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Ed Helms

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

There's all this sushi around we can eat, you know?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

It turns out we have special underwater ordnance disposal teams that we can dispatch at any time.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Those are just people.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

People with a fancy name.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

But you're right, Lizzie.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Like, do you actually have that?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Or is that something you hastily scrambled together in the last second?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Is it just like a fishing net that you're, you know, casting wide across the ocean?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

And then you just gave it a very official sounding name.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Yeah.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

If you were like in the army, what would be your enthusiasm level for joining that cleanup crew?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

If your superior was like, guys, put on your wetsuits.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

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.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

They wouldn't survive to clean that up, or the divers in Chernobyl that went through the water system and did survive.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Those people are heroes, and those things could have melted down even worse.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

What's terrible about this in such a catch-22 way is the pointlessness, like you're saying.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

The question is...

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

To what end are we even doing this to begin with?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

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.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

I think that's the real tricky thing here.