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Ep. 111 Japanese Toilet Demons · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: Welcome back to privy. Privy is
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a podcast about bathrooms
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recorded from my home
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bathroom. I'm your host, Hunter
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Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
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And I will note, uh, last
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episode, I want to say last week, but it's more than a
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week. Last, um, episode, we were
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joined in Porta Potty
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with Josh Wehrman. And I gotta say,
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while that was fun, and I think we'll
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revisit the timber Ridge middle school Porta
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potty parking lot. Porta potty. And
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while that was fun,
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uh, recording in my own home
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is a lot better.
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Uh, Josh, next
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time, I'll have you over here. I'll get you a seltzer.
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We'll sit back, we'll record. We'll do a little record, and do a little
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hang sesh. It'll be as nice as the
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Porta potty was a little record away from
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home. I think this will be better by
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far. I think you'll find it is much
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more, uh, welcoming, if you
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will. There was something about the
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atmosphere now just the
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spider and the rat and just
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the thrill and the terror of,
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like, anytime a light came on outside the Porta potty,
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we were just scared. Um, and it really
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added to the spooky season.
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It was spooky season inside and outside that
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porta potty, especially in the blue lake that I was
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sitting on top of. Nothing scarier,
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really, truthfully, nothing
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scarier than a bacterial infection from other people's
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poops. Like, to my knowledge, neither he
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nor I have had any complications
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related to our extended stay in the Porta
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potty yet. Uh, but
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I can't believe that it isn't
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somehow bad. It seems like it
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has to have been negative in some way.
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But as we near the end
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of October, we are also rounding out
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the end of our spooky season.
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And to do so,
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we need to take a small trip
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and explore bathrooms that are
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of not here in the United States.
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But before we do that, a, uh, brief
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observation. Uh, I'm not a
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scary movie person.
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I don't really like being scared. I don't know why. But
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in the last week, my children
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have decided that scary stuff
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is fun. I don't understand it. I don't like being
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scared. My wife thinks it's hilarious to scare
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me. Um, and
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I have had people, like, at work scare me,
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and I'm one of those people that I just scream
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like a small infant girl, uh,
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whenever I get scared.
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And then I get mad, I'm, um, a
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scream and then get angry, and I just kind of stew about
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it. But I'm not a scary movie person.
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I don't like the scary movies. I don't really like
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horror when the whole shtick of
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the movie is like, oh, man, this person got
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dismembered and you were watching. How scary is that?
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Wasn't that scary? Like, oh, man, they
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removed his arm from his body.
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Wasn't that terrifying? That's not
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for me. I don't mind monster
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movies. Uh, I don't mind suspense.
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But something that I notice both
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in horror and
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scary movies, as well as, like,
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monster and suspense films,
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is they love to put movie
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like bathroom
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scenes in these movies. It is as if
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there is something inherently vulnerable about the
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bathroom in which they must
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put this very vulnerable spot
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in these kind of movies that kind of
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have a feast on one's vulnerability.
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Now, this
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is not the week for
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privy's top horror movie scenes, or why
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we even have these, but it is, however, my way
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of becoming curious and getting more and more
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curious. Uh, I will
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admit we are at the point of
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this recording, less than ten calendar days
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away from Halloween. And
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I have watched no Halloween
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movies. I have taken in no Halloween
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any sort of media, and I simply do not
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care. Now, I
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will care, but I do not. Now,
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I think the week of Halloween,
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I'll get in the weenie spirit, I'll be a real
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Halloweener. But
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that is those who Halloween
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Halloweeners. But
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I just couldn't give a flying flip about it
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right now. And
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it is, however, again, my way of getting curious
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as I think about these scary movies and the number of
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them that just have this suspenseful
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scene related to the bathroom. We
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keep putting these monsters and other scary things in the bathrooms,
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and I'm sitting down,
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they're in the bathroom, and they're sitting down with their
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little hamigo hanging out, and they're like, yeah, but
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you might get stabbed.
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I know that you're just trying to drop a chaz,
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but there's a non zero chance that somebody's going to
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sneak in and stab you. People
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have been dying on the toilets for centuries. Check out
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episode ten ish of this pod.
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But there's something vulnerable about pooping and
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being in the bathroom that makes it rife for
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horror. I've noted in the
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past, uh, that
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when I was in college, in our dorm,
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many of us in the dorm regularly
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pooped with the stall door wide open
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for fear of someone sneaking in and sneaking up on
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us. It wasn't a good defense
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mechanism, but it was a defense mechanism.
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I guess we would see an attacker before they
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attacked. Was the mindset behind that, I don't know.
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But then it got me wondering.
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This time of year, it's spooky season and there's all
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sorts of scary stories out there. So I went
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looking for some scary toilet stories
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and I was taken to a page. If you've ever
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searched Google, I know that
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Google. Have you ever heard of it? But if
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you've ever searched Google and you've visited
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a page in the past, when you
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search something on Google, it will let you know
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if you've been there. Usually as evidenced by light
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purple lettering instead of the normal blue
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that you can click. Now, when
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I typed in spooky or scary
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spoop key. Forgive me, father. Uh, spoopkey
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scary toilet stories,
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it displayed a page that it said I had already
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been to. And this is how I
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knew, uh, it was at this moment that I
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knew that my bathroom
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media and bathroom knowledge journey
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had come full circle. I have now begun
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to revisit pages that
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I have already visited for topics in the
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past.
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It was back when we discussed toilet
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deities earlier this year. Well, uh, and,
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uh, the idea is essentially this.
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If there are toilet, quote unquote
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gods, if you will, like, who
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wants that one? But whatever. Then
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you know that there are, uh, toilet
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demons.
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This week on privy, we are
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going to focus in,
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the rest are for another day, but we are going to
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focus primarily in on a
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select demographic of toilet
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demon. That is the japanese toilet
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demons. But before we can
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do that, we need to talk about something called
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Yokai. If you're like
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me and you hear the word yokai, you
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think of nothing else except for Yokai Watch. Now,
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Yokai Watch is a franchise of
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children's video games in which somebody,
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I'm gonna say namco, but I don't know if that's true, and I don't
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really care. Essentially, uh, tries to rip off
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Pokemon by making this boy that has a
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watch that can, I think, capture Yokai's.
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I'll be honest, I haven't played it and I don't care enough to figure
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it out. But when I
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hear the word yokai, that's what I think
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of Yokai watch.
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These yokais are these
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spirit like things that
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inhabit, like, other
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things, which to me just sounds
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like a giga gaga ghost. But
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it turns out Yokai
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have been around for about 1500
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years, or at least
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the idea of them, like, whether or not these things
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are real, they're not. Uh, is
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besides the point. It is people's
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discussion of and belief
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in them that dates back
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1500 years in
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the 700s yokai were written
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about as seeming explanations
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to strange phenomenon in the imperial court.
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Somebody sticks their leftover
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panda express in the fridge and then it's just
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miraculously gone. Nobody ate it. Like you
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ask everybody in the house and nobody ever ate
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it. Nobody's ever
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guilty. It must be the,
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uh. And as people began to write
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about these strange disappearing
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panda express phenomenons, they
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didn't have panda Express back then. If you didn't know they didn't
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have panda Express. I don't know when panda Express started, but I
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guarantee you it wasn't back then.
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You know what else they didn't have then?
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Oh, uh,
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Seltzer, I must confess.
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Forgive me. Polar seltzer. Polar
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seltzer, I bequeathed myself to you.
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I am not suppping on your very good polar
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bear tonight. Um, tonight I
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have just freshly cracked open a
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waterloo spiked,
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wrong word spiced apple seltzer.
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So let's hit this and quit this.
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Well, I'm going to tell you this right now.
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That is no orange vanilla.
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Um, that leaves
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polar seltzer. Don't worry, your orange
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vanilla reigns supreme in my heart.
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But they assigned
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something to the description of what was causing
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this strange phenomena and they began to refer
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them as these beings called yokai.
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It would be centuries before the yokai
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themselves would be given physical descriptions,
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often as strange animals
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or element. Things that roam.
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Yokai were quite literally
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the result of folklore and
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legend, but also the result of fun
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wordplay. As stories began to be
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told of strange things happening, different
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yokai took shape. They really
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became a part and a
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standing staple of japanese
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folk stories and tales.
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Think of some of the fairy tales and folk
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stories you learned growing up to the japanese
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people. Yokai often popped up in these,
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as so often some of our tropes
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pop up in our folk stories. When
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yokai make an appearance, they are often
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mischievous or, uh, an evil entity.
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And as is often the case, they also
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became a part of the Shinto
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religion in japanese belief. And from what I can
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tell, there are about as many yokai as there
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are phenomenon that you could need to describe and
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a various different yokai that you could assign to each
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phenomenon.
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It should also be noted yokai
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are said to inhabit things, or,
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as is often the case, as we're going to see this week, dwell
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within things.
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When something's going to inhabit something else, it's
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only a matter of time before there are
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yokais in your toilet.
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Now, many of these toilet
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yokais are commonly referred to as
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quote unquote, toilet demons, which I
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referred to them at the top of this show. But the
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idea of a demon is a pretty european
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idea. It is mostly our way of
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describing something in japanese culture that we
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don't really have. An equivalent for
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spirits or ghosts would be like the closest thing
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in western culture to this.
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But today we're going to explore some of
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these japanese toilet demons
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as we round out spook gee season here on
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privy. Before we begin,
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I must beg your apologies. I
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most assuredly am going to butcher the
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name of many japanese people this
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week. If you are from Japan, if you speak
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Japanese, or if your culture is japanese,
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forgive me, uh, I'm not japanese. I don't
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know the language. I can't speak it. I'm just doing my best
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as a white bearded weirdo.
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Um, but the first of our japanese toilet
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demons is Toyer
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no Hanako san.
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Young japanese children may
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often find themselves faced with the
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opportunity for strange encounters.
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A theme that's going to pop up multiple
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times this week. I think you'll find
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one of these strange encounters is with an
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entity known as Hanako san.
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Now, depending on which version of the story
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that you have heard, which
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is so true for most folktales,
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like, every folktale, I
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feel like has multiple versions which lends
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to its folkiness. Uh,
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but depending on which version of the story you listen
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to, Hanako
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san was a young girl who died
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in the stall of a school bathroom.
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Now, depending on your source and
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who you asked, there's multiple ways that she
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is said to have died. Hanako san
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could have died as a result of a failure to
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shelter. Well, during a World War II air raid.
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Rough break there. Or she
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is the spirit,
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or whatever, of a girl who was murdered by
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a staff of the school, or a parent
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in the stall of the bathroom. Or
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she was a girl who died who, at the hands
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of piers'bullying, committed
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suicide in the bathroom stall.
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Whatever the reason, as the story goes,
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Hanako san died in the bathroom. And
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so the spirit of the little girl is
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said to inhabit school
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bathrooms. As
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the folk story goes, the spirit
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dwells in the toilets of the third story
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bathroom, generally the girls
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room in japanese schools,
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you can tell how this schoolyard
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scary story gets spread like wildfire.
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Kids at recess, they're just itching to
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challenge each other to go into a bathroom and
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possibly get sucked into hell. You know what?
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It's just. It's just good fun. It's just
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good playground fun. To talk
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to this toilet demon, Hanako san,
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you enter the third story toilet. Knock
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three times on the stall door and ask if
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Hanako san is present. If
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she is, she will reply yes.
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M what happens next is the
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hoogity boogity. Some say. When she
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replies yes, you see a disembodied and
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bloody hand appear to you that will then pull
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you down through the toilet into hell.
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Rough break. Or you
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possibly are eaten by a three headed lizard monster
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for disturbing Hanaka san's peace.
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This urban legend japanese toilet spirit
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demon thing is weird. First,
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I would ask what's with the lizard? Is that the yokai
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here? And second, why is it so
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popular? Like this is
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one of those stories that gets picked up in japanese
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folklore and is propagated in japanese media.
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Like they've made movies and TV
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episodes about this type thing.
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This boopki season, if
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you have access to a school with a third
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story, go to the bathroom,
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knock on the skull, and ask for the ghost
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of a deceased little girl from 70 years ago.
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Sounds like fun,
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but this is just one of many japanese
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toilet demons or ghosts.
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The next, similar to Hanako
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san is the air quotes
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toilet demon Kashima Reiko
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or Kashima Riku.
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They exist because something happened again
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to a schoolgirl. And that begs the
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question, you know what? Jumping
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out of the spoopki mood here. What
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in the heck is going on
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with these japanese stories that there is so many
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schoolgirl schoolgirls being
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injured and maimed and murdered left and
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right? Can we
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not get things under control to
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the point where every one of these flipping stories
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does not have some young schoolgirl
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being injured or murdered? I don't understand
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it.
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Like, at this point, you might have as
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good a chance at survival being a
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schoolgirl in a japanese folk story as
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you do being a person of color in any
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zombie movie. But in
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the case of Kashima Riku, the girl
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didn't die in the bathroom.
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Naverily, she died
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at a local train depot when she
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was, we'll say, fell. But
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does anybody ever really fall onto
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the tracks wherein she was
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cut in half by the train?
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The train sliced this girl in half,
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leaving them without legs and the spirit or
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ghost or yokai or. I've honestly lost the
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threat of what we're even calling these, I guess
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demons at this point. Thus survives
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moving about by dragging the back part of
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their body a bloody
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half stump
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while scratching at the ground making a
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sound. M
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consequently, depending who you
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ask, they call this girl
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nightmare fueled thing,
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the tiki tiki, based on the
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sound that it makes as it pulls itself around.
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Legend has it she wants
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revenge, and if she finds
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you, she will chase you which
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I imagine she isn't great at doing since she's dragging her
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bloody torso stump around. But what do I know?
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And you might hear that and you might say, well, okay, but,
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Hunter, this is a
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podcast about bathrooms. We don't just talk
21:15
about every random japanese toilet schoolgirl
21:17
demon that you come across on the
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Internet. Like, if they're not in the bathroom, what in the heck are we
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even talking about them for? Well,
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the legend goes
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that Kashima Riku inhabits
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bathroom stalls and asks occupants
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through the stall divider while they're pooping,
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do you know where my legs are?
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That's a spooky one. Imagine
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you've sat down. You've begun
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the process of what I like to call taking a fat
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crap. And you know how you can kind
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of look under the stall and tell there isn't anyone
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dwelling there? Well, you do that. You look under
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the stall, no feet. You're all alone in the bathroom,
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all clear in your brain. You release the
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pile that you've been storing.
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You release the sphinx, which is short for
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beginning pooping, and you hear, do you know where my
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legs are? No,
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thanks. A, uh, thousand times no, thanks. Like, if
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she doesn't like your answer, she cuts your legs off.
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But legend has it, if you tell her that her
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legs are on the maishin expressway
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or by calling her the masked death
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demon, she won't slice and dice you. How gracious.
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But still,
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we continue as Japan
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provides us yet another fun
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bathroom demon, the akamanto.
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How much before we begin,
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how much do you want to bet? How
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much you want to bet the akamanto has something to do
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with the disembodied soul of some girl
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I have to read. So
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the Akamanto translates red
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cape, often because they are depicted
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as wearing a red cape or cloak. It's
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an old urban legends schoolyard
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tale that dates back to the 1930s.
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The Akamanto has also been called the akai
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kami, or aokami, which means red paper,
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blue paper.
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This toilet demon
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appears to a person in a public or
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school bathroom. Here we are again, back at the
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japanese school. Just don't go to school in Japan.
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That's what I've learned. Just don't do it.
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And it appears to people and asks them
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questions such as, do you want red paper or blue
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paper to wipe your butt with?
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And here's the fun part. And by
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fun, I mean awful. Either
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choice results in you getting killed.
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Like, the only way to not get killed is to
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ignore them and run away assumedly with your pants
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practically on the floor. The akamanto is said
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to haunt public and school bathrooms.
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Again, particularly likes the girls bathroom.
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Now, I don't like this one as
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much because it is said to be
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a male figure, and I don't like that he likes
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the girl's bathroom. I think that's icky.
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Um, and he is usually said
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to haunt the last stall in the line.
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Now, some less murdery
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versions say that he gives you a
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choice between red paper and white paper.
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And depending on your choice, you get either a
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kiss on your dairy air or
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a swat on the backside. Very bad.
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Presumably he's coming from the toilet bowl. It's just
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flipping creepy.
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I'm going to go out on a limb.
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I would rather be chased by the weird
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torso stump girl than
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have this toilet dwelling
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dude.
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Just. No, this
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is bad. Uh, it is
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usually said to appear. The akamanto is
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usually said to appear when you are caught without toilet
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paper in the stall. And if you try to bring your own to
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troubleshoot this problem, it'll just make it disappear. It's
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so unfortunate. And then it appears to you, red paper
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or blue paper.
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Next up in our tour of
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japanese toilet demons is a thing called
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the akonami.
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Now, the akonami is, um, a little
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bit different. Um, in
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short, this is yet another
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japanese yokai. And
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aka is a term that refers
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to dead skin cells. Cells or
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things that have been shed from the human body, such as
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hair, toenails, the likes.
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The full name of
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this yokai japanese toilet demon,
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akanami, means scum liquor
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or filth liquor, you lint
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liquor. Uh, but it first
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appeared in the 1770s, and the story
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began as an extension of buddhist cleanliness
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rituals. This
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yokai japanese toilet
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demon thing is really like a
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bathtub demon. And essentially he goes about
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eating the filth at the bottom of the
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tub just so
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bad. I,
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you know,
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dang it. Could you imagine
26:58
you walk into your bathroom and you pull the curtain back
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and you just have this weird little creepy
27:04
looking imp thing, and he's just
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in the bottom of your bathtub, just up
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all of the yuck in the bottom of you.
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Uh, just like, chill out, bud. Like, take a
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lap. And
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he's said to eat it again, filth
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liquor. Um, my question
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is, why can't my bloke just get in there with some
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scrubby bubbles or some Mr. Clean
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magic spray? Why has he got a lick
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it? Like, this is a
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sick dude. He's just
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all up on the bathtub floor. There's flipping,
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like, toenails and beard hair.
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Stop it, you sick
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freak.
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But this guy is like that weird fish at the
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bottom of your aquarium who
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cleans the bad boy. But this one's like licking up
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bathroom grime.
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And as far as japanese toilet demons
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go,
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it's not an exhaustive list, because as I
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said, there's really
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infinite as many yokai as someone can come up with a
28:17
need to explain something weird.
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But these are like, I would say, the top
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four japanese toilet demons. But before
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we go, as this search went
28:29
on, I stumbled across
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what is called a game, the
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Daruma san. And this
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is one of those spooky things that is more
28:40
spookier to read about than probably actually go
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do. I don't know. I didn't go do it. You know
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what? Maybe that's. Maybe that's bonus. I don't know.
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We'll see.
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But to play Daruma san,
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there are steps number one. Before you go to
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bed, you take off all your clothes. You just strip down to the
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buff, like total buff
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up. And then you go in the
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bathroom, and you fill your bathtub, and you turn off all lights. Now,
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here's the thing. I don't
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like baths, so, like, they've already lost
29:13
me. I'm a big fan of the dark shower. I've shared
29:16
that multiple times. Hard fan of the dark
29:18
shower. But dark bath, I
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think it loses some of its
29:24
pizzazz. But
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while in the dark, you sit in the,
29:29
quote, middle of the bathtub. Now,
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my fat deaf isn't going to fit in the middle of
29:35
the bathtub. I think this is made for a skinny
29:38
japanese person. Um,
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but you sit in the middle of the bathtub, quote,
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facing the faucet, or tap, at
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which point you close your eyes and you wash
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your hair. Weird. As you
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wash your hair, you repeat the words, daruma san
29:55
fell down. Daruma san fell down.
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You do not stop repeating these words until you
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finish washing your hair. Your eyes
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must remain shut this whole time.
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As you wash your hair, you will picture a japanese
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woman standing in the bathtub, presumably
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Daruma san herself, and she will slip and
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fall onto a rusty tap, gouging her
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eye out and thus killing her rough.
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After this vision, you will hear a sound coming from behind
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you, or feel a movement in the bath. Do not
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turn around or pee. Why did I get
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goosebumps? I don't believe any of
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this crap. I don't believe in this
30:37
nonsense. So, like, why did I get goosebumps? Just
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now? You have
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summoned the ghost. You feel her
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presence as she emerges from the bathtub.
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Ask out loud, why did you fall in the
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bathtub? You can finally
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get out of the bathtub. Make sure your eyes remain
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shut. Make sure not to slip or trip
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as you get out of the bath. Do not drain the
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water until the next morning.
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Shut the door behind you. It is now safe to open your
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eyes. Keep the water in the bathtub. Do
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not let it go out, and do not
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turn on any lights. Go to bed
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now. The woman, quote unquote
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woman who appears to you or is said to
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appear to you because again, this is
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Halloween or nonsense, is a
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ghostly figure and she will follow you
31:32
all day. She wears
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tattered and stained white clothes with black hair.
31:39
She has but one eye. Her left eye is
31:41
wide open and bloodshot. Her right
31:44
eye is missing, leaving a bloody hollow eye
31:47
socket, presumably from when she fell and
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impaled herself on the faucet earlier.
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Now the
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game. Now you have begun the game
31:58
that is the beginning of playing Daruma san, or whatever
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this thing is called. When you wake up, the game
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begins and your day will begin as normal until you feel
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the presence of the one eyed woman glancing over
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your right shoulder. When you turn around, she
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will not be there. She will get
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closer and closer and closer
32:19
as your day goes on, but do not let her catch
32:22
you. If the one eyed woman is
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getting too close, you should shout tamare, which means
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stop. Then run away fast.
32:30
This will put distance between you and the woman.
32:33
You must end this game before midnight, or
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else she will keep stalking you and appear to you in your
32:38
dreams to kill you.
32:42
Fake. To end the game, you must
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catch a glimpse of the one eyed woman and shout,
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kata, which means I cut you loose
32:50
while swinging your arm in a chopping motion.
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Think a, uh, karate swipe.
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The game will end and the one eyed women will
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follow you no more.
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Again. To reiterate, rules include
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do not open your eyes when the ghost first appears. Do not let
33:09
the one eyed woman trip you when you leave the bathtub. In
33:12
other words, don't completely beef it
33:14
on the wet bathtub floor with your eyes closed in the
33:17
dark. By the way, like the game's. I feel like the
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game itself. I think I know. I think I
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know how Daruma san ended up with one
33:26
eye. She was trying to Daruma san
33:28
herself and she yoinked it
33:31
and planted her flipping face right into the
33:34
faucet. Do not reenter
33:37
the bathroom after you leave. Do not drain the bath until the morning, and
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do not let the one eyed woman catch you.
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Now, the website that I got this interesting
33:46
information from, it says this game is very
33:48
dangerous. It can get you killed when you're
33:51
getting out of the bathtub. And it's important to play with
33:54
caution. Now,
33:57
I'm going to go ahead and tell you that the
34:00
risk you run of completing schmacking
34:03
your head on the bathroom floor by
34:05
trying all of these maneuvers with your eyes closed,
34:08
wet, slippery in the dark
34:11
is a thousand times more
34:13
dangerous than the actual notion that
34:16
this air quotes demon spirit
34:19
is going to catch you.
34:23
Do this if you want, but
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just be careful. Don't smack your head. Figure
34:29
out how to do this and not smack your head.
34:32
The Japanese have all sorts of
34:35
spooky things to have shared with us
34:37
around the bathroom. They made
34:40
a game, for goodness sakes.
34:43
And as we close out this spoop gee season,
34:47
I hope we didn't spoop gear.
34:50
I don't know how to make that tense, um,
34:52
but I hope it wasn't too
34:55
dissettling. But this brings
34:57
us to the end of Spoopki season and the
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end of another episode of Privy. Thank you all
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