A plumber named Anthony shares a lively, often absurd account of his work, from cleaning clogged toilets to finding toys and even lost jewelry inside plumbing systems. He humorously explores the idea that human waste could become a future currency, drawing on real-world uses like fertilizer and fictional portrayals in shows like *Fallout*. The conversation also touches on the ethics of theft, the value of plumbing as a profession, and the absurdity of cultural beliefs around waste. Anthony reflects on how exposure to dirt and mess can desensitize one to it, comparing it to how children raised with certain foods might develop different tastes. He also jokes about the possibility of becoming a wealthy hoarder of waste or stolen items, and comments on the role of plumbing as a high-paying, albeit dirty, job. The episode is a blend of personal anecdotes, satire, and philosophical musings, featuring references to pop culture, history, and the future of currency. Light-hearted moments include a discussion of naming children, the dangers of the "hat man" myth, and the idea that even in a world of chaos, a skilled plumber could survive by being pragmatic and resourceful. Throughout, the tone remains playful, revealing both the mundanity and the unexpected drama of everyday labor.
Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast for today's guest. We have a plumber. Welcome in Thanks for coming For today's co-host we have Mike. Welcome in Mike So if you could just pull the mic a little bit closer to yourself and then introduce yourself to anybody who might not know you and all that one My name is Anthony and I'm just a plumber simple plumber. That's what you do mainly I do all kinds of stuff, but I do them mainly. That's your main thing Do you do other stuff like locksmithing or what you say that it's like kind of like what does that entail pretty much in general like Copper plumbing galvanized Everything that's got to do with pipes was the difference between plumbing and copper plumbing Well copper plumber. It's got to be weld instead of joining it with the treets. Right. That's the only different and now Galvanized plumbing it sits for gas copper plumbing is using for like hot water like a carbonized weapon one of those heat machines The turns people into slime You can probably say that. Yeah, and do you think it would be a good idea for somebody like you to mess up all of the pipes in their areas or more people have to hire you Well, hey, that's a good idea. Yeah, that's actually it probably works. Yeah, I got a bunch of business from it I probably could yeah, I haven't done anything like that, but now that you say you know the government doesn't really give a shit You could probably just go wild and do something like that put on a little outfit dress like the bad man So they just think you're like a homeless guy. They just went wild and in the next day as Anthony They're gonna hire you a bunch of different people to fix their toilets That sounds like an idea to me actually I can have you probably hire somebody to do it And I just go up done and do the work. Yeah, but that's a little bit risky because they're not gonna want to dress up as the bad man Most likely because it's the meaning they don't understand that it's purely pragmatic No, they probably won. Yeah, have you ever been cleaning a toilet and then the shit comes out and starts forming into a giant monster that you have to defeat in a battle Since I that sometimes I mean honestly man. I see all kinds of stuff as far as Toilet skulls and and and and and so was and it's just sometimes I have to just Cover myself in a whole suit put gloves all the way up to my shoulder. What's the worst thing you ever saw? The worst thing I ever saw was Okay, let me see a toilet busted and broke the person was sitting on the toilet really happened I didn't know that so it's like a very bad person. It till it till sideways. Yeah, it till sideways and everything went on the floor a bunch of shit Yeah, but you don't specialize in cleaning the actual shit, though Well, sometimes to be honest with you people call me towards for a simple Toilet installation or take a toilet out, but People's full of surprises man when you show up sometimes it's not what they tell you and it's not what it seems once you there You're stuck in a lot of shit and then you sometimes literally stuck in shit. Yeah, you have to clean it sometimes and but Like I say I cover myself and use all the proper you have like a radiation suit on or what do you wear? No, no, maybe one of those white suits that you use to To get into the addicts When you get into installation. Yeah, and it's waterproof So I don't have to like get all kinds of crap But if you're a little bit weird actually maybe you you like those type of situations and you won't shop in a suit at all You shop with no shirt on even No, no, that won't be a thing, but I don't know. I've been doing it for so many years I'm not you I'm just your guy who likes to smell and feeling shit all over themselves a completely insane plumber Oh, they got into the job for a completely different reason than you that is Certain people man and I see anybody like that before the they like to get stuck on crap, you know, they like They like crap. You can say that, you know, they like shit. I like they like little shit. No, it's like problem shit Like literally shit. I think this is overhated. Listen, I don't I wouldn't go that far You know, I don't want to work in cleaning shit unless whatever the situation comes up Where that makes sense for me to do at some point, but I think people have this misconception where they think it's dirty It pays a bills in the end of the day puts a foot on the table. That's exactly what I'm saying But sometimes you eat in your own dinner and you can even eat it, you know, because after you've been Around all these shit. That's exactly what I'm saying. If you're around it enough, you'll become desensitized Yeah, I'm not having dinner tonight and think about it like this if you give a small baby shit while they're growing up and they eat shit They're all I've still never know that you're not supposed to eat it It's just culturally we raise them to think that it's not okay because it'll make you sick and die but really They might even like the taste if it's all you feed them. It's like a dog eating kibble. Yeah, well, I guess They can do that if they choose to but yeah, you know It's further on that topic. Do you think it would be a good idea to start hoarding the shit you remove in case that Eventually becomes the universal currency Horing like what what do you mean by that shit? So like when you clean toilets when you go and fix stuff for people you start collecting the shit in bags and you bring it back to your house So in case eventually the dollar collapses. We start using shit as the currency to buy things I don't know, but I tell you one thing people back then that I knew of they used to use shit as fertilizer You know exactly to grow they still use it the Stranges and they put it there and they're supposed to help the plants grow up better So they still use cows should usually as fertilizer and manure so think about it like this There's already a use for shit and the dollar you know the government's a little bit unstable It looks like we're unfortunately gonna get a liberal next term So just to back it up in case that currency comes about where now we need a bunch of shit if you've been collecting for like four years You might be the richest man in the world And might be a thing you ever see the movie a Ideocracy no it's a movie that is Make in the future and the planet becomes Full a shit and everybody's on shit. So I don't know it's a it was a thing in the movie It kind of seems a little realistic the way we're going I think that's exactly what could happen. I think that's a good point And think about it like this if everything collapses people won't have any food So they'll have nothing to shit out So you'll have a bunch of shit from when people had food, and then that's why it'll be limited. That's why I could be the currency Cool be made. Yeah, it's a great idea. Yeah, take that in mind What's the coolest thing you found in someone's toilet Toys toys I find a couple think I found Barney and SpongeBob ones where they put the kid making like a statement like he doesn't like to show anymore He just dropped it in there. No, I think a kid just dropped it in there and it was clogged up And I keep snaking that thing and it doesn't go anywhere. So I'm like hell I'm just gonna take the toilet out and I did oh really and I look under from under the toilet and there it was It was that probably ended up being a pretty expensive job for them. No, since you had to take the entire toilet out Well, it's it's not so hard once you have practice. It's only have two bolts Oh really you lift it up you take the wax out and and then you dig in there and now No, it's not a big deal. Yeah, I'll take probably to put it back on and off 30 minutes So what would you charge somebody for something like that? Depends how much I can handle if if I go to like a certain areas like I say like maybe over here Probably like three hundred three hundred and fifty dollars. Yeah, if I go to like maybe not hardly with Pacoima I know people can afford that right and they won't pay that so You're kind of like Robin Hood you'll change the price is depending on how much money they have you have to adjust to the and you tell them the price before or you tell them after you're done with the work No, I tell them before because if I go all the way down there and waste my gas and my time for no reason then you know I have to make sure that the job is You know it's confirmed the people ever sometimes when you're working they like close the door They let you because they don't want to smell it or something you could probably start stealing all of the stuff in their bathroom And you could get away with like a bunch of toothbrushes the bunch of towels since you have a bunch of tools is you could probably unscrew their sink and start stealing the handles it can happen But some most of the people that I Work for and then it came to the window they refer but I could yeah I I heard a people doing that before really taking their goal like little goal necklaces or whatever they can I never done anything. Well, that's obvious if I was a story if I was a plumber and I saw a goal necklace I would I would say oh look Yeah, I think that fell down the toilet unfortunately and it would be my pocket actually the last time I went and this from Plumbing work It was a trap. I had to take it apart and this guy lost his Islands in there and they they like $4,000 islands. I say okay. I'll show up. Okay. Just give me like Hundred bucks, you know, if that's a way so I open the trap. I find his land there give it to him and this guy like no No, that's too quick. You get 30 bucks. Oh wow. I tried scamming you and I'm like Yeah, and I'm like do I came all the way up from Northridge to North Hollywood come on then and he's like no That's you made money too quick. He didn't add anyone argue with the guy some people and he was on my ass While I was doing it like right there watching me the whole time and it was annoying man And it was very comfortable And he only ended up giving you 30 or he gave you the full honey. I didn't even took the money. I told him fuck you You took nothing. Yeah, I don't see that's what I'm saying a guy like that. It's probably not the average person But just in case you run into a guy like that one day you should punish everybody by stealing their stuff Well a lot of the clients are very good people so much you never know Maybe if you know one of them for a long time you can differentiate them, but on the first try you should always steal stuff Maybe maybe I should have started doing
I don't know. Maybe. Well, imagine how rich you'll be. Think about it like this. If shit becomes the universal currency, and you start collecting shit, now you'll become the richest guy in the world. If you start stealing screws and sinks and handles and towels and toothbrushes and toothpaste and shaving cream and all this stuff, you'll also just be extremely rich if that world doesn't come about where the most useless thing becomes the most useful item. So either way, you'll become extremely wealthy. We don't know what the world is gonna take us right now. Maybe either way. Maybe one of them will work, you know, shit or Scrooze or tools. Yeah, maybe that will become the universal currency like in Fallout where they use bottled caps Maybe for what for coins. Yeah, they use that as a currency because the whole currency for coin it has been destroyed by nuclear bombs So they can't produce any more bottled caps and seen a finite amount. Yeah, I saw that enough. Show co fallout. Oh, you saw that Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, they used that they got it. It's a good show It's pretty good show. I watch it. Did you like it? My kids love it. Yeah, yeah, I watch it because my kids are there you gotta watch it I'm I'm 50 man. You know 50 years old 50. Yeah, so I don't get into those type of shows But once I start watching a few episodes Then I start liking it. You probably make a lot of money in the world like that actually your skills would be very useful maybe yeah, I Don't make bad as it is, you know, yeah people underestimate. I think how much plungers make Oh, they make a believe me and now it's this thing. Yeah, we don't even use this crap no more because in these days what people each man They're always closer than toilet. I don't know. It's less the full the hormones on it. These things hardly ever work And I don't have to make them all the time most of the time because Hey, man, we live in LA, okay? Yeah, and we got all the cultures of the world over here You know hindus latins whites of Chinese Yeah, that first one for sure he's gonna clog the toilet to an unbelievable level All those types of foods they're going in those places man They they they start and I like that you're not scared to say it because some some plumbers would be like Hey, everything's the same. I'm not racist, but you recognize it's like you're going to a Hindu house for one It's gonna be a lot of work and for two. You're gonna make a lot of money probably a lot of spices in there. Yeah, yeah, I mean there They're already on board though with it actually. They already you shit is a currency. Did you know that in India? I heard many stories, but I'm they actually eat it that you have a festival where they eat shit holy crap Yeah, I'm not joking by the way, that's quite a thing. Well, I probably believe it. Yeah, I mean, I I know People have some rituals right in the world No, read rituals like where they're used as People eat shit. I don't know about being read. Maybe that's part of their culture. I don't know man. It's a No Part of their culture that they they like to eat shit. I don't know I'd say if you eat shit as part of your culture. I think you can be classified also as a So it's one of the same you're getting you know It's tough that it's it's not gonna help your brain. That's for sure. Yeah, no dreams on that crap in fairness though I think their brain were kind of doomed from the beginning Yeah, why why will you say that? I guess a good analogy would be somebody who's gonna die tomorrow eating a bunch of junk food and somebody telling them It's gonna be bad for their health. They're gonna be dead tomorrow anyways So you're telling a guy whose brain was already doomed. They could never be intelligent or understand anything high level Hey, don't eat that shit. It's gonna mess with your brain. Yeah, like McDonald's right no like actual shit Okay shit, but much different since it tastes like food But yeah, well, but that's what I was saying a little baby would never know the difference between shit and McDonald's if they ate shit from growing up And in India, that's what they do because they don't have McDonald's. They don't have shit Yeah, cuz they are not allowed to eat cows. Do you that you went to India and experience anything like that or no? I saw a video of a racist guy a racist guy made a video and I believed it all really. Yeah, I see videos of they making some Food that I never seen before in the streets. No, it's interesting, but I don't know. I don't know if I'll eat it. 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Oh, no, no, I don't I don't think so He falls into the system and then it's this guy who's now a pickle so he doesn't have arms or legs, but he has a mouth Okay, so he ends up tricking a rat and then he he uses his mouth to control the rat's brain because he bites his head open And then he ends up putting himself on top of the rat and then maneuvering with the rat until he uses a bunch of rats that he kills to turn himself sort of into a rat and then he crawls out of the sewer system and turns himself back into a human Okay, so I thought maybe you could relate to him because you kind of deal with plumbing. Oh And he's a pickle. I don't know. Maybe man. I've been in a very bad situations down there. Believe me actually Especially when you're under the houses and it's hardly any Any room and you got to do root work. You know what I mean? And you have to open those pipes that are Lordly full a crap. Yeah, you know, you have to be very careful because once you open the the joints of them It's a start coming out like I know it's like like a river and a spread and you usually work by yourself or sometimes you have people come with you So most of the time listen I usually I used to bring this guy I work by myself most of the time because I know how to deal with the stuff I don't like to be like, hey man, you know You got to do this and then they don't know what to help to do most of the people that I hire sometimes They like yeah, I know how to do the work and then once They show up to work and you ask them for something. They don't know them thing So I used to have a friend of mine not a friend of mine kind of it was it was this dude. He was a fat fuck like yeah And we always got to go under the houses and I'm like and he's always like I won't be able to fit their man And I say then I cannot use for you. You know, we got to go under the house, you know And he still wanted some money from the thing. Yeah, so but one time we went under this house. There is a It was like probably four feet the foundation was four feet high And he was able to fit in that when I was like yeah, you know with a bunch of shit all over him And he was he was able to fit that we open a we open a sewer line and That stuff just came out flying I just wrote to the other side because we got a crow there. We got no room Yeah, so I got a he's too slow. He couldn't roll You know, so he takes everything just a start coming on him, you know, and let me ask you question Let's say you are in a situation like that and the guys are actually they open their mouth and And he's trying to eat it would you continue working with him or you'd be like I think we're gonna have to uh, you know I think that they'll be his own choice I mean if he works good if he likes to eat shit, I don't care. I don't know. Okay, you know Probably out, but he starts lying. You have to go. No, no, you saw stuff wrong You know, if I did that it was an accident and he's saying this you denying it and he's like looking his lips at the same time as an accident I just don't go watch his mouth and come back to work. I guess. I don't know. Okay, so you will continue working I'm not I'm a very easy guy. You know, I don't mess with my work and we're still making money He can eat all the shit. He won't you know the work with somebody like that and a fat guy you can't fit under the house I probably man. Yeah, I don't believe it or not. It's right guys. Sometimes I told him hey hold those Greater channel likes hold the pipe. I mean this guy was so obviously was probably like 360 Wow, how tall was it? Oh Probably like five five. Oh wow. Like my height. So he's like kind of he's just a circle Literally, he's more like he's he's more wider than taller man. Yeah, what I mean So anyways, he um, I told him to hold The pipe with the channel likes because I was gonna cut it with the sauce So and believe it or not we lay him back there and I'm about to cut the pipe and this guy started snoring He was sleeping. It was his snorke just like that like his his air got cut off from his Probably almost died. He's probably having a stroke. He's not saying no. Yeah signals. No, it was a common thing to do after I knew He holding the channel likes and the pipe and his name back and I'm like, hey, dude Tie that up and then he's oh then he um, he probably say do some grip. Yeah He loses his grip and the channel like Fouls right into in his forehead then he wakes up and he's like, I'm sorry man So I'm like, I can deal with you no more man. You're gonna get kill. You're gonna get me in trouble I'm gonna end up in jail working with you. You know, yeah, let me ask you are you have an accent I imagine you were not born in America. I was born in United States, but I really went down so
both. My parents moved down south for probably, it was about eight, yeah, 10 years, almost 10 years old. No, I came back when I was 12 back a year. Okay. And I moved all the way up to Michigan State. But you were born here. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Because I know a lot of, maybe not, per se, illegal workers do work like this plumbing, because they can't maybe get a job or go to a college because of the restrictions with something like that. So they have to go to work like this. No, that there is something. It's many people believe it or not. I mean, those guys may probably more money than those people who go to college or whatever, because I'm plumbing is, but it's a dirty job. It's not just everybody wants to do the type of job. You know, it's very stressful. You got to be a little bit of fit on very tight spaces. They think about it like this. A plumber will make way more money than somebody who goes to college, even at Harvard for computer science. If I go and I fuck that guy, then it'll make no money. No, probably not, not, not that. I'm talking about the average people like to be an accounting or to radiology or whatever stuff. Little profession. Well, even those guys will make more than a dead computer scientist. Plumber's can make up to like 150,000 a year, you know. I don't make that much. I'm not only with, with, I only work with reference. I'm not advertised. I don't need to. They keep me busy. Yes, it is, you know. I don't know. I can, I can do pretty good sometimes on years. Like around a hundred thousand or so. I can get close to that. I mean, that's really good money. That's definitely more than average. Yeah, no, but that's because I work for myself. I don't, I don't work for anybody. You own your own company. I'm a self contractor. Yeah, that extends. But like you say, yeah, there's a lot of people up there. They work these type of jobs. And there's a lot of them that are now, what you call them, they don't have a status, you know. Yeah. But they still work. That's why I try to hire because then if I don't like the job they do, or I'm just in a bad mood, like I didn't sleep for exactly eight hours, I'll just start threatening to call the police. Yeah, I don't know. I didn't really like that job you did. You know, if you don't get out of my house, I'm going to have to call my eyes. Yeah, people don't still believe it or not. But only if I slept bad. If I slept good, I'll actually give them a tip. But if I slept bad, it's like you have to take the frustration out on somebody. I guess how's karma treating you? It's good. Okay. I would say that because it's impossible that it'll get me back in the same way because I was born here like you. So I couldn't do that on you. So actually if I, if I had clogged my toilet or something like that, and I called you, my first question would probably be if you're illegal. Right. Maybe that's the way you look at it. A lot of people appreciate it. Some people. Hey, it's all kinds of people. Hey, I don't have an issue with it as long as I slept. Well, and that's like most days. I try to make sure I sleep well. And you were born here too. Yeah, in Los Angeles. You also have a nexin. So do you, but we're both born here. I know. But everybody thinks you have background. German German. Yeah, you are like a fully German. Oh, okay. Okay. Sound a little German. I guess. Yeah, I can say that. Yeah. If abortion is in ****, then why would it be considered a quadruple? If I ****ed four people in the middle of the street because the bird told me to do it. What? Okay. If say it again. If I ****ed four people in the middle of the street because of the bird told me to do it. Well, I don't know. It depends how people will look at it. You know, well, it's like, Hey, you know, it's not a baby yet, even though it's like eight months old and it has a brain. But then I go and I use my car or an axe or a hatchet, which is a different type of axe. And I get four people in the middle of the street. All of a sudden, I'm going to jail for four people. How? What if I argue that I don't they weren't humans yet? Yeah, I don't even know what I'm talking about. That argument doesn't make much sense. That **** bird that I hate. Well, you know, I, I, I, I don't know, man, I, I have kids. Yeah. So I figure once the seed goes in through the ovarian and now you didn't abort them. I wasn't raised with those. Do you have a principle? Do you have a regret it? No, I never, I never abort anybody. No, I'm saying, do you ever regret not aborting your kids? They piss you off your life? No, no, no. You know, I could have **** stopped you right there 10, 19 years ago. Believe me, though, piss you off sometimes, but I didn't think that far. I wouldn't, I wouldn't. No, I, you know, kids are beautiful. You have any kids? No, I don't. But I think if I do, I believe, and you know, maybe I'll change my mind one day if I'm a parent, but I believe in extremely late stage abortions. Well, you have the right to think. Because if you're the parent and you decide 10 years down the line that you don't like them and then you didn't raise them well, I think you should have the right to **** them. Well, that'd be your own fault if you don't raise them well. So if you know, if it's okay, how about, how about, how about if you didn't raise them well and just **** yourself? Well, okay, but that, that's assuming that it's your fault. You could absolutely just have like a crazy lunatic come out. There's nothing you can do sometimes. Sometimes it'll just come out artistic and it is what it is. And they'll want to, they'll want to eat mice. You know what I'm talking about. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So I don't know. I, I, I just go from my point of view, I respect life that way, but who do you think built the pyramids? I don't know. It's a lot of theories up there. I think humans did. I heard a new one that I liked a lot of new theory. Which one is that? I heard it was ****. Oh, yeah. Yeah. How he did that. He wasn't born yet. Because you know that they say he **** themselves. Okay. What if he actually, but you know, there's not really any hard evidence. A lot of people think he actually fled to Argentina. What if he actually had a time machine? Who knows, man? Or maybe he reincarnated. Yeah. Is that Apple? You believe in reincarnation? Because the jikshans used to. Yeah. I don't know. I don't believe it. Maybe there was a **** pharaoh back then, you know, he went back incarnated in the past. Rink. Okay. Yeah. Well, something like that. But think about it like this. If you believe that aliens exist and they could come here and build the pyramids, then it's not that far off from believing that you could use some sort of time travel technology. In which case, maybe, maybe he built the pyramids. Maybe, you know, have you see ancient aliens? But ancient aliens. Ancient Alan. Aliens. Aliens. Aliens. Oh, aliens to the rest. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a show that shows all kinds of stuff like that. I don't think I've seen that before times. And it shows the pyramids work on the history channel. I think it's an, yeah, history channel. Those guys are, those guys are **** nuts on the history channel. Well, I was used wonder because they got a lot of theories over there. I was like, I remember I was six years old and the history channel was on. And that's why I'm so crazy now. Okay. Yeah. It really fucked me up. You say, well, you got your hair like that. Yeah. You know, the guy from now from the first thing you messed up. It's got. Yeah. Cause the guy, the, the, the, the hosts for the show. Oh, he looks like this kind of, yeah, it kind of looks like you. But let's say you in the, in the young version. He's a little younger version of the, the ancient Aliens guy. Just the looks. Okay. It's a little big in the face, man. Not much. It's not a big deal. It's a little bit different. Just, no, just a little big in the, you know, in the, in the, in the looks. Right. I understand. Hey, guys, start for the inner option. Have to let you know that today's episode is sponsored by Quo running a business means you're always reachable until you're not that techs that follow up after you miss a call is going to be picked up by your competitor. That's why today's episode is sponsored by Quo. Spell Q. U.O. The business phone system help to make it so you never miss another opportunity. If you don't believe me, Quo is the number one rated phone system on G2, with over 90,000 businesses who rely on it every day to stay reachable and look professional. The reason why Quo is so great is because most customers are not looking for a call back. Maybe they're trying to book an appointment. Whatever it is, Quo helps you reach them now so they don't go to a competitor. 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Up until like, yeah, exactly up until like seven years old, he'll be the coolest kid ever. And then past seven years old, especially from like eight to 14, he'll be the biggest loser. So he'll go through a major hardship. He'll have to get really hard and is a person. And by the time he's 15, he's either going to be extremely tough mentally or he'll be dead probably, probably in these days more likely that he probably could miss so many too many bullying.
up there in the you know social networks and yeah but then but then it's like you know what I I tried would you rather have an average son or 10% chance at a complete lunatic who doesn't experience any emotions because his name is SpongeBob ah I will say take him out of North America for a while like I did I totally went down so my parents bring me back I learned a lot of stuff down there it's tough me out of my life experience you know because it's different you want to tough them up bring them down but look you turned out to be a productive a productive person like you're fixing people's pipes so the whole city is in filled with shit I'm trying to name my kid SpongeBob so we either ends up like a complete lunatic okay can you imagine that what more you're talking about somebody's name leading them down to become what name is more likely to lead them down that line then SpongeBob I guess so would you like your kid hang out with somebody named SpongeBob that probably be cool it'd be funny oh what's it got to do with the doctor with the doctor name oh the doctor's name was Dr. Rip your meniscus oh yeah okay what's it that's like a ligaments so that's kind of a little scary I was saying sounds scary I mean I don't think he'll be I mean Dr. Cavorkin was real you know what you say Dr. what Cavorkin Michigan doctor that he was he's the one to start he's the one to start it to do how do you say voluntarily kill for people they want at it oh he's doing uh he did it out of out of assistance yeah assistance and then he didn't give his shit what the course then he used to do it they throw him in jail anyways after so many you know well then he's kind of an idiot I think right if he ended up going to jail for it yeah but he was trying to practice something I would let's say if you were like with the deadly disease like really bad at stage like eight or cancer or it's you and tremendous pain yeah I don't know if I want to leave like that I don't I don't even think I want anybody you know wiping my ass and stuff like that but you know in the shape work in Europe there's a place where you can do that and like I think uh switch early maybe or countries they can you get to do it legally as you say yeah I think it's something but now but back then it was the 90s I was totally illegal but this was in the 90s yeah in the 90s yeah you never heard of Dr. Cavorkin it's actually a movie made of arm out placinoes in it interesting I'll watch it but no I haven't heard of it I mean if it's in the 90s it's way before I was yeah I was totally legal now it's legal in certain countries in South America yeah and like you say I think sweet them like you say yeah I think it's South America it's just legal people isn't it it seems like it in these days yeah I don't think it needs to be an old guy with disease but it's a lot of propaganda too yeah is it but it's like everywhere you go everywhere you go I heard it's a delicacy over there in like Brazil to eat somebody's brain while they're still alive probably some carnivoles up there I mean that's the Amazon's are down there that's what I'm saying you know you never know how funny birds with lots of colors everywhere you go right now you don't have to go too far you go to the big part of LA yeah and you know you can walk around there at a certain time you know you you won't come out of there you know as you said if you go to the black part of LA you're screwed I'm talking about areas where it's more high crime I'm not specifically saying any district but there is some places that are more you know I know more you both know what you're talking about you know I'm saying I live all over the place but I know like if you got called in to do some plumbing and compton you're gonna be like goodbye black beep beep if they have the money and paid me upfront I'll probably do the job I have to get pay up yeah but that's very unlikely I have done some work down there I just want to make sure that you pay up front and also I make sure it's daylight yeah that's all yeah but see you're a smart guy you're pragmatic with your racism you see what I'm saying like I don't know about racism but I I'm precaution I've been all over the world when I was living in Mexico and they tell you just go down the road over there and take a left and then and then and it's like you know you're going into a trap then you're in Brazil they're gonna probably kidnap you or something you feel a few four-incher down there when I went down there I was like a four-incher because they I I ain't Mexican but they they were treating me like I wasn't or really after I been there for a few years then of course you know so for you in the first language you spoke was it English or Spanish Spanish my parents don't speak English let me get my plunger thank you appreciate it you know how to use this thing during world war two they literally built a ship out of concrete its whole job is pumping out like a thousand gallons of ice cream every day and sailing around the Pacific handy now to all the smaller navy ships well if the military suddenly needs that much fucking ice cream they also need a ton of dairy so the government starts encouraging people to start becoming dairy farmers the war ends the man falls off and now all these dairy farmers about to go broke the government's basically like fuck it we'll keep buying the milk now they're just sitting on all this milk with no word of store so somebody goes why don't we just make it into cheese it'll last longer it'll show hundreds of millions of pounds into a cave outside Springfield Missouri by the time Reagan takes office there's like 700 million pounds of cheese sitting there Reagan wants to get rid of it and the public's like you basically took our tax money and turned it into cheese the least you can do is give us the fucking cheese so they start handing it out to the poor people in the elderly and that's why people call it government cheese where's your son you locked up we're at Robinson County no he isn't my son and jail Robinson County sir do you know who you're talking to step out of the vehicle he's going to take this you're going to get it sorted out you know who I am I'm Jerry Lee Red June this my property okay what are we here for Jerry Red I am Jerry Red turn around and put your hands behind your back the deputy detained Jerry Lee Rooney Jr. while they're offering a check on the warrant again they realize they got the wrong guy you might be looking for my nephew he win Chester Tennessee date of birth 1996 no I'll born in 72 just look him what yeah the I already said LeBron wasn't involved they cleared him I know players today get four random drug tests every season and that's why they can what's LeBron got to do with toilet stuff good wonder the FBI already said LeBron wasn't involved they cleared him I know players today get four random drug tests every season and that's been the case since 2004 my question is what about the guys from the 80s and 90s back then they basically got tested once October 1st so if you wanted to inject something on October 2nd you had the rest of the year to do whatever the fuck you wanted so why does nobody ever question that era these dudes played at all 82 games barely had medical staffs never seemed to roll an ankle all the motherfuckers didn't even get a flu half of them were balled by like 25 we're really supposed to believe that in the middle of a steroid era where every major sport had problems the NBA was somehow the one Lee where everybody was completely clean what I guess do you understand that I'm not familiar with none of the stuff but what did he say I don't know how to run county I don't really understand any of that me neither man so what do you think what was he talking about there I have absolutely no idea I don't know if those things he was talking about were related or what I don't know got me there well whatever well yeah I don't know that just he just came out of the blue talking complete fucking bullshit I guess there's people like that they just talk they like talking I guess so yeah I guess so man funny guy though do you think it would be a good idea to give a dog a bunch of Benadryl so he can meet the hat man how about if he died okay well with the intention of him not dying well you say a bunch of Benadryl it's a but enough room to meet the hat man but without dying what do you think do you know the hat man no not familiar with it said that if you take a bunch of Benadryl will meet him have you tried I haven't because I'm scared I don't want to meet him well I don't know who he is either maybe I don't want a mirror well it's kind of like a mythical figure that you'll see in like kind of your nightmares if you like yeah sort of but with both Benadryl so that's why you're not supposed to take too much yeah well this stuff but you like to sleep and draw see I haven't before that's what I'm saying and then you meet the hat man if you take too much I don't know the hat man here's where well then you haven't taken enough but what about a dog a dog really wouldn't know who the hat man is how will he know that the dog yeah the dog probably just gonna have a seizure probably I don't know man I we should probably I well I don't know if you're interested in being in on this but we should go to like a different country where the laws are just either non-existent or not enforced and we should we should videotape this put it on put it on Twitter oh country's got the last one you should go to the jungle or the world's on worse you can even do it here not true if you do it here you're way more likely to get arrested than if you do it in the black part of South Africa why why the black part
South Africa. Well because there's white parts of South Africa. Yeah well most of white I think. Yeah well some parts but some parts not. Definitely there's some parts that are not. Most of a lot of them are you know. And what are you saying? I don't know. They show a lot of black parts when Mandela was a president. Yeah but other than that you know even rugby you know. They should sell on the world cup there. Ice cream of him. I make a lot of money. Mandela ice cream? They should start selling like Martin Luther King ice cream. Yeah so all of the white people who feel bad and feel like they did something wrong for being white they'll probably be more likely to buy that ice cream. How about Michael Jackson ice cream? Cause it's both. He's just popular. Yeah but he's too white. I think you're missing my point but yeah I think also Michael Jackson one would sell well. They usually just just punch Bob. He'd be closer to ice cream. That's a good point. He'll be melting too so actually he would be a perfect ice cream. Probably that's what I that's what I was trying to say. Yeah I thought you just meant the white part. I get what you're saying. Do you ever get confused when you're mining and think that the Lapis lazuli are diamonds? What? Lapis lazuli. You're mining and you see like a blue ore and you're like yeah I found diamonds and then you go up to it and ends up just being more Lapis lazuli and it's like you already had some in any ways you only need three pieces to fully enchant your items so you didn't really need any more of it. I thought I found some diamonds before but they was and I was very disappointed. It was Lapis lazuli? Lapis lazuli I don't know what that is. So what was it that you found when you thought it was? I found some stones and I thought they were diamonds. Oh you just found stones? Yeah they look like diamonds. Is this in a ravine or did you end up like going to a cave? No they weren't. So but word I'm saying did you find these in a ravine like one of those open mines where you jump into the portal on the bottom? I actually find them in the bathroom. You know oh yeah see that's what I'm saying you're stealing stuff from a guy's bathroom that's what they say. They weren't the trap. They weren't the sink trap. You know so I'm like well yeah probably because the guy dropped them down there. Yeah but believe it or not this was in you know Limpus Mountain. Yeah yeah that wasn't one of those big houses over there so I thought it was real diamonds and I'm like I'm not saying shit you know because if they're you know so I just I didn't say nothing. Listen this is what I was telling you to do we were like 30 minutes ago we were talking about this and I'm like you should steal shit out of people. Yeah but that was and you're like no no I wouldn't do that and now you're like when I'm on Olympus come on. No but that there was something on a big house and I see little diamond stones in it I'm gonna take them and not say shit it's like I'm not just I told you to do it. It's a little different because they weren't in the counter and I sign and I'm like oh shit I'm they weren't this little in the sewer already. Yeah but who put that I mean where for the sewer from where from the sink the bathroom. You have a little more plausible deniability but if you're talking about this in like a moral way it's probably the same thing which to me is completely cool be yeah it could be but I think they were gone already and I thought these people probably multi-millionaires they ain't gonna miss this crap and they already I'm not I'm not judging you I would have stole it if I tried in the sewer it's already the sewer it was lost to them already you know and then you checked it out and they were just were in the way by the way I'm glad I took them because I did so many jobs for this lady and in the end of the day man she scanned me with my money too oh really why why would it happen at the end of it well we make an agreement of certain amount and you know that was not in the end of the day I was there for a couple weeks working in all her big ass house and then she came out and scanned me with my money how much did she steal uh literally like uh round thirty eight hundred dollars thirty eight hundred so it's time of money well for me it is maybe not for them but for me thirty eight hundred dollars is a lot of money you end up getting it or no no I only got twelve hundred out of it because I charge your five thousand oh so she's like she come with all kinds of excuses and I'm like good thing I give the diamonds but they weren't even worth anything so really you actually at the moment in the moment I thought good thing I keep the diamonds but they were they they were fake so at the end of it you lost thirty eight hundred yes sir I feel like you both in that situation deserve to lose like five grand you guys were both justifiably scamming each other yeah I don't know and then everybody loses her pipes are probably fucked up because you didn't want to do a good job for no I did great job I do great because she's kept you after was all done yeah oh that's what I meant so she actually succeeded in the scam you were the yeah I was sure she was trying to scam me without me knowing then I said I'll keep the diamonds okay I understand and the diamonds were shit so I I lost everything that makes it so yeah so yeah like you say she that won the yeah got the upper hander yeah if you were cleaning someone's toilet because it was clogged and then the plunger came out and it had a log neck in it what would you do a long neck in it like a what like a third or long neck or something no my my next guest log neck he's just really skinny guy he's like he's this condensed guy so he could probably fit inside that small hole in the toilet so he's using the hole in the plunger too yeah yeah he comes out of that got crap on it oh no you gotta use this more often that's a disgust that's that's not mine that you brought that spider web in it's disgusting it's probably shit it's a shit spider okay well survives by doing that after worse yeah yeah yeah but if I have a well look a long neck skinny like that like him right there way skinnier than him oh I'll say well oh no like a third of his eyes I'll use junk him out of there by his ears or something you know
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The plumber shares humorous and insightful experiences from his work, including encountering bizarre plumbing situations like toilets filled with toys, clogged pipes, and even a man who lost his jewelry in a toilet.
He discusses the idea of "shit as currency" in a post-collapse world, drawing parallels to real-life uses like fertilizer and sci-fi scenarios such as *Fallout*, where waste becomes a finite, valuable resource.
The conversation explores the possibility of a plumber becoming wealthy by collecting or stealing items, while also highlighting moral dilemmas and the absurdity of such ideas, ultimately blending satire with thoughtful commentary on societal systems.
Summary:
A plumber named Anthony shares a lively, often absurd account of his work, from cleaning clogged toilets to finding toys and even lost jewelry inside plumbing systems. He humorously explores the idea that human waste could become a future currency, drawing on real-world uses like fertilizer and fictional portrayals in shows like *Fallout*. The conversation also touches on the ethics of theft, the value of plumbing as a profession, and the absurdity of cultural beliefs around waste.
Anthony reflects on how exposure to dirt and mess can desensitize one to it, comparing it to how children raised with certain foods might develop different tastes. He also jokes about the possibility of becoming a wealthy hoarder of waste or stolen items, and comments on the role of plumbing as a high-paying, albeit dirty, job. The episode is a blend of personal anecdotes, satire, and philosophical musings, featuring references to pop culture, history, and the future of currency.
Light-hearted moments include a discussion of naming children, the dangers of the "hat man" myth, and the idea that even in a world of chaos, a skilled plumber could survive by being pragmatic and resourceful. Throughout, the tone remains playful, revealing both the mundanity and the unexpected drama of everyday labor.
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A copper plumber specializes in installing and repairing copper piping systems, typically used for hot water lines and other plumbing applications where durability and heat resistance are important.
Copper plumbing uses welds to join pipes, while galvanized plumbing uses threaded connections. Galvanized pipes are often used for water supply lines and are prone to corrosion over time.
The plumber humorously suggests that in a future where money is scarce, human waste could become a form of currency, as it’s already used as fertilizer and would be limited in supply.
He has found toys like Barney and SpongeBob, which were likely dropped by children and ended up clogging the toilet, sometimes requiring a full toilet replacement.
He finds it amusing and often takes the opportunity to diagnose the issue, sometimes revealing that the item was dropped and the toilet is clogged, leading to a more complex job.
Yes, he humorously suggests that if traditional money collapses, waste could serve as a limited, valuable resource—similar to how it’s used in farming or in speculative sci-fi stories.
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