Behold, the Porta Potty: Meet the Unsung Heroes of Stadium Events

ESPN Daily

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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If you’ve ever been to a sporting event, you’ve probably held your breath, closed your eyes, and had the shared human experience of using a porta potty. But behind this unglamorous, stomach-turning necessity are the companies and people responsible for supplying and cleaning them, especially on NFL gamedays. Ryan Hockensmith traveled to Orchard Park for a Buffalo Bills game and tailgate, and went behind-the-scenes with a sanitation company on a typical Sunday. He shares his reporting with us, and takes us inside the industry: the sights, sounds, smells, and sucks of porta potties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:13.5	So Ryan Hocketsmith, where does this story begin?
0:22.7	Well, this story begins at 12.31 p.m., beginning of December in Buffalo.
0:29.0	The fireworks gone in the background.
0:31.2	The bills are running out of the field.
0:33.8	helicopters overhead.
0:35.5	Ben Cansdale has been staring at five porta potties for a half hour now,
0:40.0	right outside of Buffalo Bill's home game.
0:43.3	All right, I'll keep an eye out as we're going down.
0:45.4	Bill's Drive, see where it looks like the best to sit.
0:47.5	You were there right next to the guard station.
0:50.4	He's part of a five-truck modern disposal services crew
0:53.7	that is dispatched every home game to go to the Bill's stadium and do maybe the worst job in sports, but also a critical job, which is to suck out the porta-potties outside every Bill's home game.
1:10.2	Yeah, Ben pulls his big giant Peterbilt truck
1:13.6	up in front of the Port-a-Potties.
1:15.6	There's a mad dash of Josh Allen and Stefan Dates jerseys.
1:20.6	Get one last, one last deuce in before the game starts.
1:32.9	They don't want us sucking off until kickoff, so we got like... Two hours.
1:34.1	Wow.
1:34.4	Yeah, one o'clock we can start.
1:36.5	Sometimes I'll cheat a little bit once, you know, 10 to...
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