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Are Those Fritos? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Are those FreeDOS? Are those fredos? Get out? Now? It's
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  Speaker 1: one more.
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  Speaker 2: Thing, Armstrong and Getty, one more thing before we get
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  Speaker 2: to the delicious Freedo. I mentioned on the Armstrong e
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  Speaker 2: Getty Show that I was at Costco yesterday and they
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  Speaker 2: had on display their new ninety eight inch television. And
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  Speaker 2: I've seen some really big TVs before, but the picture
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  Speaker 2: wasn't that great. This ninety eight incher was. That was
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  Speaker 2: really impressive. I mean it was like super great oled
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  Speaker 2: whatever that is.
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  Speaker 1: And I was, that's seven feet.
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  Speaker 2: I got more. I got a seventy seven, which is
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  Speaker 2: a pretty big television eight feet and this was way
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  Speaker 2: bigger than that. They had them side by side because
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  Speaker 2: they know what they're god, I know, and it was
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  Speaker 2: weird how I wanted that, That's what I was just.
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  Speaker 2: It was just like you talk about wants versus needs.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, nobody needs that. I don't need that on
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  Speaker 2: any level whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: I like, I'd get ahead ache because I mean, how
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  Speaker 3: far away from that thing you.
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  Speaker 2: Have to be in order to not well the picture
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  Speaker 2: is so great, Like with my my super big television
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  Speaker 2: not as big as this, and you can have your
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  Speaker 2: face right up against it and it's perfect. It's amazing
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  Speaker 2: the technology they've gotten.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I think for most people there's a ratio
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  Speaker 4: of distance from screen to screen size that bigger is
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  Speaker 4: not always better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm certainly willing to push the bound.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, depends on a refresh rate. That's what it's all about,
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  Speaker 2: the way my brain works. But I don't know, it's
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  Speaker 2: just but just in general, wanting various things you don't need.
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  Speaker 2: I philosophically, I just I love that whole topic. I
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  Speaker 2: talk about with my kids a lot. I think about
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  Speaker 2: it my own life. Wants versus needs. But but something
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  Speaker 2: that is not a need, but it brings you consistent happiness. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, assuming you can afford something ish. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if you enjoy something on an ongoing basis. Is that?
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  Speaker 2: Now what are we alive for? Man? Way, we've all
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  Speaker 2: purchased things that like after the first time you use
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  Speaker 2: it or very soon it's just to give me, brings
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  Speaker 2: you no pleasure you thought it would have, didn't. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: so those things I hate. I hate when I do that.
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  Speaker 4: And if you do the crappy, tedious, grinding stuff and
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  Speaker 4: get through it and you re energize by watching, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know an eight foot TV?
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  Speaker 1: Is that a bad thing?
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  Speaker 4: You know what's interesting psychologically is the not universal, but
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  Speaker 4: damn near universal lust for a larger and larger TV
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  Speaker 4: among males.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And you know what, Katie, it's not like showing off
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  Speaker 4: or anything. I don't care if anybody ever sees it
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  Speaker 4: button me.
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  Speaker 2: I know nobody will see it but me and my house.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's a good point. Hey, you're the perfect example.
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  Speaker 2: But if I'm sitting there in my man cave with
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  Speaker 2: my wall sized TV watching I mentioned the Masters on
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  Speaker 2: the show, I'm very, very happy. But the world, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's all that matters.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, you know, Jack, if this TV makes you happy,
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  Speaker 3: it makes your kids happy, so it means you're a
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  Speaker 3: good father. I see it wins all across the board.
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  Speaker 2: As you're getting this, what depends why it brings you happiness?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure Like I don't. I've talked about like I
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  Speaker 2: don't care about home decoration stuff like certain countertops mean
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  Speaker 2: nothing to me. I would get zero happiness out of that.
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  Speaker 2: But I know people that every time they walk into
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  Speaker 2: their kitchen, if they saw that in particular kind of countertop,
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  Speaker 2: they would enjoy it. So fine, I have a.
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  Speaker 4: Countertop that both Judy and I miss really sack. So
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  Speaker 4: reminisce about our counter Wow, how cool it was.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So that's foreign to me. But so it's got to
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  Speaker 2: be one of those things that you're gonna. It's gonna.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a jacket. I know you don't care about clothes,
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  Speaker 2: but I've got a jacket. It was way too expensive.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy it every time I put it on. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I just the enjoyment I get out of it, and
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  Speaker 2: it's been consistent for years. It's just it's inexplicable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't care about clothes a lot. Not often.
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  Speaker 4: When it's when that's time to look good, I'm really
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  Speaker 4: into it. But day to day I couldn't give a crap.
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  Speaker 1: So uh to the.
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  Speaker 2: Move on? Yeah, not really for you to look at
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  Speaker 2: you your assault of the earth, good Presbyterian stock or something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I guess I do have a hoodie I
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  Speaker 2: lost years ago that I wish I still had, got
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  Speaker 2: enjoyment out of it every time I did. I just
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  Speaker 2: I could not tell you what happened to it.
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  Speaker 1: I wish some dude had not brought that up. Some
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  Speaker 1: dude has it, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: Probably yeah, I I I don't even know if I
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  Speaker 4: can tell this story, I'll get Oliver klemped. See, you
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  Speaker 4: gotta be old enough to remember back when you had
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  Speaker 4: to break in denim yourself, they didn't make fake ass
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  Speaker 4: pre worn guitars and freake fake ass pre worn jeans.
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  Speaker 2: See you've gotta you've got a tear in your jeans.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's on purpose. Oh, I see, you're a rebel
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  Speaker 2: society lost your pants to be intact. You guys, want
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  Speaker 2: here a fun fact.
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  Speaker 3: A girl that's not wear a pair of jeans that
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  Speaker 3: has holes in it without some guy making a comment,
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  Speaker 3: Oh you got holes in your pits, couldn't afford the
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  Speaker 3: whole pair of jeans.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up for over it.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, But back in that era, when perfectly worn in,
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  Speaker 4: you know, pair of jeans, jeans jacket, whatever, took years
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  Speaker 4: and years of commitment. I had the ultimate perfect jeans jacket,
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  Speaker 4: just perfectly worn in, and I left it exhausted and
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  Speaker 4: sleep deprived in the Amsterdam airport. Some dudes, Yeah, some
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  Speaker 4: fing euro junkie is probably wearing my perfectly worn jeans
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  Speaker 4: jacket that wouldn't fit over my fat ass at this point. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: probably wearing it around with pride. Fine American Levi's denim
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  Speaker 4: euro junkie. Anyway, to the topic, do sure I've found
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  Speaker 4: this very very interesting. Hitch Hiking is back in Washington,
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  Speaker 4: d C. Except they don't call it hitch hiking. They
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  Speaker 4: call it slugging. That used to be a thing in DC,
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  Speaker 4: and it's back. It's organized hitch hiking. And they open
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  Speaker 4: up its Woodbridge, Virginia, which I know very well. My
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  Speaker 4: daughter used to live there. Almost there. Six forty seven
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  Speaker 4: am recent Wednesday, the commuter lot at this train stop
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  Speaker 4: is started filling with workers and suits, military uniforms and
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  Speaker 4: fleece quarter zips. In the still dark, they formed an
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  Speaker 4: orderly line in Lot eight. Car pulled up, driver rolled
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  Speaker 4: down his window. After a brief exchange, two commuters hopped
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  Speaker 4: in for the thirty minute drive to the Pentagon, zooming
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  Speaker 4: past gridlock traffic.
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  Speaker 2: They're headlocking, found floating in the Potomac. No, no, they
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  Speaker 2: were found going to work. Slugging, a Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: Tradition is back.
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  Speaker 4: They're commuters who want to bypass the capital's notorious track
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  Speaker 4: and the high tolls. Well, and the drivers want to
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  Speaker 4: bypass the high tolls. That you have to pay to
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  Speaker 4: roll in the express lanes so easily. Either you're inching
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  Speaker 4: long in traffic for interminable amounts of time to get
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  Speaker 4: to work every day, or you're paying thirteen dollars and
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  Speaker 4: thirty five cents to be in the diamond lane the
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  Speaker 4: express lane to get into the city and times, you know,
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  Speaker 4: twenty two work days or whatever it is per month
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  Speaker 4: on average, that think gets really really expensive. And so
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  Speaker 4: everybody is a lot of people line up and it's
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  Speaker 4: like a rideshare thing of park and ride whatever you
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  Speaker 4: want to call it, but slugging matches suburban riders who
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  Speaker 4: are sick of paying or sitting with drivers who are
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  Speaker 4: really looking for somebody to the cost. But the fun
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  Speaker 4: part probably it works really well. Mostly young, upscale clientele
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  Speaker 4: for that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: A lot, but not exclusively.
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  Speaker 4: They talked to the ears of forty four year old
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  Speaker 4: forty eight year old one works at a university. A
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  Speaker 4: bunch of people from the Pentagon do this, but there
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  Speaker 4: are absolutely unwritten.
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  Speaker 1: Rules to it.
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  Speaker 4: It's like Uber, except you know, it's it's I'm not
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  Speaker 4: doing this for a living, I'm giving you a ride.
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  Speaker 4: We're splitting the cost, so you're gonna be cool. And
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  Speaker 4: actually this this one person actually says people are way
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  Speaker 4: worse since COVID. Interestingly enough, but so slugging has long
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  Speaker 4: had its own culture and etiquette.
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  Speaker 1: If the driver doesn't talk, you ride in silence.
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  Speaker 2: Love it. Love that. Yeah, you shut your yap. The
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  Speaker 2: driver is in charge of.
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  Speaker 1: How much chitter chat there is.
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  Speaker 4: If there is conversation, certain topics are considered off limits.
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  Speaker 1: No politics, of course in DC.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, come on, no religion, and you don't say
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  Speaker 4: an effing word about my driving.
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  Speaker 1: Not a word.
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  Speaker 2: Seems like you're a little close to that car in
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  Speaker 2: front of us. Ye're out, get out. Trump is bringing
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  Speaker 2: Jesus back to schools, and it's important to me. I
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  Speaker 2: need to get into work. No way, no way, it
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  Speaker 2: takes it. You got a cattle prodect until they jump
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  Speaker 2: out into the the traffic.
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  Speaker 4: Other rules include not graping about the temperature or the
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  Speaker 4: radio station. I love this driver rules. It's like me
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  Speaker 4: with my kids, my car, my station, my rules. I
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  Speaker 4: broke that rule with my brother driving us to the
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  Speaker 4: Chiefs game. I just couldn't take it anymore. Dude, I
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  Speaker 4: can't feel my feet.
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  Speaker 2: I'm worried. About when we get out of the car,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna fall down. I can't feel my feet.
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  Speaker 4: But since COVID and there have been a handful of
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  Speaker 4: polls I've seen about this, people are ruder than they
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  Speaker 4: were pre COVID. She's this one gallasy regular faux paw.
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  Speaker 4: In recent months, a driver speeding down the road at
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  Speaker 4: more than eighty miles an hour. A rider opening a
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  Speaker 4: bag of free Doo's, filling the car with a scent
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  Speaker 4: she can't stand.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like people eating around me in a closed space.
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  Speaker 2: Hate that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you get in my car and you start open
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  Speaker 4: up chip bags, crunch, crunch, crunch again, cattle product.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I reach over, I open up the door and
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  Speaker 2: I shove you out.
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  Speaker 3: Or the person that snaps her gum, Oh oh, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna watch you roll along the ditch in my rear
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  Speaker 2: view mirrors that drive away.
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  Speaker 3: A friend of mine was snapping her gum the other
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  Speaker 3: day and I looked at it and I went, are
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  Speaker 3: are you serious right now? What?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: So, uh yeah, I guess this is increasing in popularity
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  Speaker 4: and back when people are struggling and blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So COVID made us ruder Yeah, that's what
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  Speaker 4: I've seen that in a couple of different places.
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  Speaker 2: I'm no car pooler, but anytime I'm stuck in like
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco Bay Area traffic or something like that going
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  Speaker 2: into work, I think, for an allegedly smart beast, it's
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  Speaker 2: amazing that this is the way we've all structured our lives.
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  Speaker 2: That we are all individually taking hours out of our
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  Speaker 2: day and hours off of our lives trying to get
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  Speaker 2: to working back, and this is the best we can do.
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  Speaker 2: It's always surprising to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I remember when we used to take calls and we
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  Speaker 4: talked to super commuters, not supercomputers, supercommuters, totally different conversation,
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  Speaker 4: and they would say, essentially, I'm making so much money,
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  Speaker 4: I'm trading my life now for a better life down
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  Speaker 4: the road when I'll be financially secure maybe, which is
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  Speaker 4: a great bargain. Unless you know, the lights go out
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  Speaker 4: before you get a chance to enjoy the fruits of
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  Speaker 4: your labors.
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  Speaker 2: You die, mean, Yeah, that's what I meant.
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  Speaker 1: I meant die.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think unless you're lying to yourself, which I
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  Speaker 2: think is often the case, that you're going to continue
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  Speaker 2: doing this the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Super commuting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just like commuting a lot. I've known lots of
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  Speaker 2: people did their whole lives.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why, but you know, teach to teach their own.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, I keeps radio in business.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, true. Yeah, keep doing it, folks, that was
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  Speaker 4: my point. Keep doing it. Yeah, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 4: You're never going to die, so keep keep commuting.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm too polite in the backseat. I remember
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  Speaker 3: taking a cab in Las Vegas and had the scariest
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  Speaker 3: driver and we got there, but I wanted to say
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  Speaker 3: something so badly, like let me out, let me out,
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  Speaker 3: but I just.
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  Speaker 2: Bit my lip. You don't speak past tune.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, there's that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's it.