We Can Do The Weave

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: "We Can Do The Weave"

Date: January 6, 2026
Host: Armstrong & Getty (Angie Hicks & Rich)
Network: iHeartPodcasts

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Overview

In this episode titled "We Can Do The Weave," Armstrong and Getty take a meandering, unscripted tour through topics both light and heavy, reflecting on recent news, personal stories, and cultural commentary, in the style of a "weave"—their homage to Donald Trump’s digressive speech style. Listeners are treated to musings on sudden wealth, parenting wins, societal change, and some pointed satire, closing with impressions and a coldblooded punchline about current events.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The “Weave” Format & Trump’s Speaking Style

• The hosts decide to take a Trump-inspired approach, jumping from one subject to the next before looping back.
• [02:00] Angie: “Do you know what the weave is? That's what they call it. That or do other people call it that?”
• [02:06] Rich: “When he's given a speech and he just kind of goes around from subject to subject to subject and then brings it back to something. We're going to kind of do that here.”

2. The Impact of Sudden Wealth: Powerball & Inheritance

• Breaking down the reality of winning the $1.82 billion Powerball and how lump sums and taxes still leave enormous wealth—and headaches.
• [02:23] Angie: “So the one time lump sum, if they decide to take that will be $835 million… even if you have to pay half… $420 million.”
• Both hosts ponder whether such windfalls make lives better or worse, referencing stories of people beset by requests for money—even with small inheritances.
• [03:13] Guest: “The amount of people hitting him up for money… calls from people that I haven't talked to in a couple of years.”
• Major concerns: privacy, personal motivation, creating a trust to deflect requests, and the emotional burden of choosing who to help.
• [04:03] Angie: “Like all of it could be right. Look, my kid's gonna be dead by, by spring if I don't get the this much money for this procedure…”
• Rich shares advice from a former neighbor, a brain surgeon, about emotional boundaries:
  • [05:16] Rich: “I can't let their problems become my problems or I wouldn't be able to function… If I can separate myself… I'm a better surgeon because I keep a cool head. You would have to get to the point… ‘I've got to trust the system. Now go away.’"

3. Personal Story: Christmas Dinner & Parenting

• Angie shares a touching story about his teenage son, Henry, cooking Christmas dinner for himself because of circumstances at home.
• [07:06] Angie: “He made a turkey and sweet potatoes and cornbread. Like baked a turkey. Holy smokes… took him a whole day working in there.”
• Discussion on whether Boy Scouts or independent necessity inspired the act, turning bittersweet:
  • [08:00] Angie: “He and his mom have no relationship, and he was hoping to have some sort of Christmas dinner and thought, if I'm going to have one, I'm have to provide it myself.”
  • [08:11] Rich: “That's a really great and beautiful way to deal with a very, very difficult circumstance.”

4. Disquieting Change: Security at Local Jewish Center

• Angie notes a new, sobering reality—his local Jewish community center now surrounded by a "great big giant fence" out of safety concerns, ending years of openness in his small town.
• [08:34] Angie: “They have a great big giant fence they just built because… They don't feel like it's a safe campus anymore.”
• The hosts connect this to broader historical and global themes:
  • [09:18] Rich: “This is 1934 Germany. And this means, like, the—A lot of the world.”
  • [09:26] Rich: “Let's not crack down on anti Semitism. We might make somebody mad.”

5. Satirical Relief: Trump Impersonator & International Affairs

• Transitioning to something lighter, Angie introduces a favorite Trump impersonator with a spoof “address to the nation” about the (fictional) capture of Nicolás Maduro.
• [10:21] Trump Impersonator:
  • “My fellow Americans, it is my great honor to announce the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. A very nasty person with a very stupid mustache. He's very stupid. And he broke what's called the Trump Doctrine—F around and find out..."
  • The bit includes over-the-top details—Chris Christie as a wrecking ball, Hello Kitty pajamas, jobs for Democrats and disses to the Ayatollah of Iran.
• The hosts reflect on the challenge of parodying Trump:
  • [12:16] Angie: “That's only like 1% off what he might have said. Yeah, yeah, yeah.”
  • [12:43] Rich: “How do you parody it exactly?”

6. Dark Humor & Closing Thoughts

• A callback to an earlier segment about Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, quoting her darkly comic line:
  • [09:49] Angie: “She said, this past year has been tough for all of us. But don't worry, because next year will be even worse.”
  • [13:05] Rich: “Thanks for that, sweetheart.”
• The episode closes with that blend of humor and realism, a hallmark of the show.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [05:16] Rich (on handling requests for money):
  "If I can separate myself from, oh, my God, this is a living person with people who love them and dreams and aspirations. I'm a better surgeon because I keep a cool head. You would have to get to the point where you'd say, I understand your child will die if they don't get the money. But I will go berserk and all the money will be gone. If I go on an ad hoc basis, every person who comes up to me, I decide, yay or nay. That will never work as a system. I've got to trust the system. Now go away."

• [07:06] Angie (on his son cooking dinner):
  "He made a turkey and sweet potatoes and cornbread. Like baked a turkey. Holy smokes... took him a whole day working in there."

• [09:18] Rich (on the security fence at the Jewish center):
  "This is 1934 Germany. And this means, like, the—A lot of the world."

• [10:21] Trump Impersonator (satirical address):
  "My fellow Americans, it is my great honor to announce the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. A very nasty person with a very stupid mustache… And he broke what's called the Trump Doctrine—F around and find out. And he effed around for too long. And now we found out."

• [12:16] Angie (on Trump parody):
  "That's only like 1% off what he might have said."

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:00] – Introduction of Trump "weave" format
• [02:06] – [04:52] – Discussion of lottery winnings and the challenges of sudden wealth
• [05:16] – Brain surgeon’s lesson on boundaries and emotional management
• [07:06] – Story of Angie’s son making Christmas dinner
• [08:34] – Shift to new security measures at the Jewish center
• [09:49] – Giorgia Meloni’s darkly comic quote about the new year
• [10:21] – [12:16] – Satirical Trump impersonator’s “address” on Maduro
• [12:16] – Reflection on how the parody is barely exaggeration
• [13:05] – [13:11] – Closing thoughts and callback to the Meloni quote

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Final Thoughts

This episode offers the quintessential Armstrong & Getty experience: thoughtful, sometimes wry, and always candid discussions that blend humor, social commentary, and moments of real personal vulnerability. The “weave” format allows for an engaging, unpredictable listen, with the Trump impersonation adding a burst of levity amidst deeper themes about society, security, wealth, and personal growth.

Transcript

[Angie Hicks]

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See terms in honor of our President we're going to do the weave. It's one more thing. Armstrong and Getty.

[Rich]

One more thing.

[Angie Hicks]

Do you know what the weave is? That's what they call it. That or do other people call it that?

[Rich]

Anyway, Trump does. Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

When he's given a speech and he just kind of goes around from subject to subject to subject and then brings it back to something. We're going to kind of do that here. We don't have a particular thing. Just going through my notes from vacation. Somebody did win a $1.82 billion jackpot in the Powerball second biggest ever.

[Rich]

Yeah, me too. I haven't said anything about it.

[Angie Hicks]

I'm that down to earth, $1.8 billion. So the one time lump sum, if they decide to take that will be $835 million. Okay. So even if you have to pay half of it in taxes, you have all of a sudden $420 million. That's a lot of money. So worst thing that could happen to you. It's hard to imagine coming out of that better than you entered it. Even if that is the standard five years from now, is your life better or worse? It's hard to imagine it being better in my mind.

[Caller or Guest]

You know, I was just. For most people, I was just talking to a friend of mine the other day who got some form of inheritance and it wasn't a huge sum of money, but I mean, it's a lot for him. The amount of people hitting him up for money.

[Angie Hicks]

Wow.

[Caller or Guest]

Is on. And we're not talking lottery money, we're talking, you know, a few thousand, you know. But he, he's like, I can't believe I'm getting calls from people that I haven't talked to in a couple of years.

[Angie Hicks]

Well, so just start there. If you live in one of the states where they make you identify yourself for promotional purposes and so your name is out there, that you've got 400 some million dollars. Yeah. You immediately have to move, change your name, change your number. I mean, so you got a hassle right off the bat, best case scenario. And yeah.

[Rich]

And you just have to establish your trust and get used to saying I have no control over the trust. There's a, there's a board that decides where the money goes.

[Angie Hicks]

Yes.

[Rich]

But I. Because a lot of the begging you would get would be pretty legitimate and pretty heart tugging.

[Angie Hicks]

Oh, hell yeah. Like all of it could be right. Look, my kid's gonna be dead by, by spring if I don't get the this much money for this procedure. And then if you're single like myself, imagine that nightmare. Unless you're just gonna keep it a secret. But it'd be pretty tempting to not keep it a secret for obvious reasons.

[Rich]

Oh my Lord.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah.

[Rich]

I've said many times I think I could handle it. But I concede it would be enormously difficult.

[Angie Hicks]

I. I wouldn't mind giving it a world, but right the way it would affect motivation. I would really worry about could I still be motivated to do a variety of things that I like to do or want to do. Yes. Or how I would, how I would treat my Kids, thank you for asking.

[Rich]

The answer is yes.

[Angie Hicks]

Anyway, that's enough.

[Rich]

I know I could. Absolutely. Real quickly, I had something to say. Oh. I lived next door to a brain surgeon once and he was a douchebag. But he said something very, very interesting to me once before I realized he.

[Angie Hicks]

Probably knows you're talking about him because you probably didn't live next to that many different brain surgeons.

[Rich]

Well, he's an A hole. He can think whatever he wants, but it's probably not his fault. I think he had an abusive father anyway who drove him to achieve and achieve and achieve, and it was never good enough and it tortured him anyway that turned him into an a hole. But I asked him once, as we were sipping a glass of something delightful and purple, I said, how do you handle the whole life and death thing day after day? And he said, I can't let their problems become my problems or I wouldn't be able to function. To do my job and to save the most people, I have to be dispassionate. It's a mathematical thing. If I can separate myself from, oh, my God, this is a living person with people who love them and dreams and aspirations. I'm a better surgeon because I keep a cool head. You would have to get to the point where you'd say, I understand your child will die if they don't get the money. But I will go berserk and all the money will be gone. If I go on an ad hoc basis, every person who comes up to me, I decide, yay or nay. That will never work as a system. I've got to trust the system. Now go away.

[Angie Hicks]

Now go away.

[Rich]

Yeah. Remember about 45 seconds ago, I said, but it would be enormously difficult.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah. Anyway, now go away.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

With your crying kid, with his disease. Get out of here.

[Trump Impersonator]

Throw that in.

[Rich]

But anyway, where were we? Ah, yes. Winning the lottery.

[Angie Hicks]

Still doing the weave. I was looking at my pictures from my notes. One of them is of a turkey in a pan. Which reminds me, Henry, my. He was 13 at the time. No, he was 14 because it was Christmas. Made Christmas dinner. It was just him and me. Very cool. And he looked up on Chat GTP what he wanted. And we went through the grocery store and he bought all this stuff. I let him do it on his own and rung it up and brought it home. And he made a turkey and sweet potatoes and cornbread. Like baked a turkey. Holy smokes. Over however many hours that takes. Took him a whole day working in there.

[Rich]

Wow. I always kind of enjoyed the Esteem of the crowd When I unleash the bird and slice it up and it's nice and tender now. Children can do it.

[Caller or Guest]

Now.

[Angie Hicks]

Good for him. That's terrific.

[Trump Impersonator]

It was.

[Angie Hicks]

It was cool. It was cool that he did that.

[Rich]

And do you attribute at least part of that to his Boy Scout experience?

[Angie Hicks]

Probably, yeah. Probably. Actually, some of it. I also. If I want to make it ultimately sad. Do I want to turn this ultimately sad?

[Rich]

What's up to you?

[Angie Hicks]

I think he knows I don't cook, and he and his mom have no relationship, and he was hoping to have some sort of Christmas dinner and thought, if I'm going to have one, I'm have to provide it myself. No, that's.

[Rich]

You know what? That's a really great and beautiful way to deal with a very, very difficult circumstance.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah.

[Rich]

I will make it happen.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah.

[Rich]

What a fine lad.

[Angie Hicks]

And he did. And he did. Gave him something to do. This one is definitely a downer. I'll save it for the show tomorrow. Maybe I'll end with this.

[Rich]

Oh, man. Great. Something to look forward to, folks.

[Angie Hicks]

I'll just give you the tease, and I'll give the whole thing. The Jewish center in my tiny little town, which I have been to many, many times for other reasons. Not Jewish reasons, but they have other sorts of meetings there and everything like that. Can no longer have those meetings. They have a great big giant fence they just built around it because it's. They don't feel like it's a safe campus anymore. That is not a good change in my life.

[Rich]

Wow. That is a down.

[Angie Hicks]

Isn't that something? All the years I've lived in that town for dang near a quarter century, and it's just been like an open campus. And you could go over there and whatever they were going to do there, now it's got great big giant. I mean, really big, really solid fence all the way around it that they decided to. They need.

[Rich]

This is 1934 Germany. And this means, like, the. A lot of the world.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah.

[Rich]

Let's not crack down on anti Semitism. We might make somebody mad.

[Angie Hicks]

Oh, we do have something funny coming up. That's good to end with.

[Rich]

Yes.

[Covino]

Finally.

[Angie Hicks]

I'll throw this in here. Giorgio Maloney, who we've. The prime minister of Italy, who we've quoted a couple of different times for her big speech she gave on Christmas Eve, I think. Anyway, one thing she said.

[Rich]

Giorgio, be a dude.

[Angie Hicks]

Georgia.

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[Rich]

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[Angie Hicks]

Okay. All right.

[Rich]

I was gonna say, is it a transgender thing or what?

[Angie Hicks]

Because, you know. Oh, she's. She's cute, too. I like her. She's tough. She's cute. Anyway, she said, this past year has been tough for all of us. But don't worry, because next year will be even worse.

[Rich]

I love her even more now.

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[Angie Hicks]

Anyway, our favorite Trump impersonator who posts stuff online, took a look at the capture of Nicolas Maduro, and here's how it went.

[Trump Impersonator]

My fellow Americans, it is my great honor to announce the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. A very nasty person with a very stupid mustache. He's very stupid. And he broke what's called the Trump Doctrine F around and find out. And he effed around for too long. And now we found out. Our beautiful men and women of our military entered his home through a hole that was created after we attached Chris Christie to a wrecking ball. We blew a big, beautiful hole in the house. And they said to me, sir, we found him, sir. He's sleeping like a baby in hello Kitty pajamas. Believe it or not, he was in hello Kitty pajamas, sucking his thumb in the fetal position. They said to me, sir, what do you want us to do, sir? I said, get him out. And they got him out. But when we convict Maduro, we're going to shave off that horrible, stupid mustache. And we're looking at where to send, and we're looking at Seekat. It's a beautiful place in El Salvador, a very tough place. And if he goes there, maybe the Democrats could have a margarita with him. You know, they like to do that. So maybe they can do that, or we may send them to Somalia. I call it a sugar honey iced tea hole. You know what I'm talking about? Somalia. It's a very nasty place. But the days of Maduro sending drugs and gang members into our country are over. And let this serve as a message to the rest of the world. If you're a dictator who threatens the United States, including the Ayatollah of Iran and his many wives or goats or whatever the hell he's doing in that cave, we're going to come for you, too. Do not break the Trump Doctrine F around and find out. If you abide by it, you're not going to have a problem. But if you break the Trump Doctrine, you're going to have a lot of problems. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Angie Hicks]

You know what's interesting about that? And I'm sure we are all thinking about it. That's only like 1% off what he might have said. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, the comedian Shane Gillis does a thing about Trump's speech that he gave after we killed Baghdadi, and Trump basically sounded like that he died like a dog laying there in his bed like a coward with his stupid beard. I mean, just, it's almost exactly this sort of thing.

[Rich]

How do you, how do you parody it exactly?

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sugar, honey, iced tea Hole.

[Rich]

Spells Jack.

[Trump Impersonator]

Oh, I get it.

[Rich]

Okay, that's troubling trouble. There's no need.

[Angie Hicks]

Remember, like the prime minister of Italy said, if you thought last year was bad, next year is going to be worse.

[Rich]

Thanks for that, sweetheart.

[Angie Hicks]

Well, I guess that's it.

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