It's National Radio Day!

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: It's National Radio Day!
Date: August 20, 2025
Host: Armstrong & Getty, Katie
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This lively episode celebrates National Radio Day with Armstrong, Getty, and Katie reminiscing about their careers in radio—from their humble beginnings to the odd, funny, and occasionally painful experiences they've had in the business. The conversation is packed with anecdotes about radio contests, “prize pigs,” phone-in failures, the agony of listener criticism, cringe-worthy early encounters, and the charming, accidental chaos that defines local radio. The episode is a humorous, candid valentine to the quirks of radio life and those who’ve lived it.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. National Radio Day Reflections

• Opening the Discussion (03:36)
  • Armstrong, Getty, and Katie mark National Radio Day by sharing their pride in working in radio. Armstrong parodies a typical radio contest, highlighting the predictability and formulaic nature of such events.

2. Radio Contest Culture

• The Formula of Call-In Contests (03:42–04:52)

  • Armstrong impersonates the classic radio giveaway call, poking fun at listeners’ perfunctory responses about their “favorite station.”
  • Armstrong: “There’s no rule that says you have to love the station you won on... If I won a contest, I’d be completely honest.” (04:16)

• Invisible Audiences and Giveaway Lows (05:21–06:20)

  • The hosts joke about contests where “it’s not impossible that there is literally not a human being listening,” and reminisce about giving away trivial prizes like tacos or ice cream cones with little listener response.
  • Joe: “I gave away like at taco or an ice cream cone... and you’re gonna have to drive to the radio station and get it.” (06:06)
  • The same few listeners often win repeatedly, earning the nickname “prize pigs.”

• Radio “Prize Pig” Confessions (08:02–10:17)

  • Armstrong admits he was an avid “prize pig” as a college student, using his encyclopedic musical knowledge to win contests multiple times a week—sometimes under fake names.
  • Armstrong: “I would win like three days a week.” (09:35)
  • Katie and Joe share amusement and mild judgment, but Armstrong insists it was about competitive spirit, not just free stuff:
  • Armstrong: “It’s like I’m better than anybody. Bring it on. I’m the best prize pig there ever has been.” (10:14–10:17)

3. Small Market Radio: The Janky, Lovable Chaos

• Early Careers and Egos (05:03–07:21)

  • Katie describes college radio as “janky,” noting how it often felt like she was broadcasting to no one.
  • Katie: “Frequently there for my own enjoyment only at that point.” (05:33)

• Listener Engagement: Myth vs. Reality

  • The hosts discuss how meaningless most radio contests were in reality, with only a handful of listeners actually engaging or caring.
  • Armstrong points out the outsized importance of a few ratings “diary” holders on a show’s fortunes.
  • Armstrong: “In a bigger market, those four people become 40 or maybe 400. And... if one of them has... whatever is used to measure the ratings, that could change your life.” (07:21)

4. The Sting of Listener Criticism

• First Harsh Feedback (10:22–12:18)

  • Joe shares a formative experience where, during his first week at a big station, a caller bluntly told him, “You suck,” leaving him devastated.
  • Joe: “I can’t believe I reacted that way. Like, that person was the arbiter of whether or not I could be in this career or not.” (11:17)
  • Over time, he learns to shrug off such comments, justified by the fact he’s “making a living” at it.
  • Armstrong: “The free market begs to differ.” (12:16)
  • Joe: “So enough people think I don’t suck, then I’m gonna go with that.” (12:18)

• Public Feedback Gets Personal

  • Katie recalls getting a cruel “you’re the worst” text message from her prom date, and the hosts react with indignation—and a bit of cathartic “I hope his life sucks” banter.
  • Katie: “I plugged the number into my cell phone and it was my senior prom date.” (13:06)
  • Joe: “Your prom date was a dick.” (13:27)

5. Radio Life: Weird Encounters and Growing Up On-Air

• The Perils of Listener Encounters (18:26–20:59)

  • Joe tells an incredible story about the one time he went out with a persistent female listener, leading to a surreal and unnerving meeting involving a purse full of loose pills and a hasty escape.
  • Joe: “She opens up her purse which was full of pills. Not like in bottles or anything like that.” (20:14)
  • The crew laughs about the naivete of young radio jocks and the dangers of crossing listeners’ boundaries.

• First “Radio Station” Stories (21:19–21:44)

  • Katie fondly remembers her childhood radio “station” with a Fisher-Price record player, where her programming ended when she sold it (and got a bike in return!) to a Spanish-speaking neighbor.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the absurdity of radio loyalty:
  “There’s no rule that says you have to love the station you won on. If I won a contest, I’d be completely honest. You just won a thousand dollars. What’s your favorite radio station?... Well, I jump around a lot. I like the Spanish one.”
  — Armstrong (04:16)

• On giving away tiny prizes nobody wants:
  “I gave away like at taco or an ice cream cone... and you’re gonna have to drive to the radio station and get it.”
  — Joe (06:06)

• On the reality of radio contests:
  “You don’t get a single call... Or you say caller 10 but you get two calls, so you pick one of them and it’s the same person that calls every time.”
  — Joe (06:21)

• On being a ‘prize pig’:
  “I was a serious college prize pig… It was just competitiveness.”
  — Armstrong (08:09, 10:02)

• On the pain of public criticism:
  “Somebody said, you suck, and hung up... I will always remember it. Because I was devastated.”
  — Joe (11:21)

• On regaining confidence:
  “I’m supporting myself on this job. The free market begs to differ.”
  — Armstrong and Joe (12:13–12:18)

• On personal jabs hiding in listener feedback:
  “I plugged the number into my cell phone and it was my senior prom date… So I texted him back... Prom was fun.”
  — Katie (13:06)

• On disastrous fan interactions:
  “She opens up her purse which was full of pills. Not like in bottles or anything like that… I wanted to get her out of my house.”
  — Joe (20:14, 20:27)

• On childhood radio dreams:
  “I was 7 years old at a Fisher Price record player and I would play Disney songs... Then I finally sold my station to the kid down the street who spoke Spanish and he’s changed format to Spanish and... I got his bike.”
  — Katie (21:19–21:39)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |------------|----------------------------------------------------| | 03:36–04:52| Satirical recreation of radio contest calls | | 05:03–06:20| Anecdotes about low-stakes contests, empty phones | | 08:02–10:17| Armstrong’s “prize pig” confessions and radio trivia| | 10:22–12:18| Joe’s first “you suck” phone call and reaction | | 13:06–13:30| Katie’s prom date sends a nasty text—revealed | | 18:26–20:59| Joe’s story of the one fan date gone awry | | 21:19–21:44| Katie’s Fisher-Price station and selling it for a bike|

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Episode Tone

The conversation is affectionate, self-deprecating, and irreverent—full of friendly teasing and war stories. The hosts are candid about the low points of their careers, none too proud to admit to being nervous, insulted, or the object of local radio’s oddest traditions.

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Summary

For anyone who loves radio—or has ever wondered what it’s really like behind the microphone—this episode is a nostalgic, funny peek into the humble (and sometimes humiliating) life of local radio broadcasters. The hosts share their genuine affection for radio, as well as its absurdities, making for a relatable and enjoyable listen.

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[Joe (Radio Host)]

It's National Radio Day and we've never been so proud. It's one more thing.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

One more thing. Listening to the radio today, I heard a radio contest here in la. But it doesn't matter where you are. All radio contests sound exactly the same. Your lucky caller number seven.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Oh my God. I can't believe it. Are you serious?

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

I'm serious. You just won a thousand dollars. What's your favorite radio station?

[Joe (Radio Host)]

This one.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Wk.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Whatever the hell it is, most people.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Have no shame or humility. There's no rule that says you have to love the station you want on. If I won a contest, I'd be completely honest. You just won a thousand dollars. What's your favorite radio station? Well, I jump around a lot. I like the Spanish one.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

And this one's pretty good. What station is this anyway?

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

I just had it on seek.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

I just press seek. You have to be old enough to remember when people did that with radios and they even existed in your car. I don't know how to make the seek work on several of my vehicles.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Good times.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

So it is national radio decade. Have you been always. You were in a big market your whole life. So you know small market radio.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

Yeah 18 years.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Did you ever work at any janky radio stations or.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

I did like college radio.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Okay. A little bit.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

And that radio station was janky.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Yeah. And then. And you probably had the realization, as Joe and I have had on some small stations starting out, where there's a possibility at this moment that no one is listening.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

Oh, yeah. Frequently there for my own enjoyment. Only at that point.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Yes. Yeah. It's not impossible that there is literally not a human being listening right now.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Or apparently not a single human being who wants a free taco or whatever the prize of whatever contest might be, as we've both had the experience of, you know, announcing a contest, caller number whatever, nine. And you don't get a single call.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

What's the smallest thing you ever gave away? Oh, because I gave away like at taco or an ice cream cone. I mean, to a value of like a dollar and a half. And you're gonna have to drive to the radio station and get it. I mean.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Yeah.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

And nobody calls number. You don't get a single call. And then so you got to make it up or, you know, you say caller 10, but you get two calls. So you pick one of them and it's the same person that calls every time. Oh, hey, Jim, call.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

You tell caller number two. Hey, you're number 10. They're like, oh, yeah.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Hey, Jim. Oh, yeah, it's you again. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll just send it with the other prizes. Yeah, we have your address already. Nice talking to you.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

I was a phone screener when they ended up putting in the system to stop people like that. There was like a 90 day hold.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

That's right.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think a lot of the stuff that existed in radio back in the old days, like a lot of things in a lot of industries probably wasn't. Everybody was doing it because somebody did it once or thought it worked. But it just. I don't know if it was helping anything really. You're, you're. There are like four people that were going to change their listing habits because you're giving away an ice cream cone on an oil change or whatever it was, didn't have any effect on most people who are not going to participate.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Right. And we're not allowed to talk about the rating system like at all on the air. And frankly, I'm not sure how bold I want to be on the podcast because I just don't want to create problems for people who don't deserve them. But in a bigger market, those four people become 40 or maybe 400. And if one of them has whatever diary or device or whatever is used to measure the ratings than that, you know, hamburger platter or whatever the hell you just gave away, that, that could change your life, could change the station's fortunes, at least for a month or a quarter or whatever.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Here's where I can get hurtful to some of our listeners.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Oh, no. I was a prize pig, by the way. Katie, I don't know if you were.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

Sorry, Are you serious?

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

I was a serious college prize pig.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

And I'll tell you why I'm judging you right now.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Go ahead.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

I was, I had no money. I, you know, any money I wanted, I had to work for. And I didn't have much of it and I was. And well, I guess I am accidentally now, but was a music trivia freak. I would read and memorize every word on every album cover I came in contact with and, and just, I just voraciously. I don't know why I was obsessed with it. I knew who produced and mixed an album 10 years before. I knew what it meant to produce or mix an album. I knew the names of bands, roadies. I knew who played guest, you know, steel guitar on one track of an album for. I don't, I just so interested in it. And oh, what was the, was the name the call letters? The student radio station at the University of Illinois that I was never on. I never, I showed up to one meeting and it was. There was like a million people and I was out in the hallway listening and I thought f this and I didn't get involved in college radio at all. But whatever the station is, and it'll pop into my head. But they would do every noon rock quiz and they would, it was like a syndicated thing with a sponsor and they'd ask you a question about what rooster haired rocker who was originally star soccer player found fame with Blankety Blank. That'd be like Rod Stewart. And I would call and I had to, I had to pretend to be friends of mine because they had rules. You could only win like once every week or something like that. And I would win like three days a week.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

Wow, that's cool.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Oh, but I was so into it. And it wasn't like, I mean, because some of the prizes were pretty cool. I actually won some tickets and video concert videos and stuff. But it was just, it was competitiveness.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

Yeah.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

It's like I'm better than anybody. Bring it on.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

I'm the best prize pig there ever has been.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Right? Right.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

I, I did Once I did a semester of college radio, and then I got hired onto a real commercial radio station. And so then I was off and running and doing that, and then I got hired to a bigger station in a bigger town. So I actually left my community college early, before I was finished with it, and moved to the other town for the job. But when I got to that big town, it was the big town. Everybody wanted to work there. And I got there and. And I had a job. And it was in the first week. It might even have been the first night I'm on the air and I pick up the phone and somebody said, you suck, and hung up. And. And I will. I will always remember it. Because I was devastated. I mean, I was just. Yes, devastated. I sat there thinking, oh, my God, I went to college for this. This is the only plan I've got. I don't know how to do anything else, and I suck. What am I gonna do? I mean, I just. I can't believe I reacted that way. Like, that person was the arbiter of whether or not I could be in this career or not.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

I. Surely they wouldn't call and out of pure cruelty or meanness, say something definitive or be wrong. How many you suck calls did it take before you reacted?

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Whatever. I don't know. I don't know what it was.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Several changed for me.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Yo.

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Yeah, yeah.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Because it rattles your confidence. Even if you have confidence.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't. I don't know when, but eventually you get thick skin to it. Actually, I don't know if that's what happened. Even, like with. With Joe and I still getting emails and texts today where their people are so cruel at a certain point. I mean, even when I was 20 years old, I was a program director, radio station when I was 20 and I was making my rent and my car payment. I'm making a living at this. So you thinking I suck is fine.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

I'm making.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

I'm supporting myself on this job.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

The free market begs to differ.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Right. So enough people think I don't suck, then I'm gonna go with that is. I think that's what got me over the hump.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Right.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Although the. The living I was making was quite meager.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

All right, now you. You'd reply, yes, I do suck, but I work cheap.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

Oh, God. I remember when I was about 19, we had the text line up and thank you so much, and I saw a 510 number, which was the same area code as mine. And so. And. And the message that came through the text line was, katie, you're the worst. Get off the radio. Or something along those lines. So I thought, you know, my town is small. I wonder if I know this person. I plugged the number into my cell phone and it was my senior prom date.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Oh, wow. Oh, that's a good story.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Bastard.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

So I, I texted him back from the station and said, thanks. Call him, Dan. Prom was fun. And he wrote back, oh, I was just kidding. I, you know, because you think I could see he was.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Yeah, total dick. Yeah. Your prom date was a dick.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

Total dick.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Yeah.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Wow, that is so. That is so freaking weak. So your, your cute prom date from high school has a cool job and you need to try to take her down a peg. I hope his life sucks. It probably does. If he's doing that, his life almost certainly sucks. Or.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Or it will soon. Yeah, if you're that big dick right.

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[Joe (Radio Host)]

So Joe and I are both in our mid-80s. So when we were doing this, getting.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Phone calls, there was no mid-80s.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

There was no like caller ID or anything like that. God, that would have been great if I could have like called these people back or figured out who they were instead of just the random you suck calls. Oh, and I should tell. So since it's National Radio Day, the one time ever in my entire radio career I've ever gone out with a listener and I swore it off ever since then at age 20. So this and I, I had been warned. I had been warned about, you know, being misled by a, a velvety sounding voice over the phone. But I was 20 and I was new in town and I was lonely and I was a male and all the things that go with that. But this, this chick kept calling me, calling me, call me. And then she wanted to, she wanted to go out sometimes. God, I can't believe I did this. This is how naive and stupid I was. I gave her my freaking address.

[Christina Quinn]

What?

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Wow. Didn't meet her somewhere neutral or anything like that?

[Joe (Radio Host)]

No. Well, I'm In a town of 12, 000 people for one thing, so I mean it's. Yeah. But she comes to my house and it wasn't that she was bad looking, she was actually fairly attractive. But she was dressing. Dressed very freaky. Like by today's standards she's the barista at every coffee shop you go to. But by those standards it was like really freak show stuff. She had some piercings and tattoos and colored hair and I mean, just craziness. And I, oh my God, this is not small town, Midwestern 80s girl I was hoping for. And then she opens up her purse which was full of pills. Not like in bottles or anything like that.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

It was just like a bag of pills.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

And she said, which color do you want? I said, I'm good. And who knows what they were? I have not got. I didn't know anything about drugs, for one thing. So I didn't have this.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

Huh. Dissolving, Right.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

So I wanted to get her out of my. My, my house. So I said, let's go over to the pool hall. Which is what we had to discuss doing. So we go over to the pool hall, we start playing pool. I say I need to go to the bathroom. I. I go to the bathroom. I walk out the back door, I get in my car and I leave. I never saw her again. I was afraid she'd come to my house. I think I slept with like a bat near my bed or something like that.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

I'm shocked she didn't free show up.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

And shove pills down your throat. Poor innocent boy.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

I asked you what color you wanted.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

Oh, my God. I don't know what I would. Yeah, the naive. The being the naive child. I could end up dead. Yeah. Organs harvested. Tub of ice. Call the police. Your kidneys have been harvested.

[Armstrong (Radio Host)]

It happens a lot. I heard about that.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

Okay, this is my radio story. I was 7 years old at a Fisher Price record player and I would play Disney songs, you know, to amuse myself. But on the weekends, I would. I'd have paid programming. And believe it or not, then I finally sold my station to the kid down the street who spoke to Spanish and he's changed format to Spanish and.

[Joe (Radio Host)]

I got his bike. Oh, there you go.

[Katie (Radio Host)]

Well, I guess that's it.

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[Christina Quinn]

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[Christina Quinn]

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