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November 19, 2025 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today is World of Toilet Day, World Toilet Day? Does
that specify? Is a porta potty considered a toilet? Still?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh? Yeah, of course? Well, I mean I guess.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Maybe like not the whole unit of a porter potty,
just the seat chamber.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah? Are we are? We? I think I think we
need I think I think the point of World Toilet Day,
which by the way is a United Nations holiday, you
and holiday. Yeah, but they say in a changing world,
one thing is constant. Will always need the toilet no
matter what lies ahead. We will always rely on sanitation

(00:36):
to protect us from diseases and keep our environment clean. Today,
billions of people still live without a safe toilet, with
the poorest, especially women and girls, worst affected. As time
goes by, the pressure on sanitation is only increasing across
the world. Aging infrastructure is failing, investment hasn't kept pace
with demand, and climate change is reshaping our world, with

(00:59):
glaciers melting, weather, worsening in sea levels rising. Together, we
must ensure toilets are accessible to all, resilient to floods, droughts,
and other climate shocks. Minimize greenhouse gas emissions. Supported by
strong systems and sustained investment.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Is that with this, It's like you say something to
be funny to your parents as a kid, and then
they give you a lecture and you're like, uh.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, that's the thing, right. It's just like World Toilet
Day sounds funny, but I don't think they thought it
was funny. They want us in the civilized world to
understand how lucky we have it. Within door plumbing, which,
granted truth, seventy five years ago, there's a lot of
people probably within the sound of my voice that probably
had a lack of running water indoor plumbing in some regards.

(01:53):
So sure, I don't exactly know. Okay, this is gonna
sound bad. I don't exactly know what how like, what
what can I do? You want me to give money
to someone to build toilets in Africa or Bangladesh or
wherever they're they're struggling with this.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I was trying to think of a clever campaign name
for like a way to advertise donations for building toilets
for people that don't have them.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Uh I have I have? My wife once bought me
a hat that it's like poop, you know, like the
poop emoji. Okay, it's like that. It's like, uh, it's
like pooh, but it's got a smiley face on it. Well,
it's a really goofy hat.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
What's the base color of the hat?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well, what do you think is.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Is it the same color as what the emoji is?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah? M hmm, Yeah, it's funny. It's funny. It's like
you're a poop heead, like like, yeah, I think a
lot of people would agree with that. But you know,
like that's funny. I don't know. Do we use that
as kind of like our our gateway to our fundraiser here? Look,
and I'm not making a fundraiser to raise money for

(03:08):
toilets in foreign countries? Like I feel like that's something
like what do you Why is it my?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Why?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Why do I have to do this? Why? Why does
the United Nations tell me that this is somehow my problem?
I don't care, you know, I barely care where my
trash is going. Like I put my trash in the bin.
As far as I know, they send it in a
portal to Mars. I have no idea what they do
with it. I don't care. I have one responsibility to
I separate my recycling. I put my recycling in the

(03:35):
recycle bin. I put my trash in the trash bin.
I'll put my leaves in my grass and stuff in
the trash bin, like you know, the city of Omaha
tells me to. And then on my day of the week,
I put it out on the curb. All of a
sudden I get home, and all of a sudden it's empty.
And then I put the lid back on and I
set it back down and wait for a week until
I refill it. Don't I don't care where that stuff's going.

(03:55):
That make me insensitive to the environment, No, but it's
hardly my problem to solve. I have other things I
have to worry about. You know.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
It's like you can you know, you can buy the
bracelets and that donates to money to clean up the
ocean waters. Yeah, you could buy a specialty toilet bowl
cleaner for fifteen dollars and it's you get that as
a a reward for donating to the toilet fund of.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
You in how much you know. See, but this is
the thing, like it's it's a fun ploy, right because
and then every time somebody like you go to your
neighbor's house and you know, you guys are hanging out,
but then you have to use the bathroom and then
you have you pull the brush out just you know.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Readily available when you're going to the bathroom, you can
see it.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
But then you see, like you read on it's like, oh,
this is one of the brushes, like the n they
must have donated to the Toilet Fund to Bangladesh because
they have one of the special brushes. Well that's interesting.
Let me go ahead and put this in the toilet now.
And how much would it cost to like make those
you know, like I let's say I give you a

(05:00):
twenty dollars donation and you send me a toilet brush.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Okay, the toilet brush is maybe like a few dollars
worth of the twenty and then the other fifteen goes
take it's still taking dollars away from my donation. Truth,
when you get something in return, it makes your donation
film work quantifiable, actually has product behind it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
I get to hold a fancy toilet brush.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah. You get to remember your cause every time you
clean your bathroom, whether that be weekly or yearly.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah. I Well we clean our bathroom thankfully
a lot more frequently than that, which is good. But
I will tell you this, The last thing I've thought
about is reading anything that's on my toilet brush, you know.
And again I still am struggling with the fact that
somehow I am responsible me here in Omaha, I'm responsible

(05:47):
for the people of Azerbijan not having you know, proper toilets.
I hate to throw them under the bus. I have
no idea what the toilet situation is. You know, Pakistan
there there, they got a lot of people that live
in Pakistan. It's like the fifth most populated country in
the world. Maybe they don't have as many toilets as
they need. Oh it's a problem anyway. What's going on here?

(06:11):
You know what I mean? Like what if I was
if I was a crazy enough guy, because I've seen
people like this and this is good. If if you're
if you're a Samaritan and you get a real kick
out of helping people, you know what you should do.
You join up with you know, like the Red Crosser,
you know, one of these units that goes to the
foreign country for a month or whatever, and you like

(06:31):
dig Wells. A lot of people like dig Wells. This
is gonna sound terrible. Have you checked on your well
that you dug up five years ago? Well, you went
to to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or you
went to uh Zimbabwe, or you went to yuh give me,

(06:54):
give me uh India, like highly populated country that you know,
has a ton of people and maybe not as much technology.
You go to those places and you go to those
areas where they don't have water, you don't have clean
water and all that stuff, and you duggle, well, have
you checked on your well, like who's monitoring the well?

(07:15):
Is the well still working? Is it still operational? Did
you do all that work to make yourself feel good
and then nothing came of it. Not that people shouldn't
try to do good things. I'm just I just have
questions of the things that I'm investing in. I'd like
to see, you know, like the results stick. And if
I'm going to give money to the Great Toilet Fund
of twenty twenty five, so the people of Uzbekistan have

(07:37):
toilets that they can you know, reliably go in and
not have to worry about disease, which I think is
a fair thing for people to worry about. But if
I'm going to give money to that, I'd like to
know that problem is solved forever, you know what I mean,
Not that I'm gonna have to worry about the toilet
infrastructure of Albania, you know, failing I I of all

(08:07):
the things that you want me to donate to, I
just like this is this is one I'm not sure
I'm going to be able to get behind. How much
money do you think I have? United Nations? Like, like, like,
what do you want me to do? I've spent I've
spent six minutes now talking about this on the radio.
I'm yeah, am I lucky to have the toilets that
I've had in my life? Sure? Yeah, I've been unlucky

(08:27):
in the times that they did not work, which has
happened infrequently. But when it does happen, it's a pretty
substantial problem that you have to resolve pretty quickly, I would.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Imagine, especially after it's been used. Then you're like, ah, well,
usually you don't know if it works on until after
you've used it.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
But I've had many many mild panic attacks when it's
when it's come plunging time.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
What about it's like hopefully this out of your house?
Oh yes, there was one that's like a nightmare situation.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
There was one time I was in uh, I was
at work, like gosh, This was like my first full
time job. Is a small, small place, and I was
in there and I got I got done, and I was,
you know, you just kind of like do the no. Look,
you know, you're just like flush, go wash your hands.
And it wasn't until as I was dragging my hands
that I realized that you.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Didn't feel a you didn't hear a full flush sequence no,
And I like just kind of decided to look at
you know, the water. You're just seeing like in that moment,
like the water just no, yeah, and you're just like yeah,
you just go into survival mode at that point. Luckily,
there was a plunger in there, and you know, like
I had a small mass to clean up after, but
I was able to get it resolved. It turns out

(09:36):
that you had to replace that toilet like two months
later because like the piping underneath of it was shot. Man,
you must have went to war with that thing. Toilet.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Man, Come on, it wasn't me. Uh No, it's ridiculous.
I I just want everyone to know, if this is
something you're passionate about, knock yourself out. I again, I'm
not sure that the role Manians need my money for
working toilets. You know, as much as I truly enjoy
reading about Egypt, I don't care about the toilet situation.

(10:08):
But if this is something that's near and dear to
your heart for some reason, then the United Nations says, Hey,
today is the day donate to the Great World toilet
fundraiser of twenty twenty five, and Charles suggests that we
need to come up with an acronym for the fundraiser.
You know how people come up with the acronyms in
Congress for their acts, right They It's like they have

(10:29):
like four or five names so they can get to
like a like to where the acronym actually spells out
like a word. He suggests, like toilet. Could we could
we come up with a fundraiser title that the acronym
would be toilet? Would takes some It takes some workshopping here, Well,
we'll work on that. Scooter says, it's toilet not toilet. Oh,

(10:53):
come on, I'm not I know how to say toilet.
And Richard says, here's a question someone should ask the
people who are asking money for toilets, what are they
going to flush those toilets into? Doesn't it take a
complete sewer system to effectively use a toilet. I'm under
the impression, yes, the toilet infrastructure much like my old

(11:14):
workplace when I didn't think anything of what was happening
when it happened, by the way, and it was not
my fault that it was overflowing, but apparently, like the
piping underneath the building was in super bad shape and
they eventually they just had to completely redo the bathroom. Now,

(11:36):
that costs money and stuff. But if you look at
any of your infrastructure, next time you buy a house
next to me, you're shopping for a house, I'm sure
you'll have an inspection to do, whether it's your own inspection,
you're an inspection somebody ask you to do of the house.
And they have these like snake cameras that they can
put down into the pipes and stuff to see what's
down there. You'd be stunned, man, how often you come
across stuff into piping that just isn't right, something that

(11:58):
might be broken, something that might just be off, and
whether or not that is something you have to fix
or it's something that maybe like the city is responsible
for based on where it is. The idea of having
to like fund and build toilets. I don't even know
how much money you would need, Like how much does
a brand new toilet and all of the infrastructure underneath

(12:19):
the toilet, what it would it even cost to put
a single toilet in and know that you're flushing it away,
you know? Or or is the toilets that they're specifically
talking about like outhouse style where there's literally just like
a deep hole in the ground that you're you know,

(12:40):
doing this with. But even then, it's like at some
point you got to like clean that out right, like.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Or to fill it in and go somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, exactly, Like, yeah, are you glad we live now
and not one hundred years ago or five hundred years ago?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah. So it's like what did they even do back then?
It's just like everything probably terrible. I couldn't imagine anyway.
Happy World Toilet Day to those who are going out
there and uh celebrating.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Urinal day is a different day, I take it it's
a very different day. Yeah, yeah, I think so.
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