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Katie
Your TV is one foot in the grave. It's one more thing Armstrong and Ghetti.
Joe
One more thing now so I understand you're going to interview me on the topic of my Milestone birthday, just so I can get prepared. Do you have a style in mind? Are you going to be like Scott Pelly, Slow talking and making me repeat everything? Going to, going to make me cry, like Ellen DeGeneres? Do you have more a Charlie Rose approach in mind?
Katie
Katie? Joe and I were working together. Joe and I have basically the same birthday. My birthday's in 10 days and I'm turning the same age. So we are in the same reflective age situation of turning 60. His birthday is today. Joe and I were working together when we turned 30, when we turned 40, when we turned 50, and now when we turn 60. That doesn't seem possible.
Listener 1
That's amazing.
Joe
It really doesn't seem possible. No. Particularly given the hatred of each other that we share.
Katie
Well, just from a time standpoint, the one thing you can't. You can't. This is gonna be one of the things I want to ask you about. Okay, well, I'll just ask you instead of giving an answer first. That would be a dumb way to interview innovative. Got a couple of questions.
Joe
Okay.
Katie
What does 60 feel like compared to what you thought it would feel like when you were 30? Emotionally, physically, whatever?
Joe
Well, that, that question assumes that I remember what I thought when I was 30. Well.
Katie
Or any, any point when you're young.
Joe
No, I, I see you. I see your point. Yeah. I think fairly similar. I was never, never particularly afraid of aging. I've never been particular, particularly enthusiastic about the idea either.
Katie
Who would be enthusiastic about aging past, like 21? Who would be enthusiastic about aging?
Joe
Yeah. You know what? I think one of the formative aspects of my life is that I've always been a golf freak. And even When I was 35, I played golf with guys who were 70 who were having fun and good players, and we'd have a couple of drinks afterward and a hoot. And so I saw. I don't know if you'd call them role models exactly, but I didn't fear that.
Katie
You have a thought, Katie, before I jump in?
Listener 1
Oh, no, go ahead, I'm listening.
Katie
I'm the exact opposite. I've always assumed, like when I was in my 20s, I assumed there's no way anybody over the age of 30 was having fun. And, and I felt that way my whole life. I thought, there's no way you're having fun in your 40s. 50 year olds aren't having fun. Certainly nobody's gonna have fun in their 60s. And if they're like smiling and laughing like you say, you see people, they just don't remember what Fun was this is as good as it gets for them, but they're not actually having fun. If there's one thing I could tell younger me, well, maybe that's the question I want to ask. If you could tell 30 year old you, 40 year old you, whatever, 25 year old something, what would it be?
Joe
Now? Okay, you know me, I quibble about every question you do. Does this like include.
Katie
Do you tell yourself, don't quibble so much, It's a waste of time.
Joe
Quibbles of people don't like it. Wisdom or I'll just stick with wisdom for now because I will. The reason I asked that question and I can picture it so vividly, it's causing giant emotional changes in my brain right now. It was around and Gladys, don't bother. 1998-2000, 2001 when the talk show had just started because we realized we had no future in music radio. We were doing a talk show between the records and it was stupid. But we'd started at our now home station in Sacramento, Talk 650KST and of the 45 rated radio stations in Sacramento, it was 45th when we took over the morning show. And it was taking longer than we had hoped to really grow it just because the mathematics of it, Lord knows we had no marketing at that time. I don't know if you've ever been.
Katie
On a station or a show, Katie, with no listeners, but I have. You can say to your listeners, tell your friends to tune in, but they got no friends. They aren't listening. There's nobody to tell anybody.
Listener 1
I feel that in my soul.
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Joe
Oh, yeah. And we had taken a 50% cut in pay to get started in talk radio. And I had three little kids, including a baby. And I was so stressed and so concerned that I was not going to be successful in the one field I had chosen. And you know, I was not. This is not some sort of dumb, humble brag, but I was one of those kids who people would say, he has so much potential. Oh, you could do this or you could do that. And here I was going to be a dead ender who couldn't support his family. Miserable amounts of stress. I dealt with it the best I could. So I mean, if I could just whisper in my young ear, it's going to work out okay. That. Oh my God. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to blubber. That would have been enormously helpful. But wisdom wise.
Katie
Stay out of the sun.
Joe
Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, the sunscreen thing, take that Seriously, dip. Show videos of. I'd show videos to myself. Look at this. And young me would say, what is that device you're holding? I'd say, it's a cell phone. Don't worry about it. Anyway, watch this video of a dermatologist cut junk out of you. Oh, God. I'd say, what's, what's your point? Why are you doing this? I'd say, be careful with the sun. Anyway, it would probably be, you know, it probably be parenting advice. You know, you never get. You'll never regret being patient. If you got to bring the hammer down, you can bring it down in an hour. Take a while, calm down and think about what's the smart thing to do. Probably because I was very young parent by modern standards.
Katie
If you're an older parent like me, your T is so low, you can't really get worked up about anything.
Joe
Right. Don't let me take off my support hose and hit you with them, son.
Katie
And I'm, you know, make me. I know if they decided to run off, I couldn't catch them.
Joe
So, yeah, you come back here if you'd like.
Katie
The old, the whole perspective on time thing, the way it changes when you get older, it's just impossible. There's no point in trying to explain it to somebody who's younger. Nobody could have. I'm sure somebody tried to explain it to me. I was like, whatever, old man.
Joe
Well, and you can believe it, but you can't relate to it. The idea that no five years goes by in the blink of an eye.
Listener 1
You have to live that.
Katie
Yeah, yeah, I know. My, my kids in this, they've got a particular reason to feel like this because I was an older parent. So when I was a kid was a really long time. You know, if I, if you have kids in your 20s like you, you're only talking about a 20 year gap in now and when you were a kid. For me, it's, you know, nearly a 40 year gap, whatever it is.
Joe
Yes. So.
Katie
So they can. They really have good ammunition for what you know about. What high school is like is completely irrelevant to me. But it's not. I look around their high school, I see the stuff. It's the same thing, really. Just, you know, clothes are actually exactly the same. They're wearing the same clothes, same hairstyles as when I was in high school. But so much of it is the same. But you can't convince young people that you have like really any understanding of their, what they're going through.
Joe
And between most of my child Raising in yours was the giant, you know, it's like the ADBC dividing line of smartphones.
Katie
Yeah.
Joe
And how that's changed everything, but, you.
Katie
Know, but the wanting to have a girlfriend and being nervous about asking them, just all that sort of stuff is just, you know, it doesn't seem any different. But I just, I remember hearing years ago we did a big show and we turned 40, which is freaking 20 years ago. I can't believe that. But anyway, we did a big show when we turned 40 and I remember hearing somebody say something about, I think it was ancient wisdom, but just people, you can tell people, you know, how this is going to turn out or what your experience is shown, they're still going to do it their way and find out for themselves. It's just, it just seemed, and that seems to be way more true than not true. There's some exceptions, but it's way more true than not true.
Joe
Yeah. There's very little of the wisdom and conventional wisdom about conventional thinking about aging and what you're going to go through that has not been true. But you do have to confront it on your own and deal with it on your own. And, and it's, it's, it's fine.
Listener 1
You know, just to backtrack for one second. Joe, by standards, did you have older or younger parents at the time?
Joe
Very typical. My mom was 24, so 23 or 24 when she had my sister, then me a year later and then in her early 30s when she had her last kid, my little brother.
Katie
Now it's practically everybody back in the day.
Listener 1
So young.
Joe
Ish.
Listener 1
Because I was thinking about your outlook on life and not really being worried about aging. And I was thinking my parents are older, her standards about same with Jack and his kids, almost 40 years. And I think that kind of made it so I don't, I'm not really worried about aging because I'm seeing them in their older years and they're having a blast and everything's good. You know, maybe I was wondering if that contributed. But you had young parents.
Katie
I would have to. It'd be like similar to your story about being around golfers. But if you're around your parents and you see them in their 60s or 70s and doing stuff right after, think I would think, yeah.
Joe
Yeah. And I was just going to say in a weird way, when I was having those excruciating back problems, and I say this with great sympathy to people have ongoing back problems. Mine are much, much better through a combination of never ending physical therapy and workouts. And stretching, that sort of thing. I was so miserable the last six months of being like 58 in the first six months of being 59 and I feel so much better now. I feel like I've de aged five years. So the idea that the calendar says otherwise I just. It's internally. I know that's correct, but I feel really good. My recent standards but you're doing that.
Katie
Thing where they drain the blood out of yum homeless people and they put it in you, right?
Joe
Not all homeless. Some of them have volunteers, but most.
Katie
Of them are homeless because they need the money.
Joe
Draining the blood of the young and injecting it into my greedy veins.
Katie
Yeah, I'm glad that's working for you.
Joe
If I could get that going, man.
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Katie
You have a question, Michael?
Michael
No, it wasn't about this though. I was just thinking about draining the.
Katie
Blood of the homeless. No, nothing about that question about that.
Michael
I was just thinking about what Joe said, you know, back you guys started in 2000 and that's when I started and I was going to tell Katie that to show, show you how low they thought of the radio station. They used to tell me that wouldn't you like to come work on some other show or whatever. And I, and I refused to do it because I believed in this show. I really did. And it drove them nuts. They hated me for that.
Joe
God bless you for that. Not us, them.
Katie
Yeah, the bosses were like, you know, you're pretty good, talented, which Michael is obviously, you know, you should come work over here at a real radio station.
Listener 1
Oh, Michael, good call on not leaving.
Michael
A great call.
Joe
Yeah, Just before we started 1998, they had a serious meeting about just shutting it down and taking it off the air to save the electricity and so they wouldn't have to bother employee employing nice people who are trying hard but weren't getting anywhere. It was like, this is not worth the trouble. Why don't we just shut that radio station off? And it took several years, but what was it, four or five years later we were number one in the market and have been a good bit of the time ever since. That is awesome. Wouldn't want to do it again, sweetheart.
Michael
Katie, you know the thing that management would tell me, don't hit sounds, don't hit these clips. I don't think we set up the call and they set up a topic and that, that was the real advice.
Joe
They really tried to make us do old school talk radio and they weren't having it. Wow.
Michael
All the time.
Joe
They called us in and said, look, you're gonna keep doing it like that while you sink or swim, all right? Yeah, we're gonna do it on your own. You better succeed. Or where you got that, we're like, good, perfect. That's what we've been wanting.
Katie
One more thing on the birthday thing to wrap this up so you can get on with your birthday and start boozing or eating cake or whatever it is you do on your birthdays or eating booze cake. You're. You have never been a milestone guy. Like birthday, New Year's, that sort of thing, like, to a fault.
Joe
Yeah. I keep thinking I should be more.
Katie
I am the way the other end of it. Yeah. But I do remember from building up to turning 30, turning 40, turning 50, for me, the build up and then the moment I turn the age, it just disappears. It's just like, what was that all about? Interesting. That's over.
Joe
Well, speaking of trading wisdom back and forth, you have convinced me completely that New Year's resolutions, which absolutely have value, but if you're serious about doing something or quitting something, don't wait for a particular date, do it now or whatever. And so a lot of things that. Because I was thinking, as you're talking about that earlier, I was thinking, yeah, I need to sit down and think, all right, what do I want to dedicate myself to? You know, the new start at age 60, blah, blah, blah. But I'm already doing those things, so.
Katie
Yeah, that's a good idea, you know, because you got one foot in the grave and you don't have that much time left.
Joe
That's a good point. Tick tock.
Katie
But to the, like, milestone, you know, thing. Do you remember what you were doing on your 40th birthday? Do you remember what you did on your 40th birthday?
Joe
Yeah, we had a hellacious party. You remember that? In my backyard.
Katie
I do remember that.
Joe
Yeah, it was. Oh, it was great. Barbecue and rock and roll and my dog got drunk off the keg. Next morning. You're not supposed to let your dog do that.
Katie
Woke up with some bitch.
Joe
Do you.
Katie
Remember your 50th birthday?
Joe
No, not offhand.
Katie
Okay. So there's an example of. Because, like, I can remember where I was was with when I turned 30, 40, 50, even 25, which was my first. Oh, my God, I'm getting older.
Joe
What did I do on my 50th? You know, it was probably one of those. It fell on a funky day of the week, and so it was day like today. I just worked and then we had some big Wing Ding weekend or something like that. But no, I don't really recall.
Katie
I'm going to tell about my 40th birthday in one of the podcasts next week because it's quite a story tied into sobriety because that was the last major birthday where I was still drinking. My 50th birthday, I was in the middle of chemotherapy and I was flat on my back and sick as a dog and turning 50 and alone in the bedroom, and I was quite miserable and thinking, this is really a low point for turning 50. This is not going well.
Joe
Right. Well, you were. You're right.
Katie
Yeah. I was like, cool. So what are you going to do today? Specifically today on your 60 birthday?
Joe
I got to work out with the guy, my trainer, essentially keep the, you know, the physical thing going on. Then spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, which is my childhood birthday dinner, and I still love. And then spent time with my. My daughter and my son.
Katie
That's cool. Your kids are around.
Listener 1
Yeah, yeah.
Joe
Kid number three. I don't remember their names. She was the third one.
Katie
She had no name. She girl.
Joe
Exactly. She's busy at law school and will join us on the weekend. So that'll be a true Wing Ding. And then that'll be the big fast.
Katie
There you go.
Listener 1
Well, happy birthday.
Katie
Any chance.
Joe
Happy birthday.
Katie
Any chance we're recording a podcast like this when we both turned 70? Surely this is the last one.
Joe
You're gonna have to find me, call me and say, hey, remember me? We worked together for 40 years.
Katie
Hey, Joe, how.
Listener 1
What did you do for your 60th birthday?
Joe
Huh? What'd say? I don't know.
Katie
I am.
Joe
I am not superstitious at all. But I've got this thing about making any pronouncement about what's going to happen years from now.
Katie
Interesting.
Listener 1
It's okay.
Joe
It's one of those if God is willing things. I don't. I just feel weird saying it, which is irrational, but I get it. Shock me that we're still doing something like this, then.
Katie
Wow.
Joe
If God will it, we're still sucking wind.
Katie
Wow. Oh, you'll still be alive when you're 70. Come on.
Joe
I don't know. Ask the city bus that didn't see me in time. You don't know?
Katie
How about you look both ways?
Joe
Yeah. Yeah.
Michael
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Katie
That's an old wives tale. That's funny.
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand - "One Foot in the Grave"
Release Date: February 11, 2025
Host/Author: iHeartPodcasts
In the "One Foot in the Grave" episode of the Armstrong & Getty On Demand podcast, hosts Armstrong and Getty delve into the profound and often humorous reflections that come with reaching milestone birthdays—in this case, turning 60. The conversation intertwines personal anecdotes, philosophical musings on aging, and insights from their long-standing careers in radio. Despite intermittent advertisements, the episode maintains a genuine and engaging dialogue that resonates with listeners navigating similar life transitions.
Katie and Joe Discuss Turning 60
The episode kicks off with Katie introducing the central theme: turning 60. She reveals that both she and Joe share not only the same birthday but also are entering the same reflective age. This synchronicity sets the stage for an intimate and relatable discussion about aging.
Joe responds with a blend of humor and contemplation, exploring his feelings about aging compared to his younger years.
Embracing Aging Through Personal Interests
Joe attributes his comfortable relationship with aging to his passion for golf, a sport that connected him with older, active individuals who enjoyed life irrespective of age.
In contrast, Katie shares her initial skepticism about aging, believing that fun diminishes with each passing decade.
This juxtaposition highlights differing perspectives on aging, setting up a dynamic dialogue about changing perceptions over time.
Sharing Regrets and Advice
Katie poses a reflective question about what advice Joe would give his younger self, inviting a conversation about regrets and learned wisdom.
Joe shares heartfelt insights, expressing regret over the early struggles in his radio career and the stress of supporting a family with limited success.
He also humorously mentions practical advice like using sunscreen more diligently.
Katie adds her own nuggets of wisdom, emphasizing patience in parenting and the importance of thoughtful decision-making.
Changing Perceptions of Time
The conversation shifts to how perceptions of time evolve with age, making it challenging to relate to younger generations.
Joe agrees, noting the rapid passage of years once one gets older.
Generational Differences in Technology and Lifestyle
They discuss the generational divide, particularly regarding technology like smartphones, which have drastically changed social interactions and daily life.
Katie remarks on the similarities in teenage experiences despite technological advancements.
Early Radio Career Struggles
Joe reminisces about the early days of their radio show in Sacramento, highlighting the initial struggles and lack of listeners.
Michael, a colleague, interjects to support Joe's commitment to the show despite external pressures.
Katie underscores the perseverance required to build a successful radio career from humble beginnings.
Current Reflections and Future Plans
As Joe celebrates his 60th birthday, he shares his plans to maintain physical health and cherish time with his family.
Katie contrasts her approach to milestone celebrations, alluding to past struggles and current sobriety.
Humorous Banter and Light-Hearted Moments
The episode concludes with light-hearted exchanges about future birthdays and the unpredictability of life’s journey.
In "One Foot in the Grave," Armstrong & Getty provide a candid and heartfelt exploration of aging, milestone birthdays, and the wisdom gleaned from decades of life and career experiences. Their dialogue not only offers relatable insights for listeners approaching similar life stages but also underscores the importance of perseverance, reflection, and maintaining connections with loved ones. Through humor and vulnerability, the hosts create an engaging narrative that celebrates life’s journey, even as it acknowledges the challenges that come with growing older.
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