Episode 71: Monday, May 21, 2007

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 071

In this episode:

  • our interview with author and webmaster Dave Praeger in NYC,
  • his new book Poop Culture (www.poopthebook.com),
  • Starbucks,
  • public bathrooms and automatic flush toilets,
  • the upper class during the Victorian era,
  • the ideology behind the flush toilet,
  • cholera outbreaks,
  • chamber pots and privies,
  • the environmental impact of our current sewer system,
  • creating energy from human waste,
  • Dave’s web site PoopReport (www.poopreport.com),
  • his upcoming show The Tao of Poo on June 2, 2007, in Philadelphia, PA,
  • and his article in The New York Times about recycling urine for use as fertilizer.

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