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Honey Bucket Deluxe (Live from a Porta Potty) · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: You know that the Brits have got to get their finger in a meat pie. Like,
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they just got to get their just knuckle deep in a meat pie.
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Welcome back to privy. Privy
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is a podcast about bathrooms
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recorded this week. I
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am on location in
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a porta potty. Me. Uh, this is kind of
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a test, but, um, I am
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in a honey bucket this week. Now, I will confess
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at the gate here. Um, I am
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not in a branded.
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>> Speaker B: Licensed, branded honey bucket.
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>> Speaker A: Um, but nonetheless.
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Uh, I won't say who provides this.
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>> Speaker B: Bucket, but it is one nonetheless.
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And I can assure you, though, it.
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>> Speaker A: Has not been used in a couple of weeks, uh, I am not
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trespassing.
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>> Speaker B: I do have permission here, and, uh.
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>> Speaker A: It does still very much smell like a porta
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potty.
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>> Speaker B: So, uh, I am on location here.
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>> Speaker A: This week, and, uh,
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I'm going to be honest with you. I got a little bit of fire.
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>> Speaker B: In me this morning.
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>> Speaker A: Um, I just spent 2 hours at the social, uh,
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security office.
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>> Speaker B: If you don't know, the Social Security.
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>> Speaker A: Office is hell on earth. Uh, you
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sit there mindlessly waiting for.
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>> Speaker B: People who can't possibly answer you
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information.
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>> Speaker A: Um, I did ask, before waiting the 2
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hours, if the documents I had were sufficient.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, yeah, they should be, was what I was told.
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>> Speaker A: Um, and then after waiting the, uh,
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2 hours, got up to the window, I waited my turn,
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and it's kind of like waiting in line at disneyland or
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disney world. Never been to land, been there before. But
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you get up to the front, and it's like mickey mouse just flips you
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the fattest bird you've ever seen in your life.
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>> Speaker B: You're like, yeah, we can't do it with this.
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>> Speaker A: We don't believe that your child exists unless you
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have a signed letterhead.
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>> Speaker B: Nonsense.
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>> Speaker A: Uh, from their doctor. You
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could drag them into this Social Security office, you could
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plop them down on my counter, and they could wave at me.
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And yet, yay. Verily, I still would not believe
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their existence. Um, so, yeah, the Social Security
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office is hell on earth.
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>> Speaker B: Uh, and so, um.
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>> Speaker A: What a soulless hellscape it is. But
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I got to admit, we've got a lot to talk about this week.
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>> Speaker B: And.
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>> Speaker A: There'S some information that I need to let you know about.
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Um, we're going to be discussing, uh.
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>> Speaker B: Two different competitions this week.
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>> Speaker A: Uh, but before we talk about those.
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>> Speaker B: Competitions, I have a little bit of.
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>> Speaker A: A history lesson for you.
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This week on privy, we're going to Coney Island, New
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York. But before we go to Coney island,
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we need to stop off at my backyard.
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And naturally, we'll be
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starting in Alaska.
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Alaska is for America, the frosty,
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forbidden north. Its gold and oil
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soaked, in covered landscape,
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uh, is one that now is
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home to both tourism and some people call it
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home. Um, but I think a lot of people view it as a
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destination to go for hunting and fishing and the
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like. Russian expeditions,
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uh, reached Alaska by the early 18th
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century, and colonial traders,
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these were fur traders. They wanted to get those
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animals, get.
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>> Speaker B: Them furs, uh, boots with the fur.
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>> Speaker A: On some islands and parts of alaskan peninsula,
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groups of russian traders proved capable
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of relatively peaceful coexistence. So the
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Russians have landed, and at first, they were
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able to dwell somewhat peacefully
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with the native Alaskans in the area
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there, however,
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other groups had tensions, and
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there were extractions and the like, and
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hostages were taken. Individuals were enslaved,
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families were split up. It was bad news, much
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like, uh,
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this is not.
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>> Speaker B: But, like, colonialism hasn't been great,
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like.
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>> Speaker A: The forced enslavement and the forced, like, that's
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bad. But nonetheless,
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it is something that can be recorded as happening,
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uh, in Alaska to the alaskan
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natives. During the first two generations of
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russian contact, 80% of the aloit
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population died from diseases that were
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brought in. They, uh, had no immunity. Uh, in
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America, we learn about how.
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>> Speaker B: The pilgrims brought smallpox and the
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like.
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>> Speaker A: So was true for the alaskan natives and the
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Russians that came in at the end
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of the 18 hundreds or 18th century.
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>> Speaker B: 1784.
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>> Speaker A: Gregory Ivanovich Shilakov.
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What a name.
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>> Speaker B: Uh, just if you ever.
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>> Speaker A: If you ever want to go for a great name for your child.
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Shilakov, is it? Um, they arrived at
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three saints bay on Kodiak island and began
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operating the fur trading company.
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Shulakov. Golakov company.
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Shulakov and Golakov, I bet, were homies.
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Shulakov and his group killed hundreds
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of the Koniag people there. They founded
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the first permanent russian settlement.
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>> Speaker B: In Alaska on the island's Three Saints
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Bay.
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>> Speaker A: And by 1788, Shulakov
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and others had established a number of russian settlements over a
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large region, including the mainland
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areas around the Cook inlet. Got to
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trade those first. They killed a bunch of people doing it. But,
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you know, we got to get the fur money. In
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short, for a long time, Russia more
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or less laid claim to Alaska via
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colonization, spreading religion and disease
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to the area for years. But
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we need to go back because Spain
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technically beat Russia to Alaska, which is
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embarrassing, because Alaska is practically
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touching.
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>> Speaker B: Imagine.
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>> Speaker A: Imagine Spain, which is, I mean, pretty much on
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the other side of the globe from Alaska,
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beating Russia, which is
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like a french kiss away from Russia
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or, uh, from Alaska. It's just embarrassing.
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>> Speaker B: But Spain beat Russia to Alaska,
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and.
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>> Speaker A: Spanish claims to the Alaska region
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dated to the
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papal bull of 1493.
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Now, they never involved
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colonization, forts, or settlement. Instead,
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Madrid sent out various naval expeditions to
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explore the area and claim it for Spain.
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>> Speaker B: In 1775, Bruno
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de Jazita led an expedition.
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>> Speaker A: The Sonora under Bodega, uh, whatever.
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They reached latitude 58 degrees north,
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entered the Sitka sound, and claimed the region for
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Spain.
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>> Speaker B: Viva la Spaniard.
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>> Speaker A: The 1779 expedition of
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Ignacio. Okay, they
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launched a bunch, and they pushed as far north
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as 61 degrees north. In
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1788, Esteban Jose
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Martinez and Gonzalo Lopez
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Dejaro visited
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russian settlements in Unalaska.
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>> Speaker B: Now, um, the Spanish and the Russians.
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>> Speaker A: Have met now,
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also in the alaskan
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pie. You know that the Brits have got to get their finger in
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a meat pie. Like, they just got to get their just knuckle deep in a
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meat pie. British settlements at the
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time in Alaska.
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>> Speaker B: Consisted of a few scattered trading
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posts.
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>> Speaker A: Which, with most settlers arriving by
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sea, Captain
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James Cook, midway through his third and final voyage
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of exploration in 1778,
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sailed along the west coast of North America,
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um, from then spanish California all the way to the
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Bering Strait.
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>> Speaker B: During the trip, he discovered what became.
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>> Speaker A: Known as the Cook Inlet, named in honor of
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him by George Vancouver,
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who served under his command, which was in
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alaskan waters. The Bering strait
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proved impassable for them, and the british
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ships left the straits to return to Hawai in
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1779. Now, uh,
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about ten years later, the.
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>> Speaker B: Newtka Crisis led to a war
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between Britain and Spain.
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>> Speaker A: Britain rejected spanish claims to
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lands in British Columbia, and Spain
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seized some british ships. The
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crisis was resolved in Madrid by.
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>> Speaker B: The Nutka Conventions in 1790, and, uh.
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>> Speaker A: Provided that traders of both Britain and Spain could
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operate in the northwest coast, that the captured british
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ships should be returned, and an
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indemnity paid. This was a victory for
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Britain, and Spain, as a
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result, essentially withdrew from
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the North Pacific. When you
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think of Alaska, you do not think of Spain. And these
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are the reasons why, in
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1799, Emperor Paul I from
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Russia formed.
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>> Speaker B: The Russia American Company to further
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establish.
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>> Speaker A: Fur trade and russian settlements in the Alaska
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territory. Now, keep in mind, this is post
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1776, so he ain't dealing with Britain, he's dealing with
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America. Figure it out.
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>> Speaker B: Financial difficulties in Russia, however,
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uh, and.
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>> Speaker A: The low profits of trade in the alaskan
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settlement and, ah,
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Britain's desire to just keep british hands
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off, or, sorry, Russia's desire to just keep Britain out.
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>> Speaker B: Of the meat pie made them willing.
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>> Speaker A: To sell Alaska formally, which is
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weird, because I guess it was
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theirs. To North
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America. At the instigation,
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um, Secretary of State William
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Seward purchased Alaska from Russia
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for $7.2 million in
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1867. Um, this
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purchase is known as Seward's Folly,
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Seward's ICE box, and Andrew Johnson's polar bear
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garden. It was unpopular
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among many people at the time.
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>> Speaker B: That is, until they discovered
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gold and oil.
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>> Speaker A: There's gold in them hills.
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Though purchased in 1867,
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Alaska wouldn't be admitted into the union of United
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States. The United States.
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>> Speaker B: Here we are, uh, until 1959.
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>> Speaker A: That's incredibly recent. And later adopted
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the motto for their state, north to the
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future.
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>> Speaker B: It should be noted that there are.
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>> Speaker A: Still a number of alaskan native groups, uh,
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dwelling in the frosty, forbidden north,
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uh, and many of them,
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uh, yeah, here we are.
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>> Speaker B: It's the tale as oldest time in american history.
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>> Speaker A: But we need to talk about bathrooms. We're here for the
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bathroom talk. Where's the bathroom talk? For goodness sakes, I'm
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sitting in a porta potty. Uh, and
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not for no reason like I didn't this
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week, just say, you know what? I think I'm going to leave the.
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>> Speaker B: Moderately smell gooded nature
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of my home.
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>> Speaker A: Bathroom and come out here to a, uh,
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farm and sit in
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a porta potty, which I will report
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I did.
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>> Speaker B: Urinate into, um, moments before beginning
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this record.
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>> Speaker A: A choice that I believe has stirred up the blue lagoon under
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me, thus resulting in an unfortunate stench.
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But we need to talk about bathrooms.
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Talk about this week's topic. We got to discuss
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Alaska. As with most of the
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world in. In late history,
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the bathroom landscape was quite a
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bit different than it is now. During the
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1930s, there arose in use
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in the alaskan wilderness and later adopted amongst
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natives a way of disposing
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waste referred to
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as the honey bucket.
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In short, the honey bucket arose as
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a means of making a makeshift privy by attaching
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a toilet seat or other seat with an opening on it to.
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>> Speaker B: A bucket or other container, which then could be dumped.
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>> Speaker A: Think of the piss pots and others from
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history. Um, but this time, you do full Charlie
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Brown into it and just make it a day.
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Uh, the use of these likely arose and
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became popular in Alaska and in.
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>> Speaker B: This region of the world where the.
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>> Speaker A: Soil is hard frozen and difficult to dig through
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with older instruments.
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>> Speaker B: In Alaska, it arose as a
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primary.
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>> Speaker A: Waste disposal method, so much
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so that many alaskan natives still
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elect to use this system today. And as we're
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going to see, some are just alaskan
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citizens and not part.
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>> Speaker B: Of the native population.
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>> Speaker A: Um, but one of the nice things that
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happens when you dig an outhouse or a preview
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pit is you don't really have to empty it. I mean, you
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do, but you don't have to for as long. It's
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kind of out of sight, out of mind. Like, even where I am seated
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now, uh, I can't see any of the, um.
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>> Speaker B: Maybe a little bit, but I can't.
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>> Speaker A: See most of the brown that has gone before
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me. Uh, and it's a good thing. Out of sight, out
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of mind. I wonder when the last
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time this outhouse was serviced. Does it
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say 628?
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Somebody came out and serviced it.
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And that would have been prior to.
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>> Speaker B: Its last time being used, which
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I.
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>> Speaker A: Know was July 2. So
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it's got some in here, but it's clean.
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There's a little bit of splashage. But we don't need to talk about
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that. We're going to sanitize everything when we're done.
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That's what we need to know.
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You got the little chart on the back of the thing. That's nice. Also, there's
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a hook. I don't know if you knew this. I only know this because I had.
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>> Speaker B: To hang a bag because I brought.
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>> Speaker A: All my stuff in a recording bag. But there's a
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little coat hook bag. There's actually two coat
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hooks in this outhouse.
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Um, yeah, it's
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actually kind of interesting. There's a lot more room in here than I
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anticipated.
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Ah, former, ah, guest of the show and future
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returning guest, uh, Josh Werman.
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He wanted to be here for this record today. It didn't work out for me,
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scheduling wise, to set that up, but he wanted to
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cram himself in here with me. And, you know, at first I was like, I
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don't think so. And I still don't think so.
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I know they have bigger porta potties for that,
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and we'll track one down.
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>> Speaker B: But if we had to, we could have done it.
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>> Speaker A: If anything, just prop the door open and have him sit.
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But, yeah, you had to empty the
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bucket. And so
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often this would be emptied into any of Alaska's
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many water supplies. Now,
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it needs to say, that is not good.
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Anytime you're emptying human foul into a
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water supply, it can't be a good thing.
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You might think, man, the
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1930s. That's so long ago. That's almost 100 years
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ago. I mean, that's practically still Russian
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Alaska. Oh, nay, barely there,
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honey. Buckets.
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These poop buckets, buckets with a seed.
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>> Speaker B: On them that you poop into. Um.
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>> Speaker A: Ah, uh, were in such wide use.
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>> Speaker B: In Alaska that first they
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are still used today.
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>> Speaker A: It is estimated that in 2015,
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there.
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>> Speaker B: Was about 3300 homes that
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still use.
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>> Speaker A: Or require the use of a honey bucket.
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And that is not counting alaskan
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natives, who likely still use
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this innovation.
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Second, the, uh, honey bucket
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is so common and is so ingrained in
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alaskan culture and society that the
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Alaska gov website has a pamphlet
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for proper and suggested honey bucket waste
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disposal.
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>> Speaker B: Yes.
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>> Speaker A: In the real world, on the Internet,
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on a state's government website, there is
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guidelines for using taking a
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dump into a bucket and how to
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get rid of that dump out of the bucket
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into. As we're going to see
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some hole in the ground, could you
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imagine going over to someone's
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house and like, hey, can I use the restroom?
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Oh, yeah. Third door on the left. And you go down,
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you're looking all the family pictures on your way down the hallway,
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and you just pop the door open, and it's just a, uh,
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shed with a bucket in it. Or better yet, it's
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an actual bathroom. Like, it's got the sink in the.
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>> Speaker B: Bathtub and all of the things that.
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>> Speaker A: We expect in a bathroom, but then there's just a
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honey bucket sitting in the middle of just the thing
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as if it's the most normal thing ever. Like,
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how dare you even ask if this is where you're supposed to
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go? But, yeah,
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it's still in wide enough use in
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Alaska that it's okay. Okay.
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We know how much you love your honey buckets. And their
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suggestion is essentially this. If you
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have the means of digging.
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>> Speaker B: An outhouse, you should definitely do
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like.
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>> Speaker A: We know the ground is very frosty. We know it's
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hoard. We know that you're going to bust your shovel
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on this bee m. But if you have a way of
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digging an outhouse or a privy pit, you should definitely go for
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that. But if you can't, or if you just
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love the honey bucket so much,
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which, by the way, the honey bucket is such a special
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name,
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Doug wants to stick to his roots and use the
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honey, don't you? Don't know where you came from,
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son. Unless you drop a stack in the honey
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bucket. Well, then you need to
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dispose of the honey bucket.
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All right. Sorry about that. We are
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back. Um, just had a battery
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failure on the portable
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recording equipment. And I got to admit,
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I've used this thing multiple times now, recording with
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guests, and first time we've had a battery
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failure, and what a terrible time to have it.
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>> Speaker B: Um, I'm just nestled just
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elbow deep.
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>> Speaker A: In this porta potty, and my batteries go out
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now thankfully. And shout out to Jude
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Domini and Kyle Fisher. I've learned, like,
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take spare batteries.
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>> Speaker B: Have spare batteries.
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>> Speaker A: You don't want to be caught with your batteries,
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not with your batteries hanging out, um,
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in a porta potty, of all places. Do you know what I'm saying?
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But back to where we
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were. Doug
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wants to go back to his roots and
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poop in the honey bucket.
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>> Speaker B: What do you call the turds once.
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>> Speaker A: They'Re in the honey bucket that you have to dump? Do you call them
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your honey? I got to go dump. Hey, babe, I got to go dump the
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honey tonight.
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>> Speaker B: But here's the short and sweet of the Alaska
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gov's summation of the honey
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bucket dumping.
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>> Speaker A: Quit dumping it in the water. Like, stop
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it. Quit.
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One thing they suggest is that if you and your
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neighbors can all agree.
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>> Speaker B: And figure it out, you can dig.
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>> Speaker A: A honey bucket trench. So good.
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What's a honey bucket trench, you ask?
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>> Speaker B: Well, I think, you know.
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>> Speaker A: You know how, like, we've talked about how they used to have, like,
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crap gutters in cities and they would
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just, like, rinse the turds down the middle.
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>> Speaker B: Of the city in the gutter?
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>> Speaker A: Well, it's essentially like that, but they're not really rinsing
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it more as they're.
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>> Speaker B: Just using this as the dumping grounds for the
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honey.
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>> Speaker A: In the honey buckets. You essentially dig a
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trench and you put your honey into
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it. They say you can dig one, but be
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smart about it. Dig one at a time, and when it's full,
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you should cover it with.
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>> Speaker B: About a foot of extra soil in.
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>> Speaker A: Order to allow for settling.
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Woof. Like, you just go out and you're just walking
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around. They don't tell you that when
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people schedule these
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alaskan excursions where they're going.
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>> Speaker B: Out into the wilderness, they don't talk.
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>> Speaker A: About how they're just walking along and they look over, oh, what are those
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cool looking mounds on the ground?
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>> Speaker B: Oh, that's where people have buried their
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turds and have thus buried it in.
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>> Speaker A: Order to finally deal with it.
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Just walking around Alaska and seeing a.
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>> Speaker B: Bunch of poo mounds.
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>> Speaker A: It's so prominent that many waste
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disposal sites in Alaska actually just
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have honey bucket trenches built in.
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In periods of high snow and rainfall
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where flooding has occurred, these trenches
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wash out. Not good.
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>> Speaker B: Very bad.
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>> Speaker A: You want the human turds to stay where the human
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turds were placed, because if you then have a
21:20
surprise return of the human turds, that's bad.
21:23
You don't want that. Like, for instance, there is a lake of
21:26
filth below me. I'm in a porta
21:29
potty if you didn't catch that. Um,
21:32
and if this seat cracks
21:35
or.
21:35
>> Speaker B: Something really goes south, there's a
21:37
tank.
21:38
>> Speaker A: I pray to Jesus that this tank
21:41
doesn't like. It's not used to holding
21:44
a 250 pound dude on
21:47
it for more than 510 minutes, probably.
21:50
And here I am sitting aloof.
21:52
Uh, but if it cracks, there's going to
21:55
be dookie everywhere in here, and
21:58
I'm going to evacuate this thing real fast. Just
22:01
saying. What's wild
22:03
is much of Alaska didn't have
22:06
plumbing and water until a big
22:09
push to implement this infrastructure
22:11
statewide.
22:13
>> Speaker B: And that push didn't occur in rural.
22:16
>> Speaker A: Areas until the 1990s.
22:19
From the 1990s until now, Alaska and
22:22
the federal government have spent over $2
22:24
billion to work out these plumbing
22:27
concerns.
22:28
>> Speaker B: Now, while urban areas of
22:30
Alaska have.
22:31
>> Speaker A: The amenities known to most of the contiguous
22:34
us. Sempflip, Michigan. Shout out to
22:36
Flint, Michigan. Don't drink the water.
22:38
>> Speaker B: Sorry, Flint.
22:39
>> Speaker A: It's too soon.
22:40
>> Speaker B: I wish you all the best. But it's not just poo.
22:43
>> Speaker A: This is running water like. An
22:46
article was written in 2016 describing.
22:49
>> Speaker B: The life of Hooper Bay,
22:52
Alaska.
22:53
>> Speaker A: Hooper Bay is home to about 1300
22:56
people. Now, many of these people
22:59
are still using honey buckets in
23:01
2016. It's wild to think
23:04
about. The scene is
23:07
essentially, uh, they interviewed somebody
23:09
of life in Hooper Bay and they said
23:12
that multiple times a day, if not
23:15
a. They, they get on a four
23:18
wheeler with multiple five gallon buckets tied
23:20
down to ride the four wheeler to the waste dumping
23:23
site where they dump the poo before riding the four wheeler
23:26
sometimes.
23:27
>> Speaker B: Miles back to their home, and then
23:29
rinse and repeat.
23:30
>> Speaker A: Literally rinse, but not the same bucket.
23:33
Repeat for gathering water, for cooking,
23:36
washing, those type things. It's not a glamorous life. It's
23:39
difficult. The Alaska honey
23:41
bucket is still in use
23:44
by thousands of people as
23:46
infrastructure to these remote parts of
23:49
Alaska still remains, uh,
23:52
kind of open ended. It's not a glamorous
23:55
life, but the.
23:57
>> Speaker B: Alaska honey bucket is not the only.
23:59
>> Speaker A: Style honey bucket in use today. And
24:02
if I'm honest,
24:05
the Alaska honey bucket is essentially. I've talked on the show
24:08
about my shower toilet.
24:10
>> Speaker B: Like, we need a toilet where you.
24:11
>> Speaker A: Can just poop in the shower and then empty.
24:12
>> Speaker B: Ah, the bucket into the toilet
24:15
and flush from there.
24:16
>> Speaker A: It's essentially an Alaska honey bucket, but whatever.
24:21
I'm still saying.
24:30
But today, the honey bucket is
24:33
a brand of Porta potties, much like the one
24:35
I'm in now, which operates
24:38
primarily across the west coast, Utah,
24:41
Texas, and Colorado. And then also for some
24:44
reason Georgia now the honey
24:46
bucket brand of Porta potties offers a variety of
24:49
services to a number of avenues of your life.
24:53
And I must confess I m am not in a honey
24:56
bucket branded Porta potty. Now, they seem
24:59
a little bit smaller scale, but their company's
25:01
interesting. I need to tell you
25:04
about the firsts, the first
25:07
of two contests that.
25:09
>> Speaker B: We need to discuss this week on privy.
25:13
>> Speaker A: The honey Bucket company is running a
25:15
competition from now until November where you
25:18
can post a picture of yourself in front
25:21
of or in you can do
25:24
in a honey bucket Porta
25:26
potty. Post it tagging the
25:29
official honeybucket page using the
25:31
hashtag honey bucket selfie.
25:34
>> Speaker B: If you do so, and if you.
25:37
>> Speaker A: Win, you will be entered into a chance
25:40
and could win your own honey bucket
25:42
Porta potty.
25:43
>> Speaker B: Now, I must confess I want to.
25:45
>> Speaker A: Win this so bad as that honey bucket
25:48
Porta potty would instantly become the privycast
25:51
recording studio away from Privycast recording.
25:54
>> Speaker B: Studio much like the one I am in now.
25:58
When and if you enter, our only.
26:00
>> Speaker A: Ask from the show is this.
26:03
If you hear this and you say, man, I could win myself,
26:06
uh, a honey bucket. That's awesome. I'm going to go
26:09
enter. I'm going to go find me a honey bucket. State fairs, they're
26:12
rolling out. If you find a honey bucket state fair, get on it.
26:14
My only ask from the show is this,
26:20
is that you would use the
26:22
hashtag also tag the
26:25
show.
26:26
>> Speaker B: Tag privycast at Privycast.
26:29
>> Speaker A: Flood honey bucket fans with
26:31
Privycast. What's also interesting
26:34
is on honey, and I got to admit, I looked at some of that honey bucket
26:37
merch and.
26:38
>> Speaker B: There might be a purchase coming my way.
26:40
>> Speaker A: But man, the honey bucket merch is
26:43
real good.
26:43
>> Speaker B: Like, they got some strong offerings here.
26:46
>> Speaker A: But honey Bucket also offers a digital
26:49
mixtape titled Sweet Honey
26:51
Bucket Jams Vol.
26:53
>> Speaker B: Two, which can be viewed on their site.
26:56
>> Speaker A: It's a mixtape. Um, but it's a weird thing for a
26:59
Porta potty company to offer. They're kind of
27:02
like the edgy, hipster millennial Porta
27:05
potty company, in my opinion. Or like the cool Uncle Porta
27:08
Potty company, maybe.
27:11
>> Speaker B: Ironically, though,
27:14
though there are many honey.
27:15
>> Speaker A: Buckets in Alaska, they do not offer honey bucket
27:18
porta potties in Alaska. And
27:21
you know where else they don't offer honey bucket porta
27:24
potties? One that could have used one last
27:27
week is Coney Island, New
27:30
York. This brings
27:33
us to a special segment of
27:36
poo in the news and our yearly
27:38
coverage of the Nathan's famous hot dog
27:41
eating contest.
27:47
Now, this coverage and the article written about it
27:50
is brought to us by CNN covering the Nathan's
27:53
famous hot dog eating contest. And I need to
27:56
tell you, Mr. Chestnuts did it again.
27:59
Joey Chestnut ate 62 hot
28:02
dogs in ten minutes. For those who suck
28:05
at math, that is about six hot
28:08
dogs a minute. Or if you want to break it down,
28:11
about one every 10 seconds. It's
28:14
insane. Sometimes I want to sit
28:17
down and.
28:17
>> Speaker B: See if I can just scarf down.
28:20
>> Speaker A: One of these glizz nasties in 10 seconds just
28:23
to see if I could do one. There's no way I could keep
28:26
pace and my tum tum would get far too full
28:29
and the nitrates would just wreak havoc on my whole
28:31
sitch. But it makes me wonder,
28:34
could I eat one in 10 seconds? I
28:37
might test this out. Joey Chestnuts did
28:40
this for the 16th time, winning his
28:43
16th. Nathan's famous hot dog eating
28:46
contest title just had
28:48
something fall. Um,
28:51
Mickey Pseudo downed
28:54
39 and a half dogs to win the women's
28:57
competition for the 9th straight time.
29:01
>> Speaker B: Now this.
29:02
>> Speaker A: Nathan's famous hot dog eating contest was
29:05
marked by a lengthy weather
29:08
delay to the point where they almost, and they.
29:10
>> Speaker B: Even told some of the contestants that they were going
29:13
to be canceling the contest.
29:16
>> Speaker A: Joey Chestnut said afterwards that it was a roller
29:19
coaster of a day. They told us it was canceled and we weren't
29:21
sure if we're going to eat today. And then he notes, I'm just
29:24
happy it's the 4 July and I
29:27
got to eat some hot dogs.
29:29
>> Speaker B: When asked how he felt afterwards, Chestnuts.
29:32
>> Speaker A: Said, I feel great. And he added, I've got leftover rooms, so I'll
29:35
probably have some beers later. Joffrey
29:38
Esper took second place with 49 hot dogs,
29:41
which, here's what I'm going to say. That's still 13
29:44
entire dogs behind Mr.
29:46
>> Speaker B: Chestnuts.
29:47
>> Speaker A: And Australia's James Webb took third
29:50
with 47.
29:51
>> Speaker B: The weather delayed the contest about
29:54
2.
29:54
>> Speaker A: Hours and the event finally
29:57
began at 02:00 p.m. The National Weather Service
30:00
issued a special.
30:01
>> Speaker B: Weather statement warning of strong
30:04
thunderstorms, frequent cloud to ground
30:06
lightning in parts of.
30:08
>> Speaker A: Brooklyn, specifically mentioning Coney Island. A, um,
30:11
possible injury to lightning may have occurred on Coney
30:14
island, according to preliminary storm report. And they
30:17
said this responded to a, uh,
30:19
call of an electrocution just before noon on Coney
30:22
island and transported a person
30:25
to a medical center.
30:26
>> Speaker B: So they did have somebody that likely.
30:29
>> Speaker A: Got struck by lightning. And so Nathan's famous
30:31
rightly postponed the.
30:33
>> Speaker B: Event for a couple hours.
30:35
>> Speaker A: So they're sitting around and they're waiting. And they've got these
30:37
bastions of human eating waiting there to
30:40
just fill their.
30:41
>> Speaker B: Gullets with just big
30:43
swossages.
30:45
>> Speaker A: And when they all come out, the announcer is
30:48
so hyped. When he get the man who calls.
30:50
>> Speaker B: Joey chestnuts to the stage is
30:53
something else. Um. Um, I just want you to hear
30:56
this.
30:57
>> Speaker C: Are you ready?
31:04
15,000 generations
31:07
of humanity. Yet we have
31:09
evolved not at all, uh,
31:12
bound like animals to the
31:14
laws of physics shamed
31:17
before the universe. And in all
31:20
of history, only one man
31:23
has stood to say that he will
31:25
dictate what is and is not
31:28
possible in this world.
31:31
I speak of this
31:33
man,
31:41
for he has broken reality. And all
31:44
of time pours down around us now at
31:47
once simultaneous and endless,
31:50
erasing cause and effect and opening
31:53
all possibilities before us. And
31:56
the ancient powers are subordinated to their own
31:59
creation. And they smile at his
32:01
achievements, and they say, he shall live
32:04
forever. For he does not do it for
32:07
money. He does not do it for
32:10
glory. He does it for his people.
32:13
He does it for his country. He does it
32:16
for freedom. And
32:19
the gods shine down on us now. And
32:22
the gods shine down on us still
32:25
because of him alone. Because of
32:28
him alone, the
32:31
Nathan's famous 4 July
32:33
champion of the world,
32:36
Joey
32:39
Jessa.
32:46
>> Speaker A: What a thing, you know, to have so
32:49
much passion for the sport. Uh,
32:52
he really gives it his all. He goes for it.
32:54
>> Speaker B: Um.
32:57
>> Speaker A: And you know that
32:59
Joey hit the closest Porta potty he
33:02
could hit when that competition was done. Like, they got to be
33:05
pushing through you pretty quick at that point.
33:08
This has been another installment
33:10
of poo in the news.
33:18
And this brings us to the end of another episode of
33:20
Privy. Thank you all so much for listening. Uh, it
33:23
stinks in this Porta potty.
33:25
>> Speaker B: I've been in here far too long.
33:26
>> Speaker A: You don't realize how bad a, uh, porta potty stanks until
33:29
you sit in it far too long. We, uh, want to
33:32
thank Kevin McLeod and Pottington bear for the use of.
33:34
>> Speaker B: Their music this week.
33:35
>> Speaker A: Thanks, Kevin and Pottington. Uh, you can find the links
33:38
to their music in the doodly doo below. Feel free
33:41
to email us. Privycast@gmail.com.
33:44
Follow us on social media. We're at Privycast. Don't forget
33:47
to tag us if you go for the Porta potty
33:50
with honey buckets. Official. Uh, make sure you tag
33:53
the show so that way we can kind of cross pollinate or
33:56
whatever that. Feel free to follow Randy
33:58
Bowles. Uh, it's where all the Randy Bowles live.
34:01
And you can also follow the privies.
34:03
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34:07
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we'll donate to the wounded warriors project, reminding
34:13
you to.
34:13
>> Speaker B: Keep pooping in the free world.
34:15
>> Speaker A: But that free world was not always free.
34:17
>> Speaker B: This has been another episode of Privy
34:20
fart.
34:20
>> Speaker A: Proudly own your stank,
34:23
wash your butthole.
34:24
>> Speaker B: And now.
34:25
>> Speaker A: And I don't really know how I'm going to do this. Uh, I think
34:28
we're going to just leave it with the traditional sound
34:31
of a Porta potty flushing. But
34:34
now, as always,
34:38
don't forget to flush.