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Be a good stage name. It's one more thing.
Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. One more thing.
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But first we're gonna kind of clean out a dorm fridge. I'm not gonna go full cleaning out the sound fridge because we just have a coup things to play for you, but might as well use them before a fascinating discussion. And tsunamis.
Armstrong
Yeah, probably a half of a monster energy drink.
Getty
And handful of beers in my day.
Armstrong
Anyway, one slice, one slice of leftover.
Getty
Pizza that's unwrapped just sitting there with.
Armstrong
A bite out of it sitting there kind of dry.
Getty
Yeah.
Armstrong
My, my son is a full on caffeine addict because of energy drinks. He's got the, he's.
Podcast Host
The.
Armstrong
He's. He is definitely a. If we're gonna do something on the morning side, I got, I'm gonna wait till he's had some caffeine before. I'm gonna talk to him because he's one of those people.
Getty
Terrible.
Armstrong
You know, you know. Well, you know, you know, people like that don't talk to them before they're caffeine.
Guest
When I had a caffeine addiction and I stopped drinking caffeine, I got headaches for like three weeks straight.
Armstrong
It was brutal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hmm.
Getty
It's terrible. Sorry to hear that. So let's clean out the sound fridge. Michael, we got a couple of jokes we didn't use. Is that right?
Armstrong
Yeah.
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A couple. According to Politico, President Trump and French President Macron often have bromance chats on the phone. What can I say? I like older men, said Macron.
Armstrong
So he continues to lean on this idea that Manuel Macron's wife is a dude. That Candace Owens is being sued for those broad shoulders.
Getty
Michelle Obama, another alleged transgender.
Armstrong
Did you see the video of her dancing on Ellen?
Guest
You can see your penis swinging that thing around.
Getty
All right, all right. You got another one for us, Michael. Meanwhile, in Florida, a Chuck E. Cheese employee in full costume was arrested for credit card fraud. So, for anyone else currently dressed as Chuck E. Cheese, this is a sobering reminder that your life could get worse.
Armstrong
Wow. You're the Charles E. Cheese. And things took a turn for the worse.
Guest
I didn't realize you could have beer at Chuck E. Cheese. Did you know that?
Armstrong
Oh, are you kidding?
Guest
I didn't realize that. And I mean, now I. Obviously I do.
Getty
It's the only way you get through it.
Armstrong
Exactly. That's the only way parents could stomach it. Plus, you had to find a way to ignore what that ball pit was for your kids. So a couple of drinks would help.
Getty
With that, but then several drinks in if tempers flare. That's why they're always brawls at Chuck E. Cheeses.
Armstrong
Right?
Guest
I stumbled down that rabbit hole on YouTube the other day. That's how I found out about the.
Getty
Chuck E. Cheese fights.
Armstrong
Yo.
Guest
Gosh, it was great.
Armstrong
Dang it.
Getty
Really?
Armstrong
I got my weekend planned.
Getty
Wow. I just. I hesitate to do something because it'll feed me those videos for the rest of my life.
Armstrong
Like, it's the only thing.
Guest
It's not a bad thing. They all pop up, and it's so many hours of enjoyment just every once in a while.
Getty
Not normal.
Armstrong
You know, you're taking perfect.
Getty
All of them.
Armstrong
You want to take a little break. You know, there's a Waffle House fight.
Getty
There's Waffle House fights.
Guest
Yeah.
Getty
My attention, McDonald's Cracker Barrel.
Guest
Oh, I don't know if I've seen.
Armstrong
A cross fighting at the Cracker Barrel.
Getty
Lay strip to the waist and marquee of Queensberry rules.
Armstrong
Ready? No hitting below the belt. Here we go.
Getty
Fisticuffs.
Armstrong
You're relaxing in your rocking chair. You're thinking about buying that Reba McIntyre CD. What's there a fight about?
Getty
You're doing that IQ test thing that you always fail.
Guest
Yeah, man.
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Yeah. All right. What else you got, Michael? Is that it on the joke? That was it for the joke. Hit us with the number 10. This is a homeowner and an alleged UFO experts ring. Camera footage from Compton, California.
Caller
I was sitting in my sun's room with my Son, we were staring at each other, like, what do we do? We didn't even know what to do. Like, I'm not gonna call the police. I'm not gonna go outside. I guess I'm gonna have to live with the doubt because I'm not. I'm not joking.
Getty
I wouldn't see there's anything to worry about. But I cannot conclude that this is a hoax after seeing that footage, that's for sure.
Armstrong
What.
Getty
It's ring door bell camera footage that vaguely sorta. It's at night, looks like your classic movie alien. Some dude in a hoodie or something. And the light is weird. It's just. It's so.
Armstrong
And then. And then. Who said they can't verify that it's not an alien?
Getty
That was the UFO expert, Jack.
Armstrong
Oh, a UFO expert expert.
Getty
Clearly, yes.
Armstrong
And that's surprising that he didn't immediately say, yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not a ufo. He. He left the door open to the fact that it might be.
Guest
That is a bum with a cart, right?
Getty
Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Go ahead, roll it one more time. Michael.
Caller
I was sitting in my syndrome with my son. We were staring at each other like, what do we do? We didn't even know what to do. Like, I'm not gonna call the police. I'm not gonna go outside. I guess I'm gonna have to live with the doubt because I'm not. I'm not joking.
Getty
I wouldn't see there's anything to worry about. But I cannot conclude that this is a hoax after seeing that footage, that's for sure.
Armstrong
You. You watch a video and it's a bum with a shopping cart.
Guest
It is a bum with a cart wearing a hoodie, kind of hunched over.
Armstrong
Like all of them.
Getty
That's like the flip side of, the cops have no one in custody, but they can assure us we're in no danger.
Armstrong
Right?
Getty
That guy's like, there's nothing to worry about. But I cannot eliminate the possibility that it's an invading alien. All right, Joker, whatever. All right, so very quickly, from the world of science as we speak, on Wednesday, the 30th of July, the year of our Lord 2025, there was a giant earthquake off of Russia's coast. And there are tsunami warnings in Russia, Hawaii, the west coast of the United States, etc. Nothing terrible has happened so far, but I know I saw that it was tied for the sixth largest earthquake on record according to the U.S. geological Survey, which probably since 2011, which was the earthquake that triggered the Fukushima tsunami. And nuclear disaster.
Armstrong
How long have we had earthquake records? A century? Probably not that long.
Getty
They. Theoretically, geologists can kind of reconstruct and extrapolate from various bits of evidence. But anyway, so here's why I brought this up. Here's your top five. Kamchatka, Russia, in 1952 was 9.0. Tohoku, Japan, in 2011. That was. The Fukushima thing is 9.1. Sumatra, Indonesia, in 2004 was a 9.1.
Armstrong
That's the one that killed a quarter of a million people with the tsunami.
Getty
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Alaska, 1964. That leveled Anchorage, didn't it, Morgan? Or less. I remember learning about it as a kid. But that was a 9.2. And then Valdivia, Chile. Chile in 1960 was a 9.5.
Armstrong
Whoa.
Getty
Now, a couple of notes. First of all, I remember thinking during the Sumatran thing that how does that tsunami kill so many people? Is it like drowning and stuff? Could you not cling to something or blah, blah, blah. And it was pointed out that, no, it picks up everything.
Armstrong
Yeah, everything.
Getty
And swirls in rapid currents. So you are ground up like you're in a blender by the lumber and the metal cars. And the cars and the telephone poles and everything else. It's horrible.
Armstrong
The chunks of cement from knocked down buildings. Yeah. You wouldn't have a chance.
Getty
And. And secondly, I remember at one point there was an earthquake that rattled the radio ranch or something. We were talking about this, the. The seismic energy, the Richter scale. And we had angry people lecturing US that an 8.0 to a 9.0 is not like, you know, 1/8 higher. It's 10 times as higher. As high. Every full number on the richter scale is 10 times as powerful. And a bunch of people yelled at us about that because I. Apparently, we got it wrong. Well, according to the New York Times, which is generally pretty good about this sort of thing, the seismic energy released by a qu. Actually increases by 31.6 times for each whole number increase in magnitude. 30 came up with that scale. I don't know.
Armstrong
More than 30 times stronger a nine is than an eight.
Getty
Correct. Wow. Yeah. And, you know, do the math. You're better at math than me. But from a six to an eight is a astounding. Oh, yeah, respect to Mr. Richter and the good work he did. Real groundbreaker. Why isn't it like a linear and his 0 to 100.
Armstrong
His grandson, Andy Richter, who was the sidekick for Conan o' Brien for so many years. You should. You should come up with a better scale. That's a dumb scale.
Getty
Well, yeah, that's my point. And.
Armstrong
And who decided? Well, we can't change it. I mean, whatever they decided in 1870 or whenever they started, we got to stick with that technology. We can't come up with a new scale now. It's just. What? Come up with a scale.
Getty
A 7.0 is 31.6 times the energy than a 6.0. Yeah, so an 8.0 would be 93ish or whatever that math. It's a lot as powerful as a six.
Caller
It's just.
Armstrong
Yeah, it's like the Spinal Tap thing. It goes to 11. Well, why not just make 10 the highest number? And then it's loud. No, no, it goes to 11. It's similar sort of reasoning.
Guest
Very complicated.
Armstrong
Yeah, exactly. What are you doing? What? I've never looked into this. Maybe I'll look into it today. When they talk about the big one in California, are they expecting a 15 or a 10 or what do they think it'll be?
Getty
Well, it depends where it hits, of course, and where the epicenter is. But, you know, a solid 8.5 could be, like, insanely damaging in California, depending where the epicenter was.
Armstrong
Well, and has been several times. But no, I mean the big one. Like a chunk of California falls into the ocean, never to be seen again. Is that going to be a.
Guest
The article I'm looking at says a.
Armstrong
7.8 or higher would be the big one. What was the highest number on your number one recorded there, Joe?
Getty
9.5. There's never been a 10 in Chile in 1960.
Armstrong
Okay, well, talk about something you can't predict.
Getty
I can think of two songs with lyrics that reference California tumbling into the ocean. One, Steely Dan's My Old School and To the Decemberists, Calamity Song. Okay, any other examples?
Armstrong
Tweet at. I don't have one. I have one.
Guest
Metal guy. Dude, California's crumbling.
Armstrong
Yeah, right.
Getty
By the way, I noticed we didn't play the cleaning out sound fridge song either. Michael, you're trying to put metal guy out of work? No, no. Did he steal your girl or what? You said it wasn't a full cleaning out the sound fridge. It was just a dorm fridge, so I didn't think we should. But now you're quibbling.
Armstrong
Wow.
Getty
Still a fridge. Katie. Katie's right again.
Armstrong
And who knew there were, like, footnote rulings on this sort of thing. Very complex.
Getty
There we go. All right, well, I guess that's it.
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If you eat too many ultra processed foods, you could be starving your gut microbes and they'll get hangry. That's one of many things I learned after working on a new audio course about the gut microbiome. You can learn how to keep your gut happy by listening to Try this from the Washington Post I'm Christina Quinn. I host Try this Dig in with me on practical advice for life's common challenges. Follow Try this right now, wherever you're listening. Seriously, try it.
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Armstrong & Getty On Demand – Episode: "Tsu Nami Would Be a Good Stage Name"
Release Date: July 30, 2025
In this engaging episode of the official Armstrong & Getty On Demand podcast, hosted by iHeartPodcasts, Armstrong and Getty delve into a variety of topics ranging from personal anecdotes and humor to pressing current events like UFO sightings and significant geological activities. The hosts maintain a conversational and humorous tone throughout, making complex subjects accessible and entertaining for listeners.
The episode kicks off with a light-hearted discussion about maintaining a clean living space, aptly titled "cleaning out the sound fridge." Getty humorously references leftover snacks and beverages, setting a relatable tone for listeners. Armstrong shares a personal story about his son's dependency on caffeine, leading to a broader conversation about the challenges of managing caffeine addiction.
Notable Quote:
The hosts transition into sharing jokes and humorous takes on current political figures, including playful jabs at President Trump, French President Macron, Candace Owens, and Michelle Obama. This segment is filled with witty banter and satirical humor, reflecting their signature comedic style.
Notable Joke:
Armstrong and Getty discuss recent viral incidents, such as the arrest of a Chuck E. Cheese employee for credit card fraud. They explore the juxtaposition of a family-friendly environment with adult issues, highlighting the absurdity of such events.
Notable Quote:
The conversation shifts to the fascination with viral fight videos at places like Chuck E. Cheese, Waffle House, and McDonald's. The hosts express their amusement and curiosity about why such events garner significant online attention.
Notable Exchange:
A segment of the episode is dedicated to discussing a viral Ring doorbell camera footage from Compton, California, purportedly showing a UFO sighting. Armstrong and Getty analyze the footage, debating its authenticity and the public's fascination with extraterrestrial phenomena. The conversation underscores the fine line between skepticism and open-mindedness in the face of unexplained occurrences.
Notable Quote:
A significant portion of the episode focuses on a recent massive earthquake that struck off Russia's coast on July 30, 2025. Armstrong and Getty provide detailed insights into the earthquake's magnitude, its potential to trigger tsunamis across Russia, Hawaii, and the west coast of the United States, and its ranking as the sixth-largest earthquake on record according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Notable Insight:
The hosts delve into the mechanics of tsunamis, explaining how massive waves can lead to widespread destruction by picking up debris and creating rapid, lethal currents. They reflect on historical earthquakes, such as the 2004 Sumatra earthquake and the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile, highlighting the devastating human and environmental impacts.
Notable Quote:
Armstrong and Getty also tackle misconceptions about the Richter scale, clarifying that each whole number increase on the scale represents a 31.6-fold increase in seismic energy, debunking the myth that a magnitude 9.0 is merely twice as powerful as a 8.0.
Notable Clarification:
The discussion concludes with speculative talk about potential future earthquakes in California, emphasizing the unpredictability and potential severity of such natural disasters.
Notable Exchange:
Throughout the episode, Armstrong and Getty skillfully balance humor with serious discussions, providing listeners with both entertainment and informative content. Their ability to navigate diverse topics—from personal stories and jokes to UFOs and natural disasters—demonstrates their versatility and deep knowledge base. The episode serves as a testament to their dynamic chemistry and commitment to delivering content that is both engaging and enlightening.
Notable Closing Remark:
For listeners who missed the episode, Armstrong & Getty offer a blend of humor, personal insight, and in-depth analysis of current events, making "Tsu Nami Would Be a Good Stage Name" a must-listen for fans and newcomers alike.