Latest / Privycast / Ep. 67 America’s Best Restroom 2022 Finalist Review
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- 0:01>> Speaker A: Um, if you don't know what shiplap is, then
- 0:04your wife doesn't watch enough
- 0:06HGTV, where chip
- 0:08and Jojana,
- 0:11people from Texas, put shiplap on everything
- 0:14and sell it for twice as much. Like, that's their whole
- 0:17spiel.
- 0:21Welcome back to privy. Privy is
- 0:24a podcast about bathrooms
- 0:26recorded from my home
- 0:29bathroom. I'm your host, hunter
- 0:32Hoover, and I love bathrooms. I
- 0:35hope you guys are doing really well this week.
- 0:37Um, it's been kind of a
- 0:40hectic couple weeks here. Um,
- 0:44I'm recording this in between two summer
- 0:47trips, and so if you're
- 0:49hearing this and you're like, well, what the
- 0:52heck? Um, I just spent, uh,
- 0:55a weekend in Seattle with my wife. We played a train
- 0:58load of Pokemon go and walked the
- 1:01city, I believe, in three
- 1:03days, I walked, um,
- 1:06almost 50,000 steps.
- 1:09So, um, I'm sure there's folks who live in
- 1:12Seattle who are like, those are rookie numbers, kid.
- 1:15But, yeah, the biggest day was Saturday, and
- 1:17I had almost, uh, 21,000 steps,
- 1:20uh, during the Pokemon go event on Saturday for
- 1:23go Fest. And it was super cool to be a part of
- 1:26that. We were out there,
- 1:29and it was nice to get away as my wife
- 1:32and I were celebrating our anniversary.
- 1:35So, um, yeah, it was fun to do so and just kind
- 1:37of not have the
- 1:40basic work responsibilities, uh, of the week
- 1:43to week. So it was good. And
- 1:46then we are gearing up. I'm
- 1:49recording this in between that trip and a trip
- 1:52that we are making to Montana. So when you hear this
- 1:55episode, I will be driving back from Montana.
- 1:58I will have already made that trip, but, uh, I
- 2:01didn't want to take my full record set up. And I've
- 2:04been toying with getting a little bit better audio
- 2:07quality, so, hopefully that has come, uh,
- 2:09through. But, yeah, we're
- 2:12looking forward to this. And, uh,
- 2:15not too many crazy updates. I did
- 2:18have an emergency. I need to
- 2:21run to the toilet, uh, this week.
- 2:24Not sure what it was, because
- 2:26I don't think this was a food thing. I think this was a
- 2:29combination of, like, I drank too much
- 2:32caffeine after working out situation.
- 2:35But, yeah, it was a terrifying, terrifying
- 2:38experience. My wife may have
- 2:40gagged once when walking into the bathroom to light a
- 2:43candle. And for most people, they'd be like,
- 2:46wow, that is a shameful thing. But to me,
- 2:49it really is a thing of pride. Um, not
- 2:52that that happened to her, but that
- 2:55it's just something to be able to produce something that
- 2:58awful. Do you know what I mean? And I know a lot about
- 3:01that. Thanks for being here. We're going to dive
- 3:04right into the topic this week. And, uh, if
- 3:07you follow the podcast on socials,
- 3:10you probably saw that the
- 3:13Cintus corporation, which we covered in
- 3:16pretty good detail about a year ago,
- 3:18they have selected their finalists
- 3:21for the America's best restroom
- 3:252022. Uh,
- 3:29and so at the time of this episode's release, you
- 3:31still have, um, about three weeks to go
- 3:34and vote. Uh, so I believe you can vote once
- 3:37per day, and I would encourage you to do
- 3:40so. We're going to go through, um,
- 3:43all the bathrooms today. We're going to talk about each one
- 3:46and where they're at and what they're doing. Um,
- 3:48and then bottom, uh, of the show
- 3:51here, I might tip my hand
- 3:54and show my cards and reveal my
- 3:56note and share my thoughts about what
- 3:59maybe should be the best restroom.
- 4:02And so, ah, let's get right into it.
- 4:05We're going to jump right in. Um, first of all, I want to
- 4:08say that giving less than a month
- 4:11for this voting to occur, I don't know if that's a strategy
- 4:13of the Cintus corporation. Um,
- 4:16but it's definitely like, it's interesting.
- 4:19Uh, I want to also highlight last year,
- 4:22uh, the two cities pizza company had won
- 4:25the prize, and their bathroom was really something else.
- 4:28It was modeled after like a New York
- 4:30style subway, uh, system. And
- 4:33so it was a really cool bathroom. And with this
- 4:36pizza style and New York style pizza
- 4:39subway system from New York, it was
- 4:42themed pretty well. And also they as
- 4:44a company, shout out to the two cities pizza
- 4:47company. They as a company are just a
- 4:50cool company. They do a lot to give back to the community and
- 4:53donate. Uh, and so they were
- 4:56very deserving of the prize. And
- 4:58this year, we're going to poke through this list.
- 5:01I want to note, you can go
- 5:04to the America's best
- 5:07restroom website, uh, and we've got a
- 5:10link to that in the privy
- 5:12drum IO page there. So you can find that
- 5:15link and I'll leave that active until the actual
- 5:18date. But, um, I want to note that a lot of
- 5:21these bathrooms, the pictures
- 5:23provided, I guess, by the Cintus corporation
- 5:26or, um, God forbid, by those
- 5:29who submitted it many times, it doesn't
- 5:32do these bathrooms the most justice. Like,
- 5:35there's a few of these that would serve
- 5:38to have had a different picture
- 5:41that a simple Google search did render
- 5:43for me. So if you're interested in
- 5:46seeing more about these, uh, you can go and Google
- 5:49and see more images of each of these locations.
- 5:52But we're going to speak specifically to the data that
- 5:55the Cintus corporation provides on their website.
- 5:58So the first
- 6:01finalist in the America's best Restroom
- 6:042022 is the Delaware
- 6:07botanic Gardens in Dagsboro,
- 6:09Delaware. Um, first of all,
- 6:11Dagsboro is a phenomenal city
- 6:14name. And, uh,
- 6:17man, when you look at these pictures, first of all, just like, the
- 6:20first thing is there's a lot of nature. Obviously,
- 6:23they're botanical gardens. It's just a few miles
- 6:26south of Delaware beaches.
- 6:28Uh, it was
- 6:30designed as a local firm
- 6:33for an sea studio architects, and
- 6:36later they remodeled
- 6:38it into this new bathroom. So this is a
- 6:41recent remodel. It's got natural cedar
- 6:45siding to make it look like a part of the whole
- 6:48deal. It has, um,
- 6:51stormwater management practices and rainwater
- 6:53collection that feeds a living wall,
- 6:56dry riverbed rain garden. So, like, it has some rain
- 6:59collection as part of this. So this is a part of the
- 7:02Delaware botanical Gardens.
- 7:04And here's what we need to say.
- 7:06So the Delaware
- 7:09botanical Gardens know
- 7:12they're located gardens out of Sussex county. And
- 7:15it's a really kind of a cool thing. Like,
- 7:18you go in here and see all the rad
- 7:21pictures of flowers and stuff that they have going
- 7:23on. They host events and all sorts of other
- 7:26stuff. And, um, they're a member of the American Public
- 7:29Gardens association. So they're a
- 7:32typical botanical garden. And
- 7:35what I do want to note here is
- 7:38this facility of theirs
- 7:41recently opened. It opened in March
- 7:44of this year. Um, and so these
- 7:47bathrooms are fairly new. And,
- 7:49uh, these restroom facilities,
- 7:52like, they have a picture of their staff in front
- 7:55of the ribbon cutting for these bathrooms and
- 7:59shout out to them for giving that much credit. Um,
- 8:01they do look really nice. Uh, they've kind of got
- 8:04that modern aesthetic that
- 8:06overlooks the nature of
- 8:09the Delaware botanical gardens. So, um,
- 8:12it's not a bad pick. They're very nice bathrooms, very new
- 8:15bathrooms. Uh, so the first
- 8:18finalist there is the Delaware botanical
- 8:20Gardens. The next listed is,
- 8:23um, a location called Eberley out
- 8:26of Austin, Texas. Uh, and,
- 8:30uh, Eberley looks like,
- 8:32um, one of these
- 8:35old fashioned
- 8:38dining places that's kind of
- 8:41been set up in the
- 8:44husk of some other thing, but it
- 8:47has, like, a really old fashioned, kind of
- 8:49fancy feel to it.
- 8:52Their website says that Eberley is a
- 8:55thoughtful collection of dining, drinking, and thinking
- 8:57spaces. Now, I've never been to this location,
- 9:00I got to say that, but I'd be interested to know what a
- 9:03thinking space is. Uh, I'm not saying that there's
- 9:06nothing against Eberley. It's probably a fine
- 9:08establishment, but, um, I'm interested
- 9:11in what exactly a thinking space is. I will
- 9:14note that the,
- 9:17uh, Cintis Corporation's America's best restroom
- 9:20website, they highlight
- 9:23very good photographs of
- 9:26Eberley's, uh, bathrooms. And
- 9:29essentially what you have going on in this is
- 9:31kind of like an old, um.
- 9:34I don't know what the right term for it
- 9:37is, but their design is centered
- 9:39around like a New York
- 9:42style, I would say, like
- 9:45maybe late 18 hundreds, early 19 hundreds
- 9:48style. It has old tavern
- 9:51vacancy lights outside of all of these individual
- 9:54stalls. So you go in and you can see
- 9:57which ones are vacant or not. It
- 10:00has a lot of European
- 10:02and all of these different
- 10:04contrasts. Uh, and the bathroom is painted
- 10:07in this really deep cobalt blue. It almost
- 10:10looks like, uh,
- 10:13yeah, it's very dark, but somehow these
- 10:16vacancy lights give it a cool look. Um, it's a cool
- 10:19contrast. Like, that
- 10:22cobalt blue is almost like, almost
- 10:25metallic in reflection, which might not be what
- 10:27you want when you're taking a deuce,
- 10:30like being able to see yourself in the
- 10:33walls as you do your shameful deeds.
- 10:36But, um, no, it's a very cool bathroom.
- 10:39Uh, what I'd like to note is neat is it's kind of
- 10:42got that old fashioned rustic feel and it's not a
- 10:44newer bathroom. Also, it fits
- 10:47the, uh, aesthetic and the theme
- 10:50of Eberley. Like, it goes well with the
- 10:52establishment that it is housed by. So,
- 10:55uh, that's Eberley out of Austin, Texas.
- 11:00The next is the only, uh, Oregon
- 11:03submission. It's the headland
- 11:06lodge and spa in Pacific City,
- 11:08Oregon. So, um, the headland
- 11:11lodge is a lodge and
- 11:14spa. It's kind of like one of know we're going
- 11:17to get away for the weekend and be
- 11:19pampered type places.
- 11:22It's a coastal getaway. So if you're not, never been
- 11:25to Oregon, Pacific City, if it's not in the name
- 11:28and you couldn't, like, it's on the coast.
- 11:30So, uh, this house is a lot
- 11:33of, uh, tourism for
- 11:36the area. It's a pretty fancy
- 11:39establishment. When, um, you go on their
- 11:42website, it has all sorts of accommodations and
- 11:45experiences. And when you click on the journal, I want to
- 11:47note, um, that so far, the Delaware
- 11:50botanical gardens are the only ones who have
- 11:53listed their bathrooms as a feature of
- 11:56their place, um, which is good.
- 11:59Um, and the headlands, to my knowledge, and in
- 12:02my searching here, I cannot find any
- 12:05reference on their website to their
- 12:07bathrooms. So then we are left to the
- 12:10submission on the America's best
- 12:13restroom 2022 website. What's cool
- 12:16is they have this uh, almost like
- 12:18copper stone looking cut sink.
- 12:21And. Yeah, it's, uh,
- 12:24wavelike concrete sink with
- 12:27touchless faucets. That's nothing these days. Like, no offense
- 12:30to the headland
- 12:33lodge, but, like, touchless
- 12:36faucet. Who ain't got
- 12:39touchless faucets? You know what I'm saying? Um, it has
- 12:41dark ship lap. Um, if you don't know what
- 12:44ship lap is, then your wife doesn't
- 12:47watch enough. HGTV, where
- 12:50chip and
- 12:52Jojana, people from
- 12:55Texas, put shiplap on everything and sell it for twice
- 12:58as much. That's their whole spiel. It has a
- 13:00rustic look, but it is a modern bathroom. Uh,
- 13:03it does have this
- 13:06cool oak design as
- 13:09a tree. Uh, yeah,
- 13:12it's hard to describe, but the picture is cool. It's a cool bathroom.
- 13:15It's a very nice bathroom, very modern bathroom.
- 13:18The next submission is the la petisserie
- 13:21in Charleston, South Carolina. Uh, the la
- 13:24petisserie is a part of
- 13:27a hotel, uh, the hotel
- 13:29Bennett. Um, and this restroom, I assume,
- 13:32is, like, in the lobby near the
- 13:35la petisserie. Obviously, when you look up the la
- 13:38petisserie, it brings up the hotel. And when you type in
- 13:40the restrooms for the hotel, it doesn't do a
- 13:43lot to service showing this featured
- 13:46bathroom. Um, it shows a lot of the bathrooms
- 13:49of individual hotel rooms within the hotel.
- 13:52But this one is themed
- 13:55out of France and matches
- 13:58the theme for the patisserie. It
- 14:01has this chic, gold accented wallpaper, which might
- 14:04be a wild thing for my eyes, but it is kind of cool looking
- 14:07in the pictures. They have these cool
- 14:09chandeliers in the bathroom. Again,
- 14:12it's a very nice bathroom. It's a very modern
- 14:14bathroom. Um, it would be
- 14:17a swell bathroom to use. And again,
- 14:21most of these are single
- 14:23stall. We're going to get into that in a little bit. You're going
- 14:26to see. Um, so that's the la petisserie. I
- 14:29wish I had more to say about some of these, but,
- 14:33yeah, I'll share my thoughts here at the end we're going to go
- 14:36through. We have just a handful more here. Um, the next is
- 14:39the Newark Liberty International Airport, terminal b,
- 14:42all gender restroom in Newark, New Jersey.
- 14:45Um, and so this is one of these new
- 14:48features. I got the, um, experience when
- 14:50I was in Seattle this, uh, last weekend,
- 14:54a, ah, couple of weekends ago, by the time you hear this, of using
- 14:57an all gendered bathroom. And what I'm going to
- 15:00say is it's a good idea to help the people who
- 15:02need to have that pressure and tension
- 15:05alleviated of, like, oh, I got to figure out my thing.
- 15:08But there is definitely this weird. Like,
- 15:11this isn't a normal bathroom experience. And I watched a number of
- 15:14people walk up to the bathroom as
- 15:17a woman seeing a man come out of the
- 15:20bathroom space that they're entering, and they kind of stop,
- 15:22and they're like, am I getting this all wrong? Like, am I headed in the wrong
- 15:25direction? And so whether or not
- 15:28you are wanting the all
- 15:30gendered
- 15:33restroom, there is a learning curve, and people
- 15:35adjust to the social stigmas of how
- 15:38things were. One of the, uh,
- 15:41things that is a result of this is,
- 15:44um,
- 15:47they ain't a perfect system. Not everybody's going to be always
- 15:50comfortable, and that's all you got to know about it. But,
- 15:53um, the Newark, New Jersey, Newark Liberty
- 15:56International Airport, terminal B, all gender bathroom, it's got a
- 15:59very good, pretty blue and
- 16:02modernist. They claim that
- 16:05it was built in the 1970s, but this is very
- 16:07obviously a remodeled bathroom that they
- 16:10have recently redone, and they have some
- 16:13cool amenities for families, and they also have
- 16:16local pictures and things like that. And it's just a very
- 16:19new, very modern,
- 16:22very hip looking bathroom.
- 16:24So, um, that's what you're getting into with
- 16:27the. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Um,
- 16:30it is what it is. And here we are.
- 16:34Yes. They claim that this creates a calming
- 16:36environment. And again, based on my
- 16:39experience with the all
- 16:42gendered bathrooms that I had in Seattle, which I
- 16:45would argue that the all gendered bathroom that I used in
- 16:47Seattle, I'm going to share a little bit about it. I
- 16:50might be fixing to put it in as a 2023 nomination, if you know what
- 16:53I'm saying, because it was better than a
- 16:56couple of these. Um, but
- 16:59continuing on, uh, we're going to keep
- 17:01moving. And all the individual stalls have
- 17:04their own aesthetic. Like, one is shown to have
- 17:07cherries, the other has, like, a sunflower. It's kind of
- 17:10cool. Um, little individualism in each stall
- 17:13there. Uh, but the next bathroom is
- 17:16the number five bistro and bar out of Sedalia,
- 17:19Missouri. Now, this
- 17:22bathroom is weird. Uh, so
- 17:26the number five bistro and bar, it is in
- 17:28a restored 55,000
- 17:31foot building from the 18 hundreds
- 17:34already. Dope. Like, if you're running a
- 17:37bistro and bar out of a building that was built
- 17:40before Hitler was
- 17:42defeated, that's rad. That's just cool.
- 17:45Um, they note their deep history, the restaurant's
- 17:48vibe. It's outfitted with the original
- 17:51sinks and brick and penny floor
- 17:53tiles, which have been, I assume, treated
- 17:56and had some things done with some
- 17:58modern, minor touch ups. And if you look
- 18:01at this bathroom, this thing's pretty dope. Uh, the
- 18:04lighting's cool. It's got that
- 18:07old school bathroom feel. Uh, so now
- 18:10we got to go over to number five bistro. Number
- 18:12five bistro and bar, sedalia,
- 18:15Missouri. So, um, jumping
- 18:18over to the bistro and bars website here.
- 18:21Dang. Established
- 18:231866. That's awesome.
- 18:26Wow. The inside of this bistro is awesome,
- 18:29too, to say nothing
- 18:32of their
- 18:35bar. And my hunch is
- 18:38that this is a locally owned establishment.
- 18:41Uh, let's go on to the news and articles. This is
- 18:44usually, wow. Their
- 18:47stuff is all about, like, let's go to their
- 18:50story. I want to check this out because I think this
- 18:52one's cool. Hey, you know what? If you live in Sedalia,
- 18:55Missouri, here's what I'm going to say. I just did a little bit of read.
- 18:58Go check out the number five bistro and bar. Like, if
- 19:01I'm ever in Sedalia, Missouri, which, I'll be honest, I don't think
- 19:04I will be. But
- 19:08say nothing of their bathrooms. This place looks
- 19:10rad. Uh, it looks like an awesome
- 19:13place. Uh, I would go there. Um, I would
- 19:16have lunch and or breakfast there for sure,
- 19:20and it would be good. Um, but jumping back over to the
- 19:23America's best restroom website, the pictures
- 19:26they have to this bathroom are very cool. It, uh, kind of
- 19:28has this green tinted, almost emerald
- 19:31bathroom, but then they have these old fixtures.
- 19:34This sink is amazing. Uh, the
- 19:37brickwork is cool. Some of the brick has been painted
- 19:40green, so it gives this big contrast.
- 19:43Very cool bathroom. And it's vintage. It's an
- 19:46old school bathroom. So
- 19:49they're not, in my opinion, relying on the
- 19:52modern amenities to get by here. I think it's very
- 19:55cool. The next is the North
- 19:57Hollywood recreation center in north Hollywood,
- 20:00California. And this is, to my knowledge, the
- 20:03only bathroom submitted that is a self cleaning bathroom.
- 20:06So, uh, they installed these bathrooms in
- 20:09the north Hollywood rec center area to
- 20:12help with the homeless population, uh, in the area. This is
- 20:15what the website claims. And
- 20:18these bathrooms are cool. After so many
- 20:21flushes, they clean, uh, they have like,
- 20:24ah, graffiti and vandalism resistant
- 20:27surfaces. They can get that off quick. And they're self
- 20:30clean. They're just kind of like a clean public
- 20:33restroom for people who don't have access to public
- 20:36restrooms, um, or restrooms where a
- 20:39purchase would be necessary. So these are
- 20:42pretty cool looking. Again, they're modern, they're not something
- 20:45very fancy. Uh, but they do have some pretty
- 20:48cool technology. In them. As far as
- 20:51these self cleaning features and that type thing,
- 20:53uh, it'd be worth checking out.
- 20:56These would be pretty rad to see,
- 20:58but it's mostly in the gimmick of the
- 21:01self cleaning feature. That's nothing to
- 21:04knock, and it's a cool thing, don't get me
- 21:07wrong, but
- 21:11okay, we're going to move on. Um, the next is
- 21:14the stone mountain public house in Stone Mountain,
- 21:17Georgia. So this one
- 21:20is a single stall bathroom for sure.
- 21:23No doubt it serves one person.
- 21:26But this bathroom is located
- 21:29inside of stone Mountain public house, which
- 21:32is called a piano bar.
- 21:35It's called a cigar and piano bistro.
- 21:39Yeah, it's an interesting place.
- 21:42They've got, like, the sing along piano and all this
- 21:45other stuff. And
- 21:49it's kind of cool,
- 21:52this stone mountain. I wish their website had
- 21:55more pictures. And I get it. You do what you
- 21:58can, but, yeah, this
- 22:01public house, it's a weird vibe. But again, the
- 22:04bathroom is the thing that has been
- 22:07featured here. And, um, their
- 22:09website. Let me make sure I get
- 22:12my facts straight before
- 22:15shouting out on this. Yes,
- 22:18their website does show pictures of their own
- 22:20bathroom, including, like, a beer tap,
- 22:23faucet tap, um, which is kind of rad.
- 22:26Yeah, it's a cool little bathroom. It's like a single stall that you
- 22:29go into and you do your thing. It's got that
- 22:32personal touch of a private owned business.
- 22:34It's a nice little bathroom. Very clean
- 22:37looking, very homey.
- 22:40It almost looks like a bathroom that you would see in
- 22:43a well decorated,
- 22:46old fashioned home. It's pretty cool.
- 22:48The next bathroom is the Tampa International
- 22:51airport bathroom in Tampa, Florida. Um,
- 22:54so this is another one of those remodel
- 22:57jobs. And, uh, they put
- 23:00in more durable, large graphics,
- 23:03freshly cleaned aesthetic. It's very
- 23:05white in its
- 23:08whole vibe. Like, its vibe is like,
- 23:11I'm clean because my surfaces are metal and
- 23:14white. Lot of mirrors. More mirrors than I need in a
- 23:17bathroom. But m.
- 23:19Yeah, uh, everything's kind of modern
- 23:22and rust and cool looking. Like, it looks like a
- 23:25bathroom of the future, but it has just, like,
- 23:28upgraded versions of things that every bathroom
- 23:30has. So, um, that's the
- 23:33Tampa International airport bathroom. And
- 23:36then the final entry here is
- 23:39from Tori. Tori out of, I believe. Yeah,
- 23:41Orlando, Florida. So this is a place
- 23:44called Tori Tori. Um, and
- 23:47my first reaction to this bathroom is,
- 23:50wow, that's a lot of green.
- 23:53And not in a way of know. I said the number five
- 23:56bistro's bathroom had some emerald
- 23:59going on. This thing is like, oops, all green now. Tori.
- 24:02Tori is a japanese pub. And
- 24:05they boast that modern meets traditional at
- 24:08their know, they're
- 24:11featuring a lot of their cocktails and that type thing. And
- 24:14so this is like a japanese bar. Let's go to their gallery,
- 24:17see if we have any bathrooms. Uh,
- 24:19bathroom pictures featured in their gallery, mostly
- 24:22food and alcohol, I'm seeing. Yeah. Uh, no
- 24:25bathroom pictures, no mention of
- 24:28their. So it's a cool looking
- 24:30bathroom. Again, it's very green, but we have to rely on the
- 24:33America's best restroom website for
- 24:36our images on the bathroom. Um, and so jumping
- 24:39back down here, toritory, Orlando, Florida. It's got a
- 24:42cool marble like, sink situation. The
- 24:45wallpaper choice is interesting. It's a lot of palm
- 24:48leaves, which I get for Florida.
- 24:50And that japanese vibe, it's very green,
- 24:53looks very clean, cool looking sinks.
- 24:56So here's my $0.50 about
- 24:59these restrooms. Um,
- 25:01America's best restroom, 2022.
- 25:05Uh, I'm not going to speak to compare it
- 25:08to last year's entries. What I will say
- 25:11is the two cities pizza company, their bathroom is very
- 25:14rad, and I believe their
- 25:17bathroom would have beaten the bathrooms this year. That
- 25:19said, I'm going to tilt my hand, but before I tilt
- 25:22my hand, I want to note, if you want a
- 25:25treat, and voting for
- 25:28this one is closed. Uh,
- 25:31but if you wanted a treat, if you
- 25:34want a treat. And, uh,
- 25:37man, you can't really view these, but I took a look at some
- 25:40of the Canadian. So, um, our
- 25:42frosty neighbors to the north, ye oldie
- 25:44Canada, they have their version
- 25:47of it's called Canada's best restroom. And
- 25:50from what I could tell, their entries for
- 25:532022 were just stellar.
- 25:56Like, stellar. And here's my
- 25:58spiel. I'm not trying to down talk
- 26:01any of the entries for America's best
- 26:04restroom. Obviously, those are all good
- 26:07bathrooms. They wouldn't be submitted, but these are
- 26:10best, not goodest. Not like,
- 26:13hey, we got to get like, uh,
- 26:16our thing.
- 26:22I just feel like, I
- 26:25just feel like they, there was a lot of
- 26:28bathrooms in here that were just like, very
- 26:31nice bathrooms, but there's nothing special about them other
- 26:34than they're new and they're flashy looking.
- 26:36And so if you want my opinion, I, uh,
- 26:39ain't got time for those. Skip those. So I'm sorry
- 26:42for those bathrooms. Now, I will say
- 26:45the self cleaning bathroom in California, that thing's pretty cool,
- 26:48but it doesn't look
- 26:51cool. Like, it looks clean, which is
- 26:53fine. Bathrooms should be clean. Uh,
- 26:56and catch this self
- 26:59cleaning bathroom when it hasn't just self cleaned itself, you know, what I'm
- 27:02saying. And so for me to tip my hand, and
- 27:05the Georgia public house, it's very nice, but
- 27:08it's like this weird single stall bathroom
- 27:11tucked away. Uh, to
- 27:13me, when I look at it, I go, man, I almost feel like
- 27:16that's like a person's bathroom at home.
- 27:19It's a cool bathroom, and it's on my
- 27:22top few here. Um, but for me to
- 27:25tip my hand, and the
- 27:28number five bistro and bar, this
- 27:31old fashioned sink is so dope. Like,
- 27:34it's so next level. And the brick
- 27:37and the whole thing is just very good. It's
- 27:40a good bathroom. Also, their
- 27:42entire vibe and their spiel on their website, they just look
- 27:45like the number five
- 27:47bistro. That's the
- 27:50privy cast pick with the close second
- 27:53being Eberley out of Austin, Texas. It's just a cool
- 27:56looking bathroom. Um, these vacancy
- 27:59lights are very rad, and we're not trying
- 28:02to steer the ship. It's America's best
- 28:05restroom. So go vote and vote
- 28:08multiple times. You can vote up until the 26th of
- 28:11this month, August. But, yeah, privy
- 28:13cast's pick here has got to be that number five bistro.
- 28:16It's just a very good bathroom. We'll be putting some pictures of all
- 28:19of these in the socials after this comes out. But,
- 28:22yeah, feel free to let us know which one you voted
- 28:24for. You can tag, uh, the show
- 28:27with your vote however you want to do it. Um, send us an
- 28:30email. We're
- 28:31privycast@gmail.com. You can
- 28:34follow us on social, see what
- 28:37all the nonsense I'm getting up to over there at
- 28:40privycast. Yeah, we'd love for you to leave us
- 28:43a rating and review. I know I say that, and I know it's probably like, oh,
- 28:46here we go. It's time to skip forward. Here's what ratings and
- 28:48reviews do. They help people find the show
- 28:51who otherwise might not know me or know one of
- 28:54my guests or be interested in bathrooms. It helps
- 28:57itunes and Spotify and all the other
- 29:00weird things that people listen to this stuff on. It
- 29:03helps those services know who to
- 29:06stick this in front of. And so if you leave the show a
- 29:09rating review, if you do it on Spotify, it takes like
- 29:113 seconds. You click the little stars and you're done.
- 29:14If you do it on Apple Podcasts, it can also take 3 seconds.
- 29:17But if you're really going for the gusto, you can write
- 29:20us a review, and if you do, we
- 29:23will read it on the show. Um, so leave us the five
- 29:26star options preferred. We'd love for you to leave us a rating
- 29:29or review. Uh, and, yeah, we'll try to get
- 29:32to some of those on the show. As always, we want
- 29:35to thank Kevin McLeod for the use of
- 29:37barroom ballet as our intro and outro music.
- 29:41You can find Kevin's music.
- 29:42Ah@incompetent.com. And his music
- 29:45is licensed under Creative Commons license Attribution
- 29:4840. Thanks, Kevin.
- 29:51This has been another episode of privy. Thank you so much
- 29:54for joining me. And now, as
- 29:57always, don't forget to flush.