HEMA Sweats w/ Beau Glitschka (Privychat 40)

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>> Hunter Hoover (00:01):
If they, if they try to map me,
it's gonna be the most boring map ever drawn. It's
like, does he do anything but go to
these four buildings ever?
Like.
Welcome back to Privy. Privy is a
podcast about bathrooms

(00:22):
recorded this week'm I'm,
I'm off location. If the, if the shrubbery,
it's real. See it's 3D. Um,
if you didn't notice and I right
here, uh, I am off location. I'm m
doing a remote record. Uh, but due to circumstances
in my life, it worked better for me to record

(00:43):
remotely this week. So, um, I'm going to be
joined by a, a, ah, longtime
friend and first time guest, Bo Glitchka.
So let's see if we can get Bo in here.
Well, hello everyone. I'm joined
this week by uh, Bo
Glitchka. Bo, how are you?

>> Bo Glitchka (01:04):
I'm great. Today I'm a little, little fried.
I've been working about 10,
10 hour days for tax season lately,
so fun.

Uh, times.

Greatly appreciated
your reminder yesterday about our uh, episode.
So.

Well, and I'm guilty because, uh,
I only texted you because my wife
said, aren't you recording with someone tomorrow
night? I went, oh, I better
text him because if I forgot there's no telling
because like, yeah, people,
it, yeah, uh, what would we
do without, without the wives?

Like, it's funny because speaking of wives, my
I remembered yesterday I got home and Jess, um,
is up in Portland tonight. I'm like, oh, I'm going to be on
Hunter's podcast tomorrow. She's like, what? You're on
his podcast? And I'm like, two things.
One, didn't I put it in the calendar? She's like, no. And then
two, how do you know he has a podcast? And she's like, I follow him

(02:03):
on like Instagram or Facebook or something
out there. So she was like super excited about that. She's like, how did
you not tell me you're on this podcast?

Oh, that's awesome, dude. Well,
uh, yeah, she's great because the
uh, I'll be honest, the female. It turns out the
female demographic for people that like talking
and listening to bathrooms is not as big as you
think.

Um, so
this is true.

Yeah, there's a handful. Um, my wife's even
like, yeah, I'll be on. I don't know, it's, it's weird.
You do your thing and I'm like, al right, cool.
We'I'be Friday night for a while. That'd be great.
Um, but yeah, Bo, we,
you know, Something I always try to do is
we know each other from Corbin, um,

(02:51):
the Corbin days. It kind of lives in my brain as
this chunk of time that
for me it felt like it continued to get
longer and longer. But what was your
like, you know, were you were in
Ferrar? Uh, do you want to explain Ferrar
or were you were in Ferar? Right.

So that's a really funny question because,
um, the perception that I was in
Ferar a is a correct perception,
but I was actually a commuter who
spent a lot of time in Ferr.

Okay. Okay. I feel
that because my last few years there I was the same
way, but I spent. I fet, like all my time up in Balio,
so. Yeah, I get
that.

Yeah. The pipeline
from commuter to like
Ferrara B. It was so like my
very first day on. On campus.
Um, I.
Okay. Okay. So I. So I became
friends with, ah, with a fellow named Kyle
Wagner very early. Like before my

(03:58):
time at Corbin. We were in the same core group, so we met on Facebook
and no one else in the core group had any interest
in. And chatting and him. But him and I were. Were
like huge, big time Star
wars nerds. And we just like chatted throughout the entire summer.
Met up. I got connected to his hall,
which, uh. Who the R.A. was Connor Lock.

(04:18):
And uh, one of the
other guys in the hall was Bradley Troll, whose episode
I listened to in preparation for this episode,
actually invited, um, me
to joined, uh, with their whole activities
over the course of orientation, uh, week. And
so I spent a lot of time hanging out with, uh. And that
was the basement. Right. Which got scattered to

(04:41):
the wind after that first year, which, you know, m.
Long story short, a lot of my friends ended up in
Ferrar. So I spent a lot of time, uh,
occasionally, more than occasionally, sleeping over in
Brad's room, uh, when he was
over there. Uh, know, I knew a lot of the RAs.
A lot of the. A lot of my close friends. I still

(05:02):
speak to braw Ferrarins at the
time. Yeah.

Uh, that's awesome.

It was a good time.

That's cool. That like. I don't know. I
guess you are probably.
You're probably. I don't want to say, like, I don't know how many
freshmen were able to swing that commuter
gig.

Not many.

Yeah.

Um, so because like a lot
you have like commuters who I think
started as students like yourself. And like,
if you were out of state, I think that you had to
be on campus. Right. You could only be a commuter if
you were like, living like. I only lived 10 minutes from
campus. Um, that's. It was funny because I would
talk to other students who I think a lot of

(05:47):
commuters who. 18
and going to court, like, they're still somewhat under, like,
mom and dad's yoke in a lot of
ways. I've talked to you like, how do you, like, how do your parents,
like, like, let you. Like, I spen all this time at school, I'm
like, I'm an adult first.

I want.

Yeah, it was. It was. It was great because, like, you know,
I think, like, like, we're 18. We want to, like, be at
school, you know, with, like, our peers, away from.
Away from home. And so, like it,
like, I really enjoyed,
um, like, going somewhere,
spending a lot of time there.

Y.

Like, like living life with, like, with a peer
group.

Yeah.

Uh, and so, like, you know, it was.
It was only 10 minutes away from home, so it was like. And I. For
most of my time, until I was a senior and had an
internship, like, I also worked at Corbin, so,
you know. Yeah, it was a perfect little ecosystem.

Were you in the library?

Yes, I. I did. I had a stinton.
Served my time in Eamark, and then I did,
uh, two years in the library, which to
this day is probably the best job I've ever worked in
my life.

Really? Like,
do you even prefer it over your current.

I mean, like, I. I mean, like.

He loves where he works employer.

Like, so, like, love where. So
I'm a state home accountant, which I love what
I do. I like. I like doing
taxes, uh, and whatnot. It's just like, I look back
at that Corbin time. Oh, you know, I went to Corbin. I did,
like, worked my 10 or 15 hours a
week in the library, and I got likeeah back.

(07:29):
I'll know is not back. Then I could do my homework, like,
while I worked. And I felt like I also, like,
got my job. My boss, Sarah Davis, liked me
and soh. Yeah, I was able to do a good
job and get homework. You know, it was, like, perfect
for college students, especially after, like, I'd never done
food service before. So, like, a whole year in Eamark

(07:50):
was, like, enough to
make one motivated to do anything else.

Yes. Yeah, I'm convinced. I tell the high school
kids I work with because they complain and they get entitled to all sorts
of things that aren't theirs. Um, and I
just tell them. I was like, listen, I firmly believe that
everybody should work. It doesn't matter for how long. Even if
it's just for, like, three or four months, everybody should Work
either food service or retail. Like,

(08:15):
just to have that experience
because, um, it'll change you. Sometimes for the
worse.

Uh, no, it's so
true. It's a necessary,
uh.

It's a Gsting ground. Yeah.
Um, so, Bo, I want to ask. And we were
talking a little bit before I hit record,
um, about these. These. Okay.
So you called it
Hemaa. So before we
hit record, I was like, is it fencing? Um, tell me
about Himma. And then

(08:50):
also, how did you get involved? Because, uh, this
is fairly recent because I. When I knew you, like, from
before. I don't ever remember you doing it. Unless you did. You have
secret life?

Yeah. No, this is a very, uh,
very recent development in the
grand scheme of things. So, uh,
uh, I'll start with what Hema is. So Hema stands for
Historical European martial arts. It falls
within an umbrella that I
suppose you could refer to as Western martial arts.

(09:20):
Like, you know, martial arts that, like, that would have
originated in.
For, um, the sake of keeping this simple.
Europe. Um, there's a lot
of different weapons and fighting
styles you can adopt. What I do specifically
is German longsword. Uh,

(09:41):
and there's different types of longs. Like, there's
Italian known as Fiore. What I.
What I do is, uh, it's based on the
teachings of this 1300s sword
master named Johannes Le Letonaur, who,
uh, he never wrote anything down while he was alive,
but his students took all his works and compiled them in

(10:02):
this pnemonic poem called the Zetl,
which is. If you read through it,
it's basically like. It's just a poem about
how to fight. Like, if your opponent does this, you do that.
And it actually,
uh. I'm going to Google here on my other.

Yeah, do it.

Go for it. Uh, there's a couple of lines from that. I really.

Yeah, that. You know, I'm going to bring
this up when I'm telling my high school kids about poetry
because they always, you know, they always grunt and groan and I'mnn say,
well, hey, uh, you never know. You might
be sword fighting someone one day and need this as a
reminder. A, uh, memory device or a tool
to remind you of the next move.

(10:44):
That's such a specific thing. Tub. Bo. Like,
this. This random, you know,
like, swordsman, I guess. Was. Would you call him a
swordsman? Or is it. I don't know.
I don't know if that's. It's one of those things where I don't. It'if will
I say something that's like, super offends
some martial art community. Because I don't know. What. I don't know.

Oh, no, no. So, I mean,
the he. So what's fun in the hem. Human community
is just like the constant. It's just a
constant source of drama. Like,
the longer I'm mostly, uh,
like, revolving around current events. Like.
Yeah, it's a fun community because it's. It's

(11:27):
very. It's open, it's welcome. You know,
it introduces people who know nothing
about this thing. It raises them up helpful of like people with a
lot of ego. Um,
who.

Yeah.

Um, you know, like, people like to
think that they're right and, you know, we're
bringing weapons into the mix and, you know,
like, blood runs hot and it's a.
Wow. It's, uh, a. You know, I like to myself
pretty, like, drama free. And I like to observe
drama. I don't like to, like, participate or strir.

Dr.

But like, learning about things is always
fun because the longer I'm in it, the more I learn about, like. Oh,
like.

Yeah.

And like the sport itself. So.
So Hema used to be called something known as, like,
it was arma. And then like, this big. There was this big school and,
like, it fell apart and all these
practitioners spread to the winds. And
least that's the.

Yeah.

That. That is what, like, I. I was told about
its origins because, like, as a sport, the concept of
Hema, I think, is pretty relatively new. And
like, just my luck, someone might listen to this and be like, bo
doesn't even know the history of his own sport
because we've.

The Internet warriors are always set as straight. That's what I've
always learned.

It's true. Uh, and like'ing,
I spend a lot more time. Like, I go to. I should
go read some manuals, do some research.
Like, life is short. I spend a lot more time. I. You enjoy going to
class? You know, I go to class like, three, two
to five days a week, depending on how. How busy I
am. Uh, you know, I go to class

(13:05):
practicing my
sword swings and.

Yeah.

Moves and whatnot and.
And no.

Is it like. Is it a pretty good workout?

Oh, incredibly. Uh, yeah.
So, um,
so why I got into it specifically. So
I found, um, my coach had posted an ad in
the Statesman journal or some local magazine. Um,
yeah, about a year ago.
Uh, or. No, like, we're going on like,

(13:38):
almost a year and a half now. And so I
emailed him, like, hey, I used to do
Olympic fencing. Actually like about 14
or 15 years ago when I was in middle school in high school. And
so see something
like this available in Salem was really cool because we haven't had a fencing
school in Salem in a long time.

(13:58):
And I wanted something to do during tax season because I
work from home. I'll sit down for like 10,
12 hours a day. Then I'll go play video games
after that so I sit even longer. And so I really wanted something
like uh, make me active. And
uh, and my. So my coach
uh, he specifically makes it a pretty

(14:19):
big workout because he wants us to be
like pretty physically fit to meet the
demands of the sport which I, I've
done a handful of competitions and I think it's,
his approach is really paid off. Like he, he makes us
uh do a pretty intensive warm up. He makes
us do wrestling drills. Uh, he spends
time making us do cutting drills. Well

(14:41):
like we'll do like a whole bunch of drills for just like the
first half of class and then jump into a
pretty intense lesson. And
uh, right now he's trying to get
um, me and some of the other guys ready
for tournaments uh, coming
up this summer. So like even like up the
antsi. He introduced

(15:04):
exercise bands into the mix. He'll make us put an
extraized band around our waist and we'll like like
walk forward till there's tension and then we'll practice
like springing forward you know just to
uh, increase our like explosivity
as uh athletes like it.
If I was doing like morning like, like morning weights

(15:26):
like say like a high like a college athlete was doing.
Yeah, it almost feels like that some days
because like I go to practice, you know it's a two hour practice. I do
that minimum three days a week
sometimes. I'm doing less now because of
tax season. If I wasn't doing tax season I might be going like
like you know four or five days a

(15:46):
week. Plus my, my coach
is also ah, he hosts
what's called a mayce spel class
on Monday and Wednesday
um, during the lunch hour where it like it's like a
dumbbell but it's like it's an iron bar like
a like ball shaped weight on the end and you just
like, like swing it around and stuff.

Yes. Uh, my uh, my father in law
had uh one of these and had a bunch of us try to mess with
it. That stuff that doesn't take much to get you worked
out.

Yeah, it's uh a like
it's, it's fun. It uh, you know
gets a um, gets your cardio up. It helps build
muscle uh, which is uh,
which I like because like the sword stuff
is great. You know, I was trying to get more uh,
like muscular, like exercise

(16:40):
routines in place. Uh,
yeah. So that's uh.

Wow.

Uh, if you have any feel like I've covered like a lot
of like very like.

Yeah.

Ah, you narrow topics. You have any specific questions?

I m. I do have a couple specific questions and one of them
is related to the bathroom. Um, so
you said. Yeah. You said earlier that you have
armor on like during the competitions or even
like during practice. What like is it like full
body?

That's a good. Yeah. So, uh,
we. So there's a different. A couple different types of
fighting. So there's blas vectin, which
is. That's like middle German for
fighting. And in blouse, like fighting in street
clothes.

Okay.

And then there's a harness vectin, which is like
fighting in uh, heavier
kit. Right. Uh, so in medieval
terms, like either you'd be like just
wearing uh, what the
average person would wear that day. Maybe you'd
have a gambeson on or something.

Yeah.

Um, oras if you were like
a man at arms or a knight, you e. Have
like some more like heavier armor. So.
And the use of the long sword would change. Right. Because if
I'IF you're an armor and I'm an armor and you both have
swords, I'm not going toa like approach you the
same way. I would like cut down an like
an unarmored like.

Yeah.

Soldier or you know, like peasant or something. I'd like.
I'd grab my sword probably with two hands. So I could
try to like work the point into a ah,
weak spot in your armor. So what we do is
called blasectin. You know, fighting in clothes
we wear like uh. We wear pretty
heavy jackets. Kind of like a gambeson.
Um, I have like some

(18:29):
special pants that have like a little bit of padding
in the front of the legs. Um.
Like. Oh, uh,
yep. Very good. Very important. Uh,
I, um. Every like
every time I've not worn, uh,
like athletic cup down below, I've

(18:49):
regretted immensely. So that's
m. Like because we're like. We're hitting each other with
like, you know, like four foot long like pieces of metal. So
like, like, you know,
protection and safety is like
you're. You know, like I'm responsible for myself. I'm responsible for my
training partner. Yeah.

(19:10):
Athletic injuries are
like. Are inevitable.

Yeah. Do you get pretty bad like it. Bruising? I
mean, I assume you got.

Yeah. So I got this bl.

And it's even got that weird green because it's been
sitting. That's.

Yeah. So I bre. I
breuise very easily.

So, um, naturally you took up hima
bruising and. Yeah. Dang, dude, that's
crazy. So, so full
art. You've got the lesser. I
mean not lesser room but like the softer covering type
thing for. Is it, is it hard to get
on and off for going to the bathroom and have you ever like

(19:51):
had to go and had it be a problem?

So when I, when I'm um, like
on like a tournament day, I'm just
chugging water because like
I'm like, I have so much cloth.
Like'a massive cloth on that. Like I'm sweating
like a pig. I'm. When I go into the
ring it's um, would. I would call it like.
It's similar to boxing.

(20:16):
Like if you're doing boxing, you have to have a good
cardiovascular health. You're moving a
lot. If you're. You're not moving,
you probably gotta move more is how
I. And I like to move.

If you're not moving, you're losing.

Yes. I'm not to steal that. Like,
I like to like dance. Like dance and
bounce around and like. Yeah, I like to be pretty quick and's
like I'm sweating a ton and so like, um.
Like there's like, when it's downtime, like
I might have to go like go do a number one
like five, like five times

(20:52):
in like a couple hours span just because
like I'm trying to keep like stay hydrated.
And if I'm not fighting, if I'm like, if I'm sitting for a couple
hours, like, well, suddenly I'm not sweating. So
I, um, just
gotta like make, you know, so
I'I'M going back and forth, but I haven't had like
any accidents or any crazy

(21:14):
uh, like bathroom stories.
But yeah, um, so it was when
I told a buddy, I was like, oh, Hunter just asked me to be on this
podcast. I'm like like, what am in talk about? He was like, oh, you should like,
like, like what would one do on the battlefield back in the
day? I'm like, yeah, yeah, they'd probably just go in
their armor. Um,

(21:35):
like, either you like, you go
before the battle like, because you don't want any
distractions.

Right?

You know, if it comes down to a life and death
situation, if you're in a line of men, you're
you. The guy next to you is counting on you. You're counting on
them. So it's like you either go before.

Or you're like go right in the
middle.

Are you going in the middle? Because like it's preferably
before because. Because you don't want that distraction,
which that just sounds like just nasty
to be living that.

Oh man. You know, but that you're. You're
probably right because
um, you know,
I. I can't remember what it was. I want to say
I was doing some research on like racing and
stuff and there's like runners
and bicyclists that like when they're in
big, you know, day to day long

(22:33):
races where there, I mean every second counts and
their. You just on their grind, they're barely
stopped. They will just go to the bathroom
like in the middle of the
activity. And I'm like that to me,
uh, I think that would cost me more
time just to deal with, you
know, the psychology of. Well, now

(22:55):
I've got this to uh, maneuver for the next
who knows how many hours.
Yeah, I guess it wore like you can't be
donawning and doffing. Is that the right
word? Doffing.

Doffing.

Doffing. I think doffing is when you take it off.

Maybe not have to look into
the uh, some. These uh.

Maybe that's a hunter hoover made up wording. Uh,
goffing.

I'll start throwing that word around and see how people react.

Yeah, see if they start looking at you like you like you're
uh, like a sociopath or something. Doing
the heck. Why do he say that again? He thinks
it's a word.

I'll use that practice next time and yeah, see any.

Hey, y'all gonna doff your thing and just kind of give them
the like. Huh?
Anybody? Yeah,
I found that. Like, I'll do that a lot. I'll just kind of say
words that I don't. I don't know if they're real. Then just lean into it
with medium level confidence. Um, I think
a lot of people are like, we're just

(23:58):
gonna let him think it's a word. You know, I.
Yeah, I don't know if it's pity or confusion. O.
Uh, I just kind of lean into it. It's fun at the
high school because those kids, sometimes they don't have the best vocabulary
as it is. So you're just like, yeah, guys,
you guys think that like all these
fake made up words are real words. So

(24:19):
uh, you don't know. You, you don't know if my word's real.
Um, it's true. Yeah. Um, man,
that's so Is this like your
first competition that you've done?

Yeah, I've done a couple. Uh. Oay did
like one of the big clubs in Portland hosted
a just, just a mini practice tournament back
in August that I did. Y. Uh, that was pretty fun. I did
a. I uh got third
place in the B tier at a
beginner's tournament back in November.
Uh, that was pretty exciting. Was. That's

(24:53):
cool. It was like uh, I was say eight. I
was like I got there eight and I was there till like
nine or ten.

Yeah.

Then that was a blast. Uh,
me and my coach and his son did a
run a in a
relay, a team relay tournament
last weekend. So 12 teams, each team had
three people. Um, and we got
third place. Was. That was

(25:21):
exciting.

How does a relay work with this?

So uh, um. I don't know how prominent those
are. It was just ah. The club in Portland hosted it is.
They're trying to do something small like you know, once a
quarter. Yeah. So the way it worked
was you had 12 teams. Each team was in a pool. So
had ah, uh, three
pools. So three pools of four teams. And
uh, each team would fight each

(25:48):
other team in that pool. And so you'd have
a match and you would just both teams fight each other
till uh, all of the
fencers on that team
uh w lost all their points. So
each person had I think it was seven health points. Uh
and so our strategy

(26:09):
was whenever one of us would take a hit so
uh, you could swap out for another teammate whenever you
got hit. So we were like no matter what happens,
one of us gets hit, we're going to swap out to the next guy because we
were wanted to stay nice and fresh. Plus mhm. It would let us
get nice and warmed up in the process.
And um, no one else was doing

(26:29):
that in. A lot of people said that wow.
Like I'd go into the ring to fight, I
hit one of you guys and then another guy would come in.
I had to figure out what to do about them. So apparently it was a good
strategy. Uh, helps stay
fresh. We only lost all of
our health points and two of the
matches that we lost. It was our. We went

(26:51):
uh, two to one in our pool,
won two, lost one and then we lost our
a match later which
was the fight for
the ability to place in first or
second. So uh, I think we did pretty
good. Yeah, uh,

(27:12):
we've never fought as a team before. I kind of like the
format. It's nice because uh,
like I want to perform well
to like make my team Proud and I'm
also like relying on them. So I really like the, I'd love to
do more stuff. Typically at a tournament it's just
yourself ye. You just uh, show
up, you fight through your pools, you get placed

(27:35):
in an elimination bracket and uh,
then you just like fighte till,
till you're done. Just one time at time.

Wow, man, that's neat. Um
huh huh. That Who'have thought, you know, I'm
like didn't even know this was a thing but here you
are.

Yeah, I like prior
to uh. It's crazy because I don't
know what I did with my time
more than a year ago. Like I started this a year ago in
January and it's like yeah, I played
video games then. I still play some now. So was like
that I'LIKE like I spend like a significant

(28:13):
amount of time doing like I do two hours on Sunday,
two uh, hours on Tuesday, two hours on Thursday. Sometimes
on Fridays I'll go to other clubs and like if they
have like a fight night and spary like I spen like
a lot of time doing this and I'm just like my
life just like feels so like I can't
imagine my life without it. And I've only been doing this

(28:35):
for a year.

Yeah.

And so it's ah. I have like no
plans to stop unless I got like severely
injured or uh,
move somewhere where they're just like wasn't himma. And even then I
would, I would try to like you know, drum up the, you know, the local
populace to yeah, that's awesome. Into it.

That's cool that you're like, you know, even if, try
to get something going yourself if that was the case. That's
awesome. I think, See I think stuff like that, you
know, I, I,
I think so. Um, we kind of
cross a lot of paths in the board game stuff back in the
day. I think like that community is

(29:16):
similar where it's like yeah, you know, it's a little bit easier
to access the board game stuff in the game but like
you know, like down here in Albany there's not a lot
like as far as board gaming. There's a lot of card gaming that
goes on and it's been cool to like,
you know, touch base with some people that are down here and just kind of
drum that up. Like you said. It's um, it's

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cool. The communities that we can find that like
fill our time but are also like man, I don't really
know, I don't really know what I did before. I Did this
stuff. Like, it's.

Yeah.

Yeah. That's cool. Do you u.
I did have a question about taxes. Um, so
you. So you're a big fan of taxes?

Uh, I'm a big fan, um, of
preparing taxes.

Oh, that's the correct answer. I was
like. I was like, man, how do I phrase this to make
it just sound the most frustrating?
Any.

Yeah, like, um, some days I have to, like,
call a guy and say, oh, you ow 50 grand. Like,
that's not fun for him. It's not fun for me.

Bo. You're kidding. Is that has. I mean, I know you
can't talk about specifics and.

But, like, that's like. And that's
like a small. Like, for
some. For some clients've encountered, like, that s. Small. Like,
I've. I've been in the room when we've
called guys up and like, o. We're going to have you guys make a
half a million dollar extension payment. Um,
okay.

But they have to be, like, multiillionaires.

And these are guys that have, like, big
old construction businesses or
something to that matter.

500. Oh, my goodness.
I get frustrated when I owe the state of Oregon, like, 400
bucks.

Yeah, I see. Like. And, uh,
I'm closer to that
level personally. Right.
Like O500 or
get 500 back? Like, Y. It's significant
to me either way.

Right. That's crazy,
dude. That's wild.
I don't even know if someone told me, like, hey, you
owe any amount of money
over. Over $20,000. I don't even know
what I would. I would be like,
how do you do? You just. I mean, you set an extension,

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but, like, can you take out a loan to pay your
taxes? What do you do?

Uh, I assume many
businesses, if they have, like, a rolling line of credit, you know, they
probably draw from that. M.
It's crazy. I'm not like,
I think the goal.
I think once should have, like, a nuanced approach

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to debt. Right. Like, I wouldn't
recommend you or I do that. I'd say, oh, you should
consider, uh, getting an installment agreement
with the, uh, IRs to handle
that. I wouldn't recommend debt. Right. If it's a.
A business, you. The goal is to like, not
have that eventually, right.
Considering the cost of interest.

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But there's a.

How long. Like, when you sit down to do. Do you meet
with people or is it like, they send you the stuff and they're like, call us
when you got it and you're done crunching our numbers? Like, how
do you? I guess. How
do. I don't know how tax preparation works.

So it's a good question because I think,
like, for the last hundred
years, like, you know, last, like, a lot of
older clients have the mentality of, like, they want to come in, they
want to sit down, they want to, like, go over all
their documents, have them spread over the
table. Um, I think
it's totally fine. I

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get it. I work from home. I think my
firm really focuses on a demographic
that's okay meeting like this, you
knowah, over video. Um,
like, I have some clients who are our age. They'll, like, send
me stuff, like, no
email. I'll just get a document upload. I'll prepare
their return. I'YOU know that

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we send something to them to sign. We'll communicate with
them if they owe tax payments or
estimates. They might not say
anything.

Like, that's wild.

Like, I have clients, I'll get one email from them a year.
It's thank you and, like. And
that's it. Uh, yeah, some people. That's
wild. Like, they have a higher level of concern.
They, like, they, you know, they, uh, send me their documents
and then they call me, they get the documents. I'm like, yes,
I'm very busy. I have'not even looked at your
documents, but I will get on that shortly.

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Yeah. And then, like, get into the return. It's
like, I'll tell them, hey, this is like, you know, a
rough estimate of what I think you'renna owe.
Which sometimes they don't like that number. It'll.

They don't like the word O.

They don't like the word O. Then it'll like, jog their
memory. Oh, like, I have,
like, this other information that
suddenly I remember. I'm like, oh, okay. Like,
that's great. And like, there's.

It's magical information that makes them owe me
money.

Yeah. And so there's occasionally more back and
forth.

Yeah, that's cool.

It depends on the client.

Yeah. Have you ever, like,
okay, so, I mean, you're. I mean, you can work quite a
bit of independent, though. Then I was. I was wondering, like,
because, man, is he, like, meeting with people and has he ever had,
like, you know them? They don't come
to your house. Do they, like, sit down and,
um.

Uh, so I'm pretty
fortunate working in my.
My job for my employer. So I.

That's cool.

Uh, I go up to the office like, four days a year.
Um, yeah, like.
Like there's a client that me and one of my employers go and
meet like two days of the year in February.
And then I go up, uh, for a like,
firm training day in September. Then we
do, um, we have like a firm
like fun day where they like, treat us to food

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and we go do something fun.

Uh, that's, that's wild, dude.
I mean it's cool, but it's so
foreign to me only because like,
like I work at, I work at this high school where
I see, I mean, truly some of these people at the high school, I see
them more than I see my family sometimes.
Like, I'm around them eight hours a

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day and just the
thought of like, yeah, like four days a
year is baffling. That's super cool that you get
that because, uh. Does it get
isolating though?

It does. So like,
I would consider myself an
extrovert. So like, like, wife comes
home, I'm like, jess. Then like, I'm excited.
You. I get the seeps. Like, if I don't have
any like, client meetings or like
calls with a coworker, I could go like a handful of

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days without. Oh my goodness, like
one. Which is great because I used to like, like my
prior job, I worked like in an office, you know, with
a number of coworkers. Like on my last day there,
one of them used Bo. I will miss you.
I'PROBABLY spent more time with you than I have with my
wife. Like, and it was

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like crazy to think about. I've been here so
long. Like, like, like there's,
there's days I miss being around like, people.
But like, I'm pretty fortunate with this
setup. I like working for home.

Yeah, you don't to. You don't have to share a bathroom space with people when
you work from home.

That's. You don't have to
talk. Be talking with a coworker.

Yeah, go.

Oh. Or you know, like quick bathroom break.
You know, like 15 minutes. Yeah.
You walk to the bathroom and then your coworker keeps walking
with you.

Yes.

And they're talking and I'm just like, I've
been surrounded by people. Go away hours. I want
my, like my five minutes, um, of
just me in the bathroom. No,
no, you walk to the urinal, this person'carrying on the
conversation. Doesn't like, doesn't break
pace. He's out there like their uneral.

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You're at yours. And like, they keep talking. You're like, mhm. Hmm.
This is great. Shut up.

And they're not even peeing. They're just standing there
pretending to. No.

I'm not sure if that would Be better or worse. Now they're also peeing.
Wash, uh, your hands. You go back, like, no break in the
conversation. You're like, is there any peace,
uh, that.

Oh, my gosh. See, yeah, I'm, uh, fortunate because,
like,
it's, like, impossible for teachers
to coincide their bathroomoming
you. It's like you run
to the bathroom when you get a second in an emergency. And so
it's like, I don't run into that. But

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that's wild. The urinal bathroom
conversation is. It must
end.

Um, see, I grew up
as a homeschooler, so, like, the bathroom to
me was where I'LIKE I'm gonna go to the bathroom.
There's nobody else. You get like, a
few minutes to do my business, and
no one can. No one'sn talk to me. And
it'like it's like, like the one place as a
homeschooler, it's like you be, like, away

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from.

Nobody has drugged their computer
and an audio mixer and a microphone out
and set it up in the bathroom stall randomly.
Next.

Have you. Have you ever been recording
and, like, someone came in to use bathroom?

Yes. Um, so at our. At our
chat. The church here. So this is actually a little background
for why I'm in this bathroom. I
normally record in the men's bathroom in this building. Um,
but there were so many cars parked
outside this building when I got here. I went,
no. Because one time,
a buddy of mine, he and I were in recording, and we're, you know,

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we're talking about going to the bathroom or
something, and one of the elders of the church
opens the door, sees us sitting there with a
computer and all the stuff. He goes, huh? Uh, what
are we doing, boys? And my buddy just looks, he
goes, we're recording a podcast. Want to
join? And he goes, he just. He

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just shakes his head, just gives us the like,
nah. And I'm on staff here. That's the like.
Like, I work here. And he goes out and all I can
hear, I said, I say, chris Chrri. And I can hear
him outside the bathroom to his wife. He says,
there boys in the bathroom with microphones and everything,
telling his wife. And she goes, what?

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And he goes, yeah, they're in there right now. What do I
do? And I'm going, I, like, look at my buddy. I was like, what do
we do? I, uh, think he has to go to the bathroom. He goes, he could have
gone. And so, like,
eventually pop my head as like, hey, I said, go
knock on the door in the back building. I think the church
secretary is back there. I was like, oh.

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So I do try to finangle it to
where, um, I can
maybe not have people walk in. I recorded one at a high
school, at the high school I work at
upstairs. And I didn't know
this, but down, like. And you know when you get two
guys talking in. In a closed bathroom
space? That one was like. He and I were. Boom. We

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were together. Uh, downstairs was
the girls, um.

Uh.

Oh, it's like where they have the. It's like what J.D. used to
do. J.D. smith. Um, that
catch.

Oh, the, uh. Yeah. Col guarding.
Yeah.

Ye. Yeah, yeah. The girls color guard team was
downstairs practicing, and we walk out
and. And they all are staring up like,
what? And then I just hear it's Hoover. And
I'm like. I said, mikey, were
cooked. We're. We're toast.
They were. They're ono us like, what are you doing? The coach like, what are you

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doing? Because she's one of the special ed assistants. I was
like, we're recording. And she's
like, just stares at us. I.
We all work here. It. It's all good. Nobody needs
to know. They need to know. They'll go, listen.
No. Um, so yes, I definitely have had people walk
in. And, uh, at the start of all this, I

(41:58):
was originally gonna, like, go to stores and go
to, like, places and go into the
bathroom and just start recording. And then,
uh, Kellen, Louie. I reached out to Kellen
and I said, hey, I got question for you. Because he was like, in school to be a lawyer.
I said, got question for you. If I record
audio in a bathroom in somebody's

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like, business bathroom, is that. Is
that legal? And he's like,
you can tell. It's just. It's the exact
interactions that Kellen and I always had where I would
bring him something and he would just
like. He's
like, it. It's a gray area at best.
He says, remember, it's private property.

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So best case
scenario, they say nothing. And they're like, hey, what are you
doing? In their worst case scenario is they trespass you and call the
police. And they have every right to because it's their property.
You don't even have to be recording. You can just, you know, be
in the bathroom too long and they can say, ah, e. I think
he's in there up to no good. We're going to call the police. And I'm like,

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ah, Albany's not that big. And I, uh,
work in ministry with teens and work at a high school with
teens. I should probably not be in the papers for getting
arrested out of the bathroom. That's probably a better move.
So we pivoted to at home,
but's it's definitely easier to
set up. I don't know what I was thinking in the first place, but.

Yeah, these things have to evolve over.

Yeah. Oh, and evolve. They. They do
they. This is like the joke that doesn't. Like, I.
I started this as a goof, and it. It's
like become this thing that I thoroughly enjoy it.
I love it. Uh, I get to do a lot of research about a lot of stuff, and
I didn't even know was a thing. Uh, but. And I get
to talk to people kind like. I mean, like, we. We've. I feel

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like, texted and messaged on and off. You know,
it's probably been a year or so since the real
big. And it's like, you know what? I'm gonna reach out
to these people that I haven't talked to in a while and just
catch up a bit. It's.

It's.

It's been a real blessing in that I've enjoyed it. Like, even,
like Bradley, you know, I would text him every now and then
and.

Yeah.

Uh, and it was cool to connect with him because, you know, he
got involved with some other podcast stuff that I was doing with Bible
teaching. And, um. Yeah, it's
just. It's neat. But,
um, well, so, Bo, I have a. I have a bunch of questions
that I ask everybody. Uh, and
if you. If as you go through these, you're like, oh, I've said too

(44:27):
much. Feel free to just say, text me. Like, hey,
the question about the baths, we got to take that
out. Like, it is too much. I talk too much about this.
Editing is great. And at any time. Because what
I find that happens is as I start asking these questions, people are
like, oh, my gosh, I have a story that I might need
to tell about that. Feel free to stop me whenever if you got a

(44:47):
story, because it happens.

Sounds good.

Um, so the first is what type of toilet paper
do. Do y'all use at your house? Like, what brand? What. You
know, what do you got going?

Costco. Yeah. Yes, Kirk. Yes,
I know there's, like, other brands. I think we just typ.
Get this. The Kirkland brand. It.

Yep.

The job done.

That's right. Yep.

Not too much, not too little.

It's. To me, it's like the. It's.
It's perfectly serviceable working
persons. You know, it's not.
It's not super plush, but it's not, it's not
sandpaper like the high school's got. It's.
I take my own paper to the bathroom sometime of high school. The kids make
fun of me. It's funny. They're like, oh, Hoover's pooping again. I'm

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like, shut it, man.

If I, if I worked at a school
or any place with like, uh, now. Now that I work
from home all the time, where I have like, uh,
access to my toilet.

Yeah.

If I ever did anything else like you, you
bet I would bring my own teee to the bathroom,
do well.

And like, I've worked at places like our church,
they use Angel Soft. It's. It's perfectly fine.
It's not terrible. But the stuff they have
at the high school, I don't know. Like,
I told them I, like, they have to seek this out on the
Internet because I can't find this low
grade anywhere. Um,

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and I just went out and bought like
11 packages of toilet paper, different
brands for an episode. It was a
treat to have. Yeah.
My neighbors across the street, they see me on load stuff from
the back of my car sometimes because I, I do this
podcast and then I also do youth
ministry. Um, and they're

(46:35):
like, why do you
have that? And I was like, oh, it's for an event. And they're like,
really? An event? You needed in it. You needed
it. Why did you need a big pink inflatable
dinosaur? It's, it's youth stuff. Don't worry about
it. It. It's just that, you know, that's such.

A succinct way to describe, like, what happens in
youth ministry.

Yeah, yeah. Or like, you walk into my office,
I've got a giant like 7 foot tall
cut out of a bear of like a grizzly bear.
And then I mean it, like probably a
hundred little rubber frogs that I just stick all over the place
all the time. And people walk in and it's
just, they're like, how do you. I'm like,

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I need all of it at some point. Like,
I need one and a half foot wide
light up neon dice in case
we need to play this game. It's gonna be great.

Yeah, very understandable.

Um, and then do y'all, when you put the toilet paper on
the roll, do y all fold it over or
under?

We are an over household.

Okay. So is wife. Your wife Jess is in
agreement with this wholeheartedly, or.

Yeah. I feel like we've. I don't know if we've ever
had like any altercation or just. I think it
Just. She was like that. I was like that.

Yeah.

I imag. Other couples have a bit of culture shock, and they, like.

Yeah, you know, some of us are living in a culture
shock. Uh, do, um.
Why do you think that it should go over?

So I heard your
explanation when I listened to the
episode with Brad. And like, what.
What you're saying, like, in terms of, like, economics. That makes
sense.

Yes.

Just every time I've had, like, I've seen it,
like, under. I feel like it's just. It's an accident waiting
to, like,
like, just unravel itself, I guess.

Really? Uh, you're not first to say that. I
just.

Yeah. Which, um. Like, the physics of
that. Well, like, wouldn't
roll the other way too.

Yes.

Um, it's just all. It s just like,
aesthetically, you know, it works.

It is. I will, you know. You know,
Bo, I'I'VE had push in 40 of these
conversations, and you're the first
person to just say, you know what?
Aesthetically, it just looks better.
Like. I can't argue with that.
It does look better. I keep looking right here
because our custodian, he's a

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forward guy and he does it to mess with
me because he's been on this and'like all right, all
right, all right. Bo, do you use bar soap or
are you, like, a liquid soap lad?

So
I don't use bar soap, mostly because I need
to gain an awareness of decent bar soap to
use. I think. I think I
have for about the last year, chiped using,
like, the, uh, like Harry's
liquidid, uh, stuff, which is, uh.

Yah.

It gets the job done. Smells good.
No adverse side effects.

Yeah, Yeah. I, uh,
I used to be liquid soap. Die hard liquid
soap. And I had
somebody turn me on to, uh, Dr.
Squatch is the big one. Now it's like everybody's getting
squat.

I. I used it, like, back when they first came out. It was
like. Like. I was like Corbin. It was like that the pine
tar, like, smelled. It's pro.
Like, it was expensive. And I was like, that
is broken in college.

Yeah, they're in Costco now. That's
like the big.

I know. They've, like'like um.
It's changed big, like with the bar stuff in Costco.

Yeah, yeah. You get like, a six pack for, I want to say,
like, 16 bucks or something. It's. It's
still a little spendy, but it's. It's more with. It's not
like $9 for a bar anymore.

Yeah, yeah.

If you. If you don't get it on sale or on a deal. It can
be, it can be steep. The other one is Duke
Cannon. Um, um, my
buddy turned me on to Duke Cannon. Dude. Their, their bar
of soap is no joke the size of a brick.
Like it is truly a brick shaped
brick sized bar. Um,
I mean it is, it's a weapon.

So I shower a lot.
Like yeah, I'm. I wish, I
wish I could do it different. I'm like I have to shower
in the morning. Um, yeah,
like I, you know, if I go exercise, I shower. Like
I, I shower too much. Right.
Like you know with like between waking up and

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doing Hema. Like I.

It's better than the alternative. Like the alternative is not
showering enough and that's not good for anybody.

That is true.

Yeah.

So I'm like I need, I need to like optimize
my, my self
cares. I'm gonna check out these do
canon.

Yeah, they can be a little spendy too. But they,
they're big. Like I've
only tried one. I can't remember what scent it was.
But um, I think you can
buy them in like,
like sometimes sports, uh, like
I don't know if Dick sporting goods or somewhere

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like that sometimes carries that type stuff or country
western type stores will sometimes have it.
Um. Yeah. Anyway,
uh, how do you feel Bo? How do you feel about
baths?

You? So the last time
uh. I wish I took more baths if I'm being
honest. So last I took a. I was
working. So Brad and I both worked for the
school district doing uh, uh,
landscaping. And I came home
one time and like I got had this like,

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like this rash that started from my elbows and
my knees. I don't know what thatk happened. It
just, it made. Grew from there
over like my like, like
my legs, my torso. It like this,
this rash of like these like like bumps and
I don't know what like what it caused. And so

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I took uh, a. I took a bath in
lavender and it. And it went away.
Like that's all it took. I don't know
like what the helk's crazy. Uh, but.
And so like I think like the memory I have
baths from that was like it,
it was like in like some sort of

(53:16):
like video games you find like like a hot spring that.

Like like heals you.

That like heals you. Because like I was like, I was
miserable in like three days. I had to go uh,
go up to like like north of
Spokane to like a wedding I was going toa be in. I'm like, I'm like
covered in like. I wish I probably got pictures
somewhere. But like it was. It was awful and.
But like, but the bath, like, I don't know what it was. But like
apparently taking of bath and lavender heals some

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manner of rash that might be helpful to someone
out there.

Yeah.

In the world who gets a rash that's
unexplainable sources lavender. Huh.

Huh.

Yeah. I'll know. Like, but
like it wasn't. Must have not been poison oak
or something. Like actually.

Yeah. Because that wouldn't have done. I mean that wouldn't have
cured that to that extent. That's crazy.

Yeah. And I got out and it was like. It
was like. It was like fading from my skin as I had like,
as I like left the bathtub and then like, like rinsed off
in a show. Like wow. I'm m. Like like we were
better. Uh, so no. Last
time I ever took a bath.

That's wild. Hu.

Um.

Um. Do you so.
But you're not like a. Oh man, it's been a. It's been a day. I need to take
a hot bath. That's not a.

No. I, uh, um.
I love a. I
mean I, I. What I call hot shower is
lukewarm to some.

No.

Like, uh. I don't know if you can relate this, you know,
being like fellow man with a wife. But like
yess. Like, like a hot shower to
her is like, like scalding hot
to like. I don't.

I am um. I am your wife in
that situation. I love, I love it
just. It's like it feels like it's going to take your
skin off. I just. Anna will get in the shower and
it'll be said. She's like, what are you doing? She'll, you know,
she'll be like, ah. Like what I say it's too
hot. I'm going, oh, no, no, no, no. Like if there's
not a cloud of just

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of steam when you get out, even with the fan on,
that's. That is the dream. I love it
hot. Oh yeah.

I mean I, if it's like
when it, when it becomes summer, like I like, I like
taking a nice cold shower and like, like
a lot of people like, like I guess
I, I guess I'm able to. Like I, I have
no aversion to cold, but like, oh
my. As getting like hot. I'm just like, we're out of

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here.

See, that's the thing. Like if it's summer, like if the air is
hot, I can't deal. Like 80 degrees is my
cap, I. I don't even like to do anything
outside after 80 degrees. Like, I have to, but I hate
it.

Agreed.

But one. One year, you know, it was one of those New Year's resolutions.
Probably two or three years ago, I. I was like, you know what I
heard? Taking cold showers is good for you. I'm gonna start
doing cold showers. And I mean, dude,
no joke. January 1st, I got in, I turned it to cold.
I stepped in, and I went, that, uh, resolution's
over. Never again that.

Have you heard of. Of the James Bond
shower?

The James Bond shower? I have notah.
But'm think.

I think it's called that. But, like, so you start hot, and
you slowly turn it down,
uh, until it's, like, cold. And, like,
you do it that way. I know. Like, some. Some guys
I got like, like, be a man. Take your cold. I like,
huh. No fam. Like that. No, no, no,
no. Like, if you, like, start hot and slowly turn

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it down like, like, like that's like that.

Ease yourself into it.

Only way. Only way.

I might have to try. Give that another shot. I'll say this. I
had somebody did say, like, oh, you can't handle a
cold shower. I said, you. If you want
my man card, you can have it. Like, it,
like, you can have it. Just let me have a hot shower.
Like, uh, yeah, I'll have to
try the ease in, though. The James Bond. The James

(57:18):
Bond, yeah. Like.

Like, I can only just, like,
I only way I'm gonna, like, hop in the shower
and do, like, hold blast is if it's like,
90 degrees out, the AC stopped working,
and I'm like, like, other than that, like, I have
to, like, I just, like, I have to ease it down.

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

They can take my man card.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, so with showers, do you ever
take a shower in the dark? You ever take a dark shower?

So I'll know what it is
about a dark shower, man. Like, like, if,
um. Especially like, if there's like.
Like just enough like. Like ambient
light through. Like, only if you have like a.
Like.

Yep.

Like a curtain or whatever. If it's like, if, like, the sun's in the
right spot, like, you know, you got, like, privacy. Of
course.

Yeah.

No one, like, can see what you. You're showering.
Like, something about that,
like, is great. No, a dark shower, though,
it's just. I don't know. It's just
kind of pleasant, I guess. Like a bit of music while
you re.

Yeah, it's like a. It's like one of those
Sensory deprivation chambers. I've never been in one, but I assume
it's like that because it's just. I don't know, it
just. You start your day. I.
Yeah, I um. Have you
ever. Have you ever eaten an orange in the shower as if
it was an apple?

So I've. I've never eaten
an oranges. So I've never eaten any. Eaten
or drinking anything uh, really
while in the shower or.

O. That was gonna. That was coming. So.
Even. Even had a drink in the shower. Huh huh.

Never. I mean like other than like this.
The splash effect
of water. O.

Like Bo you gotta. You got toa get yourself
like a. Like a. Just like a cold. I
love just polar seltzer. Just like flavored sparkling
water. Um, like a cold seltzer.
If you're a soda guy. A cold soda,
um, you know, whatever your cold beverage of
choices is enhanced by the
shower. Like I swear by

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it.

That's fascinating. You know what? I'm have to try
it. I'll have to try it and report back.

Yeah, it. It. I try to keep
the sodas out of there because I'm worried like offh if I spill there's
gonna be a stickiness factor. But I'm.
Dude, I'm telling you like that, that polar
seltzer just cold from the fridge. Polar
seltzer in the shower. Like you almost feel it
all the way down because it's warm. Then again, I'm taking.

You're also taking like a scald lava burst
nuclear.

>> Hunter Hoover (01:00:00):
Nuclear powered heat reactor showers.
Um, but I've also like for you
with the easing into cold. I've had people
say that that's when they do their morning coffee,
they hit the. They grab the coffee into
the shower and there they drink their coffee while they take their morning
shower. Yes.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:00:19):
So I've heard like, I've heard a guys talk about like, you know, drinking
a beer in the shower. Yeep. Coffee.

I've had a lot of people say, you know, a beer or like
maybe.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:00:28):
I'll be one of the first guys to. So I love a
good old fashioned. I'll be like the first like old fashioned in the
shower guy.

Hey, um, yeah, it
uh, my. I have a buddy, he's like, he work. He you
know, he works in trades. He goes. I get home, he cracks
a uh, he cracks a cold beer and that's his. He
is. He's like, I do want a night. I ain't. I ain't going crazy.
But man, I have it in the shower and I just rinse the day off.
And I'm like, dude, that's

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like. Yeah, it
cold to me. Like, the perfect
shower is I have mowed my lawn. It's
80 degrees. I have drank one polar
seltzer while mowing my lawn, and I take the world's
hottest shower with a second polar seltzer like that.
Like, I'm smiling big when that happens.
That's a good day.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:01:16):
You know, uh, like, I figured
the, uh, beverage in the shower question
is coming. I didn't know what. How was going toa
answer, but I think I'm taking away
something.

Yeah, I mean, it's worth a shot.
But. But back to the orange. There's. You
can take an orange and. Because, like, it's peeled and there's no
consequences. It's just. And the juices
just go wherever and.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:01:40):
Okay. Okay. That's okay. That's actually so, like,
yeaheah. Like, I eat a lot of fruit and I got like, uh, a.
Like I had like, I managed to
find, like, I haven't had good watermelon since, like,
September.

Yeah.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:01:53):
Like, miraculously,
I got some, like, sliced watermelon from Safeway a few days ago. And
a. It tastes. It. Maybe it tastes good because I haven't had watermelon in so
long. But like, you know, it's like fruit
like that. It's sticky, it's messy.

Watermelon, uh, in the shower.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:02:09):
Watermelon in the shower. Orange. I'm okay.
I'm the orange one. Just't makes sense because, like,
because. Because there's no. It's. Hold it
easily. Yeah, there's no. Like, if you peeled
it. That's okay. That. That's. I.
That's actually smart.

You're gonna. You're gonna be taking a shower and you're on your way into the shower,
and you're gonna have like, your cold drink and your, your orange
and your little bucket of watermelon in. Jess, what are you
doing? Nothing. It s shower time. I've got
to try this out.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:02:37):
I'll to see if I can do it before she listens to this
episode.

So then she can side eye you. Like, wait.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:02:44):
Yeah, like just. Just go give the episode a list
and then you'that's.

Awesome. That's awesome. Um,
do you. Ah. Ah, man. You know'll
get there. We got to get there. Do you. Would you or
have you ever performed a waffle stomp?

>> Bo Glitchka (01:03:02):
What's a waffle?

I'm so glad. I love when people
ask. The asking is my favorite.
It's because it gives me just One more opportunity to
share. So a waffle stomp is when you are in the
shower and you have to poop and instead of
getting out and going to the bathroom and doing your job and
getting back in or not, you just let fly right
to the bottom of the shower and then you just stomp it

(01:03:26):
right down that drain. Just bo bo bo bop bop.
Just stomp it away.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:03:30):
I don't know if I am proud or not proud
to say that I've never done.

Oh, I thought we were gonna get it. I thought you were gonna be
like have.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:03:38):
Have you ever had. Oh like okay.
So I listened to the Brad episode.

Yeah. Bradley. I don't think Bradley had
and okay.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:03:48):
Like not, not him thank goodness. But like
like yeah, he told the story ye of
some uh.
It A PVG here it was in
pvg. There was a y Y. Someone took
a dump on a tide pod.

Yes, yes, yes.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:04:06):
Like closest I've heard to this
like ah sort of thing taking
place.

Yeah, it.
It's a thing that people have done. Um
huh huh. You know,
we. Yeah. What
more can a guy say it? I'm not going to
tell you that. You should. That you should try that one at least once
in your life.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:04:31):
Um, you know, I'm. I'm looking
forward to a shower beverage. Probably
never going to participate.

Yeah.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:04:38):
In. If a waffle stop ever takes place, it's because
a lot of things went really bad leading up to that.

Well that's just the thing is like in the times where it's happened,
it's like it's an emergency and. And
there is. It's danger zone. U.
Um, yeah, it's.
It's a. It's a tough. Look. I'm you know, I'm two in. In
my life at two and a half in. In my life. I'm um.

(01:05:04):
Yeah, it's. It's tough. The
last one, dude, the most recent one is.
Is it. It's in the church. Like
we have a shower and it is in the church
and it was with three or
four young adult college age
dudes in the bathroom at the same time. Because I was

(01:05:25):
in the shower and I'm like boys,
I. I gotta go. Is. Oh
it's full. And I'm like no way. There's
no way. They're like no, I'm just got in here. It's gonna be
like 10 minutes and in. It was just like I had
eaten something bad and it was like well here we
go. And then you just
hear yeah, this.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:05:46):
Is the, the stuff like like this
Is like youth group.

Yeah.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:05:53):
Like, just like Pulp youth group.
This experience. I.

Yeah, yeah. And then I had to
tell our custodian here, I'm friends with them. I said, well,
Michael, here's the deal. I did. I did this thing.
I cleaned it. It's clean. You don't have. It's taken
care of. But you. I feel that I must confess
it to you. And he just
shakes his head and walks away. It's like, oh, man.

(01:06:20):
No, Michael. Um, so
you said you. But. So that said you got the
waffle stom. But what. Which. So there's another
category of people. And I will say I've never met this category.
Thank. Thank God. Um. Um,
there's a third category of people that instead of getting out
and doing that or stomping it, they actually, like,

(01:06:40):
either poo into the bottom of the thing and then,
like, scoop it up and
then deposit it into the trash with their hands
or. And this is like a subcategory, they
try to catch it and, like, toss it in the
toilet. This is
depraved.
Um, and

(01:07:00):
I'I used to ask people, like, which would you be
more likely to do? Stomp it or toss it? But I quit asking
that because most people
either, like, I'm not doing either. I'm just going to get out, which is
fair. And I've realized that it's just a
dumb question because I don't know anybody
that is, like, I think I'd actually catch it

(01:07:21):
with.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:07:21):
And to me,
I have never imagined.

Bo'like my Internet's different than yours. I don't
know. Uh, my
algorithm is totally shot, like,
through doing this show. The
recommendations are like, wait,
what?

>> Bo Glitchka (01:07:45):
Okay, are you. Are you a Tik. Took
an Instagram or a YouTube
scroller?

Oh. So. Oh, man. I'm going to say I'm going
to reveal a lot about who I am. Um, um,
when it's. When it comes to scrolling and I
don't do a lot of scrolling. It's like, usually,
um, 20 minutes before bed before I, like, brush
my teeth and settle in. But Tik Tock is
my scrolling app. Dude. I China can have my

(01:08:12):
data, baby. Um, I'm that algorithm'feeding them to
me. And, uh, I find like, TikTok
is more consistently giving me stuff that I like,
like. And I understand, you know, there's all sorts of
arguments about, like, oh, they're selling your data and they're tracking your
eye movement. I don't know how much that's real.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:08:30):
As if any of the other apps are that's it.

My mom, you know, my mom, bless her heart, she's like, well,
that app, I said, mother, I have Pokemon
Go set to always track my
location. Always. Um,
everywhere I go, Pokemon Go is tracking me. If they want to know where
I'm at, they've already got it.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:08:47):
Like, and that was like the big one recently. It
was like they were using it to like 3D
map. Like, like, oh,
yeah's what, what's the
word? Architecture. Uh,
yeah, yeah. Like points of interest. Ye.

Oh, yeah.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:09:05):
Obvious specific word. I'm looking.

If they, if they try to map me,
it's gonna be the most boring map ever drawn. It's
like, does he do anything but go to
these four buildings ever?
Like, my life is lived between
four buildings. My house, the gym, the
church, and the high school.
Like, uh, uh, sometimes I'll go to Costco

(01:09:29):
and get a hot dog. Like, I'm boring, dude.
It. They can have my data, but
no.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:09:35):
They'Re going toa know those four places in Albany real
well.

Yeah, they're like, well, I have an app that, like, I can
track where I poop too.
It's a poop map, dude. It's great. It's social too,
so you can like, share it with friends.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:09:50):
When you go to the bathroom, do you always use the same
stall?

U. Um, oh, like, like
at these.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:09:58):
Places I, like you're at work. It's like, that's my
stall.

Like, well, so see, this is. I'm glad you asked this Bo.
This is a good thing. I'm gonna air a grievance to the people that won't hear it at my
high school. So currently I'm trying to gain
access to a better, more privileged, nicer bathroom
our at the high school I work at. Um,
but I'm going to call it discrimination because that's what it
is. But, uh, they will not allow me

(01:10:22):
to use this bathroom. Uh,
I don't know why. They will not give my
key code access to this building. Like, they will not do
it. So I use the peasants bathroom, which
is this like, old janky pounk thing. The
toilets, like, wobbly on the ground. Uh,
there's pictures of this bathroom. In fact, there's pictures on my phone

(01:10:43):
of this bathroom with no toilet and like a hole in the ground.
And I had to walk like way far to find a bathroom one
day. It was close. Like, it almost had an
emergency. But so I,
I do use the same stall, but not by choice here at
the church. I, I, um,
if I actually change it up, uh, and the reason I change

(01:11:03):
it up. O Here we go. We're,
we're getting into it. Um, one of the toilets is taller
because we have a lot of older folks in the church. Um, and so
I will use the tall toilet like 75% of the
time. But the other 25% is on days
when I know it's been busy. Like, oh man, Sunday
mornings. There's not a chance. I'm using the short one

(01:11:24):
because it's fresh. Like that one is less used.
And I know I'm getting a more like purified.
But to uh, to porcelain, you
know, experience. It's. Yeah. It's less
adulterated seating.
Yeah. At the gym. I try not to use the
bathroom at the gym because I was on like a
two year thing where I was posting and

(01:11:47):
tagging the gym and I actually like the one lady's like, hey, you gotta
quit. And I was like, o man. But because it would not get
clean, dude, it was a lie. They're like, we're cleaning it. I was like,
nothing is that caked on that you cleaned like I
was a janitor for 10 years. Don't, don't sell me your bill
of goods.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:12:02):
Um, I've never had
a bathroom experience at the gym that was
like, like not good. Like
humiliating in some fashion. Like, it's
just. Yeah, it.

Why is the floor wet?

>> Bo Glitchka (01:12:17):
Just. Yeah, it's just like activities
that just like have never gone well together. Like.

Yeah, yeah. U. Um,
yeah, no, that's a good question. Uh, do
you. I think I already know the answer. Do you did
any toilet snacks, toilet drinks? You know, do you ever take
yourself like a bag of chips on the.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:12:35):
Toilet or so I've
never consumed a beverage or
food on the toilet.

Okay.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:12:42):
Um. I've always been intrigued. So like when I
was in high school, I worked at a summer camp for three years and
there was a, a thing about like,
like some guy was like, have you ever had
a glass of water while you were on the toilet?
And like people would like, would
like. Because of that, we decided to give it a.

(01:13:03):
I was neverave brave enough I
guess to experience this sensation.

It is unique. Like, especially
if you. I mean this is, this is one of those where
it's like, really? Why, uh, do you. But if you can somehow
time the like swallowing of the bite with the
like actual expelling of
the waist. It's almost like.
It almost feels like you are a human body

(01:13:30):
version of one of those old like
pencils that you pull the mechanical end and stick it in the
top and then it pushes like the fresh mechanical tip
out the end. It's like you become like a human
mechanical pencil tip. It's um. But
it, dude, it's, it is unique
and it is an. It's a feeling that is one

(01:13:50):
of a kind. It's like, huh, I know that the food
that I just swallowed isn't the food that just came
out, but my brain is tricked into
believing it is. Um, um.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:14:02):
I don't know. If I give that a try,
I will report.

Oh, it's just. You're just like, why do
I have so much food in the bathroom all of a sudden? No.
Do you have any bathroom pet peeves that just drive you
up a wall in the bathroom? It doesn't have to be at
home with your wife sometimes, you know, it's
spouses have their things. But.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:14:29):
U, uh, trying to consider
how, how, how it can into.

It can be public too. Like, there's people that are like, oh, public
bathroom. When this happens, I'm done. Like
for me, it's when people public be. This is fresh
1. The toilet pa or the paper towel
crumple, crumple, throw. And.
And they miss. And it's like, dude, the. The
trash is 6 inches

(01:14:55):
below the paper towel dispenser. Just
if you missed, that's fine. It's
embarrassing. But pick it up, put it in the
thing and then you just get the mountain on the floor at,
uh, yeah, stuff like that.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:15:07):
See, I feel like there's
this, it's been a, you know, this trend over
the last 15 to 20 years towards like,
in our quest to like, optimize the process of
washing our hands and drying our hands.
Like, we've, we've sacrificed
all semblance ofan, uh, of

(01:15:29):
cleanliness. Like, like, you have
these like, like water
faucet, like detectors that were invented
by the biggest jokester of
all time is the only way
I can think to describe it. Like, I've.
I've never felt like, satisfied with the amount of water.
Like, like soap. Soap's fine. Of soap. I've

(01:15:52):
never been satisfied with the amount of water I get to like,
rinse, like properly wash my hands and
rinse my. Like, yeah, like, it''s never
hot. It, it doesn't.

I'mnna send you a video of my
church'tap because my. Our
custodian is a. He, uh, is s a
lovely man, but he's also a tyrant and
he has governors installed and no
joke, it almost doesn't come out long
enough to like, overcome the
surface tension of the water and cause it to go down.

(01:16:24):
It, like, follows the curvature of
the spigot and then drops. That's how
I'm like, yeah. Oh,
yeah. This is just like, I'm with you.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:16:37):
Like, that happen. It's like, you know, like, I can.
Like the. The drying. Like. Like the drying
part. I understand. Like, we're're trying to use less
paper. We're trying to, like.
Like, find. We have these, like, Dyson airblade things
that I'm, like, I'm not convinced. This is like.
Like, I feel like we're just replacing the germs I just

(01:16:59):
washed.

Yes.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:17:00):
Like, the faucet, though. Like,
can't we. We got to fix
this, people.

Yeah.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:17:08):
Like, this is the brighter fe future for humanity.
I envision is one where, like,
a little, like. Like, demon isn't, like,
sitting inside a faucet. Like, oh, I'm gonna give him his
water. Like,
don't get what I need. Then I go to the faucet
next to me. Then the one I was trying to get water from goes off.

(01:17:28):
And. And then, like, you know, I
try only do that I went a bath because I t want to, like, you know,
ruin the next guy's experience when he comes and tries to get his
water. And it's like, yeah, um,
timer well.

And so. And this is not to make. Not
to get political, and I. And I. But, um, it
is Joe. Our former president, Joe
Biden, he passed a bill
in honor of, like, World
Conservation Day or something. I think it was
2022. He passed this bill

(01:18:03):
that, like, regulated all faucet
production. Like, it was to limit the flow
of water on shower heads and bathroom
faucets.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:18:12):
Interesting.

So, like, all these people had to change
manufacturing for a handful of years. And
I believe he also repealed it in,
like, 23. Uh, he might have started it in
2020 and then repealed it in 23. I mean, it
was.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:18:28):
Joe's a man, same as us. He had to
have seen the effects this had y On his
personal life.

Yes. It's like, it's one of those things where. And I have
this conversation with the kids at high school all the time because they. Many
of them are convinced it's like, oh, I have to save the
planet. And I'm like, listen, I'm all for taking care of what
we got. I'm not against that. But let me explain
how the world works to you. Like, the amount of. The amount
of emissions and the amount of, like, global

(01:18:56):
warming that we contribute to as
Americans fractions compared
to other countries. In the world who do not
care as much. And I said, and so you can spend your
life offsetting them
or you can enjoy a nice hot
shower, like, and. And then have the
mental fortitude to go out and do

(01:19:18):
good work to do twice as much. You know, uh,
that's. That's what I try to sell them. I'm like, I'm
convinced that like,
while, yes, I know that it's. It's wasteful
technically to do some things,
but. But the, the ease that it brings my life
and the satisfaction it brings me allows

(01:19:39):
me to operate better in a world and produce maybe
more net good in the world. And then I start using the
word net good and they're like, what if you say
they get all mad and.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:19:50):
I'm like, this is a stance like, I think I can get
behind pretty, pretty easily.

Yeah, I mean it's just like, you know, I'm not, I'm
not running water for an hour. But like,
yes, I run the water and let it run until
it's hot before I get that shower gone. Like it's
fine. Um, I'm not icing myself. I did it once.
I'll never do it again. Maybe, maybe I'll ease in. Um,
do you have a restaurant that does you the dirtiest

(01:20:16):
bathroom? W. Like when you eat this place,
you know that. Yeah, we're not going out. It's gonna be
bad.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:20:22):
Uh,
sok.
I'm gonna dig deep here. Think if I there's
any specific,
uh, not,
you know, huge fan of
Porta. Like. Like there's some. There's some Porta Potties that

(01:20:43):
are will maintained out there, but yeah, uh,
some food truck places
that aren't like. I don't know if you've been to that new one,
like that one station like an Albany that has.

Oh yeah, the Barn.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:20:57):
Like yeaheah, yeah, the barn. Like that like nice
facility. IUM has indoor restrooms,
like food truck places that don't have
like any sort of like infrastructure yet just to
Porta Potty. I'm like, yeah, it's just
like I'm uh, a
like, you know, my.

We live in a world of bathrooms.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:21:18):
And you like that when we get to
like, like latrine related activities.
My mental fortitude is. Is
on a razor's edge.

Oh man. Dude, I. Oh, I have
an Instagram page that is not
heavily followed at all. And you will know why as soon as I
begin to describe it. But it is where I used to put
these on the privy page. And then I was told by a Friend.
Hey, people aren't here for this.
This has to live elsewhere. But I would I as

(01:21:50):
a janitor and as working in high school
and just people knowing that I do this show,
they will send me the most heinous shots of a
bathroom that they'found. Just like
decimated bathrooms. And so I
have this. This page called, uh, Randy
Bowls. And it,
like I said, it is not very heavily followed because it

(01:22:13):
is very niche. The number of people that are like, yeah,
I need to see some. Some messed up
toilets. Um, and. But the other thing is like I.
And this is listener. If you're like Randy Bowls
and you go all. He just. He just went in
hand. Hand before my Lord.
Every one of these was taken either by
me or by someone that I know personally. This is

(01:22:35):
not Google searched. Like,
no, this is. This is boots on the
ground.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:22:42):
Uh, my man. These are absolutely
vile.

And I have many more. But I have to like,
I have to be careful on my, on my rollout
because, um, like I have pictures of the bathroom at
the high school where I will get a radio because I
have a radio for my job and I'll get a radio call and to be
like, o, uh, can we get a custodian to building
two Boys bathroom? We have a
severe overflow. And I'm like,

(01:23:09):
watch the room. And I just run over there with
my phone. Like, I got to get a picture before she cleans it.
And then I'm like, yes. And I like, crap. If
anybody that I work with sees this, I'm toast.
So I've got to like, like strategically
roll those out in the summer where it's like, yeah, I don't know. That's
weird. Uh, it's been like six months. I don't know how that got on

(01:23:30):
there. Um, yeah,
there's one though, uh, that
I'll like, have my phone. I'll be scrolling. This happens.
And I'll be showing like on. Oh, let me show you this picture I took
todayoooo. Boomp. And it's
just this big. Just pile.
And she's like, stop. She just. Every time she

(01:23:51):
goes, get it off your phone. I'm sick. I'm
sick of you trying to show us a picture of the backyard or
this thing that you built. And then just bam. I see
this nasty toilet. She's like, from now on,
I don't want to see your phone until you've got the picture ready.
Quit scrolling. I'm like, okay, you know, um,
yeah, no, that's. That's totally understandable. U. Um,

(01:24:12):
well, Bo do you have any, like, parting bathroom
wisdom to leave people with like,
recommendations or things that are re. Like, hey,
we got to do better and this is how you can do it.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:24:25):
Uh, scent control is. Yeah,
okay, Good for. For mankind, I
think.

Yeah. What's your go to, like, sent control
method?

>> Bo Glitchka (01:24:36):
Uh, at one point.
See, um, I'm like a hypocrite because I
haven't. We haven't used it in and so long. We had
this like, it was called like.
It'like a play on poopri is like o. Play on
potpourri is like poop. Poourri.

Oh, yeah, poour. I've got one in my desk drawer at work. I've
got one in the church office too. I never. Yeah, I almost
never go without it. Huh.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:25:00):
I just think these things are just good.

I don't understand. Like, poop is so cheap. It's
like three dollar for a little thing of it. And you don't need
much. And like, if you just set it in
every bathroom, just. All right, now go.
And that. Dude, that stuff'so cool
because it like,
provides this weird layer on top of the

(01:25:23):
water that when you go, it like
locks it in. It's hard to explain, but it's
fascinating. So, yeah, control the stink. I
like it. Um, any other wisdom for
people?

>> Bo Glitchka (01:25:36):
So earlier in the episode, I had
mentioned that mnemonic poem. Oh, yes,
mnemonic. I think matter the term from.
So. So this was compiled by
the students of Johannes Leakedtonau,
that Longsword. Ah, master from the
1300s. I'm just going to read you the first three
lines because you're a teacher, you work with

(01:25:58):
young students. You know, I think we're both aware of the.
Of the plight and finding good
role models that these kids
face. Um, I think you
might appreciate what this has to say. Might not. I'm
justnna read it. No, you should, young
knight, learn to love God and revere
women. Thus your honor will grow.

(01:26:21):
Practice knighthood and learn the art that
dignifies you and brings you honor
and warth. And
I just like the wisdom in that. You. I
like the hierarchy of loving
God, of respecting
women. I think you can take. You can spin that in a lot of different
ways. Like

(01:26:44):
you. I think specifically for young men, you know, depending
like on the role models they look
to, their view
of. Of both like
God and women is gonna be very skewed and
negative. Yep. So
no, that was, uh, I. No, that's good about
that. Uh, those lines quite a bit.

Yeah, those are good lines to reflect on you know,
and this is the other thing that I think is important.
And this is kind of where I step away from the, like,
bathroom guy and I step into the, like, church guy a little bit. They
overlap more than I expect sometimes. But is
the, like, the importance of
church people and the church
to be open

(01:27:28):
to finding,
like, wisdom that is
sound, that has, like,
very tangible and clear biblical principle that
it's not scripture, but it's like, no, but
this is applicable and it's. And it's
tangible. And.
And just because it's not book, chapter, verse,

(01:27:50):
it's still very, very, you know,
like, needed. And sometimes, like, like
you're saying for these kids that need role models, sometimes
that's the wisdom, and that's the stuff that gets
them into thinking about
scripture because it's like, well, I mean, you know,
you start quoting the Bible to a kid and they. They kind of gloss

(01:28:11):
over sometimes. Um, but, you know, if you
say, like, hey, you like these. Show them that, you know,
this, this Hema
and this stuff that you're doing. And. Did I get it right,
Hema?

>> Bo Glitchka (01:28:23):
Yeah, you did, sir.

Let's go. I was worried. But, like, you show them this
stuff, and you see these guys, like, taking these big, long
swords at each other, and then it's like, yeah, you know, the
principles behind this or this, and it's like, oh,
okay, well, shoot. You know, even
if it. If it gets the attention of one or two
kids, I think it's valuable. So. No, I appreciate you
sharing that. That's good. That's good.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:28:46):
Of course.

Um, well, Bo, I'm going to end this call, um,
before I do, I'm goingn. I'm going to say the outro. What I
always tell people is, um, whenever I have to do the
outro and I have a guest, I feel like the dog in the
backyard, um, that is squatting to take the
dump. And the owner has now begun to watch
the dog and the dogs, like, over the

(01:29:07):
shoulder. And it has to. It has to get it done,
but it knows you're watching. So I'm now the dog,
and I'm gonna. I'm gonna close out the show,
uh, in front of you. So, listener, thank you for being
here. Thank, uh, you for listening to another episode of
Privy. You can go find our stuff, the links in the thing below. And.
And if you. Bo, do you want them to be able

(01:29:28):
to find and follow you or you, like. I don't know. I don't know
about these guys.

>> Bo Glitchka (01:29:32):
Uh, I mean, there's only one Boglicitcha in the world.
So if you. You really want to find me, it's not that
difficult.

Sweet. Yeah. Go seek it out. He does have some
pictures of, um, the Hema and things that
he's done. That's actually the way that I first saw that you were doing it. I was
like, whoa, he's got, like, armor on.
No. Um, but yeah, go. Go check those
things out. Um, yeah. Thanks to
Kevin and Poddington for the use of your music. Uh, you can.

(01:29:59):
You can find their links down below as well. This has
been another episode of Privy. Thank you so much for listening.
And now, as always, don't forget to
flush. Then we just jam it right back
here.

(01:30:19):
Dear listener, little. Little after show
special here. The toilet that I'm currently seated
on does not have a seat. What I mean by
that is it has its standard seat but no
cover. So the flush that I just
performed has wet my butt drastically
and
beyond what I expected.

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