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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep 70 - Inventing Another Fake Environmental Crisis

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Supposedly, our plastic straws are destroying the environment. We are told that we use 500 million straws a day, and many of them somehow end up in the ocean. Both of these claims are false. Let's now debunk this hysteria, and discuss why people engage in environmental hysterics, and how they hurt their own movement in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Slack.com slash DHQ. So you've heard presumably about the latest

0:31.8

Doomsday prophecy of environmentalists. They have found a new villain to fight a new

0:38.6

cancer to treat and that is straws. Plastic straws, plastic straws are destroying mankind.

0:47.0

And we have to get rid of them. San Francisco is the most recent city, I believe, to ban straws.

0:53.2

They will now be straw-free. They are a safe haven from the tyranny of straws. So you

1:00.8

don't have to worry if you're in San Francisco. You don't have to worry about walking down

1:05.5

the street and tripping over a straw and becoming paralyzed, which is, you know, that's happened

1:11.4

to at least three or four people that I know. It's very common. Now, if you're in San Francisco,

1:16.1

you still have to worry about walking down the street and stepping on a used heroin needle

1:20.4

or slipping in a puddle of human feces, but at least you don't have to worry about straws.

1:27.2

Other cities are also banning straws. Seattle's ban straws. Santa Barbara is coming down

1:33.8

very hard. And what they're saying is that if you are caught being a straw dealer, you

1:39.5

could get six months in jail per straw that you hand out. So if you're a, if you are a waitress

1:50.9

at a, at Denys and you make the mistake of handing out a straw to one person, you get six

1:56.5

months. Now, if there's a, say, a birthday party at Denys, which is a great location for a birthday

2:02.3

party, then and you hand out straws to everybody, you go rogue and you just start handing out

2:07.3

20 or 30 years in prison when it went all is said and done. I mean, you could, if rather

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