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August 20, 2018 · 40:57 · 9 min

Paris's sidewalk urinals

The hosts read an article about Paris installing bright-red, fully exposed eco-friendly 'uritrottoirs' near the Seine and Notre Dame to combat public urination: a trash-can form with a cartoon sign, straw-and-compost interior for odor control, and a flower garden on top. They riff on the photos, the designer's admission it is not a complete fix, and critics including a Venetian art shop owner and a feminist group calling the fixtures sexist. They rule it a non-biblical sign of the apocalypse verdict of 'not the end' — just regular people doing regular things — and close with a joke that God sent the flood over rampant wild peeing, plus a 'don't shut the book' riff.

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