Latest / Privycast / Ep. 121 Does a Bear Poop in the Woods (Groundhog Day Special 2024)
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- 0:01>> Speaker A: Are you ready?
- 0:04It's a tradition. Before we get
- 0:07Phil out, we get him fired up
- 0:10by chanting, Phil, Phil,
- 0:13Phil, Phil, Phil,
- 0:16Phil, Phil, Phil.
- 0:24It huxatani Phil
- 0:41is a podcast about bathrooms
- 0:43recorded from my home bathroom. And
- 0:46I want to welcome you to the
- 0:482024 privy cast
- 0:51presents the Groundhog Day special. Happy
- 0:54Groundhogs Day, everybody. At the point of this
- 0:56episode's release, you've already celebrated both publicly
- 0:59and privately with your families. Um, I hope you
- 1:02had a joyous celebration of our dear friend plum
- 1:05Satami. As you
- 1:08know, plump Satami did
- 1:10not see his shadow.
- 1:16And here's the deal
- 1:19about plump Satomi in this moment.
- 1:23Whether or not you
- 1:26believe plump Satami
- 1:29has special weather predicting powers,
- 1:32which, I mean, look at the
- 1:34guy. If he doesn't, who does? Do you know what
- 1:37I'm saying? Also, if you've never
- 1:40taken in Groundhog's
- 1:42day festivities and celebrations, I
- 1:46highly cannot more highly
- 1:48recommend that you go watch
- 1:52a rebroadcast of this
- 1:55year's Groundhog's Day
- 1:59festivities out on the
- 2:01lawn of plumpsatomi, Pennsylvania.
- 2:04Uh, punksatami. You know what I'm saying? But go
- 2:07watch it. These people are absolutely
- 2:09phenomenal to watch, uh, as they. I think it's
- 2:12a cult. You get big cult vibes,
- 2:15but he's a groundhog.
- 2:18It's Groundhog's Day. You got to get in the spirit.
- 2:22And whether you think that
- 2:25these hundreds, if not thousands, of
- 2:27people gathering of the lawns in
- 2:30Punksatani, Pennsylvania, to essentially hear from a rodent
- 2:33every year is crazy, or whether you hear
- 2:36me say, groundhog Day is the best holiday in February, and
- 2:39you say, well, no, hunter. What about Super Bowl Sunday? What about
- 2:41Valentine's Day? What about President's Day? All these.
- 2:44The reality is Groundhogs Day
- 2:48means another privy cast
- 2:50Groundhogs Day special.
- 2:53In the past, we've discussed prairie dogginate,
- 2:56koalas, wombats, the
- 2:59like. And, uh, one thing's
- 3:02been kind of the trend in this is
- 3:05in many of these cases we have been
- 3:08discussing what I would call is either
- 3:11a rodent or is rodent adjacent.
- 3:14Uh, and I think
- 3:17that's fitting, as the ground dog is himself
- 3:20a marmot. Little Marmot, little silly
- 3:23little guy. He's so funny.
- 3:26Today I took a dump at the day of recording.
- 3:28Today I took a dump at Lebanon high
- 3:31School, and
- 3:36I had to use the gender neutral bathroom because that was all that
- 3:39was open to use at this point. Um, but they
- 3:42didn't have a stall door. So, like, the
- 3:44whole time I'm in there, I'm worried about somebody
- 3:47coming in and just seeing me doing my thing
- 3:52without the stall door shut because the stall door
- 3:55is nonexistent.
- 3:57Um, I, uh,
- 4:00digress. It just stood out, you
- 4:03know,
- 4:06but we're. We're. We're. We're moving
- 4:09away from the world of marmots and
- 4:11marsupials to the
- 4:14world of bears. You've heard it
- 4:17asked, does a bear
- 4:20poop in the woods? And to that
- 4:23I say, probably,
- 4:25but whether or not it does, you
- 4:28know, we are going to talk about it
- 4:37as we delve into this groundhog's day special.
- 4:39It is going to behoove us
- 4:42to lay out some definitions
- 4:45of what makes a bear a bear.
- 4:49There's been a lot of talk recently about what
- 4:51makes, uh. Anyway, we're not going to get into the
- 4:54politics of it, but the technical
- 4:57definition of a bear is a
- 5:00large, often shaggy
- 5:02haired mammal with large
- 5:05plantagrade feet that feeds
- 5:07primarily on plants and insects,
- 5:10but will eat meat. Now,
- 5:14I want to say, other
- 5:17than the inclusion of whatever
- 5:20plantagrade feed is, I have to know, uh, we
- 5:23get the power of the Internet right here. What is a. Oh, it has to do
- 5:26with the position. It's the posture of
- 5:29the foot. Plantagrade is
- 5:31where the surface of the whole
- 5:34foot touches the ground.
- 5:39Oh, weird. Yeah. Uh, uh, okay,
- 5:42so it's, like, super flat footed. And the way
- 5:44it's organized, you may
- 5:47be few out there, but
- 5:51other than that, that sounds a lot like
- 5:54some husky boy, you know what I'm saying? Like a large,
- 5:57shaggy haired mammal that feeds primarily, uh,
- 6:00wow. Now he's eating cheeseburgers.
- 6:03But most strikingly in this
- 6:05definition.
- 6:08Okay, first stop. Everybody pause out here.
- 6:11Get it? Pause out. It should be
- 6:14noted, koalas
- 6:17are not bears
- 6:20because they are
- 6:22marsupials, and we already talked about
- 6:25them and their strange
- 6:28behavior. You can go check out last year's episode
- 6:30if you dare. But what is most
- 6:33striking is bears in this definition,
- 6:36are primarily herbivores. Now,
- 6:40a herbivore is a salad
- 6:43eating organism. They love lettuce.
- 6:45Um, they gobble up the veggies. They just can't get
- 6:48enough of them. I'm not a
- 6:51herbivore, but this is striking
- 6:54because, as is also noted,
- 6:57bears will hunt and eat
- 7:00meat, or in the case of
- 7:03Winnie the pooh, will snag himself just a
- 7:05big old smackerel of honey.
- 7:09And bears are weird. Like, when I think of a
- 7:11bear, I don't think I would have thought of them as
- 7:14primarily plant eating creatures.
- 7:17I think of them as they would eat me, and
- 7:20I'm not plants. So, um, that's
- 7:23that. But bears are
- 7:26weird. And other
- 7:29than their weird feet and their weird
- 7:32eating habits, even more
- 7:34weird is their tummy.
- 7:37Bare intestines
- 7:40differ than the intestines of us
- 7:43humans in that bare
- 7:45intestines are elongated. Think of like a
- 7:48big tube slide that runs down
- 7:51the inside of a bear. It's not straight. It does have a couple
- 7:54of hooks, cutbacks. But
- 7:57human intestines swerve back and forth.
- 8:00It's like, got all these switchbacks before
- 8:03finding the end of the poop chute.
- 8:06Bears have an elongated
- 8:09intestine. It should also be noted bears
- 8:12do not have a large and small
- 8:14intestine to digest food. While
- 8:17their intestines are very efficient
- 8:20at digesting foods, certain
- 8:22foods are not digested
- 8:25well and as a result, fly right through
- 8:28them. The other big difference
- 8:31about bears and their innards,
- 8:34the guts.
- 8:37It's been a hot minute since I've given y'all a hot
- 8:40applebee's update, but I ought to give it
- 8:43to
- 8:46recently, uh, recently on Applebee's,
- 8:48um, I gotta make a confession.
- 8:53The family behind the table we were sitting at, they
- 8:55did leave an entire child's
- 8:58cheese pizza.
- 9:00Um, and all I'm
- 9:03gonna say is, we did take care
- 9:06of it. But
- 9:10Applebee's wings, golly, they're
- 9:13so good. But they just do you so,
- 9:15like, I think Applebee's
- 9:18wings are like what happens with
- 9:20bears? Uh, but bears don't have a
- 9:23sequum now.
- 9:26Gosh. Adhd brain, everybody. Here we go.
- 9:29The seacum is like this pouch
- 9:31like structure at the beginning of the large
- 9:35intestine. Um, and the seacum pretty
- 9:38much receives the
- 9:40material that was not digested in the small
- 9:43intestine. And the seacum also helps
- 9:46absorb electrolytes and water before the food
- 9:49is further broken down in the large intestine.
- 9:51But bears do
- 9:54not have two intestines,
- 9:57and they do not have this little
- 10:00seacum pouch.
- 10:03Due to these structures of
- 10:06bear innards. Even though they like
- 10:09to eat plants and they are technically
- 10:12herbivores, their bodies
- 10:15are not good at digesting
- 10:17high cellulose plant
- 10:20material, celery, if
- 10:23you will. For instance,
- 10:26if a bear eats some leafy greens such
- 10:29as leaves or clover, it will
- 10:32pass through that bear in about 7 hours.
- 10:36Whereas if they dig on a
- 10:39big old salmon, just a big old nice
- 10:41fishy, it's going to take that
- 10:43protein rich food about
- 10:4613 hours. Because
- 10:50the fish is being more
- 10:53processed and more nutrients
- 10:55absorbed by the bear
- 10:58stomach than is the high
- 11:01cellulose plants. The
- 11:03veggies fly right through them.
- 11:06Salad is to bears what
- 11:08Applebee's wings are to
- 11:11people like me. Now,
- 11:15bar intestines. Not being able to break down
- 11:18plant structures means they're also really.
- 11:21I mean, they do break them down, but, like, not
- 11:24as good and not as efficiently. But
- 11:27that also means that bears
- 11:29are extremely helpful to the
- 11:32environment and the propagating of
- 11:35the ecosystem. It's a fact. I'm about to
- 11:38hit you with a scientific fact. Um,
- 11:40if. Gosh. Science with hunter. Here
- 11:43we go. Are you ready? Here's
- 11:46your science fact for the week.
- 11:49Bears love
- 11:52berries. They can't get enough of them.
- 11:56Uh, they're absolutely fanatics for
- 11:59these small, sweet little babies.
- 12:01Um, it's a fact.
- 12:04Bears love babies. Oh, shoot. Berries.
- 12:06God, what is going on?
- 12:10And when we would go out huckleberry picking in
- 12:13Montana, it would be
- 12:16often that we would either carry bear
- 12:18whistles or would be out there making
- 12:22nature calls to
- 12:25ward off bears.
- 12:29Yeah,
- 12:38you know, bear calls.
- 12:42You don't want a bear sneaking up on you for a snack in the
- 12:45middle of berry picking. Again, they like
- 12:47berries, but they will eat you. They
- 12:50prefer, however, the berries that
- 12:53you are taking.
- 12:57But when bears eat berries,
- 13:00their intestines do a pretty good job of breaking down
- 13:03the berry. But the
- 13:05seeds m. No, the
- 13:08seeds pass straight through. Just
- 13:11fiber buddies. Straight on through that
- 13:14big old beer, uh, completely
- 13:17untouched. And this means that the bear
- 13:19actually serves to plant those seeds.
- 13:22They gobble up berries here, they
- 13:24digest. They shazberries there.
- 13:27Huh? Shazberries. Hey, there's
- 13:30an idea. Shazberry crunch. Shout
- 13:33out to the captain. Captain, if you're listening to me, I don't want to deal
- 13:36with this modern day captain. I want the old guy.
- 13:39Get this freaking loser out of here. I want old
- 13:42Captain Crunch. And I want to say, um,
- 13:44Shazbury Crunch. It's bear shaped,
- 13:47chocolate flavored
- 13:52captain. Mhm. Crunch might be a market.
- 13:54Shazbury crunch. Uh,
- 13:57Quaker company, if you want to hit me up on that.
- 14:01Ah, we can talk. Shazbury crunch. Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim,
- 14:04Tim. Um, but
- 14:06bears will plant berry bushes
- 14:09by pooping after having a snack. It's pretty
- 14:12cool. Uh, like
- 14:14little bear seed spreaders.
- 14:20But it must be pretty frustrating
- 14:23to be a plant eating animal and not be able
- 14:26to digest so many plants very well.
- 14:30This becomes specifically the case
- 14:33on one specific type of
- 14:35bear.
- 14:40When you think of pandas, you might
- 14:43think of the cute and cuddly black and white buddies
- 14:46that roll around and they just so adorable,
- 14:49you know, kung fu panda is coming out
- 14:52it's on its way. Kung fu panda four.
- 14:55And maybe you think of po, the kung fu panda when you think of
- 14:58pandas, or you might think of the
- 15:01americanized chinese food chain that keeps
- 15:04you on the pot for an afternoon. But
- 15:06pandas, like
- 15:09bears, because they are bears,
- 15:12are technically omnivores. Um,
- 15:18they can eat meat. They just don't want to.
- 15:22Now, while
- 15:25black bears and grizzlies will seek meat
- 15:27out and will often choose plants to snosh
- 15:30on that give them more nutrients before they fail to
- 15:33break them down, pandas
- 15:36go for pretty much the most
- 15:39unhelpful food a bear could go
- 15:41for. Bamboo. Now,
- 15:45when I told you that bare intestines
- 15:48are really bad at breaking down high
- 15:51cellulose content plants,
- 15:55bamboo is like that, man.
- 15:57It's like all fiber, all
- 16:00bad for the Bear tumtum, it does not
- 16:03do a lot for them. If a bear
- 16:06eats a plant, it needs to be pretty high in
- 16:09nutrients to make it worth it. This
- 16:12said bamboo is very low
- 16:15in nutrients. Likewise, the ease of
- 16:18the plant to digest
- 16:21helps the bear. Problem is, I don't know if
- 16:24you've ever interacted with bamboo,
- 16:28but it's pretty, uh, challenging to
- 16:30digest, I would guess. Never tried it.
- 16:34But, like, going to go out on a limb, seems
- 16:36like it would be hard to digest. So not
- 16:39only is bamboo hard to digest and low
- 16:42in nutrients, but pandas are going to be
- 16:45pooping that bamboo
- 16:48on the regular.
- 16:51Sometimes. It is estimated
- 16:54pandas poop up to 50
- 16:57times per day. Now, thanks
- 16:59to, uh, the,
- 17:02uh, poop map app, I can tell you exactly
- 17:05how many times I chased one today.
- 17:08So today,
- 17:11I've dropped three stacks today,
- 17:13and one of those was less than an hour
- 17:16ago. Heyo.
- 17:19But these pandas, they're putting up record
- 17:22numbers 50 times a
- 17:24day. That's a lot. That's a lot
- 17:27of time spent taking a dump.
- 17:30And because of the fiber and low
- 17:33nutrient content, because
- 17:36of the fiber, uh, of the bamboo and the low
- 17:39nutrient content of the bambooz,
- 17:44uh, pandas are going to be pooping that bamboo a
- 17:47lot. And many pandas
- 17:50essentially need to make sure that their
- 17:52digestive tract is always
- 17:55filled up with some
- 17:58amount of bamboo at any given time.
- 18:02The result is pandas
- 18:05are like, always eating bamboo.
- 18:08Think of pandas as like a sausage
- 18:10machine. You get
- 18:13your sausage machine, and when you
- 18:16stick whatever it is that you're running through the Top of the
- 18:19sausage machine, you got to feed a little bit through
- 18:22before you start getting a little bit out. But then once you get
- 18:24some in the
- 18:27tube, and you get it flowing. You get that meat just
- 18:30sliding down that tube.
- 18:34Once you get it in the tank, once you get
- 18:37the meat in the tank, then as it
- 18:40pushes it, it just keeps pushing more out in the form
- 18:43of sausages on the other side.
- 18:46That is a panda.
- 18:49They spend 12 hours per day
- 18:52inserting bamboo into the system in
- 18:55order to keep a steady flow of bamboo on their
- 18:58insides. Some pandas will eat
- 19:01over 80 pounds of
- 19:03bamboo a day.
- 19:06This said, uh, there's 80 pounds.
- 19:09This said, uh, there's definitely Times where they are
- 19:12eating while they are pooping, just moving the
- 19:15Bamboo from one end to the other, like, again, like a
- 19:17big panda sausage machine.
- 19:22And all I can think is, you look at these
- 19:25beautiful creatures. They're big, cuddly Guys. They probably
- 19:28eat your face off. But you look at
- 19:31this, and you start to ask,
- 19:34why pandas? Why?
- 19:37Why do you do this to yourselves?
- 19:40Like, I get fiber buddies, but this is taking it to a
- 19:43whole new level. And all
- 19:46I can think is, they have got to
- 19:49love the way that the
- 19:51Bamboo tastes.
- 19:54But if you did listen to our Koala episode from
- 19:57last year. Thank you for listening. Uh, I don't say that
- 20:00enough. Ah. You will
- 20:02remember the heinous things that Koala cubs
- 20:05do. And while pandas might
- 20:08be cute and cuddly, the problem
- 20:11is much m like koalas, when
- 20:14pandas are born, they don't have the
- 20:16bacteria in their tummies to digest bamboo.
- 20:21And for this reason,
- 20:25and for this reason, panda
- 20:28cubs often eat.
- 20:33I can't
- 20:36why. These are beautiful creatures,
- 20:39but, like, panda cubs will eat the
- 20:41mother's poop in order to gain,
- 20:46uh, the correct gut bacteria
- 20:49to then be able to begin to break
- 20:51down
- 20:55the bamboo. That's so gross. Like,
- 20:58figure it out. And animals
- 21:00everywhere. I know it's for survival,
- 21:04but stop eating your parents poop.
- 21:06Like, just stop it.
- 21:09Pandas, they're cute and cuddly,
- 21:13but they're essentially bamboo
- 21:16pooping machines.
- 21:19That is something that China, the country of
- 21:22China, knows all too
- 21:25well.
- 21:28And this brings us to an
- 21:30installment of poo in the
- 21:33newsroom.
- 21:39This poo in the News is brought to us by the
- 21:42BBC. Uh, this article is from
- 21:44December 2017, and
- 21:47it's titled chinese firm to
- 21:50recycle panda poo into tissue
- 21:53paper. It notes that
- 21:56pandas are one of China's top
- 21:58tourist draws. And the
- 22:01national panda Reserve in
- 22:05Sichuan, I don't know, province,
- 22:08has signed a deal with a paper
- 22:11company to recycle
- 22:13panda poo.
- 22:16The company will turn
- 22:19the high fiber bamboo waste again
- 22:22because the pandas are terrible at really
- 22:25breaking this down and will turn it into
- 22:28panda poo tissues.
- 22:30According to a report, uh, anyway,
- 22:33uh, it notes that each adult
- 22:36panda produces more than 22
- 22:39pounds of feces a day,
- 22:43along with the poo, often
- 22:45euphemistically called green balls. It's
- 22:48these little packed green little nuggets of
- 22:50apparently potential tissue paper.
- 22:53Uh, pandas produce about
- 22:5550. Food waste,
- 22:58often is uneaten
- 23:00bamboo or material that they've chewed up and
- 23:03spit out.
- 23:09It also should be noted that studying
- 23:12the pandas poo is helping to
- 23:15save many pandas that would be endangered.
- 23:18But the China Conservation and Research center
- 23:21for giant Pandas signed a deal with, uh,
- 23:24the paper company. And under the agreement,
- 23:27the firm will collect panda
- 23:29feces and food waste every
- 23:32week. And then the reserve previously
- 23:35discards the material they used to turn
- 23:38it into fertilizer. But the paper company
- 23:41began to take it and run it
- 23:43through this 60 step recycling process.
- 23:46Now, I beg the question. I'm not
- 23:49trying to sling shade at this because I think
- 23:52it's a full circle, the thing that you.
- 23:55Well, yeah, anyway, but 60
- 23:58step recycling process, there's no way
- 24:01that doesn't take any energy. It has to take too
- 24:04much energy. They tell them that in
- 24:07the process of digesting bamboo,
- 24:10pandas strip the fructose
- 24:15out of the plants, the fiber in
- 24:18the plants. This is a normal step in paper
- 24:20production that the pandas do for them.
- 24:24It's a win win, he says. And the material,
- 24:27uh, will be made into tissues,
- 24:31paper towels, and toilet paper
- 24:33marketed under the panda poo brand.
- 24:36A box of tissues will be about
- 24:38$6.50 now. No.
- 24:40So that is the end of
- 24:43the article. Now I want to say something. I
- 24:46get turning the panda poo into
- 24:48toilet paper, it makes sense. Like, the
- 24:51pandas pooped the turds out of their butt and
- 24:54then they turn into paper that I wipe mine with. That makes
- 24:57sense. Now, my problem
- 25:00is this.
- 25:06I can't imagine the tissue paper did
- 25:08well, because if they are marketing this under
- 25:11the brand of panda poo, I'm going to see if you can still buy
- 25:14this. Oh, yeah,
- 25:17the cheeky panda bamboo toilet paper.
- 25:21Crazy. Absolutely wild. But
- 25:24I can't imagine anybody wants to wipe their
- 25:27schnaws with something that at one point in its history
- 25:30came out of the backside of a little
- 25:33bear.
- 25:36Man, that just has got to bring us to the end of
- 25:39poo in the news.
- 25:44However, pandas are not the only bears
- 25:48that have weird bathroom habits. And one of
- 25:50the distinguishing factors of many bear
- 25:53species is their hibernation.
- 25:56Now, the stereotype in bears
- 25:59is that they eat a lot of food before they lay
- 26:02down for their long winter's nap. It's like they carbo load
- 26:05and then they go to sleep. Now, it is true,
- 26:07you got a carbo load, but there is
- 26:10a feature of the bear that often makes an appearance
- 26:13at the end of hibernation, and it is
- 26:16called the bear fecal
- 26:19plug.
- 26:23Uh, whatever you had
- 26:26in your brain when you heard the
- 26:28term bear fecal plug
- 26:31is probably exactly what we got
- 26:34going. The bear
- 26:36snoshes big. He
- 26:39snoshes his pre sleep dinner big.
- 26:42And then he goes big sleep. He goes hibernate.
- 26:45And when he wakes up, my dude takes the
- 26:48fattest, grumpy you have ever seen,
- 26:51and the bear passes the fecal
- 26:54plug.
- 26:58The plug
- 27:00serves to help the bear continue
- 27:03to hibernate, allowing it to not have
- 27:06to poop as often. During this
- 27:09time, and for a long time, this
- 27:12poop plug was a mystery. Many
- 27:14believed the bears would load up on plant material
- 27:18they couldn't digest,
- 27:20and this would serve to plug the
- 27:23bung. Problem is,
- 27:25undigestible material usually does the
- 27:28opposite. See our panda friends 50
- 27:31times a day. Good night. So what
- 27:34is this? What is this
- 27:36mysterious bare butt plug?
- 27:43Researchers out of Minnesota have
- 27:45identified this
- 27:48unidentified mass. Essentially, uh, what
- 27:51happens is the material in
- 27:54the bare fecal plug is
- 27:56portions of the digestive tract that
- 27:59slough off and build up
- 28:02to help create a plug. Now,
- 28:05this is a phenomenon that all creatures, when
- 28:08they are hungry and starving, will go through. People,
- 28:11when they are in starvation conditions,
- 28:14will actually have their intestines break
- 28:17down to help create nutrients to help
- 28:20keep them alive.
- 28:23When these plugs have been
- 28:25dissected, which is a scientific job, by the way.
- 28:28What do you do, honey? What did you do at your science
- 28:31lab this week? Um, well, I rooted through some bear
- 28:34scoot to figure out what makes their butt plug
- 28:37special. Happy science, everybody.
- 28:40But when these plugs are dissected, they find
- 28:42hair and other skin materials.
- 28:46And what? They put some, they put some
- 28:48cameras in bear dens during the time of
- 28:51hibernation to see what's going on here.
- 28:54Where's this mysterious hair coming from?
- 28:58And what will happen is
- 29:00bears will groom themselves and eat
- 29:03some of their hair. M m. They will lick
- 29:06their feet pads, and they will get, like,
- 29:08loose skin from their feet
- 29:11pads. And this goes to
- 29:14help form the plug.
- 29:18Baron. Testines break themselves down.
- 29:20This, coupled with the poo at the end of the
- 29:23tract drying as time goes on
- 29:26and water and other moisture are absorbed to make
- 29:29it hard. And the ontake of
- 29:32non food material in the den. The result
- 29:35is the bear fecal plug. Mystery solved.
- 29:39Bears are neat. We
- 29:41love them. Big, cuddly, face ripping
- 29:44guys. And on this
- 29:47groundhog's day, we celebrate another one of God's great
- 29:50creatures by remembering the weird things related to
- 29:53their pooping. Bear poop changes
- 29:56color with the season based on their diet.
- 30:00And with that little bit of fact that's going to bring
- 30:03us to the end of this
- 30:05Groundhogs Day celebration and to the end of
- 30:08this episode of Privy. Thank you all so much
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- 31:33to the end of another episode of privy. Thanks again for
- 31:36listening. Own your stank. Breathe more, push less. Watch
- 31:39out for the bear feagal plug. And now add, as always,
- 31:43don't forget to flush.