I Think the Milk Carton Leaked...

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode Title: I Think the Milk Carton Leaked...
Date: January 12, 2026
Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode opens with the familiar chaotic, humorous “One More Thing” vibe, as the Armstrong & Getty team riff on the miseries of cleaning up refrigerator spills—an apt metaphor for sorting through leftover clips and topics they didn’t get to during the main show. The team then swings into a spirited discussion of Elon Musk’s surreal robot-themed tweets, viral beatboxing, monkeys on the loose in St. Louis, and the ever-present tension between radio hosts and television personalities. It’s a potpourri of quirky takes, in-jokes, and tongue-in-cheek irreverence, delivering laughs and sharp commentary on pop culture and the modern media landscape.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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The Refrigerator Spill Metaphor (00:04–01:04)

• Messes in Life & Appliances: Kicking off, hosts compare the sudden, unpleasant surprise of a leaking milk carton to larger life messes.

  • “It reminds me of when I was, you know, raising little kids and they'd puke or something, and there you think, well, I know what the next two hours of my life's gonna be…” (A, 00:24)
  • Cleaning fridges is uniquely designed to be “extra hard,” due to “crevasses and things that everything gets into.” (D, 00:40)

• Listener Takeaway: Even in these mundane struggles, there’s always humor—and resignation.

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Elon Musk’s Bizarre Robot Hug Tweet (01:26–04:21)

• The Tweet: Discussion centers on a recent tweet by Elon Musk, featuring a short video where a Tesla robot hugs a human woman in an apocalyptic landscape, leading to speculation about Musk’s vision.

  • “I don’t know what his message is there.” (D, 01:33)
  • “Her loyal robot helper.” (A, 02:06)
  • “So we're fully into the hey, honey, I had the weirdest dream zone at this point.” (A, 02:45)

• Interpretations & Apprehensions:

  • Hosts question if Musk sees Tesla robots as mere tools or as emotional partners (“If it thinks this is who we're going to fall in love with, well… then we ought to have a conversation.” (A, 03:45)).
  • Lighthearted speculation about robots taking over the world for Trump and riding with humans into the apocalypse.
  • The segment exemplifies Armstrong & Getty’s playful skepticism of technological evangelism.

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Golden Globes Joke: Leonardo DiCaprio Roast (04:42–05:42)

• Clip Replay: Hosts react to a Golden Globes joke roasting DiCaprio for his well-publicized relationships with younger women.

  • [Notable Quote]: “And the most impressive thing is that you were able to accomplish all of that before your girlfriend turned 30. I mean, it’s just insane.” (E, 04:56)
  • Both hosts note the running gag’s persistence—“Is that supposed to be a shot? He’s thinking, yeah, isn’t that cool?” (D, 05:25)

• Pop Culture Commentary: Highlights media fixation on celebrity dating lives, mixed with self-aware ribbing.

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Viral Beatboxing: Musical Amazement (05:53–08:14)

• The Clip: A viral beatboxing performance by South Korean artist “Wing” sparks admiration and jokes.

  • “Now. Is that coming out of his mouth?” (A, 06:33)
  • “That one sound I thought might have been coming out of the South Pole.” (D, 06:37)
  • Honest amazement: “Every time I hear a really good beatboxer, I am newly amazed.” (A, 07:04)

• Comedic Deconstruction:

  • The absurd possibility that beatboxing talent is either incredibly lucrative or “worth roughly nothing.” (D, 07:59)

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Reflections on Media Skills & Wordle (08:14–09:29)

• Wordle and Hidden Talent: Discussion about someone’s son who excels at Wordle—sparking musings on how niche skills no longer guarantee success in an oversaturated digital world.

  • “If you could make a living playing Wordle, he’d be sending me money at Christmas.” (A, 08:20)
  • “All of his skill set is now practically useless... There’s so much content.” (A, 08:50)

• Media Evolution: Commentary on how once-valuable skills (like editing for Rolling Stone) have been diluted by endless content.

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Four Monkeys Loose in St. Louis (09:29–10:46)

• News Oddity: A local news piece is played about four monkeys seen roaming St. Louis.

  • “Somebody saw four monkeys.” (A, 10:31)
  • Hosts riff on the lack of detail and anchor’s obvious need to pad the segment.
  • “This breed of monkeys said to be intelligent but unpredictable, as opposed to all the stupid but utterly predictable breeds of monkeys there are on earth.” (A, 10:36)

• Underlying Point: Sometimes news just doesn’t have much substance, but it still has to fill air time.

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Radio vs. TV: A Longstanding Rivalry (11:00–12:54)

• Media Hierarchies: Personal anecdotes about radio hosts feeling “looked down on” by TV people.

  • “They were so condescending because they were pretty TV people, and we were lowly radio guys.” (A, 11:28)
  • “You read reasonably clearly and you’re very pretty, but you have no discernible talent other than that. And the minute you get a wrinkle... you’re going to be out of a job.” (A, 11:44)

• Somewhat Sardonic Reflection: There’s pride, too: “...this is Joe Kenny and I want you to know I make more money than you. I got more talent than you.” (A, 12:16)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “You know when stuff leaks on the shelves...you gotta take everything out...” (A, 00:09)
• “Just set it on fire. That’s what I was doing.” (D, 01:03)
• “Her loyal robot helper.” (A, 02:06)
• “If it thinks this is who we're going to fall in love with, well…” (A, 03:45)
• “It was funny, it was ironic...we have some audio about monkeys roaming the streets of St. Louis.” (A, 09:16)
• “Lowest rung in show business.” (A, 12:54)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:04: Intro & Fridge Mess Analogy
• 01:26: Elon Musk's Robot Tweet
• 04:42: Golden Globes—Leonardo DiCaprio Joke
• 05:53: Viral Beatboxing Clip
• 08:18: Wordle Savant and Media Saturation
• 09:29: Monkeys on the Loose in St. Louis
• 11:00: Radio vs. TV Personal Anecdotes

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Summary

This episode delivered Armstrong & Getty’s signature mix of random but engaging conversation, letting listeners peek inside their post-show “sound fridge” of leftovers—from the drudgery of fridge cleanouts and hilarious robot dreams, to viral internet talents, celebrity roasts, runaway monkeys, and old grievances with TV folks. Expect playful banter, sharp observations, and honesty—exactly the brand of convivial cynicism fans have come to love.

Transcript

[A]

This is an Iheart podcast.

[B]

Guaranteed human.

[A]

I think the milk carton leaked. It's one more thing.

[C]

Armstrong and Getty.

[A]

One more thing. You know when stuff leaks on the shelves, you, like, go into the fridge to get something and you realize the, like, the chicken package that you put in there leaked, and you got to take everything out and take this shelf.

[D]

Oh, that's.

[A]

That's just. It reminds me of when I was, you know, raising little kids and they'd, like, puke or something, and they're. You think, well, I know what the next two hours of my life's going to be. It's the same as when my dogs would get sprayed by skunks. It's like, oh, okay, next two hours are going to be miserable. Okay, that's fine.

[D]

For some reason, most refrigerators I've owned are made in such a way that cleaning up messes is extra hard. There's like, crevasses and things that everything gets into. It's really hard to clean them out.

[C]

You just have to pull the whole shelf out at that point.

[D]

Take the parts apart.

[A]

Yeah. The best thing you can do is just go full on and you can't.

[D]

Set it on fire. That's what I was doing.

[A]

You gotta exactly. Just get a new one up. So it's a reference to cleaning out the sound fridge. We got some great audio. Sorry, metal guy. Right. We didn't get to all the great audio. Our fine, fine crew assembled for the show today, so we're gonna squeeze it in.

[D]

Okay, let's do it.

[A]

Oh, you want to do that first? Okay, that's fine.

[D]

I thought we were going there.

[A]

I thought you had something you wanted.

[D]

I do, but I thought we had moved on. I was confused.

[A]

I was just explaining my teeth.

[D]

We'll probably talk about this more tomorrow because I don't really understand what it means, but. Elon tweets a lot. I don't know if you ever follow his Twitter feed. Lots of. But he. He's got a tweet that he put out today where it's got a human woman walking through an apocalyptic landscape, and a Tesla robot comes up behind her and taps her on the shoulder. And she turns around and gets a very comforted look in her face. And then they start hugging. And I don't know what his message is there.

[A]

Her loyal robot helper.

[D]

That the robots are here to make us feel comforted or will comfort us in the future or. Yeah, okay, now. So then it goes.

[A]

C3PO finally finds Luke, and they're reunited. That feel I don't know.

[D]

So then it goes on to Elon Musk on a horse with a cowboy outfit on. And then he, like, tips his hat like the Lone Ranger used to do, like, happy to be of service and solve your problems, man. And ma'. Am. And then turns off and rides off. So here's a woman who's really struggling, and a Tesla robot comes and hugs.

[A]

Her, and she feels comforted.

[D]

And he says, glad I could help, and rides off.

[A]

So we're fully into the. Hey, honey, I had the weirdest dream zone at this point.

[D]

Is that what he's imagining? The role of Tesla robots, like, comforting us?

[C]

This is bizarre. Yeah, it is right now. What do you think?

[A]

The hell.

[D]

What is that?

[C]

I'm really hoping he's just, like, showing off Grox new features.

[D]

Yeah, but he didn't have to choose that storyboard.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Although he is so good and smart about. Okay, it's weird. A non sequitur. There's no specific message. The message is talk about the fact that Tesla is producing robots and that.

[D]

Brock can make these amazing videos.

[A]

Right? Yeah. While you're at it. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's probably it.

[B]

She.

[C]

She's falling in love with the.

[D]

Right.

[A]

Right.

[D]

Clearly.

[A]

What right? This is what disturbs me, Love bot. Clearly.

[D]

If Elon is thinking these robots are going to fold our laundry mower lawns, fine. If it thinks this is who we're going to fall in love with, well.

[A]

Then we ought to have a conversation. Yeah. Wow. His cowboy hat and rides off. That's hilarious.

[C]

Now the woman is riding a horse, and there is an army of these Tesla robots behind her marching.

[A]

Wow. She has needs an army.

[D]

She's now going to take over another country. I don't know. I don't know what his message is.

[A]

It's simple. They love each other. She's gonna. She's gonna invade Greenland and take it for Trump.

[D]

Excellent clip, Michael. Simple. They love each other. Over complicating it.

[A]

I gotta watch this. I can't wait.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Anyway. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. So anyway, back to cleaning out the sound fridge. Cleaning out sound. Fresh here on air meeting. Well, I want to. Definitely want to do one of the jokes from the Golden Globes, which was last night as we record the. But like the serious political stuff.

[D]

Nah, nah.

[A]

I say the same thing. All right, number four.

[E]

Michael Leonardo DiCaprio is here for one man bun after another. What a career you've had. I mean, countless iconic performances. You've worked with every great director. You've won three Golden Globes. An Oscar. And the most impressive thing is that you were able to accomplish all of that before your girlfriend turned 30. I mean, it's just insane. I'm sorry I made that joke. It's just. You know what? I tried not to, but, like, we don't know anything else about you, man. Like, there's nothing else. Like, open up. I searched the most in depth interview you've ever given was in Teen beat magazine in 1991. Is your favorite food still pasta? Pasta and more pasta. Look it up. That's real.

[D]

I like what she turned it into, but the whole Leonardo dates younger women every single time he's in a crowd at an award show and like, is that supposed to be a shot? He's thinking, yeah, isn't that cool? I'm glad, everybody. Thanks for telling everybody I date young, hot women because I'm kind of proud.

[A]

Of it and they enjoy it, too. So anyway, laugh, laughing boy, laugh. All right, fair enough. So, Katie, do you want to set up the. The beatboxer thingamajigger?

[C]

Yeah, sure. This is his. He goes by Wing. I believe he's from South Korea, if I'm remembering properly. But he is doing all of this with his mouth.

[A]

Now. Is that coming out of his mouth?

[C]

That's all his mouth.

[D]

That one sound I thought might have been coming out of the South Pole.

[C]

He won some condom. Was that a fart joke out of you, Jack?

[A]

It went nameless, though, because he won't. Well, drop it. F bar will not. He won something. Some content.

[C]

Yeah, there was some. He was in on some talent show, and then all of a sudden, this dopamine song blew up and it was all over social media. But it's just. It's just him standing at a mic.

[A]

Doing all time as a cynical older man. Every time I hear a really good beatboxer, I am newly amazed.

[D]

Yeah, that was cool. I would do that all the time if I could do that. Can you send me that clip? My son might like that.

[A]

Yeah. You know, not to geek out, musically speaking, but one of the most amazing things about it was how good his tempo was. I mean, it was like a beat, but. Well, it was like a sequencer, synthesizer. The tempo was perfect. That's crazy.

[D]

Does he need to have a seven layer bean burrito before he does it?

[A]

I get it.

[D]

Make it work.

[A]

Good one. Is that guy, like, is he got a $10 million house in Malibu or does he, like, live with his uncle because, you know, his uncle needs the help on the rent or what? He's like, like, like the best in the world.

[D]

Like low voiced bum from the river when that happened years ago.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Anyway, right.

[D]

That might be one of those things. Like I see painters all the time on street corners and cities. I think, how are you not more valuable than this? That's amazing. But that guy might be able to make that noise and it's like worth roughly nothing. It amuses people at the coffee shop for a few minutes and then you.

[A]

That's it. Yeah, yeah. Katie, do you play the wordle?

[C]

Oh, I do, yeah.

[A]

My whole family does, including my son who's like a wordle prodigy. We've actually accused him of cheating. He's so incredible at it. And I said the other day if, if you could make a living playing wordle, he'd be sending me money at Christmas. I mean, I just, it's freakish how good he is at it. But you know, I shouldn't talk about this too much, but it's his entire, he's, he's really amazing at a lot of stuff and all, all of his skill set is now practically useless. The stuff he's really, really special at because there's so much content. He'd be an editor at Rolling Stone right now at his age, I think if he had been, if he'd been an adult in the 70s. But every single website has more content than you could possibly want. Yeah, it's just, it's, you know, the world changes.

[D]

Can you do music with his mouth? Maybe that's.

[A]

I'll have to ask him. Well, he can, but not that kind of music. And then finally, unless I come up with anything else we should air, I don't think there is. But it was funny, it was ironic in the pre show meeting, Katie, I think it was mentioned that we have some audio about monkeys are roaming the streets of St. Louis. Oh my God.

[D]

Different monkeys than escaped last time.

[A]

Well, and yeah, I mean South Carolina, Mississippi, Missouri. Tell you what, you get down into slave territory. Formerly slave territory. No more. We don't have slaves anymore. You got monkeys roaming around. It's, it's a plague. It's, it's, it's, it's a craze. It's a trend. The latest TikTok Trend. Here you go.

[B]

25 Michael St. Louis is hoping for a no more monkey business there after residents spotted four monkeys just roaming the streets. Nobody knows how they got there in the first place, but officials say as many as four of them, four primates have been seen since just last week. Zoo officials say this species of Monkey is intelligent but unpredictable. The city is asking anybody who spots them, just leave them alone. Just call animal control instead.

[A]

I'll bet she's really pretty. That was a lot of words.

[D]

Well, her problem was there wasn't anything more to the story, apparently, than there are four monkeys that were spotted.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Somebody saw four monkeys.

[D]

She had to fill in the rest of the story with something.

[A]

This breed of monkeys said to be intelligent but unpredictable, as opposed to all the stupid but utterly predictable breeds of monkeys there are on earth.

[D]

This one's of average intelligence, but I can tell you exactly what he's gonna do next.

[A]

Oh, news anchor. Rats.

[D]

In other news, somebody saw four monkeys and weather. I mean, she had to fill it in with more than that.

[A]

It's funny, I harbor no bitterness. It's actually satisfaction at this point, but I remember so clearly the feeling of early ish in our careers. Thank you, Gladys. We would run into TV people, you know, fundraisers and that sort of thing. And they were so condescending because they were pretty TV people.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

And we were lowly radio guys.

[D]

You've had that experience, Katie.

[C]

Oh, my gosh, we had. Yeah. The big TV station was two floors above our little office.

[D]

They definitely feel there's. Well, they probably are several rungs above us, the disc jockeys.

[C]

Oh, yeah. We were the cockroaches.

[A]

Right, Exactly. Yeah. That's the way they looked at us. And I was thinking, you know, you read reasonably clearly and you're very pretty, but you have no discernible talent other than that. And the minute you get a wrinkle or those perky little boobs of yours start to say, wow, you're going to be out of a job. Wow. And then who's going to be looking down at who, huh? I'd like to call those people up and say, this is Joe Kenny and I want you to know I make more money than you. I got more talent than you. I'm more fam you'll ever be. And they'd be thinking, I'm sorry, this is who. Who are you yelling at?

[D]

Me.

[A]

I have no memory of you. You remember me from the radio station now. I really don't. I don't.

[D]

Your boobs are pointing at the floor.

[A]

You still have no discernible. Al. I'm hanging up now. Right. Get the help you need, sir. Get the help you need. Click. I remember you used to tell me, guys, that a disc jockey was just above puppetry and mimes.

[D]

Pretty much. Yeah.

[A]

That's right. Lowest running show business.

[D]

Well, I guess that's it.

[B]

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[A]

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