It's Monday, July 28th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska, and I have found the worst job in the world.

Has a nice title. Looks good on a business card, but it's not a job you want.

The Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company director. Yes, this was referenced in an article

in the New York Times. Taran is at risk of running out of water within weeks after a five-year

drought and decades of mismanagement. A water crisis is battering Iran, among the many things,

literally battering Iran. Now, you don't want to be the Tehran

director, the Tehran province director of water and wastewater. First of all, you're running out

of the water. Second of all, this decades-long argument you've been having to separate those

two divisions, it's just plainly going nowhere. The Ayatollah does not care.

And third of all, you're high enough in the org chart that maybe you're going to get targeted

as a possible nuclear scientist by the next Israeli strike. It's just all downside to be the

Tehran province water and wastewater company director.

I feel very sorry for the Iranians, the regular work-a-day Iranians.

I would have to say that the country would be better off.

They are not taking my advice.

I just checked.

The Ayatollah does not think I'm sufficiently read in on Shia theology, so they're not taking

my advice. But I do think maybe they would do well to save the $1.6 billion a year. It is estimated

they spend funding proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas and the Houthis, maybe put some of that money into water.

Or if that's not a good enough argument for you, instead of the $1 to $2 billion a year,

how about the $500 billion they've wasted thus far pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

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