Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe, Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie and He Armstrong and Getty Strong.
Speaker 3: And hey we're Armstrong and Getty. We're featuring our podcast
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Speaker 2: So let's clean out the sound fridge.
Speaker 4: We've got a bunch of great audio the crew got
Speaker 4: together that we didn't get to.
Speaker 2: This is an example.
Speaker 4: You could call it nutpicking, which is an expression I
Speaker 4: really don't like. It's where you pick out a particularly
Speaker 4: wacky member of you know, the other ideology and feature them.
Speaker 4: But this one, I just think number one, there's so many,
Speaker 4: any of these, And the setup is you're not supposed
Speaker 4: to say, Wow, that's a person with real mental problems
Speaker 4: who needs help. You're supposed to say, oh, you're so brave.
Speaker 4: Clip number five Michael he the.
Speaker 5: First trans woman to have a successful uterus transplant overies
Speaker 5: and eggs included. And I want to be the first
Speaker 5: trans woman to have an abortion.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I will let a.
Speaker 5: Doctor who has successfully transplanted a uterine complex before cut
Speaker 5: the organs out of a willing healthy trans masculine donor
Speaker 5: place them in my body. I will devote myself, heart
Speaker 5: and soul to their aftercare. And I want to be
Speaker 5: the first trans woman to have an abortion.
Speaker 2: You are full on mentally ill and evil? Yeah. Yeah?
Speaker 6: And doctor who would perform that, sir, knowing that those
Speaker 6: are his plans, Yeah, should lose their.
Speaker 2: Non God, that is just sick. That's somebody who has
Speaker 2: terrible mental problems. Then you're right.
Speaker 3: It is not picking to a certain extent, it's taking
Speaker 3: like an extreme example of the people you don't agree
Speaker 3: with in kind of act and then trying to pretend
Speaker 3: sometimes that.
Speaker 2: It represents a large point of view, which I'm sure
Speaker 2: this does not.
Speaker 4: But though Joe Biden met with that poor unfortunate Dylan
Speaker 4: mulvaney character to show how down he was with the
Speaker 4: trans folks.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and uh well and bud Light.
Speaker 3: Thought it was important enough to make it part of
Speaker 3: their advertising campaign to their demise. But where did that
Speaker 3: video audio come from? I mean, how what platform was
Speaker 3: that on to even.
Speaker 4: Be They posted it online on I think was TikTok wow,
Speaker 4: and the people who compile crazy progressives, you know, re
Speaker 4: retweeted it or whatever.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of things that go into this phenomenon
Speaker 3: that's happening right now. But part of it is everybody
Speaker 3: needs to be famous or you know, seen or liked
Speaker 3: or whatever, and you know it's getting harder and harder
Speaker 3: to do. It's a crowded field, so you have to
Speaker 3: be so out there to get some attention. And well
Speaker 3: you talk about it's leading attention.
Speaker 6: Well, and he's talking about a willing trans masculine man.
Speaker 6: So is that a woman who's becoming a man who
Speaker 6: doesn't want her puss anymore?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Correct, Yes, I don't.
Speaker 6: Math like this.
Speaker 2: This isn't working in my head.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I got to admit at some point, and
Speaker 4: I'll bet I'm not the only one. As he was
Speaker 4: describing who he was going to do what with and
Speaker 4: that they were trans this and masculine, I was I
Speaker 4: was like, I need a chart. I'm losing track of,
Speaker 4: like who's who's going to bring the sperm to this party?
Speaker 2: Because I'm lost.
Speaker 6: For instance, he's bringing the sperm and the bonus hols
Speaker 6: to this party?
Speaker 4: Oh oh boy again with that term I love uh
Speaker 4: oh oh. So I saw a bud Light commercial. I
Speaker 4: think it was during the All Star Game which as
Speaker 4: we record, this was last night, and I didn't watch
Speaker 4: much of it because my beloved Giants have angered me
Speaker 4: and I'm just not a baseball fan anymore. But the
Speaker 4: bud Light commercial, and they never enunciated it, but it
Speaker 4: was like people screwing up a guy, you know, dropping
Speaker 4: the meat on the way to the grill, I can't
Speaker 4: remember the specifics, and somebody spilling something, and then somebody
Speaker 4: breaking something, and then it went to bud Light.
Speaker 2: So easy to drink, so easy to enjoy, And.
Speaker 4: It didn't occur to me until I was like, oh, oh,
Speaker 4: they're making light of the fact that they really fed up.
Speaker 4: And their commercial theme is look at everybody, everybody f's
Speaker 4: up now.
Speaker 3: And again, Yeah, dropping the ribs on the ground is
Speaker 3: not the same as making a decision.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there were.
Speaker 3: A half dozen or more people involved in of a
Speaker 3: giant marketing campaign.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not to take this too serious. Leave it very briefly.
Speaker 4: What the bud Light is a beautiful example of is
Speaker 4: that Anheuser Busch, or at least the people involved in
Speaker 4: the bud Light marketing became convinced, perhaps because they're personally
Speaker 4: down with it, but became convinced that that very tiny
Speaker 4: but outsized minority of Americans who pitches all this radical
Speaker 4: gender theory stuff represents most people. They got fooled and
Speaker 4: then reality, which Bat's last speaking of baseball said not
Speaker 4: so much. We'll drink any other beer, literally, any other beer. Well,
Speaker 4: let's keep cleaning out the Suffridge's. Thanks metal guy. Ah,
Speaker 4: let's see. Oh, Michael, do you want to introduce clip eleven?
Speaker 4: Is there anything we need to know?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: A kid goes into Dunkin Donuts and four dollars with
Speaker 8: him and he wants some strawberry donuts and uh. He
Speaker 8: basically ends up wanting to get a few donuts and
Speaker 8: ends up with the whole box. Okay, so he explains
Speaker 8: how how he got them.
Speaker 2: Because they didn't have the type of donut I wanted.
Speaker 2: She gave me a deal.
Speaker 9: I could get bol strawberry donuts for the price of one,
Speaker 9: and I decided, can I get two for that deal?
Speaker 10: So I could surprice my money.
Speaker 2: So I wanted some munchkins, but they didn't have that either.
Speaker 2: She gave me the right if you all of them,
Speaker 2: there is a tool.
Speaker 3: That is one very pleased woman with the number of
Speaker 3: cheap donuts you got wow.
Speaker 4: Our sun drives a hard bargain. So what do you
Speaker 4: mean You're out of munchkins? Holy cal how are we
Speaker 4: going to make this right? I'm asking for the manager, please.
Speaker 2: Karen, and making yes.
Speaker 3: Exactly how are you gonna make this right? It's because
Speaker 3: I'm black, right, or a child or a woman or something.
Speaker 6: You being racistly out of munchkins.
Speaker 4: He's gonna end up running a hedge fund or something.
Speaker 4: Keep an eye on that.
Speaker 3: You send them trans didn't you, And that's why you
Speaker 3: wouldn't make more of these? Would you like me to
Speaker 3: go publicize? Oh God, give him as many donuts as
Speaker 3: you want. Just get him out of here, Michael, let
Speaker 3: any introduction necessary to twelve.
Speaker 2: Katie might be able to relate to this. This is
Speaker 2: when a guy gives you mixed signals.
Speaker 11: Is why he's giving you mixed signals. He's either unsure
Speaker 11: about you, the relationship, or both. If he's truly interested,
Speaker 11: he'll put in the effort consistently. So don't waste your
Speaker 11: time on a guy who's indecisive. Your job is not
Speaker 11: to convince someone, but to find someone who doesn't need convincing.
Speaker 11: If a guy stop talking to you, remember this quote.
Speaker 11: If your absence doesn't bother them, your presence never mattered
Speaker 11: to them. You don't belong with someone who doesn't want you.
Speaker 11: He's done you a favor by eliminating himself.
Speaker 2: Good ones spitting truth. I know my reaction is duck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's one of the best things that Sex
Speaker 3: and the City ever came up with. That whole he's
Speaker 3: just not that into me. Thing as opposed to torturing
Speaker 3: yourself for both men and women, as opposed to torturing yourself. Well,
Speaker 3: why somebody is you know, didn't call you back or
Speaker 3: they always I've just been so busy, don't don't you know,
Speaker 3: don't tie myself into knots because I've done this over it.
Speaker 3: They just don't dig you that much, So move on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not shocked to hear you say that, Katie.
Speaker 4: We don't know you well, we've only worked together a
Speaker 4: fairly short time. But you do strike me as more
Speaker 4: tethered to reality as opposed to what you wish were
Speaker 4: reality than some folks.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I appreciate that, and I feel like
Speaker 6: if you're dating somebody and they aren't calling you back,
Speaker 6: and this is the fifth time that he says.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was busy. Hello, wake up.
Speaker 6: But I think it's pretty obvious he doesn't want to
Speaker 6: talk to you.
Speaker 3: It's tough, though, if you really really want something to
Speaker 3: be true though, to let go of that, I mean,
Speaker 3: that's easier said to done.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's why you have to like rededicate yourself
Speaker 4: to clinging to reality over and over again in your life.
Speaker 3: If he isn't being bothered by your absence, he didn't
Speaker 3: care much about your presence. Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no kidding, doubled me over. Oh and let's end
Speaker 4: on a positive note, shall we? A Michael, why don't
Speaker 4: you go ahead and roll thirteen? Then I've got the
Speaker 4: details if we need them.
Speaker 2: Well, what made you want to do murder mystery?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 12: I just always love mysteries, reading them, I do a
Speaker 12: little bit of TikTok and when not so, I think
Speaker 12: I'm gonna go ahead and.
Speaker 1: Get a second one.
Speaker 12: I'm gonna geft it on there and see if we
Speaker 12: can get you a little bit of love on there.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 12: I want to thank everybody for the love and the
Speaker 12: kindness on the video that Red posted is totally unexpected.
Speaker 2: I'm in shock.
Speaker 12: I don't even know what to say about it at
Speaker 12: the moment. I'm trying to wrap my head around it.
Speaker 12: Thank you again for all the kindness.
Speaker 2: So here's the story.
Speaker 4: This this gent who's he looks to be I would say,
Speaker 4: in his sixties, well into his sixties. He's a retired man,
Speaker 4: a veteran of the Armed services, and he is living
Speaker 4: his lifelong dream of being an author. But he was
Speaker 4: sitting alone and ignored at a folding table at his
Speaker 4: local grocery store in Texas with his novel, hoping people
Speaker 4: might ask him about it or if he could sign
Speaker 4: a copy or something like that.
Speaker 3: That's a I don't come across that that often tables
Speaker 3: with novelists sitting there, and the image was heartbreaking this video,
Speaker 3: Are you interested in my novel?
Speaker 2: I gotta get out to my car. You know, it's
Speaker 2: so funny. And you're right, Katie.
Speaker 4: I have this weird thing where if I'm like at
Speaker 4: a craft fair, Judy and al you know whatever the
Speaker 4: August days or whatever the what sits festival, and I
Speaker 4: walk through the craft fair and it hurts my heart yep,
Speaker 4: like everybody who's sitting there alone in their booth being ignored.
Speaker 3: Some old lady who who paints glass and puts a
Speaker 3: little string on it that you can hang from something. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and nobody and nobody's coming by her booth. And you know,
Speaker 3: she puts a lot of time and effort into that,
Speaker 3: and puts some time and effort to showing up to
Speaker 3: the little, you know, garlic festival.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it's painful for me too.
Speaker 4: The guy with the nice cutting boards whatever, I just it.
Speaker 4: It's painful anyway. And I don't have the heart to say.
Speaker 2: Wake up, granny. Nobody's interested in your colored glass, o folks.
Speaker 1: Abuse.
Speaker 6: Oh lord, soulless Jack runs around screaming at grannies anyway.
Speaker 4: So uh this TikToker uh Shaw Jared swear Engine. He
Speaker 4: he walked in the store and he sees this guy
Speaker 4: and he wonders what's going on, and he figures out
Speaker 4: he's got a book to selling on and he watks
Speaker 4: back out to his car and he says to himself,
Speaker 4: wait a minute, I keep thinking about this guy.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back in and talk to him.
Speaker 4: And so he talked to him, and he videoed him,
Speaker 4: and as he said in the caption, he said, you
Speaker 4: know what, let me put this on my TikTok. Maybe
Speaker 4: we'll get you some love. The guy describing his book
Speaker 4: and everything think rockets to the top of the best
Speaker 4: seller lists, The freaking power of the Internet.
Speaker 3: Is a book any good bottom role? Or is it
Speaker 3: just a whole bunch of people feeling like you were describing?
Speaker 3: Where we feel bad for the old guy tried to
Speaker 3: write a novel. It's it's a dream, you know what.
Speaker 6: It happened so quickly, I would imagine they probably went
Speaker 6: straight to Amazon and gave him a high rating. But
Speaker 6: his books did sell out that day as well.
Speaker 4: It was a dark and stormy night, Lee Howard and
Speaker 4: the Ghosts of Simmons Pierce Manner.
Speaker 2: Sounds good. Are the hardy boys? Isn't it? Sounds like
Speaker 2: the hardy boys are in it.
Speaker 4: That would be a copyright infringement, Jack, But it's a ghost,
Speaker 4: an orphaned girl who uses the help of ghostly companions
Speaker 4: to solve the murder of her parents.
Speaker 3: All right, it's apelling stuff, man, all the execution. Obviously
Speaker 3: pelling stuff. Okay, that's ultimately a story about kindness and
Speaker 3: the kind spirit of a humanity.
Speaker 2: That's what it is. I think it is.
Speaker 4: Unless it turns out this TikToker dude demanded a cut.
Speaker 3: Oh, somebody is going to the Internet's gonna get a
Speaker 3: hold of the old guy and find out anything he's
Speaker 3: ever done untoward in his life.
Speaker 2: No change his story around.
Speaker 6: No nursery store is a weird spot for a book signing,
Speaker 6: it is, That's what I'm saying. You're trying to reach
Speaker 6: the pickles, and this guy's sitting there with his books
Speaker 6: the table.
Speaker 3: So I walked by the one table says can you
Speaker 3: give us some money for youth sports? And then I
Speaker 3: got to the other table. It's a guy with a
Speaker 3: novel I don't know.
Speaker 6: And then on the way out you're being sold chocolate bars,
Speaker 6: right exactly.
Speaker 4: Well, but inside the story even you're thinking, yeah, I
Speaker 4: got to get some some ground beef for the hamburgers tonight.
Speaker 4: You gotta get buns and ketchup, and probably ought to
Speaker 4: find a good summer beach rade too. An obscure novel,
Speaker 4: said nobody, but sounds good. I mean they solved the
Speaker 4: murder of her parents. Surely in favor of that, all right,
Speaker 4: if it gone unsolved, it'd be disappointed. Well, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: I guess these sound fridge is now reasonably clean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that mayonnaise was past its to date. I'm glad
Speaker 3: I didn't open it.
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Speaker 3: My son brought up I thought we were gonna eat
Speaker 3: Rocky Mountain oysters when we were in Kansas, and I forgot.
Speaker 3: He's been wanting to try rocky mountain oysters. Which have
Speaker 3: you ever been anywhere, Katie. You're a lifetime Bay Area person.
Speaker 3: They probably don't have rocky Mountain oysters anywhere there. No,
Speaker 3: I have not had Rocky Mountain oysters, but it was
Speaker 3: as common as anything could be as bar food for me,
Speaker 3: like in college, and that sort of stuff. Cow testicles
Speaker 3: fried up And I told my son we'd try and
Speaker 3: when we were back in which you taught us see
Speaker 3: Grandma and Grandpa, but we forgot to wait. Well next time,
Speaker 3: Oh darn you know me. I believe it's karmically unacceptable.
Speaker 4: It's just, you know, I don't belong to any religion
Speaker 4: that forbids me from eating any particular foods. But I've
Speaker 4: crafted my own set of beliefs, and I will not
Speaker 4: eat another man's even if it is a cow man.
Speaker 4: I will not eat another creature's testicules.
Speaker 6: What about juggling them, I asked, because I I did that.
Speaker 6: I juggled pig testicles for charity. Oh, really I did.
Speaker 6: They were quite slick.
Speaker 4: Mm. That is one of my favorite things you've ever said.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 3: I juggled pig testicles for charity. They were quite slick.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The feed lots in western Kansas used to once a
Speaker 3: summer they have what they called a ball fry because
Speaker 3: they had such a so many of them built up
Speaker 3: over a year of castration, had a ball fry, and
Speaker 3: that's everybody would come out. And that's how you go
Speaker 3: through them all.
Speaker 4: Well, suppose it is putting them to use as opposed
Speaker 4: to just throw them yea wasting uh.
Speaker 2: Or juggling them like some sort of savage.
Speaker 6: It was entertaining. So now we played tug war with
Speaker 6: the intestines after.
Speaker 2: It was a long day. Oh my lord. Yeah. We
Speaker 2: called it the meat circus. It was a whole thing.
Speaker 2: What was yeah, what was the charity?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: I can't remember what it was it was something that
Speaker 6: was going against PETA though we were donating to like
Speaker 6: I think it was a butcher shop or something, so
Speaker 6: we were.
Speaker 2: A fundamentalist militia.
Speaker 3: The charity wasn't The charity wasn't neuticles for ballless hogs?
Speaker 2: Was it that?
Speaker 3: I don't know, weird circular logic thing there. Uh So
Speaker 3: this reminded me of a Saturday A Live bit from
Speaker 3: Saturday Night The idea because these uh rocky Mountain oysters
Speaker 3: you could get him with your cheeseburger where you got
Speaker 3: fries or that or whatever, and they did you see
Speaker 3: the shrimp tower skit on Saturday Night Live?
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 3: James Roland, That's what makes so funny. One of the
Speaker 3: greatest actors of all time playing the lead role. Anyways,
Speaker 3: He's throwing a very fancy party and he has a
Speaker 3: shrimp tower and it's just a little shrimp built up
Speaker 3: to the shape of a tower. Anyway, he called it
Speaker 3: the thinking Man's mozzarella Stick, which I.
Speaker 2: Thought very funny. That is dryly hilarious. That is funny.
Speaker 2: I'll have to seek that out.
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Speaker 3: At one points, as a child, for some reason, I
Speaker 3: thought it would be a good idea to stick my
Speaker 3: finger in a pencil sharper.
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I don't remember how old I was, But anyway, I've
Speaker 3: got one finger that the fingernail on top still has
Speaker 3: white spots on there from that. They never went away.
Speaker 3: The fingernail continues to grow. But the cuts that I
Speaker 3: put deep into my fingernail, causing me great pain from
Speaker 3: the finger from the pencil sharpener still on my fingernail.
Speaker 2: Do you think you're like seven or seventeen. I was
Speaker 2: twenty eight, it was thirty one. Yeah, I was more
Speaker 2: like sevent.
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, well we all do silly stuff like that.
Speaker 4: You know what I've always wondered about scars? What's the
Speaker 4: deal with scars? I have, you know, various places on
Speaker 4: my body where I got cut open or whatever. My
Speaker 4: skin has regenerated hundreds of times, thousands of times.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not a dermatologist, but why does my skin regenerate scars?
Speaker 4: I mean, at one point when I was born, that
Speaker 4: skin was on scarred, So you'd think that would be
Speaker 4: programmed into my genetics.
Speaker 2: I don't get that.
Speaker 3: I don't understand either. Clearly happens, but yeah, why it
Speaker 3: doesn't regenerate. Your face does, but the rest of your
Speaker 3: body does not.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, right up there, I got a notch
Speaker 4: there and one there, and I got scars there and there,
Speaker 4: and they've faded a bit over the years, but they're
Speaker 4: still there.
Speaker 2: I don't get that.
Speaker 3: When you and your orangutang used to travel around the
Speaker 3: country and a pickup and do that bare knuckle street fighting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was choreographed, but sometimes, you know,
Speaker 4: his mighty ape blows would land upon my head.
Speaker 3: It's an old movie you've never heard of, Katie, from
Speaker 3: way back in the day, Clint Eastwood street fighting with
Speaker 3: an orangutang oka.
Speaker 2: Like, wow, Joe, you've done some things I haven't heard
Speaker 2: about in What a life? What a life?
Speaker 4: What a ride it's been, Katie, I'll tell you about
Speaker 4: it sometimes. So anyway, if you're just segueing from the
Speaker 4: February twentieth Armstrong and Getty radio show or the on
Speaker 4: demand podcast into one more thing, the pencil sharpener reference
Speaker 4: will be familiar to it. We talked about it during
Speaker 4: the radio show today, but The situation is your your
Speaker 4: friend announces his intention to put his finger into a
Speaker 4: power pencil sharpener. Are you tell him, well, Jim, if
Speaker 4: you do that, it's going to shred your finger, be
Speaker 4: incredibly painful, and you're gonna bleed a great deal. Then
Speaker 4: he says, well, I feel like I must do it,
Speaker 4: and he sticks his finger in there, and precisely what
Speaker 4: you describe happens. And he's standing there screaming, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: my finger. It's intensely painful, it's shredded, and now it's
Speaker 4: bleeding a lot.
Speaker 2: What are you going to say at that point?
Speaker 4: We feel like that having been desperately trying to talk
Speaker 4: sense to the people of America, particularly the West Coast,
Speaker 4: as it's implemented these utterly predictably disastrous progressive policies, and
Speaker 4: I just I suppose I should take we should take satisfaction.
Speaker 2: No, but no, cause the finger had to be shredded. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's just stupid.
Speaker 3: And there are businesses that I liked to have been
Speaker 3: driven out of business by the crime.
Speaker 4: Right for instance. So this is not quite as serious
Speaker 4: as the crime. And that's part of the reason this
Speaker 4: is so enjoy And before we launch into it, and
Speaker 4: we're going to play a fair amount of audio from
Speaker 4: ABC seven in the Bay Area. And I would suggest
Speaker 4: if you ever watch Bay Area news, I would give
Speaker 4: ABC seven a good long audition, because if they're doing
Speaker 4: a report like this, they deserve your love, or at
Speaker 4: least give them a chance, because there are plenty of
Speaker 4: Bay Area media outlets who wouldn't get within one thousand
Speaker 4: miles of this story.
Speaker 2: We'll start Michael with a first clip and go from there.
Speaker 13: By Now you've probably heard of the infamous Noe Valley
Speaker 13: public toilet and how San Francisco was ready to dish
Speaker 13: out one point seven million dollars for its construction rather
Speaker 13: than pay for a much cheaper, modular model from a
Speaker 13: company in Nevada. Here's why San Francisco could not would
Speaker 13: not do business with any entity in that state. San
Speaker 13: Francisco had a ban on doing business with thirty states
Speaker 13: that had laws that undermined LGBTQ and voting rights as
Speaker 13: well as blocking abortion access. It was those states against
Speaker 13: San Francisco, and that eventually became too costly for city government.
Speaker 2: Annoe Valley bathm is not a one off case.
Speaker 3: That's a problem that is replicated throughout our city governments, or.
Speaker 9: We couldn't buy toilet paper from where we historically bought
Speaker 9: toilet paper. These market players are smart enough to know
Speaker 9: that they had a captive audience and they could raise
Speaker 9: their prices.
Speaker 3: That is mind blowing, That is absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2: I would suggest.
Speaker 4: A rephrase from our point of view for ABC seven
Speaker 4: undermining LGBTQ rights and voter rights or whatever they said.
Speaker 4: That's mischaracterizing reasonable policy. But so you got a situation
Speaker 4: where San Francisco was banned doing anything including travel with
Speaker 4: thirty different American states.
Speaker 3: So if you got to buy toilet paper instead of
Speaker 3: buying it the cheapest place, you spend more taxpayer money
Speaker 3: to send a nobody even here, where's it? Tree falling
Speaker 3: in the forest? Virtual signaling message about trans rites or something.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Well, and if you end up in a situation where
Speaker 4: you've only got twenty states left and they don't happen
Speaker 4: to have paper mills except for one boutique firm in Massachusetts,
Speaker 4: and so you end up buying five dollars roll toilet paper.
Speaker 2: Stupid idiots, that's true. Fecal matter, stupid idiots.
Speaker 13: Nice life economics one oh one competition results in lower prices.
Speaker 2: Also, because of the ban.
Speaker 13: Public employees were not allowed to travel to one of
Speaker 13: those thirty states to potentially lure companies to bring business
Speaker 13: back to San Francisco. The city tried to get arounded
Speaker 13: by granting waivers, and between July twenty twenty one and
Speaker 13: twenty twenty two, thirty five city departments approved a total
Speaker 13: of five hundred and thirty eight waivers. The problem there,
Speaker 13: even the process of granting waivers was costing the city
Speaker 13: more money in added staff and paperwork. In one case,
Speaker 13: the Recreation and Parks Department had to get a waiver
Speaker 13: to do business with a local LGBTQ vendor who had
Speaker 13: recently been acquired you guessed it by another company in
Speaker 13: one of those thirty banned states.
Speaker 5: Because of that, we couldn't use her services until we
Speaker 5: got a special dispensation, which took a really long time
Speaker 5: and was frustrating for us and for her.
Speaker 2: Wow, the state is drunk.
Speaker 4: You'd have to work on being stupid for a long
Speaker 4: time to reach that level of virtuosity.
Speaker 2: Roland Michael jack Jack comment, No.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to say you can see how you'd
Speaker 3: get here. So the people who vote on this stuff
Speaker 3: are more are divorced from reality.
Speaker 2: Another way to put her.
Speaker 3: They're either morons or they are so cynical they virtue
Speaker 3: signal to stay in office knowing that this stuff happens.
Speaker 3: But either way it's horrible, and then the voter doesn't
Speaker 3: really understand or hear about it.
Speaker 2: But there's got to be a lot of.
Speaker 3: People in government that are completely aware of the repercussions
Speaker 3: of these dumb bands, and they keep their mouths shut.
Speaker 3: I guess there should be a bigger pushback against this.
Speaker 2: Roll on Big Daddy.
Speaker 13: Time is money, and a report by the Budget and
Speaker 13: Legislative Analysts found that while it is difficult to measure
Speaker 13: how the city's contracting costs have been affected by the legislation,
Speaker 13: researchers have found that full and open competition for contracts
Speaker 13: can result in savings up to twenty percent. After that report,
Speaker 13: San Francisco finally cried uncle, and last April, the Bard
Speaker 13: of Supervisors voted to get rid of the van Instead,
Speaker 13: San Francisco government now allowed itself to do business with
Speaker 13: any individual company that aligns with its values.
Speaker 7: Then we'll do business with that company, regardless of where
Speaker 7: it's located.
Speaker 14: And so we had to adjust the law because San
Speaker 14: Francisco was getting hurt at some point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they retain their need to virtue signal by
Speaker 4: demanding the companies quote unquote align with their values whatever
Speaker 4: the hell that means. And it changes week to week.
Speaker 4: But so they finally figured out that. Say, there's a
Speaker 4: company that so woke in Nevada. They only employ transgender
Speaker 4: gay men.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's their entire staff.
Speaker 4: But San Francisco couldn't do business with them because they
Speaker 4: reside in the evil and scary state of Nevada.
Speaker 2: Boogidy, boogety boogidy.
Speaker 4: If you practiced your violin as much as they practice stupid,
Speaker 4: you'd be itsak pearlman.
Speaker 6: It's infuriating how someone could How can anyone listen to
Speaker 6: this and not have their head want to explode?
Speaker 3: I don't know, And that's a pretty good question, Katie.
Speaker 3: Are there people that hear that and think I don't care?
Speaker 3: They the right thing?
Speaker 2: Are there people like that?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 2: Well, they shouldn't be in charge of anything. They should
Speaker 2: have minders. They should they shouldn't like be alone in
Speaker 2: an apartment or something.
Speaker 4: Should probably be on a leash state make sure they
Speaker 4: don't wander off and hurt themselves next clip.
Speaker 13: So the city lifted some of the restrictions on who
Speaker 13: they do business with. It still has a long list
Speaker 13: of conditions and requirements that companies, industries, states, and even
Speaker 13: countries must follow in order to do business with San Francisco.
Speaker 13: Up to now, only one city department has been given
Speaker 13: a reprieve to operate outside of some of those rules,
Speaker 13: the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. That's how they've
Speaker 13: been allowed to expedite the construction of shelters and housing.
Speaker 7: It saves us at least three months on every project
Speaker 7: that we open and has allowed us to be nimble
Speaker 7: and take advantage of opportunities to open new projects and
Speaker 7: spend the resources that the public has entrusted us.
Speaker 3: When yeah, I think unfortunately on that one. It's just
Speaker 3: it that one is millions and millions and millions of
Speaker 3: dollars flying around, and the people that are supposed to
Speaker 3: get that millions of dollars got a lot of pull
Speaker 3: and they aren't going to let it get all bogged
Speaker 3: down with your nonsense, so they found a way around it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: But to hear her say, oh, it's allowed us to
Speaker 4: be nimble and like take advantage of opportunities and save
Speaker 4: money and be efficient. But only for bums and junkies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because, like I said, there are so many people
Speaker 3: receiving those tens of millions of dollars in the whole
Speaker 3: homeless industrial complex.
Speaker 2: You don't have.
Speaker 3: An interest group on the other end of paying for
Speaker 3: toilet paper to try to, you know, make it happen
Speaker 3: in a more sane way.
Speaker 2: Well, and the useful.
Speaker 4: Idiots say, well, that is such an important and sacred mission. Okay,
Speaker 4: well let's spend all the rules. I think that is
Speaker 4: very important. Yeah, people making a living, keeping the city
Speaker 4: from going into a death spiral. Yeah, we'll get people
Speaker 4: having reasonable you know, cleanliness and freedom from crime in
Speaker 4: their neighborhoods.
Speaker 2: That is not worthy.
Speaker 3: You were right tipping your hat to ABC seven News
Speaker 3: there in San Francisco, because that is some brave work
Speaker 3: right there. You're like practically Alexi Navolni to do that
Speaker 3: story in San Francisco. But what was I gonna say, Oh,
Speaker 3: did you see over the weekend Scott Wiener, who's like
Speaker 3: maybe our least favorite politician in world history in San
Speaker 3: Francisco full of craziness. Finally, because it has been forced
Speaker 3: into it has put forward some changes where they do
Speaker 3: away with a bunch of the impossible environmental rules, so
Speaker 3: you could build some housing, or some businesses could come
Speaker 3: back in to San Francisco because it's just made it impossible.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: So the homeless industrial complex is Trump the radical left
Speaker 4: for the moment, or at least they're trying.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: That's a lovely victory. Leanne Melendez, congratulations ABC seven Again.
Speaker 4: We'll post a link if you want to see the
Speaker 4: whole report. I think we can do that, But well done,
Speaker 4: ABC seven.
Speaker 3: God, that's so crazy. That's so crazy. We need to
Speaker 3: buy copy paper for the city where we been buying it, Alabama.
Speaker 3: Alabama's not trans friendly, so we won't buy it from there.
Speaker 2: It costs twice as much somewhere else. I don't care.
Speaker 3: Of course, you don't care. It's not your money. Oh God,
Speaker 3: that's maddening. And again the company is owned by a
Speaker 3: gay black man. They give one hundred percent of your
Speaker 3: profits to I don't know, Panda sanctuaries. But because they're
Speaker 3: in the state of Alabama, they're tainted by the evil
Speaker 3: of that map location. And so you stupid morons can't
Speaker 3: buy your paper from there they give one hundred percent
Speaker 3: of their profits to PaaS that over last time.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they don't hold back a dime either, absolutely right,
Speaker 4: as as the woke numb skulls stick their finger in
Speaker 4: the pencil sharpener.
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Speaker 3: There was some term we were using on the show
Speaker 3: years ago that we said sounded like a racial slurn,
Speaker 3: like we were uncomfortable saying.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't a racial slurn anyway. Do you remember
Speaker 2: what it was? Right? I don't remember what it.
Speaker 4: Was, but it was, Oh yeah, it's on the tip
Speaker 4: of my tongue.
Speaker 2: I'll try to come up with.
Speaker 3: It about It was just it was just a word,
Speaker 3: and it's like made the uncomfortable sing even though I
Speaker 3: didn't have any meeting. Well, this is part of the
Speaker 3: Daniel Tosh bit here that I came across on YouTube
Speaker 3: last night. Daniel Tosh fairly famous as a comedian for
Speaker 3: brushing pretty closely up against racist comments in his comedy
Speaker 3: and getting big laughs out of it. Katie, you're familiar
Speaker 3: with Tosh, Oh yeah, he's a funny guy.
Speaker 2: Oh well, and sex stuff and he just operates on
Speaker 2: the edge.
Speaker 3: So he'll set up this focus group thing the way
Speaker 3: he does it. But it's worth knowing since it's a
Speaker 3: video that the panel he's talking to. It's a black guy,
Speaker 3: a white woman, a gay guy, a Hispanic guy, and
Speaker 3: an old Asian woman that he's talking to.
Speaker 2: And this is how it goes.
Speaker 14: In this hyper sensitive day and age, it's hard to
Speaker 14: know who will be offended by what. So I came
Speaker 14: up with a list of brand new terms that have
Speaker 14: absolutely no racial connotation whatsoever, and to make sure they're safe,
Speaker 14: I feel testing them with an extremely diverse focus group.
Speaker 2: It's time for thank you guys for coming.
Speaker 14: I would like you just to raise your hand whenever
Speaker 14: you feel the term I use is offensive.
Speaker 2: Cream jockey. Okay, water flaps.
Speaker 14: Here comes a pack of water flaps.
Speaker 2: Lock up your dogs. Oh no, that doesn't sound good,
Speaker 2: Yeah doesn't okay, Okay, sugar taster. What do you think
Speaker 2: sugar taster means?
Speaker 12: I don't know.
Speaker 13: I don't know why you think that he tastes sugar.
Speaker 14: Why do you keep coining to the black person, that's
Speaker 14: what they.
Speaker 2: Saddleshit me a.
Speaker 14: Bunch of stinking saddle shins.
Speaker 10: Using sentence, I just did that sentence.
Speaker 5: Yes, clink clunk clan clink clunk clink plum.
Speaker 13: Hey, we we did the rear world and we did
Speaker 13: auto work, and then you come back to use it
Speaker 13: kind term.
Speaker 14: Okay, that's and then not directly toward anyone.
Speaker 2: It's just the word clink plum. I don't like it. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: this is all good research. Guys. Thank you. Biscuit neck.
Speaker 2: God help us if we ever have a.
Speaker 14: Biscuit neck in the White House.
Speaker 2: Why did biscuit neck offend you? Oh no, you shouldn't
Speaker 2: say that. You shouldn't say biscuit neck. I thought it
Speaker 2: was something against whites.
Speaker 14: You thought biscuit neck was negative toward whites.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Spoon face, I don't.
Speaker 13: Like that because lots of Asian got.
Speaker 4: Round face, and do you talking about them?
Speaker 14: But I think of a spoon, I think of concave.
Speaker 2: You think I think it's an Asian slam? Huh? Spoon face, yeah,
Speaker 2: because spoon face, Apple picker, why are you offitted?
Speaker 4: By apple because no, I called me an apple picker.
Speaker 2: What if you were to pick an apple? I'm still
Speaker 2: not an apple picker. Let me find one that you are. Okay,
Speaker 2: which one can I call you? Hintoe?
Speaker 10: No water flaps, no kin bird, no bucket, duncker, no
Speaker 10: dirty legs? Nah, how about door donkey? Hey, you're finding
Speaker 10: ten eyes?
Speaker 2: Ten eyes? It is well, thank you all for your time.
Speaker 14: You can collect your ten dollars on your way out.
Speaker 2: Ten dollars. Yeah, you spoon face apple picker? Oh wow, wow,
Speaker 2: it's interesting though.
Speaker 3: I mean when I watch it the first time, there's
Speaker 3: some of those words that made me uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Isn't that weird? Yes? Because yeah, clink clunk?
Speaker 3: No, wait, didnute we build the railroads and now you
Speaker 3: call it clink cluck?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: Some of them just knowing he said it, We're like no,
Speaker 3: And then the people reacting like, oh, hey, don't call
Speaker 3: me that, and then the other guys saying.
Speaker 2: What's the matter with you, biscuit neck?
Speaker 3: So was it the sugar taster or sugar eater or
Speaker 3: whatever that was? The white woman said, no, wait a second,
Speaker 3: you calling him that.
Speaker 2: I wasn't calling him.
Speaker 3: Why are you pointing to the black guy.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's yeah weird. Why are you pointing at
Speaker 4: the black guy. It's just sugar taste.
Speaker 3: You're offended on behalf of him for a made up
Speaker 3: term that means nothing.
Speaker 2: Really interesting psychologically, Wow, how interesting dirty shins.
Speaker 4: I can't I can't come up with that term that
Speaker 4: we used to use. It was like dink double incum. No, kids,
Speaker 4: it was one of those terms, but it really sounds
Speaker 4: like racial.
Speaker 2: God help us, we ever have a biscuit neck in
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