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Gong Farmers, Medieval Castle Poop & the Best Job in History
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Andrew Santino stumbles onto medieval history trivia while calling Jules and Isa 'goop farmers' — his accidental mispronunciation of the correct term 'gong farmer.' He reads from Wikipedia: a gong farmer was a Tudor-era laborer who manually removed human waste from castle cesspits and privy chutes, climbing into literal poop canals to shovel them out. Crucially, it was extremely well-paid work — picking up aristocratic poop was one of the better jobs available to a commoner. Bobby imagines the castle poop chute situation (five stories up, straight off the wall), and the group speculates about how someone small might get lowered in by rope for the annual canal cleaning — a bit that references both Brad Williams and The Shawshank Redemption. Isa reveals she cannot smell, making her the group's most qualified gong farmer. [1] — Andrew Santino "In medieval and Tudor England, gong farmers manually removed human waste from castle cesspits — climbing into chutes below where nobility r…" 35:55
