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Every Little Thing

Garbage: What Did We Do Before the Bag? Plus, A Trash Bag Moonshot

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.64.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A Bulletin Board of Glory™ nomination from comedian Josh Gondelman takes ELT down a trashy rabbit hole, to a time before sanitation workers, when pigs roamed the streets. Plus, we meet the man who defied all odds to bring us the bag that cinches. Warning: Explicit. Guests: comedian and Last Week Tonight writer Josh Gondelman; trash historian Carl Zimring; engineers Steve Tallman and Dana Boyd. Thanks to our sponsor, Cole Haan. You can hear more of Flora and other Gimlet hosts in conversation at ExtraordinariesOnTheMic.com, produced in partnership with Cole Haan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

On today's show, we are celebrating an unsung invention, like we do. I'm here with

0:07.2

comedian and last week tonight writer Josh Gondelman.

0:10.3

Hello. I also have a big glass of ice water with me which is a mistake.

0:14.0

It's jinglin.

0:15.0

Also I brought a lot of Doritos.

0:18.0

It's kind of my podcasting food.

0:22.0

Josh, you tweeted your invention nomination.

0:25.0

Would you read it?

0:26.0

Yeah.

0:28.0

No Silicon Valley Innovator can hold a candle to the person who invented those yellow ties that make trash bags easier to

0:34.8

scinch shot.

0:35.8

Josh, we're here because you want to celebrate a trash bag.

0:40.5

Was that right?

0:41.5

Absolutely. That's also what I say at the beginning of my birthday party every year.

0:47.0

So you're calling out specifically the Cinch Sack garbage bag and you tweeted that at 955 a a.m. Yeah I was up really thinking about

0:55.3

trash bags. What inspired it? We had my wife and I had a several month I would say

1:04.0

say Saga nightmare where one of us had accidentally purchased

1:08.0

the trash bags without the yellow thing

1:10.0

just the kind that you get the loose plastic lips that you kind of tie shut.

1:14.4

The loose lips?

1:15.1

Yeah, loose lips sink bags.

1:18.2

Paint me a picture of life without the cinch.

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