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Ep. 212 Bathroom Aesthetic w/ Holly, The Bathroom Bitch (Privychat 55) · Privycast

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  I mean the worst is when you go into a bathroom and they're out of paper towels.
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  yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  'Cause then you're like, How am I s and they don't have like a blow dryer, so you're like, Okay, I guess I'm wiping my hands on my pants.
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  Right.
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  Like how how else are you gonna dry your hands?
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  And then they're all wet when you go to open the door to leave the bathroom and you feel gross leaving the the handle wet.
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  'Cause the next person if they touch it, they're they're gonna assume the worst.
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  Welcome back to Privy.
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  Privy is a podcast about bathrooms recorded from my home bathroom.
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  I'm your host, Hunter Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
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  Welcome back, everyone.
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  Thank you for being here.
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  And and I am joined for another one of our uh interview conversation chats via the internet by she I'll I'll share like how I found is is Instagram.
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  I I got a lot of bathroom related uh
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  content on it that I follow.
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  And she makes a a bathroom.
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  I'm gonna call it a bathroom enthusiast blogging page.
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  But I'm joined by Holly.
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  Holly, how are you?
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  I'm doing well, Hunter.
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  How are you?
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  Good, good.
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  And that's kind of what I I wanted to begin with, because something that I often wonder, like I know how I got into I guess representing bathrooms on the internet, but how did you
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  come to uh and you can share a little bit about your page and what it is you do, but how did you get into photographing and and doing all this work with specifically bathrooms
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  online?
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  Yeah, it's a funny question.
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  Um I actually have to like go back and really think about it.
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  So I started my page on Instagram.
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  It's called The Bathroom Bitch.
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  And essentially what I do is I take selfies in different places I go in the bathroom and I rate the bathroom, what I thought of it.
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  So different restaurants, you know, bars, etc., that I go, I always judge the bathroom of that bar.
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  If a bar has a bad bathroom, I don't think it's a good bar.
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  I I don't give it a good rating.
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  It's I also I'm I'm very into interior design and I'm always admiring the aesthetics of a restaurant.
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  And obviously that that also comes with the aesthetics of their bathroom.
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  So yeah, like I said, like if you have a shit bathroom, I think you have a shit establishment.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  You cannot it it's often like I mean, I think it's one of the places that that most people think to clean first, especially in like a restaurant or a store or something.
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  As weird as that is to say, because it probably gets dirty so often.
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  And so, you know, you're probably onto something with that.
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  Do you have any bathrooms as you've done that that have stood out?
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  And and you don't have to dunk on those establishments if you have them in your brain.
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  I I mean I'm not against it.
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  Like
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  Yeah.
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  But do you have any that have been just absolutely terrible that stand out in your brain?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, so I live in the Boston area in Massachusetts, and I'm very well versed in the restaurant and bar scene here.
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  And with that, I'm also versed in their bathrooms.
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  So I'll I I'll start with the ones that I love.
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  Some of my favorite bathrooms in Boston.
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  I love the the the restaurant inside of the Fairmont Copley Hotel.
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  It's beautiful.
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  It's one of the first bathrooms that really inspired me to create this page.
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  It's white marble, everything.
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  There's so many mirrors.
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  It's just so well lit and it's just so aesthetic.
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  I love that one.
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  I also love the one at the restaurant, it's called Contessa, gorgeous restaurant.
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  The bathroom is amazingly gorgeous as well.
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  And I think I think I primarily tend to post about bathrooms that I admire.
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  I don't really
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  post about ones that I think are terrible as much.
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  I will occasionally I'll post that I'm disappointed in the bathroom of this restaurant because the aesthetics in the restaurant are are great.
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  I love it, but the bathroom does not match the vibe.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's where I I do post about those, but I I really I prefer to post about beautiful bathrooms.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  That's cool.
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  Yeah, that makes sense.
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  I while you were sharing, I I tried to pop up a picture of of those two and just the little bit that pops up, they do look amazing.
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  Uh and I'm curious, so there I don't and maybe have have you heard of the like America's best restroom stuff that
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  No.
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  Yeah, so the Sintus Corporation, so the of course it's corporation, but like they they're in charge of a lot of the toiletries and stuff, especially for big businesses and making
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  sure that they're well stocked and cleaned and whatever.
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  Uh and they started out as like a uniform company.
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  They'd rent uniforms to different businesses, but they have an America's best restroom, uh, where every year people vote.
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  And actually it's August is usually when all that pops off.
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  So
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  That's why it's fresh in my brain.
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  But as I look at both of these restrooms that you just shared, they could absolutely win it.
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  Like
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  With my most recent posts, you mean?
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  Some of those, but as well as that Fairmount Fairmont Copley and the Contessa.
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  Like Yeah.
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  They they could both easily win it, as well as some of like I I see you and there's others who post bathrooms and I'm like, man, because I so I'm over here in Oregon, I'm in Albany,
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  Oregon, and it's it's smaller, like it's like five thousand fifty thousand people.
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  We don't have any bathrooms of note.
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  Like it's not that they're bad, it's just, you know, they're pretty
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  standard issue bathrooms.
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  And I see folks post like you these bathrooms I was like, this these are all shoe ins for these America's best restroom because so often what's winning on that is all this, you
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  know, this airport had a cool a a cool skylight in one stall of their bathroom and they won.
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  And it's like this is crazy.
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  I've been to better stuff than this.
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  So but yeah I
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  you say sorry to interrupt when you say there's a skylight in that bathroom?
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  Because my husband and I just bought a house about six months ago and what really sold me was the master bathroom because it has a sunroof in the shower.
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  Really?
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  In shower too.
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  That's cool.
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  Yes.
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  That's super cool.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, and congrats on the the house purchase.
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  Thank you.
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  That's that's an endeavor in and of itself for sure.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It but you know the the skylight in the I when my wife hears this, she's gonna be jealous because our our bathroom has no like exterior lighting.
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  It's all yeah, it's all enclosed and so she's all time
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  running bathroom renovations by me and I'm like, yeah, that is that is a lot of work too though.
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  I yeah, I'm I'm pretty simple in it's done and I'm comfortable with it being done.
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  But yeah, have you have you always been in in that area or did you grow up in that area?
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  In Massachusetts.
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  I grew up in a small town called Manchester by the Sea.
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  It's about 45 minutes north of Boston, like on the North Shore.
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  Yeah.
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  So I grew up there, but I've been living in Boston ever since college, and I only just moved to Watertown, which is a small suburb.
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  Well, I guess it's more a city.
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  You know, it's like a 15-minute drive from Boston.
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  It's really close.
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  That was important to us.
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  but I've lived in Boston downtown.
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  in various neighborhoods, you know, for about fifteen years now.
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  I'm very I'm a Boston local and I know the scene, I know the restaurants and I know their bathrooms.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That's super cool.
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  Do you do you find that like friends or family, whether they're in Boston or they come to visit, do they ask you for not just bathroom, like which which place has got that?
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  But do do they seek you out for figuring out like what's the good place to do all this stuff?
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  They don't typically like ask me so much like what's the best bathroom in Boston.
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  They more like I'm someone I'm out and about.
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  I I go out of my way to try new places.
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  I know all the hot new spots in Boston.
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  And I thought, you know, there's it's such like a competitive space, like the just, you know, influencer blogging, restaurant bars, you know.
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  But like I thought about it and I was like, no one really
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  Posts about the bathrooms in these places.
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  Why not why don't I do that?
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  Because I love interior design.
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  I'm going to these restaurants anyway.
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  I want like I'm going out, I'm getting dolled up.
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  Why not post a bathroom selfie and just rate the bathroom while I'm there?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, it it makes sense.
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  I uh yeah, it's it you'd be surprised, you're right, there's not a lot of it that happens.
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  And I think I I think I have so many people and this is maybe I I don't know, one of the dangers that I've run into making bathroom stuff on the internet is people will send me
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  pictures and sometimes I don't want them.
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  If if you yeah, if you get what I'm saying.
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  Has that ever have has anybody ever done like a hey, I've got this cool bathroom that I found and submitted something to you, or are you pretty like
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  Yeah, people have sent stuff to me.
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  Not so much like, can you post this bathroom or like repost this or anything?
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  But people like will come across like cool bathrooms they're in and just send it my way just for the sake of I think you'd appreciate this.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I think that's exactly it.
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  You know, you you talk about bathrooms once and they're like, No no, they're super into bathrooms.
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  I've got to show them this cool bathroom.
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  Or in my case Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Like it's funny.
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  Like people bathroom humor is a thing.
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  It's not so much like my humor.
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  Like I'm I don't like have bathroom talk really.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm more just like I'm just rating the bathroom.
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  Like what was it like?
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  Does it was it pretty?
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  Like was it clean?
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  Did it match the vibe?
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  It's more that kind of humor to me.
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  Just like bathroom bitch, I'm gonna rate your bathroom and give it a bad rating if it's bad.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So it it's it's very cool and I like I said, it's almost for me to see all these you know, I'm on the other side of the country and seeing all of these different bathrooms that
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  you've explored as well as I mean, I know there's some like I saw a post from Miami.
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  They're they're from all over.
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  So it's it's not just in that area.
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  Uh I I would encourage folks to go check it out because if you're like me, you've not run into a lot of spectacular bathrooms in your life.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And you truly have found a lot of very cool bathrooms.
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  And it's very neat to yeah.
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  It's very neat to peek at.
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  Yep.
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  So yeah, go for it.
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  Yeah, like so my husband and I last summer we went on our honeymoon, we went to Japan and obviously Japan is known for their toilets.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Like the like amazing toilets.
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  But I I mean, I I typically I don't really sometimes the toilets are in some of the photos I take.
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  Sometimes they're not.
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  There was this one bathroom though in Japan that I did a bathroom bitch photo in and it was so cool.
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  I literally felt like I was like walking up a throne to this bathroom.
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  It was it had its own staircase.
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  It was weird.
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  It wasn't male or female.
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  It was unisex.
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  It was just one room really that you walked up like a spiral staircase to get up to.
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  So that was super cool.
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  It was at a very fancy restaurant.
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  It was like at a at a Michelin star restaurant.
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  So that makes sense.
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  It matched the vibe.
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  But it also
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  One unique feature it had that I've never seen in another bathroom is the toilet paper.
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  The toilet paper literally had like flowers on it.
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  It was so fancy.
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  And I've never seen that at any bathroom I've gone in.
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  Yeah.
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  It sets the tone for sure.
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  Like, wow, that's cool.
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  Yeah, I'll have to is that on your is that on your page?
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  Okay.
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  I'll I'll have to go back and see if I can spot that one because um yeah it there's a lot that like pop up.
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  There's I'll there's a I I can't remember, I think he's in New York.
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  There's a guy who he he I think he might actually do some of the graffiti, but he he finds bathroom graffiti.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And so like there I there's like the the page for the show for me is like just this carousel of cool bathroom shots or weird bathroom things.
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  So I'll go back and seek that out 'cause I wanna see this staircase.
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  That's cool.
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  Yeah, I just looked back.
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  I posted it in August of twenty twenty five.
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  There's like a red background.
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  You'll see it.
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  Sweet.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I'll seek that out.
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  That's that'll be cool.
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  So yeah, on the show I've got a bunch of questions that I ask people.
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  And if you have bathroom stories, I know you said that like that's not your like as far as trajectory when you when you normally start doing conversation and humor and stuff.
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  But if you do have something significant and you're like, actually, like that reminds me.
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  I I s I heard about or I witnessed.
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  Feel free to stop me.
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  Okay.
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  But I
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  I've got some questions that I ask everybody on the show.
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  And the first in relation to toilet paper, like do you have a a toilet paper preference yourself?
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  Yeah, brand or ply, like what is your preference?
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  Hmm.
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  I mean, I like a softer toilet paper.
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  I guess that's Charmin.
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  But like I don't really like saw it as much.
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  It's more like papery.
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  I guess toilet paper is a place I like splurge a little bit.
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  Like I'm not I don't want cheap toilet paper.
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  Yep.
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  There's no time for it.
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  Life's too short for it.
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  Have have you ever gone to like go in to rate a bathroom and other than this, you know, this flower toilet paper, have you ever noticed like anywhere that has like some plush
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  paper in there?
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  Or is it I know a lot of places they they kind of all have the same paper, I feel like it's that one, luckily sometimes you'll get a two ply.
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  Is it is it all pretty standard as far as you can tell?
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  I feel like the place you can really tell a difference is when you're in like a higher end restaurant or bar, typically that's when you notice the nicer toilet paper.
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  Like I'm not noticing nice airport or I'm not noticing nice toilet paper typically at the airport, you know.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  But I'm not usually doing bathroom bitch photos in airports because the bathrooms usually aren't worthy of it.
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  I agree.
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  That's why the America's best restroom thing is so frustrating to me.
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  I've I I've ranted about it on the show so many times.
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  These airports keep winning and it's it it's kind of pissing me off year to year because it's like I've been to that bathroom.
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  It sucks.
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  It's there's nothing to talk about.
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  But yeah, you're right.
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  It's so yeah, fair enough.
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  And then on your toilet paper, do you do you have it fold over or under?
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  Would you have a preference in that area?
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  Yeah.
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  Well, yeah.
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  I would say I I do it over typically.
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  Well yeah.
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  Over.
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  Yeah.
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  The the I think the better question is is your husband in agreement?
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  He's more neutral.
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  He doesn't really care either way.
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  Like he's like whatever.
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  Yeah.
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  If if you notice, like if he puts it on, I ask this because this is this is a thing I I used to be guilty of.
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  My wife has corrected it in me.
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  But if you if he puts it on and you notice it's not over, will you flip it around?
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  won't I don't typically do that.
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  Okay.
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  It's one of those things like I don't feel that strongly about, but when I go to do it, I'll just put it over.
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  But if he puts it under, like I'm not going to change it.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, that's fair.
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  I I think I I think I share his sentiment.
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  Like I I don't think it matters, but there's man, people are very passionate about that.
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  And it's like, Okay, you're right.
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  I will I will sort this out for you.
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  Allow me.
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  Do you have a do you have a preference like and and this is a question coupled with there's a lot of like things that go on in the bathroom that is not toileting?
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  And do you have a preference as far as soap, like liquid soap, bar soap?
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  Or or maybe it's like this is a product that is a mainstay that I have got to have.
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  Do you do you have any like advice or preferences about those things?
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  Definitely prefer a liquid soap over a bar soap, especially in public areas.
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  Even in hotels, like I I find it annoying to have to open up a bar of soap.
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  Yeah.
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  I prefer liquid soap, and I think they're more aesthetic.
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  Like you can put them in nice cases.
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  And bar soaps are just kind of gross because you get the soap is like all
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  over the tray and it just looks messy.
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  And I I love a clean bathroom, but I like a lot of character in a bathroom too.
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  But I feel I feel like a soap dispenser is a place where you can really add a lot of character.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  if you don't mind me asking, what do you know what the soap dispenser that you have currently?
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  What what does it look like?
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  So I have we have three bathrooms.
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  Okay.
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  The one in our master I got from Home Goods, I think.
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  I don't remember what the brand is.
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  The one right now in our second floor bathroom.
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  Actually, my sister got that for us as like a housewarming.
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  Yeah.
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  She finally she lives in California, but she finally came and saw our house about a month ago.
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  and so she gave me a housewarming gift and being the bathroom bitch, she got me some soap.
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  So it's I don't know what the brand is, but it smells amazing and it's and it's a th aesthetic.
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  So yeah, and then the first floor bathroom that I got at Target.
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  It's actually a discontinued brand or they don't they don't make it anymore because I've tried to buy more of it because I love it.
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  Because it has it has it's white, it's black and white, it's glass.
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  It has a tray that goes with it and it's soap and lotion and it says soap, lotion.
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  cool.
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  Which is which.
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  And it's actually really hard to find that combination.
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  Soap and lotion.
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  You usually just see hand soap, dish soap, but that's for a kitchen.
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  I'm not washing dishes.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, so Tar Target.
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  You know, they always discontinue the stuff you love.
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  Yeah.
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  That I'm I can't I won't get into it.
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  They're actually there's a toothpaste.
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  it's Crest Pro Health Cinnamon.
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  They discontinued it like twenty sixteen and Crest has no plans of making it again because I've tried.
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  I've I've reached out to They're probably like, Who who is this that keeps bothering us about?
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  An old toothpaste that he's probably the only person that actually liked it.
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  But so I feel that if I I will keep my eye out because now I'm like, what you've described my wife would love is that, you know, soap and lotion and the whole thing and yeah, that's
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  super cool.
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  Do you do you have like do you p some people have lots of opinions about baths, like the the process of taking a bath?
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  Do you like baths?
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  Do you hate baths or are you pretty neutral about it?
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  Take a bath if I'm in a really nice hotel and it has a nice bathtub.
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  That's pretty much the only time I'll take a bath.
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  However, our master bathroom does have a bathtub.
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  It's one of those old, like out the ground, like clubs.
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  Beautiful.
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  my gosh, that's cool.
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  Yeah.
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  However, I've only used it once because the plumbing of it is not good.
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  It takes forever to fill up with water and by the time it actually fills up, the water's cold.
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  So I don't even want to get in it.
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  so someday I want to fix the plumbing in it because I would love to use it.
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  But right now it's more just it's n it's pretty to look at.
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  Yeah.
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  I I'd be curious to know if that like if that bathtub is historical in the sense of like, you know, it was it made to look like that or is it actually one from from, you know, a
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  long time ago?
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  'Cause
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  It it's definitely not one from a long time ago.
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  It was it's a newer bathtub, but it's it was built it for that aesthetic.
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  Man, well, I I I asked that only because my my grandmother had one of those bathtubs.
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  And my my mom would tell us this story about how, you know, my cousins and I would whatever.
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  And it would take us they would take them forever to fill the tub because of that style of plumbing and all that.
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  And there's, yeah, it's it's awful.
• 21:44
  You know, here we are now, all of us are adults.
• 21:46
  And he's like, yeah, we would just stick you in the bathtub together as cousins.
• 21:49
  It's like, don't, don't do that.
• 21:51
  But they did it because the bathtub would not fill quick enough because it's that style.
• 21:54
  So I was curious if it was a style thing or a an age of the plumbing thing.
• 21:59
  And wow, that's cool.
• 22:00
  My that that's actually when I say my wife wants these renovations and she talks to me about things to do in the bathroom.
• 22:06
  That is one of them.
• 22:06
  Like the the standalone tub.
• 22:09
  And I'm going, yeah, they're they're cool, but where are we gonna do that?
• 22:13
  You know, I'm looking around and but we'll see.
• 22:15
  One day I'm sure we'll we'll take a crack at it.
• 22:18
  Well.
• 22:20
  Do you so i in the with showers and and even just the bath or or the the toilet space and do you ever like have a drink while you're while you're in the shower or or a bathroom
• 22:33
  snack of any type?
• 22:35
  Definitely not a snack.
• 22:38
  The only time I might have a drink while I'm showering is if I'm traveling and I'm at a hotel.
• 22:44
  I like to, you know, drink wine like when I'm getting ready to go out.
• 22:50
  So a lot of the time that involves me taking a shower.
• 22:53
  So sometimes I will have a glass of wine while I'm showering, but it's really only when I travel and I'm in a hotel.
• 23:02
  Yeah.
• 23:02
  Yeah, that's fair.
• 23:03
  I think I think that's the most level headed response I've ever had on this show about snacks in the bathroom.
• 23:10
  You know, because you're like, Nah, no, not really.
• 23:12
  And a lot of people are like, yeah, here's the list of foods that I'll eat while I'm in the bathroom.
• 23:16
  And I'm like, Well, you're you had that so way too ready.
• 23:21
  Here we are.
• 23:24
  Yeah.
• 23:26
  Um just showering in the dark?
• 23:27
  And I know it's probably difficult.
• 23:28
  You said you guys have a a uh
• 23:30
  yeah, sunrise.
• 23:31
  Yeah.
• 23:32
  But have you ever given that a shot?
• 23:36
  thinking about that.
• 23:38
  I mean, I typically well, I shower both in the morning and at night.
• 23:43
  It really depends on when I'm working out that day.
• 23:46
  So if I'm doing a workout class in the morning, I'm gonna shower right away.
• 23:50
  But I also I play a lot of tennis at night.
• 23:53
  So usually when I play tennis, it's at night and then I'll shower after.
• 23:57
  So my showers in the morning are always bright because of the sunroof.
• 24:01
  But if I shower at night, it's not as the aesthetic
• 24:06
  Because it's not, you know, there's no sun coming from the sunroof.
• 24:10
  But I wouldn't say I ever let the room be dark.
• 24:13
  Like I always have the lights on.
• 24:15
  I think it would be harder in the dark because I just can't see really what I'm doing.
• 24:21
  Yeah.
• 24:22
  It's it's fair.
• 24:23
  We this this got added to the so I I had a friend in college, he took dark shower every day.
• 24:30
  Like that was how he did it.
• 24:31
  And I was finally like, dude, what are you doing?
• 24:34
  And he's like, No, no, it's great.
• 24:35
  It's like sensory deprivation.
• 24:37
  It's that whole because you can't see what you're doing, your your senses are a little more like to what's going on.
• 24:43
  I started doing it.
• 24:44
  It's like, yeah, actually I get it.
• 24:45
  I I also do the like in the morning and at night and the morning, it's a great like wake up.
• 24:50
  Because it's not the I also I get up way earlier than I I I work at a high school, so I'm on summer right now, which is great.
• 24:58
  But during the school year it's like 4 30 and turn all the lights on.
• 25:02
  It it helps with that too, keeping everybody else asleep.
• 25:05
  But yeah, and then do you have like, is there anything that is like pet peeves or things that happen?
• 25:13
  It can be either in your own home bathroom or like stuff that as you've gone and you've seen all these bathrooms.
• 25:21
  That you you've seen and it consistently just drives you up a wall.
• 25:24
  I know you said like when the aesthetic doesn't match or it it's a great restaurant, but the bathroom sucks.
• 25:29
  Is there anything that's like pet peeve stuff that that just drives you bonkers when it comes to bathrooms?
• 25:37
  Yeah, that's a really good question.
• 25:40
  I mean, the worst is when you go into a bathroom and they're out of paper towels.
• 25:46
  yeah.
• 25:47
  Yep.
• 25:47
  'Cause then you're like, How am I s and they don't have like a blow dryer, so you're like, Okay, I guess I'm wiping my hands on my pants.
• 25:53
  Right.
• 25:54
  Like how how else are you gonna dry your hands?
• 25:56
  And then they're all wet when you go to open the door to leave the bathroom and you feel gross leaving the the handle wet.
• 26:02
  Yep.
• 26:03
  Yep.
• 26:03
  'Cause the next person if they touch it, they're they're gonna assume the worst.
• 26:07
  Like that's just
• 26:08
  That's like gross.
• 26:09
  One other thing that like I have mixed feelings about is when a bathroom has a shared sink space for men and women.
• 26:19
  I don't love that.
• 26:21
  Because like I wanna sometimes like do my makeup.
• 26:23
  I wanna post my bathroom bitch photos.
• 26:25
  And it's weird if a guy is just standing right next me.
• 26:29
  Yeah.
• 26:30
  that's valid.
• 26:31
  I'm laughing because that is my like in our home, that's our we have a shared and it's but it's the most like very clearly shared where it's like one counter.
• 26:40
  And there's regularly like I'm I'll I'll I'm usually shoving her stuff back over 'cause it's like all right.
• 26:49
  And it's not really a pet peeve.
• 26:51
  I I just ignore most of it and I'm like, all right, I'm I'm definitely more to deal with than she is.
• 26:56
  So but no, that's valid.
• 26:58
  Have you run into that like out in public spaces too?
• 27:02
  Yeah, that's what I mean.
• 27:04
  I mean in like some bars and restaurants in Boston, there is a shared sink space for men and women.
• 27:09
  It's not many.
• 27:11
  Like there's this bar called Lolita in Fort Point in Boston, Seaport area, that has a shared sink space.
• 27:19
  But I still gave it a good rating because it's a very cool bathroom.
• 27:23
  Like it's super aesthetic and matches the vibe of the restaurant, but I don't love the shared sink space because it's just awkward washing my hands and
• 27:32
  Make up next to a guy.
• 27:34
  Yeah.
• 27:34
  Yeah.
• 27:35
  I other than space saving and I mean, I guess if that's where the plumbing for the sink is, is outside the stall.
• 27:41
  I but I yeah, I can't imagine that being the most comfortable thing, especially for ladies.
• 27:50
  I mean, yeah, I that's you're right.
• 27:54
  That would be frustrating.
• 27:55
  Especially if you're yeah, go for it.
• 27:59
  Yeah, I guess I I wouldn't say it's like one of my pet peeves.
• 28:03
  It's just not my preference.
• 28:05
  Right.
• 28:06
  I'd prefer to have the sink separate with in the woman's bathroom and a s a separate sink for the men's bathroom.
• 28:14
  Like I don't think they need to be combined.
• 28:17
  Yeah, yeah, that's fair.
• 28:18
  That's valid.
• 28:19
  And you can feel free to to, you know, shoot this down, but I I'm curious, how how long did you say your you and your husband have been married?
• 28:28
  We're coming up on our one year anniversary actually.
• 28:31
  Awesome.
• 28:32
  What what date?
• 28:33
  Do you mind me asking?
• 28:35
  August second.
• 28:36
  Okay.
• 28:36
  My my wife and I is July twenty eighth, so it was close.
• 28:39
  I was just curious you said it's coming up and I'm like, never know.
• 28:42
  But in the last year, have you have you noticed anything or learned anything about how he interacts with that shared bathroom space?
• 28:52
  In like in restaurants when there's a sink.
• 28:55
  Or like even at home, it's like this is yeah.
• 29:00
  Yeah.
• 29:00
  I mean, one of the things that we thought was important to us in buying a house was that we would have his and her sinks.
• 29:08
  Like we would have two seats in our master bathroom.
• 29:11
  That was something that we really wanted.
• 29:14
  But this house, it does not have that.
• 29:17
  But it has everything else that we want.
• 29:19
  So we kind of were like, you know what, we can share a sink.
• 29:24
  So but we also have three bathrooms.
• 29:27
  So if I need to
• 29:29
  take long and use the sink, then he can go use the bathroom downstairs.
• 29:33
  Right.
• 29:33
  Yep.
• 29:34
  Yeah.
• 29:35
  The the extra bathroom, it solves so many problems.
• 29:38
  It's like actually this isn't a big deal.
• 29:42
  Yeah.
• 29:43
  My our we have two and the the second is our kids' bathroom and man it's it's like you know what, I'm actually really appreciative that the other bathrooms pretty much just for
• 29:54
  adults because this is a hellscape from time to time.
• 29:57
  Kids are wild is is when it comes to bathrooms.
• 30:03
  Do you so I ask everybody this question and and I'll apologize ahead of time because it is it is the most like bathroom humor question that I really get into.
• 30:11
  And but if I don't ask it, I have people that because I I c I chickened out one time and people are like, What what's wrong with you?
• 30:18
  And I'm like, hey, just just but so I I I have a feeling I already know, but have you ever have you ever performed a waffle stomp?
• 30:27
  I have no idea what that is.
• 30:29
  Okay, perfect.
• 30:31
  And it's, you know, it that you don't know is probably better and it it actually probably says more about you as a person, uh, in in a good way.
• 30:38
  But a waffle stomp, and again, apologize ahead time, i it's where you can't make it out of the shower to go to the bathroom.
• 30:47
  And so you just do that right in the shower.
• 30:50
  And then and then the stomping is to get all of the matter that you would need to go down to go down.
• 30:56
  Yeah, so I I should have been
• 30:58
  Yeah, there's people that they they just let fly.
• 31:02
  They do they do the number two.
• 31:05
  Yeah, no, definitely not me.
• 31:07
  I am curious and I, you know, nobody will ever, but I I would be, have you is that something that's ever like come up in conversation between you and your husband?
• 31:16
  Like, hey, have you ever done this?
• 31:19
  Never, not once.
• 31:22
  He would never.
• 31:24
  The most like hygienic germaphobe ever.
• 31:29
  okay.
• 31:30
  Yep.
• 31:30
  That'll solve that issue for sure.
• 31:32
  Yeah.
• 31:33
  Yeah.
• 31:33
  Yep.
• 31:34
  Well there you go.
• 31:35
  That's a valid answer.
• 31:35
  It's probably the best answer you can give.
• 31:37
  Unfortunately, previous guests have have given different answers and so here we are.
• 31:43
  I guess yeah.
• 31:47
  They have had all types.
• 31:50
  I've yeah, I I had a guy on actually
• 31:53
  Yours, your episode, this will probably come out in August.
• 31:56
  His his is coming out here in a week or so in July.
• 31:58
  But he he runs a porta potty company in Utah.
• 32:01
  And he's like, he's like, dude, I'm blue collar and I've never even done that.
• 32:06
  And I'm like, that's fair.
• 32:07
  Okay.
• 32:07
  You know.
• 32:08
  There's just, there's some real deviance out there.
• 32:10
  That's but yeah, that's yeah, that's that's all the big, big hitting questions, Holly.
• 32:15
  Um do you have do you have any like it can be it can be stories to share?
• 32:20
  I I have one like
• 32:22
  thing in parting, but do you have anything that that is like bathroom stories or even things related to your page that that you want to share?
• 32:31
  Yeah, let's think.
• 32:32
  I have to like go look at it for inspiration to answer this question.
• 32:37
  But yeah, so I started this page.
• 32:40
  I'm just scrolling back.
• 32:42
  I started this page back in twenty twenty.
• 32:46
  So I was obviously bored like the rest of the world.
• 32:51
  And I I was I mean, when I go out, I I usually would just take selfies in bathrooms, you know, like my outfit, whatever.
• 32:59
  So I was like
• 33:01
  I already have a lot of photos of me just posing in front of a bathroom, you know, in restaurants.
• 33:06
  So why don't I just post those?
• 33:09
  So my page kind of evolved from there.
• 33:12
  Like I then started to not just post the one photo of me in front of the mirror.
• 33:18
  Then I started once I was like, you know what, I'm actually gonna rate the bathroom.
• 33:21
  And to do that, I need to show more photos of the bathroom.
• 33:24
  It's so people can see why I gave it that rating.
• 33:27
  So then I started to actually
• 33:30
  take photos just of the various angles of the bathroom so people can see it and they can, you know, recognize that bathroom if they go to it or seek it out if they see my page,
• 33:41
  want to see that bathroom.
• 33:42
  And I'm just looking back like at other all my posts, it's always me standing doing a selfie in front of the mirror.
• 33:50
  I've had a few of my friends pop in as guest stars.
• 33:54
  My husband has been in one.
• 33:57
  But for the most part, it's just
• 33:59
  Me in the first photo, a mirror selfie, and then the rest of the photos are just the what the bathroom looks like.
• 34:06
  So yeah, I mean, I don't do it for every bathroom I go to because I don't think they're all worthy of it.
• 34:14
  I don't want a page of just a bunch of boring bathrooms.
• 34:17
  I want a page of, you know, good bathrooms.
• 34:20
  But occasionally I'll I'll I'll post a bathroom that I don't think is good.
• 34:25
  Like
• 34:25
  This one bar, like my favorite bar in Boston.
• 34:28
  It's called Real House.
• 34:29
  It's in the seaport.
• 34:30
  Great vibes.
• 34:32
  Like it's super nautical.
• 34:34
  They know me there.
• 34:35
  Like I'm a regular.
• 34:35
  And I don't know why, but I've never posted a bathroom bitch photo from from their bathroom before.
• 34:42
  And and I thought about it and I'm like, you know what?
• 34:44
  I haven't because it's not worthy of one.
• 34:46
  It's not a nice bathroom.
• 34:49
  So I actually I I did post it recently.
• 34:52
  I I was like, you know what?
• 34:52
  I'm gonna do it.
• 34:53
  I'm gonna call them out.
• 34:55
  And they responded.
• 34:56
  They posted, or I here's what I wrote.
• 34:58
  I said, I said, for as amazing as the vibes of this bar are, the bathroom is disappointing.
• 35:04
  It has potential to be nautical like the rest of the places.
• 35:07
  So this is a missed opportunity, in my opinion, five out of ten.
• 35:12
  And then they they wrote on it.
• 35:14
  I always tagged the restaurant and their Instagram page.
• 35:18
  And then they commented, marketing has brought this up to management and will continue to push to make this a vibe.
• 35:25
  So I look forward to seeing what they do with it.
• 35:28
  Maybe I'll do a new post once they've made some improvements.
• 35:31
  But uh yeah, I think it just needed to be brought to their attention because no one ever called them out for it.
• 35:37
  Yeah, that's fair.
• 35:38
  That's fair.
• 35:39
  And hey, good on them for hopefully that's that's a real response and not like a okay, we we hear you, you know.
• 35:47
  That would be that would be frustrating.
• 35:48
  But yeah, hopefully they can, 'cause that you're right.
• 35:51
  When you when you love an establishment and then like the things that aren't necessarily what it's about, but that really color that experience are not there, it you know, it it
• 36:01
  kind of it diminishes it a bit.
• 36:03
  And so
• 36:04
  Yeah.
• 36:04
  And there's the great thing about bathrooms is there's so many little things you can do that can ha that can go a long way, you know, like a soap dispenser, you know, you can
• 36:16
  find cheap ones that look nice at home goods for ten dollars and it just looks so much better than just sticking the the soap dispen like the dove soap dispenser, you know.
• 36:26
  Right.
• 36:27
  Yeah.
• 36:28
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 36:30
  Well, Holly, thank you so much for doing this.
• 36:33
  Uh I I don't know if you've ever done any other podcast stuff, but is this is this one of the weirdest things you've been a part of?
• 36:41
  I've well, I started a podcast at my last last company.
• 36:45
  It was like an internal one.
• 36:47
  I just interviewed various people in the company.
• 36:49
  I haven't done that at my current company, but I mean, I'm a podcast listener myself.
• 36:54
  I love podcasts.
• 36:55
  Um I've never, I don't think, been a guest on one though.
• 36:59
  So this is a first for me.
• 37:02
  and definitely a first for bathroom.
• 37:04
  It's Yeah.
• 37:05
  Yeah.
• 37:05
  Well cool.
• 37:06
  I was excited that that you were on board because there are there are people that are like, like, I don't know if I want to talk about bathrooms and it beyond the internet.
• 37:17
  And I'm like, yeah, it's valid.
• 37:18
  I'm not gonna I'm not gonna try to talk you into it if you're not.
• 37:21
  So do you have any bathroom wisdom that you want to leave folks with as we close?
• 37:28
  Bathroom wisdom.
• 37:29
  I think bathrooms are a place that people just tend to not really think that they can do much with.
• 37:38
  Like I think there's so much opportunity to make a bathroom memorable and have character.
• 37:47
  Yeah.
• 37:48
  And I think that's just something that people typically brush off and they just think, it's just where you do your business and get out quick.
• 37:57
  Right.
• 37:58
  But it it can be more than that.
• 38:00
  It can be a place that is aesthetic and shows your vibe and your character.
• 38:05
  And there's a lot of things you can do with them.
• 38:08
  And I'm in the process now of r of decorating our bathrooms.
• 38:13
  We have three and I'm still getting the vibe of how I want to decorate them all.
• 38:18
  One thing I do want to do in at least two of them is I want to put in wallpaper.
• 38:22
  I think wallpaper really makes a bathroom stand out and it's
• 38:26
  It's just really cool because bathrooms are typically very tiny rooms, but a wallpaper makes you feel like you're in like this really exclusive, like private, cool space.
• 38:37
  And when there's wallpaper in it, that's like has a lot of character.
• 38:41
  It's just like it's a cool, just like hidden little place you go to for a minute and just feel like you're in like a hidden oasis.
• 38:49
  Yeah.
• 38:50
  Yeah, that's cool.
• 38:51
  Um yeah.
• 38:53
  Take some time with your bathrooms, folks.
• 38:55
  Like think about what you can do to to plus it up, make it intentional.
• 39:02
  Get the vibe right.
• 39:03
  That's good.
• 39:04
  Holly, one more time.
• 39:05
  let let folks know where they can where they can find um your blog and your page and and what the best ways for them to follow you and and what you're doing.
• 39:16
  Yeah, definitely.
• 39:16
  So right now I'm I'm just the bathroom bitch on Instagram.
• 39:21
  I've thought about going onto TikTok, but I know with TikTok I'd have to post videos.
• 39:28
  Yeah.
• 39:29
  And I don't know if I feel comfortable like posting myself, like videos of myself on the internet.
• 39:35
  Especially when when I go into bathrooms and there's other people in the bathroom, I kind of just wait until they leave before I take the photos.
• 39:44
  Yeah.
• 39:44
  But videos like I don't know.
• 39:46
  I'm just I think it would be cool to make Bathroom Bitch like a video TikTok page.
• 39:53
  I think it would blow up, but I'm just I'm hesitant to do that on the internet videos.
• 39:57
  Yeah.
• 39:58
  Yeah, that's wise.
• 40:00
  I so when this when this show first started, I was originally gonna record every episode in not my bathroom.
• 40:06
  Like it was gonna be out and about.
• 40:09
  And my brother in law, he was in school to be a lawyer at the time.
• 40:12
  And he goes, Eh, you might want to think about that.
• 40:15
  And I said, What do you mean?
• 40:16
  He goes, Well, while most of these places are technically public, they they have reasonable like expectation of privacy.
• 40:22
  And I'm like, shoot, you're right.
• 40:25
  Like
• 40:26
  And then I kinda got scared to tell the truth.
• 40:29
  But which with a video you could probably maneuver it, but like when you're sitting down for forty minutes and it's like somebody's gonna come in.
• 40:38
  Like there's no shot that there's nobody coming in.
• 40:42
  Mm-hmm.
• 40:42
  Toloy.
• 40:43
  Has anybody ever walked in like while you're snapping pictures of the bathrooms that you
• 40:49
  Definitely.
• 40:50
  I mean it happens, but I'm I'm kinda just like whatever, they probably just think I'm a girl that's wants to take selfies of herself in the bathroom.
• 41:00
  Yeah.
• 41:00
  It's valid.
• 41:01
  Yeah.
• 41:02
  I we'll do like a a toilet Tuesday, which ours it is in no way similar to what you've got going on because ours is pictures of the toilet.
• 41:10
  Like and it I have had people come in, I've had people do it for like take these pictures for me, and they say, dude, right as I went to snap the picture, some guy walked in.
• 41:20
  I'm like, Yeah, that is that is the name of the game if you're gonna if you're gonna be in there doing that.
• 41:25
  So Yeah.
• 41:27
  Yeah, more more power to you.
• 41:29
  All
• 41:29
  I'll keep eyes open though 'cause I I do think that would be cool to have the like video reviews.
• 41:34
  There's something different about it for sure.
• 41:36
  Yeah, it would certainly be really unique and TikTok obviously is better with video, but yeah, I'm just I'm hesitant to do that.
• 41:46
  Yeah, that's fair.
• 41:47
  That's fair.
• 41:48
  Well, Holly, thank you again for doing this.
• 41:50
  And I'm actually just gonna leave your I'll put your stuff in the description and I'm gonna save my normal end of show promo things and just tell people go follow the bathroom
• 42:01
  bitch on Instagram.
• 42:02
  Uh there's very cool bathrooms on there.
• 42:05
  Uh it's it's yeah, there's a lot more going on in the Boston area than than I got going on over here, that's for sure.
• 42:11
  So thank you again for doing this.
• 42:13
  Yeah, thanks, Hunter.
• 42:14
  So much.
• 42:15
  It's been a pleasure.
• 42:16
  Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna close it out.
• 42:18
  as a reminder to folks, yeah, keep hooping the free world and as always, don't forget to flush.