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  • 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,370 I am so glad that you have all that energy.

  • You do, right?

  • You have the energy.

  • [CHEERING]

  • Me too.

  • I have a lot of energy, because I went to Starbucks for coffee

  • this morning.

  • And usually I send my assistant, but I gave him the day

  • off so he could wash the deck and do dry cleaning.

  • But I saw something at Starbucks that really confused me,

  • even more confusing than the fact

  • that a tall should mean big, but it means small,

  • and a grande should mean large, but it means medium.

  • All that confuses me.

  • But here's what I saw.

  • There's a bin with a place for cups and lids,

  • a place for newspapers and magazines,

  • and a place for bottles, cans, glass, and plastic,

  • even though a cup is paper, the sleeve is cardboard,

  • and the lid is plastic.

  • Then there's another bin and it says landfill on one side

  • and recycle on the other side, and it

  • says cups, aluminum, glass, paper, and plastic on one side,

  • even though those things were separate on the other bin.

  • [LAUGHS]

  • 00:00:59,350 --> 00:01:02,120 And it says everything else on the other side,

  • even though there are cups on both sides.

  • So everyone stares at it for a few seconds trying

  • to figure out what to do, and then everyone

  • ends up doing this.

  • 00:01:15,980 --> 00:01:17,480 And then on the side of the bin it

  • says compost, which wasn't even an option before.

  • And then I saw another Starbucks that had this.

  • OK, so it had in addition to the options,

  • they have labeled cell phones.

  • You see that on the end there?

  • They're trying to get me all mixed up, so in my confusion

  • I throw my iPhone away.

  • [LAUGHS]

  • Yeah, nice try Starbucks, no.

  • I mean, I'm all for helping the environment,

  • but this is like an SAT question.

  • Like, if all recycling is garbage, but not

  • all garbage is recycling, all cups

  • contain paper, but not all paper is compost,

  • which hole is for the dirty plastic straws.

  • [LAUGHS]

  • Did you figure it out?

  • I think the answer is 36 I don't know.

  • I know this is a small way of cleaning things up,

  • but please throw your trash in the right bin

  • and please mark the bins clearly.

  • When I was a kid it was simpler.

  • There was a can for trash, there was a can for recycling,

  • a can for cigarettes, and a spittoon

  • from my chewing tobacco.

  • [LAUGHS]

00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,370 I am so glad that you have all that energy.

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