SYSK Selects: How Porta-Potties Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Despite our lengthy history of evacuating our bowels and bladders, it wasn’t until the relatively recent 1940s that we began to construct portable, self-contained toilets to accept our waste. Dive into the world of porta-potties in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Happy weekend folks.
0:33.7	In old podcast time it is December 15th 2016.
0:38.7	In modern podcast time it's 2020.
0:41.5	One thing that has not changed between 2016 and 2020 is how portapoddies work.
0:47.8	It's an interesting topic believe it or not.
0:50.8	I remember really enjoying this episode.
0:53.8	Don't really enjoy portapoddies but it's kind of a neat thing to research believe it or
0:58.0	not.
0:59.0	So give it a listen why don't you.
1:00.0	How portapoddies work.
1:02.2	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:09.6	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:16.8	I'm Josh Clark, Dr. Charles W. Chuck Bryant, Jerry, Master Ace, Roland.
1:26.5	And this is Step You Should Know.
1:28.6	Yeah.
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