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