Happy New Year, your Queer Fatinus. Welcome to the Blind Buy Podcast. It's 2023.

Which sounds like one of those made up years from science fiction. I was late

recording this big podcast because I've been having a great difficulty with my

dishwasher. I have a dishwasher that won't drain. Whenever I put the dishwasher on

it doesn't complete the cycle and it gives me this strange double beep and I

opened it up and at the bottom is a pole of gray dishwasher water and I've had

to drain it manually using the mug. I've had to get a pot and a mug and spend

about 15 minutes manually draining the dishwasher and it's a very humbling

experience and a very time-consuming experience. And I've been doing it though.

But every two days for the past three weeks and then this morning I said I've

had enough. I've had enough of this. There has to be a better solution. I can't

be getting down on my hands and knees with a mug and draining out this

gray dishwasher water. That's more time-consuming, more disgusting and less

rewarding than actually washing the dishes by hand. So I need a better

solution here. So I found a length of hose and I decided what I'm gonna do is

I'm gonna siphon off the dishwasher sludge. I'm gonna siphon it off into this

sink. And I began the process until I remembered the last time I'd ever had to

siphon anything. When I was a child, well a teenager when I was about 13 or

14, I started getting into home growing, started getting into making my own beer.

I did not because I wanted to drink but because when I was like 13 for a brief

period I developed an obsession with 1920s American gangsters like Al Capone and

Boxie Morden and they operated in the 1920s in America during prohibition when

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