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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

I Heard A Popping Sound

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Daily News, News

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On the Thursday January 8, 2026 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing podcast....

  • Jack walks us through the Russian odyssey that lead to his sobriety. 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed human.

0:04.3

I actually heard a popping sound.

0:06.2

It's one more thing.

0:07.9

Armstrong and getting.

0:09.4

One more thing.

0:11.2

That's happened to me a couple of times in my life and it's not been good.

0:15.0

This one was inside my brain, which I guess could be bad too if it's an aneurysm or something.

0:19.3

But I'll explain the popping sound.

0:20.7

So, yesterday, back in August was a 19 year anniversary of me stopping drinking I'm an alcoholic

0:30.1

yesterday was the 20th anniversary because you know now every day it goes by it's the 20th January, as we record this eighth that I've been sober, even though it hasn't been 20.

0:43.3

How did we get old?

0:44.0

I know.

0:44.8

No kidding.

0:45.3

What happened?

0:46.5

But so yesterday was the 20 year anniversary of me losing my desire to drink alcohol completely.

1:33.1

And I'll explain how it happened that day. And I don't understand it. It makes no sense to me. If I heard somebody else talk about it, I would think they were a crackpot. I, if you know me, I'm not the kind of person that believes this sort of crap. But this is what happened to me. So here you go. I think I've told this story before, but I'll tell you. So I was exactly five months sober, Gladys. 20 years ago, I was exactly five months sober, just coincidentally, when I headed out on a vacation. Now, I happen to be going to rush on vacations, but don't get distracted by that. That's really got nothing to do with the story. But that's where I was going. And I was a little worried because if you're a drinker, vacationing and drinking, like,

1:38.9

really fit together hand and glove. Yeah, I mean, an airport is just a giant bar with planes.

1:43.2

It really always had been for me. And I was a little concerned about that. But I was feeling so solid after five months I wasn't

1:45.8

really worried about it or whatever for whatever reason and luckily there's like no alcohol in

1:51.5

Russia drinking's not a thing there right I'd had a few I'd really like to drink during the

1:57.9

previous five months but it hadn't really been bad and And so anyway, I won't go on vacation.

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