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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Hit you with the shut the hell up us curse. It's one more thing.
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty One more thing. So before we get to whatever that is on the show we got onto the topic of bathroom graffiti somehow.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Found out.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Something I never identifying discussion. Truly found out.
Jack Armstrong
Something I'd never know my whole life. So Katie told us that women's rooms have disgusting drawings of penises. Also I would have just assumed were very tasteful.
Joe Getty
Beautifully rendered with light and shade.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Drawings of schwances.
Jack Armstrong
I just assumed that women are above that. That's funny.
Joe Getty
You assumed wrong, sir.
Jack Armstrong
Apparently. Anyway, so I went to chat GPT asking about some of your better restroom graffiti. They went with the all time greats. Here I Sit brokenhearted. A classic. I won't do the rest of that one.
Joe Getty
Well, you're an advocate for the return of pay toilets. Have been for years.
Jack Armstrong
Absolutely. 100%. We aimed and most foreign countries I've been to have pay toilets and therefore have public toilets. As opposed to the United States, where there's lots of areas where there are no public toilets because they've been destroyed by the drug addicts. And so you just can't use the bathroom, which is a stupid way for society to be. Anyway, we aim to please. You aim to please. That's actually very, you know, a good message and succinct and well done. Don't rush me. I'm making a masterpiece. I find that disgusting.
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Jack Armstrong
But I'll just leave you with this one and then I won't go through any more of these because, you know, I feel like I'm getting a poor reaction. I wonder why. What if the Hokey Pokey is what it's all about? That's pretty funny.
Joe Getty
There is a fabulous British pub in Sacramento, California, name of the Fox and Goose. Great place for breakfast. And there years and years ago when I first went they in their bathroom, the men's room. I was only in the men's room. I'm a cisgender male. There was clarifying. It was tile and grout on the walls and there's graffiti on all the grout. And it was all puns involving the word grout. The grout, Gretzky grout, expectations. And it seems stupid, but there are so many variations. And some of them were like cerebral. It was my favorite graffiti of all time. Yeah, I wish I had more examples.
Jack Armstrong
It was so much more uplifting than a crude drawing of a penis and.
Joe Getty
Testicles or someone's phone number.
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Joe Getty
What?
Jack Armstrong
Who is that for and for what reason?
Joe Getty
Well, Jack, you know this. It's for the artist. They are expressing themselves. Maybe they have an audience, maybe they don't. The art is for Them, that's their.
Jack Armstrong
Big chance right, right there in that stall. I've never scrawled anything on a bathroom wall in my life. I know that for a fact.
Joe Getty
I believe I have may, may have penned a response or two through the years.
Jack Armstrong
I got to tell this story. I've told it before. It is one of the weirdest things that ever happened to me in my life.
Joe Getty
Joe's from the bathroom.
Jack Armstrong
Joe's heard this story 10 times.
Joe Getty
I know, but I love it.
Jack Armstrong
I'm in the stacks at the University of Kansas taking summer school stacks being the giant library and like my mind on the fifth floor of whatever department. I mean there's nobody around. I mean the library is. It's an enormous library like big colleges are and there's nobody around or whatever. And I'm. I go to the bathroom. Fantastic. I'm completely alone. I like my alone time in the library.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Bathroom in the library. And I'm on the. I am seated for this activity and I'm killing a little time. This is pre smartphone. You know in the smartphone era would have been reading my phone. But this is pre smartphone.
Ryan
I don't remember.
Jack Armstrong
What did people do in the bathroom pre smartphone? What did you do in the bathroom.
Joe Getty
Section in there for your fellow?
Jack Armstrong
That's right. Newspapers were big. Newspapers were big. Anyway, so I had no newspaper. So I'm just reading the wall and I'm killing time reading the wall. You know, it's usual. And then there is a. I forget exactly what it said but it was something about to for a good time or something like that. It was like meet me here noon Thursday the June 8th or whatever it was. I thought I'll be damned. Today's June 8th. What time is. Is freaking noon. And I'm not kidding. Within moments some guy's head comes underneath the stall. He's laying on his back and he slides underneath the stall and he's looking.
Joe Getty
Straight up at me like it is noon June 8th. Yes.
Jack Armstrong
And he's like wide eyed and ah. Like he, like he was not pleased that I was not, you know, like. Like I wasn't there for the same reason he was there. And I pulled up my pants and ran out.
Joe Getty
He's still telling this story too, right on his radio. Weird is that it's June 8, the noon. I'd had that up there for two weeks. I go back June 8 and noon. There's some guy in that he freaks out.
Jack Armstrong
That was so weird. I can, I would recognize the guy. I'll bet I can still picture him it was. I was so shocked. It was so weird. That sounds like something out of a movie. It does. Ew. And you're laying on the floor of a bathroom and he just lit underneath there. And I'm looking straight down at his.
Joe Getty
Face like a snake.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know if he was on a dolly. Like if you go under to change oil in your car or what.
Joe Getty
You guys ever seen your oil? Have you guys ever seen Dumb and Dumber? That actually happens in that movie.
Jack Armstrong
I'd forgotten. You're right. Yeah.
Joe Getty
That actually happened.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. That was so weird. They stole your story. Yeah.
Joe Getty
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Joe Getty
So in the intro I said I'm going to hit you with the shut the hell up us curse. It's a Harold Potter story. The great J.K. rowling project. There's a new HBO Harry Potter series coming up with with a pretty good cast really, including John Lithgow and some other people.
Jack Armstrong
But Harold Potter comma Wizard?
Joe Getty
Yes. Apparently because of J.K. rowling's outrageous insistence that only women are women, there's huge social pressure and painting. You've got to be pains to harass these people.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, you've got to be kidding.
Joe Getty
Open letter to John Lithgow Please walk away from Harry Potter.
Jack Armstrong
Oh my God. Could anything be more beloved than Harry Potter? And you're gonna be anti having this Harry Potter show.
Joe Getty
Yeah. So this guy Nick Frost was named as the new Hagrid. He quickly had to disable comments on instagram then gave an interview in which he said that his opinions, quote, don't align in any way, shape or form with those of J.K. rowling.
Jack Armstrong
Don't, don't dignify their responses. Hagrid.
Joe Getty
Yeah, really. Not only did he dignify it, but he, he appeased the tiny angry, hyper.
Jack Armstrong
Activist crowd right out of fear.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. Wow. And they go through all the various cast members saying, yeah, I had a friend call me and John Lithgow had a friend sent him an article entitled an open letter to John Lithgow, please walk away from Harry Potter, telling him, dude, keep your head down.
Jack Armstrong
I assume Lithgow is Dumbledore or did.
Joe Getty
You already say yes? No, I didn't. But yes, that's correct.
Jack Armstrong
So is this a like just an episodes version of the Harry Potter stories we've already seen before in movie form or.
Joe Getty
No, it's, it's the Further Adventures.
Jack Armstrong
Okay.
Joe Getty
It's going back to the, the Hogwarts days.
Jack Armstrong
So what are they now? Like 30s and beaten down by life and.
Joe Getty
No, it's like the, the end of the final Harry Potter movie. Now he's 45 and kind of did, you know, stuck in a career.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
Yeah, Gene Weasley's running around on him with Malfoy.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I didn't start the books early enough so I didn't get to the very last. Oh, with my kids. Do he and Hermione end up together? No, they don't.
Joe Getty
No. No. Spoiler alert. No, they're, they're best friends, not lovers. He's with Ginny Weasley.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, okay, that makes sense.
Joe Getty
And the, the final scene of the final book is incredibly touching. And the movie for that matter, it involves a Snape. The bravest man Harry ever knew. Okay, spoiler alert again.
Jack Armstrong
Probably won't get around to it unless I end up having more children.
Joe Getty
Oh, you should. It's. It's terrific entertainment. It's great. It's a good read. Of course you read serious things.
Jack Armstrong
I do. I read very serious things.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. You know.
Jack Armstrong
Then, then this I'm currently reading as a novel. I don't read that much literature. I should read more because I really like it.
Joe Getty
I know, I'm reading. I never have time.
Jack Armstrong
The End of the Affair by Graham Green. I read another Graham Green book last year. Oh, I'm a Graham Green fan. He is fantastic.
Joe Getty
She screams fu. And stomps out, that's the end of the affair.
Jack Armstrong
But then if you've never read Graham Green and you like books, give it a whirl.
Joe Getty
Well, Muppet super fans held a funeral recently, Jack. Speaking of popular culture and people way too into various things. So Disney World in Florida announced the end of Muppet Vision 3D, an attraction that had existed four decades.
Jack Armstrong
Oh boy. So 40 year old 3D technology, that must have been something.
Joe Getty
Well, yeah, yeah, it's a Muppet fanatics flocked to it for years and years and years.
Jack Armstrong
Probably dressed as animals.
Joe Getty
Well, and this lady has a big Miss Piggy tattoo on her arm. All right, what is Miss Piggy doing in this anyway? They dressed up in costumes. I was all cried out, said a 39 year old man from Buffalo, New York. He showed up early on the last day Muppet Vision was open to the public. To be among the first to experience the film.
Jack Armstrong
I like the way you verbally put man in quotes.
Joe Getty
What? He watched it multiple times and waited in line for 40 minutes just to purchase pressed penny souvenirs. And when a crowd gathered that evening to sing Rainbow Connection outside the theater's entrance, I'm guessing 39 year old said he had to call it a day. I was all cried out.
Jack Armstrong
Let me guess that these adults don't have children. A lot of them.
Joe Getty
Or significant others.
Jack Armstrong
Or significant others. Or they're all together. Because it's like the crowd when we went to when my kids were younger and we went to Universal Studios for the Mario exhibit and we actually stood in line. Longest I've ever stood in line in my life because I've regularly said I wouldn't stand in line for anything. My kids were into this and we stood in line. They do a pretty good job at Disney to keep the lines moving to make it feel like it's not so long. But we didn't sit in line for like, I think two hours. I mean an insane amount of time. But you worked your way through this giant castle and up things and in things. So there's always stuff to look at. Anywho, the other people in line were mostly adults. It wasn't kids. It was like 30 year old dudes there with their front dude friend. And they didn't appear to be gay. They just like were childless. Arrested Development. Oh, it was so disappointing.
Joe Getty
Fed boys, they call them in Japan.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it was that.
Joe Getty
So the attraction, its surrounding area, previously known as Muppets Courtyard, will be redeveloped into a section based on the Monsters Incorporated franchise.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, that's quite the leap forward in, yeah, in culture from Muppets because like Muppets is way before your time. Like, right, Kitty? No, I grew up with the Muppets. Oh, okay.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Then they organized a prom themed gathering in February and formal clothing and they're childless.
Jack Armstrong
They don't. If you, when you have kids, you don't have time for this nonsense to go as a grown up to do this sort of thing for a whole day and dress up. Like I remember saying this when I got back from Universal after going to the Mario thing, trying to picture when I was in line, trying to picture my dad as a 30 year old dressed in a Mario costume, waiting in line for hours to ride the rides. Not a chance. He had a couple of kids and he'd had a job and been married for years and you know, it's just, it's just a. Ah, oh, here's a.
Joe Getty
Guy with a three year old stepson. That's the only mention I can find of that. Uh, being in that theater in some cell sense felt like being part of the Muppet show, said J.D. hansel, a writer for Muppet fan site Tough Pigs who recently made the pilgrimage to pay his respects.
Jack Armstrong
All right.
Joe Getty
Yeah. All right.
Jack Armstrong
Hiya. Well, I guess that's it.
Joe Getty
And here we have a specimen from the early 2000s, a legacy investing platform. Please don't touch the exhibit, folks. It could crash.
Ryan
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand – "I'll Hit Ya With the ShutTheHellUpus Curse"
Release Date: June 18, 2025
In the episode titled "I'll Hit Ya With the ShutTheHellUpus Curse," Hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into a variety of entertaining and thought-provoking topics. From the peculiar world of bathroom graffiti to controversies surrounding a new Harry Potter HBO series, the duo offers listeners a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and cultural commentary.
The episode opens with a candid discussion about bathroom graffiti, a topic that took the hosts by surprise. Inspired by a conversation with Katie, Jack reveals his unexpected discovery:
Joe reminisces about his favorite graffiti experiences, highlighting the creativity behind the art:
The conversation takes a humorous turn as Jack shares one of his strangest personal experiences related to bathroom graffiti:
The story escalates as Jack recounts an eerie encounter:
Joe adds to the humor and disbelief:
The hosts laugh over the surreal nature of the incident, comparing it to scenes from movies like Dumb and Dumber.
Shifting gears, Armstrong and Getty dive into the latest buzz in the Harry Potter universe—a new HBO series that has stirred controversy:
The discussion centers around casting decisions influenced by J.K. Rowling's stance on gender issues:
Joe explains the backlash faced by cast members, particularly Nick Frost, who was cast as Hagrid:
The hosts express their frustration with the pressures exerted by social movements on entertainment projects:
The conversation transitions to the sad news of Disney World's Muppet Vision 3D attraction closing after four decades:
They share anecdotes about dedicated fans who cherished the attraction:
Jack muses about the loyalty of adult fans:
Amidst the pop culture chatter, the hosts touch upon their reading habits, recommending noteworthy literature:
Jack Armstrong [15:29]: "I'm currently reading 'The End of the Affair' by Graham Greene. He is fantastic."
Joe Getty [15:47]: "Well, if you've never read Graham Greene and you like books, give it a whirl."
Throughout the episode, Armstrong and Getty blend humor with genuine curiosity, offering listeners a window into their personal experiences and perspectives on broader cultural phenomena. From the unexpected depths of bathroom graffiti to the intricate dynamics of popular media franchises, the hosts ensure a rich and engaging listening experience.
Notable Quotes:
Jack Armstrong [02:53]: "I just feel like I'm getting a poor reaction. I wonder why."
Joe Getty [13:06]: "Open letter to John Lithgow: Please walk away from Harry Potter."
Jack Armstrong [19:43]: "Hiya. Well, I guess that's it."
This episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand is a must-listen for fans seeking a blend of humor, storytelling, and insightful cultural commentary. Whether you're a literature enthusiast, a pop culture aficionado, or someone who enjoys quirky personal stories, Armstrong and Getty deliver content that resonates and entertains.