[ { "start": 0.0, "end": 10.76, "text": " What is up people of the internet welcome back to another episode of the Waveform podcast" }, { "start": 10.76, "end": 13.4, "text": " this time a bit of a fun special one." }, { "start": 13.4, "end": 15.280000000000001, "text": " So a bit of a background." }, { "start": 15.280000000000001, "end": 18.72, "text": " We've been making lots of videos on tech for a long time right?" }, { "start": 18.72, "end": 23.44, "text": " Lots of consumer electronics, lots of tech companies and the stories behind them." }, { "start": 23.44, "end": 28.12, "text": " But you might have noticed lately in the past couple of years we've seen more and more" }, { "start": 28.12, "end": 32.96, "text": " climate related messaging from these companies as we all sort of get on the same page that" }, { "start": 32.96, "end": 37.08, "text": " they should be more responsible about their impact on the climate." }, { "start": 37.08, "end": 41.0, "text": " You might remember the sketch with Tim Cook and Mother Nature and the last Apple event" }, { "start": 41.0, "end": 46.84, "text": " or any number of various quotes about percent of recycled materials in this and sustainability" }, { "start": 46.84, "end": 51.120000000000005, "text": " reusability that in any sort of key notes we've been noticing lately." }, { "start": 51.120000000000005, "end": 55.36, "text": " And I want to be able to analyze all that but I don't know nearly enough about it to make" }, { "start": 55.36, "end": 57.72, "text": " really good analysis of that." }, { "start": 57.72, "end": 60.6, "text": " So this episode we have someone who can." }, { "start": 60.6, "end": 64.84, "text": " So Raleigh from Climate Town is joining us David's to my left, Raleigh's to my right." }, { "start": 64.84, "end": 68.72, "text": " We're going to talk about all of these companies, their claims." }, { "start": 68.72, "end": 71.92, "text": " We're going to zoom out as far as we can to try to understand what they're doing and what" }, { "start": 71.92, "end": 74.0, "text": " they maybe should be doing." }, { "start": 74.0, "end": 76.32, "text": " And I think this is a really good conversation to have." }, { "start": 76.32, "end": 78.44, "text": " So Raleigh thanks for joining me." }, { "start": 78.44, "end": 79.44, "text": " Thank you so much for having me." }, { "start": 79.44, "end": 81.52, "text": " I'm really excited to be in the in the layer." }, { "start": 81.52, "end": 82.52, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 82.52, "end": 83.52, "text": " In the hot seat." }, { "start": 83.52, "end": 84.52, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 84.52, "end": 87.68, "text": " I mean we we have a ton of questions and I feel like probably the best pace to start is" }, { "start": 87.68, "end": 89.0, "text": " with what you do." }, { "start": 89.0, "end": 92.0, "text": " So your YouTube channel Climate Town, I've watched a bunch of the videos." }, { "start": 92.0, "end": 93.0, "text": " Thank you so much." }, { "start": 93.0, "end": 97.04, "text": " Some of them incredibly informative about things that I never would have even thought to" }, { "start": 97.04, "end": 99.52000000000001, "text": " look into like recycling." }, { "start": 99.52000000000001, "end": 100.52000000000001, "text": " The latest one about roads." }, { "start": 100.52000000000001, "end": 101.52000000000001, "text": " Oh yeah." }, { "start": 101.52000000000001, "end": 102.88000000000001, "text": " A lot of really good stuff." }, { "start": 102.88000000000001, "end": 104.64000000000001, "text": " What is your elevator pitch?" }, { "start": 104.64000000000001, "end": 106.72, "text": " How do you describe what you do when people ask?" }, { "start": 106.72, "end": 108.52000000000001, "text": " That's my favorite question asked creators." }, { "start": 108.52000000000001, "end": 112.96000000000001, "text": " My elevator, I've finally gotten around to telling people at parties that like they're" }, { "start": 112.96000000000001, "end": 113.96000000000001, "text": " like what do you do?" }, { "start": 113.96000000000001, "end": 117.44000000000001, "text": " And I say I'm a YouTuber and I don't have to like back up and be like." }, { "start": 117.44, "end": 120.36, "text": " I like to do climate stuff." }, { "start": 120.36, "end": 121.75999999999999, "text": " Do we can we swear on this?" }, { "start": 121.75999999999999, "end": 122.75999999999999, "text": " There's like bleeping." }, { "start": 122.75999999999999, "end": 123.75999999999999, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 123.75999999999999, "end": 124.75999999999999, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 124.75999999999999, "end": 129.68, "text": " So my new elevator pitch is that I'm like a extremely low budget John Oliver." }, { "start": 129.68, "end": 134.56, "text": " We're like we're trying to get to that sort of like John Wilson and John Oliver kind of" }, { "start": 134.56, "end": 141.68, "text": " together because we we go out into the field and taught and like you know on location shooting" }, { "start": 141.68, "end": 145.16, "text": " but it's always based on something about the climate crisis." }, { "start": 145.16, "end": 146.16, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 146.16, "end": 147.16, "text": " And the biggest pitch." }, { "start": 147.16, "end": 153.44, "text": " I think the natural follow up question would be why is that the topic that you dive into" }, { "start": 153.44, "end": 154.44, "text": " so often." }, { "start": 154.44, "end": 156.88, "text": " So what the answer to that being your education?" }, { "start": 156.88, "end": 157.88, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 157.88, "end": 158.88, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 158.88, "end": 162.88, "text": " So I used to make billiards videos very regularly." }, { "start": 162.88, "end": 166.51999999999998, "text": " My start on YouTube was as a billiards influencer." }, { "start": 166.51999999999998, "end": 167.51999999999998, "text": " And oh wow." }, { "start": 167.51999999999998, "end": 168.51999999999998, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 168.51999999999998, "end": 169.51999999999998, "text": " And like they're out there." }, { "start": 169.51999999999998, "end": 171.88, "text": " We exist ping pong table up and not the pool table." }, { "start": 171.88, "end": 172.88, "text": " We do have a billiards table." }, { "start": 172.88, "end": 173.88, "text": " I saw it." }, { "start": 173.88, "end": 174.88, "text": " It clocked that." }, { "start": 174.88, "end": 177.88, "text": " And it sticks but they're all the same kind which means like we're bought in bulk which" }, { "start": 177.88, "end": 179.12, "text": " means they're probably not high." }, { "start": 179.12, "end": 180.12, "text": " We're pretty average." }, { "start": 180.12, "end": 181.12, "text": " I was I was clocking it." }, { "start": 181.12, "end": 184.35999999999999, "text": " It's trying to see if these guys were hustlers or not." }, { "start": 184.35999999999999, "end": 185.6, "text": " But that doesn't mean you're not." }, { "start": 185.6, "end": 189.79999999999998, "text": " You could have them and be like oh yeah these second and layer of hustling." }, { "start": 189.79999999999998, "end": 190.79999999999998, "text": " That's right." }, { "start": 190.79999999999998, "end": 191.8, "text": " Interesting." }, { "start": 191.8, "end": 192.8, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 192.8, "end": 196.96, "text": " So I did like a bunch of pool videos and I kind of like honed my chops of editing and" }, { "start": 196.96, "end": 199.35999999999999, "text": " hosting through the pool videos." }, { "start": 199.35999999999999, "end": 202.16, "text": " And then I moved to New York to do comedy in the first place." }, { "start": 202.16, "end": 206.4, "text": " I was doing a comedy show and I was the question how did I get into this?" }, { "start": 206.4, "end": 207.4, "text": " Sorry." }, { "start": 207.4, "end": 208.4, "text": " Why?" }, { "start": 208.4, "end": 209.4, "text": " Why climate as the top?" }, { "start": 209.4, "end": 210.4, "text": " Oh yeah." }, { "start": 210.4, "end": 211.4, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 211.4, "end": 215.92, "text": " So I was doing a comedy show and I was the comedy show was like I'm sort of a strung out" }, { "start": 215.92, "end": 220.04, "text": " algorithm or kind of figure doing like an I told you so tour." }, { "start": 220.04, "end": 221.04, "text": " Like I called it." }, { "start": 221.04, "end": 222.96, "text": " I knew it was climate change was happening." }, { "start": 222.96, "end": 228.88, "text": " And then I had enough climate experts and climate scientists on the show like in a comedic" }, { "start": 228.88, "end": 233.32, "text": " way like I'd interview them in character and then we'd have like comedians from SNL" }, { "start": 233.32, "end": 236.68, "text": " and Jimmy Fallon come on the show because they're all in New York." }, { "start": 236.68, "end": 240.68, "text": " You can just get them and you can throw a little net out and they'll come run." }, { "start": 240.68, "end": 245.07999999999998, "text": " And then eventually six months into doing this show and enough conversations with these" }, { "start": 245.07999999999998, "end": 249.64, "text": " like climate scientists around the beer after the show and we're like so we're going to" }, { "start": 249.64, "end": 250.64, "text": " be fine right?" }, { "start": 250.64, "end": 257.2, "text": " And they're like no we're way further away from where we need to be." }, { "start": 257.2, "end": 262.59999999999997, "text": " And so then I was like okay well if I go back to grad school and study climate science" }, { "start": 262.59999999999997, "end": 267.4, "text": " and policy I can make a really good comedy show and maybe through that I can like be a good" }, { "start": 267.4, "end": 269.0, "text": " climate communicator." }, { "start": 269.0, "end": 271.03999999999996, "text": " So then I did that and that's where the show came in." }, { "start": 271.03999999999996, "end": 272.03999999999996, "text": " Interesting." }, { "start": 272.03999999999996, "end": 273.84, "text": " How long did that take you to complete?" }, { "start": 273.84, "end": 279.0, "text": " It was a two year I took I did the program in two years but one of the years one and a" }, { "start": 279.0, "end": 282.08, "text": " half of the years were during COVID so it was like." }, { "start": 282.08, "end": 286.59999999999997, "text": " It was a very expensive university of Phoenix but it was Columbia so they charged Columbia" }, { "start": 286.6, "end": 290.64000000000004, "text": " prices for like not really knowing how to do it online institution." }, { "start": 290.64000000000004, "end": 292.56, "text": " Yeah super early on that." }, { "start": 292.56, "end": 296.48, "text": " So coming out the other side of that now you've seen you've learned a lot about climate" }, { "start": 296.48, "end": 298.68, "text": " and the situation we find ourselves in." }, { "start": 298.68, "end": 302.92, "text": " Have you also noticed this increase in messaging from these tech companies?" }, { "start": 302.92, "end": 306.68, "text": " I don't know how many keynotes you get to watch but they all sort of seem to talk about" }, { "start": 306.68, "end": 308.44, "text": " recycling at some point now." }, { "start": 308.44, "end": 313.84000000000003, "text": " Yeah yeah I mean I think it's it's certainly as of like the 2015's with the Paris Climate" }, { "start": 313.84, "end": 321.47999999999996, "text": " Accord like that sort of sparked this avalanche of like climate pledges and companies realizing" }, { "start": 321.47999999999996, "end": 325.79999999999995, "text": " like that consumers really were interested in having a planet where they could still you" }, { "start": 325.79999999999995, "end": 329.08, "text": " know fish and ski and that." }, { "start": 329.08, "end": 333.64, "text": " So I think they're realizing like oh this is going to be an important piece of our company" }, { "start": 333.64, "end": 339.52, "text": " going forward and so they're all getting on on board with like pledges which are not" }, { "start": 339.52, "end": 342.08, "text": " actions but yeah close." }, { "start": 342.08, "end": 346.2, "text": " There's a difference between promises and what we actually see happen." }, { "start": 346.2, "end": 347.2, "text": " Sure yeah." }, { "start": 347.2, "end": 353.44, "text": " And something we also talk about a lot when we see these promises is how much does X company" }, { "start": 353.44, "end": 358.32, "text": " actually care like trying to judge based on their promise and their actions does it" }, { "start": 358.32, "end": 361.2, "text": " seem like they actually care about the environment." }, { "start": 361.2, "end": 363.56, "text": " Ah and that is a tough question." }, { "start": 363.56, "end": 371.2, "text": " You know what I it's almost not it's almost not a question I think is that meaningful" }, { "start": 371.2, "end": 375.8, "text": " to their actions because you don't have to care about the planet to do a good thing" }, { "start": 375.8, "end": 379.28, "text": " for the planet and you could care about the planet and do a bad thing for the planet right" }, { "start": 379.28, "end": 386.24, "text": " like I don't I don't really care if Apple wants me to have a nice evening out but like" }, { "start": 386.24, "end": 391.76, "text": " if they are you know promoting recite and if they're they're truly like trying to recollect" }, { "start": 391.76, "end": 396.88, "text": " all of their cobalt for instance to reuse in their batteries like that's a whether" }, { "start": 396.88, "end": 399.32, "text": " it's for their marketing or for the planet." }, { "start": 399.32, "end": 402.52, "text": " I don't care you know just get the cobalt yeah totally fair." }, { "start": 402.52, "end": 406.64, "text": " They're the cobalt there was a thing in the most recent Apple keynote where they were" }, { "start": 406.64, "end": 412.6, "text": " like we now can fit way more Apple watches on one car is greatly involved and in the" }, { "start": 412.6, "end": 416.68, "text": " back of my head I'm thinking well that's saving you a lot on shipping costs." }, { "start": 416.68, "end": 418.52, "text": " So I guess it can be both right." }, { "start": 418.52, "end": 424.24, "text": " Yeah I mean I think honestly the only way they're going to do this is if it is both which sucks" }, { "start": 424.24, "end": 429.8, "text": " for us but like them's the breaks like that's the that's the system that we have not" }, { "start": 429.8, "end": 436.28000000000003, "text": " so much voted for but that the corporate interests have like lobbied for and like you know" }, { "start": 436.28000000000003, "end": 442.0, "text": " it's it's sort of a you got to do a double pronged attack single prong no two prongs a prong" }, { "start": 442.0, "end": 448.04, "text": " is an individual thing okay double pronged attack yeah yeah yeah I feel like the way I" }, { "start": 448.04, "end": 452.48, "text": " I see that is every decision that we see a public facing company make always has the" }, { "start": 452.48, "end": 456.36, "text": " public facing reason and then the private reason usually it's this makes us look good this" }, { "start": 456.36, "end": 461.12, "text": " makes us more money but also like we care about the money a lot that's kind of what we do" }, { "start": 461.12, "end": 465.68, "text": " yeah that's their whole thing kind of our whole deal in fact a lot of money like they have" }, { "start": 465.68, "end": 469.56, "text": " they look the fiduciary obligation to the shareholders and the board of directors like" }, { "start": 469.56, "end": 473.92, "text": " you have to grow you have to make money and you have to make the decisions that you can" }, { "start": 473.92, "end": 479.48, "text": " justify will make you the most money or they will fire you yep and so like yeah I don't" }, { "start": 479.48, "end": 485.0, "text": " know it's it's a tough system to yeah yeah have a beneficial outcome for them so in the" }, { "start": 485.0, "end": 489.84000000000003, "text": " context of all this knowing that these companies need to make money and that they have this massive" }, { "start": 489.84000000000003, "end": 494.24, "text": " impact on the environment and knowing that we are in a particularly delicate place with our" }, { "start": 494.24, "end": 499.04, "text": " climate right now I figured we'd go over these like three big bullet points maybe they're" }, { "start": 499.04, "end": 502.92, "text": " not even the best bullet points you can let me know but these three big bullet points that I" }, { "start": 502.92, "end": 507.8, "text": " think encapsulate a pretty good understanding of everything that will need to know to make" }, { "start": 507.8, "end": 514.16, "text": " decisions about these companies those being carbon emissions clean energy and recycling we see a" }, { "start": 514.16, "end": 518.28, "text": " lot about all these things I think we'll probably talk a lot about Apple in this because they are" }, { "start": 518.28, "end": 522.28, "text": " so public about it but a lot of companies sort of follow in their footsteps and do similar stuff" }, { "start": 522.28, "end": 528.2, "text": " so I'll start with carbon emissions just in general well first we should just set the baseline" }, { "start": 528.2, "end": 535.0, "text": " what are carbon emissions and why are they bad sure yeah just so we all on the same page what is" }, { "start": 535.0, "end": 541.48, "text": " carbon on the periodic table element six nice yeah I got it okay I had to go through that in my" }, { "start": 541.48, "end": 548.44, "text": " head yeah so I mean it's an incredible element right it's it forms tetrahedral bonds at a 109.5" }, { "start": 548.44, "end": 552.6, "text": " degree bond angle I think that's right you can look that up that one that one did you take organic" }, { "start": 552.6, "end": 557.96, "text": " chemistry oh yeah baby I tie I tie T8 an organic chemistry class yeah so that's the correct angle" }, { "start": 557.96, "end": 564.44, "text": " I I hope so somebody is going to be like actually that's is it possible for humans to form that kind" }, { "start": 564.44, "end": 570.36, "text": " of bond as well I use you two certainly have that bond I you could see it a mile away you don't have" }, { "start": 570.36, "end": 576.2, "text": " to be a chemistry teacher to see your chemistry you guys fair okay well that in my head I was like" }, { "start": 576.2, "end": 584.0400000000001, "text": " this is going to kill but it really really thud it anyway yeah so carbon dioxide is a byproduct of" }, { "start": 584.0400000000001, "end": 591.32, "text": " burning fossil fuels or any hydrocarbon really and it it's a gas it's a greenhouse gas which means" }, { "start": 591.32, "end": 599.32, "text": " it will go off into the atmosphere and capture infrared radiation and re-radiated back out so it" }, { "start": 599.32, "end": 604.36, "text": " doesn't it doesn't capture incoming UV rays so that comes into the planet and then it hits the" }, { "start": 604.36, "end": 610.5200000000001, "text": " planet which heats up and it pops off infrared radiation and then that gets captured by carbon dioxide" }, { "start": 610.5200000000001, "end": 617.48, "text": " but also other gases methane nox like there's a lot of different there's like sulfur hexafluoride" }, { "start": 617.48, "end": 626.12, "text": " that's got like 20,000 times the heat retention capacity of CO2 yeah that's the you're using" }, { "start": 626.12, "end": 632.6800000000001, "text": " power lines for insulation do you think that we focus too much on carbon and not enough on other" }, { "start": 632.6800000000001, "end": 638.2, "text": " stuff no if anything I focus too much on other stuff in that last set okay carbon dioxide is the" }, { "start": 638.2, "end": 644.36, "text": " I mean carbon dioxide and methane are kind of the two the two big beds of the current moment but" }, { "start": 644.36, "end": 649.72, "text": " yeah these are these are pollutants they capture energy and that energy it's like a blanket on the" }, { "start": 649.72, "end": 654.84, "text": " earth right it just heats up the earth yeah which would be fine except for we sort of created all" }, { "start": 654.84, "end": 659.72, "text": " of our systems to work in a certain biome and environment and like we're rapidly changing the" }, { "start": 659.72, "end": 666.12, "text": " environment so we're yeah slowly ruining all of the systems that we've we've developed in so" }, { "start": 666.12, "end": 671.0, "text": " that's carbon dioxide what was the question I'm so sorry I think because we just want to establish" }, { "start": 671.0, "end": 676.68, "text": " like we all know that emitting too much carbon in the atmosphere is bad right and these giant" }, { "start": 676.68, "end": 680.84, "text": " tech companies for manufacturing millions and millions of products and shipping them all over the" }, { "start": 680.84, "end": 686.04, "text": " world and people plugging in these products like there's a ton of carbon emissions that come from" }, { "start": 686.04, "end": 691.32, "text": " them doing business and so their goal is going to be to minimize their impact on the environment and" }, { "start": 691.32, "end": 697.64, "text": " so what they're telling us they're doing is minimizing their carbon footprint and quote becoming" }, { "start": 697.64, "end": 702.92, "text": " carbon neutral but I think you kind of have to look past that title into what they're actually" }, { "start": 702.92, "end": 708.84, "text": " doing and what that means to decide if it's working or not I think the sort of famous one that we" }, { "start": 708.84, "end": 715.56, "text": " all see is Apple wants to be entirely carbon neutral as a company by 2030 apples a big company so" }, { "start": 715.56, "end": 721.64, "text": " that's a big promise huge buildings huge manufacturing suppliers all over the world shipping all over" }, { "start": 721.64, "end": 727.48, "text": " the world it seems impossible that they can do all that without emitting any carbon so how" }, { "start": 727.48, "end": 731.5600000000001, "text": " are they going to do this how are they going to reduce their carbon footprint to actually be zero" }, { "start": 731.5600000000001, "end": 739.0, "text": " yeah so the short answer is they're not going to do that but but what they can do is a sort of" }, { "start": 739.0, "end": 746.04, "text": " accounting technique that they emit as much carbon as they're going to emit they try to reduce it" }, { "start": 746.04, "end": 752.28, "text": " and then they offset the rest of the carbon by by like the easiest way like there's a thing called" }, { "start": 752.28, "end": 757.16, "text": " carbon offsets which I suspect we'll be talking about pretty shortly here yeah but they're going" }, { "start": 757.16, "end": 763.64, "text": " to you know you they probably can't reduce their carbon output to zero so they're going to" }, { "start": 763.64, "end": 769.4, "text": " figure out what they're going to try to figure out how much they're emitting and then pay other" }, { "start": 769.4, "end": 776.8399999999999, "text": " people not to emit it or pay for projects that are removing carbon from the atmosphere like timber" }, { "start": 776.8399999999999, "end": 783.9599999999999, "text": " projects that grow trees and then sequester the carbon from the trees or a hundred other techniques" }, { "start": 783.96, "end": 789.5600000000001, "text": " and with various degrees of like how effective they are. 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I know I know all of the things that gets online say and so I'm" }, { "start": 1804.84, "end": 1809.48, "text": " gonna say you're going down the rabbit holes in your head before we even get deeply yeah um and" }, { "start": 1809.48, "end": 1813.9599999999998, "text": " it's like well yeah but like at night you can't get solar power and the wind doesn't always blow" }, { "start": 1813.9599999999998, "end": 1819.6399999999999, "text": " what do you do then huh sheep will you know like you then you need your coal the burn um and the" }, { "start": 1819.64, "end": 1824.76, "text": " answer is like well yeah but that's how the grid was set up when all we had was coal you know" }, { "start": 1824.76, "end": 1831.48, "text": " like why are we judging these new technologies by like this the benchmarks of the 1800s yeah the" }, { "start": 1831.48, "end": 1838.0400000000002, "text": " way to cut the intermittency of renewable energy like solar and wind is battery storage so you like" }, { 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"text": " nice and so that's like a nice ideal setup but it's still not carbon zero because you have to" }, { "start": 1873.24, "end": 1878.04, "text": " get it out of the house there's there's that whole rabbit hole um but I think what we want to talk" }, { "start": 1878.04, "end": 1882.92, "text": " about is some of these big tech companies where it's like okay now if you're Google how how on earth do" }, { "start": 1882.92, "end": 1888.04, "text": " you attack that problem of like all of your buildings and all of your manufacturing and electricity" }, { "start": 1888.04, "end": 1894.36, "text": " and the lights and everything being a clean energy we have a quote here from Google Google has claimed" }, { "start": 1894.36, "end": 1900.28, "text": " that they have matched a hundred percent of its global annual electricity consumption with the" }, { "start": 1900.28, "end": 1905.16, "text": " purchase of renewable energy okay okay so this kind of feels like another accounting practice" 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Google if you're" }, { "start": 1918.76, "end": 1925.6399999999999, "text": " listening thank you you're doing I love what you're doing with the place um the the accounting" }, { "start": 1925.64, "end": 1931.16, "text": " strategy is real right like you're generating power from all sorts of places those electrons" }, { "start": 1931.16, "end": 1938.0400000000002, "text": " get mixed up in a big electron soup and then they're powering Google so like the various parts of" }, { "start": 1938.0400000000002, "end": 1942.44, "text": " Google so you're it's not as though like every electron that turns on the light in" }, { "start": 1943.48, "end": 1949.8000000000002, "text": " Johnny Google's office is from renewable energy source right but they are I believe they are" }, { "start": 1949.8, "end": 1956.04, "text": " accounting for all that energy through things like power purchase agreements and uh rec purchases" }, { "start": 1956.04, "end": 1962.6, "text": " which are renewable energy certificates so when you man I know what I'm going to say and I'm" }, { "start": 1962.6, "end": 1968.44, "text": " already bored by what I'm saying I'm so sorry um when you produce clean energy you you dump it" }, { "start": 1968.44, "end": 1973.48, "text": " into the grid and you also get a rec or renewable energy certificate that you can sell and that's a" }, { "start": 1973.48, "end": 1981.32, "text": " way to incentivize more renewable energy got a generation yeah so Google can effectively offset" }, { "start": 1981.32, "end": 1987.48, "text": " the electricity that they use by making sure that they have accounted for all their electricity through" }, { "start": 1988.2, "end": 1994.68, "text": " purchasing direct from renewable energy companies or purchasing renewable energy certificates for" }, { "start": 1994.68, "end": 1998.68, "text": " the megawatt hours that they've been using okay so it kind of divides again until like those two" }, { "start": 1998.68, "end": 2003.8, "text": " camps of like you can either get your supply as clean as possible or you can" }, { "start": 2004.76, "end": 2009.3200000000002, "text": " accept that your supply won't always be clean but sort of accept that total and purchase offsets" }, { "start": 2009.3200000000002, "end": 2013.4, "text": " in some way that can account for that right which is what we want to encourage right we want to" }, { "start": 2013.4, "end": 2021.0800000000002, "text": " incentivize that but also like it it also encourages Google to make claims like every single thing" }, { "start": 2021.0800000000002, "end": 2027.5600000000002, "text": " we've ever done is renewable energy we've never once even thought about using natural gas as an" }, { "start": 2027.56, "end": 2034.6, "text": " energy source yeah and like of course you could very easily point to a time when some station was" }, { "start": 2034.6, "end": 2039.6399999999999, "text": " run on yeah natural gas yeah but because they bought so many offsets they 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of complicated like matched 100 percent you know it's not exactly like the clearest sentence in the" }, { "start": 2081.32, "end": 2089.32, "text": " world but in the sort of Apple companion sister crest release that they always do they full on say" }, { "start": 2089.32, "end": 2096.04, "text": " Apple's global facilities are powered with 100 percent clean energy across 43 countries which" }, { "start": 2096.04, "end": 2102.52, "text": " just feels like an impossible wrong thing so are you allowed to say powered with 100 percent clean" }, { "start": 2102.52, "end": 2109.88, "text": " energy even if you're just offset yeah so I think apples claim that they've like they're powered" }, { "start": 2109.96, "end": 2117.0, "text": " 100 percent renewable in 43 countries when they only have power generation in 20 something countries" }, { "start": 2117.0, "end": 2123.7200000000003, "text": " is like so you're not powered by that you're doing the offsetting and I and to my knowledge I think" }, { "start": 2123.7200000000003, "end": 2131.2400000000002, "text": " they are also doing some kind of power purchasing or or wreck purchasing or something and just calling it" }, { "start": 2131.2400000000002, "end": 2136.36, "text": " powered because you can do the mental judo to make it feel like that's what's powering you" }, { "start": 2136.36, "end": 2142.36, "text": " is that sorry to interrupt is that kind of like when they say like made with made with 100 percent" }, { "start": 2142.36, "end": 2148.44, "text": " real juice or something and it's like half half from concentrate but it's made with 100 percent" }, { "start": 2148.44, "end": 2153.96, "text": " real juice there was a yeah so you can get in there wasn't attempt to yeah you know what I mean" }, { "start": 2153.96, "end": 2160.76, "text": " like that I think it's actually even worse than that because the FDA pretty tightly regulates" }, { "start": 2160.76, "end": 2166.92, "text": " things like that and there are such loose regulations in what you're allowed to say you're a" }, { "start": 2166.92, "end": 2173.32, "text": " I think the European Parliament is is starting to crack down on that and so like you can't make" }, { "start": 2173.32, "end": 2181.7200000000003, "text": " greenwashing claims like 100 percent clean powered if it's not the US bless our little hearts" }, { "start": 2181.7200000000003, "end": 2189.48, "text": " has fewer screwpils about what a company is allowed to say marketing-wise so yeah I think apple" }, { "start": 2189.48, "end": 2195.88, "text": " can say that and they can back it up by proving oh every single time we we you know like flush" }, { "start": 2195.88, "end": 2200.28, "text": " to toilet that doesn't that's the one thing that doesn't take electricity my god every time we turn" }, { "start": 2200.28, "end": 2206.84, "text": " to light on and turn the fan on at in the bathroom yeah wow what I'm blowing this we can account" }, { "start": 2206.84, "end": 2211.96, "text": " for that in renewable energy right and yeah I mean like they think they can you know like they kind" }, { "start": 2211.96, "end": 2218.12, "text": " of can and also no one's gonna no one's gonna walk into Tim Cook's office who runs apple now" }, { "start": 2218.2799999999997, "end": 2223.24, "text": " Tim Tim Cook okay I almost said Steve Jobs I really did no one's gonna dig up Steve Jobs" }, { "start": 2223.24, "end": 2227.88, "text": " I'm arrested so this is a really interesting thing because apple kind of I've learned a lot about" }, { "start": 2227.88, "end": 2232.52, "text": " what apple's been doing and they they kind of do both sides of this where yeah they clearly can't" }, { "start": 2232.52, "end": 2237.48, "text": " be completely renewable and so their statements kind of feel fuzzy in that way but on the other hand" }, { "start": 2237.48, "end": 2243.08, "text": " they have a lot of solar on on their HQ I doubt the entire thing runs from solar but they they" }, { "start": 2243.08, "end": 2247.48, "text": " have a lot of solar there they have all these solar farms that they've contributed to building" }, { "start": 2248.28, "end": 2252.36, "text": " and then the one thing that really stuck with me was having a meeting with them they're" }, { "start": 2252.36, "end": 2259.0, "text": " talking about manufacturing and also that's a very cool sentence to say having a meeting with apple" }, { "start": 2259.0, "end": 2264.6, "text": " oh yeah oh no yeah we've and look they they love to talk our ear off about all the great things" }, { "start": 2264.6, "end": 2270.12, "text": " that they're doing nice um but one of the things that stuck with me was they may say that they're" }, { "start": 2270.12, "end": 2275.4, "text": " doing some things and you can split into these two buckets but one thing about apple is they" }, { "start": 2275.48, "end": 2280.92, "text": " they've told me like strongly they're trying to make the best effort to to use sustainable" 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working with suppliers to do this yeah so like they are doing a lot and I really respect" }, { "start": 2364.52, "end": 2371.64, "text": " the accomplishments that they have made and I think our job as like people in the same world as" }, { "start": 2371.64, "end": 2379.72, "text": " apple is to like say good job but also don't stop where you're at because that's not far enough" }, { "start": 2379.72, "end": 2383.9599999999996, "text": " yeah or you can say whatever version of good job and you can make it mean if you want even good" }, { "start": 2383.9599999999996, "end": 2389.7999999999997, "text": " start good start yeah it's a good start speaking of clean energy and kind of near the end of this" }, { "start": 2389.7999999999997, "end": 2396.2, "text": " topic there's the thing the apple did either the beginning of this year or last year bitmojis yeah" }, { "start": 2399.3999999999996, "end": 2405.8799999999997, "text": " that we made a short on where basically by default on every 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it's a switch what it what it what it is is there's" }, { "start": 2484.2, "end": 2491.96, "text": " enough solar electricity being generated in California that they can't use it all so so it" }, { "start": 2491.96, "end": 2500.12, "text": " creates this kind of like oh wow yeah so so if you're in California your iPhone is most likely to" }, { "start": 2500.12, "end": 2505.56, "text": " charge on this renewable energy charging all the peak hours in the like noon kind of when there's" }, { "start": 2505.56, "end": 2511.48, "text": " the most sun the most solar on the grid because that grid is like maximum solar yeah this is my" }, { "start": 2511.48, "end": 2516.52, "text": " understanding of how this apple works if if you are out there Tim I know you're watching this" }, { "start": 2517.32, "end": 2522.2, "text": " nice pajamas last night what a weird what a horrible thing for me to say to" }, { "start": 2524.2, "end": 2529.0, "text": " yeah so I think this how that works but if you are in a place where there is not a lot of" }, { "start": 2529.0, "end": 2534.6, "text": " renewable energy being dispatched into your grid it's just gonna have to pick the time when it's like" }, { "start": 2534.6, "end": 2539.0, "text": " oh there's like a little bit more wind maybe it got like windier so it's like yeah or like" }, { "start": 2539.0, "end": 2545.16, "text": " there's more nuclear online or public information that your iPhone can collect yeah absolutely yeah" }, { "start": 2545.16, "end": 2554.2, "text": " you can the energy information administration EIA Matt fact check yeah yeah you can you can I mean" }, { "start": 2554.2, "end": 2560.52, "text": " you can't get like your specific part of transmission but like you can get a breakdown of your" }, { "start": 2560.52, "end": 2565.4, "text": " chunk of the grid so like you could look at New York State and see basically what's happening" }, { "start": 2565.48, "end": 2568.76, "text": " right and it's different for different times of the year so like the shoulder months where there's" }, { "start": 2568.76, "end": 2575.48, "text": " less electricity load for AC and more sores to say like September October that's where you have the" }, { "start": 2575.48, "end": 2581.0, "text": " the biggest where they're dumping a lot of solar in California Matt is an engineer turned" }, { "start": 2581.0, "end": 2586.36, "text": " comedian and so that's it there's not a lot of those out there so if you find one hold on to" }, { "start": 2586.36, "end": 2593.1600000000003, "text": " them that's me too oh really um not funny you're funny I thought you were a computer scientist" }, { "start": 2593.24, "end": 2596.6, "text": " that's the same thing that's a good engineer that's like it's like real engineer" }, { "start": 2596.6, "end": 2603.48, "text": " computer scientist it's just an engineer who drives trains okay well I was making a bad joke that" }, { "start": 2603.48, "end": 2609.24, "text": " um if was funny would be would make my point true if you were a comedian uh here's what happened" }, { "start": 2609.24, "end": 2614.8399999999997, "text": " I felt I felt like I needed to defend myself but objectively it was funny I'm known as the" }, { "start": 2614.8399999999997, "end": 2619.72, "text": " right moment it was the right timing you said it right I just was like someone's gonna get mad at" }, { "start": 2619.72, "end": 2623.9599999999996, "text": " me yeah and I didn't want that I'm not a comedian but I can't be funny you're a funny guy when" }, { "start": 2623.9599999999996, "end": 2632.3599999999997, "text": " there's 1.46 billion active iPhones uh throughout the world do you see that as actually being an" }, { "start": 2632.3599999999997, "end": 2639.08, "text": " impactful change like that only charging at peak hours kind of thing so I think uh I mean" }, { "start": 2639.8799999999997, "end": 2644.7599999999998, "text": " that's not going to be the thing that saves us but I think the thing that saves us is like" }, { "start": 2645.2400000000002, "end": 2651.1600000000003, "text": " a hundred thousand things that won't save us you know like our salvation is going to come at the" }, { "start": 2651.1600000000003, "end": 2658.28, "text": " hands of like an everything thrown at the wall kind of approach right an apple doing an opt out" }, { "start": 2658.28, "end": 2664.2000000000003, "text": " yeah version of this is awesome it felt like a big deal to us because yeah normally companies don't" }, { "start": 2664.2000000000003, "end": 2669.8, "text": " do opt out things right they're trying to screw you over but this seems like a like wait this is" }, { "start": 2669.8, "end": 2673.8, "text": " like good for everyone yeah it felt like a thing they didn't have to do they flip the switch" }, { "start": 2673.8, "end": 2678.6000000000004, "text": " everyone's phones are doing it by default and you can then people were happy to opt out in the" }, { "start": 2678.6000000000004, "end": 2683.32, "text": " comments but it was just the fact that that many phones all at once opted in felt like it made a" }, { "start": 2683.32, "end": 2691.1600000000003, "text": " dent so really your video about how to opt out probably was carbon negative probably a bad thing oh" }, { "start": 2691.1600000000003, "end": 2697.2400000000002, "text": " man I think it's I think it's really cool I think it is free for ample to do because they're not" }, { "start": 2697.2400000000002, "end": 2702.28, "text": " paying for the electricity so like it's a very cool move way to go Tim it goes back to the" }, { "start": 2702.28, "end": 2706.52, "text": " beginning thing every company has got a good public facing and private facing reason right the" }, { "start": 2706.52, "end": 2712.6000000000004, "text": " private facing reason is that was pretty good PR yeah yeah but yeah it actually does make a" }, { "start": 2712.6000000000004, "end": 2716.28, "text": " difference so that was good to see that's cool that most of what they're they're doing with" }, { "start": 2716.28, "end": 2720.44, "text": " emissions when they're looking at carbon emissions is scope three hmm so they're actually looking at" }, { "start": 2721.1600000000003, "end": 2725.32, "text": " what's happening with their products when they're out in the world not like what's happening at" }, { "start": 2725.32, "end": 2728.36, "text": " their offices or what's happening and their trucks like they're looking at like these products are" }, { "start": 2728.36, "end": 2732.2000000000003, "text": " living on the world and so over the course of your life your iPhone like you're charging it on" }, { "start": 2732.2000000000003, "end": 2738.6, "text": " the grid and so it is also affecting their carbon emissions because like the vast majority like 90" }, { "start": 2738.6, "end": 2744.04, "text": " plus percent is scope three which includes charging your iPhone so it all ties back into the same" }, 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lights and manufacturing equipment and all this" }, { "start": 2782.2, "end": 2788.2, "text": " stuff that naturally feels like it has to be making a big impact but probably more than all of" }, { "start": 2788.2, "end": 2793.56, "text": " that put together or as we're learning is more than all of that is probably the transportation of" }, { "start": 2793.56, "end": 2799.24, "text": " getting it to you and then the energy that it burns while it's in your hands so this is something when" }, { "start": 2799.24, "end": 2803.3199999999997, "text": " when Apple came out I think it was earlier this year and they said that the the Apple watch this year" }, { "start": 2803.3199999999997, "end": 2809.3199999999997, "text": " series nine is Apple's first ever carbon neutral product fully carbon neutral right they said that" }, { "start": 2809.32, "end": 2814.76, "text": " that includes the entire lifetime of you using and charging it which obviously they don't know how" }, { "start": 2814.76, 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like we're reaching a point in capitalism where it's" }, { "start": 3218.36, "end": 3226.1200000000003, "text": " more cost effective for the company to do things that are climate positive in a lot of ways would" }, { "start": 3226.1200000000003, "end": 3233.96, "text": " you say that's the case I think we're slowly getting to that point I think still to this day it is" }, { "start": 3233.96, "end": 3240.2000000000003, "text": " probably more cost effective for a company to mine new material than it is for them to recycle" }, { "start": 3240.2799999999997, "end": 3249.0, "text": " just because like when when you're mining it you're getting it a giant vein of it in one shot" }, { "start": 3249.0, "end": 3253.8799999999997, "text": " and you don't have to do a lot of processing to get it to pry it out of old phones right I think like" }, { "start": 3253.8799999999997, "end": 3258.8399999999997, "text": " if there was some kind of law that was like it's we're gonna put a giant tariff on 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strike on they made this folding phone recently okay right expensive $1,700 they have this" }, { "start": 3402.84, "end": 3408.28, "text": " rebate that lasts until the end of time until they stop selling the phone where if you send them" }, { "start": 3408.28, "end": 3415.24, "text": " in any phone in any condition from any one plus phone no any phone anybody's phone well any" }, { "start": 3415.24, "end": 3420.2, "text": " sure I guess like Mark has gonna burn your phone I got a second test right now any phone that has" }, { "start": 3420.2, "end": 3425.4, "text": " ever been made if you send them a phone okay it could be burned to a crisp it could be whatever" }, { "start": 3425.4, "end": 3432.04, "text": " they will give you a $200 off their new folding phone oh and somebody in my briefing was like" }, { "start": 3432.04, "end": 3437.56, "text": " so it could be like you know 12 year old phone or like something that bear it like doesn't work" }, { "start": 3437.56, "end": 3442.68, "text": " anymore and they're like yeah and there's been a lot of questions like why would they do that" }, { "start": 3442.68, "end": 3450.04, "text": " and my intuition was they're trying to get the cobalt from it either as a credit of sorts that" }, { "start": 3450.04, "end": 3454.7599999999998, "text": " they can use later or that they can like reuse in their devices but I don't know if that's" }, { "start": 3455.48, "end": 3461.88, "text": " way too expensive to do it probably cost more than $200 per device like what's your take on that" }, { "start": 3461.88, "end": 3469.96, "text": " yeah there's definitely not $200 worth of cobalt in every phone um I think I mean it sounds" }, { "start": 3469.96, "end": 3475.56, "text": " it sounds cool I think that's a cool move for one phone one plus one plus to do yeah sorry one" }, { "start": 3475.56, "end": 3483.1600000000003, "text": " plus it sounds pretty cool um and I yeah I'm not I'm not really sure I suppose there's like a I" }, { 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3517.56, "text": " they recycled 50,000 all that's a phone all that put together yeah which and that's just from one" }, { "start": 3517.56, "end": 3523.48, "text": " guy's mom's house yeah so that feels like a net positive he founds yeah but uh as with any" }, { "start": 3523.48, "end": 3530.04, "text": " dealer what whoa as with any of these drug as cobalt um as with any of these quotes there's obviously" }, { "start": 3531.24, "end": 3535.64, "text": " language that's very specific to them and there's an asterisk at the end of that is the that's" }, { "start": 3535.64, "end": 3541.4, "text": " the whole thing about quotes yeah language that's very specific very specific yeah very specific" }, { "start": 3541.4, "end": 3545.16, "text": " with this one so apples that I read at the end with the apple design batteries has an asterisk" }, { "start": 3545.16, "end": 3551.96, "text": " so the quote again is by 2025 they are targeting using a hundred percent recycled cobalt in all" }, { "start": 3551.96, "end": 3559.3199999999997, "text": " apple design batteries asterisk the asterisk says when you scroll down to the bottom all cobalt" }, { "start": 3559.3199999999997, "end": 3567.16, "text": " content references are on a mass balance system basis okay I read this and I don't know what that" }, { "start": 3567.16, "end": 3572.8399999999997, "text": " means so when I knew you were coming I decided not to google it I just asked you okay so as far as" }, { "start": 3572.84, "end": 3581.48, "text": " I understand mass balance system is about inputs versus outputs so when you say mass balance if you" }, { "start": 3581.48, "end": 3587.56, "text": " have almost all recycled cobalt or all recycled cobalt going into the system anything that's coming" }, { "start": 3587.56, "end": 3593.32, "text": " out of the system gets to be counted as a hundred percent recycled cobalt okay so even if you've" }, { "start": 3593.32, "end": 3598.6000000000004, "text": " got somewhere in the line and and please if you're out there and you're like that's not what it means" }, { "start": 3598.6, "end": 3605.56, "text": " leave a comment and I'll respond to it and I'll say thanks Jackson um yeah so mass balance is a" }, { "start": 3605.56, "end": 3613.3199999999997, "text": " way to because when and it's also probably not a hundred percent recycled cobalt in the whole thing" }, { "start": 3613.3199999999997, "end": 3617.3199999999997, "text": " you know in the same way it's like oh it's a hundred percent recycled plastic in the in the" }, { "start": 3617.3199999999997, "end": 3622.36, "text": " phone but it's actually like oh actually just the back cases recycled and fifty percent of the" }, { "start": 3622.52, "end": 3632.2000000000003, "text": " plastic total is recycled it's it's a way to allow inputs to be counted in the system itself" }, { "start": 3632.2000000000003, "end": 3637.0, "text": " because when you are recycling something you're mixing all the molecules together just like the" }, { "start": 3637.0, "end": 3641.2400000000002, "text": " electricity or just like the offsets where you you need to be able to" }, { "start": 3643.48, "end": 3649.96, "text": " account for the extra inputs in the system so maybe maybe you're flushing the system with recycled" }, { "start": 3650.04, "end": 3655.08, "text": " cobalt and eventually all of the the phones and all of the batteries are using recycled cobalt but" }, { "start": 3655.08, "end": 3658.92, "text": " okay it's a way to kind of couch it a little bit yeah and the thing you mentioned also with the" }, { "start": 3658.92, "end": 3663.08, "text": " different parts of the phone is very very very common for these quotes where they'll say that we're" }, { "start": 3663.08, "end": 3669.08, "text": " using uh recycled aluminum but they'll say it's just the enclosure of the pixel five where there's" }, { "start": 3669.08, "end": 3673.2400000000002, "text": " a lot of aluminum also in the frame on the inside of the phone that they don't talk about so it'll just" }, { "start": 3673.2400000000002, "end": 3677.64, "text": " be the outside but what you're holding and you're holding recycled aluminum that's great but" }, { "start": 3677.64, "end": 3682.44, "text": " stuff like that comes up a lot the enclosure of the phone the frame of the phone this part of the" }, { "start": 3682.44, "end": 3687.4, "text": " phone is recycled aluminum which is nice uh and which also brings up another thing also which is" }, { "start": 3688.3599999999997, "end": 3694.12, "text": " Google's quote for recycled aluminum it was back housing only and it recycled aluminum is" }, { "start": 3694.12, "end": 3701.3199999999997, "text": " approximately fifty eight percent of the pixel five enclosure based on weight okay specific yeah" }, { "start": 3701.4, "end": 3708.92, "text": " and and like I just want to make sure I'm I'm clear here like this is a good thing to be recycling" }, { "start": 3708.92, "end": 3714.6000000000004, "text": " this material absolutely and the engineers the the mechanical engineers or whoever's designing or" }, { "start": 3714.6000000000004, "end": 3720.1200000000003, "text": " what I don't know how phones work um these these guys are like we're trying to do our you know like" }, { "start": 3720.1200000000003, "end": 3725.4, "text": " we're we're doing our best to put as much in there and then the marketing arm is like got it now how" }, { "start": 3725.4, "end": 3731.4, "text": " do we like spin this in one line and make it really pop yeah and that's where this sort of like" }, { "start": 3731.4, "end": 3738.36, "text": " judo comes in so I want to say like great job on the fifty eight percent of recycled material" }, { "start": 3738.36, "end": 3742.44, "text": " let's see how high we can get that but then when you see a quote that's like a hundred percent" }, { "start": 3742.44, "end": 3747.88, "text": " recycled and you're like well back away from the table like a blackjack dealer and like move on" }, { "start": 3747.88, "end": 3753.1600000000003, "text": " to the next thing like you can't you can't let them stop at a hundred percent when a hundred percent" }, { "start": 3753.16, "end": 3759.24, "text": " is fifty right right but it's good but it's not there yet yeah yeah yeah says the aluminum in the" }, { "start": 3759.24, "end": 3764.7599999999998, "text": " enclosure of the pixel five is a hundred percent recycled content in which I would say so is ours" }, { "start": 3765.64, "end": 3771.64, "text": " so uh a recycled con see you are a comedian don't sell yourself short but a hundred percent of" }, { "start": 3771.64, "end": 3776.92, "text": " fifty eight percent is fifty eight percent no one can do that math that's too hard yeah and that" }, { "start": 3776.92, "end": 3781.96, "text": " to me that is the exact fruit juice thing that right there yeah aluminum in the enclosure of the" }, { "start": 3781.96, "end": 3787.7200000000003, "text": " pixel five is a hundred percent recycled content but that recycled content is fifty eight percent" }, { "start": 3787.7200000000003, "end": 3793.0, "text": " recycled content yeah okay fifty percent of the time it works every time yeah that" }, { "start": 3793.0, "end": 3797.64, "text": " aspects is doing a lot of heavy but like that's not the engineer like the engineers are doing" }, { "start": 3797.64, "end": 3803.0, "text": " their best you know I don't know there's no I think it's easy especially in a special" }, { "start": 3803.0, "end": 3808.12, "text": " on YouTube or on the internet in general people want to be like this is only terrible or this" }, { "start": 3808.12, "end": 3812.6, "text": " is only amazing but it's sort of one of those middle ground things where it's like it is a net" }, { "start": 3812.6, "end": 3817.48, "text": " positive even though it is also beneficial for the company to be doing it one of those kind of" }, { "start": 3817.48, "end": 3822.6, "text": " things and you know I mean it doesn't feel good to be like thanks Apple you're really saving the" }, { "start": 3822.6, "end": 3828.68, "text": " planet yeah you know that their net emissions without all the offsets and stuff are still like" }, { "start": 3829.48, "end": 3834.2, "text": " but yeah it's still good you don't want to like be mad at companies for doing the best that they can" }, { "start": 3834.2, "end": 3839.08, "text": " well you are they doing the best that they can well and that's like they're they're doing the best" }, { "start": 3839.08, "end": 3843.8799999999997, "text": " that they want to do yeah yeah yeah I think I think that's that's where we exist we can like" }, { "start": 3844.68, "end": 3851.24, "text": " we force them to do better or ask them to do better yeah and also be happy that they're doing right" }, { "start": 3851.24, "end": 3856.4399999999996, "text": " doing something you know yeah yeah I think that's a good place to like summarize it all because at the" }, { "start": 3856.4399999999996, "end": 3860.68, "text": " end of the day we vote with our wallets like if we actually want to make decisions based on what" }, { "start": 3860.68, "end": 3865.0, "text": " these companies are saying about not just how well the product works but how sustainably well it's" }, { "start": 3865.0, "end": 3870.44, "text": " made we can make that difference in them because that's the thing they care the most about is where we" }, { "start": 3870.44, "end": 3876.52, "text": " spend our money so when we are evaluating what these companies are saying we can push them a little" }, { "start": 3876.52, "end": 3881.7999999999997, "text": " bit on okay you could do better here or you could do more here or you could be more sustainable here" }, { "start": 3881.7999999999997, "end": 3887.48, "text": " and actually buy products and make it obvious that that's why you're buying the product yeah although" }, { "start": 3887.48, "end": 3893.88, "text": " we we vote with our wallets but we like encourage with our mouths and social media so like" }, { "start": 3894.52, "end": 3898.04, "text": " that's that's the other thing if you're out there and you like want to push these guys like push" }, { "start": 3898.04, "end": 3903.16, "text": " them like they for some reason they listen to you on Twitter you know like listen they like they" }, { "start": 3903.16, "end": 3908.68, "text": " take all that into account and like be that be that force if you're out there yeah don't let them" }, { "start": 3908.68, "end": 3912.04, "text": " off the hook yeah yeah the fair phone company that we were talking about is one of the most" }, { "start": 3912.04, "end": 3916.6, "text": " interesting ones in the space because they have made a conscious effort to and I made a video about" }, { "start": 3916.6, "end": 3924.2, "text": " this to make their entire smartphone from the beginning of the process from the the offices that" }, { "start": 3924.2, "end": 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repair is one of those things that we we always I made a video about this as well" }, { "start": 4048.84, "end": 4054.1200000000003, "text": " it's like okay we want tech to be better um tech gets more integrated gets more tightly knit gets" }, { "start": 4054.1200000000003, "end": 4060.2000000000003, "text": " faster now it's less repairable now it's less sustainable yeah so that's a challenge we all have" }, { "start": 4060.2000000000003, "end": 4065.96, "text": " started to contend with yeah that's yeah but there's also like Apple being in like purposely" }, { "start": 4065.96, "end": 4070.84, "text": " difficult exactly there and that's that yeah that's that yeah there are things on the fringes that are" }, { "start": 4071.6400000000003, "end": 4077.32, "text": " notably anti repair which make it really tough to justify all the rest of the stuff that they do" }, { "start": 4077.8, "end": 4082.44, "text": " are you kind of wrapping it up yeah I was gonna say the EV rabbit hole is way too deep to dive into now" }, { "start": 4082.44, "end": 4088.1200000000003, "text": " oh god big one I'll come back later I'll come back in an in an EV oh what about the you" }, { "start": 4088.1200000000003, "end": 4092.76, "text": " want to do the the leather one we have like quick hits yeah quick hits okay okay yeah all right I think" }, { "start": 4092.76, "end": 4097.16, "text": " I'll I'll we'll wrap it up with a couple quick hits no pressure to think too hard about these but" }, { "start": 4097.16, "end": 4101.64, "text": " also all the comment section is is waiting to comment about these quick we got a bunch of quick" }, { "start": 4101.64, "end": 4106.04, "text": " hit heads in the in the comments a couple quick hits they skip straight to this part of the" }, { "start": 4106.04, "end": 4110.84, "text": " podcast there's timestamps for for them to get mad here right okay 10 seconds for each answer" }, { "start": 4111.64, "end": 4116.52, "text": " first one is net water positive a real or interesting least thing we should care about it's a" }, { "start": 4116.52, "end": 4121.0, "text": " bit of an accounting technique Google uses net water positive to imply that they're gray or" }, { "start": 4121.0, "end": 4128.92, "text": " non-potable water potable obviously being Latin root for potare right not potable they use that to" }, { "start": 4129.88, "end": 4133.16, "text": " say we're catching more rainwater so we're cycling out how much" }, { "start": 4133.72, "end": 4138.28, "text": " potable water we're using and we're collecting more than we're using okay yeah so it's" }, { "start": 4138.28, "end": 4141.64, "text": " but and then they also use as much pot potable water as they as they want" }, { "start": 4143.08, "end": 4147.96, "text": " Apple getting rid of all leather in all of their stores and all their products feels like a good" }, { "start": 4147.96, "end": 4155.64, "text": " thing but doesn't vegan leather use a ton of energy to create yeah but like it also doesn't" }, { "start": 4155.64, "end": 4162.52, "text": " produce all of the methane that we're seeing like cattle farms produce so like certainly there" }, { "start": 4162.52, "end": 4168.92, "text": " are bad parts of everything but I'd rather have like a vegan product that produces all so little" }, { "start": 4168.92, "end": 4174.6, "text": " methane rather than like a leather product that is part of this in giant meat industrial complex" }, { "start": 4174.6, "end": 4180.6, "text": " that's like slowly drowning the entire planet totally fair is it true that shipping more products via" }, { "start": 4180.6, "end": 4186.6, "text": " ocean than air is actually a good thing absolutely yes it's a little bit slower but when you think" }, { "start": 4186.6, "end": 4192.120000000001, "text": " about buoyancy right you can make a ship naturally buoyant and a plane requires like a ton" }, { "start": 4192.120000000001, "end": 4195.88, "text": " where you think about buoyancy too hard there there's a running joke here on the pod that none of us" }, { "start": 4195.88, "end": 4202.92, "text": " understand how boats work oh no that's a good bit just just perfect but I just don't really you" }, { "start": 4202.92, "end": 4209.400000000001, "text": " know boats are just yeah Joe great well air is a fluid air is a fluid so just imagine how and boats" }, { "start": 4209.4, "end": 4213.719999999999, "text": " don't have wings so what the do they have a little tiny wing they have one wing on the bottom of" }, { "start": 4213.719999999999, "end": 4219.639999999999, "text": " the building little wings it's called the keel or the dagger board if you're in a sailboat this is" }, { "start": 4219.639999999999, "end": 4224.36, "text": " see like my eyes they're just I can they turned they turned all black for a second like" }, { "start": 4224.36, "end": 4230.679999999999, "text": " covered off his chair you can cover it donut with all that glaze damn okay so yeah the quick" }, { "start": 4230.679999999999, "end": 4237.639999999999, "text": " head's are going crazy in the comments yeah well last quick it true false the EV battery rabbit hole" }, { "start": 4237.64, "end": 4242.92, "text": " is too deep to dive down right now true but only because I want to come back and talk to you guys" }, { "start": 4242.92, "end": 4249.08, "text": " about that later we are gonna find a separate episode yeah just on the EV rabbit hole because we" }, { "start": 4249.08, "end": 4254.52, "text": " would we'd be happy to dive down that rabbit hole yeah I have a quick hit yeah rolly yes how fast" }, { "start": 4254.52, "end": 4261.8, "text": " can you type the alphabet wait five point nine seconds would you like to prove that oh no but yeah" }, { "start": 4261.8, "end": 4266.4400000000005, "text": " I'll do it let's try it all right so the way this works is pretty simple rolly what you're looking" }, { "start": 4266.44, "end": 4271.08, "text": " at in front of you is a box it's empty all you've got to do is type all the letters of the alphabet" }, { "start": 4271.08, "end": 4276.44, "text": " in order from a to z and then don't hit enter at the end when you hit z you'll have a time don't" }, { "start": 4276.44, "end": 4281.639999999999, "text": " hit enter don't hit enter okay in any order or you got a type of a noir or a bc to efg all the way to" }, { "start": 4281.639999999999, "end": 4286.599999999999, "text": " z when you hit z that's your time we're gonna give you three attempts and if you hit five point" }, { "start": 4286.599999999999, "end": 4294.5199999999995, "text": " nine on the dot I will give you a small trophy oh well and if you miss a letter it will not accept any" }, { "start": 4294.52, "end": 4301.56, "text": " of the following letters until you hit that so go back and you go a b d e f it'll df be waiting on c" }, { "start": 4301.56, "end": 4306.76, "text": " but will it it doesn't penalize me for hitting the wrong letter correct so I can just mash in the area" }, { "start": 4306.76, "end": 4311.4800000000005, "text": " yes true I mean that's not gonna be faster it's a bad strategy but I'm technically right what if it" }, { "start": 4311.4800000000005, "end": 4316.52, "text": " isn't oh you know what I'm gonna it's you have to hit him in order still but you can you can hit like" }, { "start": 4316.52, "end": 4321.320000000001, "text": " yeah I'm I mean you could just I mean I'm just gonna try something really quick I mean theoretically" }, { "start": 4321.32, "end": 4327.0, "text": " if you wipe 26 times in two seconds you'll get a 20 you get it to seconds I can't I can't quite" }, { "start": 4327.0, "end": 4334.2, "text": " cover all the keys it's very hard are you wiping now yeah are you wiping now" }, { "start": 4334.2, "end": 4339.16, "text": " yes I just answer the question so the good all right here we go you got a leaderboard pull that" }, { "start": 4339.16, "end": 4354.5199999999995, "text": " work for me at all okay ready yeah five point eight wow that's a pretty good first score I was" }, { "start": 4354.5199999999995, "end": 4359.88, "text": " trying to get 5.9 very very close you'll have two more attempts if you want to try to get faster than" }, { "start": 4359.88, "end": 4369.08, "text": " 5.8 can I try to get slower than 5.8 you can the decimals on that just a round up 5.844 okay so you" }, { "start": 4369.08, "end": 4374.68, "text": " can either try to get exactly 5.9 or you can try to go for our leaderboard I'm gonna I'm gonna try" }, { "start": 4374.68, "end": 4379.8, "text": " to go as fast as I can and I bet I'm gonna get a 5.9 okay I'm not gonna be a huge win already yeah" }, { "start": 4379.8, "end": 4384.28, "text": " and it just it just resets or do I have to reset it when you hit enter it does reset got it" }, { "start": 4391.8, "end": 4395.48, "text": " 6.2 damn it all right one more time here we go one on moss" }, { "start": 4399.5599999999995, "end": 4413.96, "text": " 5.9 wow 5.973 wow that's pretty close that's pretty good oh you I had to get 5.9 000 technically" }, { "start": 4413.96, "end": 4419.24, "text": " this rounds up but I'm impressed you were 300ths of a second I'm very impressed then doctor" }, { "start": 4419.719999999999, "end": 4430.28, "text": " so yeah just in case you're curious your 5.8 puts you 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 at night on our all time" }, { "start": 4430.28, "end": 4437.5599999999995, "text": " leaderboard really wow right above dugdemiro right behind our local dad Andrew Megan Ellie" }, { "start": 4437.5599999999995, "end": 4443.88, "text": " wow well played thank you very much but the five point I feel like if if I get a trophy for 5.9" }, { "start": 4443.88, "end": 4448.36, "text": " that's got to go that's got to be my score what's the significance of 5.9 I was just guessing you" }, { "start": 4448.36, "end": 4452.92, "text": " just maybe he just thought I could maybe do it he just nailed it I'd bet I I got I went a little" }, { "start": 4452.92, "end": 4456.76, "text": " over it's pretty close I went a little over and a little under yeah we don't keep track of this" }, { "start": 4456.76, "end": 4463.24, "text": " but 5.8 might have been the best first round score we've ever Tom Scott might have beaten not on" }, { "start": 4463.24, "end": 4468.2, "text": " his first round I can't quite remember yeah but that's a pretty great first I gotta tell you I'm" }, { "start": 4468.2, "end": 4475.88, "text": " a terrible type I only use these fingers what do you think our slowest all time time is if" }, { "start": 4475.88, "end": 4481.08, "text": " your 5.8 is terrible what do you think is the worst anyone get disqualified for having a bad attitude" }, { "start": 4481.08, "end": 4489.8, "text": " or something we did have a certain someone start off by saying I am a bad typist really bad like" }, { "start": 4489.8, "end": 4496.5199999999995, "text": " hunt and pick and he was not last place wow yeah I guess I'm gonna say 12 seconds is the max" }, { "start": 4496.52, "end": 4501.160000000001, "text": " David Blaine was said subject he got 8.8 wait David Blaine is the slow oh he was" }, { "start": 4501.160000000001, "end": 4508.52, "text": " hit on a bad type yeah yeah what was the slowest brand our local our local brand and he got a 9.4" }, { "start": 4508.52, "end": 4513.080000000001, "text": " okay so no one's even no one's no one's been over 10 yeah okay that's good you only have tech" }, { "start": 4513.080000000001, "end": 4519.240000000001, "text": " heads on the yeah we got capable keyboardists here nice who's got the fastest score Tom Scott at" }, { "start": 4519.24, "end": 4525.32, "text": " what three point five yeah it was insane it was insane he was like yeah I think I can do it" }, { "start": 4525.32, "end": 4532.28, "text": " that's that's some classic Tom Scott yeah I'm standing here over keyboard there are 26 keys" }, { "start": 4532.28, "end": 4537.4, "text": " that I need to hit in the precise order and he he for sure how started he was like insisted about" }, { "start": 4537.4, "end": 4544.44, "text": " doing it on his Dell laptop wow because he had the keyboard down what a what a guy my god yeah" }, { "start": 4544.44, "end": 4550.28, "text": " okay so it's around this out we usually ask guess is there anything that people don't generally" }, { "start": 4550.28, "end": 4554.2, "text": " know about the topic that we're talking about that you just really want them to know do you want" }, { "start": 4554.2, "end": 4558.759999999999, "text": " these commenters to be like huh that's a fun fact about the climate that they just had no idea" }, { "start": 4558.759999999999, "end": 4567.879999999999, "text": " about um so I want to I think I want to stress that they probably don't know how ignorant I am" }, { "start": 4567.879999999999, "end": 4572.839999999999, "text": " on the topic how ignorant like everybody is on the topic like these are these are subjects that" }, { "start": 4572.84, "end": 4578.84, "text": " like we're we're talking about this on the ride over and we were like trying to wonder exactly how" }, { "start": 4578.84, "end": 4584.04, "text": " solar is curtailed and where the electricity goes when like it's produced or it's not produced" }, { "start": 4584.04, "end": 4592.12, "text": " and there's just so much to every single part of this that I am like so surface level aware of" }, { "start": 4592.12, "end": 4599.16, "text": " even after like a couple of months of study so like these are complex difficult topics that if" }, { "start": 4599.16, "end": 4603.48, "text": " somebody is like all my next burdens how solar works like they're not they are they're super" }, { "start": 4603.48, "end": 4609.24, "text": " not and so I think that should number one let me tell you how you should feel about this empowered" }, { "start": 4609.24, "end": 4617.32, "text": " to go out and learn but um more than anything just like you you get to pick what you learn today and" }, { "start": 4617.32, "end": 4622.92, "text": " you get to pick like how far along a subject you get into and it's probably worth your time to" }, { "start": 4622.92, "end": 4627.639999999999, "text": " understand the climate crisis as deeply as you can you'll never waste your time researching the" }, { "start": 4627.64, "end": 4633.72, "text": " stuff um so by all means please go research because there's like a bajillion things that I have no" }, { "start": 4633.72, "end": 4638.68, "text": " clue about and I'm gonna spend the rest of my life trying to figure them out yeah if you" }, { "start": 4638.68, "end": 4647.160000000001, "text": " make it that far I just get shot it's been a sting operation from a different oh my god" }, { "start": 4647.160000000001, "end": 4653.240000000001, "text": " yeah I think you meant climate change mega death not like oh like big oil is absolutely wrong" }, { "start": 4653.32, "end": 4659.08, "text": " what is this podcast but I think in general it is you're right it's a good idea to to learn about" }, { "start": 4659.08, "end": 4664.84, "text": " the world we live in about the about this planet we only have one of them so it's pretty uh" }, { "start": 4664.84, "end": 4670.2, "text": " it's pretty important yeah worth looking into yeah uh this been this has been really fun like I said" }, { "start": 4670.2, "end": 4674.44, "text": " we'll have you back we'll talk about EVs we'll do this again do but until the next one where can" }, { "start": 4674.44, "end": 4681.16, "text": " they find you on the internet okay yeah um youtube I have a youtube channel called climate town" }, { "start": 4681.24, "end": 4687.16, "text": " check that out we have 24 videos out or something so it won't even take you that long to go through" }, { "start": 4687.16, "end": 4692.84, "text": " them all their bangers though they're like 20 30 minute time pieces that's sometimes not how people" }, { "start": 4692.84, "end": 4698.04, "text": " describe bangers I think they're like that's how on youtube 2023 when I see a 25 minute video" }, { "start": 4698.04, "end": 4702.44, "text": " myself I'm like oh I'm popping the pop on the camera this is a good one oh I then then they are" }, { "start": 4702.44, "end": 4708.04, "text": " bang they are indeed bangers bangers to the last fingers only yeah bangers only that's a good like" }, { "start": 4708.04, "end": 4712.68, "text": " that's my website bangers only dot net bangers only dot yeah you have to plug that" }, { "start": 4712.68, "end": 4718.28, "text": " in here it was an apple it was an apple it was like plugging time yeah fucker no it's totally fine I" }, { "start": 4718.28, "end": 4724.2, "text": " I'm gonna go there after this and yeah so that's that's the youtube channel the climate" }, { "start": 4724.2, "end": 4729.88, "text": " deniers playbook check that out that's me and my comedy partner slash friend Nicole Conlon" }, { "start": 4731.72, "end": 4736.04, "text": " she got a plug she wretched for the daily show so she's really smart and really funny" }, { "start": 4736.36, "end": 4743.16, "text": " um those are the two big ones followers on instagram were like just at climate town and at deniers" }, { "start": 4743.16, "end": 4747.16, "text": " playbook everywhere we have a patreon page if you're feeling like you got an extra five bucks" }, { "start": 4747.16, "end": 4754.36, "text": " that you want to throw my way that'd be cool the plug sound is gonna make me really self-conscious" }, { "start": 4754.36, "end": 4758.2, "text": " about what's what's what's what I'm plugging in that we have a whole lighting queue with it too oh" }, { "start": 4758.2, "end": 4763.8, "text": " really that was a plug for the lighting queue this is cool and then also if you if you want to" }, { "start": 4763.8, "end": 4768.52, "text": " just get a little goofy with it I have a billiards channel if you just type my name we can make" }, { "start": 4768.52, "end": 4777.56, "text": " this one serious okay since the dawn of time mankind is wondered how do you hit a ball with a" }, { "start": 4777.56, "end": 4784.76, "text": " stick into another ball into a hole and all these questions and more are answered at the youtube" }, { "start": 4784.76, "end": 4791.320000000001, "text": " channel rolly williams um yeah but don't do the climate town ones first don't do that one first" }, { "start": 4791.88, "end": 4798.28, "text": " people only if there's if you you are like I need more vitamin him in my life like then go check" }, { "start": 4798.28, "end": 4806.28, "text": " that out but not before you check out climate town that's it there it is yeah thank you guys so much" }, { "start": 4806.28, "end": 4811.08, "text": " for watching for listening for subscribing of course and for liking and we'll read your comments" }, { "start": 4811.08, "end": 4818.759999999999, "text": " catch you guys in the next one peace go far away from us produced by adam elita and elis rovin we" }, { "start": 4818.76, "end": 4822.12, "text": " are part of the box media podcast network and our intro out your music is by vain still" }, { "start": 4848.84, "end": 4850.84, "text": " you" }, { "start": 4853.400000000001, "end": 4857.8, "text": " you guys ready for the next section yes yeah all right all right let's get it" }, { "start": 4862.280000000001, "end": 4866.12, "text": " I'm about to recycle a bunch of jokes nice okay perfect" }, { "start": 4869.24, "end": 4874.280000000001, "text": " I don't know what it is but you got it brother yeah you're gonna make it in this town kid yeah" } ]