Ed Helms
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There's all this sushi around we can eat, you know?
It turns out we have special underwater ordnance disposal teams that we can dispatch at any time.
Those are just people.
People with a fancy name.
But you're right, Lizzie.
Like, do you actually have that?
Or is that something you hastily scrambled together in the last second?
Is it just like a fishing net that you're, you know, casting wide across the ocean?
And then you just gave it a very official sounding name.
Yeah.
If you were like in the army, what would be your enthusiasm level for joining that cleanup crew?
If your superior was like, guys, put on your wetsuits.
So low, but because but there has been such incredible bravery from certain, you know, the Fukushima event in Japan and the individuals who like went in knowing they might die.
They wouldn't survive to clean that up, or the divers in Chernobyl that went through the water system and did survive.
Those people are heroes, and those things could have melted down even worse.
What's terrible about this in such a catch-22 way is the pointlessness, like you're saying.
The question is...
To what end are we even doing this to begin with?
And now I'm going to die for my country for an ambiguous test that we're not sure why we're doing at the end of the day.
I think that's the real tricky thing here.