Armstrong & Getty Podcast

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News arguments with a comic bruise.

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Armstrong & Getty Podcast mixes political combat, world-news anxiety, and cranky everyday comedy at high speed. Iran, energy shocks, media phoniness, church arguments, fast food, and strange crime stories can all collide in the same stretch.

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About Armstrong & Getty Podcast

Armstrong & Getty Podcast is built on fast talk, sharp opinion, and comic whiplash. The show can begin in everyday banter and land hard in foreign policy within seconds. Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, oil supply, Trump, ceasefire talk, and military pressure form a clear part of its recent subject range. Religion also keeps surfacing, from churches and Catholic-Protestant tension to arguments about Islam, apocalyptic belief, and how outsiders read religious texts. The tone is blunt. It is rarely neutral. Media figures such as Megyn Kelly, Tucker, Candace Owens, Mark Halpern, and Rich Lowry appear as part of arguments about sincerity, audience-chasing, and public influence. The show is just as willing to veer toward domestic absurdity. A segment can swing from war footing to enlistment age, from 7-Eleven closures to oversized soda cups, from gas theft to a Xanax recall, from junk-food videos to a Babylon Bee joke. Those pivots are not interruptions to the format; they are the format. The comedy comes from collision, not polish. Serious claims are made with force, then undercut by teasing, mock grandeur, or a stray food complaint. Recent excerpts also show interest in crime stories, especially suspicious disappearance narratives, and in social conflicts around identity, politics, and moral language. Relationship talk appears too, usually as a practical argument about behavior rather than a therapy session. The show’s appeal is the sense of two voices thinking, arguing, and needling each other in public. It does not offer calm explainer journalism. It offers current affairs with heat, impatience, jokes, and sudden hard turns. For the right listener, that volatility is the point.

Made for: Suits a listener who wants current affairs delivered as fast, opinionated conversation, with room for jokes, interruptions, and abrupt detours. Best for people who prefer blunt talk-radio energy over careful explainer pacing.

What sets it apart: The show stands apart by letting major political and foreign-policy arguments crash directly into oddball everyday material. Its rhythm makes Iran, church, media feuds, convenience-store soda, and fast food feel like parts of one running argument.

In their own words

The hugely popular weekday The Armstrong & Getty Show is wildly entertaining, informative and laugh-out-loud funny, with a mixture of political commentary, observations on local, national, and international news and reflections on social issues. Armstrong and Getty’s comedic delivery, great guests, and super-charged on-air personas have made The Armstrong & Getty Show a morning addiction for Bay Area talk radio listeners.

As heard by us

Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Armstrong & Getty turns current events into a candid two-host argument about claims, motives and the assumptions hiding beneath headlines.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty treat the day's politics as a running argument, moving between news audio, pointed interpretation and comic detours.

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Strait of Hormuz tension can share a microphone with a cheese witch, if your brain likes sharp turns.

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Jack and Joe to press on what an Iran ceasefire means while the strait stays closed
their disbelief that gas prices could turn someone into a thief for a few dollars

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Iran and the Strait of HormuzU.S. politics and Trumpmedia figures and public sincerityreligion and moral beliefenergy prices and oil supplycrime and suspicious disappearancesfast food and consumer habitssocial-issue arguments

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Goals & Connections

You Can't Recover From a Pause

Groans Across the Nation!!!

It's Glorious to be a Chinese Communist!

Truly Odious Positions

Highly Contagious

Challenges & a Touch of Nihilism

Leverage & Billionaires

Backin' Up the Claims

Four New Tires, Ice Cold A/C!

A Cold Peace

Joe's House of Glocks

That Time Jack Ate...

A Declaration of Academic Bankruptcy

Watch Your Mouth, Or I'll Taunt You A Second Time!

I'm Stupid, He's a Jealous Fool!

Still Hard-Corp Jihadist?

A Slow-Motion Death Row

A Pig in a Poke

Public Servants & Bleeding Nipples

Details & Corruption

The Most Punching at the White House Since....

He's Rich...She's a Man

We're Doomed...But Don't Worry About It!

There Are No Barbarians at the Gate

Let's Not Make a Deal

Mockery & Marxists

Violent & Vicious

Practical Things

The Prince Didn't Win the Lottery!

Practical Things

The Ballad of Burger Jim

The Southern Progressive Loot Center

What Kind of Creeper?!

Pricks, Knicks & POTUS Picks!

Tiny Organism, Profound Impact

An Unintended Eulogy

The Main Goal

Crooked or Stupid

Kaska Reacts to Slush Fund Scandal

They Really Hate Each Other

Take a Zester To That Lemon

Time to Close Congress!

Like a Circus!!

Man's Inhumanity to Man

The Whiplash/The Griping

Can't Get an Erection, Can't Get A Job

You're Fired! I'm Fired? Yes, You're Fired!

Hope & Junkies

Even If You Have Ebola!

The Sanctity Of Beards

He Rides A Motorcycle & Saves Ducklings

A Trans Cat

Ah... They're Fighting Again!

She Knows Her Way Around A Pack Of Marlboros

Too Many Ks!

And The Horse You Rode In On

You Stop Scanning Ass When You Get Married, Joe!

What Yall Got This Robot Dog In Here For?

All We Have Left Is Coconut Mocha

A New Level Of Soft

We're Going To Know You Better Than Your Proctologist

Shut Up, Pope.

You're An Infant. Get Back In Your Playpen.

Nobody's Strikin' Nothin'

Well Meaning Softheads

She's The Queen Of A Dumb Person Trying To Sound Smart

Too Deep & You'll Drive Her Away!

He Probably Keeps Her Barefoot, Pregnant & Without A

My Lawn Is Racist

The Dog Must Be Walked!

Jack Is Coming Out As A Furry