September 17, 2021 • 9 mins
A&G staff historian (and national treasure) MichaelAngelo presents another classic A&G Classic Clip!
Back in 2010, a number of Friends of Armstrong & Getty alerted the A&G staff regarding a major broadcasting infraction committed by another radio host--who was then summoned to appear on the show to discuss the crime and present his rebuttal.
The entire sordid affair was captured on digital tape and regurgitated here--so that no one will ever forget!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Friday, Michael Angelo. And this is one more thing.
All right, Okay, I've been with The Armstrong Getty Show
now here for let's see, going on twenty one years.
(00:21):
So I'm thinking back to some of the strangest moments
of the show. And this was two thousand ten, Gladys.
We were alerted by our own loyal A and G
listeners that another talk show was ripping off our phone calls.
They were playing our phone calls on their air and
passing them off as their own. People were calling into
(00:44):
The Armstrong Getty Show and they would hear themselves on
another talk show, which was very strange, to say the least. Well,
it turns out this talk show was the Doug Stuff
and Show, and Armstrong Getty and their producers were able
to hunt down Mr Stephen and and Joe and Jack
didn't interview Mr Stephen and his explanation for why this
was happening on his own talk show. Um, it was
(01:05):
a little strange, to say the least. We also got
a good SoundBite that we would end up using for
many years, and I would use this to Childe Armstrong
and Getty when they got a little upity listen boys,
guys remember that one. Listen boys, but this drop came
from the Doug stuff in interview and you'll hear it
in that interview. So without further ado, let's go back
to two thousand ten and here A and G interviewed
(01:27):
Doug Stephen in Hey, why are you stealing my phone? Calls?
A very alert listener of the Armstrong and Getty Show,
and apparently a listener of the Doug Stephen Show Doug
Stephen's Good Days Nation one noticed that a call that
they heard on the Doug Stephen Show sounded a lot
like the call they heard on an Armstrong and Getty.
David listener recognized several Here's how it sounded on Doug
Stephens Show, David's in Arizona listening to a Good Day. Hey, guys,
(01:51):
Uh yeah, I definitely got me riled up. Okay, So
in that like two days earlier, I was on our show,
Gregg and Sacked. Oh, Greg, welcome talk to us. Hey guys,
Uh yeah, you definitely got me riled up on this one.
Is that's there's several So we're trying to figure out
what's going on, and now we can go right to
the source, like to welcome to the armstrong and get
(02:11):
a show the host of Good Day Doug Stephen's Good
Day Doug Stephen. Hello, Doug, I've got my hands up.
I'm under arrest. You got me. You're gonna try to
make light of this, are you? Because we are we
are mortally mortally aggrieved, or at least we're pretending to
be so. So explain what's going on here? All right?
So here's how this all works. And as we are
(02:32):
all on the same team in a sense, you know,
there are for if we count the good jobs around there,
a couple of hundred good jobs. You guys are fortunate
to have a good job. I'm fortunate to have a
good job. We know how much we put into what
goes on the air. I'm on the How does this
get to you stealing from us? As a big lead
lead up to listen? Boys, I called because I wanted
(02:53):
to have some I wanted to out it, I wanted
to straighten it out. I wanted to talk about it.
Gotta give me a chance. Don't play the same game
with me that we all play with each other. All right?
Oh no, I sense a bit of attitude. This is
not going to go well. And yes, I do have
a good job, Doug. Um, I'm not not. I'm real
(03:14):
crazy about your tone. Yeah, how about we joked to
the answer to the question how did this? How did
this happen? What's the tone? I haven't finished the sentence yet,
so let me get to the sentence. Okay, what happened
As I listened to what you just said, because I
hadn't heard it before, a couple of email came in
from listeners and one of the guys that produces the
program said, you are to hear this or you ought
(03:34):
to know about this. So I nosed around, and what
happened is certainly exactly what you've said happened. Is what happened. Um.
We have a number of different sources. The Countdown show,
which here is for two hours. Be sorry, I had
to blank out the call letters. I had to be done,
(03:55):
is a review of what's going on in the world
of news talk political radio, and as such, we take
cuts from various political or news talk programs, but you
don't present them as if they're cuts from other shows.
Just no, I haven't. But there's two different shows we're
talking about here. What you're talking about was something that
was lifted and used on the Good Day Show, and
(04:16):
we did it incorrectly. We should not have used what
we used from you in that context what was supposed
to be there. We have a listener call in line
where people can call in during the day and they
can react to things that we say on the program
if they can't, which I understand that. You know, actually,
if you if you had called in and said, you
(04:37):
know what I do, I'm lazy, So I take calls
from other shows and I pretend their mind, I would
have no problem with that. It's just this long, complicated
explanation seems stranger to me than that. Well, but I
want to tell you what. You know, what it takes
to produce some of these programs, and we throughout the
phone number people calling, we talked to him. That's not
the way the Countdown works. I can tell you right now.
The Armstrong Getting Show has never lifted material from another
(05:00):
a show on purpose. Okay, maybe on Columbus Day the
Countdown we listened to forty five or fifty stations around
the country monitor what they do, take the input from hosts,
and some of the callers put it on. Now, in
this case, we took a story that was supposed to
be in the Countdown, put it on Good Day and
instead of a call coming from the calling line, we
(05:22):
used your call. And I think we've probably done that before,
not knowing it. And in this case, this listener is
somebody knows that maybe you don't know, but somebody knows
that they're lifting phone calls from other shows, and that
that the whole A and G staff knew we were
getting our phone calls ripped off. Well, now let me
let me see if I can clarify some are listening
calls for the Countdown show we are. So was your
(05:43):
understanding that this this call was from the Countdown show?
My re repurposed it for the Good Day Show. My
understanding was that we had calls. I don't remember each
I don't listen to each of the calls per se.
It's carefully I put them on the ear and the Countdown.
(06:03):
What went on on the Good Day Show was taking
a story that was similar to something we covered on
the Countdown and put it on the air in the
Good Day Show, using a caller that came from another source,
or we thought we were. In fact, we were using
a caller that came from your program. Incorrectly. I got
I got a question for you, and I'll hand you
(06:24):
a little plausible deniability. So because I know I know
something about you and your career and you're a very
busy guy. So your guys who prepare your show, when
they get quote clips and stories from other talk shows
during the countdown, do they credit them during the countdown?
(06:45):
The shows are credited themselves. Most of the calls that
you'll hear on the countdown are live calls. If they
are a call that comes from a particular station. UM.
I honestly, if we put it together with the host, yes,
If we don't, then know is the That's an interesting
way to craft the show. I mean, it's just shows.
(07:08):
You know, there's nothing else that's like it, and it's
aimed at helping support stations like the ones you're on
in hours when they don't do BRIVE program I didn't
know we had bledge breaks on The Armstrong Getty Show,
but since we do. Hey, listeners, thanks for listening. Remember
it's your listenership that keeps quality programming like this available.
You know, a A Doug Doug you've been around? Have
(07:30):
you ever heard the expression don't b s A B
S R? I have heard that expression. Yeah, well, it's
good advice, and seriously, I don't care. I just think
it's damned interesting. I've never I've never heard of anybody
doing that before. I think it's kind of interesting that
we can take some of them. Just as I said,
we're on some we're on some of the same stations.
I didn't have to call in and tell you what
(07:50):
went on. You could continue to do what it is
that you're doing. And I didn't feel that we really,
you know, as colleagues, ought to have something go on
that really it was out of context or if, in
fact that I was wrong or my guys wrong, I'll
take it. I'll take credit for it because it has
my name on it. So I was wrong, we were wrong,
and that's what I'm saying. So if you guys don't
(08:11):
want to accept that, that's up to you. Doug, Doug, No,
that's fine, man fully said, we accepted. Okay, all right,
Well that's good. It sounds like everything got resolved. But wait,
things take another strange turn. Listen to this, so what
else can we talk about? It's enjoyable. Well, I'm sure
you have work to do on your Massachusetts dairy farm,
(08:33):
because that's your that's your other gig, right, you have
a dairy farmily shot. They shot a cow at the
California State Fairy yesterday. Pregnant, pregnant cow got looseners running
around and the only way they could figure out how
to handle it, for some reason, was they shot it dead.
A policeman shot at eleven times pregnant as a dairy farmer.
What do you think of that? I think it's outrageously
There's plenty ways you get a twelve year old farm
(08:55):
kid could have taken you know, you know what it
speaks to. It speaks to the overreact And I say
this because we all have times when we overreact to
things in life. But what the hell, dude again? Hilarious, hilarious.
These guys are professionals, and then they don't seem to
(09:16):
have any common sense. All right, yeah, we're feel this
and I apologize and I appreciate coming on your program
talking well, it appears he just wanted to get one
last kick at Armstrong Getting there at the end of
the interview. In my twenty one years of running the
Armstrong Getting Show, that's definitely one of the strangest segments,
very memorable. Well, thank you for joining me again. We've
(09:37):
come to the end of the Friday podcast. Gladys is
asleep for the weekend, and U join me again next Friday,
when we look back at another Armstrong getting classic clip.
Happy Friday, Michael Angelo. And this is one more thing.
All right, Okay, I've been with The Armstrong Getty Show
now here for let's see, going on twenty one years.
(00:21):
So I'm thinking back to some of the strangest moments
of the show. And this was two thousand ten, Gladys.
We were alerted by our own loyal A and G
listeners that another talk show was ripping off our phone calls.
They were playing our phone calls on their air and
passing them off as their own. People were calling into
(00:44):
The Armstrong Getty Show and they would hear themselves on
another talk show, which was very strange, to say the least. Well,
it turns out this talk show was the Doug Stuff
and Show, and Armstrong Getty and their producers were able
to hunt down Mr Stephen and and Joe and Jack
didn't interview Mr Stephen and his explanation for why this
was happening on his own talk show. Um, it was
(01:05):
a little strange, to say the least. We also got
a good SoundBite that we would end up using for
many years, and I would use this to Childe Armstrong
and Getty when they got a little upity listen boys,
guys remember that one. Listen boys, but this drop came
from the Doug stuff in interview and you'll hear it
in that interview. So without further ado, let's go back
to two thousand ten and here A and G interviewed
(01:27):
Doug Stephen in Hey, why are you stealing my phone? Calls?
A very alert listener of the Armstrong and Getty Show,
and apparently a listener of the Doug Stephen Show Doug
Stephen's Good Days Nation one noticed that a call that
they heard on the Doug Stephen Show sounded a lot
like the call they heard on an Armstrong and Getty.
David listener recognized several Here's how it sounded on Doug
Stephens Show, David's in Arizona listening to a Good Day. Hey, guys,
(01:51):
Uh yeah, I definitely got me riled up. Okay, So
in that like two days earlier, I was on our show,
Gregg and Sacked. Oh, Greg, welcome talk to us. Hey guys,
Uh yeah, you definitely got me riled up on this one.
Is that's there's several So we're trying to figure out
what's going on, and now we can go right to
the source, like to welcome to the armstrong and get
(02:11):
a show the host of Good Day Doug Stephen's Good
Day Doug Stephen. Hello, Doug, I've got my hands up.
I'm under arrest. You got me. You're gonna try to
make light of this, are you? Because we are we
are mortally mortally aggrieved, or at least we're pretending to
be so. So explain what's going on here? All right?
So here's how this all works. And as we are
(02:32):
all on the same team in a sense, you know,
there are for if we count the good jobs around there,
a couple of hundred good jobs. You guys are fortunate
to have a good job. I'm fortunate to have a
good job. We know how much we put into what
goes on the air. I'm on the How does this
get to you stealing from us? As a big lead
lead up to listen? Boys, I called because I wanted
(02:53):
to have some I wanted to out it, I wanted
to straighten it out. I wanted to talk about it.
Gotta give me a chance. Don't play the same game
with me that we all play with each other. All right?
Oh no, I sense a bit of attitude. This is
not going to go well. And yes, I do have
a good job, Doug. Um, I'm not not. I'm real
(03:14):
crazy about your tone. Yeah, how about we joked to
the answer to the question how did this? How did
this happen? What's the tone? I haven't finished the sentence yet,
so let me get to the sentence. Okay, what happened
As I listened to what you just said, because I
hadn't heard it before, a couple of email came in
from listeners and one of the guys that produces the
program said, you are to hear this or you ought
(03:34):
to know about this. So I nosed around, and what
happened is certainly exactly what you've said happened. Is what happened. Um.
We have a number of different sources. The Countdown show,
which here is for two hours. Be sorry, I had
to blank out the call letters. I had to be done,
(03:55):
is a review of what's going on in the world
of news talk political radio, and as such, we take
cuts from various political or news talk programs, but you
don't present them as if they're cuts from other shows.
Just no, I haven't. But there's two different shows we're
talking about here. What you're talking about was something that
was lifted and used on the Good Day Show, and
(04:16):
we did it incorrectly. We should not have used what
we used from you in that context what was supposed
to be there. We have a listener call in line
where people can call in during the day and they
can react to things that we say on the program
if they can't, which I understand that. You know, actually,
if you if you had called in and said, you
(04:37):
know what I do, I'm lazy, So I take calls
from other shows and I pretend their mind, I would
have no problem with that. It's just this long, complicated
explanation seems stranger to me than that. Well, but I
want to tell you what. You know, what it takes
to produce some of these programs, and we throughout the
phone number people calling, we talked to him. That's not
the way the Countdown works. I can tell you right now.
The Armstrong Getting Show has never lifted material from another
(05:00):
a show on purpose. Okay, maybe on Columbus Day the
Countdown we listened to forty five or fifty stations around
the country monitor what they do, take the input from hosts,
and some of the callers put it on. Now, in
this case, we took a story that was supposed to
be in the Countdown, put it on Good Day and
instead of a call coming from the calling line, we
(05:22):
used your call. And I think we've probably done that before,
not knowing it. And in this case, this listener is
somebody knows that maybe you don't know, but somebody knows
that they're lifting phone calls from other shows, and that
that the whole A and G staff knew we were
getting our phone calls ripped off. Well, now let me
let me see if I can clarify some are listening
calls for the Countdown show we are. So was your
(05:43):
understanding that this this call was from the Countdown show?
My re repurposed it for the Good Day Show. My
understanding was that we had calls. I don't remember each
I don't listen to each of the calls per se.
It's carefully I put them on the ear and the Countdown.
(06:03):
What went on on the Good Day Show was taking
a story that was similar to something we covered on
the Countdown and put it on the air in the
Good Day Show, using a caller that came from another source,
or we thought we were. In fact, we were using
a caller that came from your program. Incorrectly. I got
I got a question for you, and I'll hand you
(06:24):
a little plausible deniability. So because I know I know
something about you and your career and you're a very
busy guy. So your guys who prepare your show, when
they get quote clips and stories from other talk shows
during the countdown, do they credit them during the countdown?
(06:45):
The shows are credited themselves. Most of the calls that
you'll hear on the countdown are live calls. If they
are a call that comes from a particular station. UM.
I honestly, if we put it together with the host, yes,
If we don't, then know is the That's an interesting
way to craft the show. I mean, it's just shows.
(07:08):
You know, there's nothing else that's like it, and it's
aimed at helping support stations like the ones you're on
in hours when they don't do BRIVE program I didn't
know we had bledge breaks on The Armstrong Getty Show,
but since we do. Hey, listeners, thanks for listening. Remember
it's your listenership that keeps quality programming like this available.
You know, a A Doug Doug you've been around? Have
(07:30):
you ever heard the expression don't b s A B
S R? I have heard that expression. Yeah, well, it's
good advice, and seriously, I don't care. I just think
it's damned interesting. I've never I've never heard of anybody
doing that before. I think it's kind of interesting that
we can take some of them. Just as I said,
we're on some we're on some of the same stations.
I didn't have to call in and tell you what
(07:50):
went on. You could continue to do what it is
that you're doing. And I didn't feel that we really,
you know, as colleagues, ought to have something go on
that really it was out of context or if, in
fact that I was wrong or my guys wrong, I'll
take it. I'll take credit for it because it has
my name on it. So I was wrong, we were wrong,
and that's what I'm saying. So if you guys don't
(08:11):
want to accept that, that's up to you. Doug, Doug, No,
that's fine, man fully said, we accepted. Okay, all right,
Well that's good. It sounds like everything got resolved. But wait,
things take another strange turn. Listen to this, so what
else can we talk about? It's enjoyable. Well, I'm sure
you have work to do on your Massachusetts dairy farm,
(08:33):
because that's your that's your other gig, right, you have
a dairy farmily shot. They shot a cow at the
California State Fairy yesterday. Pregnant, pregnant cow got looseners running
around and the only way they could figure out how
to handle it, for some reason, was they shot it dead.
A policeman shot at eleven times pregnant as a dairy farmer.
What do you think of that? I think it's outrageously
There's plenty ways you get a twelve year old farm
(08:55):
kid could have taken you know, you know what it
speaks to. It speaks to the overreact And I say
this because we all have times when we overreact to
things in life. But what the hell, dude again? Hilarious, hilarious.
These guys are professionals, and then they don't seem to
(09:16):
have any common sense. All right, yeah, we're feel this
and I apologize and I appreciate coming on your program
talking well, it appears he just wanted to get one
last kick at Armstrong Getting there at the end of
the interview. In my twenty one years of running the
Armstrong Getting Show, that's definitely one of the strangest segments,
very memorable. Well, thank you for joining me again. We've
(09:37):
come to the end of the Friday podcast. Gladys is
asleep for the weekend, and U join me again next Friday,
when we look back at another Armstrong getting classic clip.
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