Transcript for the Piece Audio version of An Inconvenient Tooth

There’s something about movie popcorn. My sweet tooth I can satisfy anywhere, but only movies can satisfy my popcorn tooth. I also firmly believe that you should try to do some good in this world.

And that is the problem.

Think about the roughly 15 dollars you spend whenever you go to the movies. You’ve seen the commercials: wide-eyed, hungry children staring at you while you’re reminded that just pennies a day could keep that that very child from starving to death. You are moved, you resolve -- and then you are chuckling over the Friends rerun you are seeing for the eleventh time.

You are spending 15 dollars munching popcorn while children are literally dying.

It’s easy to rationalize your behavior. “What could my $15 do against the all the world’s problems?” Answer: It could save a child’s life. “Hey I do plenty of good already. Can’t I just go to the movies?” Answer: Is your evening at the movies worth a child’s life? “How can I be sure my $15 will actually do any good?” Answer: Stop going to movies and get involved in the relevant organizations.

In fact it’s very hard to justify going to the movies. Or pretty much anything we do. If all of us just cut back a little on our luxuries we could do an awful lot of good in this world. Take global warming, for example. If everyone who saw An Inconvenient Truth had applied their popcorn money directly towards the problem in some way, perhaps the movie wouldn’t have been necessary.

Oh wait -- I think Ross is about to propose to Rachel!