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Then the space hamster flew his hot.
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Armstrong
U n d you just want a new car? It's one more thing. Armstrong and Getty.
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One more thing.
Armstrong
Before we get to that. And od as we record this in the studio, I'm looking up the TV and the price and right. Price is Right with Drew Carey has just begun. That's what we're about to talk about. You want a new car? What's. What's it like when you win a new car and the price is right? Get to that in just a second. First this, though. This is at a Starbucks. Some dude gets into an argument with the employees or something over that new, very popular Starbucks bear cup.
Advertiser/Promoter
Let's bear rista.
Armstrong
Is that what it's called, the bear?
Getty
It's kind of a play on words.
Armstrong
So it looks like the bear from the. When you used to get honey in a little bear and you squeeze it out his head, but it's some sort of Starbucks cup or mug or what comes in it. Coffee.
Advertiser/Promoter
It's a cup.
Armstrong
Yeah.
Advertiser/Promoter
I would think like an iced coffee.
Armstrong
Yeah. I wouldn't drink hot coffee. You'd burn your hands on that. Anyway, so somebody cut in line, and here's how it went. But what I'm saying is that you were not in line with the rest of the guest.
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It's not.
Advertiser/Promoter
I was in line. I was in line from 5:30.
Armstrong
Show me the cameras, please. I can't show you the camera.
Getty
But you can.
Armstrong
You're claiming something. No, I can't show you the camera. Show you the camera. You can, though. No, I can't.
Advertiser/Promoter
Why not?
Armstrong
I cannot show you the camera. So go look at the cameras.
Advertiser/Promoter
Tell me if I was in line or not.
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I'm going to ask you to leave, sir.
Armstrong
We can serve you, though. Anymore for you. There was one more. She took it to the back.
Advertiser/Promoter
They're refusing to give me the bear. Right over there, sir, if you want to wait even more.
Armstrong
So you're not gonna. You're not gonna serve me?
Advertiser/Promoter
You're not gonna sell me the beer?
Armstrong
All right. Wow.
Getty
So he cut in front of everybody to get the stupid bear cup.
Advertiser/Promoter
Yeah. And I will say that clip was about six minutes long. He just went back and forth with this woman.
Armstrong
What do you look like? How old was he?
Advertiser/Promoter
It was. He's the one shooting the video. And he posted it, which tells you even more about this person.
Armstrong
Okay.
Advertiser/Promoter
So I didn't see what he looked like, but, I mean, he was just. It was all this. He was repeating himself.
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Show me the camera.
Advertiser/Promoter
Oh, you're not going to sell me the bear.
Armstrong
And it's no country for Old Men because I have reached a point in my life where I just can't deal with humanity anymore.
Getty
Somebody needs to kin, bone him, dox him, figure out who he is, and then for a period of one week, everyone in America who passes them should throw coffee in his face.
Armstrong
Exactly. Let's figure out who this guy is, what kind of weird porn he likes, and mock him going forward.
Getty
And again, Earl, hot beverages upon him. That is humor, that's parody. I do not suggest that in any circumstances.
Armstrong
Oh my God. Humanity is hard to take sometimes.
Getty
Yeah. You know, it's funny, I was thinking about no country for Old Men as I was getting ready to, to come back to work and get it on. Just some of the, you know, some of the aspects of what we talk about are just so annoying. Like you know, the Internet, stuff like that. And just somebody posts something, somebody claps back, some non journalist creates some idiot story out of it that nobody should read. And it's like, tell you what, I enjoyed the hell out of living what we both have suggested over and over again. Make your life about the actual human beings you contact to whatever extent possible. You know, that sort of thrice removed. You saw something posted online or you're reading an Internet argument or something like that. Ugh, no, no. Wander down the street, say hey to your neighbor, even a person at the store who you interact with when you're trying to cut in line and grab a stupid bear cup. At least that's the real world. But then he goes and posts it online. I'm back to throwing coffee in his face.
Armstrong
Are we or are we not moving toward more people who are alone in an apartment without friends or kids?
Getty
Yeah.
Armstrong
So the world interaction is this way. Yes, Michael, I just agreeing with you. Yeah.
Getty
Well, they will be miserable and unhappy and all right.
Armstrong
But it's gonna lead to more people paying attention to more of this sort of crap just so they have something to talk about because they don't have anything going on in their real lives.
Getty
Yeah. By the way, semi related topic. While Planet of the Apes would be infinitely entertaining according to the movies I've seen. And I like the idea of a planet of the Beavers. I think honestly, I was taking a walk with the dog. It's going to be a planet of the ants. They're everywhere. There are zillions of them. You can't kill them. What's, what's. What do they say about the honey badger? Honey badger, don't give A F or whatever it is. Boy. You want to talk about something that doesn't give an F? Ants. Ants are fine. They just do their job. The ants don't get pissed off at social media. They just build their little hills. Planet of the ants.
Armstrong
We should start saying, fine, let the AI take over because that's, that's what's going to take over. And maybe mankind had their run and we didn't do a good job. We should be taking over.
Getty
Maybe it was great while it lasted.
Armstrong
Okay. And then finally this. Before we get out of here. We've talked about this before. This interviews some people who, who actually have dealt with it. When you win a prize on a game show, you immediately get hit with a bill. Because most game, almost all game shows are recorded in California. So you got to deal with California taxes. It's a brand new car on the Price is Right, which is on television right in front of me. According to past participants, when you win the car immediately they give you a form to sign and you have to cut a check for the taxes on the car before you can get the car.
Getty
Wow.
Armstrong
And it could be a good chunk of money. And a lot of people that are participants on those shows because you're the sort of person that can stand in line for hours to try to get on a stupid game show. You might not be the most well to do person to start with. You don't have two to $20,000 to cut as a check to pick up your new rv and so you just can't and.
Getty
Right.
Armstrong
A lot of people, I'm. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not the majority. Just work out some sort of deal. The overall package is this. You give me this much and you get to keep the rest and then they leave.
Advertiser/Promoter
That's what my friend did.
Armstrong
You have a friend who did that?
Getty
Yeah.
Advertiser/Promoter
They won a contest and won like three or four items and they ended up keeping like two and then selling the rest or.
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Yeah.
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Because they couldn't afford the taxes on them. You know, I don't think it is your top 2% of taxpayers. It's on the prices. Right. I mean, I'm picturing, you know, Jim Jones, come on down. He's jumping up and down, doing the cheerleader thing. Tell us about yourself, Jim. Well, I'm the CEO of America Care Hospitals. We've got 75 facilities in four different states. Yeah, it seems unlikely.
Armstrong
Well, but even if you're. Even if like I could afford it, I'm on the prices. Right. And they announce you just want a new RV. Now you need to cut us a check for $20,000. Think, well, I wasn't planning on buying an RV. I don't really want an RV. I got to cut your check for $20,000. Then I've got an RV and I've got to try to sell it, I guess, and come out ahead, but then.
Advertiser/Promoter
Doesn'T seem like a prize.
Armstrong
I don't know if I want to do that.
Getty
Well, right. I was thinking of a car. And theoretically, you know, if you didn't have the cash on hand, you might be able to borrow the money to pay the taxes, then sell your car and pay the people back. But that's a pain in the ass. Your insurance costs are probably going to be two and a half times what they were on your old crap heap. Got.
Armstrong
The more I think about it, the more pain in the ass there is involved. So I went, a car. I got to cut you a check for the car. And then it says here you pick it up at the local dealer. Okay, so now I'm in California on vacation. Went to the prices, right? I got to get back to Ohio. I got this car here. Am I going to have it transported? Am I going to drive it? I had a flight already.
Getty
What the hell?
Armstrong
It's all a pain in the ass, every bit of it. It'd be hard to come out ahead. I can see how you would end up in a situation where you're sitting there with your husband and your wife thinking, let him cut us a check for $8,000 and we'll go home.
Getty
Oh, yeah, 100%.
Advertiser/Promoter
I wonder if those shows, like, bank on that. People aren't gonna pay for this.
Armstrong
I'm sure they do want a lot of the stuff. And you just got a pair of jet skis. You think I don't jet ski? What am I gonna cut you a check for $3,000 for a couple of jet skis that I gotta somehow get from Beverly Hills to Burbank to Ohio? What the hell?
Getty
A new living room set. Wow, cool. Great.
Armstrong
All right.
Getty
Like, get it in my house.
Armstrong
How do I get the couch from Burbank to Ohio?
Getty
Right. It's a $2,400 set. The shipping will be $15,000. Or we can pay you 500 bucks to get the hell out of here and shut up, Drew Carey. Your smile hides your lies.
Armstrong
It's funny that those shows have lasted all these years with that reality where everybody gets all excited. Oh, wouldn't that be amazing? A washer dryer set, a washer, dryer, 2,210 miles from where I live. What am I going to do with that?
Getty
We need the contestants to speak live.
Advertiser/Promoter
On the air and say, look, I.
Getty
Can'T use this, you know.
Armstrong
Exactly. Yeah, somebody should say more often, so what are the taxes going to be on that? That's why one of the reasons Mr. Beast got so popular. Whenever he gives you a prize, he pays the taxes and and or if it's a physical item, he gets it to your home, you in a car, he pays the taxes and he makes sure it shows up in your driveway. It's not the scam that Drew Carey, who's clearly on Ozempic, does according to.
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Armstrong
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Then the space hamster flew his hot air balloon all the way to the.
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Yes, Kitty.
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According to the Internet, they have an NDA for the Price is Right, so they can't talk about it. Because I was just thinking, why don't we hear more about that? Like, ah, screw this.
Armstrong
You're right. That's what it is. So they, they make you sign an NDA to play it all and you think, what do I care? I don't care. I'm not going to disclose anything. I get to run up there and jump up and down because I just want a new hot tub that I'm gonna ship to my home. Yeah, otherwise you'd hear all the time, nobody, by the way, nobody gets these prizes. Nobody's claimed a prize in the last 15 years.
Getty
We just catch a kind of a check that wouldn't impress everybody and you leave. All right, so here's a really controversial question about the game shows. So I was thinking, I don't know why, but My mind went to the hotties that, you know, show you the prize package and smile and wear the little costumes down again. And there have been a couple of harassment scandals through the years that the host, the big powerful host, the face of the program, has gotten a little forward with. With the girls, if you. I mean, because they have no skills other than being physically attractive and hot. Girls are a dime a dozen. If you were to advertise, must be willing to put up with sexual harassment. Not assault, certainly. Sure. Or anything like that. But the host will regularly ask you if you'd like to go out sometime in a libertarian. From a libertarian point of view, shouldn't that be okay?
Armstrong
Absolutely.
Getty
Made expressly clear to them.
Armstrong
Absolutely. And it was more or less expressly clear up until 20 years ago. Probably. This is what you're gonna have to put up with. And you'd get more people signing up for that than you could take.
Getty
By the way, the host is a generous man. He absolutely. He's a nice enough fellow. He's just a horn dog. And, you know, if you do get together with him, he'll probably lavish expensive gifts on you and you can say no. But if he gets tired of it, it's probably going to be over. Just so you know, going in.
Armstrong
Okay, I'm.
Getty
So I'm looking up.
Armstrong
This girl's jumping up and down. She just won like a dune buggy and some ATV sort of thing. So, like, okay, I live in suburban Cincinnati. What am I going to do with this ATV in a dune buggy? And I gotta transport it back after I cut you a check for several thousand dollars.
Getty
Surely they connect you with a local dealer. A local dune buggy dealer.
Armstrong
Oh, cool. A dune buggy.
Getty
Just what I needed. Hey, for when I'm on the dunes.
Armstrong
But only after I write you a check for $3,000. Okay.
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You're not jumping up and down like you were before. What's the problem? All these years we thought the price.
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Is right, the price is wrong.
Armstrong
It's exactly right. Well, I guess that's it.
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Date: December 1, 2025
Hosts: Armstrong & Getty
This episode dives into the reality behind winning prizes on TV game shows—especially the iconic “new car” on The Price is Right. Armstrong and Getty riff on the true costs, unexpected hassles, and the disillusioning logistics winners face, spinning this into a broader critique of modern life, social interactions, and online culture. The duo maintains their signature tone—wry, irreverent, and satirical—delivering comedic takes and candid commentary.
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Armstrong & Getty’s “A New Car!!!!” episode uses the pretense of game show windfalls to explore deeper themes about modern American life: isolation, online outrage, and the out-of-touch fantasies perpetuated by TV. Through irreverent banter, real-world anecdotes, and sarcastic cultural critique, they expose the absurdity behind game show prizes and use it as a springboard for broader satire—never missing a chance to keep it biting, self-aware, and genuinely funny.