1 00:00:10,521 --> 00:00:22,321 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:22,387 --> 00:00:28,787 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:28,854 --> 00:00:29,687 >> John: HI THERE! 4 00:00:29,754 --> 00:00:30,687 WELCOME TO THE SHOW, 5 00:00:30,754 --> 00:00:31,621 STILL, UNFORTUNATELY, 6 00:00:31,687 --> 00:00:33,721 TAKING PLACE IN THIS BLANK VOID. 7 00:00:33,787 --> 00:00:34,521 THINK OF IT LIKE PRINCE PHILIP, 8 00:00:34,587 --> 00:00:36,054 IN THAT IT'S WHITE, 9 00:00:36,121 --> 00:00:37,021 DOESN'T DO ANYTHING, 10 00:00:37,087 --> 00:00:37,654 AND I THOUGHT FOR SURE IT'D BE 11 00:00:37,721 --> 00:00:41,754 GONE BY NOW. 12 00:00:41,821 --> 00:00:42,654 AND WE HAVE TO DIVE STRAIGHT IN 13 00:00:42,721 --> 00:00:43,587 WITH TUESDAY'S HORRIFIC EVENTS 14 00:00:43,654 --> 00:00:44,521 IN THE ATLANTA AREA, 15 00:00:44,587 --> 00:00:45,154 WHERE A GUNMAN 16 00:00:45,221 --> 00:00:46,054 KILLED EIGHT PEOPLE, 17 00:00:46,121 --> 00:00:47,187 SIX OF THEM ASIAN WOMEN, 18 00:00:47,254 --> 00:00:48,154 AT THREE DIFFERENT SPAS. 19 00:00:48,221 --> 00:00:49,521 AND SYMPATHY FOR THE VICTIMS HAS 20 00:00:49,587 --> 00:00:51,387 POURED OUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY, 21 00:00:51,454 --> 00:00:52,554 ALTHOUGH THERE'VE BEEN SOME 22 00:00:52,621 --> 00:00:53,887 TERRIBLE REACTIONS, TOO -- 23 00:00:53,954 --> 00:00:54,921 LIKE THE ONE FROM THIS OFFICER 24 00:00:54,987 --> 00:00:56,787 WHO BRIEFED THE PRESS. 25 00:00:56,854 --> 00:00:58,321 >> THERE ARE A LOT OF CONCERNS 26 00:00:58,387 --> 00:01:00,354 ABOUT THIS STATEMENT, WHICH MANY 27 00:01:00,421 --> 00:01:01,354 FEEL APPEARS TO SYMPATHIZE WITH 28 00:01:01,421 --> 00:01:02,187 THE SHOOTER AND NOT HIS ALLEGED 29 00:01:02,254 --> 00:01:03,521 VICTIMS. 30 00:01:03,587 --> 00:01:04,854 >> I SPOKE WITH INVESTIGATORS. 31 00:01:04,921 --> 00:01:05,821 THEY INTERVIEWED HIM THIS 32 00:01:05,887 --> 00:01:07,321 MORNING AND I -- THEY GOT THAT 33 00:01:07,387 --> 00:01:10,154 IMPRESSION THAT, YES, HE -- HE 34 00:01:10,221 --> 00:01:11,487 UNDERSTOOD THE GRAVITY OF IT 35 00:01:11,554 --> 00:01:13,154 AND HE WAS PRETTY MUCH FED UP, 36 00:01:13,221 --> 00:01:14,687 AT THE END OF HIS ROPE. 37 00:01:14,754 --> 00:01:15,821 AND -- AND YESTERDAY WAS 38 00:01:15,887 --> 00:01:16,354 A REALLY BAD DAY FOR HIM. 39 00:01:16,421 --> 00:01:18,254 AND THIS IS WHAT HE DID. 40 00:01:18,321 --> 00:01:19,787 >> John: OKAY, ABSOLUTELY 41 00:01:19,854 --> 00:01:20,754 FUCKING NOT. 42 00:01:20,821 --> 00:01:21,887 YOU GET THAT THIS IS A PRESS 43 00:01:21,954 --> 00:01:22,754 CONFERENCE ABOUT A MASS MURDER, 44 00:01:22,821 --> 00:01:23,587 RIGHT? 45 00:01:23,654 --> 00:01:25,421 YOU DON'T GET TO MINIMIZE WHAT 46 00:01:25,487 --> 00:01:26,121 HAPPENED LIKE THAT. 47 00:01:26,187 --> 00:01:27,987 "REALLY BAD DAY?" 48 00:01:28,054 --> 00:01:28,954 ALEXANDER HAD A TERRIBLE, 49 00:01:29,021 --> 00:01:33,554 HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY, 50 00:01:33,621 --> 00:01:34,454 AND WHAT HE DID WAS SHRUG IT 51 00:01:34,521 --> 00:01:36,287 THE FUCK OFF AND GO TO BED WHILE 52 00:01:36,354 --> 00:01:38,021 MANAGING TO MURDER ZERO PEOPLE. 53 00:01:38,087 --> 00:01:39,487 THAT COP EVEN WENT ON TO REPEAT 54 00:01:39,554 --> 00:01:40,687 THE SHOOTER'S CLAIMS THAT HIS 55 00:01:40,754 --> 00:01:42,087 ATTACKS WEREN'T RACIALLY 56 00:01:42,154 --> 00:01:44,221 MOTIVATED; INSTEAD, 57 00:01:44,287 --> 00:01:45,654 HIS "SEXUAL ADDICTION" WAS 58 00:01:45,721 --> 00:01:48,454 TO BLAME FOR THE KILLINGS. 59 00:01:48,521 --> 00:01:49,121 WHICH ALREADY FEELS LIKE A 60 00:01:49,187 --> 00:01:50,087 WEIRD DISTINCTION TO BE MAKING. 61 00:01:50,154 --> 00:01:51,154 "HEY! 62 00:01:51,221 --> 00:01:52,021 I MIGHT BE A MASS-MURDERER, 63 00:01:52,087 --> 00:01:52,887 BUT WATCH WHO YOU CALL A RACIST, 64 00:01:52,954 --> 00:01:53,687 BUDDY! 65 00:01:53,754 --> 00:01:54,521 WORDS HURT!" 66 00:01:54,587 --> 00:01:55,721 AND WHILE IT IS STILL EARLY, 67 00:01:55,787 --> 00:01:57,721 DETAILS ARE STILL COMING OUT, 68 00:01:57,787 --> 00:01:58,287 AND AUTHORITIES SEEM UNWILLING 69 00:01:58,354 --> 00:01:59,521 TO CALL THIS A HATE CRIME. 70 00:01:59,587 --> 00:02:01,521 I WILL SAY, A WHITE MAN 71 00:02:01,587 --> 00:02:03,254 DRIVING ACROSS COUNTIES 72 00:02:03,321 --> 00:02:04,721 TO TWO DIFFERENT TOWNS, 73 00:02:04,787 --> 00:02:06,087 GOING TO THREE ASIAN-OWNED 74 00:02:06,154 --> 00:02:07,287 BUSINESSES, SHOOTING AND KILLING 75 00:02:07,354 --> 00:02:08,454 SIX ASIAN WOMEN, IN A CITY 76 00:02:08,521 --> 00:02:10,154 THAT'S ONLY ABOUT 4% ASIAN 77 00:02:10,221 --> 00:02:11,521 SURE AS SHIT SEEMS A LOT MORE 78 00:02:11,587 --> 00:02:12,621 LIKE A HATE CRIME THAN 79 00:02:12,687 --> 00:02:15,387 "A BAD FUCKING DAY." 80 00:02:15,454 --> 00:02:16,787 AND THIS IS JUST THE LATEST DATA 81 00:02:16,854 --> 00:02:17,954 POINT IN A DISTURBING PATTERN. 82 00:02:18,021 --> 00:02:19,421 ONE GROUP TRACKING HATE-RELATED 83 00:02:19,487 --> 00:02:20,221 INCIDENTS AGAINST 84 00:02:20,287 --> 00:02:21,687 ASIAN-AMERICANS -- WHICH INCLUDE 85 00:02:21,754 --> 00:02:22,787 PHYSICAL ASSAULTS, 86 00:02:22,854 --> 00:02:24,054 VERBAL HARASSMENT, AND 87 00:02:24,121 --> 00:02:25,354 CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS LIKE 88 00:02:25,421 --> 00:02:26,754 REFUSAL OF SERVICE -- FOUND 89 00:02:26,821 --> 00:02:28,187 NEARLY 3800 REPORTED IN JUST 90 00:02:28,254 --> 00:02:29,921 THE PAST YEAR. 91 00:02:29,987 --> 00:02:31,687 IT'S AN ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE 92 00:02:31,754 --> 00:02:32,854 TREND THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN SPOKE 93 00:02:32,921 --> 00:02:35,021 ABOUT JUST LAST WEEK. 94 00:02:35,087 --> 00:02:36,854 >> VICIOUS HATE CRIMES AGAINST 95 00:02:36,921 --> 00:02:38,754 ASIAN-AMERICANS, WHO'VE BEEN 96 00:02:38,821 --> 00:02:40,454 ATTACKED, HARASSED, BLAMED, AND 97 00:02:40,521 --> 00:02:42,221 SCAPEGOATED. 98 00:02:42,287 --> 00:02:43,954 IT'S WRONG, IT'S UN-AMERICAN, 99 00:02:44,021 --> 00:02:46,821 AND IT MUST STOP. 100 00:02:46,887 --> 00:02:49,221 >> John: YEAH. 101 00:02:49,287 --> 00:02:53,721 IT MUST. 102 00:02:53,787 --> 00:02:55,054 AND I AM REALLY GLAD HE 103 00:02:55,121 --> 00:02:56,187 CONDEMNED HATE CRIMES AGAINST 104 00:02:56,254 --> 00:02:57,354 ASIAN-AMERICANS THERE, BUT TO 105 00:02:57,421 --> 00:02:58,221 SAY THAT THEY ARE "UN-AMERICAN?" 106 00:02:58,287 --> 00:02:58,987 I'D LOVE TO VISIT THE NATION 107 00:02:59,054 --> 00:03:00,254 THAT EXISTS IN JOE BIDEN'S HEAD, 108 00:03:00,321 --> 00:03:01,521 BECAUSE IT'S A PLACE WHERE 109 00:03:01,587 --> 00:03:02,121 RACISM "IS NOT WHO WE ARE" AND 110 00:03:02,187 --> 00:03:03,354 RACIAL ATTACKS AGAINST ASIANS 111 00:03:03,421 --> 00:03:04,487 ARE SOMEHOW "UN-AMERICAN," 112 00:03:04,554 --> 00:03:07,187 DESPITE THE FACT -- AND FAR BE 113 00:03:07,254 --> 00:03:08,187 IT FROM ME TO EXPLAIN THIS TO 114 00:03:08,254 --> 00:03:09,154 SOMEONE WHO SEEMS LIKE HE'S 115 00:03:09,221 --> 00:03:10,087 LIVED THROUGH MOST OF AMERICAN 116 00:03:10,154 --> 00:03:10,821 HISTORY -- ANTI-ASIAN RACISM HAS 117 00:03:10,887 --> 00:03:12,354 LONG BEEN A FACT OF AMERICAN 118 00:03:12,421 --> 00:03:15,254 LIFE. 119 00:03:15,321 --> 00:03:15,721 FROM THE TREATMENT OF 120 00:03:15,787 --> 00:03:16,487 CHINESE RAILROAD WORKERS 121 00:03:16,554 --> 00:03:18,021 IN THE 1800s, THROUGH 122 00:03:18,087 --> 00:03:19,387 THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT, 123 00:03:19,454 --> 00:03:23,021 THROUGH THE WATSONVILLE RIOTS 124 00:03:23,087 --> 00:03:25,221 IN 1930, IN WHICH A WHITE MOB 125 00:03:25,287 --> 00:03:26,721 RAMPAGED THROUGH A FILIPINO 126 00:03:26,787 --> 00:03:27,154 COMMUNITY, 127 00:03:27,221 --> 00:03:28,354 THROUGH THE INTERNMENT OF 128 00:03:28,421 --> 00:03:29,721 JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING 129 00:03:29,787 --> 00:03:30,321 WORLD WAR II, THROUGH DEADLY 130 00:03:30,387 --> 00:03:31,754 CASES OF RACIAL SCAPEGOATING 131 00:03:31,821 --> 00:03:32,387 LIKE THE MURDER OF VINCENT CHIN, 132 00:03:32,454 --> 00:03:33,987 KILLED IN 1982 BY TWO 133 00:03:34,054 --> 00:03:35,454 WHITE AUTOWORKERS IN DETROIT. 134 00:03:35,521 --> 00:03:37,587 WITNESSES SAID THE MEN MISTOOK 135 00:03:37,654 --> 00:03:38,254 CHIN, A CHINESE-AMERICAN, FOR 136 00:03:38,321 --> 00:03:39,654 BEING JAPANESE, BLAMED HIM FOR 137 00:03:39,721 --> 00:03:41,587 TAKING THEIR JOBS, AND BEAT HIM 138 00:03:41,654 --> 00:03:42,421 TO DEATH. 139 00:03:42,487 --> 00:03:43,754 AND BY THE WAY, EVEN THOUGH 140 00:03:43,821 --> 00:03:45,087 THEY'D REPORTEDLY USED 141 00:03:45,154 --> 00:03:46,187 RACIAL SLURS DURING THE ATTACK, 142 00:03:46,254 --> 00:03:47,821 THE MEN STILL TRIED TO CLAIM 143 00:03:47,887 --> 00:03:49,821 THEY WERE NOT MOTIVATED BY RACE. 144 00:03:49,887 --> 00:03:52,954 SO NOT ONLY ARE HATE CRIMES 145 00:03:53,021 --> 00:03:54,154 AGAINST ASIAN-AMERICANS VERY 146 00:03:54,221 --> 00:03:55,854 MUCH "AMERICAN," SO IS DENYING 147 00:03:55,921 --> 00:03:57,687 THAT THEY'RE RACIST. 148 00:03:57,754 --> 00:03:58,621 IT'S ALL SO AMERICAN, IN FACT, 149 00:03:58,687 --> 00:03:59,487 THE NATIONAL ANTHEM COULD 150 00:03:59,554 --> 00:04:01,187 PROBABLY BEGIN: 151 00:04:01,254 --> 00:04:02,621 "OH, SAY CAN YOU SEE 152 00:04:02,687 --> 00:04:04,621 THAT THIS WASN'T ABOUT RACE." 153 00:04:04,687 --> 00:04:06,521 AND OUR LONG, UGLY HISTORY OF 154 00:04:06,587 --> 00:04:08,587 ANTI-ASIAN RACISM -- AND THE 155 00:04:08,654 --> 00:04:10,187 FACT IT OFTEN PEAKS DURING TIMES 156 00:04:10,254 --> 00:04:13,921 OF CRISIS -- IS THE VERY REASON 157 00:04:13,987 --> 00:04:14,954 WHY, JUST LAST YEAR, MANY WERE 158 00:04:15,021 --> 00:04:16,254 LOUDLY WARNING THAT TRUMP 159 00:04:16,321 --> 00:04:18,021 CALLING COVID NAMES LIKE 160 00:04:18,087 --> 00:04:19,187 "THE CHINA VIRUS" WAS LIKELY TO 161 00:04:19,254 --> 00:04:24,054 LEAD TO A RISE IN VIOLENCE 162 00:04:24,121 --> 00:04:25,387 AGAINST PEOPLE OF ASIAN DESCENT, 163 00:04:25,454 --> 00:04:28,121 AN ARGUMENT THAT AT THE TIME, 164 00:04:28,187 --> 00:04:28,687 NOT EVERYONE SEEMED TO FIND 165 00:04:28,754 --> 00:04:29,654 CONVINCING. 166 00:04:29,721 --> 00:04:30,987 >> I THINK IF THE LEFT WANTS TO 167 00:04:31,054 --> 00:04:31,721 FOCUS ON PC LABELING THIS VIRUS, 168 00:04:31,787 --> 00:04:33,554 IT IS A GREAT WAY TO GET TRUMP 169 00:04:33,621 --> 00:04:33,821 REELECTED. 170 00:04:33,887 --> 00:04:34,421 I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH 171 00:04:34,487 --> 00:04:35,687 PEOPLE CALLING IT WHATEVER THEY 172 00:04:35,754 --> 00:04:35,887 WANT. 173 00:04:35,954 --> 00:04:37,021 IT'S A DEADLY VIRUS THAT DID 174 00:04:37,087 --> 00:04:37,621 ORIGINATE IN WUHAN. 175 00:04:37,687 --> 00:04:38,254 I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT. 176 00:04:38,321 --> 00:04:39,154 >> John: OH, GOOD! 177 00:04:39,221 --> 00:04:40,321 MEGHAN McCAIN DOESN'T 178 00:04:40,387 --> 00:04:41,554 HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT! 179 00:04:41,621 --> 00:04:43,387 LISTEN NOT TO THE SCORES OF 180 00:04:43,454 --> 00:04:44,687 ASIAN-AMERICANS TELLING EVERYONE 181 00:04:44,754 --> 00:04:45,587 THAT THE TERM IS DANGEROUS AND 182 00:04:45,654 --> 00:04:46,487 OFFENSIVE! 183 00:04:46,554 --> 00:04:48,054 INSTEAD, GATHER ROUND, 184 00:04:48,121 --> 00:04:49,187 AND TAKE THE WORD OF A WEALTHY 185 00:04:49,254 --> 00:04:50,354 WHITE WOMAN WHO'S DRESSED LIKE 186 00:04:50,421 --> 00:04:51,521 SHE'S ABOUT TO LAY OFF 47 PEOPLE 187 00:04:51,587 --> 00:04:53,854 OVER ZOOM. 188 00:04:53,921 --> 00:04:55,954 NOW, I WILL SAY, McCAIN POSTED 189 00:04:56,021 --> 00:04:57,121 THIS WEEK, "STOP ASIAN HATE" 190 00:04:57,187 --> 00:04:58,587 WITH THREE BROKEN HEART EMOJIS. 191 00:04:58,654 --> 00:05:00,387 WHICH IS A FINE SENTIMENT TO 192 00:05:00,454 --> 00:05:01,854 THROW UP ON TWITTER AFTER THE 193 00:05:01,921 --> 00:05:04,187 FACT, BUT THERE HAS TO BE AN 194 00:05:04,254 --> 00:05:05,587 UNDERSTANDING THAT SAYING, 195 00:05:05,654 --> 00:05:06,687 "I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH 196 00:05:06,754 --> 00:05:08,487 CALLING IT THE CHINA VIRUS" 197 00:05:08,554 --> 00:05:09,787 IS VERY MUCH GIVING SPACE FOR 198 00:05:09,854 --> 00:05:11,854 THAT HATE TO GROW. 199 00:05:11,921 --> 00:05:13,587 AND THE MINIMIZATION OF RACIST 200 00:05:13,654 --> 00:05:14,721 RHETORIC PLAYS INTO THE HARMFUL 201 00:05:14,787 --> 00:05:17,221 STEREOTYPE OF ASIAN-AMERICANS AS 202 00:05:17,287 --> 00:05:19,421 A "MODEL MINORITY," PITTING THEM 203 00:05:19,487 --> 00:05:21,421 AGAINST OTHER MINORITY GROUPS 204 00:05:21,487 --> 00:05:22,821 AND PRESSURING THEM TO SWALLOW 205 00:05:22,887 --> 00:05:24,387 THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH RACISM 206 00:05:24,454 --> 00:05:25,421 WITHOUT MAKING A STINK, BECAUSE 207 00:05:25,487 --> 00:05:26,154 THAT'S HOW YOU EARN 208 00:05:26,221 --> 00:05:28,521 WHITE ACCEPTANCE. 209 00:05:28,587 --> 00:05:29,554 AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT TAKES 210 00:05:29,621 --> 00:05:30,487 ITS TOLL. 211 00:05:30,554 --> 00:05:32,087 JUST LISTEN TO BASKETBALL PLAYER 212 00:05:32,154 --> 00:05:33,287 JEREMY LIN, WHO RECENTLY 213 00:05:33,354 --> 00:05:34,754 REVEALED THAT HE'D BEEN CALLED 214 00:05:34,821 --> 00:05:36,287 "CORONAVIRUS" ON THE COURT, AND 215 00:05:36,354 --> 00:05:37,221 SPOKE ABOUT THE EVENTS OF THIS 216 00:05:37,287 --> 00:05:38,321 WEEK. 217 00:05:38,387 --> 00:05:40,854 >> ASIANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN -- 218 00:05:40,921 --> 00:05:43,887 HAVE BEEN PROJECTED AS BEING 219 00:05:43,954 --> 00:05:45,621 OTHERS OR OUTSIDERS AND YOU 220 00:05:45,687 --> 00:05:47,187 CAN -- YOU CAN HEAR AND SEE 221 00:05:47,254 --> 00:05:48,954 THESE MICROAGGRESSIONS, IN LIKE, 222 00:05:49,021 --> 00:05:49,554 "OH, NO, WHERE ARE YOU REALLY 223 00:05:49,621 --> 00:05:51,154 FROM?" 224 00:05:51,221 --> 00:05:54,021 OR, YOU KNOW, TALKING ABOUT THE 225 00:05:54,087 --> 00:05:56,654 WAY WE LOOK OR OUR COMPLEXION 226 00:05:56,721 --> 00:05:58,187 AND, AGAIN, CALLING IT THE CHINA 227 00:05:58,254 --> 00:05:58,921 VIRUS, KUNG FLU VIRUS, THAT IS 228 00:05:58,987 --> 00:06:00,787 ADDING TO IT, FUELING THE FIRE, 229 00:06:00,854 --> 00:06:01,954 AND NOW WE'RE STARTING TO SEE A 230 00:06:02,021 --> 00:06:02,954 LOT OF THOSE MICROAGGRESSIONS 231 00:06:03,021 --> 00:06:03,721 TURN INTO ACTUAL ACTS OF 232 00:06:03,787 --> 00:06:04,921 VIOLENCE. 233 00:06:04,987 --> 00:06:06,254 >> John: RIGHT. 234 00:06:06,321 --> 00:06:08,287 COMMENTS LIKE, "WHERE ARE YOU 235 00:06:08,354 --> 00:06:09,721 REALLY FROM?" ARE CONSTANT 236 00:06:09,787 --> 00:06:11,621 REMINDERS OF HOW 237 00:06:11,687 --> 00:06:13,421 ASIAN-AMERICANS ARE REGARDED AS 238 00:06:13,487 --> 00:06:14,621 OUTSIDERS, AS PEOPLE WHO DON'T 239 00:06:14,687 --> 00:06:16,221 BELONG. 240 00:06:16,287 --> 00:06:17,954 AND THE FACT IS, "WHERE ARE YOU 241 00:06:18,021 --> 00:06:19,387 REALLY FROM?" IS JUST NOT AN 242 00:06:19,454 --> 00:06:21,087 APPROPRIATE QUESTION TO ASK 243 00:06:21,154 --> 00:06:22,121 ANYONE, UNLESS THEY'VE JUST 244 00:06:22,187 --> 00:06:23,354 OPENED UP THEIR TORSO TO REVEAL 245 00:06:23,421 --> 00:06:25,421 A TINY ALIEN SQUID OPERATING 246 00:06:25,487 --> 00:06:27,221 A ROBOT BODY. 247 00:06:27,287 --> 00:06:30,087 AND EVEN THEN, HONESTLY, IT'S 248 00:06:30,154 --> 00:06:31,221 STILL A BIT IFFY. 249 00:06:31,287 --> 00:06:32,087 "WELL MY PARENTS ARE FROM 250 00:06:32,154 --> 00:06:33,187 RIGEL VII, BUT I WAS BORN IN 251 00:06:33,254 --> 00:06:34,254 CINCINNATI, YOU DICK!" 252 00:06:34,321 --> 00:06:36,254 THE COMFORT PEOPLE HAVE WITH 253 00:06:36,321 --> 00:06:37,754 DIMINISHING AND OTHERING ASIANS 254 00:06:37,821 --> 00:06:39,254 IS PERVASIVE. 255 00:06:39,321 --> 00:06:40,687 EVEN THAT OFFICER YOU SAW 256 00:06:40,754 --> 00:06:42,054 EARLIER WAS LAST YEAR PROMOTING 257 00:06:42,121 --> 00:06:44,087 T-SHIRTS ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE 258 00:06:44,154 --> 00:06:45,421 CALLING COVID-19 AN 259 00:06:45,487 --> 00:06:49,321 "IMPORTED VIRUS FROM CHY-NA." 260 00:06:49,387 --> 00:06:51,421 AND THE FACT THE KILLER CHOSE 261 00:06:51,487 --> 00:06:53,254 THESE PARTICULAR WOMEN, 262 00:06:53,321 --> 00:06:55,221 WORKING LOW-WAGE JOBS, AS 263 00:06:55,287 --> 00:06:56,987 TARGETS FOR HIS "SEX ADDICTION" 264 00:06:57,054 --> 00:06:57,987 SPEAKS TO HOW ASIAN-AMERICAN 265 00:06:58,054 --> 00:06:59,721 WOMEN, IN PARTICULAR, HAVE TO 266 00:06:59,787 --> 00:07:04,787 DEAL WITH HYPERSEXUALIZATION, 267 00:07:04,854 --> 00:07:06,221 AND HOW ASIAN WORKERS TO THE 268 00:07:06,287 --> 00:07:07,421 EXTENT THAT THEY ARE SEEN AT ALL 269 00:07:07,487 --> 00:07:09,654 ARE SEEN MORE FOR THE LABOR THAT 270 00:07:09,721 --> 00:07:11,787 THEY PROVIDE RATHER THAN THE 271 00:07:11,854 --> 00:07:12,654 FULL THREE-DIMENSIONAL HUMANS 272 00:07:12,721 --> 00:07:13,054 THAT THEY ARE. 273 00:07:13,121 --> 00:07:13,887 SO THERE'S PRETTY CLEARLY A LOT 274 00:07:13,954 --> 00:07:15,254 THAT NEEDS TO BE CONFRONTED 275 00:07:15,321 --> 00:07:16,187 HERE, AS MANY HAVE BEEN POINTING 276 00:07:16,254 --> 00:07:16,887 OUT. 277 00:07:16,954 --> 00:07:17,921 >> I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE STARTING 278 00:07:17,987 --> 00:07:19,187 TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION, 279 00:07:19,254 --> 00:07:20,554 BUT THIS CANNOT BE IT. 280 00:07:20,621 --> 00:07:22,154 ASIAN-AMERICAN WOMEN HAVE BEEN 281 00:07:22,221 --> 00:07:23,954 LONG INVISIBLE IN THIS SOCIETY. 282 00:07:24,021 --> 00:07:25,287 RIGHT? 283 00:07:25,354 --> 00:07:26,187 YOU KNOW, WE'RE BEING TOLD THIS 284 00:07:26,254 --> 00:07:28,021 IS NOT A RACIST INCIDENT. 285 00:07:28,087 --> 00:07:29,387 IT IS A RACIST INCIDENT BECAUSE 286 00:07:29,454 --> 00:07:30,421 OF THE WAY ASIAN-AMERICAN WOMEN 287 00:07:30,487 --> 00:07:31,321 EXPERIENCE RACISM IN OUR 288 00:07:31,387 --> 00:07:33,121 COUNTRY. 289 00:07:33,187 --> 00:07:34,887 >> John: EXACTLY. 290 00:07:34,954 --> 00:07:36,221 THIS ISN'T JUST A CONVERSATION 291 00:07:36,287 --> 00:07:37,021 ABOUT THIS WEEK. 292 00:07:37,087 --> 00:07:38,621 IT'S A CONVERSATION ABOUT 293 00:07:38,687 --> 00:07:41,054 THE CENTURIES LEADING UP TO IT. 294 00:07:41,121 --> 00:07:42,654 NOW, SOME HAVE RESPONDED BY 295 00:07:42,721 --> 00:07:44,921 CALLING FOR INCREASED POLICE 296 00:07:44,987 --> 00:07:46,121 PRESENCE, ALTHOUGH OTHERS ARE 297 00:07:46,187 --> 00:07:47,887 UNDERSTANDABLY WARY OF "MORE 298 00:07:47,954 --> 00:07:49,754 POLICE" BEING A GOOD SOLUTION. 299 00:07:49,821 --> 00:07:51,321 MORE GUYS LIKE "DEPUTY OOPS ALL 300 00:07:51,387 --> 00:07:52,621 FOREHEAD" HERE AREN'T LIKELY TO 301 00:07:52,687 --> 00:07:54,354 MAKE ASIAN-AMERICANS, OR, 302 00:07:54,421 --> 00:07:55,487 INDEED, OTHER COMMUNITIES OF 303 00:07:55,554 --> 00:07:56,721 COLOR AROUND THEM, FEEL MUCH 304 00:07:56,787 --> 00:07:57,587 SAFER. 305 00:07:57,654 --> 00:07:59,487 OTHERS HAVE SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS 306 00:07:59,554 --> 00:08:00,921 FROM CONNECTING VICTIMS OF 307 00:08:00,987 --> 00:08:01,954 TRAUMA TO SUPPORT AFTER THE 308 00:08:02,021 --> 00:08:03,454 FACT, TO IMPROVING COLLECTION 309 00:08:03,521 --> 00:08:05,087 AND REPORTING OF STATISTICS 310 00:08:05,154 --> 00:08:06,187 ON ANTI-ASIAN VIOLENCE AND 311 00:08:06,254 --> 00:08:09,821 DISCRIMINATION, SO WE HAVE 312 00:08:09,887 --> 00:08:10,621 A MUCH MORE COMPLETE PICTURE OF 313 00:08:10,687 --> 00:08:11,587 WHAT'S HAPPENING. 314 00:08:11,654 --> 00:08:12,521 AND IF YOU DO WANT TO HELP, 315 00:08:12,587 --> 00:08:13,354 THERE ARE SOME GREAT 316 00:08:13,421 --> 00:08:14,254 ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THESE ONES 317 00:08:14,321 --> 00:08:16,754 THAT COULD REALLY USE YOUR HELP. 318 00:08:16,821 --> 00:08:18,321 LOOK, ASIAN-AMERICAN AND 319 00:08:18,387 --> 00:08:20,221 ASIAN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES 320 00:08:20,287 --> 00:08:21,854 HAVE BEEN FEELING EXTREMELY 321 00:08:21,921 --> 00:08:22,954 VULNERABLE FOR A LONG TIME, 322 00:08:23,021 --> 00:08:26,154 AND ESPECIALLY SO RIGHT NOW. 323 00:08:26,221 --> 00:08:27,787 AND FOR A GROUP WHOSE SUFFERING 324 00:08:27,854 --> 00:08:28,987 HAS HISTORICALLY FELT INVISIBLE 325 00:08:29,054 --> 00:08:31,921 TO THE MEDIA AND THE COUNTRY AT 326 00:08:31,987 --> 00:08:32,987 LARGE, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE 327 00:08:33,054 --> 00:08:34,654 ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PAIN RIGHT NOW. 328 00:08:34,721 --> 00:08:37,054 BUT MORE THAN THAT, DISMANTLING 329 00:08:37,121 --> 00:08:38,354 ANTI-ASIAN PREJUDICE SHOULD BE 330 00:08:38,421 --> 00:08:39,687 ANOTHER KEY PART OF DISMANTLING 331 00:08:39,754 --> 00:08:40,454 THE CHOKEHOLD THAT 332 00:08:40,521 --> 00:08:41,087 WHITE SUPREMACY HAS 333 00:08:41,154 --> 00:08:42,854 ON THIS COUNTRY. 334 00:08:42,921 --> 00:08:44,587 BECAUSE AS WE'VE SEEN SINCE ITS 335 00:08:44,654 --> 00:08:46,221 FOUNDATION, AND CONTINUED TO SEE 336 00:08:46,287 --> 00:08:48,587 THIS WEEK, PEOPLE WILL BEND OVER 337 00:08:48,654 --> 00:08:49,821 BACKWARDS TO CALL RACISM 338 00:08:49,887 --> 00:08:52,354 ANYTHING OTHER THAN WHAT IT IS. 339 00:08:52,421 --> 00:08:53,621 AND THAT IS UNFORTUNATELY VERY 340 00:08:53,687 --> 00:08:55,487 FUCKING AMERICAN. 341 00:08:55,554 --> 00:08:56,821 AND NOW THIS. 342 00:08:56,887 --> 00:08:58,187 ♪ ♪ 343 00:08:58,254 --> 00:08:59,921 >> Announcer: AND NOW... 344 00:08:59,987 --> 00:09:01,287 EVEN DURING A PANDEMIC, 345 00:09:01,354 --> 00:09:02,621 LOCAL NEWS CANNOT BE TRUSTED 346 00:09:02,687 --> 00:09:04,887 WITH ST. PATRICK'S DAY. 347 00:09:04,954 --> 00:09:07,954 >> TODAY ON "WINDY CITY LIVE," 348 00:09:08,021 --> 00:09:09,887 TOP OF THE MORNING TO YOU. 349 00:09:09,954 --> 00:09:10,487 >> TOP OF THE MORNING TO YOU, 350 00:09:10,554 --> 00:09:11,221 SAN DIEGO. 351 00:09:11,287 --> 00:09:13,121 >> TOP OF THE MORNING TO YOU. 352 00:09:13,187 --> 00:09:14,787 >> TOP OF THE MORNING TO YOU. 353 00:09:14,854 --> 00:09:15,887 [LAUGHS] 354 00:09:15,954 --> 00:09:19,687 >> TOP OF THE MORNING TO YOU 355 00:09:19,754 --> 00:09:21,587 >> TOP OF THE MORNING TO YOU 356 00:09:21,654 --> 00:09:22,621 TOO. 357 00:09:22,687 --> 00:09:24,654 >> IT'S WEE MORE THAN A LITTLE 358 00:09:24,721 --> 00:09:25,454 CLOUD COVER OUT THERE. 359 00:09:25,521 --> 00:09:26,921 IT'S TOTALLY CLOUD COVERED. 360 00:09:26,987 --> 00:09:27,754 >> AH, LADS AND LASSES, 361 00:09:27,821 --> 00:09:30,121 WE WILL HAVE SUNSHINE. 362 00:09:30,187 --> 00:09:31,254 THE LUCK OF THE IRISH. 363 00:09:31,321 --> 00:09:31,921 >> THE LUCK OF THE IRISH BE WITH 364 00:09:31,987 --> 00:09:33,554 US. 365 00:09:33,621 --> 00:09:34,887 >> I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I SAID. 366 00:09:34,954 --> 00:09:36,054 BUT I WATCHED A LOT OF 367 00:09:36,121 --> 00:09:37,321 LUCKY CHARMS COMMERCIALS. 368 00:09:37,387 --> 00:09:38,854 ♪ ♪ 369 00:09:38,921 --> 00:09:41,454 ♪ DUBLIN'S FAIR CITY, 370 00:09:41,521 --> 00:09:43,754 WHERE THE GIRLS ARE SO PRETTY ♪ 371 00:09:43,821 --> 00:09:44,787 >> WELCOME TO OUR FAIR CITY 372 00:09:44,854 --> 00:09:48,087 WHERE THE GIRLS ARE SO PRETTY. 373 00:09:48,154 --> 00:09:48,887 LET'S START WITH ONE OF THOSE 374 00:09:48,954 --> 00:09:52,921 LOVELY LADIES. 375 00:09:52,987 --> 00:09:53,821 ♪ ♪ 376 00:09:53,887 --> 00:09:55,287 >> John: MOVING ON. 377 00:09:55,354 --> 00:09:56,521 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 378 00:09:56,587 --> 00:09:57,121 PLASTIC. 379 00:09:57,187 --> 00:09:58,787 IT'S VERY MUCH THE JANE LYNCH 380 00:09:58,854 --> 00:09:59,987 OF MATERIALS, IN THAT 381 00:10:00,054 --> 00:10:01,354 IT'S INCREDIBLY VERSATILE, 382 00:10:01,421 --> 00:10:02,187 APPEARS IN ALMOST EVERYTHING, 383 00:10:02,254 --> 00:10:04,621 AND ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE 384 00:10:04,687 --> 00:10:06,121 FOR THE NEXT 400 YEARS. 385 00:10:06,187 --> 00:10:07,221 PLASTIC REALLY IS UBIQUITOUS. 386 00:10:07,287 --> 00:10:07,921 IT'S IN FOOD PACKAGING, 387 00:10:07,987 --> 00:10:09,087 IT'S IN BUILDING MATERIALS 388 00:10:09,154 --> 00:10:10,121 ON PLANES AND CARS, 389 00:10:10,187 --> 00:10:11,254 IT'S IN BICYCLE HELMETS, 390 00:10:11,321 --> 00:10:12,054 AND IT'S IN THIS STRAP-ON 391 00:10:12,121 --> 00:10:13,354 THIGH DILDO. 392 00:10:13,421 --> 00:10:15,221 IMAGINE A WORLD BEFORE PLASTICS, 393 00:10:15,287 --> 00:10:17,121 WHEN YOUR FEMUR PENIS WOULD HAVE 394 00:10:17,187 --> 00:10:17,887 TO MADE FROM WOOD, OR IF YOU 395 00:10:17,954 --> 00:10:22,587 WERE WEALTHY ENOUGH, IVORY. 396 00:10:22,654 --> 00:10:23,554 IT DOESN'T BEAR THINKING ABOUT. 397 00:10:23,621 --> 00:10:24,454 BUT FOR ALMOST AS LONG AS 398 00:10:24,521 --> 00:10:25,721 PLASTICS HAVE BEEN AROUND, 399 00:10:25,787 --> 00:10:26,287 THERE'S BEEN THE QUESTION OF 400 00:10:26,354 --> 00:10:27,521 WHAT TO DO WITH THEM AFTER 401 00:10:27,587 --> 00:10:28,587 THEY'RE USED -- A QUESTION ANY 402 00:10:28,654 --> 00:10:29,587 NUMBER OF CREEPY RECYCLING 403 00:10:29,654 --> 00:10:30,287 MASCOTS HAVE TRIED TO ANSWER. 404 00:10:30,354 --> 00:10:31,954 FROM THE RECYCLING WIZARD IN 405 00:10:32,021 --> 00:10:33,754 SOUTH CAROLINA, TO RECYCLING BEN 406 00:10:33,821 --> 00:10:35,221 FROM GEORGIA, TO MUNCIE, 407 00:10:35,287 --> 00:10:36,687 INDIANA'S MR. BLUE -- WHO 408 00:10:36,754 --> 00:10:38,021 APPEARS TO BE A BAG OF RECYCLING 409 00:10:38,087 --> 00:10:39,187 OR AN ASPHYXIATED SAUSAGE -- 410 00:10:39,254 --> 00:10:40,354 TO MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE, 411 00:10:40,421 --> 00:10:42,021 TOTES McGOATS. 412 00:10:42,087 --> 00:10:43,587 >> THE POPULAR SOCIAL MEDIA 413 00:10:43,654 --> 00:10:45,154 NEWS-SITE MASHABLE WRITES OF 414 00:10:45,221 --> 00:10:48,154 "NIAGARA FALL'S TERRIFYING NEW 415 00:10:48,221 --> 00:10:49,354 RECYCLING MASCOT" AND "HORRIFIC 416 00:10:49,421 --> 00:10:50,154 GOAT-MAN HYBRID." 417 00:10:50,221 --> 00:10:51,921 >> SURE, YEAH, AND YOU KNOW 418 00:10:51,987 --> 00:10:52,121 WHAT? 419 00:10:52,187 --> 00:10:52,721 I'VE SEEN CHILDREN CRY AT THE 420 00:10:52,787 --> 00:10:53,354 EASTER BUNNY AND SANTA CLAUS AS 421 00:10:53,421 --> 00:10:55,587 WELL. 422 00:10:55,654 --> 00:10:58,187 UM, BUT OUR TARGET MARKET ISN'T 423 00:10:58,254 --> 00:10:59,654 THREE AND 4-YEAR-OLDS OF COURSE. 424 00:10:59,721 --> 00:11:00,821 IT'S SOMEONE WHO'S LEARNING 425 00:11:00,887 --> 00:11:02,954 ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, 426 00:11:03,021 --> 00:11:05,554 SO MIDDLE SCHOOL, TEENAGERS, 427 00:11:05,621 --> 00:11:07,054 PEOPLE WHO MAYBE AREN'T SO 428 00:11:07,121 --> 00:11:10,221 AFRAID OF GOATS AND CLOWNS. 429 00:11:10,287 --> 00:11:11,354 >> John: WELL, HANG ON. 430 00:11:11,421 --> 00:11:13,021 WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT CLOWNS? 431 00:11:13,087 --> 00:11:13,921 NO ONE WOULD EVER MISTAKE THAT 432 00:11:13,987 --> 00:11:14,454 THING FOR A CLOWN. 433 00:11:14,521 --> 00:11:15,354 I KNOW WE'VE BEEN TOUGH ON 434 00:11:15,421 --> 00:11:16,387 CLOWNS IN THE PAST. 435 00:11:16,454 --> 00:11:19,054 THEY'RE WEIRD, SCARY, NOT FUNNY, 436 00:11:19,121 --> 00:11:20,921 AND THEY EAT CHILDREN, BUT 437 00:11:20,987 --> 00:11:21,821 CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE -- THEY DO 438 00:11:21,887 --> 00:11:26,654 PUT IN THE WORK. 439 00:11:26,721 --> 00:11:28,487 YOU THINK A LOOK THIS FRESH 440 00:11:28,554 --> 00:11:29,054 JUST COMES TOGETHER? 441 00:11:29,121 --> 00:11:29,921 OF COURSE NOT! 442 00:11:29,987 --> 00:11:31,087 THIS GUY CLEARLY MADE AN EFFORT. 443 00:11:31,154 --> 00:11:31,787 HE DIDN'T JUST GOOGLE 444 00:11:31,854 --> 00:11:32,754 "RUBBER GOAT MASK CHEAP," AND 445 00:11:32,821 --> 00:11:34,021 BUY THE FIRST RESULT, WHICH, 446 00:11:34,087 --> 00:11:34,587 INCIDENTALLY, SEEMS TO BE 447 00:11:34,654 --> 00:11:35,821 THE EXACT MASK THAT FUCKED-UP 448 00:11:35,887 --> 00:11:36,687 GOAT IS WEARING. 449 00:11:36,754 --> 00:11:37,721 AND WE'VE PRODUCED A LOT OF 450 00:11:37,787 --> 00:11:39,121 PLASTIC FOR ALL THOSE MASCOTS 451 00:11:39,187 --> 00:11:39,721 TO RECYCLE. 452 00:11:39,787 --> 00:11:40,821 SINCE PLASTIC'S INTRODUCTION, 453 00:11:40,887 --> 00:11:41,954 PRODUCTION HAS SKYROCKETED 454 00:11:42,021 --> 00:11:44,187 TO 380 MILLION TONS IN 2015. 455 00:11:44,254 --> 00:11:45,987 IN FACT, HALF OF ALL PLASTICS 456 00:11:46,054 --> 00:11:46,887 EVER MADE HAVE BEEN PRODUCED 457 00:11:46,954 --> 00:11:49,921 SINCE 2005. 458 00:11:49,987 --> 00:11:51,887 AND FOR ALL THE HYPE ABOUT 459 00:11:51,954 --> 00:11:54,121 RECYCLING, A LOT LESS PLASTIC 460 00:11:54,187 --> 00:11:55,621 WINDS UP GETTING RECYCLED THAN 461 00:11:55,687 --> 00:11:56,721 YOU MIGHT THINK. 462 00:11:56,787 --> 00:11:59,054 LESS THAN 9% OF THE PLASTICS 463 00:11:59,121 --> 00:12:00,787 GENERATED ARE RECYCLED 464 00:12:00,854 --> 00:12:01,787 IN THE UNITED STATES, 465 00:12:01,854 --> 00:12:02,987 WITH THE VAST MAJORITY 466 00:12:03,054 --> 00:12:04,387 ENDING UP IN LANDFILLS OR 467 00:12:04,454 --> 00:12:05,587 IN THE ENVIRONMENT. 468 00:12:05,654 --> 00:12:06,387 BUT BEFORE YOU START BLAMING 469 00:12:06,454 --> 00:12:08,387 YOURSELF, OR YOUR NEIGHBORS, 470 00:12:08,454 --> 00:12:10,054 FOR NOT SORTING THEIR TRASH AND 471 00:12:10,121 --> 00:12:11,687 SEPARATING ITEMS, IT'S ACTUALLY 472 00:12:11,754 --> 00:12:13,087 NOT THAT SIMPLE, AS THIS 473 00:12:13,154 --> 00:12:13,954 REPORTER FOUND OUT WHILE WALKING 474 00:12:14,021 --> 00:12:15,854 THROUGH A PORTLAND SUPERMARKET. 475 00:12:15,921 --> 00:12:16,654 >> IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYBODY IS 476 00:12:16,721 --> 00:12:17,787 BUYING LETTUCE IN A BOX NOW. 477 00:12:17,854 --> 00:12:19,187 IS THIS RECYCLABLE? 478 00:12:19,254 --> 00:12:20,687 >> IN THIS STATE, NONE OF THIS 479 00:12:20,754 --> 00:12:21,354 IS -- NONE OF THIS IS 480 00:12:21,421 --> 00:12:21,854 RECYCLABLE. 481 00:12:21,921 --> 00:12:22,521 >> OKAY. 482 00:12:22,587 --> 00:12:23,687 WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THESE? 483 00:12:23,754 --> 00:12:24,421 THIS IS EVERYWHERE IN EVERY 484 00:12:24,487 --> 00:12:26,687 SUPERMARKET. 485 00:12:26,754 --> 00:12:28,054 >> IN OREGON, AGAIN, THERE ARE 486 00:12:28,121 --> 00:12:29,487 NO CURBSIDE PROGRAMS THAT WOULD 487 00:12:29,554 --> 00:12:31,421 ACCEPT ANY OF THESE TUBS. 488 00:12:31,487 --> 00:12:33,021 >> John: YEAH, THAT IS SHOCKING! 489 00:12:33,087 --> 00:12:34,554 BECAUSE THINK OF WHAT THAT 490 00:12:34,621 --> 00:12:36,321 MEANS: THE STUFF WE ALL 491 00:12:36,387 --> 00:12:37,687 ROUTINELY BUY AT THE SUPERMARKET 492 00:12:37,754 --> 00:12:39,354 -- ASSUMING, UNDERSTANDABLY, IT 493 00:12:39,421 --> 00:12:40,687 WILL GET RECYCLED -- IS, IN MANY 494 00:12:40,754 --> 00:12:42,354 CASES, NOT. 495 00:12:42,421 --> 00:12:43,587 AND THAT IS DESPITE THE 496 00:12:43,654 --> 00:12:45,021 IMPRESSION WE MIGHT HAVE TAKEN 497 00:12:45,087 --> 00:12:45,954 FROM MASCOTS LIKE TOTES McGOATS, 498 00:12:46,021 --> 00:12:47,254 WHOSE NAME I'M HONESTLY 499 00:12:47,321 --> 00:12:48,321 UNCOMFORTABLE EVEN UTTERING OUT 500 00:12:48,387 --> 00:12:49,854 LOUD, JUST ON THE OFF-CHANCE 501 00:12:49,921 --> 00:12:50,887 THAT HE'S LIKE BEETLEJUICE AND 502 00:12:50,954 --> 00:12:52,054 SAYING "TOTES McGOATS" 503 00:12:52,121 --> 00:12:52,854 THREE TIMES SOMEHOW SUMMONS HIM 504 00:12:52,921 --> 00:12:55,054 INTO -- 505 00:12:55,121 --> 00:12:55,954 OH, SHIT! 506 00:12:56,021 --> 00:12:57,054 HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET 507 00:12:57,121 --> 00:12:57,454 IN HERE? 508 00:12:57,521 --> 00:12:58,087 THIS IS A COVID-COMPLIANT SET! 509 00:12:58,154 --> 00:13:00,321 YOU CAN'T BE HERE! 510 00:13:00,387 --> 00:13:02,887 WAIT -- YOU GOT THE VACCINE? 511 00:13:02,954 --> 00:13:04,387 HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU ELIGIBLE 512 00:13:04,454 --> 00:13:06,121 FOR THE VACCINE? 513 00:13:06,187 --> 00:13:06,987 >> HYPERTENSION, JOHN. 514 00:13:07,054 --> 00:13:08,421 >> John: OH, BULLSHIT! 515 00:13:08,487 --> 00:13:09,087 YOU KNOW WHAT? 516 00:13:09,154 --> 00:13:09,887 I DON'T CARE! 517 00:13:09,954 --> 00:13:12,954 YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE! 518 00:13:13,021 --> 00:13:13,621 GET OUT OF HERE! 519 00:13:13,687 --> 00:13:14,687 YOU'RE SO MUCH WORSE IN PERSON, 520 00:13:14,754 --> 00:13:15,154 TOTES! 521 00:13:15,221 --> 00:13:16,321 YOU LOOK LIKE A FURRY 522 00:13:16,387 --> 00:13:17,021 WHO CAN'T COMMIT. 523 00:13:17,087 --> 00:13:18,554 GET OUT OF HERE! 524 00:13:18,621 --> 00:13:20,321 THE FACT IS, A HUGE AMOUNT OF 525 00:13:20,387 --> 00:13:21,954 THE PLASTIC SURROUNDING US 526 00:13:22,021 --> 00:13:23,154 ISN'T RECYCLED BECAUSE IT'S 527 00:13:23,221 --> 00:13:25,521 NOT REALLY RECYCLABLE. 528 00:13:25,587 --> 00:13:26,854 AND THAT MEANS IT ENDS UP IN 529 00:13:26,921 --> 00:13:28,554 LANDFILLS, OR BURNT, OR IN THE 530 00:13:28,621 --> 00:13:30,387 OCEAN, WHERE IT BREAKS DOWN INTO 531 00:13:30,454 --> 00:13:32,054 "MICRO-PLASTICS," GET EATEN BY 532 00:13:32,121 --> 00:13:34,187 FISH, AND CAN END UP INSIDE US. 533 00:13:34,254 --> 00:13:35,121 >> PLASTIC IN THE OCEAN HAS A 534 00:13:35,187 --> 00:13:36,921 TENDENCY TO BREAK DOWN INTO EVER 535 00:13:36,987 --> 00:13:38,121 SMALLER PIECES. 536 00:13:38,187 --> 00:13:40,187 AND THESE TINY PIECES THEN GET 537 00:13:40,254 --> 00:13:41,187 TAKEN UP EVEN LOWER DOWN 538 00:13:41,254 --> 00:13:44,121 IN THE FOOD CHAIN. 539 00:13:44,187 --> 00:13:45,087 SO WE KNOW THAT IT ENDS UP ON 540 00:13:45,154 --> 00:13:46,054 OUR DINNER PLATES. 541 00:13:46,121 --> 00:13:49,054 THERE IS PLASTIC IN YOUR FOOD, 542 00:13:49,121 --> 00:13:52,254 PLASTIC IN YOUR SEA SALT, 543 00:13:52,321 --> 00:13:53,221 AND PLASTIC COMING OUT OF YOUR 544 00:13:53,287 --> 00:13:53,854 TAP. 545 00:13:53,921 --> 00:13:57,654 >> John: IT'S TRUE. 546 00:13:57,721 --> 00:13:58,621 A RECENT STUDY EVEN ESTIMATED 547 00:13:58,687 --> 00:14:00,054 THAT AN AVERAGE PERSON GLOBALLY 548 00:14:00,121 --> 00:14:01,521 COULD BE INGESTING ABOUT A 549 00:14:01,587 --> 00:14:02,321 CREDIT CARD'S WORTH OF PLASTIC 550 00:14:02,387 --> 00:14:03,521 INTO THEIR SYSTEM EVERY WEEK. 551 00:14:03,587 --> 00:14:04,554 WHICH KIND OF EXPLAINS 552 00:14:04,621 --> 00:14:05,387 CAPITAL ONE'S NEW SLOGAN, 553 00:14:05,454 --> 00:14:06,387 "WHAT'S IN YOUR STOMACH?" 554 00:14:06,454 --> 00:14:08,787 GOOD QUESTION, MR. JACKSON. 555 00:14:08,854 --> 00:14:09,287 BECAUSE APPARENTLY, IT'S 556 00:14:09,354 --> 00:14:10,087 1.5% CASH BACK, A FEW THOUSAND 557 00:14:10,154 --> 00:14:11,054 FREE AIRLINE MILES, AND A 558 00:14:11,121 --> 00:14:13,587 FUCKING SHITLOAD OF PLASTIC. 559 00:14:13,654 --> 00:14:15,554 SO HOW IS IT THAT TONS OF 560 00:14:15,621 --> 00:14:18,254 PLASTIC THAT WE ASSUME IS 561 00:14:18,321 --> 00:14:19,921 GETTING RECYCLED CAN INSTEAD 562 00:14:19,987 --> 00:14:23,121 SOMETIMES END UP INSIDE OF US? 563 00:14:23,187 --> 00:14:24,721 WELL, THAT IS WHAT THIS STORY IS 564 00:14:24,787 --> 00:14:24,921 ABOUT. 565 00:14:24,987 --> 00:14:26,087 IT'S ABOUT WHY SO LITTLE PLASTIC 566 00:14:26,154 --> 00:14:27,954 GETS RECYCLED, THE HARM THAT 567 00:14:28,054 --> 00:14:28,787 CAN DO, AND HOW THE PLASTICS 568 00:14:28,854 --> 00:14:29,787 INDUSTRY HAS MANAGED TO CONVINCE 569 00:14:29,854 --> 00:14:31,354 US ALL THAT IT'S OUR FAULT. 570 00:14:31,421 --> 00:14:32,121 AND LET'S START WITH SOME 571 00:14:32,187 --> 00:14:33,121 HISTORY. 572 00:14:33,187 --> 00:14:34,087 AS PLASTIC PRODUCTION 573 00:14:34,154 --> 00:14:36,054 BEGAN TO GROW IN THE 1950s, 574 00:14:36,121 --> 00:14:37,621 SO DID PLASTIC WASTE, AND 575 00:14:37,687 --> 00:14:38,721 THEREFORE, PUBLIC BACKLASH. 576 00:14:38,787 --> 00:14:39,954 BY THE '60s AND '70s, 577 00:14:40,021 --> 00:14:41,321 ORGANIZATIONS BEGAN DRAWING 578 00:14:41,387 --> 00:14:42,454 ATTENTION TO ALL THE PACKAGING 579 00:14:42,521 --> 00:14:43,754 WASTE LITTERING THE LANDSCAPE, 580 00:14:43,821 --> 00:14:45,687 THROUGH ADS LIKE THIS ONE. 581 00:14:45,754 --> 00:14:48,454 >> SOME PEOPLE HAVE A DEEP, 582 00:14:48,521 --> 00:14:50,287 ABIDING RESPECT FOR THE NATURAL 583 00:14:50,354 --> 00:14:51,287 BEAUTY THAT WAS ONCE THIS 584 00:14:51,354 --> 00:14:53,887 COUNTRY. 585 00:14:53,954 --> 00:14:57,021 AND SOME PEOPLE DON'T. 586 00:14:57,087 --> 00:14:59,121 PEOPLE START POLLUTION. 587 00:14:59,187 --> 00:15:02,687 PEOPLE CAN STOP IT. 588 00:15:02,754 --> 00:15:03,554 >> John: NOW YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN 589 00:15:03,621 --> 00:15:04,954 THAT AD BEFORE. 590 00:15:05,021 --> 00:15:06,354 IT REALLY TOUCHED PEOPLE'S 591 00:15:06,421 --> 00:15:07,521 HEARTSTRINGS, BECAUSE APPARENTLY 592 00:15:07,587 --> 00:15:09,554 THE WORST THING WHITE PEOPLE 593 00:15:09,621 --> 00:15:10,521 EVER DID TO AMERICA'S INDIGENOUS 594 00:15:10,587 --> 00:15:11,821 POPULATIONS WAS LITTER ON THE 595 00:15:11,887 --> 00:15:12,754 FREEWAY. 596 00:15:12,821 --> 00:15:13,787 BUT THERE ARE A FEW MISLEADING 597 00:15:13,854 --> 00:15:14,754 THINGS ABOUT IT. 598 00:15:14,821 --> 00:15:16,187 FIRST, THAT MAN WASN'T ACTUALLY 599 00:15:16,254 --> 00:15:17,321 NATIVE AMERICAN -- HE WAS AN 600 00:15:17,387 --> 00:15:18,187 ITALIAN-AMERICAN ACTOR WHO 601 00:15:18,254 --> 00:15:19,421 PLAYED THEM FOR A LIVING. 602 00:15:19,487 --> 00:15:20,821 AND WHILE IT'S BY NO MEANS 603 00:15:20,887 --> 00:15:21,821 THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE OF 604 00:15:21,887 --> 00:15:22,987 ITALIAN DESCENT INSERTED 605 00:15:23,054 --> 00:15:24,521 THEMSELVES INTO A 606 00:15:24,587 --> 00:15:25,521 NATIVE AMERICAN NARRATIVE 607 00:15:25,587 --> 00:15:26,521 WITHOUT ASKING, I GUESS AT LEAST 608 00:15:26,587 --> 00:15:28,221 THIS TIME NO ONE NAMED A HOLIDAY 609 00:15:28,287 --> 00:15:28,787 AFTER HIM. 610 00:15:28,854 --> 00:15:30,354 BUT MORE TO THE POINT, 611 00:15:30,421 --> 00:15:31,787 THE ORGANIZATION THAT PRODUCED 612 00:15:31,854 --> 00:15:33,587 THAT AD, KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL, 613 00:15:33,654 --> 00:15:35,787 WAS FUNDED IN PART BY A PLASTICS 614 00:15:35,854 --> 00:15:37,221 INDUSTRY TRADE GROUP, AND 615 00:15:37,287 --> 00:15:38,221 COMPOSED OF LEADING BEVERAGE AND 616 00:15:38,287 --> 00:15:41,287 PACKAGING CORPORATIONS. 617 00:15:41,354 --> 00:15:42,521 WHICH MIGHT SEEM ODD, UNTIL YOU 618 00:15:42,587 --> 00:15:43,921 REALIZE THAT THE UNDERLYING 619 00:15:43,987 --> 00:15:44,487 MESSAGE THERE IS, 620 00:15:44,554 --> 00:15:45,787 "IT'S UP TO YOU, THE CONSUMER, 621 00:15:45,854 --> 00:15:47,587 TO STOP POLLUTION." 622 00:15:47,654 --> 00:15:49,187 AND THAT HAS BEEN A MAJOR 623 00:15:49,254 --> 00:15:50,354 THROUGHLINE IN THE RECYCLING 624 00:15:50,421 --> 00:15:52,221 MOVEMENT -- A MOVEMENT OFTEN 625 00:15:52,287 --> 00:15:53,954 BANKROLLED BY COMPANIES WHO 626 00:15:54,021 --> 00:15:54,987 WANTED TO DRILL HOME THE MESSAGE 627 00:15:55,054 --> 00:15:56,321 THAT IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY 628 00:15:56,387 --> 00:15:57,987 TO DEAL WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL 629 00:15:58,054 --> 00:16:00,121 IMPACT OF THEIR PRODUCTS. 630 00:16:00,187 --> 00:16:02,154 AND NOWHERE IS THIS CO-OPTING OF 631 00:16:02,221 --> 00:16:03,187 ENVIRONMENTALISM CLEARER THAN 632 00:16:03,254 --> 00:16:04,454 WITH THAT RECYCLING SYMBOL THAT 633 00:16:04,521 --> 00:16:05,554 YOU FIND ON PLASTIC PRODUCTS YOU 634 00:16:05,621 --> 00:16:06,587 BUY -- THE FAMOUS "CHASING 635 00:16:06,654 --> 00:16:07,721 ARROWS." 636 00:16:07,787 --> 00:16:10,054 THEY ARE ON EVERYTHING, 637 00:16:10,121 --> 00:16:11,054 AND THE NUMBERS INSIDE THEM ARE 638 00:16:11,121 --> 00:16:12,387 PRETTY IMPORTANT, BECAUSE THEY 639 00:16:12,454 --> 00:16:13,187 REPRESENT WHAT TYPE OF PLASTIC 640 00:16:13,254 --> 00:16:14,021 IT IS. 641 00:16:14,087 --> 00:16:16,487 >> NUMBER 1 STANDS FOR P.E.T. 642 00:16:16,554 --> 00:16:18,654 THINK WATER AND SODA BOTTLES. 643 00:16:18,721 --> 00:16:20,821 NUMBER 2 IS HDPE, OFTEN USED AS 644 00:16:20,887 --> 00:16:21,954 PACKAGING FOR DETERGENT AND 645 00:16:22,021 --> 00:16:24,854 SHAMPOO. 646 00:16:24,921 --> 00:16:26,187 THEN, THERE'S 3, 4, 5, 6, AND 647 00:16:26,254 --> 00:16:28,321 WILD CARD NUMBER 7, WHICH STANDS 648 00:16:28,387 --> 00:16:28,987 FOR OTHER -- MEANING EVERYTHING 649 00:16:29,054 --> 00:16:31,154 ELSE. 650 00:16:31,221 --> 00:16:32,587 >> John: RIGHT, NUMBER 7 IS 651 00:16:32,654 --> 00:16:33,987 BASICALLY THE CATCH-ALL FOR 652 00:16:34,054 --> 00:16:35,687 "EVERYTHING ELSE," IN THE SAME 653 00:16:35,754 --> 00:16:36,687 WAY THAT THAT ONE DRAWER 654 00:16:36,754 --> 00:16:37,554 IN YOUR KITCHEN IS A CATCH-ALL 655 00:16:37,621 --> 00:16:38,687 FOR EVERYTHING. 656 00:16:38,754 --> 00:16:40,287 YEAH, THERE'S KETCHUP PACKETS, 657 00:16:40,354 --> 00:16:41,821 BUT ALSO, RUBBER BANDS, 658 00:16:41,887 --> 00:16:42,887 THE INSTRUCTIONS TO AN IMMERSION 659 00:16:42,954 --> 00:16:44,254 BLENDER YOU LOST A YEAR AGO, 660 00:16:44,321 --> 00:16:45,154 AND A POST-IT NOTE WITH JUST 661 00:16:45,221 --> 00:16:46,087 A PHONE NUMBER ON IT AND 662 00:16:46,154 --> 00:16:47,554 NO INDICATION WHO IT BELONGS TO. 663 00:16:47,621 --> 00:16:48,521 CALL THAT NUMBER! 664 00:16:48,587 --> 00:16:51,154 I DARE YOU! 665 00:16:51,221 --> 00:16:53,021 BUT CRUCIALLY, VERY FEW OF THOSE 666 00:16:53,087 --> 00:16:54,421 SEVEN TYPES OF PLASTIC ARE 667 00:16:54,487 --> 00:16:56,754 COMMONLY RECYCLABLE. 668 00:16:56,821 --> 00:16:57,987 CERTAIN TYPES OF NUMBER 1 AND 2 669 00:16:58,054 --> 00:16:59,421 PLASTICS -- THINGS LIKE SODA AND 670 00:16:59,487 --> 00:17:03,121 LAUNDRY DETERGENT BOTTLES -- DO 671 00:17:03,187 --> 00:17:03,454 GET RECYCLED. 672 00:17:03,521 --> 00:17:04,121 ALTHOUGH, DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU 673 00:17:04,187 --> 00:17:05,087 LIVE, CERTAIN OTHER TYPES -- 674 00:17:05,154 --> 00:17:06,387 LIKE THOSE LETTUCE TUBS YOU SAW 675 00:17:06,454 --> 00:17:08,187 EARLIER -- MAY NOT. 676 00:17:08,254 --> 00:17:09,787 AND WHEN IT COMES TO PLASTICS 677 00:17:09,854 --> 00:17:11,587 NUMBERS 3 THROUGH 7 -- WHICH CAN 678 00:17:11,654 --> 00:17:12,954 BE THINGS LIKE PLASTIC BAGS, 679 00:17:13,021 --> 00:17:14,021 CUPS, OR POUCHES -- WE HAVE THE 680 00:17:14,087 --> 00:17:15,321 CAPACITY TO RECYCLE LESS THAN 681 00:17:15,387 --> 00:17:18,154 5% OF IT. 682 00:17:18,221 --> 00:17:20,054 SO OUT OF THE SEVEN NUMBERS, 683 00:17:20,121 --> 00:17:23,954 ONLY TWO ARE REALLY MUCH GOOD. 684 00:17:24,021 --> 00:17:24,654 AND THAT IS A PRETTY BAD RATIO 685 00:17:24,721 --> 00:17:25,687 FOR A GROUP OF SEVEN. 686 00:17:25,754 --> 00:17:26,487 IDEALLY, YOU'D WANT A BALANCE 687 00:17:26,554 --> 00:17:27,854 A LITTLE MORE LIKE BTS. 688 00:17:27,921 --> 00:17:28,787 THERE'S NOT A WEAK LINK IN THAT 689 00:17:28,854 --> 00:17:30,054 UNBREAKABLE CHAIN OF 690 00:17:30,121 --> 00:17:31,321 HEARTTHROBS. 691 00:17:31,387 --> 00:17:33,154 WITH SO MANY PEOPLE ONSTAGE, 692 00:17:33,221 --> 00:17:33,921 YOU'D UNDERSTAND IF SOMETIMES 693 00:17:33,987 --> 00:17:35,754 JIMIN ONLY GAVE 50%, 694 00:17:35,821 --> 00:17:37,321 BUT HE DOESN'T, HE BEATS UP 695 00:17:37,387 --> 00:17:38,254 THE DANCE FLOOR EVERY NIGHT 696 00:17:38,321 --> 00:17:39,154 LIKE HE JUST CAUGHT IT 697 00:17:39,221 --> 00:17:40,521 ROBBING HIS HOUSE. 698 00:17:40,587 --> 00:17:41,921 AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF 699 00:17:41,987 --> 00:17:42,754 REASONS WHY CERTAIN PLASTICS 700 00:17:42,821 --> 00:17:44,187 DON'T GET RECYCLED. 701 00:17:44,254 --> 00:17:46,221 SOME ARE COMPLEX MIXES OF 702 00:17:46,287 --> 00:17:47,621 DIFFERENT RESINS, MAKING 703 00:17:47,687 --> 00:17:48,754 RECYCLING THEM DIFFICULT. 704 00:17:48,821 --> 00:17:50,687 OTHER TIMES, THERE ARE PRACTICAL 705 00:17:50,754 --> 00:17:52,487 OBSTACLES -- THAT THE PLASTIC IS 706 00:17:52,554 --> 00:17:53,087 CONTAMINATED, OR DIFFICULT TO 707 00:17:53,154 --> 00:17:54,021 SORT. 708 00:17:54,087 --> 00:17:56,987 AND THEN THERE ARE ECONOMIC 709 00:17:57,054 --> 00:17:57,787 REASONS -- SOMETIMES, THERE'S 710 00:17:57,854 --> 00:17:58,421 NO MARKET FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF 711 00:17:58,487 --> 00:17:59,687 PLASTIC. 712 00:17:59,754 --> 00:18:00,687 AND RIGHT NOW, IT'S CHEAPER FOR 713 00:18:00,754 --> 00:18:01,787 COMPANIES TO MAKE VIRGIN PLASTIC 714 00:18:01,854 --> 00:18:04,187 THAN FOR THEM TO RECYCLE IT. 715 00:18:04,254 --> 00:18:06,021 BUT THE THING IS, DESPITE 716 00:18:06,087 --> 00:18:07,587 KNOWING THAT MOST PLASTICS 717 00:18:07,654 --> 00:18:09,454 CAN'T BE RECYCLED, THE INDUSTRY 718 00:18:09,521 --> 00:18:10,554 LOBBIED STATE LEGISLATURES TO 719 00:18:10,621 --> 00:18:13,021 PASS LAWS REQUIRING THAT CHASING 720 00:18:13,087 --> 00:18:14,521 ARROWS SYMBOL TO BE PLACED ON 721 00:18:14,587 --> 00:18:16,021 ALL OF THEIR CONTAINERS, 722 00:18:16,087 --> 00:18:17,921 REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY COULD 723 00:18:17,987 --> 00:18:20,887 ACTUALLY BE RECYCLED OR NOT. 724 00:18:20,954 --> 00:18:21,887 MANUFACTURERS AND COMPANIES 725 00:18:21,954 --> 00:18:23,254 LIKE COCA-COLA ALSO LOBBIED 726 00:18:23,321 --> 00:18:25,387 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO INVEST 727 00:18:25,454 --> 00:18:26,554 IN CURBSIDE RECYCLING PROGRAMS, 728 00:18:26,621 --> 00:18:28,754 EVEN THOUGH, BEHIND DOORS, 729 00:18:28,821 --> 00:18:30,287 ONE INDUSTRY INSIDER 730 00:18:30,354 --> 00:18:31,587 ACKNOWLEDGED AS FAR BACK AS 1974 731 00:18:31,654 --> 00:18:33,087 THAT, "THERE IS SERIOUS DOUBT 732 00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:34,287 THAT RECYCLING PLASTIC CAN EVER 733 00:18:34,354 --> 00:18:36,054 BE MADE VIABLE ON AN ECONOMIC 734 00:18:36,121 --> 00:18:38,654 BASIS." 735 00:18:38,721 --> 00:18:40,087 AND HONESTLY, IT WASN'T ALL THAT 736 00:18:40,154 --> 00:18:41,354 DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO CONVINCE 737 00:18:41,421 --> 00:18:43,054 US THAT ALL THEIR WASTE IS 738 00:18:43,121 --> 00:18:44,487 RECYCLABLE, BECAUSE WE SO BADLY 739 00:18:44,554 --> 00:18:46,721 WANT TO BELIEVE IT. 740 00:18:46,787 --> 00:18:47,987 LIES GO DOWN EASIER WHEN YOU 741 00:18:48,054 --> 00:18:49,187 WANT THEM TO BE TRUE. 742 00:18:49,254 --> 00:18:51,054 IN FACT, OUR DESIRE FOR THINGS 743 00:18:51,121 --> 00:18:53,287 TO BE RECYCLED IS SO STRONG THAT 744 00:18:53,354 --> 00:18:54,921 PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE INDUSTRY 745 00:18:55,021 --> 00:18:56,587 EVEN HAVE A SPECIAL TERM FOR IT. 746 00:18:56,654 --> 00:18:58,254 >> A LOT OF THINGS REALLY AREN'T 747 00:18:58,321 --> 00:18:59,021 RECYCLABLE, NO MATTER HOW MUCH 748 00:18:59,087 --> 00:19:01,087 WE WANT THEM TO BE. 749 00:19:01,154 --> 00:19:02,587 PEOPLE JUST WANT TO THROW, 750 00:19:02,654 --> 00:19:03,887 YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING IN AND, 751 00:19:03,954 --> 00:19:04,687 YOU KNOW, THEY WISH IT WAS 752 00:19:04,754 --> 00:19:05,521 RECYCLING. 753 00:19:05,587 --> 00:19:06,587 SO WE CALL IT "WISHCYCLING." 754 00:19:06,654 --> 00:19:07,121 HERE'S SOME "WISHCYCLING" 755 00:19:07,187 --> 00:19:09,354 FOR YOU. 756 00:19:09,421 --> 00:19:10,754 HERE'S AN UMBRELLA. 757 00:19:10,821 --> 00:19:13,587 I WISH IT WAS RECYCLABLE. 758 00:19:13,654 --> 00:19:15,221 IT'S NOT. 759 00:19:15,287 --> 00:19:16,954 >> John: NOW, FIRST OFF, 760 00:19:17,021 --> 00:19:18,021 HE'S RIGHT THAT UMBRELLAS ARE 761 00:19:18,087 --> 00:19:20,654 NOT RECYCLABLE, WHICH IS A PITY, 762 00:19:20,721 --> 00:19:21,621 AS THE AVERAGE AMERICAN GOES 763 00:19:21,687 --> 00:19:22,221 THROUGH ROUGHLY 4,000 OF THEM 764 00:19:22,287 --> 00:19:23,121 A YEAR. 765 00:19:23,187 --> 00:19:24,387 I'VE ALREADY SOMEHOW LOST 12 766 00:19:24,454 --> 00:19:25,621 SO FAR THIS YEAR, AND IT DOESN'T 767 00:19:25,687 --> 00:19:26,687 EVEN RAIN IN THIS VOID. 768 00:19:26,754 --> 00:19:28,954 AND SECONDLY, THE TERM 769 00:19:29,021 --> 00:19:30,687 "WISHCYCLING" IS JUST TOO GOOD 770 00:19:30,754 --> 00:19:32,254 TO BE WASTED ON GARBAGE. 771 00:19:32,321 --> 00:19:33,954 "WISHCYCLING" SOUNDS LIKE 772 00:19:34,021 --> 00:19:35,987 A SPIN CLASS TAUGHT BY A 773 00:19:36,054 --> 00:19:36,954 UNICORN, OR THE SEWAGE TREATMENT 774 00:19:37,021 --> 00:19:38,787 SYSTEM AT HOGWARTS. 775 00:19:38,854 --> 00:19:40,387 "AND THIS, CHILDREN, IS WHERE 776 00:19:40,454 --> 00:19:41,654 WE WISHCYCLE ALL YOUR COLLECTED 777 00:19:41,721 --> 00:19:42,721 URINE INTO THIS DELICIOUS 778 00:19:42,787 --> 00:19:44,254 BUTTERBEER! 779 00:19:44,321 --> 00:19:47,021 OH, IT'S FINE, CALM DOWN, IT'S 780 00:19:47,087 --> 00:19:49,387 MAGIC, STOP CRYING, IT'S FINE." 781 00:19:49,454 --> 00:19:50,521 BUT WISHCYCLING CAN END UP DOING 782 00:19:50,587 --> 00:19:52,187 REAL HARM. 783 00:19:52,254 --> 00:19:53,787 BECAUSE AT BEST, NON-RECYCLABLE 784 00:19:53,854 --> 00:19:54,887 ITEMS CAN BE A HASSLE TO REMOVE. 785 00:19:54,954 --> 00:19:57,587 PLANTS OFTEN HAVE TO STOP 786 00:19:57,654 --> 00:19:59,754 MACHINES TO CUT OUT ALL OF 787 00:19:59,821 --> 00:20:00,987 THE PLASTIC BAGS THAT PEOPLE 788 00:20:01,054 --> 00:20:01,854 DESPERATELY WANT TO THINK THEY 789 00:20:01,921 --> 00:20:03,321 CAN HANDLE. 790 00:20:03,387 --> 00:20:05,387 AND AT WORST, THEY CAN END UP 791 00:20:05,454 --> 00:20:06,354 CONTAMINATING LOADS OF PLASTICS 792 00:20:06,421 --> 00:20:07,287 THAT COULD OTHERWISE BE 793 00:20:07,354 --> 00:20:08,987 RECYCLED. 794 00:20:09,054 --> 00:20:10,454 SO THE FALSE IMPRESSION WE'VE 795 00:20:10,521 --> 00:20:11,921 ALL BEEN GIVEN THAT ALL 796 00:20:11,987 --> 00:20:14,354 THE PLASTICS WE'RE PUTTING INTO 797 00:20:14,421 --> 00:20:16,121 THE RECYCLING ARE BEING 798 00:20:16,187 --> 00:20:16,754 RECYCLED IS VERY MUCH 799 00:20:16,821 --> 00:20:18,087 NOT THE CASE. 800 00:20:18,154 --> 00:20:19,487 AND FOR A FEW BLISSFUL DECADES, 801 00:20:19,554 --> 00:20:21,121 AMERICA AND MOST OF THE WORLD 802 00:20:21,187 --> 00:20:23,187 DIDN'T REALLY WORRY ABOUT THIS, 803 00:20:23,254 --> 00:20:24,587 BECAUSE WE SIMPLY SHIPPED MUCH 804 00:20:24,654 --> 00:20:26,054 OF THE LOWER-QUALITY PLASTIC 805 00:20:26,121 --> 00:20:26,821 WASTE WE COULDN'T USE, IN BULK, 806 00:20:26,887 --> 00:20:27,921 TO CHINA. 807 00:20:27,987 --> 00:20:29,487 AT ONE POINT, ROUGHLY 70% OF 808 00:20:29,554 --> 00:20:30,421 THE WORLD'S PLASTIC WASTE WENT 809 00:20:30,487 --> 00:20:32,421 THERE. 810 00:20:32,487 --> 00:20:34,421 BUT THAT STOPPED IN 2018, WHEN 811 00:20:34,487 --> 00:20:36,221 CHINA FLAT-OUT BANNED THE IMPORT 812 00:20:36,287 --> 00:20:37,987 OF MOST PLASTICS. 813 00:20:38,054 --> 00:20:39,521 AND SINCE THEN, MUCH OF OUR 814 00:20:39,587 --> 00:20:41,087 WASTE HAS BEEN LEFT TO EITHER 815 00:20:41,154 --> 00:20:42,154 PILE UP IN DOMESTIC RECYCLING 816 00:20:42,221 --> 00:20:43,854 PLANTS WITH NO ONE TO BUY IT OR 817 00:20:43,921 --> 00:20:45,254 SHIPPED OUT TO OTHER COUNTRIES 818 00:20:45,321 --> 00:20:47,021 IN ASIA, WHERE IT CAN GET 819 00:20:47,087 --> 00:20:48,154 DROPPED INTO LANDFILLS, LIKE 820 00:20:48,221 --> 00:20:50,321 THIS ONE IN MALAYSIA. 821 00:20:50,387 --> 00:20:50,954 >> LOOK AT HOW BIG THIS IS. 822 00:20:51,021 --> 00:20:52,187 JUST TAKE A LOOK. 823 00:20:52,254 --> 00:20:56,254 LOOK HOW FAR IT GOES. 824 00:20:56,321 --> 00:20:59,221 THIS IS JUST ONE DUMP. 825 00:20:59,287 --> 00:21:01,354 ONE DUMP. 826 00:21:01,421 --> 00:21:03,087 A VAST FIELD OF PLASTIC. 827 00:21:03,154 --> 00:21:05,621 TWO STORIES HIGH. 828 00:21:05,687 --> 00:21:07,621 >> SEE IF WE CAN LOOK ON THE 829 00:21:07,687 --> 00:21:09,087 BACK HERE, "MARYSVILLE, OHIO." 830 00:21:09,154 --> 00:21:10,621 THIS IS FROM ITALY, 831 00:21:10,687 --> 00:21:12,687 PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK. 832 00:21:12,754 --> 00:21:14,321 LOOK, WALMART BAG. 833 00:21:14,387 --> 00:21:15,921 >> John: YEAH, A LOT OF OUR 834 00:21:15,987 --> 00:21:17,054 PLASTIC JUST ENDS UP SITTING 835 00:21:17,121 --> 00:21:18,054 IN GIANT LANDFILLS ON THE OTHER 836 00:21:18,121 --> 00:21:19,754 SIDE OF THE WORLD. 837 00:21:19,821 --> 00:21:21,154 SO I GUESS KATY PERRY'S 838 00:21:21,221 --> 00:21:22,121 QUESTION, "DO YOU EVER FEEL 839 00:21:22,187 --> 00:21:23,954 LIKE A PLASTIC BAG DRIFTING 840 00:21:24,021 --> 00:21:25,354 THROUGH THE WIND, WANTING TO 841 00:21:25,421 --> 00:21:26,187 START AGAIN?" 842 00:21:26,254 --> 00:21:27,187 SHOULD REALLY BE, "DO YOU EVER 843 00:21:27,254 --> 00:21:28,187 FEEL LIKE A PLASTIC WALMART BAG 844 00:21:28,254 --> 00:21:30,187 DROWNING IN TWO STORIES OF 845 00:21:30,254 --> 00:21:31,521 SOCIETY'S UNMITIGATED FILTH?" 846 00:21:31,587 --> 00:21:32,321 AND SINCE YOU'RE ASKING -- YEAH, 847 00:21:32,387 --> 00:21:33,854 KATY, I DO. 848 00:21:33,921 --> 00:21:36,221 ALL THE TIME. 849 00:21:36,287 --> 00:21:37,821 AND THE PROBLEM IS, THOSE 850 00:21:37,887 --> 00:21:39,321 COUNTRIES DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE 851 00:21:39,387 --> 00:21:40,721 THE CAPABILITIES TO DEAL WITH 852 00:21:40,787 --> 00:21:42,487 THEIR OWN PLASTIC WASTE, LET 853 00:21:42,554 --> 00:21:43,887 ALONE MILLIONS OF TONS OF OURS. 854 00:21:43,954 --> 00:21:45,654 WHICH CAN HAVE SERIOUS 855 00:21:45,721 --> 00:21:46,287 CONSEQUENCES FOR THE HEALTH AND 856 00:21:46,354 --> 00:21:47,754 SAFETY OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE. 857 00:21:47,821 --> 00:21:49,821 IN MALAYSIA, SOME OPERATIONS ARE 858 00:21:49,887 --> 00:21:50,954 ILLEGALLY INCINERATING LOTS OF 859 00:21:51,021 --> 00:21:52,187 PLASTIC WASTE. 860 00:21:52,254 --> 00:21:53,121 AND JUST LISTEN TO THIS 861 00:21:53,187 --> 00:21:54,321 COMMUNITY ACTIVIST DESCRIBING 862 00:21:54,387 --> 00:21:57,221 WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE NEARBY. 863 00:21:57,287 --> 00:21:58,121 >> THE AIR POLLUTION BECOMES 864 00:21:58,187 --> 00:21:59,687 VERY SERIOUS IN MY VILLAGE. 865 00:21:59,754 --> 00:22:02,521 THE BURNING CAUSED A LOT OF 866 00:22:02,587 --> 00:22:03,954 RESPIRATORY DISEASE PROBLEMS 867 00:22:04,021 --> 00:22:06,087 TO OUR PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY OUR 868 00:22:06,154 --> 00:22:07,987 CHILDREN AND OUR ELDERLY, WHO 869 00:22:08,054 --> 00:22:09,887 HAS THIS PROBLEM OF REPEATING 870 00:22:09,954 --> 00:22:10,787 ASTHMA, REPEATING COUGHING 871 00:22:10,854 --> 00:22:11,987 ALSO. 872 00:22:12,054 --> 00:22:13,887 >> John: THAT'S TERRIBLE. 873 00:22:13,954 --> 00:22:15,054 AND I HAVE TO SAY, THERE'S JUST 874 00:22:15,121 --> 00:22:16,254 NO WAY THAT THE PEOPLE 875 00:22:16,321 --> 00:22:17,354 RESPONSIBLE FOR BURNING THAT 876 00:22:17,421 --> 00:22:17,987 WASTE DON'T KNOW THE FUMES ARE 877 00:22:18,054 --> 00:22:19,554 TOXIC. 878 00:22:19,621 --> 00:22:21,421 WHEN YOU SMELL BURNING PLASTIC, 879 00:22:21,487 --> 00:22:22,454 YOU DON'T THINK, "OOH, THAT 880 00:22:22,521 --> 00:22:24,221 SMELLS GREAT. 881 00:22:24,287 --> 00:22:25,421 IS SOMEONE BAKING COOKIES?" 882 00:22:25,487 --> 00:22:28,054 YOU THINK, "MY NOSE SEEMS TO BE 883 00:22:28,121 --> 00:22:29,054 DYING AND IT'S TAKING MY BRAIN 884 00:22:29,121 --> 00:22:30,321 DOWN WITH IT." 885 00:22:30,387 --> 00:22:31,987 NOW, THE GOOD NEWS IS, MORE THAN 886 00:22:32,054 --> 00:22:34,121 180 COUNTRIES AGREED LAST YEAR 887 00:22:34,187 --> 00:22:35,587 TO PLACE STRICT LIMITS ON 888 00:22:35,654 --> 00:22:36,887 EXPORTS OF PLASTIC WASTE FROM 889 00:22:36,954 --> 00:22:40,254 RICHER COUNTRIES TO POORER ONES. 890 00:22:40,321 --> 00:22:43,121 THE BAD NEWS IS THAT, 891 00:22:43,187 --> 00:22:45,121 THE UNITED STATES IS ONE OF THE 892 00:22:45,187 --> 00:22:47,487 FEW COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD THAT 893 00:22:47,554 --> 00:22:48,254 DIDN'T RATIFY THAT GLOBAL BAND. 894 00:22:48,321 --> 00:22:49,254 AND THE THING IS, 895 00:22:49,321 --> 00:22:50,087 WHEN PLASTIC ISN'T 896 00:22:50,154 --> 00:22:51,121 BURNED, IT CAN END UP IN 897 00:22:51,187 --> 00:22:52,187 LANDFILLS OR IN THE ENVIRONMENT. 898 00:22:52,254 --> 00:22:53,121 ACROSS THE WORLD, MORE THAN 899 00:22:53,187 --> 00:22:54,087 EIGHT MILLION TONS END UP 900 00:22:54,154 --> 00:22:55,087 IN OUR OCEANS EVERY YEAR. 901 00:22:55,154 --> 00:22:56,321 THERE'S FAMOUSLY EVEN A SWIRLING 902 00:22:56,387 --> 00:22:57,787 GARBAGE PATCH OF MICROPLASTIC 903 00:22:57,854 --> 00:22:59,187 WASTE IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, 904 00:22:59,254 --> 00:23:00,121 SPREAD OUT OVER AN AREA THAT IS 905 00:23:00,187 --> 00:23:01,087 "BIGGER THAN FRANCE, GERMANY, 906 00:23:01,154 --> 00:23:02,521 AND SPAIN COMBINED." 907 00:23:02,587 --> 00:23:04,754 AND BY 2050, THE OCEAN IS 908 00:23:04,821 --> 00:23:06,487 EXPECTED TO CONTAIN, BY WEIGHT, 909 00:23:06,554 --> 00:23:10,054 MORE PLASTICS THAN FISH. 910 00:23:10,121 --> 00:23:10,654 THAT IS ALL FISH. 911 00:23:10,721 --> 00:23:11,921 THAT INCLUDES THE RED SNAPPER, 912 00:23:11,987 --> 00:23:13,554 SALMON, AND, OF COURSE 913 00:23:13,621 --> 00:23:14,587 THE BLOB FISH, THE ONLY FISH 914 00:23:14,654 --> 00:23:18,487 WITH A FACE THAT SCREAMS 915 00:23:18,554 --> 00:23:21,587 "I WOULD BE VOICED BY 916 00:23:21,654 --> 00:23:24,954 RICHARD KIND IN A PIXAR MOVIE 917 00:23:25,021 --> 00:23:25,454 AND HE WOULD ABSOLUTELY 918 00:23:25,521 --> 00:23:26,154 NAIL IT." 919 00:23:26,221 --> 00:23:27,087 ISN'T THAT RIGHT, BLOB FISH? 920 00:23:27,154 --> 00:23:28,421 >> OH, ABSOLUTELY, JOHN, 100%! 921 00:23:28,487 --> 00:23:28,854 I MEAN, LOOK AT ME! 922 00:23:28,921 --> 00:23:29,954 I'M A BLOB FISH! 923 00:23:30,021 --> 00:23:30,621 I'M SLURP THE BLOB FISH! 924 00:23:30,687 --> 00:23:31,821 >> John: OF COURSE YOU'RE CALLED 925 00:23:31,887 --> 00:23:32,487 SLURP! 926 00:23:32,554 --> 00:23:33,454 THAT IS SOME SPOT ON CASTING 927 00:23:33,521 --> 00:23:34,454 RIGHT THERE. 928 00:23:34,521 --> 00:23:36,387 >> WELL, I'D ONLY BE A 929 00:23:36,454 --> 00:23:37,021 SUPPORTING CHARACTER, BUT, LOOK, 930 00:23:37,087 --> 00:23:37,754 WITH THIS FACE? 931 00:23:37,821 --> 00:23:38,387 YOU KNOW DAMN WELL I'M GONNA 932 00:23:38,454 --> 00:23:39,554 STEAL THE SHOW. 933 00:23:39,621 --> 00:23:40,721 >> John: I KNOW YOU WILL, SLURP! 934 00:23:40,787 --> 00:23:42,154 >> I WOULD PROVIDE COMIC RELIEF 935 00:23:42,221 --> 00:23:43,487 THROUGHOUT A VERY FUN, YET 936 00:23:43,554 --> 00:23:45,554 INTERMITTENTLY TOUCHING FILM. 937 00:23:45,621 --> 00:23:47,087 AND WORD HAS IT THERE'S GONNA 938 00:23:47,154 --> 00:23:49,087 BE AT LEAST TWO SEQUELS. 939 00:23:49,154 --> 00:23:50,754 AND JOHN? 940 00:23:50,821 --> 00:23:54,421 ENTRE NOUS? 941 00:23:54,487 --> 00:23:54,854 >> John: YES? 942 00:23:54,921 --> 00:23:56,721 >> I DIE AT THE END OF 943 00:23:56,787 --> 00:23:57,054 THE THIRD ONE! 944 00:23:57,121 --> 00:23:57,721 BUT DON'T WORRY, I'VE GOT PROFIT 945 00:23:57,787 --> 00:23:58,154 PARTICIPATION! 946 00:23:58,221 --> 00:23:59,187 >> John: GOOD FOR YOU, SLURP! 947 00:23:59,254 --> 00:24:01,354 GET THAT MONEY. 948 00:24:01,421 --> 00:24:03,287 AND FRUSTRATINGLY, THE PLASTICS 949 00:24:03,354 --> 00:24:04,721 INDUSTRY'S RESPONSE TO ALL THE 950 00:24:04,787 --> 00:24:05,721 DAMAGE YOU'VE SEEN HAS BEEN 951 00:24:05,787 --> 00:24:07,954 TO MAKE A BIG SHOW OF TINY 952 00:24:08,021 --> 00:24:09,087 IMPROVEMENTS, AND THEN REVERT 953 00:24:09,154 --> 00:24:10,321 TO WHAT THEY'VE ALWAYS DONE, 954 00:24:10,387 --> 00:24:12,521 WHICH IS HEAVILY PUSH THE IDEA 955 00:24:12,587 --> 00:24:18,787 THAT IF WE AS CONSUMERS SIMPLY 956 00:24:18,854 --> 00:24:19,921 TRIED HARD ENOUGH, WE COULD MAKE 957 00:24:19,987 --> 00:24:20,987 OUR PLASTIC PROBLEM GO AWAY. 958 00:24:21,054 --> 00:24:21,887 KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL -- 959 00:24:21,954 --> 00:24:22,887 THE PEOPLE BEHIND THAT FAKE 960 00:24:22,954 --> 00:24:24,021 NATIVE AMERICAN AD -- IS STILL 961 00:24:24,087 --> 00:24:25,454 AROUND, MAKING DUMB COMMERCIALS 962 00:24:25,521 --> 00:24:26,121 LIKE THIS ONE, WHERE A BOTTLE 963 00:24:26,187 --> 00:24:27,454 GOES ON A LONG, INSPIRING 964 00:24:27,521 --> 00:24:28,454 JOURNEY TO A RECYCLING BIN AND 965 00:24:28,521 --> 00:24:29,421 ENDS UP FULFILLING ITS DREAM OF 966 00:24:29,487 --> 00:24:31,021 BECOMING A BENCH. 967 00:24:31,087 --> 00:24:33,087 AND IF BOTTLES WERE SENTIENT, 968 00:24:33,154 --> 00:24:33,854 I'D GENUINELY BE SURPRISED IF 969 00:24:33,921 --> 00:24:35,154 THEIR BIGGEST DREAM WAS 970 00:24:35,221 --> 00:24:36,121 "I WISH OLD PEOPLE WOULD PLAY 971 00:24:36,187 --> 00:24:41,187 CHESS WHILE SITTING ON MY FACE." 972 00:24:41,254 --> 00:24:42,121 BUT I WILL SAY, AT LEAST 973 00:24:42,187 --> 00:24:43,087 THEY'RE BEING HONEST THERE THAT 974 00:24:43,154 --> 00:24:44,154 THE BOTTLE BECAME A BENCH AND 975 00:24:44,221 --> 00:24:45,221 THEN NOTHING ELSE. 976 00:24:45,287 --> 00:24:45,954 BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, ONLY ABOUT 977 00:24:46,021 --> 00:24:47,954 2% OF ALL RECYCLED PLASTIC WINDS 978 00:24:48,021 --> 00:24:50,354 UP IN A SO-CALLED CLOSED-LOOP 979 00:24:50,421 --> 00:24:52,287 SYSTEM, WHERE IT BECOMES THE 980 00:24:52,354 --> 00:24:52,987 THING IT ORIGINALLY WAS, 981 00:24:53,054 --> 00:24:54,287 IN OTHER WORDS, A BOTTLE GETTING 982 00:24:54,354 --> 00:24:55,587 RECYCLED AND BECOMING A BOTTLE 983 00:24:55,654 --> 00:25:02,421 AGAIN. 984 00:25:02,487 --> 00:25:05,454 INSTEAD, MOST RECYCLED PLASTIC 985 00:25:05,521 --> 00:25:06,154 GETS "DOWNCYCLED" TO 986 00:25:06,221 --> 00:25:07,354 BECOME A CARPET, 987 00:25:07,421 --> 00:25:08,487 OR A FLEECE SWEATSHIRT, OR 988 00:25:08,554 --> 00:25:09,687 INDEED, A BENCH, AND IT THEN 989 00:25:09,754 --> 00:25:10,187 CAN'T BE RECYCLED AGAIN. 990 00:25:10,254 --> 00:25:11,454 AND YET DESPITE THIS FACT, 991 00:25:11,521 --> 00:25:12,821 COMPANIES LIKE NESTLE WATER HAVE 992 00:25:12,887 --> 00:25:13,854 GONE OUT OF THEIR WAY TO MAKE 993 00:25:13,921 --> 00:25:15,254 ADS INDICATING THAT IF WE JUST 994 00:25:15,321 --> 00:25:18,154 DID OUR PART, PLASTICS COULD BE 995 00:25:18,221 --> 00:25:19,121 PUT INTO CONTINUOUS REUSE, LIKE 996 00:25:19,187 --> 00:25:21,287 THIS AD FROM 2012. 997 00:25:21,354 --> 00:25:25,854 >> NATURE HAS A BIOLOGICAL 998 00:25:25,921 --> 00:25:26,787 METABOLISM WHERE ONE THING'S 999 00:25:26,854 --> 00:25:27,654 WASTE BECOMES ANOTHER THING'S 1000 00:25:27,721 --> 00:25:28,221 FOOD. 1001 00:25:28,287 --> 00:25:30,487 SO IF I LOOK AT SOMETHING LIKE 1002 00:25:30,554 --> 00:25:32,521 A PLASTIC BOTTLE, I DON'T SEE 1003 00:25:32,587 --> 00:25:34,721 WASTE, I SEE A NUTRIENT. 1004 00:25:34,787 --> 00:25:36,787 >> THIS IS RAW MATERIAL? 1005 00:25:36,854 --> 00:25:39,254 >> SO IF THIS IS RAW MATERIAL, 1006 00:25:39,321 --> 00:25:39,854 PEOPLE NEED TO START THINKING 1007 00:25:39,921 --> 00:25:40,987 ABOUT IT THAT WAY. 1008 00:25:41,054 --> 00:25:42,021 >> IT COULD COME BACK AS A 1009 00:25:42,087 --> 00:25:43,954 BOTTLE, OF COURSE. 1010 00:25:44,021 --> 00:25:45,954 >> WE ONLY HAVE TO MAKE THIS 1011 00:25:46,021 --> 00:25:48,354 VIRGIN MATERIAL ONE TIME. 1012 00:25:48,421 --> 00:25:50,854 AND THE REST OF IT'S UP TO YOU. 1013 00:25:50,921 --> 00:25:52,654 WE GET THE BOTTLE BACK, WE'LL 1014 00:25:52,721 --> 00:25:53,554 MAKE THIS BOTTLE OUT OF RECYCLED 1015 00:25:53,621 --> 00:25:56,187 CONTENT AGAIN. 1016 00:25:56,254 --> 00:25:57,587 >> John: WELL, THAT SOUNDS 1017 00:25:57,654 --> 00:25:58,621 AMAZING! 1018 00:25:58,687 --> 00:26:01,554 UNFORTUNATELY, WHAT THAT 1019 00:26:01,621 --> 00:26:02,687 EXECUTIVE BOARD KEN DOLL IS 1020 00:26:02,754 --> 00:26:03,987 SUGGESTING THERE IS COMPLETE 1021 00:26:04,054 --> 00:26:05,254 BULLSHIT. 1022 00:26:05,321 --> 00:26:06,154 BECAUSE NESTLE WATER DOESN'T, 1023 00:26:06,221 --> 00:26:07,521 IN FACT, HAVE TO MAKE VIRGIN 1024 00:26:07,587 --> 00:26:09,221 PLASTIC JUST "ONE TIME" IF YOU 1025 00:26:09,287 --> 00:26:09,821 SIMPLY GIVE YOUR BOTTLE BACK. 1026 00:26:09,887 --> 00:26:10,487 AND THE REASON WE KNOW THAT IS, 1027 00:26:10,554 --> 00:26:11,754 EVEN EIGHT YEARS AFTER THAT AD 1028 00:26:11,821 --> 00:26:14,654 AIRED, ONLY 20% OF THE PLASTIC 1029 00:26:14,721 --> 00:26:16,221 THEY USE WAS RECYCLED, MEANING 1030 00:26:16,287 --> 00:26:18,754 80% WAS FROM VIRGIN MATERIAL. 1031 00:26:18,821 --> 00:26:21,421 SO THAT'S THE MOST OBVIOUS 1032 00:26:21,487 --> 00:26:22,921 OVERSTATEMENT IN AN AD SINCE 1033 00:26:22,987 --> 00:26:25,254 THIS ONE FOR GAMEBOY IN THE '90s 1034 00:26:25,321 --> 00:26:25,687 THAT CLAIMED IT WAS 1035 00:26:25,754 --> 00:26:26,354 "MORE FUN THAN A FERRET DOWN 1036 00:26:26,421 --> 00:26:27,821 YOUR TROUSERS." 1037 00:26:27,887 --> 00:26:29,254 THAT AD IS REAL. 1038 00:26:29,321 --> 00:26:30,321 AND I'M SORRY, MARIO, BUT NO, 1039 00:26:30,387 --> 00:26:32,287 YOU'RE NOT MORE FUN. 1040 00:26:32,354 --> 00:26:33,454 NOT IF THE FERRET KNOWS WHAT 1041 00:26:33,521 --> 00:26:35,087 IT'S DOING. 1042 00:26:35,154 --> 00:26:38,887 AND THE CRAZY THING IS, 1043 00:26:38,954 --> 00:26:40,354 THAT COMPANY ACTUALLY HAS 1044 00:26:40,421 --> 00:26:41,021 A BETTER TRACK RECORD THAN MANY 1045 00:26:41,087 --> 00:26:41,921 OTHER BRANDS WHEN IT COMES TO 1046 00:26:42,021 --> 00:26:42,787 THIS. 1047 00:26:42,854 --> 00:26:43,887 THAT IS HOW BAD THINGS ARE. 1048 00:26:43,954 --> 00:26:45,221 TAKE COCA-COLA. 1049 00:26:45,287 --> 00:26:46,221 BRAND AUDITS OF OF PLASTIC WASTE 1050 00:26:46,287 --> 00:26:47,254 COLLECTED AT CLEANUPS HAVE 1051 00:26:47,321 --> 00:26:48,587 CONSISTENTLY FOUND COKE PRODUCTS 1052 00:26:48,654 --> 00:26:49,721 AS THE NUMBER ONE TOP GLOBAL 1053 00:26:49,787 --> 00:26:51,954 POLLUTER. 1054 00:26:52,021 --> 00:26:53,621 WHICH IS DAMNING. 1055 00:26:53,687 --> 00:26:54,954 AND PROBABLY WHY COKE HAS BEEN 1056 00:26:55,021 --> 00:27:00,454 SO ANXIOUS TO MAKE SPLASHY 1057 00:27:00,521 --> 00:27:01,487 PROMISES WE ALL SO BADLY 1058 00:27:01,554 --> 00:27:02,354 WANT TO HEAR, 1059 00:27:02,421 --> 00:27:03,854 LIKE PLEDGING TO USE AT LEAST 1060 00:27:03,921 --> 00:27:04,587 50% RECYCLED MATERIAL IN THEIR 1061 00:27:04,654 --> 00:27:07,454 PACKAGING BY 2030. 1062 00:27:07,521 --> 00:27:08,521 WHICH DOES SOUNDS REALLY GOOD. 1063 00:27:08,587 --> 00:27:09,854 THE PROBLEM IS, COKE HAS BEEN 1064 00:27:09,921 --> 00:27:10,421 MAKING AND BREAKING PROMISES 1065 00:27:10,487 --> 00:27:12,421 LIKE THAT FOR DECADES. 1066 00:27:12,487 --> 00:27:13,921 OVER THE YEARS, THEY'VE 1067 00:27:13,987 --> 00:27:16,754 REPEATEDLY, LOUDLY LAUNCHED BIG 1068 00:27:16,821 --> 00:27:17,721 RECYCLED-PLASTIC INITIATIVES 1069 00:27:17,787 --> 00:27:24,454 THAT THEY THEN QUIETLY 1070 00:27:24,521 --> 00:27:25,021 ABANDONED WITH NO ONE REALLY 1071 00:27:25,087 --> 00:27:25,854 NOTICING. 1072 00:27:25,921 --> 00:27:26,654 IN 2009, THEY ANNOUNCED PLANS 1073 00:27:26,721 --> 00:27:27,954 TO SOURCE 25% OF THEIR PLASTIC 1074 00:27:28,021 --> 00:27:31,721 FROM RECYCLED MATERIAL BY 2015. 1075 00:27:31,787 --> 00:27:32,387 EXCEPT YOU'LL NOTICE THAT 1076 00:27:32,454 --> 00:27:33,387 IT'S SIX YEARS PAST THAT 1077 00:27:33,454 --> 00:27:33,954 DEADLINE, AND THEIR CURRENT 1078 00:27:34,021 --> 00:27:35,021 PROPORTION IS JUST 10%. 1079 00:27:35,087 --> 00:27:36,754 SO I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF, 1080 00:27:36,821 --> 00:27:38,154 BY 2030, THE MAIN THING COKE IS 1081 00:27:38,221 --> 00:27:39,554 RECYCLING IS THE SAME BULLSHIT 1082 00:27:39,621 --> 00:27:41,021 PROMISES IT'S BEEN MAKING FOR 1083 00:27:41,087 --> 00:27:44,121 YEARS. 1084 00:27:44,187 --> 00:27:48,587 AND LOOK, ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, 1085 00:27:48,654 --> 00:27:49,487 I KNOW THIS CAN FEEL 1086 00:27:49,554 --> 00:27:50,254 DEMORALIZING, 1087 00:27:50,321 --> 00:27:51,921 BECAUSE IT CAN SEEM THAT 1088 00:27:51,987 --> 00:27:52,421 RECYCLING IS POINTLESS. 1089 00:27:52,487 --> 00:27:53,054 BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT 1090 00:27:53,121 --> 00:27:53,821 IT'S NOT. 1091 00:27:53,887 --> 00:27:54,854 WE SHOULD ABSOLUTELY KEEP 1092 00:27:54,921 --> 00:27:56,054 RECYCLING PAPER, CARDBOARD, AND 1093 00:27:56,121 --> 00:27:57,621 ALUMINUM. 1094 00:27:57,687 --> 00:27:59,154 AND EVEN RECYCLING PLASTIC -- 1095 00:27:59,221 --> 00:28:01,054 WHILE IT MIGHT BE 90% MORE 1096 00:28:01,121 --> 00:28:02,321 POINTLESS THAN YOU ASSUMED -- 1097 00:28:02,387 --> 00:28:03,454 CAN STILL HAVE MODEST 1098 00:28:03,521 --> 00:28:05,654 ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS. 1099 00:28:05,721 --> 00:28:07,487 ALTHOUGH, WE SHOULD DO IT MORE 1100 00:28:07,554 --> 00:28:09,154 MINDFULLY -- YOU SHOULD CHECK 1101 00:28:09,221 --> 00:28:09,787 WITH YOUR LOCAL MUNICIPALITY TO 1102 00:28:09,854 --> 00:28:10,887 SEE WHAT TYPES OF PLASTIC THEY 1103 00:28:10,954 --> 00:28:11,587 ACCEPT, AND THEN ONLY RECYCLE 1104 00:28:11,654 --> 00:28:12,554 THOSE. 1105 00:28:12,621 --> 00:28:14,287 OTHERWISE, REMEMBER, YOU COULD 1106 00:28:14,354 --> 00:28:15,887 END UP CONTAMINATING USABLE 1107 00:28:15,954 --> 00:28:17,554 MATERIALS. 1108 00:28:17,621 --> 00:28:18,887 AND AS A GOOD RULE, DEFINITELY 1109 00:28:18,954 --> 00:28:21,754 DON'T "WISHCYCLE" THINGS LIKE 1110 00:28:21,821 --> 00:28:23,054 UMBRELLAS, BECAUSE THERE'S A 1111 00:28:23,121 --> 00:28:24,387 NONZERO CHANCE THAT YOU'RE GOING 1112 00:28:24,454 --> 00:28:24,854 TO END UP ANGERING 1113 00:28:24,921 --> 00:28:25,954 TOTES McGOATS. 1114 00:28:26,021 --> 00:28:26,454 OH, SHIT. 1115 00:28:26,521 --> 00:28:26,887 NO. 1116 00:28:26,954 --> 00:28:27,821 NO. 1117 00:28:27,887 --> 00:28:29,454 ABSOLUTELY NOT. 1118 00:28:29,521 --> 00:28:32,654 NO. 1119 00:28:32,721 --> 00:28:34,354 LEAVE THIS PLACE. 1120 00:28:34,421 --> 00:28:36,587 NO! 1121 00:28:36,654 --> 00:28:37,921 BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, 1122 00:28:37,987 --> 00:28:39,421 OUR PERSONAL BEHAVIOR IS 1123 00:28:39,487 --> 00:28:44,454 NOT THE MAIN CULPRIT HERE, 1124 00:28:44,521 --> 00:28:48,521 DESPITE WHAT THE PLASTICS 1125 00:28:48,587 --> 00:28:49,621 INDUSTRY HAS SPENT DECADES, 1126 00:28:49,687 --> 00:28:50,254 AND MILLIONS OF 1127 00:28:50,321 --> 00:28:51,487 DOLLARS TRYING TO CONVINCE US. 1128 00:28:51,554 --> 00:28:52,187 SO YES, WE SHOULDN'T BE USING 1129 00:28:52,254 --> 00:28:53,254 SINGLE-USE PLASTICS LIKE 1130 00:28:53,321 --> 00:28:54,187 GROCERY BAGS OR TAKE-OUT 1131 00:28:54,254 --> 00:28:55,487 CONTAINERS -- REDUCING THAT 1132 00:28:55,554 --> 00:28:56,321 WOULD MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE, AS 1133 00:28:56,387 --> 00:28:57,721 NEARLY HALF OF THE PLASTIC WASTE 1134 00:28:57,787 --> 00:28:58,354 GENERATED GLOBALLY IN 2015 WAS 1135 00:28:58,421 --> 00:28:59,521 PLASTIC PACKAGING, MOST OF IT 1136 00:28:59,587 --> 00:29:00,887 SINGLE USE. 1137 00:29:00,954 --> 00:29:02,021 BUT IT CAN BE HARD, ON AN 1138 00:29:02,087 --> 00:29:04,087 INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, TO END THEIR 1139 00:29:04,154 --> 00:29:04,254 USE. 1140 00:29:04,321 --> 00:29:05,254 A BETTER MOVE WOULD BE TO 1141 00:29:05,321 --> 00:29:07,054 IMPLEMENT SMART, THOUGHTFUL, 1142 00:29:07,121 --> 00:29:08,521 TARGETED BANS THAT FORCE THE 1143 00:29:08,587 --> 00:29:10,221 INTRODUCTION OF ALTERNATIVES. 1144 00:29:10,287 --> 00:29:12,787 AND TO THEIR CREDIT, MANY CITIES 1145 00:29:12,854 --> 00:29:14,087 HAVE BANNED SINGLE-USE PLASTIC 1146 00:29:14,154 --> 00:29:15,687 BAGS. 1147 00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:19,721 UNFORTUNATELY, THE INDUSTRY HAS 1148 00:29:19,787 --> 00:29:21,287 FOUGHT THOSE BANS HARD, 1149 00:29:21,354 --> 00:29:21,887 EVEN LOBBYING SOME STATE 1150 00:29:21,954 --> 00:29:23,021 LEGISLATURES, TO THE 1151 00:29:23,087 --> 00:29:24,554 POINT THAT EIGHTEEN STATES NOW 1152 00:29:24,621 --> 00:29:25,521 HAVE PREEMPTIVE LAWS STOPPING 1153 00:29:25,587 --> 00:29:27,621 LOCAL REGULATION. 1154 00:29:27,687 --> 00:29:28,254 WHICH IS A BIT WEIRD. 1155 00:29:28,321 --> 00:29:29,421 I GUESS THOSE STATES JUST HAVE 1156 00:29:29,487 --> 00:29:30,587 A HARD-ON FOR PLASTIC BAGS NOT 1157 00:29:30,654 --> 00:29:32,087 SEEN SINCE THAT CREEPY KID FROM 1158 00:29:32,154 --> 00:29:36,954 "AMERICAN BEAUTY." 1159 00:29:37,021 --> 00:29:37,954 THE KID LOVED. 1160 00:29:38,021 --> 00:29:39,121 SO WHAT CAN WE REALLY DO HERE? 1161 00:29:39,187 --> 00:29:40,921 WELL, THE REAL BEHAVIOR CHANGE 1162 00:29:40,987 --> 00:29:41,987 HAS TO COME FROM PLASTICS 1163 00:29:42,054 --> 00:29:43,421 MANUFACTURERS THEMSELVES. 1164 00:29:43,487 --> 00:29:44,787 WITHOUT THAT, NOTHING 1165 00:29:44,854 --> 00:29:46,821 SIGNIFICANT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. 1166 00:29:46,887 --> 00:29:48,721 WE HAVE TO MAKE THEM INTERNALIZE 1167 00:29:48,787 --> 00:29:49,687 THE COSTS OF THE POLLUTION THAT 1168 00:29:49,754 --> 00:29:51,321 THEY ARE CREATING. 1169 00:29:51,387 --> 00:29:52,921 AND THERE IS A WAY TO DO THIS, 1170 00:29:52,987 --> 00:29:54,021 THROUGH A CONCEPT CALLED 1171 00:29:54,087 --> 00:29:55,187 "EXTENDED PRODUCER 1172 00:29:55,254 --> 00:29:56,087 RESPONSIBILITY" OR 1173 00:29:56,154 --> 00:29:58,154 "THE POLLUTER PAYS PRINCIPLE." 1174 00:29:58,221 --> 00:29:58,987 THE IDEA IS TO CREATE LAWS 1175 00:29:59,054 --> 00:30:00,621 THAT ESSENTIALLY SHIFT 1176 00:30:00,687 --> 00:30:01,687 RESPONSIBILITY, AND THE COSTS OF 1177 00:30:01,754 --> 00:30:03,187 COLLECTION, FROM THE PUBLIC 1178 00:30:03,254 --> 00:30:04,454 SECTOR AND ALL OF US TO THE 1179 00:30:04,521 --> 00:30:05,254 ACTUAL PRODUCERS OF THE PLASTIC 1180 00:30:05,321 --> 00:30:06,987 WASTE. 1181 00:30:07,054 --> 00:30:08,221 EPR LAWS COULD, AMONG OTHER 1182 00:30:08,287 --> 00:30:10,187 THINGS, FORCE COMPANIES TO 1183 00:30:10,254 --> 00:30:11,887 EITHER CREATE THE INFRASTRUCTURE 1184 00:30:11,954 --> 00:30:12,954 AND MARKETS TO RECYCLE THE 1185 00:30:13,021 --> 00:30:14,421 PRODUCTS THEY MAKE, OR FORCE 1186 00:30:14,487 --> 00:30:15,287 THEM TO STOP MAKING THEM 1187 00:30:15,354 --> 00:30:16,821 ALTOGETHER. 1188 00:30:16,887 --> 00:30:18,354 THE U.S. IS ONE OF THE ONLY 1189 00:30:18,421 --> 00:30:20,287 DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ON EARTH 1190 00:30:20,354 --> 00:30:21,654 WITHOUT A NATIONAL EPR LAW 1191 00:30:21,721 --> 00:30:23,587 ADDRESSING PACKAGING. 1192 00:30:23,654 --> 00:30:25,221 BECAUSE OF COURSE IT IS. 1193 00:30:25,287 --> 00:30:27,154 BUT ON THE POSITIVE SIDE, 1194 00:30:27,221 --> 00:30:29,121 SEVERAL STATES ARE CURRENTLY 1195 00:30:29,187 --> 00:30:29,754 CONSIDERING EPR LAWS, AND THERE 1196 00:30:29,821 --> 00:30:31,421 WAS EVEN A NATIONAL LAW 1197 00:30:31,487 --> 00:30:32,754 INTRODUCED IN THE LAST CONGRESS. 1198 00:30:32,821 --> 00:30:34,621 IT WENT NOWHERE, BUT IT'LL SOON 1199 00:30:34,687 --> 00:30:37,087 BE INTRODUCED AGAIN, AND WE'RE 1200 00:30:37,154 --> 00:30:38,354 GOING TO NEED SOME VERSION OF AN 1201 00:30:38,421 --> 00:30:40,187 EPR LAW TO PASS, AND SOON. 1202 00:30:40,254 --> 00:30:41,487 BECAUSE THIS PROBLEM'S GETTING 1203 00:30:41,554 --> 00:30:43,587 WORSE. 1204 00:30:43,654 --> 00:30:45,354 PLASTIC PRODUCTION IS EXPECTED 1205 00:30:45,421 --> 00:30:47,387 TO TRIPLE BY 2050. 1206 00:30:47,454 --> 00:30:49,154 AND IT'S OBVIOUS THAT MEANINGFUL 1207 00:30:49,221 --> 00:30:50,421 CHANGE IS ONLY GOING TO COME 1208 00:30:50,487 --> 00:30:53,454 THROUGH BEING ABLE TO FORCE 1209 00:30:53,521 --> 00:30:54,854 THIS VERY POWERFUL INDUSTRY TO 1210 00:30:54,921 --> 00:30:55,887 DO THINGS THAT IT'S SHOWN FOR 1211 00:30:55,954 --> 00:30:57,721 HALF A CENTURY IT HAS ABSOLUTELY 1212 00:30:57,787 --> 00:31:00,787 NO INTEREST IN DOING. 1213 00:31:00,854 --> 00:31:02,287 WE HAVE TO MAKE THEM CHANGE -- 1214 00:31:02,354 --> 00:31:04,754 AND IF NOT FOR OUR SAKE, OR THE 1215 00:31:04,821 --> 00:31:05,687 SAKE OF FUTURE GENERATIONS, 1216 00:31:05,754 --> 00:31:06,687 LET'S AT LEAST DO IT FOR ALL 1217 00:31:06,754 --> 00:31:08,687 THE FISH WHO ARE ABOUT TO BE 1218 00:31:08,754 --> 00:31:09,187 OUTNUMBERED BY PLASTIC 1219 00:31:09,254 --> 00:31:10,487 IN THE OCEAN. 1220 00:31:10,554 --> 00:31:11,821 >> JUST LIKE ME! 1221 00:31:11,887 --> 00:31:13,987 AIN'T THAT RIGHT, JOHN? 1222 00:31:14,054 --> 00:31:14,487 >> John: EXACTLY, SLURP, 1223 00:31:14,554 --> 00:31:17,054 JUST LIKE YOU! 1224 00:31:17,121 --> 00:31:18,087 THAT'S OUR SHOW, THANK YOU SO 1225 00:31:18,154 --> 00:31:18,787 MUCH FOR WATCHING. 1226 00:31:18,854 --> 00:31:19,387 WE'RE OFF NEXT WEEK, SO WE'LL 1227 00:31:19,454 --> 00:31:19,954 SEE YOU IN TWO WEEKS' TIME. 1228 00:31:20,021 --> 00:31:20,721 >> A HIATUS? 1229 00:31:20,787 --> 00:31:21,654 ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? 1230 00:31:21,721 --> 00:31:22,221 ALREADY? 1231 00:31:22,287 --> 00:31:23,254 JESUS. 1232 00:31:23,321 --> 00:31:24,854 GOD ALMIGHTY, JOHN. 1233 00:31:24,921 --> 00:31:26,421 C'MON, JOHN, BUCKLE DOWN. 1234 00:31:26,487 --> 00:31:27,987 YOU'VE GOT MORE WRITERS THAN 1235 00:31:28,054 --> 00:31:29,921 THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE. 1236 00:31:29,987 --> 00:31:30,721 MY GOD! 1237 00:31:30,787 --> 00:31:33,587 >> John: SLURP, IT'S A VERY 1238 00:31:33,654 --> 00:31:34,054 INTENSIVE PRODUCTION. 1239 00:31:34,121 --> 00:31:36,021 OUR STAFF IS ENTITLED 1240 00:31:36,087 --> 00:31:36,321 TO A BREAK. 1241 00:31:36,387 --> 00:31:37,154 SEE YOU ALL APRIL 4th. 1242 00:31:37,221 --> 00:31:37,454 GOOD NIGHT! 1243 00:31:37,521 --> 00:31:37,987 >> HEY! 1244 00:31:38,054 --> 00:31:39,221 LOOK AT ME, EVERYBODY! 1245 00:31:39,287 --> 00:31:40,354 I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING. 1246 00:31:40,421 --> 00:31:41,421 YOU'RE THINKING I LOOK LIKE 1247 00:31:41,487 --> 00:31:42,321 SOMETHING ANOTHER FISH COUGHED 1248 00:31:42,387 --> 00:31:43,187 UP. 1249 00:31:43,254 --> 00:31:44,154 HUH? 1250 00:31:44,221 --> 00:31:45,554 THAT MY HEAD LOOKS LIKE A BASKET 1251 00:31:45,621 --> 00:31:46,687 INGREDIENT FROM "CHOPPED." 1252 00:31:46,754 --> 00:31:48,487 YEAH, OKAY. 1253 00:31:48,554 --> 00:31:49,787 TO EVERYBODY OUT THERE 1254 00:31:49,854 --> 00:31:50,821 ON THE INTERNET WHO SAID I LOOK 1255 00:31:50,887 --> 00:31:52,087 LIKE TED CRUZ, REMEMBER: 1256 00:31:52,154 --> 00:31:53,387 I GOT FEELINGS. 1257 00:31:53,454 --> 00:31:54,787 AND YOU'VE HURT THEM. 1258 00:31:54,854 --> 00:31:55,421 GOOD NIGHT. 1259 00:31:55,487 --> 00:31:56,954 I LOVE YOU ALL. 1260 00:31:57,021 --> 00:31:58,821 MIAMI BEACH IS THE GREATEST 1261 00:31:58,887 --> 00:32:00,587 AUDIENCE IN THE WORLD! 1262 00:32:00,654 --> 00:32:01,754 MWAH! 1263 00:32:01,821 --> 00:32:02,821 GOOD NIGHT!