May 23, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Old Man Biden's too old for the job...
- Vacation planning advice...
- Portland re-thinks the "defund the police" stance...
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty
Show President in Biden canceled another seven point seven billion
dollars in student loans. Biden's getting on the good side
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of young voters. He's canceling student dead he's listening marijuana laws,
and then he's got to ruin it all by banning TikTok.
I'm just saying, is he getting on the good side
of young voters? Most he's trying desperately. Most young people
don't go to college. Now do those people vote? But
if you don't go to college, why do you want
some of your tax money to go to those people
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who did. I was just reading an analysis of the
new round of student loan forgiveness and how unconstitutional it
was and how utterly ineffective it's been in moving the
needle at all among young voters. So it's like the
worst of all the worlds, right, It's incredibly unfair, It
incentivizes bad decisions and punishes good decisions, and it's gonna
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have no political effect even so, Yeah, fantastic, and perpetuates
the for profit college scam as. I'm always going on
about so to the age issue because he's trying to
make young voters like him. Here's James Carvill, who himself
is one hundred years old. Has he got Bill Clinton
elected back in ninety two competent, commenting on Biden's age problem.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The age issue is suffocating him, and he needs to
bring up that he's only four years older than Trump.
And I mean, he's got to turn that around and
the need to quit fight log in and complaining about
the times covering his age and the Poland is so good.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's a waste of time. Don't do that. Yeah, that's
not gonna work. Yeah, that's that's just silly. As we
all know, there are some ninety year olds who are
sharper than some sixty five year olds. It's just luck
of the draw, genetics, whatever. But people age differently and
it doesn't matter that they're four years apart. It's not
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like height. Look, he's only two inches shorter than me.
That's not like that.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
What Carvil's saying essentially is we need to undo the
now rock solid perception of America. Yeah, good luck. Right.
I like when people use the word presents because I
think that he presents old Trump does not present old right,
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just the way it is. So this gallup pull that's
out is interesting on presidential character traits an interesting way
to break it down. I don't know which one you
think of these as the most important. You could argue
that can manage the government effectively is the most important
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of these categories, because that's kind of what you're looking for.
That's a bigan. There are others. Likable. I don't really
care if the president's likable. Displays good judgment in a
crisis is important. Strong and decisive leader is important. Cares
about the needs of people like you. That's that's another
one that I just is honest and trustworthy is important.
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I'll start at the bottom bottom in terms of what's
good for Trump, honest and trustworthy. Trump is not in
a good spot there. He has gone down. And so
what they're comparing twenty twenty to twenty twenty four, since
I don't know if you've noticed this, we've got the
same candidates this time as we had last time, so
you can compare them exactly. Trump Trump has got is weird.
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Trump has gone down five points in the is honest
and trustworthy category. He went from forty percent of people
thought that to thirty five percent of people thought that, Yeah,
Jan six had something to do with that, because that
was the post question. Of course, Biden's down six, but
he's still in a better better shape. He's clear up
to forty six even though he's down six, so he's
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got almost half the country. I think he's honest and trustworthy.
But that's the best numbers I can hit you with
Biden if you want to go back to the one
that I think is like, really, the question on voting
for a president can manage the government effectively? Biden's down
thirteen points since twenty twenty because people had a chance
to see the results. He's gone from fifty two to
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thirty nine, while Trump has stayed flat at forty nine.
So Trump's got a ten point lead on can manage
the government effectively? Double digit lead that is going to
be enormous for undecided voters. Not Surprisingly, Trump loses a
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lot in the is likable category, But again, I just
do I need to like the president or find them likable?
I don't know. No, I think that's kind of a
childish way to look at it. Now, Trump's a prick,
and I wish he wasn't, so I'm not surprised by that.
But yeah, again, you're in the voting booth. You're that great, unwashed,
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undecided crowd in a swing state. You get into that
booth not so likeable. No, that's not going to be
the deciding factor. Well, if you vote that way, don't
If you vote based on likability, don't vote.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, it is what it is because he is who
he is now right, why.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It is what it is? Yes, this is a good
topic for who you should vote for. I think displays
good judgment in a crisis, and Trump beats Biden by
five points on that. Biden's down almost ten points since
twenty twenty one. Displays good judgment in a crisis. Again,
because of the evidence of his judgment, whenever a crisis
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has come along, he's gone from about half to forty.
Trump has stayed flat like he does un practically everything.
Everybody's opinion of Trump from years ago is the same
opinion now. Pretty much across the board anyway, Trump leads
the displays good judgment in a crisis. None of the
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Trump haters would have predicted that years ago, would they. Yeah,
he's got a point lead over Biden displays good judgment
in a crisis, which is not a lot. But again,
for half the country, it's just unimaginable that their candidate
is losing that particular topic. M I I think Biden
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is miserable in a crisis. Seriously. Oh yeah, I've seen
no sign that he's at all, you know, decisive, resolute,
has a firm set of principles on which he bases
his actions. Not at all, he's he's a He's a
wind sock. Oh. I'm still making my way through the
book The New Cold Wars by David Sanger and The
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New York Times, and they just did the whole section
on the withdrawal from Afghanistan. What a bacle that I'm
sure will be lost to history over time, but what
a debacle. What a series of horrible decisions by Joe
Biden and his team and getting out of Afghanistan just amazing. Anyway,
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on this final number, that this also could be the
reason you pick somebody to be president. Is a strong
and decisive leader. Is a strong and decisive leader. You
could easily say that's the only thing you need to
pay attention to. Biden is down eight points since the
last time he ran to thirty eight. Trump is flat,
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but he's still at fifty seven. He's got dang near
a twenty point lead over Biden on strong and Decisive Leader,
twenty points for the emptieenth time, and yet they're tied.
And yet they're tied virtually because of the I guess
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trustworthy numbers are so low, like ability numbers or solo. Yeah,
just Trump's negatives are so strong and permanent among a
huge chunk of the electorate. Have you ever had a
boss that you didn't personally like but was effective. I have. Sure,
I'd rather have a boss I don't particularly like but
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is effective, because I've had the other kind too, super
nice guys, didn't do freaking anything. Yes, yeah, absolutely, one
hundred percent. Prefer the former, especially when when the chips
are down, when things are well, you know, honestly, I'm
thinking professionally, but yeah, as a country, especially when there
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is danger in the air, one hundred percent. So it'd
be interesting to see. Maybe for the reasons you just said,
because we are in a time of turmoil, you go
more with the strong, decisive leader has good judgment numbers
than the I'd like to have a beer with him thang. Yeah, yeah,
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that's a twenty point gap on strong decisive leader. That's something. Yeah, yeah,
all right, that's probably enough of that. I had more,
but it's May. Memorial Day weekend is in the offing
or off the inning, and hot dogs to be barbecued.
There are certainly tributes to be paid to our brave
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veterans and those who sacrificed all. And I'm going to
play some golf well forever And it was still too early.
The presidential campaign started after a Memorial Day weekend. Correct.
I feel like we've been doing it for two years
and it's just now Memorial Day weekend. Also, correct, Joe's
(09:53):
got some AI stories for us that I can't wait
to hear, because you know, as I love to talk
about artificial intelligence. Yeah, we're gonna scroll through those good
news from Portland. Ya oh, this is one of my
favorite things. How to have a great vacation according to science.
I found this fascinating and idiotic get drunk? Did science
(10:17):
figure that out? Did you read it already? Did you
have to ask a scientist then? Who he's a horny
drunk scientist? Yes? All right, all that on the way,
Stay here, this new guy that's going to be putting
bad guys in jail in Portland. I'm so excited about
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just for the direction we're going with West Coast, Blue Cities, Seattle,
San Francisco, hopefully La to follow, So stay tuned for
that story. Yeah, there's hope. I would absolutely agree there's hope.
Came across this piece by one Jeff Gallac, who is
writing on the topic of how to have a great vacation?
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What science tells us there are reasons why getaways often
turn out to be not so much fun, and it's
your own fault, all right, I don't know. Do I
need someone to tell me how to have a good vacation?
But okay, science. You need science too, mister sneering skeptically. Well,
we'll show you, so, he says. Over the past two decades,
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I've studied what makes people happy with what they consume,
and we can apply that knowledge, often in surprising ways,
to make our travel experience more joy and less misery.
Hint number one, do less. That's what I'm looking for
in a vacation, Less misery, more joy less misery. Yes,
we're on the same page. If you love the beach again,
do less. If you love the beach, you should get
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in as many beach days as possible. Or if you
want to enjoy an art museum, you should make sure
to see every painting and go to every museum you can.
Sounds logical, but only if you want to have a
not so enjoyable vacation. You'd think more of fun experience
is always better, but the reality is that it often isn't.
And he cites the uh, the decline and satisfaction. The
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more you do something, it's diminishing returns, as they say
in economics, and he uses the obvious example of the
first bite of chocolate cake is divine, but the last
one is merely tasty, or if you're us, it's shameful
and makes you sick but punishing. But enough about our hoggishness.
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That is not the point. A massage starts off feeling
amazing and rejuvenating, but by the end of the hour
we're often bored and ready to move on. I would
say false, hundred percent false on that, But that's you, know,
that's you. You do you, and the day long respite
on the beach begins as a blissful escape from reality,
but often ends with annoyance about the baking sun and
the itchy sand. All things, no matter how enjoyable at first,
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become decidedly less so with time. So people do everybody's different.
But the idea of spending all day on the beach
that is not appealing to me in the slightest the
each all day long, I have no interest in allos. However,
what did I do that you're punishing me for? I
suppose I could, you know, read a paperback or something
for le Perhaps yes. So Indeed, my colleagues and I
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writes have identified three ways that you can do less
via quantity, variety, and timing. Just even when you're a
tempted to stay on the beach for longer, don't end
on a high note, then go do something else. I
thought that was kind of interesting and variety on the vacation,
rather than having a beach day followed by hiking one
day all day, mix up those things within a single day,
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even though you're cutting your beach time. More variety, blah
blah blah. That's kind of obvious. He has another hint
that I thought was so strange. This is where things
get less intuitive. For timing take breaks from even the
most enjoyable experience. If you have a massage planned, ask
the massage therapist to take a five minute break somewhere
in the middle of the massage. Yes, you'll have less
total massage time, but you'll enjoy the second half of
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your massage much more. Again, that is one of the
stupidest things I've ever heard. Hey, this is great, but
we gotta stop. You gotta stop for five minutes. We'll
sit here and look out the window, or I'll flip
through my phone, and then we'll get back to you
working out the kinks in my body. I've never had
a massage, and I can't imagine him making it a
part of my vacation, so I can't comment on this
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part of it. The same day, go the same goes
for the beach day jacked. Take ten minutes to check
your email inside the air conditioned hotel lobby. If you, oh,
you think that one's stupid, wait for this one. Even
if you're at a nightclub, bring a book and after
an hour of dancing, read for twenty more minutes before
returning to the dance floor. This is the dumbest thing
you've ever brought us. I know it's something, isn't it? Now?
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I I have had this experience though many times in
my life. I noticed it as a kid, the not planned,
we just got here fun before the next day, when
you've got stuff scheduled, almost always turns out to be
the best part of the whole thing. Cow Now that's truth.
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I noticed that as a little kid, and I've noticed
that as an adult. For whatever reason, maybe because you
didn't have anything planned, I don't know what, but it
just is so much fun. And then you're trying to
like recapture that fun you had when you didn't have
anything planned with all your scheduled activities over the next
several days. Yeah. Wow, how interesting. And then the other
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point that they made, I found it intriguing. When planning
a trip, he writes, it's critical to compare hotels, tours,
restaurants to make the best possible choices. Right again, not
so fast. When planning a trip, it can be tempting
to ferret out all the possible options, and he gets
into the fact that he does that this seems like
a great thing to do, but when it comes to
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time to experience the choices I've made, I can't just
ignore that I know all the other options out there,
and if anything. It all goes wrong with the choices
I've made. I have many alternatives in that mental catalog
to compare against and second guess the if I made
the right choices, I begin to experience regret. This is
called choice overload in economics and consumer behavior, and is
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easily addressed by acting at a as a satisficer, a
person who, upon finding the first acceptable option among a
set of options, accepts it. This contracts with the maximizer, who,
like me, considers every option from them, tries to make
the best choice, and he uses the example of a restaurant.
A person who reads a restaurant menu and orders the
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first dish that sounds tasty, that's your satisficer, and then
the maximizer scans every single dish on the menu, goes
over them and over them, agonizes over what to order,
then makes a choice. Now, the maximizer might make a
better choice, but if they make a bad one, they
have many so many other dishes to regret not picking.
But the satisficer simply doesn't know any better and enjoys
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the meal. I'm definitely more of a satisficer. Definitely. Yeah,
I thought that was something interesting. Then the other thing
he said is do something uncomfortable, something new, have an adventure.
Why not? Thank you scientists for telling me how to
enjoy my vacation. Just remember to make take that break
at the nightclub, bring a book, and step out in
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the parking lot for twenty minutes. Armstrong and Geddy, we're
talking the other day about the rage sessions that have
become very popular for a certain segment of womankind, where
you pay a bunch of money to go into the
woods and beat on things and scream, Katie, you've secured
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us some sound of one of these these sacred festivals,
these these outlets for the modern woman.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Oh have I.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Okay, Michael, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And that's when they got into the Capitol and went
to Nancy Pelosi's office, and then they skinned him and
hanged him upside down.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And women, why men don't want a date?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Wow? So the women were screaming, among other things. I
feel sad. I feel sad as they smashed the ground
with sticks and they paid for it. What a weird
time we live in. So are people not getting their
normal outlet where human beings used to get an outlet
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for this sort of thing? Or is there more rage now? What?
Is it.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
I don't know if I'm upset or proud of myself
that I can't wrap my mind around what the cause
of this is.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I don't know if it's like the community misery that
they I don't know. I don't know what this is other.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Than the hilarious tim may be onto something there, the
whole bonding thing which is so important for most gals.
But I mean, why don't you go to the gym
or like a batting cage or the I don't know,
just you have to look out for the tendency in
the modern society to go with a look how rough
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my situation is streaming out loud to let you know,
I guess I don't know. Yeah, yeah, to either of
your parents. Were they into the punch of pillow thing?
I remember my mom was an advocate for that. Hey,
let it out, let it out. Yeah, get all of
that aggression out. It's good for you. So I've heard
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that bunch of I've heard that from therapists. I've never
done it before, have you? And then I in fourth grade,
I went to school with a boy named Lenny Pillow,
and fortunately I misunderstood her instructions and yeah, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I've punched a pillow as an adult, but I'm thinking
that's probably why my parents had me in martial arts
by the time I was in like third grade.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, get the aggression out there.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, well, speaking of anger and bad behavior and that
sort of thing, as predicted, as hoped for, even the
bluest of the blue cities of the West are starting
to realize, Oh, these progressive policies yield nightmarish results and
have made us miserable. Perhaps we should rethink Portland, like
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a lot of other cities, had gone the direction of
we wouldn't have crime if we didn't treat criminals the
way we'd treat them, or some weird theory crime is
just white supremacy and something something. Yeah. So they've had
a couple of go rounds in well, in Seattle and
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Portland and Sacramento and San Francisco and Los Angeles of
having mayors and DA's and in some cases police chiefs
who don't believe in prosecuting crime. In St. Lewis, Philadelphia
sure with the idea that somehow it will go away
if you don't prosecute it. Well, they've been doing that
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in Portland for quite a while, and it's been a
miserable failure. And apparently the voters have decided that they
don't want to have a DA believes that sort of
thing anymore. And the new guy is going to be
Nathan Vasquez. That is who's going to be the new
DA once the voting happens in Portland. Listen to this
platform that he ran on in Portland. We must take
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lawless behavior seriously and enforce our laws. Studies show the
best way to deter crime is the certainty of getting caught,
the swiftness of the penalty, and the severity of the punishment.
Even petty crimes like theft, vandalism, and littering, public use
of illicit drugs in public highs all contribute to the
overall feeling of safety and well being of a community.
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It's all the small things that have added up to
create an environment of chaos and completely broken the social
contract we all agree to as citizens of a community.
When we don't enforce, we tell our community we don't care.
And then goes in and I am prepared to endorse
mister Vasquez immediately. How amazing is that? What a turnaround
is that I've got the old guy Mike Schmidt, you
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want to hear his platform. Shortly after taking office in
summer of twenty twenty, in the wake of the George
Floyd thing, which the capacity for the left to react
emotionally to everything just never ceases to amaze me. Anyway,
as racial justice demonstrations grip Portland, Schmidt announced that his
office would not prosecute protesters unless they were arrested for
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deliberate property damage, theft, or use or threat of force
against another person, interfering with a cop. Police officer Nope,
wouldn't be arrested, disorderly conduct nope, Criminal trespass cited as
examples of cases his office would decline. Schmidt also decided
that any charge of resisting arrest or assaulting a public
safety officer would be subjected to the highest level of scrutiny.
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During his term, he created a unit in his office
task with viewing prison sentences and wrongful convictions. Well, I
have no problem with that. Any wrongful conviction ought to
be overturned. Sure, but yeah, obviously the cops and many
many other community groups are lining up behind Vasquez and
saying yes please. Schmidt and Vasquez were the only two
candidates in Tuesdays non partisan primary. Now the New York
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Times take on this is it's the latest public official
in a West Coast city to be elected with a
promise to be tougher on crime. And twenty twenty one,
voters in Seattle elected republican as the city prosecutor after
she vowed more action on low level crimes. The next year,
voters in San Francisco recalled the progressive prosecutor chesomboudin. The
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district attorney position in Portland is non partisan, with only
two candidates on the primary valot. Mister Vasquez's victory means
he is set to take over the office next year
with the promises we just read to you where he
is going to go after big crime, small crimes, the
smallest of crimes. You don't get to get high in public,
all that sort of stuff. Love it. How in the
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hell do we have to go through this experiment all
the time to remind you freaking morons. Probably nobody listening
to the show that oh yeah, this is the way
human beings behave when there's no penalty. Oh yeah, well
let's go back to the old way, oh right, and
the way they've always behaved for the entirety of human
existence the way they always will behave Oh, right, now
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that the emotions of George Floyd have passed, now I
remember humans. Yeah, it's it's how many people must be
killed and hurt, What ruin must fall upon cities, what businesses,
what dreams must be lost? Before they wake up from
their naive idiocy. I guess the problem makes not like
it's we're playing a board game here and we're back
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to normal, right. I guess it doesn't make sense for
me to criticize them not understanding human nature if human
nature seems to also that we when things are good,
we forget and we have to go through it again.
All right, Gandhi, you take that stance, I'm going to
criticize him. The AP for what it's worth, also named
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checks Pamela Price. Woke Marxist DA for California's Alameda County
is facing recall. In November, two years after Cheso Bodean
was kicked out of San Francisco, Seattle, voters Seattle elected
Republican n Davison, a city attorney, over Nicole Thomas Kennedy,
who called for abolishing jails and police. Attempts to recall
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George Gascon, the Marxist nut job in LA has failed
so far, and there's a court challenge to booting out
Philadelphia Marxist d A Larry Krasner, absolutely infamous. Again, that's
held up in the courts, but they're trying in Blue
City after Blue City. You've got to call that a positive.
The new guy in Portland will prioritize cases of drug
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trafficking in open air use and ensure they result in
swift penalties and meaningful consequences. This is after a period
of you could stand on the corner and smoke crack
in front of a cop and nothing would happen. Right Well,
mister Vasquez, we at the Armstrong and Getty Show will
help any way we can. Please stay in touch as
we are proudly part of the Portland media community and
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have been for many, many moons. How about this, They're
gonna charge people that fail to appear for their court Nate,
No more skating on that. I mean, it's just of
course they are right. How could you not? Are you kidding?
I know? Oh, Jim's not here to face charges. Jim,
are you here? Jim, Jim's not here? What can we do? Well? Nothing,
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I guess what, Oh Lord, all right? A quick pause
and then speaking of law and order, how things are
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the plan for a stable Haiti. The uh the good
folks of Kenya. You probably pronounce it Kenya. I pronounce
it Kenya, so I sound more sophisticated than you. But
(28:12):
the good people of Kenya are sending a peace keeping force.
They're going to deploy along waited police force to help
take back the street from gangs, and it could be
within a couple of weeks. The President of Kenya Kenya
is in Washington right now. Actually he's talking old man Biden.
(28:33):
I'm sure he'll come away saying geez, that guy's old.
And the US is open and swallow to the two
of three hundred million dollars support the Kenyan mission in Haiti,
partly because man, they're right off our shore and chaos
and dread and misery and Kenya doesn't I'm sorry, in
Haiti doesn't do us any good. Kenya is a long
way from Haiti. How do they get involved, Well, yeah, exactly,
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it's kind of because they're black folks, right, I guess,
I guess. And the US is really trying to grow
our relations with Kenya in this multi polar world because
you have South Africa's getting chummy with the Chinese, and
Ethiopia has gone a little sideways, hon us still, so
we're trying to make more friends in Africa. But anyway,
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this is the first time an African country has led
a security deployment outside of Africa, and it will be
under heavy scrutiny given the atrocious behavior of past foreign
peacekeepers in Haiti. And this is one of the main
reasons I wanted to bring this up. The UN Force
Jack the United Nations, the great hope of mankind where
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the governments come together and solve the problems of the
world without warfare, blah blah blah, unicorns, fairy dust buless.
The UN force that operated in Haiti after the twenty
ten earthquake is accused of abandoning hundreds of children. They
fathered with Asian women. Oh my god, hundreds of children
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knocked up. Haitian women then disappeared said good luck. And
also they brought cholera back to their home countries. Wow,
that is horrible. Yeah, and this is the group of
people that lecture us. Had a moment of silence for
the president of Iran the other day because we care
about everyone equally. Puke, they point out, Oh, I'm sorry.
(30:22):
This is actually Ian Bremmer pointing out if Kenyon officers
follow or injured, a domestic political crisis could ensue for
the president, whose constituents don't necessarily see these sense in
sending their boys to die on an island seventy five
hundred miles away. Yeah, I'll bet. Yeah. Wow, thank god
you're an American at least once a day, probably twice. Yeah,
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no kidding, I should put that on my gratitude list
every day. It's an easy one to take for granted.
You know, since I was born here, my parents were
born here, and their parents were born here, I can
go way back. But yeah, it makes your life a
hell of a lot easier. Good lord, what a terrible story.
Thank you for that. We're gonna be talking about artificial
intelligence and a whole bunch of other stuff. Was that
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there was one more thing I wanted to get to.
Oh the who's gonna be at the Hunter Biden trial.
Oh man, oh man, that's gonna be a rough situation
for that guy. Of course. If you want to avoid that,
don't live your life like him. Lots on the way
stay here. Hey, well this is while the sky driver
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dropped his phone from twelve thousand feet and later recovered
it without a scratch.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh yeah, the person that landed on his dead but
the phone is fine.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Maybe. So the NBA Playoffs are going on right now.
I haven't watched, So they're down to the conference championships.
There's four teams left, and in the East it's the
Celtics and the Pacers, and the West it's the Minnesota
to Timberwolves in the Dallas Mavericks with several of the
most fun players in the NBA. Luka Dancik for a Dallas.
(32:02):
But this guy ant Man, who I've been hearing about
from Minnesota, and I haven't watched him play, but I
just saw a highlight reel of his hilarity the other day.
He's a hilarious really Anthony Edwards. Yeah, and he and
Charles Barkley spar a lot, and the guy is freaking
funny and the best player maybe on the best team.
But one of the things he's famous for is ordering
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door Dash when he's doing the post game conferences and
having it delivered while he's eating while he's being interviewed,
and having McDonald's show up or Kentucky Fried Chicken or whatever.
It is beautiful, which is pretty funny. It is entertainment
after all. And he is a giant star and he
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will not be in Minnesota long because he'll end up
a Laker or a Nick or something like that and
really make some serious money. Then everybody will have heard
of him. Here's a couple of ridiculous things ever happened?
You can't believe this is real, but it is. It
is real. Both houses of the legislature in Illinois passed
a bill to change the word offender to justice impacted individual.
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They did that yesterday. Oh my lord, it's just hard
to imagine that that's real. Illinois just passed another horrific
law that I was thinking of talking about Ilifornia. I've
decided to start calling my my home state. Why is
that just heading down the drain? Kind of sounds like California,
(33:33):
which also has baggage. I get picked up on that,
did you? Yeah? Yeah, what was that justice case? You
didn't catch that. They just passed a bill both houses.
It's HB four four O nine. Instead of calling people
an offender because I guess that has negative connotations or
something like that, justice impacted individual. You people are flat
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out crazy who buy into that stuff. You're flat out nuts,
like you're mentally ill right now. The Marxists who are
pushing this stuff know exactly what, yes, they're doing, but
exactly your your you know, average college educated white woman
usually or dudes who say, you know, that's a good point.
(34:18):
Why would you define somebody by one mistake? They're they're
just as impacted individual. I mean, you are so stupid. Right,
We're gonna change it from sexually transmitted diseases to sexually
transmitted infections. It's now STIs s to st Okay, did
that do anything for anybody in any way? Any good?
Speaker 2 (34:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Uh? You know what I'm suffering from tired ass syndrome
because you tire my ass out tas tired ass syndrome.
UH And UCLA School of Law, william Institute. William's Institute
put this out yesterday an article UH press release. Same
sex couples are more vulnerable to the negative effects of
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climate chang and then a very long article explaining how
a wow. A new report by the Williams Institute, a
UCLA School of Law finds it same sex couples are
at greater risk of experiencing the adverse effects of climate
change compared to other couples. You almost have to admire
how far they're willing to go towards ridiculousness. I mean,
(35:22):
it takes balls to be that ridiculous. I don't know.
You sit around with a bunch of people and write
this and talk about this, and nobody says, I think
we're getting mocked for this like a lot. I wish
if I had dictatorial powers. Number one, run for your lives.
Number two. I would like to have that premise read
(35:45):
to every man and woman in America above twelve years
old and see how they react to it, and keep
a list of the people who said, wait, what the
hell and the people who said, oh, that's terrible, and
just keep those lists handy. Now I'm even more worried
about climate change because it affects same sex couples in
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even worse ways. Is that the way I'm supposed to reactor?
I'm thinking about my friends and same sex couples, and
I know they are shaking their heads and laughing as
much as we are. You people are fruit nuts. That's
UCLA man right, OI Armstrong and Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty
Show President in Biden canceled another seven point seven billion
dollars in student loans. Biden's getting on the good side
(00:23):
of young voters. He's canceling student dead he's listening marijuana laws,
and then he's got to ruin it all by banning TikTok.
I'm just saying, is he getting on the good side
of young voters? Most he's trying desperately. Most young people
don't go to college. Now do those people vote? But
if you don't go to college, why do you want
some of your tax money to go to those people
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who did. I was just reading an analysis of the
new round of student loan forgiveness and how unconstitutional it
was and how utterly ineffective it's been in moving the
needle at all among young voters. So it's like the
worst of all the worlds, right, It's incredibly unfair, It
incentivizes bad decisions and punishes good decisions, and it's gonna
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have no political effect even so, Yeah, fantastic, and perpetuates
the for profit college scam as. I'm always going on
about so to the age issue because he's trying to
make young voters like him. Here's James Carvill, who himself
is one hundred years old. Has he got Bill Clinton
elected back in ninety two competent, commenting on Biden's age problem.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The age issue is suffocating him, and he needs to
bring up that he's only four years older than Trump.
And I mean, he's got to turn that around and
the need to quit fight log in and complaining about
the times covering his age and the Poland is so good.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's a waste of time. Don't do that. Yeah, that's
not gonna work. Yeah, that's that's just silly. As we
all know, there are some ninety year olds who are
sharper than some sixty five year olds. It's just luck
of the draw, genetics, whatever. But people age differently and
it doesn't matter that they're four years apart. It's not
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like height. Look, he's only two inches shorter than me.
That's not like that.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
What Carvil's saying essentially is we need to undo the
now rock solid perception of America. Yeah, good luck. Right.
I like when people use the word presents because I
think that he presents old Trump does not present old right,
(02:33):
just the way it is. So this gallup pull that's
out is interesting on presidential character traits an interesting way
to break it down. I don't know which one you
think of these as the most important. You could argue
that can manage the government effectively is the most important
(02:54):
of these categories, because that's kind of what you're looking for.
That's a bigan. There are others. Likable. I don't really
care if the president's likable. Displays good judgment in a
crisis is important. Strong and decisive leader is important. Cares
about the needs of people like you. That's that's another
one that I just is honest and trustworthy is important.
(03:17):
I'll start at the bottom bottom in terms of what's
good for Trump, honest and trustworthy. Trump is not in
a good spot there. He has gone down. And so
what they're comparing twenty twenty to twenty twenty four, since
I don't know if you've noticed this, we've got the
same candidates this time as we had last time, so
you can compare them exactly. Trump Trump has got is weird.
(03:40):
Trump has gone down five points in the is honest
and trustworthy category. He went from forty percent of people
thought that to thirty five percent of people thought that, Yeah,
Jan six had something to do with that, because that
was the post question. Of course, Biden's down six, but
he's still in a better better shape. He's clear up
to forty six even though he's down six, so he's
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got almost half the country. I think he's honest and trustworthy.
But that's the best numbers I can hit you with
Biden if you want to go back to the one
that I think is like, really, the question on voting
for a president can manage the government effectively? Biden's down
thirteen points since twenty twenty because people had a chance
to see the results. He's gone from fifty two to
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thirty nine, while Trump has stayed flat at forty nine.
So Trump's got a ten point lead on can manage
the government effectively? Double digit lead that is going to
be enormous for undecided voters. Not Surprisingly, Trump loses a
(04:45):
lot in the is likable category, But again, I just
do I need to like the president or find them likable?
I don't know. No, I think that's kind of a
childish way to look at it. Now, Trump's a prick,
and I wish he wasn't, so I'm not surprised by that.
But yeah, again, you're in the voting booth. You're that great, unwashed,
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undecided crowd in a swing state. You get into that
booth not so likeable. No, that's not going to be
the deciding factor. Well, if you vote that way, don't
If you vote based on likability, don't vote.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, it is what it is because he is who
he is now right, why.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It is what it is? Yes, this is a good
topic for who you should vote for. I think displays
good judgment in a crisis, and Trump beats Biden by
five points on that. Biden's down almost ten points since
twenty twenty one. Displays good judgment in a crisis. Again,
because of the evidence of his judgment, whenever a crisis
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has come along, he's gone from about half to forty.
Trump has stayed flat like he does un practically everything.
Everybody's opinion of Trump from years ago is the same
opinion now. Pretty much across the board anyway, Trump leads
the displays good judgment in a crisis. None of the
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Trump haters would have predicted that years ago, would they. Yeah,
he's got a point lead over Biden displays good judgment
in a crisis, which is not a lot. But again,
for half the country, it's just unimaginable that their candidate
is losing that particular topic. M I I think Biden
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is miserable in a crisis. Seriously. Oh yeah, I've seen
no sign that he's at all, you know, decisive, resolute,
has a firm set of principles on which he bases
his actions. Not at all, he's he's a He's a
wind sock. Oh. I'm still making my way through the
book The New Cold Wars by David Sanger and The
(06:52):
New York Times, and they just did the whole section
on the withdrawal from Afghanistan. What a bacle that I'm
sure will be lost to history over time, but what
a debacle. What a series of horrible decisions by Joe
Biden and his team and getting out of Afghanistan just amazing. Anyway,
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on this final number, that this also could be the
reason you pick somebody to be president. Is a strong
and decisive leader. Is a strong and decisive leader. You
could easily say that's the only thing you need to
pay attention to. Biden is down eight points since the
last time he ran to thirty eight. Trump is flat,
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but he's still at fifty seven. He's got dang near
a twenty point lead over Biden on strong and Decisive Leader,
twenty points for the emptieenth time, and yet they're tied.
And yet they're tied virtually because of the I guess
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trustworthy numbers are so low, like ability numbers or solo. Yeah,
just Trump's negatives are so strong and permanent among a
huge chunk of the electorate. Have you ever had a
boss that you didn't personally like but was effective. I have. Sure,
I'd rather have a boss I don't particularly like but
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is effective, because I've had the other kind too, super
nice guys, didn't do freaking anything. Yes, yeah, absolutely, one
hundred percent. Prefer the former, especially when when the chips
are down, when things are well, you know, honestly, I'm
thinking professionally, but yeah, as a country, especially when there
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is danger in the air, one hundred percent. So it'd
be interesting to see. Maybe for the reasons you just said,
because we are in a time of turmoil, you go
more with the strong, decisive leader has good judgment numbers
than the I'd like to have a beer with him thang. Yeah, yeah,
(09:06):
that's a twenty point gap on strong decisive leader. That's something. Yeah, yeah,
all right, that's probably enough of that. I had more,
but it's May. Memorial Day weekend is in the offing
or off the inning, and hot dogs to be barbecued.
There are certainly tributes to be paid to our brave
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veterans and those who sacrificed all. And I'm going to
play some golf well forever And it was still too early.
The presidential campaign started after a Memorial Day weekend. Correct.
I feel like we've been doing it for two years
and it's just now Memorial Day weekend. Also, correct, Joe's
(09:53):
got some AI stories for us that I can't wait
to hear, because you know, as I love to talk
about artificial intelligence. Yeah, we're gonna scroll through those good
news from Portland. Ya oh, this is one of my
favorite things. How to have a great vacation according to science.
I found this fascinating and idiotic get drunk? Did science
(10:17):
figure that out? Did you read it already? Did you
have to ask a scientist then? Who he's a horny
drunk scientist? Yes? All right, all that on the way,
Stay here, this new guy that's going to be putting
bad guys in jail in Portland. I'm so excited about
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just for the direction we're going with West Coast, Blue Cities, Seattle,
San Francisco, hopefully La to follow, So stay tuned for
that story. Yeah, there's hope. I would absolutely agree there's hope.
Came across this piece by one Jeff Gallac, who is
writing on the topic of how to have a great vacation?
(10:59):
What science tells us there are reasons why getaways often
turn out to be not so much fun, and it's
your own fault, all right, I don't know. Do I
need someone to tell me how to have a good vacation?
But okay, science. You need science too, mister sneering skeptically. Well,
we'll show you, so, he says. Over the past two decades,
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I've studied what makes people happy with what they consume,
and we can apply that knowledge, often in surprising ways,
to make our travel experience more joy and less misery.
Hint number one, do less. That's what I'm looking for
in a vacation, Less misery, more joy less misery. Yes,
we're on the same page. If you love the beach again,
do less. If you love the beach, you should get
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in as many beach days as possible. Or if you
want to enjoy an art museum, you should make sure
to see every painting and go to every museum you can.
Sounds logical, but only if you want to have a
not so enjoyable vacation. You'd think more of fun experience
is always better, but the reality is that it often isn't.
And he cites the uh, the decline and satisfaction. The
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more you do something, it's diminishing returns, as they say
in economics, and he uses the obvious example of the
first bite of chocolate cake is divine, but the last
one is merely tasty, or if you're us, it's shameful
and makes you sick but punishing. But enough about our hoggishness.
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That is not the point. A massage starts off feeling
amazing and rejuvenating, but by the end of the hour
we're often bored and ready to move on. I would
say false, hundred percent false on that, But that's you, know,
that's you. You do you, and the day long respite
on the beach begins as a blissful escape from reality,
but often ends with annoyance about the baking sun and
the itchy sand. All things, no matter how enjoyable at first,
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become decidedly less so with time. So people do everybody's different.
But the idea of spending all day on the beach
that is not appealing to me in the slightest the
each all day long, I have no interest in allos. However,
what did I do that you're punishing me for? I
suppose I could, you know, read a paperback or something
for le Perhaps yes. So Indeed, my colleagues and I
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writes have identified three ways that you can do less
via quantity, variety, and timing. Just even when you're a
tempted to stay on the beach for longer, don't end
on a high note, then go do something else. I
thought that was kind of interesting and variety on the vacation,
rather than having a beach day followed by hiking one
day all day, mix up those things within a single day,
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even though you're cutting your beach time. More variety, blah
blah blah. That's kind of obvious. He has another hint
that I thought was so strange. This is where things
get less intuitive. For timing take breaks from even the
most enjoyable experience. If you have a massage planned, ask
the massage therapist to take a five minute break somewhere
in the middle of the massage. Yes, you'll have less
total massage time, but you'll enjoy the second half of
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your massage much more. Again, that is one of the
stupidest things I've ever heard. Hey, this is great, but
we gotta stop. You gotta stop for five minutes. We'll
sit here and look out the window, or I'll flip
through my phone, and then we'll get back to you
working out the kinks in my body. I've never had
a massage, and I can't imagine him making it a
part of my vacation, so I can't comment on this
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part of it. The same day, go the same goes
for the beach day jacked. Take ten minutes to check
your email inside the air conditioned hotel lobby. If you, oh,
you think that one's stupid, wait for this one. Even
if you're at a nightclub, bring a book and after
an hour of dancing, read for twenty more minutes before
returning to the dance floor. This is the dumbest thing
you've ever brought us. I know it's something, isn't it? Now?
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I I have had this experience though many times in
my life. I noticed it as a kid, the not planned,
we just got here fun before the next day, when
you've got stuff scheduled, almost always turns out to be
the best part of the whole thing. Cow Now that's truth.
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I noticed that as a little kid, and I've noticed
that as an adult. For whatever reason, maybe because you
didn't have anything planned, I don't know what, but it
just is so much fun. And then you're trying to
like recapture that fun you had when you didn't have
anything planned with all your scheduled activities over the next
several days. Yeah. Wow, how interesting. And then the other
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point that they made, I found it intriguing. When planning
a trip, he writes, it's critical to compare hotels, tours,
restaurants to make the best possible choices. Right again, not
so fast. When planning a trip, it can be tempting
to ferret out all the possible options, and he gets
into the fact that he does that this seems like
a great thing to do, but when it comes to
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time to experience the choices I've made, I can't just
ignore that I know all the other options out there,
and if anything. It all goes wrong with the choices
I've made. I have many alternatives in that mental catalog
to compare against and second guess the if I made
the right choices, I begin to experience regret. This is
called choice overload in economics and consumer behavior, and is
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easily addressed by acting at a as a satisficer, a
person who, upon finding the first acceptable option among a
set of options, accepts it. This contracts with the maximizer, who,
like me, considers every option from them, tries to make
the best choice, and he uses the example of a restaurant.
A person who reads a restaurant menu and orders the
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first dish that sounds tasty, that's your satisficer, and then
the maximizer scans every single dish on the menu, goes
over them and over them, agonizes over what to order,
then makes a choice. Now, the maximizer might make a
better choice, but if they make a bad one, they
have many so many other dishes to regret not picking.
But the satisficer simply doesn't know any better and enjoys
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the meal. I'm definitely more of a satisficer. Definitely. Yeah,
I thought that was something interesting. Then the other thing
he said is do something uncomfortable, something new, have an adventure.
Why not? Thank you scientists for telling me how to
enjoy my vacation. Just remember to make take that break
at the nightclub, bring a book, and step out in
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the parking lot for twenty minutes. Armstrong and Geddy, we're
talking the other day about the rage sessions that have
become very popular for a certain segment of womankind, where
you pay a bunch of money to go into the
woods and beat on things and scream, Katie, you've secured
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us some sound of one of these these sacred festivals,
these these outlets for the modern woman.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Oh have I.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Okay, Michael, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And that's when they got into the Capitol and went
to Nancy Pelosi's office, and then they skinned him and
hanged him upside down.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And women, why men don't want a date?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Wow? So the women were screaming, among other things. I
feel sad. I feel sad as they smashed the ground
with sticks and they paid for it. What a weird
time we live in. So are people not getting their
normal outlet where human beings used to get an outlet
(18:38):
for this sort of thing? Or is there more rage now? What?
Is it.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
I don't know if I'm upset or proud of myself
that I can't wrap my mind around what the cause
of this is.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I don't know if it's like the community misery that
they I don't know. I don't know what this is other.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Than the hilarious tim may be onto something there, the
whole bonding thing which is so important for most gals.
But I mean, why don't you go to the gym
or like a batting cage or the I don't know,
just you have to look out for the tendency in
the modern society to go with a look how rough
(19:16):
my situation is streaming out loud to let you know,
I guess I don't know. Yeah, yeah, to either of
your parents. Were they into the punch of pillow thing?
I remember my mom was an advocate for that. Hey,
let it out, let it out. Yeah, get all of
that aggression out. It's good for you. So I've heard
(19:38):
that bunch of I've heard that from therapists. I've never
done it before, have you? And then I in fourth grade,
I went to school with a boy named Lenny Pillow,
and fortunately I misunderstood her instructions and yeah, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I've punched a pillow as an adult, but I'm thinking
that's probably why my parents had me in martial arts
by the time I was in like third grade.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, get the aggression out there.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, well, speaking of anger and bad behavior and that
sort of thing, as predicted, as hoped for, even the
bluest of the blue cities of the West are starting
to realize, Oh, these progressive policies yield nightmarish results and
have made us miserable. Perhaps we should rethink Portland, like
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a lot of other cities, had gone the direction of
we wouldn't have crime if we didn't treat criminals the
way we'd treat them, or some weird theory crime is
just white supremacy and something something. Yeah. So they've had
a couple of go rounds in well, in Seattle and
(20:43):
Portland and Sacramento and San Francisco and Los Angeles of
having mayors and DA's and in some cases police chiefs
who don't believe in prosecuting crime. In St. Lewis, Philadelphia
sure with the idea that somehow it will go away
if you don't prosecute it. Well, they've been doing that
(21:04):
in Portland for quite a while, and it's been a
miserable failure. And apparently the voters have decided that they
don't want to have a DA believes that sort of
thing anymore. And the new guy is going to be
Nathan Vasquez. That is who's going to be the new
DA once the voting happens in Portland. Listen to this
platform that he ran on in Portland. We must take
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lawless behavior seriously and enforce our laws. Studies show the
best way to deter crime is the certainty of getting caught,
the swiftness of the penalty, and the severity of the punishment.
Even petty crimes like theft, vandalism, and littering, public use
of illicit drugs in public highs all contribute to the
overall feeling of safety and well being of a community.
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It's all the small things that have added up to
create an environment of chaos and completely broken the social
contract we all agree to as citizens of a community.
When we don't enforce, we tell our community we don't care.
And then goes in and I am prepared to endorse
mister Vasquez immediately. How amazing is that? What a turnaround
is that I've got the old guy Mike Schmidt, you
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want to hear his platform. Shortly after taking office in
summer of twenty twenty, in the wake of the George
Floyd thing, which the capacity for the left to react
emotionally to everything just never ceases to amaze me. Anyway,
as racial justice demonstrations grip Portland, Schmidt announced that his
office would not prosecute protesters unless they were arrested for
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deliberate property damage, theft, or use or threat of force
against another person, interfering with a cop. Police officer Nope,
wouldn't be arrested, disorderly conduct nope, Criminal trespass cited as
examples of cases his office would decline. Schmidt also decided
that any charge of resisting arrest or assaulting a public
safety officer would be subjected to the highest level of scrutiny.
(22:57):
During his term, he created a unit in his office
task with viewing prison sentences and wrongful convictions. Well, I
have no problem with that. Any wrongful conviction ought to
be overturned. Sure, but yeah, obviously the cops and many
many other community groups are lining up behind Vasquez and
saying yes please. Schmidt and Vasquez were the only two
candidates in Tuesdays non partisan primary. Now the New York
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Times take on this is it's the latest public official
in a West Coast city to be elected with a
promise to be tougher on crime. And twenty twenty one,
voters in Seattle elected republican as the city prosecutor after
she vowed more action on low level crimes. The next year,
voters in San Francisco recalled the progressive prosecutor chesomboudin. The
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district attorney position in Portland is non partisan, with only
two candidates on the primary valot. Mister Vasquez's victory means
he is set to take over the office next year
with the promises we just read to you where he
is going to go after big crime, small crimes, the
smallest of crimes. You don't get to get high in public,
all that sort of stuff. Love it. How in the
(24:03):
hell do we have to go through this experiment all
the time to remind you freaking morons. Probably nobody listening
to the show that oh yeah, this is the way
human beings behave when there's no penalty. Oh yeah, well
let's go back to the old way, oh right, and
the way they've always behaved for the entirety of human
existence the way they always will behave Oh, right, now
(24:27):
that the emotions of George Floyd have passed, now I
remember humans. Yeah, it's it's how many people must be
killed and hurt, What ruin must fall upon cities, what businesses,
what dreams must be lost? Before they wake up from
their naive idiocy. I guess the problem makes not like
it's we're playing a board game here and we're back
(24:49):
to normal, right. I guess it doesn't make sense for
me to criticize them not understanding human nature if human
nature seems to also that we when things are good,
we forget and we have to go through it again.
All right, Gandhi, you take that stance, I'm going to
criticize him. The AP for what it's worth, also named
(25:14):
checks Pamela Price. Woke Marxist DA for California's Alameda County
is facing recall. In November, two years after Cheso Bodean
was kicked out of San Francisco, Seattle, voters Seattle elected
Republican n Davison, a city attorney, over Nicole Thomas Kennedy,
who called for abolishing jails and police. Attempts to recall
(25:36):
George Gascon, the Marxist nut job in LA has failed
so far, and there's a court challenge to booting out
Philadelphia Marxist d A Larry Krasner, absolutely infamous. Again, that's
held up in the courts, but they're trying in Blue
City after Blue City. You've got to call that a positive.
The new guy in Portland will prioritize cases of drug
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trafficking in open air use and ensure they result in
swift penalties and meaningful consequences. This is after a period
of you could stand on the corner and smoke crack
in front of a cop and nothing would happen. Right Well,
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have been for many, many moons. How about this, They're
gonna charge people that fail to appear for their court Nate,
No more skating on that. I mean, it's just of
course they are right. How could you not? Are you kidding?
I know? Oh, Jim's not here to face charges. Jim,
are you here? Jim, Jim's not here? What can we do? Well? Nothing,
(26:41):
I guess what, Oh Lord, all right? A quick pause
and then speaking of law and order, how things are
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the plan for a stable Haiti. The uh the good
folks of Kenya. You probably pronounce it Kenya. I pronounce
it Kenya, so I sound more sophisticated than you. But
(28:12):
the good people of Kenya are sending a peace keeping force.
They're going to deploy along waited police force to help
take back the street from gangs, and it could be
within a couple of weeks. The President of Kenya Kenya
is in Washington right now. Actually he's talking old man Biden.
(28:33):
I'm sure he'll come away saying geez, that guy's old.
And the US is open and swallow to the two
of three hundred million dollars support the Kenyan mission in Haiti,
partly because man, they're right off our shore and chaos
and dread and misery and Kenya doesn't I'm sorry, in
Haiti doesn't do us any good. Kenya is a long
way from Haiti. How do they get involved, Well, yeah, exactly,
(28:55):
it's kind of because they're black folks, right, I guess,
I guess. And the US is really trying to grow
our relations with Kenya in this multi polar world because
you have South Africa's getting chummy with the Chinese, and
Ethiopia has gone a little sideways, hon us still, so
we're trying to make more friends in Africa. But anyway,
(29:16):
this is the first time an African country has led
a security deployment outside of Africa, and it will be
under heavy scrutiny given the atrocious behavior of past foreign
peacekeepers in Haiti. And this is one of the main
reasons I wanted to bring this up. The UN Force
Jack the United Nations, the great hope of mankind where
(29:37):
the governments come together and solve the problems of the
world without warfare, blah blah blah, unicorns, fairy dust buless.
The UN force that operated in Haiti after the twenty
ten earthquake is accused of abandoning hundreds of children. They
fathered with Asian women. Oh my god, hundreds of children
(30:00):
knocked up. Haitian women then disappeared said good luck. And
also they brought cholera back to their home countries. Wow,
that is horrible. Yeah, and this is the group of
people that lecture us. Had a moment of silence for
the president of Iran the other day because we care
about everyone equally. Puke, they point out, Oh, I'm sorry.
(30:22):
This is actually Ian Bremmer pointing out if Kenyon officers
follow or injured, a domestic political crisis could ensue for
the president, whose constituents don't necessarily see these sense in
sending their boys to die on an island seventy five
hundred miles away. Yeah, I'll bet. Yeah. Wow, thank god
you're an American at least once a day, probably twice. Yeah,
(30:45):
no kidding, I should put that on my gratitude list
every day. It's an easy one to take for granted.
You know, since I was born here, my parents were
born here, and their parents were born here, I can
go way back. But yeah, it makes your life a
hell of a lot easier. Good lord, what a terrible story.
Thank you for that. We're gonna be talking about artificial
intelligence and a whole bunch of other stuff. Was that
(31:07):
there was one more thing I wanted to get to.
Oh the who's gonna be at the Hunter Biden trial.
Oh man, oh man, that's gonna be a rough situation
for that guy. Of course. If you want to avoid that,
don't live your life like him. Lots on the way
stay here. Hey, well this is while the sky driver
(31:27):
dropped his phone from twelve thousand feet and later recovered
it without a scratch.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh yeah, the person that landed on his dead but
the phone is fine.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Maybe. So the NBA Playoffs are going on right now.
I haven't watched, So they're down to the conference championships.
There's four teams left, and in the East it's the
Celtics and the Pacers, and the West it's the Minnesota
to Timberwolves in the Dallas Mavericks with several of the
most fun players in the NBA. Luka Dancik for a Dallas.
(32:02):
But this guy ant Man, who I've been hearing about
from Minnesota, and I haven't watched him play, but I
just saw a highlight reel of his hilarity the other day.
He's a hilarious really Anthony Edwards. Yeah, and he and
Charles Barkley spar a lot, and the guy is freaking
funny and the best player maybe on the best team.
But one of the things he's famous for is ordering
(32:24):
door Dash when he's doing the post game conferences and
having it delivered while he's eating while he's being interviewed,
and having McDonald's show up or Kentucky Fried Chicken or whatever.
It is beautiful, which is pretty funny. It is entertainment
after all. And he is a giant star and he
(32:45):
will not be in Minnesota long because he'll end up
a Laker or a Nick or something like that and
really make some serious money. Then everybody will have heard
of him. Here's a couple of ridiculous things ever happened?
You can't believe this is real, but it is. It
is real. Both houses of the legislature in Illinois passed
a bill to change the word offender to justice impacted individual.
(33:10):
They did that yesterday. Oh my lord, it's just hard
to imagine that that's real. Illinois just passed another horrific
law that I was thinking of talking about Ilifornia. I've
decided to start calling my my home state. Why is
that just heading down the drain? Kind of sounds like California,
(33:33):
which also has baggage. I get picked up on that,
did you? Yeah? Yeah, what was that justice case? You
didn't catch that. They just passed a bill both houses.
It's HB four four O nine. Instead of calling people
an offender because I guess that has negative connotations or
something like that, justice impacted individual. You people are flat
(33:56):
out crazy who buy into that stuff. You're flat out nuts,
like you're mentally ill right now. The Marxists who are
pushing this stuff know exactly what, yes, they're doing, but
exactly your your you know, average college educated white woman
usually or dudes who say, you know, that's a good point.
(34:18):
Why would you define somebody by one mistake? They're they're
just as impacted individual. I mean, you are so stupid. Right,
We're gonna change it from sexually transmitted diseases to sexually
transmitted infections. It's now STIs s to st Okay, did
that do anything for anybody in any way? Any good?
Speaker 2 (34:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Uh? You know what I'm suffering from tired ass syndrome
because you tire my ass out tas tired ass syndrome.
UH And UCLA School of Law, william Institute. William's Institute
put this out yesterday an article UH press release. Same
sex couples are more vulnerable to the negative effects of
(34:59):
climate chang and then a very long article explaining how
a wow. A new report by the Williams Institute, a
UCLA School of Law finds it same sex couples are
at greater risk of experiencing the adverse effects of climate
change compared to other couples. You almost have to admire
how far they're willing to go towards ridiculousness. I mean,
(35:22):
it takes balls to be that ridiculous. I don't know.
You sit around with a bunch of people and write
this and talk about this, and nobody says, I think
we're getting mocked for this like a lot. I wish
if I had dictatorial powers. Number one, run for your lives.
Number two. I would like to have that premise read
(35:45):
to every man and woman in America above twelve years
old and see how they react to it, and keep
a list of the people who said, wait, what the
hell and the people who said, oh, that's terrible, and
just keep those lists handy. Now I'm even more worried
about climate change because it affects same sex couples in
(36:05):
even worse ways. Is that the way I'm supposed to reactor?
I'm thinking about my friends and same sex couples, and
I know they are shaking their heads and laughing as
much as we are. You people are fruit nuts. That's
UCLA man right, OI Armstrong and Getty
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