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From Talking Mouths. [00:00:32] "I think we're done." [00:00:37] So, the tools are down and Tagish Road finally has an operational lift station. [00:00:44] To be clear, I'm talking about the Tagish Road in Riverdale, not the Tagish Road that takes you from Jake's Corner to Elvis Presley's house. [00:00:52] And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, maybe this podcast isn't for you. [00:01:02] This is the Yukon, so we did encounter some unnecessary delays and cost overruns during construction. [00:01:08] Don't get me going about the clowns who installed the giant chandelier in the control room. [00:01:18] But that's all ancient history now. Just before the 2025 territorial election, we held our grand opening. [00:01:27] I thought our event planner had decided on a country and western theme. So I'm still really confused about the bagpiper who marched Riverdale North MLA Nils Clarke down Tagish Road for the ceremony. The whole neighbourhood came out to cheer. [00:01:43] "Assigning responsibility for waste management to the highest available producer in the supply chain reduces the impact on smaller Yukon producers." [00:01:55] We were all ready to cut the ribbon and flip the switch. Then Minister Mostyn suddenly crashed the party... And holy shit, that guy can talk. "All waste management facilities in Yukon have gates, operating hours and on-site staff to monitor and manage waste streams." It's true. The Tagish Road Lift Station has all that stuff, which allows us to handle every kind of shit, including raw sewage. But we also have very strict regulatory limits on the amount of bullshit we can process. [00:02:25] So yeah, that was a real problem. "Uh, what? You keep... You keep the chocolate out of the peanut butter. You don't want them mixing. You want the whole thing separated. That's what the management is all about." [00:02:53] Rest assured, we'll be keeping the chocolate moving through the pipes while the peanut butter will be locked securely in the break room. [00:03:04] "Fire it up." [00:03:10] As the part time manager of this critical municipal infrastructure, I have a ton of shit to supervise. And every larger than life floater travels through brand new stainless steel plumbing made from the highest grade irony, mined right here in the Yukon. [00:03:31] "What the fuck is going on?" [00:03:36] "Je vous demande pardon!" [00:03:37] "This is disgusting. I love it!" [00:03:39] "Shut that fucking door!" [00:03:44] "Get that pump running!" [00:03:48] "Eins. Zwei. Drei." [00:03:55] I'm going to do my best to keep things loose and unscripted, but I'll probably fail because, well, I'm clearly reading from a script right now and I may sound pretty uptight. [00:04:08] Welcome to the Tagish Road Lift Station. [00:04:14] Shit doesn't always roll downhill. [00:04:17] Sometimes it gets elevated. [00:04:20] "Oh, for Christ's sake!"