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Michael
having my mind blown. It's one more thing. Armstrong and Getty One more thing that
Podcast Co-host / Guest
reminds me trying to come up with these new lab innovated psychedelic drugs like have all of the upsides and none of the downsides of. Of like taking LSD or mushrooms or whatever. Yeah, we have to talk about that on the show.
Michael
We should, because there is some pretty
Podcast Co-host / Guest
promising research about, you know, PTSD and other things. But back to you.
Michael
So brought up the Hot Girl walk, which I don't remember if we talked about that while you were on vacation or not. It's like one of the hot, cutesy terms of the summer.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
The hot. No, I've seen you do the angry model walk, but this is different.
Michael
A girl walks actually much different than you would expect it to be. It's got more to do with attitude. So you go out and you walk for four miles at night real fast, which gives you exercise and gets you in better shape. And it's all about what you think about. You're supposed to spend a lot of time thinking positive thoughts and about how hot you are. That's why it's called the Hot Girl Walk. To build self confidence and self image and all this different sort of stuff. Kind of become a thing that way, which is much more palatable than a lot of your stupid cutesy phrases that catch on about various things. Going out and taking a walk every night and thinking positive thoughts. There's nothing ridiculous about that at all. The name is a little Jivi. Hot Girl Walk.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
And talking to my daughter, who I adore, and she was telling me about, we had girl dinner the other night. She said, do you know that term girl dinner? I said, number one, why does everything need a name? What is it? And as I recall, it was just whatever you got. It's all carbs or whatever. You get together, you each bring something and you eat crap and spend time together.
Michael
Dinner table events. Why does that need a name? That's always occurring. Doesn't need a name. But anyway, the reason Hot Girl walk was in the news today is there's a new. There was a review in the New York Post of this new weighted vest, which I guess has gotten really, really hot with these weighted vests. So you add that to your hot girl walk for your exercise. Have you ever done that before? Because I walk every single day. Rarely miss a day. How much would adding a weighted vest do for me? And then how much weight do you add on to it?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Well, you can get a good friend.
Michael
Get it in 6, 8, 12, 20, 25 and £30. That's a pretty big difference between £6 and £30.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I had a. I have a very good friend who for a long time walked and walked and walked, walked for many miles, and he used a weighted vest. I'll have to ask him if he thought it did it many good.
Michael
I'm sure it does, but I don't know. I'll. I'll look into it. I'll try it. It's not very expensive. It's like 28 bucks.
Tony Ayo
So back.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I wish the Hot girl walk was called the Worthy Human Being Walk.
Michael
Yeah, I see what you mean.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
You know. Yeah, a woman is not a collection of body parts.
Michael
All right, well, she is, but that's not literally.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yes, yes, exactly. That was my point.
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Michael
So I got my mind boggled last night, starting with I'm re listening to book by Charles Murray. We're big Charles Murray fans around here. One of the most famous social scientists in modern history wrote the Bell Curve, among other things. But he put a book out last year that I already listened to once called Taking Religion Seriously. He was a guy who was an atheist in his entire life. He credits that not to any conviction. He just went to Harvard as a really smart guy and everybody was atheists. And he decided at a young age, oh, that's what smart people do. They, they believe in atheism. And then he, in his 60s or 70s, his wife became quite a devout Christian. So not just a theist like in believing in God, but actual believing in Jesus Christ, etc. And he wanted what his wife had and he just spent more time looking into it and reading about it. And he has come around to where he is now, a church going Christian, believes a lot and his book is called Taking Religion Seriously. And it's really interesting. It's only like four hours long to listen to it. So if you have any interest in that sort of thing, I highly recommend it. Lots of great reading lists in there for things you might be interested in. But one of the things he was getting into the design of the universe and it's complexity, yet it's Beauty and how to him that proves some sort of idea behind it. You just, you. There's all kinds of things that needed to happen for life to form. And if you were just like a degree or you know, two miles an hour or all these different things for just slightly different, there would be no chance for life whatsoever as we know it. And so that's part of his arguing for why there is some sort of grand design. That's not what I meant to get off on. It was at one point when he got into the whole Big Bang theory, which I think we all know now. But it's relatively new. It hasn't become. It's only been like the consensus since the 90s. It was first thought of in the early 20th century, kind of caught on in the 60s and 70s. But it's only been since the 90s that that has been the considered opinion of most people that just. Okay, we all agree upon this, the Big Bang, that all of time, energy and matter was in a beyond microscopically small something. But the thing that boggled my mind was. And he was talking about how when we pictured the Big Bang, most of us we picture, you know, a molecule or a dot or whatever exploding in space. But that's not what happened. There was no space. It created this. The Big Bang created space. There was nothing before.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
This is where you lose me.
Michael
This is where your brain start. That's when my mind gets boggled. And like I was listening to that as I did my hot girl walk last night, walking and listening to this book. And when he did that about how the misconception that the Big Bang occurred in space. No, the Big Bang created space. There was nothing before the Big Bang. For some reason I like, I think I actually stopped in the street for a second. I was like, wait a second. Like a dog, you cocked your head. Isn't that wild how your brain can, can that can happen to you?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yes.
Michael
Where you just get like, I can't compute this.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I need my full capacity for this question. Yeah, yeah. And you just stop. Yeah, it's. I, yeah, I've tried to conceive of this stuff. I don't have the ability. Just when I get into the theoretical and the, the mind blowing astrophysics, quantum quark, string theory stuff, I just, I can't.
Michael
Right. So I, I started asking Grox some questions because I got into a couple of things around this topic because I just found it really interesting. So as they know, when it happened, it was 13.8 billion years ago, that for some reason, God or whatever I mean, it's hard to come up with a reason for any of this. That everything that exists was in some microscopically small something and burst into nothingness.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
You don't mean reason like there's a reason for everything?
Glenn Washington
No.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
You mean a process by which or
Michael
a catalyst that nobody has any idea, by the way. So this.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I have a theory, but go on, what's your theory? It's. I call it the Big Boing theory, actually. The universe is like a lot of things in the universe, actually expands, then contracts all into one, then Big Bang again, and then it expands and then for some reason it contracts. I'm still studying why it would expand and contract. Please don't ask me how. What was the beginning, how it started? Please don't ask me that.
Michael
At no point are you going to say it's turtles all the way down. As the old saying goes.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I was working my way there, okay?
Michael
So I found this interesting. Somebody brought this up the other day. I don't remember how I came across this. First of all, it's just mind blowing to me. There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth. I've always liked that as something to imagine. Look at any beach, think about how many grains of sands are all the beaches of all the places in the world. But there are actually hundreds of thousands of times more stars than there are all the grains of sand on Earth.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
No comprende.
Michael
And the. And almost all stars have at least one planet. Most have more than one planet. So there are many, many, many multiples more planets in the universe than there are stars.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Wow.
Michael
And then you get to the. Are we the only one with life? I mean, that's just incomprehensible. But so. So I randomly came across this the other day. Apparently some physicist asked this question, presented it in one of your famous lectures forever ago.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Why
Michael
aren't we just surrounded by incredible brightness that we can't stand? We got the sun shining on us, and with space being, you know, empty, the sun is incredibly bright. Why aren't all the stars that exist with all that many star all other light traveling through space at the speed of light and just instead of the night sky being dark, it's just so blindingly bright, we can't even stand it.
Tony Ayo
Right. Was.
Michael
It was a question that people had for a long time until the discovery that the universe is expanding. Another concept that is really hard to understand. But the universe is expanding. The planets are moving away from each other faster than the speed of light. That's why we're getting farther away from them faster than light travels. If that weren't true, the night sky would be so bright you couldn't look at it, or it'd be so hot we'd all die. Yeah.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I've got questions, but just go ahead.
Michael
I will attempt to answer them if I have any idea what I'm talking about.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I have enjoyed on several occasions in my life, although not nearly enough being on a beach way out in the middle of nowhere or a mountaintop or whatever where you can see thousands of stars.
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Sure.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
And it's just dark enough.
Michael
Yeah.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Breathtaking. And I literally can see the light from those stars. But that's not enough light to be the blindingly bright thing you're describing.
Tony Ayo
Yeah.
Michael
It's not. It's not all the light that we would get. If. If the universe were a single size and not expanding, then all that light would reach us from all of those stars in its full intensity.
Tony Ayo
Right.
Michael
As opposed to the way it's expanding away. So that's another luck of the universe, because if it were so blindingly bright that we couldn't see all the time, that wouldn't be. I mean, how would you. How would you get to work?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Maybe I don't know enough about light because the distance of light matters here on Earth. But I would assume that would be because it's going through dust and atmosphere and the rest of it.
Michael
Right. I didn't fully understand that myself, but I'm going to take it on the advice of the experts who say it was true. It's true that if the universe would not expanding faster than the speed of light.
Glenn Washington
Yeah.
Commercial Voice (Ryan Reynolds / Taco Bell)
Then.
Michael
Then we would be all blinded.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Our eyes would probably evolve in some way or another, I would think.
Michael
But how about the fact that the universe is expanding that fast or we're getting further away from stuff that fast? It's like stretch.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I'm totally comfortable with the idea that the universe is expanding until somebody says expanding into what?
Michael
Well, right. That's. I was asking Chat GB the non universe.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
The extra. The.
Michael
The suburbs. Well, like, where's the edge? So we're at the edge of the universe. What's on the other side of that wall? But Grok told me I was looking at completely wrong. And I tried to understand what it meant at that point. And I just. I got lost. Is there any advantage whatsoever to thinking about this stuff every once in a while? Like four times a year? Quarterly. Quarterly. I like to like look at this stuff for one evening kind of. And I get really interested in then it goes away with the kind of. What difference does it make anyway? My foot hurts and my kids need dinner.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I am a biological being with a life expectancy of 87.4 years. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I don't know. I'm fascinated by it too. But like I say, I never get very far. I just, I'm. It's like somebody who can't carry a tune. I've come to accept that I. My mind gets blown too quickly.
Michael
Funny you would mention that. I will circle back and end with this. Charles Murray. One of his beliefs is that the ability to perceive a God like creature, that feeling that a lot of people get connection to God or something like that. He believes it's like a sense or a talent kind of like. Because he says he has no ability for music whatsoever. None. He can't carry a tune. He, he does. He just has nothing for music, whereas most people do. And some people have it at the level of, you know, geniuses or whatever. And he just thinks his wife is more tuned in to God. Like some people are more tuned into music than he is and he's just not as tuned in as some people are. But that's why some people get great connection and some people get none and some people in between. That's his theory. And of course it's just a theory.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
You've blown my mind again. Cut it out.
Michael
That book's worth a listen though, if you have any interest in that sort of thing. I do. If you have any interest in overcoming atheism, which as he said, a fair number of people, some people really, really, really think about it a lot and come to that conclusion. But some people, it's just, oh, this is what all the cool people are doing. So I'm going to do it too. Without much more thought than that.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of the time I get to the end of these discussions on questions of religion and, you know, fairly specific questions, Jews and it's not to choose and you know, the universe and all. And I'm fairly comfortable with the notion that I'll never know for sure and I can live with that.
Michael
That makes you agnostic, I guess.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Does it?
Michael
I think so, yeah.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I think an agnostic thinks it is unknowable.
Michael
That's what you're saying?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah, I'm not saying it's unknowable. I'm just saying I don't know.
Commercial Voice (Ryan Reynolds / Taco Bell)
Okay.
Michael
Yeah, you need to.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Although the word agnostic is used in several different ways and I don't know
Michael
the formal definition, you need to come up with a name for that position. Uni Agnostic or something like that. I sure wish I knew.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I'm a sure wish I knew.
Michael
Ist I think in our maybe I'll end with this as I keep trying to end maybe I think that in our materialist pleasure seeking culture of modern world, I think agnostic gives too much credit to most people's positions. It's just. It's a. I don't think about it at all. Yeah, yeah, I want to buy a cooler. This or that or what.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Scroll on TikTok I will finish the discussion with this. There are no atheists in foxholes and no atheists being flipped through the air by bison either. To cite a contemporary news story as we record this podcast, I will finish with this. If you're at Costco and there's an asterisk on the tag, it means it's the last item they have, so they're not restocking it.
Michael
Wow. Thank you, Michael. There you go.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Now that's practical. Never mind this naval gazing, stoned idiot rambling.
Michael
Michael is grounded. Universe is stretching. Who cares? I need to know the codes it costs.
Glenn Washington
Go.
Michael
Well, I guess that's it.
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Episode: Sometimes... I Like To Having My Mind Blown!
Date: July 14, 2026
Hosts: Armstrong & Getty (Michael & Co-host)
This episode explores “mind-blowing” topics that challenge listeners' understanding of science, the universe, religion, and human nature. The hosts candidly reflect on how grappling with big questions often leads to a sense of awe, humility, and sometimes, head-scratching confusion. The episode is a mix of conversational deep dives into cosmic mysteries and lighthearted pop culture commentary, all delivered with Armstrong & Getty's trademark blend of curiosity and humor.
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The hosts maintain a conversational, approachable tone, balancing playful banter with genuine wonder at the universe’s mysteries. The episode weaves together science, philosophy, and pop culture for an experience that’s equal parts entertaining and thought-provoking.
For listeners interested in cosmic mysteries, philosophical pondering, or how modern jargon infects our daily lives, this episode is a satisfying, accessible plunge into questions that blow the mind—before returning to Earth with a tip about Costco.