest Varney.
Speaker 3: His passing was devastating.
Speaker 2: Can you come up with one Katie celebrity that would
Speaker 2: affect you?
Speaker 6: I think well, the one that the one that I
Speaker 6: really I was sad about was Robin Williams. That one
Speaker 6: was brutal because I mean I grew up my mom
Speaker 6: and I told you the Hello from Missus, doubtfire and
Speaker 6: stuff like that, So I mean I grew up with
Speaker 6: those movies.
Speaker 4: That one, That one hit.
Speaker 3: Well, and he was young and his death was was terrible.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So on a human level, yeah, Okay, I'm trying to
Speaker 3: think anybody else. I mean Jack, I mean, if you
Speaker 3: but that would be more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean if you guys died, that would be
Speaker 4: a bummer.
Speaker 2: On a number of levels, more of a practical difficulty.
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom has prayed for that, but has so far unfulfilled. Nope, No,
Speaker 3: I would be sad like if speaking of Rush if
Speaker 3: Geedty Lee died it was one of my greatest musical heroes.
Speaker 3: That would be very sad, but I'll go on, I'll
Speaker 3: still show up for work.
Speaker 2: I wonder if that does coincide with views of the world.
Speaker 2: I'll bet it does. I'll bet it does too. I mean,
Speaker 2: the other the flip side of it, sure sounds right,
Speaker 2: the lefty worship of well musicians and writers and actors,
Speaker 2: And you don't tend to if you're more conservative in
Speaker 2: your politics. You don't tend to worship these people in
Speaker 2: the first place. So you kind of have to worship
Speaker 2: in the first place to have to get super busted
Speaker 2: up when they die.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, are you a rationalist or an emotionalist? And
Speaker 3: emotions are good and healthy, and obviously you need to
Speaker 3: be rational, But I think some people are one or
Speaker 3: the other. I've always said that. One of the reasons
Speaker 3: I'm so adamant about not letting emotionalists take over government
Speaker 3: and the Constitution and the courts and the rest of
Speaker 3: it is I'm enough of one to know how crazy
Speaker 3: that would be if the rationalist part of us loses control.
Speaker 3: Were doomed. Like I always say, compassion without order is chaos.
Speaker 3: In order without compassion is brutality. We don't want either
Speaker 3: one of those.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: Used to be that the moron nobody's of the world.
Speaker 3: Didn't have a TV studio, didn't have a broadcast tower,
Speaker 3: didn't have a distribution deal. But now everybody does, which
Speaker 3: is actually kind of entertaining at times, and some fabulous
Speaker 3: talent is you know, come to people's attention. On the
Speaker 3: other hand, you got your TikTok where jackasses and freaks
Speaker 3: and weirdos of every description are sharing their freak azoid
Speaker 3: weird onness with you, and often it's annoying, sometimes it's amusing,
Speaker 3: sometimes it's educational. I haven't heard this one yet, Michael
Speaker 3: has described it to us. Does it need any introduction? Really, Michael? Actually,
Speaker 3: I'm not familiar with this club, are you not?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: Did you find this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: This is one of mine.
Speaker 1: Not really.
Speaker 4: She's just walking through a neighborhood, runing her mouth.
Speaker 3: And she's from Australia. Apparently. All right, let's listen to it.
Speaker 8: I'm just gonna say it. There are too many American flags,
Speaker 8: Like they're in houses, they're on cars, someone on couch cushions,
Speaker 8: like I don't know who's making these American flags, but
Speaker 8: they'd be making a bloody fortune. I'm like, you're the
Speaker 8: only country that I know that does this. Like the
Speaker 8: other time I think I've ever see an Australian flag
Speaker 8: is like on the Harbor Bridge. Could not tell you
Speaker 8: what it looks like. Like, I know it's like blue
Speaker 8: and it's got some stars on it. But I think
Speaker 8: I could draw the American flag from memory, Like I
Speaker 8: think I could make a bloody sculpture out of it.
Speaker 8: That's how many times I've seen it. It's enough. Let's
Speaker 8: pull back on it, Okay, let's stay humble.
Speaker 3: So I'm torn by twin impulses. Number one, you're an
Speaker 3: ignorant amus. You're the young twit with a TikTok account.
Speaker 3: Why would I dignify your stupidity with any sort of response.
Speaker 3: She got kicked in the head bag kangaroo. Yeah, well played, Michael.
Speaker 3: So that's one of my responses. And that's about run
Speaker 3: fifty to fifty with explaining to her sweetheart, you're a
Speaker 3: commonwealth of the Crown and Australia has some reasonably enlightened
Speaker 3: twentyieth century Western ideas In it, and that's a nice
Speaker 3: enough cut through. There are problems with your governance. But
Speaker 3: I don't want to get into Australian politics, partly because
Speaker 3: I don't give up. But what you need to understand,
Speaker 3: my Aussie darling, is that the United States is the
Speaker 3: first country ever formed not on a nationality, like an
Speaker 3: actual you know, a community of people of the same
Speaker 3: origin or faith or whatever. It was founded on a
Speaker 3: set of ideas, and it succeeded wildly and became the
Speaker 3: most important country maybe in the history of the world,
Speaker 3: the Roman Empire, notwithstanding they lasted for quite a while,
Speaker 3: but certainly in the modern ear And we're super duper
Speaker 3: proud of not only our success but our ideas. We
Speaker 3: feel like we've carved out a big, giant area where
Speaker 3: the worst of humanity can't do its worst. We're oppressors
Speaker 3: and kings and torturers and despots. We don't let them
Speaker 3: in here. We have a set of principles and we
Speaker 3: live by them, and everybody's got the opportunity to be
Speaker 3: happy and successful. Australia is great, but it's nothing close
Speaker 3: to what we're talking about. And I would suggest if
Speaker 3: people aren't like super proud of Australia, they're kind of
Speaker 3: just eh, well that that kind of that's the answer
Speaker 3: that makes the question irrelevant. Y'all don't care? We do.
Speaker 3: Why don't you spend a couple of minutes figuring out
Speaker 3: why we all care so much? Why a lot of
Speaker 3: us care so much? Right?
Speaker 6: And if you think about her mentality behind making that video,
Speaker 6: she obviously thought that she had a point, right, that
Speaker 6: she wanted to get out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my advice to her, don't use like every third word.
Speaker 6: Why does like America have like so many like bloody
Speaker 6: flags like like like like like like like I don't
Speaker 6: love ear blood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to call for the silencing of
Speaker 3: people in their teens and early twenties, certainly speaking of
Speaker 3: the principles by which we live here, First Amendment, etc. Woof.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's a high horse Joe.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, as I've said before, perhaps even
Speaker 3: in my own offspring, Okay, you just walked into the giant,
Speaker 3: vast shopping mall of ideas. You're literally in the lobby,
Speaker 3: and you're explaining to me what all the best ideas are.
Speaker 3: How about you walk around the mall for a few
Speaker 3: years try some of those ideas, Kick them around, see
Speaker 3: how they work out. Maybe even walk to the other
Speaker 3: end of the mall and back before you start lecturing
Speaker 3: people who've lived in the mall for a long time.
Speaker 4: I like that a lot. I like that a lot.
Speaker 3: Of course, the mall of ideas is shut down because
Speaker 3: everybody's shopping for their ideas on the internet. Got Amazon, Yeah, exactly, exactly,
Speaker 3: so many bloody flags like Marxists, shrimp on the Barbie eaten.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I should I apologize.
Speaker 6: Yeah, look at Australia, what do you guys have a
Speaker 6: lot of bloody spiders and bugs that make people not
Speaker 6: even want to visit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like literally, like the most animals like that can
Speaker 3: kill you, like of any country on like Earth. Seriously,
Speaker 3: look at the Crocodile Hunter r ip I always hated it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I always hated the Crocodile Dundee movies as well.
Speaker 3: Remember those.
Speaker 4: By the way, have you seen his son?
Speaker 6: His son is a miniature version of him doing the
Speaker 6: exact same thing that his dad was doing. Total nature
Speaker 6: conservation and whatnot, but a twin. It's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they ran the daughter up the flagpole for a while,
Speaker 3: and I don't know if she didn't catch on or
Speaker 3: didn't like it much or whatever. But yeah, the sun
Speaker 3: is the spitting image of the late dad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the daughter went off.
Speaker 6: She had she got married and had a family and whatnot,
Speaker 6: so she kind of went out of the limelight. But
Speaker 6: the son, Robert is his name, Oh.
Speaker 3: Bloody amazing, like right with his face right up next
Speaker 3: to some sort of pit viper and all, and.
Speaker 4: It bites him like, oh that's fun.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I wonder why that happened. Typical lossy. I'm
Speaker 3: back to being bitter.
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