That's Why You Have 2 Brown Nubs In Your Mouth

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: "That's Why You Have 2 Brown Nubs In Your Mouth"

Date: December 3, 2025
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty (with Katie Greener and team)
Podcast by: iHeartPodcasts

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode of "Armstrong & Getty On Demand" delivers the duo’s trademark blend of current events, cultural commentary, and unsparing humor. Major topics include the impacts of smartphone addiction on kids, updates on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, reactions to new Jeffrey Epstein photos, societal shifts due to weight loss drugs, quirks of TSA airport security, and cultural reflections on religion and charity. The show features lively exchanges, notable rants, and signature banter among the hosts.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The "Content Creator" Culture & Smartphone Addiction

• Viral Stunts: Opens with commentary on a content creator breaking the record for most T-shirts worn during a half marathon (137 shirts).

  • Jack: "He's a content creator and his content is he does weird, freaky, kind of funny things that are also painful and strenuous." (02:36)
  • Leads to a broader critique of “pointless” viral internet content and endless consumption.
  • Joe: "People scrolling through their phones all day long taking in this crap, leads to more of this crap, and it's just... it'll never end." (03:26)

• Smartphones and Kids:

  • New study links early smartphone use to higher rates of depression, obesity, and poor sleep in tweens.
  • Jack: Shares key findings and warns, "When you give your kid a phone, you need to think of it as something that is significant for the kid's health and behave accordingly." (05:29)
  • Joe: "You have a kid or an adult, anybody who's addicted to their smartphone... You don't get that until you get your grades up or you start taking the trash out... That is powerful." (06:06)
  • Debate on Consequences: They ponder whether taking phones away as punishment is feasible for most parents.

[07:04] – Teacher’s Testimony: The School Experience Now

• A teacher describes students as “dopamine addicts” unable to focus on anything non-digital.

  • Teacher: "They live on their phones, and they're just fed a constant stream of dopamine... when you are standing in front of them trying to teach, they're vacant. They have no ability to tune in if your communication isn't packaged in short little clips..." (starts 07:04)
  • Kids show unprecedented apathy about grades and future prospects.
  • Links between digital addiction and mental disengagement.

• Joe: "That part, I’ve run into that. Not caring about stuff, and I just don’t quite get it..." (08:20)

• Jack: Connects it to classical addiction behaviors.

[09:46] – Struggles with Adult Attention

• Joe: "I have a hard time reading long form myself. I have to like, really discipline myself to make myself do it because it seems so boring... because I've ruined my brain." (09:46)

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2. Putin's Aggressive Rhetoric and the Russia-Ukraine War

[13:21] – Geopolitical Update

• Recap of current stalemates in the war and European diplomatic skepticism.
• Joe: "Putin actually said... 'We are not planning to go to war with Europe, but if Europe wants to and starts, we are ready right now.' If that sort of comment had come out of the Soviet premiere in the 80s, the world would have stopped." (14:54)
• Jack: "There already is war in Europe... including incursions into the airspace of half a dozen countries by Russia and its drones..." (15:47)
• Hosts note the changed modern reaction to such bombastic threats.

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3. Jeffrey Epstein Photo Leak: Media Sensation or Nothing Burger?

[16:25] – New Epstein Island Photos

• Katie: Mentions newly released Epstein Island images (one featuring a yellow dental chair surrounded by men’s mask faces).

  • Joe: "I don't want to go to a dentist that's got those masks on the wall... No, that just seems weird." (17:34)
  • Jack: "This is a nothing burger. They just leaked out these completely innocuous pictures of storerooms and couches just to get Epstein back in the news." (17:31)

• Speculate that new photo releases are politically motivated and haven’t added substance to the ongoing Epstein scandal.

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4. Dental Neglect, Genetics, & Banter

[19:11] – Dental Check-ups

• Group comically compares their dental visit frequency; Joe jokes he hasn’t been since "2002," which prompts Jack to quip:
  • Jack: "That's why you got nothing but two brown nubs in your mouth." (19:14)
• The line gives the episode its title, sparking laughter and good-natured ribbing.

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5. The Joy (and Frustrations) of TSA and Holiday Travel

[19:48] – TSA Mockery

• Celebrate TSA’s record travel day with a satirical TSA announcement.

  • Parody includes running gags on inconsistent security instructions regarding belts, shoes, and electronics:
  • Jack: "Every TSA guide, they ought to force them to fly back and forth at least once... and they get through that experience and say, oh, oh, now I get it." (20:57)

• Joe shares his frustration at overlong, cringe-worthy search pat-down instructions for minors. (21:27)

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6. Celebrity Thinness and the “Ozempic Economy”

[22:16] – Super-Thin Celebrities & Weight Loss Drugs

• Joe: Comments on “heroin chic” and the sudden thinness of stars like Ariana Grande: "She is a skeleton with hair. And same with Latoya Jackson..." (23:06)

• Katie: Shares tips on weight loss and stopping at a healthy point after significant personal weight loss.

[24:15] – Economic Impact of New Weight Loss Drugs

• Discuss the widespread effects of drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro:

  • Surge in supplements, hair, anti-nausea meds
  • Decrease in snack/junk food purchases; increase in produce and smaller-size clothing sales
  • Jack: "It's turned around the obesity rate for the first time in human history, certainly in the United States." (24:15)

• Joe: Wonders about the social dynamic: "If you’re 300 pounds and everyone else is on the Ozempic... it'll be a lot more noticeable." (28:50)

• Jack: Jokes about the loss of demand for "rascal scooters" and "sticks where you pick stuff up off the floor." (29:14)

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7. Cultural Reflections: Nativity Scene and Modern Issues

[32:14] – Nativity Scene as Social Statement

• Chicago-area church uses ICE imagery, gas masks, and zip-tied baby in nativity scene to comment on immigration.
  • Joe: "Am I supposed to just drop to my knees devastated by your juxtaposition of the Nativity scene with a modern political story...?" (33:08)
• Critique the tendency to use religious imagery for progressive activism.

[34:46] – Jesus & Charity to the Addicted

• Discuss challenges of reconciling Christian charity ("feed the poor") with enabling addiction among the homeless.
  • Joe: "I’ve never been able to square that with my beliefs... We got plenty of taxpayer food going to the drug addicts and it's just allowing them to spend their money on drugs and booze." (34:46)
  • Jack: "You just knee jerk. No, the Bible said feed the hungry. So we're going to feed the hungry and give them a tent and give them a clean needle..." (35:01)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "People scrolling through their phones all day long taking in this crap, leads to more of this crap, and it's just... it'll never end." – Joe Getty (03:26)
• "When you give your kid a phone, you need to think of it as something that is significant for the kid's health and behave accordingly." – Jack Armstrong quoting a pediatric psychiatrist (05:29)
• "They live on their phones... in a constant state of dopamine withdrawal at school. They behave like addicts... They have a level of apathy that I've never seen before in my whole career." – Teacher clip (07:04)
• "That's why you got nothing but two brown nubs in your mouth." – Jack Armstrong (19:14)
• "Putin actually said, 'We are not planning to go to war with Europe, but if Europe wants to and starts, we are ready right now.'" – Joe Getty (14:54)
• "They're not zip tieing freaking infants." – Jack Armstrong, on the nativity scene protest (33:29)

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• 01:59 – Marathon & T-shirts; Content creator culture
• 03:42 – Smartphone study and early use risks
• 07:04 – Teacher's “dopamine addict students” testimony
• 13:21 – Russia-Ukraine, Putin’s threats, EU reactions
• 16:25 – Epstein Island photos, reactions
• 19:14 – Dental neglect banter; origin of episode name
• 19:48 – TSA satire & holiday travel complaints
• 22:16 – "Heroin chic," celebrity weight, Ozempic
• 24:15 – Economic/cultural impacts of new weight-loss drugs
• 32:14 – Nativity scene as protest art; religious charity & social justice
• 37:12 – Final thoughts & sign-off

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Tone & Style

The episode is marked by irreverent humor, strong opinions, and spontaneous, often self-deprecating conversation. The hosts frequently use satire and sarcasm, and banter back and forth both on the serious issues and the day-to-day topics.

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Conclusion

"That's Why You Have 2 Brown Nubs In Your Mouth" delivers Armstrong & Getty’s signature combination of skepticism, social critique, and playful mockery across issues from smartphone addiction to geopolitics and cultural change. Notable for its frankness and pace, listeners get both trenchant insights and plenty of levity—making the episode engaging whether you care most about tech’s impact on kids, the politics of war, or whether your dentist’s choice in décor might be a red flag.

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Transcript

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13.1 miles to go. 12 minutes for one mile. I can't actually get it to my mouth.

[Joe Getty]

My right pinky is asleep.

[Jack Armstrong]

A little over an hour in my right shoulder is the most painful thing right now. Seven miles over halfway point. I'm getting hot. How many shirts are you wearing?

[Joe Getty]

137.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah, you gotta be dying, okay?

[Katie Greener]

Not dying.

[Joe Getty]

Just a little heat stroke.

[Jack Armstrong]

Coming up on the 12 mile mark. Most T shirts worn for half marathon. Previous record 127.

[Joe Getty]

I've got 137t shirts on my back.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is so, so. My hands are so swan. 13 miles. We're gonna make it. Come on.

[Joe Getty]

What the hell was that?

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a guy running a Marathon wearing 137t shirts. The. I guess the previous record was 131, so he added six more and ran a marathon and said again, it's worth. Yeah, a half marathon. Yeah, yeah. He's a content creator and his content is he does weird, freaky, kind of funny things that are also painful and strenuous. Okay, well.

[Joe Getty]

You know, there's two ends of the equation for the whole content creator thing.

There have to be people that watch and. Or listen to this stuff to make it worthwhile. And apparently there are, given the fact that, you know what, the average kid spends seven hours on Tik Tok or whatever it is, you know, that makes it worthwhile because then the advertisers get enough eyeballs to pay money to the content creator. The vicious cycle and stupid ass like so. So people scrolling through their phones all day long taking in this crap, leads to more of this crap, and it's just. It'll never end.

[Jack Armstrong]

In a related story, a smartphone before age 12 could carry health risks, according to a study. Researchers found higher rates of depression, poor sleep, and obesity among tweens who had early access to cell phones.

[Joe Getty]

I think cell phones are horrible, and the younger the kid, the worse. But smartphones? But I would like to know what other factors go with that. You know, it's a. Parents who give their kids a smartphone at age 10 probably do other things in addition to giving their kid a smartphone that aren't necessarily in line with good parenting.

[Jack Armstrong]

In my mind, I think that is entirely possible. Tough to tease that out of the study, but an excellent point. The younger that children under 12 were when they got their first smartphones, the study found, the greater their risk of obesity and poor sleep. The researchers also focused on a subset of children who had not received a phone by age 12 and found that a year later, those who acquired one had more harmful mental health symptoms and worse sleep than those who hadn't.

[Joe Getty]

For instance. Yes, for instance, what I was just saying, the parent that gives their 10 year old a smartphone probably doesn't give a crap what they eat. So the obesity thing doesn't surprise me. The parent that gives their 10 year old a smartphone probably doesn't supervise it at all. So the fact that they are spending more on time on social media, which makes you depressed, doesn't surprise me.

[Jack Armstrong]

You mentioned earlier the intense pressure from the kid to get a smartphone, partly because that's how tweens and teens stay in touch and if they want to be part of the group, which every adolescent desperately wants. It's tough if you don't have a smartphone counterbalance. And this is the lead author of the study.

And a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Children's Hospital Philadelphia. Quote, when you give your kid a phone, you need to think of it as something that is significant for the kid's health and behave accordingly.

[Joe Getty]

Here's the upside of how much they want the phone, though. It's the greatest. I'm gonna take this away from you if you don't get your grades up or whatever, ever. I mean, there's never been a parenting stick, as opposed to a carrot, as great as taking away your phone for a week. Because I've done it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm just taking away a carrot, a stick. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

That's a good one. But, man, you. You have a kid or an adult, anybody who's addicted to their smartphone, and it's so much of your life. And, you know, you don't get that until you get your grades up or you start taking the trash out or whatever it is your thing. Ed is powerful.

[Jack Armstrong]

Powerful.

[Joe Getty]

What.

[Jack Armstrong]

What percentage of parents actually have the spine to. To carry out that sanction? Hanson does that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I do that.

[Jack Armstrong]

And several.

[Joe Getty]

Several of my son's friends do that also.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I don't know if the answer is 10% or 90%. I truly don't either.

[Joe Getty]

I don't have any idea.

[Jack Armstrong]

Interesting. But it's even worse than it makes.

[Joe Getty]

It difficult, though, for the parent. I must say, when my kid didn't have his cell phone for a couple of weeks, it changed everything in terms of, like, trying to get a hold of him.

[Jack Armstrong]

So putting a. Putting aside depression, poor sleep, and obesity, which is a hell of a phrase.

[Joe Getty]

No kidding.

[Jack Armstrong]

How about this? Here is a school teacher clip, number 14, talking about her class room experience.

[Podcast Host]

I think that you guys don't know what's going on in education right now. That's fine. Like, how could you know unless you were working in it? But I think that. I think you need to know. So here is exactly what it's like right now, working in public education. First of all, the kids have no ability to be bored whatsoever. They live on their phones, and they're just fed a constant stream of dopamine from the minute their eyes wake up in the morning until they go to sleep at night because they're in a constant state of dopamine withdrawal at school. They behave like addicts. They're super emotional. Like, the smallest thing sets them Off. And when you are standing in front of them trying to teach, they're vacant. They have no ability to tune in if your communication isn't packaged in short little clips or if it doesn't have, like bright flashing lights. That's actually the way harder part for me than just the outright behaviors is just being up at the front talking to a group of kids who have their eyes open. They're looking at me, but they're not there. They're not there. And they have a level of apathy that I've never seen before in my whole career. Punishments don't work because they don't care about them. They don't care about grades, they don't care about college. It's like you are interacting with them briefly in between hits of the Internet, which is their real life.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ah.

[Joe Getty]

That last part, I've run into that not caring about stuff, and I just don't quite get it. How does that. How did that come out of using cell phones in the dopamine hit thing?

[Jack Armstrong]

That's all you want.

[Joe Getty]

That's interesting because I've. I've run into that and I've talked to other parents who are having a bit of that problem too. Or say, like, they just don't care. Like I cared when I was in school about my grades and they just don't care.

And I'm like, yeah, why don't you care? I don't remember why I cared. I just did.

That's interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, that squares pretty comfortably with addiction in general, doesn't it?

[Joe Getty]

I guess. Yeah. No, no, I was just trying to picture when she was talking about the standing up there in front of the class and they're used to getting dopamine hits all day long. Remember, if you're older, remember how incredibly boring your 9th grade social studies teacher was. Now try to imagine it with your current brain that's used to getting, you know, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam all day long. Not your. I was 15 years old back in the time when, you know, my brain much was much slower. You were bored then. Imagine it now. Oh, my God.

[Jack Armstrong]

Imagine you're a child who's never gone through that stage of development that we did.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Worse than we can imagine.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it scares the hell out of me because I have a hard time reading long form myself. I have to like, really discipline myself to make myself do it because it seems so boring for a while until I get back in the groove because I've ruined my brain. And my brain worked fairly well up until 2008 and I started staring at a smartphone. So. Yeah, if you've never had that, I don't know. We're gonna have to. We're gonna have to figure out a way they might have to craft lessons in school to where they're all videos and they come at you really, really fast with music and lights. That might be the only way to reach kids.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah. Interesting.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, because I really do think it's a. If you can't beat them, join them sort of situation, there's no point in. Well, you're gonna sit here and you're gonna listen to me drone on about the Stamp act, whether you like it or not. That ain't gonna work. No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Because they won't absorb any of it.

[Joe Getty]

No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. You'll have lost the war. Yeah, I. I'd agree. I don't know exactly what to do of it. I. I keep hear seeing this metal picture of God and I don't know what's your favorite talking to God cliche? Saint Peter and God's saying, you know, the humans had their run time to clear the way for the, the ants or the beavers or whatever. St. Peter saying, how are you going to get rid of the humans? And God will say, don't worry about it. They'll do it themselves.

[Joe Getty]

God, sometimes school was so boring. And that was with my pre smartphone brain.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure.

[Joe Getty]

I can't imagine what it would be like for your average junior in high school now or college kid to have somebody up there droning on and on versus the competition. Is your phone Instagram or Tick Tock? Holy crap.

That'S a problem.

And then that don't care part. I'd never heard anybody bring that up before. Tying that into.

The dopamine addiction.

[Jack Armstrong]

Huh. All fits. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Ooh, that's a problem.

Putin said something really frightening yesterday that you go back, you know, once again, you go back a couple of decades, the reaction would have been completely different. We're all so used to bombast now I guess we don't react. But you'll have to hear it. Stay tuned.

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Visit BJ's.com cyberweek for holiday savings. Crucially, there was no compromise deal on Ukraine, and few here are surprised at that outcome. Believing Putin doesn't really want to end the war until he's achieved his goals. The question now is, how will President Trump respond? Wyckoff and Kushner leaving Moscow today, and they're going to brief President Trump. And for beleaguered Ukrainians, it means more bombing, more fighting, more war, and more death.

[Joe Getty]

Now, thank goodness Marco Rubio has been saying, we're not interested in any peace deal that allows Russia to pull off a third invasion.

Of Ukraine. Ukraine needs to be, you know, in a stable place where they are safe. On the other hand, a couple of negative things that happened yesterday. First of all, Belgium and a couple of other countries not on board with the idea of taking frozen Russian assets and giving them to Ukraine to help rebuild Ukraine. Belgium actually said, in the very probable event, Russia is ultimately not officially the losing party. Okay, so gotta be a translation problem. It's basically saying.

Russia is gonna win.

They would be legitimately asking for their sovereign assets to be returned, and we think they should be. So Belgium and a couple other countries say Russia should get their money back. It shouldn't go to Ukraine. So that's not a good development.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, it's hard to imagine why Russia would agree to that. And just the whole, you have an international monetary system where sometimes because somebody pisses you off, you snatch their money and keep it. You can't do that more than a.

[Joe Getty]

Couple of times, but, man, that's a bad result for Ukraine. If they have to give up their land, Russia gets to keep their money. All the various things, oh, that's an ugly situation. And then this Putin yesterday, and there's a lot of back and forth with threats and this and sort of stuff Putin actually said, and Hansen said, you watch the video, he looks more animated than this. Even sounds and scary.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right?

[Joe Getty]

We are not planning to go to war with Europe, but if Europe wants to and starts, we are ready right now. And I made the remark earlier. If that sort of comment had come out of the Soviet premiere in the 80s, the world would have stopped. I mean, the world would stop when people would say vague things like, you know, we will not put up with this, or just something really soft by today's standards, everybody'd be worried that nuclear holocaust was about to be unleashed on the world. Now you got Putin saying, hey, we're ready to go with Europe anytime if it starts. And I didn't even hear about it until like, a half an hour ago, I guess. I don't know if Trump moved the Overton window so much on things you say or social media did or what, but that's a heck of a comment.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would point out there already is war in Europe, including incursions into the airspace of half a dozen countries by Russia and its drones, so.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, but that's not the usual diplomatic. A guy saying, the last thing we want is war. We want peace no matter what the cost, but we are prepared if we have to. No, no, no, that's not what he said.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right.

[Joe Getty]

Much more aggressive than that. And that's just where we are, with the biggest nuclear powers on Earth, you know, staring at each other. So there's your update on that. I want this update because Katie just tweeted that out. Katie, what's this upstate Epstein update?

[Katie Greener]

Well, they just released new photos from Epstein Island, I guess, that the Democrats found in the files and the plane.

[Joe Getty]

Epstein island, the plane, Right. That's a really, really old TV reference. You got to be at least 60 to get. Go ahead, Katie.

[Katie Greener]

Well, and I'm looking at the. The pictures, and one of them that stood out to me is this room where there's a yellow dental chair and all over the walls around it are just masks of men's faces.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I agree. That's odd decor. It was obviously used as a dental office back in the day, probably from whoever he bought it from. But what this is. This is a nothing burger. This is nothing. This is. It's funny. I saw a headline next to some story. It was, you know, obviously sarcastic. So Democrats don't care about Epstein anymore because we haven't heard anything for a long time. No, they just leaked out these completely innocuous pictures of store rooms and couches just to get Epstein back in the news. Yeah, nothing.

[Katie Greener]

The other pictures are. Are really dumb, but that one creeps me.

[Jack Armstrong]

Out a bit.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well, I. I don't want to go to a dentist that's got those masks on the wall. No, that just seems weird.

[Katie Greener]

Same.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, it's nine on the weird ten scale. It's just absolutely odd.

[Joe Getty]

But.

Hey, before I sit down in the chair and you give me something that makes it impossible for me to defend myself, what's with all the weird faces on the wall?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, right. This is an odd, odd atmosphere you're going for here, Doc. Where's your diploma? I mean.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, no kidding.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. Kind of odd, but. Yeah, some. Several of the other pictures are literally of, like, a couch and chairs, and there's a not in use steam room where various bathroom supplies were stored. Literally towels.

[Joe Getty]

And so is your take that everything was wrung out of the Epstein story that could be wrung out of it and now.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, and they're just trying to keep it in the news because it was hurting Trump. It was dividing maga. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Everything we said at the time. This is a sad attempt. Please.

[Joe Getty]

What about the names, the list?

[Jack Armstrong]

All right, I'm not going there. They're actual. They're actual.

Stuff to worry about. Things. Issues to be concerned with.

[Joe Getty]

For some reason, all I got was reminded me I should go to the dentist. Michael, when's the last time you went to the dentist?

[Jack Armstrong]

Actually, about two months ago.

[Joe Getty]

Joe, when's the last time you went to the dentist?

[Jack Armstrong]

A few months ago. I'm due to go again.

[Joe Getty]

Katie, last time you went to the dentist?

[Katie Greener]

About five months ago.

[Joe Getty]

Now somebody asked me, when's the last time you went to the dentist?

2002. I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's why you got nothing but two brown nubs in your mouth.

[Joe Getty]

It's been decades.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, you. You are seriously in the genetic 1% in terms of teeth.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, but you're not going because you need to go, right? You're going because you're supposed to go on a regular basis.

[Jack Armstrong]

What do you mean, supposed to? Hell, yeah. I'm going because I, quote, unquote, need to go. So my teeth are healthy and my gums.

[Joe Getty]

I wonder if one day I'm gonna wake up and all my teeth have fallen out overnight. They're just in a pile in my bed.

[Jack Armstrong]

That'd suit you. Serve you. Right.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Serve.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're right.

[Katie Greener]

Armstrong and Getty switching gears.

[Joe Getty]

On Sunday, the TSA screened more than.

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3 million people at U.S. airports, setting.

[Jack Armstrong]

A new single day record to release the video celebrating this achievement. Check this out.

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Here at the tsa, we just Set a new single day screening record. It's because of you and your family's love of travel, we're allowed to do what we do best. And on behalf of everyone at the tsa, we just want to say, all personal belongings in the tray. Belt, two shoes can stay on. Laptop in its own tray.

[Jack Armstrong]

Shoes off.

[TSA Announcer]

Actually, laptop can stay in the bag. Actually. Chug your water. Still a little bit of water. Walk through this lane. No, I mean this lane. The sensor detected something on your elbow. What's this in your bag? Stand and wait while we ransack your luggage.

[Joe Getty]

Okay.

[TSA Announcer]

Never mind.

[Al the IT Elf]

There's nothing.

[TSA Announcer]

Good luck closing your bag again. Is this a real id? Enjoy your flight. Oh, you missed it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sorry.

[TSA Announcer]

Happy holidays from the tsn.

[Joe Getty]

I've had that one. Good luck closing your bag again. They get everything and they mess it all up. It's like you can't possibly get your bag closed again quickly. And then the. And then you just gotta love the. It's different every single time. No, no, no electronics. Stay in. Seriously, dude. Seriously. Do you not know that at other airports they're saying take them out? Or that you were saying take them out last week? Don't act like I've done something wrong or you're.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm stupid for not knowing in advance. They. Seriously. Every TSA guide, they ought to force them to fly back and forth at least once. All right? You're going to connect through. Through Indianapolis, go to New York, then come back again. Why? Trust me. And they get through that experience and say, oh, oh, now I get it.

[Joe Getty]

Oh. So at that airport, they tell you leave your belt on, but at this one, we say take them off and we act like you're a. If you didn't automatically take it off.

[Jack Armstrong]

What? Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

Anywho, my son got pulled out of line when we were flying, and I wish they could. There was some sort of. Go. Just go ahead. Because the speech the guy gave was so unbelievably long. Are you the father? I am going to touch the back of his buttocks with the backs of my gloved hands. I will slide down the buttocks. I will go inside to the thighs. The backs of my hands will then go down to the middle of the knees. I'm going to go around to the front. I will raise the backs. Just do it. Just freaking do it. I'm standing right here. You're not going to molest him. I'm not worried about it. He's not worried about it. Let's just get out of here.

[Jack Armstrong]

They didn't make that up, though. They do that for a reason.

[Joe Getty]

I know, I know. Because somebody would sue or claim they got groped or whatever the hell. Lighten up.

[Jack Armstrong]

9 11.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, so the New York Post. Well, no, this was a. What he was doing was he's trying to avoid any sort of, you know, sexual impropriety claim. And you're going way too far. I get it. You gotta touch his pants. We'll be okay. So the New York Post built this story around Super Thin is back in among celebrities. And they got these pictures since Ozempic and all these things are on the market. And they got a variety of celebrities, including Arya, Ariana Grande, who I've always found to be a skeleton. I don't quite get her appeal as a sex object because she is a skeleton. A skeleton of a person. And it might not be her fault, but she's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Katie had a reply. Katie.

[Katie Greener]

Well, it's. It's gotten drastically worse since she was on Wicked.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it has.

[Jack Armstrong]

She.

[Joe Getty]

This picture here. Oh, my God. She is a skeleton with hair. And same with Latoya Jackson and a couple other people that don't know. Oh, Meghan Trainor, who did not have.

[Jack Armstrong]

Latoya Jackson on my bingo card. Yeah, me neither.

[Joe Getty]

Mega trainer who kind of made her living as kind of having a big booty, you know, that was her claim to fame. Is now just a stick person. Amy Schumer has lost all her weight again, but heroin chic is back in. And I was wondering, stopping has got to be tough if you lose weight, like knowing when to stop. Like, Katie, you lost 80 some pounds. How did you know when to stop so you don't end up in the look crazy territory.

[Katie Greener]

I just kind of talked to my doctor about what a healthy weight for my height would be. And then once I got there, I.

[Joe Getty]

Was like, all right. And, you know, because it seems to be a common thing as you go, you go, you go to. You go from overweight. You don't like the way you look to look fantastic to. You look like you're dying, but you're still doing it.

[Katie Greener]

Yeah, you just kind of lighten up on the workouts and whatnot too, you.

[Joe Getty]

Know, Call it good enough.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Speaking of weight loss and that sort of thing, it is really, really interesting the extent to which the super effective weight loss drugs Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound have affected the economy in all sorts of ways. It's turned around the obesity rate for the first time in human history, certainly in the United States. And companies are trying to adjust to the new realities. I will give you a list.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, first of all, I can't imagine one, so I'm interested in this. I can't like even predict one. Maybe close sizes perhaps. But as we've been saying for a while, this is a major cultural change.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

That's going to become very obvious very soon.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's start with pharmacies. The drugs come with some uncomfortable or harmful side effects including indigestion, nausea and loss of hair and muscle mass. As a result, sales for supplements, vitamin rich beauty products have surged. Some studies suggest the medication also might boost fertility. Purchases of pregnancy kits among a cohort of GLP1 users surged 148% over the course of one year, according to Nielsen research.

[Joe Getty]

Loss of hair. So I'm thinner but I lose my hair. I don't know if that's a good deal. I mean I'm already bald but for normal people.

[Jack Armstrong]

Supplements, electrolyte supplements, hair growth products, anti nausea medications have skyrocketed. GLP1 users. Some are marketing directly to those folks grocery stores. The elimination of food noise, which is constantly thinking about food and what you're going to eat next, can lead to binging and distracting thoughts about eating. That's food noise can GOP. GLP1 users are cutting back on snacks, spending more on healthy items compared with non households. GLP1 households reduced their spending by 10% over a year across a hundred categories including groceries, quick service, restaurants, tobacco, according to another consumer research firm. While the fallout could hurt the snack food industry, some companies are innovating and acquiring health food brands that are focused on high protein items which support muscle mass, are highly set, satiating and boost metabolism as well as quick and healthy frozen meals.

[Joe Getty]

I wonder what it's going to do to close with if it'll go back to it was, you know, in the 80s and early 90s or whatever before we all got fat when you know, the bulk of the sweatshirts at the big five weren't all double XL to five XL.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, yeah, 100%. Let's eat more fresh produce. Over a 13 week period last year they increased their spending on fresh fruit by 14% and on vegetables by 38% compared with the year before. Healthy snacks obviously are selling a lot better. Non alcoholic beverages have exploded in use as GLP1 drugs can suppress alcohol cravings among heavy drinkers. Meanwhile, high protein drinks and probiotic soda brands that promote gut health are seeing significant growth. Strip malls, weight loss drugs create an opportunity for clothing brands as consumers refresh their Wardrobe as they shed pounds. More beauty products, smaller sizes for men and women. Demand for women's tops in extra small and small rose 2 points in the last two years and were down 2 percentage points for large and extra large sizes. And formal wear and sporting goods. Formal wear sales surged 80% and sporting goods jumped 24% in the first six months of 2025. This could indicate a need or desire to buy new clothing and accessories. After undergoing a positive life change. They go into thrift stores, fast foods and restaurants. Obviously healthier options in all sorts of different categories. Gyms with the risk of losing muscle mass. GLP1 users are encouraged to exercise and strength train. They're also spending more on items like wearable electronics and exercise devices of all sorts.

[Joe Getty]

So these drugs cause you to lose muscle mass? That's a problem.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know how often that is. They call it a side effect and it's a risk of losing muscle mass. Is that 10% or 90%? I do not know. Training programs, clinics, travel with extra energy and confidence. GLP1 users may invest in more adventures outside the home. They saw a 15% increase. Blah, blah, blah.

[Joe Getty]

I wonder what it will do to social pressure if you're overweight. There has been no social pressure about being overweight for quite some time because we're all overweight. But if soon you know you're £300 and you really stand out in a group because everybody else is on the ozempic, it'll be a lot more noticeable.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I wonder. I wonder.

[Joe Getty]

Rascal sales will go way down.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, absolutely. Sell your Rascal stock now.

[Joe Getty]

Or those grass.

Sticks where you pick stuff up off the floor because you can't bend over anymore.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. I wash myself with a rag and a stick.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Boy. I don't want the hair loss or the muscle mass loss or the nausea. Really. Any of them. No.

[Joe Getty]

Well. And are people. So if you're not super overweight. So originally all this stuff was for people who are super overweight. If you're just like 15 or just diabetic.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

If you're 20 pounds overweight, 30 pounds overweight. Do you take a lower dose or something?

[Jack Armstrong]

I think that's on the way. They're working on, mate. More maintenance dose. Just take the edge off type.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. Yeah. That's what they need. And then I would assume the side effects will be lower also.

[Jack Armstrong]

Boy, that's gonna change the country. Yeah, well, yeah, that's the point. Yeah. Economically and health wise as well. A lot of underlying diseases, cancers, heart disease, all of it.

[Joe Getty]

Well, just all those years of we need to make the airline seats wider, not narrower. Now they're gonna make them even narrower and jam.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, no, my shoulders haven't lost weight. My big strapping, manly shoulders. Katie, don't laugh.

[Joe Getty]

All right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

My, my youngest brother, who is a, A large man, was talking about when he gets set next to somebody else his size on a plane. Oh, it's just impossible. I mean, it's just physically impossible that they both share that spot.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. So you just press up against each.

[Joe Getty]

Other or one of you kind of leans forward. You take turns buying the space. Go like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

The lean the. Or the lean to the side, which kills my back.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well, I don't know if the heroin chic look is going to catch on with regular people as opposed to just starlets. I don't like the super bony look. I mean, if you're born that way, you're born the way. That's fine, sure. But.

Ah, that's a heck of a thing to aspire to. I want to be able to see your knee. I want your knees to be wider than the rest of your leg. Just the bone part, like on Ariana Grande. That's a rough look.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right, enough about Ariana Grande's bones.

[Joe Getty]

That's.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's enough of this. I just move on.

[Joe Getty]

I have to ask Pete Davidson, what do you find attractive about that? We will finish strong.

[Jack Armstrong]

Next, Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

The store is [e-mail] by Armstrong and Getty wear for your favorite Armstrong and Getty listener.

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe it's you. Perhaps several products are flying off the shelves.

[Joe Getty]

I might go the other direction.

[Jack Armstrong]

Dot com.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, I've said before, I don't wear stuff with our name on it because it feels weird. I might go the other direction. I might wear only stuff with our name on it from here on out.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I don't mind the hat because the logo is fairly subtle. Plus I will wear the ruin the Entire Country Newsome 2028 t shirt as soon as I receive it.

[Joe Getty]

Hanson.

[Jack Armstrong]

Where's my T shirt anyway? Those familiar with Chicagoland recognize Evanston, Illinois. It is where Northwestern University is located. It is wealthy and woke at a left wing church in Illinois. In Evanston put out a nativity scene with a zipped tied baby Jesus. Roman soldiers depicted as U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

[Joe Getty]

That's ICE.

[Jack Armstrong]

And Mary and Joseph wearing gas masks.

[Joe Getty]

These people try so hard.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know. So the. This Lake Street Church in Evanston posted a Facebook last week that the display And I quote, reimagines the Nativity as a scene of forced family separation, drawing direct parallels between the holy family refugee experience and contemporary immigration detention practices. Yeah, there's more.

[Joe Getty]

That's what I guessed. What I always wonder is, when you do this sort of thing, am I supposed to just drop to my knees devastated?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah.

[Joe Getty]

By your juxtaposition of the Nativity scene with a modern political story. Oh my God. The way you brought these two things together. I am devastated.

[Jack Armstrong]

By placing the Christmas story, Christianity's central narrative of refuge, sanctuary and sacred family within the visual language of immigration enforcement and detention, this work asks viewers to confront the disconnect between professed religious or moral values and immigration policies. The church explained in its post the emergency blanket references the actual materials used in detention facilities. The zip ties on the infant's wrists directly reference the children who were zip tied by agents during a raid on a Chicago apartment building earlier this year. They're not zip tieing freaking infants. Or most residents were US Citizens. Stark reminder. Blah blah blah.

[Joe Getty]

I do have a problem with.

I was at a couple of really cool churches in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is an awesome city if you've never been there town. It's absolutely amazing, very, very expensive. But I was at a couple of really old timey churches there and their attitude toward the poor is certainly different than mine and I never have been able to square that in my mind. They're all for feeding drug addicts, giving them money, helping them out, just. I've never been able to square that with my beliefs. Yeah, but we don't give the drug addicts food. We got plenty of taxpayer food going to the drug addicts and it's just allowing them to spend their money on drugs and booze.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. There's an absolute power to the idea of feeding the, you know, the hungry, etc. As an act of charity 100%. But I think in a lot of communities, including probably the one we're talking about, they use that as an excuse to not confront the more difficult realities of drug addiction. For instance, I mean, you just knee jerk. No, the Bible said feed the hungry. So we're going to feed the hungry and give them a tent and give them a clean needle and, you know, feed them and the rest of it. And free medical care. In short, make it super, super easy to die of drug abus. That's my kindness.

Easy. And it's lazy and it's dumb.

[Joe Getty]

So I'm supposed to believe that Jesus would have, if he were confronted with a perfectly healthy 28 year old male who had just decided, you know what? I'd rather sit here and get drunk all day long than work like all these other losers that I'm supposed to give that Jesus would have given them that person food and said, cool, good for you. I just find that hard to believe.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or money to get more drugs.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or winked and said, here, I'm going to turn the water into meth for you. Yeah. No, I don't believe that for a second.

The church is led by Reverend Dr. Michael Wolf, who. Who authored a book called Sanctuary and Subjectivity. Thinking theologically about whiteness and sanctuary movements.

[Joe Getty]

I gotta come up with some sort of nativity scene in which that they're all trans.

People of color.

[Jack Armstrong]

The church has a bizarre covenant which doesn't mention Christianity, but focuses on social justice trainings including anti racism.

[Joe Getty]

All right, all right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Final thoughts with a N G. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Hey, girls.

[Jack Armstrong]

Tax exempt status.

[Joe Getty]

Yank it. Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew, starting with our technical director Michelangelo in the control room, Michael Fireway. Well, it's my own fault. Last year during Black Friday, I signed up for a streaming service for 299. You know, for like three months or whatever, I forgot about it and it just renewed for $75 on my account.

[Joe Getty]

I have done that roughly 1 million times with various things. Well, I'll remember before it renews to cancel it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, boy. Katie Greener, Steam News woman, has a final thought.

[Katie Greener]

Katie, we were talking about the Palisades fire earlier. It's pretty amazing. If you go on like Google Maps or something and you drop the pin and look around, you can actually see all the devastation that took place. And it's amazing that they've just done nothing with it.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that. That should get more attention. You're right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, absolutely. Crazy. Jack, do you have a final thought for us?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, they keep getting texts wiped out. Does my voice sound like this? And I don't really know. I don't know why my voice sounds like. I mean, I have diseased. Okay. Hope I'm not dying.

[Jack Armstrong]

My final thought is now that the New York Times has said it's okay to mention that, I don't know. The Somali community in Minneapolis has stolen over a billion dollars. And of course it's not everybody, but you're importing a bunch of people who can't stand our culture, who come from a country that's utterly corrupt. We're stealing from the government as routine. You're going to get stealing from the government.

[Joe Getty]

Let's just say it. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Jack Armstrong]

So many people. Thanks. So little time. Go To Armstrong and getty.com pick up some swag. Drop us a note mailbag@armstrong getty.com Enjoy the hot links in Katie's Corner.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we will see you tomorrow with all the latest. God Bless America.

[Jack Armstrong]

Listen every word to every word.

But in case you missed it.

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[Joe Getty]

You almost said a woman got erected, which in these cases can happen.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, I said a teacher, which you assumed was a woman because you're sexist. Moving along.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

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