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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, I come here in the morning to get
my head full of Brownie crap, and then you gotta
put this guy on and fill my head full of logic.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I don't know about you, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm so sorry. Logic is one of my weaknesses. I'll
try to be better. Hey, I'm John Caldera in for
the big Man. Is he back on Monday? By the way?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeare we hope we'll see We'll I'll find out together.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, we'll find out depending on uh, well, how good
the rehab is again. Yeah, I think he's got a
punch card.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You see if they just empty out the drunk tank, right,
it's like, oh look, it's it's mister brown. You know
your tenth visit here is free.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Give me a call three or three seven to one,
three eight two five, five seven to one three talk
or give me a send me a text. You know
how to do that. I see what I got. Oh
sad day for Elon. Trump touted Doge to gain votes.
So he's just plain simple politician who lies. Not impressed
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with Eve, this big terrible bill he wants all right, John,
regarding the recent pardons, I'm hearing bits and pieces of information,
says this text that a number of them were given
to some that were given excessive sentences, like nineteen years
old for nonviolent charge. H would be interested to hear
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more about those and why pardons given. Well, a lot
of the pardons are given because Trump is paying back
some of his January sixth fanatics. That's that was interesting.
When he did this big, huge blanket pardon right up front,
remember like a thousand pardons to people who were part
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of the January sixth riot, I'm sorry insurrection, And people
were like, oh my god, this is awful. Look at this.
It was genius. You know, these pardons were likely to come.
How Trump in the first few weeks of his administration
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just bowled over the media with constant, constant executive orders
and changes and pardons. There was not time to go
over it all. There was not enough oxygen in the
media cycle to devour what was going on. I think
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I don't know that Trump knew what he was doing.
Trump lives on disruption. If there is a sand castle
on the beach that the kid just made, Trump will
kick it over. Why because then people will look at him.
A lot of this disruption is spectacular. Some of it
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is terrible. Overall, I'm enjoying it, the whole Doge experience.
The Department of Government. Efficiency was was style over substance
to begin with, and it was good. It was disruption.
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It was to throw some firecrackers into the toilet of
government and get people's attention to see how much waste,
how much corruption, how much inefficiency there is. But can
it last? Here's the problem. You cannot fix government spending
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without taking a look at entitlement programs. The biggest waste,
the biggest fraud, the biggest debt causing is from promises
that are made that are now quote off budget. They're
on automatic pilot. We're talking about VA spending, Medicaid spending,
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Medicare spending, Social Security, all of which are upside down
and cannot be sustained. We're running into a brick wall.
The question is when, and since nobody wants to touch
those promises made to future spending, we're gonna have huge,
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huge disruption. I don't know when it's going to happen,
but sooner or later the dollar cracks and falls. Now
there have been people like me who keep screaming the
sky is falling ever since, ever since the dollar was
taken off the gold standard, and the dollar hasn't it
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hasn't fallen. It is still the world's reserve currency. It'll
be replaced, I believe, ultimately by bitcoin or something that
cannot be devalued. But you know gold bugs, and I've
got a bit of that gold bug in me. Why
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do people like gold? Why is it that gold has
gone up in value so much in the last year.
It's gone up like twenty something percent in the last
year when Clinton was president. I remember gold hit a
low of like two hundred and fifty dollars an ounce.
It is now three hundred three thousand, three hundred an ounce.
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It's the same hunk of gold you buy a you
buy an ounce of gold. It hasn't changed. There's no
technical improvement in that gold. It's just hunk of a
commodity that's rare. What it means is that the dollar
has devalued. It means that the dollar has gone down
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in value. And so people who worry about there being
more dollars being thrown into the economy all the time,
sometimes they buy commodities or assets to try to hedge
that their money is being devalued. And gold is that
traditional one. Bitcoin is another one, because it is like
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gold and that more cannot be made. There's only so
much that gets released, and there's only so many bitcoins
out there. That's that's why it's so high. When does
when does the dollar crack? I don't know, but you
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cannot have one hundred and twenty percent of your GDP
in debt. We have never in American history had so
much debt, and this great, big, beautiful bill only adds
to that debt. What is debt? It's a promise to
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pay the future. We're spending our grandkids money and our
great grandkids money before they've had an opportunity to make
it and pay taxes on it. That works fine, It
works great until it doesn't. It's kind of like running
up your credit cards. It works great until it doesn't.
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The question is when will it stop working? And the
more debts you have, the only way to or the
major way that governments deal with that is to create
inflation so that the debt isn't technically as big as
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the money that's around it. And that can work if
you're not making more money. And when I say making
more money, printing more money, but that's what happens. So
I mean you think about it. After we left the
gold standard, there's what two three times more dollars out there, Well,
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then prices are going to go up two or three times.
That's not rocket science. It takes time to do it.
So when Elon does doge and finds all this waste,
it's good. It's important. I particularly like that it scares
government employees that they are not lifetime employees, that there
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is some bit of economic realism that could affect their employment,
that sooner or later, even they have to answer to
the laws of economics. I think that's the best part
of it, to see people at the Bureau of Standards
up in Boulder freak out because some might get laid off.
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It's like welcome to reality. People in the private sector
get laid off all the time. This illusion you have
that you'll never be touched needs to be burst, so
maybe you learn to, you know, produce more. So Doge
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has a real point. But even if they find that
great official, even if they were able able to find
great efficiencies, we're still in trouble until we take a
look at these entitlements, or let me put it, each
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one of us, every man, woman, and child, is about
a under grand in debt. That's what we have. We
all need to pay the federal government one hundred thousand
dollars which we don't have. We have to pay that
to get the federal government out of debt. We need
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to pay about another twenty or forty to get state
and local governments out of debt. So we're about one
hundred and fifty grand in debt each one of us
just for breathing. But that's not the real debt. The
real debt is what we owe to make our promises
for the future stable. You need to double or triple
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that amount to pay for the promises of Medicare, Medicaid,
social Security, the promises that have been made that that
might not be able to be filled. So that means
sometime in the next twenty twenty five years there's gonna
be a huge financial reckoning. I feel sorry. I feel
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sorry for the next generations. We are spending money on
their credit card and they won't have the money to pay.
Hmm three or three seven, three eight, two five five
us grab let's grab a couple of these texts. Caldera
better go back to commie land talking about Trump like
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that exclamation point and what's up with people my age
living in a projected dreamland. Been working my ass off
in America for sixty five years, says this writer, and
seen many existential crises, most of them caused directly by
the US government. Caldera might want to think before he speaks, well,
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why start now? What existential crisis have I seen in
my sixty years?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
If this guy's been working for sixty five years, yeah,
maybe he's seen part of World War two, but we
haven't seen I didn't say existential crisis. I said hardship.
We have never been in a situation of dire hardship
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in anybody my age or younger. We've never seen hyperinflation. Yeah,
we saw something in the seventies and early eighties, but
I was just a kid then, wasn't my deal. We've
never been conscripted. The draft hasn't been there. Anybody who's
went to war has volunteered to do so. We haven't
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had a depression, we haven't had a civil war, we
haven't had famine, we haven't had real epidemics. My point
stands that if you are my age, sixty or younger,
you've lived a pretty fat, happy life. In general, this
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is a generalization as a generation or these generations, we've
had it really really good. We've had it really really good. Hm,
have you had it really bad? What has been what
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has been the defining tragedy that we all had to
pull together for to save the nation? Not really the
eight housing bubble. Well, that's what happens when you give
loans to people who you know can't pay them back. Again,
government caused. Yeah, all crises are government cost, all wars
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are government caused. All market failures are government caused. But
what hardship have we had? My point is this, We've
got people my age and younger who believe that prosperity
and abundance is a given. Let me say that again.
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People my age and younger believe that money falls off
at trees, that we can afford to do everything because
we've got all this money. That's why so much of
our society is consume with things creating stuff. We have
a world of people who regulate and redistribute stuff. We've
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got people who help us stay in compliance to government standards.
That doesn't produce anything. We've got people who take from
you and give to the other person. That doesn't create everything.
Imagine if all those people who are the accountants and
the compliance officers, and the DEI officers in the HR folks,
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and all the consultants and environmental companies that help keep
everybody in compliance with every regulation. Imagine if instead they
had productive jobs. What I mean by productive jobs is
imagine if they were the ones turning raw materials into
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useful products. If they were the ones cutting down trees,
planting plants, mining, building things, engineering things, not just the
people who keep the system of bureaucracy going. We look
at education overwhelmingly. Over the last fifty years, the growth
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of the administration in schools has skyrocketed. The amount of
teatures per student has stayed flat for nearly fifty years.
Who keeps spending more and more and more money on education,
but it doesn't get into the classroom. It gets gobbled
up by administrators who fill out pieces of paper and
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do reports. I'm not saying these aren't necessary. I'm not
saying they're not good. I'm saying it's not productive that
the productive class, at the end of the day doesn't
just keep paper in order. They've actually created something. They
create a new software program, they create a new sheet
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of music, they create a new desk, a new car,
something that didn't exist before. And only if you have
a lot of people doing that and it's going well,
can you afford the people who who do things that
are not how to put it, completely vital, Not saying
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accounting isn't completely vital, but accountants don't turn wood into furniture.
Let me put it this way. This is too heady,
and then let's get to some stupid stuff. We used to
be hunters and gatherers. One hundred percent of the population
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was involved in hunting and gathering. Otherwise the village would starve.
So some people scavenge for food. Others go out and
kill the mammoth, bring it home, and everybody lives for
another day. If they're really good at that. If the
tribe is really good at that and can store up
enough food or brings back so much food that they
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can spare one guy who isn't who isn't hunting or gathering,
he can be the witch doctor, he can be the philosopher,
he can be the wise elder, he can be the
one that is the artist who paints on the walls.
But the tribe has to afford for one person not
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to be able to hunt and gather. We are so
very efficient at that most of our population are now
the witch doctors, doing things that are not directly involved
with getting us fed back after this three or three
seven one three eight two five five.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Keep it on, k How, Good morning, Goovers, Good morning John,
Good morning Dragon. Well, today is our last day of
vacation from Michael Danger Brown, so we'd better live it
up while we can and have fun. Oh, Dragon, if
you get a chance, could you play Black Magic Women today?
I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I'm so sorry that Michael comes back next week. It. Yeah,
we got a petition here to keep him away, but
he has this thing called a contract. I don't I
don't understand it all. I'm John Caldera. Give me a
call three h three seven one three eight two five
five seven to one three talk all right? This from
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a very important story call from a site called upworthy.
Never heard of it before. Let me just read it
to you. Humans have debated things large and small over
the millennia, from democracy to breastfeeding in public and how
often people ought to wash their sheets. But perhaps the
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most silly yet surprisingly heated household debate is the one
in which we argue which way to hang the toilet
paper roll. There's only one way. The over or under
question has plagued marriages and casual acquaintances for the like
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for over one hundred years, with both sides convinced they
have the soundest reasoning for putting toilet paper loose end
out or loose and under. Some people feel so strongly
about about right versus wrong TP hanging that they will
even flip over the role when they go to the
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bathroom in homes of strangers. All right, I don't do that.
I don't do that, but I gotta say if somebody
in my home puts the toilet paper role on the
wrong way, I do switch it around. I do. There's
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I feel strongly about this, and I feel strongly about
how you put the dishes in the dishwasher. I think
more marriage break up over that. There's a way to
put the dishes in. To put it in this way.
I've been doing this a long time. This is how
it goes. And other people come in and they think
they're being helpful when they load the dishwasher. Then I
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got to reload it. It's just wrong, you know what
I'm talking about. Hmmm, So what is the correct way
to hang a roll of toilet paper, so that you
know what I'm talking about. The over, we'll call it.
The over is when the toilet paper is hanging away
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from the wall. The under is when it's when it's
under and it's you know, the loose end is facing
the wall or the cabinet or whatever you have your
toilet paper roll on. It should always face out, shouldn't
it explain to me? No, no, no, no, no, there's
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one right, there's one wrong. Here's the American way of
doing it, and then there's the wrong way of doing it.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Well, I one hundred percent degree, there is a right
way to do it. But sometimes you have to do
it the wrong way.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I e.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
If you've got pets that like to play with the
toilet paper roll, or toddlers or kids that like to
play with the toilet paper roll. So sometimes rare occasions
you have to put it on the wrong way.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So you put it on the wrong way because you
can't control the beings in your home. You can't man
up and train them not to play with the toilet paper.
But I understand that a weaker man might have to
result to changing the environment for those who control him
instead of the other way around. I understand them.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Try and train a cat. Yeah, there's a way to
train a cat. You get rid of it. That's how
you train a cat.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Actually is when every Christmas, for all my kids, the
first Christmas gift I always give them is a roller
toilet paper. And this little guy who's just crawling on
the ground, you give him a roll a toilet paper
and they're just thrilled. They unwrap it and it's wonderful
and it's fun, and and you still get to use it,
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so they get to unwrap something that they enjoy. Yeah,
but yeah, get rid of get rid of the cat.
Get rid of the cat. I've heard the story of
and I think this has happened to all of us.
The kid. You have a kid and he finally learns
to walk. He's in the bathroom and he and he
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and he plays with the toilet paper and the toilet
paper is all over and you walk in and you
laugh and go ah, and then the kid goes, oh,
I did that. It was fun, and mom laughs and
Mom's happy. Then he does it again and you're like,
oh my god, don't do that. And this is why
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kids are messed in the head because they do something,
they get positive reinforced, but they do it again, they
get negative reinforcement. Mom is insane. Mom is insane. All right,
So there's one way to do the toilet paper roll.
Why is this making an issue on the internet. Let's
go to the phones. Talk to Jeff three or three
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seven one, three eight two five five. Good morning, Jeff.
You're with John Kelly.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Well, I got to say, obviously one of them the top,
unless you have a cat, because yeah, cats can you know,
they get up on there and just roll out a
whole role. Other than that, it's always a top.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Now, that's why that's why I keep a lock around
my toilet paper roll. That's why we have That's why
we have gunlocks. And so you keep it the right
way you have that loop goes around, you lock it
and and it's it's only good common sense toilet paper
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control and etiquette.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Etiquette.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
No, no, I believe there should be laws. You lock
your if you have cats, you lock your toilet paper.
In fact, that's why every roll of toilet paper is
mandated to have a toilet paper locked, whether you just
lock up the cat.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Can I can I make a comment on like public toilets,
yes please, okay. So yeah, I'm a delivery driver for
a as they say, a major dealership here in Denver.
Any rate. Okay, So once in a while I have
to use a bathroom. And this is like one of
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my pet peeves. You go into these bathrooms and they
have those multiple dispensers, you know where there's like two
rolls right there inside of things. Oh my god. Sometimes
you go in there and the thing won't dispense. You
got to sit there and play with it and play
with it.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
You're pulling out one little sheet at a time, and
then you have to roll my hand.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
It happened. This happened like twice. One time I just
ripped the thing off the wall. It's like, god, damn it,
I need the other time, the other that one. Yeah, man,
it's it's bad. It's bad. And you got to finish
the job with some paperwork. You don't want to stress
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over something that simple.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Right, So apparently you know in public restrooms they want
to make sure you're not stealing the toilet paper. But
this toilet paper is so awful, why would you steal it?
And the well, remember this though, remember this one? Whoa
before the multiple role. You had the toilet paper that
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came in the you know, two foot wide role and
which never worked because you could never it took more pressure,
more pull to spin the wheel that it would just
rip instead of spinning the wheel right. And you gotta
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think there was some engineer, you know, you know, big
toilet paper who's figuring out, Oh, how do we how
do we get it so that in public restrooms we
don't have to send people in every other minute to
refill the toilet paper rolls. So they came.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Up a bar where there's like three or four lined
up and they're all rather than one of those dispensers
that gets does nothing more than irritated person.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
My guess is I guess to switch over to the
three seashells.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
One thing, one more thing.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yes, don't swear though you're oh, I won't sweat.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Remember during COVID when there was the tot toilet paper crisis, yep,
and yeah we ran out and it's fun So my
wife ordered some stuff off and Amazon and toilet paper
and it came from China and it's so funny. I
saved them. And these roles they're like like, well, no,
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they're like two and a half three inches on diameter,
you know, half half or less, you know the width
of you know, standard toilet paper, and.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
It's like a heat So you got ripped off.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Oh well yeah, yeah, yeah right.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Hey, thanks for the call. Of course, those of us
who have that little bit of preppered Jane and shop
at Costco, we never ran out of toilet paper. Why
because we got a lifetime supply of toilet paper in
the storage room, in the laundry room somewhere. You buy
it by the crate. You buy two of those, you're
set for life. The world's going crazy without toilet paper,
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and you're you go out in the black market and
you make you make big profits. It's funny apparently during crises,
whatever the crises are, flood or earthquake, whatever the disaster
is that among the top things that people rush out
and buy and there's no none left toilet paper and
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pop tarts. For some reason, pop tarts become this great
comfort food when when you're when you're having a hard time.
So if there's a if there's an earthquake, they run
out of pop tarts?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Are they like twinkies to where they don't last there
they will last forever after nuclear explosions.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I don't know, because they haven't figured out how to
make a pop tart without that stupid half inch crust
all the way around. That's true, you know, so you
end up breaking off that crust so you can just
have the fun jelly and icing part, and then you
got that awful cardboard part around it. It's like, Oh,
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if they could figure out how to make it only
the icing and jelly all the way to the end,
they'd make a.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Fortune edge to edge icing on a pop tart. Who
game changer.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I'm telling you, this is America. If we can put
a man on the moon, we could have an icing
all the way to the edge of a pop tart.
I don't know how, but I've got some of my
best people on it all. Right back to the controversy
at hand over or under, well, toilet paper is made
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to go over. It's dictated in the Bible, and that's
the way. That's the way it's supposed to be. Heathens
i e. Cat people will put it the other way
so that the cat doesn't play with the toilet paper
and think about in the public stalls. The reason you
have those ridiculous things is because at some point. Public
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stalls just had regular toilet paper dispensers, and people either
stole them or filled up the floor or toilet with
easy to spend toilet paper. We can't have that. Well.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I think that's also why the the public toilet seats
have that little crescent shape and it's not a full circle,
so people don't steal them.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
You're kidding, that's why they do it. Pretty sure. I
thought it was to stop a dribbling mess. But yeah,
maybe you're right.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Those exact same toilet seats are in the women's restrooms too,
So why do women need.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
How do you know that they're in the women's restroom.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I've been told.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Listen, just don't get arrested until after the show. I
never thought about that. You know, I've never been to
a Turkish toilet. I've heard of them Turkish toilet where
it's just a hole in the ground, basically fun. Yeah,
we were you squat? No I don't, I don't. I
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don't want a squat. So, yeah, we gotta break all right,
But we got to get to the end of this.
Uh wait, wait, there's a research done by the University
of Colorado. Oh, we'll get to that right after this.
We'll get to the end of it. I'm John Calderic.
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Keep it right here. You're on six point thirty K.
How capless answer that Question's easy. Beards are cool, mullet
you're bad. We weren't talking about Haret Caples.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, capitless, but uh yeah, referring to the way you
roll the toilet paper. So, yes, a beard hanging down
in the front, that's cool. Mullets hanging down in the back,
that's not cool.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Oh, I'm glad. Thank you for translating that to me.
I am John caldera worker. So I read across this
article about the fight over over on when it comes
when it comes to toilet paper rolls. Let me just
continue because this is important. Quote. One key to maintaining
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a hygienic washroom is minimizing contact between people and surfaces,
says doctor Christian Morrow, Associate Professor of Health Sciences at
Bond University in Australia.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Depending on a type of role holder, hanging the roll
over lowers the chance the user will touch the wall
behind him when fishing for paper, leaving germs behind on
the wall which can spread to the next user. Yeah,
the guy's been wiping his rear end and then he
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touches the wall ah. That makes sense. Why how about this?
Touching any surface in the bathroom is pretty nasty. According
to a study from the Universe of Colorado, finally, my
Alba mater comes through a report quote. Using a high
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tech genetic sequencing tool, researchers identified nineteen groups of bacteria
on doors, floors, faucet handles, soap dispensers, and toilets of
twelve public restrooms in Colorado, six men room and six
women's room hm M. Many of the bacterias strains identified
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could be transmitted by touching contaminated surfaces like E. Coli.
All right, and to finally answer this, but sanitary health
concerns aren't the only argument for the overcamp. After all,
the original patent for the toilet paper roll in eighteen
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ninety one clearly shows the TP in the over position.
Thank you, mister Wheeler who did the patent for it,
for clarifying what it's meant to be. Can we do
a mic drop on that? Not if you have cats
or kids? Back after this
You know, I come here in the morning to get
my head full of Brownie crap, and then you gotta
put this guy on and fill my head full of logic.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I don't know about you, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm so sorry. Logic is one of my weaknesses. I'll
try to be better. Hey, I'm John Caldera in for
the big Man. Is he back on Monday? By the way?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeare we hope we'll see We'll I'll find out together.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, we'll find out depending on uh, well, how good
the rehab is again. Yeah, I think he's got a
punch card.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You see if they just empty out the drunk tank, right,
it's like, oh look, it's it's mister brown. You know
your tenth visit here is free.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Give me a call three or three seven to one,
three eight two five, five seven to one three talk
or give me a send me a text. You know
how to do that. I see what I got. Oh
sad day for Elon. Trump touted Doge to gain votes.
So he's just plain simple politician who lies. Not impressed
(01:08):
with Eve, this big terrible bill he wants all right, John,
regarding the recent pardons, I'm hearing bits and pieces of information,
says this text that a number of them were given
to some that were given excessive sentences, like nineteen years
old for nonviolent charge. H would be interested to hear
(01:34):
more about those and why pardons given. Well, a lot
of the pardons are given because Trump is paying back
some of his January sixth fanatics. That's that was interesting.
When he did this big, huge blanket pardon right up front,
remember like a thousand pardons to people who were part
(01:56):
of the January sixth riot, I'm sorry insurrection, And people
were like, oh my god, this is awful. Look at this.
It was genius. You know, these pardons were likely to come.
How Trump in the first few weeks of his administration
(02:19):
just bowled over the media with constant, constant executive orders
and changes and pardons. There was not time to go
over it all. There was not enough oxygen in the
media cycle to devour what was going on. I think
(02:40):
I don't know that Trump knew what he was doing.
Trump lives on disruption. If there is a sand castle
on the beach that the kid just made, Trump will
kick it over. Why because then people will look at him.
A lot of this disruption is spectacular. Some of it
(03:03):
is terrible. Overall, I'm enjoying it, the whole Doge experience.
The Department of Government. Efficiency was was style over substance
to begin with, and it was good. It was disruption.
(03:24):
It was to throw some firecrackers into the toilet of
government and get people's attention to see how much waste,
how much corruption, how much inefficiency there is. But can
it last? Here's the problem. You cannot fix government spending
(03:49):
without taking a look at entitlement programs. The biggest waste,
the biggest fraud, the biggest debt causing is from promises
that are made that are now quote off budget. They're
on automatic pilot. We're talking about VA spending, Medicaid spending,
(04:10):
Medicare spending, Social Security, all of which are upside down
and cannot be sustained. We're running into a brick wall.
The question is when, and since nobody wants to touch
those promises made to future spending, we're gonna have huge,
(04:35):
huge disruption. I don't know when it's going to happen,
but sooner or later the dollar cracks and falls. Now
there have been people like me who keep screaming the
sky is falling ever since, ever since the dollar was
taken off the gold standard, and the dollar hasn't it
(05:01):
hasn't fallen. It is still the world's reserve currency. It'll
be replaced, I believe, ultimately by bitcoin or something that
cannot be devalued. But you know gold bugs, and I've
got a bit of that gold bug in me. Why
(05:22):
do people like gold? Why is it that gold has
gone up in value so much in the last year.
It's gone up like twenty something percent in the last
year when Clinton was president. I remember gold hit a
low of like two hundred and fifty dollars an ounce.
It is now three hundred three thousand, three hundred an ounce.
(05:47):
It's the same hunk of gold you buy a you
buy an ounce of gold. It hasn't changed. There's no
technical improvement in that gold. It's just hunk of a
commodity that's rare. What it means is that the dollar
has devalued. It means that the dollar has gone down
(06:09):
in value. And so people who worry about there being
more dollars being thrown into the economy all the time,
sometimes they buy commodities or assets to try to hedge
that their money is being devalued. And gold is that
traditional one. Bitcoin is another one, because it is like
(06:32):
gold and that more cannot be made. There's only so
much that gets released, and there's only so many bitcoins
out there. That's that's why it's so high. When does
when does the dollar crack? I don't know, but you
(06:54):
cannot have one hundred and twenty percent of your GDP
in debt. We have never in American history had so
much debt, and this great, big, beautiful bill only adds
to that debt. What is debt? It's a promise to
(07:15):
pay the future. We're spending our grandkids money and our
great grandkids money before they've had an opportunity to make
it and pay taxes on it. That works fine, It
works great until it doesn't. It's kind of like running
up your credit cards. It works great until it doesn't.
(07:40):
The question is when will it stop working? And the
more debts you have, the only way to or the
major way that governments deal with that is to create
inflation so that the debt isn't technically as big as
(08:00):
the money that's around it. And that can work if
you're not making more money. And when I say making
more money, printing more money, but that's what happens. So
I mean you think about it. After we left the
gold standard, there's what two three times more dollars out there, Well,
(08:21):
then prices are going to go up two or three times.
That's not rocket science. It takes time to do it.
So when Elon does doge and finds all this waste,
it's good. It's important. I particularly like that it scares
government employees that they are not lifetime employees, that there
(08:46):
is some bit of economic realism that could affect their employment,
that sooner or later, even they have to answer to
the laws of economics. I think that's the best part
of it, to see people at the Bureau of Standards
up in Boulder freak out because some might get laid off.
(09:11):
It's like welcome to reality. People in the private sector
get laid off all the time. This illusion you have
that you'll never be touched needs to be burst, so
maybe you learn to, you know, produce more. So Doge
(09:31):
has a real point. But even if they find that
great official, even if they were able able to find
great efficiencies, we're still in trouble until we take a
look at these entitlements, or let me put it, each
(09:56):
one of us, every man, woman, and child, is about
a under grand in debt. That's what we have. We
all need to pay the federal government one hundred thousand
dollars which we don't have. We have to pay that
to get the federal government out of debt. We need
(10:18):
to pay about another twenty or forty to get state
and local governments out of debt. So we're about one
hundred and fifty grand in debt each one of us
just for breathing. But that's not the real debt. The
real debt is what we owe to make our promises
for the future stable. You need to double or triple
(10:44):
that amount to pay for the promises of Medicare, Medicaid,
social Security, the promises that have been made that that
might not be able to be filled. So that means
sometime in the next twenty twenty five years there's gonna
be a huge financial reckoning. I feel sorry. I feel
(11:08):
sorry for the next generations. We are spending money on
their credit card and they won't have the money to pay.
Hmm three or three seven, three eight, two five five
us grab let's grab a couple of these texts. Caldera
better go back to commie land talking about Trump like
(11:32):
that exclamation point and what's up with people my age
living in a projected dreamland. Been working my ass off
in America for sixty five years, says this writer, and
seen many existential crises, most of them caused directly by
the US government. Caldera might want to think before he speaks, well,
(11:57):
why start now? What existential crisis have I seen in
my sixty years?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
If this guy's been working for sixty five years, yeah,
maybe he's seen part of World War two, but we
haven't seen I didn't say existential crisis. I said hardship.
We have never been in a situation of dire hardship
(12:29):
in anybody my age or younger. We've never seen hyperinflation. Yeah,
we saw something in the seventies and early eighties, but
I was just a kid then, wasn't my deal. We've
never been conscripted. The draft hasn't been there. Anybody who's
went to war has volunteered to do so. We haven't
(12:52):
had a depression, we haven't had a civil war, we
haven't had famine, we haven't had real epidemics. My point
stands that if you are my age, sixty or younger,
you've lived a pretty fat, happy life. In general, this
(13:16):
is a generalization as a generation or these generations, we've
had it really really good. We've had it really really good. Hm,
have you had it really bad? What has been what
(13:38):
has been the defining tragedy that we all had to
pull together for to save the nation? Not really the
eight housing bubble. Well, that's what happens when you give
loans to people who you know can't pay them back. Again,
government caused. Yeah, all crises are government cost, all wars
(14:05):
are government caused. All market failures are government caused. But
what hardship have we had? My point is this, We've
got people my age and younger who believe that prosperity
and abundance is a given. Let me say that again.
(14:25):
People my age and younger believe that money falls off
at trees, that we can afford to do everything because
we've got all this money. That's why so much of
our society is consume with things creating stuff. We have
a world of people who regulate and redistribute stuff. We've
(14:49):
got people who help us stay in compliance to government standards.
That doesn't produce anything. We've got people who take from
you and give to the other person. That doesn't create everything.
Imagine if all those people who are the accountants and
the compliance officers, and the DEI officers in the HR folks,
(15:11):
and all the consultants and environmental companies that help keep
everybody in compliance with every regulation. Imagine if instead they
had productive jobs. What I mean by productive jobs is
imagine if they were the ones turning raw materials into
(15:31):
useful products. If they were the ones cutting down trees,
planting plants, mining, building things, engineering things, not just the
people who keep the system of bureaucracy going. We look
at education overwhelmingly. Over the last fifty years, the growth
(15:54):
of the administration in schools has skyrocketed. The amount of
teatures per student has stayed flat for nearly fifty years.
Who keeps spending more and more and more money on education,
but it doesn't get into the classroom. It gets gobbled
up by administrators who fill out pieces of paper and
(16:16):
do reports. I'm not saying these aren't necessary. I'm not
saying they're not good. I'm saying it's not productive that
the productive class, at the end of the day doesn't
just keep paper in order. They've actually created something. They
create a new software program, they create a new sheet
(16:40):
of music, they create a new desk, a new car,
something that didn't exist before. And only if you have
a lot of people doing that and it's going well,
can you afford the people who who do things that
are not how to put it, completely vital, Not saying
(17:06):
accounting isn't completely vital, but accountants don't turn wood into furniture.
Let me put it this way. This is too heady,
and then let's get to some stupid stuff. We used to
be hunters and gatherers. One hundred percent of the population
(17:28):
was involved in hunting and gathering. Otherwise the village would starve.
So some people scavenge for food. Others go out and
kill the mammoth, bring it home, and everybody lives for
another day. If they're really good at that. If the
tribe is really good at that and can store up
enough food or brings back so much food that they
(17:51):
can spare one guy who isn't who isn't hunting or gathering,
he can be the witch doctor, he can be the philosopher,
he can be the wise elder, he can be the
one that is the artist who paints on the walls.
But the tribe has to afford for one person not
(18:15):
to be able to hunt and gather. We are so
very efficient at that most of our population are now
the witch doctors, doing things that are not directly involved
with getting us fed back after this three or three
seven one three eight two five five.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Keep it on, k How, Good morning, Goovers, Good morning John,
Good morning Dragon. Well, today is our last day of
vacation from Michael Danger Brown, so we'd better live it
up while we can and have fun. Oh, Dragon, if
you get a chance, could you play Black Magic Women today?
I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I'm so sorry that Michael comes back next week. It. Yeah,
we got a petition here to keep him away, but
he has this thing called a contract. I don't I
don't understand it all. I'm John Caldera. Give me a
call three h three seven one three eight two five
five seven to one three talk all right? This from
(19:24):
a very important story call from a site called upworthy.
Never heard of it before. Let me just read it
to you. Humans have debated things large and small over
the millennia, from democracy to breastfeeding in public and how
often people ought to wash their sheets. But perhaps the
(19:46):
most silly yet surprisingly heated household debate is the one
in which we argue which way to hang the toilet
paper roll. There's only one way. The over or under
question has plagued marriages and casual acquaintances for the like
(20:08):
for over one hundred years, with both sides convinced they
have the soundest reasoning for putting toilet paper loose end
out or loose and under. Some people feel so strongly
about about right versus wrong TP hanging that they will
even flip over the role when they go to the
(20:29):
bathroom in homes of strangers. All right, I don't do that.
I don't do that, but I gotta say if somebody
in my home puts the toilet paper role on the
wrong way, I do switch it around. I do. There's
(20:51):
I feel strongly about this, and I feel strongly about
how you put the dishes in the dishwasher. I think
more marriage break up over that. There's a way to
put the dishes in. To put it in this way.
I've been doing this a long time. This is how
it goes. And other people come in and they think
they're being helpful when they load the dishwasher. Then I
(21:13):
got to reload it. It's just wrong, you know what
I'm talking about. Hmmm, So what is the correct way
to hang a roll of toilet paper, so that you
know what I'm talking about. The over, we'll call it.
The over is when the toilet paper is hanging away
(21:34):
from the wall. The under is when it's when it's
under and it's you know, the loose end is facing
the wall or the cabinet or whatever you have your
toilet paper roll on. It should always face out, shouldn't
it explain to me? No, no, no, no, no, there's
(21:57):
one right, there's one wrong. Here's the American way of
doing it, and then there's the wrong way of doing it.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Well, I one hundred percent degree, there is a right
way to do it. But sometimes you have to do
it the wrong way.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I e.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
If you've got pets that like to play with the
toilet paper roll, or toddlers or kids that like to
play with the toilet paper roll. So sometimes rare occasions
you have to put it on the wrong way.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So you put it on the wrong way because you
can't control the beings in your home. You can't man
up and train them not to play with the toilet paper.
But I understand that a weaker man might have to
result to changing the environment for those who control him
instead of the other way around. I understand them.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Try and train a cat. Yeah, there's a way to
train a cat. You get rid of it. That's how
you train a cat.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Actually is when every Christmas, for all my kids, the
first Christmas gift I always give them is a roller
toilet paper. And this little guy who's just crawling on
the ground, you give him a roll a toilet paper
and they're just thrilled. They unwrap it and it's wonderful
and it's fun, and and you still get to use it,
(23:25):
so they get to unwrap something that they enjoy. Yeah,
but yeah, get rid of get rid of the cat.
Get rid of the cat. I've heard the story of
and I think this has happened to all of us.
The kid. You have a kid and he finally learns
to walk. He's in the bathroom and he and he
(23:48):
and he plays with the toilet paper and the toilet
paper is all over and you walk in and you
laugh and go ah, and then the kid goes, oh,
I did that. It was fun, and mom laughs and
Mom's happy. Then he does it again and you're like,
oh my god, don't do that. And this is why
(24:10):
kids are messed in the head because they do something,
they get positive reinforced, but they do it again, they
get negative reinforcement. Mom is insane. Mom is insane. All right,
So there's one way to do the toilet paper roll.
Why is this making an issue on the internet. Let's
go to the phones. Talk to Jeff three or three
(24:31):
seven one, three eight two five five. Good morning, Jeff.
You're with John Kelly.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Well, I got to say, obviously one of them the top,
unless you have a cat, because yeah, cats can you know,
they get up on there and just roll out a
whole role. Other than that, it's always a top.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Now, that's why that's why I keep a lock around
my toilet paper roll. That's why we have That's why
we have gunlocks. And so you keep it the right
way you have that loop goes around, you lock it
and and it's it's only good common sense toilet paper
(25:09):
control and etiquette.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Etiquette.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
No, no, I believe there should be laws. You lock
your if you have cats, you lock your toilet paper.
In fact, that's why every roll of toilet paper is
mandated to have a toilet paper locked, whether you just
lock up the cat.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Can I can I make a comment on like public toilets,
yes please, okay. So yeah, I'm a delivery driver for
a as they say, a major dealership here in Denver.
Any rate. Okay, So once in a while I have
to use a bathroom. And this is like one of
(25:46):
my pet peeves. You go into these bathrooms and they
have those multiple dispensers, you know where there's like two
rolls right there inside of things. Oh my god. Sometimes
you go in there and the thing won't dispense. You
got to sit there and play with it and play
with it.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
You're pulling out one little sheet at a time, and
then you have to roll my hand.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
It happened. This happened like twice. One time I just
ripped the thing off the wall. It's like, god, damn it,
I need the other time, the other that one. Yeah, man,
it's it's bad. It's bad. And you got to finish
the job with some paperwork. You don't want to stress
(26:27):
over something that simple.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Right, So apparently you know in public restrooms they want
to make sure you're not stealing the toilet paper. But
this toilet paper is so awful, why would you steal it?
And the well, remember this though, remember this one? Whoa
before the multiple role. You had the toilet paper that
(26:51):
came in the you know, two foot wide role and
which never worked because you could never it took more pressure,
more pull to spin the wheel that it would just
rip instead of spinning the wheel right. And you gotta
(27:12):
think there was some engineer, you know, you know, big
toilet paper who's figuring out, Oh, how do we how
do we get it so that in public restrooms we
don't have to send people in every other minute to
refill the toilet paper rolls. So they came.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Up a bar where there's like three or four lined
up and they're all rather than one of those dispensers
that gets does nothing more than irritated person.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
My guess is I guess to switch over to the
three seashells.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
One thing, one more thing.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yes, don't swear though you're oh, I won't sweat.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Remember during COVID when there was the tot toilet paper crisis, yep,
and yeah we ran out and it's fun So my
wife ordered some stuff off and Amazon and toilet paper
and it came from China and it's so funny. I
saved them. And these roles they're like like, well, no,
(28:17):
they're like two and a half three inches on diameter,
you know, half half or less, you know the width
of you know, standard toilet paper, and.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
It's like a heat So you got ripped off.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Oh well yeah, yeah, yeah right.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Hey, thanks for the call. Of course, those of us
who have that little bit of preppered Jane and shop
at Costco, we never ran out of toilet paper. Why
because we got a lifetime supply of toilet paper in
the storage room, in the laundry room somewhere. You buy
it by the crate. You buy two of those, you're
set for life. The world's going crazy without toilet paper,
(28:56):
and you're you go out in the black market and
you make you make big profits. It's funny apparently during crises,
whatever the crises are, flood or earthquake, whatever the disaster
is that among the top things that people rush out
and buy and there's no none left toilet paper and
(29:20):
pop tarts. For some reason, pop tarts become this great
comfort food when when you're when you're having a hard time.
So if there's a if there's an earthquake, they run
out of pop tarts?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Are they like twinkies to where they don't last there
they will last forever after nuclear explosions.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I don't know, because they haven't figured out how to
make a pop tart without that stupid half inch crust
all the way around. That's true, you know, so you
end up breaking off that crust so you can just
have the fun jelly and icing part, and then you
got that awful cardboard part around it. It's like, Oh,
(30:00):
if they could figure out how to make it only
the icing and jelly all the way to the end,
they'd make a.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Fortune edge to edge icing on a pop tart. Who
game changer.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I'm telling you, this is America. If we can put
a man on the moon, we could have an icing
all the way to the edge of a pop tart.
I don't know how, but I've got some of my
best people on it all. Right back to the controversy
at hand over or under, well, toilet paper is made
(30:33):
to go over. It's dictated in the Bible, and that's
the way. That's the way it's supposed to be. Heathens
i e. Cat people will put it the other way
so that the cat doesn't play with the toilet paper
and think about in the public stalls. The reason you
have those ridiculous things is because at some point. Public
(30:55):
stalls just had regular toilet paper dispensers, and people either
stole them or filled up the floor or toilet with
easy to spend toilet paper. We can't have that. Well.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I think that's also why the the public toilet seats
have that little crescent shape and it's not a full circle,
so people don't steal them.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
You're kidding, that's why they do it. Pretty sure. I
thought it was to stop a dribbling mess. But yeah,
maybe you're right.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Those exact same toilet seats are in the women's restrooms too,
So why do women need.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
How do you know that they're in the women's restroom.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I've been told.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Listen, just don't get arrested until after the show. I
never thought about that. You know, I've never been to
a Turkish toilet. I've heard of them Turkish toilet where
it's just a hole in the ground, basically fun. Yeah,
we were you squat? No I don't, I don't. I
(31:56):
don't want a squat. So, yeah, we gotta break all right,
But we got to get to the end of this.
Uh wait, wait, there's a research done by the University
of Colorado. Oh, we'll get to that right after this.
We'll get to the end of it. I'm John Calderic.
(32:17):
Keep it right here. You're on six point thirty K.
How capless answer that Question's easy. Beards are cool, mullet
you're bad. We weren't talking about Haret Caples.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, capitless, but uh yeah, referring to the way you
roll the toilet paper. So, yes, a beard hanging down
in the front, that's cool. Mullets hanging down in the back,
that's not cool.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Oh, I'm glad. Thank you for translating that to me.
I am John caldera worker. So I read across this
article about the fight over over on when it comes
when it comes to toilet paper rolls. Let me just
continue because this is important. Quote. One key to maintaining
(33:15):
a hygienic washroom is minimizing contact between people and surfaces,
says doctor Christian Morrow, Associate Professor of Health Sciences at
Bond University in Australia.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Depending on a type of role holder, hanging the roll
over lowers the chance the user will touch the wall
behind him when fishing for paper, leaving germs behind on
the wall which can spread to the next user. Yeah,
the guy's been wiping his rear end and then he
(33:48):
touches the wall ah. That makes sense. Why how about this?
Touching any surface in the bathroom is pretty nasty. According
to a study from the Universe of Colorado, finally, my
Alba mater comes through a report quote. Using a high
(34:08):
tech genetic sequencing tool, researchers identified nineteen groups of bacteria
on doors, floors, faucet handles, soap dispensers, and toilets of
twelve public restrooms in Colorado, six men room and six
women's room hm M. Many of the bacterias strains identified
(34:31):
could be transmitted by touching contaminated surfaces like E. Coli.
All right, and to finally answer this, but sanitary health
concerns aren't the only argument for the overcamp. After all,
the original patent for the toilet paper roll in eighteen
(34:55):
ninety one clearly shows the TP in the over position.
Thank you, mister Wheeler who did the patent for it,
for clarifying what it's meant to be. Can we do
a mic drop on that? Not if you have cats
or kids? Back after this
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