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[RERELEASE of Ep. 42] Happy Brown Friday, A Celebration of Plumbers · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: Is the bathrooming consequences of my choices
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now, with plate two and PI medley on the
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way, are those going to play well with the facilities
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here?
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Happy, uh, Thanksgiving, and welcome back
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to privy. Privy is a
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podcast about bathrooms
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recorded from my home
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bathroom at the time this
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episode release. I'm not at home. Uh, I am out and
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about, and, uh, yeah, having
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to use other restrooms. But this episode is
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recorded ahead of time, and so there's not
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a lot of updating
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the bathroom things. Oh, I'm Hunter,
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if you didn't know, now you know. Um, not a
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lot of new bathroom updates for me, uh, since
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last episode, mostly because there's not been a lot of
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time in between. Um,
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it's turkey season.
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Turkey, uh, season. It's time to get up on
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one of them gobblers.
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Happy Thanksgiving. Uh, I hope you
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were able to enjoy, uh, your Thanksgiving and
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tasty food. I know last week we talked about how
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sometimes, uh, for some people, it
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can be a stressful time of year,
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but it shouldn't be. I would encourage you to find the
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things that make it enjoyable, make your
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traditions yours, and, uh,
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yeah, don't forget to enjoy some of that
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bird. Uh, it's good stuff. Be thankful.
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Take time to be thankful. When you're thankful, it
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helps you. Um, and in recognition
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of Thanksgiving, right up here in the front, uh, I need to
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say a couple of things. We
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need to discuss some food things,
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because, yeah,
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there's kind of this notion, there's these two notions
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about Thanksgiving food or the
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Thanksgiving meal that need to be squared up
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here. Right here. Uh, and the first
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is that there are only certain things
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that are like,
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it's thanksgiving, so we can't have x.
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Now, I know on this list, in just a second, I'm going to say
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that kind of. But, uh, this isn't a strict thing. More.
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These are just general guidelines that I'm saying and things that I've
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learned. So if you're doing the Thanksgiving thing, you're
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like, oh, this food doesn't belong at
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Thanksgiving. Just back it right up. Um,
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because I believe the nature of Thanksgiving is
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people bringing what they can and what they want to share.
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And so, um, the
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second thing is
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not everything goes, um,
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because there's some.
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Having a bag of chips at Thanksgiving is fine, I
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guess, but
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it's just a little different, I guess. I don't know what
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I'm trying to say here, but I got some
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Thanksgiving food rants, I guess,
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to make right up here in the front. So the first thing is this,
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uh, I think ham is for Christmas and Easter.
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Ham, um, like bad catholics, comes around
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during Christmas and Easter, and
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I think we need to just let Thanksgiving be
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turkey season. You know what I'm
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saying?
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We just got to let it be about the
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bird and let ham have its thing.
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If it's Thanksgiving, you need to be eating a dirty bird.
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That's just it. Second, if
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the potatoes aren't mashed, you didn't have
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Thanksgiving. Now it's okay
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to have other potato offerings. You can have
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scalloped, you can have fried, you
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can have baked, you can have
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russets, you can have,
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I don't know what else. Uh, those are all the potatoes that I know.
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That's all the potatoes that exist. Oh, we used to make
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potato cakes. Growing up like this was a Thanksgiving tradition
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in my family. We would all gather at my grandfather's
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house the weeks before Thanksgiving and
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make just a trainload of what we called
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potato cakes. Now they're lefsa. That's like the
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idea, but it's like these potato, like, almost tortilla
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pancake things. Ooh. You slap
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a little butter on it. You
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just roll it up. It's
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so good. Um, yeah,
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potato pancakes, potato cakes, lefsa, whatever.
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But, um, if you're at Thanksgiving, you
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got to have mashed potatoes. Dang it.
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You can have other potatoes. I'm not saying it's the only
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potato allowed at the party,
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but you got to get some mashers in
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there. Next. Number three, Thanksgiving, uh,
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food gripe. Number three, green bean
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casserole is not better than plain
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green beans. I'm saying it,
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if you slap down a bucket of
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just regular old green
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beans, canned, frozen, fresh, or
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otherwise, it is, every time,
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just a better experience for me than green
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bean casserole. The
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sum is not greater than the parts in this case.
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I don't think that's how that saying goes, but
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we're moving straight on here. Number
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four, for that matter, regular
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plain vanilla corn on the
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cob or just in a bowl,
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it's just better than creamed corn.
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Creamed corn sounds like something that should
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probably be illegal, frankly. Like, if you're creaming your
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corn. No, we're moving on. Uh, number
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five. And I don't know anyone who actually makes
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stuffing, and what I mean by that
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is, to my knowledge, stuffing
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is only stuffing if you
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stuffed it, yammed it up,
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the inside of a turkey.
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Turkey
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stuffing has to be cooked inside the bird
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in the oven. So if it was cooked
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independent of the bird
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and the gobbler crevice as
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we're going to call it. From now on, if you
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cook stuffing inside the bird, it
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is called the gobbler crevice. From now on, if
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you put your little bits of, I think it's
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bread and like, seasoning inside the gobbler
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crevice to cook it, it's now stuffing. You've made stuffing,
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but I believe if it is cooked
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ala carte or that's not the right word, but
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if it is cooked separate from the gobbler,
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I believe it is called dressing.
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Now, I, uh, may be wrong
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on that, but I think in most cases,
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I think if it's made apart from the bird, it's called
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dressing. Uh, and if I'm going to
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be honest with you people, just. It's
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generally just better to plus up some stovetop. Like,
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stovetop has got the seasoning
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game down. It's not bad. It's
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good stuff. Six sweet
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potato dishes and candied yams, or whatever you want to call
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them, they're desserts. They have
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marshmallows on top. Now, the next
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time you roll into a restaurant
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and you order literally
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anything, you look at that menu.
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Find me many things on the menu that have
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marshmallows involved that aren't on the dessert menu.
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Yeah, candied yams and sweet
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potato, whatever. That's dessert.
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Next. Question number seven. Gravy
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is just flavored and thickened meat juice.
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If you like gravy, I'm glad for you.
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I'm proud of you for liking gravy,
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but some of us don't like gravy.
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Gravy's, uh, weird. The only thing gravy is good on is
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biscuits, and that has to be that good
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sausage, country gravy. Um,
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but there's people out here,
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I know some of them, that like to eat their
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Thanksgiving feast dry, and that's
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okay. M
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their turkey, their choice. You know what I'm saying?
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Which brings me to cranberry sauce. Uh,
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I just realized in figuring
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out my little rant here
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that you put the
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cranberry sauce on top of the bird.
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I thought it was just called cranberry sauce,
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and that was just the name. And then you kind of just ate it
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like weird jello. I had no
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idea you put it on top of the poultry offering
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of Thanksgiving. Um, I may have to
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try that. Probably won't.
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Number nine. Berry pies are out of place at Thanksgiving.
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I'm just going to say it. Berry pies are out of
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place at Thanksgiving. Those are summer pies.
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Thanksgiving is dangerously close to winter, and it's sacked
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deep in the middle of fall
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winter pies and fall pies are things
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that have come from a later harvest. Pecan
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pie. Pecan. Not pecan,
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pecan. Pecan.
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Pecan. Pecan. Pecan.
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Pecan pie and apple
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pumpkin. These are appropriate
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pies. You can have other pies
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and all pies are good. I love
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all pies, don't get me wrong,
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but I believe pecan
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pumpkin and it's pumpkin with an extra p in
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there in case you didn't get it right.
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And apple are quintessential
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Thanksgiving pies. And
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last macaroni and cheese is an
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amazing side for Thanksgiving
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because there's always going to be a kid at
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Thanksgiving, there's always going to be kids there.
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And if they are like I was
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and definitely am not anymore as a grown adult
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human man, they might be a little bit
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picky in their eating. That's okay.
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It's fine. Having something familiar
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on their plate might just be the thing that helps
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them into the rest of the meal presented to
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them. Just a thought,
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but macaroni and cheese needs to be a
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new standardized Thanksgiving
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side dish offering.
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But whatever you're digging on this Thanksgiving, I
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hope you take time to be thankful. Um, it's important
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to give thanks for what we have, take
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time to dwell on all that we have and all of we've been
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given. And so I hope this season is a
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good reminder and a good opportunity, um,
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for you to do so. As we've
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discussed on the show before, the day after
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Thanksgiving is officially known as Black Friday.
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But it is also known as Brown Friday,
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specifically by those in the plumbing business.
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If you're a plumber and you hear the idea of Brown Friday, and
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that just gives you, like, flashbacks or trauma.
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I'm sorry, um, because
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one thing that Uncle Dave isn't thinking about
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as he works down his second plate of
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turkey, turkey and taters
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and later goes in for what I like to call the pie
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medley, one of every flavor
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he uncle Dave ain't asking this question.
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Is the bathrooming consequences of my choices
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now, with plate two and PI medley on the
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way, are those going to play well with the
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facilities here? And more
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importantly, will it play nice with when
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everyone else who has had plate
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two and pie medley and when they hit
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that up,
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is the bathroom overload going to be too
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great? Because Brown
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Friday is called Brown Friday.
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That is the day after thanksgiving. Brown
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Friday is one of the busiest days of the
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year for plumbers. Thus the name,
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if you didn't know, a plumber is a person of
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the trades who installs
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maintains and
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deals, uh, with plumbing systems that are used for
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drinking water, waste removal and
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drainage. Plumbers were not
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always so limited to little italian
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men who hop on mushrooms and drainage technicians.
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However, the word plumber comes from
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the Roman Empire, and the reason mostly that it comes
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from the Roman Empire is because prior to the
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Roman Empire, there was not plumbing.
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Without plumbing, like pipes and
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drains and that type thing, it's
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kind of hard to conceive of the need for
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a plumber, like, one who maintains
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those things, but it comes
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from the Roman Empire and the latin
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word that was
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used, and we're going to talk about how we get there. But
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the latin word for lead is plumb
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now. Okay,
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plumb, um, bum is such a great word.
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It sounds like it could be something that needs to happen
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after too much cheese. Plum Bum.
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You need to get some plum. Never mind. Uh,
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but the lead they worked with
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was often with the
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drainage conduits from roman
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riffs, um, many of their riffs of
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which drained and were covered with lead. And the
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lead was used in the piping for the bathhouses
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and the drainage for the bathhouses.
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And so the people who worked
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on these lead fixtures were
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called plumbers. Now, you were a plumber.
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Even if you were on the roof, fixing a lead
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roof, you would be called a plumber because you
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are working with lead. So back in the
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roman empire and
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on into the medieval period, um, the idea
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of plumber was like saying
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a metal worker. A plumber was a
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person who worked with lead in any
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way. They would have been known
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originally as a plumberious, a
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plumarius. As things transitioned away
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from using lead in the piping and in the
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drainage because, well,
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it's toxic, which maybe has a lot to
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ask about what those pipes Mario's hopping up and down are made of.
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I'm just saying he's picturing a
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lot of weird things anyway. But even with
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lead being taken out of the fixtures, plumbers
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still have a terrible amount of
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hazards. And so as it moves
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away from plumber being somebody who works with lead,
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the plumber now is one who
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plumbs or removes the blockages
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and fix the drainages of. They
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plumb it. And so plumber has stuck around
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as the title for the person who
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makes the drainage go. Well,
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but
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there's so many hazards,
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especially with Brown Friday. You imagine that those
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are much worse. But the hazards that a
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plumber runs into, uh, they can be liable
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to electric shock. You wouldn't think that there'd be a lot
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of opportunity for electric shock. But when you're working with things that
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involve water. I imagine that, yeah.
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Electric shock, cuts, contusions,
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burns and scalds. Um, you don't always
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think about this, but sometimes the water that plumbers are working
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with is incredibly hot. Burns
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and scalds. Um,
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contaminant in the eyes and mouth. No, thank
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you. Um, that contaminant is dookie brown
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contaminant. And when it gets in your eyes and
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mouth, that cannot be a good thing. Uh,
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working on heights, working in confined spaces,
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working with lead and asbestos, they face
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infection from contact with human waste,
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including cholera, typhoid, hepatitis,
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polio, crypto. Remember crypto from our pool
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episode? Yes. Plumbers
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come in contact with crypto frequently. Um,
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it's like cryptosporiasis, but we like to call it
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crypto here and many, many more.
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You got to stay clean. And when you're literally
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just getting involved with human filth, it's difficult
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to stay clean on
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Thanksgiving when you're taking time to
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be thankful. Take some time
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to be thankful for. Plumbers take
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time to be thankful for the fact that you have a toilet,
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a place to plop, a big one right after you eat the big
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bird. Not big bird like
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you get it. And when
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the big ones are too big, that there's
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trained professionals who have braved centuries of lead
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based work to come and plummet for
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you. Thank you,
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plumbers. I want to take a minute to just note
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a few famous plumbers. Some of these you can be
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like, yeah, okay, I already knew that. Um, of
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course, what is considered by the
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Internet, and I think most people, as the
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most famous plumbers are Mario and Luigi.
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Now, the Mario brothers
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are famously plumbers. Now, I've
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never seen them plumb anything. So while they
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are in the lore of the Mario
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world, plumbers in the
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hunter's brain remembering, I don't think
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they've plumbed too much. Thomas. Ah,
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crapper. More on him one day on privy. Uh,
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who is credited for the term crapper
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or crap famous? Ah, plumber.
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There's also Joe the plumber, if you remember back in the day
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during the Obama either administration or
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when he was running. Um, there was this guy
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who stood for the working man,
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and he actually became, like, a working man activist. His name was
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Joe the plumber. Uh, he's kind of
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famous, and this
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one's kind of wild. Before Ozzy
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Osborne was
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a, I guess, rock and roll musician
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and television like,
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celebrity personality person,
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he was a plumber. Uh, he wasn't a plumber very long.
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He did not like the work and he
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promptly quit and then turned to a life of
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crime. But uh, yeah, before Ozzy
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Osborne was seen about crazy train, he was
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plumbing the drains got him. Ah,
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some famous plumbers. Uh, to remind you
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of the importance of the work, and I'm probably missing
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some famous plumbers, feel free to shout at me in an
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email, say, hey, you missed the most famous
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plumber of all. Uh,
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this Thanksgiving we say thank you to plumbers. And
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I hope your brown Friday is less
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brown and you all are able to celebrate in the ways
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you can. Because I don't
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know if I've ever shared this, but this podcast actually was
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hatched around the time of thanksgiving.
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Um, like the original idea was to go out to
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businesses. I've shared that and be in their bathrooms
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and record live on location
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hearing it now, I understand that it was
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a bad idea, but in thinking about the
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many things that I was like, oh man, I cannot
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believe that they used to do that for bathrooming.
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A couple of thanksgivings ago, I was really
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thankful for bathrooms and
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I wasn't going to like, oh, what are you thankful for? Oh,
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I'm thankful that I have a place to take a deuce
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and that it's convenient, but I super
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am. Um, I'm very thankful for
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toilets and here's
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why.
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This is hunter's anecdotes
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to keep you afloat.
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So, a few thanksgivings back. For thanksgiving, we always
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visit, um, my in laws, my wife's family,
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um, and a few thanksgivings back,
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we usually arrive on Wednesday, um,
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and then go to all the thanksgiving
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festivities the following day. And so we arrive and
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we usually stay at my sister in law and her
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husband's, my brother in law's house. Um, and so
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we get there and we hang out, we spend some time with the family,
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and then we always go to bed at a
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decent hour to be able to get up and do all the things that
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happen on thanksgiving. Um, but this
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year we went to bed and I'm getting into my
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slumber and man, I'm asleep
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for probably like an hour or 2 hours. And it just hits
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me. I wake up from
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dead sleep to being awake and I rush to the
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bathroom and I'm on the pot.
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And what
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begins is what I like to call the night of
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liquid bowel.
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So I go to the bathroom and it's one of those things where it's like
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it just kind of keeps coming, they just keep coming,
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uh, and it just kind of keeps going
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and I'm like, oh man, this is wild. And it's one of
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those where, like, you wipe and you get up, and as soon as you stand
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up, you got to go again. Um, and so this
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goes on. I'm in there for about an hour,
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and I'm like, man, I stand up and say, no, it's
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coming on, it's coming. Here we go. And I'm up and
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down doing this. Um, cannot
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get myself outside the door of the bathroom
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because it just keeps getting
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revisited. Um, and so
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finally, it's one going on 02:00 and
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I get back into the bed, and I'm like, okay, I'm going to try sleep. And
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I lay down. I think I fell asleep for a little bit. But then, man, like
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clockwork, not too long later, whammo. It's time to get
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back up and go into the bathroom. And
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I spent a total that night. And this is not
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like, um, I'm not being who.
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He's exaggerating. So that way it's funny.
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No, like, for real. I was on
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my sister in law's upstairs toilet
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for between four and 5 hours that
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night. And by the end of it, what
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was coming forth from the downstairs
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was just, like,
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clear. Uh, I was just
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passing, like, fluids, but I was not peeing.
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They were coming out of the boring holio. Um,
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so much so that at, like, I don't know, hour
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three or four, I began to get
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shaky because I was so dehydrated
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that I ran into the kitchen, strunk a bunch
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of water just in between the
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little spouts of my desperate need to just be on this
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thing. And it wasn't like, hard
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work to get anything to come out. Every time
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I was there, it was like, you just turn it on the faucet, and it would just,
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like, just
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flush right through me.
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And I was so dehydrated. And then I finally, like,
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04:00 a.m. Was able to crawl back into bed
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for a couple of hours, woke up the next day and ate full
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Thanksgiving meal. Um, felt great the next
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day. But, uh, yeah, I don't know
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what happened, but most
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people would hear that and they would say, you know what?
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They'd go through that, and they'd spend that night doing that, and they go, you know
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what? I think I'm going to lay low on the dirty bird.
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I think I'm going to pass on the turkey.
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Turkey. And I think I'm just going to take it
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easy. Um, but no, just like, it's
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fine. Just eat the thanksgiving. It's good.
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Wasn't any Mac and cheese, though. This
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brings us to the end of Hunter's
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anecdotes to keep you
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afloat.
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Gatorade would have come in handy for sure.
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Um, this is the end of another episode of
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Privy. Thank you so much for listening. As always, we
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I hope you take time to be thankful this
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season. Happy Thanksgiving. Speaking of
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thankfulness, we'd like to thank
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Kevin McLeod for the use of bar room
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ballet as our intro and outro music. You
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can find Kevin's
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music@incompetent.com and
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his music is licensed under Creative
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Commons license attribution 40. Thanks,
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Kevin. We'd also like to thank Pottington
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Bear for the use of all the colors in the world as
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the hunter's anecdote, intro and outro music.
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You can find potdingtonbear's
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music@pottingtonbear.com thanks,
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Pottington. This has been another episode of
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privy. Thank you so much for joining us. And
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now, as always,
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and in thankfulness to our plumbers,
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don't forget to flush.