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Ep. 77 America’s Best Restroom 2022! · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: This is one of the downsides of democracy, is when we let
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the people choose. Sometimes the people don't
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choose how we think would be best.
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Welcome back to privy. Privy is a
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podcast about bathrooms
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recorded from my home bathroom.
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I'm your host, host, Hunter Hoover, and
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I love bathrooms. It's good to be
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back in what is hopefully
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a more regular and
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trying to keep it a little more fresh,
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uh, recording wise. I
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admit I pre recorded quite a few, um,
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episodes as I was returning to school.
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And the season of fall, moving
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into the Christmas season, is busy at the church,
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and I had a few pre recorded,
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and those have expired with
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the end of spoop key season. I, um, hope you
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guys enjoyed that. But as we move
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into the end of the year here, uh,
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one of my goals for 2023 is
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to, uh, maybe just prioritize
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my time in such a way where I am able
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to record it a little more fresh. So that way,
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you're not getting, like, two month
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old bathroom reports much
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late. So that said,
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recently, speaking of bathroom reports, I know we
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were speaking of it. Uh,
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recently, I found out firsthand,
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uh, what happens when you eat
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a four to eight month old frozen
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olive garden dinner. Um, so when we
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go to Olive Garden, my family and I, we are
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olive garden frequentees, um, if
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you will. And one of the things that
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we do when we go to Olive Garden is we will
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regularly purchase a take
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home meal that we will then freeze
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for a lunch or a very
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simple to warm up meal later on
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in our lives. Well, my
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parents often, they put in these special
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orders, and they hook us up pretty
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sweet. But we had placed
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one of these a while back, like, probably
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February, um, at the time that you're hearing this, that
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will be nine months ago. Uh, and
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so, in the bottom of our chest freezer,
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in our garage, sat one of these olive garden
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dinners, and me returning to the
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school. As I said, I will regularly
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walk out into the garage, pop
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open the chest freezer, and go rifling through
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there to see if I can find an olive garden dinner. Well, I
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did find this one, and it was at the very
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bottom. And I'm more than
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confident that this was placed in our freezer
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at the beginning of 2022,
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at the latest, late
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2021. My heart and my
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gut tell me that this was probably in there about
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February. So that's what I'm going to operate on. That
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assumption. But anyway,
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I took this to the school, and I warmed it up,
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and I'll tell you what, it tasted
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delicious. The flavor was unabated,
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but the degree to
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which it ran through me. Um,
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it was very fast. Like we're talking, like,
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olympic sprinter speed, levels
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of fast moving through my bowels.
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So, to that end, what I would share
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here, we're moving into a season of thankfulness,
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and I think that we're going to
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arrive back home, if you
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will, uh, for a sense of what
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privy is all about. And
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what I want to tell you is, if
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you are, uh, in the market for a
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laxative and you have eight to
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nine months to spare before you will need
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said laxative, it may be
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more cost effective to buy
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an olive garden dinner and freeze it
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for, let's say, four to eight months
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and then consume it in one
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sitting. I know it's not a
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one serving situation. It's two, but one
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sitting. And I'm pretty confident
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that that $5, $6 take home is
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probably cheaper than a lot of laxatives.
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And I promise you, tested and verified,
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it will get the job done.
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In fact, I have
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another right, uh, at the top of the show here. I
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have another. Just what are
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we doing? Sometimes there's these
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moments, it's a hunter's anecdotes to keep
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you afloat.
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There's a few moments in our lives where
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we're staring down at something and
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we're wondering, what are we
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doing? Do you know what I mean?
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There's often times where I'll make specific,
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less than adult choices, and I'm going, oh,
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man, this was a bad idea.
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Well, uh, to tell you this, to give you
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this hunter's anecdotes, we got to back up. And I promise
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this has to do with the bathroom. Oh, does it
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ever? But we have to back up to
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about, uh, early
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September, mid September. And
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what happens in mid September, especially here in the
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Pacific Northwest, is
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there's this thing that I like to call pumpkin
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spice fever. Now, I'm not going to
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disparage any specific demographic
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of human being, but let's
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just say there is a specific demographic
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of, I don't know, whitish
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female that just kind of gravitates
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toward pumpkin spice. Now, I'm not
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going to pretend like I don't
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enjoy a pumpkin spiced
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something or another. I do. The pumpkin
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pie kit kats that Kit Kat put out this year, shout
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out to those. I probably bought eight to
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ten bags of those. They're delicious.
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So I'm not disparaging the pumpkin spice life,
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but what I am going to kind of make a comment on
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here, and this is not a take, because
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everybody's had this take, but that
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is the pumpkin
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spice thing is kind of getting out of hand, and
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this is kind of known, and everybody kind of has this in the back of their
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brain that they got pumpkin spice
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dog food, for goodness sakes. I guarantee you they have it. I don't know
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that they have it, but I guarantee you that they
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do have it. That's what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying?
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So I'm on the Internet, and
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I am scrolling through and
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know they've got my number. These ads on
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Facebook got my number. And in the
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ad on, because they've heard me rant about
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this. And in the ad on
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Facebook pops up, pumpkin
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spice deodorant. Now,
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if you want to know which deodorant brand is, you can
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go putts around on the TikToks and
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Instagrams for me. But let's just
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say, um, and this is
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important, but an all natural deodorant
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brand released a deodorant that
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was pumpkin spiced
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flavored. And I made a video
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just commenting, like, what are we even doing?
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Have we not gone too far? Well, this
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deodorant company, they responded and said,
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well, you should try it. Now, a normal
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person would read that and they would go,
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well, they want me to smear this on my
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underarms and get my snoot in there and
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smell it. But my
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Henry self read that
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comment and went, oh, I'll try it. All right,
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friends. And so Mawa
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and I go to the target
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and look for this. First of all, the pumpkin
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spice variety was discontinued
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a mere month later.
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Um, right in the heart of pumpkin spice season as well. But
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whatever. To be replaced with
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vanilla, uh, toasted marshmallow. I don't know.
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I'm staring at this tube of deodorant
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from across the bathroom right now. Oh, also on the
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floor, little hunter's anecdotes. Within the
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hunter's anecdotes here. But
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there's like a 40 pound bag of bath and
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bodyworks, soap and candles.
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So what we mount, my wife
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stocks up on bath and
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bodyworks, home goods and
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body and hand cleaning products for
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the year. Like, we're still working through last
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year's haul and bringing in
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this year's haul, I might add. So
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I digress. But this deodorant
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is out of stock. They don't make the pumpkin spice
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variety. And so I buy the toasted
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marshmallow vanilla. Now,
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again, it's deodorant.
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And so I decide my honorary self
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is saying, oh, you want me to try it? Okay.
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And so one night, I just took a big bite of
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it, and I can report it's
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bad. Um, it. One does
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not taste like.
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It doesn't taste like marshmallows or vanilla. I can tell
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you that right now. It makes me wonder if the
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pumpkin spiced one would. I'm pretty confident I know
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the answer to that. But what it did taste like
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was just pure
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awfulness, and the texture of, like,
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three day old sat out mashed,
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uh, potatoes. Absolutely
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heinous. But the worst part was,
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is it kind of, like, smashed? And then also
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simultaneously began to dissolve in my
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mouth. And so I know I swallowed some of it,
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but the problem with that was, I work at a public
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high school. So the next day, and
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the nature of my job is, the reality is if I have to
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go to the bathroom, I may have to hold my
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bathrooming one to 5 hours, depending
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on the honoriness of the students children
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I work with. And so this day was one of those,
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oh, we're not going to get to the bathroom immediately. But
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unfortunately, my innards had
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been polluted by this deodorant, and they are
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just screaming to be released.
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Uh, and so what we've
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learned from the end, little takeaway for you at the end of this
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hunter's anecdote is two things
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will get your insides
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moving to a degree that you maybe didn't
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want. The first is four to
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eight month old olive garden
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meals. Um, and the second is
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biting and accidentally swallowing some
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portions of deodorant.
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Also, um, because I'm.
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I don't know what the word is, we're going to say deranged.
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Um, I also took a video
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of the sounds that this
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post deodorant deuce
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made. Again, it's mostly
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to just, like, snapchat buddies and make them have to watch
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it. Uh, but two funny things came from this.
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The first is, I sent this to
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my friend, uh, and hopefully soon to
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be friend of the show, Chris Luckman. Shout out, Chris.
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And I sent it to him under the pretext that I was texting
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him. Well, I received a text back saying, hey, I
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have Chris's phone. What this means is that Chris's
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lovely wife, Roxanne had his phone
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and just received a video of
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me taking a crap. Now, I didn't make her open
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it. She opened
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it, much to her own horror,
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as it's just audio of me ripping a beefer.
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And so I then talked m my wife
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into watching this video. Having
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heard the audio, my wife begins to gag
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to the point of almost throwing up simply by hearing the
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heinous things that come out of my rear
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it's true love uh, this has
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been hunter's anecdotes
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to keep you afloat.
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It is election season by the time you're
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hearing this episode. The elections should be done as
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long as all these states that figure, uh, out how to do
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math have finished their counting. And
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we're not here to talk about whether or not your state's
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election results came in the way you wanted.
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Mostly because I don't think I have the emotional
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stability to do that. But hopefully, if you're
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18 and, uh, up, hopefully you voted because, and I'm on record
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saying this, if you're 18 and, uh, up and you didn't
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vote, you can't complain like it's your fault.
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Whatever happened, you have no say in it. You forfeited
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your right to vote. And so you don't get to
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complain. You get to shut up about everything political for the
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next however many years because you chose not to
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exercise your right. But also, we live
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in America. If you do not live in America, um, and
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maybe don't have as much say, I'm sorry,
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but I'm here, and we just had a lot of
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very important elections, and so it's on my
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mind. But we need to discuss democracy
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because it's such a special thing,
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the people getting to choose and have a voice.
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It's a pretty good idea. I'm pretty sure it goes back
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to the ancient Greeks where they had the
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forums and all that, you know,
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they discussed and they voted on different things.
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And it's good because it allows
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people to take ownership and
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interest in their own
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society and having those interactions
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and putting their voice out there in
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America by way of voting for people who will later
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vote for you. The whole representatives
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thing. Like, I'm not a government teacher, I don't understand
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all that. But I do understand that I'm represented
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in Congress, and to my knowledge, I'm not
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actually represented. Do you know what I'm saying? And
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representation. Wait, no. Taxation without
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representation is theft. Just let that
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marinate for you.
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Uh, but one of the downsides of
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democracy. Oh, boy, here we go. Here comes
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Hunter's dangerous ideas. But one of
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the downsides of democracy is sometimes the
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person or the thing
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that you wanted to pass in vote or
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win in vote.
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Sometimes that thing doesn't win,
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and then you're left with the
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fallout of coming to terms with that. And so many of
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you, this comes
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out about five days after most of these election results will
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have been passed. And so, hopefully, you have come to
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grips with whatever hellscape
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exists now, uh, with all
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this. But this is one of the downsides of
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democracy, is when we let the people choose.
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Sometimes the people don't choose how we think would
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be best. Or in many cases, and
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in the case we're going to discuss today, sometimes they choose in a way
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that's just so beyond
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comprehension. Um,
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there's been a lot of voting going on, and I told
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you we weren't going to discuss
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election results. But we do need to discuss
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one specific election
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result, and that is
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the America's best restroom
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2022.
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Back in August, um, there was a
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really important election going on online. Uh, you could
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vote once per day for your favorite
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bathroom out of America's best restrooms
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for the year 2022 of our lord.
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And hopefully
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you voted, because if you didn't, it's too late. Now, they are taking
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nominations for bathrooms for 2023. So
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if you know of or have
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a rad public bathroom,
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might not be a bad idea to nominate that. Um,
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now, this year's America's
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best restroom is. It sets a
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frustrating precedent, but it also comes
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with me just scratching my head like some
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sort of grape ape, trying to figure out what in the
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flipping heck happened this year.
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What happened? Did we all just
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take a month long nap?
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Like, could we not just hit enter and didn't tell
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everybody? Or was this all a big ruse? Do you see
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what I'm saying? So what I'm getting at here
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is this. Voting went live back in
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August, and we covered most of these bathrooms in
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our coverage, yearly coverage of the America's
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best restroom competition. And back
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in September, I kind of tipped my
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hat in this competition, maybe a little
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too much. I put my opinion out there that
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I was really hoping for the number five
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bistro and bar out of sedalia, Missouri,
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to win it. That was my vote. Um, I think
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I placed a couple votes for a couple others, but mostly pretty
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much every day. I voted for number five bistro and
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bar. Um, if anybody from number five bistro
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and bar, if for some reason hears
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this, I really liked your bathroom. I thought it was rad.
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You get the privy cast. Very
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rad. Toilet of 2022 approval. It's not a
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real thing, and it doesn't come with any sort of prize like
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Cynthus's competition. But I want you to know in your hearts,
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I loved your bathroom. Anyway, we are here to
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celebrate the winner here on
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privy. But to do so, we need to discuss something,
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because when voting went down
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in August, uh, it was announced
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that the winner would
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be announced the following month. Now, for
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those of you who are not using the julian calendar, the
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month of September follows the month of
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August. And by this
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logic, they would have 30 calendar days to
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release this information if it's coming out next month.
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Now, the results of this
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competition did not come out in
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the month of September, which is fine.
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I'm not, like, one of these people that's like,
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um, September 31. If it doesn't come out, I'm going
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to. No, I definitely bothered the
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Cindis corporation. I might have sent them some messages
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and stuff saying, hey, when we get in these results,
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they didn't answer, um, go figure. But
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the results eventually came out sometime mid
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October. But my question is this, why
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the heck did it take so long? Because these were
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all digital votes. Like, you click on the thing and
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it puts your vote. I assume they have
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some sort of, like, weird spreadsheet, so
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why not just go to the bottom and just
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type in a formula that
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calculates this? I feel like
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this vote count should have taken
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one day, not one month, let
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alone almost 50 days.
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So I think there's something
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weird going on here. Um,
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I'm not saying that the Cintus corporation owes us
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an explanation, because God knows they probably
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even listen to this anyway, but I
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would like one. Um, I'll formally ask for
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one. They don't owe it to me, but I will ask for it. So, like,
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cintus, can we get an explanation? What took so long to count
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these votes? And was there some shady
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dealings? Because here's my problem. So
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I want to announce now, officially, and this is
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not to dogpile them, we want to celebrate
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their victory. But the Tampa
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International airport,
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specifically concourse, areaside
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concourse sea restrooms,
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won the America's best
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restroom 2022 award.
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Now, Tampa International
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Airport, specifically their airside sea
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restrooms, edged out the
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competition, but
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Cintus didn't release any numbers. They didn't say, like,
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oh, yeah, Tampa International Airport won by a
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landslide. Like,
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100,000. Next person up had,
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like, 10,000. We have no idea.
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Also, it took forever for
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these votes to be counted, so
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who knows how many hoodly poodly happened
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on these votes? Get some stank on that vote. You
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know what I'm saying? But we want to celebrate the
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winner. Uh, so we need to note that the
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Tampa International Airport won
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a restroom cleaning service and
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$2,500 in restroom
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cleaning products. Now, I want to
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note to Tampa International
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Airport's credit,
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they report that they are going to donate
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the service to folks impacted by
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hurricane ian. Now,
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that's awesome. That's a super cool thing to do.
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Um, they are in that community.
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Their community was definitely impacted by Ian.
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Uh, and so good on you. Now, that
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$2,500 of cleaning supplies will be great to
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aid in that. But it's kind of up to them
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whether or not they honor the cleaning services thing.
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What is this? Industrial cleaning services.
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Unless they donate it to other businesses. I don't know.
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To me, it's like, I would like to see Tampa International
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Airport just give a whole bunch of
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relief money instead of this.
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But they may be doing that. I don't know. This isn't
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about Tampa International Airport's
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humanitarian relief efforts.
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This is about them winning America's best.
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Uh, and I think it's because I'm a glass half
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empty. There's probably a crack in my glass, if we're
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all being honest about it. Hey, that could
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be the name of, like,
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if I ever wrote the most boring memoir in the
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universe, there's probably a crack in my glass. Not a
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bad title. Um, but they
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won for their terminal c bathrooms.
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That's the bathrooms they won for. And I wonder,
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and I need to get down to Tampa's international
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airports, you know, because I want to know, are
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they, like, touting that their
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bathrooms in general won this?
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Because they should be very clear.
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Airside, concourse. Sea
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bathrooms won this prize.
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Not all of them, just
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those. And that would be some
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gall like, thanks, cintus.
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Let's slap a plaque on every bathroom in the airport. No.
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Also, at the time of researching and
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making sure that all my ducks were in order. When
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we get the power of the Internet, let's just look right now. Um,
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Tampa International Airport had not
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put anything on their website as, like, oh, yeah,
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we won this prestigious award. Um, which
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makes me question how much they even
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care. And if they don't care that
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much, how in the freaking heck did they win?
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You know what I'm saying? The bathrooms that
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won are very nice. They are.
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I'm not arguing that these are bad bathrooms. What
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I'm saying is, are they the best
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restrooms? I'm going to read this next
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bit verbatim. This is pulled from,
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uh, the Cintus corporation's America's best
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restroom 2022 website. It says,
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the Tampa International
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Airport's airside sea showcases
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new high design, spacious
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restrooms coupled with quality
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craftsmanship and an inviting yet
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durable material palette. Now,
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what? I'm sure that means something
24:37
to somebody, but an inviting yet durable material
24:40
palette? Does that just mean the countertops don't wear
24:43
down after gross. Dougie
24:46
sprays hand sanitizer all over.
24:49
Yeah. The entrance welcomes travelers to
24:52
their uniquely Florida experience. Now, I've seen this entrance.
24:55
It's one of these gender neutral entrances where it's like,
24:58
which one you gonna take? Um, I
25:01
will say, having used one of these restrooms in
25:03
Seattle, even natural like, people
25:06
who seem like they were there and live there,
25:09
they hesitated a moment. When you
25:12
and know teenage girl are
25:15
walking towards the same bathroom entrance, it is just
25:18
kind of uncomfortable. But that's how
25:21
they've got these things laid out. It boasts, quote,
25:24
large graphics in a natural deep
25:27
blue stone. The undulating
25:30
veining. Oh, golly.
25:32
Tampa International. Golly.
25:36
Undulating veining. Oh,
25:38
my gosh. Is
25:41
reminiscent of. Why vein? Do you know
25:44
what I'm saying? How many things do you know of that have
25:47
veins? Hulking strongman
25:49
necks. Your arms prior
25:52
to. Anyway,
25:56
we have to move on. Um,
25:59
of waves crashing along the shore.
26:03
Once inside, large format tiles
26:06
skin the floors. What the heck? Can
26:09
I say that the verbiage that they've picked on
26:11
this bee have just been
26:14
wild. Seamlessly fold up the
26:17
walls, bolstering the welllit environment and furthering
26:20
a, quote, freshly cleaned aesthetic.
26:23
A, ah, wood look. Wall tile adds warmth
26:26
and softness for a balanced, resortlike feel.
26:29
It's an airport, friends. It's an airport.
26:33
The luxury feel is bolstered by
26:36
high res images. I hope so. It's
26:39
not hard to get a high res image of
26:41
quintessential Florida flora
26:44
back. Printed on floor to ceiling sheets of
26:47
impact resistant glass, ensuring its beauty for your
26:50
skin. They have big, fancy posters behind
26:53
fancy glass. That's what that sentence said.
26:55
The clean, contemporary aesthetic is completed
26:58
by light colored, solid surface vanities,
27:01
which incorporate
27:03
TPA's signature cockpit
27:06
concept. This, quote, cockpit.
27:09
Cockpit provides guests with their
27:12
own sensor activating sink and soap, personal
27:15
paper towel dispensers, and trash receptacle, all within
27:18
arm's reach. So each sink
27:20
has its own things there. Cool.
27:23
We're really putting the adjectives to work in there, aren't
27:26
we? Uh, so
27:29
I want to do Tampa International Airport justice, because
27:32
they did win, and maybe they're worth looking at. So we need to
27:35
look at this. So, a little history on
27:38
the Tampa International Airport. So, the first
27:40
Tampa airport was built in
27:43
1952, and within ten years of its
27:46
opening, it had served about 1 million
27:48
passengers a year. So, so much
27:51
so that talk of a building, a new building,
27:54
began even within ten years
27:56
later. A tram. And planned
27:59
for a tram to transport people
28:02
landside to airside. Section. So they would have
28:05
a place where it's like landslide, where you'd park, and then the
28:08
tram would transport you across to the
28:10
airside section where you would board your plane and
28:13
be airside. Um, these airport shuttles were
28:16
the first of their kind. They were
28:19
originally used in the Tampa International
28:22
Airport in
28:24
1969. Construction began
28:28
anyway two years later, and the new airport officially
28:31
opened in April. A
28:33
cutting edge FFA
28:36
federal flyer association. We're going to go with
28:39
that control tower was installed the following
28:42
year and was the highest air control tower
28:45
in the nation at the time. That same
28:48
year, they served their
28:50
4,000,000th passenger in a
28:53
year. The airport
28:55
underwent similar changes as others. International flights
28:58
expansions increased use, and in
29:01
1993, the airport was rated the best
29:04
airport in the United States. And
29:07
by Cond Nast magazine,
29:10
they held a public art project in display in
29:13
1999. And by this time, they were averaging
29:16
about 15 million passengers a year.
29:18
They won best airport again four years later
29:21
in 2003. In 2005,
29:24
Airside C opened, which was
29:27
the first to be built and finished since
29:30
911. Now, this would house
29:32
Southwest Airlines flights, and it is the
29:35
place where the bathroom that won America's best
29:38
restroom lives.
29:41
Tampa International Airport was voted best in the US
29:44
in 2008 by travel and leisure. And
29:46
that's the end of the notable things we need to cover. They don't even
29:49
mention winning best restroom.
29:52
That's pretty cool that those trams,
29:55
you know those trams when you get on, it's like the ones at,
29:58
like, the people movers,
30:02
they came up with that for Tampa International. That's kind
30:04
of like. Yeah, anyway, it's pretty
30:07
neat. Tampa International Airport has some.
30:10
Okay. History, you know what I'm saying? Uh, who
30:13
knew? Congrats, Tampa.
30:15
Um, I don't know if I can
30:18
bring myself to say that you deserve to win,
30:21
but you did win. And
30:25
much like someone always has to do in
30:27
democracy, I come to terms with it
30:30
and I accept it. Congratulations, Tampa
30:33
international airport. You have won America's best
30:36
restroom 2022.
30:37
And this is a
30:40
reminder that you can go on the America's best restroom
30:43
website and nominate a bathroom for the
30:46
2023 competition. Stay
30:48
tuned for our coverage. Thank
30:51
you guys so much for listening. Sorry that it took so long
30:54
to, um, cover this year's winner. I know you were, uh,
30:57
waiting on pins and needles for that one. Again, not
31:00
my fault. Uh, if someone from the
31:03
cintus corporation would like to talk with me, uh, maybe
31:06
we can get to the bottom of what happened. I'd love to know more about
31:09
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31:12
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31:15
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31:31
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31:34
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31:37
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31:40
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31:42
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31:45
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31:48
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31:52
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