{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"startTime":18.08,"endTime":21.832,"body":"Welcome back to the Dodge the Norm podcast. I am"},{"startTime":21.856,"endTime":25.576,"body":"your host, Aaron Dodge and I wanted to welcome you to this week's"},{"startTime":25.608,"endTime":29.204,"body":"podcast, a special podcast, because today"},{"startTime":29.372,"endTime":32.692,"body":"is Earth Day, one of my favorite"},{"startTime":32.836,"endTime":36.42,"body":"holidays of the year. I feel like the 9 to"},{"startTime":36.46,"endTime":40.02,"body":"5 employee should get today off so that we could go"},{"startTime":40.06,"endTime":43.86,"body":"frolic in the wilderness. But some of us don't have that"},{"startTime":43.9,"endTime":47.44,"body":"luxury. So we will celebrate, as I say,"},{"startTime":47.74,"endTime":51.476,"body":"year round. For me, Earth Day is a great"},{"startTime":51.548,"endTime":54.752,"body":"way for us to put what is"},{"startTime":54.776,"endTime":58.416,"body":"happening around Earth in the forefront of conversations."},{"startTime":58.528,"endTime":62.112,"body":"It allows for us to celebrate, but also it allows for"},{"startTime":62.136,"endTime":65.68,"body":"us to come back to center and"},{"startTime":65.8,"endTime":69.136,"body":"to understand that our day to day"},{"startTime":69.288,"endTime":73.12,"body":"operations, our day to day way"},{"startTime":73.16,"endTime":76.288,"body":"that we are living, all of us on this"},{"startTime":76.344,"endTime":80.19,"body":"planet, mostly things that are happening"},{"startTime":80.27,"endTime":84.11,"body":"here in America, but around the Earth and"},{"startTime":84.23,"endTime":88.046,"body":"what those actions that we are taking every single day are really"},{"startTime":88.118,"endTime":91.69,"body":"doing to mother Earth. And"},{"startTime":92.23,"endTime":95.614,"body":"she's overheating. And I'm not going to get too"},{"startTime":95.702,"endTime":99.182,"body":"political, I'm not going to get too climate changey"},{"startTime":99.326,"endTime":103.07,"body":"in this particular podcast because"},{"startTime":103.19,"endTime":106.51,"body":"there's a lot of statistics out there. And me just lining up and"},{"startTime":106.55,"endTime":109.938,"body":"rifling statistics at you on a podcast or"},{"startTime":109.994,"endTime":112.946,"body":"on YouTube just isn't really"},{"startTime":113.018,"endTime":116.722,"body":"enjoyable for me and probably for you, the"},{"startTime":116.746,"endTime":120.354,"body":"listener, is there something that I can go deeper"},{"startTime":120.482,"endTime":123.73,"body":"to down the road when I have more of a"},{"startTime":123.77,"endTime":127.362,"body":"structured outline on the directions that we could"},{"startTime":127.386,"endTime":130.962,"body":"go? Yes. But for right now, we are going to keep it simple. We are"},{"startTime":130.986,"endTime":134.802,"body":"going to celebrate Earth Day. And specifically I want to talk to"},{"startTime":134.826,"endTime":138.53,"body":"you a little bit about my journey as becoming vegetarian nine"},{"startTime":138.57,"endTime":142.062,"body":"years ago. And that's when I really started"},{"startTime":142.166,"endTime":145.918,"body":"to see what the impact of being vegetarian and"},{"startTime":145.974,"endTime":149.502,"body":"positive impacts that being a vegetarian can be on the"},{"startTime":149.526,"endTime":153.182,"body":"earth from, you know, not contributing"},{"startTime":153.246,"endTime":156.67,"body":"to the gas emissions that the"},{"startTime":156.71,"endTime":160.478,"body":"lovely cows that are consumed are, hate"},{"startTime":160.494,"endTime":163.65,"body":"to say it, farting into our atmosphere."},{"startTime":164.23,"endTime":167.982,"body":"And I went vegetarian nine years ago because my"},{"startTime":168.006,"endTime":171.642,"body":"girlfriend at the time was looking to improve her"},{"startTime":171.666,"endTime":175.498,"body":"gut health a little bit. And so we watched a documentary and"},{"startTime":175.554,"endTime":179.29,"body":"I was basically hooked to be vegetarian from there. I was hooked for the"},{"startTime":179.33,"endTime":182.602,"body":"health aspect and then I quickly"},{"startTime":182.666,"endTime":186.31,"body":"changed into the environmental aspect and also"},{"startTime":187.25,"endTime":191.098,"body":"making sure that that animals don't feel"},{"startTime":191.154,"endTime":194.81,"body":"a certain way when they are being consumed. And we all"},{"startTime":194.93,"endTime":198.362,"body":"hate to see and hear about how animals are treated"},{"startTime":198.506,"endTime":202.262,"body":"as they go from farm to T. And so"},{"startTime":202.286,"endTime":206.006,"body":"that was kind of another thing that really stuck out to me when I started"},{"startTime":206.078,"endTime":209.17,"body":"my vegetarian journey. Now Earth Day,"},{"startTime":209.63,"endTime":213.222,"body":"before I became vegetarian, really, I probably had heard of it"},{"startTime":213.246,"endTime":216.57,"body":"before. It started in the 1970s."},{"startTime":217.15,"endTime":220.758,"body":"And if anybody here is listening I guess"},{"startTime":220.774,"endTime":224.05,"body":"everybody here is listening. But the best way for you to understand"},{"startTime":224.51,"endTime":228.31,"body":"how you can give back in your community and events that are going"},{"startTime":228.35,"endTime":230.806,"body":"on in your area is to visit"},{"startTime":230.878,"endTime":233.746,"body":"earthday.org those have"},{"startTime":233.818,"endTime":237.522,"body":"fantastic different opportunities for"},{"startTime":237.546,"endTime":241.218,"body":"you to volunteer, for you to be having communications"},{"startTime":241.314,"endTime":244.418,"body":"if you wish about the way that your city"},{"startTime":244.474,"endTime":247.922,"body":"recycles. It's really nice because there's, you know, it's,"},{"startTime":247.986,"endTime":251.666,"body":"it's opportunities for you to talk all throughout the United"},{"startTime":251.738,"endTime":255.554,"body":"States and across the entire globe. If you're listening"},{"startTime":255.602,"endTime":259.26,"body":"to me globally, which would be amazing."},{"startTime":259.45,"endTime":262.936,"body":"But yeah, you can go to earthday.org"},{"startTime":263.128,"endTime":266.84,"body":"and then also even just like going to eventbrite the couple of"},{"startTime":266.88,"endTime":269.54,"body":"weeks like leading up to Earth Day. You will see,"},{"startTime":270.64,"endTime":274.46,"body":"you know, park and trash and beach pickups"},{"startTime":275.76,"endTime":279.336,"body":"one time you will see learn how to compost another"},{"startTime":279.408,"endTime":283.24,"body":"time you will see the proper way to recycle might"},{"startTime":283.28,"endTime":287.064,"body":"be at your like local ymca. There's a lot of great things you"},{"startTime":287.072,"endTime":290.68,"body":"can be doing in your community to understand ways that you can"},{"startTime":290.8,"endTime":294.164,"body":"contribute and reduce your carbon"},{"startTime":294.212,"endTime":297.94,"body":"footprint. So another thing that I'm going to talk about today, now"},{"startTime":297.98,"endTime":301.364,"body":"that we're off and running with the topic of Earth Day"},{"startTime":301.532,"endTime":305.252,"body":"or some things that I do and my wife and I do around the"},{"startTime":305.276,"endTime":308.852,"body":"house that you can do as well that are just very subtle"},{"startTime":308.916,"endTime":312.484,"body":"changes that I know in the long run are making"},{"startTime":312.572,"endTime":315.12,"body":"an impact. And I say this with"},{"startTime":316.54,"endTime":320.082,"body":"like, I just want to say this that when you feel like"},{"startTime":320.106,"endTime":323.938,"body":"there's, you're not making a difference, that's the worst way to think because"},{"startTime":324.074,"endTime":327.73,"body":"one person making a small difference and you times that by a million, it"},{"startTime":327.77,"endTime":331.602,"body":"really makes an impact. So if you're just like, oh, I don't want"},{"startTime":331.626,"endTime":335.266,"body":"to pick up that trash or I don't really want to recycle that glass bottle"},{"startTime":335.298,"endTime":338.45,"body":"because it's got a lot of gook in it, like no, let's make some"},{"startTime":338.49,"endTime":342.21,"body":"decisions that you can be doing on a day to day basis that"},{"startTime":342.25,"endTime":345.928,"body":"can be reducing your carbon footprint and, and"},{"startTime":346.064,"endTime":349.864,"body":"really putting the earth in the driver's seat so"},{"startTime":349.872,"endTime":352.872,"body":"that we can make some good changes here. So I broke these down in my"},{"startTime":352.896,"endTime":356.216,"body":"newsletter from free to level"},{"startTime":356.288,"endTime":359.496,"body":"one to I guess level two. But level two is like"},{"startTime":359.568,"endTime":362.98,"body":"the, is like the most expensive and the"},{"startTime":364.0,"endTime":367.704,"body":"deepest way. I know that there's other people out there in"},{"startTime":367.872,"endTime":371.464,"body":"the sustainability movement that are doing"},{"startTime":371.552,"endTime":375.18,"body":"way more than this. You know, I don't"},{"startTime":375.26,"endTime":379.084,"body":"sugarcoat it. Everybody can probably see it on my social media. We drive"},{"startTime":379.132,"endTime":382.956,"body":"a gas powered car when we are financially ready"},{"startTime":382.988,"endTime":386.828,"body":"to make the next car purchase because we share Chelsea's car that"},{"startTime":386.884,"endTime":390.7,"body":"we had before we, me and her even met. We"},{"startTime":390.74,"endTime":394.268,"body":"will probably not. Probably we will be making a decision"},{"startTime":394.404,"endTime":398.092,"body":"to either a hybrid or a fully electronic car because we"},{"startTime":398.116,"endTime":401.84,"body":"believe in those kind of things. And by the time we're ready to"},{"startTime":402.22,"endTime":406.052,"body":"buy a car, there's going to be way more EVs out there. I mean,"},{"startTime":406.076,"endTime":409.684,"body":"I live out here in Los Angeles and every"},{"startTime":409.772,"endTime":413.492,"body":"other car I see is electric. And I believe that there is"},{"startTime":413.516,"endTime":417.172,"body":"a mandatory in the next, I"},{"startTime":417.196,"endTime":420.724,"body":"would want to say 5 to 10 years. Everything sold in California has to"},{"startTime":420.732,"endTime":424.5,"body":"be electronic. I am guessing that, right? I said"},{"startTime":424.54,"endTime":428.132,"body":"no facts. I said I was going to be getting all my facts together in"},{"startTime":428.156,"endTime":431.064,"body":"the future. But that was just something that came to my head. So I remember"},{"startTime":431.112,"endTime":434.264,"body":"that. Okay, let's go down this list of the things that I do and the"},{"startTime":434.272,"endTime":437.96,"body":"things that you can do to support our Mother Earth."},{"startTime":438.04,"endTime":441.832,"body":"Number one is recycle your plastic, your glass and your cardboard. I'm sure"},{"startTime":441.856,"endTime":445.464,"body":"you're already doing this at your apartment complex, but take an"},{"startTime":445.472,"endTime":448.34,"body":"extra step like, you know,"},{"startTime":449.44,"endTime":453.24,"body":"rinse out your ketchup bottle, separate your, your glass,"},{"startTime":453.4,"endTime":457.032,"body":"do all those kind of things. It's a very easy step. And if"},{"startTime":457.056,"endTime":460.872,"body":"you're doing that step one, love you for it. You"},{"startTime":460.896,"endTime":464.664,"body":"can recycle your cans in the state of California"},{"startTime":464.712,"endTime":468.456,"body":"and one of like the five states that you can recycle cans"},{"startTime":468.568,"endTime":471.544,"body":"and get money back. Now, I say that with a grain of salt and this"},{"startTime":471.552,"endTime":474.872,"body":"is something that I didn't know growing up, but you pay for the 5 cents"},{"startTime":474.936,"endTime":478.536,"body":"up front. So like when I go buy like a Coke, I get paid"},{"startTime":478.648,"endTime":482.086,"body":"instead of like a dollar for the Coke, it's a dollar five cents. But you're"},{"startTime":482.118,"endTime":485.35,"body":"at least getting some of that money back when you recycle your"},{"startTime":485.39,"endTime":488.982,"body":"cans. And like I said, choosing to be vegetarian"},{"startTime":489.046,"endTime":492.022,"body":"is a free and easy way for you to do that. And if you're a"},{"startTime":492.046,"endTime":495.782,"body":"meat eater, reducing your daily intake."},{"startTime":495.926,"endTime":499.462,"body":"I know that there's a big movement in the vegetarian space for"},{"startTime":499.486,"endTime":503.27,"body":"Meatless Mondays. So that's another opportunity that"},{"startTime":503.31,"endTime":507.01,"body":"you can do as well. I call these level one."},{"startTime":507.76,"endTime":511.576,"body":"You can. We've purchased reusable paper towels. Now, don't get me wrong,"},{"startTime":511.608,"endTime":515.064,"body":"we have a dog and you probably have children and you probably want to"},{"startTime":515.072,"endTime":518.3,"body":"be wiping up weird"},{"startTime":519.6,"endTime":523.368,"body":"bodily things with a paper towel instead of"},{"startTime":523.424,"endTime":526.696,"body":"reusing it and washing it. I know that there are people out there that use"},{"startTime":526.768,"endTime":530.328,"body":"reusable diapers, power to them. But reusable"},{"startTime":530.424,"endTime":533.4,"body":"paper towels, it's a brand called Zero Wastely. And they were"},{"startTime":533.44,"endTime":537.284,"body":"$34. And so if there's a really bad spill"},{"startTime":537.332,"endTime":541.044,"body":"or our dog makes a mess, I use paper towels. But like I"},{"startTime":541.052,"endTime":543.812,"body":"say a very like a weird, a weird way to say it is like I"},{"startTime":543.836,"endTime":547.332,"body":"used to put my toast in the morning on a paper towel"},{"startTime":547.396,"endTime":551.172,"body":"that barely got used and barely got like any peanut butter on it."},{"startTime":551.196,"endTime":554.852,"body":"And then I would just throw it into the trash. It's so"},{"startTime":554.876,"endTime":558.42,"body":"simple. Now I put it on our reusable paper towel when I'm sitting at the"},{"startTime":558.46,"endTime":561.06,"body":"kitchen table. If it gets a little honey and a little jam on it, I"},{"startTime":561.1,"endTime":564.786,"body":"roll it up and I throw it into our laundry basket and it gets"},{"startTime":564.818,"endTime":568.386,"body":"washed with the colors. Purchase shampoo and conditioner"},{"startTime":568.498,"endTime":572.258,"body":"bottles, glass bottles, and then refill them at a co op."},{"startTime":572.314,"endTime":575.378,"body":"Or there's stores out here in LA called re grocery where you can, oh it's"},{"startTime":575.394,"endTime":579.186,"body":"so cool. You can literally go into the store and like"},{"startTime":579.258,"endTime":582.642,"body":"pump out shampoo or like bring a"},{"startTime":582.826,"endTime":586.674,"body":"like a big cauldron or cauldron as a"},{"startTime":586.682,"endTime":590.024,"body":"tear like a big container and put like rice"},{"startTime":590.202,"endTime":593.932,"body":"or gluten free pasta or spices and you"},{"startTime":593.956,"endTime":596.876,"body":"can bring your own. You, when you walk in the door, you weigh the vessel"},{"startTime":596.908,"endTime":600.108,"body":"that you're putting it into it. You grab a tag and then when the amount"},{"startTime":600.124,"endTime":603.836,"body":"of weight that goes into the vessel, they know at the register"},{"startTime":604.028,"endTime":607.852,"body":"what it is and you get charged just for like what you"},{"startTime":607.876,"endTime":611.436,"body":"put into the vessel. Super cool. If you have one of those"},{"startTime":611.588,"endTime":615.292,"body":"reducing the plastic bags and plastic"},{"startTime":615.356,"endTime":619.162,"body":"use of and cardboard for the way that they"},{"startTime":619.186,"endTime":623.002,"body":"deliver food. So check that out. Recycle your"},{"startTime":623.026,"endTime":626.442,"body":"clothes or electronics. There's a lot of people that are accepting"},{"startTime":626.506,"endTime":630.218,"body":"clothes to then put it back and re spin it into"},{"startTime":630.274,"endTime":634.09,"body":"other clothing. I've worked with trashy before. They took not only"},{"startTime":634.13,"endTime":637.53,"body":"clothes of mine but electronics. You're looking somewhere between 15 to"},{"startTime":637.57,"endTime":640.89,"body":"$60 to purchase one of those and then send that"},{"startTime":640.93,"endTime":644.432,"body":"back. I work also with another"},{"startTime":644.586,"endTime":648.292,"body":"clothing company called Recover back in Charlotte which is really great. They accept it"},{"startTime":648.316,"endTime":651.988,"body":"and re spin your clothes back into future"},{"startTime":652.044,"endTime":655.844,"body":"clothing. And then if you buy a compost pen, compost bin,"},{"startTime":655.892,"endTime":659.38,"body":"drop your food scraps and you can either have a food"},{"startTime":659.42,"endTime":663.012,"body":"scrap like a"},{"startTime":663.036,"endTime":665.812,"body":"composting company come pick that up from you. You can drop it off at your"},{"startTime":665.836,"endTime":668.96,"body":"local farmer's market or like we've done"},{"startTime":669.66,"endTime":673.412,"body":"going up to level two, my mother in law bought us what's called a"},{"startTime":673.436,"endTime":676.28,"body":"loamy. And so that takes our composted"},{"startTime":676.92,"endTime":680.72,"body":"and it heats it up and starts the"},{"startTime":680.76,"endTime":684.14,"body":"composting process takes about four hours"},{"startTime":684.76,"endTime":688.336,"body":"and then like a really heavy group"},{"startTime":688.408,"endTime":691.936,"body":"of like banana and vegetable scraps that I would"},{"startTime":692.008,"endTime":695.84,"body":"say probably weighs like anywhere from like 4 to 10 pounds"},{"startTime":696.0,"endTime":699.744,"body":"is literally turned into dirt. It's crazy. And so"},{"startTime":699.752,"endTime":702.38,"body":"that's a really cool company that we love."},{"startTime":703.48,"endTime":707.28,"body":"And then you could also do an outdoor compost bin, grab some"},{"startTime":707.32,"endTime":710.576,"body":"worms, and then you can get some really"},{"startTime":710.648,"endTime":713.22,"body":"fantastic gardening"},{"startTime":714.12,"endTime":717.792,"body":"fertilizer. Because when the worms eat your"},{"startTime":717.816,"endTime":721.408,"body":"food, food scraps, and then poop it out, then that's just"},{"startTime":721.464,"endTime":725.232,"body":"amazing fertilizer for your garden. And"},{"startTime":725.256,"endTime":728.4,"body":"then like I said another thing, level two that's a little bit more expensive is"},{"startTime":728.52,"endTime":731.26,"body":"completely buying a hybrid or electric car."},{"startTime":732.84,"endTime":736.448,"body":"My final thought moving forward out of this was just like,"},{"startTime":736.504,"endTime":740.22,"body":"take, take some small steps that can help"},{"startTime":740.68,"endTime":744.368,"body":"slow down how much the earth is heating up. I"},{"startTime":744.424,"endTime":747.968,"body":"know that it's like, it's really daunting"},{"startTime":748.064,"endTime":751.9,"body":"to think about. You know, it's a fast fashion or,"},{"startTime":752.6,"endTime":755.808,"body":"you know, cutting down like the Amazon rainforest"},{"startTime":755.904,"endTime":759.73,"body":"or, you know, food, agriculture"},{"startTime":760.15,"endTime":763.87,"body":"and how much water we're wasting feeding cows and doing"},{"startTime":763.91,"endTime":767.422,"body":"those things. I know it's very daunting, but just like"},{"startTime":767.446,"endTime":771.182,"body":"anything, just like politics in general, just like"},{"startTime":771.206,"endTime":774.99,"body":"your faith, just like your run club, if you find"},{"startTime":775.03,"endTime":778.782,"body":"the right community that is going in the same direction that you are, you know,"},{"startTime":778.806,"endTime":782.638,"body":"strength in numbers, the, the mighty, the mighty people"},{"startTime":782.694,"endTime":786.206,"body":"together and pushing towards a"},{"startTime":786.358,"endTime":790.11,"body":"common goal can really move mountains. And so I challenge you"},{"startTime":790.15,"endTime":793.37,"body":"to take a couple of steps that continue to put"},{"startTime":793.75,"endTime":796.974,"body":"Mother Earth in the forefront. And I"},{"startTime":797.062,"endTime":800.702,"body":"appreciate everything that you guys do. If you have any"},{"startTime":800.726,"endTime":804.062,"body":"questions, please feel free to reach out to me. You know how to get in"},{"startTime":804.086,"endTime":807.07,"body":"touch with me and I can send you any of these links of the fun"},{"startTime":807.11,"endTime":810.926,"body":"products that I have used and have been using and will be continuing"},{"startTime":810.958,"endTime":814.716,"body":"to use in my life to celebrate Earth Day"},{"startTime":814.868,"endTime":818.716,"body":"every day. Have a great rest of your week. I appreciate you being here"},{"startTime":818.788,"endTime":821.72,"body":"and as always, dodge the norm. See you later."}]}