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Ep. 157 Sipping Cat Poop Coffee and the Asian Palm Civet (Groundhog Day Special 2025) · Privycast

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>> Hunter Hoover: It's a tradition. Before we get fil
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out, we get them fired up
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by chanting, phil, Phil,
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Phil, Phil, Phil,
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Phil, Phil, Phil,
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Phil. Phil.
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It's punksitani, Phil.
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Welcome back to Privy. Privy
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is a podcast about bathrooms
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recorded from my home
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bathroom. I'm your host, Hunter
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Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
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Welcome back, everyone. Thank you so much for being here.
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Yeah, just thank you for. For joining me on
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this bathroom journey. If you're listening to this
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u, uh, we've done this a lot,
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and one of the things that comes up regularly
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is, is I'm always in need of guests on
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the show. Um, um, so if you hear this listener, I'm going
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to put this little plug at the beginning of the episode. If you're like, man,
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I got a bathroom store to share. Or even if you don't, even if
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you're just like, you know what? I think it'd be fun to sit down and talk to
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Hunter a little bit. Um, shoot me an email
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privycast@gmail.com. i would love
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to. To sit down via virtual space
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or in person sometimes, if it works, we can try to
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get together in a bathroom together, you know what I'm saying?
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And just. Just kind of talk bathrooms. So let me know if you'd be interested
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in that. I would love to see about getting you on. We're gonna. We're gonna'm
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able to try some new things. Um, um, just to. Just
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to spice things up. I'm always going to try new stuff on the show,
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but some of them takes a little work to set up and some time to
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plan. But it's
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that time of year. It's February.
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Love is in the air,
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Football is in the air,
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Presidents are in the air.
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But none of that really matters.
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Don't. We don't give a good gosh dang about
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one single bit of one of those.
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Valentine's Day. Yeah, right.
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Super Bowl. More like dill
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hole bowl, bud. I don't even know if I can say
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super bowl. Stupid bowl. There. I fixed it.
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President's Day.
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Get. We've only recently got a president that I think
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we need to be talkaughing about. Uh,
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but it's February. There's much to be excited
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for. And it all comes at the very beginning of the
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month as we kick off the month with the
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best holiday February has to
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offer. Happy Groundhogs Day, everybody.
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We made it. Happy Groundhogs Day, February 2nd. The point
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of this episode release. Hopefully you celebrated
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Groundhogs Day, uh, both publicly
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and privately because of the nature of How I
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record the show. This show is recorded
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before Ground Honks Day. And so I
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really, truly do not know at the point of
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this record. So either Plumps
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Toy Plumps of Tommy, Phil did in fact see
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his very, very thick shadow and
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we're in for it, or he did
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not, and I
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can't remember which way goes it doesn't really matter. If you've.
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If you've never seen the
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Groundhogs Day festivities that happened in
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Plumps of Tommy, Pennsylvania, I would encourage
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you pause this show,
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go over to YouTube and type in Groundhogs
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Day 2025
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footage and just watch.
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I obviously will be at the point
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of record and at the point of listening will have
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already tuned in the
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day of. It's on a Sunday this year. Mark your
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calendars. I'm marking mine. Um, but. Happy
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Groundhogs Day, everybody. We're celebrating our favorite holiday
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in February and here on
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Privy every year to celebrate
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Groundhog's Day, we take a look at one
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of God's great creatures
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and even more importantly,
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the interesting things that come out of those great
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creatures. Poop.
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We gotta talk about their poo.
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We've looked at a lot of creatures on
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Privy. Go back and check those episodes
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out. They usually come out around February
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5th. But this year we are
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observing a new creature.
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Before we talk about that very cool
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creature, we have to do a short history
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lesson. You. You know that I can't just
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jump right in and tell you about our
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creature. For this year, we've got to do an
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ADHD full bled, four alarm,
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festive February Groundhogs Day Deep
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dive to the background of this animal and
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what makes its poop so special and
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unique.
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Indonesia is a set of
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islands in Asia known for some
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time as the East Indies.
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While these were
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inhabited
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by Hindi and other native Asian
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peoples and later Islamist
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groups. Europeans.
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What are they doing? What's he doing? He's
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aan. Europeans officially
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didn't make it to the region until
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1512.
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Portugal won the race
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to reach Indonesia and
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in doing so made an alliance with Spain
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and set up a number of
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key trade ports and outposts
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in the Spice Islands and in other parts of the
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region.
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20 years prior to their to
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their setting up outposts in the East
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Indies and Indonesian continent.
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Spain and Portugal and other various settlers
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and explorers attempted to
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reach this region by sailing not
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east, but west.
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Portugal. Uh, uh, uh. I don't know if it's
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portual this part of history, it's not important.
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But under the funding of Spain, I believe
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Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean
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blue 1492 to reach
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these Indies. The Indies he were
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seeking were the West Indies.
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He hit land. It wasn't the
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West Indies. He didn't make it. And in
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doing so, he
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discovered America
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for the European continent. The
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rest is history.
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But this episode isn't about Columbus.
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Columbus used to have a day in October where
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we celebrated him. But then because
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history has shown him to be
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doing some nefarious deeds, uh, we're
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not allowed to celebrate him anymore. Even though
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he did a very good thing in discovering
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the United States and the North American
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continent. That all must be undone and we
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must do away with it because he made a terrible,
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terrible error. Now, I'm not condoning
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his mistakes, but that does not negate the fact
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that he discovered this continent for Europe.
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But we're not doing Columbus. Columbus did enough
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already. Rather,
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competition from European nations for
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control over the Indies.
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In our context, the
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continent and. And the islands of
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Indonesia, these would play out
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over the course of years and
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years in that section of the world.
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Two groups that would come under
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great conflict in the region
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were Portugal and Spain. And they
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would be up against the Dutch.
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It seems this conflict in the East
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Indies spilled over from
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the 80s, 80, 80
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years war between the Dutch and
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Spanish, which began decades earlier.
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The Dutch, not liking their
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enemies having influence in such an amazing
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region for trade, launched a
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series of expeditions which resulted in
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their control of the region,
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the East Indies.
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The result of these conquests led
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to these lands and islands
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being called the Dutch East
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Indies. Here a, uh,
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chief operating entity
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was the United East Indies Trading
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Company. Well, they, while they
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traded in the ever lucrative
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spices of the region, such as nutmeg.
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But Craig pepper, Sneezy pepper
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clove, had some clove gum
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recently. Big pass. Like it's
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just awful. Not a fan.
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And cinnamon. Big fan of cinnamon. I freaking
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love cinnamon. Like cinnamon.
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Toast Crunch is so good.
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It is like top shelf cereal.
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It. Gosh, I love cinnamon. I'm
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such a big fan of cinnamon. I'm an absolute
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cinnamon fiend. My, my
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favorite toothpaste is a cinnamon
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toothpaste from Crest that you can't buy
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anymore. Trust me, I've tried. I've written
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the Crest Corporation. I've
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written them and they told me we don't make it anymore. And I'm
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like, here's an idea. Flip and make it
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again because it's the best toothpaste you've ever made
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and you're a gosh dang idiot for canceling
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it.
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I've m tried. It's gone.
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But while these spices that that grew and
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were traded in the spice trade in
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this region. The Dutch
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settlers in the European colonists to the
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area decided to bring in other
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crops from outside the region of
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Indonesia to grow them there to give them a little
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more variety and a little more spice
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if you will, of what they were able to trade
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from the region.
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These new crops and products
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that they brought in include tea,
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cocoa, tobacco,
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opiate, just straight up opium,
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just, just grow an opium in the wild
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and coffee.
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And as it relates to our concerns
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on the show today,
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while all of those are very
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good things to be pretty, maybe not
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opium, I don't know, we can maybe do without that one.
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But our attention is going to be turning to
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the coffee. As
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coffee was not native to
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Indonesia in the East Indies coffee was
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brought there. It turns out coffee
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grows best between the Tropic of
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Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. It has to
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be a pretty damp and tropical
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climate for coffee to grow. Well it needs to be warm
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and it can't be freezing very often.
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As a result it thrived in
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Indonesia but it was brought there.
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It wasn't from there.
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However, something that was not brought
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in but was there all
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along, um, was the Asian palm
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civon.
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The Asian polm civet is
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native to the region of Indonesia.
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This is a cat like
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mammal with a long stocky
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body, usually with shaggy grayish hair.
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And often civets, especially the
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Asian palm civets are going to have
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a white stripe across its forehead and
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white around each eyes. He's like a reverso
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raccn, you know what I'm saying?
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And honestly like this thing looks like a weird
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long polec cat or some sort of like
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strange type of tree cat. You never
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know when you're go goingna stumble on a weird pole cat,
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you know what I'm saying? But they're
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neat, they're a neat creature. An Asian
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palm civet is native
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to Indonesia.
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Civets are generally solitary
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creatures, uh, like
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pubescent teen girls and
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they're mostly nocturnal and seem to sleep
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for big parts of the day. Kind of like pubescent
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teen boys. The civtte will
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mark its territory Being a lone lone
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ranger. He's a real lone ranger. He likes to pray and
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spray uh, Marx'territory
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through scent marking glands on its
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boring holio or urine
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pp feces poo poo or the
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perineal gland. That's that stinky,
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stinky squirt gland on the butthole of the, of
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the civet. And uh, while none of
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these markings and these habits of
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marking territory are atypical
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of many mammals. Here in a pod
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where we discuss bathroom and poop related
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topics, it does bear noting
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civt. It'll squirt one out to markets
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territory. Asian
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palm civets feed on berries,
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pulpy fruits in the like. Who doesn't
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like, who doesn't feed on pulpy
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fruits? I will sup a pulpy fruit so
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fast. They're so good. I would decimate
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some pulpy fruits. I did. I
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decimated a pulpy orange this week. I
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just, I sucked back pulpy fruit
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so fast. And I gotta tell you, I think it did give me
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diarrhea because there was one
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day either that or I caught a weird, weirdo
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bug. But there was one day where, I mean, I ate just,
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uh, a, just a globe of an orange. Just really
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snacked down an orange
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and it was like the bathroom
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job the next morning.
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It was like all the pulp had just flown
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straight through me. They eat,
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uh, a, uh, fruit called the chiku
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ch. Chiku. I'm also known as
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a soap apple, which doesn't help me out much.
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Um, I don't like the flavor of soap. I do like
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apples. Big fan of apples. Um, but the soap
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apple, they'll eat mangoes and again, same.
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Big fan of mangoes. And
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they'll eat a fruit called the rambutan, which is
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kind of like a lychee. It looks like it's like got
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these weird spindly little hairs on this lychee
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fruit. It's kind of cool.
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Civttes are also known to hunt and eat
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small animals and bugs. As we're aware.
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However, what goes in must
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come out. And boy,
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outside of my orange adventure, I have output
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some clam farts this week. My w.
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Now I've made a
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big bucket of clam chowder and
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I ate on that jack for like four
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days. The atmosphere was
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noticeable.
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But the civic cat'digestive
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system is unique from other
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animals, Specifically from other mammals,
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which was only studied in a big way in the
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last five to 10 years. He's snacking down all these
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pulpy fruits. But before we get
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into why, a study of the digestive system in
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poop of the Asian palm civet was
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conducted. I think it would be
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helpful to talk about the results of their
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findings.
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I'm going to save you the messy details
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of this research project. The
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study comes from the national library of science.
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It's a big read, and it was published in
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2020. In it,
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in short, the team studied the
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chemical genetic makeup of the digestive
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system and digestive fluids from the
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Asian palm civet to see how it
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differed from those of other mammals which had, had
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studies done and things
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were mostly the same. And I say
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mostly because as they rooted around in that snoot,
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as I like to say when people start digging around and
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poop, one of
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the things that they found was a high
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concentration of the gut bacteria
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called Glucanobacter.
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Gluconobacter is a bacteria in the
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acid bacteria family. This
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bacteria is a big fan of sugar. Got a
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real sweet tooth. This bacteria, um,
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like sugar rich environments and like sometimes
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me too, you know, I'm saying, uh, snack down
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something a little sweet. I get you little sweet on
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the glucose. That's the glucose part. Glucose.
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Glucanobacter glucose, that's the sugar
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part. As they studied
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the civtte'poop and digestive tract,
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they found in the gut biome, um, two
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specific strains of
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Gluconoacter, Gluconobacter
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fratuaryi and Gluconobacter
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japonicus. Not sure.
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I tried to look up what, what like distinction those
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have versus other forms of gluconobacter. It seems
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like there's about 15 different types of this and
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these might be a subspecies, but suffice it
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to say if they have any amount of
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Gluconoacter in its, in a large amount
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of it in its digestive tract, there's going to
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be something interesting with sugars.
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These Gluconobacter bacterias
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made up
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66%
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of the microbiome of the civet
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cats that were observed in
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other animals, specifically mammals
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studied, including cows,
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dogs, horses, people,
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monkeys, hamsters, mice and
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pigs.
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There was almost no
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Gluconobacter or sugar
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bacteria. So it seems
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this specific sugar loving
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bacteria is specific
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to the digestive system and
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digestive tract of civets.
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And the Asian palm civet
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is, is no different than his
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counterparts. So,
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so what, like
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what makes the Asian palm civet
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so special that we would select
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it as our featured creature
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for our Grand Hog Day
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extraordinaire special episode
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this year? Why? Why the Asian palms in
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it? Well, to further
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appreciate this, we have to jump back into our history
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lesson, back out of the world of science, which
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scares me utterly, and to the
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colonizing of Indonesia. To get to the
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point,
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as was noted, one of the crops which were planted in
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Indonesia to help vitalize the
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ports and, and access they had
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to various sources of income, there was
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coffee. If you didn't
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know, coffee does not look
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like what it looks like when you buy it from the store
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when it grows. It doesn't look like that
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coffee is actually a cherry.
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The coffee cherry grows in tropical
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climates. Again between the Tropic of
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Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Dutch colonists planted coffee
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throughout Indonesia because they figured out it would grow
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there. These
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interactions resulted in the Java
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wars wherein the natives and other peoples of
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the region fought back against the Dutch
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colonizers of Indonesia. When that
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happened, the Asian palm
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civet gained a new source of food.
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Coffee cherries.
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The civet cat began to eat coffee
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cherries. Probably sometime in the
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1600s or 1700s
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after the Java wars, the Dutch colonizers
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needed to revitalize their economic income from
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the region. They had taken a financial
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hit, paying for the wars and warding off u
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uh u
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indigenous peoples from their farms.
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To revitalize the income they
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g they began using a system called
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culture steel or a
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cultivating system to help increase the
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production of their crops. Things were
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tough in Indonesia for the Dutch at this time,
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nothing was allowed to go to the waste.
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In fact, on these Dutch col
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colony farms, you weren't even allowed to
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pick the fruit for personal consumption
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anymore. You know, when I go berry picking and boy do
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I go berry picking, I love to just
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get, just full brown bear, just get
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my, just get my bucket full of
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blackberries. And one of the joys of berry picking.
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If you've never been berry picking any berry. We used to go
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huckleberry picking when I was a kid. ###tana
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one of the joys and one of the benefits of going berry
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picking is what I like to call midp pick
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snack. And that is where you just uh, are, you're
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snacking down a few of these berries. You know, you pick you like six
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in the bucket and maybe four in my mouth, you know what I'm saying?
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And you gotta have, you gotta have berry pick and
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snack while you berry pick. It's just common
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sense. Um, um, it's the way God
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intended it. Like truly. But the
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Dutch and on these Dutch farms you were not
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allowed to pick or consume any
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amount of the crop for yourself.
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You couldn't eat any of it. It was off limits.
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All of what was grown had to
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go to production for sale.
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Because things were so bad for the Dutch
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farms in Indonesia after the Java wars.
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Everything had to be harvested and sold to
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help pay for those wars.
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That and
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sometimes you start to
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find coffee beans where you least expect.
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As the story goes, one of
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the Dutch coffee farmers in the region
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noticed beans of
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their coffee in the Droppings of
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what was found to be the Asian
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palm civet.
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Now remember, they're desperate to pay off debts
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and nothing must go to waste. They
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did then what every rational person would do who
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found coffee beans in the poop. In poop on their
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farm. They decided to root around in that
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snoot, dig the beans out of the, the
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turd. You know, you do what
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you do with coffee beans, process
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them along with all the other coffee
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beans. It
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wasn't until years later that the European
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settlers, thinking the Indonesian natives
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had stolen cherry coffee crops from them,
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asked where they were getting all the coffee beans
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they were using to brew the coffee. It
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doesn't grow naturally, so where
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were you getting it all? The natives then
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explained that they too had been
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foraging for coffee beans from the
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poop of the Asian palm
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civet. And they were the ones
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because they're not mixing it with other plant
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grown coffee.
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They were the ones that found that this coffee was actually
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smoother, less bitter and it
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was reported to have a better flavor.
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Nothing makes a cup of morning brew
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tastes quite like
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great, quite like a cat turd.
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But that's especially the case when the Asian palm
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civet is the cat. And the chemical
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makeup of that cat's digestive system
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are such to break down the sugars of the
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cherry and alleviate some of the acidity of the
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coffee without damaging the bead inside the
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pit. The Dutch plantation owners
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decided they too would cultivate this coffee
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and sell it for a premium. It was
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highly sought after in Europe after this
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point and people would pay a huge price for
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it. But anytime you
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have something that's worth a lot of money, people,
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every single time, if you find
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something that's worth money, there's always going to be
26:29
somebody who's going to come up with a fake.
26:34
Turns out if people will pay
26:36
extra for coffee that came from a cat
26:39
turd, they'll probably believe you if
26:42
you tell them the coffee you got a normal
26:45
way came from a cat turd.
26:48
Fakes were everywhere. And the kopi luwok,
26:51
called as such from kopi poop and luak,
26:53
the name the Indonesian people have for the
26:56
Asian palm civet, fluctuated
26:59
in popularity. In 1991, a
27:02
man named Tony Wild went to and he went
27:05
wild. Flipping buck wild
27:08
is what he was. He was stanky,
27:11
but he went to Indonesia where he was
27:13
introduced to the kopi luwak, the
27:16
coffee. He brought this, this
27:19
infamous poop coffee home
27:23
to the United Kingdom where the desire for the
27:26
coffee was off. Word spread like
27:28
wildfire world. Word spread like shotgun
27:31
diarrhea, if you know what I'm saying.
27:34
Kopi Lu wa was featured on the Oprah
27:37
Winfrey show. And like, who the frick
27:40
cares about that lady? Sorry, Oprah.
27:43
Not really like I'm sorry that you're
27:46
super rich and famous and have all this power, but
27:49
somehow America's still against you. Go
27:51
figure. Um, in 2007,
27:54
the Kopilu wa coffee showed up in the movie the bucket
27:57
list list.
28:00
But with rise in popularity,
28:03
the supply couldn't keep up with
28:05
demand. And so they did what every
28:09
capitalist and and u,
28:11
uh, market economy
28:14
does. They increased supply.
28:17
Natives to Indonesia began trapping
28:20
this Asian palm civette to produce the
28:22
coffee more often. But the conditions for the civette were
28:25
less than great. And this led to the new awareness of
28:28
conditions for the civic. Remember
28:31
all. And remember this is all because
28:35
the Asian palm civette digestive
28:38
tract is perfectly long enough, has the
28:41
right chemical makeup to break down a coffee
28:43
cherry seed just right in order to produce a
28:46
coffee bean that is apparently less
28:49
acidic. And while the story of this
28:52
coffee is one that is made up of colonialism and
28:55
imperialism, misuse and mistreatment of
28:57
animals and the product of a number of
29:00
scams and uh,
29:02
wars,
29:05
there are movements also to counteract
29:08
these, including making the treatment of Asian palm
29:11
civttes and other animals more
29:14
humane.
29:16
Likewise, the mark for the coffee is
29:19
limited. Market for the copy is limited. And there's been
29:22
some research done on how to get the same results through
29:25
conditions in a lab.
29:28
With all these fakes, they had to come up with a way
29:31
of making sure that you had
29:34
authentic civet poop coffee.
29:38
They have electron microscope
29:41
scanning, but these proven effective because you
29:44
have to scan such large amounts at a
29:46
time. Nowadays it
29:49
is formally recommended to avoid
29:52
buying civet coffee either because it is
29:55
fake product or because if it is real,
29:58
it is very likely produced in questional ethical
30:01
conditions. All this
30:04
because Asian palm civtte poop
30:06
had coffee beans in it.
30:09
While they recommend you avoid it, I'm here to tell you
30:13
I did not.
30:18
I tried Kopi Luwak. Months ago,
30:21
my coworker husband had brought some home from a work
30:24
trip and she shared it with me. And
30:27
whether or not the coffee was legit and
30:30
actually had been dug out of the poop of an Indonesian tree
30:33
cat. I tried it
30:36
and maybe it was the gl. Maybe it was the
30:39
glucacteracter, the
30:42
glucobacter. Or maybe it was my
30:45
brain trying to move past the fact that I slipped
30:48
down the sip down the Bean juice of something that had
30:51
been inside the butthole of an Indonesian tree
30:53
cat perhaps months earlier.
30:57
Or perhaps my brain wanted it
31:00
to be as good as I had heard.
31:04
But I want to tell you, it was a
31:06
good cup of coffee. I don't know if
31:09
I'd ever buy this myself. It seems a bit steep,
31:12
especially when the difference was not,
31:15
uh, like, when you're
31:17
talking, you know, $50 for
31:20
a pound of these beans, um,
31:23
and you can get, like, a pound of beans for eight to ten
31:26
bucks of just regular,
31:28
not crap coffee.
31:31
I'm gonna go with the cheaper one, even if it's got
31:34
a little more acidic acidity to it. It's a good cup of
31:37
coffee, though. But all this
31:40
makes me wonder, is there other
31:42
animals who could create a poop coffee
31:45
byproduct of this nature?
31:48
And it turns out I'm not the only
31:51
one who's had this thought
31:59
in 2021. Anthrozoologist, which
32:01
is like a person. Zoologist. Weird
32:04
title. Jess Upopper,
32:07
founder of the Civet Project, collaborated
32:10
with two artists to test out this
32:13
theory, and in doing so, it produced
32:16
a scientific paper where they detailed the
32:18
findings that later produced
32:21
80 grams of what was called
32:24
human coffee. That's right.
32:28
Coffee that had been digested.
32:32
And then. Oh, my gosh,
32:35
just. We are depraved.
32:38
Like it. I'm not sometimes, you
32:41
know, this is depravity.
32:44
This is human depravity on display
32:50
through the consumption of coffee and extraction
32:53
from human feces.
32:56
The science is, it was
32:59
different from civet coffee. But
33:02
it should be noted, coffee
33:06
was produced, and the artists,
33:09
especially the one who ate and
33:12
then digested and then
33:14
shazzed and then rooted, scoot to dig
33:17
out the coffee from her poop.
33:20
Touts that the civet coffee is no
33:23
longer the rarest coffee. Her poop
33:26
coffee is good for you, lady. Like,
33:29
um, um, I want to say I'm
33:32
willing to try it. I got to figure out how to get coffee
33:35
cherries, and I'm worried that. That
33:38
the pits will get stuck in my digestive
33:41
trackact. Ah. Uh, there's, uh, a
33:44
lot more. I. Yeah.
33:46
You know, some. In Jurassic
33:49
park, there's a line that says they were so
33:52
busy thinking about whether or not they could do it,
33:55
they never stopped and asked whether they
33:58
should.
34:00
Yes, coffee was produced,
34:03
and apparently somebody was willing to
34:06
pay for this rare cup of
34:09
beans because it went at auction
34:12
for $566
34:15
for 20 grams of coffee beans that came out of
34:18
some ladies butthole.
34:21
That much, uh, for civic coffee would go for
34:24
about 50 bu buks. So yeah, I'm here to
34:27
tell you there is a hundred
34:29
percent chance that those coffee
34:32
beans were were purchased by a
34:35
pervert or a sexual deviant.
34:37
100% guaranteed
34:42
this year. UN privy for groundhog
34:44
Day we celebrate the Asian
34:47
palm civet. We celebrate the
34:50
Asian palm civet whose digestion
34:53
tract and and is
34:55
is made up and is
34:58
sized just perfectly
35:01
to digest a coffee cherry
35:04
in such a way to produce a desired
35:07
acidic coffee bean.
35:11
The Asian palm civet is our animal
35:14
for Groundhog Day because his
35:17
poop brought us a pop culture coffee
35:19
phenomenon, flooded the market with scams
35:22
and reminded us all that if money can be made,
35:26
people will ruin it and
35:29
they'll dig through a cat turd to do it.
35:31
Asian Palm Civt. Thank you.
35:36
This brings us to the end of another episode of
35:39
Privy. Happy Ground Hogs Day again everybody. I
35:42
hope you enjoyed. Ah, go look up an
35:44
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35:47
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35:58
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36:01
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36:46
the best part of it's over. Enjoy your
36:49
February. This brings us to the end of another
36:51
episode of Priv. Keep pooping in the free world. Own your
36:54
stank. Wash your butthole. And
36:57
now, as always,
37:00
don't forget to flush.