Latest / Armstrong & Getty One More Thing / The Pencil Sharpener Principle

Transcript

The Pencil Sharpener Principle · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Or right back to the pencil sharp of their principle.
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: It's one more thing.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: I'm strong Andy, one more thing.
• 0:08
  Speaker 3: I know. I know the story you're about to tell
• 0:11
  Speaker 3: about the pencil sharpener, but it's kind of tough for
• 0:16
  Speaker 3: me emotionally hearing this. At one points, as a child,
• 0:20
  Speaker 3: for some reason, I thought it'd be a good idea
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: to stick my finger in a pencil sharper.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: I don't remember.
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: I don't remember how old I was, But anyway, I've
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: got one finger that the fingernail on top still has
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: white spots on there from that. They never went away.
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: The fingernail continues to grow. But the cuts that I
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: put deep into my fingernail, causing me great pain from
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: the finger from the pencil sharpener, still on my fingernails.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: Well, do you think you're like seven or seventeen?
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: I was twenty eight, it was thirty one, Yeah I was.
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: I was more like seven.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, Well we all do silly stuff like that.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: You know what I've always wondered about scar what's the
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: deal with scars? I have, you know, various places on
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: my body where I got cut open or whatever. My
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: skin has regenerated hundreds of times, thousands of times.
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not a dermatologist, but why does my skin regenerate scars?
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, at one point when I was born, that
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: skin was on scarred, so you'd think that would be
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: programmed into my genetics.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: I don't get that.
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: I don't understand either. Clearly happens, but yeah, why it
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: doesn't regenerate? Your face does mostly, but the rest of
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: your body does not.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, like right up there, I got a notch
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: there and one there, and I got scars there and there,
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: and they've faded a bit over the years, but they're
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: still there.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: I don't get that.
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: When you and your orangutang used to travel around the
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: country and a pickup and do that bare knuckle street fighting, yeah.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: I mean it was choreographed, but sometimes, you know, his
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: mighty ape blows would land upon my head.
• 1:54
  Speaker 3: Old it's an old movie. You've never heard of, Katie
• 1:57
  Speaker 3: from way back in the day, Clint Eastwood street fighting
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: with an Okay, Like, wow, Joe, you've done some things
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: I haven't heard about in my life.
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: What a life, What a ride it's been, Kaddy, I'll
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: tell you about it sometimes. So anyway, if if you're
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: just segueing from the February twentieth Armstrong and Getty radio
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: show or the on demand podcast into one more thing.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: The pencil sharpener reference will be familiar to it. We
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: talked about it during the radio show today. But the
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: situation is, your your friend announces his intention to put
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: his finger into a power pencil sharpener, and you tell him, well, Jim,
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: if you do that, it's going to shred your finger,
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: be incredibly painful, and you're gonna bleed.
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: A great deal.
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: Then he says, well, I feel like I must do it,
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: and he sticks his finger in there, and precisely what
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: you describe happens, and he's standing there screaming, Oh my god,
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: my finger. It's intensely painful, it's shredded, and now it's
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: bleeding a lot.
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: What are you going to say at that point?
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: We feel like that, having been desperately trying to talk
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: since to the people of America, particularly the West Coast,
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: it's implemented these utterly predictably disastrous progressive policies, and I
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: just I suppose I should take we should take satisfaction. No,
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: but no, because the finger had to be shredded.
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just stupid.
• 3:18
  Speaker 3: And there are businesses that I liked to have been
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: driven out of business by the crime.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Right for instance. So this is not quite as serious
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: as the crime. And that's part of the reason that
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: this is so enjoyable. And before we launch into it,
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna play a fair amount of audio from
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: ABC seven in the Bay Area, and I would suggest
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: if you ever watch Bay Area news, I would give
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: ABC seven a good long audition, because if they're doing
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: a report like this, they deserve you know, your love,
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: or at least give them a chance, because there are
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: plenty of Bay Area media outlets who wouldn't get within
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: one thousand miles of this story. We'll start Michael with
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: first clip and go from there by.
• 4:02
  Speaker 4: Now you've probably heard of the infamous Noe Valley public
• 4:05
  Speaker 4: toilet and how San Francisco was ready to dish out
• 4:08
  Speaker 4: one point seven million dollars for its construction rather than
• 4:11
  Speaker 4: pay for a much cheaper modular model from a company
• 4:14
  Speaker 4: in Nevada. Here's why San Francisco could would not do
• 4:18
  Speaker 4: business with any entity in that state. San Francisco had
• 4:21
  Speaker 4: a ban on doing business with thirty states that had
• 4:24
  Speaker 4: laws that undermined LGBTQ and voting rights as well as
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: blocking abortion access. It was those states against San Francisco,
• 4:34
  Speaker 4: and that eventually became too costly for city government.
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: The Nei Valley bathrom is not a one off case.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: That's a problem that is replicated throughout our city government.
• 4:44
  Speaker 5: Or we couldn't buy toilet paper from where we historically
• 4:48
  Speaker 5: bought toilet paper. These market players are smart enough to
• 4:51
  Speaker 5: know that they had a captive audience and they could
• 4:54
  Speaker 5: raise their prices.
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: That is mind blowing, That is absolutely amazing.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: I would suggest a rephrase from our point of view
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: for ABC seven undermining LGBTQ rights and voter rights or
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: whatever they said, that's that's mischaracterizing reasonable policy.
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: But so you got a situation.
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: Where San Francisco is banned doing anything including travel with
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: thirty different American states.
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: So if you gotta buy toilet paper instead of buying
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: at the cheapest place, you spend more taxpayer money to
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: send a nobody even hears it tree falling in the
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: forest virtual signaling message about trans writes or something.
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: Wow. Well, and if you end up.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: In a situation where you've only got twenty states left
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: and they don't happen to have paper mills, except for
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: one boutique firm in Massachusetts, and so you end up
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: buying five dollars roll toilet paper. Stupid idiots, time ecal matter.
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: Stupid.
• 6:00
  Speaker 4: It is nice life economics one oh one. Competition results
• 6:04
  Speaker 4: in lower prices. Also, because of the ban, public employees
• 6:08
  Speaker 4: were not allowed to travel to one of those thirty
• 6:11
  Speaker 4: states to potentially lure companies to bring business back to
• 6:16
  Speaker 4: San Francisco. The city tried to get arounded by granting waivers,
• 6:20
  Speaker 4: and between July twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two,
• 6:23
  Speaker 4: thirty five city departments approved a total of five hundred
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: and thirty eight waivers. The problem there, even the process
• 6:30
  Speaker 4: of granting waivers was costing the city more money in
• 6:34
  Speaker 4: added staff and paperwork. In one case, the Recreation and
• 6:38
  Speaker 4: Parks Department had to get a waiver to do business
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: with a local LGBTQ vendor who had recently been acquired
• 6:45
  Speaker 4: you guessed it, by another company in one of those
• 6:49
  Speaker 4: thirty banned states.
• 6:50
  Speaker 6: Because of that, we couldn't use her services until we
• 6:55
  Speaker 6: got a special dispensation, which took a really long time
• 6:58
  Speaker 6: and was frustrating for us and for.
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: Wow, the state is drunk.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: You'd have to work on being stupid for a long
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: time to reach that level of virtuosity. Roland Michael jack
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: Jack comment, No.
• 7:23
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say I you can see how you'd
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: get here. So the people who vote on this stuff
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: are morons, are divorced from reality.
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: Another way to put.
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: It, they're either morons or they are so cynical they
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: virtue signal to stay in office knowing that this stuff happens.
• 7:42
  Speaker 3: But either way it's horrible, and then the voter doesn't
• 7:45
  Speaker 3: really understand or hear about it. But there's got to
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: be a lot of people in government that are are
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: completely aware of the repercussions of these dumb bands, and
• 7:54
  Speaker 3: they keep their mouths shut.
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: There should be a bigger pushback against this roll on
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: Big Daddy.
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: Time is money, and a report by the Budget and
• 8:05
  Speaker 4: Legislative Analysts found that while it is difficult to measure
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: how the city's contracting costs have been affected by the legislation,
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: researchers have found that full and open competition for contracts
• 8:18
  Speaker 4: can result in savings up to twenty percent. After that report,
• 8:23
  Speaker 4: San Francisco finally cried uncle, and last April, the Board
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: of Supervisors voted to get rid of the man. Instead,
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: San Francisco government now allowed itself to do business with
• 8:33
  Speaker 4: any individual company that aligns with its values.
• 8:37
  Speaker 6: And we'll do business with that company regardless of where
• 8:40
  Speaker 6: it's located.
• 8:41
  Speaker 4: And so we had to adjust the law because San
• 8:44
  Speaker 4: Francisco was getting hurt at some point.
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they retain their need to virtue signal by
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: demanding the companies quote unquote align with their values whatever
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: the hell that means, and it changes week to week.
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: But so they finally fail out that.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: Say there's a company that's so woke in Nevada they
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: only employ transgender gay men.
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: I mean that's their entire staff.
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: But San Francisco couldn't do business with them because they reside.
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: In the evil and scary state of Nevada. Boogerty boogety
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: boogey again.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: If if you practiced your violin as much as they
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: practice stupid, you'd be it'sak pearlman. It's infuriating.
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: How someone could How can anyone listen to this and
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: not have their head want to explode? I don't know,
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: That's that's a pretty good question, Katie. Are there people
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: that hear that and think I don't care they did
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: the right thing.
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: Are there people like that?
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: God? Well, they shouldn't be in charge of anything.
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, they should have minders.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: They shouldn't.
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: They shouldn't like be alone in an apartment or something.
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: Should probably be unleash, just say, to make sure they
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: don't wander off and hurt themselves.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: Next clip.
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: Though the city lifted some of the restrictions on who
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: they do business with, it still has a long list
• 10:06
  Speaker 4: of conditions and requirements that companies, industries, states, and even
• 10:10
  Speaker 4: countries must follow in order to do business with San Francisco.
• 10:14
  Speaker 4: Up to now, only one city department has been given
• 10:17
  Speaker 4: a reprieve to operate outside of some of those rules,
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. That's how they've
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: been allowed to expedite the construction of shelters and housing.
• 10:29
  Speaker 6: It saves us at least three months on every project
• 10:32
  Speaker 6: that we open and has allowed us to be nimble
• 10:35
  Speaker 6: and take advantage of opportunities to open new projects and
• 10:40
  Speaker 6: spend the resources that the public has entrusted us with.
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think unfortunately on that one, it's just it
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: that one is millions and millions and millions of dollars
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: flying around and the people that are supposed to get
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: that millions of dollars got a lot of pull and
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: they aren't going to let it get all bogged down
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: with your nonsense. So they found a way around it.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: But to hear her say, oh, it's allowed us to
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: be nimble and like take advantage of opportunities and save
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: money and be efficient. But only for bums and junkies.
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because, like I said, there are so many people
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: receiving those tens of millions of dollars in the whole
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: homeless industrial complex.
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: You don't have.
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: An interest group on the other end of paying for
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: toilet paper to try to, you know, make it happen
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: in a more sane way.
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: Well, in the useful idiots.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: Say, well, that is such an important and sacred mission. Okay,
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: well let's spend all the rules. I think that is
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: very important. Yeah, people making a living, keeping the city
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: from going into a death spiral. Yeah, I would get
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: people having reasonable you know, cleanliness and freedom from crime
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: in their neighborhoods.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: That is not worthy.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: You were right tipping your hat to ABC seven News
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: there in San Francisco, because that is some brave wark
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: right there. You're like practically Alexi Navolni to do that
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: story in San Francisco, But uh, what was I gonna say?
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: Did you see over the way we can Scott Wiener,
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: who's like maybe our least favorite politician in world history
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: in San Francisco full of craziness. Finally, because it has
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: been forced into it has put forward some changes where
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: they do away with a bunch of the impossible environmental rules,
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: so you could build some housing, or some businesses could
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: come back in to San Francisco because it's just made
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: it impossible.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: So the homeless industrial complex is trump the radical left
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: for the moment, or at least they're trying.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: That's a lovely victory. Leanne Melendez, congratulations ABC seven. Again,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: we'll post a link if you want to see the
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: whole report.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: I think we can do that. But well done, ABC seven.
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: God, that's so crazy. That's so crazy. We need to
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: buy copy paper for the city where we been buying it, Alabama.
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: Alabama's not trans friendly, so we won't buy it from there.
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: It costs twice as much somewhere else.
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: I don't care.
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: Of course, you don't care. It's not your money. Oh God,
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: that's mad.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: And again the company is owned by a gay black man.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: They give one hundred percent of your profits to to
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know, panda sanctuaries, but because they're in the
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: state of Alabama, they're tainted by the evil of that
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: map location, and so you stupid fucking morons can't buy
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: your paper from there.
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: They give one of their profits to pass the time.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they don't hold back a dime either. Absolutely right,
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: as as the woke numb skulls stick their finger in
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: the pencil sharpener.
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: Enjoy.
• 13:38
  Speaker 6: You know, if toilet paper is that expensive, it better
• 13:40
  Speaker 6: be very soft and like Kashmir like
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: Well, I guess that's it.