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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

10/23/17 -8AM- Insects, what happened?

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Daily News, News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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0:00.0

So David Letterman received the Mark Twain Award, whatever that is, I guess it's a big deal.

0:29.6

And his beard is crazy. That is just a crazy looking beard. There's the beard. There's the, you know,

0:36.4

beards are in that sort of thing going with the beard. And then there's just you look like a crazy

0:40.4

person. That's what Letterman's decided to do. But he's old and rich, so he can do it every once.

0:44.4

I made a severe beard miscalculation. I'm afraid. I let my winter beard go into summer this past

0:52.1

year. And I was about a week into a new winter beard. And Judy said, so you are growing your,

0:58.7

your beard out. I said, yeah, I think so. He said, okay. Well, place, place. I know the inflections,

1:08.8

the word choices, the size, the breaths of that woman likes people who know things really well.

1:15.5

The breaths, well, I know them both. Well, all three come to think of it.

1:21.8

Running on how you look at it. I said, all right. What would you prefer? I'm not. Well, I'm

1:25.9

no, it's fine. I like you, clean, shavin. She said, so no winter beard this year, apparently. But

1:32.0

again, it was my mistake letting it go into summer. I overplayed my hand. And we've got a restaurant

1:37.7

in Long Beach that was going next door to get Popeye's chicken and bringing it over to their

1:42.3

restaurant and serving it. And charging like twice as much. Yeah, yeah. Which is pretty funny.

1:48.0

I just love that. I love that every level. Everybody wins. Fabulous. This is not fabulous. It

1:56.6

sounds fabulous, but it's not. They think the world of insects has declined by 50 to 76%

2:08.8

in about a quarter century. Says Scott Black, executive director of the

2:16.0

Skino's profit spiders all sorts of flying. He did. Grasshopper's effing insects. Just

2:22.8

yes, insects. And they'll it down here for those of us. I think all of us are disturbed and all

2:27.6

of us are seeing fewer insects on warm summer nights. You used to see them around streetlights,

2:31.3

not anymore. I haven't noticed that small, but growing number of scientific studies suggest that

2:35.5

insects are on the way. I believe that I haven't personally felt like they're a less insect.

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