Please enjoy another fine episode of Armstrong & Getty's One More Thing Podcast! Today, we're "Cleaning Out the Sound Fridge" (commenting on all the sound we didn't use, but will certainly spoil very quickly). Think cottage cheese, or that really old jar of pasta sauce!
We haven't done this in a while. Let's clean out the sound fridge. One more thing, one more thing. Who originally came up with the ridiculous metaphor that is cleaning out the sound fridge? Is that your idea? I believe I get credit for that, the sound of fridge. And we even have we even have a jingle. It's the idea that we have all these sound clips and we don't always get to all of them on the show. And I guess, just like you got leftovers in your refrigerator that you should clean out, we're cleaning out. I guess that's.
It'd exactly right. Thank you, Yes, yes, let a metaphor.
Let's start with this Nobel Prize winner who has an unusual accomplishment.
The Ignobel Physiology Prize is awarded to Rio Okabe, You Hey Yokayama, and Taka Nori to KB for discovering that many mammals are capable a breathing through their anus.
First and foremost, thank you so much for believing the potential of anus for breathing potentials. So who who was?
Where was this happening?
This was actually yes, for real at mit it was Nobel Peace Prize awards for scientific discoveries, and that was one of them.
It's a hell of a party, gag.
Anyway, I want to know how he figured this out.
How many animals did he kill with their head underwater and their ass sticking out before he came up with a winner?
Well, number one, ouch, number two. They were really tickled with getting to say that and talk about, weren't they, these these geeks.
Yeah, that's funny, that's funny.
Yeah, well it's usually something you know, nobody understands what even the MIT people probably understand. They really enjoyed it. Okay, moving on out, sound fridge. The most mocked Jackson died over the weekend. So of the Jackson five, I don't know why. Gus his name is Funny.
Tito because his nickname was funny. I think he was the guitar player, like the whole time.
Tito Jackson. He was an actual musician, Michael's older brother, and they were still touring him and a couple other Jackson's some Jackson's at the age of seventy something. Anyway, he died over the weekend.
Here's this, Yeah, I am playing this guitar about seven eight years old. He looked at me and said, dang, you planned just as because as me. He gave me the guitar. He said, I want you to learn every song on the radio. So that's what I started doing. Then Jackie and Jermaine and there we were harmonizing, and Michael and Marlon with just little vity things.
You know.
They were somewhere around two, three, four years old. One day, a year or two later, we hear Michael singing in kindergarten, singing climb every mountain. He tore it up. Man, we couldn't believe. Our mouths flew open. We rushed him home, telling him he's in the Mom said me too, say yeah, you too, come on. So that's how the Jackson Brothers were formed.
That's interesting. I mean, you can say to all but one out of two million people, learn all the songs on the radio, you seven year old, and it's like, what, how could I do that? But he did it. He could just do it. And everybody in that family. What goes on there? When did mom and dad have a musical talent particularly or did all their kids just for some remember quirk of the genetics of mom and dad coming together just all we're all musical geniuses. Really interesting.
I don't know his dad's guitars we played obviously.
Yeah, weird. Here's a different thing. Both my kids really like the Claw game. Like if you're in some sort of art claw Claw, if you're at some sort of arcade, I try to discourage them. Look, you're not gonna get the new Nintendo switch. Okay, it's just not gonna happen. They're not gonna let you grab that the clothing and they always try anyway.
But just so Katie, I used to have that credit for that. That was awesome.
I had the whole sequence of that part of toy story memorized. That would do the whole thing for my kids. I don't remember it now, but.
The club.
They worshiped it as a god because it took the toys up to heaven as far as they could tell.
Right, which I saw as an attack on Christianity. But you thought it was amusing enough, fair enough, completely unfair. Uh anyway, here's somebody AI telling you how you win at the Claw game.
Why is it that every time you try to grab a toy from the claw machine you always miss it by just a little bit. It's because claw machines are set with sensitivity levels from one to five, with five being the tightest grip and one being the loosest. Each time you start the machine, it randomly selects a level, but the chances of getting level five are the lowest. If you press left, right, left, right, down, down, and then press the grab button twice before starting, you'll hear a prompt sound. This means the machine has switched to level five sensitivity. If you try to grab it again at this time, you will come back to thank me.
So grab it a little tighter sometimes and a little looser other times. Yes, I employed that myself.
Oh jeez, wow, wow, it.
Was Oh okay, that was like one of those gamer code things that.
They left right, down, down.
And then hit the button twice or whatever it was.
Yeah, oh that's been reprogrammed now that this jerk told everybody how.
To do it. I was thinking right way to go AI. I actually had some padlocks that were up, down, right and left. It wasn't the numbers and you can't program it. I thought that was pretty cool. It got stuck too easily, though, if you use them outside.
What's our stance on basically rigged arcade games that are stealing from children is it just a great right, a great life lesson.
Or yes, tell your kids know it's a ripoff.
I'm just always wondering why did these things exist? Why do we allow these things to exist? A giant arcade full of things that are just stealing money from people.
Yeah, you tell the kids, go ahead, Oh, you tell the kids it's a ripoff.
And then if they keep complaining, you go go, fine, go ahead, Then they lose and you're right.
But it's not set up as Darwin's electronic jungle to try to teach children.
It's a learning opportunity, a teaching opportunity, you know, that's there to take your money. A very low percentage of people ever get anything. It's a ripoff. That's good. They're doing you and your children a service.
There's something interesting that happened in a Panera bread stop it stop it Wow, Wow, dude. Panera bread employee stops crazy man by hitting him on the head with a loaf of bread.
Yeah, something at a wwe The way he came over the top of the head with it, just it's great.
I'm sure the Panera Management Corporation doesn't want him getting involved in these sorts of things at all, but as a normal human being. You don't like to deal with crazy people or thieves or whatever. Is that a story? The other petco as a petcoat, And I'm waiting in line to buy crickets.
God dang it.
Once a week I have to go buy crickets. I have to buy bugs to feed to a lizard.
That your kids lost interest in.
Oh yeah, roughly the day they got it. I need to sell it, but I just haven't come up with the time to list my lizard and then start meeting people who hand them over the lizard in the cage anyway, hawk study too.
Yeah, just take it back, I would think.
Can't you just take back a used lizard?
Yeah, Hi, don't want this thing anymore. Sell it. They get to double the money.
Turn it loose, you know. Hey, it's called freedom. Good luck.
Oh my god, I can't believe it's still alive. I don't want it to die because I'd be a little cruel. But man, lizards are resilient. They don't need much a little bit of wine.
So when the hawks takes off its tail, it'll be fine.
Joe.
But Show's way makes me think of those bird releases where they're like, it's like a funeral or nothing, and they release the doves and the train comes by it just takes them.
Oh jeez.
So I'm at the pet coo and I'm waiting in line for my pay for my crickets, and the clerk on the other side said, hey, did you pay for that? A guy walked out the door at the dog bit Dude, did you pay for that? Dog bed? And the guy kept walking and and I actually wondered, didn't I didn't hear any more about how this story ended? Was well, did the guy steal it or not? And he didn't look like a thief. But anyway, too, were you gonna like go out in the parking lot and fight him or what are you gonna do in that situation? And even if you call the police the police, I don't think the police are gonna come. And if they did come, it's not like they're going to prosecute you, not like they're gonna fill out the paperwork for a guy who's stole a thirty dollars item.
Right, he knows that, Yeah, he knows that.
It's Ceie still And then similarly, I was at the convenience store the other day, the circle case.
Somebody should have beat him over the head with a loaf of bread.
I wonder if they serve that bread after you hit something in the head with it.
I'm more interested in the concept of bread as a fighting instrument. I mean, I suppose some breads. I mean a really crusty baguette. Maybe you could use it to jab somebody in the face or something. But if you're using it as a bludgeon, I am not effective.
No. No, If I'm in a fight, I don't want a chibata. That's for certain way too soft.
If you can get into close range, you might be able to blind somebody with a croissant. But it's a it's a it's a low percentage play.
I think with a rustic batard I could keep off a small person a pardon me?
Or what?
Now?
Is there are my bread?
Terms?
Wow? But not with the pugiles. I'm at the comman. I'm at the circle k the other day. Something strange you foot at the circle k, which is a quote from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. But I was at the circle k and uh, I was like its space has had a lot on my mind, a lot lot on my mind. I stop at the circle k I got gas and I went in to get water because I'm so dang thirsty, but I'm really deep in thought. I get my water and then I walk out because I got so much in my mind. I just walked out of the store and I got half way to my truck. Jeez, I didn't pay for this. And I went back in and the guy was there. It wasn't busy. He was just there leaning against the counter with his arms crossed, just looking at me. I said, hey, I didn't pay for that, and he just kind of looked me like, yeah.
Whatever, it's it's voluntary, dude.
And then I paid for But I thought he watched me walk out of there, didn't even you know, raise an eye at it.
Sure, all I thought was another one.
Well dollar fifty. I wasn't gonna come out and fight me, and the corporation doesn't want him to. But what a weird society we live in now where it's just like doesn't even doesn't even get anybody's attention. No, that can't last, obviously, Uh.
No, Well it'll degenerate into well this signed Californians O again.
One more cleaning out the sound fridge. We're clear in the back and here's some gross, crusty thing. We don't even know what it is. I hate to even touch it with my bare hands. This is a valley girl thing, oh.
You ask, Yeah, this is I brought this to the party. This guy is a linguist explaining vocal fry, which we were talking about the other day the show Awesome.
You know how young women sometimes add this small nasal sound to the end of their sentences, and it's like a little unnecessary exhalation with the rising tone. So that's actually a completely new example of a non lectrical conversational sound, something that's not quite a word, but it's still important for maintaining conversational flow. It's kind of like how the word om is used to show the listener that you're still talking, but the exact opposite, because the m is only used when you're done talking. You would never say it in the middle of a sentence. And that's because it instead exclusively serves to mark the end of what you have to say. Now, we usually do this through boundary marking tones. We raise or lower a pitch to indicate the end of a sentence, but some dialects of English, like valley girls speak only and in rising tones, so it's more necessary to find some other way to make that distinction. Certain languages already do this by instead having a boundary marking syllable. For example, ancient Greek used the particle debt to mark the beginning of a new sentence or caused, and that's exactly what American Valley girls have started doing with the sound. They created the first ever boundary marking syllable in the English language, which helps them communicate better while still maintaining and they're up talk. Usually when you talk like this, that sounds always rising, so it's hard to use tone boundaries to tell when a sentence is ending. But not anymore, because we have a new syllable.
That's fascinating. As a guy who studied language in a couple of classes in college, that's really interesting.
It was a linguist on meth.
Yeah. You know what else is interesting, it's funny. Yeah. That was obviously edited and sped up so that it would be at the breakneck pace of the twenty first century. But we played some tape the earlier. Oh, it was Megan Kelly's screed against the woke transgender crap that Taylor Swift in effect had endorsed by endorsing Kamala Harris. But it was the typical example of you got to have the quick cut edit to eliminate every pause, and then there's got to be background music constantly, because I can't pay attention to merely really interesting speech without backup background music, and because that's omnipresent now in the web. And they had to change the audio processing of Megan Kelly's voice like every six seconds or so to make it more troublier than off in the left channel or whatever, just because I'm such a gnat cerebrally that I can't pay attention for more than six seconds unless somebody throws a new flavor at me.
Oh yeah, I'm trying to keep my kids from being programmed that way. But it's hard because that's just all of modern entertainment. Their movies, their TV shows are music, they're everything.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's it's a it's a competition for attention that happens to be ruining people's brains more and more.
I sound like an old man when I complain about these things. I hate background music in my videos.
I agree, I agree anyway.
Well, I guess that's it.