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Speaker 1: We've gotten desperate. It's One More Thing, Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 1: Before I get to the desperation of the One More

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Speaker 1: Thing podcast, I will tell a story I've told on

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Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty radio show a couple of different times,

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Speaker 1: but I think it fits in with the looming government shutdown,

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Speaker 1: which I don't care about at all. It's just a

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Speaker 1: fascinating story from one of Bob Woodward's books. Several years ago,

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Speaker 1: when Obama was president, we were facing a government shutdown

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Speaker 1: and Nancy Pelosi and John Bayner could not come to

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Speaker 1: an agreement on some terms to avoid the government shutdown.

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Speaker 1: And the person trying to put the deal together was

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Speaker 1: ramam Manuel, who you may know was Obama's chief of staff,

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Speaker 1: became the mayor of Chicago, and I think has a

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Speaker 1: decent chance of becoming the Democratic nominee for president and

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Speaker 1: the next president of the United States. Anyway, Rama Manuel

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Speaker 1: is in the room when Nancy Pelosi and a Bayner

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Speaker 1: are saying we're at an impasse. There's just no solving

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Speaker 1: this problem. There's just no solving it. We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to have a shutdown, and they decide they're gonna go home,

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Speaker 1: and Ram Emmanuel says, hold on, hold on, before you

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Speaker 1: go home. Just Nancy, right down the lowest number you're

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Speaker 1: willing to take. And then he said to Baynard, right

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Speaker 1: down the highest number you're willing to take, you know.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know what the numbers wire, it doesn't matter,

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Speaker 1: but they were like Nancy's was like four and his

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Speaker 1: And they looked at each other and said, yeah, I'd

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Speaker 1: go for five. I would too, And that's how they

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Speaker 1: settled it, just pointing out that sometimes it's just that

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Speaker 1: do that. I guess I just thought that was fascinating.

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Speaker 2: Right right. Well, that's why arbitration is a thing, because

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Speaker 2: if you get the two parties just dealing with their

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Speaker 2: s on their own, they'll never do something that calm

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Speaker 2: and obvious because they got their dukes up and they're

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Speaker 2: just somebody says, it's that's simple, and oh, oh, so

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Speaker 2: you do have you do have a overlap?

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Speaker 1: How are we split the overlap in half?

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Speaker 2: And I'll go home.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly anyway, so that's probably what will happen in

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Speaker 1: the next twenty four hours. So to my opening where

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Speaker 1: I said, it's come to this or we're down to this,

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Speaker 1: or we've gotten this desperate. I have random pieces of

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Speaker 1: trivia that I think are mildly to above interesting, including Katie.

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Speaker 1: I just went to Grock chat GPT and what's the

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Speaker 1: other one that I use? Gemini, Gemini, Claude, would I use?

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Speaker 1: I use Claude and I just said, give me a

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Speaker 1: piece of interesting trivia? Chat GPTs was somewhat interesting. Dolphins

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Speaker 1: can rectognize themselves in mirrors. One of the very few

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Speaker 1: beasts that can do this. They've done tests to show

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Speaker 1: that this, but there's only like that and the chimpanzees

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Speaker 1: are pretty much it that can recognize themselves in a mirror.

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Speaker 2: Really interesting.

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Speaker 1: For what is it, I don't I'm not sure it is.

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Speaker 1: According to groc, an octopus has three hearts. I found

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Speaker 1: that less than interesting. This is the one I actually

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Speaker 1: liked from Claude. And then I've got a couple more.

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Speaker 2: Cows have four stomachs.

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Speaker 1: Ah yeah, well.

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Speaker 2: Although they all have different like jobs. Right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a very famous thing at UC Davis. I

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Speaker 1: live in Davis, California. They've got I think the cow

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Speaker 1: used to be alive. I don't think it's alive anymore,

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Speaker 1: but they had a living cow with a window in

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Speaker 2: Of Illinois, one of the great agricultural schools on Earth

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Speaker 2: has had mirrored windowed cows for ages. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and then you can look at their stomachs

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Speaker 1: and how the whole thing works. Here's your piece of

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Speaker 2: Some of the undergrads have Chindo's Michael Awesome.

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Speaker 1: Did you miss out on the Chindo trend?

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 1: It was hot for like a week. You know how

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Speaker 1: some people get their ear lobe stretched out? You did that, right? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I did, like an idiot.

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Speaker 1: Get your ear lobes stretched out, a variety of other

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Speaker 1: things to like shock their parents or whatever you're trying

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Speaker 3: They're doing those does. Now they're doing the nostrils nose does.

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Speaker 3: I just made that word up, But they're they're gauging

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's oh seriously, uh huh, oh.

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Speaker 1: My god, I hope neither one of my kids does that.

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Speaker 2: Come on in China?

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Speaker 2: Or a volcano eruption or ai or something. It's over.

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Speaker 1: Can't you just wear a T shirt that says I'm

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Speaker 1: mad at my parents or or uh whenever an interval.

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Speaker 2: With conforming with the norms of society as it currently.

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Speaker 1: Exists, instead of doing something like that. Here's what it

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Speaker 1: is gross. I do not want to stare into your

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Speaker 1: skull like that. Get away from me. Just hand me

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Speaker 1: This piece of trivia from Claude. Cleopatra lived closer in

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Speaker 1: time to the moon landing than to the construction of

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Speaker 1: the Great Pyramid of Giza. That's kind of interesting.

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Speaker 2: I've heard that sort of comparison before. Yeah, the ancient

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Speaker 2: world was so much more ancient than I think a

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Speaker 3: That.

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Speaker 2: Was one of the greatest parts of the British Museum

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Speaker 2: in London was their collection of just mind bogglingly old

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Speaker 2: and antiquities and just to think of people writing and

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Speaker 2: their complaints and all thousands and thousands of years ago,

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Speaker 2: and as it turns out, they were usually pretty mundane.

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Speaker 1: Yep, Three more little pieces of trivia. Four are you?

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Speaker 1: The word muscle comes from the Latin musculus, meaning little mouse,

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Speaker 1: because flexed biceps resemble mice. I don't think they do, No,

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Speaker 2: That's a stupid origin of a word.

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Speaker 1: Bad job Latin Latinos, Who do I blame for this?

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Speaker 1: LATINX is the term a blue whale's tongue alone can

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Speaker 1: weigh as much as an elephant, about three tons. Just

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Speaker 1: a blue whaless tongue waste three tons? And then finally

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Speaker 1: this one.

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Speaker 2: Is whale tongue meet a delicacy anywhere among the Menuit

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Speaker 3: Have you ever seen those videos when they get washed

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Speaker 3: up on the beach and they have to blow them up?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Oh sure, sure videos.

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Speaker 1: You get a big chunk of whale goo on you.

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Speaker 1: And then finally this one. Ancient Romans used to brush

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Speaker 1: their teeth with their urine. Okay, me too, actually does

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Speaker 1: actually doesn't save their urine. It just says urine, So

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Speaker 1: I guess it's up somebody's could be somewhat. Steve's here exactly.

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Speaker 2: Hey Steve, I've run a little dry. Yeah, here's a

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Speaker 2: take this cup brush out.

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Speaker 1: Ancient Romans used to brush their teeth with urine, yes,

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Speaker 1: because the ammonia whitened them effectively. They wanted white teeth,

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Speaker 1: just like we do today. They just didn't have the

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Speaker 1: modern crush strips. So glad we found a way around

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Speaker 2: Yes, the urine, it's a money saver.

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Speaker 1: To Michael, huh, you know who is not concerned with

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Speaker 1: having white teeth. I just came across this the other

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Speaker 1: day because I think he's got a new album out,

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Speaker 1: the British Van Morrison, who is Irish from the British Isles. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Van Morrison is not concerned with how white his teeth are.

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Speaker 1: If you see a recent picture of him, it's like

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Speaker 1: he's got little baked beans there.

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Speaker 2: How old is the great songmeister?

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Speaker 1: Pretty Old got an album out. Boy is interested in

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Speaker 1: the people, the people that he's not as old as

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Speaker 1: I thought. His teeth his teeth look like.

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Speaker 3: Teeth one hundred and six and yeah, oh yeah, that's bad.

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Speaker 1: Who he's giving up? He just doesn't brush anymore. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he has decided I am not going to worry about

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Speaker 1: a white White teeth.

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Speaker 2: Are so gross.

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Speaker 1: Well join us. Next time.

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Speaker 2: We will discuss obscure scrabble words.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's it.

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Speaker 1: Uses a que