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- 0:31Is chlorine really that much of a weakling that he can't handle my like armpit stank?
- 0:37Like really?
- 0:38Can we?
- 0:39Come on chlorine.
- 0:40What are you saying?
- 0:41I stink?
- 0:43But if the chlorine's levels are affected that much, maybe it really isn't that safe to go swimming in a public swimming pool.
- 0:56Welcome back to privy.
- 0:58Privy is a podcast about toilets recorded right here from my toilet.
- 1:04I am Hunter Hoover, your toilet enthusiast and host from the hot seat.
- 1:10Man, it's been a busy day.
- 1:12So a little peek behind the privy cast curtain.
- 1:18Last episode, you guys heard about piss wars and
- 1:24I actually recorded that episode the same day I recorded this episode.
- 1:28But in between that episode and this episode, I moved a bunch of my junk to our new house that we're going to be moving to here pretty soon.
- 1:40And then my parents and I spent the majority of the day cleaning the new house.
- 1:48this is a, ah I'm going to try to bring as much energy to this as I can, but
- 1:53Yeah, it's been a long one.
- 1:57Also, allergy season is in full swing.
- 2:00If you can't hear it in my voice or in my nostrils, allergy season is here.
- 2:04It is arrived.
- 2:05If I sound a little more nasally than usual, that's probably what's going on.
- 2:11But yeah, you know, if something crazy happens between now and when this episode comes out, this is not gonna date well, so there's that.
- 2:18But it's summer.
- 2:19Happy June, everybody.
- 2:20June.
- 2:22Even though summer doesn't officially start until like half over halfway through June June is the beginning of summer like effectively speaking June is summer so happy summer
- 2:31everybody welcome to privy summer we're going to try to bring you some summer related topics and this week is Going to be our first It's hot things are getting hot things are
- 2:44getting sweaty.
- 2:46You're afraid to drink any milk Before 7 p.m.
- 2:51for fear of having some tum tum problems and some dooky problems later with the heat.
- 2:56By merely existing, you sweat.
- 3:00I'm not built, me, Hunter, your host, is not built for temperatures over and exceeding 75 to 80 degrees.
- 3:09Like, once we break that threshold, my back is just wet all day.
- 3:15That's all there is to it.
- 3:17But,
- 3:18For as long as humans have been getting hot, which I think has been a pretty long time, they have looked for ways to cool themselves off.
- 3:29And this week on Privycast, we're going to the pool.
- 3:33Not really.
- 3:34As I already said, we're in my home restroom.
- 3:38I guess I'm getting a new recording studio here pretty quick with the new house.
- 3:44That's fun, that's exciting.
- 3:46Stay tuned for Privycast Recording Studio 2.0.
- 3:51But we're talking about pool toilets and pool privy etiquette.
- 3:56It's more complicated than it would seem.
- 3:58And there's a lot more uh chemicals than maybe we, I mean, we think we know some, but yeah.
- 4:06Bathroom etiquette and pool etiquette in the area of like privies and pools is essentially divided up into two distinct
- 4:16areas.
- 4:17There is the locker or changing room etiquette and privy situation.
- 4:23And there is the poolside manner, the etiquette that pertains to you on the deck of the pool.
- 4:31So, welcome to the pool.
- 4:34Some kid just ran by, he's got his floatie on, he just slipped and ate fat dirt.
- 4:38ah You know, he's like crying, but the lifeguard still feels the need to like, the whistle.
- 4:46and like yell at the kid, no runnin', even though he just like scraped his knee big time.
- 4:54You got the kid that's like huddled on the end of the diving board and he's like shakin' for his life and then his big brother just swoop, just pushes him and he's like, falls
- 5:04into the pool.
- 5:05Welcome to the pool.
- 5:06You've arrived.
- 5:08And if you're like me, you now have been met with a new level one.
- 5:13grade of anxiety just by merely being in the presence of a swimming pool.
- 5:18And as far as etiquette and privy etiquette go when it comes to swimming pools, there's just gonna be like one thing that's really gonna boil it all down and make it really
- 5:28simple.
- 5:29And that's this.
- 5:31Just go to the bathroom before you go to the pool area.
- 5:34Like that's gonna save you from 90 % of the problems that you have.
- 5:38If you're concerned about locker rooms,
- 5:41and changing room bathrooms?
- 5:43Go to the bathroom before you arrive at the pool.
- 5:48Just, yeah, void your system.
- 5:52So that, end of the episode.
- 5:54No, I'm just kidding.
- 5:55The other thing is, is that it is expected that you shower before you get into the pool.
- 6:04Now, I'm gonna admit to you a poolside sin here on the podcast to you.
- 6:15And that is, I really, mostly always just skipped the pre-pool shower.
- 6:21growing up, my thinking is why do I need to shower when I'm getting ready to put my entire human frame into a large body of chemical water that should be able to clean or disinfect
- 6:42me in some way.
- 6:44And so I never showered before I got in the pool.
- 6:48And some of you are gonna hear that and you're gonna go,
- 6:51Who is this deviant ne'er-do-well?
- 6:55And I'm sorry, but it it's honesty time.
- 6:58I never did it but in in looking these things up and seeking these things out I have found that showering before and after your time in the big pool are important
- 7:16And this is a reality I mostly skipped.
- 7:19Like I could not have cared less before or after.
- 7:22I never showered after the pool.
- 7:23I literally just got clean.
- 7:25Why do I need to get post clean?
- 7:28And in finding answers to why a person would need to shower before they got into a pool full of disinfectant, the answer is essentially not to clean you, it's to preserve the
- 7:42disinfectant.
- 7:43Showering before you swim
- 7:46helps wash extra sweat, oil, lotions, and other uh hygiene products, materials that are on a person's body, detergents in swimsuits, helps rinse those off, wash those off, get them
- 8:03nasty little things out of there before you get into the pool.
- 8:07And this is in hopes that the chlorine in the pool, quote, the chlorine in the pool would
- 8:16last longer and be more effective in fighting other bacteria and concerns.
- 8:22To me, I'm not sure how much it's going to matter.
- 8:27At this point in my research, I'm thinking to myself, okay, like, is chlorine really that much of a weakling that he can't handle my like armpit stank?
- 8:38Like really, can we, come on chlorine, what are you saying, I stink?
- 8:44But,
- 8:44Like if the chlorine's levels are affected that much, maybe it really isn't that safe to go swimming in a public swimming pool.
- 8:52See Hunter's level one anxiety at the beginning of this episode.
- 8:57Just a thought and a peek behind the curtain for my own feelings about all this.
- 9:03Like if the chlorine can't get the job done, what are we like, what even are we doing with it?
- 9:07You know what I'm saying?
- 9:08Like if it's not up to the task, maybe we need to find somebody who's more suited for the job.
- 9:13So.
- 9:14They say to shower before you get in the pool because it'll help the chlorine do its job longer and more appropriately and I don't know.
- 9:25But then they also say that you're supposed to shower after you get into the pool or after you get out of the pool rather.
- 9:34Again, I always thought the chlorine made you clean.
- 9:38So why bother?
- 9:39Like, but it's really to undo what the chlorine did.
- 9:44They say chlorine left on your skin and hair can damage your skin and hair.
- 9:49Yet you were just in the pool with the chlorine on your skin and hair for an hour, if not hours on end.
- 9:59So like.
- 10:03is how concerned can we really be, I guess.
- 10:08To me, it seems inconsistent.
- 10:10Unless you are dirty or really sweaty, like if you've got like mud and dirt on you, take a dang shower, but that's just basic cleanliness.
- 10:21Like that's not pool etiquette, that's human etiquette.
- 10:24So yeah, if you're nasty, get not nasty, just do it.
- 10:30And if you're sweaty, just shower off, it's fine.
- 10:34And I guess it makes a little bit of more sense because I, you know, you go to the pool in the summer and everybody's just default sweaty in summertime.
- 10:41So like, I kind of get that and I kind of get what's going on there where it's like, if you just got sweat default because of the time of year, you're going to want to undo that
- 10:53default before you get in the pool.
- 10:55But
- 10:57Don't take my word for it.
- 10:58Take the Water Quality and Health Council, which is again, a real council that I definitely knew existed before I looked any of this up.
- 11:08Puts it this way, not showering before getting into a pool is like sharing a bathtub with all the people who are in the pool with you at the same time.
- 11:18Now, I would like to challenge this thought in just one way.
- 11:20There is chlorine.
- 11:21We do have a combatant to the human cesspool.
- 11:26You're putting it, now you're putting it in terms though that I like because herein, I don't want to show my hand too much, but herein is a big concern with bath taking.
- 11:35And again, it is the product of the level one anxiety that is public pools for me.
- 11:44the thought of sharing a water space with people is just little heinous to me.
- 11:49They also note the things chlorine is supposed to kill is separate from
- 11:55regular human contagion and byproduct and concerns like sweat poo and pee so Really chlorine is not made to disinfect your sweat your poo poo and your whiz It's not made for
- 12:12that chlorine.
- 12:14No, it's not made to disinfect those things the council also recommends that you use soap now
- 12:24you're gonna think, that's kind of a no brainer.
- 12:26But again, people don't do that when they go to the pool.
- 12:29They just stand under the current of water and call it good.
- 12:32They just like, dip in the shoulder, okay I showered sweet and I've checked my box.
- 12:37And again, little me going to pool with my dad, I'm seeing these people like fake shower and I'm like, why do I have to go fake shower?
- 12:44Or like, nobody's really taking a shower here.
- 12:46You know what saying?
- 12:48But they put it this way.
- 12:49So this is where the science of
- 12:53pool etiquette, and showering before a pool comes in.
- 12:57They put it this way, there are two types of chlorine compounds in pools.
- 13:02And you can think of these as free chlorine compounds and already combined chlorine compounds.
- 13:10So when chlorine is added to a pool, it is added as free chlorine.
- 13:16That means it's chlorine that wants a friend.
- 13:19He's looking for somebody to hang out with, much like a lot of people are.
- 13:23And as I understand it, he's looking for a bond that can form with a foreign contaminant.
- 13:32So, when chlorine does this, it becomes combined chlorine.
- 13:37And as such, because it has combined with a contaminant, that molecule of chlorine can no longer be friends with any other contaminants.
- 13:48He's already buddied up.
- 13:51So...
- 13:53A freshly chlorinated pool then would have a limited number of these free chlorine compounds and thus a limited number of contagion and contaminants that it can react with
- 14:05and fight.
- 14:06Thus, showering helps lower the effect of your body against the chlorine.
- 14:14It makes the chlorine last longer.
- 14:17Voila!
- 14:20The council also notes that testing this and figuring out if you have a good amount of chlorine isn't as simple as walking into the pool and like getting a drag of that
- 14:30chlorine.
- 14:31It's not like that because they point out that like often when chlorine begins to react with too many contaminants, it actually gives off more of that overly chlorinated smell.
- 14:44And so it could be that a pool that has too strong of a chlorinated smell
- 14:50has one of two problems.
- 14:51It has too high of a chlorine count, which could be damaging to your skin, probably gonna be fine, but like, or it has had too much contaminant and thus has already reacted giving
- 15:07off a stronger chlorinated smell.
- 15:10Either way, you can't just go off smell alone.
- 15:14Like just going, ooh, smells like chlorine, must be clean.
- 15:18Maybe not the case.
- 15:20to the point where there are some people who, for lack of a better word, care too much to be in a public pool, take their own chlorine test kits to pool.
- 15:31Now, if you roll into a chlorinated pool, a public swimming pool, a public swimming place, with your own personal chlorine test kit, think, Poindexter, I think you're going in too
- 15:41deep here.
- 15:42Like, I have anxiety about the things that go on in a pool, but I ain't gonna test it.
- 15:46Like, no, that's not happening.
- 15:50The experts report on average, so here's where it gets nitty gritty as I don't remember who said it said it.
- 15:58The average person has 0.14 grams of fecal matter in their perineum.
- 16:05That means around the booty hole area.
- 16:08And that children, the wee ones, may have as much as 10 grams.
- 16:13The heck.
- 16:15Wipe your kids' butts.
- 16:17Make sure them things are clean.
- 16:19Just...
- 16:20Just make sure your kids butts are clean.
- 16:22But doing the math, a pool containing 15 unshowered adults and 30 unshowered children, we're gonna circle back to that number here and just say, could contain an average of 152
- 16:35grams of fecal matter, which is about a third of a pound.
- 16:40Now, granted this is spread out and like not concentrated into one spot, but it's still a third of a pound of poo.
- 16:49That's too much.
- 16:52And we need you chlorine to make us feel better about these things.
- 16:57Based on the fact that there are approximately one million virus particles in one gram of feces.
- 17:05Based on the fact that there are approximately one billion virus particles in one gram of poop.
- 17:11A typical community pool, which has about 19,000 gallons of water, could contain about eight million virus particles per gallon from these 45 bathers if...
- 17:22their booty holes are as muddy as they could get them.
- 17:28One of those viruses in our smear-stanged bungholios brings to the local pool is called cryptosporidium.
- 17:38uh Cryptosporidium is bad because it is chlorine resistant.
- 17:44This thing actually says, you know what, how about you huff straight off chlorine?
- 17:48I ain't taking none of your sass this afternoon.
- 17:52and I'm gonna dirty whatever water I please.
- 17:55Thank you very much.
- 17:58Cryptosporidium causes diarrhea symptoms in an illness that is commonly called crypto, which at best produces everyone's favorite bathroom phenomena, the runs, and at worst can
- 18:13lead to respiratory problems.
- 18:16It's ghost diarrhea, crypto diarrhea, because
- 18:20It seems to appear as if from nowhere.
- 18:24No one wants Danny Phantom diarrhea.
- 18:27No one wants that.
- 18:31I ain't scared of no ghosts, but I do not like diarrhea.
- 18:34So stay away crypto.
- 18:37You're bad.
- 18:39And we need to get better chlorine that can fight this stuff off.
- 18:41That's all I'm saying.
- 18:44A Dutch research team
- 18:48said that the recommended time in a rinse off shower is 30 to 60 seconds.
- 18:55And after that, the amount of time that you spend under the water doesn't really matter much.
- 19:01Now, this is what I would say to all these gentle fellows that I saw like fake shower when I was growing up at the pool.
- 19:07It's like, do something besides stand under it for three seconds.
- 19:11Like if you're gonna shower, do it.
- 19:13Otherwise you might as well have just been like me and done nothing.
- 19:17That's all I'm If you use soap, it's even better.
- 19:21The data has swayed me in some way.
- 19:24Showering is good, but like, it's a public pool.
- 19:28And there's gonna be some randy stuff in there anyway, so just be careful with it, you know what saying?
- 19:33Like just, no.
- 19:34But the other thing that you have to keep in mind here is, you know, all this like, no, so many grams of fecal matter, la-di-da, okay.
- 19:44When you're doing that like 30 second shower, you're standing under the thing, how much of that water is rinsing off your B?
- 19:50Unless you're taking a naked shower, which every single guy that I ever saw at the pool growing up, I say growing up because I don't remember the last time I was like a public
- 20:02swimming pool.
- 20:02Thanks, COVID.
- 20:05But yeah, every single one of them is wearing their swimsuit underneath that shower.
- 20:09Every one of them.
- 20:10So.
- 20:11Is it really rinsing off the poop hole?
- 20:14Like is it actually or are we just making ourselves feel better about
- 20:20It's like a pre-soak.
- 20:23Other important locker room and changing room etiquette to consider is don't leave your bathing suit and other wet things laying around.
- 20:29Like pick that crap up.
- 20:31Nobody wants wet floors in a swimming pool like changing room.
- 20:37I know it's a pool and there's water everywhere, but like the water should not be in the places where like you don't want water.
- 20:43Do your best.
- 20:44Like you're going to dribble.
- 20:45You're going to drip because you were just in a pool, but like try to contain it.
- 20:49Don't just like
- 20:50dribble and then like leave all your wet stuff laying around.
- 20:53Don't do that noise.
- 20:54No, if they provide the towels, put the used towels where they're supposed to go.
- 21:00This is primarily in a hotel situation.
- 21:02They will often have pool related towels.
- 21:05This is a sorting thing.
- 21:06They have special towels for the pools and special towels for the rooms.
- 21:10And I don't really like, I'm guilty of this, but like try to not mix them up, you know?
- 21:18And
- 21:18My thing was always, what if I go down to the pool and they don't have pool towels?
- 21:23Take your room towel with you just in case, but if they have pool towels, then swap over.
- 21:27You know what I'm saying?
- 21:29Yeah.
- 21:31And for now, wear your mask in the changing room.
- 21:34Like, things are opening up, things are getting better and brighter and happier.
- 21:38ah But still wear your mask in the changing rooms.
- 21:42We're not quite out of the woods yet.
- 21:43You don't have to wear your mask in the pool.
- 21:44uh
- 21:46Every guideline that I looked at says, yeah, you should not be wearing your mask in the pool, which makes sense.
- 21:50That's a waterlog problem.
- 21:52This will help pools and community centers stay open this summer.
- 21:56Give us something to do.
- 21:58The movie theater in the town that I live in here in Albany, it just opened again yesterday for the first time in a year in a couple months.
- 22:09Keep stuff open.
- 22:10Just do it.
- 22:11It's fine.
- 22:14A lack of showering is one concern, but what if the contaminant comes from within while you are in the pool?
- 22:25There's something about to go going to the pool and getting into the pool that causes digestional and bathroom concerns.
- 22:34And with that, it's time for a mid episode segment of Hunter's Anecdotes.
- 22:43to keep you afloat.
- 23:04So as I noted, in the summers, in the days that my dad had off.
- 23:11I remember distinctly getting just jazzed about getting to go to Gibson Pool ah in Montana.
- 23:18And I would look forward to going to the pool with my dad all week long.
- 23:24But like clockwork, every single time, the day it was time to go to the pool, I would just get this low-grade anxiety about having to go to the pool.
- 23:35And every single time, it manifests itself in the same way.
- 23:39I would get the poo-poos.
- 23:40I would get the squirts right before I had to go to the pool.
- 23:44And then I would go to the bathroom and try to purge it all before I went to the pool.
- 23:49And then I would be fine.
- 23:51I would be good to go.
- 23:53No problems in the pool.
- 23:56And I don't know if this is a thing.
- 23:58I couldn't really find it.
- 23:59But I definitely have pre-swimming anxiety.
- 24:02And I don't know what that is.
- 24:04But I distinctly remember summer after summer,
- 24:07getting ready to go to the pool and sure enough, like, I gotta go to the bathroom and it's just, it hits me in the worst way.
- 24:16But there's another anecdote here that needs to be shared because I said, you what happens if you you shower, you fall, the rules, but you're inside the pool and you have, you have
- 24:27added a new element to the pool.
- 24:30And this is everybody's greatest fear.
- 24:32Somebody pooping or peeing in the pool.
- 24:34It's no good for anybody.
- 24:35It's bad news.
- 24:36Don't, no.
- 24:37But Gibson Pool, I don't remember when it was, I believe I was in middle school.
- 24:42I went to Gibson Pool with my dad.
- 24:44And the reason I think I was in middle school was because I remember I had learned how to swim and I was old enough to where my dad had let me go over to the lazy river area and be
- 24:59in the lazy river area by myself.
- 25:01And from here on out, I'm gonna give you this disclaimer as I remember it.
- 25:08you know, the lazy river, you're like floating on your tube, or if you're me, you just didn't rent the tube and you just like tried to snag one that somebody left behind.
- 25:14Or you just kind of float and let your feet kind of drag on the bottom of the thing and it's fun.
- 25:19Like you just kind of move along and it's a nice little thing.
- 25:23But I remember coming around the corner and I just see people getting out of this pool like it is electrified.
- 25:30They cannot leave the water soon enough.
- 25:34They're scrambling to like,
- 25:36not use the little steps or the rails that they have.
- 25:39And they're like trying to climb up and over the thing, but it's the lazy river.
- 25:43So like you can't really get enough upward force because it's like pulling you sideways at the same time.
- 25:49And as you come around the corner, it's right in this area and there's this like pandemonium going on.
- 25:54And then there's the like double whistle.
- 25:56And every time you know, like when the lifeguards toot in the double whistle, you know there's something shady going on.
- 26:01And so you hear the double toot toot.
- 26:04And then you just hear everybody out, everybody out.
- 26:07And it turns out there was what appears to have been a log floating in the pool.
- 26:17you know, and so like they pull everybody out of the pool and now they've got to like filter the whole thing.
- 26:21And so they shut down the lazy river.
- 26:23But I remember there's a lot of people like standing around grabbing their stuff.
- 26:26And I'm like walking over back to the pool.
- 26:28And I remember like the guy fished the thing out.
- 26:32after they had already told people they were gonna have to close down the lazy river.
- 26:37And he fished out a Snickers bar from the pool.
- 26:40Somebody had tossed a full-size Snickers bar into the pool and some passerby saw this chocolate tube and said, somebody relieved themselves here.
- 26:55And they freaked out and everybody had to get out of the lazy river.
- 27:01Is that a snake?
- 27:01Somebody floated a Snickers down the lazy river and it just was bedlam at Gibson Pool lazy river that day.
- 27:12And this has been...
- 27:15Another installment of Hunter's Anecdotes to keep you afloats.
- 27:27People going, pulling not just a Snickers, but a real go in the pool has been a concern when it comes to pool since the beginning of pools.
- 27:38And kids are the worst for this.
- 27:39This is also why you don't want to go to the pool if you have diarrhea.
- 27:45Now I just admitted to be having like, but like it went away, I promise.
- 27:49You don't want to back, you don't want the back barricade to fail.
- 27:54Like the back gate needs to remain shut when you are at the.
- 27:58Little kids swim diapers are a feat of human ingenuity and they seem to hold an infinite amount of liquid.
- 28:04But not really, but because there is a limit.
- 28:08But what is fascinating about little kids swimming diapers is it seems that only the liquid that is produced on the inside of the swimming diapers contributes to the total
- 28:18amount of absorption that the diaper is doing.
- 28:22The pool of the water is not sucked up like the diaper is SpongeBob.
- 28:26No.
- 28:28It's amazing.
- 28:28It's a wonderful thing.
- 28:32But these swimming diapers are not designed to hold what is inside them for a long time.
- 28:39And when it doesn't, ladies and gentle people, we have a breach.
- 28:43Don't go to the bathroom in the pool.
- 28:45It's a no-brainer.
- 28:46If you're able to control your bathrooming, don't do it in the pool.
- 28:50And if you aren't, don't go to the pool.
- 28:53Like if you can't control your bathrooming, don't go to the pool.
- 28:57Or if you are in charge of a small child who may not be
- 29:01very good at controlling their bathroom, just keep an eye on them.
- 29:05You know when a kid has to go to bathroom.
- 29:08Get them out of there.
- 29:09Keep that diaper fresh.
- 29:10Keep that swimming diaper fresh.
- 29:12Because you don't want to be the cause of a Gibson Pool Snickers bar scenario.
- 29:17You don't want to be that guy.
- 29:20Next, we need to dispel some myths about pools and urine.
- 29:24P does not turn the pool water blue.
- 29:28Never has.
- 29:30This is a movie trope.
- 29:31that they use to give an invisible phenomenon a visible component and gag.
- 29:39uh I think of grownups or grownups too.
- 29:42I don't remember which one because I don't think I actually watched either of those mediocre movies.
- 29:47But sorry Mr.
- 29:49Sandler, you're, Adam Sandler ain't listening to this.
- 29:52But I'm sorry Mr.
- 29:53Sandler.
- 29:55I shouldn't say mediocre if I haven't seen it.
- 29:58Fair enough.
- 29:59But.
- 30:00But it's still nasty, like even if it doesn't turn the water blue, it's still nasty.
- 30:04And I think it's a myth, pools actually like keep propagating.
- 30:08Because if people are afraid of this like blue ink cloud that appears around them if they pee, they're gonna be much less likely to pee in a pool.
- 30:17But if they're told, yeah, nobody will be able to see it, they're gonna be like, well maybe I'll get away with it, you know?
- 30:22So I think this is something that pools continue to tell people, but like, it ain't gonna turn blue.
- 30:27Or if it does,
- 30:29It ain't gonna turn blue like it does in the movies.
- 30:31It's gonna be a little bit, you know what saying?
- 30:33But it's still nasty, so don't do it.
- 30:36Having a Snickers in your pool is a visible thing.
- 30:39A turd is very much visible.
- 30:40You can't fake a turd.
- 30:41If you turd in the pool, it's guaranteed to clear the pool.
- 30:44I mean, yeah.
- 30:48Don't turd in the pool.
- 30:49You're not gonna get away with it.
- 30:50It's gonna sneak out, it's gonna get out, and there's gonna be a lot of pandemonium when people find it.
- 30:55Just don't do it.
- 30:57The swimming pool is not your toilet.
- 30:59Shower before you get in.
- 31:00Heck, shower before leaving home.
- 31:03Go to the bathroom before.
- 31:04Go to the bathroom.
- 31:07during, but get out of the pool to do it.
- 31:10And if you're swimming in nature, so this has all been for pools, but if you're swimming in like a lake or a river or an ocean, here's the general guideline.
- 31:18You can pee as long as you're in and around people.
- 31:21The water is already filled with wax stuff, so just go for it.
- 31:25There's something nice about floating a river, just letting it fly.
- 31:29You know what saying?
- 31:30Like why not?
- 31:31Like it just gets a little warm right there.
- 31:34It's all good.
- 31:35You're...
- 31:36You're in nature, you're experiencing it.
- 31:38You're in it, you are it.
- 31:43Be free.
- 31:44Go pee.
- 31:45If the water is moving, if it is visibly moving, it's better.
- 31:49Because it's not gonna sit in one spot.
- 31:53But, it's like, you don't wanna go poop.
- 31:55Either way, you just don't wanna go poop.
- 31:56Because then you got like poopy in your pants.
- 31:58You don't wanna deal with that.
- 31:59You don't want brown in your pants, even if you're swimming.
- 32:03It ain't gonna live down there forever.
- 32:05It's gonna get its way out.
- 32:06It's gonna get on your leg.
- 32:07It's gonna be whack.
- 32:08Don't do it.
- 32:10When you go swimming this summer, use common sense.
- 32:13Try to shower off.
- 32:15It seems like it might be worth it.
- 32:17And if you're like me and most of your life, you haven't really bought into it, you know, just give it a shot.
- 32:22Like, do your best to help chlorine do his best.
- 32:26You know what I'm saying?
- 32:27I hope you've enjoyed this pool privy etiquette.
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- 32:45We want to grow people's community who are interested in bathrooms, interested in toilets, and are fans of the places that we drop it.
- 32:54So connect with us.
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- 33:03Go do it.
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- 33:05As always, would like to thank Kevin McLeod for the use of Barroom Ballet.
- 33:13You can find Kevin's music at incompetech.org and his music is licensed under Creative Commons 4.0.
- 33:20Thanks, Kevin.
- 33:21We'd also like to thank Puddington Bear for the use of all colors in the world as Hunter's Anecdotes intro and outro.
- 33:29You can find Puddington Bear's music and other work from Puddington at PuddingtonBear.com.
- 33:35Thanks Poddington.
- 33:37This has been another episode of privy.
- 33:41Thank you for joining us.
- 33:44And now, as always, don't forget to flush.
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