Chapter 1: What are the challenges of maintaining a pool?
this episode of the commercial break and there is a dad there and he's got two children and he's got his children in the showers and he's giving them a full shower he's got a bar of soap shampoo a conditioner and a toothbrush and he's telling them to take a full that's not the intended use of the shower right it's not it's not to it's not to replace the shower at your home it's just a rinse off it's a spritz if you don't mind right
I mean, I could even go with, okay, shampoo. All right. Okay. You know.
Yeah. Well, maybe they were going somewhere afterwards.
Maybe. Maybe.
And they needed to be like.
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Chapter 2: How can you effectively deal with pool algae?
These didn't look like the kind of people would be invited anywhere. But okay. All right. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Where are you invited to? How did you get invited somewhere?
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Oh, yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Graham. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley.
Chapter 3: What are the common pool maintenance mistakes?
Best to you, Kristen.
Best to you, Brian.
Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us. Update on the pool. The algae is winning.
That's the first thing I asked today when I saw you out in the pool.
The algae is winning. It was bright blue yesterday, and it's turning back a little murky.
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Chapter 4: Why is showering after swimming important?
I think for an hour there yesterday, like right before the sun went down, it almost looked clear. It almost looked clear. In the right light. Yeah, I know. In the right light, like no light.
After the sun went down, it looked great.
Yeah, it looked great. That's where it goes. I think it looks better. And I'm like, it does.
Chapter 5: What are the social norms around public showers?
It does. And then I woke up this morning and I'm like, ah. I was explaining to Chrissy that the truth is that, you know, if you have any algae in your pool, any green in your pool on the walls or anywhere, really, it means there's not enough. There's not enough chlorine to fight the algae, so the algae is winning the battle already. You can't just have a little spot of algae you can clean up.
You've got to shock the whole thing. So there we go. Brian's back at Home Depot buying more acidic chemicals.
Are you part of their rewards program?
Yeah, damn.
Chapter 6: How do water parks handle cleanliness and safety?
Sure. I'm the only one who buys stuff at the pool section at Home Depot. They've had the same fucking chemicals there for 12 years. I swear to God they have. No one buys chemicals at Home Depot. Except for Brian. Because I just don't want to go into that pool place again. That guy fucking screwed me last time. I mean, I really spent a lot of money trying to get the pool straight.
And he sent it in one direction, then he sent it in the other direction.
Chapter 7: What experiences can you expect at Great Wolf Lodge?
Then I had to call the professionals to clean it up, which is exactly what will happen this time, too.
Right.
But at least I'll be like $150 in instead of like $1,250 in. Yeah. So, you know, I'm going to get it right one of these days. You'd think after 10 years of owning this pool, I would have figured it the fuck out. But I have not at all figured out how to keep those chemicals in balance. But there's also salt because there's a salt cell on it.
So then you got to, you know, the salt turns into chlorine. So you got to know how much salt equals chlorine.
Chapter 8: How do amusement parks manage crowd control and safety?
But then is your salt cell working? Is it working effectively? I don't know. I don't know all this. Yeah. One simple piece of the puzzle, I can probably figure it out. Multiple moving parts at the same time.
Right. That's difficult. No, it's a lot.
Yeah, I admire those pool guys.
It's a whole dance.
Yeah. I admire those 27-something stoners who spend their entire weeknight drinking at the shadiest bar you've ever been to and then wake up in the morning and drag themselves from pool to pool helping people.
you know have a good time and it's almost guaranteed they do not have a pool so they're just figuring it out as they go along too true there must be like an apprenticeship program that these pool guys have right like you know daddy pool teaches junior pool it must be yeah because i mean come to think of it i don't think i've ever seen like learn how to clean a pool no like courses no
Or school for pools.
Yeah, school for pools would be a good thing. But there's plenty of guys and girls out there who are making good money cleaning pools. I mean, it's not cheap to get a pool person to come out there every week and maintain your pool for you. And that's just a pool in the backyard. Imagine all those. There's a community pool here. It's probably three times the size of my pool. My pool is pretty big.
It might be full Olympic size. And I watch them go through the machinations also because I take my daughters and my son up to these community activities in the pools right in the middle of the park. And so when they're in the activities, I'll go walk around and take a phone call or just whatever, just dick around. Try not to look creepy.
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