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Ep. 120 Honeywagons · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: But they bring this big tank truck, and they slurp up all the
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nasty turd bits, like some preteen slurping their cup of noodle in the middle
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of the day. Or Boba. I think Boba's a better image, especially
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if you get one of those milky bobas that's got, like, weird
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fish eyes and milk.
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Welcome back to privy. Privy is a
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from my home bathroom. I'm your host, hunter
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Hoover, and I love bathrooms. This is
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you for leaving those ratings and reviews. So
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go do that now. Uh, I also want to talk about,
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back in October, we discussed
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Frankenberry diarrhea. Now,
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what this was, was Frankenberry, uh,
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stool. Was this phenomenon back in the, I want to say
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seventy s or eighty s. Um, when Frankenberry
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first came out, it had a food dye
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in it that dyed the little kids
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poops just bright red. Uh,
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and so much so that when parents saw
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this, uh, many of them
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took their kids to the doctor to have them checked, thinking that
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they were bleeding out the anus, uh, which you don't
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want anytime you got. Yeah.
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Uh, but I need to tell you
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that there is a new monster
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in town. The first thing is
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this. Oh, gosh.
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Uh, if you have been in the cereal
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aisle recently, you may have noticed
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that they have begun to, quote
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unquote, update some of our beloved
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serial, uh, mascots.
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I listen to a serial podcast, uh, and
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they've talked about this. But as they update
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these mascots, they make me more and more annoyed
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because we have these beloved
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mascots that are iconic in
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what they are. And the changes that
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they are making to them are things that I cannot get behind.
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Like, they're kind of making them just
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more, my opinion, kind of
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claymationy. And they need to leave
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my serial mascots alone. Like, first it was
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Tony the tiger. Years ago, they screwed with Tony.
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They made him kind of like
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bulging m. Uh, I think Tony the
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tiger might have been the first furry.
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Um, and then they
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swapped up flipping two can Sam and gave him a woke
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beak, made him into some abomination. It's bad enough.
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And then they went and screwed with the captain.
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Old crunch, he's not even a
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captain. I think he's like an admirable or
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admiral or something. But
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leave Mr. Crunch alone.
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Just quit changing the mascots. They're fine.
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They don't need changed. I promise they don't.
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But I got on some,
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uh,
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Captain Crunch's oops all berries. Now, I don't know
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what, because I've eaten oops. You know,
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I've eaten oops all berries in the past. This isn't my first pass at
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oops all berries, but something
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about this batch, either my
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tummy has adapted
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negatively to the oops all berries,
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or they have changed something in the batch. Because
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these oops all berries gave me the most
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green poops. It looked like grinch
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fingers just floating around in the
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toilet. Uh, it's the most green I've
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ever seen it. But I digress. But
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not too much, because something
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I was acutely thankful for in that moment.
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As know you flush.
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Sometimes people wonder, hunter, how did you
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know? But everybody checks their
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poop. Like when you poop, you gotta take a peek back there
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and see what the bowl's looking like.
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It's just part of life.
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It should be noted I'm not the only one,
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uh, who's shazzing. Uh, is looking
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more like St. Patty's day when they snatch the oops all berries. It's a thing
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on the Internet. Uh, it's not just me, in case you're wondering,
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but, um, something I was thankful for
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as I'm staring at these green semi
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logs. Uh,
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is that little metallic flusher off to the
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side of the toilet, man. Uh, what
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a pal. Because without that,
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then I would be tasked with
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dealing with this now puddle of green
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filth that I have just produced with my disgusting
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backside. Now, uh, in
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the past, we have discussed some of the options
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available to people throughout time and history
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to help the turds go away.
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There has been things and
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one common factor in all those.
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If you don't have a way to transport it away from
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you, it usually goes into
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some sort of a vessel, whether it's a pan or a pit
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or what have you. And the
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main concerning factor when this
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happens is storage. Now,
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we have a storage problem here at our house. I have what I
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would like to say is a more than healthy assortment of
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board games. Uh, and one of the things that happens
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when you have that assortment of board games is you
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must store them. And,
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man, I got
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some shelving and we got bins and all this stuff.
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But I'm a big fan of
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bins. Uh, the Legos go in the bin.
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The nerf wars go in the bin. Uh, it's just
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good. Bins are great. Get yourself a few
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bins. Storage wars, storage problems
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solved. But whether
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crap storage is a long
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term storage, such as a septic
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tank or a cesspit,
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or if it's a shorter term storage,
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such as privy pits or porta potties, the
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reality is when someone
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eats a big bowl
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of oops, all berries, God forbid they peanut butter
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that bowl first. Don't peanut butter your
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bowl, friends. For those who don't know,
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here we are. You take a spoon
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and you just, like, smear peanut butter on
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the inside of your bowl. And then you put the cereal in, and then you
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put the milk in. It's delicious. Uh, you get
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a little bite of, like, little peanut butter action all
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throughout the bowl. It's just a good time.
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But when someone eats oops. All
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berries before bed, and
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they drop the Grinch surprise. Someone has
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got to deal with it. And today we're
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taking a roundabout stroll back through history,
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where eventually we will discuss honey
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wagons.
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Today in the year
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2024, not three, four
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of our lord. It takes me a few weeks to
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adjust to the four. Uh, I
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find myself writing the incorrect
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year, um, for some time
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after the new year has struck,
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which normally is fine, but I have to fill out, like, special
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education documentation.
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My secretary has to call me out every now and then.
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It's fine. But today when we find a
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porta potty, there is a lovely blue lake at the bottom that you
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skied it into. When that lake gets
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full, you usually have to make a call.
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Who are you going to call for someone to come out and
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service the porta potty? Now, when they do
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that, they are definitely judging you based
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on how fast you filled it up. It's like, I was there last
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week. There's no way you filled blue
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Lake deluxe in but one week.
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But they bring this big tank truck, and they slurp up all the
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nasty turd bits, like some preteen slurp in their cup of noodle in the middle
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of the day. Or Boba. I think Boba's a better image, especially
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if you get one of those milky bobas that's got the weird
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fish eyes and milk. Teens are so
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weird. Like, they care so much
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about things like Boba, yet they
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will drink monster energy drinks. I don't understand it.
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And they'll just French kiss each other in public,
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these flipping teens. They just french
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kiss each other. Just stop
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freaking quit it. You need to french kiss.
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French kiss. French kiss. French kissing goodbye. You know what I'm
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saying? But that truck
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comes and slurps up the nasty bits,
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and that truck is called a honeywagon.
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We need to take a brief look at how we
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got honey wagons. Whose idea was this?
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How did we get here? And for God's sakes, why are we calling
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them honey wagons? Much like many inventions
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in history, it starts at
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multiple points and converges
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onto an idea that just kind of makes all our lives a little
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bit better. Before there was plumbing,
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as was noted, you often would just
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skeet it into the street or a pan and dump it out in
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the field. Fertilizer.
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As sanitation became even more of a
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concern, people began digging.
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Privy pits. Shout out privy.
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We see you, uh, using privy chambers. Hey,
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hey. Two for two. Or using cess
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pits or privy houses. And
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this was great. You could play stick ball where you
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didn't take a poop. Like you didn't have to play.
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You smack the ball, you're running the bases, and you just
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step in. Nasty big Tony's fat
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deuce that he slopped
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2 hours earlier with the
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digging of privy pits and cesspits, you no
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longer had to see it. It was out of sight, out
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of mind. But here's the thing
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about these holes. No
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matter how big your hole
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is,
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it can fill up.
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When you fill a jar, you
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got yourself your ball, your ball. Mason m
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type m, I guess. Ball jar, mason jar. I think
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that's conflicting brands. Mason jar is, I think it's
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like Kleenex, where even if you get puffs,
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plus you'll call it a Kleenex, it's kind of one of those,
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like, name brands have become the thing type thing.
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Um, but when you get your jar and
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you fill it up with M and Ms, you just keep pouring. If
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it overflows, everything is
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great because it's m and Ms, and they're
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delicious. But if you begin to
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fill a crevice or a
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hole with human crap.
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People are upset if it
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begins to overflow because it is
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poop. It's poop,
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and it's meant to stay in the hole. Now,
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as these privy pits and privy
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chambers and cess pits filled up,
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you had a handful of options, really.
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One is you can cover it and hope for the
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best. And this definitely happened.
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But as time went
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on, digging a new pit, just
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covering the first one and digging a new pit
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began to be too much of a hassle. And,
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uh, it's a sliding scale
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because you're going to run out of space to bury your
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crap. Or you would dig one in a primo
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location that wouldn't seep into your water supply
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and give you terrible, terrible call. Oh, wait. They hadn't
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figured that out at this point, but you didn't want to
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upset the balance of your nightly routine. So
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they began to
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realize, we have got to get
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the crap out of the hole.
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What we need to explore today is how
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we arrived at, ah, the modern
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day honey bucket vacuum trucks that suck it
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out. In the early
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days, it was probably no more than people
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shoveling out their own waste and hurting it down the road to a
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place to dump again, fertilizer. More on that
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location later. Uh, but
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as time goes on, people get tired of this
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process. And so,
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as is usually the case when human
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beings have a job that they need to do
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and they begin to be tired of doing it themselves,
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they say, aha, ah, I will pony up
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the cash to pay someone to do it. And that, my
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friends, is public edge. No. Uh,
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but they begin to pay someone. And I imagined
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this started as some kid trying to make some extra
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cash and his dad signs him up for what would have
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been probably the worst job on this planet.
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Uh, I'm here in the Willamete valley in the state
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of Oregon, and we just got an ice
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storm. Now, for those of you who are not
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from the area, uh, I grew up in Montana, so I
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know snow. Snow's fine. We love snow.
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Um, but this is not snow. I cannot stress, this is not
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snow. This is ice. And what I mean by that
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is my car had almost two inches,
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almost of ice just on it.
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You could not open the doors. I had to take some deicing spray
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just to get into my car. It's absolutely
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wild. But this
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ice just freezes over everyone's driveway.
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And in a normal world with snow, this
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is primo money making opportunity for
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young, non lazy teens. But
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there's these two kids in our neighborhood that were just.
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You could tell they were just going house to house just to
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make some cash. And they like, I don't know this,
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but I saw them working, and I'm like, oh,
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partner, you do not know what you have
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signed up for because you cannot shovel this ice. You are
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chipping this ice. You
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would be better equipped with a pickaxe than a
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snow shovel. Um, but these two kids were on
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this driveway for hours, just
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chipping at miss ice. And I imagine that
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that is a lot like the early days of these
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people who went to empty other people's
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cesspits. There arose then a
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job where a person would pull up in
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a wagon. This wagon
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would later be drawn by a horse.
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Uh, and they would use
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buckets to scoop and
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dump the waste into
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a tub on the back of the wagon. Now,
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I cannot stress, this is a tub,
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not a tank, a tub. Now, they had
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ways to do. But again,
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we're starting out weird. I don't know if
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you've ever been to summer camp, but just
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think back. It's summer. The
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mosquitoes are just out and just slurping your
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blood. Uh,
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maybe summer camps where you go and
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try to lock down that crush for the
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next year. Who knows? Summer camp,
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maybe you're going to get to pie one of the counselors in the
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face. Who knows? Maybe you'll encounter
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Sam squamsh out there in the woods.
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But one of the things that happens at summer camp is
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you play the bucket game. And if you've ever been to summer
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camp, you've played the bucket game. And what it is, is you're
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scooping ice cold water, usually from a stream. That's
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what makes it ice cold. It's colder
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than the frosts
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of freaking frost world.
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Freaking Elsa and Anna's
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frozen backyard wonderland. You know what
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I'm saying? That's probably. Don't search for
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that. Um, but you have to scoop
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the water, and then the teams pass the bucket down the
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line, wherein they dump it into a tub.
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Now, you will
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know if you have participated in
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this activity, something very specific
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about transporting liquids in this
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way, and that's
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you're going to spill it. This game is
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designed to promote and produce
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sloshing, and that's all great at summer
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camp. You want to slosh
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cold water on you at summer camp because it's freaking
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hot and the cabins don't have air
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conditioning. But in 17 and
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18 hundreds, when it's hot and
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the liquid is human sludge built up over the
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last month or so, you are not
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going to want to spill that. Do not spill
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that bucket. And then you
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dump it into this tub that, as the
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horse pulls it down. They didn't have
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paved roads. It's
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sloshing everywhere. There's turds going
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everywhere. Smooth ride. Not
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likely. I'm sure everything stayed in the
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tub. Yeah, right.
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But this wagon
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was the first time, this horse
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drawn wagon was the first time
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that they began to use the term
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honeywagon. This begs the
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question,
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why honey wagon? Why not really?
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Filthy, gross, filth, butthole juice
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wagon? Because that's what it is, from what I
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can tell. But from what I can tell,
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they began to call it a honey
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wagon because of the color of the
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liquid inside this tub. Absolutely
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foul. Horse drawn honey wagons.
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That might not be a bad, like, punk rock band,
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metal band name horse drawn honey wagon.
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But we're still a far reach from
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the trucks that we see come slurp up our
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porta potty liquids today.
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And one thing that is different is the
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presence of a horse. And to swap that out,
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the invention of a truck brought two specific
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innovations to the technology.
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U in the mid 18 hundreds, german engineer
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Gottlieb Daimler nailed
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it,
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began, um, working on combustion engines,
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and began to transition
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his engineering from the world of steam
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to the world of machines
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powered by fuel.
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He went to work for the machine
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and fabric.
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Machine and fabric Daniel Straub. Now,
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I butchered it. I don't know why I went like
19:54
Samurai on that, but it's machine and
19:57
fabric. Daniel Straub, where
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he worked on mills and turbines. He became the
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factory manager for auto in
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sigh and brought his pal Maybach
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on as chief designer while he worked there.
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Now, these two men,
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Gottlieb Daimler and his buddy
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Maybach, went on to work on the
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largest manufacturer of stationary
20:22
engines at the time. In
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1872, this company invented
20:27
a gas fueled, compressed charge
20:30
four stroke engine. After four years of
20:33
effort, it was believed, and was probably correct in
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time that it would replace steam.
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Daimler was fired from auto, and
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Maybach resigned, following his friend.
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These two left and began to work
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on an engine that burned a carbon
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based.
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It was eventually reworked to run at about
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900 rpms. Now,
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this engine or that
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compound, that carbon based, I think it's Ligron
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leg roin. I don't know.
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I don't know how to pronounce any of this crap.
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But it was later
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switched out for gasoline and would
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appear to be attached to a vehicle
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running at about
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7
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nearby, where
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Daimler and Maybach are working on this engine.
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Carl Benz had
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patented a similar automobile
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in 1886 called the motor waggin.
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That's german for motor wagon.
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In 1889, the first Daimler Maybach
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automobile was built, called the Stallrad wagon
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stall radwagen, Stalrad
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wagen, and
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was influenced by actually early bicycle
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designs. We've come full circle. I
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get it because of the wheels.
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It's funny. Oh, I had
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to have my bride bring me, um, a little hot
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tea. You got
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to keep the voice nice for you.
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Daimler reiterated and
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reiterated on his stall rad
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wagon until 1896,
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he invented the Daimler motor lost
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wagon, the world's first
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truck. And you might hear all
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this about these german gentlemen running around making
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vehicles and think, so what? I thought we were talking about honey
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wagons. Well, we just found
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the wagon. The truck was
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special in that it could carry and haul a load
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without seeing a significant drop in speed.
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Again, 7 mph. We're not
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breaking land speed records here, but it is said
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to be able to haul between one and a half
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to five tons, depending on the
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model. Originally, this
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truck was designed to haul needed gasoline in
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tanks on the back of it for use in the ever
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rising gasoline use. However,
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as you might guess, it became used
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for so much more.
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As they began to transport gasoline and
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water to the front lines of World War I,
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another somewhat wartime related invention
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posed a, ah, different problem.
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Portable outhouses. Shout out to our outhouse
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episode. Go check it out. Uh, these
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arose in shipyard docks and naval yards around the
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time of World War I, and they were an attempt
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to increase productivity in the
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shipyards. Now,
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much like the sets pits and privy pits
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and things dug to deal with
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waste in their homes, these outhouses
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filled up. And again, they may have had a
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young lad come scoop it out, but when these were
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placed in war areas, there's no young
24:12
lad coming to empty those. They would need to
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be dumped in another way.
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These early stalrod Vogans
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ended up hauling more than just gasoline.
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Beer and water were commonly hauled on these trucks. But
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in time,
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people began to put containers of
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human honey in the back. You know
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what I'm saying? Human honey. Thus,
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the honey wagon took a new form, no longer pulled
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by a beast, but powered by
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gas. And it's interesting to think
24:46
that though you didn't need a horse to power these
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wagons, the horse drawn were probably faster
24:52
for a while. Again, the automobiles were
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moving at, ah, a whopping 7 miles an hour, and
24:58
probably slowed a bit when having a full sloshy
25:01
tub of poo in the back. And that
25:03
makes me start to wonder why people would opt for this.
25:06
I mean, I get not having a horse, but the gas
25:09
wagons couldn't be cheaper. And you're
25:12
telling me that there's more people with a gas wagon than a
25:15
horse? We should start calling
25:17
cars gas wagons. In
25:20
short, they began to use them
25:23
to transport waste back
25:26
in wartime. This helped deal with the
25:29
growing amount of sludge that was in
25:31
bunkers and frontline areas. But,
25:34
alas, the crap tanks are now being
25:37
hauled by trucks. But here's the
25:40
thing. The
25:43
hauling of the poo, once it was in the tubs
25:46
or tanks, not the major
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concern. I believe the
25:51
major concern is the lad who has
25:53
to go scooping out the pit and
25:56
handle the bucket on the way back to dump it.
25:59
And I think if you asked that guy if the gas
26:02
powered truck helped things out, he'd say, well,
26:06
I mean, I guess,
26:08
but I'm still sloshing it all over myself.
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Life is better, but it's not good.
26:15
But the next little slice of historical invention
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really changes the game for that kid.
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Jumping back to Daimler.
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While Daimler was in England, uh,
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completing his work on the gas powered truck
26:35
in England, an inventor named Hubert
26:37
Cecil Booth, after encountering
26:40
lectures on the internal combustion engine,
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began work on another gasoline powered,
26:46
horse drawn invention, a little invention
26:48
Hubert called the puffing Billy.
26:52
Now, while this may have been the
26:55
nickname of the kid who always got caught doing nefarious
26:57
drugs in the Bathroom, Hubert's
27:00
puffing Billy was a gas powered vacuum
27:03
cleaner. You heard me,
27:05
gasoline powered vacuum
27:08
cleaners. Shortly thereafter,
27:11
he came up with an electric model, which is an
27:14
idea we may be more familiar with. And he began
27:17
offering cleaning services via
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pull up vans featuring the name
27:22
the british vacuum cleaner company
27:25
BVCC. The term
27:27
vacuum was assigned to help him market the
27:30
machine. You know, it turns out the
27:33
puffing Billy didn't catch on the way he'd
27:35
hoped. But much like I think
27:38
gas wagons is a good trend that we need to
27:41
introduce for cars, I think a good new
27:44
approach to the vacuum would be to just call it the puffing
27:47
billy. Go get your. Hey, can you go use
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the puffing billy? Oh, yeah, I
27:52
was puffing billying my floor.
27:55
That's hard to make that into a verb. And
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this service that he provided, if you've
28:01
ever had your carpets cleaned professionally,
28:04
it's similar. They pull the vacuum hose through
28:06
the window, vacuum hose your house out for you, and then
28:09
roll it up and roll out. This is mostly
28:12
because the machines itself
28:16
were huge and really bulky.
28:19
They were also really loud,
28:22
uh, these puffing Billy british vacuum
28:25
cleaner company vans m that would
28:28
pull up with this. They're like an enclosed
28:30
wagon with a huge vacuum
28:33
cleaner and a hose that comes out the side. But they would
28:36
start these up, and the horses nearby would freak
28:38
out. Often
28:41
when these are mounted on horse drawn
28:45
wagons, it scares the horses that they're attached to. It's a
28:47
whole thing. But the british
28:50
navy used these
28:52
vacuums to begin to clean
28:55
up barracks and other wartime living
28:58
spaces. Now,
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Hubert Cecil
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Booth, we're going to call him
29:06
Hubie for short.
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He, uh, was offered knighthood for his services
29:12
to the country and his invention of
29:15
the puffing billy the vacuum, uh,
29:18
and like a gangster, he turned him down. His
29:21
vacuum was patented in
29:23
1901, and he founded the company goblin
29:26
to sell his vacuums to the public. Now,
29:30
this company and namesake
29:32
lives on as a maker of pneumatic tube
29:35
systems. Choir
29:38
space. So you have these
29:40
trucks transporting tanks of gasoline to
29:43
wartime, and they decide to fill the tanks with poop
29:46
to clean things up a bit simultaneously. Maybe even
29:49
parked right behind it sits the vacuum
29:51
truck. And it was then they decided
29:54
to combine the two. The
29:57
problem is the truck had to be
30:00
running, and
30:03
also that running engine
30:06
would need to run the vacuum. And they shared a
30:09
thing, and there was a power consumption
30:12
concern.
30:15
It would seem that more power was
30:18
needed. More power.
30:21
Uh, but it was a means, rather, of needing
30:24
to transfer the energy to
30:26
another source of energy or a
30:29
tool. Now, for some time at
30:32
this time, farmers had been concerned with
30:35
this idea, but it wasn't until
30:37
1918 that the international Harvester
30:40
company came up with a PTO
30:43
tractor to transfer the power. Power
30:46
transfer something of the tractor
30:48
into various farming implements,
30:51
often pulled behind the tractor.
30:54
These were not perfected on further
30:57
until the 1940s. But with perfection
31:00
comes suction. In
31:02
1945, the cockshut farm
31:05
equipment company in Ontario, Canada, came
31:08
up with the first live ptO, allowing the
31:10
vacuum to work independently of the
31:13
machinery it was mounted on.
31:15
Truly, the honey wagon,
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though today used to suck crap,
31:21
is a collaborative effort between the fuel industry, the
31:24
automotive industry, transportation, home cleaning, and
31:27
farming industries.
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Ladies and gentle whatevers, the
31:32
honey wagon.
31:36
Today, these
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trucks with large
31:41
tanks on the back,
31:46
vacuums with hoses
31:48
attached, pull up,
31:51
they suck up all the nasties,
31:54
and they roll out and dump that sewage at sewage
31:57
treatment or safe sewage dumping.
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The honey wagon is a pretty cool thing. It's a
32:03
symbol of human ingenuity and
32:06
human teamwork and collaboration.
32:09
And I hope you enjoyed this short journey through history
32:12
with us this afternoon.
32:16
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33:07
Breathe more, push less, own your
33:10
stank. And now, as always,
33:14
don't forget to flush.