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Episode 456: The Black Death Part I - Stomp a Gerbil, Bribe a Rat

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You're Eating Shit. Yeah, Yeah. Yeah.

In London, you actually had people whose job it was to keep the river of shit flowing. The rakers actual job was to walk around the city and dislodge stubborn turds from the gutters. Paris even had a piss street. They called it Roo Pee Pee. And that's all just variations on the French word for shit. It is a beautiful language.

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