>> Hunter Hoover: Dirty and hippie go hand in hand. Modern day hippies are, again, those people who are out here trying to tell you that it is unhealthy to shower. You heard me. Unhealthy. Welcome back to privy. Privy is a podcast about bathrooms recorded from my home bathroom. I'm your host, hunter Hoover, and I love bathrooms. Welcome, uh, back, guys. Thank, uh, you for being here. Um, we've talked a number of times here on the show, um, in the past about the importance of the
Porta potty. And here on privy, we've tried to even win a Porta potty. We entered, um, no less than three times the honey bucket Porta potty competition last year. And I gotta say, we didn't win. I'd love to know who won. You know, sometimes. I'm not saying that the people at honey bucket did this, um, because I don't think they did, but sometimes I feel like people do these online, like, giveaways and these online, like, competitions, and you never really find out if anybody really
wanted. You know, you always hear all. This is how you enter, and you can see all the people that entered. But I feel like. I feel like I never saw who won. I'm. You know what? I. As I think about this, I'm gonna peek here and see if honey bucket ever actually posted anybody who won, because I fall pretty close, and, uh, and I feel like I would have seen it. You know, I'm saying, like, see, I don't
see any. I don't see any bright, shiny, bushy tail faces with just ear to ear grins that they've won a brand new honey bucket. Like, I don't see that on here. I see a lot of them delivering honey buckets, which is great, but I don't see it. I don't know. Honey bucket, I would love to find out who has won your competition. Um. Um, it wasn't me. We would have put the honey bucket to great use here. It was going to be our little mini
recording studio. But, um, we're back in the old steed here, my, um, home bathroom, if you can. Oh. Oh. Yep. See, the toilet paper has been placed on the roll facing the way that my wife prefers, and now it doesn't rip off the thing. So just another. Just another nail in that coffin. Um, but we didn't win. But as the weather gets warmer and the outdoor venues begin to fly, we are going to see more and more of not just honey buckets, but all porta potties popping
up all over the place. Little portable places for people to do their portable business. Uh, and we've talked a lot about different aspects of the Porta potty history and lore and life. Um, we've actually recorded in a Porta potty twice now on the show. Once was a solo mission, and the other we were joined by none other than Josh Wehrman, friend of the show and former guest. Ah. And really, sometimes I get to this
place with things. I've had people ask me a couple times, like, hey, are you ever worried about running out of stuff to talk about? And sometimes a little bare my sleeve here. Um, whatever that saying is, I don't know what that saying is, but I'm just gonna let you know that, yes, sometimes I do worry that I'm going to run out of bathroom material to talk about. And especially when we get to the world of Porta potties, I really feel like I have.
That vein has truly been tapped. You know, I've really tapped that vein, and I feel like Porta potties is one of those things here on the show that I'm getting ready to be able to lay to rest, at least for now. As, uh, long as people keep pooping, I think we're going to keep having stuff to talk about. There are some corners that I think we are nearing the end. And one of these, like I said, is the world of Porta potties. There can only be so much new Porta potty technology.
Right, right. I don't know. This is also one of those that has. Has truly lived in my notes app for some time. I m must confess, I've had to really stretch my research muscles to get to the bottom of this one, um, because at one point, I was Google translating web pages to get to the heart of the matter for our episode today. It's a tough spot. It's a tough spot to be in as a podcaster that does his own research, you know, I want to say something. I do my own research.
There's podcasts. There's people out here who have someone else doing all the research for them, and then they sit down, probably spritz their breath. I didn't spritz my breath. I've got a fully uncracked polar seltzer. I'm going to rip that bee in just a second. But there's people out there that they probably don't even pay
for it. They probably have some intern or some friend that they met in college doing all of their research for their show for them, and then they just sit down and look pretty and start talking, and they cover it as if they are professionals at that point, you're listening for personality only, and, uh, I'm just glad that's not. You're not here for personality. This information, try it again.
Id. This information was sifted like I was, like, panning for little tiny nuggets of gold in a river in the backwoods of the Internet for this one. This one. There was some sifting that happened, but it's been in my notes app for some time. It's truly lived in my notes app for months, if not year or two. And in my notes app has been the simple prompt plascruis. I don't know if I'm saying it right. We're going to get into it in a minute. That's it. Just the word
plascruis. And to the point where I think maybe I've known what this is for some time. And then it went in the notes app, and then I forgot what this was. And then it was just like, ooh. Every time I get ready to do an episode, I'd be like, what's that? Skip it, skip it, skip it, skip it. Um, and so here we are. We're here to talk. Let's adjust it. Oh, hey. We're here to talk about the plascruis I ventured forth, and I'm gonna tell you the story of this device.
In the southeastern corner of the Netherlands, there's a region called the Achterhoch. The Achterhocht. The actor hook. I don't know. Uh. I don't know. That's just how I'm gonna say it. This region is often called the rear corner because it's a part of the Netherlands that, like, sticks out like a nub into Germany. Inside this aktorhoek region is a town called Lockham. Lockham is a small town of about 33,000 people
today, just a little smaller than the town. I live here in, Albany, Oregon, Willamette Valley, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America, the world. But of course, we are not talking about Lockham today. That would be too simple. We need to talk about Lockham. Um, in the 1960s, Lockham in the 1960s, there lived a young man by the name of just Carlier going, m for it. Just Carlier
in Lockem, Denmark. He was 18 years old, and he was looking for something different, and he devised the plan with his brothers to throw an event, a music event. He and his brothers came up with the Lockham festival. The music festival, first held in 1968, was a three day music festival that drew about 5000 people in the area. Now, Lockham today has about 33,000 people. But I'm going to go ahead and wager a bet that Lockham, um, 60 years ago probably had about half that population, maybe a little
more. And so what you have here is essentially the population of Lockham, um, like Pertineer taking on an extra half or third of its population in a weekend. It's wild, but it drew an extra 5000 people to the area. And we hear this today and we go, yeah, that's fine. Have you heard of the Vegas sphere or whatever they call that thing? It can hold like a, uh, uh, metric flip jillion people. Uh, the Lockham festival is not that crazy, but it was.
Because this is 1968. It's likely that this is at the outset they were onto something. This is before the big music festivals of today. This is the outset of a lot of the modern rock and pop festivals. Coachella, Fyre Fest, pretty much any fest, and they got it. Corgi Fest, pork, beans and rice fest. Like, uh, I'm sure they have all of them. I wonder if they have a polar seltzer fest. You know what? I've talked about it enough already. We might as well just for all the ASMR people that are
joining us in the bathroom. Whoo. Yeah, it's not, it's, it's not orange vanilla, but that nectarine lemon is not bad. But Juce Carlier and his brothers, through this Lockham Festival, uh, three day music festival, drew 5000 people. And juice brought this to the city of Lockham. And to give you some perspective, this was before Woodstock. It predates a lot of the, like, dirty hippies sleeping in the mud festivals. But this set just Carlier onto a lifelong
trajectory and change. He became a well known event planner and event architect in the Netherlands. Nowadays, if you want to put on a big event like this, you can just rent, like, just about everything that you need to make it happen. Just. Carlier shared in an article to AV and entertainment magazine about how they quite literally had to invent the wheel when they came to throwing, uh, large outdoor
events. One account noted how he and his brothers made a this, like, tall, rickety control booth out of like, old wood. So that way the techs had something to sit in during the acts. They had nothing because big fest, big outdoor festivals like were, if they had already happened, they were not very common. And so there wasn't like an industry where you have this stuff and you can go and readily find it. They had nothing, but they pushed on organizing concerts in Goffert park
in Lockham. Nether in Lockham. Denmark, Netherlands, I don't know. I think Denmark and the Netherlands are the same. I say with a medium amount of confidence as a public high school teacher, that sentence could not have been more fitting. But they start holding and organizing these concerts in Goffert park, and they eventually start setting up in the lowlands. The Lowlands festival, which replaced the Lockham festival, they partnered with music industries, began to get more
and more people at their events. In the mid to late eighties, Carlier came up with a plan for a large outdoor camping festival with multiple components to it. His. His normal, like, if he normally, if just was just show me that juice. Um, but if just was going to set out to hold a festival of this nature, he would have selected Goffert park. But the Goffert park and the area around it only had room for about 30,000 people. What he was planning was much, much bigger than that.
This, coupled with the ongoing trend of what I would like to call rampant hippie ism at these type outdoor, wallow in the mud festivals, it was going to be a rough look. Like, you get that many naked people who are smoking dope together. There's going to be some wild nakedness going on. Carlier says in his interview that many of the festivals that popped up were very hippie in Nature. And I'm going to key you in on something. This is, this is a hunter. Hunter's here to key in on it. Are you
ready? Hippie is a code word for dirty. So when you say, oh, uh, he's kind of a hippie, you're kind of, you know, they're kind of like, they're kind of dirty. They smell weird, mostly because they probably don't believe in Showers or some Nonsense. Dirty and hippie go hand in hand. Modern day hippies are, again, those people who are out here trying to tell you that, that it is unhealthy to shower. You heard me. Unhealthy to shower. That's a notion that is put forth by,
again, dirty hippies. Um, you know what's unhealthy? Let me tell you what's unhealthy. I'm gonna tell you what's unhealthy real quick. Having disgusting body stink. That's what's unhealthy. Like, if. If your armpits stink, scrub them down, brother. Uh, you, uh, know what's unhealthy? That your brain has rationalized that it's fine to make everybody else smoke. Smell your nasty onion armpit. Like, cut it out. Get yourself. Onions are an improvement. It's so
dumb. Another nice code word for hippie nowadays is natural. Oh, he's all natural. Well, all natural smells like butt. So, like, sort yourself out. Like, they don't have toilet paper in nature. So the next time somebody's like, well, I am all natural, then we don't wipe your butt. You don't shower. Because here in the real world, we do those things. Yes. At one point in human history, we didn't, and now we do, and we ought to be thankful for it. Armpits stink. So does your breath said, like,
juice, brush your teeth or something? I don't know, but juice was trying to clean it up. Uh, clean up this hippie scene. As Woodstock and other venues became famous for the nefarious deeds done dirt cheap in the bushes, he said, you know what would be awesome? If. If a person went to a music festival for the music and not to see people holding hands in the mud. Clean it up a bit. Just was onto something here. He's like, I want to clean up this scene.
But in early days, he had to figure out all the little ways and all the little things to help make it cleaner. Like, now you can just go to event rental things, I'm sure. Honey bucket, uh, this is, like, this is. They're not a sponsor, honey bucket. If you want to be, you could sponsor us. I would take. I would take a free honey bucket. I would. I would shout that crap out every single episode. If I was recording from a honey bucket, you know, I would say it every episode, challenge issued
honey bucket. But they didn't have a place to, like, go rent all this stuff, and so, like, to help make it clean. You couldn't just grab it like you do now. And so, in the same interview, he shared the process for inventing all this stuff. It kind of came out, uh, like, he literally had to do it. To not do it would be allowing to everybody to just progress in their own hippie natural stink, if you know what I'm saying.
One such invention designed for the Monsters of rock festival in 1991, featuring AC DC, Metallica, Motley crue Greens, reich, and the Black crows. You get it? Pretty big names, except for a couple of those, sorry, guys, never heard of you. And this stop. This. This stop at. At the Monsters of Rock festival 1991, that came to the Lockham, Netherlands region of the Netherlands, um, was a multi continental, multi month long multinational tour that landed itself in the little town
of Lockham, Netherlands. Because jus Carlier had made a name for himself, and he made a name for lockham. For this event, just Carlier put his innovation and inventor skills to the test and came up with an invention he called the cross units. Or as they have been known for some time, the piss cross, or in Dutch. And as it has lived in my notes app for the last year or two, the Plascus. The plascruis again came about as an attempt to clean up the grounds of the festival for the monsters of
rock. One of the problems with standard porta potties is when they fill up too fast. People, likely men who simply have to pee when they are outdoors and truth be told on substances, are going wild. And you know, sometimes when you're in that place and the line for the porta potty is nine dudes deep, it's easier to just let it fly, hit the good old outdoors, pee into awe. Natural. You know what I'm saying?
And that's great, except when you have a few hundred thousand people drunk and high and outside and toying with the idea of being naked anyway. Peeing where people are trying to sit and be drunk and fornicate in the bushes where there is also peeing. Happy. You can't just have people peeing wherever and you could see how they'd be like a, uh, thing you didn't want. Like you don't. When you go to a music festival, you don't want to have to navigate people's urine.
And even though they had porta potties, there were people who were actively not using them because the lines were too long. And so jus said we got to give a people away to pee in public, but that is more sanitary and helps them pee in a desired contained location and situation. You have to lock the pee down. You have to lock the urination down. Really rein it in. You can't have pee flowing all over where people are trying to rock and roll, baby.
You can't. And so juice juiced came up with the device called the plascruis, the p cross. Plas being the p of the situation and cruis meaning crew cross. Do you see it now? It is exactly what you think it is. An x shape. A cross shaped portable urinal porta potty for public urination. It doesn't have doors because you walk up and you use it and you walk away. It can serve four men in the space. A Porta potty would previously have serviced one. That's good.
That's good for keeping bathroom, uh, times at a minimum and encouraging people to use these quicker options. Just Carlier came up with this just for this venue, for the monsters of rock festival at Goffert park. But it turns out the crews who worked the festival and the musicians and the people were abuzz about these p crosses in that interview, just says that they had to start making more and more of the psychoesses because they were an international demand. It became a
thing. But here's what I'm here to tell you. I hear Hunter at, uh, host of privy, we've talked a lot about bathrooms. I would argue I have been around the bathroom block. And the troubling thing is, I have never seen one of these other than the Internet search. Check, uh, out privy socials. We'll put it out there. We all see them. I've never seen a picross in person. A plascruis in person. I long to. I long to use one. I want to stand atop and pee in all fourth.
No, just kidding. Don't do that, kids. Don't do that. I think this would be an amazing addition to every state fair, every rodeo, every outdoor venue where you're going to have more than, like, a couple thousand people frequenting these outdoor urinal stations. And they. And, and here's the deal. We talked about this a little bit on the. The women's thing, but, like, they have women's versions of this kind of already. I think this would be an amazing addition. In
addition to Porta bodies. I'm not saying get rid of those, because you know that there's somebody going to be trying to poop in the plascurist stand to poop. Like, don't do that. Don't poo in the stand to poop. Oh, this doesn't need to be a full hunters anecdotes, but it just came to me. So this last week, we. My children are in. Are in baseball. T ball and coach pitch. And there was a. There was a. There was a Porta potty on
the grounds. And the Porta potty had one of those situations where it's got the Porta Potty classic with, like, this is the same Porta potty. They got absolutely decimated by the strawberry smoothie vomit a couple weeks back, if you remember. But it's got the traditional porta potty situation. But then just to the right of it, it's got the Porta potty urinal where, like, you can pee, and then you get to, like it. Like, marble runs pee
down into the tank itself. Well, somebody had thrown gum into the urinal thing, and it had rinsed and it had, like, clogged the thing. That lets the urinal or the. The. The wet pass into the wet plus solid. And so you could tell, like, I went in, I didn't use it, because it's like, there's no way to not almost accidentally spill somebody's full bladder of pee all over you, but somebody had peed into it after this gum had, like, clogged the pipe. And there's just, uh.
Like, a standing dog bowl amounts of urine just sitting there. And it's like, if you sit. If. If you sit to crap on this porta potty, your head's gonna be right next to the pea. Like, we can't be doing this. Every public park should have one of these stand to pee urinals. It's just a great idea. I could have used one that day at the baseball fields. And I'm just saying, this is either a plus
or minus, depending on who you are. But you and three of your friends could join hands in a kumbaya of urine around the plastruists and hold hands in a four way pea circle, all while still being in your own little plascruess cubicle. It's. It's friendship. It's brotherhood. Perfectly, perfectly embodied. It's almost like, you know, uh, we should get the porta potty. Like, reach around, hold hands to the porta pot.
Oh, that could be good. It's truly a neat thing. The plastruists, we need more of them in our lives. I long to use one. I long to see one. This week on privy, we celebrate the ingenuity of just Carlier for coming up with the idea. I long to experience it in its own capacity. One day, the plastruess. This brings us to the end of another episode. Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening. Um, if you are enjoying us via video on YouTube, leave, um, a
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