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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

I Don't Use Buttons

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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4.8816 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

An unexpected exposure to an accordion-playing virtuoso leads Jack & Joe down a path towards a delicious desert.   

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0:00.0

I don't use buttons, but I've got a cool hat.

0:02.8

It's one more thing.

0:04.7

Armstrong and Getty.

0:06.2

One more thing.

0:16.5

Do any of you know this song, Weird Al Yankovic's Amish Paradise?

0:21.3

As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain, I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain.

0:27.4

But that's just perfect for an Amish like me.

0:30.0

You know I shun fancy things like electricity.

0:32.9

So it's, you know, weird Al Yankovic.

0:36.0

He took popular songs.

0:37.2

He changed the words and came up with funny jokes. And so instead of gangster paradise, it's a, you know, weird Al Yankovic. He took popular songs. He changed the words and came up with funny jokes.

0:39.5

And so instead of gangster paradise, it's Amish Paradise.

0:42.2

And it's got lines like, uh, hitching up the buggy, churning up some butter, raise myself

0:48.4

a barn, then I'll raise another.

0:50.7

But it also has the line of, uh, we don't use buttons, but I got a cool hat. Um,

0:57.5

and I, and as my kids ask me, um, because they're really into that song right now.

1:01.7

My kids ask me, what's the whole buttons thing? And I said, uh, um, or what are Amish

1:05.6

explained that whole thing in the buttons? And I said, you know, I'm not sure if that's true or if that's just like something on old wives tale.

1:11.6

So I googled it.

1:12.3

It is true.

1:13.3

Amish don't use buttons.

1:14.3

They use a little loop and like loop that goes around a button thingy instead of like buttons through a hole.

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