175: ‘Uncle Joe’s Bathtub Gin’ With Glenn Fleishman
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2016
⏱️ 119 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What an amazing technology indoor plumbing is. |
| 0:03.4 | You're a Stephen Johnson fan, right? |
| 0:05.8 | Yes. |
| 0:06.8 | You know his book Ghost Map from several years ago, like a decade ago, 2006. |
| 0:12.3 | It was about the fellow who basically invented epidemiology. |
| 0:16.9 | Yes. |
| 0:17.9 | But it also has a really long discussion about how, before, I mean, there was indoor plumbing |
| 0:24.5 | then. |
| 0:25.5 | When we had, generally, it indoor plumbing in cities, how, what happened to all the |
| 0:30.1 | affluvia where did it go? |
| 0:32.1 | Right. |
| 0:33.1 | There were all these specialized professions to deal with like, night soil and other |
| 0:37.7 | kinds. |
| 0:38.7 | So there were various products and various people whose professions were to handle the |
| 0:43.5 | products of society. |
| 0:45.9 | And it's really incredible. |
| 0:47.2 | Like, the book is great because it's about sort of how a empirical science becomes |
| 0:52.1 | the thing that we then start to rely on. |
| 0:53.7 | It changes in nature of medicine and health. |
| 0:55.3 | But it's also like, wow, there are a lot of people employed dealing with shit and |
| 0:59.1 | London. |
| 1:00.1 | I mean, you had to. |
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