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Unblock-tober Is Going On In The UK · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: It's one of six point seven light a m Cubby
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  Speaker 1: Christine producer Christen hanging out on a hop day six
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  Speaker 1: forty eight. You've heard of October where we celebrate all
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  Speaker 1: things rock, but a totally different kind of campaign going
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  Speaker 1: on in October.
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  Speaker 2: In the UK.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, unblocktober, unblocktober. This is specifically in London.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's that bad.
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  Speaker 3: It's that bad. We've heard about this Yere and I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I hear about it in London a little
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  Speaker 3: more often, maybe because their cities even older than ours.
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  Speaker 3: They're talking about the sewage system. Okay, so they had
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  Speaker 3: to extract a fat berg is what it's called. It
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  Speaker 3: weighs one hundred and ten pounds. It was wet wet wipes,
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  Speaker 3: congealed fat, oil and grease.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: This is going down the toilets and down the drain,
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  Speaker 3: and the city is reminding people once again you can't
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  Speaker 3: dump oil down the drain kind of thought.
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  Speaker 2: I thought people knew that.
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  Speaker 3: We knew that thought, so too, do we not know that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't everyone have a coffee can under their sink? I
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  Speaker 4: thought that's yoh right, isle it up a little bit right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of paper towels for me, a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of downs.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we have septic, so we wouldn't do that anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But if you don't have septic, do people think that
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  Speaker 1: the sewage can handle it?
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  Speaker 2: Why would you do that? That's very bad.
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  Speaker 3: So you remember being told during the pandemic, like, take
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  Speaker 3: it easy with what you're flushing.
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  Speaker 1: Because we were using everybody was home. That wipes a
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  Speaker 1: lot more too, Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody was home, so yeah, they said that. This is
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  Speaker 3: according to London, the city spends around twenty four million
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  Speaker 3: dollars each year to clear up about three point eight
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  Speaker 3: billion wipes from its system.
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  Speaker 1: And like you said, they're so that town is so old,
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that I bet you A lot of the pipes
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  Speaker 1: can't handle that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean most pipes can't. But if the pipe
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  Speaker 2: from seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty two or exactly, they're like, what's this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's right?
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  Speaker 3: These didn't exist so.
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  Speaker 2: Unblocktober, unblocked Ober.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a little PSA.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're going to the UK, yeah, I be
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  Speaker 2: here to be
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  Speaker 3: Here too, Yeah, no, no oil down the drain not
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  Speaker 3: good