August 26, 2025 • 11 mins
On the Tuesday August 26, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...
- Jack reveals a mysterious text relationship...
- Katie's epic text battle!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Online fighting. There's no greater joy. It's one more thing
I'm strong, and one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Before we get to Katie's story. I just got a
text from someone I have ah a texting relationship with
somebody that I have no idea who they.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Are, Like a texting relationship that can be a lot
of things.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I might have a real relationship with them. I just
I just don't know who it is. It's somebody who
texts me from a number I don't have a name
attached to it. And uh and they the like comment
on things they heard on the show, or say what
you got planned this weekend for the big three day
weekend or whatever. I'll just say, uh, not much about you,
(00:46):
you know, and uh And I don't have any idea
who it is. And I've been doing this for with
this person for they don't text a lot.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
About how often is not a lot?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It'll go Oh, it goes in bursts like there're probably
been three in the last week, and then there might
be months before I hear from them again. Okay, and
then and then they'll text me a few times. Again,
I have no idea who it is. And it's been
going on for eight ten years. I mean a really
long time. It's me Jackiet do it during commercial.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That would be even better if it was Michael after that.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
But that's what I'm afraid of it. I'm afraid of
it somebody like like I know really well, and if
I say all of a sudden, it'd be weird to
say it. At this point after eight years, I just
gotta fiss up. I don't have any idea who you are?
Who am I I mean? Because that would be hurtful,
and especially if it's somebody like it might be the
(01:46):
lady that answers the phone at the tax play at
the insurance place where I get my car insurance. I'll
just use that for an example. Same lady has been
dealing with me for my car insurance for fifteen years. Yeah,
I don't know her name, or I do know her name,
but I don't know her number.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But will you got You wouldn't be on a texting
relationship like that, right, No?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, I don't know. People get your number through weird ways.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I don't have any idea who this. They sent me
a text today about how good the show was, and.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I have an idea. Are you ready? Next time? They text? You.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You respond back with, hey, I'm really sorry. I just
got a new phone and it blew out all of
my contacts.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Who is this?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's great. That is the sort of cleverness women come
up with. That is the manipulative type stuff. You're devious, devious,
that is really good.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, so just let this this.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Little round fizzle and then the next time they text
you be like a new phone.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Who dis brand new phone? All my contacts. I'm having
to do this with sorry about that? Who is this?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, it's gonna be somebody you just hate.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I was gonna go with I've got a flat tire.
Here I am alongside the road. Could you come help
me and then wait and see who shows up?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Could you buy chance to send a picture of your driver's license,
just so you know, trying to compare something. That's it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'm trying to verify all my contacts. If you could
send a picture of a driver's license from end back,
that would be very handy for me.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
How rightey, three verify just you know, Oh that's so fine.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
See you said eight to ten and I was thinking
months years jack, As you said, sir, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
This is the problem with lying and why it's a
good idea not to because it always goes further down
the road and you end up in a weird positions.
So by lying the first time the first several years,
I guess, of pretending I know who it is, then
it gets too awkward to try to fix it after that.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, you're way too deep.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Now, there's kind of I mean, if it's somebody close
that is like, really helped me a lot through the years,
it's merely going to hurt their feelings. Right, Oh so
all this time you were texting back, you know, you
have a good y two k also or whatever. I
don't remember how long this has been going on. That
(04:11):
darn Obama. However long this has been going on, they'll think, well,
you were just you were. This wasn't real, This wasn't
a real connection.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
We have no just bullshitting your way through it, Jack,
what you were doing exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh well, if they listen to the podcast, they'll probably
reach out.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Is that me.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Oh I wonder, I wonder how many people will text
you after this and be like, uh hey, now wait
a minute.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, oh man, what a what a what is that
something web we weave whenever when we practice to deceive.
It's very very true. Okay, so arguingly online, what is
that all about, Katie?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I can't even believe that I got into this this weekend.
And it was with somebody that I'm somewhat familiar with.
We have kind of a broadcasting relationship, if you will.
And I had asked this person to post a link
for me to And I know that like sharing gofundmes
(05:08):
is sketch, right, I understand that once you start sharing one,
you gotta share them all. But I had created a
GoFundMe for a business in my hometown that was really
devastated by a fire, and these guys do a lot
for our community. So I had contacted this page and said, hey,
would you mind sharing it? And I don't know, and
I completely will own this. I don't know if it
(05:29):
was actually insulting what he said, or if my hormones
are just going nuts, because it could totally be one
of the two, right, but I possible the way that
he came back at me and was like, we have
a policy and we've dealt with fraud gofundmes before, so
I'm gonna have to turn you down.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
And my brain went, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's a little that's a little cold.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It was.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That wasn't word for word, but it was along that tone,
and I just I looked at it, and for some
reason my brain went this effort questioning my integrity.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Right now he is.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Wondering if I am gonna send somebody who I've known
for years, I'm gonna send him this. Anyway, we end
up going back and forth for a few times where
I'm just going, you know what, dude, don't worry about it.
I'll figure out another way to handle this page. It
doesn't have to come back to you. But he wouldn't
stop messaging me.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
After that, like doubling down and doubling down.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Right, I'm not a good loser, so now I'm doubling
down back.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
This went on all of Saturday, Wow all.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I mean I was out and about doing other things,
but you know, my phone would take to be like
hang on, it's the dick, and I'd pick my phone
up and get into it and Drew's looking at me
like you've lost it, You've gone off the deep end. Anyway,
it ended up we ended up fizzling it out and
you know, kind of giving each other the yeah, you
have a nice day too. With the middle finger attack.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Really now you actually no, I told him have.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
A nice day, you take care now like that, you know,
and with the thought up emoji though, because I didn't
want to use the middle finger, so I went with
the thumbs up because.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That's the next best.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And then after I said that, another message at one
in the morning, so I finally just wrote back, listen,
I am not this is not going to take over
my Sunday as well. But I got roped into an
internet fight, which I rarely do.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Right, Yeah, I don't either.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
But it's but it was this weird like I don't
know that if I walked by this guy, because I've
interacted it with him with a.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Couple, I don't know that i'd recognize him.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
But for some reason, so onto the Saturday he had
my undivided attention.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What did he continue to uh? And uh? There are
three of us on this show who have had pregnant wives,
so we can attest to the fact that, uh, a
woman who's going through the whole pregnancy or getting pregnant
or whatever period of her life, you do not to
get into arguments with you just do not. But in
what way would he this guy continue it. I mean,
(07:55):
once you said that's fine, I'll find some other place
to do it and tried to drop it. How did
he continue doing gage?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It was so he explained himself.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And then I was like, all right, dude, whatever, you
know me, but I get where you're coming from.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
We'll just move past it. And then what should have.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Ended there, He started sending me links to fraudulent go
fund me articles, right, and I'm like, okay, I don't
need any of this. And now I feel and now
I feel like you're even more telling me that you
think I'm going to send you something fraud So it's just, dude,
it just spiraled. And I remember I was sitting on
the floor Saturday and that's when I went, I have
to text the guys.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
This is insane. So that was when I set the
text to you guys. I was so red hot pissed.
It was another level.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The problem is and I recently met an adult who
told me this and they were absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
They do not.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
If they find themselves starting to react to a text,
they always talk themselves down, saying I need to get
on the phone with them or something, because text has
no tone. I mean, there's just you can misread the
tone of a text so much. I've had it both
ways where I like, completely misread something as sarcasm that
was straight or vice versa, something that that they were
(09:09):
that they were trying to be sarcastic, and I read
it as straight, and so it was insulted. I mean,
And it can go both directions so easily, And I
kind of like that as a rule of thumb from
now and if I find myself starting to get charged
up over a text, I need to calm down and
make sure that's actually what the text says or what
(09:30):
they meant before I get all bent out of shape
over it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Where were you with these wide wise words on Saturday morning, Jack?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
While I was blowing a gasket.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It was totally and and I reiterated this to him,
and I've said it here, but like, this absolutely could
have been on me, But the way it typed out
and the way it read to me, it was like, oh,
it's on dude.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, man, And what's I don't know that I've ever
engaged in that, but I've certainly witnessed them between friends
of mine. I've seen friends of mine on Twitter get
into battle and they just can't let it go and
like two successful smart people get into it, and it
devolved so quickly from the original topic into just you know,
(10:13):
and the horse you rode in on or whatever the
insults are. And it's just amazing that that we have
that part of our human nature. Ye, it's so hard
to do. But again, if you take anything away from
this podcast, I think this is a good one. This
should be on bumper stickers. If you start to get
react to a text or tweet or whatever, try to
get to the source, get them on the phone or
something and find out if that's actually what they meant,
(10:35):
because it quite possibly is not.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, you could cut out the whole drama of it all,
but yeah, and the other element of it was I
think the continuation of the conversation. I was also I'm
very blessed that this was not on like a public wall.
This happened on Messenger, so only I'm the one who's
embarrassed by my own self.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But you know, I see these fights all the time on.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Facebook and all that, and you're right, they completely spiral
into stupidity every time.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, and the whole.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Uh, I'll let you have the last word, you know,
and then they'll let you you get the last word,
and then they say one more thing, just a short thing,
of course you do, or something like that, of.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Course you do, sure every time. Anyway, So that was
my Saturday.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh boy, let's all learn that lesson. Let's not react
to text until we know what the intent was. That's
what we've learned today, Michael. All these years and Jack
didn't know it was me. Well, I guess that's it.
Oh boy,
Online fighting. There's no greater joy. It's one more thing
I'm strong, and one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Before we get to Katie's story. I just got a
text from someone I have ah a texting relationship with
somebody that I have no idea who they.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Are, Like a texting relationship that can be a lot
of things.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I might have a real relationship with them. I just
I just don't know who it is. It's somebody who
texts me from a number I don't have a name
attached to it. And uh and they the like comment
on things they heard on the show, or say what
you got planned this weekend for the big three day
weekend or whatever. I'll just say, uh, not much about you,
(00:46):
you know, and uh And I don't have any idea
who it is. And I've been doing this for with
this person for they don't text a lot.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
About how often is not a lot?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It'll go Oh, it goes in bursts like there're probably
been three in the last week, and then there might
be months before I hear from them again. Okay, and
then and then they'll text me a few times. Again,
I have no idea who it is. And it's been
going on for eight ten years. I mean a really
long time. It's me Jackiet do it during commercial.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That would be even better if it was Michael after that.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
But that's what I'm afraid of it. I'm afraid of
it somebody like like I know really well, and if
I say all of a sudden, it'd be weird to
say it. At this point after eight years, I just
gotta fiss up. I don't have any idea who you are?
Who am I I mean? Because that would be hurtful,
and especially if it's somebody like it might be the
(01:46):
lady that answers the phone at the tax play at
the insurance place where I get my car insurance. I'll
just use that for an example. Same lady has been
dealing with me for my car insurance for fifteen years. Yeah,
I don't know her name, or I do know her name,
but I don't know her number.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But will you got You wouldn't be on a texting
relationship like that, right, No?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, I don't know. People get your number through weird ways.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I don't have any idea who this. They sent me
a text today about how good the show was, and.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I have an idea. Are you ready? Next time? They text? You.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You respond back with, hey, I'm really sorry. I just
got a new phone and it blew out all of
my contacts.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Who is this?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's great. That is the sort of cleverness women come
up with. That is the manipulative type stuff. You're devious, devious,
that is really good.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, so just let this this.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Little round fizzle and then the next time they text
you be like a new phone.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Who dis brand new phone? All my contacts. I'm having
to do this with sorry about that? Who is this?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, it's gonna be somebody you just hate.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I was gonna go with I've got a flat tire.
Here I am alongside the road. Could you come help
me and then wait and see who shows up?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Could you buy chance to send a picture of your driver's license,
just so you know, trying to compare something. That's it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'm trying to verify all my contacts. If you could
send a picture of a driver's license from end back,
that would be very handy for me.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
How rightey, three verify just you know, Oh that's so fine.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
See you said eight to ten and I was thinking
months years jack, As you said, sir, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
This is the problem with lying and why it's a
good idea not to because it always goes further down
the road and you end up in a weird positions.
So by lying the first time the first several years,
I guess, of pretending I know who it is, then
it gets too awkward to try to fix it after that.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, you're way too deep.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Now, there's kind of I mean, if it's somebody close
that is like, really helped me a lot through the years,
it's merely going to hurt their feelings. Right, Oh so
all this time you were texting back, you know, you
have a good y two k also or whatever. I
don't remember how long this has been going on. That
(04:11):
darn Obama. However long this has been going on, they'll think, well,
you were just you were. This wasn't real, This wasn't
a real connection.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
We have no just bullshitting your way through it, Jack,
what you were doing exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh well, if they listen to the podcast, they'll probably
reach out.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Is that me.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Oh I wonder, I wonder how many people will text
you after this and be like, uh hey, now wait
a minute.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, oh man, what a what a what is that
something web we weave whenever when we practice to deceive.
It's very very true. Okay, so arguingly online, what is
that all about, Katie?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I can't even believe that I got into this this weekend.
And it was with somebody that I'm somewhat familiar with.
We have kind of a broadcasting relationship, if you will.
And I had asked this person to post a link
for me to And I know that like sharing gofundmes
(05:08):
is sketch, right, I understand that once you start sharing one,
you gotta share them all. But I had created a
GoFundMe for a business in my hometown that was really
devastated by a fire, and these guys do a lot
for our community. So I had contacted this page and said, hey,
would you mind sharing it? And I don't know, and
I completely will own this. I don't know if it
(05:29):
was actually insulting what he said, or if my hormones
are just going nuts, because it could totally be one
of the two, right, but I possible the way that
he came back at me and was like, we have
a policy and we've dealt with fraud gofundmes before, so
I'm gonna have to turn you down.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
And my brain went, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's a little that's a little cold.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It was.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That wasn't word for word, but it was along that tone,
and I just I looked at it, and for some
reason my brain went this effort questioning my integrity.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Right now he is.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Wondering if I am gonna send somebody who I've known
for years, I'm gonna send him this. Anyway, we end
up going back and forth for a few times where
I'm just going, you know what, dude, don't worry about it.
I'll figure out another way to handle this page. It
doesn't have to come back to you. But he wouldn't
stop messaging me.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
After that, like doubling down and doubling down.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Right, I'm not a good loser, so now I'm doubling
down back.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
This went on all of Saturday, Wow all.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I mean I was out and about doing other things,
but you know, my phone would take to be like
hang on, it's the dick, and I'd pick my phone
up and get into it and Drew's looking at me
like you've lost it, You've gone off the deep end. Anyway,
it ended up we ended up fizzling it out and
you know, kind of giving each other the yeah, you
have a nice day too. With the middle finger attack.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Really now you actually no, I told him have.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
A nice day, you take care now like that, you know,
and with the thought up emoji though, because I didn't
want to use the middle finger, so I went with
the thumbs up because.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That's the next best.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And then after I said that, another message at one
in the morning, so I finally just wrote back, listen,
I am not this is not going to take over
my Sunday as well. But I got roped into an
internet fight, which I rarely do.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Right, Yeah, I don't either.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
But it's but it was this weird like I don't
know that if I walked by this guy, because I've
interacted it with him with a.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Couple, I don't know that i'd recognize him.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
But for some reason, so onto the Saturday he had
my undivided attention.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What did he continue to uh? And uh? There are
three of us on this show who have had pregnant wives,
so we can attest to the fact that, uh, a
woman who's going through the whole pregnancy or getting pregnant
or whatever period of her life, you do not to
get into arguments with you just do not. But in
what way would he this guy continue it. I mean,
(07:55):
once you said that's fine, I'll find some other place
to do it and tried to drop it. How did
he continue doing gage?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It was so he explained himself.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And then I was like, all right, dude, whatever, you
know me, but I get where you're coming from.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
We'll just move past it. And then what should have.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Ended there, He started sending me links to fraudulent go
fund me articles, right, and I'm like, okay, I don't
need any of this. And now I feel and now
I feel like you're even more telling me that you
think I'm going to send you something fraud So it's just, dude,
it just spiraled. And I remember I was sitting on
the floor Saturday and that's when I went, I have
to text the guys.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
This is insane. So that was when I set the
text to you guys. I was so red hot pissed.
It was another level.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The problem is and I recently met an adult who
told me this and they were absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
They do not.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
If they find themselves starting to react to a text,
they always talk themselves down, saying I need to get
on the phone with them or something, because text has
no tone. I mean, there's just you can misread the
tone of a text so much. I've had it both
ways where I like, completely misread something as sarcasm that
was straight or vice versa, something that that they were
(09:09):
that they were trying to be sarcastic, and I read
it as straight, and so it was insulted. I mean,
And it can go both directions so easily, And I
kind of like that as a rule of thumb from
now and if I find myself starting to get charged
up over a text, I need to calm down and
make sure that's actually what the text says or what
(09:30):
they meant before I get all bent out of shape
over it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Where were you with these wide wise words on Saturday morning, Jack?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
While I was blowing a gasket.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It was totally and and I reiterated this to him,
and I've said it here, but like, this absolutely could
have been on me, But the way it typed out
and the way it read to me, it was like, oh,
it's on dude.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, man, And what's I don't know that I've ever
engaged in that, but I've certainly witnessed them between friends
of mine. I've seen friends of mine on Twitter get
into battle and they just can't let it go and
like two successful smart people get into it, and it
devolved so quickly from the original topic into just you know,
(10:13):
and the horse you rode in on or whatever the
insults are. And it's just amazing that that we have
that part of our human nature. Ye, it's so hard
to do. But again, if you take anything away from
this podcast, I think this is a good one. This
should be on bumper stickers. If you start to get
react to a text or tweet or whatever, try to
get to the source, get them on the phone or
something and find out if that's actually what they meant,
(10:35):
because it quite possibly is not.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, you could cut out the whole drama of it all,
but yeah, and the other element of it was I
think the continuation of the conversation. I was also I'm
very blessed that this was not on like a public wall.
This happened on Messenger, so only I'm the one who's
embarrassed by my own self.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But you know, I see these fights all the time on.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Facebook and all that, and you're right, they completely spiral
into stupidity every time.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, and the whole.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Uh, I'll let you have the last word, you know,
and then they'll let you you get the last word,
and then they say one more thing, just a short thing,
of course you do, or something like that, of.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Course you do, sure every time. Anyway, So that was
my Saturday.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh boy, let's all learn that lesson. Let's not react
to text until we know what the intent was. That's
what we've learned today, Michael. All these years and Jack
didn't know it was me. Well, I guess that's it.
Oh boy,
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