November 25, 2024 • 30 mins
We discuss World Toilet Day... again, and propose possible strategies for the day moving forward.
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>> Hunter Hoover (00:01):
It ought not to need to be said, but we love toilets here on
preview. We're big fans. If we haven't made
that clear, like if the premise of this show has
escaped you, we're a big fan of Twil.
Welcome back to Privy. Privy is
a podcast about bathrooms
(00:22):
recorded from my home
bathroom. I'm your host, Hunter
Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
Welcome back everyone. I hope you guys are doing well.
November has been kind of a weird month
in many ways. Uh, we don't need to go into details because
I'm, I'm sick of most of the details. But, uh, we
had an election. Yeah, do
(00:44):
whatever you want with that. I, uh, I'm
thrilled. But as we, as we
draw to the, to the end of. Of
November, we kind of start to dance around
that. The Thanksgiving season.
And this is one of those
rare years where our end
of November episode release actually
(01:07):
releases prior to November or
prior to Thanksgiving. U. Um, and so
many of you, if you listen to our
episodes when they come out, you have already listened to
this episode before your Thanksgiving observances
here in the United States. Uh, uh,
and so in many ways this episode can serve
(01:27):
both as a warning but, and, but also a
reminder related to the season. Uh,
uh, and in years past,
I have detailed and we've gone into
specifics about like, the ideal
Thanksgiving dinner lineup. Classic sides.
Sometimes I'm almost, uh, I would almost
prefer. Oops. All sides Thanksgiving
(01:50):
dinner. Um, um, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world
if we just had an abundance of sides. It'd be totally
fine. I'm convinced that Kraft
Macaroni and cheese is still one of
the most top tier Thanksgiving
dishes, not sides dishes that you
can provide on a Thanksgiving eve.
(02:10):
And the reason I say that is because the kids are loving
it. Uh, you know, I'm sure there's
a child out there that doesn't like Kraft Macaroni
and Cheese, but like,
I, I guarantee you that kid spends
just copious amounts of minutes on an iPad.
Like, you know, kids
(02:31):
who touch grass, like Kraft Mac and Cheese.
That's facts. That's just facts.
But there's a lot of
opinions around a, uh, Thanksgiving
meal. And I want to acknowledge
I am not a fan of many of the
traditional Thanksgiving food offerings.
(02:52):
I'm really a Meet and Taters type of guy.
Uh, uh,
and, and it's fine.
But boy howdy, uh, and
I will note my bathrooming after
Thanksgiving does reflect that it's usually
unloaded on a bathroom that is not my own.
(03:12):
Praise be to he, but it uh,
nonetheless, this is also a
reminder this Thanksgiving season u uh,
to not overdo the Thanksgiving
meal. You know, I would say, I would say
if you, if you did one fully herbie,
fully loaded plate and then one what I like
(03:33):
to call round two plate, that's where you visit your
favorite portions of the Thanksgiving
offering. Uh, in what is the round
two plate? And, and you go, you
know, you go your Thanksgiving plate, you go your round two plate and then
you got to go at least one piece of pie.
But I think, I think of all the days
(03:54):
of the year health permitted. I
think that, that two slices of pie is
permitted if you have the room. Now I'm a pumpkin
and apple man myself. Uh uh,
but really there's no bad pie like
everybody, it's just
Thanksgiving. If anything, it makes us
appreciate pie. But this is
(04:17):
a reminder that as we load
up plate one and round two
plate and double serving of pie and
whipped cream because you, that's the other thing. You got to top that
joker with some whipped cream. You just have to. But as
you do that, you have to remember
that what goes in must come out.
And Thanksgiving
(04:39):
Thursday is followed by not Black
Friday, but Brown Friday here on the
pod. Brown Friday is colloquially un
known as Brown Friday because it's
the plumber's busiest day of the year. The year where
they're going and unclogging your bog
because you thanks giving Ty turkey stuffed,
(05:00):
that joker full. It's clogged. They've got to
come deal with it. Hence Brown Friday.
In years past we've discussed Brown
Friday at length and we've gone over some,
some top tier lists of
Thanksgiving sides and dishes that
you can observe this holiday
(05:20):
season. And you
can consider this your public service
announcement and reminder to not overdo
it with the plumbing in your home. You might think to yourself,
well, you know, I sawg that g pretty
bad on a weekly basis. But when you start
tacking 10, 20, 30, sometimes
40 family members in a two bathroom
(05:43):
home, yeah, uh, uh, that
toilet is not. That plumbing is not
designed for that. You do not have
commercial grade plumbing in your house. Like it's just
not the way that your house is built. And if it is
good for you and you should host Thanksgiving, uh,
but when you're two plates of turkey
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gravy mash taters deep and on your third,
maybe third I said two
but like you know, you're here, you might as
well go third slice of pie for the night,
that's not the time to be having toilet
panic. That's not the time to be
worried about your toilet related to the fact
(06:24):
that you have flushed but things have not go
down like
you got. It's got to go down. It simply
must. It is a requirement
of of the post Thanksgiving
festivities for what you deposited
into the throne to go down
(06:44):
also. And this need not be said, but I
think it does need be said. If we learned anything on
our episode from fatbergs last year, go listen
to our episode on fatbergs. U uh, don't
dump food grease down the toilet. Now I'm
guilty of this. I have definitely
just, just greased the
(07:05):
toilet with food grease
and, you know, tried to deposit that way. And
I, you know, I think nine times out of 10, you're going toa be okay. The
problem is, is the fats and the oils
and the such, they, they break. They don't
break down. Well when, usually when you're rinsing that
stuff down your sink drain, your, your dish
(07:25):
soap does a lot to help break down the fats and
oils in the food grease to help it
skeet and not not fatberg your g so much.
U right. But you're going toa clog your whole thing
up. Just chill out. Put the food waste
in the trash. If you've got liquid food rate food
waste, figure out how to deposit it into like, I
(07:46):
like to make like a little
nest of paper towel. You like a little. Make a little paper towel
nest. You dump it down in the little paper towel
nest, let the grease live in the nest. You know what I'm saying?
And then you just dump it in the trash. I know some people, they dump it in
the yard, whatever. I mean, the dog will probably lick it and he'll have
diarrhea. But you know, tis the
season in the vein of m
(08:09):
the season of taking time to be
thankful. We are going to take a long
overdue stroll to observe
this year's World's Toilet Day
observances and offerings. We're going to be focusing
on America's participation in
these ventures. And finally,
we are going to, in thankfulness, try to take a moment
(08:32):
and think about how things could be if our toilet
landscape here, where we live, looked any different.
Now, about this time last year, we discussed World
Toilet Day on the show as well as the history
of where World Toilet Day came from.
Yes, sir. Polar seltzer.
(08:55):
Ruby red grapefruit. It's a good flavor.
Still cannot track down the toasted coconut.
Polar seltzer. If you're hearing me, you got to hook somebody
up. You know, I'm Not, I'm not saying I
accept a case of it, but, uh, but I would. But I
would, but World Toilet Day is a day of
advocacy and awareness to get people to work
towards safe and sanitary
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access to all people in the world,
especially those who may not have access to safe
water and, or safe and
sanitary waste disposal. Now
their goal is to meet this
expectation, this, this task all
people with safe water and sanitary
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waste removal by the year 2030.
Now that's just shy of little over five
years from now. And I'm, I'm,
you know, I hate to say it, but I
feel like we're a bit off track.
Sometimes I read this, I'm gonna be honest with you, sometimes I
read this stuff and I think
(10:01):
you're asking the wrong people.
Like for
like 30 seconds before he
got sued for like whatever, he got sued
for whatever. Unless he didn't. And then
I just don't know. Current events and news, I don't keep track
of YouTubers, it's too much for me. But
before he had his little, his little legal debacle,
(10:24):
Mr. Beast was like all over the news. He's like
digging wells in Africa and he's helping people
like with life changing surgeries here in the
United States, whatever. And that's all very good.
Recently, I mean, just a month or two ago, Elon
Musk caught a rocket out of outer space
and then he gave a bunch of people struggling in Appalachia
(10:45):
after the hurricanes access to Starlink Internet and it's just
like bada Bing. Like,
and I feel like if we could get a bunch of these
like
philanthropists and entrepreneurs
and lack of a better term, I,
you know, are, uh, soon to be president calls these
people our geniuses. If we, if we taske some
(11:07):
of our geniuses with solving this
bathroom problem, we could get it done in
less than five years or at least we would be
on track to have it done. And uh, so that's
one problem is, is I think, I
think we're commissioning the wrong people to
accomplish these goals. I think the people that
we ought to be commissioning are catching rockets out of
(11:30):
space and making just
apparently trainloads ofCash on YouTube.
But I think the other problem is,
and I want you to be honest about this, listener, I, you know,
and this is no shade to World Toilet Day. World Toilet Day.
If you can hear me, get serious here for a second,
this is no shade to you.
(11:50):
But listener, if it was not for this
show right now, other than this podcast, this
episode that you're listening to and possibly the
episode that we did covering World Toilet Day last
year. Would you have any
idea about World Toilet Day? Would you have even known
that this was a thing? Unless you're like one of those
weird people that gets on
(12:13):
Google daily to check the. Oh, what's the weird day of the
week? Oh, look at that. It's we Peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches is shoes day. Unless you're one of
those people, other than this podcast, truly, would you have
known about World Toilet Day? Uh, like
I know about it because my Google searches
have been very much skewed
(12:33):
against me at this point. Like they,
they exist to yield
just the most bizarre
bathroom related content, for
lack of a better way of saying it. And I'm gonna know they
did move the needle a little bit recently. So the
trouble is, is like,
(12:54):
um, I'm starting to wonder,
apart from this, how would, how would we
even know about it? They got to do
something more to get the word out about World Toilet
Bay. For goodness sake. World Toilet day was
on November 19th. Watch. I probably even got
that wrong. And because I'm recording
late, I am recording this episode
(13:16):
after World Toilet Day. This episode is
releasing nearly a week after World Toilet
Day. It's baffling.
They, uh. And did you hear anything about it?
No, I'm
sorry. I heard about it because half of
my the Privy Cast social was.
Was covered in it. But like,
(13:39):
I'm starting to wonder, are they doing something to
get the word out? And um, what exactly are they
doing to get to work on these things?
Because this year the press
release announcing World Toilet Day
states that there are, quote, 3.5
buaa billion people without access
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to clean sanitation throughout the world
and 419 million
people who regularly practice open
defecation, skeeting it in the wild.
And, and that's awful. And that's a very sad thing. Now
I'm confident that there's a number of those open
defecation number that they do it because they don't know
any better. You know, they live in the middle of nowhere. They live in the,
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in the woods or the wilderness or the jungle. And
that's just where everybody poops. Also, open
defecation. I don't know if that
accounts for those who bury their poop or if that's just
like you're skeeting it right outside the door. I.
But. But those numbers aren't good. It's a sad thing. I don't want
anybody to be without a safe and secure way to deal
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with their poop. That's almost half the Population
that. That doesn't have access to clean
sanitation. That's not good. But the trouble
is about this is Those, this is
2024 numbers. Those are the same numbers
from 2023 last year. That's the
same. Almost the exact same press release.
And while that's frustrating, I want to
(15:03):
know. They didn't move the needle much in 2022 and
2022. They said that there was
3.6 billion without Sanit,
sanitary, waste, uh, disposal.
Now, uh, a hundred
million in a year. That's not nothing. That's very good.
But then what happened? Because it doesn't seem like we've
(15:24):
moved now. There's been improvement. But
as you can hear and as you. As you can
tell by this, there is a lot of work
to do. And I think the trouble with
World Toilet Day is, again, it's
good. The idea is good. Getting awareness
and building this thing is good.
(15:45):
The trouble is, it's just relatively unknown, and
it seems to be focusing on raising
awareness. And if I've learned
anything, making someone
aware of something does
very little to motivate them or help them
take action toward a remedy to the thing
that they are aware of. For
(16:06):
World Toilet Day this year, they
settled on the theme of
toilets a place for
peace. Not when
I'm using it. There's nothing peaceful going
on down there in those sessions.
And this is the essential message of
(16:27):
the United Nations World Toilet Day theme of
toilets being a place for peace.
Number one,
Pol. This is not their number one.
But polar seltzer tastes better on the toilet. That's just facts.
Toilet shower, uh, in mid mowing your
(16:48):
lawn. But toilets are a place for
peace. That is because they are
essential spaces at the center of our
lives that should be safe and
secure. They note that for billions of people,
sanitation is under threat from conflict,
climate change,
disasters, and neglect. Number
(17:09):
two, toilets are a place
for protection.
Toilets create a barrier between us
and our fat shaz. No in our waste U. Um,
sanitation services are essential for the public
and environmental health. When
toilet systems are inadequate, when they are damaged, or when they are re
(17:30):
broken, pollution spreads and deadly
diseases get unleashed. Check out.
We've talked a lot about cholera on our show. Cholera is
not our friend. It is bad news for
us. It sogs the whole bog every
time. Just, um, stay
away from the cholera.
Third, toilets are a place for
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progress. Sanitation is a human right.
It protects everyone's dignity, especially transforms
the lives of women and girls. It's a little bit
sexist. More investment and better
governance of sanitation are crucial for A fair, more
peaceful world. Now,
(18:12):
it ought not to need to be said, but we love toilets here
on preview. We're big fans. If we haven't made
that clear, like, if the premise of this show has
escaped you, we're a big fan of toilets. Um,
this show is founded and has its
beginnings in being thankful
for toilets. But listen,
World Toilet Day, listen to me,
(18:36):
it's still a toilet. Like
to say, toilets are a place of peace and protection
and progress. I get what you mean and I get
your alliteration. You had to go for the three P's, the pp.
You know what I'm saying? Ppp. Uh,
but for many people, the
jump from getting people to not just buy into
(18:56):
World Toilet Day as an idea, but getting them to buy
into toilets as a place for peace is a bit of
a jump and you need to chill the heck out.
Like, why don't you get people psyched about
toilets first and then you can try to sell them on this idea of
like, ooh, like,
yes, you're. You're correct.
(19:16):
But I think it would be better served to focus in
on what you have to be thankful
for. It should be like, World Toilet Day. Thank
God you didn't have to carry your skeet
out into the road. Like, thank
God that after you released your bowels,
you were done interfacing with your waist.
(19:38):
I get what you mean. Yes,
places of peace, places of protection,
places of progress. But, like, it is a
toilet. Rather,
I think they're better to focus on being
thankful for the toilet you have because being thankful
is a good motivator to people
and helping them take action and moving
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towards solutions.
Just like last year, the World Toilet Day has a number of
ways that you can get involved kind of little on this one.
The primari is awareness. Use the hashtag world toilet
day 2024. So, like, do that.
But they also know you can make a poster promoting World Toilet
Day come up with fun slogans. I'd bet you'd do better
(20:21):
than they did. And, um, they can even organize a game day or
a dance to raise awareness. Could you imagine? Could
you imagine the, like,
Yapaoie county of
Class of 2024 predences, the hooy Boogy
shake your to gety, Bring it on down for World
Toilet Day fundraiser. Fun race for the cure.
(20:42):
Like welcome to
Hunter Hoovies, Late night hoot nanny and jig for the cause. You
know, I like wiggle your butt to remind everyone some
people don't have toilets. I don't know, but that's what they
said to do again I don't think the organized dance
events uh, are uh, what it is. It didn't move
the needle last year. And if I had a
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suggestion to the UN water people in
conjunction with World Toilet Day it's
this join up with other things
that are going on. There's other people that are getting hyped
for toilets. Reach out, say hey, let's do
something.
One example of this is the
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possibility of partnering with eight
organizations and agencies like the American Restroom
Association.
In 2004 Stephen
Soia Soyfer who knows co
founded the American Restrooms Association.
(21:44):
Steven Sofer founded the International
par Euuresis Association. That's part
uresus is pea shyness. Um um. So he's
like the, the king of pea shy
old daddy pe shy coming to get you. But
this was a non profit promoted to research in
a variety of bathroom ailments.
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Stephen Soy fair's work helped the
nonprofit gain legs had and almost 10
years later he went to found the American Restroom
association out of the state of American uh, Maryland. Uh,
and once again I have some notes.
When you go to the American Restroom
Association's website, there's not
(22:27):
a lot of information about the background and purpose
of the association. But when you
access Soyfer's own
personal website you find out
that the ara the American Restroom association is a quote
unquote full scale toilet
transformation in the country. So our
restrooms are not the laughing stock of the developed
(22:48):
world.
It's a bold claim. It's a bold claim there
Stepven.
I guess I didn't know I was the laughing stock. You know what
I'm saying? Like
your claim makes some, some assertions that
I didn't know were even uh, uh, on the table.
(23:11):
But if this is true, work seems to come
alongside his other worlds to
help restrooms be not only more
desirable and good to use
publicly, but as well as helping already
in place restrooms to be better.
Such scopes and things that that the American
(23:31):
Restroom association seeks to include
is focusing on restroom design and
technology, the availability and accessibility of
restrooms and legislation and regulation related
to restrooms. Now I think I know the
answer to this, but I
pray that the American Restroom association has
enough brains to like realize that
(23:53):
letting men in women's bathrooms is idiotic and
stupid. Like we've covered this on the show
and this is not a political thing. This is just a simple
if you are a man, you don't
need to be in a women's bathroom if you were ever
even going to attempt to be a Man, uh, in
any way. You don't need to be in there. Go to the men's
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room. End of story.
If ever you were a man, go to
the men's restroom. You don't need to be in the women's restroom.
See, it's just as simple
now. Are they wasting money on advocating
for. Oh, we can all take a fat deuce
(24:37):
wherever we want. I have no idea. The goal of
the ARA is noble. We hear
at privy. We love improving bathrooms. We like when we walk
into a bathroom. That's what Toilet Tuesday is all about. Toilet
Tuesday is all about walking into a bathroom, going, it's a nice bathroom.
I get a picture of that. It's good.
The goal of the World Toilet Day is noble.
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People need safe sanitation. That's good.
But the. Getting the word out is not
happening. We need a little,
like, use a little bit. Like, they
had to have some money sitting around. Use some of that money to get
things going. Think of it like,
think of World Toilet Day in American Restroom Association.
(25:19):
Think of your funding like a laxative.
You got to get a little bit. And sometimes you have to introduce it
up the backside. You know, little. Yeah.
Suppository. It just really. Yeah. Uh,
just young to get stuff
moving. It's okay.
I think if. Yeah. If I saw another
(25:40):
political ad earlier this month. I was canceling it
all. America needs to develop their bathroom
technology. It's good for them. But in all these, whether we're looking
at the World Toilet Day and realizing how fortunate
we are that we live in a part of the world that has
access to a system of waste removal
that truly deals with our turds. If I
drop skit right now and I
(26:02):
hit that, I, uh, hit that beautiful, beautiful
little flesh, it's gone. I don't have to
think about it.
We live in a part of the cut world that has good access to
bathrooms. We're developing bathroom technology
and we can. Can and oh, this time of
year to. We ought to
(26:24):
take time to be thankful. And I really think that the
World Toilet Day, being so close to
Thanksgiving, could do a lot to
help raise not aware. Not just awareness,
but awareness via the way of
thankfulness.
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Thankfulness is good.
It can be a driving force for
accomplishment. World Toilet Day was last
week, and I hope that though they were focused on
peace. Peace, brother. Um, that we can all
agree we have much to be thankful for
here. If you don't like dumping
a bucket of crap out in the ditch every time
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you drop skeet, you have so much
to be thankful for in Your toilet.
If you don't like rinsing your butthole or wiping
yourself with ferns or like old
weird moss or shirts that you have laying around,
you've got a lot to be thankful for. This stuff right here
is pretty great. It's pretty
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great toilet paper, big
fan. It's all messed up now,
but it's good stuff. And when you wake up
or before you go to bed, if you're one of those people,
right, or you get done with a rigorous workout and you're just,
you're just drapping with sweat,
the feeling of hot water
on demand, in many cases
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rushing over you, washing the day away,
washing the sleep away, waking you up. The. Just the,
just the dark shower first thing in the morning is
just, it just hits different. We
have much to be thankful for.
And this season, as, as Thanksgiving at the point
of this episode releases Thanksgivings, but three days
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away, maybe, uh, you're listening to this on
Thanksgiving, you have much to
be thankful for. Be
thankful you live in a time where these
things are a part of our lives. Be thankful if you live
in a part of the country that has access
to clean water and clean sanitation. Be thankful for it.
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And if you're not,
I'm sorry, uh, uh,
let people know, you know, reach out.
And if you are one of those that does,
there's ways that you can get involved. World Toilet Days
one raising awareness. But there's things that you can
go and give to, to help out. One of
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those that we do here on the show is Living Water.
Living Water has the goal of providing clean,
safe access to, to potable
drinking water to parts of the world that do not yet have
it. And as
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This has been another episode of Privy. Thank you so much for joining
us. Keep pooping in the free world. Own your
stank. And now, as always,
don't forget to flush.
It ought not to need to be said, but we love toilets here on
preview. We're big fans. If we haven't made
that clear, like if the premise of this show has
escaped you, we're a big fan of Twil.
Welcome back to Privy. Privy is
a podcast about bathrooms
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recorded from my home
bathroom. I'm your host, Hunter
Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
Welcome back everyone. I hope you guys are doing well.
November has been kind of a weird month
in many ways. Uh, we don't need to go into details because
I'm, I'm sick of most of the details. But, uh, we
had an election. Yeah, do
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whatever you want with that. I, uh, I'm
thrilled. But as we, as we
draw to the, to the end of. Of
November, we kind of start to dance around
that. The Thanksgiving season.
And this is one of those
rare years where our end
of November episode release actually
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releases prior to November or
prior to Thanksgiving. U. Um, and so
many of you, if you listen to our
episodes when they come out, you have already listened to
this episode before your Thanksgiving observances
here in the United States. Uh, uh,
and so in many ways this episode can serve
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both as a warning but, and, but also a
reminder related to the season. Uh,
uh, and in years past,
I have detailed and we've gone into
specifics about like, the ideal
Thanksgiving dinner lineup. Classic sides.
Sometimes I'm almost, uh, I would almost
prefer. Oops. All sides Thanksgiving
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dinner. Um, um, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world
if we just had an abundance of sides. It'd be totally
fine. I'm convinced that Kraft
Macaroni and cheese is still one of
the most top tier Thanksgiving
dishes, not sides dishes that you
can provide on a Thanksgiving eve.
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And the reason I say that is because the kids are loving
it. Uh, you know, I'm sure there's
a child out there that doesn't like Kraft Macaroni
and Cheese, but like,
I, I guarantee you that kid spends
just copious amounts of minutes on an iPad.
Like, you know, kids
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who touch grass, like Kraft Mac and Cheese.
That's facts. That's just facts.
But there's a lot of
opinions around a, uh, Thanksgiving
meal. And I want to acknowledge
I am not a fan of many of the
traditional Thanksgiving food offerings.
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I'm really a Meet and Taters type of guy.
Uh, uh,
and, and it's fine.
But boy howdy, uh, and
I will note my bathrooming after
Thanksgiving does reflect that it's usually
unloaded on a bathroom that is not my own.
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Praise be to he, but it uh,
nonetheless, this is also a
reminder this Thanksgiving season u uh,
to not overdo the Thanksgiving
meal. You know, I would say, I would say
if you, if you did one fully herbie,
fully loaded plate and then one what I like
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to call round two plate, that's where you visit your
favorite portions of the Thanksgiving
offering. Uh, in what is the round
two plate? And, and you go, you
know, you go your Thanksgiving plate, you go your round two plate and then
you got to go at least one piece of pie.
But I think, I think of all the days
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of the year health permitted. I
think that, that two slices of pie is
permitted if you have the room. Now I'm a pumpkin
and apple man myself. Uh uh,
but really there's no bad pie like
everybody, it's just
Thanksgiving. If anything, it makes us
appreciate pie. But this is
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a reminder that as we load
up plate one and round two
plate and double serving of pie and
whipped cream because you, that's the other thing. You got to top that
joker with some whipped cream. You just have to. But as
you do that, you have to remember
that what goes in must come out.
And Thanksgiving
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Thursday is followed by not Black
Friday, but Brown Friday here on the
pod. Brown Friday is colloquially un
known as Brown Friday because it's
the plumber's busiest day of the year. The year where
they're going and unclogging your bog
because you thanks giving Ty turkey stuffed,
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that joker full. It's clogged. They've got to
come deal with it. Hence Brown Friday.
In years past we've discussed Brown
Friday at length and we've gone over some,
some top tier lists of
Thanksgiving sides and dishes that
you can observe this holiday
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season. And you
can consider this your public service
announcement and reminder to not overdo
it with the plumbing in your home. You might think to yourself,
well, you know, I sawg that g pretty
bad on a weekly basis. But when you start
tacking 10, 20, 30, sometimes
40 family members in a two bathroom
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home, yeah, uh, uh, that
toilet is not. That plumbing is not
designed for that. You do not have
commercial grade plumbing in your house. Like it's just
not the way that your house is built. And if it is
good for you and you should host Thanksgiving, uh,
but when you're two plates of turkey
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gravy mash taters deep and on your third,
maybe third I said two
but like you know, you're here, you might as
well go third slice of pie for the night,
that's not the time to be having toilet
panic. That's not the time to be
worried about your toilet related to the fact
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that you have flushed but things have not go
down like
you got. It's got to go down. It simply
must. It is a requirement
of of the post Thanksgiving
festivities for what you deposited
into the throne to go down
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also. And this need not be said, but I
think it does need be said. If we learned anything on
our episode from fatbergs last year, go listen
to our episode on fatbergs. U uh, don't
dump food grease down the toilet. Now I'm
guilty of this. I have definitely
just, just greased the
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toilet with food grease
and, you know, tried to deposit that way. And
I, you know, I think nine times out of 10, you're going toa be okay. The
problem is, is the fats and the oils
and the such, they, they break. They don't
break down. Well when, usually when you're rinsing that
stuff down your sink drain, your, your dish
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soap does a lot to help break down the fats and
oils in the food grease to help it
skeet and not not fatberg your g so much.
U right. But you're going toa clog your whole thing
up. Just chill out. Put the food waste
in the trash. If you've got liquid food rate food
waste, figure out how to deposit it into like, I
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like to make like a little
nest of paper towel. You like a little. Make a little paper towel
nest. You dump it down in the little paper towel
nest, let the grease live in the nest. You know what I'm saying?
And then you just dump it in the trash. I know some people, they dump it in
the yard, whatever. I mean, the dog will probably lick it and he'll have
diarrhea. But you know, tis the
season in the vein of m
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the season of taking time to be
thankful. We are going to take a long
overdue stroll to observe
this year's World's Toilet Day
observances and offerings. We're going to be focusing
on America's participation in
these ventures. And finally,
we are going to, in thankfulness, try to take a moment
(08:32):
and think about how things could be if our toilet
landscape here, where we live, looked any different.
Now, about this time last year, we discussed World
Toilet Day on the show as well as the history
of where World Toilet Day came from.
Yes, sir. Polar seltzer.
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Ruby red grapefruit. It's a good flavor.
Still cannot track down the toasted coconut.
Polar seltzer. If you're hearing me, you got to hook somebody
up. You know, I'm Not, I'm not saying I
accept a case of it, but, uh, but I would. But I
would, but World Toilet Day is a day of
advocacy and awareness to get people to work
towards safe and sanitary
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access to all people in the world,
especially those who may not have access to safe
water and, or safe and
sanitary waste disposal. Now
their goal is to meet this
expectation, this, this task all
people with safe water and sanitary
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waste removal by the year 2030.
Now that's just shy of little over five
years from now. And I'm, I'm,
you know, I hate to say it, but I
feel like we're a bit off track.
Sometimes I read this, I'm gonna be honest with you, sometimes I
read this stuff and I think
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you're asking the wrong people.
Like for
like 30 seconds before he
got sued for like whatever, he got sued
for whatever. Unless he didn't. And then
I just don't know. Current events and news, I don't keep track
of YouTubers, it's too much for me. But
before he had his little, his little legal debacle,
(10:24):
Mr. Beast was like all over the news. He's like
digging wells in Africa and he's helping people
like with life changing surgeries here in the
United States, whatever. And that's all very good.
Recently, I mean, just a month or two ago, Elon
Musk caught a rocket out of outer space
and then he gave a bunch of people struggling in Appalachia
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after the hurricanes access to Starlink Internet and it's just
like bada Bing. Like,
and I feel like if we could get a bunch of these
like
philanthropists and entrepreneurs
and lack of a better term, I,
you know, are, uh, soon to be president calls these
people our geniuses. If we, if we taske some
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of our geniuses with solving this
bathroom problem, we could get it done in
less than five years or at least we would be
on track to have it done. And uh, so that's
one problem is, is I think, I
think we're commissioning the wrong people to
accomplish these goals. I think the people that
we ought to be commissioning are catching rockets out of
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space and making just
apparently trainloads ofCash on YouTube.
But I think the other problem is,
and I want you to be honest about this, listener, I, you know,
and this is no shade to World Toilet Day. World Toilet Day.
If you can hear me, get serious here for a second,
this is no shade to you.
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But listener, if it was not for this
show right now, other than this podcast, this
episode that you're listening to and possibly the
episode that we did covering World Toilet Day last
year. Would you have any
idea about World Toilet Day? Would you have even known
that this was a thing? Unless you're like one of those
weird people that gets on
(12:13):
Google daily to check the. Oh, what's the weird day of the
week? Oh, look at that. It's we Peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches is shoes day. Unless you're one of
those people, other than this podcast, truly, would you have
known about World Toilet Day? Uh, like
I know about it because my Google searches
have been very much skewed
(12:33):
against me at this point. Like they,
they exist to yield
just the most bizarre
bathroom related content, for
lack of a better way of saying it. And I'm gonna know they
did move the needle a little bit recently. So the
trouble is, is like,
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um, I'm starting to wonder,
apart from this, how would, how would we
even know about it? They got to do
something more to get the word out about World Toilet
Bay. For goodness sake. World Toilet day was
on November 19th. Watch. I probably even got
that wrong. And because I'm recording
late, I am recording this episode
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after World Toilet Day. This episode is
releasing nearly a week after World Toilet
Day. It's baffling.
They, uh. And did you hear anything about it?
No, I'm
sorry. I heard about it because half of
my the Privy Cast social was.
Was covered in it. But like,
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I'm starting to wonder, are they doing something to
get the word out? And um, what exactly are they
doing to get to work on these things?
Because this year the press
release announcing World Toilet Day
states that there are, quote, 3.5
buaa billion people without access
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to clean sanitation throughout the world
and 419 million
people who regularly practice open
defecation, skeeting it in the wild.
And, and that's awful. And that's a very sad thing. Now
I'm confident that there's a number of those open
defecation number that they do it because they don't know
any better. You know, they live in the middle of nowhere. They live in the,
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in the woods or the wilderness or the jungle. And
that's just where everybody poops. Also, open
defecation. I don't know if that
accounts for those who bury their poop or if that's just
like you're skeeting it right outside the door. I.
But. But those numbers aren't good. It's a sad thing. I don't want
anybody to be without a safe and secure way to deal
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with their poop. That's almost half the Population
that. That doesn't have access to clean
sanitation. That's not good. But the trouble
is about this is Those, this is
2024 numbers. Those are the same numbers
from 2023 last year. That's the
same. Almost the exact same press release.
And while that's frustrating, I want to
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know. They didn't move the needle much in 2022 and
2022. They said that there was
3.6 billion without Sanit,
sanitary, waste, uh, disposal.
Now, uh, a hundred
million in a year. That's not nothing. That's very good.
But then what happened? Because it doesn't seem like we've
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moved now. There's been improvement. But
as you can hear and as you. As you can
tell by this, there is a lot of work
to do. And I think the trouble with
World Toilet Day is, again, it's
good. The idea is good. Getting awareness
and building this thing is good.
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The trouble is, it's just relatively unknown, and
it seems to be focusing on raising
awareness. And if I've learned
anything, making someone
aware of something does
very little to motivate them or help them
take action toward a remedy to the thing
that they are aware of. For
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World Toilet Day this year, they
settled on the theme of
toilets a place for
peace. Not when
I'm using it. There's nothing peaceful going
on down there in those sessions.
And this is the essential message of
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the United Nations World Toilet Day theme of
toilets being a place for peace.
Number one,
Pol. This is not their number one.
But polar seltzer tastes better on the toilet. That's just facts.
Toilet shower, uh, in mid mowing your
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lawn. But toilets are a place for
peace. That is because they are
essential spaces at the center of our
lives that should be safe and
secure. They note that for billions of people,
sanitation is under threat from conflict,
climate change,
disasters, and neglect. Number
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two, toilets are a place
for protection.
Toilets create a barrier between us
and our fat shaz. No in our waste U. Um,
sanitation services are essential for the public
and environmental health. When
toilet systems are inadequate, when they are damaged, or when they are re
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broken, pollution spreads and deadly
diseases get unleashed. Check out.
We've talked a lot about cholera on our show. Cholera is
not our friend. It is bad news for
us. It sogs the whole bog every
time. Just, um, stay
away from the cholera.
Third, toilets are a place for
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progress. Sanitation is a human right.
It protects everyone's dignity, especially transforms
the lives of women and girls. It's a little bit
sexist. More investment and better
governance of sanitation are crucial for A fair, more
peaceful world. Now,
(18:12):
it ought not to need to be said, but we love toilets here
on preview. We're big fans. If we haven't made
that clear, like, if the premise of this show has
escaped you, we're a big fan of toilets. Um,
this show is founded and has its
beginnings in being thankful
for toilets. But listen,
World Toilet Day, listen to me,
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it's still a toilet. Like
to say, toilets are a place of peace and protection
and progress. I get what you mean and I get
your alliteration. You had to go for the three P's, the pp.
You know what I'm saying? Ppp. Uh,
but for many people, the
jump from getting people to not just buy into
(18:56):
World Toilet Day as an idea, but getting them to buy
into toilets as a place for peace is a bit of
a jump and you need to chill the heck out.
Like, why don't you get people psyched about
toilets first and then you can try to sell them on this idea of
like, ooh, like,
yes, you're. You're correct.
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But I think it would be better served to focus in
on what you have to be thankful
for. It should be like, World Toilet Day. Thank
God you didn't have to carry your skeet
out into the road. Like, thank
God that after you released your bowels,
you were done interfacing with your waist.
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I get what you mean. Yes,
places of peace, places of protection,
places of progress. But, like, it is a
toilet. Rather,
I think they're better to focus on being
thankful for the toilet you have because being thankful
is a good motivator to people
and helping them take action and moving
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towards solutions.
Just like last year, the World Toilet Day has a number of
ways that you can get involved kind of little on this one.
The primari is awareness. Use the hashtag world toilet
day 2024. So, like, do that.
But they also know you can make a poster promoting World Toilet
Day come up with fun slogans. I'd bet you'd do better
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than they did. And, um, they can even organize a game day or
a dance to raise awareness. Could you imagine? Could
you imagine the, like,
Yapaoie county of
Class of 2024 predences, the hooy Boogy
shake your to gety, Bring it on down for World
Toilet Day fundraiser. Fun race for the cure.
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Like welcome to
Hunter Hoovies, Late night hoot nanny and jig for the cause. You
know, I like wiggle your butt to remind everyone some
people don't have toilets. I don't know, but that's what they
said to do again I don't think the organized dance
events uh, are uh, what it is. It didn't move
the needle last year. And if I had a
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suggestion to the UN water people in
conjunction with World Toilet Day it's
this join up with other things
that are going on. There's other people that are getting hyped
for toilets. Reach out, say hey, let's do
something.
One example of this is the
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possibility of partnering with eight
organizations and agencies like the American Restroom
Association.
In 2004 Stephen
Soia Soyfer who knows co
founded the American Restrooms Association.
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Steven Sofer founded the International
par Euuresis Association. That's part
uresus is pea shyness. Um um. So he's
like the, the king of pea shy
old daddy pe shy coming to get you. But
this was a non profit promoted to research in
a variety of bathroom ailments.
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Stephen Soy fair's work helped the
nonprofit gain legs had and almost 10
years later he went to found the American Restroom
association out of the state of American uh, Maryland. Uh,
and once again I have some notes.
When you go to the American Restroom
Association's website, there's not
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a lot of information about the background and purpose
of the association. But when you
access Soyfer's own
personal website you find out
that the ara the American Restroom association is a quote
unquote full scale toilet
transformation in the country. So our
restrooms are not the laughing stock of the developed
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world.
It's a bold claim. It's a bold claim there
Stepven.
I guess I didn't know I was the laughing stock. You know what
I'm saying? Like
your claim makes some, some assertions that
I didn't know were even uh, uh, on the table.
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But if this is true, work seems to come
alongside his other worlds to
help restrooms be not only more
desirable and good to use
publicly, but as well as helping already
in place restrooms to be better.
Such scopes and things that that the American
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Restroom association seeks to include
is focusing on restroom design and
technology, the availability and accessibility of
restrooms and legislation and regulation related
to restrooms. Now I think I know the
answer to this, but I
pray that the American Restroom association has
enough brains to like realize that
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letting men in women's bathrooms is idiotic and
stupid. Like we've covered this on the show
and this is not a political thing. This is just a simple
if you are a man, you don't
need to be in a women's bathroom if you were ever
even going to attempt to be a Man, uh, in
any way. You don't need to be in there. Go to the men's
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room. End of story.
If ever you were a man, go to
the men's restroom. You don't need to be in the women's restroom.
See, it's just as simple
now. Are they wasting money on advocating
for. Oh, we can all take a fat deuce
(24:37):
wherever we want. I have no idea. The goal of
the ARA is noble. We hear
at privy. We love improving bathrooms. We like when we walk
into a bathroom. That's what Toilet Tuesday is all about. Toilet
Tuesday is all about walking into a bathroom, going, it's a nice bathroom.
I get a picture of that. It's good.
The goal of the World Toilet Day is noble.
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People need safe sanitation. That's good.
But the. Getting the word out is not
happening. We need a little,
like, use a little bit. Like, they
had to have some money sitting around. Use some of that money to get
things going. Think of it like,
think of World Toilet Day in American Restroom Association.
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Think of your funding like a laxative.
You got to get a little bit. And sometimes you have to introduce it
up the backside. You know, little. Yeah.
Suppository. It just really. Yeah. Uh,
just young to get stuff
moving. It's okay.
I think if. Yeah. If I saw another
(25:40):
political ad earlier this month. I was canceling it
all. America needs to develop their bathroom
technology. It's good for them. But in all these, whether we're looking
at the World Toilet Day and realizing how fortunate
we are that we live in a part of the world that has
access to a system of waste removal
that truly deals with our turds. If I
drop skit right now and I
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hit that, I, uh, hit that beautiful, beautiful
little flesh, it's gone. I don't have to
think about it.
We live in a part of the cut world that has good access to
bathrooms. We're developing bathroom technology
and we can. Can and oh, this time of
year to. We ought to
(26:24):
take time to be thankful. And I really think that the
World Toilet Day, being so close to
Thanksgiving, could do a lot to
help raise not aware. Not just awareness,
but awareness via the way of
thankfulness.
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Thankfulness is good.
It can be a driving force for
accomplishment. World Toilet Day was last
week, and I hope that though they were focused on
peace. Peace, brother. Um, that we can all
agree we have much to be thankful for
here. If you don't like dumping
a bucket of crap out in the ditch every time
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you drop skeet, you have so much
to be thankful for in Your toilet.
If you don't like rinsing your butthole or wiping
yourself with ferns or like old
weird moss or shirts that you have laying around,
you've got a lot to be thankful for. This stuff right here
is pretty great. It's pretty
(27:29):
great toilet paper, big
fan. It's all messed up now,
but it's good stuff. And when you wake up
or before you go to bed, if you're one of those people,
right, or you get done with a rigorous workout and you're just,
you're just drapping with sweat,
the feeling of hot water
on demand, in many cases
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rushing over you, washing the day away,
washing the sleep away, waking you up. The. Just the,
just the dark shower first thing in the morning is
just, it just hits different. We
have much to be thankful for.
And this season, as, as Thanksgiving at the point
of this episode releases Thanksgivings, but three days
(28:12):
away, maybe, uh, you're listening to this on
Thanksgiving, you have much to
be thankful for. Be
thankful you live in a time where these
things are a part of our lives. Be thankful if you live
in a part of the country that has access
to clean water and clean sanitation. Be thankful for it.
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And if you're not,
I'm sorry, uh, uh,
let people know, you know, reach out.
And if you are one of those that does,
there's ways that you can get involved. World Toilet Days
one raising awareness. But there's things that you can
go and give to, to help out. One of
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those that we do here on the show is Living Water.
Living Water has the goal of providing clean,
safe access to, to potable
drinking water to parts of the world that do not yet have
it. And as
we close the show in remind you every rating or review you
leave down below, you can leave those on Apple, Apple
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Um, um, and I think for the month of December, we might
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it's like, it's like looking at your dog taking a fat deuce in the
backyard. This is. I'm. I am currently going to take a fat
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This has been another episode of Privy. Thank you so much for joining
us. Keep pooping in the free world. Own your
stank. And now, as always,
don't forget to flush.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!