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Brooklyn’s Famous Plumbers · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: It.
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>> Speaker B: I just imagine he gets down there and there's just flipping
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alligator people. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know if that's
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people dressed like alligators or
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people who believe they are alligators or
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people who are living, like, have started a
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society based on alligator ways.
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Um, that sounds like a weird cult, but
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whatever.
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Welcome back to privy. Privy is
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Not regrettably, I had a good time. I revisited
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Applebee's again, um, for the first time in a few
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months now. Um, and
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everything was fine. Honestly, things were
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good. I had
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my usual wingies, um, and so
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everything was fine. Uh, the key is to eat
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just enough. Um, on the
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show,
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we've noted, um, that sewers have been around
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for a long time now. They go
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way back. And sewers
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are very much the well that we
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will continually draw from. Don't draw
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water. Water from the sewer. You will
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get sick. Uh, shout out to you,
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medieval Europe and medieval everywhere
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that's going to come up this week. Um, but sewers
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themselves, as we've noted this,
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they date as far back as the roman empire.
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And while sewer systems
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were rudimentary, they were. I mean,
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heck, sometimes they were just a channel
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dug in the side of
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the road. Um, or a ditch
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dug to rinse matter through. Matter
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being human poop. But
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these air quotes. Sewers existed. Now,
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you wouldn't look at it and go, man, what a sewer.
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That's a pretty neat sewer.
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During the history of sewers, a lot of
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material has been used
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in those times. My favorites
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being sewers made out of wood.
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Uh, that's going to get soggy. You don't want soggy wood,
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you know what I'm saying? And ceramic. And I
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feel like ceramic. I mean, I'm sure that it was hard,
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but I feel like
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ceramic. You're doing a dance where there's going to
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be a crack. And as we've noted
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before, anytime you're dealing with
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human sludge, you do
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not want a crack. You just don't
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want it. I'm assuming that,
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again, there has to be some level of heft to this
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ceramic, like, it is a thick bowl, boy.
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Because, come on. I mean, what are you going
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to do, put this ceramic pipe in the ground and
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then put a couple thousand pounds of dirt on
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top of it and pretend like it's not going to get crushed? Yeah,
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right. Anyway, uh,
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we got to move on. I'm stuck on the ceramic
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pipes. We've noted frequently
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here the role disease,
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namely cholera, has played in the
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revolutionizing of sewer systems.
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>> Speaker A: Now, while our attention
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is often turned.
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>> Speaker B: Towards Europe for these, uh,
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mean, America was such a
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smaller idea in people's brains at this point.
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A lot of these sewer troubles come out of Europe,
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but we had it going on
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here in America at the time as well.
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For some time, the method of disposal
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here in the states was simply to dump your poop out the
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window onto the street below.
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Now, imagine being just a
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kid trying to exist and
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live their lives playing in the street, and all of a sudden,
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they just get the worst shower they have ever
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gotten. As the neighbor
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dumps the bucket of sludge
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from their balcony.
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This, then, once it is in the.
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>> Speaker A: Street, it would be rinsed down the.
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>> Speaker B: Street, or in some cases, and these are some
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special cases, it would just be left to
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stink. Like, it'll break down in time. It'll
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get hard and dissolve and go away. But before
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it does that, it would stink. Now,
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the other thing that would sometimes happen would
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they would dig trenches again alongside the street to
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help the flow of turds. We have to direct the
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turds. It's like air traffic control. It's turd
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traffic control. Now,
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this is not the world we.
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>> Speaker A: Live in, and often at the end.
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>> Speaker B: Of the show, we try to take time to be
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thankful, and I just want to take
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a second to be thankful right here that we
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don't live in a world where we just go dump our
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skeet and rinse it down the, down the
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street.
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Oh, yeah, that's it right there.
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A little, uh, uh, orange, vanilla polar
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seltzer for our afternoon here.
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But we have a lot to be thankful
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for. We don't have to necessarily deal with this in the
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way that folks who have gone before us
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have now,
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that is going to set the stage
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for where we are going to be this week. And now, I admit
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it, I have talked about these things in the
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past, but I need to bring up here
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as an introduction to sewer
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systems, specifically sewer
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systems here in America. In
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America. America. Uh, the first two sewer
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systems to be built were reportedly in Chicago and
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Brooklyn. For today's purposes,
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we need to discuss the Brooklyn sewer system.
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Now, the
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city at the time, townstead.
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>> Speaker A: Of Brooklyn, was originally settled as a.
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>> Speaker B: Small dutch settlement called Briochile
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in the east river of Long island in the 16
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hundreds. New York
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technically had a sewer since the mid
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16 hundreds. This was when they had
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dug a few of those trenches down the center of Broad
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street, and it was fed by a number of
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gutters throughout the city. Could you imagine this, like, on
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Broad street in New York, you just had this trench
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dug right down the middle,
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and then all these people would dump their waste and
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wash water down it, and it would flow down the gutter and
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into this common thing in the middle.
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I got a note here. Gutters are really
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good for carrying rain, but they're not so
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good for carrying solids.
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Sometimes I have to. At my old house, I haven't had to do it at my new house yet.
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>> Speaker A: I have less of a leaf situation to deal with. But at, uh,
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my old house, I.
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>> Speaker B: Used to have to get up and just get flipping elbow deep in my
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gutters. Just really cram my mop in there
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and just get the nasty leaves out, and you pull them,
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they stink so bad, and
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they just clog everything up.
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>> Speaker A: Gutters are not made for solid.
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>> Speaker B: You can't tell me that this New York
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gutter sewer didn't clog up. It
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had to have. The other problem here is
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when it.
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>> Speaker A: Clogs, that water backs up and eventually.
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>> Speaker B: Just overflows out the side or goes into
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places you don't want it to go
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in New York. The big apple, if you
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will.
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>> Speaker A: Um, I hope you will.
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>> Speaker B: The gutters all flowed with
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human sludge, and they flowed
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to a central trough. Now,
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poop and pee, the two
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human pea words that come out of our
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bodies and puke. Hey, there's three.
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Um, but this was not the only
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thing that would have been found in these gutters
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and in the common trench. We're going to call
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it the broad street trench,
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the big broad street
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trench. Look at the broad street trench on that
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one. But
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they dumped their trash in there, too. These are just like the
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cesspits we.
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>> Speaker A: Talked about a couple of weeks ago.
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>> Speaker B: They just threw crap in there. They threw everything in there
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and just kind of let it wash down. And
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the thing is, pigs
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and animals would also play a huge part of waste
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management. Like, they had pigs that just were kind
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of out and about, and they would eat some of this refuse that
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was left behind. They played
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their own role in the waste management process.
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You look out your window, it's a
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brisk, stinky Brooklyn morning,
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and you just see the neighborhood swine
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wallowing in your muck, m
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eating your discarded socks. It's the dream.
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And this procedure, this act of
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dumping.
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>> Speaker A: And rinsing it down and letting the.
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>> Speaker B: Neighborhood livestock help deal with it,
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this lasted for
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200 years. 200
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years. That's too long. That's too long
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to be using this gutter sewer system.
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Surely these things got clogged up at some point in
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that time. And I'm sure that there were
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folks who came to unclog these
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when the times got tough.
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But then our old time
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cholera friend came knocking. The street
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stunk, especially broad
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street. It was the end
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of the 18.
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>> Speaker A: Hundreds that Brooklyn was finally
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consolidated into.
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>> Speaker B: Be a part of New York City.
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And I just want to note here, I got to say, could you
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imagine the town meeting where they're like, hey,
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we need to dig a big crap
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trench. Now we're going to draw
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straws to figure out
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which street is going
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to have the big, stinky trench running through
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it. And they start
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yanking straws and broad street straws
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pulled, and it's like, that's where you
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live. Uh, it's like pulling the short
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straw. We need to change the term pulling
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the short straw to living on Broad street.
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Oh, man, he's having some rough luck. Yeah, well, he's
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living on Broad street, you know what I'm saying? The
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population boomed, and with it,
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as we noted disease,
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and as they started.
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>> Speaker A: To find that cholera and the
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poor.
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>> Speaker B: Disposal of human waste had a lot to do with that
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disease, America made the switch to
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modern sewage systems. And as is
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noted, brooklyn was one of the
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first the Brooklyn sewer started
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reconstruction in
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1849 after a terrible
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cholera outbreak in the city. They had a severe
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outbreak in 1830 and in 1840, and
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things were bad. And they said, you know what? It's time to do
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something. In New York at the
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time, if you lived past the age of
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21, you beat the ODs. Most
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people died by the age of
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21, if not 30. Child
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mortality was 40%.
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And while not all of this illness and death
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can be directly tied to cholera, a
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nonzero amount of it is like,
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there is a portion of it that is because of
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cholera. But Brooklyn
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paved the way for the modern sewer system in
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America. They commissioned a man
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named Julius Walker Adams. He was
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president John Quincy Adams.
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>> Speaker A: He's one of those presidents that nobody knows anything about.
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>> Speaker B: Um, he was his cousin, and he was
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commissioned with designing the first
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large scale sewer system in America
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for none other than Brooklyn, New York.
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He took detailed notes of his work.
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>> Speaker A: And these were later used in
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textbooks.
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>> Speaker B: And training for future plumbers, and likely
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used as a helpful template for
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building and constructing large scale
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sewer systems. Now, these
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plumbers that had to kind of
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essentially take on the job of helping repair and build
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and fix these.
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>> Speaker A: Sewers, they were paid
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not a lot.
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>> Speaker B: It was a lot, probably at the time, but
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the wage for plumbers around
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1850 was about three to
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$4 per day, with an
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average plumber making $20 to $25
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a week. Plumbers in the area and
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elsewhere in the United States
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began to call themselves and be
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called sanitarians. Now,
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these sanitarians, it didn't stick. I'll
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go ahead and bury the lead here. The term
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sanitarian did not stick around, and can
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you blame him? Uh, but
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eventually, the plumbers went
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on strike, and there were many
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plumbers unions forming
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at this time, and the plumbers from
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Brooklyn played a huge role in
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settling these union related
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concerns. And speaking of Brooklyn,
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I have digressed.
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>> Speaker A: We got to get back to Brooklyn.
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>> Speaker B: Five years after the work began on the Brooklyn sewer, they had
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over 70 miles of pipelines. Now
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fast forward to the turn of the century. Brooklyn, that
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is, the 19 hundreds, and New York as a
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whole, boasted sewage services in every
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home, including the tenement
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housing common at the time, due to.
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>> Speaker A: The tenement act of 19, one that.
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>> Speaker B: Said every dwelling place had to
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have at least one bathroom. In
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short, the times were a change in.
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But all that pipe needs someone to work on
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it, if you know what I'm saying. Like,
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if you get too much pipe, you're really going to have to work on
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it. Early jobs were
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completed by plumbers and hydraulic engineers.
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So much work sprung up, in fact.
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>> Speaker A: That a union formed for plumbers and.
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>> Speaker B: Other journeymen called the Journeymen and Plumbers
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Society. They set up rules
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saying that only licensed plumbers could
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practice in the city in order to tap into
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the city's water or sewer lines for their
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work. However, you still did not need a
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license for working inside the home.
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Nowadays, the sewers of New York have
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over 6600 miles of pipes
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and pipelines, and there are almost
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1.3 million
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gallons of water treated daily in the water treatment
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facilities. That's a lot of pipe.
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There's been a lot of myths about these
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large pipes, these big round
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pipes. The pipes of Brooklyn and New
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York have said to be
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home to monsters and mad men who live
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there. Claims of alligator people and mole
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men. And if you want to see the.
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>> Speaker A: Result of these myths, uh, go
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check.
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>> Speaker B: Out our teenage mutant ninja reptile friends.
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Most assuredly, countless plumbers have
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treated and cared for the sewers of Brooklyn
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over the years.
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You know what? I would love to hear the
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reports from the plumbers who
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go down. Most of these plumbers are working
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topside, but they do have big water treatment plumber
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like plumbing down below. That's like the water treatment stuff that
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you see in the movies, the big pipes. And I
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just imagine one of these guys going
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down there and I don't know what
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happens. I'm not in the hole with him, but
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I just imagine he gets down there and there's just flipping
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alligator people. Do you know what I'm saying? I don't know if that's
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people dressed like alligators or
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people who believe they are alligators or
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people who are living like, have started a
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society based on alligator ways.
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Um, that sounds like a weird cult, but
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whatever. But there's been countless
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plumbers who have gone down and cared for
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and treated the sewers of Brooklyn over the
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years. But this week,
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I want to bring attention to a couple of these
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plumbers, because
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they really changed the face of something for us.
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Sometime around the late 1970s,
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two brothers were born to a young
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family in Brooklyn, New York.
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They were raised in the city, saw the
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formation of New Brooklyn. The big high
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rises kind of continued.
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>> Speaker A: To spread far and wide, and Brooklyn.
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>> Speaker B: Really took on the name and the
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feel for what it is today.
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It came into its own during their
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childhood. After high school,
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these two brothers looked.
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>> Speaker A: To the trades for their futures, but.
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>> Speaker B: They were having little to no luck. Um,
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they kind of fell on hard times multiple times in a
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row. And honestly, their families were not the most
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supportive of them. Um, because being a plumber at the
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time. Brooklyn has tons of
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plumbers because
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the city of Brooklyn, the sewers, are
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literally famous.
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And so, with little to no
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luck, they pushed
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on and received their plumbing licenses
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and started a business together.
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Now, as I noted, Brooklyn
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was a pretty competitive space at the time.
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Uh, and I believe it still is today.
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Brooklyn, after all, is kind of the
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plumbing capital of the United States.
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But one day, these brothers, they went
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down into a sewer, uh,
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and they found a
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girl, and they saved her. And they got
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super famous for saving this
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girl. And we know them
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as, uh, Super Mario, bro. Let's
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go. Let's go.
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Mario. Mario and Luigi
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Mario are probably
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Brooklyn's most famous
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plumbers. And you might be
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thinking, first of
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all, what in the flipping heck just happened to my ears?
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And you might be like, was this whole thing
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that was the last 20 minutes of my
20:26
life just a big ruse for Hunter to talk
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about the Super Mario Bros. Movie? Maybe.
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But admit it, Brooklyn sewer history was kind of
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interesting, and Mario and Luigi are a
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huge part of it.
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This week on privy, we're going to talk about
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our favorite little red plumber,
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Mario. In
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1982 arcade sequel, Donkey Kong
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Jr. Uh,
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in Donkey Kong Jr. Was the.
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>> Speaker A: First time, uh, Mario was given his
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name.
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>> Speaker B: We're going to beat the brief history of Mario as if it hasn't
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been beat dead.
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>> Speaker A: Um, and he was named Mario by Mr.
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Minoru.
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>> Speaker B: Arakawa butchered that, and
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he was the president of Nintendo, and he named
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Mario after the owner of Nintendo's first
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warehouse, Mario Segali.
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In 1983,
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the arcade game Mario Bros. Was the first game
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to feature Mario as the title character. And the game
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also featured the first appearance of
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Mario's brother, Luigi Mario.
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Two years later, in 1985, Nintendo released
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the game Super Mario Bros. Super
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Mario Bros. Let's go. Which featured
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Mario and his brother Luigi.
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Characters moved through pipes nice in the
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mushroom kingdom to collect coins and secret items in
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their quest to save Princess Toadstool.
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>> Speaker A: Bad princess name from Mario's arch
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enemy, Bowser.
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>> Speaker B: Think of him as the alligator person in the sewers
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I mentioned before. Now in
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part to this underground setting,
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uh, Shigiro Miyamoto, who is later the
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guy, ah, selected a plumber
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as the ideal profession for the hero of this
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video game. The character design was an
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intentional choice for reasons, because
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they wanted a design that
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created a distinctive look that was unique and
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instantly recognizable with the few pixels that they had to
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work with at the technology at the time. He
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wanted the end result to be versatile, an avatar
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that could stand beyond a single game, serve as a
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popular character and was
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kind of relatable to the everyman. Like, he's not too fancy.
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He wears blue overalls. He has brown
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chuckaboos and a red hat.
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He designed Mario to be someone
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who might live near you, perhaps
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in the apartment along the way in
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Brooklyn. Enter the red
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cap, blue overall, white gloved, mustachioed Mario
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the Plumber, who would go on to be the official
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mascot of the Nintendo company and the most
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famous fictional plumber
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ever. And I gotta
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say, I've seen that new
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movie, and what else do I need to
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say except go see it?
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If you have ever played anything Mario
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ever, I'm confident you'll like
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it. Uh, I
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should note here they made a plumbing
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website, like a website for the Super Mario
23:43
Bros. Plumbing company as a
23:46
bit of a marketing strategy for the movie. So I
23:49
actually did decide to interact there for a
23:51
bit. Now I'm going to read my
23:54
texts to the Mario Bros.
23:57
Because they have a feature on their app
24:00
or on their website, um, where you
24:03
can interact with them.
24:06
I don't know, uh, but it gives you
24:09
an option to text them. So I did. So I
24:12
texted them, I said hi. And they responded,
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thanks for your interest in the super Mario Bros. Plumbing.
24:18
We're a family owned and operated business providing white
24:21
glove plumbing services to Brooklyn
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shout out and queens. You can click
24:27
the link, uh, to sign up to get exclusive. Okay,
24:30
whatever. I did that.
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>> Speaker A: Great.
24:32
>> Speaker B: We're excited to have you as a customer. We've got your number, Sam.
24:35
And then it's all the message and data rates,
24:37
whatever. Nobody, uh, cares. Um, and then they
24:40
said, okey dokie. If you're experiencing a plumbing. So I said,
24:43
hey, I have a plumbing emergency. I need help.
24:46
Like, I clicked that button on their thing. It says,
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okie dokie. If you're experiencing a plumbing emergency,
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text on the double and we'll get
24:55
right back to you. I did text on the double. Now,
24:58
you may know I'm feigning my
25:01
plumbing emergency. At this point, there is no real plumbing
25:04
emergency. You can all rest assured, my
25:07
plumbing is just fine. My home plumbing, my personal
25:10
interior plumbing is always sitting at kind of a liquid mess,
25:13
but that's beside the point. But I texted on
25:16
the double anyway, feigning this distress,
25:19
and they say, thanks for the text. We're a little backed
25:22
up at the moment, trying to get one up
25:25
on our competition.
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>> Speaker A: We will get back to you as.
25:27
>> Speaker B: Soon as we can. Please keep our business card handy.
25:30
And it's a link to their community
25:32
business.
25:35
It's. It's not a real thing, but it's.
25:37
>> Speaker A: A fun little marketing know. He lets you go play
25:40
around and.
25:41
>> Speaker B: Get to know Mario and Luigi, and, um,
25:45
it's fun. The movie was fun.
25:47
Uh, what more can
25:50
you know? A well made animated Mario movie.
25:53
It's good stuff, and I'm willing to be wrong
25:56
here, but I'm hopeful we're getting more than
25:59
just super Mario two. Like, I'm really hoping we get a Nintendo
26:02
universe of movies. I would personally love a
26:05
well made Zelda movie or maybe a darker
26:08
Metroid prime movie. Those are the two that I'm looking
26:10
at. I would even go for, like, a star Fox, I think would be pretty
26:13
cool. Nintendo, if you're listening,
26:16
which you're, you know, let's go.
26:19
Um, that's just
26:21
me. To
26:23
summarize, Brooklyn has a rich history related
26:26
to plumbing, and the Mario brothers have become a
26:29
cultural touchstone of fiction related to these
26:32
sewers. And their movie is pretty good.
26:35
I'm, uh, certainly thankful for all of
26:39
know, I'm thankful for Mario,
26:42
and especially just the moments. Especially,
26:45
like, when you're playing Mario Kart, there's sometimes these
26:48
moments where a game is so perfect, where you
26:50
have these moments that live in your brain. I remember we were playing Mario Kart
26:53
double dash on the GameCube. Oh, man. And we were just, like,
26:56
posted up at our cabin, and I was probably my cousins
26:59
and I, or some friends, and I. And I just remember playing Mario
27:02
Kart double dash and hitting people blue shells. And just, like, the
27:05
thrill of going from fifth place to first
27:08
place because you just roach a bunch of guys right in
27:11
front of you. It's the best.
27:13
And I am certainly thankful for those
27:16
experiences as we close. First of all, I
27:19
want to say, uh, so looking at some
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analytics for the show here, I want to say this.
27:26
Whoever is listening to this, from
27:28
Norway, France, Egypt,
27:31
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27:34
UK, I want to say thank you for
27:36
listening. I see you. Uh,
27:39
and it is an
27:42
honor to have someone that is not from
27:45
here listening. Now, I also want to say thank
27:47
you for all this, folks, stateside and
27:50
up to our frosty, forbidden canadian north listening.
27:53
>> Speaker A: Thank you, guys.
27:54
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27:59
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28:02
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>> Speaker B: Reminding us that we need to keep pooping in
29:18
the free world. But the free world was not always free.
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We'd like to thank Kevin McLeod for the use of his music
29:25
this week. Thank you, Kevin. This has been another
29:28
episode of Privy. Thank you so much for joining
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Keep pooping in the free world. And
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as always, don't forget to
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