Dispatches: An Amazingly Crappy Story

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 2009, Canadian researcher Geoff Hill asked park managers across North America what problems they needed solved. Every single one of them said human waste. Since then, Hill has been on a quest to figure out what to do about the fact that U.S. national parks get more than 300 million visitors each year, and at some point most of them have to take a dump. So far, every solution has failed. And so with every trip to the outhouse, we’re contaminating groundwater, spreading disease, and costing parks a fortune. Recently, however, Geoff found an elegant remedy. Correction: In this episode, we mistakenly say that Geoff Hill licensed a toilet from Ecosphere. The company’s name is Ecodomeo.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by the Arii Co-op. Sponsors of the new film How to Run 100 Miles,
0:07.0	with Brendan Leonard and Jason Sun.
0:10.0	Two regular guys who set out to see if they have what it takes to run a really, really long way.
0:15.2	We weren't exactly born to run in the mountains. We met working in an apple bees in college in Iowa.
0:21.8	It's a story of endurance and hope and resilience and not just on the trail.
0:27.0	I guess if you believe in Underdogs, Jason's kind of the Alpha Underdog.
0:32.0	In the best sports movies, the big game or... Jason's kind of the alpha underdog.
0:32.6	In the best sports movies, the big game or race
0:35.8	is really a metaphor or symbol of something bigger.
0:39.1	And this one's no different.
0:40.9	Also, the film is really funny and emotional, and it'll make you want to be an ultra-runner.
0:46.0	I don't know how you run a hundred miles, but Jason has this knack for making you think you can do things you don't think you can do.
0:52.0	I think you'll like his story.
0:54.7	And apparently I'm willing to run a hundred miles to share it with you.
0:58.3	The film is live right now on the REI Coop Journal at REI.com
1:05.0	slash blog. And on February 28th you'll be able to hear a new episode of the
1:09.6	REI podcast featuring Brendan Leonard. That's at REI.com.
1:14.0	blog.
1:15.0	Hey everybody, before we get going, since you're listening to this podcast of Amazing True Stories, I think you'd
1:24.7	also like the Risk Podcast. Risk is the show where people tell true stories they never thought
1:30.4	they'd share. Stories too uncensored to be played on broadcast radio.
1:35.3	Nothing's too strange or intimate.
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