Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty. I'm strong and Gatty and
Speaker 2: he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Now, some of you may know me as a stand
Speaker 3: up comedian and from my appearances on Roast, but I
Speaker 3: am not here to roast to tonight.
Speaker 2: I want you to know that. And how could I
Speaker 2: really You're all so famous, so talented, so powerful. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could really do.
Speaker 1: Anything, I mean except tell the country who to vote for.
Speaker 2: But it's okay, you'll you'll get him.
Speaker 1: Next time if there is one.
Speaker 2: I'm scared. It's all lord.
Speaker 4: She took a little gentle jab at them, but then said,
Speaker 4: you're right about everything, and I love you.
Speaker 5: Accept me.
Speaker 6: Canadian Nikki Glazer hosting the Whatever Awords show that was
Speaker 6: last night doesn't even matter.
Speaker 2: It's hard to wrap your head.
Speaker 6: Around how these things used to matter to people. And
Speaker 6: when the bubble popped, man, it popped big and hard.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, It's funny how things can go so fast.
Speaker 6: Now, we thought that was happening with the NFL a
Speaker 6: couple of years ago, that that bubble had popped, and
Speaker 6: it looked like it might have for a variety of reasons,
Speaker 6: but man, it's back bigger than it's ever been now
Speaker 6: after yesterday, and the playoffs are set and they start
Speaker 6: this weekend. So somehow that made it comeback. Was that
Speaker 6: mostly driven by all the kneeland for the national anthem stuff,
Speaker 6: because at the time it was, well, that's part of it,
Speaker 6: but also people have so many entertainment options. Well clearly
Speaker 6: that was while it is true, not much of a
Speaker 6: factor because the NFL has come back with the same
Speaker 6: number of entertainment options out there. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think the thing with the NFL is that their
Speaker 4: claim was this is a crazy entertaining sport to watch,
Speaker 4: which is true, and then the woke crap and the
Speaker 4: politics interfered with the fun of watching it. But then
Speaker 4: they bounced back, I think with a Hollywood crowd. Their
Speaker 4: claim was we're so perceptive and wise, you should listen
Speaker 4: to us on every topic. The claim wasn't, hey, movies
Speaker 4: are super entertaining because they, you know, often are. It
Speaker 4: was this whole inflated we're super people thing that got
Speaker 4: that got people deflated. I mean, seriously, if you're at
Speaker 4: a holiday party, for instance, and I attended a couple.
Speaker 4: They were delightful because I was drinking at the time.
Speaker 4: If you have an orthodontist, a software sales guy, and
Speaker 4: an actor, and you're chatting with all three of them,
Speaker 4: and you're expressing your opinions on I don't know, Trump's
Speaker 4: new term or the economy or something like that, would
Speaker 4: you seriously be more interested in the actor's opinion than
Speaker 4: the orthodonist or the software guy? Not a buy not
Speaker 4: about if you are, why not about anything outside of
Speaker 4: perhaps movies.
Speaker 2: And fashion maybe, but not even sure about that. If
Speaker 2: the top if the topic of how do you prepare.
Speaker 4: For a movie roll came up, then yes, but virtually
Speaker 4: any other topic, why the hell would you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's pretty funny, but that clearly is true. So
Speaker 6: all we were off for two weeks and joke and explained, we're.
Speaker 4: Really really good at not working, by the way, I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't mean to brag, but I'm great at it.
Speaker 6: I was doing a different sort of work that I
Speaker 6: find harder than this job, which is being a parent.
Speaker 6: For two weeks and uh running around doing all the
Speaker 6: stuff of birthdays and Christmas and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 6: And came to work exhausted and now I'm finally getting
Speaker 6: a little bit of rest here for the first time
Speaker 6: in two weeks. But was travel around Washington, d C.
Speaker 6: You spent several days there and did all the sights seeing,
Speaker 6: did all the normal stuff. My kids had never been there,
Speaker 6: and my youngest really enjoyed it. He's a superhistory buff
Speaker 6: and everything and was really into it. My oldest clearly
Speaker 6: did not and was only being sort of polite, which
Speaker 6: I knew was a decent chance of that. I was
Speaker 6: going with the because I've had this own experience in
Speaker 6: my own life where I did a bunch of things
Speaker 6: as a kid that didn't mean necessarily much to me
Speaker 6: at a time at the time, but as a grown
Speaker 6: up means something to me. So I'm perfectly fine with
Speaker 6: them not digging it in the moment and thinking that
Speaker 6: someday they will. And I also know that it gives
Speaker 6: you a reference point for everything you're going to see
Speaker 6: the rest of your life about. Oh, Like you know,
Speaker 6: on the twentieth when you're watching the inauguration, you'll see
Speaker 6: the capital and you'll know where that is, and then
Speaker 6: you'll see a picture of the mall and all the people.
Speaker 2: And you'll know where that is.
Speaker 6: In relation to and when they show you the Supreme Court,
Speaker 6: you'll know, Okay, that's behind the Capitol over there.
Speaker 2: It's just I don't know.
Speaker 6: I feel like it gives you a helpful understanding of
Speaker 6: what's going on there.
Speaker 2: And the size of everything. I think it's helpful to
Speaker 2: see in person.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it was in interesting to me. It seemed
Speaker 6: pretty clear, and I've thought this my whole life. First
Speaker 6: of all, I don't understand y'all travel with little kids
Speaker 6: or babies.
Speaker 2: I don't get it. You know, do whatever you want.
Speaker 6: I'm not criticizing it, just I don't know how you
Speaker 6: enjoy it and they're not getting anything out of it.
Speaker 2: So I just I'm just amazed that you do it.
Speaker 6: The taking a couple of Really you're pushing a stroller
Speaker 6: with a two year old and the other one of
Speaker 6: you is holding a baby all around Washington, d C.
Speaker 6: Why But I mean you again, you enjoy it, so
Speaker 6: that's fine. And not saying there's something wrong with it.
Speaker 6: I just have tried that got nothing out of it.
Speaker 6: No knew the kids were not getting anything out of it.
Speaker 4: So I pass you can ask those people about that.
Speaker 4: I'm going to ask shops Christmas shops.
Speaker 5: With his dog. Guy? What's going on there?
Speaker 4: As we went to the big outlet malls, you know
Speaker 4: before Christmas Delaney and her boyfriend were in town.
Speaker 5: It was great fun. Huh. So's so cool.
Speaker 2: Although, by god, youngsters eat a lot.
Speaker 7: It's spectacular. It's like watching Lion Tar Harda and Pally.
Speaker 7: You just can't believe how much they're eating. And they
Speaker 7: stay thin anyway. Uh oh yeah.
Speaker 4: So we're at the outlet, Well, you got these people
Speaker 4: shopping with their dogs. I tell you what, honey, there's
Speaker 4: nothing I like more than a crowded shopping experience where
Speaker 4: I'm juggling packages and my feet hurt and I'm waiting
Speaker 4: in life.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, I have a brainstorm.
Speaker 5: I know how we could complicate this.
Speaker 2: Let's bring an animal with its own needs.
Speaker 5: I just don't get.
Speaker 6: It right, and a tangent. I'm doing the weave here,
Speaker 6: I'm doing the Trump weave because things keep popping.
Speaker 2: In my head.
Speaker 4: And I am doing Trump dance, which I did a
Speaker 4: fair amount over the vacation.
Speaker 5: Anytime I was happy, I would do the Trump dance.
Speaker 1: Dog.
Speaker 6: The number of dogs in the airport and on the
Speaker 6: plane just spectacular, just spectacular.
Speaker 2: I thought they had cracked down on mat or.
Speaker 6: I assumed they were going to clearly not service animals,
Speaker 6: clearly just people who want to take their dog on
Speaker 6: a flight.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't really bother me. I've never had it.
Speaker 6: I've never had a moment where it's impinged on my
Speaker 6: happiness in any way whatsoever. So I'm not complaining from
Speaker 6: that standpoint. I'm just surprised that we allow it to happen.
Speaker 2: That, combined with the wheelchair crowd. So many people in.
Speaker 6: Wheelchairs I mean used to fly and there would be
Speaker 6: occasionally a flight with a person in a wheelchair, not always,
Speaker 6: and certainly not multiple. Now it's ten wheelchairs lined up
Speaker 6: every single flight, right because Southwest, Because a whole bunch
Speaker 6: of you figured out that gets you a good seat,
Speaker 6: or you get to get on first.
Speaker 2: And then, as Joe says, they're magically healed during the flight.
Speaker 2: It's a miracle. And there's like two wheelchairs on the
Speaker 2: other end when they get off the miracle flight. I've
Speaker 2: cured you, Yes, Katie Well, I.
Speaker 3: Was fascinated the last flight I took. They were all legit.
Speaker 3: It was a wheelchair basketball team.
Speaker 2: There was like them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, if I can see you're actually missing legs, fine,
Speaker 6: but you you just don't want to walk.
Speaker 2: I can tell by looking at you. Man.
Speaker 6: I was sitting next to on one flight a baby,
Speaker 6: which I don't mind.
Speaker 2: I don't mind it all.
Speaker 6: If you've been a parent, the sound of a baby crying,
Speaker 6: I don't even notice it.
Speaker 2: I mean it like has no effect on me whatsoever.
Speaker 4: No, I just feel bad for mom and Georg dad,
Speaker 4: and I'm not near as concerned about it as they
Speaker 4: think I am.
Speaker 6: But God, there was a couple next to me. They
Speaker 6: had four kids under the age of five. I mean,
Speaker 6: a baby, a one and a half year old, a
Speaker 6: two and a half year old. I mean, it was
Speaker 6: just incredible, I thought. And they had the patients going
Speaker 6: they are doing a really good job. But I thought,
Speaker 6: you are really Whooh, that's a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you'll never work that hard again in your life.
Speaker 2: That is something.
Speaker 6: But so to the people a sight seeing, there are
Speaker 6: so many people, and I've noticed this back, jeez, years ago.
Speaker 6: There are so many people at all tourist things I
Speaker 6: go to that clearly don't seem to be interested in
Speaker 6: it at all. And I always wonder, why are you here?
Speaker 6: Why are you here an art museum where people are
Speaker 6: just walking through, looking at their phones or talking. Why
Speaker 6: are you here? All the kids, almost every kid under
Speaker 6: the age well almost under every kid of any age actually.
Speaker 6: I saw occasionally a kid that was like super interested
Speaker 6: in because they're kind of a the kind of kid
Speaker 6: that's a history nut or an art nut or whatever.
Speaker 6: But the fast majority have no interest whatsoever.
Speaker 2: What are we doing?
Speaker 4: Mom and dad said we're going, or the relative or
Speaker 4: friend who's into it said hey, I want to go
Speaker 4: to this, and you're like, all right, I'll go fine.
Speaker 6: But I saw many examples where the mom and or
Speaker 6: dad clearly weren't interested either, And I thought, why does
Speaker 6: so many people do this?
Speaker 4: I would like to hear an announcement, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 4: just a reminder, if you'd prefer not to be here,
Speaker 4: get the hell out so the people who are into
Speaker 4: this could enjoy it more. Again, if you're not into
Speaker 4: being here, please exit the building.
Speaker 6: I thought that at one point, I'm in the National
Speaker 6: Art Gallery or whatever it's called, one of the best
Speaker 6: art museums in the entire world. My kids weren't interested
Speaker 6: in going fine, they went to the hotel. I went
Speaker 6: by myself. It was like the best hour of my
Speaker 6: last three weeks. But I walked around and looked at art.
Speaker 6: But I thought that very thing. I thought, if you
Speaker 6: made an announcement right now, how many of you really
Speaker 6: don't want to be here? You can go if you want.
Speaker 6: I was guessing eighty percent of the people would leave. Wow,
Speaker 6: And I just wonder, why do you go? What do
Speaker 6: you do? You feel like you should? Is it so
Speaker 6: you can say you were there? Is it so you
Speaker 6: can get in the modern era? The picture do you
Speaker 6: put on your Instagram or or Facebook page?
Speaker 2: It shows you've been there, so it makes your life
Speaker 2: look interesting. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 6: But the one that bothers me the most. And Joe's
Speaker 6: got a famous story, Katie, you probably haven't heard it of.
Speaker 6: Was it Arlington Serum Cemetery where you yelled at a kid?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Arlington National? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I didn't go to Arlington National. Check it
Speaker 2: out another parents child? This correct him.
Speaker 6: This was a similar sort of thing, And again I
Speaker 6: just wondered what was going on there. We're at the
Speaker 6: World War Two Museum, which i'd never been to before
Speaker 6: because it's fairly recently built. We're at the World War
Speaker 6: Two outdoor monument thing, not museum lined door monument thing,
Speaker 6: and there's a couple of kids riding around on the
Speaker 6: inside portion of it where they got the freeze and
Speaker 6: the flowers and the quotes about all the men who
Speaker 6: men and women who sacrificed for our country and everything
Speaker 6: like that. Couple of kids riding around in the line scooters,
Speaker 6: just weaving in and out, riding around and stuff, everything
Speaker 6: like that. You're obviously not supposed to do that, even
Speaker 6: if there's no sign saying don't do that. I would
Speaker 6: think you would know you're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 6: And I was going to say something to the kids.
Speaker 6: I was thinking to you obviously and that you had
Speaker 6: done it, and I just couldn't contain my disgust with it.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 6: I was going to say, hey, this is a memorial
Speaker 6: to dead soldiers. Don't ride your scooters in here. Okay,
Speaker 6: go up there. But then I saw they got too
Speaker 6: far away from me. For one thing, I'm gonna walk
Speaker 6: way over there. And then Mom was with them walking
Speaker 6: along talking on the phone. So's she's walking around talking
Speaker 6: on her cellphone in the middle of the We're supposed
Speaker 6: to be honoring the dead soldiers of World War Two
Speaker 6: while her kids are riding around in scooters, And I thought,
Speaker 6: why are any of you here? I would just I
Speaker 6: would just love to know. As a psychology thing, I
Speaker 6: just I'm interested in why did you take the time
Speaker 6: to come to Washington, d C. Why did you come
Speaker 6: all the way over here? Why did you look up
Speaker 6: World War two memorial and bring your kids?
Speaker 2: What is your purpose? It's not the same as mine, obviously, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just think what you have is a dull with
Speaker 4: and her dull witted children taking what they could from
Speaker 4: what they heard was one of the most important places
Speaker 4: to go as a tourist. But as their wits are dulled,
Speaker 4: they could develop no appreciation for it. You can yell
Speaker 4: at your dog for failing to appreciate Shakespeare, but he's
Speaker 4: a dog.
Speaker 6: But right, if I don't like Shakespeare, I don't read it.
Speaker 6: If you don't care about the World War Two memorial,
Speaker 6: why would you go? I just, honestly like makes my
Speaker 6: head explode, wondering why I wanted to talk? Why are
Speaker 6: you here? You clearly have no interest. You're making it
Speaker 6: worse for everyone else. Why don't you just leave wouldn't
Speaker 6: you be happier. Wouldn't you be happier if you went
Speaker 6: to the the Nike store? Wouldn't that make you happier?
Speaker 4: I just think the halfwit enjoys being at the top
Speaker 4: of the Washington Monument and is amused to see the
Speaker 4: Capitol Building in the Lincoln Memorial because they've seen it
Speaker 4: on TV. But that's as deep as it goes. You're
Speaker 4: just not gonna get any more out of them.
Speaker 2: Hum hm.
Speaker 6: They should have like a couple of days a year
Speaker 6: for all tourist things of only people that actually want
Speaker 6: to be here. If you could have some sort of
Speaker 6: test for that, that'd be fantastic. We got more on
Speaker 6: the ways to hear. I'm gonna look at some of
Speaker 6: the texts from you people on uh, why do you
Speaker 6: go to tourist stuff?
Speaker 2: You have no interest in in? Your kids have no
Speaker 2: interest in? Why are you there?
Speaker 6: Text line four one nine five KFTC. I find that interesting.
Speaker 4: So this is a bit from a while back, but
Speaker 4: it's as relevant as ever. From the geniuses at the
Speaker 4: Bebylon B.
Speaker 5: Your word is woman?
Speaker 2: Can I have the definition?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Why don't you ask Judge one that question?
Speaker 5: Can I have the definition of women?
Speaker 2: Please? No, why not? The thing is a woman is there?
Speaker 2: A woman is?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 7: Is?
Speaker 2: What she's trying to say is that each person gets
Speaker 2: to define for themselves what a woman is. So can
Speaker 2: you define it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Why? I just want to know the definition of women.
Speaker 2: And that makes you a hate for a little big
Speaker 2: at Lincoln.
Speaker 5: You know, I wish we had the whole thing, I
Speaker 5: really do.
Speaker 2: I like to tone that makes you I hate for
Speaker 2: a little big at Lincoln.
Speaker 4: But think of what percentage of society either when along
Speaker 4: with that, goes along with that insanity willingly or has
Speaker 4: like been browbeaten into silence.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: Lot of different kinds of restrooms as I travel the country. Restaurants, hotels, airlines,
Speaker 6: whatever gotta have the gender neutral or both genders or something.
Speaker 6: Are they don't put a name on are You click
Speaker 6: on the buy the tickets for your airline and you
Speaker 6: get more than two choices for male or female? There's
Speaker 6: like five choices for some reason.
Speaker 4: Is there any other mental illness or quirk that we
Speaker 4: have institutionalized in our restrooms? Is there like an anxiety
Speaker 4: restroom where people who get to you know, on a
Speaker 4: gently or a depression restroom where you can, you know,
Speaker 4: spend a little time on your own, but then people
Speaker 4: reach out to you. Hey, I can see you're down
Speaker 4: there in that stall.
Speaker 2: Let's talk.
Speaker 6: If Southeast Airlines had just stuck with male and female
Speaker 6: when you're buying a ticket, would they gotten I mean
Speaker 6: back when the trans thing really had a head of steam.
Speaker 6: Would they had just gotten picketed and like really taken
Speaker 6: it in the shorts. Would there have been a boycott
Speaker 6: or would nothing have happened. I think nothing would have happened.
Speaker 6: I think you'd have suffered no penalty if you did.
Speaker 6: Just we're just gonna stick with male and female. I disagree,
Speaker 6: but I'm not confident. I think the.
Speaker 4: Legions of the woke, young, angry online types would have made.
Speaker 2: Their lives miserable.
Speaker 6: And your own employees, right, all your young employees would
Speaker 6: have wanted to quit and made a big deal out
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 4: Who've been indoctrinated from age five to twenty five in
Speaker 4: America's education system. So you know, I don't hate the
Speaker 4: young people. I just need to change their minds.
Speaker 6: Well, it go away at some point when you go
Speaker 6: to buy an airline ticket and it's back to just Mayland.
Speaker 4: Female will depends how much progress we can make in
Speaker 4: reforming our schools.
Speaker 2: I'll bet it goes working on it, that's my prediction.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it will because it's utterly unsuffortable by
Speaker 4: anything reasonable or factual or logical.
Speaker 2: Are you doing the seventy five hard to start the
Speaker 2: new year or not?
Speaker 1: Among other things on the link Armstrong and Getty, rising threats,
Speaker 1: the country is on edge after a deadly New Year's
Speaker 1: Day terror attack that investigators say was inspired by ISIS.
Speaker 6: I just wanted to play that again to this is
Speaker 6: like a semi New Year's resolution, not that Joe and
Speaker 6: I haven't been doing this for years anyway, The country's
Speaker 6: on edge. Do you know anybody who's actually on edge
Speaker 6: because of the terrorist attack in New Orleans? Yeah, it
Speaker 6: was an indication that Islamic terrorism is still a thing
Speaker 6: we need to watch out for. Blah blah blah this,
Speaker 6: But do you know anybody who's actually on edge, like
Speaker 6: actually more nervous sense last two Wednesday night, living their
Speaker 6: life differently or whatever the media tells us all these things.
Speaker 6: What's interesting, what we're scared about, what we're sad about,
Speaker 6: and it's just it just doesn't match up with the reality.
Speaker 4: Around you, right, I thought it was horrifying, sad, sickening,
Speaker 4: thought about Islam, Islamism, thought about losers, angry losers who
Speaker 4: latch onto extreme ideologies. Then we went off and lived
Speaker 4: our lives and I didn't think about it for a
Speaker 4: single second in various crowded places that I was now
Speaker 4: for a.
Speaker 2: Second right right right in Washington, nice lady told me
Speaker 2: I'm on edge.
Speaker 5: So I guess I'm on edge.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: May was just texting with my nieces, who assumed one
Speaker 6: of them got back to She lives in Boston and
Speaker 6: stilt Kansasity Airport. Not no flights till Wednesday, they're saying.
Speaker 6: So she went for a flight on Saturday night, not
Speaker 6: going to be a flight till Wednesday.
Speaker 2: That's a long time to hang out now.
Speaker 4: I went to mister point of order, mister chairman, it's
Speaker 4: a Monday as we're speaking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's two days hence.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is historic by Midwest standards. In Washington, DC
Speaker 6: all closed down today, which you know is good. You
Speaker 6: can't can't steal your money. I flipped off the IRS building.
Speaker 6: I did, just like Homer Simpson did in the episode
Speaker 6: where they went to hear.
Speaker 2: It, boo, Homer thing.
Speaker 6: They went by the RS building and Homer stuck his
Speaker 6: head out the window.
Speaker 3: Boo.
Speaker 2: I flipped them off.
Speaker 6: And my hotel was right across from the Department of Education,
Speaker 6: and I wanted to tear it down. I wanted to
Speaker 6: go get a hammer and try to tear it down
Speaker 6: brick by brick.
Speaker 2: It's a very big, big building, and I thought it
Speaker 2: would take a long time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 6: Tried to explain it to the kids, how this doesn't
Speaker 6: even need to exist. Everything could be perfectly fine. As
Speaker 6: a matter of fact, it would be better if this
Speaker 6: didn't exist at all. Yeah, So Joe's doing dry January.
Speaker 2: What am I doing?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: I'm doing No Bake Goods twenty twenty five, among other things.
Speaker 6: Are you going to do well this? It says here,
Speaker 6: transform your life. Maybe you'd like to transform your life.
Speaker 6: Maybe you wouldn't transform your life in just seventy days
Speaker 6: with the seventy five hard which I guess has been
Speaker 6: around for a couple of years, but I hadn't heard
Speaker 6: about it till now. Because one of my nieces said
Speaker 6: she's doing the sixty medium. She made up her own
Speaker 6: list of how she's going to do it. This is
Speaker 6: the seventy five hard a tactical guide to Winning the
Speaker 6: War with your something or other. Before I get into
Speaker 6: some of it, what do you know about it, Katie?
Speaker 3: I know it's very difficult and it requires I think
Speaker 3: two workouts a day. You have to do one inside,
Speaker 3: one outside.
Speaker 4: You have to diet or here well right right right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you scare.
Speaker 6: You skipped right to the one that makes everybody say, well,
Speaker 6: never mind then, because on the list you go through
Speaker 6: some of them and you think I could do that.
Speaker 6: Drink a gallon of water per day. Okay, I'm not
Speaker 6: sure that it's going to do me any good, but whatever.
Speaker 6: Read ten pages of a self improvement book daily. If
Speaker 6: I get to choose the book, I can do that.
Speaker 6: Take a progress picture every day, okay, effortless, come up
Speaker 6: with a diet plan and follow it. Okay, kind of
Speaker 6: trying to do that. Two forty five minute workouts daily,
Speaker 6: one outdoors. Okay, well, what else can we do? Because
Speaker 6: that ain't gonna happen. That's why none of these fitness
Speaker 6: resolutions work. You take it way too far. You're not
Speaker 6: going to go to the gym and work out for
Speaker 6: an hour every day. You do it for a couple
Speaker 6: of days and you quit. You got a set modest
Speaker 6: two forty five minute workouts, Yeah, I got it. Even
Speaker 6: if you've got time, which I don't. Did be impossible.
Speaker 6: No way you're gonna do that consistently.
Speaker 3: And with the diet, there's no cheat meals and no
Speaker 3: alcohol for seventy five days. So forget your month of
Speaker 3: no alcohol, Joe, this is seventy five days.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: One of my good friends has for years and years,
Speaker 4: with almost no exceptions, he has and he's a drinking man.
Speaker 4: He's good at it. We've gone round and round. He
Speaker 4: drinks on New Year's Eve, he does not have another
Speaker 4: drink until Saint Patrick's Day in mid March, virtually every year.
Speaker 2: I admire it. I'm not sure I want to imitate it,
Speaker 2: but I admire it. Why does he do it? I said, physical.
Speaker 4: Health, emotional health, doesn't want to be dependent on alcohol.
Speaker 4: I guess same reason. I do it for a little while.
Speaker 4: He just takes it a lot further. He's in good
Speaker 4: shape too, for a guy of his age. But and
Speaker 4: then we have another a friend, actually a great mutual friend,
Speaker 4: who when confront he's a Southern guy. When confronted with
Speaker 4: that news, he said, I haven't taken that long a
Speaker 4: break since I was eleven, So it's a different way
Speaker 4: to approach life. But interestingly, in contrast to the hard
Speaker 4: seventy five, in the medium sixty and the leisurely thirty,
Speaker 4: we might have.
Speaker 5: Something to talk about.
Speaker 4: My daughter, my beloved twenty five year old who just
Speaker 4: today headed back to law school. Is she's using a nudgeword,
Speaker 4: which I would have mocked were my beloved daughter not
Speaker 4: doing it. And there's a piece in the Washington Post
Speaker 4: and they have a graphic that you people unveiling their
Speaker 4: nudge word, which includes ease, pivot, wonder, pause, and bliss.
Speaker 2: You got to back up a second. Is this a term,
Speaker 2: I know, nudgeword? What does a nudgeword?
Speaker 5: Well, you're about to and I apologize.
Speaker 4: A nudgeword can help you clarify your goals. It can
Speaker 4: symbolize your values, help you set intentions and guide your
Speaker 4: actions in most, if not all, areas of your life.
Speaker 4: How do you want to be or feel? For instance,
Speaker 4: do you want to be more playful, balanced or compassionate?
Speaker 2: Playful?
Speaker 5: Yes, I want to be more playful.
Speaker 2: Who starts a new year. You know what I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be in twenty five? Playful, more playful.
Speaker 5: You know, I would not phrase it like that.
Speaker 4: I could definitely see somebody, perhaps me, saying, you know,
Speaker 4: I gotta stop worrying about crap that doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: You got to lighten the hell up about a lot
Speaker 5: of stuff. So I get it.
Speaker 4: Interestingly, though, my daughter's word that she keeps trying to
Speaker 4: remind herself of is sustainable and not like in the
Speaker 4: environmental grita Tunberg bullcrap way. But she's telling herself, look,
Speaker 4: don't start an exercise plan you can't possibly sustain.
Speaker 2: I've always been going to diet that you can't live with.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've always been big on that, and I think
Speaker 6: that is a good idea, or you know, any kind
Speaker 6: of regimen.
Speaker 4: Just yeah, start with something you could actually do right right,
Speaker 4: Start small, see how it goes. Increase a little bit.
Speaker 4: But and look, I've done the iron willed weight loss
Speaker 4: fitness thing a couple of times and it's worked, but
Speaker 4: it's not sustainable.
Speaker 6: Right, And it's it's the problem with sustainable is it's
Speaker 6: so slow. You know you're gonna lose weight, but it's
Speaker 6: gonna come off really slow, but it'll come off and
Speaker 6: stay off and people want or at the very lace,
Speaker 6: you'll maintain Yeah anymore, or you're gonna you know, you're
Speaker 6: you're gonna build muscle and look more fit. But it's
Speaker 6: gonna be real slow, and it's gonna take a while.
Speaker 6: But once you get there, it's a it's certainly nice.
Speaker 6: That's a good one. Pensive will be mine pensive. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna try to be.
Speaker 2: Overall more pensive in the new year.
Speaker 4: I think mine's vengeful. I'm gonna I'm gonna give people
Speaker 4: what they've earned.
Speaker 2: A Vengeful is your nudge word.
Speaker 4: People are gonna get what's coming to them.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hit June July.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have not taken vengeance for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 4: and it's gonna be easy to give up.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna remind.
Speaker 4: Myself, Hey, this is my nudge work. Find somebody who's
Speaker 4: got it coming.
Speaker 2: Start small.
Speaker 6: Remember that time in high school when you did the
Speaker 6: thing to me, Well, here's here's your right.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's just a store cl clerk who's road and
Speaker 4: as you walk out, you hurl a tomato, Adam, Start small,
Speaker 4: Start easy.
Speaker 2: Yes, anyway, sustainably vengeful. You want to hear a good one.
Speaker 2: It's a little heavy.
Speaker 4: Speaking of year ending slash beginning rituals about this dude.
Speaker 4: He's like an entrepreneur and investor. It doesn't really matter
Speaker 4: who he is. But every year at the end of
Speaker 4: the year, his birthday happens to be December thirtieth, which
Speaker 4: I think factors in.
Speaker 5: But he does a little vacation.
Speaker 4: Over the holidays like many of us do. Does does
Speaker 4: do we do? And he does what he calls his
Speaker 4: pre mortem. He imagines being on his deathbed. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 4: I know. I know this is heavy, and he gets
Speaker 4: into it. He really describes, like, I imagine my body
Speaker 4: old and fragile, my breathing shallow, my life energy almost extinguished,
Speaker 4: and I try to evoke the feelings I want to
Speaker 4: have in that moment, a sense of peace, completion, and
Speaker 4: most importantly self respect. Then I asked myself, what am
Speaker 4: I going to do now to ensure that when I
Speaker 4: reach that ultimate destination, I've done what I need to do,
Speaker 4: I will feel those things I want to feel on
Speaker 4: my deathbed.
Speaker 2: And then he sets goals for the year.
Speaker 6: You know, we have a boss who actually has a
Speaker 6: quote on his wall from of all people, Keith Partridge,
Speaker 6: David Cassidy, TV star of the seventies. You don't need
Speaker 6: to know, you don't need to know where you're going,
Speaker 6: you don't need to know who that is. But he
Speaker 6: was as big a star in America as you can
Speaker 6: get for a while. And on his deathbed he said,
Speaker 6: I think it was his last words, so much wasted time,
Speaker 6: And our boss has that on his wall.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was a resentful, bitter, alcoholic. Yeah, clung to
Speaker 4: the past, and yes, so much wasted time.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. I don't I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't think I have that to worry about it at
Speaker 6: this point, Mas, that's this guy's philosophy.
Speaker 2: What would your last words be?
Speaker 5: And what do you have to do to make them? Wow?
Speaker 2: You know what, it's been great as he sailed it.
Speaker 2: That's what I want my last words to be. Nailed it.
Speaker 4: He wants a sense of peace, completion and that look,
Speaker 4: my race is run.
Speaker 5: It was great.
Speaker 2: Good luck y'all. This is stressing me out. I know,
Speaker 2: big task.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: I'll just summon my breath for one last boo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now I'm gone take one last bit of vengeance.
Speaker 2: Michael, my last words will be pass me that pizza. Yeah,
Speaker 2: one more, one more more pizza.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was, you know, reading a book by a songwriter.
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter who, but he's he's big on the you know,
Speaker 4: try to create one new thing a day and how
Speaker 4: to do it.
Speaker 2: Of course, his job is writing songs. So we write songs.
Speaker 4: But nobody has ever on their deathbed said I wish
Speaker 4: I hadn't written that poem, or I wish I hadn't
Speaker 4: tried to unless it's you know, did something horrific, But
Speaker 4: go ahead and try and fail, don't don't you know,
Speaker 4: be next to this entrepreneur guy thinking why didn't I
Speaker 4: at least try? So there's my life affirming death, fearing
Speaker 4: deathbed positive philosophy for the year.
Speaker 6: You know, the whatever that thing was with having a
Speaker 6: nudge word grateful would be a really good one to
Speaker 6: to try to stay in.
Speaker 4: But of course for everything there must be a backlash,
Speaker 4: and that's the people who somehow are so swept up
Speaker 4: in crazes they've like taken that to an extreme and
Speaker 4: and like refuse to acknowledge things that needed to be
Speaker 4: fixed in their lives. What and so I've been reading
Speaker 4: lately there's the great the pressure to be grateful has
Speaker 4: now become so shut up.
Speaker 2: But some shot up shot.
Speaker 6: I gotta hurt.
Speaker 2: Trying to Yeah.
Speaker 4: I go into the office every day in my boss
Speaker 4: balls and I'm it's your work.
Speaker 6: I need a name I want I want the name
Speaker 6: of where you whoever I wrote that, you read that.
Speaker 6: I'm going there today. I'll get on a plane. I
Speaker 6: don't care if the weather's bad. Michael driving, I'm gonna choke.
Speaker 2: Them, and you'll take your vengeance.
Speaker 4: It's healthy.
Speaker 6: I'm going to punch that person right in the throat.
Speaker 6: That is the most annoying. That is the single most
Speaker 6: annoying thing I've ever heard, certainly this year. You know
Speaker 6: what people take graceful to the danger of being too grateful.
Speaker 4: I can see the headline the right, Oh shut up,
Speaker 4: you nailed it. You nailed it, and Katie I can
Speaker 4: probably get an amen out of you. See what the
Speaker 4: bitter old man doesn't understand is this stuff is so
Speaker 4: much more a part of young women's worlds, Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: than dudes. It's like they tell this anecdote. It's actually
Speaker 4: pretty funny. I don't see if I can find it.
Speaker 4: Woman's walking through the store and they got a display
Speaker 4: of like dish towels, and the dish towels are emblazoned gratitude.
Speaker 4: And this woman's comment is, all right, now, even my
Speaker 4: dish towels are badgering me.
Speaker 2: These things become such a craze. Oh yeah, in a ways.
Speaker 4: But you know, I hear stuff like that and I think, yeah,
Speaker 4: whatever that's for you, goodbye. I'm busy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's a good idea, but if you
Speaker 6: got it on your towels, I don't know. For whatever reason,
Speaker 6: it's just a little too much for me. We will
Speaker 6: finish strong next.
Speaker 2: Yo, yo, yo, good to be back. Twenty five gonna
Speaker 2: be a big year for the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 5: In what sense.
Speaker 6: We did sign a new contract which we haven't mentioned,
Speaker 6: so we are going to be around for a while.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: A headful of new stations coming online too, which is nice. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I was gonna talk about that in my final thoughts,
Speaker 4: so I'll jump to this and we cover this in
Speaker 4: depth during our two of the show. If you missed it,
Speaker 4: grabbed the podcast Armstrong and Getty on the band. In fact,
Speaker 4: you ought to subscribe. But there's that big announcement while
Speaker 4: we were on vacation from the Surgeon General that we
Speaker 4: really ought to have a warning on alcohol, any alcoholic
Speaker 4: beverage because any level of alcohol consumption can lead to
Speaker 4: a greater chance of cancer, and blah blah blah, even
Speaker 4: moderate alcohol use. There's no safe level of consumption.
Speaker 5: Blah blahlah.
Speaker 4: And the coverage was about as in depth as that
Speaker 4: blah blah blah. But if you actually look at the
Speaker 4: numbers involved, and I'm, as I said earlier, particularly interested
Speaker 4: in this because I drink on a more or less
Speaker 4: daily basis, although I am currently not. The increase in
Speaker 4: risk for moderate drinking is teeny tiny. For women consuming
Speaker 4: less than a drink per week, a non drinker, the
Speaker 4: absolute risk of developing an alcohol related cancer is around
Speaker 4: seventeen percent. It's not clear to me seventeen percent of
Speaker 4: what of all people anyway, That risk increases to about
Speaker 4: twenty two percent for women consuming two drinks a day,
Speaker 4: an increase from seventeen to twenty two right. For men,
Speaker 4: the risk increases from ten to thirteen percent. And among
Speaker 4: moderate drinking, which is all the people were talking about,
Speaker 4: there may be a link, may be they can't even
Speaker 4: nail down that.
Speaker 5: It's definite.
Speaker 2: You're a heavy drinker.
Speaker 4: You're risking a softage, eal mouth and throat cancer, among
Speaker 4: other things.
Speaker 5: Don't be a heavy Drinker's thoughts down strong, It's.
Speaker 2: Down strong. You're ready with Katie Green. And that's good strong.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. That is awesome. Here's your host for final thoughts,
Speaker 2: Joe Getty.
Speaker 4: Let's get a final thought from everybody in the crew
Speaker 4: to kick off the year. There is our technical director
Speaker 4: pressing the buttons again, the faithful Michelangelow I called final thought.
Speaker 4: My new Year's resolution is to find joy wherever I can,
Speaker 4: even in the littlest things.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna work on that. Good for you. That's
Speaker 2: a great one. Joy.
Speaker 4: There you go, Beautiful Katie Green or esteemed Newswoman. As
Speaker 4: a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 3: I am rocking the new Armstrong and Getty Adidas hoodie
Speaker 3: and it is by far the most comfortable sweatshirt I
Speaker 3: own right now.
Speaker 2: Come on, yeah, it rocks a delightful lightweight hoodie. Yes, Jack.
Speaker 2: A final thought for.
Speaker 6: Those of you doing dry January, it's gonna be interesting
Speaker 6: to find out. So you don't drink and you wake
Speaker 6: up and you think Wow, I feel so much better
Speaker 6: not drinking or are you gonna wake up and think
Speaker 6: so this is what I actually feel like. I was
Speaker 6: blaming it on the drinking. This is just what it
Speaker 6: feels like to be me. Well, that's really disappointing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, once again, that has been my takeaway. Slightly better
Speaker 4: in some ways, definitely better, but not a lot better.
Speaker 4: My final thought is this year, we're gonna have fun.
Speaker 4: We're gonna tell you the truth. Because there aren't a
Speaker 4: lot of people who do that. There aren't a lot
Speaker 4: of organizations that do that. That's not what they're about.
Speaker 4: We will do it, I promise.
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Speaker 6: I haven't said a word, so stop yelling at me.
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