November 7, 2025 • 17 mins
Pittsburgh potty, anyone?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Will you find me somebody who can explain what a
Pittsburgh potty is to me?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Is it potty or toilet?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
I don't know which one it goes by. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I mean, if it were me, i'd call it a
potty because of the alliteration Pittsburgh potty.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And there's something funny about just it being a Pittsburgh toilet.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
So then somebody because after that, somebody sent me a note.
I think it was Gabe as the guy's name, sent
me a note and said, hey, are you talking about this?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Is?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
This is when we were talking about Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Are you not confusing it with a Pittsburgh potty or
Pittsburgh toilet?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
So I don't exactly know what that is either.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So is it base centered around the basement?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I believe so.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, I believe so, because it was about it was
coming off the turtles in the basement.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I lived there for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh that's right. Did you have a Pittsburgh toilet?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I never heard that phrase before.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Any of your friends have Pittsburgh toilets?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I guess maybe maybe if it was a thing, But
I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
And you used to go, correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Didn't you go trigg or treating one year at Mario
Lemu's house ever year?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Did he have a Pittsburgh toilet?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Weren't allowed to the driveway?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
All right, Kristin, will you see if you can find me,
uh somebody with some ties to Pittsburgh. Only one person
out of Pittsburgh. You know, I won't talk to knitting lady.
Won't talk to her.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm going to uh line five, I can do that.
Hi yai in the morning.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Hey, who's this?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
My name is Ryan?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hey? Ryan?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Are you a Are you a Pittsburgh dude?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Uh no, but I dated somebody from Pittsburgh, so I
do know a little bit about these back in the day.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Can I ask you this just real quickly? Did you
did you enjoy her?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Like?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Is a Pittsburgh woman a good woman to date?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Uh no?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay, all right, okay, all right, very good anyway, But
you're you're familiar with the Pittsburgh toilet or potty?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Uh yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
So. Uh so my understanding is that back in the day,
like you know, with the steel workers and everything in
that area, it would come home and it would be stilthy,
uh you know, from their day at work, and instead
of like coming through the house to you know, kind
of get them get ready, they would go down into
the basement and kind of wash up down that in
that area, and then you know, then they'd be able
(02:23):
to like go through the rest of the house without
you know, soiling everything around them.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But let me ask you this the because that makes
that makes it sound like to me that like there's
like a like like the basement is finished and there's.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
A shower in a room down there.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The note that I got made it sound like it's
essentially like just a toilet in the middle of the
Like it's not a bathroom, just like a toilet.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
It's yeah, not fancy at all. It's basically a prison toilet,
is what you're imagining. Yeah, So it would just just
be like a toilet toilet like right out in the
kind of the middle of the room down there, like
in the basement or whatever. Uh no partition. Usually for
the most part, it would just be you know, the toilet,
(03:11):
you know, and whatever plumbing exposed. It was very kind
of a you know, let yeah, no, I mean that's
what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Perfect example, So just down there. He thank you, sir,
thank you. So just sitting down there in the middle
of a bunch of cinder blocks and crappy watching is
a toilet.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
He's right. If he's right, because Josh, he married a
girl from Pittsburgh, but he's never heard of it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oh, then let me ask you. I can't imagine marrying Josh.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'm with you now because we moved there when I
was ten. If I went to a friend's house and
we were in the basement area and it's just a toilet,
it's there's a toilet.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You know, you got a toilet down here. It's just
sitting there. I would think it's not even connected to anything.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, like they remodeled the basement but then never took
out the plumbing or something.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Right, But but but it doesn't sound like it's like
a like a like a like what.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Did they call that?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Like it sometimes when people have a room in the basement,
like they're like the in laws room or something like that,
but it's almost like a separate apartment.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, this sounds like it's a trash hole.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, like people have sinks that have been disconnected that
may be in their basements.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, they just sit down there exactly. That's what it's well,
except this one's plugged in.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Kevin Wright's definitely had Pittsburgh quatty until last year when
we remodeled our basement.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Is he in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
His name on axis Kevin and Pittsburgh, so he had one.
Mm hmm. But does it and it just sat out
in the open, doesn't say it does not verify what
the caller said.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I'll say this, I kind of liked the idea where
you just have an exposed toilet sitting in the middle
of the living room. I would like to ask Josh
thoughts on women from Pittsburgh and if he enjoys them.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Hi, Elliet the morning. Hey this me Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Hey? Miam is Lauren and I'm in Pittsburgh. I had
a Pittsburgh party when I was a kid, Did you really?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
We did? We did.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
It was down in the basement and it was just
like the last guy said, the coal workers, the steel miners,
they would come in and they would clean up before
they went into the rest of their house.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Ours.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
We also had a shower in the basement of ours,
basically a shower head. Yeah, you know, big fancy. There
was a shower head that stuck out of the wall
and there was just a ring of a curtain around
it and a drain on the floor.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Oh so it wasn't like a shower shower. It was
just like a spicking on the wall and a drain.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You bet, you bet?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
So if you did?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
You ever build in like nineteen thirty and that was
what that was what you had then to get cleaned
up and take care of yourself before you went to
the rest of the house and mess it all up.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Did you ever use the Pittsburgh potty down in the basement?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Sure, I mean God needs must.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Right Wait, so you would just be in the basement
with like the your eyes.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, like every it's all wide open and you're sitting
there elbows on your thighs taking a dumper.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I can't say I necessarily did that, but you know,
that was just a thing that was in people's houses.
There's there used to be a page, I feel like
it was a Facebook page. It was all about Pittsburgh potties,
and some of them you'd find in crazy places, like
going halfway down the stairs into the basement, there'd be
like a that ninety degree turn that sometimes you have,
(06:45):
there'd be a toilet on that ninety degree turn business.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
No, Diane's right, Hey, thank you, ma'am, thank you. So
literally on the landing of a staircase. Now I get.
I get the reasoning behind it, right. The reasoning behind
it makes where it's like you're dirty and you're covered
in soot or whatever before you traced into the rest
of the house that you would you would use that,
So I get you're still not into the house.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Why is it on the landing of the stairwells? Bizarre?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's uncomfortable when someone walks in on you when you're
in the bathroom. What if an unsuspecting person is just
trying to get downstairs. I'm just trying to do some laundry.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
At least when you're in the bathroom you reach for
that door like your life depends on it. But if
you're just sitting down there in the middle of the basement,
I mean, what are you doing nothing? I mean other
than using two hands to cup your nads.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
From Britain. I have an unfinished basement with a rough
in for a toilet, and I always tell my wife
I'm putting in a Pittsburgh poty. But all you said
you're into it is that because you you find that
there's just never enough room to stretch out.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'm being honest.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I love the idea of just a standalone toilet in
the middle of a big open room. You know what
it reminds me of high school baseball is that somebody's toilet.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I don't know if that's just stock footage.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
But that literally is in the middle of a basement
right by a pillar. Still trying to find that Facebook group. No, no,
but I remember like in like high school baseball, like
we had like into locker rooms, we had toilets, but no,
the same way you would go into a bathroom now
and there would be stalls. Take down all the stalls.
There were just toilets that you sat on and if
(08:29):
if you and your buddy had to take a dump
at the same time, you just sat like Tyler, there.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is no partition. Crows didn't bother me. I'd go sit
in there and take it, take it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But it wasn't like the bathroom was separate then, like
where like you would get dressed like.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
So would you.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You could have four people in there at the same time.
I can't remember if it was three or four. But yeah,
and then there was privacy.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
There was urinals and a sink like like sinks and
like just spicketts coming out of the wall. Is the
last time you saw like four toilets lined up end
or right next to each other side the trainers. Now
those were facing, those were facing, But I would totally
use that.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, there's the toilet on the landing.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
She described it perfectly. Oh my god, now you're left knee.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Well, I don't know how. By the way, great point,
you're right up against the wall. Are you saying do.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
They call that in horseback riding? Is that called side saddle?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You think your legs have to face out towards the
rest of the stairs.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yes, how are you getting your How are you getting
your leg on the other side?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I get sometimes you may have to angle yourself or
position yourself differently on top of a toilet, But I
don't think you're sitting completely to the side.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And that's weird because the toilet seat is an oval
and usually you're on the like where it goes long out.
Now I'm on the side. God, my legs would fall
asleep like that. Also, you know what, you know what's missing?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
In the picture.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
What do I wipe with?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Where's the toilet paper holder? Maybe it's buried to the
side here and we just can't see it where I
can't put my leg because this perspective that we're looking
at is for the person who's walked in.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
On you right from the top of the Oh, I'll
get it. It's in the basement. Oh, Elliott's dumping.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Oh God, your boxers they're down off.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I don't see a hook.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Hello, Hi, good morning, Good morning. How you all doing today.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I'm doing great. Who's this?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Ah?
Speaker 7 (10:41):
This is Jeff from Maryland. So, uh, my, my grandfather
had a farm just outside Baltimore City and he had
a blue, bright blue toilet right next to his work
bench his basement. So you go down there as a kid.
I even asked him. I was like, why is there
a toilet in the middle, like the middle of the bay,
And they told me, well, why would you not have
(11:02):
a toilet in the middle of the basement was pretty
much their answer to me, right, So it just always
perplexed me. No toilet paper whatsoever was near it, So
God only knows what happened around there.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
But crab walk. I got a crab walking in all right,
very good, Thank you sir. Yes ky, this is.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Very important, Just like when Diane reported on both stories
out of Southern Maryland. Sitting side saddle in a toilet
can lead to instability and leaks leaks, but it may
be necessary or a preferred position due to mobility, pain,
or habit. It's just always the way we've done it.
(11:43):
But think about that gasket at the bottom of the toilet.
If you're putting so much weight on the one side,
it starts to lean. Oh yeah, seals, then I'll screw
it up.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Can we can we all make a pact with everybody listening?
Can we make a pact with each other? Everybody? I
want everybody to make a pack at some point this weekend.
We're all side saddle in the toilet. It's just to
see Kristen's in, Yeah, the just to just to see
(12:15):
what it's like. But you have to take a picture
of yourself.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
No, oh no.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Please don't even share that in the group text for us.
You have to dump no, stop with this.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
No you can't flip up the seat. No, you're sitting
on the seat. I'm not sitting on the on the
on the bowl.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I know that could be uncomfortable, but that would give
you some more room.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
No, no, you gotta sit on the toilet seat, but
side saddle that.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Thing and make sure you don't have a wax ring?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Do you ever?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Do you ever get it on the public bathroom? This is,
by the way, the only time I think that I
would do it. I've never done it, but like sometimes
on a public bathroom you could tell somebody somebody was
like sat down, like somebody was dirty and sat down,
and you see a little bit of a like a
like a like a little fudge on the on the
part of the toilet seat that's by the tank. You
(13:17):
ever see that? Yes, yeah, so and that And I
never side saddled. I just kind of sit up towards
the middle.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
A little bit, so you're not wiping that away.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I'm not wiping somebody's else's to me almost sitting in it.
The I'd rather sit up close and get a wet thigh.
All right, everybody's hands up, hand to God. Everybody's side saddle.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
In this week, Christ President.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Is your but I want everybody listening, everybody listening has
to side saddle.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Your right hand was up Christen was your left hand
on a Bible always. That's how she answers, phones connected,
rooted and the word of our lore.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Hi Elliott in the morning. Oh yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Wow? Hi? This is Barry Hey Ary Elliot? Hi, Diane.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
You guys just made my day.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Man.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Anyway, I'm from a town called m Keysport, Pennsylvania, but
I actually lived in Senwick, Delaware out Uh. Wow, I've
been listening to you so long. I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
That's okay, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Are you familiar with
the Pittsburgh Party?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I grew up in a town called m Keysport, Pennsylvania,
and my father worked for us still right, And there
were four boys, and uh we lived in an old
house built in the twenties. And the toilet was in
the middle of the floor, and and you had to
get up and grab the toilet paper from the other
side of the basement. And a lot of times we
(15:07):
would dribble, you know what I mean. And my stepmom
would have a hose and she would have to go
down there and hose down the basement floor, right, and
uh so, when I got married, I moved to d C.
That's when I started listening to you. And I married
a Jewish princess, right, and she was from Bethesda, and
(15:28):
I took her home for the first time for Thanksgiving.
So I told her about this toilet and uh so
she went down, she came back up. She goes, I'm
never going down there ever again. And for thirty years
she never went down there. But one time we were
up there, she just passed away. Dude, you're making my day.
And anyway, one of the last time she was there,
(15:52):
she refused to go down to the toilet because the
toilet upstairs was broken, and she put her pants at
Thanksgiving and I just got my brow. Hey, Hey, Diane,
she loved you, man, I got her listening to you,
and uh you guys were with us the last couple
of weeks in the hospital of her life.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I appreciate what I.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Tell you, what a joy you guys all have been
to us throughout all the years.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Hey, I appreciate that I love you too. That means
a lot to me, it really does.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Let me, uh let me ask you not to uh
not to not to swerve back into the road. Will
you make the pact with us that you'll side saddle
the toilet this weekend.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Wow. I didn't know whether I could do this or not,
but I just got off the toilet and I tried
it and it didn't work. I'm kind of handicapped, if
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I got you. I got you. Hey, watch the dribble.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Your mom will have to come spray it down, all right, dude, Hey,
have a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I appreciate the call. Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
We learned that some people in that condition do need
to go side saddle.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Okay, yeah, but for those of us that don't, let's
side saddle it up this weekend.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Everybody's in. Everybody's got the packed in.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Gabe, who originally sent you the oh yes, the Pittsburgh mention,
he wants to know if this would have been better
or worse for when you walked in on Jackie's mom.
Will you find me somebody who can explain what a
Pittsburgh potty is to me?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Is it potty or toilet?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
I don't know which one it goes by. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I mean, if it were me, i'd call it a
potty because of the alliteration Pittsburgh potty.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And there's something funny about just it being a Pittsburgh toilet.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
So then somebody because after that, somebody sent me a note.
I think it was Gabe as the guy's name, sent
me a note and said, hey, are you talking about this?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Is?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
This is when we were talking about Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Are you not confusing it with a Pittsburgh potty or
Pittsburgh toilet?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
So I don't exactly know what that is either.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So is it base centered around the basement?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I believe so.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, I believe so, because it was about it was
coming off the turtles in the basement.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I lived there for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh that's right. Did you have a Pittsburgh toilet?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I never heard that phrase before.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Any of your friends have Pittsburgh toilets?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I guess maybe maybe if it was a thing, But
I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
And you used to go, correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Didn't you go trigg or treating one year at Mario
Lemu's house ever year?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Did he have a Pittsburgh toilet?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Weren't allowed to the driveway?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
All right, Kristin, will you see if you can find me,
uh somebody with some ties to Pittsburgh. Only one person
out of Pittsburgh. You know, I won't talk to knitting lady.
Won't talk to her.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm going to uh line five, I can do that.
Hi yai in the morning.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Hey, who's this?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
My name is Ryan?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hey? Ryan?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Are you a Are you a Pittsburgh dude?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Uh no, but I dated somebody from Pittsburgh, so I
do know a little bit about these back in the day.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Can I ask you this just real quickly? Did you
did you enjoy her?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Like?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Is a Pittsburgh woman a good woman to date?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Uh no?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay, all right, okay, all right, very good anyway, But
you're you're familiar with the Pittsburgh toilet or potty?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Uh yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
So. Uh so my understanding is that back in the day,
like you know, with the steel workers and everything in
that area, it would come home and it would be stilthy,
uh you know, from their day at work, and instead
of like coming through the house to you know, kind
of get them get ready, they would go down into
the basement and kind of wash up down that in
that area, and then you know, then they'd be able
(02:23):
to like go through the rest of the house without
you know, soiling everything around them.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But let me ask you this the because that makes
that makes it sound like to me that like there's
like a like like the basement is finished and there's.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
A shower in a room down there.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The note that I got made it sound like it's
essentially like just a toilet in the middle of the
Like it's not a bathroom, just like a toilet.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
It's yeah, not fancy at all. It's basically a prison toilet,
is what you're imagining. Yeah, So it would just just
be like a toilet toilet like right out in the
kind of the middle of the room down there, like
in the basement or whatever. Uh no partition. Usually for
the most part, it would just be you know, the toilet,
(03:11):
you know, and whatever plumbing exposed. It was very kind
of a you know, let yeah, no, I mean that's
what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Perfect example, So just down there. He thank you, sir,
thank you. So just sitting down there in the middle
of a bunch of cinder blocks and crappy watching is
a toilet.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
He's right. If he's right, because Josh, he married a
girl from Pittsburgh, but he's never heard of it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oh, then let me ask you. I can't imagine marrying Josh.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'm with you now because we moved there when I
was ten. If I went to a friend's house and
we were in the basement area and it's just a toilet,
it's there's a toilet.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You know, you got a toilet down here. It's just
sitting there. I would think it's not even connected to anything.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, like they remodeled the basement but then never took
out the plumbing or something.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Right, But but but it doesn't sound like it's like
a like a like a like what.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Did they call that?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Like it sometimes when people have a room in the basement,
like they're like the in laws room or something like that,
but it's almost like a separate apartment.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, this sounds like it's a trash hole.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, like people have sinks that have been disconnected that
may be in their basements.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, they just sit down there exactly. That's what it's well,
except this one's plugged in.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Kevin Wright's definitely had Pittsburgh quatty until last year when
we remodeled our basement.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Is he in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
His name on axis Kevin and Pittsburgh, so he had one.
Mm hmm. But does it and it just sat out
in the open, doesn't say it does not verify what
the caller said.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I'll say this, I kind of liked the idea where
you just have an exposed toilet sitting in the middle
of the living room. I would like to ask Josh
thoughts on women from Pittsburgh and if he enjoys them.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Hi, Elliet the morning. Hey this me Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Hey? Miam is Lauren and I'm in Pittsburgh. I had
a Pittsburgh party when I was a kid, Did you really?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
We did? We did.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
It was down in the basement and it was just
like the last guy said, the coal workers, the steel miners,
they would come in and they would clean up before
they went into the rest of their house.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Ours.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
We also had a shower in the basement of ours,
basically a shower head. Yeah, you know, big fancy. There
was a shower head that stuck out of the wall
and there was just a ring of a curtain around
it and a drain on the floor.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Oh so it wasn't like a shower shower. It was
just like a spicking on the wall and a drain.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You bet, you bet?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
So if you did?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
You ever build in like nineteen thirty and that was
what that was what you had then to get cleaned
up and take care of yourself before you went to
the rest of the house and mess it all up.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Did you ever use the Pittsburgh potty down in the basement?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Sure, I mean God needs must.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Right Wait, so you would just be in the basement
with like the your eyes.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, like every it's all wide open and you're sitting
there elbows on your thighs taking a dumper.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I can't say I necessarily did that, but you know,
that was just a thing that was in people's houses.
There's there used to be a page, I feel like
it was a Facebook page. It was all about Pittsburgh potties,
and some of them you'd find in crazy places, like
going halfway down the stairs into the basement, there'd be
like a that ninety degree turn that sometimes you have,
(06:45):
there'd be a toilet on that ninety degree turn business.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
No, Diane's right, Hey, thank you, ma'am, thank you. So
literally on the landing of a staircase. Now I get.
I get the reasoning behind it, right. The reasoning behind
it makes where it's like you're dirty and you're covered
in soot or whatever before you traced into the rest
of the house that you would you would use that,
So I get you're still not into the house.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Why is it on the landing of the stairwells? Bizarre?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's uncomfortable when someone walks in on you when you're
in the bathroom. What if an unsuspecting person is just
trying to get downstairs. I'm just trying to do some laundry.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
At least when you're in the bathroom you reach for
that door like your life depends on it. But if
you're just sitting down there in the middle of the basement,
I mean, what are you doing nothing? I mean other
than using two hands to cup your nads.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
From Britain. I have an unfinished basement with a rough
in for a toilet, and I always tell my wife
I'm putting in a Pittsburgh poty. But all you said
you're into it is that because you you find that
there's just never enough room to stretch out.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'm being honest.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I love the idea of just a standalone toilet in
the middle of a big open room. You know what
it reminds me of high school baseball is that somebody's toilet.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I don't know if that's just stock footage.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
But that literally is in the middle of a basement
right by a pillar. Still trying to find that Facebook group. No, no,
but I remember like in like high school baseball, like
we had like into locker rooms, we had toilets, but no,
the same way you would go into a bathroom now
and there would be stalls. Take down all the stalls.
There were just toilets that you sat on and if
(08:29):
if you and your buddy had to take a dump
at the same time, you just sat like Tyler, there.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is no partition. Crows didn't bother me. I'd go sit
in there and take it, take it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But it wasn't like the bathroom was separate then, like
where like you would get dressed like.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
So would you.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You could have four people in there at the same time.
I can't remember if it was three or four. But yeah,
and then there was privacy.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
There was urinals and a sink like like sinks and
like just spicketts coming out of the wall. Is the
last time you saw like four toilets lined up end
or right next to each other side the trainers. Now
those were facing, those were facing, But I would totally
use that.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, there's the toilet on the landing.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
She described it perfectly. Oh my god, now you're left knee.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Well, I don't know how. By the way, great point,
you're right up against the wall. Are you saying do.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
They call that in horseback riding? Is that called side saddle?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You think your legs have to face out towards the
rest of the stairs.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yes, how are you getting your How are you getting
your leg on the other side?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I get sometimes you may have to angle yourself or
position yourself differently on top of a toilet, But I
don't think you're sitting completely to the side.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And that's weird because the toilet seat is an oval
and usually you're on the like where it goes long out.
Now I'm on the side. God, my legs would fall
asleep like that. Also, you know what, you know what's missing?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
In the picture.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
What do I wipe with?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Where's the toilet paper holder? Maybe it's buried to the
side here and we just can't see it where I
can't put my leg because this perspective that we're looking
at is for the person who's walked in.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
On you right from the top of the Oh, I'll
get it. It's in the basement. Oh, Elliott's dumping.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Oh God, your boxers they're down off.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I don't see a hook.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Hello, Hi, good morning, Good morning. How you all doing today.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I'm doing great. Who's this?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Ah?
Speaker 7 (10:41):
This is Jeff from Maryland. So, uh, my, my grandfather
had a farm just outside Baltimore City and he had
a blue, bright blue toilet right next to his work
bench his basement. So you go down there as a kid.
I even asked him. I was like, why is there
a toilet in the middle, like the middle of the bay,
And they told me, well, why would you not have
(11:02):
a toilet in the middle of the basement was pretty
much their answer to me, right, So it just always
perplexed me. No toilet paper whatsoever was near it, So
God only knows what happened around there.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
But crab walk. I got a crab walking in all right,
very good, Thank you sir. Yes ky, this is.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Very important, Just like when Diane reported on both stories
out of Southern Maryland. Sitting side saddle in a toilet
can lead to instability and leaks leaks, but it may
be necessary or a preferred position due to mobility, pain,
or habit. It's just always the way we've done it.
(11:43):
But think about that gasket at the bottom of the toilet.
If you're putting so much weight on the one side,
it starts to lean. Oh yeah, seals, then I'll screw
it up.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Can we can we all make a pact with everybody listening?
Can we make a pact with each other? Everybody? I
want everybody to make a pack at some point this weekend.
We're all side saddle in the toilet. It's just to
see Kristen's in, Yeah, the just to just to see
(12:15):
what it's like. But you have to take a picture
of yourself.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
No, oh no.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Please don't even share that in the group text for us.
You have to dump no, stop with this.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
No you can't flip up the seat. No, you're sitting
on the seat. I'm not sitting on the on the
on the bowl.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I know that could be uncomfortable, but that would give
you some more room.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
No, no, you gotta sit on the toilet seat, but
side saddle that.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Thing and make sure you don't have a wax ring?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Do you ever?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Do you ever get it on the public bathroom? This is,
by the way, the only time I think that I
would do it. I've never done it, but like sometimes
on a public bathroom you could tell somebody somebody was
like sat down, like somebody was dirty and sat down,
and you see a little bit of a like a
like a like a little fudge on the on the
part of the toilet seat that's by the tank. You
(13:17):
ever see that? Yes, yeah, so and that And I
never side saddled. I just kind of sit up towards
the middle.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
A little bit, so you're not wiping that away.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I'm not wiping somebody's else's to me almost sitting in it.
The I'd rather sit up close and get a wet thigh.
All right, everybody's hands up, hand to God. Everybody's side saddle.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
In this week, Christ President.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Is your but I want everybody listening, everybody listening has
to side saddle.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Your right hand was up Christen was your left hand
on a Bible always. That's how she answers, phones connected,
rooted and the word of our lore.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Hi Elliott in the morning. Oh yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Wow? Hi? This is Barry Hey Ary Elliot? Hi, Diane.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
You guys just made my day.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Man.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Anyway, I'm from a town called m Keysport, Pennsylvania, but
I actually lived in Senwick, Delaware out Uh. Wow, I've
been listening to you so long. I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
That's okay, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Are you familiar with
the Pittsburgh Party?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I grew up in a town called m Keysport, Pennsylvania,
and my father worked for us still right, And there
were four boys, and uh we lived in an old
house built in the twenties. And the toilet was in
the middle of the floor, and and you had to
get up and grab the toilet paper from the other
side of the basement. And a lot of times we
(15:07):
would dribble, you know what I mean. And my stepmom
would have a hose and she would have to go
down there and hose down the basement floor, right, and
uh so, when I got married, I moved to d C.
That's when I started listening to you. And I married
a Jewish princess, right, and she was from Bethesda, and
(15:28):
I took her home for the first time for Thanksgiving.
So I told her about this toilet and uh so
she went down, she came back up. She goes, I'm
never going down there ever again. And for thirty years
she never went down there. But one time we were
up there, she just passed away. Dude, you're making my day.
And anyway, one of the last time she was there,
(15:52):
she refused to go down to the toilet because the
toilet upstairs was broken, and she put her pants at
Thanksgiving and I just got my brow. Hey, Hey, Diane,
she loved you, man, I got her listening to you,
and uh you guys were with us the last couple
of weeks in the hospital of her life.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I appreciate what I.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Tell you, what a joy you guys all have been
to us throughout all the years.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Hey, I appreciate that I love you too. That means
a lot to me, it really does.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Let me, uh let me ask you not to uh
not to not to swerve back into the road. Will
you make the pact with us that you'll side saddle
the toilet this weekend.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Wow. I didn't know whether I could do this or not,
but I just got off the toilet and I tried
it and it didn't work. I'm kind of handicapped, if
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I got you. I got you. Hey, watch the dribble.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Your mom will have to come spray it down, all right, dude, Hey,
have a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I appreciate the call. Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
We learned that some people in that condition do need
to go side saddle.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Okay, yeah, but for those of us that don't, let's
side saddle it up this weekend.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Everybody's in. Everybody's got the packed in.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Gabe, who originally sent you the oh yes, the Pittsburgh mention,
he wants to know if this would have been better
or worse for when you walked in on Jackie's mom.
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