Get The Hell Outta My Way!

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: Get The Hell Outta My Way!
Date: December 5, 2025
Host: Armstrong & Getty (with Katie and Michael)

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Overview

In this episode of “One More Thing,” Armstrong & Getty dive into two main themes: the value of playing music in school bands (even if you’re not musically inclined) and the challenges of modern etiquette in public spaces, with a hilarious (and frustrating) tale of a TikTok dancer clogging up a grocery aisle. The crew riff on generational differences, brain science, and the oddities of life in the age of social media, all in their trademark candid and conversational style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Value of School Band and Playing Music

[00:47 – 03:55]

• Host's Question: Armstrong reflects on his own love of playing instruments, his son’s lackluster enthusiasm for tuba, and wonders about the real benefits of school band—especially for kids without musical talent or passion.

  • “What do you think the advantage is of having kids being banned? … I play a musical instrument every single day. … What's in it for kids who … don't really have a talent for it and they're not really into it, but they do it anyway?” [01:09 – 01:40]

• Joe Getty cites brain science:

  • “Science is rock solid that it’s great for your brain. Helps you with your math skills.” [01:40 – 01:44]
  • “It gets all sorts of different parts of your brain working together in a way that's really helpful.” [01:46 – 01:50]

• Social and Cultural Angles:

  • Katie jokes: “The chicks think it’s hot when they get older.” [02:12]
  • Armstrong tells his son Henry to stick with music: “Dude, this is going to be the best thing you’ve ever done if you keep up with this.” [02:15 – 02:28]
  • Joe quotes Mellencamp: “Cut out all of that macho shit and learn how to play guitar.” [02:36]

• Personal habits:

  • Armstrong: “I can't not not play something I need to every day or it makes me very unhappy. It's just I'm driven to it...” [03:03]
  • Playing music as an escape: “I found I can't think about anything else when I'm practicing music, so it just automatically makes me not think about anything.” [03:03]
  • Joe finds playing guitar therapeutic during tedious news watching: “It obliterates everything else, which is what's so healthy about it.” [03:22 – 03:41]
  • John Mayer’s “guitar while watching TV” technique gets a shout: [03:41]

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2. The Modern Plague: Public TikTok Dancers

[03:55 – 10:09]

• Katie’s Grocery Store Rant:

  • She hates the grocery store, wants to get in and out, but encounters a woman "probably late 20s" filming a TikTok dance in the middle of the coffee aisle.
  • “She had a camera set up on a shopping cart and was doing a TikTok dance and no one was telling her to move.” [05:01]

• Reactions & Discussion:

  • Joe: “Wow. Oh my God. Shame I wasn’t there.” [05:30]
  • The group wonders why no one says anything, speculates people are just bewildered:
    • “I can see how a lot of kindly older people would think, I need to stay out of their way. They're doing something.” [06:30]
    • “There were three people just waiting for her to wrap it up.” [06:38]

• On standing up to rudeness:

  • Joe gets philosophical:
    • “What is required of good people for evil to triumph? Their silence. That's all that's required. What would you let the evil of TikTok dancing clog the grocery aisles of our society? Say something.” [06:46]
  • Katie reflects on why she didn’t act:
    • “I think it was because my brain didn't really understand what was happening.” [07:56]

• Generational and Social Commentary:

  • The group explores why people don’t intervene and the lack of social "scripts" for odd public behavior:
    • Armstrong: “If you try to go down a grocery aisle and somebody’s doing a TikTok dance, you don’t really have a script for that. You got to entirely ad lib the whole thing.” [08:04 – 08:37]

• Performance Art and Absurdity:

  • Armstrong shares seeing a guy do splits and eat a hard-boiled egg in public, feeling thrown off by the unexpected performance art:
    • “I do not have a script for somebody doing the splits, getting lower and lower, pulling a full hard boiled egg out of their backpack and then eating it in front of me. I didn't know what to do.” [08:46]

• Regrets & Next Time:

  • Katie jokes she’d deal with it differently now:
    • “Well, now that I’m seasoned, I’ll just knock her out next time.” [08:41]
  • Getty suggests she join the dance if it happens again. [09:56]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Playing Music for its Own Sake:
  • “I can't not not play something I need to every day or it makes me very unhappy.” – Armstrong [03:03]
• On What Stops People From Confronting Annoying Public Behavior:
  • “You don’t really have a script for that. You got to entirely ad lib the whole thing.” – Armstrong [08:04 – 08:37]
• On Modern Etiquette Drift:
  • “What is required of good people for evil to triumph? Their silence. That's all that's required. … Would you let the evil of TikTok dancing clog the grocery aisles of our society?” – Getty [06:46]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:47 – 03:55]: Value of being in band/musical upbringing
• [03:55 – 05:30]: Annoyances of dog behavior and segue to story
• [05:30 – 07:25]: Katie’s TikTok grocery store saga
• [07:25 – 08:37]: Why people freeze in bizarre situations; lack of “social script”
• [08:37 – 08:46]: Jokes about handling the situation next time
• [08:46 – 09:44]: Anecdote — performance art and seeing egg-eating guy
• [09:56 – 10:09]: Wrap-up, dancing suggestions

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Episode Tone & Style

The tone is classic Armstrong & Getty: lighthearted, irreverent, and conversational, swinging between thoughtful reflection and comedic banter. Their signature style—mixing playful ribbing, pop-culture references, and just enough philosophy—shines throughout.

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Useful for anyone who craves relatable, funny insights into daily life, culture clashes, and the strange new etiquette demanded by the age of TikTok.

Transcript

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[D]

Get the hell out of my way. It's One More Thing, Armstrong.

[A]

Twice in one week. Katie led One More Thing podcast. But before we get to that.

I'm asking, well, did you play anything in band, Katie?

[D]

I wasn't in band, but I've played several instruments growing up. Yeah.

[A]

Michael, do you ever do band in school? No. I was just wondering last night as I was watching the Christmas concert. My son is a tub player. He's not really into it.

And a lot of the kids don't look like they're that into it. And a lot of them are very. A lot of them have no talent for it. What do you think the benefit is of having kids being banned? I was in band and I liked it. And I play a musical instrument every single day. It's rare if I have a day. I mean, Today as a 60 year old, I play something almost every single day. I love it. But what do you think the advantage is? What's in it for kids who are like, they don't really have a talent for it and they're not really into it, but they do it anyway. Think there's an advantage there.

[C]

Science is rock solid, that it's great for your brain. Helps you with your math skills.

[A]

Really.

[C]

It gets all sorts of different parts of your brain working together in a way that's really helpful.

[A]

Okay, that's a good one. I'll use that on my kid.

Anything else, do you think, just like being well rounded or anything like that?

[C]

Maybe. I don't know. I don't know.

I try to avoid advocating stuff just because that's the way I rolled.

[A]

Right, Right, Katie?

[C]

Sorry.

[D]

The chicks think it's hot when they get older.

[A]

Yeah, I tell. I tell Henry that all the time because Henry does have some talent for music, I can tell. And plays a little guitar And I said, dude, this is gonna be the best thing you've ever done if you keep up with this.

[C]

Although, if all the girls are into the hippity hop music, is that still true? I don't know. I don't have a sense of that.

[A]

There's still plenty of singer, songwriter stuff on the radio.

[C]

Course.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And country's huge, of course. Yeah. To quote the great John Mellencamp, cut out all of that macho shit and learn how to play guitar.

[A]

I've played that song for him.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

What instruments did you play, Katie? I did not know this.

[D]

I played piano, violin, flute, and then I taught myself guitar later on in life.

[A]

All past tense. Do you still play anything?

[D]

I still play the guitar every now and then. I should play it more, but.

[A]

Cool.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I can't not not play something I need to every day or it makes me very unhappy. It's just I'm driven to it for whatever reason it does something for my brain or ability to check out. I found I can't think about anything else when I'm practicing music, so it just automatically makes me not think about anything.

[D]

My dad does that.

[C]

He loves it. Yeah. You know, it's funny because I play scales and licks and stuff while I watch the news, because I frequently find the news mostly tedious and depressing. But if I'm concentrating, I realize I did not hear anything that was just said. It obliterates everything else, which is what's so healthy about it.

[A]

I think John Mayer is a big proponent of sitting there with your guitar while you watch TV and just kind of going through things. Kind of. Oh, really? Yeah. Gets in the back of your brain somehow.

[C]

I wonder. Yeah. Might argue with that. Handsome devil.

[A]

So what was your thing about get out of your way or whatever, Katie?

[C]

Get the hell out of my way. I say that to my dog half a dozen times every single day. Mr. Underfoot. I do that just, like, get out of the way.

[D]

Oh, my. My sweet friend just broke her ankle because her dog got under her when she was going down some stairs. Yeah, that.

[C]

You know, I've always assumed that because Baxter is half a herding dog, that that's part of it. But he will see where you're going and. And walk over and stand there like he wants to herd you. And seriously, half a dozen times a day, I say, would you get the hell out of my way? Why did you stand? This is a doorway. I say, looking at him.

[D]

He's just so excited to do whatever you're doing.

[C]

Yeah, I guess he's a good fella.

[D]

So my, my intro was about the other day at the grocery store. And I. I don't know why, but I hate little things more than I. I hate the grocery store. I hate going in there. I just like to go in. I know what I'm getting. Get my stuff, get out. And so I'm going to get the coffee. And I noticed like a couple of people kind of standing as if they were waiting to get into the aisle. And I'm like, oh, God, okay. Of course, of course this is happening on the aisle. I need to go down. The reason they were doing that is because this chick that was probably maybe late 20s and I kid you not, had a camera set up on a shopping cart and was doing a tick tock dance and no one was telling her to move.

[C]

Wow. Oh my God. Shame I wasn't there.

[D]

I wish.

[A]

I think we're all thinking, God, why doesn't that happen to me?

[C]

Yeah. It would have been a different type of video if I was there.

[D]

Oh, well. And. And I'm sitting there and I'm watching her, and she didn't have the camera facing like we. The group was not standing behind her. Oh, if I had been in shot, this would be a completely different podcast. But it was away from us and just complete disregard for the fact. I mean, there was this sweet little old lady who was probably in her mid-80s, like, just trying to get her tea, you know, and she's sitting there doing this stupid effing dance. And finally this big burly cowboy dude went, hey, move.

[C]

Good job, burly cowboy dude.

[D]

But it was just. I mean, I don't. I don't understand. I've had a moment of like, where am I? How did I end up here, where I am stopped in a grocery aisle because a woman is dancing to a camera.

[A]

Yeah, I can see how a lot of kindly older people would think, I need to stay out of their way. They're doing something.

[D]

Yeah. There were three people just waiting for her to wrap it up.

[C]

Lack the confidence to say what clearly needs to be said.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, it's funny, I was thinking what I was about to say is such a truism, but then I realized, no. I think the vast majority of the population, especially younger people, have never heard this. I was going to say, Katie, what is required of good people for evil to triumph? Their silence. That's all that's required. What would you let the evil of TikTok dancing clog the grocery aisles of our society? Say something. What would you have said, you dumb mother. No, no, I just. Excuse me. Just pushed past.

[D]

Yeah, I was too deep in the line to do that, but. And it was also the fact that this wasn't a teenager, which, I mean, even if it was a teenager, it would have been annoying, but it would have been like, okay, they're dumb. You know, this. This woman's frontal lobe is fully developed. You know what I mean?

[C]

Right.

[A]

Yeah. I think I would have just walked to whatever product I need to get and shop. I would have just shopped like I was normally gonna shop. And if we end up in the same space, I would have said, excuse me.

[C]

Yeah, Carts in my way I would have said, excuse me. Excuse me. I gotta get by you. Thanks.

[D]

Just right where I needed to be. Of course.

And I stood. I stood there like an ass. I was like. I think it was because my brain didn't really understand what was happening.

[A]

Took a while to register.

[C]

Right. That's funny, isn't that? When that sort of thing happens in life that you think it's so weird, you don't, like, have a. I think psychologists would tell you you don't have a script for it, which is the psychological. You walk into a church, for instance, if you ever been in churches, you know how to act, you know what is where, and roughly, what's going on. If you go, like, to a Catholic church, as a Protestant, your script's a little bit off and you have to adjust it and that sort of thing. If you try to go down a grocery aisle and somebody's doing a TikTok dance, you don't really have a script for that. You got to entirely ad lib the whole thing.

[A]

And.

[C]

Yeah, I get it. There's a moment of. All right, wait a minute. This is so weird. What do I do?

[D]

Yeah, I totally had that. And. Well, now that I'm seasoned, I'll just knock her out next time.

[A]

Speaking of TikTok, it's like when the guy did the splits and ate the. The entire raw egg in front of me. That's exactly boiled egg. It's like I didn't. I didn't react the way I wish I would have reacted because it was a little cognitive dissonance going on. Because I do not have a script for somebody doing the splits, getting lower and lower, pulling a full hard boiled egg out of their backpack and then eating it in front of me. I didn't know what to do.

[C]

Performance art.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Found out that that guy does that. That's his thing.

[A]

That's his thing. All the time.

[D]

Yeah, I wonder how he came up with that.

[C]

Here's what I wonder how many iterations he went through, you know?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I'm gonna squat and. And munch on a nice, ripe slice of watermelon. No, that's not really.

[A]

I'm gonna lay on my back and eat sardines. Nah.

[C]

How about if I do splits and eat sardines? No, that's still not getting it.

[A]

I see that guy around town now and then. I think, I wish he'd come over now because I got a bit of a. The jerk store called me out of you. I mean, I got. I'm ready to talk to him now.

[C]

But he gonna end up stalking the guy. And he does it again. Hey, buddy, how you doing? You got any, like, weird skills or anything?

Katie, I'm surprised that you just didn't.

[D]

Go pick up your product and just maybe put a couple dance moves on video right along with her, you know?

[A]

Oh, yeah, Join in.

[D]

Catch her again. I'll show her a dance move.

Well, I guess that's it.

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