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Ep. 83 Why’s the Water Slower? · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: It. Like, I'm getting these pictures from my. From my
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good friend of these. Of these goddang kids
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that are just jamming up these toilets left and right. And it leaves
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you wondering, you know, if we had the
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added water pressure, if we had the added flushing power
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of, I don't know, say, literally any other country that doesn't have
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these regulations, could we booty
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blast this poop down the tube
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faster and better? You?
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Welcome back to privy, and
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happy new year, everybody. Uh, it's
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2023. It's hard to believe, um,
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that we've been doing this nonsense for going on
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three years now. Uh, and
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something that I sat down at the end of
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2022, which was kind of a. It was a big
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year, uh, I sat
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down and I wanted
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to hear at the top of the show, uh,
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before we get into. Because I know you guys are just dying to know about
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why the water runs slower now,
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but I wanted to get back to the heart of
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privy here. Why does privy exist?
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Um, and I've shared
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on the show a couple times,
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and this might be a good episode
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zero, if you need one of those, to tell people, hey,
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start here, um, I would go start and listen with
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Santa Claus, but that's just me.
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But the heart of this show is
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it exists for bathrooms and history and culture and
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etiquette and all those things. Um, we love bathrooms here
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on privy. We're recorded each week
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from a bathroom. Whether we're joined by someone or
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not, we are in a bathroom, and it exists to
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have fun, it exists to hear from others.
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Uh, and everyone has a bathroom story to share. It's
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based on that premise that
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since, to my knowledge, we all go to the bathroom in
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some way, we all have a bathroom story to
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share. But originally, when I sat
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down to map out this show, um,
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against all odds, it started as kind of a joke
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to have me go infiltrate some bathrooms.
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And we're going to be testing some things this
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year. I think we're going to try some things. Whether or
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not they stick, it's going to be the year of trying things,
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2023. Uh,
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but what this show
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became early on was
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it was a show that existed
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to build thankfulness, um, as
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we covered a lot of those early episodes, um,
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which. It is also my
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intention to rerelease the first ten
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episodes in some way, uh, as they are
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next to unlistenable, they'll still live where they are now, but
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they might get a rebroadcast. Um,
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but the show existed early
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on to build some thankfulness, um,
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because
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as you use the bathroom, you're just thankful
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that you made it. You know what I'm saying? Even if you didn't make it, you're thankful
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that you had a target, because for a long time in history,
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people's target for bathrooming was the bush. Uh,
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and so it exists to try to build some
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thankfulness. And so we're going to take a moment,
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uh, each episode to maybe think about what we have to be
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thankful for from that episode.
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But I also want to say at the front of the show here, it is
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also our intention as often as we
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are able to make privy
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as family friendly
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a podcast about bathrooms
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can be. Now, when there
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is some content that maybe is
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iffy for younger listeners, I will do my best to
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give that content warning. Um,
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and I will also do my best to even
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put in the diddly do below,
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uh, some time markings if you want to skip
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those portions. Um, but
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as is the case with bathrooming, a lot
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of the content material, um, is
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crass and maybe is not for younger listeners. And
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so we want to keep the show family friendly
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while not limiting ourselves to not covering
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these big swaths of the bathroom world.
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And so we will do our
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best. If that is the case for those episodes that
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do contain it, to contain the e
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explicit tag, you'll notice that we have
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removed that by default. So, um, by
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default, we're family friendly.
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And if in the case where we are unable to, you
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will know ahead of time. And
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so as we look to the past and sometimes
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the future, I'm looking at you, NASA. And as we
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shared each other's stories, we heard
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twelve different stories last year.
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Uh, and I want more of that for this year. And so
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if you have a story and you want to be on this
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show, send me an email privycast at,
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uh@gmail.com, we'll set something up. Absolutely
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everybody has a bathroom story and we want to hear it.
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We reveled in the good and the bad.
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And the goal in all that is, again, that we might grow
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in a little bit of thankfulness. Like,
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if anything, for all the times we made it to the pot,
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that we are able to keep pooping in the free world.
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And this is one of the other new things that we're going to
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test this year, is acknowledging
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that that free world has not always been free and
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it was not free to achieve. And
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so with, uh, that, I want to
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introduce, uh, ah, a
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new endeavor, as long as I'm able to do it,
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is writing a review now. You'll hear me
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say at the end of episodes. Oh, write a review, leave a rating
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and review. Uh, and the reason that
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podcasts ask you to do that is because when
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you do it, it helps other people find the show. Now,
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uh, there is a part of you that has to be okay with
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putting your, if you write a review, putting your
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tag or your name associated with the show about
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bathrooms. But as I said, we're three years in and we're
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going to try to do some good. Um,
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and so, uh, from now on,
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those reviews, I'm not
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the only one who is going to get a benefit.
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As privy and as a listener
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building that listener base of this show,
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we acknowledge that pooping in the free world has not
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always been free. And so
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every review left
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via, and if you're using some
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weird podcatcher that I cannot
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possibly track, um,
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I'm sorry. But, uh, the main two that I check
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that I know have ratings and reviews are Spotify
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and Apple podcasts. And so if you leave us,
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uh, a rating on
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Spotify, that preferably the five
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star rating,
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um, we're going to donate some money
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here and we're going to get to that in just a second.
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I'm going to say, tentatively out of the gate, a dollar for every
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rating left on Spotify. And, uh, if you
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leave us a review that is a typed out word
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review on iTunes, we're going to
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donate $2 for those. So you can leave the
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star rating on iTunes. We'll do the dollar for those. Um,
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but we want to kind of incentivize you
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guys to do that, and we're going to be
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donating that to the wounded warriors project.
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Um, so,
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in acknowledgement that pooping in the free world has not
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always been free, and to many, it was very
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costly. And so, uh, that's a little
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initiative. I'll be sharing more as time goes
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on. Um, and for those of you who have already left
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the reviews and ratings, we will be honoring those. And
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so I'll go back, I will take a tally of them.
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And here in the new year, uh,
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end of each month, we'll probably, uh, check in on
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those and go to the wounded warriors and just
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send that straight over. And so, um, please go
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do that and feel free to share, uh, the show.
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The more you can share the show, the more people who hear about
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it. And, uh, yeah, leave us the rating review
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and we're going to send some love towards the wounded
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warriors. Um, and so
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with that said,
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if you're interested, by the way, in overseeing privy stuff,
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let me know, uh, we can talk I'm trying
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some discord things, but I'm really bad at discord. So if you
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have some skills in that, let me know. Uh,
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one other change here at the top of the show before we get into it,
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is you may. And that may is a
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capital letters, and I have no idea. I'm
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learning. Remember, 2023 is the year of trying new
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things. Um, but you may
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hear an ad from time to time on privy. I
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know. Um, but this is an endeavor
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to not just make this wounded warriors thing kind of
9:03
sustainable, um, but also to
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expand a little bit, um, in the ways that I
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can. This is my side gig. Uh, this isn't even
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my side gig. This is for fun. Um, and we're not
9:14
trying to make any money. Uh, the goal is to make
9:17
zero money, but, um,
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I have spent some money on some podcasting
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equipment and some software. And
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so it would be helpful, uh, even
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if it's just to pay the subscription cost, to keep the
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podcast up. Uh, you'll be hearing some
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ads, and I want full transparency on that.
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Um, and just probably the worst thing to
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say before you say, hey, we're going to start doing ads, but
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just use that forward 1030 seconds thing
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if you must. Uh, yeah, it
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exists for a reason. Um,
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so you might be hearing that. And, uh,
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I cannot stress, it is not a goal to make a trainload of
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money. Um, the goal is to make no money.
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And, uh, yeah, it's just to
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try to, at minimum, break even.
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Um, but the show, uh,
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and the basic stuff of this show, we're not
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going to be charging for that. But this is one of the ways, um,
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that we can do that. So, uh, I just wanted
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to share those things. 2023 is the year of trying new
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things. Um, and so, uh,
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with that said, it's time to get right in.
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Enough housekeeping here at the front.
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Uh, thank you,
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guys.
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In 2015, former president
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Donald run at it again. Donald
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Jebediah Trump told people in an
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interview with, um, who I don't care enough to
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look regarding what sort of policies he's
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going to overturn or revoke if he was elected.
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Now, we can look back, either fondly or otherwise,
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on that little bit of history that, uh, he would like to change
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something. What would he like to change?
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And he said that he would like to
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look at water regulation and
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bathroom water usage regulation.
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And when asked why he know our water
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situation here in the United States, the
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land of the free, because of the brave,
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is inferior to other countries of the world.
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Now, he notes, we have
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restrictions put into our water fixtures and
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plumbing, and it really makes you shower for five times
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as long. Anyway, Trump
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said a lot of things during his time as president, and Lord
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knows the world does not need any more political coverage featuring
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him in any way. It's not what we're doing. But,
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like, our former president came out and said that the
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US water is slower than other countries and
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we just need to talk about. So, like, what
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is he talking about here? Is
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this another cafe fe, or is this, like,
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real stuff? Well, it turns out our
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former president may have been onto something, ah.
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With this one, because America's water pressure
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really is not what it used to be on the whole.
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Um, but to discuss this and
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how we move forward, we need to look at what in the
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flipping heck happened to America's water. Why is the water
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slower? Why is the water so
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dang slow? Our trip starts
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with the american buffalo. Bisonist. Bison.
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If you're a science person, don't tell me I got it wrong.
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After the United States westward expansion, I
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know we're going way back. Settlers had begun
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to settle and dwell from sea to shining sea.
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Now, as they did so, they
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began to use the resources that were present
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where they lived. Uh, and a lot of those
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resources were very novel to them, I might add.
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America is a big country. Um, we're really
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wide, which is
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also kind of a comment about what's going on here, but, um,
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we're wide folks here. But one of the
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resources really got everyone's attention,
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because as settlers settled, that's what settlers
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do. Um, they hunted without
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restriction. And as a result, the
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bison, buffalo, us buffalo
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of the settled west began to decrease, and
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it dwindled and dwindled with each hunting expedition
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to next to nothing. The bison are non
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existent. And nowadays you gotta go to, like,
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yellowstone to see some bison.
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And also, I've been watching
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yellowstone. This is not a plug. Um, go do it if you want,
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go. Don't if you don't. But that show's pretty good.
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Uh, and somehow it does capture what it's like
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growing up in Montana. Not all of
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it, it's not all that scandalous, but,
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like, the atmosphere and just the general
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vibe of, like, where in the heck is everything at? That's what it's like to
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be in Montana. Um,
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likewise, logging and other human
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interactions with the landscape left
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lasting concerns. There was this
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worry, we've settled sea to shining sea, but
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are we going to be able to live here now? Like, have we
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ruined it? And as we settled
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the west, and in many cases
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illegally, did so how much
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of the west would be left?
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Are we doing something that is not going to be
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sustainable? American
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settling. All right. Um.
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By the end of the 18 hundreds, concerns
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had reached a point where the call for conservation,
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which is nowadays, is plastered at every corner.
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Um, and I should say again, I'm from Montana,
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where I feel like I never saw anybody
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recycle anything except for, like, cans and
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scrap metal, because you could get money for it. I
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don't remember having recycling bins when I was
14:59
growing it. I don't remember having bins because we just hauled
15:02
our trash to the dump ourselves.
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Uh, and then I came out here to
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Oregon, and they're like, there's, like, rules about how
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you wash your recycling before you recycle.
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And this is not like a hoove rant about recycling.
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Go find that on the Internet elsewhere. But
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to me, there is just this barrier to recycling
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that is. Doesn't this actually
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cost more time, money, and resources
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to clean the recycling before I
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recycle it? I digress. We've come a long
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way in a bit over 100 years where now
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rules about recycling are just plastered everywhere. And back then,
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they were like, are we going to have enough buffaloes for
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tomorrow? But things started
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and were fueled by concerns about
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big companies exploiting
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resources and leaving nothing for the people
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or for the future. Oh,
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man. We're ringing 2023,
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uh, in with that orange, uh,
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vanilla polar seltzer. Its stuff is just dang
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good. American
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conservation began, really, with a man
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named Gifford Pincho. Pinchot.
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Pincho, who founded the movement in
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1890 in order to improve the lives of
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common citizens. Now, um,
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and I think when you think about it, that's conservation that
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you can get behind, improve the lives of the common citizens.
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Because a lot of the conservation that was
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happening was happening because
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big companies and industries were
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overusing, overlogging, and
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misusing nature, um,
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for their own profit, leaving scraps
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and garbage for the common citizens. And so
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Pinchot's measures had the common
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citizen in mind. That's me.
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And you know what? I like that. But
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later, he would be the first head of the National
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Forest Service under the tagline the land of
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many uses. Now,
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that word uses is important because,
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notice, Pinchot's vision of
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conservation in the United States was that we would still use
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the land, not abuse it, but that it
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would be used for the betterment of the
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citizens. Those of you who live in a
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part of the country where, uh, you have trees that are
17:27
regularly logged, go ahead and ask
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literally any tree scientist about the
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importance of that controlled logging, um,
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you'll understand what using it means and not abusing
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it. President Roosevelt
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championed, uh, the cause and pushed for
17:44
the preservation of wildlife and created the National
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Parks Foundation. I believe that was president
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Teddy, Theodore Roosevelt, but I'm not sure.
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Later, Franklin Roosevelt, the other Roosevelt,
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struck up the new deal which sought to kickstart the
17:58
economy and create tons of jobs.
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One of the endeavors to do so was the
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building and maintenance of over 600 dams
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west of the Rocky Mountains. These would
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provide hydroelectric power, that is,
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water power. Um, water converted to
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electricity. Don't worry. I told you that I wasn't a
18:18
scientist, but I can suss that one out.
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Using our nation's waterways.
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Now, even in these, we're still
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using the wild for our purposes.
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But there was a group on the
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horizon called the preservationists, and they stood
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in contrast to conservation.
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John Weir, I think is his name, was a
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preservationist who opposed Pinchot's ideas that
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the nation's national components,
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natural components, are resources to be used.
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He believes some of these resources should be
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preserved, conserving the
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future, and they're put
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forth. And so what this
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was is these sections were no longer
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going to use at all. In fact, we're not even allowed to touch it.
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Wildlife preservation. As larger
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settlements began to form, there was a
19:11
concern about the water. Will there be enough
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water? Like we already know there's not enough
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buffaloes. Will there be enough water? And will there
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be water in the places where water is harder to
19:23
come by? With the advent of larger
19:25
cities, which were being settled further away from water
19:28
sources, concern about how to get the water
19:31
there, uh, would continue.
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America. America struggled
19:37
for ages with clean drinking water,
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especially around those cities. And
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unfortunately, I ain't here to tout.
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Uh, there are cities today where
19:48
clean drinking water is not a thing in the United States now, we
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are much better off than a lot of parts of the
19:54
world, and we've come a long way, but we're not all the way
19:56
there. Around the 1940s,
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around World War II, people
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continued to move toward more urban centers,
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further increasing the toll on the water
20:07
systems there. Movements to address
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this started as the federal Water Pollution Control
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act passed in 1948. Now,
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there was a lot of talk around this time about water
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pollution. And, uh,
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to me, the best picture of water pollution is that
20:25
scene, um, in the Simpsons, where they're just like,
20:28
dumping the uranium or the nuclear waste into the
20:31
river, and it makes the freak fish.
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Um, the water pollution is a little
20:36
more complex than that, but here we are.
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Ah, it especially arose in
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communities downstream from these growing urban
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centers, these cities. And so in
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1972, America
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passed the Clean Water act and it
20:52
expanded the previous act,
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um, from 1948. The
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goal of the Clean Water act of
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1972 was to regulate
21:04
quality standards for surface waters. It is
21:07
the means by which the
21:09
Environmental Protection Agency implements
21:12
pollution controls. Now, with
21:14
it, you could no longer dump pollution as
21:17
Mr. Burns did
21:20
in the Simpsons. Man, it took me a hot minute to remember his
21:23
name. Um can no
21:26
longer pump and dump. And in
21:29
short, cities must undergo sewage treatment
21:32
and received grants for implementing that treatment
21:35
into their city. The US government during
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this time invested 60
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bubba ba billion dollars to improve America's
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water between 1972 and
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1992. That's about three bill a year.
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In the interim, states pass their own
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water conservation members and
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measures. And one of these measures in the state
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of Florida. I'm not from Florida.
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I have a family and a
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fascination, um, with Florida.
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But former senator,
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former Florida senator Robert McKnight,
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um, to lobby for
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his state's water conservation members,
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sat on a toilet seat in his seat of
22:25
the Senate to promote water conservation
22:28
policy. I'll post pictures this in the privy
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socials. But populations continued to
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grow. And as we moved out of the 90s,
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further preservation endeavors were
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explored. We have to preserve the
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watersheds. And in
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1992, possibly the largest impact on our
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bathrooms arrived. No longer
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regulating things outside our homes, but
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the things inside our homes.
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In 1992, the US government
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passed the Environmental Policy act
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settling, setting a maximum
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on water consumption for toilets,
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urinals, faucets and shower
23:08
heads. You can no longer
23:11
have that high pressure shower
23:14
that you used to have. I mean, you can have it, but
23:17
everything manufactured after this point
23:20
is going to have to abide by these regulations.
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This is later updated in 2005 to reduce
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the flow of shower heads. Again, they also
23:30
updated to sell and promote high
23:32
efficiency toilets and urinals. In 2007,
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official specifications of all these would be released in
23:39
the course of a decade. And
23:42
bathroom fixture manufacturers who wished
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to sell their products in the US must
23:47
follow suit. They must abide by these
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guidelines. Much of this was
23:53
headed up and organized by the plumbing
23:56
manufacturing. Plumbing
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by plumbing manufacturing international,
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PMI. And
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this regulation continues to be a thing in place
24:07
today. And so with that brief, like 15
24:10
minutes ish long look at about
24:13
150 plus years of american history,
24:16
it would seem that
24:18
our former president might have been onto something.
24:22
And that said, if you have a bathroom fixture where
24:25
you are that was produced prior to
24:28
1992, you might have a bit more water
24:30
pressure than the rest of us.
24:33
Likewise, if the plumbing in your area is older than 40
24:36
to 50 years, you too, might experience some m
24:39
added pressure. Now, as
24:42
things continued, Pinshow's policies and belief
24:45
continued to guide us conservation.
24:47
We're no longer seeking to use the resources for a
24:50
benefit. We have adjusted to saving
24:53
them, preserving them, if you will, even
24:56
if that means our toilets suck at flushing.
24:58
Like, I'm getting these pictures from my good
25:01
friend of these goddamn kids that
25:04
are just jamming up these toilets left and right, and it leaves you
25:07
wondering if we had the added
25:10
water pressure, if we had the added flushing power
25:13
of, I don't know, say, literally any other country that doesn't have
25:16
these regulations, could we booty
25:19
blast this poop down the tube
25:21
faster and better? Like, I imagine you'd have to clean
25:24
your toilet less often, too, before we
25:27
close out this inaugural episode. In short, the former
25:30
president was kind of right, and he was going to overturn that and make our
25:33
faucets. Uh,
25:36
this is probably what it was. I can't prove this, but
25:39
I imagine he or somebody he knows had
25:43
some dealings with some sort of
25:46
a, uh, toilet manufacturing and faucet
25:49
manufacturing company. And if they had turned that
25:51
over, you would have seen people just
25:54
sprinting to Lowe's to buy themselves a new,
25:57
fancy super flush toilet. They probably would have
26:00
even called them that. You know what? If that ever gets
26:03
turned over, you just watch, wait for the super flush. It's
26:06
going to just be like what the flush used to be.
26:09
What the flush. Um, but,
26:11
yeah, before we close out this inaugural
26:14
episode of 2023, we should
26:16
note that in October
26:19
of last year, there was a news article
26:22
written. This is
26:25
poo in the news.
26:31
You know, privy is probably the only show where
26:34
something that happened three months ago is even considered
26:37
news. But this article comes from us, from the
26:39
EPA gov. You know, it's legit
26:42
because it has the gov. The article
26:45
notes that they are, quote, celebrating the
26:48
50th anniversary of the Clean Water act on the banks
26:51
of the Cuyahoga river. They list
26:54
the key initiatives of the Clean Water act, many
26:57
of which we discussed in this episode that led to the
26:59
cleaner, more enjoyable water we experience
27:02
today. In 1960,
27:05
the Cuyahuga river, where they are
27:08
standing for this press release, um,
27:11
allegedly gathered, caught fire many times
27:14
due to the level of pollution in it. That's
27:16
bad. If your river, or
27:19
literally any body of water has so much just
27:22
filth in it that it is actively catching fire,
27:25
probably not good. We can all agree that
27:28
that's a bad thing. They mark
27:30
1972 and the passing of the Clean Water act as
27:33
the turning point. It's also noted this was a policy
27:36
on which politicians from both parties
27:39
were unified, in which both
27:42
parties have contributed.
27:45
Apparently not anymore. Uh, they note the measure
27:48
moving forward, including bipartisan infrastructure law
27:51
and the Inflation Reduction act, are designed
27:54
to help make steps to continue the work the CDWA
27:57
set up. That's political. Hoohah.
28:00
Get on with it. So President
28:02
Joseph Randall Biden
28:04
proclaimed the junior. He's a junior,
28:07
by the way. That's a terrifying thought. Um,
28:10
said he,
28:13
the president of the United States, in case anybody forgot,
28:16
by virtue of the authority vested in him by the
28:18
Constitution, whatever. And, um, the laws of the United
28:21
States do hereby proclaim. He proclaims
28:24
it October 18,
28:26
2022, as the 50th
28:29
anniversary of the Clean Water act. Now,
28:34
this is not commentary. This is just me pointing
28:36
out if the Clean
28:39
Water act was signed on October
28:42
18, 1972,
28:46
it was the 50th anniversary, whether you proclaimed
28:49
it or not, their guy. But he calls
28:52
upon, quote, all Americans to observe this
28:54
milestone, recognize the significant
28:57
contribution the Clean Water act has made to
29:00
restoring our nation's waters, and consider the
29:03
crucial role clean water plays in each of our lives, and
29:06
recommit to protecting our shared water resources.
29:09
Now, it's kind of like he's trying to create a
29:11
holiday. Um, but it's just calling us to observe
29:14
the fact that a piece of legislature passed 50 years
29:17
ago. And now a moment of quiet
29:20
to observe the passing of the Clean Water act.
29:26
Be nice if my shower had more pressure, though.
29:29
This has been poo in the
29:32
news.
29:35
Wherever you land and whatever your feelings are on either of these
29:38
past two politicians that we've talked about this episode,
29:42
we can be thankful for a couple of things here. The
29:44
first is we can be thankful for clean
29:47
water. We're not
29:50
downplaying that. I love tap water. I love
29:53
a hose water. Give me some hose water.
29:56
If somebody could design,
29:59
uh, an attachment, it's probably just a hose. But,
30:02
like, a small section of hose that
30:05
gets the hose water
30:07
flavor out of my kitchen taps. That way I can
30:10
have a glass of hose water every time. Oh,
30:13
yes, please. Maybe it's the act
30:16
of drinking it out of the hose that makes it that way.
30:19
But we can be thankful for clean water. And if you don't have clean
30:22
water, I, um, guess write to your
30:25
congressman. I don't know how to help you. Um, I'm
30:28
sorry. But we can also be
30:30
thankful that despite the fact that we have
30:33
regulated fixtures in our homes, we
30:36
still have fixtures in our homes. Like, they get the
30:39
job done. Now, I would like them to be better, but
30:42
here we are. We can still find those things
30:45
to be thankful for. This will bring us to the
30:48
end of another episode of Privy. Thank you so much for joining us.
30:51
I'm going to keep the end short here because I yapped at you for a long time
30:53
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31:14
McLeod and Pottington.
31:17
Thanks, Kevin and Pottington. This has been another episode
31:20
of Privy. Thank you so much for joining us. Happy New Year,
31:23
everyone. And now,
31:26
as always, don't forget to flush.