toilets – The Paunch Stevenson Show

Episode 71: Monday, May 21, 2007

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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the Lame Idiot of 2005 (Kevin Federline),
a get-rich-quick-scheme (marry Britney Spears),
a raw sewage geyser in David and Jeanie Hansen’s basement in Council Bluffs, IA,
Cyborg (1989) starring Jean-Claude Van Damme,
celebrity deaths (Richard Pryor),
“Grandpa” Al Lewis,
Mel Gibson for governor of California,
a Mr. T update,
Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org),
and a physics experiment with the fake Julius Sumner Miller.

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a phone call with the fake Michael Jackson,
Ted Danson’s blackface in 1993,
celebrity deaths (Pat Morita),
Collision Course (1989) starring Jay Leno and Pat Morita,
sci-fi disaster movies,
TV Guide‘s new larger format,
the CBS made-for-TV movie Category 7: The End of the World (2005) starring Shannen Doherty and Randy Quaid
Independence Day (1996) starring Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum,
a super-strong toilet bowl,
Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin,
and a get-rich-quick scheme (eliminate shaving).

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