OK Solberg: 00:00

I wanna again welcome you into the 4:05 coffee break. Jordan, thanks for telling me about Shark week on the Discovery Channel, Jaws 50th anniversary, shark week next month. Thank you. I always need material for the 4:05. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, or bottled water.

OK Solberg: 00:18

Let's see what's happening. Spring wheat, $6.26 a bushel. 550 pounds steer calf, $3.95. Butcher hog in Omaha, 62¢ a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings will fetch you $2.31. But guys, there's more, much more.

OK Solberg: 00:39

Hey, Orvin. Hey, Orvin. You know nobody listens to this 4:05 program but me. So you know, it's only you and me. Isn't that a lot of work for just one person?

OK Solberg: 00:54

Oh. Oh, I understand. That's just okay with me. It makes it more personable. Just like two friends having a conversation, but only one is talking.

OK Solberg: 01:05

It's okay. It's alright. Don't panic. So here's the question. Do you hear the news or your mother or some politician say, oh, that's so subjective.

OK Solberg: 01:17

I want something objective. I must have been absent from school the day they talked about subjective versus objective. Like, what does that mean? Really? Listen.

OK Solberg: 01:29

Their debate mixed his objective evidence with her subjective experience. Or I heard them once say, their accounts differed, blending subjective impressions with objective references. Well, guys, it's just like when the baseball announcer shouts out, oh, caught him looking, strike three. If you don't know baseball, someone needs to tell you. What just happened is the pitcher threw a strike over the plate and the batter didn't even swing.

OK Solberg: 02:03

Oh, caught him looking. Objective versus subjective is just like when someone would ask me in high school if I wanted to play poker. You know what I said? I always said no. I don't like poker.

OK Solberg: 02:18

But see, the real truth was I didn't know how to play poker and I didn't know which hands beat other hands in the game of poker. So today, even if you know it, bear with me because this is fun and easy to understand. Subjective is something that comes from your own feelings. Objective means something that is true for everyone. So it's kinda like opinion versus fact, but much more precise.

OK Solberg: 02:47

So listen, subjective statements are shaped by personal feelings and perspectives, while objective statements are based on observable facts and the independent, and they are independent of individual bias. Sure, I know you, you know that, but it's fun. For an easy to understand cue to remembering, just remember, subjective starts with the letter s, and that points to self. Objective starts with a letter o and it points to outside. Outside.

OK Solberg: 03:22

Facts outside your feelings that everyone agrees on. Here. Listen. You can say our team played the best. Oh, man, Jordan, our team played the best.

OK Solberg: 03:33

That's subjective because it's your opinion. But your friend can say, hey, wait a minute. I think our team played better. Well, that too is subjective because it's their opinion. But listen, our team scored three points and your team scored two.

OK Solberg: 03:52

Now that right there is undebatable. You can both look at the scoreboard and see it's true. Now that's an objective statement. Here's three subjective statements that come from self. Oh, man.

OK Solberg: 04:05

I think chocolate ice cream tastes better than vanilla. You know what, Jordan? That movie was boring. Hey, my drawing is the coolest of all. All subjective.

OK Solberg: 04:19

Now lay those down beside objective statements. Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. There are twenty four hours in a day, and number three, a triangle has three sides. So now you can say, I knew all that, Orvin, but I didn't know which hand beats over others in the game of poker. Oh oh, okay, fine.

OK Solberg: 04:43

Here they are, from the poorest to the highest. First off is just simply the high card in your five card hand. Next is a pair, followed by two pair, then three of a kind, then a straight, then a flush, then a full house, then four of a kind, and finally the king of all, the straight flush and the highest straight flush is 10, jack, queen, king, ace, all of the same suit, naturally called a royal flush. There. That's the whole kit and caboodle.

OK Solberg: 05:23

Isn't that a fun thing to say? Tomorrow, we'll look at the whole kit and caboodle. Bible verse before I go, let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance. Proverbs 1:5 So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.