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Listening to the final live Armstrong and Getty show of 2025. Later this hour, we will be playing the top 10 clips of the year and naming the clip of the year. We got this text. My vote for clip of the year would be Jack's frustration with fitted sheets. Now, I don't think either one of us talking has ever been a clip of the year, which is kind of interesting, really. I just listened to our one and it made me realize how stressed out this year has been. Not getting weird and getting weird fast, but getting hostile and getting hostile fast. That's interesting. Yeah. Thanks, liberals. Then I have to go home and make my bed. And there's no less than two turns of the fitted sheet before I get it right, which obviously statistically seems undoable, but it happens to me every time. Just icing on the crap cake of the day. So Jack's phrase stays in my head every time I make my bed. The crap cake of the day.
Joe Getty
Putting on a fitted sheet is the.
Joe (Co-host)
Most annoying thing in the world.
Michael
And to add briefly to that, it was pointed out online that this year, and this is perfect to get back into the eclipse of the year. This year is the 10 year anniversary of Tabin's Law, which is one of the smartest things ever posted in any social media. Tabin's Law is things have not gotten as stupid as they are going to get.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Michael
In that spirit, it's October, eclipse of the year.
Joe Getty
This can be done the easy way or it can be done the hard way. I have a feeling that we're going to have a positive answer. Both Israel and Hamas have signed on to the first phase of his 20 point peace plan. What do you guys have to say to President Trump, 20 newly freed hostages and their families hug, cry, kiss, scream and pray?
Jack Armstrong
I really commend President Trump. I commend the Qataris, the Egyptians and.
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Joe Getty
50% of the Palestinian government to be trans women. Despite all we've achieved, I cannot continue.
Katie Green
My re election campaign.
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This is not a job for a first timer.
Katie Green
Any day you gotta have a hurricane.
Joe Getty
You have a health pandemic. And if we have a health pandemic, then why would New Yorkers turn back to the governor who sent seniors to their death in nursing homes?
Katie Green
Americans coming together in Queens, in Brooklyn.
Joe Getty
But also, you know, it was also about paying the bills, man, and it was just like hustling. Nobody likes Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans.
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It's a disgusting video, man. Just ignore it. And is it helpful to post pictures of Leader Jeffries and a sombrero? Oh, I think it's funny. Today's show is brought to you by driveway weight bench, where your adult son works out.
Katie Green
Who we are Navy.
Joe Getty
I'm doing the super bowl halftime show. I wanted you to know that I'm not dying. And I'm not ready to die yet.
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Mistreated you in the past.
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Man, I'm a happily married woman. What are you talking about, baby? I'm 10 years next week, so no one has mistreated me. You've been disrespectful.
Joe Getty
Golf teaches you very good life lessons. It teaches you etiquette.
Katie Green
Got poop on your shirt.
Michael
Are you watching Donald Trump?
Jack Armstrong
J. Jones sent texts that imagined shooting the Republican speaker of the House.
Joe Getty
Tell me why my phone records, when I'm the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, were sought by the Jack Smith agents.
Jack Armstrong
What do you say to the 40% of California voters who you'll need in order to win who voted for Trump? How would I need them in order to win? Well, to those voters.
Joe Getty
Okay, so. So you.
Jack Armstrong
I don't want to keep doing this. I'm going to call it.
Joe Getty
Thank you.
Jack Armstrong
And the state could lose.
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Joe (Co-host)
So what? That's October. That was the Katie Porter meltdown.
Michael
Yeah. We're just halfway through October. Yeah. Yeah. I think there may be a major Mumdani oversight in clips of the year.
Joe (Co-host)
Okay.
Michael
Not faulting anybody. It's a tremendous amount of work. Mistakes happen, lies are told.
Joe (Co-host)
I'm. I'm sensing finger pointing.
Michael
Maybe one or two fingers, but no more than that. Let's plunge on further into October. It's a fun look back at the year that was. It's coy. Eclipse of the year.
Joe Getty
Antifa is real. I took this flag from that. From that man that was burning it in the street. Give it to the Attorney general and let's start prosecutions.
Jack Armstrong
One of the things I've been dealing with all day here in Portland is a bunch of pansies.
Joe Getty
Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones and Terry Rozier were taken into custody.
Jack Armstrong
These operatives included capos and multiple soldiers from the Bonanno, Gambino, Lucchese and Genovese crime families. Construction on President Trump's vast new ballroom gets underway.
Joe Getty
Surprise.
Jack Armstrong
Donald Trump is literally destroying the people's house.
Joe Getty
Tilly Norwood is an AI Generated actress gaining attention and drawing swift backlash. I'm trans indigenous. Trans indigenous. Are you CIS American? No more identity months. DEI offices, dudes in dresses. We are done with that.
Jack Armstrong
I woke up every day as a black woman who is queer. If you are a 1 or 2x you are small fat, 3 to 4x you are mid fat, 5 to 6x you are super fat.
Joe Getty
Climate is a super important problem.
Joe (Co-host)
We have to frame it in terms of overall human Welfare.
Jack Armstrong
To find three lab monkeys still on the loose.
Joe Getty
We got 21 monkeys that was on this. Got five of them around.
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Joe (Co-host)
That fabulous World Series. It was so much fun to watch, even though it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to. God, that was a fun time. And then I'd forgotten about the escaped diseased monkeys and the guy who had clearly had his tongue chewed off by a monkey. Given the report on it at the.
Michael
Beginning, right, that was the Mississippi monkeys, not to be confused with the South Carolina monkeys which were in 2024. I don't know so many southern monkeys running around biting people.
Joe (Co-host)
And we forgot to comment on that guy from the earlier October clip who said the new government in in Gaza needed to be half trans women.
Michael
Yes, yes. A goal heretofore are so far unrealized. Jack. Okay, so here's the only oversight I want to point out. I was. I'm looking through a different year end list and October was the month that Zoran Mumdami fought back tears while recalling how aunt was the real victim of the 911 terrorist attacks and she stopped taking the subway because she did not feel safe in her hijab even though she wasn't in New York and she may not have existed at all.
Joe (Co-host)
We got to get to November so that we can, you know, get to December and then we can get to the the name and the clip of the year. But we are overlooking, I think, a major development that happened in 25 that hasn't gotten enough attention. We'll have to hit on that too. So all on the way.
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Stay here, Armstrong and get.
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Joe (Co-host)
So the last round of Eclipse of the Year from October is that what we just did featured something that I think will be remembered for a long time. So a lot of the clips we've played from the year, you know, nobody's ever gonna think about them again. This Epstein crap and the bromance and the breakup between Elon and Trump and and Sydney Sweeney's jeans and stuff like that, just crap. Bill Gates coming out and saying the whole climate change, let's move on. And you know, in a related story Monday this week, Ford announced we're done with electric vehicles.
Joe Getty
Done after the biggest investment they'd ever made.
Joe (Co-host)
So, you know, the whole climate change, electric car stuff. This was a major year for that change in directions, no doubt.
Michael
Yeah, it will. Aspects of this will endure, but they'll be much more realistic. They won't be governed by rhetoric, they'll be governed by logic, I would certainly hope. Anyway, let's plunge ahead. It's time for November, the clips of the year.
Joe Getty
The greatest and Most dramatic game 7.
Michael
In World Series history.
Katie Green
That's back there. And that one is Todd by pages.
Joe Getty
I'm ready to get another ring next to you.
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Japan is grappling with a grisly problem. Deadly bear attacks in Paris.
Jack Armstrong
Prosecutors now say amateurs, not professionals, carried out the heist at the Louvre.
Joe Getty
God Woke up at 6:45 Saturday morning. He goes, ron, get your boots on, let's go walking. My little one has learned the word ice cream. And she made me make sure I promised her to get her ice cream when I get back home from the trip. That being said, nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing unsafe comes in between me and a little girl and her ice cream. He says, excuse me, sir. So misgendering me right away. You're not a woman, that's obvious. This is a police matter.
Katie Green
I'm a woman and I have every right to not want a man in the restroom when I'm naked.
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Katie Green
I was assaulted. I was assaulted. No, they are not. They are men. I was assaulted by men.
Joe Getty
Americans will lose £135 billion by the midterms. But I don't measure it in pounds. I measure it and save lives. It's actually funny. It was December 18th. I remember because that's an important date to me and as Joseph Stalin's birthday.
Jack Armstrong
I'm a fan character AI, a bot generating app that connects users with fiction ended up with the bots initiating romantic kissing.
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We also have to work though, sort of the dark side, if you will.
Jack Armstrong
When the day starts with Dick Cheney.
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So hear me, President Trump, when I say this. To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of.
Joe Getty
Us every 20 years or so. We need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again. Nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits there and lies to you.
Katie Green
It's not a trend self climbing.
Joe Getty
It's a trend when someone inhaling, then exhaling when they're done inhaling.
Katie Green
It's on your trend on TikTok.
Michael
You know, if it were a little longer, I'd have to nominate myself for the it's not a trend rant. Everything that happens, two people do in America is the new trend we have to worry about. I think that George Will. Every 20 years, we need an experiment in socialism. Ought to be one of the Clips of the year nominees.
Joe (Co-host)
That's very true. It's a very true statement in terms.
Michael
Of enormous significance, that trend. Yeah, that's right up there.
Joe (Co-host)
That'll be fun to watch in 26, how the whole Mandani thing goes.
Michael
Yeah, yeah. So let's plunge on in November. It's kind of fun because I think we all can remember these a little more clearly than some of the stuff early in the year. And November was a blockbuster month. Here it is, Clips of the year.
Joe Getty
We don't want to talk about Epstein.
Katie Green
We say no.
Joe Getty
No.
Jack Armstrong
The House passed a bill compelling the Justice Department to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Joe Getty
But in 2030, he's not going to be the president. And you will have voted to protect pedophiles.
Jack Armstrong
I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for five. No, actually six years for.
Joe Getty
I don't think her life is in danger. I don't think. Frankly, I don't think anybody cares about her.
Jack Armstrong
The longest government shutdown in American history could be coming to an end.
Michael
Democrats nationwide feeling about Chuck Schumer.
Joe (Co-host)
I think the word of the day is terrible.
Joe Getty
No way to defend this. You are right to be angry. I cannot.
Joe (Co-host)
Believe it.
Joe Getty
Turmoil at Britain's premier broadcaster with President Trump right in the middle. We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.
Katie Green
Anytime, any place. Bunch of fascists in the face.
Joe Getty
Hey, Optimus, do you know where I can get a Coke? I can take you to the kitchen if you want to check for a Coke there. Oh, yeah, that'd be great. Yes, let's do that. Who's gonna be a great grandmother?
Katie Green
Oh, Charlie. Congratulations.
Joe Getty
A fictional employee named Kyle was having an affair with a co worker named Jessica.
Michael
Right away, the AI decided to blackmail Kyle.
Joe Getty
Your voice sounds a little rough. Are you feeling all right? I feel great. I was shouting at people because they were stupid.
Jack Armstrong
Your Royal Highness, the US Intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journal.
Joe Getty
Asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question. I grabbed that hand. I don't give a hell where that hand's been. I grabbed that hand. It is a flying IED. And so this IED.
Jack Armstrong
IED.
Joe Getty
Improvised explosive device. They're cheap. You can 3D print them at home. President Trump facing some backlash after accusing some Democrats of what he calls seditious behavior punishable by death.
Joe (Co-host)
You can refuse illegal orders.
Jack Armstrong
You can refuse illegal orders.
Joe (Co-host)
You must refuse illegal orders.
Jack Armstrong
Linguists say the letter T is being dropped from words like kitten, mountain, and interview.
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Now the fighters strip off their gloves and sit down.
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Joe (Co-host)
You guys are effing hacks. I hope you go off the air.
Michael
Soon because radio is dead and you suck. Wow, Clips of the year.
Joe (Co-host)
Two things that stood out to me. I already had forgotten that the shutdown even happened. Longest shutdown in US History. Didn't even remember that it even happened.
Michael
Oh, really? I was just rubbing salve on my scars from the shutdown.
Joe (Co-host)
Please. Also, that whole you don't have to follow orders crap. Similar sort of vein, I guess. Whoopi Goldberg just said on the view that that $1776 Trump promised to send to everybody in the military is a bribe so they'll follow his orders when he shuts down the 2028 presidential election.
Michael
Oh, that'll totally work too. Whoopi, you got to the bottom. You have figured it out. You found him out. Way to go, Whoopi. Geez Louise, that is so stupid. That is really stupid. So I haven't actually scrolled through and looked, but I'll bet if I did, I would find out this is true. I think Epstein came up every damn month. Multiple times. What a significant news coverage.
Joe (Co-host)
What a waste of ink and airtime.
Michael
One more month, December, than the selection of the clip of the year.
Joe (Co-host)
Very exciting stuff. It's on the way. And if you miss any of it, get the podcast. Armstrong and Yeti on demand.
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe (Co-host)
The year 2025 coming to a close, at least for the Armstrong and Getty Show. We are a quarter of a century of the way into this century, which, if you're of a certain age, seems crazy.
Michael
Seems crazy, I would agree. Yeah, completely. Speaking of crazy, we're going to go nuts this segment. We're going to play the two segments of December back to back so we can then play the finalists for the clip of the year for you. We'll take a brief and fascinating commercial break and then come back with the winner and our final notes on the year. So back to back it, Michael. Let's do it. December. It's the Clips of the year.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
An animal control officer says the raccoon was found Saturday passed out next to the store's toilet.
Joe Getty
Oh, my God.
Joe (Co-host)
What the. Is that Waymo doing Cherone Moore overnight?
Joe Getty
Basically being fired and then detained by police. Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the skill of war our grandparents and great grandparents endured. Something about it excited me, and it's kind of one of those deals. The door opens and you can either walk through it and find out if you can do it or. Or run from it. 47 yard try now by young Wei Ku. And he stumbled.
Katie Green
Patriots ball. I don't think I've ever seen that.
Joe Getty
All women are annoying. Have you ever had sex?
Michael
No, absolutely not.
Joe Getty
Wow. Says the guy who's never got laid. So I wrote, it's not a terrible theory, and Conan texted me back, he killed my dad. Oh, my God. If I had to say, like, there's only one thing you can ever have for the rest of time, which admittedly would be a bit monotonous, but it would probably be a cheeseburger. Everybody talks about this place being a dadgum swamp. It's not a swamp.
Joe (Co-host)
This is a sewer.
Michael
This is created by man.
Joe Getty
We're the United States of America. That's who we are. Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it.
Jack Armstrong
I wonder what grade you would give a.
Joe Getty
A plus plus plus plus plus the wages. Just look at it. Wages are going up much faster than inflation. How big is that? You get a bunch of geese together, they're honking in the air.
Jack Armstrong
Clips of the year.
Joe (Co-host)
So did Gary Busey make the list? Because, man, that's a pretty good clip.
Michael
We'll have to talk about it. We've got a little more December to play, Jack. Let's do it. Clips of the air.
Jack Armstrong
Bipartisan alarm over President Trump's escalating military campaign in the Caribbean Sea.
Joe Getty
This is called the fog of war. What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service. No, I didn't see anything disturbing about it.
Jack Armstrong
Do you think that the video should be released in full to the American public?
Joe Getty
Yeah, but whatever they have, we'd certainly release no problem.
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Jack Armstrong
Have you seen the video?
Joe Getty
I have seen the video.
Jack Armstrong
You have seen the classified video?
Michael
No, I've not seen the actual video.
Jack Armstrong
The binary Justice Department called it the largest Covid fraud scheme in the country.
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Joe Getty
Elon Omar is garbage. She's garbage. The worst mass shooting in Australia since 1996. They were perched on top of a pedestrian bridge when they started shooting.
Jack Armstrong
Sources say they pledged allegiance to ISIS.
Joe Getty
And shouted al U Akbar while opening fire. Please.
Katie Green
Please promise.
Joe Getty
Police. Hands. Hands. Hands.
Jack Armstrong
New video shows the moment police stormed a nearby library on Saturday. Students terrified. Hands in the air.
Joe Getty
The Reiner family statement confirming that those killed were indeed the director himself and his wife Michelle. They were last seen together second night at Conan o' Brien's holiday party where Robin Nick Reiner reportedly argued. Nick Reiner has been arrested on suspicion of murder. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner.
Michael
That was haunting.
Joe (Co-host)
And now we. We're gonna take a break and the heavy work starts where we nail. Nail down the final.
Michael
I think we're going to play the nominees first and then we will take a break and the heavy work begins.
Joe Getty
Yes.
Michael
There's more light work to be done. So we have distilled down the list of great clips for the year. We will play those and then consider our options.
Joe (Co-host)
How many nominees do we have?
Michael
That's a lot more than I thought. We better get to it. Here are the nominees for the 2025 clip. It's like the Oscars. There's too damn many of them. Clip. Clip of the ear.
Jack Armstrong
Rising threats. The country is on edge after a deadly New Year's Day terror attack that investigators say was inspired by isis.
Joe Getty
I don't think we. It's not helpful to freak out and, you know, we really need to pace ourselves if we're going to freak out over every last tweet or every last conversation or press conference. Very nice to meet.
Jack Armstrong
I'd like to know about sex change operations.
Joe Getty
I see, I see, I see. Mark my words. Fisher's gonna judge what you've done as one of the most significant contributions that's been made by all of America.
Katie Green
You made it rhyme louder and it's riding a long time. This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. Chainsaw. Which side are you on? Which side are you.
Joe Getty
We need Greenland for national security purposes. We're gonna be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. I've had nothing to do with. Are you supportive of these onesies? I'm supportive of vaccines. Are you supportive of this closing which is millennially anti vaccine? We have to be responsible how we do this.
Michael
We have to build it carefully.
Joe Getty
But I think people are really good and people will do, on balance, incredible things with. Okay, do you want to try this first exercise for me? I will do anything for you, Daddy.
Michael
All right.
Joe Getty
Can you put your feet together?
Katie Green
Put my feet together in your hands, under your side.
Joe Getty
Whatever you say, Daddy. Okay. Are you wearing contacts right now? Are you wearing contacts right now? No, I'm wearing glasses. Hey, Sophia, I swear to God, I'm wearing contacts. Like two seconds. Why are you such a nerd, bro? With us, you start having cards right now. You don't have your playing cards, Mr. Brother. You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. You're gambling with World War 3. You're gambling with World War 3 and.
Jack Armstrong
Four legged robot wolves designed to locate mines and hunt down soldiers.
Joe Getty
I was forced to the ground.
Katie Green
First on my knees.
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Getting big Ds in prison and the state could lose. Get out of my shot.
Jack Armstrong
I wanted to tell you that.
Joe Getty
Okay, it does. Okay. Nobody likes Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans.
Katie Green
Why did you throw fast food on the side of my tussle? You threw mashed potatoes on my car. What is wrong with you? You sit here, you drive in, you drive out. You have junk cars all over. What do you do? You drive in and you drive.
Joe Getty
Drive out.
Katie Green
That's what people do to their driveways. You.
Joe (Co-host)
Ah, two people hating each other. That's what Christmas is all about.
Michael
So I have a revolutionary thought. This is. This is. I'm a disruptor here, like Elon Musk. I feel like we're choosing between, like it's the Westminster Dog show and there's dogs and also fast food restaurants. And we're trying to give an award to pick one of two very different things. I guess what I'm driving at is, should we, whether this year or next, have a clip of the year for historical significance and one for hilarity?
Joe (Co-host)
I don't know. That's a good question.
Michael
Best actor, Best actress.
Joe (Co-host)
Maybe in January 18th, when we have our meeting about this to plan for the next year, you can present this and make a motion and then someone will second it and then we will vote on it.
Michael
I just. How do you choose between. I mean, for instance, the. You don't have any cards. Gambling with world War.
Joe (Co-host)
Historically, that is a clip that will be remembered maybe forever, depending on how things turn out.
Michael
When Europe is torn apart by war, starting in 2026, for instance. I mean, at the same time, there are a clip or two, really. Just one that every time everybody hears it they laugh out loud the 150th time. I'm just saying I'm lobbying a little bit. The 150th time I hear the clip about the driveway, I will laugh out loud.
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Joe (Co-host)
So before we get to the what we think is the clip of the year, with Joe's caveat that maybe in the future we'll have to have an impactful news clip of the year versus an entertainment clip of the year. Right.
Michael
Or at least an asterisk. Like when a trans dude wins Miss Argentina, the asterisk will say is a dude.
Joe (Co-host)
It's like the Golden Globes, they have a.
Michael
They have.
Joe (Co-host)
You can win a Golden Globe for best comedy and then win best picture for something else, drama. But Oscars you don't. Everything's added to kids together. So you want to go more Golden Globes in the future, you think I.
Michael
That I'm suggesting it? Yes.
Joe (Co-host)
So I had one more prediction I wanted to get and I think I picked a good number for a, for a, for an over. Under. This time next year, will Trump be above or below 42% approval? Below. You think he'll be below 42 next year? Yeah.
Michael
The trend is not good. He is not getting more disciplined and more in tune with. With wise strategy. He's gotten more ID and less superego.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Joe (Co-host)
Okay. Well, that'll be something because I don't want that.
Michael
I hope I'm wrong.
Joe (Co-host)
I pray I'm getting close to the 30s if that happens. So just going through our predictions on Travis, Kelsey and Taylor Swift, we all agree they're going to have a baby announcement this year.
Michael
That's my answer on the wars.
Joe (Co-host)
Both wars. I talking Russia, Ukraine and, and Israel and the whole Gaza thing. I think both of them are going to be more peaceful a year from now. Where were you on that?
Michael
I was Ukraine back to full on war and Gaza more peaceful a year from now.
Joe (Co-host)
We'll be more scared of AI or less scared.
Michael
More.
Joe (Co-host)
You think more? I'm not sure. I really don't know. I hope less. Boy, if it's more, who takes the House? Everybody agrees Democrats are taking the House.
Joe Getty
House.
Joe (Co-host)
And then. Yeah, I don't want to do that one.
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Michael
Fair enough.
Joe (Co-host)
Yeah.
Michael
Well, the, the discussion has been had at the highest level and though there is great historical significance probably to the Trump Zelensky meeting and how that symbolizes the whole discussion of the whole effort to bring peace to Europe, which may or may not be successful. And if it's not, God help us all. In spite of that, we're gonna opt for smiles and laughter and amusement once again this year.
Joe (Co-host)
This is the full version of the clip we're gonna play.
Michael
Ladies and gentlemen, your 2025 clip of the year.
Katie Green
What? Mashed potatoes on the side of my car.
Joe (Co-host)
Here.
Joe Getty
Here.
Katie Green
Did you or didn't you? Cuz I've got cameras up there facing you. Get off the driveway now. I'm not on your side. This is the middle. You are trespassing. Get off my parking area. Listen, did you throw get out of here. Fast food on the side of my Tesla?
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Katie Green
Why did you throw fast food on the side of my test? You threw mashed potatoes on my car. What is wrong with you? You sit here, you drive in, you drive out. You have junk cars all over you do. You drive in and you drive out. That's what people do in their driveways.
Joe (Co-host)
You.
Joe Getty
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Joe (Co-host)
It's not less good than the first time I ever heard of. I think it's better every time. How?
Michael
He's clearly the calm one.
Joe Getty
Yes.
Michael
She hits him with. You drive in, you drive out and.
Katie Green
He just, he breaks. What are you driving? And you drive out. That's what people do in their driveways.
Joe (Co-host)
He was able to stay the grown up through. Look, there's a camera. I have it on film. You threw mashed potatoes on my car.
Katie Green
Get off my side of the driveway.
Joe (Co-host)
I'm not on side of the driveway. Why did you throw mashed potatoes in my car?
Katie Green
Get out.
Joe (Co-host)
But you're right. When she hits him with me.
Katie Green
You drive in, you drive out. What do you do? You drive in and you drive out. That's what people do in their driveways, you moron.
Michael
It's, it's as close to perfection.
Joe (Co-host)
It really is. I think one of the reasons it's so appealing is because we all can. We've all been in that situation where you're trying to keep your cool in the face of a lunatic who makes no sense.
Michael
Right, right.
Joe (Co-host)
And you kind of want to go where he ended up, but you usually try not to.
Michael
Well, in a little bit. In real life. Well, yeah, definitely in real life and online. Aren't we all running into more lunatic or just boy?
Joe (Co-host)
Somebody hit me with the bureaucracy thing the other day that was making them so mad in customer service. And they, they, they, they kept their cool. But it's like my thing where I just wanted the People at the car rental thing to say, please just admit to me that it's nuts that I reserved a car, but you don't have the car, right? When I get here, just.
Joe Getty
I want somebody to just say, that's crazy.
Joe (Co-host)
But nobody will.
Michael
And I'm thinking about, you know, you could. You will run into somebody who is militantly, angrily advocating a radical point of view that nobody had even heard of a decade ago, but they're so 100 convinced that's right. You're the Antichrist. If you disagree with them. Madness. Madness.
Joe Getty
That's what you do.
Joe (Co-host)
That was a good clip of the year. It's the final, final thoughts of the year 2025. And here is your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Michael
Let's get right to it. Michelangelo, lead the way. What's your final thought?
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Michael
Amen to that. Thank you, Michael. Katie Green is not with us today. I'm sure her final thought would be, my God, I work with some wise, kind, and handsome men.
Joe (Co-host)
Yeah, she didn't care enough to show up, but, you know, yeah, Katie, what are you gonna do?
Michael
Backstabber? Mike Hansen, our executive producer for a special guest. Final thought. Hanson. Gentlemen, I spend a lot of time.
Joe Getty
With the ANG research team. We pour over all the data, the.
Joe (Co-host)
Quarterly reports and so on and so forth. Everything points to this.
Joe Getty
We expect 2026 to be 700% better than 2025.
Joe (Co-host)
That's an excellent joke if you've been following the criticism of Trump's speech uptick.
Michael
Jack, which final thought?
Joe (Co-host)
First, I want to throw in the Katie Green. Now, one of her predictions for 2026 is Katie Green's going to become a mom. So that's. That's going to be an exciting story. Obviously, my final thoughts. This is same one as every year. I can't believe that this is what I get to do for work the way I get to make a living. How lucky am I there? And as my kids get older and get ready to head out into the world, got to figure out how to make a living. I'm just even more reminded. Wow, did I luck into a good situation?
Michael
Yeah, it feels more like a curse than a blessing most days to me. But whatever, teach their own. I want to thank everybody so much for listening, for your kind emails and texts throughout the year. Anger, monsters and trolls. You can all go to hell. But for everybody else just the interaction is appreciated more than I can tell you. I wish we had more time for it, but thanks for your kind words and hope you have a great holiday season.
Joe (Co-host)
Yeah for the trolls. May you forget to look left when you step off a curb in this next year.
Joe Getty
What he said.
Joe (Co-host)
We'll see you next year. God Bless America.
Joe Getty
Hey, if any of you are looking for any last minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there in Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here with a big ribbon on his head and.
Katie Green
I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no good, rotten, four fleshing, low life, snake licking, dirt eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood sucking, dog kissing, brainless, hopeless, heartless, fat ass, bug eyed, stiff legged, spotty lipped, worm headed sack of mother he is. Hallelujah.
Joe Getty
Holy. Where's the Tylenol?
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iHeartPodcasts | December 19, 2025
In this final "Clips of the Year" episode for 2025, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, and the Armstrong & Getty crew take listeners through a rapid-fire tour of the year's wildest, weirdest, and most memorable moments. With their trademark blend of cynical wit and resigned amusement, the hosts reflect on news cycles gone mad, pop culture absurdities, political meltdowns, and personal highlights—all as they select the much-anticipated "Clip of the Year." The episode balances laughter and rueful seriousness as the gang looks back on the tumultuous year that was.
"Things have not gotten as stupid as they are going to get."
“Just icing on the crap cake of the day.”
"No more identity months. DEI offices, dudes in dresses. We are done with that."
“Everything that happens—two people do in America—it’s the new trend we have to worry about.”
"You drive in, you drive out. That’s what people do in their driveways, you moron."
Segment [41:03—42:45]
A chaotic, hilarious, and occasionally sobering romp through 2025’s cultural and political absurdities, with Armstrong & Getty celebrating viral lunacy, lamenting the state of discourse, and finding catharsis in laughter—capped by crowning the “mashed potato driveway fight” as the defining clip of the year.
| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | Notable Quote/Theme | |------------|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------| | 03:03 | Show intro, stress of 2025 | "Crap cake of the day" | | 03:57 | Tabin's Law | "Things have not gotten as stupid as they are going to get." | | 08:38 | Culture war/Identity burnout | "No more identity months..." | | 17:43 | Trend fatigue rant | "Everything that happens... is the new trend..." | | 22:03 | Epstein media obsession | "What a waste of ink and airtime." | | 41:03–41:44| Clip of the Year: Driveway Mashed Potatoes | "You drive in, you drive out...you moron." | | 45:18 | Hosts reflect, gratitude, final thoughts| "How lucky am I..." |