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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Unintended Consequences

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

iHeartPodcasts

Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hour Two of A&G features deep concerns about plastics (and bag bans), some thoughts on Late Night Comedy, Bernie on the border and the crisis in Yuma.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So we've been complaining about the jokes from the late night shows for quite a while now.

0:29.2

Basically, since the Trump era began, we used to play jokes from the tonight show and Colbert and whatever regularly every single day.

0:37.9

And then they just became repetitive and not funny. Well, it turns out some of the writers feel the same way how liberal late night talk shows became a comedy sinkhole,

0:46.4

even including to some of the people that work on them. More on that coming up later.

0:51.5

So I'm concerned about plastics. I really am. We produce, we modern humans produce a stounding amount of plastic. Incredible.

1:00.6

I took the trash out today and just, it's just stuff full of plastic this and that.

1:04.8

The water bottles. Everything is packaged in plastic. There's so many things you buy and there's so much in the oceans now.

1:11.9

And you know, listen, I get the various plastic bag bands up and down the West Coast, for instance.

1:18.0

I get the intention of it and we'll talk about those bands and some of the unintended consequences, which are not only interesting, but kind of funny.

1:26.7

But 90% of the plastic that's in the ocean, they think, comes from Asia. 90%.

1:32.4

Wow. Yeah. They use more plastic or just because there's so many people.

1:36.1

Well, yeah, there's millions of people right by the coasts and it could have to do with winds and currents, too.

1:42.0

Honestly, I haven't read up much about it, but it was a liberal outlet that was reporting this.

1:47.0

So I tend to think it, you know, they, they will not willingly minimize the US's responsibility in environmental stuff.

1:57.0

If you know what I mean. So I figured they were probably sincere.

1:59.9

Then there's this other study I heard that they're finding because when plastic does like go away,

2:06.7

plastic bags, you know, whipped by the wind until there's barely anything there.

2:10.8

Well, those tiny little particles stay in the air and now they're finding tiny little micro particles of plastic everywhere.

2:17.4

I mean, the remote mountain ranges of the world, they test the air and there's little bits of plastic everywhere.

2:23.3

So, you know, I'm, and there are billions that, you know, almost eight billion people are, is it eight billion on Earth right now?

2:29.1

We're cranking out plastic and in a stouting right.

2:31.2

So I'm not some sort of auto care type.

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