Speaker 1: Hey, we're Armstrong and Getty. We're featuring our podcast one
Speaker 1: more thing. Find it wherever you find all your podcasts.
Speaker 2: I was fascinated by that python farm story the other day.
Speaker 2: I actually dug into that, did a little reading, you know,
Speaker 2: because pythons are big and giant and meaty, and they're
Speaker 2: like super efficient with the way they turn calories into
Speaker 2: muscle mass, and they taste like chicken.
Speaker 1: I got a question about that, but when I get
Speaker 1: to the cannibalism, I'll I'll hit you.
Speaker 3: With it, all right, all right, fair enough.
Speaker 2: So after the show, before we started recording this, Hanson
Speaker 2: replayed a clip of me saying something rather dry about Jack,
Speaker 2: and Jack commented, that's a very I'm just Diane thing
Speaker 2: to say, and I was reminded of a longtime listener
Speaker 2: to the show and hilarious tweeter I'm just Diane, and
Speaker 2: I went digging into our twitter feed. She doesn't tweet
Speaker 2: as much as she used to, I think, which is
Speaker 2: a shame for humanity.
Speaker 1: But she's had grown up with a job now and
Speaker 1: it's not easy. Should follow her, Katie, if you've never
Speaker 1: checked out I'm just Diana.
Speaker 4: I am on her shoes now.
Speaker 3: She is a.
Speaker 1: Listener we became aware of a long time ago. And
Speaker 1: she's very funny.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: Her pinned tweet is I'd rather go home than go big,
Speaker 2: which I agree with. How perfect is that? And then
Speaker 2: somebody tweeted the the Nancy Pelosi this is not an
Speaker 2: attempt to ban TikTok, it's an attempt to make TikTok better.
Speaker 2: Tic tac toe a winner, a winner. Her comment has
Speaker 2: simply nailed it. Oh boy, man, I love understatement. I
Speaker 2: think that's hilarious. Oh looking forward to the day my
Speaker 2: new phone stops autocorrecting, vaping to raping.
Speaker 3: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: Her best stuff is how much she hates her job
Speaker 1: and her coworkers. But that's a different topic. So New
Speaker 1: Scientist is a real science outfit, and they're trying to
Speaker 1: take another look at cannibalism, and they mention these bones
Speaker 1: that were found in a cave in southwest England which
Speaker 1: beared all the marks of cannibalism. It's pretty clear that
Speaker 1: cannibalism was going on their teeth, marks on the bones
Speaker 1: and the way. I won't get into details. It's pretty gross.
Speaker 1: But and this was fourteen, seven hundred years ago that
Speaker 1: they were practicing cannibalism there in England's Protein Baby. That's
Speaker 1: what I say today, they write in New Scientists Today,
Speaker 1: cannibalism is a taboo subject in many societies. We see
Speaker 1: it as aberrant, as a clear in film such as
Speaker 1: the Texas Chainsaw massacre. We associate it with zombies, psychopaths,
Speaker 1: and serial killers like cannibal lecter. Positive stories about cannibals
Speaker 1: are few and far between. I would agree with you there,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard one of those.
Speaker 5: Wait, what a child's book about cannibalism?
Speaker 1: Or Jimmy is a good guy, liked to golf, he
Speaker 1: treated his family well, and he was a cannibalabe.
Speaker 3: He'll be missed.
Speaker 1: But perhaps it's time for a rethink, because despite our preconceptions,
Speaker 1: evidence is accumulating that cannibalism was a common human behavior.
Speaker 1: Our ancestors have been eating each other for a million
Speaker 1: years or more. In fact, so was torture for years,
Speaker 1: in the years, for centuries. But that doesn't mean we
Speaker 1: should reconsider it. What a bizarre story this is. In fact,
Speaker 1: it seems that down the ages, around a fifth of
Speaker 1: societies have practiced cannibalism. While some of these people, while
Speaker 1: some of this people eating may have been simply to survive.
Speaker 1: In many cases, the reasons look more complex. In places
Speaker 1: like this cave in southern England, for example, consuming bodies
Speaker 1: of the dead seems to have been part of a
Speaker 1: funerary ritual, something they did when people died. Far from
Speaker 1: a monstrous affront to nature, cannibalism may have been a
Speaker 1: way of showing respect and love for the dead, say archaeologist.
Speaker 3: No, uh, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 5: Whoever wrote this needs to be investigated. He's like trying
Speaker 5: to sell this.
Speaker 1: I don't right, He's trying to soften a revelation that
Speaker 1: may occur someday about the barrels in.
Speaker 2: His exactly exactly, he's trying to set the table cannibalism.
Speaker 3: We need to reconsider it.
Speaker 5: I just watched a horrible horror movie about cannibalism where
Speaker 5: these guys invite a bunch of people over to their
Speaker 5: house for a dinner party, and they're serving them the victims,
Speaker 5: but they don't know it.
Speaker 1: Will Jim never watch episodes of Hannibal, the prequel to
Speaker 1: Silence of the Lambs.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh my god.
Speaker 1: When he would when he would sit down at the
Speaker 1: table in his suit, with his fine wine, and his
Speaker 1: beautiful home and start slicing off pieces of the river
Speaker 1: that he cooked up.
Speaker 3: God, that is gross. Dinner tables.
Speaker 1: Do you think because like you, you're so you're talking
Speaker 1: the other day about the snakes and how that might
Speaker 1: become a meat of the future, And I said, you
Speaker 1: because the idea of eating a snake disgusts me. There's
Speaker 1: something about eating a reptile that I find. And I've
Speaker 1: had snake, I've had alligator. There multiple, I've had it,
Speaker 1: but I don't want.
Speaker 6: To Alligator was great, let's just fried me to say,
Speaker 6: that's all right, But could could.
Speaker 3: You eat human? No? No, that's repugnant, repulsive? Why, I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: It's an instinctive horror, I think now the concept of
Speaker 2: it being a funerary ritual. Does anybody have anything else
Speaker 2: they'd like to say about jim Okay, well, then we're
Speaker 2: passing out knives and forks if we could all make
Speaker 2: our way to the casket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got one more thing to say about Jimmy.
Speaker 1: Looks delicious. Now that's some marbling. I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: I know he didn't exercise much, but that is some
Speaker 1: delicious looking marbling.
Speaker 5: He's creating a nice rub for it side size.
Speaker 2: If you heard me, I think, did I tell this
Speaker 2: on the air? I can't remember. My favorite joke now,
Speaker 2: which also takes place at a funeral. If you've heard
Speaker 2: this before, forgive me, but it's short.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's a funeral and uh, and people are talking about
Speaker 2: the dearly departed, and the widow stands up and says,
Speaker 2: is there anybody else who'd like to say a word?
Speaker 2: The guy stands up, He said I would, and he
Speaker 2: says plethora.
Speaker 3: Then he sits down, and the widow says, thank you, Jim.
Speaker 3: That means a lot to me. Yes, that is a
Speaker 3: good one I have.
Speaker 5: Actually, you've told that before, and I wrote it down
Speaker 5: to tell it to somebody else and then I never did,
Speaker 5: so thank you for reminding me.
Speaker 3: I pass it on. Now you got it again.
Speaker 2: Yes, the beauty of that joke is you think the
Speaker 2: punch your line is that he just says one worker.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a twist, and twist, my love. It caught
Speaker 4: the twist, well done, good.
Speaker 3: Good twist. That's funny.
Speaker 1: So back to cannibalism. I'm guessing that we're designed to
Speaker 1: be disgusted by it only because most of human history
Speaker 1: people have been starving, and if you weren't disgusted by it,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you thought of eating another
Speaker 1: human the same way you thought of eating a cow,
Speaker 1: we would.
Speaker 3: Have all eaten each other.
Speaker 1: I mean, just the strongest would have survived and eaten
Speaker 1: each other, and the societies that didn't find it up
Speaker 1: hurt and died out.
Speaker 3: Pretty quickly because of that.
Speaker 1: That'd be my evolutionary guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and doesn't.
Speaker 2: Like an epidemiological reason why it's a bad idea, because
Speaker 2: obviously humans can catch human diseases, but I don't.
Speaker 3: I suppose that's possible.
Speaker 1: But you know, we've mostly been starving throughout history if
Speaker 1: you weren't disgusted by it, and like, the only the
Speaker 1: only way you could possibly do it is if you're
Speaker 1: you know, the Donner Party, and you're all starving to death,
Speaker 1: and many of them didn't participate, they went ahead and
Speaker 1: starved before they did it. If it was okay with you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: people would have turned to that right away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I suppose hat Jim. We all hate Jim.
Speaker 2: Let's eat him, I tell you. I tell you what though,
Speaker 2: It's it's all about the method of preparation, because like
Speaker 2: I'm not going to have human sushi or anything like that.
Speaker 3: That's too much.
Speaker 1: No, I'm I'm a medium rare guy, but I'm going
Speaker 1: well done on Jim.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm like, maybe he smoked all day, like
Speaker 2: a long maybe jerky even. I want it really click.
Speaker 4: Could it be like a company.
Speaker 5: Could it be like a sandwich or maybe like a
Speaker 5: wrap or something, so it's not just that, yeah, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't want it like tender and falling off the femur.
Speaker 1: I just say, oh, you like a turkey leg you know,
Speaker 1: you see it the fair.
Speaker 3: I'd have to because I'm diabetic.
Speaker 2: That's right, You're at the fair and you're eating a
Speaker 2: human legs, got the footstill, see, that's disgusting.
Speaker 3: That's my point.
Speaker 1: So we'll see if this catches on and if New
Speaker 1: Scientific is successful in their effort to I don't know,
Speaker 1: mainstream cannibalism.
Speaker 5: I guess you know what the world we're in right now,
Speaker 5: it wouldn't shock me.
Speaker 3: Right right you it's a sick enough.
Speaker 2: This is the Armstrong and Getty Show, featuring our podcast
Speaker 2: One More Thing, Get it wherever you like to get podcasts.
Speaker 1: I've been familiar with next door for a long time,
Speaker 1: but I'd never had the notifications on where I would
Speaker 1: get where I would get the regular everything everybody posts.
Speaker 1: Good God, is that a smorgus board of unimportant thing?
Speaker 7: It is?
Speaker 2: Question?
Speaker 1: It is the forum of first world problems? Well, it's
Speaker 1: it's a combination of like first world problems that you
Speaker 1: really don't need to mention out loud to anyone, and uh,
Speaker 1: and like big problems that there are much better venues
Speaker 1: for finding the answer, like my you know, my dad
Speaker 1: has got this disease. My dad's got Parkinson. He happened
Speaker 1: to be president. Does anybody recommend a good doctor?
Speaker 4: You going on next door for that? Is that your best.
Speaker 1: Place to try to figure out these things?
Speaker 3: It just seems odd to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess nobody ever responds, So I don't know
Speaker 1: why everybody's fishing in this pond. I could see asking
Speaker 1: for a recommendation of like a service provider or something
Speaker 1: like that. I wouldn't ask what medicine do you think
Speaker 1: he ought to take or anything like that. Or you know,
Speaker 1: a football is in my backyards, they may know it
Speaker 1: belonged to That was one this morning.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, I saw one the other day that somebody
Speaker 5: took a picture off of a ring camera of a
Speaker 5: kid that doorbell ditched them, and they posted the video
Speaker 5: on next door, going, whose kid is this right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Lots of those, lots of those, lots of did anybody
Speaker 1: just hear that noise? Well, that happens like ten times
Speaker 1: a day? And then various responses. I did too. I
Speaker 1: thought it sounded like a gun. It didn't sound like
Speaker 1: a gun. It sounded like more okay, whatever. But here's
Speaker 1: my favorite one from today that got me on this
Speaker 1: very topic. Here's another one. Somebody asking about shingles. Find
Speaker 1: a medical professional or web md or something not next
Speaker 1: door now she's talking about roof depilatiating a nerve pain
Speaker 1: or exactly.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the disease. Here's my favorite one.
Speaker 1: Uh does does anybody know what I should do with
Speaker 1: this crow? It has a hurt wing. It landed between
Speaker 1: our houses. Yeah, I'm trying. I'm trying to I'm trying
Speaker 1: to nurse it back to health. It keeps hopping around
Speaker 1: and I don't know what to do with it. You
Speaker 1: got to put the whip to it. It's not trying
Speaker 1: hard enough. What should I do with it? Call it
Speaker 1: a sissy and tell it to try harder.
Speaker 2: Right exactly, tell it to good Lord helps crows that
Speaker 2: help themselves.
Speaker 5: Like, is it like the new Google for your neighbors.
Speaker 5: I don't understand why people are utilizing that.
Speaker 4: Well, all right, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You don't have Google or any of the other search
Speaker 1: engines for figuring stuff out, or even TikTok or whatever.
Speaker 1: You do.
Speaker 4: You go to the next door with the other eighty
Speaker 4: year old. Nothing else to do is to answer your question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, man, It's just I just shocked by it.
Speaker 1: And I've always wondered this about when I didn't live
Speaker 1: in a neighborhood for like twenty years. But now I'm
Speaker 1: in a neighborhood. Every neighborhood I've ever lived in, pretty much,
Speaker 1: there are quite a few houses where you know who
Speaker 1: lives there, even if you don't know know them, you
Speaker 1: see them on a regular basis, getting in their car, kid,
Speaker 1: coming home on a bike, whatever. But there's always several
Speaker 1: houses where you just never see anybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah ever, ever, you never see anybody.
Speaker 3: Ever. Somebody lives there.
Speaker 1: Lights get turned on at night off in the morning,
Speaker 1: and that must be the crowd that's on next door
Speaker 1: asking about crows or medical questions or whatever.
Speaker 2: It must be that you gotta go on next door
Speaker 2: and say, hey, has anybody ever seen anybody come out
Speaker 2: of the blue house.
Speaker 5: That's perfect on them, Just start asking really weird questions
Speaker 5: on there, Jack, that'd be perfect.
Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of asking advice, I thought this was so
Speaker 2: interesting and it makes sense in my head. See if
Speaker 2: it does to you. It's new research out about getting advice,
Speaker 2: asking for advice, that sort of thing, and this, Elizabeth
Speaker 2: Bernstein writes, we tend to believe the best person for
Speaker 2: support during a time time will always be someone who's
Speaker 2: been there before.
Speaker 3: It turns out that's wrong.
Speaker 2: New research shows we make get better help from people
Speaker 2: who've been through a significant challenge that's different from our own,
Speaker 2: because social scientists say this is because those who have
Speaker 2: been through an unrelated challenge can empathize with our emotional pain,
Speaker 2: but they won't assume they know what our experience is
Speaker 2: like or bring their own emotional baggage to the conversation.
Speaker 1: Oh, hun's great, that is interesting. I think that one over.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, somebody who's quote unquote been there before sometimes talks
Speaker 2: more than they listen. They may also give advice solely
Speaker 2: based on their experience and forget that ours is going
Speaker 2: to be different. And because they got already got over
Speaker 2: the problem, they think we should too and tend to
Speaker 2: minimize how painful the situation is.
Speaker 1: My main advice with big things that I've been through
Speaker 1: is usually having been through this, don't listen to anybody's advice.
Speaker 1: That's about my own advice on a number of big things.
Speaker 1: Wow wow interesting a cynical man or an experienced man.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes someone you don't know well may have different life
Speaker 2: experiences that you can draw upon.
Speaker 3: You never know what people know until you ask.
Speaker 1: Well, like, that's the advice I give on my cancer
Speaker 1: experience because I've had a number of people ask me
Speaker 1: who get cancer, and I say, don't take anybody's advice
Speaker 1: because everybody's situation is so incredibly different. I heard so
Speaker 1: many things that turned out not to be true, and
Speaker 1: I've been better off if I never asked. Everybody's situation
Speaker 1: is miles apart and changes on a daily basis, so
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. And child rearing, while not the
Speaker 1: same as that, because there are some truths to child wearing, definitely,
Speaker 1: but man there's a lot of I don't know, what
Speaker 1: are you telling me this for when it comes to
Speaker 1: child wearing. Also, yeah, a lot of people are trying
Speaker 1: to express their own and how to put this, work
Speaker 1: out their own issues or exhibit their own egos or something.
Speaker 4: Because kids are.
Speaker 1: So different and then the parents interaction with the kid
Speaker 1: is so different.
Speaker 3: It's just yeah, it's hard to normalize a lot of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe the worst advice giver is somebody who's raised
Speaker 2: a kid, because back to the beginning of this article,
Speaker 2: they're completely convinced that their experience is universal.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about all of you that have had
Speaker 3: one child.
Speaker 1: Obviously some of you have wisdom, but yeah, you'd exactly
Speaker 1: be what she was describing.
Speaker 3: Yep, because I've got that situation. It ends up fine.
Speaker 1: If I just if I'd only had one of them,
Speaker 1: I would think I was the world's greatest parent and
Speaker 1: be willing to lay out all kinds of advice and
Speaker 1: maybe write a book. If I don't lay out the
Speaker 1: other one, I would think I'm a disaster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard that.
Speaker 2: So final note on this, which I found interesting was
Speaker 2: the power of weak ties. Conversations with people that you
Speaker 2: have weak ties with can be surprisingly helpful.
Speaker 3: They don't know us well, they don't know our faults.
Speaker 2: They're less likely to judge us or make assumptions about
Speaker 2: our situation or something like that.
Speaker 3: I've had many experiences like this.
Speaker 2: Are much more likely to be a fellow, like a brainstormer,
Speaker 2: than a bestower of alleged wisdom. They're much more likely
Speaker 2: to listen and toss out ideas with you than try
Speaker 2: to lay the law down. This is the guy sitting
Speaker 2: next to you at the bar or the bus stop
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've had this experience many times in my life, and
Speaker 1: it works both directions. They don't have any particular agenda.
Speaker 1: Because they don't know you and you don't they can
Speaker 1: say things that if somebody who did know you said them,
Speaker 1: you'd get furiously angry. But because you don't know them
Speaker 1: at all and have nothing invested, you can just hear
Speaker 1: what day have to say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the power of weak ties, thought provoking. Yeah, ask
Speaker 3: a stranger, the.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty show, Yeah, your shoe podcasts and our
Speaker 1: hot links. At one points, as a child, for some reason,
Speaker 1: I thought it would be a good idea to stick
Speaker 1: my finger in a pencil Sharper.
Speaker 3: I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I don't remember how old I was, But anyway, I've
Speaker 1: got one finger that the fingernail on top still has
Speaker 1: white spots on there from that. They never went away.
Speaker 1: The fingernail continues to grow. But the cuts that I
Speaker 1: put deep into my fingernail causing me great pain from
Speaker 1: the finger from the pencil sharpener still on my fingernail.
Speaker 3: Do you think you were like seven or seventeen. I
Speaker 3: was twenty eight. It was thirty one, Yeah, I was,
Speaker 3: I was more like seven.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, well we all do silly stuff like that.
Speaker 2: You know what I've always wondered about scars? What's the
Speaker 2: deal with scars? I have, you know, various places on
Speaker 2: my body where I got cut open or whatever. My
Speaker 2: skin has regenerated hundreds of times and thousands of times.
Speaker 2: I don't know dermatologists, But why does my skin regenerate
Speaker 2: star scars? I mean, at one point when I was
Speaker 2: born that skin was on scarred, So you'd think that
Speaker 2: would be programmed into my genetics.
Speaker 3: I don't get that.
Speaker 1: I don't understand either. Clearly happens, but yeah, why why
Speaker 1: it doesn't regenerate? Your face does mostly, but the rest
Speaker 1: of your body does not.
Speaker 2: I mean, like right up there, I got a notch
Speaker 2: there and one there, and I got scars there and there,
Speaker 2: and they've faded a bit over the years, but they're
Speaker 2: still there.
Speaker 3: I don't get that.
Speaker 1: When you and your orangutang used to travel around the
Speaker 1: country and a pick up and do that bare knuckle
Speaker 1: street fighting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was choreographed, but sometimes, you know,
Speaker 2: his mighty ape blows would land upon my head.
Speaker 1: It's an old movie you've never heard of, Katie, from
Speaker 1: way back in the day, Clint Eastwood street fighting with
Speaker 1: an orangutang.
Speaker 5: Okay, like, wow, Joe, you've done some things I haven't
Speaker 5: heard about in a life.
Speaker 3: What a life? What a ride it's been, Katie. I'll
Speaker 3: tell you about it sometimes.
Speaker 2: So anyway, if if you're just seguing from the February
Speaker 2: twentieth Armstrong and Getty radio show or the on demand
Speaker 2: podcast into one more thing, the pencil sharpener reference will
Speaker 2: be familiar to it.
Speaker 3: We talked about it during the radio show today.
Speaker 2: But the situation is your friend announces his intention to
Speaker 2: put his finger into a power pencil sharpener and you
Speaker 2: tell him, well, Jim, if you do that, it's going
Speaker 2: to shred your finger, be incredibly painful, and you're going
Speaker 2: to bleed a great deal. Then he says, well, I
Speaker 2: feel like I must do it, and he sticks his
Speaker 2: finger in there, and precisely what you describe happens, and
Speaker 2: he's standing there.
Speaker 3: Screaming, Oh my god, my finger.
Speaker 1: It's intensely painful, it's shredded, and now it's bleeding a lot.
Speaker 3: What are you going to say at that point?
Speaker 2: We feel like that having been desperately trying to talk
Speaker 2: sense to the people of America, particularly the West Coast,
Speaker 2: as it's implemented these utterly predictably disastrous progressive policies, and
Speaker 2: I just I suppose I.
Speaker 1: Should take we should take satisfaction. No, no, because the
Speaker 1: finger had to be shredded. Yeah, that's just stupid. And
Speaker 1: there are businesses that I liked to have been driven
Speaker 1: out of business by the crime.
Speaker 2: Right for instance. So this is not quite as serious
Speaker 2: as the crime. And that's part of the reason this
Speaker 2: is so enjoyable. And before we launch into it, and
Speaker 2: we're going to play a fair amount of audio from
Speaker 2: ABC seven in the Bay Area, and I would suggest
Speaker 2: if you ever watch Bay Area news, I would give
Speaker 2: ABC seven a good long audition, because if they're doing
Speaker 2: a report like this, they deserve your love, or at
Speaker 2: least give them a chance, because there are plenty of
Speaker 2: Bay Area media outlets who wouldn't get within one thousand
Speaker 2: miles of this story. We'll start Michael with the first
Speaker 2: clip and go from there.
Speaker 8: By now you've probably heard of the infamous Noe Valley
Speaker 8: public toilet and how San Francisco was ready to dish
Speaker 8: out one point seven million dollars for its construction rather
Speaker 8: than pay for a much cheaper modular model from a
Speaker 8: company in Nevada. Here's why San Francisco could would not
Speaker 8: do business with any entity in that state. San Francisco
Speaker 8: had a ban on doing business with thirty states that
Speaker 8: had laws that undermined LGBTQ and voting rights as well
Speaker 8: as blocking abortion access.
Speaker 4: It was those states.
Speaker 8: Against San Francisco, and that eventually became too costly for
Speaker 8: city government.
Speaker 4: Annoe Valley bathorm is not a one off case.
Speaker 1: That's a problem that is replicated throughout our city government.
Speaker 9: Or we couldn't buy toilet paper from where we historically
Speaker 9: bought toilet paper. These market players are smart enough to
Speaker 9: know that they had a captive audience and they could
Speaker 9: raise their prices.
Speaker 1: That is mind blowing, That is absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2: I would suggest a rephrase from our point of view
Speaker 2: for ABC seven undermining LGBTQ rights and voter rights or
Speaker 2: whatever they said. That's that's mischaracterizing reasonable policy. But so
Speaker 2: you got a situation where San Francisco is banned doing
Speaker 2: anything including travel with thirty different American states.
Speaker 1: So if you got to buy toilet paper instead of
Speaker 1: buying it the cheapest place, you spend more taxpayer money
Speaker 1: to send a nobody even hears it tree falling in
Speaker 1: the forest virtual signaling message about trans writes or something.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Well, and if you end up in a situation where
Speaker 2: you've only got twenty states left and they don't happen
Speaker 2: to have paper mills except for one boutique firm in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: and so you end up buying five dollars roll toilet paper.
Speaker 3: Stupid idiots, Next time matter, stupid idiots.
Speaker 8: Nice Mike economics one O one competition results in lower prices. Also,
Speaker 8: because of the ban, public employees were not allowed to
Speaker 8: travel to one of those thirty states to potentially lower
Speaker 8: companies to break business back to San Francisco. The city
Speaker 8: tried to get arounded by granting waivers, and between July
Speaker 8: twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two, thirty five city
Speaker 8: departments approved a total of five hundred and thirty eight waivers.
Speaker 8: The problem there, even the process of granting waivers was
Speaker 8: costing the city more money in added staff and paperwork.
Speaker 8: In one case, the Recreation and Parks Department had to
Speaker 8: get a waiver to do business with a local LGBTQ
Speaker 8: vendor who had recently been acquired you guessed it, by
Speaker 8: another company in one of those thirty banned states. Because
Speaker 8: of that, we couldn't use her services until we got
Speaker 8: a special dispensation, which took a really long time and
Speaker 8: was frustrating for us and for her.
Speaker 4: Wow, the state is drunk.
Speaker 1: You'd have to work on being stupid for a long
Speaker 1: time to reach that level of virtuosity. Roland Michael Jack comment, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to say, you can see how you'd
Speaker 1: get here. So the people who vote on this stuff
Speaker 1: are morons, are.
Speaker 3: Divorced from reality.
Speaker 1: Another way to put her, they're either morons or they
Speaker 1: are so cynical they virtue signal to stay in office
Speaker 1: knowing that this stuff happens, but either way it's horrible,
Speaker 1: and then the voter doesn't really understand or hear about it.
Speaker 1: But there's got to be a lot of people in
Speaker 1: government that are completely aware of the repercussions of these
Speaker 1: dumb bands, and they keep their mouths shut. I guess
Speaker 1: there should be a bigger pushback against this roll on
Speaker 1: big Daddy.
Speaker 8: Time is money and a report by the Budget and
Speaker 8: Legislative Analysts found that while it is difficult to measure
Speaker 8: how the city's contracting costs have been affected by the legislation,
Speaker 8: researchers have found that full and open competition for contracts
Speaker 8: can result in savings up to twenty percent. After that report,
Speaker 8: San Francisco finally cried uncle, and last April, the Ward
Speaker 8: of Supervisors voted to get rid of the van Instead,
Speaker 8: san Francisco government now allowed itself to do business with
Speaker 8: any individual.
Speaker 4: Company that aligns with its values.
Speaker 7: Then we'll do business with that company, regardless of where
Speaker 7: it's located. And so we had to adjust the law
Speaker 7: because San Francisco was getting hurt at some point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they retain their need to virtue signal by
Speaker 1: demanding the companies quote unquote align with their values, whatever
Speaker 1: the hell that means, and it changes week to week.
Speaker 1: But so they finally figured out that, Say there's a
Speaker 1: company that so woke in Nevada. They only employ transgender
Speaker 1: gay men.
Speaker 3: I mean that's their entire staff.
Speaker 2: But San Francisco couldn't do business with them because they
Speaker 2: reside in the evil.
Speaker 4: And scary state of Nevada.
Speaker 3: Boogerdy, boogety boogidy.
Speaker 2: If you practice your violin as much as they practice stupid,
Speaker 2: you'd be it'sak pearlman.
Speaker 4: It's infuriating.
Speaker 5: How someone could How can anyone listen to this and
Speaker 5: not have their head want to explode?
Speaker 1: I don't know, And that's a pretty good question, Katie.
Speaker 1: Are there people that hear that and think I don't
Speaker 1: care they do the right thing?
Speaker 3: Are there people like that?
Speaker 1: God? Well, they shouldn't be in charge of anything. Oh,
Speaker 1: they should have minders. They shouldn't. They shouldn't like be
Speaker 1: alone in an apartment or something.
Speaker 2: Should probably be on a leash. Just make sure they
Speaker 2: don't wander off and hurt themselves. Next clip.
Speaker 8: So, the city lifted some of the restrictions on who
Speaker 8: they do business with. It still has a long list
Speaker 8: of conditions and requirements that companies, industries, states, and even
Speaker 8: countries must follow in order to do business with San Francisco.
Speaker 8: Up to now, only one city department has been given
Speaker 8: a reprieve to operate outside of some of those rules,
Speaker 8: the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. That that's how
Speaker 8: they've been allowed to expedite the construction of shelters and housing.
Speaker 4: It saves us at.
Speaker 10: Least three months on every project that we open, and
Speaker 10: has allowed us to be nimble and take advantage of
Speaker 10: opportunities to open new projects and spend the resources that
Speaker 10: the public has entrusted us with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think unfortunately on that one. It's just that
Speaker 1: one is millions and millions and millions of dollars flying around,
Speaker 1: and the people that are supposed to get that millions
Speaker 1: of dollars got a lot of pull and they aren't
Speaker 1: going to let it get all bogged down with your nonsense,
Speaker 1: so they found a way around it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: But to hear her say, oh, it's allowed us to
Speaker 2: be nimble and like take advantage of opportunities and save
Speaker 2: money and be efficient, but only for bums and junkies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because like I said, there are so many people
Speaker 1: receiving those tens of millions of dollars in the whole
Speaker 1: homeless industrial complex.
Speaker 3: You don't have.
Speaker 1: An interest group on the other end of paying for
Speaker 1: toilet paper to try to, you know, make it happen
Speaker 1: in a more sane way. Well, in the useful idiots say, well,
Speaker 1: that is such an important and sacred mission.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll let's spend all the rules. I think that
Speaker 2: is very important. Yeah, people making a living keeping the
Speaker 2: city from going into a death spiral. Yeah, we'll get
Speaker 2: people having reasonable you know, cleanliness and freedom from crime
Speaker 2: in their neighborhoods.
Speaker 3: That is not worthy.
Speaker 1: You were right tipping your hat to ABC seven News
Speaker 1: there in San Francisco, because that is some brave work
Speaker 1: right there. You're like practically Alexi Navolni to do that
Speaker 1: story in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: But uh, what was I gonna say?
Speaker 1: Oh, did you see over the weekend Scott Wiener, who's
Speaker 1: like maybe our least favorite politician in world history in
Speaker 1: San Francisco full of craziness. Finally, because he's been forced
Speaker 1: into it, has put forward some changes where they do
Speaker 1: away with a bunch of the impossible environmental rules so
Speaker 1: you could build some housing or some businesses could come
Speaker 1: back in to San Francisco because it's just made it impossible.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So the homeless industrial complex is Trump the radical left
Speaker 2: for the moment, or at least they're trying.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a lovely victory. Leanne Melendez, congratulations ABC
Speaker 2: seven again. Well, we'll post a link if you want
Speaker 2: to see the whole report. I think we can do that.
Speaker 2: But well done, ABC seven.
Speaker 1: God, that's so crazy. That's so crazy. We need to
Speaker 1: buy copy paper for the city where we been buying it, Alabama.
Speaker 1: Alabama's not trans friendly, so we won't buy it from there.
Speaker 1: It costs twice as much somewhere else.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 1: Of course you don't care. It's not your money. Oh god,
Speaker 1: that's maddening. And again the company is owned by a
Speaker 1: gay black man. They give one hundred percent of your
Speaker 1: profits to I don't know, Panda sanctuaries, but because they're
Speaker 1: in the state of Alabama, they're tainted by the evil
Speaker 1: of that map location, and so you stupid morons can't
Speaker 1: buy your paper from there. They give one hundred percent
Speaker 1: of their profits to pass over.
Speaker 2: The last time, Oh yeah, they don't hold I get
Speaker 2: die Kati either absolutely right, as as the the woke
Speaker 2: numb skulls stick their finger in the pencil sharpener en jaw.
Speaker 4: The Armstrong and Getty show, Yeah, or Jack your Shoe
Speaker 4: podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 1: There was some term we were using on the show
Speaker 1: years ago that we said sounded like a racial slur
Speaker 1: and like we were uncomfortable saying, but it wasn't a
Speaker 1: racial slurn anyway.
Speaker 4: Do you remember what it was?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: I don't remember what it was, but it was, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's on the tip of my tongue.
Speaker 3: I'll try to come up with.
Speaker 1: It about It was just it was just a word,
Speaker 1: and it's like made you uncomfortable sing, even though I
Speaker 1: didn't have any meeting. Well, this is part of the
Speaker 1: Daniel Tosh bit here that I came across on YouTube
Speaker 1: last night. Daniel Tosh fairly famous as a comedian for
Speaker 1: brushing pretty closely up against racist comments in his comedy
Speaker 1: and getting big laughs out of it. Katie, you're familiar
Speaker 1: with Tosh, Oh yeah, he's a funny guy.
Speaker 2: Oh well, and and sex stuff and he's he just
Speaker 2: op rates on the edge.
Speaker 1: So he'll set up this focus group thing the way
Speaker 1: he does it, but it's worth knowing since it's a
Speaker 1: video that the panel he's talking to. It's a black guy,
Speaker 1: a white woman, a gay guy, a Hispanic guy, and
Speaker 1: an old Asian woman that he's talking to.
Speaker 3: And this is how it goes.
Speaker 7: In this hyper sensitive day and age, it's hard to
Speaker 7: know who will be offended by what. So I came
Speaker 7: up with a list of brand new terms that have
Speaker 7: absolutely no racial connotation whatsoever, and to make sure they're safe,
Speaker 7: I feel testing them with an extremely diverse focus group.
Speaker 4: It's time for thank you guys for coming.
Speaker 7: I would like you just to raise your hand whenever
Speaker 7: you feel the term I use is offensive. Cream jockey, okay,
Speaker 7: water flaps, Here comes a pack of water flaps. Lock
Speaker 7: up your dogs.
Speaker 4: Oh no, that doesn't sound good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, sugar taster. What do you think sugar taster means?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know why you think that he tastes sugar?
Speaker 7: Why do you keep pointing to the blacks? That's what
Speaker 7: they they saddle shins mean a bunch of stinking saddle shins.
Speaker 8: Using sentence, I just did it. Sentence Yes, clink clunk
Speaker 8: clan clink clunk, clink, plum. Hey, we we did the
Speaker 8: rear world and we did all the work, and then
Speaker 8: you come back to use it kind terms.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's and not directly toward anyone.
Speaker 3: It's just the word clink clum.
Speaker 4: I don't like it.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, this is all good research.
Speaker 3: Guys. Thank you.
Speaker 7: Biscuit neck.
Speaker 4: God help us if we ever have a.
Speaker 7: Biscuit neck in the White House.
Speaker 3: Why did biscuit neck offend you? Oh no, you shouldn't
Speaker 3: say that.
Speaker 4: You shouldn't say biscuit neck.
Speaker 3: I thought it was something against whites.
Speaker 7: You thought biscuit neck was negative toward whites.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Spoon face, I don't.
Speaker 8: Like that because lots of Asians got round face and
Speaker 8: might do talking about that.
Speaker 7: But I think of a spoon I think of concave.
Speaker 7: You think I think it's an Asian slam?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 7: Spoon face, yeah, because spoon face.
Speaker 3: Apple picker? Why are you offended by apple? Because no
Speaker 3: one called me an apple picker? What if you were
Speaker 3: to pick an apple?
Speaker 4: I'm still not an apple picker.
Speaker 3: Let me find one that you are. Okay, which one?
Speaker 3: Can I call you? Phintoe?
Speaker 4: No water flaps, no gin bird.
Speaker 7: No bucket, duncker, no dirty legs?
Speaker 4: Nah, how about door donkey?
Speaker 3: Hey you're finding ten eyes? Tore ten eyes?
Speaker 7: It is well, thank you all for your time. You
Speaker 7: can collect your ten dollars.
Speaker 3: On your way out.
Speaker 4: Ten dollars.
Speaker 7: Yeah, your spoon face apple picker?
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: It's interesting though.
Speaker 1: I mean when I watch it the first time, there's
Speaker 1: some of those words that made me uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: Isn't that weird? Yes?
Speaker 1: Because yeah, clink clunk, no, wait donute, we build the
Speaker 1: railroads and you call us clink clok?
Speaker 6: What some of them just knowing he said no exactly,
Speaker 6: and then the people reacting like, oh, hey, don't call
Speaker 6: me that.
Speaker 3: And then the other guy's saying, what's the matter with you,
Speaker 3: biscuit neck?
Speaker 1: So was it the sugar taster or sugar eater or
Speaker 1: whatever that was? The white woman said, no, wait a second,
Speaker 1: you calling him that?
Speaker 3: I wasn't calling him. Why are you pointing to the
Speaker 3: black guy? Well, yeah, that's yeah weird. Why are you
Speaker 3: pointing at the black guy? It's just sugar taste.
Speaker 1: You're depended on behalf of him for a made up
Speaker 1: term that means nothing really interesting psychologically?
Speaker 3: Wow, how interesting? Dirty shins.
Speaker 4: I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't come up with that term that we used
Speaker 2: to use. It was like dink double incum. No kids,
Speaker 2: it was one of those terms, but.
Speaker 1: It really sounded like a racial God help us, we
Speaker 1: ever have a biscuit neck in the White House.
Speaker 4: Stop saying that Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong
Speaker 4: and Getty Joe