Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

Howdy and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's here too.

And we're just some homie folksy types.

Ready to spin a good yarn for you about the old farmer's home.

That's right. You know why I commissioned this one?

Why, Chuck? Why?

Because I thought it would be fun to put a old farmer's almanac in the outhouse at my camp.

Okay, wait, first you have an outhouse?

I have an outhouse.

Is it just a pit like a latrine with a log over it?

No, it's a composting toilet with a little solar panel outside that runs a fan.

Okay.

What does the fan do?

It moves air through to provide aerobic interaction with the poop and the composting peat.

I just made a compost tea like that, but I used to submerge a little fountain pump to create the air movement.

Yeah, pretty neat.

It is neat.

It's got a composting toilet. It's good.

It helps, I don't use it.

I use it to go poopy if I'm there for more than a couple of days.

But largely I put it there.

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