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Ep. 138 Olympic Sewer Problems and the Seine River · Privycast

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>> Hunter Hoover: My can is literally sweating, begging for
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mercy. It's just. It's so hot.
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It's not hot. It's not even hot in my house. It's just hot and humid
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out here.
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Welcome back to privy. Privy
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is a podcast about bathrooms
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recorded from my home
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bathroom. I'm your host, hunter Hoover,
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and I love bathrooms. Um, welcome back,
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everyone. Thank you for being here.
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It's hot. Before I came into
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the studio, which, if you're new to the show,
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when I say studio, it's really where I poop.
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Um, this is my home family. Not family. It's
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my wife and I's bathroom, but it is my home
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bathroom. It's my studio. But
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before I. Before I came in here, I was. I was talking to
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Anna, really, just complaining
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about, uh, the temperature. It's
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hot. I don't live in states like
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Arizona and Texas and things like that
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because I do not do well
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with the heat. For me, the
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idea of dwelling in that much
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heat is just. It's just not okay.
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I do not want that, and so I do not
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seek it out. Um, but it's.
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It's just hot as heck. They're. They're, like, pouring
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new asphalt in our neighborhood right now. And
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the asphalt stays, like,
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sticky and in
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asphalt form. Whose fault?
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Uh, but it stays, like,
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in roadtar form for much
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longer than a person would probably want it to.
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And it's just hot. I want to
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also note that when it gets this hot, there's just
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certain foods that are just kind of
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more off limits than others. One of those is
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just milk. Just know anything
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that is too spicy. Like, why do you want
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that? Uh, yesterday, my family
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and I ventured out to the Oregon coast, and
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while there, we ate at local. Local kind
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of seafood restaurant, mo's. And it was
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delicious. But I ordered the chili instead
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of the clam chowder. Uh, because I was thinking, I don't know
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if want dairy, and, like, I'm just not a
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clam chowder guy. I know it's probably sacrilege if you're going to Moe's
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not to get whatever. But I got the chili, and it was. It
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was delicious, but it was spicy, but it was also, like,
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80 degrees outside. And so then you're, like, sweating
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because it's hot, and you're sweating because you're fat, and you're also
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sweating because now your insides
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have gotten, like, fire put
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into them. Um, so that was fun.
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Here we are. But it's hot out, and there's things
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that are just off limits. I do think it's
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ironic that ice cream plays such a
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big role, uh,
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in the summer treats because it is
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refreshing, it's cold, and so,
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as a result, it is refreshing, but it
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is also just very dairy, and it is
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also just sugar. And so
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it sits like a big,
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milky gut bomb every time you have
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it. Um, um. Will I stop having
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it? Heck, no. Um. Um. But it is just
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true. Like, you don't want. When it's hot, you
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don't want too much dairy, and you don't want m too much
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sugar. And ice cream is just
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like the perfect venn diagram
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overlap of those two things. It is just all
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dairy and all sugar. If this hits like
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a ton of bricks. But it's
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summer. It's privy summer. And, uh,
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there's a lot going on this summer since
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our last unguested episode, our last unguessed
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episode. We talked about the White House and
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about the political landscape and all that, and a lot has happened
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since then. I'm not going to speak to it here on the show,
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but, yeah, things are a mess out
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here.
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We're going to transition to something a little more
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international in scope at
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the point of this episode's release. This episode
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comes out, uh, July 25. If you're hearing this
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day, it comes out July 25. Um,
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the world is getting ready, or.
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I don't know, the timeline's kind of weird, but
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there's so many pre event things and
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qualifiers and things that happened
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before the Olympics
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happen. But we're getting ready to kick off the
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2024 Summer Olympics.
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Um, and those who know me, they know a
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couple things. Number one, I don't really care that much about
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sports. Um, I know it is what it is.
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My family likes the Mariners. I like to root
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on gritty, um, in hockey. Um,
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but besides that, I could
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take it or leave it, but my goodness, I love the
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Olympics. And I love watching the Olympics because,
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for me, I love seeing all these weird sports. But
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also, I like, um. I'm gonna be honest, I'm an american,
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and I kind of like to see America
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beat people. Now, we do lose some, and that's fine. Like,
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you know, you're gonna take the l in some. Um. Like, we're not. We're not winning
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many anyway. But. But I love. I
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love watching the Olympics. And the Olympics have
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existed for a long time.
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Like, they've been around a minute. They
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existed, like, before the formal Olympics,
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like we have today. Those kind of got their
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start in around, like, the late 18 hundreds,
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1896. But before
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that happened, there was
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the classic Olympic games back in
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ancient Greece. So the ancient
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Grecians, that's the greek people,
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uh, they held these games
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as a means of entertainment, but also as a means of
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proving themselves. Uh,
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and that happened in ancient Greece. And whether or not they fell off with the
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fall of Greece. But the modern
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Olympics, the Olympics that we kind of know and love
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today, things have changed a lot. Began in
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1896, and they
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held their first Olympics in
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Athens, Greece, as an homage to
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the ancient Olympians.
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Before these first Olympics
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were held, though, they were
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meeting to discuss the Olympics. They had
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to, just like anything, you have to meet to
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discuss how you're going to do it. And so they, they
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began to meet to discuss the Olympic
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games. And these meetings
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were promoted by, and were
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put on by french delegates.
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While Athens held the first
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modern Olympics in 1896,
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the second Olympic games were held
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in 19 hundreds. In
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the year 1900 in Paris,
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France. These were held as part of
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the 19 hundreds world's fair. Uh,
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uh. And it is also that
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they did this as a note to, like, Paris
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and France's influence in getting
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the Olympics, like, up and going once
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more. It should also be noted
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that this 19 hundreds Olympic Games
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was the first Olympic games where women
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were allowed to participate. Now, this is
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an obvious homage to Paris's
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involvement in getting the modern
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Olympics back off the ground and up and
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running. In modern times,
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it seems that the city is
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mostly chosen, like where the Olympics
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land is mostly chosen, much like
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many elections
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are won by a lot of arguing and
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a little bit of bidding. Uh, there's like a bidding war
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to see who gets the Olympics. And
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it is noted that many of the cities that want to
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host the Olympics have to
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petition to host the
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Olympics and to win the bid.
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And they have to do that anywhere between five
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and ten years prior
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to the games that they desire to
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hold. Now,
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this year marks the 33rd
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Olympic games. And,
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uh, the last time Paris held the Olympics
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was 1924. So it has been
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100 years since Paris and France
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has seen the Olympics. Um, and it is
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going to return to what
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is, in many ways, the home of the modern
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Olympics. It's returning to Paris this year. Something
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we've talked about in the past is the
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bathroom landscape. And the bathroom
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history of Paris is
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just rife with information.
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We've discussed at length. The public
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pissoirs and the infrastructure
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rehaul Paris had to over
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go with their, their new sewer system
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to meet the needs of these things.
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But it turns out the
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infrastructure in the cities that
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host the Olympics
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often struggles to keep up with the
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sudden addition
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of, uh,
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athletic and olympian turds
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now, before
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we discuss the history
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of the Paris sewer systems
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and the ongoing concerns we
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have at even at the time of
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this record with,
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yeah, the things going on in
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Paris,
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it should be noted that the Olympics have
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not had a lot of impact on bathroom
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history. We're here to talk about bathrooms. This is privy. We're not here to
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talk about. We're going to talk about the Olympics, but we're not really here to talk about the Olympics. You know what
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I'm saying? Like, we got to get to the bathrooms. What
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have the Olympics done for the bathrooms?
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And the Olympics have really done one significant
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positive impact on bathrooms,
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and it doesn't really have anything to do with bathrooms
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itself. Rather, it
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is more a step
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forward in communication.
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It is paved the way
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by way of the bathroom pictogram.
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The Olympics, especially in
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modernity, have done a lot to focus
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on how to depict a
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desired idea without
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using words, text,
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or, like, any specific language. And the
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reason that the Olympics were so concerned with this
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is because none of you know this, but not everybody speaks the same
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language. Sea Tower of Babel. Um,
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but we don't all share a same language. Don't share a
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common language. And so when you begin to try
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to communicate Olympic events and things,
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you have to come up with pictures and
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images to help
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ease that process along.
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When you're inviting people from all over the world to
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compete, you got to have something as a
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solution for communication. Otherwise, it's
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just going to get muddy. Gotta get.
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Get that polar seltzer. We got. We got ruby red
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grapefruit. Oh,
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it's just. Just fierce. It's good. Every
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time. My can is literally
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sweating, begging for mercy. It's
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just. It's so hot. It's not hot.
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It's not even hot in my house. It's just hot and humid out here
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in the Pacific Northwest.
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There's flipping yellow jackets everywhere.
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But the Olympics have paved a lot of.
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A lot of way in the area of bathroom
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pictograms. Um, you have
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to describe a desired idea
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without using a lot of language. And when you get all these people, you
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know, you got these pictograms end up being
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pretty helpful. But turns out this idea is
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useful when you are in communicating
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who is intended to use a specific
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bathroom,
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uh, labeling the
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bathrooms. We get the bathroom
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pictograms. I don't think I need to explain it. The newest update, I think, is, like,
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the. The handicap stall guy, but he's a little more active and,
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like, leaning forward. He looks fast. Um, it's kind of cool. But
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I digress, tangent. The
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33rd Olympics are back in
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Paris, and the Paris
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sewers are definitely going to be
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experiencing an influx of
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users. The amount of
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international deuce that's going to be flying through
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Paris's pipes is going to be
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wild. A sentence,
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Paris Hilton. Nevermind.
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In the middle ages, in Paris,
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just, it's all connected,
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I promise. I swan to Jan. It is,
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um, in the middle ages in
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Paris, drinking water was traditionally
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drawn from the sien cyan.
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Sien. Um, just. We
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have the power of the Internet at our fingertips. How
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do you pronounce
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sane? It is pronounced
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sane. Very good. Thank
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you, Internet. The sane watch.
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It's wrong and I'm gonna sound like a complete flippin
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idiot. But the Seine, it just doesn't sound
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right. Uh, whatever.
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But, but middle ages
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Paris, much of their drinking water was drawn from
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the Seine river.
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Dirty and waste water would be
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tossed out into the fields. The idea
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here being it adds to the, the,
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uh, uh,
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fertilizing qualities of the water.
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Um, but it turns out what happens with that water is it
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soaks down and it
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flows back via groundwater into the
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seine. This
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likely led to much of their cholera problems
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throughout the time. Uh, but the Seine has
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often in history been linked to the
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sewers of Paris. Napoleon
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III ordered the construction of new
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boulevards, aqueducts and sewers.
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Um, and his prefect for the Seine,
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it just looks like scene. Baron
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Hausmann and the engineer
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Eugene Belgrand
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designed the present
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Paris, or Parisian Paris, uh,
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sewer and water supply networks.
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This was built more than a century ago.
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A double water supply network, one for drinking
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water and one for non drinking water.
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A, ah, sewer network that was about 600
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km long back in 1878. This
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is prior to the first Olympics. From
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1880 to 1913,
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um, they began to connect the
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buildings to the sewers. Uh,
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most were connected to the clean water pipes, but now
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they had to connect them to the dirty water pipes.
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Um, they had free neighborhood taps. But by
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1914, 68% of the buildings in
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Paris had been connected. Architect
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Belgrand, um, his work
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is continued to be built on. From
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1914 to 1977, another
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1000 sewer line are
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added to the city's sewers to help, uh, meet the
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needs of the growing population of the Paris
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city and the problems that it was having with the
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sewer.
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Later, they would add sewage treatment as a
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rehaul. That happened after world War
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one. Paris wastewater,
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um, at the Akari's
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Acheres treatment, uh, plant uses
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a network of
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channels, and this plant has continued to grow.
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At the end of 1970, it was one of the
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biggest sewage treatment plants in Europe.
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And so the Seine is, is connected
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to Paris's water situation and
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their water supply, but also their, their
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waste water. Today, the
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status of the Seine is, ah,
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get both the river and people's mental
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stability. But, um, the status of the Seine is
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of great concern. There have been many
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measures in the past 20 to 30 years to
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diminishe storm overflow, pollution
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runoff, the like, into the river.
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The last time Paris held the Olympics was
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1924. The Seine
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was probably a little cleaner, fresh off of a lot of
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these infrastructure rehauls at the time.
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But with the Olympics just around the corner at
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the time of this episode's writing, and
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probably by the time you're hearing this,
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hopefully the Seine is looking great
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with all those measures. M right. We would, we would think
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that's the case.
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It turns out it is not.
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As was noted, the
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2024 Olympics are
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being held in Paris, home of the Seine
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river. If you don't keep tabs
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on all that's happening in french politics, I'm going to give
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you so, so we have problem number
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one.
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Paris sewage and the Seine
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river bucket over here. Next
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bucket is the french
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political landscape right now. I'm going to give you the short and
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sweet. I'm not a politician. I'm not a historian.
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At least not a historian about France.
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I don't care enough to be that. Um,
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I'm going to give you the hunter Hoover's
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fourth grade understanding Cliff's notes of the
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political landscape of France right
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now. Um, in short, from what I
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can tell, uh, and again,
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I'm not an analyst. This is just me trying to read
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some stuff online, listen to a couple things,
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and spit that information back at you
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listeners so you can get some appreciation on the
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trouble we have and the
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turds that are going to be a part of this episode. Um,
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but there are three main groups vying
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for control of the french legislature
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right now. Um, they're the leftists.
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So the left, who seem
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almost akin to some communist
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ideals and some of their approaches. And I don't mean
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that like, I mean like actually some
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communist ideals in their approaches.
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Um, then there are the
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centrists and the centrist. The current
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president, um, President Macron, uh,
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this is his party. He is of this centrist, more
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centrist party. And then there is the far right, so
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left center right. Uh, and they
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recently had this vi for the
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french legislature. And from what I can understand, none of
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them really won the majority. The left
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came out the most mostly because Macron,
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or the centrist kind of advocate
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advocate,
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I don't know the word. They gave up a
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little bit and allowed the leftists
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to take maybe more than they would
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have, um, by rushing this
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election on. Now, to save you the boring part, they aren't
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really sure who is in control. And there seems
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to be a, at minimum, political
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insecurity and at most political
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unrest, dwelling, um, kind of
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in France, in Paris right now, it's just another
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day in paradise. I'm glad we here in America have
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no political unrest that has happened recently. If
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we can learn anything,
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thank God for
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visual diagrams to gesture towards,
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like, the Lord works in mysterious ways.
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So yeah, Paris and the french
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government have some government problems. It's
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nothing except the entire world is getting
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ready to descend on, or has already
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descended on that french
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paradise to get real
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sweaty in the spirit of competition.
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And that brings us back to the saying,
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because as Paris is holding the Summer
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Olympics, there are some really cool
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Olympic events like basketball and
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fencing, which, by the way, I don't follow women's sports,
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but there's this like,
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lady in women's basketball that's like totally
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turned the thing upside down. She probably should have went to the
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Olympics and they didn't. They slid or whatever.
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It's not my thing. Um,
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but they've got like some really cool events like basketball and
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fencing. And those events have nothing to do with
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water except for drinking it. And that's
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great. But, um, there are other events which
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are very much going to take place in the water.
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Things like water polo and swimming
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relays. And, um, these events are
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really cool because they take place in a swimming
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pool, usually with measured lines and markings.
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And it's, it's a really nice pool.
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However, if you are a marathon
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swimmer or if you plan on taking
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place and competing in the triathlon,
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which involves a distance swim,
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you are likely staring down and preparing to take
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a plunge in the Seine river for your
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event. Now,
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as was noted, the Paris,
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the Paris and french, Paris and french
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government have been preparing for Paris
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to hold the Olympics for like five to ten years.
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So one would
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think that when
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France won the
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approval, when Paris won the approval
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for the Olympic event five to ten years ago, they would
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have, if the water of the Seine river was
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not up to snuff, to have people
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puddling around in it, that they would have made
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efforts and began efforts five to ten years
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ago to make the river ready
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for international swimmers
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this week. Right.
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I think if there was an image for the
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unpreparedness and political problems of
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franchise of France
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right now, it's the river Seine.
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And, um, it's. It's a telling thing.
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Turns out, scientific experts,
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river experts have
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said that the. The river is not fit for bathing
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in. I'm a key in a little secret.
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If it's not fit for bathing in, it's definitely
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not fit for swimming in. Mhm.
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President McCrone assured onlookers
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that the river would be ready by the
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Olympic events in which the river is needed.
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Now, perhaps in response to the
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political turnings out of the, of the lead up
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to the Paris elections, or perhaps
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in protest of the Olympics Games
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causing all sorts of trouble to Paris. Citizens in
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their lives for the weeks of the games like to go through
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the part of the city where they're holding Olympics, they got to get, like, these special
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passes. It's a whole mess,
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or perhaps an expression. In
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opposition of the french leadership, a
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plan was made, a plan
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using the Internet and math.
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And this brings us to another
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segment of poo in the
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news.
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This poo in the news comes from an article
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which has really been published everywhere. It's,
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um, all over. Um, so this is going to serve more as
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a synopsis than a summary of the specific
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news article. But as is noted, there
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have been some concerns with the water quality of
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the Seine river as it relates to swimming
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in the water.
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Travelers and world leaders knowing that
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the Olympics are coming up, are like, looking at this
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river and they're going,
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y'all gonna have people swimming in this river, right? You're not
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gonna have people in it, right?
25:28
And Paris games, french. The head of
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Paris games, the french president and Paris
25:34
mayor are all like, oh, no, no, no, the
25:37
water's fine. Everything's fine.
25:40
As people look at this, like, murky.
25:43
Just water. It's
25:46
a slightly green swamp, but yeah, the water's great. It looks
25:49
like Shrek. Just shrek them. Shrek right in
25:52
the river, but, like, water's great. Nothing wrong
25:55
here. If you tell yourself a lie loud enough and long
25:58
enough, maybe, you know. But anyway. But
26:00
their word was not enough. Weirdly enough. People,
26:03
they have some trust issues with Paris government right
26:06
now. Um, and the people were still
26:09
concerned. But then
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the mayor of Paris, uh, and the
26:15
french president, uh, President Macron,
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they made a statement that they then
26:20
immediately regretted. They said, the river
26:23
is fine. The river Seine is just fine. And
26:26
to prove it, the mayor and I will
26:29
swim in the river. Now
26:32
that. Don't sign
26:35
yourself up for
26:37
stunts like, just don't do that. But
26:40
even more foolishly than signing yourself up for
26:43
this activity, they told the
26:46
public the day and the time that they
26:49
would swim in the river June 23. Now,
26:52
to the onlooker, that's over a month
26:55
ago. So this is all in the past.
27:00
But this statement by the mayor and
27:03
the president of France
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turned into the
27:07
2024 Paris poop
27:10
protest.
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Frustrated by the reported
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$1 billion spent to, quote,
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clean up the river, it would
27:21
seem too little success. Like it.
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Any time that your president and your mayor
27:28
have to go, it's fine, we'll swim in
27:31
it. It's probably not fine. Like you're,
27:34
like you do protest a little too hard, my
27:37
friend. Um, and the way in which
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the games are going to impact. A
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call went out online.
27:46
A gentleman created a website and a
27:49
hashtag to go along with it.
27:52
Uh, and the website is called jashai
27:55
don slausoniel
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23 Juan Fr.
28:00
Which is France. Now, that's a french website.
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Now, I'm going to warn you, when you
28:06
google translate this website, and I'll
28:09
put it down in the. I
28:12
got all my sources down below. Go check out. You can check out this
28:15
website down below. But the website name
28:18
has a little more colorful language than
28:21
Paris poop protest.
28:23
Um, and I presume it's in the
28:25
place of that chai, in that french phrase
28:28
in the URL. But what this website
28:31
was, it is a website where you can
28:34
enter your address, your location,
28:37
and it will tell you what part of the
28:40
sign river is the closest
28:43
to you and what time you need to
28:46
take a fat dump in that
28:48
river. And then it measures
28:51
and it has the speed at which the
28:54
river flows at different areas. And, ah, it
28:57
calculates when you would need to drop, drop
29:00
ham in the river Seine. So
29:03
that way the turd will arrive in
29:06
Paris at the exact time
29:09
that President Macron and the mayor. And
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mayor Hidalgo will be swimming in the Seine
29:14
in France.
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It's a wild world we live in. A wild, wild
29:20
world out here,
29:23
kids, uh, if you're. If you're still with
29:26
me, kids, I'm gonna. Little public service announcement
29:29
here. When you're in school and your
29:31
teacher is having you practice your
29:34
algebraic expressions and your
29:36
multiplication and division, and they're having
29:39
you do math work, and you think to your. And
29:42
you. And you're gonna be tempted to say you're gonna. And I've
29:45
heard it. I work at a public high school. I hear it all the time.
29:48
Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're not. Um, but you're
29:50
gonna say, you're gonna be tempted to say, I'm never. When am I ever gonna
29:53
use this? I'm never gonna use any of this.
29:57
You should remember that it is math and
30:00
science that allows french and european
30:02
citizens to organize pooping in a
30:05
river so that an unpopular
30:08
president and a, uh, mayor that people are frustrated
30:11
with have to swim in their turrets.
30:14
It's math and science that make this possible.
30:17
Science is so amazing. It's a fun
30:20
thing we could be doing. No,
30:23
here's the deal. We're about a month removed
30:26
from this infamous June 23
30:29
poop protest.
30:31
And at the time of this record,
30:34
Macron and Hidalgo
30:37
did not take a swim on June 23. They did not.
30:40
Um, but at the point of this record, uh,
30:43
yeah. So, breaking news.
30:47
This is from four days ago. A point of this record
30:50
episodes released would be almost a week ago.
30:52
Um, the mayor did swim in the river.
30:55
So he didn't do it on June 23. He kind of chickened
30:58
out on that one. Turns out it probably wasn't as clean as he
31:00
hoped. But Ann Hidalgo, the mayor,
31:04
swam, uh, in the sin on Wednesday
31:06
morning, so on the 18th ish.
31:09
Yeah. Or maybe it was the
31:11
11th, but they got in the thing,
31:14
and there's pictures. I'll try to share pictures online.
31:17
Yeah. July 17. Oh, yeah. So, like, this
31:20
Wednesday the 17th, and according to
31:23
findings, um, last week, they
31:26
saw four days out of the whole
31:29
month. So out of the last week in June, where the
31:31
water was clean enough, um, but no
31:34
days when it was clean enough to swim in, according to
31:37
us standards. So the european standards are a little
31:40
less, um. And they're
31:43
like, oh, yeah, Europeans dunkin them turds.
31:46
But America's like, nah, that's fine. I. Now,
31:49
they had some contingency plans, and those
31:52
still stand in place because the quality of the water
31:54
fluctuates. However, it should be said
31:58
the mayor swam in the sand. Now, I don't know
32:01
if the president did and president, um.
32:04
McCrone. Do it.
32:07
You said you would do it. Words mean
32:10
things. I say that to my high school kids
32:12
that I work with. All the times. Words mean things. If you say you're
32:15
gonna do it, you have to do it. Get in the water.
32:19
Props to Mayor Hidalgo for doing it. Uh,
32:22
hope you don't get whatever disease that water is carrying.
32:24
We look forward, poo in the news looks forward to seeing
32:27
if the Olympians truly do get to swim. In this scene,
32:30
it's the Seine. If it is pronounced
32:33
safe for swimming or if it is not,
32:37
maybe next time. We'll keep you updated.
32:40
But this brings us to the end of
32:43
poo in the news.
32:48
It should be noted there are contingency
32:51
plans for the river. If it is deemed
32:53
unsafe to swim in by the time the Olympics
32:56
roll around. The rivers, I mean, the sewers
32:59
of Paris, are a truly historical
33:01
thing, and maybe some of the Olympians will get to
33:04
swim in them. Fun stuff. But suffice it
33:07
to say, an Olympics
33:10
coming to a city plays a significant
33:13
toll on the sewer system and
33:16
infrastructure of any city that they're held
33:19
in. It's not Paris's fault. They just had ten years to get the
33:22
river ready. Paris is just the ones that happen to
33:25
kind of force through a quick election right as they're getting ready to
33:28
host the biggest
33:30
sporting event in the last
33:33
two to four years. Um, you know,
33:37
don't worry about the river being teeming with turds. We got to
33:39
get this election through. Good stuff,
33:42
Olympians. Good luck out there. Stay hydrated.
33:45
Hopefully, you don't have to swim in turds. If you were
33:48
part of the Paris poop protest, if you took part in that,
33:51
let me know. Uh, maybe that's something we have to try out here in the states.
33:54
Figure out when, you know, it'd be kind
33:57
of fun. Figure out when I need to deuce in the river so it floats by certain
34:00
things. Hmm. Hm. That could be an
34:03
app. Ooh. Tm. Tm.
34:06
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34:55
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34:58
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