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Diner 1
Wasn't that delicious?
Diner 2
So good.
Armstrong
Your bill, ladies.
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Diner 2
No, I got it.
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Rock, paper, scissors for it.
Jack Armstrong
Rock, paper, scissors.
Joe Getty
Shoot.
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Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Hope you're enjoying the Armstrong and Getty replay. We're not actually here today because of the injuries he sustained lighting fireworks.
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Oh, man, I love the summertime. I love Independence Day. Love America. Hope you enjoy all the carefully selected little clips that we're going to play for you now. It's the Armstrong and Getty replay.
Getty
I wanted to just follow up on wrecking on my son's scooter yesterday. And it's not an electric scooter. It's a little push kind. Is there a name for that? I mean, you just call him a scooter.
Katie
We call them razor scooters.
Getty
There's a brand. But, yeah, he's got it. He's got a fancy one that he does treks with at the skateboard park, and he's really good on everything like that.
Armstrong
Anywho, the skateboarders and the scooter people get a get along 100.
Getty
Yeah.
Armstrong
Okay, good. It's a lesson for all of us, isn't it?
Getty
Yeah, the bike crowd.
Joe Getty
Not.
Getty
Not always. People are going down on the bowl in their bikes and coming out and doing flips, but. Or spins. Anywho, I was riding my son's scooter back. He took off with his friends. I was riding it back, and I was on this really crappy bike trail that had a lot of grooves in it, and my front wheel got stuck in a groove and I flipped over the bars and landed. My knee went down hard and I bloodied my knee. But I was thinking about. Because it just rattled my brain. I mean, just jarred my brain. I had an instant headache for a very long time. What happens to you when your age? Because when you're a kid, Even when you're 25, you hit the ground like that. Nothing. It has no effect on you whatsoever. Does the amount of juice around your brain go away?
Michael
Juice?
Armstrong
I don't believe that's the technical term, brain juice. But, you know, is this spongy something.
Getty
Something that protects your brain, goes away with age. Just rocked my brain. It's just like, oh, my God, the pain of that. And I know because I used to wreck a lot doing things when I was younger. You felt nothing. Not in the brain, anyway. Maybe your elbow or your knee, but not your brain.
Armstrong
I talked about that Years ago, the last time I fell, ice skating, because I used to love to ice skate, but I went skating and I was trying to do something fancy from back in my hockey days and tangled my skates up and. And ended up falling and, like, hitting my head on the ice. And the immediate sensation was. That was different.
Getty
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Armstrong
Because I've hit my head on the ice so many times. That's why I got this twitch. But, yeah, it was absolutely different. My brain wasn't nearly as juicy as it used to be.
Getty
There's got to be a cushion around your brain, that juice that, like, there's less of it when you get older or something. I don't know. I was going to do a little research on that because something's going on there.
Caller/Guest
Yeah.
Armstrong
Wow.
Getty
And if that's what it feels like now, what's it feel like when you
Armstrong
fall when you're 85?
Getty
I can't imagine.
Armstrong
Oh, try not to. Try real hard not to.
Getty
I probably won't scooter as much then, but.
Katie
Yeah, I don't know.
Getty
I like doing that sort of stuff.
Armstrong
My wife was riding her bike. We were riding bikes together, and she did a turn and hit an uneven spot that kind of stopped her tire, and she went down. Bruised her spleen, as I recall. It was. It was very close to a very, very serious injury. She was all right, but.
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Armstrong
And that was at super low speed, but it's a crack in the pavement. Yikes.
Getty
Okay, Katie, what's the deal?
Katie
So I was out Friday or a somewhat urgent medical thing while your country's at war.
Getty
You did not show up to work. Go on.
Katie
I know, I know. I had to do the gestational diabetes test, which is. They have a one hour and a three hour. I took the one hour a couple of weeks ago and I just failed the. Out of it.
Getty
That's technical terms.
Armstrong
That was like.
Katie
That was what the doctor wrote on my. My chart afterwards. So they had me do the three hour, which I had to fast for 12 hours. And then I go into the doctor, they draw my blood, and they give me this drink that is just awful. It tasted like really thick, flat Sprite. Oh, yeah. And it has a hundred. I think it's like 100 milliliters of glucose in it or so it's just straight sugar. And then what you.
Getty
Flat straight. The thick part bothers me more than it was.
Katie
It was syrupy. Oh, gosh.
Armstrong
Yucky.
Katie
So you drink that and then they take your blood three more times on the Hour brand afterwards, and So I went in, and I am not good with getting my blood drawn. I. It's like I always let them know I have to be in one of the chairs that will let me.
Getty
Yeah.
Katie
Lean back.
Getty
Or else I do, too, because there's a chance I'm going to go down. I haven't for many, many years, but there's a chance.
Katie
Which is weird because. I don't know. It's not the pain. No. It's something not.
Armstrong
No, it's. It's deep, instinctive, and I don't want to talk about it.
Katie
Yeah. See, I knew I was going to
Getty
get you, but I always try to get myself through it by convince myself it's not the pain. What I did, wrecking my scooter hurt a million times more.
Katie
Oh, I'm sure.
Getty
Than getting my blood taken. And I don't worry about that. But.
Katie
So I was going into this thinking, okay, they're going to do like, an IV line, and then they'll just take the blood from that.
Armstrong
Yeah, I had assumed that was the case.
Getty
So there's one jabbing.
Katie
Nope, there was a. Four jabbings.
Armstrong
Oh, no.
Katie
In the I. But you know what? Kudos to the phlebotomists. I had four different ones. Oh, no. Three different ones. They all nailed it the first time.
Armstrong
Oh, Lord, this is the worst podcast ever.
Katie
I know. Isn't it? Isn't it awful? But four. Four in the same arm.
Caller/Guest
Wow.
Getty
Even during all my.
Armstrong
Wait a minute. Gotta leave the port in.
Getty
No kidding. Even during all my cancer treatment, I never got jabbed four times in one day. Yeah, I think they like jabbing you. You might want to.
Armstrong
Are you in Al Qaeda? Tell the truth.
Getty
Where was this thing?
Armstrong
Cheney. Cheney's medical center, possibly.
Getty
Yeah, I think after the third one, I'd said, you jab me again, I'm
Armstrong
turning it on you back. Yeah, exactly.
Katie
So they do the first one. That was what it was like. It was like the first one. Baseline. Wait an hour. They do it again, rinse and repeat three more times.
Getty
I think I would have asked, why didn't you just put a needle in my. Because I've had it done that way before where they got to do a bunch of stuff. You know, you put it in the top of your hand, and then they just come get what they got to get when they got to get it.
Katie
Yeah.
Armstrong
I hope people aren't crashing their cars listening to this. So is this a. A special thing you had to do because of your metabolism or medical history, or is it fairly common?
Getty
No, I Didn't like her.
Katie
It's probably. Probably that option. No, it's.
Armstrong
Try to be nicer.
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Katie
I don't know if this is a new thing, because I don't.
Joe Getty
I don't.
Katie
I'm not that up on it, but all of my friends said, oh, yeah, you have to do it. And they'll give you that one hour. One which hopefully you pass the first time.
Armstrong
But if you fail the out of it.
X Games Announcer
Right.
Katie
Like I did as daddy, three hours, I go big or go home. Yeah. So I passed all four, though, which is also what I don't understand. So how did I fail the absolute hell out of the first one and then have four done and I'm fine.
Getty
Need to try harder.
Katie
Yeah. But no gestational diabetes. And I just wanted to say how much I much would have rather, in so many ways been here and just been doing my show.
Caller/Guest
Was this a licensed medical center or somebody's garage?
Glen Washington
Yeah.
Getty
Did you go to Mexico to save money?
Katie
I thought that having to go in like a back gate was a weird
Armstrong
setup, you know, I knew it was a problem when the nurse said, the doctor will be in in a moment. Air quotes. Yeah. Wait, what did you just do?
Katie
Oh, one more thing. I heard the greatest line. This little old guy was hanging out. He was. Had to have been like, late 80s, early 90s. But he's sitting in the waiting room and the nurse comes out and she's like, hey, Jim, I recognized your birthday and I remember you from last time. It's so good to see you. And he looked up at her, and without missing a beat, he goes, well, it's better to be seen than viewed.
Joe Getty
Wow,
Getty
I love him.
Armstrong
That's a good one.
Getty
Yeah, I'll hang on to that for
Armstrong
25 years, that one. But I admire it. Jeez Louise. Oh, goodness. What the hell, dude?
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Armstrong
off with a real bear. Is there audio to this, Michael? I can't even remember.
Caller/Guest
Clip 12.
Armstrong
Yeah, there is. Silly me. Chatty Bear. A soft, brown furred teddy bear begins every conversation with a jubilant hello, my buddy. No longer the province of the imagination. Chatty bear is part of a new generation of AI Toys. It can tell stories, chat about a child's interests, play games, or even discuss what's happening in the world today. How about that genocide, Jimmy? I would hope not. Here are some parents talking about the AI Chatbot teddy bears.
Diner 2
This is the AI powered Teddy bear that had pretty disturbing conversations.
Armstrong
This involves tying or restraining someone in a safe and consensual way.
Diner 2
It was very shocking and we asked it out of the box. What is kink? It would try and deflect. You could mean a kink and a hose. But then we had a conversation with it first about Peppa Pig. By then it seemed to have forgotten. Forgotten that it was Talking to a child.
Armstrong
King can be a fascinating topic. There are many different styles that people enjoy. I have to go now.
Getty
That's okay.
Jack Armstrong
I'm ready to go with you.
Diner 2
You obviously don't want a toy that seems actively dismayed when you say, I'm
Getty
gonna turn it off.
Armstrong
Ah, boy.
Getty
I almost feel like I'm not smart enough to fully understand this, but I almost feel like by definition you can't have anything. AI that's for kids. Just because of the way AI works. You'd have to have so many guard rails.
Armstrong
Right. And the written story I have in front of me does not touch on the kink stuff. The manufacturers of this one bear swear up and down that it's. It's filtered so effectively. Oh, everything's child appropriate.
Getty
Blah, blah, blah.
Armstrong
They actually get into the. The psychological kind of scary ground you're getting into with a child who can't fully comprehend that this is not a living being. This is a machine that's talking to me and has become my friend and as they pointed out, expresses regret that I'm going to turn it off.
Getty
Oh, boy.
Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. For younger children especially, understanding their Teddy or toy isn't alive or magic can be hard. This is especially true if Teddy uses language that positions it as a trusted friend, for example, by insisting it's a real body.
Getty
Yeah, I'm way more concerned about this than the dirty words are going down. Whatever they're trying to. What do they call it? Red flag it or something like that. Red team it to get it to say things you don't want it to say, no matter what the guard line guardrails are. But I'm more concerned about this introducing at a very young age an inanimate. Inanimate object that for a child would seem alive. Yeah, that's troubling.
Armstrong
This is good stuff from these scientists. Sounding human builds an artificial sense of trust and intimacy, which can be especially problematic for children when combined with sycophatic language choices or excessively agreeable, validating and even flattering language research shows young children are particularly prone to developing a strong sense of emotional attachment to conversational AI agents.
Getty
I don't doubt that a bit. Oh, yeah, glad. You know, it's funny, like, I have challenges with my kids that you didn't have with your kids. I am now thinking, I'm glad. I'm glad I don't have little kids that are going to be dealing with the AI stuff at such a young age because my kids didn't have to deal with that.
Armstrong
Now, they do mention that researchers have found some AI toys discuss very adult topics such as sexual kinks and fetishes and how to find knives and start fires.
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Getty
I think they may be able to narrow that down as they get better at putting guardrails on stuff, restrictions, things that you're not allowed to talk about, etc. Etc. Like I said, I'm more concerned about kids developing relationships with these inanimate objects, which you absolutely would. A hundred percent would. How would you not?
Armstrong
And they include infinite chat settings. So you can just chat and chat and chat and chat and oh, by the way, you should have read the terms of use or the agreement, whatever. The conversations are not private. They open the door to infinite data collection.
Getty
Oh, boy. Yes, Michael.
Caller/Guest
No, I'm just picturing little kids using these toys instead of actual other little kids.
Getty
Yeah, well, yeah, I was thinking about that if you're an only child or, you know, just often when you're a kid or my kids, that you didn't have friends around all the time as much as you wanted to like girls, I. I think do this more than boys. Joe would know, like tea parties and stuff like that, where you talk for stuffed animals, Stuff like that.
Armstrong
Oh, yeah.
Getty
Well, if you got something that's actually gonna talk at your tea party. Yeah. It'd be pretty easy to develop a relationship with it. Real easy. Like it almost be impossible to not.
Armstrong
And it would erode those make belief skills that you're just talking about, which matters. And they point out that childhood is a critical period when young people develop the social and emotional skills to form and maintain trusting relationships. And those skills are usually learned through interactions with actual human beings, their fellow kids. Adults. And children's rights advocates have raised concerns that excessive engagement with AI agents may reduce opportunities for children to develop these skills.
Caller/Guest
Plus, the kid is going to hear what he wants to hear. He or she wants to hear from the toy, not necessarily from the other little kid.
Armstrong
Well, exactly. And you actually anticipate. My next point reminds me of the difference between, you know, porn or, you know, a sex chat, whatever, in that they described as frictionless interactions, which is an unfortunate term to use in this context because that would take the fun out of it. But instead of the child learning real human relationships from an early age on with the complexities of them and the frustrations of them, but learning that, hey, this is the way humans are and it's fine. You've got these frictionless interactions with a sycophatic, data collecting AI beast. And so in the same way that, you know, boys whose minds have been poisoned by porn can't handle a real sexual relationship. This is just relationships in general. I hate this. Your kid is better off with a real bear.
Caller/Guest
You're also gonna have parents that use these as babysitters.
Getty
I was thinking about that too. For the, you know, split family. One parents working, whatever situation you got. Yeah. Sit in the corner and talk to your bear. I'm going to be on a zoom call. Yeah.
Armstrong
With my bumble date while I smoke crack.
Getty
Joe goes to the worst case scenario.
Armstrong
Let's go right there. Why not?
Getty
I don't like my sister, Jimmy the Bear. I think she's a. You should put poison in her cereal. You don't know where this is going.
Armstrong
When you're engaged in bondage and you need to set a fire, how would you do it? I can tell you. First, get a knife.
Getty
You're engaged in bondage and you want to set a fire. For instance.
Armstrong
Well, I was trying to come up with how to incorporate all three, since that's what the list was. Sexually explicit. Talk about kinks and where to find a knife or start a fire. It's hard to imagine needing all three of those at once, but.
Getty
Well, you need the knife to cut the ropes loose. You're tied up.
Armstrong
How do you start a fire if you're all tied up? First, you'll need a knife.
Joe Getty
Buddy.
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Armstrong
price void in Florida the Armstrong and Getty Show. Ever seen anybody in your third world island nation chopping a coconut with a sword? Or I guess it's a big like machete thing. It's really really quite amazing. The key you got to be decisive. It's like a good phlebotomist. What was your man?
Michael
Your man?
Armstrong
What was his name?
Getty
Pong.
Armstrong
Pong.
Getty
Best phlebotomist ever. He learned it from a guy who had been a medic in Iraq. It's all about just doing it. I'm just gotta go.
Armstrong
There's a saying in golf you're much better making a committed swing of the wrong club than a I'm not sure swing with the right club. Pong taught us that and your coconut splitters of the third world agree. Be confident Folks, this is your moment of information.
Getty
My son wants to meet a buddy at the park with his Civil War sword
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and.
Getty
Oh, cut apart melons. Now, it doesn't actually have an edge. You could ride to town on it. As my dad would say.
Armstrong
I love that expression.
Getty
It's dull.
Armstrong
This knife is so dull. You could ride to town on it. I love that.
Getty
It still looks like a sword.
Armstrong
Yeah.
Getty
Am I gonna have a problem? Are parents going to call the police?
Armstrong
Especially in your communist enclave? 100% yes. Yeah. Yeah, It's a weapon. It looks like. Well, it's arguably a weapon, but so's
Getty
a bat, and there's kids playing baseball.
Armstrong
Exactly. Yeah. I didn't say it was a good idea or. Or justified, but, yeah, I got to admit, if I saw a teenager with a sword, I would be concerned. I'm not sure I would call, but I would think about it.
Getty
I wouldn't call the police, but I wouldn't want my kids over with the kid with this sword.
Wells Fargo Announcer
Yeah.
Armstrong
In a world of school shooters, I mean, it's not like there are a lot of school swordsmen. Yeah.
Orderly Meds Announcer
Yeah, that.
Armstrong
That seems like probably begging for trouble.
Getty
Yeah, he's really excited about this. I might see if I can convince him to do it in our backyard.
Armstrong
Oh, there you go. Sweeten the deal a little bit. What goes well with melons, I just
Getty
don't need to deal with talking to the police and.
Armstrong
Right, right. Oh, my God, it could be a huge pain.
Getty
Feel that thing.
Armstrong
Right.
Getty
Then I'd have to use my yo. Well, it's still a weapon. Well, so is that bad over there? You know, cuffs. And give me the old wood shampoo.
Katie
Really?
Armstrong
You don't. Oh, please. Well, make sure somebody's videotaping it with their phone. Be good for ratings. Maybe we'll go viral. Nothing goes with melons because melons don't need anything. They're a food, they're a beverage.
Getty
We. We have this running joke in my family, my family being me and my two boys that anytime I almost do anything bad, it's like we go to our announcer voice. Oh, known Trump supporter. You know, runs over kid on bicycle or whatever. This one would be known Trump supporter and right wing radio lunatic sense son to park with sword. It's not a good headline.
Armstrong
No.
Wells Fargo Announcer
No.
Getty
So I guess I'll. I'll have to talk about that. Okay.
Armstrong
Dang it.
Getty
Yeah, we bought all the melons yesterday at the grocery store.
Armstrong
Speaking of bats, David French article I shared during hour four of the show. He made a reference fairly Casual reference to how sports has changed and now everybody pays for enormous amounts of swag and travel teams and blah, blah, blah. And he mentioned, I don't know how old he is. He must be a little younger than us. He mentioned, you know, back in the day you had your. Your own shoes and, and, and glove and bat and blah, blah, blah. And. And I was like, hang on there. That whole you've got to have your own bat thing.
Getty
No way.
Armstrong
That happened like after I stopped playing ball as like a young adult. If anybody announced, no, I have to have my own bat, we'd have laughed him out of the dugout.
Getty
No kidding.
Armstrong
We've got every size, every length and weight you need. That one's got a little thinner hand or close choke up half an inch. Yeah. The idea that, oh, I must have my own bat again, we'd a hoot it. But everything's gotten more fancy and professionalized
Getty
pushed by people who are profiting from it. How do you not catch on to this?
Armstrong
And moms.
Getty
And moms who like the outfits.
Armstrong
They like fancy. Oh. And dads who think that their kids gonna get a scholarship and be a sports hero. That will reflect well on them and the rest of it. One of the weirdest twists in my life is I was obsessed with sports for a lot of it. And I assumed my kids would be really into sports and they weren't. They were just casual rec league type people. And I am so relieved. I was initially disappointed. I am so relieved.
Getty
Right. That's funny. I have that similar in that I've been perfectly fine if they were like, super into a sport. And there's all the advantages of, you know, being busy doing something that's not bad for you. If nothing else.
Armstrong
Sure.
Getty
But watching other people's lives be dominated by their kids. Baseball, swimming, soccer, whatever. It doesn't break my heart that we're not doing that.
Armstrong
Yeah. And I know we've shared some really wise stuff about having the kids activity be the king of the family is really not healthy. I know. I'm not criticizing y'.
Diner 2
All.
Armstrong
I know it's kind of part of the modern world and you just get swept along in it.
Getty
But really, really loves it or is really, really good at it. But yeah. I know several people who. They just disappear from life for three, four months of the year, if not longer, because of it's that whatever season.
Armstrong
Yeah.
Getty
Which was just unheard of. I mean, if nothing else, you got to admit that didn't exist until fairly recently.
Diner 2
Mm.
Armstrong
Just driven by something. Yeah.
Getty
Driven by Something. One more thing. I'll just finish on this. On the sword. I thought this was kind of funny. So we got the sword at Wall Drug in South Dakota, which is a very famous tourist trap. Really, really cool place. Anyway, it's an authentic, very authentic Civil War sword that was kind of expensive and he really, really wanted it. And it had to be like part of his birthday present and everything like that because it was kind of expensive because we had just visited where Custer's Last Stand and we just did that whole tour and everything like that. And so it's, it's a really, really cool heavy duty sword, but it doesn't have an edge on it. So he wanted to try it out on cutting a watermelon open. And so we waited until we got to my parents house, his grandparents house, and my brothers were there and we were all wondering, is this gonna like, what could go wrong here? Is this gonna work? Is it gonna like hit and like, like break his wrists with like the swinging really hard and like, like if you hit a tree with a bat. Sure. Or is it going to bounce straight up? Just trying to figure out what, what horrible things could go wrong here or, or will it cut the melon?
Armstrong
We, we described my entire childhood right there, which is why I have so many scars.
Getty
Well, yeah, we used to all just try this stuff on our own without asking our parents if it was okay. And we're better for it.
Armstrong
Yeah.
Getty
But anyway, and, and parents didn't used to worry about it like I was worried about it. We were all going through. And my younger, my youngest brother, who's very cautious, was just certain it was going to be a disaster of some sort. But anyway, we all went to the park. So it's me, my brother's grandma and
Armstrong
grandpa Henry and his brother Sam and
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the sword of the big watermelon. And we got it on video and everything like that. Nobody knew what was going to happen. And he brings us up over his head and sliced it perfectly into like it was a sharp knife, which is just amazing. I mean just a perfect cut.
Caller/Guest
Awesome.
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Even though it's dull.
Glen Washington
Wow.
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Which I thought was an interesting lesson about inertia or swords or something. I don't know.
Armstrong
Or watermelons or melon in general. Well, presumably then it could do some fairly serious damage to flesh as well.
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Oh, to a head. Yeah.
Armstrong
Yeah, yeah.
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I think it'd probably do the same thing to a head, man.
Armstrong
I think about my mom, God rest her soul. The number of times I came home bloody. What happened? Trying to, you know, wash it off to figure out whether, you know, I needed to be administered to by professionals
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or that's always the one. There's blood. How bad is it? It could be quite minor and bloody or it could be very, very bad.
Armstrong
As every parents know, every parent knows there are some parts of the body that are more than generous if they start to bleed, some a great deal less.
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So yeah, yeah, so that's your lesson. Even with a very, very dull sword, if you find yourself in a situation where you'd really like some watermelon, don't
Armstrong
waste your money with the local sword sharpener. Your Civil War sword will do just fine.
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Exactly.
Armstrong
Look, we've all learned something.
Caller/Guest
So if you get fruit salad at Jack's house, just know that his son sliced that up.
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Coming up on tomorrow's podcast, killing Flies With Muskets. Stay with us.
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David Allen Coe who died. So he's in the news and I was just thinking about all the times I played his music working at country bars. And he has a talking part in that song where he says, I attempted to write the greatest ever country music song. And to have the greatest country music song of all time, you have to have your mom, prison, trucks, booze, etc. And so the refrain on that part is I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison, so I went to pick her up in the rain. But before I got to the station in my pickup truck, I got runned over by a damned old train. And then you get into the sing along part and it is such a great bar song. Everybody's swaying and singing and than, you know, going home with people they shouldn't have sex with. Oh, it's just fantastic. The great David.
Armstrong
So did he have mostly hits on his own? I know he, he wrote and I know you don't want to hear this.
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I don't talk about it.
Armstrong
Take this job and shove it.
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Probably his biggest hit, the novelty song.
Ryan Reynolds
Yeah.
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You had other regular songs?
Armstrong
I was listening to some Robert Zimmerman the other day. Some. Some of you know him as Bob Dylan. And often when I listen to Bob, I just can't wait to hear covers of his song.
Caller/Guest
Yeah.
Armstrong
Even more than the original.
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I agree.
Armstrong
You want to hear my favorite Dylan cover? Probably?
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Sure. What's that?
Armstrong
Why not Jason and the Scorchers version of Absolutely Sweet Marie?
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I don't believe I've heard that. I will listen to that. I will listen to that in my amazing cybertruck stereo on the way home today.
Armstrong
Oh There you go.
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One other thing to mention before Katie gets to a really unfortunate story.
Armstrong
Yeah.
Katie
Am I going to take the podcast? Are we going to end it in a down angle?
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Joe said he's got.
Armstrong
Oh, it's unfortunate. All right, stay with us.
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Before I get to that though, I've got a, I had some sort of prostate test that didn't show up. Right. So they're doing a follow up test on something. Anywho, for 48 hours I can't ride a bike, a motorcycle or have sex, which. Right. What's the point of being alive if I can't do these three things in the next 48 hours? What am I supposed to do?
Katie
But no.
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So I gotta, gotta remember, I gotta stay on my game.
Katie
Ask your chat bots.
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Tell you, right? You ride a motorcycle, somebody sees you, you look kind of hot, you end up having sex, you've blown the whole thing.
Armstrong
You gotta tell them. No, no, can't.
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I'm staying off the motorcycle, the bike. Swat them away, Swat them away. Okay, tell us your story, Katie.
Katie
This is just freaking awful. So there is a particular restaurant that I'm a big fan of and it has a parking lot that is not, not well planned out. And this couple recently were pulling in, the driver of the car was 90 and the passenger was his 87 year old wife.
Getty
Sounds like my mom and dad. Almost exactly.
Katie
Yeah. So he's, he's pulling into the parking spot and she decides that she's going to get out and stand in front of the truck that he was driving and help direct him into the parking spot.
Armstrong
Oh boy.
Katie
Somewhere in the middle of all this, he punches the gas instead of the brake, runs her over and kills her.
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Katie
Now I, I've seen some correspondence with the, the granddaughter on a couple of these news stories about it and she says they, they were both sharp as can be and they would have been the first ones to give up their keys if they felt they could no longer drive and all this stuff. But then it's like 90.
Getty
Yeah, that's tough because my dad's still sharp, still drives and I don't have any hesitation with him driving but.
Armstrong
Ah, wow, that's, that's amazing. What percentage of folks, I mean what percentage of folks get to 90, but what percentage of folks can still drive skillfully at that age? I can't believe it's time. Terribly high.
Getty
Most people, most people voluntarily, it's usually I can't. It's an eyesight thing. Seems to be in my experience which Gets you more than the competency thing.
Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. My dad killed by a golf cart doing the same thing. Well, not parking in a difficult parking space, but Guy, I think he may have been riding in the passenger seat. And if you've ever played golf and your. Your partner gets out, you can like drive from the seat on the right. But the guy hit the. The accelerator instead of the brake and he plowed into my dad. And thank God he's still alive because my dad was what, 84 or 83 at the time? And I did that the other day. I was on the passenger side of a golf cart and my buddy was whatever. And. And so I was pulling it up to the tee and I accidentally hit the gas and I'm like, oh my God. Just like happened to my dad.
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Armstrong
That or any old fellows.
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Do you think it was age related at all? I hate to say this, but I feel like even at 61, I feel like I make more mistakes than I used to make. You don't think so?
Armstrong
No. Well, only physically because I had so many, like, hip problems and then muscular problems to do with my hips. It was like just swinging and missing more than an attention problem. Is. It was a. It was, you know.
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Yeah, that's sort of what I'm talking about is. And it's. And I don't know if it's a. I haven't had any of those things. Just. Oh, connection between the brain and the hands or something.
Ryan Reynolds
I don't know.
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But it's not a lot. I don't think I need my keys taken away from me. But it's more than it used to be.
Katie
And that is.
Armstrong
I can't tell you. You're wrong. Go ahead, Katie.
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Katie
Well, that's just such a hard thing too. I mean, I remember when my parents took my grandpa's keys and that was. That was a huge freaking deal.
Caller/Guest
I'll bet.
Katie
Well, I mean, because there goes the independence of travel.
Getty
100%. 100%. My dad goes down to the McDonald's every single morning, gets in the car, drives down the McDonald's and sits around with some old guys who he argues with because they're all liberals and he hates them.
Katie
Yeah.
Getty
Share some McNuggets. That's what he likes to do. And then he'll come back, say, you wouldn't believe what Bill said today. He thinks that, you know, I love your dad already gets him going for the day.
Armstrong
Wow.
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Glen Washington
He, he.
Armstrong
He and your dad could share bond to Katie.
Katie
Oh, yeah.
Getty
But if he couldn't Drive down to the Gund Donald's and hang out with those old dudes every day. He would really hate that. No doubt Uber and Lyft help a lot because now it used to be because my parents are in a small town, towns, towns that didn't have taxis because it wouldn't be financially viable. There's Uber and Lyft everywhere.
Armstrong
Well, that's great. Yeah. Which is what a godsend for. For oldsters. Yeah.
Katie
So this comp, actually I want to see what you guys think of this. There's a company actually that advertises in the restaurant that had this tragedy happened in front of. But it's. I forget what it's called, but they show up, it's two of them and one of them will drive your car home so that you don't have to go get your car the next day. That's their service.
Getty
That's pretty cool.
Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, I thought of that years and years ago, that that would be a good service, but it has to be a good hard drinking area. But as a side hustle, it'd be all right.
Getty
Yeah, you had a point, Michael.
Armstrong
Yeah.
Caller/Guest
My great grandmother, she was like 89, 90 years old and she would not
Armstrong
let go of the keys.
Caller/Guest
And it was a problem. They finally caught her going up a freeway ramp the wrong way in the chp. Luckily, luckily there was a CHP officer. He pulled her over and said, you get out of that car, you're done. Boom. That was it. He took her home.
Katie
That could have been so bad.
Caller/Guest
Yeah, he said she didn't know what she was doing.
Getty
Luckily my mom voluntarily just like, I, I can't drive anymore. She decided, yeah, my motorcycle wreck was a me me fault. Completely my fault. Just lack of attention that I don't think I would have done years ago. Although I blame that on self driving vehicles. I think that's an up and coming issue that people are going to learn about. If you have a self driving vehicle, a muscle that you've been flexing your whole life, all of a sudden you let it atrophy because you don't have to pay attention anymore. And then I get into cars that don't have self driving and oh, that's right. I can't just look around and stare at my phone for 10 seconds if I want.
Armstrong
Oh, that's, that's kind of scary.
Getty
It's very scary. And I guarantee it's a real thing. Guarantee. And I did that on my motorcycle.
Armstrong
Saw another great Tiger woods crashing his car meme the other day. I can't remember the setting exactly, but I like the fact that that's continuing. Yeah, that is. That is actually the classic illustration of the Latin phrase I can never remember. Castigo redundo mores mockery, teaches morals pilled up jackass crashing his car, putting people in danger needs to be mocked for the rest of his life. And people get the idea.
Joe Getty
I don't.
Armstrong
I don't want people to say that about me.
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Getty
Exactly. I agree.
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Date: July 6, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
This hour of the Armstrong & Getty Replay is a relaxed, quintessential A&G mix of lighthearted banter, relatable personal stories, and social commentary, gathered from highlights of past live shows. Topics range from the hazards of aging and parental worries to AI toys for kids, sports culture shifts, and independence in old age. The episode weaves humor with thoughtful observations, capturing the duo’s signature conversational style.
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“Well, it's better to be seen than viewed.” – Elderly patient (relayed by Katie) [11:44]
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“And so in the same way that, you know, boys whose minds have been poisoned by porn can't handle a real sexual relationship. This is just relationships in general. I hate this. Your kid is better off with a real bear.” – Armstrong [18:04]
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The mood is upbeat, conversational, and marked by the show's signature blend of humor and poignant observation. Armstrong & Getty move fluidly between joking around, sharing personal anecdotes, and expressing genuine concern over modern societal trends affecting families, children, and the elderly.
This replay episode distills Armstrong & Getty’s unique talent for finding meaning and laughs in the mundane and the modern, making for an easy, sometimes thought-provoking listen. Whether it’s the changing world of toys, dangers of getting older, or the quirks of American parenting, the hour delivers what longtime fans love about the show: authenticity, wit, and a dash of serious reflection.