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Gen Z-ers are Ditching Sex | California Packaging Law Raise Costs · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: going to war anymore. Our war is going to be economic.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here is a story that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: us are involved with, and that is using the GOLP.
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  Speaker 1: One weight loss drugs.
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  Speaker 2: Now I have I've been on it because I had
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  Speaker 2: fifteen pounds to lose that I just couldn't lose my
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  Speaker 2: last fifteen pounds, and I went ahead and took the
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  Speaker 2: GLP one drug and yes, I lost that fifteen pounds.
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  Speaker 2: So now I'm the thinnest that I have been since
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  Speaker 2: I've been a toddler. Actually, the last time I was
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  Speaker 2: this weight, I was four years old on a three
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  Speaker 2: years old. In any case, a couple of things are happening.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the reasons that glp ones work so
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  Speaker 2: well is the fact that it suppresses hunger. They suppress
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  Speaker 2: hunger and have an aftertaste. And here is the problem,
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  Speaker 2: because packaged food makers are sweating bullets because people aren't
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  Speaker 2: buying packaged foods because hunger is suppressed and the taste
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  Speaker 2: isn't very good anymore, and they're trying to figure out,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to how not to lose a ton of
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  Speaker 2: money or at least somehow ameliorate the problem. JP Morgan
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  Speaker 2: estimates that these treatments could drain thirty to fifty five
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars in annual revenue from the food and beverage
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  Speaker 2: industry by twenty thirty.
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  Speaker 1: That is a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: So you have big companies like Connagra and General Mills
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  Speaker 2: are developing, for example, in one case, protein rich products.
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  Speaker 2: Not that they don't taste terrible, but maybe they'll better
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  Speaker 2: because when people don't eat, they don't put much food
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  Speaker 2: in their stomach. See how that's the concept of not
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  Speaker 2: eating not putting a ca I'll explain that at a
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  Speaker 2: later date. In any case, that means that there's not
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  Speaker 2: enough protein being put in your stomach. And so let's
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  Speaker 2: try to figure out a way to make people eat
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  Speaker 2: when they really don't want to eat. So ConAgra inside
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  Speaker 2: an Omaha test kitchen recently, there were the executives huddled
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  Speaker 2: over plastic trays of microwaved eggs, potatoes, and sausage. And
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  Speaker 2: the lady who has behavior science actually lend studied the
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  Speaker 2: breakfast ball in front of her. Was it satisfying? She
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  Speaker 2: didn't taste the food. It's not a question of taste,
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  Speaker 2: because it doesn't taste good. People are on GLP one
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  Speaker 2: drugs do not like the taste of much of anything.
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  Speaker 2: So what they're trying to do is design that will
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  Speaker 2: entice people, even those people that don't want to eat.
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  Speaker 2: And this is one of dozens of tests that are
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  Speaker 2: being made by these major food manufacturers. So, and Neil
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  Speaker 2: will back this up because we've talked about this for decades.
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  Speaker 2: Food companies have relied on the same playbook, proven kbook
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  Speaker 2: playbook cater to consumers taste buds with sugar, with salt,
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  Speaker 2: with salt, an expanding galaxy of flavors, and then they
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  Speaker 2: fine tune the products for cravings and indulgence. And why
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  Speaker 2: the accusations, why horrible food and hooking consumers on food
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  Speaker 2: and snacks. And the argument is the same way that
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  Speaker 2: nicotine hooks smokers, and that was fueling the obesity epidemic,
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  Speaker 2: and it was is that turning around? Yes, it has
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  Speaker 2: the use of golp one drugs. Now, Neil was on
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  Speaker 2: LP one, but that was for his diabetes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so is common with when you have a kidney transplant,
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  Speaker 3: you're taking steroids regularly. And for me and some of
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  Speaker 3: my brothers and sisters, sister, they had to they did
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  Speaker 3: the same thing. Diabetes creeps up new onset diabetes and
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  Speaker 3: you have to keep it under control. And that's what
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  Speaker 3: the original GLP ones were for. So they put me
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  Speaker 3: on Manduro, which I loved. I did not like those.
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  Speaker 1: So why aren't you on there right now?
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  Speaker 3: Because I had the surgery, I had the bariatric surgery,
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  Speaker 3: and you do both, okay, and and so you know
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  Speaker 3: it's strange. I was on no sugar, no no carbs,
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  Speaker 3: none of these things. My diabetes numbers or pre diabetes
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  Speaker 3: numbers is more accurate, stayed the same. So because it
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  Speaker 3: the steroids. But in this particular case, I I I
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  Speaker 3: think the GLP ones are miraculous. I just felt that, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it could it could be the magic bullet. I've talked
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  Speaker 3: to doctor Dean about that. Just to give you an idea.
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  Speaker 3: Just the numbers before we take a break, and I'll
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  Speaker 3: come back and finish this one up. As many as
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  Speaker 3: fifty your Dean, I'm sorry, doctor Jim, doctor Dean, the
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  Speaker 3: gut whisper, Yeah, I'm sorry, yeah, doctor Jim. Doctor Dean
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  Speaker 3: was a doctor that was with US three hundred years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: As many as fifty five million Americans, about fifteen percent
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  Speaker 2: of the population, are expected to be on GLP one
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  Speaker 2: drugs by twenty thirty. Morgan Stanley estimates that consumers are
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  Speaker 2: going to be eating about one fifth fewer calories twenty
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  Speaker 2: percent while on the medications, and that is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of food that is not being eaten.
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  Speaker 3: It's all about proteins right now. Like you said, everything
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  Speaker 3: just look at any anything in the market. It's all
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  Speaker 3: about protein.
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  Speaker 2: There is also one additional factor that I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: bring up. You're right, the majority of the issue is
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  Speaker 2: proteins one hundred percent, except it's not one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's eighty percent, Maybe it's seventy percent, maybe it's
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  Speaker 2: seventy five percent, maybe it's seventy two point thirty nine percent.
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  Speaker 1: I am doing the second segment.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, Neil's joining me also about what's going on with
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  Speaker 2: golp one drugs and how much weight is being lost.
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  Speaker 2: And we're looking at coming up the rest of the decade.
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  Speaker 2: They're figuring what fifteen percent or now fifteen percent in
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  Speaker 2: the entire the entire population is either on golp one
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  Speaker 2: drugs or some member of the family is. And as
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  Speaker 2: I told you earlier, I am on the drug because
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  Speaker 2: I had fifteen pounds that I just couldn't lose come
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  Speaker 2: hell or high water, and so I lost fifteen pounds
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  Speaker 2: And to me, it's a magic bullet. And Neil talks
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  Speaker 2: about how it's miraculous and it is.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things about GLP one drugs is not
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  Speaker 2: is how to sell to people who don't want to
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  Speaker 2: eat anymore. And that is one of the side effects
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  Speaker 2: of GLP one is you just aren't hungry anymore. Another one,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, and this is something that's not particularly known,
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  Speaker 2: is a well documented side effect, is that GLP one
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  Speaker 2: drugs can produce an unpleasant metallic taste in the mouth.
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  Speaker 2: It's like having sex with a piece of rebar. It
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  Speaker 2: just doesn't work very well. And so you know, you
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  Speaker 2: put that together and I found that too. To tell you,
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  Speaker 2: I have a hard time eating. Now can you imagine
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  Speaker 2: I have a hard time eating. I can barely get
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  Speaker 2: through my locks and bagels in the morning. Now I've
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  Speaker 2: lost my taste for ham and cheese. How is that possible?
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  Speaker 2: And here's one it's a killer you ready for this
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  Speaker 2: for anybody who's been listening to me for any length
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  Speaker 2: of time. I can't I cannot get through an entire
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  Speaker 2: can of diet coke. Wow, that's our shattering. Boy, that's
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  Speaker 2: into the world stuff for sure.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I noticed the other night on Sunday at
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  Speaker 3: the White House in Anaheim that you left half half
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  Speaker 3: drink cans of diet coke lake.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And how much food did I leave on the
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  Speaker 1: on the plate? A lot?
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  Speaker 2: And I I usually lick my plate when I finished dinner,
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  Speaker 2: and that certainly didn't happen. So there are two ways
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  Speaker 2: that the food companies are dealing with this, and boy,
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  Speaker 2: they are scrambling the package food companies particularly because well,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, inflation has hit packaged food because it's
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  Speaker 2: so expensive. And we know going out to dinner. I
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  Speaker 2: mean yesterday I was making running some errands and I
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  Speaker 2: saw Baja Fresh and I decided I'm going to go in.
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  Speaker 2: I've been eating one of those in a while. A
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  Speaker 2: burrito and a drink was eighteen dollars for a fast
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  Speaker 2: food burrito and a drink. Come on, really, okay, So
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  Speaker 2: what are the food companies doing one, As Neil pointed out,
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  Speaker 2: they're pitching protein as something If you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: eat and you're not eating enough, at least you need protein.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not a matter of taste. It's a question
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  Speaker 2: of you need protein. And the other way they're doing
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  Speaker 2: it is trying to figure out flavor. How do we
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  Speaker 2: get people who don't want to eat eating, So let's
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  Speaker 2: figure out massive amounts of flavor and spices and see
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  Speaker 2: if that works. They're just experimenting with that, and they're
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  Speaker 2: getting focus groups and they're just starting. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: like cooking food for airlines, because when you're at thirty
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  Speaker 2: thousand feet, food just doesn't taste very good or doesn't
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  Speaker 2: take least as good.
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  Speaker 3: But they have to be careful with certain those ingredients,
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  Speaker 3: like spices, because your stomach can respond to spices differently,
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  Speaker 3: not only on GLP ones, but after bariatric surgery as well.
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  Speaker 3: So really get it. You need your protein, because there
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  Speaker 3: were some problems where they were getting what were they
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  Speaker 3: calling it, like ozempic ass or something where people were
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  Speaker 3: losing their backsides because you have muscle loss because you're
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  Speaker 3: not putting enough protein in your body to keep your
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  Speaker 3: lean muscle mass.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah to par okay, I'm going to leave you with
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  Speaker 1: some stats.
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  Speaker 2: O Zempic was approved in twenty seventeen, followed by Wagovi
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  Speaker 2: monjaro zep bound and the first GLP one drug was
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and five, but it was for diabetes. And
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  Speaker 2: then they figured out as people were overdosing on it
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  Speaker 2: or taking the big end of the dose, all sudden
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  Speaker 2: weight loss was happening. All of a sudden, people started
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  Speaker 2: losing weight. So now, while it's still used to some
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  Speaker 2: extent for diabetes, man, it has exploded. It's almost like viagra.
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  Speaker 2: And how does viagra connect with ozembic Well, we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about the metallic tastes and having wanting to have sex
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  Speaker 2: with a piece of rebar. That is a no, that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't work.
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  Speaker 3: How does your little brain work that it goes to
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  Speaker 3: that place?
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  Speaker 1: You know? I don't know. Actually I've been.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what my shrink says to me when I
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  Speaker 2: sit down with her. She says, how does your little
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  Speaker 2: brain work when you go to that place?
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  Speaker 1: I like puzzles?
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  Speaker 3: Man, but you're you're a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Uh, we are done with that. And uh it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: it really is.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be talking a bunch about about the various GLP
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  Speaker 2: one drugs because man, they're changing America completely. All right,
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  Speaker 2: interesting story I want to share with you. This is
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  Speaker 2: out of New York Times. It was a not bad piece.
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  Speaker 2: And it's this woman who wrote this piece about sex,
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  Speaker 2: and she interviewed a bunch of people, but out of
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  Speaker 2: this came her her I guess her research as well
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  Speaker 2: as her article. And it's real simple. First line data
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  Speaker 2: shows that gen Z is in a sex recession.
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  Speaker 1: Why. Technology, the me too movement, a growing emphasis on
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  Speaker 1: platonic relationships reshaping how people think about sex. Gen Z
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  Speaker 1: people born between nineteen ninety seven and twenty fifteen, so
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  Speaker 1: we're talking up to eighteen year old something like that,
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  Speaker 1: and so they just they're just not talking about sex,
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  Speaker 1: not thinking about it. Now, when you were a teenager,
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you a question, it wasn't sex on
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  Speaker 1: your mind, especially if you're a teenage guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's one of those things when you're a
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  Speaker 2: teenager and the hormones raging. I remember, I would have
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  Speaker 2: had sex with a snake if it had ears something
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  Speaker 2: to hold on to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just you just.
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  Speaker 2: That's who you are, not so much anymore. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is data we're talking about. Anxiety is growing, overfalling
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  Speaker 2: birth rates, changing behaviors. It is well, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: something that's real and it is changing the way society.
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  Speaker 2: For example, Just to give you an idea again, a
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  Speaker 2: survey survey says number of young people who haven't had
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  Speaker 2: sex in the past year has doubled from twenty ten
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  Speaker 2: to twenty four. A study just came out that one
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  Speaker 2: in four Gen Z adults say they have not had
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  Speaker 2: sex at all. And by the way, the ones who
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  Speaker 2: have not had sex, it's gone from twelve to twelve
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  Speaker 2: percent to twenty four percent.
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  Speaker 1: That's doubled.
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  Speaker 2: And why As they're looking at the figures and the
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  Speaker 2: psychologists and those sociologists who are studying this are saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's figure out why.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a couple of things. Gen Z is doing a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Things less frequently than their older peers used to, or
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  Speaker 2: do they're starting driving later. Remember I got my driver's
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  Speaker 2: license the day I turned sixteen years old, and I
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  Speaker 2: was the first one at the DMV and I walked
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  Speaker 2: into my driver's test and I was a licensed driver
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  Speaker 2: eight twenty in the morning on the day of my birthday. Today,
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  Speaker 2: my kids didn't get their license until they were eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it floors me. So they're driving later, moving
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  Speaker 2: out of houses parents' houses later, obviously, they're drinking later
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  Speaker 2: or not at all.
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  Speaker 1: That's gone down big time.
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  Speaker 2: And sex is another thing they're doing much later than peers.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you can't.
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  Speaker 2: Look at me having sex as a teenager because everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Said no, but I would have. My sex drive was
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  Speaker 1: still there.
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  Speaker 2: Back we go to the snakes and according again to
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  Speaker 2: the studies, it's not just us, I mean, it is
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  Speaker 2: all over the place, Japan, South Korea, these studies are done.
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  Speaker 2: Another thing is the emergence of smartphones and social media.
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  Speaker 2: There is no social intercourse or any intercourse when you're
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  Speaker 2: on the cell phones. Also, and this one is kind
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  Speaker 2: of interesting, the overturning of Roe v Wade has turned
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  Speaker 2: off a lot of women.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's a psychological thing.
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  Speaker 2: Study came out that thirteen percent of millennials and gen
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  Speaker 2: Z had become more anxious about sex because of Roe
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  Speaker 2: v Wade turning around. Okay, so let's go a little
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  Speaker 2: bit deeper into that. Gen Z folks came of age
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  Speaker 2: in a pretty anxious time, the pandemic, everybody stuck at home.
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  Speaker 2: Our political climate is insane right now. The Me Too
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  Speaker 2: movement happened in twenty seventeen, and for young women, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of them. The Me Too movements served as a moment,
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  Speaker 2: a moment which they could say, the current sexual climate
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  Speaker 2: may actually doesn't feel good for me, and I'm allowed
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  Speaker 2: to say it. There's no longer the stigma of saying
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  Speaker 2: I'm not interested, and for young men, strangely enough, that's
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  Speaker 2: frightened young men into not engaging in sex because of
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  Speaker 2: the accusations that are made. Today, just coming on to
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  Speaker 2: someone is considered harassment. For example, let's say, uh, Neil
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  Speaker 2: and I are Kono mentioned how good Amy or Ann look, boy,
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  Speaker 2: you're looking great today? That is a sexual come on,
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  Speaker 2: the definition of what harassment is has changed. And then
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  Speaker 2: one of the sociologists said, another issue is the expectation
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  Speaker 2: of young women or women in general. And they call
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  Speaker 2: it the six to six to sixth movement or the
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  Speaker 2: six to sixty sixth philosophy or the sixty six to
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  Speaker 2: sixth philosophy. And we're not talking about devils here. He
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  Speaker 2: the man you want to have sex with has to
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  Speaker 2: be six feet tall, make six figures, and have a
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  Speaker 2: six pack. Yeah, not the way I heard it. How
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  Speaker 2: did you hear it?
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  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me put it the way I understand because
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  Speaker 2: you're really talking about sixty.
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  Speaker 1: Six six six.
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  Speaker 2: We have to add add another six to that because
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  Speaker 2: women also want to have at least six inches where
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  Speaker 2: it counts, which leaves out Jews and Japanese men. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that is off the table. It's pretty scary stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well endowed.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Kno nothing else talking nothing. Okay, Well, I
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  Speaker 2: think we're done. We're going to end it at that point.
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  Speaker 1: All right, moving on to moving on to.
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  Speaker 2: The California packaging law, and that's going to change things around.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's get out of here. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: California as usual is at the forefront of in this case,
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  Speaker 2: plastic packaging for food, and there's a law that says
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  Speaker 2: that plastic packaging has to be slashed by twenty five
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  Speaker 2: percent in the next ten years. And more than two
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  Speaker 2: dozen Assembly democrats in the state. One state senator wrote
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  Speaker 2: a letter to legislative leaders saying, let's delay those fees.
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  Speaker 2: What fees. I'll tell you about that in a moment
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  Speaker 2: under SP fifty four. And that's the state's plastic reduction law,
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  Speaker 2: landmark plastic reduction law. And what kind of fees, Well,
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  Speaker 2: producers of plastic packaging or food purveyors of plastic packaging
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  Speaker 2: who don't meet the standards have to pay a fee
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  Speaker 2: to the state, which then pays those who do meet
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  Speaker 2: the space at the law or meet the terms of
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  Speaker 2: the law. And so the problem is is how is
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  Speaker 2: it going to pay, Who's going to pay, How much
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  Speaker 2: is going to be charged?
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  Speaker 1: No one really knows.
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  Speaker 2: The state has asked a nonprofit, the Circular Action Alliance,
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  Speaker 2: to draft the plan to meet the goals, and the
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  Speaker 2: group estimates the work would cost seventeen billion dollars over
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  Speaker 2: five years. And even they are asking for a three
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  Speaker 2: year exemption because getting rid of plastic and let's say
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  Speaker 2: you have to use cardboard, well, you know, cardboard leaks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean if you order.
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  Speaker 2: A non plastic container for food, you know those takeout boxes.
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  Speaker 2: We have one that are that's just cardboard.
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  Speaker 1: I got one. I think, who is it cheesecake factory?
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  Speaker 2: When you take food to go, it's in these cardboard
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  Speaker 2: little takeout boxes. Well those leak like crazy. The ones
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  Speaker 2: that use plastic don't. But restaurants and food purveyors are
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  Speaker 2: not going to be able to use plastic anymore. We're
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  Speaker 2: the first state out there, and it makes sense, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because of the amount of that's landfill. And plastics don't decomposed,
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  Speaker 2: they don't compost. But everything is unintended consequences whenever laws
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  Speaker 2: are passed. The majority of the problem with laws is
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  Speaker 2: not what they're going to do. It is what happens
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  Speaker 2: as a result of what they're going to do in
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  Speaker 2: a negative way, unforeseen circumstances. And so what are the
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  Speaker 2: unforeseen circumstances here? Well, your food is going to be
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  Speaker 2: dripping out your plastic when you eat at a restaurant
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  Speaker 2: that they serve or especially take out, and they give
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  Speaker 2: you the accouterment and out of plastic plates, plastic forks,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: not anymore. Drives me nuts. I like to buy these
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: fruit these all fruit Mexican popsicles made with real fruit,
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  Speaker 2: and I absolutely love them. And ice creams that have
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  Speaker 2: a stick on them or stick in them.
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  Speaker 1: They're wooden. And you know what that does. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that composed.
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  Speaker 2: That's great, that's environmentally great. There is nothing worse than
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  Speaker 2: biding into a popsicle where it's a wood stick. I
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  Speaker 2: think about it, and already it.
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  Speaker 1: Just it's horrible. There it is.
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  Speaker 2: There's the unforeseen circumstance handle biting into a popsicle with
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  Speaker 2: a wooden stick in it and hating it.
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