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Katie
All I want to do is sleep. It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty.
Co-host or friend (female)
One more thing before we check in.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
With Katie and the state of her pregnancy, I need to finish up my story about being in a salt mine on vacation.
Co-host or friend (female)
I thought Katie was describing my lifestyle. All I wanted was sleep. Hasn't been a moment of my life. I haven't wanted to lie down.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
So my kids and I toured a salt mine on vacation. There's a salt mine in the middle of Kansas. And if, if you're a film buff, you know this because this is where all the ancient, old, well known films are stored, like the wizard of Oz, etc. Because way down in the salt mine, temperature controlled, humidity controlled, nothing decays. It doesn't deteriorate. They had a newspaper down there, a copy of the New York Times from the day after Lincoln was shot. And it was looking like looking at a newspaper from that day.
Co-host or friend (female)
Oh my God. You would have to go to so much trouble to preserve that.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yeah.
Co-host or friend (female)
You know, elsewhere on earth.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yeah. There's all kinds of stuff down there. Movie memorabilia, like Batman uniforms and stuff like that. Just stuff that they store so it won't decay. One thing I did learn about the salt mine that they opened up in 1920 is you didn't want to work in a salt mine back in the 20s and 30s. Oh my God, that looked like a hard job down there in the pitch black. Except for your candles, hoping the thing didn't cave in on you.
Co-host or friend (female)
Right.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
That's when we were taking this tour and this guy was driving us around in the little train down there in these dark, dark, long tunnels in the salt mine. And then he's showing how the roof sags sometimes and sometimes the sag can break through and crush people. It was always a worry. He said, that one's sagging like Madonna.
Co-host or friend (female)
Inappropriate.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Funny line from a tour guide.
Co-host or friend (female)
Inappropriate.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Okay, anywho, I wanted to mention this because everything stays preserved down there. And I, I mentioned on the radio show all the garbage. Anything that goes down in the mine stays in the mine. It's just too cost ineffective to bring anything out of the mine other than salt. You're losing money if you take anything out of the mine other than salt. So anything that goes down there stays down there. Any bit of garbage over the last 105 years is still down there. And it's perfectly preserved because of the, you know, as I described, with the humidity and whatnot. So there's all kinds of like really old, like from the 30s, cigarette containers or whatever, or toilet paper from people who had pooped a hundred years ago.
Co-host or friend (female)
Useful, invaluable historical artifact.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
But here's something I didn't know. So they started, they originally they took donkeys down in the mine to try to help with the work. But they would go blind right away and they found out human beings are this way too. If you aren't using your corneas and everything that you need to know by, by, by, by, you've gotten your eyeball, you need to use for light. If you don't use them at all for like three days, you go blind. That's how. That's how quick they atrophy. Wow. Isn't that something? I'd never heard that before.
Katie
Terrifying.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
It is. So anyway, the donkeys went blind and then they kept working and then they died down there. Because everything that goes in the mind stays in the mind. So there are dead donkeys around this hunt, many hundreds of miles of mines, various places and they would be perfectly intact like the when they died.
Co-host or friend (female)
What like, are they still the same shape or are they like skinny?
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
No, they would look exactly the same. You got a 90 year old dead burrow there.
Co-host or friend (female)
The hell is that? Amazing.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
I know. It was quite something. Anyway, that's the end of my down and assault my knowledge having to dead.
Co-host or friend (female)
Donkeys, I mean so like their internal, you know, bacteria don't.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
No.
Co-host or friend (female)
Yeah.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
If you went up and like put your hand on it, it would just like turn to dust. But it looks exactly the same as when it died.
Co-host or friend (female)
Wow.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yeah, I know.
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Katie
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Co-host or friend (female)
Other dead donkey news.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Wait, no.
Co-host or friend (female)
There is no other dead donkey now.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Strangest transition ever to how Katie's pregnancy is going to. Katie is pregnant, in case you didn't know. And we know who the father is. It's your husband.
Katie
We do.
Co-host or friend (female)
Wow, that was inappropriate. It really was.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
I'm just bringing everybody up.
Katie
There's never a question.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Wasn'T up in the air at any point.
Katie
Nope.
Jacob Goldstein
But.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
So how is being pregnant? You said you want to sleep all the time.
Katie
Oh my gosh. I have never been this tired in my life. Yeah. And so I finally made the, I guess the announcement on my social media the other day and boy, did I think I was getting opinions beforehand.
Co-host or friend (female)
Oh, oh boy.
Katie
Oh, the, the just wait and all that. But I had an interesting interaction with someone who would not get off me about telling them what his name's going to be. And. Yeah, and that's something that I'm gonna keep until he's here. Just because I don't. I don't want to hear it.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Well, some people do and some people don't. But if somebody, if I say, what are you gonna name them? And they say, we're gonna hold on to that, you just say, okay, you don't like pride unless you're a piece.
Co-host or friend (female)
Of crap as a human being.
Katie
Oh, they just kept going on and on about, oh, well, this happened when I was naming my kid and blah and so one of the things that she did, she went, well, I can just tell you that one of the names that I thought was awful was. And she said a name, and so I wrote her back and I was like, that's the name that we chose.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Perfect.
Katie
And I just waited a few seconds and I could see, you know, you see the little type bubble coming in. And I finally hit her with. I'm just kidding. That wasn't it. But I just felt like making her just her pants for just a couple of seconds.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Indeed. Yeah. What an interesting personality. Quirk. Somebody tells you we're not going to announce the name until the baby's born. Tell me.
Katie
And this tech. This text thread went on for much longer than it should. I should have just stopped responding if I, you know, I were going to do the right thing. But it went on for probably an hour and a half.
Co-host or friend (female)
Good Lord. How close are we in this scenario?
Katie
Relatively close.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Okay.
Katie
Might be putting up the. The wall a little bit from, from that experience, though.
Co-host or friend (female)
But. Yeah, I mean, friend points there.
Katie
Yeah. Right.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Gonna. You're gonna stick with the name regardless. I know some people pick multiple names and then depend on what the baby looks like.
Katie
No, we. We have landed on a name for him. And then when we plan to have our second one in a couple years, we have her name as well.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
You don't look like a Brandon. You look like an Aiden. You're Aiden.
Co-host or friend (female)
Well, that's funny. Good for you. Approach it in any way you want. I think we kept our, our options open until it was time to do the naming. We had a, you know, a couple things kicking around ideas and just, we waited till it was baby time. And I was like, yeah, that's the one. But, you know, teach their own.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yeah.
Katie
So we've, we've got. I just, I just wanted to get it out of the way. And like, we, we were talking about it back and forth, and then when we landed on one and we both went, ooh, I like that. Like, perfect. Let's just leave it there.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
You know, my son and I got on this conversation the other day about names. I, I'm amazed more people don't change their names because it's so cheap. It, like, it doesn't cost hardly anything to change your name. You'd think, you'd think more people would decide, I don't want to be Jack or whatever and would change their name to something they like better, but almost nobody does.
Co-host or friend (female)
Yeah, that is funny because especially kids are all about, I don't like my name. I Wish I wasn't. You know, whatever, right? Yeah, that's funny. It'd be a pain in the ass, I think, you know, running into paperwork difficulties and filling out forms and stuff like that. Maybe that's it. There's paperwork involved. It's not the cost, it's the forms.
Katie
You gotta change your email probably.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
And all you want. Doctor go into descriptions.
Katie
Yeah, I changed my name to Bob.
Co-host or friend (female)
You could spell it forwards and backwards the same.
Katie
I thought that'd be a lot of fun.
Co-host or friend (female)
I'm a captain Kick Ass. That'd be what I go with. Now, some states, you got to get approval for it. And in your more meddlesome states, it would probably say, no, no, captain. And I would spell it Captain. Captain Kick Ass.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yeah, Pretty good captain. Yeah, everybody has to call me captain. So you're gonna tell us the name?
Katie
No, no, I'll tell you. I'll tell you guys off the podcast.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Jack. Joe. Mike. Mike.
Katie
It is Jack Joe.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
No, I don't want to know.
Co-host or friend (female)
I want your options open.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
I feel like I'd be invading your. Your space if I knew.
Katie
No, you guys, I. I talk to you guys more than I talk to anybody else in my life.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yeah.
Katie
So.
Co-host or friend (female)
Yeah. It's sad, isn't it?
Katie
Shut up.
Co-host or friend (female)
Yeah, I don't.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Is it one of your Brandon, Aiden, you know, popular?
Katie
No, they're both. They're both Irish names.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Okay. You're Irish.
Katie
I guess I am Irish. And so is Drew.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Okay, cool. So Chauncey. Chauncey. Is Chauncey Irish?
Co-host or friend (female)
Ah, it's certainly ukish. British Isles.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Ish.
Katie
Yeah, it's not Chauncey.
Co-host or friend (female)
Yeah.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Seamus.
Katie
No, it's not Seamus.
Co-host or friend (female)
I. I like. It's got shame in it. You can't go with it. Although I've known a couple of Seamuses in my life. They've been lovely fellas.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
I knew I've only known one, and he should have been ashamed.
Co-host or friend (female)
Oh, really?
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yeah.
Co-host or friend (female)
Interesting. Oh, yeah, about McGregor.
Katie
Goner. No, it's not McGregor.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
We'll just keep guessing Irish names for, like, another 40 minutes.
Katie
You know, I don't think you guys will guess it. And also I'm. One of the other reasons I was really happy about it is that Drew and I both don't know anybody with this name.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Oh, yeah?
Co-host or friend (female)
Yeah. Just beware. This is why you keep your options open. Judy and I seriously had never heard of any girl named Caitlin when we normed when we named Kate and then subsequently became one of the most popular names, you know, in the country for a long time to the Point that I think she. At that time, she had two or three in each class. Ridiculous.
Katie
I. I'm a Caitlyn. And that's. That is accurate.
Co-host or friend (female)
Oh, that's right.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know, you can't win with kids because I was always the only. In every class I was in, there was never another Jack. And I hated that. It seemed weird that I was the only one. And then there's kids that were two mics and four Steves and everything like that. They hated that. That. So there's. There's no winning. Yeah.
Co-host or friend (female)
How do we feel about. If, like, you're. You're. Your husband's mostly Italian. American, Whatever. I got a little Greek in there. And you're from wherever else, but not England, not Ireland, not the British. And you go with Caitlyn, which is the Irish form of Catherine. That. That shouldn't be allowed. You shouldn't be able to get. Just seize a name unless you have credentials.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Really. You know what I mean? If you don't have any Irish, you don't think you should be able to name your kid Caitlyn?
Co-host or friend (female)
Yeah, right.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yeah. That's Irishing.
Co-host or friend (female)
It's out of bounds.
Katie
Get your own names.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Get your own names.
Co-host or friend (female)
Yeah. Don't you be trespassing on my ethnicity, snatching up our groovy names.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Huh? Never thought about that before.
Katie
Name appropriation.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Name appropriation. Well, I'm glad I didn't accidentally do it.
Co-host or friend (female)
Here's a little Irish name trivia, because it always annoys me. The Paddy Wagon is not the Paddy Wagon. It's the paddy wagon with Ds. And it's not short for Patrick Patrick. It's short for Padraig. P, A D, R, A, I, G. The Paddy wagon. A slur against my people. And if you want a drunk to punch you in the face, you'll keep saying paddy wagon.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Okay?
Katie
It's facts.
Co-host or friend (female)
Yeah. Take that, you bigots. Hey, Katie, have you had any weird food cravings? That happened to my sister, my mom.
Katie
I have. I cannot stop eating salt and vinegar chips, and I. Sea salt and vinegar. Actually, funny story. I went to the store the other day to pick up some stuff for my mom and dad, and I got the things and then I also went down the chip aisle and bought four bags of salt and vinegar chips plus a Pringles container because I had other errands to run and didn't want to open a bag, but I knew that the Pringles container would fit in my cup holder in my car.
Co-host or friend (female)
It's Just in your cup holder. Your chip holder.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
That's awesome.
Co-host or friend (female)
Yeah, that's just good thinking. Well, you don't want to run out in inclement weather or something like that, so you're smart to stock up.
Katie
Now, people there. That would be dangerous for other people if I ran out.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
My wife was on a Taco Bell kick when she was pregnant.
Katie
Oh, what?
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Some particular thing at Taco Bell that she just couldn't get enough of?
Katie
Yeah, it's. It's. It's those salt and vinegar chips and then Froyo frozen yogurt. I can't stop eating.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Well, you're eating for two.
Katie
Yeah, yeah, it's. It's. Everything is. Yeah. The thing, the things the woman bought, the woman's body can do.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yes.
Katie
Amazing. I'm. I'm kind of showing, but where I'm really showing are the girls. Like, I've had to buy, like, new over the shoulder boulder holders and whatnot. Yeah.
Co-host or friend (female)
The boob fairy has come to visit.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
I do not want to hear another word about this.
Co-host or friend (female)
Well, I guess that's it.
Host (possibly a male narrator or main host)
Yeah, that's enough of that.
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Episode: All I Wanna Do Is Sleep
Date: December 2, 2025
Host: Armstrong & Getty and Co-hosts
Produced by iHeartPodcasts
This episode revolves around two major themes: the science and story of a Kansas salt mine—complete with preserved artifacts and darkly fascinating tidbits—and a candid, often humorous, conversation about Katie’s pregnancy, from exhaustion and food cravings to the frustration of unsolicited opinions about baby names. The hosts keep their trademark blend of wit and playful banter, making even the oddest topics an enjoyable ride.
Timestamps: 02:10 – 05:50
Salt Mine as a Time Capsule
Danger and Preservation in the Mines
Everything Stays in the Mine
Unexpected Science
Timestamps: 05:55 – 17:48
Unending Exhaustion
Social Media Announcements and Unsolicited Opinions
Naming Decisions and Boundaries
‘Name Appropriation’ and Irish Heritage
Pregnancy Cravings and Body Changes
Preservation in the Salt Mine:
“Anything that goes down in the mine stays in the mine.” (Host, 03:49)
Pregnancy Banter:
“All I want to do is sleep.” (Katie, 02:01)
“There’s never a question.” (Katie, 08:49)
“I talk to you guys more than I talk to anybody else in my life.”—“Yeah. It’s sad, isn’t it?” (Katie & Co-host, 13:16-13:21)
Name Appropriation:
“Don’t you be trespassing on my ethnicity, snatching up our groovy names.” (Co-host, 15:37)
Pregnancy Cravings:
“I cannot stop eating salt and vinegar chips...and the Pringles container would fit in my cup holder in my car.” (Katie, 16:25)
Physical Changes:
“I’ve had to buy, like, new over the shoulder boulder holders and whatnot.”—“The boob fairy has come to visit.” (Katie & Co-host, 17:34–17:43)
On Children’s Complaints About Names:
“There’s no winning...I was always the only [Jack]...And then there’s kids that were two mikes and four Steves...So there’s no winning.” (Host, 14:44)
The hosts maintain their signature witty, off-the-cuff banter throughout, bouncing between curiosity, personal anecdotes, and playful teasing. The vibe is casual and warm, making listeners feel like part of a candid, unfiltered conversation among friends.
For listeners:
This episode offers a blend of quirky historical trivia (dead donkeys in salt mines!), relatable pregnancy realities, and honest, funny takes on the awkwardness of baby-naming. You’ll laugh, learn, and possibly feel inspired to keep a can of Pringles handy, just in case.