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Okay, this 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.040 is not a downer segment when I get to some 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.200 statistics that back up what you think, what you what 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.600 we think, what your neighbors think, as opposed to what 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:03.960 you're being told every single day. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.280 But first of this, what are we about to hear? Katie? 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.640 So this is from an YouTube podcast called so True, 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.560 and it's Caleb Herron, who is a gay comedian and 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:18.760 Nori Reid, who is queer, and I believe trams talking 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:20.480 about their one of them. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.240 Is gay and one of them's queer. I don't I 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:23.640 don't use the term queer. 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:28.600 Refuse well, and I spank you verbally for using it. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:34.640 It's an all purpose term that just means I'm against 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.080 the man man. 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.880 Okay, anyway, go ahead. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:45.679 My dad is white and I can't do anything about that. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:47.480 Yeah, there's nothing I can do. 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.800 Sorry, I'm gonna cry because I can't do anything about that. 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:52.320 I hate that you had to go through that. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.520 Thank you as somebody of white experience, I know how 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:57.200 about it can. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.760 Be, but my mom is full on Asian thank you. 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.000 That's when my dad died. I cheered because I said, 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.320 that's one last white man. That's how progressive I am. 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.079 Oh my god, I like talk about ally. I said, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:11.639 get him out of here, get him out of here. 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:13.080 I said, take him away, satan. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:14.960 And that's kind of how it works, right. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.280 It's like if one white person dies, then you say 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.040 that like a person of color comes into the world. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.679 Yeah, a diverse story gets elevated. It's kind of like 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.600 a spiritual experience. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.720 Here's the problem with everything in modern society. You play 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.840 that for me ten years ago, I know they're jerking 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.559 me around, that they're just saying that to be provocative. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.919 But now everything is so crazy that could be them 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.720 saying that to jerk me around, or it could be 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:44.440 one hundred percent what they believe. 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:45.680 And I have no idea. 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:52.240 I suspect it's sincere. Really, yes, oh yeah, I mean 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:57.880 they I have been insane folder of stories ready to 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:02.079 go about the so called DEI programs and universities and 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:06.560 various corporations in the government and how utterly racist and 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.760 twisted they are. Yeah, Katie, would you like to weigh 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.720 in on the authenticity or sincerity of the two gentlemen. 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.000 Well, it seemed quite sincere. And that's kind of the theme. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:22.360 Of this podcast is mega left progressive hitting all the 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.880 talking points that the media salivates over. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:30.320 The fact that a philosophy that insane and insanely stupid 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.160 would have any currency in the modern world is frightening 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.400 to me. It is so post enlightenment, it is so 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:42.320 post to you know, racial healing. It's ugly, it's obscene, 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.240 and yet it has infected so many of our institutions. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:49.640 Well, I remember when in California, and this is probably 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:55.440 ten fifteen years ago, white people were going to cease 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.040 being the majority. They were still going to be the 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.960 biggest group, but they weren't the majority. Of California and 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.160 the line got crossed. There were more people that weren't 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.440 white than were white for the first time ever. And 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:09.080 the cheering and celebration about that, it's just so weird 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.560 to me. Not that I cheer having more white people 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.920 than Harvey, who's cheering percentage of of race. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:17.400 That's nuts. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.520 Folks who have been converted to the Church of Dei 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.480 of Wochism before it was it was called that. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.800 I remember when I remember, I can remember, like I 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.760 just there. I won't mention the name, but our newsman, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.880 Marsha Phillips did the story and another person who was 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.640 a person of color on the show cheered, all right, yeah, 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:41.720 that's like, why is that thrilling for you? That will 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.840 be now less way? I mean, what do you think 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.360 is going to happen because of that? I don't think 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.280 they think about that much at all. They've just been 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.080 recruited again into the cult of. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:57.200 Racial politics and that's been super successful through the years. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:58.760 But if you want to see how that works, go 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.039 to the Middle East, go to you know, any of 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.160 your capitals of your Muslim states and announce that you're 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.279 a proud Christian or an atheist. That's worse, you'll be 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.200 treated to tell them you're a gay atheist. Okay, if 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.640 you want to see how sectarian politics works, go ahead. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.359 So a poll that is good news. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:25.359 Then this is from the Manhattan Institute Serious Organization. All polls, 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.840 not this one. But polls have shown we've gone backwards 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.440 on race since the nineties. Things have actually gotten worse 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.640 racially in this country in terms of attitudes since the nineties, 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.279 with you know, being more focused on race and theory 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:38.960 to make it better has made it worse. I think 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.680 we're all pretty much aware of that. And so they 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.599 ask people the question, are you're given two choices here? 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.400 Actually you're given three. Not sure is always a choice, 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.680 and you always have you know, a tiny percentage of people. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.760 So oh no, I just want to hang out with 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.120 those people. Think about it for a minute. I'll wait. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:57.320 I don't know. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.239 Wait, when you look around, I mean, in your real life, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.360 it has gotten better or worse, I don't know. 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:07.120 No opinion. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.360 But the other two choices you have are we should 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.720 focus on creating a race conscious society to repair the 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.360 harms of the past by developing policies that benefit marginalized groups. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.400 That's what we have been doing since the early nineties. 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.200 The other choice was, we should focus on creating a 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:29.440 color blind society where everyone is treated equally regardless of 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.880 the color of their skin. That's what we were doing 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.279 more or less post Martin Luther King Junior, pre the 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:39.800 early nineties, when things were actually getting better. Overall, it's 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:45.400 sixty sixty eight percent. The second choice, almost seventy percent 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.360 of Americans say we should focus on creating a color 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.400 blind society. Sorry, the most popular book in America, at 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.520 least according to all the TV hosts, was that Ibram 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.880 Kennedy crap about. There's no such color blind is code 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.760 for racist. There's no such thing as being I'm out 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:02.560 kick about color. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:03.920 That means you're a racist. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.320 Okay, Well, seventy percent of America doesn't agree with that, 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.880 and you start breaking it down by different groups, and 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.600 it's just astounding. First of all, it's every single group, 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:22.240 it's majority. The smallest majority of just fifty percent is 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.440 Black people said that. But even fifty percent of black 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.200 people said that versus thirty seven percent who chose the other. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:31.120 So fifty thirty seven. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.360 You always say it's a good idea to because it's 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:37.040 not always just doesn't always add up to one hundred, right, right, 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.080 So only thirty seven percent of black people choose the 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:45.000 we should focus on race conscious society and make everything 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.200 about race for all the other groups. 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:47.480 It's not. 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.480 And I would like to see the Black folks divide 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.880 by age in that answer. I think over forty it'd 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.480 be vanishingly small. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.760 Even Democrats. It's a twenty point win for let's be 0:07:58.960 --> 0:07:59.920 color blind. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.920 And all this sort of stuff. It's a twenty point 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:02.760 win for Democrats. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.920 For young people, which might be most susceptible to this 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:11.080 sort of crap um, it's fifty six to thirty, twenty 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.160 six point win for let's be a colorblind society. 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.480 Wow, Wow, you are quite right when you mentioned we 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.400 were going to be talking about this. This is absolutely 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.400 the polar opposite of what you would be led to 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.520 believe by taking in the mainstream media. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.840 Maybe you think the college crowd would be into this stuff. Nope, 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:34.440 it's sixty five twenty eight. We should be a colorblind 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.280 society for the college crowd. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:41.040 Yet we've all been hammered with Dei and Robin DiAngelo 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.560 and Ibram Kenny and all of that garbage. There's a 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.880 big study out that we touched on. We didn't really 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.880 go into it. We should have that the eight billion 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.400 dollars spent every year on diversity training in the US. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.760 In the US is demonstrably accomplishing the opposite of what 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.719 it claims, which is not surprising because says I, and 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.280 you and James Lindsay and other people have been trying 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:08.280 to communicate DEI isn't intending to get diversity. That's not 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.479 what it's there for. It's an instrument of the takeover 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.760 of institutions with the excuse of racial justice. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.559 That's a dodge. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.199 It's the sheep's clothing the wolf is wearing. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.680 It also shows that it's the minority opinion by a 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:29.280 lot that's into It's the first Hispanic quarterback to ever 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.640 win a Super Bowl, or this is the first Indian 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.520 American to go into space, or this is all that 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.840 never ending crap. Is the minority opinion. Most people don't 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.120 want that. They don't want to focus on who's what 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.000 color or whatever. Just tell me Jim won the Super 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.960 Bowl or Sandy became secretary or whatever or what, but 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:48.080 leave that out of it. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:49.200 Amen to that. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.960 Yeah's heartening, that's some excellent news. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.000 I agree. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.240 Yeah, And and this has been the message of our 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.959 show for a very, very long time. The truth is 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.160 what you live and what you see and what you 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.560 and your friends think, and don't be talked out of 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:14.240 the truth by the weirdos of the mainstream media. Who 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.959 are you know seeing their influence decrease moment by moment. Anyway, 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.800 it's easy to feel alone because we have this electronic, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:27.840 media driven life that in one hundred years we've gone 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.720 from ninety eight percent of our interactions were in person, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.280 in the same room with a human being to most 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.720 of our perception of the world comes from media that 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.240 is feeding it to us, and it is perverted our 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:42.240 sense of reality. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.160 I think, well, all of society's become Plato's cave, except 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.360 it's the Internet now instead of shadows on a wall. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.880 I got my kids Plato's Cave for Christmas. They played 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.239 before with it for like two days, and then it 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:56.480 went back in the closet. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.000 Right a Plato. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:03.600 Cave now tell us about play I see you have 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.760 to jump over Chesterton's fence to get in. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:07.959 Oh see, these people are in a dark cave and 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.319 they're just seeing shadows from a fire, and they come 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.240 up with these perceptions of what the world is, and 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.520 then they finally get out of the cave and realize 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.200 that they are completely wrong, I mean, completely misled by 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.800 the perceptions that they were given by that. And it's 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:29.640 got long philosophical philosophical legs and tentacles going from there. 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.320 But that is what we're doing with all this stuff, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:34.040 I would agree. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.480 Yeah, the media, we've used the term funhouse mirrors or whatever, 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.680 but Plato's cave is a good illustration of it too. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.120 I have had a piece of pie every single day 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.880 for five straight days, and let me tell you, if 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.840 you haven't tried that, it's not good for your digestive system. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.600 Wow. I can only imagine the horror, just the heads up. Yes, Michael, Hey, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.320 how you doing on the cheese cave? Oh yeah, wow? Yeah, 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:00.640 so that. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.599 I was kind of hoping that the cheesecake would be 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.480 a binding agent after I eat the pie, which is. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.080 A bit of a theory. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.120 Quick question for you, what if you happen to miss 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.120 this unbelievable radio program. 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.600 The answer is easy, friends, just download our podcast Armstrong 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.480 and Getty on demand. It's the podcast version of the 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.559 broadcast show, available anytime, any day every single podcast platform 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:27.520 known demand. 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.440 Download it now. Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:41.839 Armstrong, The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.920 Why was I up last night late watching Jim Carrey 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.840 pontificate about the meaning of life? I didn't even know 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.800 actor Jim Carrey did that sort of thing. I've never 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:54.960 been a Jim Carrey fan. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:55.520 Really. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.520 I like Dumb and Dumber and I Peck Detective and 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.480 all that, but I like to but I hated the 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:02.040 Truman Show. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:03.760 I just I don't know. I've never been into him. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.880 I thought he was a pompous ass until last night 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.160 when I clicked on a Jim Carrey short and he 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.720 was talking about actually he was talking about forgiveness and 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.320 Jesus and all kinds of different stuff. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:16.960 I didn't know he was such a believer, but he is. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.160 And the reason I got sucked into that probably was 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:23.360 stuff I was looking for. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:24.000 I am. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.760 I got divorced three and a half years ago, and 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.000 I am not happy with where my life is. I 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.080 don't like the fact that I'm a single dad and 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.599 my kids are living up and a growing up in 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:37.480 a split household. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:38.040 I hate that. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.400 I hate it so much, and I haven't been able 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.720 to accept it and let it go at it all 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.400 since the day I found out about it, which is 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.880 which is not healthy, because you got no choice with 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.760 certain things that come your way in life. You got 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.400 no choice. You you got to accept him and move on. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.600 And I've done that with everything in my life, everything 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.480 every in my life, all kinds of bad things that 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.320 happened in my life except for this one. And I haven't 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.080 been able to nudge an inch on this one for 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:07.960 some reason. And it drives me nuts. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.960 Probably because you're reminded of the effects of it all 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:11.320 the time. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.720 Yeah, that's part of it. Yeah, it is. The effects 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.640 of it are all day, every day. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.280 But anyway, so I got into this this somehow. I 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.760 was fed through the algorithm this stuff about Jim Carrey, 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:23.520 and it was it was bigger. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:23.800 Than even that. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:28.000 It was just the idea of you know, now is 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.400 all we've got, and accepting life for what it is 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:34.080 and not having expectations, and really his main thing is 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.520 just getting rid of your idea of who you are, 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.160 because it's all made up in your head anyway, and 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.720 just living your life, you know, moment by moment best 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:49.280 you can by your morals and visions of what you want. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:53.440 But just letting go of your whole vision of yourself. 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.680 His belief is everybody's torment, depression and all kinds of 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:02.040 different stuff comes from a a vision they have of 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.160 who they are, who they wanted to be, and it's 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:08.520 not meeting up with reality. And if you just let 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.160 go of all of that because you created it in 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.560 your own mind, it wasn't like, you know, God said, 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.040 this is who you have to pretend to be the 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.480 rest of your life. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:19.920 If you just let go of all of that. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.120 He said, he had the kind of like gift of 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.960 becoming rich and successful and all these different things and 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.480 realizing it didn't make him happy before he was able 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.280 to let go of all that stuff. Not everybody has 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.920 that opportunity, but just to really realize that didn't do anything. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:40.040 That didn't help me at all. Yeah. Boy, there are 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.160 a million directions to go with this discussion. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.680 It's very deep and very interesting, and I had like 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.200 a brief five minute period of like really understanding it 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:49.920 while I was laying in bed last night and thinking, 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:50.480 I think I. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.240 Can do this. This is the answer. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.840 Let going letting go of the vision of what I 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.520 thought life was going to be, because it's not going 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.120 to be that. It's stupid to stay nailed to that 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.840 and try to force a square pagan too a round hole. 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.440 It'll never work. But then I lost it when I 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.760 got up at this morning. Well that's disappointed. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.600 Yeah, maybe I'll maybe I'll get it back later today, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.000 or maybe you have to work at it over time. 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.320 I don't know. This is silly and trivial compared to 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:14.720 that question. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.480 But I ran into somebody the other day who somebody said, 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.040 it is what it is, and they expressed that I 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.480 hate that. They said, I hate that expression. And then 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.680 and I realize any expression, if it's overused, becomes very annoying. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.560 But it is what it is is the expression of 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.320 an ancient, ancient piece of wisdom. It is saying yeah, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.920 it's straight out of Buddhism, it's straight of Christianity. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.960 It is saying amen, it is saying, so be it. 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.440 I have accepted it. Yeah. Yeah. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.800 And I always like this phrase of if something doesn't 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.720 have a solution, it's not a problem. Dealing with everything 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.280 like it's a problem doesn't make any sense. Things without 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.320 a solution are a fact, they're not a problem, and 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:54.960 so now you just go on with your life. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:00.800 Yeah, Well it does help to kind of stop and 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.320 contemplate this stuff and try to figure out which is which? 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.600 Right like you had your moment of clarity, then it 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.680 was time to go to work. And hadn't I had 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.679 it up here a second ago. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.880 Quick question for you, what if you happen to miss 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:17.880 this unbelievable radio program. 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.359 The answer is easy, friends, just download our podcast, Armstrong 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.280 and Getty on demand. It's the podcast version of the 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.320 broadcast show, available anytime, any day every single podcast platform 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:27.960 known demand. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:49.440 Download it now Armstrong and Getty on Demand. 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.080 Some economists have finally woken up to the fact that 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:59.920 human beings are not like computerized decision makers. They're also 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:05.640 of things that enter into economics, in particular, as Nobel 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:10.359 Prize winning economist George Akerloff and his collaborator Rachel Cranton said, 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.959 I wrote years and years ago, identity may be the 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.959 most important economic decision people make, and it has to 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.320 do with how you see yourself, how you want to 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.919 project an identity, what group of people do you consider 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.080 yourself part of? And you make all sorts of economic 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:32.399 decisions based on not rational analysis, but identity. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.280 If I had known this was part of economics when 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.679 I was in college, I could have easily made it 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.560 my life. I only took microeconomics, which I hated. I mean, 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.400 it's obviously got its value supply to my own, etc. 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.159 But if I'd have known all this other stuff that 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.840 I find so fascinating about economics was part of it, 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:52.879 I would have man, I would have eaten that up. 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:54.600 Yeah, what would you call it? 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:59.120 Psychoeconomics, socioeconomics or something like that. But they gave the 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.600 example of an academic economist, not coincidentally, that's who we're 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.120 talking about. That would be a social category, and that's 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.080 the way they would see themselves or part of that 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.320 group whatever. So they probably own a practical car and 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.919 wear comfortable shoes, and if they showed up in a 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:15.920 portion nine to eleven or a pair of five hundred 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.280 dollars loafers, they would all not only feel like they 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.439 were putting on airs, but they'd probably be mocked and 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.840 scorned to buy colleagues. In traditional economics models, it's hard 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.600 to rationalize why anyone would care so much about what 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:33.080 shoes I walk in wearing right, or what car I drive, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:37.719 But that really affects decisions they go into. 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.120 Like individual when you. 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:43.879 Go to buy a pair of shoes or a car, 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:50.960 practically anything, certainly anything anybody's going to observe. The options 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.960 are not wide open for most people. They're limited to 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.439 your identity. It has to shot into that world of 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:03.280 your identity, which is interesting. We don't see ourselves out way. 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:05.280 I think we most people like to see themselves as No, 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.639 I could wear any kind of footwear. 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:09.560 It's completely up to me. I'm my own person. 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.119 But no, it fits into a view you heavy of yourself, 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:14.800 where you want other people to have of you, or 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:15.879 you think you had whatever. 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.840 And then they talk about individual gains from both material 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.879 outcomes and actions that conform to their identities. 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.080 Blah blah blah, and labor markets. 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.400 Workers are motivated by wages, of course, but also by 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.920 how well their job aligns with their identities. They give 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.840 the example of a corporate job might offer financial stability, 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.399 but if it conflicts with an individual's identity is an 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:41.560 I'm environmentalist, for instance, that's going to lead to satisfaction 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:45.200 and underperformance in this vein, trying to train coal miners 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.879 to be nurses may be feudal and Jack, I love. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:49.639 The idea you gave when we were talking about this. 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.280 If you remember I. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:56.240 Don't you said trying to train farmers because the family 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:58.959 farmers disappearing to be coders, have them sit in a 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:01.959 cubicle ten hours a data code, they would hang themselves. 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.840 Yeah, and you hear politicians through that around all the time, 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:09.520 like you can just retrain people that have been a 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:13.440 certain sort of person to be a completely different sort 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:16.280 of person. And as the point of what you're saying is, 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.440