What a Cute Boob, er...I Mean...Baby!

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: What a Cute Boob, er...I Mean...Baby!
Date: October 7, 2025
Podcast Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the etiquette and social tensions around babies—and breastfeeding—in public places, featuring the Armstrong & Getty crew’s signature blend of humor, debate, and candid storytelling. The hosts recount memorable moments of parenting in restaurants, reflect on discomfort around public breastfeeding and breast pumping, and share their takes on personal boundaries, embarrassment, and modern social trends.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Slips of the Tongue and Lighthearted Banter

(02:48 – 03:16)

• The episode opens with a playful slip—“What a cute boob. I mean, baby”—setting a tongue-in-cheek tone for the conversation about parenting and societal perceptions.
• The team makes jokes about descriptive terms for breasts, e.g., "cozy," "perky," and references pop culture ("they're real and they're spectacular" from Seinfeld).
• Notable Quote:
  • Elsie: “I don't know that anyone's ever called my boobs cute.” (02:59)

2. Kids Behaving Badly: The Restaurant Dilemma

(03:36 – 07:32)

• A viral confrontation in a cafe is played and analyzed, where a mother is challenged for her baby’s loud crying by another patron, leading to a clash over who should leave.
• The team debates who bears responsibility, with Michael and Joe siding with the view that when your child is disruptive, you should remove them for everyone’s comfort.
• Anecdotes are shared about personal parenting experiences, embarrassment, and moments where leaving the restaurant was the only solution.
• Elsie recalls childhood memories learning consequences for misbehavior at restaurants.
• Notable Quotes:
  • Michael: “If your kid is shrieking like that, I’m taking them out.” (05:12)
  • Joe: “What parent, though, if their kid’s doing that…isn’t just, like, horrified and embarrassed?” (05:43)
  • Michael: “A parent who believes the whole world needs to bow to them.” (05:53)

3. Public Breastfeeding: Courtesy or Confrontation?

(07:44 – 09:38)

• Joe observes a woman breastfeeding in a restaurant, noting her choice to do so as publicly as possible and questioning if it was intended to provoke a reaction.
• The group distinguishes between the right to breastfeed and the performativity of not covering up or being discreet, wondering if some seek confrontation.
• The hosts mostly support public breastfeeding and recognize its necessity but are uncomfortable when it appears intentionally provocative.
• Notable Quotes:
  • Joe: “I’m perfectly okay with...breastfeeding in public...but she chose to sit in such a way that it’s facing the whole crowd.” (07:44)
  • Elsie: “It’s...like they’re trying to get someone to say something.” (08:30)
  • Michael: “You can get all self righteous and activist.” (08:41)
  • Michael: “I am a free the nipple activist, so I stand in solidarity with her.” (08:48)

4. The Breast Pumping Story: Pushing Comfort Zones

(09:58 – 11:29)

• Elsie tells a story about encountering a woman breast pumping at a communal hotel breakfast, describing the scene as both surprising and awkward for other diners.
• This opens discussion about personal comfort, boundaries in public spaces, and differences in what people consider appropriate.
• The hosts express varying degrees of discomfort—both about nudity and “double-barrel” breast pumping at a public table.
• Notable Quotes:
  • Elsie: “She kicked her shoes off and busted out her breast milk pump...just latched those two things on and was just sitting there...I’m like enjoying my hashbrowns…” (09:58)
  • Michael: “She was doing both barrels at once?” (10:35)
  • Joe: “Some people are so comfortable. I’m never that comfortable ever. Like, completely dressed in a room, I’m a little uncomfortable. She with her two boobs in a machine, getting pumped, sitting at the table.” (10:59)

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• Slips and Seinfeld:
  • Joe (02:48): “What a cute boob. I mean baby...”
  • Joe (03:28): “They’re real and they’re spectacular.”
• On Entitlement:
  • Michael (05:53): “A parent who believes the whole world needs to bow to them. And I’m familiar with that personality type.”
• Pumping & Comfort:
  • Elsie (09:58): “This woman…kicked her shoes off and busted out her breast milk pump...I was kind of like, wow, you are so comfortable.”
• On Boundaries:
  • Joe (11:04): “Some people are so comfortable. I’m never that comfortable ever.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Playful cold open / Seinfeld reference: 02:48 – 03:28
• Viral restaurant baby confrontation & discussion: 03:36 – 07:32
• Joe’s public breastfeeding story & debate: 07:44 – 09:38
• Elsie’s hotel breast pumping encounter: 09:58 – 11:29

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Episode Tone & Style

Lighthearted, irreverent, and honest—this discussion is steeped in the Armstrong & Getty style: joking through social discomfort, candid opinions, and a willingness to poke fun at themselves and each other, all while navigating the tricky social codes of parenting in public.

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Summary for New Listeners:
This episode is a frank, often funny look into the awkward world of parenting moments in public—from noisy babies to bold breastfeeding and pumping. The hosts navigate between empathy, discomfort, and critique, never passing up a good story or a good laugh about societal expectations and personal boundaries.

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Transcript

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[Joe]

What a cute boob. I mean baby, it's one More thing Armstrong and Giddy.

[Elsie]

One more thing.

[Joe]

Out of Katie Green.

[Elsie]

Oh, I've never. I don't know that anyone's ever called my boobs cute.

[Joe]

Yeah, I don't know where I am on this topic, but before we get to that, Joe.

[Elsie]

I'm thinking things you.

[Michael]

Need to hang around kinder people.

[Joe]

What is a comment for boobs? It's common. Nice, I guess.

[Elsie]

Nice, nice.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Not giant, darling.

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Now, cozy, perky.

[Joe]

They're real and they're spectacular. Going back to Seinfeld, does this clip need any setup about a woman bringing a baby into a restaurant?

[Elsie]

No, I think I can go ahead and play it.

[Joe]

Okay.

[Elsie]

I will say that she's confronted by a customer and a manager.

[Michael]

Is it Michael before you play it? What's. Do we know what sort of restaurant or is that better for after?

[Joe]

And what sort of baby? Human baby.

[Elsie]

Eight month old baby, very small kid that's making a lot of noise.

[Katie]

So this gentleman here is telling me to tell my 8 month old to stop screaming because he has. Because he has sensitive ears. I know it's loud, but he's an adult. He can leave. And he chooses not to leave. He's choosing me to tell me to take my baby out because he has sensitive ears. She's a child, sir. It's not me. I didn't do anything.

[Elsie]

You're causing this whole restaurant to have to hear our discussion. They don't want to eat that. They want to eat their food.

[Katie]

You came to me about my child, did you not? You can't remove yourself from this restaurant. No. You're disrespectful, you're entitled, and you're being privileged right now.

[Elsie]

I'm not responsible for you in the.

[Joe]

Way that men have probably mistreated you in the past.

[Katie]

Me, I'm. I'm a happily married woman. What are you talking about, baby? I'm 10 years next week, so no one has mistreated me. You've been disrespectful.

[Elsie]

Oh, okay.

[Katie]

All right.

[Elsie]

And Joe, just to answer your question, this is like a cafe bakery, kind of a casual like walk in and it counters.

[Joe]

And it clearly wasn't a human baby. It was a macaque or something like that. It's not.

[Michael]

It was not a human dolphin.

[Elsie]

Take that child outside, you irresponsible.

[Joe]

Okay, well, you're going to be a parent soon. She'll. You might end up in that situation. No, no.

[Michael]

I raised three of them. I'm the king of the parents around here. My kid is shrieking like that. I'm taking them out.

[Elsie]

Yes, I have.

[Joe]

Holy. Multiple times.

[Michael]

You're being all entitled here. Oh, for God's sake.

[Elsie]

The second she said, oh, yo. Being privileged. Privileged up.

[Joe]

Privileged. Yeah, but what was the comment? I couldn't quite hear what the comment made about her being married or if a man wronged her or something.

[Elsie]

Yeah, he said, I don't know. What man's hurt you in the past 10 years next week? All right, Who.

[Joe]

Who. What?

[Elsie]

Poor guy.

[Joe]

What parent, though, if their kid's doing that, and my. One of them in particular did that regularly, isn't just, like, horrified and embarrassing and, like, can't get out of the place fast enough.

[Michael]

A parent who believes the whole world needs to bow to them. And I'm familiar with that personality type.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah, boy. Worst one was when my younger one, who had a number of medical problems, not his fault. Which didn't really know about at the time because it was really too young to communicate them. But he flipped out at a restaurant one time, and he ended up underneath somebody's table, and I had to go pull him out by his legs from underneath this table full of people. There's, like, six people. This table. He's underneath it. He's got his arms around the middle of the thing, holding the table up, and I can't pull it free, and I can't get under there. All the legs are there. You know, I hadn't asked.

[Michael]

Folks, enjoying your meals? I'm gonna have to pull here for a while, but. Excuse me.

[Joe]

Well, I was about to knock the table over and all the drinks and everything like that. I've got him by the legs.

[Elsie]

Don't mind us. And I have one of your fries.

[Joe]

That was quite the situation.

[Michael]

That looks good. What is that? Is that. Oh, that's the robin. Oh, that looks good. Yeah.

[Joe]

That was one of the many times we ended up leaving a restaurant after we had ordered the food before we got it.

[Elsie]

I. I vaguely remember the one time that I acted up so much in a restaurant, my dad said, that's it. We're going to the car. Took me out of the restaurant, and from there on out, he said, do you want to go to the car? And I turned into an angel.

[Joe]

Yeah, that's a good one. You only have to do that once.

[Elsie]

Yeah, but no, you take a kid. If your kid is shrieking, you take him out of the restaurant.

[Joe]

Well, like I said, I just don't know that many people that wouldn't be so horrifyingly embarrassed about the. Everybody staring at you that you wouldn't be driven from the restaurant.

[Elsie]

Oh, yeah, Joe now.

[Michael]

Well, in the attitude that, no, you ought to leave the restaurant. You're a grown man. You leave. Because I'm in here with a kid shrieking so loud, everybody's ears are bleeding. You should leave, man.

[Joe]

That's just.

[Michael]

What is it with people?

[Joe]

So to the nice boob. This happened the other day at a restaurant. And I know what I think I know what Joe's gonna say. I know what I know. I'm perfectly okay with the fact that you should be able to breastfeed in public because, you know, you got a baby and sometimes they need to eat and you got to do the whole thing, like. But I felt like this woman the other day at the restroom restaurant. I mean, she's no effort whatsoever to cover up and facing like the crowd. She could have just turned this way and face the other direction very easily. I mean, as comfortably. But she chose to sit in such a way that it's just face the whole crowd. I mean, what do you think of that? I mean, I just. I feel like that's an effort to start a controversy just to show that I'm allowed to do this.

[Elsie]

It's. I feel like they're trying to get someone to say something. I agree.

[Joe]

I feel like you wanted someone to say, oh, I'm not allowed to breastfeed. Then you want to go into your spiel. Right?

[Michael]

Exactly. Because then you can get all self righteous and activist. The. On the other hand, speaking of activism, I am a free the nipple activist, so I stand with my sister, stand in solidarity with her.

[Joe]

Right. I'm not against the breastfeeding. I just think, why would you want to make it as. As visible as possible?

[Elsie]

My dear friend just had a baby and she showed me her breastfeeding cover for when she's in public. That thing folds up to the size of like, like an iPhone that she can put into her purse.

[Joe]

Yeah, I see that a lot.

[Elsie]

Covering is.

[Joe]

I see that a lot. And I know, I know, I know. I've known women to think that that's really bending to the patriarchy to carry some sort of COVID around.

[Michael]

At the same time, though, if you were to say to that person, I'm guessing, hey, show me your tits, she would go crazy, claim that was an act of violence. You were a rapist. To hashtag me too and the rest of it.

[Elsie]

Or if you.

[Michael]

So she can wave it around at will in public. But if you were to, you know, suggest, you know, I am enjoying seeing that she Would go crazy. It's all about being offended. They want to be offended.

[Elsie]

Wave it around.

[Joe]

Throw it over your shoulder like a continental soldier. Boobs.

[Elsie]

Hang low. Yeah, I mean, so I think I might have mentioned this on one of the one more things in the past, but I was at a hotel recently and it was one of those come down and get the complimentary breakfast things. So you're in a big room of people eating breakfast and this woman was at the table across from me, facing me, kicked her shoes off and busted out her, her breast milk pump, put it on the table and then just latched those two things on and was just sitting there and I'm like enjoying my hash browns and it's, you know. Yeah, you're right. And I'm like, wait a minute.

[Michael]

She was doing both barrels at once.

[Elsie]

Both double locked in the loaded man.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Elsie]

And I think her mom, her mom was holding the baby and she's just sitting there talking, eating bacon and get. And it was just. I was kind of like, wow, you are so comfortable.

[Michael]

Yeah, there's breakfast over there, Elsie.

[Joe]

That's funny. Some people are so comfortable. I'm never that comfortable ever. Like completely dressed in a room, I'm a little uncomfortable. She with her two boobs in a machine, getting pumped, sitting at the table.

[Elsie]

Waving them around with her shoes off.

[Michael]

And it's not like she was at her, you know, her, her family gathering or something. It was a hotel full of strangers.

[Elsie]

Yeah. And all these people just waking up, coming down to get their breakfast.

[Joe]

Oh, what is that?

[Elsie]

Tubes all over the place.

[Joe]

That is something. Yeah. Each their own, I guess.

[Elsie]

You know, Katie, when you choose a hotel, maybe spend an extra $40 or so a month or, you know, for whatever it is. But the breakfast is great, you know. Well, I guess that's it.

[Joe]

Ah, come on. Why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient.

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