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Pooping Sideways w/ Nate Frye (Privychat 18) · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: It.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, no, dude.
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>> Speaker A: You must have, like, looked in my diary or something, because you're hitting all
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my triggers. If it's not over,
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you're over. You're overboard.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, really?
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>> Speaker A: Under is not happening.
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I don't want to reach under the hood to start my car. I
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want to push the button and go,
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you.
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>> Speaker B: Welcome back to privy. Privy is a
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podcast about bathrooms recorded
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from my home bathroom. Today,
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I will be joined remotely, um,
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by a friend, Nate fry. And so I'm going
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to see here if I can, uh, get him in as
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quick as possible. Let's see. Here we go.
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Hot. Sup, dude? How
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are
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you? You. What are you doing again?
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You're doing, like, fiber optic, is that.
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>> Speaker A: Yeah, I splice fiber optic
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cables, but, um, I have to do a lot of
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the placement, too, um, from the co
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to the customer. So we place it, dig,
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uh, holes in the ground, go up on telephone poles,
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put, um, the fiber optic line in there, and then I come in when
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we're all done with that, and I splice it all the. Because you have to
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do them in sections, right, when you go to a different direction
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or whatever. So I'll have to splice them together and
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then give people services for whatever they're
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using it for, whether Internet, phone, or
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dang business. Yeah.
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>> Speaker B: Wow. How'd you get into that?
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>> Speaker A: So, my dad actually worked for, uh, Rocky
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Mountain contractors, is the company that does. He worked
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for them since, uh, for 20 years now.
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>> Speaker B: Okay.
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>> Speaker A: So I was originally supposed to be just a groundsman. I was supposed to
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be the guy that dug the shovels when we
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can't use a machine and just kind of doing the lazy work
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because I came from Walmart, so I had no experience
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in construction. Um,
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well, uh, one of the other splicers
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was getting in some trouble, and they were thinking about that he might
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not be there too much longer and all that. And they
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just looked at me and said, nobody wants to learn splicing, because it is
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very complicated. A lot to learn. And
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I was kind of nervous about it because they were explaining to
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me what it was, and I'm just like, ah, I know how to
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put an item on a shelf when it's not there type of
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thing. They're like, no, we have faith in you. We
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think you can learn how to splice. Um, so
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I jumped in the trailer, and
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he showed me what to do, and a lot of it is just
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learning colors and reading the prints,
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and it's basically self explanatory,
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but it's convincing other people that it's more
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complicated than it actually is. So I still
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look smart,
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but it actually is complicated because,
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um, there's twelve fibers in a buffer
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tube. There's a buffer tube, and there's
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144 buffer tubes in some of these things. So
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a lot of the ones, it's like, oh, you got to jump. This fiber is
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damaged, so you have to go from this fiber to that
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fiber. Well, sometimes there'll be traffic on that fiber. Now I
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have to go back and do this and figure out what's open.
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Then I have to go back, figure out the fibers that
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are open so we can connect to that customer. Or get this.
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And there is a lot of that stuff. But
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I got engineers that
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are quotes. Engineers
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that go to college. Yeah, that go to college
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for, uh, um, all that
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stuff. They have all
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this stuff on paper, apparently, but some of their stuff
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is so messed up
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because I work on the.
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I work out in the field. They sit in an office, so they have
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actually no idea of what's going
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on out there. And the biggest problem is they're like, well, our papers
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say that this is open. This is open, and this is open. I'm like,
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then why, when I put my light fiber detector on
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it, is there light on that? No,
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there isn't no light on it because our records show it should be on
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this fiber and that fiber, not this fiber. I'm like, yeah,
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but I'm looking at that. Well, you're not in the right buffer tube.
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No, the buffer tubes are color coded. Unless I'm
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colorblind. Now, orange is still
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orange, but they'll sit there and argue with
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me. But what happens is there are splicers
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that will make a change, but not update, not tell it to the
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engineers, and it won't get updated. And that's
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where a lot of their problems. But the engineers don't want to admit they're wrong.
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>> Speaker B: Right.
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>> Speaker A: So they'll sit there and argue with you over the.
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And I think that's why a lot of people don't want to
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make the changes in the system, is because the engineers will sit there and
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argue with them, and they don't want to argue with the engineers. Well, now I
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come in 20 years later, and I see this mess.
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I'm like, well, thanks, guys. Now you messed all made up.
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So I take a job that should be
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probably 20 or probably a two day job.
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It'll take me two weeks. Just trying to
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jump fibers, man.
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>> Speaker B: That sucks.
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>> Speaker A: Yeah. So I guess I wasn't correct in saying it
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was easy, but the idea of the job is easy,
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like the splicing and getting that, but it's the
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troubleshooting that's the biggest problem with fiber optic
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splicing.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah, dude. Uh,
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I'm going to kind of just open it up to you.
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If you have stories to share, I have questions, of
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course. Um, and then I also
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have an inquiry into your
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memory. Um, but do
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you have any sort of wild bathroom stories
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or things that
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you've experienced? I mean, you worked at Walmart, so I know
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there's got to be something out there, but,
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um, like, just a.
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>> Speaker A: Bathroom story, just in general.
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>> Speaker B: Dude, anything?
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>> Speaker A: I'll start with way back, about
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how long ago did I work at Walmart? Did I start there? It was about the third
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day on my job. So we'll say good old
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2013.
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Ten years ago. Holy cow. Yeah, ten years
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ago.
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Um,
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they were like, they always
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told, and I knew they were bsing me when they told me they work
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when I applied at Walmart. And the first thing they said is, yeah, we don't really
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have a lot of issues here. And I'm like, I bet you're lying
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to. So. And of course
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they were, because on the third day. Well, I'll start with the biggest
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thing. On the second day of job, we had a lady come through
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who, uh, consumed
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her delights and decided to go pick up more
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wine in the wine section and had no control
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over her hands or her body and
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dumped three, four bottles of wine and broke all
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four of them. And we had to clean that up.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
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>> Speaker A: So we'll start there. But
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going on to the fun part, I had a lady come
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up to me, and I was carrying the bathroom cleaning cart, and she
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goes, hey, sir, uh, are
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you maintenance? Do you clean the bathrooms? I was like, yeah, actually, I
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do. Is there one of the bathrooms? Yeah. The last stall in
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the lady's bathroom is a little, uh, she
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was very calm, so I figured, oh, there was
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toilet paper or there's, uh, this
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or that there. And I was like, yeah, if you don't mind
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cleaning up. It looks gross in there. I was like, absolutely.
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I was.
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I 18 or 19 at that time. Doesn't matter.
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However, I walk in
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there, and I was doing bathrooms by myself because it was a
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crazy day, right? So we usually try to do double up, uh,
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especially on days that it's busy. Get two of us in
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there, clean it, and get it out. I
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walked in there, I poked
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my. Know. Maintenance, anyone in? No. No
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answer. So I block it off. I poked my head in
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there, got on that radio, hey,
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Demetri, who's my.
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You still. He's like, I just finished doing what I was doing.
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Yeah, we need help. Uh, in the lady's
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bathroom. I am not doing this by myself. There were
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three out of the four stalls, or five or,
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however, were filled to the
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brim
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with boat. Just to the
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top, it looked like each
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one of them at the same time, like, hey, let's have a taco
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bell eating contest and then go shopping at
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Walmart, is the idea. It was the
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bottom of, uh, the bottom of the
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toilet and then the top part
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in the women's bathroom. And three. So the first
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one was bad, the second and, uh, the handicapped
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one were just demolished. And I
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wanted to go back and find that lady and be
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like, hey, next time, give me a little, like, something
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that it's going to be bad. So I have my mindset of where I'm going to be,
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right. I was going in there, mindset m I'm going to
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go maybe find
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a little bit of stuff
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on the toilet or whatever. But no, it
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took us, we had to get
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bleach and all this stuff
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and the other parts that are
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connected by the bathroom, they were torn out
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and all over the floor. Uh, what we think happened
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was somebody was having, I don't know if you know much about great
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Falls, which I know you do, but the
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habits aren't the greatest as far
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as, um,
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cutting the edge on life. So we
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think that's what happened. It was somebody who had a trip
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and just went nuts. But how they had
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explosives like that on their
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rear ends was amazing to us. I mean, we weren't even mad.
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It was just like, wow, I'm not
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alone.
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>> Speaker B: I'm validated. Oh,
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my gosh.
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>> Speaker A: We've had other things like that, but it's usually just
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one in the future. So it took us
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about two. We had to shut that bathroom down for 2
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hours just to make sure
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because it was dried on there. Nobody
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problem. Or, uh, it wasn't 2 hours because we cleaned the bathroom every
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2 hours. So it had to have happened, like, right after we did our
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first cleaning, because we have to clean those bathrooms every 2 hours.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah.
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>> Speaker A: So it had to happen in between that time, and it was just about the
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time I had to go clean. Anyway, that's, uh, why I had that
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cart is because that's what I was going to do. So I was on my way there anyway.
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Sorry, my memory is a little hazy, but. No, you're
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good. Yeah, but, uh, that will stick onto
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me. Like that happened yesterday. I will never
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forget that. And I was just sitting there in Demetrio.
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He's a little spanish man who has a lot of energy, right? He
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comes in there, he starts,
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lady. He was screaming so loud about it because he gets
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hyped up about that stuff. Lady walked in, he's. Are you guys
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okay in there? I'm like, yeah, uh, we have a
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little issue we got to deal with. We're cleaning it up, and she's
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like, oh, I thought somebody was hurt.
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It was crazy. Yeah, it was funny. Oh, my
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gosh.
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>> Speaker B: At Walmart, did you ever have anybody poop?
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Not in the bathroom.
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>> Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they always do. In the fitting
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rooms.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, no.
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>> Speaker A: Oh, yeah. In the fitting. Uh,
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the, um. After there was a while, and
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this, actually, I started doing this about a year or so after I start
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working there. I do the bathroom cleanups, and then
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I stroll on by the old fitting rooms. Hey, how are you
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guys doing over here? Any messes? Do you
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go look through all the. No, we're good so far. We'll call you if
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we need you. Because I just pass out because the one time I
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stopped by. Yeah. So I think somebody peed. And we don't know
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if somebody spilled water or lemon, but we were pretty sure it's
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pee.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, my God.
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Do they know why? Or is it just, like, the bathrooms or
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just prank?
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>> Speaker A: Yeah. You know, mean. Great falls is
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mean. Uh, it's not just great falls, but Great
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Falls is more common for stupid people
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than I care to.
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I mean, the biggest part is the substance
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abuse.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah.
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>> Speaker A: People do crazy stuff, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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>> Speaker B: Man, that's crazy. Wow.
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Changing room. I was expecting, like. Yeah, I don't know what
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I was expecting, but it wasn't the changing. Huh?
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>> Speaker A: Huh? Yeah. Changing rooms. Absolutely. And
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actually, uh, Demetrio, he's actually working back at that.
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He actually says he hadn't had a. And I don't know if it's
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just people finally clicking like, oh, these aren't the
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bathrooms, or if it was just. Or something. But he
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said in the past five years, and actually, the past
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two years I worked there, I haven't had a problem in the changing
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rooms.
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>> Speaker B: Wow.
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>> Speaker A: Before I switched jobs. But,
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um, yeah, I haven't had any. Or a couple
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of problems here and there, but those were like a
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child.
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But as far as, like, adults or whatever, uh,
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they just quit. It seemed like there was just, uh, a
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wave that just like, all right, we need to just start using the bathroom.
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>> Speaker B: We need to get it together.
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>> Speaker A: There's finally a moment where they
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feel it's like, there's got to be, like, a community of these people.
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All right, call to the order of the people who poop
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in the thing. All right, no more changing rooms. We're
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done with the changing rooms. Uh, we got to stop
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gavel. Yeah. Here you are. Yay
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or nay?
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>> Speaker B: Yay.
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>> Speaker A: So they just smacked the gavel, and that was the end of
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just. There's got to be a community of those
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people.
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>> Speaker B: They're meeting up somewhere, or they just.
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>> Speaker A: Moved, like, all right, great falls is getting old. Let's go to
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Calisbell.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, dude, I bet the people in calispell would have a
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field day if that happened. Up.
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>> Speaker A: And especially with all the, uh,
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neat freak Californians that are moving up there,
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they would not have an okay time with that.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. That's so funny.
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Well, say I'm going to start in on questions, and
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if you get a story that comes to mind, you just shout it
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out. So, the first
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question, uh, is, what type of toilet paper do you
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use at your homestead?
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What are you wiping with?
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>> Speaker A: What am I wiping with? Uh,
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Charmin.
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>> Speaker B: Charmin. Oh. Let's go. Um,
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do you get the blue bag or red bag?
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>> Speaker A: Charmin, do you know red?
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I will not wipe without red.
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>> Speaker B: I refuse to wipe without red. So
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it's interesting to me because out, like, we have
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Costco, um, it's essentially like Sam's club, but
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it's not Sam's club. I don't know. It's Kirkland
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brand.
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>> Speaker A: Yeah, we. Are we up
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in.
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>> Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. I just feel like
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everybody I ask over here in Oregon, they're like, oh, yeah,
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Costco toilet paper. And I'm like, okay, but
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charming. Hey, um, and when you
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guys put it on the roll, are you folding it over? Are you folding it
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under? Which way is it? Ah.
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>> Speaker A: Oh, no, dude, you
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must have looked in my diary or something, because you're hitting all my
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triggers. If it's not over,
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you're over. You're overboard.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, really?
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>> Speaker A: Under is not happening.
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I don't want to reach under the hood to start my car. I want
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to push the button and go.
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>> Speaker B: He's got to reach for it.
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Does, uh, Diana, is she on board with
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that, or is that one of those points of
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contention?
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>> Speaker A: No, that's one of the main reasons we're getting along the
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greatest these days.
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Bathroom etiquette is
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very important in our household.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah. Uh, I regularly just frustrate
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Anna because I just sling it on there. I don't look.
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>> Speaker A: Oh, really?
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>> Speaker B: Sometimes I get it. Right.
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And sometimes it's just like, I got
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it on the roll. I did it. Uh, I've succeeded.
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And she has informed me, like, no, it needs to
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go over, otherwise you've done a bad thing.
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Um, yeah, she
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would agree. Um, are you a
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bar soap or a liquid soap, lad?
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>> Speaker A: Liquid soap.
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>> Speaker B: Liquid soap. What are you using these days
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for.
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>> Speaker A: Liquid soap, as far as body goes? Old
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spice.
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>> Speaker B: There you go.
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>> Speaker A: Okay.
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>> Speaker B: Spice.
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>> Speaker A: It reminds me of pirates. I'm pirates.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah.
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>> Speaker A: And then, um, I do the two in
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one. And actually, because there's a two in one
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suave. That does, uh, anti
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dandruff. And I have horrible dandruff, dude.
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Same with that suave
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antidandriff stuff. Two in one, not a speck of
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dandruff.
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>> Speaker B: Dang. Really?
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>> Speaker A: Yes.
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>> Speaker B: I might have to seek that out. I fooled around with the
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head and shoulders for a while because, I don't know, it said it would
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do it, but I hit or miss on it. All right, so
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liquid soap, have you. Okay, yeah.
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Uh, so that's mostly, I think, you shower. But what is your
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opinion? How do you feel about baths? So
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taking a bath, what's your
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take on that? How are you doing with it?
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>> Speaker A: Actually? Um,
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if I'm healthy, not tired,
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um, just in a good mood, sort
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of ready to go to work. I'm a shower boy.
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Yeah, I shower. The heck I would choose over
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that. But there are some mornings which I haven't
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done it well, actually, I'll tell
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you my opinion and then tell you the story afterward.
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But, uh, when I'm tired and I wake
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up and I've worked overtime, because with this new job,
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I work 60 hours, a lot of the time, I'll
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wake up, uh, and just see, like, you know
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what? I might just
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bathe today. I might lay in my film
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and do it because I can't stand there. I got
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it over tired. But it has to
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be to that point for me to be okay with that.
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And, um, it's not like one of those
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things where I get home and be like, uh oh, I'm in a bath.
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No, I
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am definitely a shower like homeboy.
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But like I said, I have my mornings where
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I'm so exhausted. I will late,
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actually. But where I was going with that, why I wanted to tell you
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a story after that was I'm okay with the bath. But what
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I've done, and I actually think this is
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better, is I won't do a bath. I will
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lay down while the shower is going and let
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it the full spread. And I will lay
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in there and let the warmth kind of go all over, and
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that actually feels a lot better. So I've actually been
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doing that more often.
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>> Speaker B: Interesting.
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>> Speaker A: In the shower and let the
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kind of take care of its business. That way I can
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lay there and do my hair.
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>> Speaker B: Huh? In my brain, you're
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laying on your back. We might be getting too intimate on
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that one, but not at all.
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Wow.
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I've never heard anybody do that. Um, and
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I'm open to trying it.
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Yeah, that's a new one for me.
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>> Speaker A: And I've never done it when I'm fully awake or fully.
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So I don't know how it is. But, uh, those are days
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where I'm just exhausted.
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>> Speaker B: Right.
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>> Speaker A: So I'll try it, because
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we had this conversation. So I might try it and be like, I'm going to do it when I have
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my energy and just see if it's different, if
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it's a different experience. Because it might be
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weird for me because I'm not exhausted. I'm like, why am I just laying here?
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But, um, I don't know. I might try it when I'm
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not. But it does feel good. Uh, there's
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something almost calming about.
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>> Speaker B: Interesting.
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>> Speaker A: Huh.
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>> Speaker B: Huh. Do, uh, does Diana know you do
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that?
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>> Speaker A: I don't know. I've never talked to her about.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah. I'm just curious because, uh,
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I'm trying to figure out what Anna would do if she walked in. And I'm
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like, see?
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>> Speaker A: And that's the thing is I keep my bathroom
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locked. I don't like Diana walking in, um, on me.
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>> Speaker B: Oh, really?
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>> Speaker A: Okay. I don't know if I'm insecure or what it
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is, but there are times.
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But 90% of the time, that door is
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locked tight.
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>> Speaker B: Yeah, that's fair.
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>> Speaker A: I don't want somebody walking in on me,
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even if it is Diana. It's
20:42
just weird for me. Unless you really need something. I'll go and
20:45
unlock it. But other
20:48
than that, I, like.
20:51
>> Speaker B: That's your zone.
20:52
>> Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. It's my, like, especially when I'm doing
20:55
something embarrassing. Lying in the shower,
20:58
just taking the water. I never really thought about
21:01
what her opinion on that would be.
21:04
>> Speaker B: Maybe she does it and you just don't even know it.
21:07
>> Speaker A: Yeah, we both have that.
21:08
>> Speaker B: Accidentally doing it. Um.
21:11
Have you ever taken a shower in the dark?
21:14
>> Speaker A: I cannot. Absolutely.
21:16
>> Speaker B: Really?
21:17
>> Speaker A: I can't do it. Uh, I have horrible
21:19
anxiety. No.
21:22
And that's why with the, um, bathroom
21:25
things, certain things. And it's not just the bathroom. It's things around
21:28
the house. Well, what happened and I'll get into my anxiety a
21:31
little bit, if you don't mind.
21:33
>> Speaker B: Go for it.
21:33
>> Speaker A: Um, so Walmart, you know
21:36
how during school I was
21:38
very, and I still am, actually, but
21:42
ever since got into Walmart,
21:45
I got hammered over everything because I was the guy that did everything. You
21:48
didn't have to ask. Everyone expected me.
21:53
We expect Nate to do this. Nate is expect to do that. I built
21:56
such a expectation at Walmart because I
21:59
did everything there. I was there for ten years, almost ten
22:01
years that they were grown. When I
22:04
didn't do something extra or above and beyond,
22:07
they ran me about it. Well, you did this yesterday you
22:10
did that, that, and today you did this, this
22:13
and this. Why did you not do that, that and that.
22:15
Like, I'm tired today. I'm not in the mood. I'm having a bad
22:18
day today. I don't want to work overtime. I don't want to
22:21
do this because there were times I worked 50
22:24
hours at Walmart just because I wanted money.
22:28
Um, but then they grilled me and
22:30
grilled me so hard, I could hardly work 40
22:33
hours. I was hardly working a full week. I would come up
22:36
with excuses. This is to my
22:39
full shame, but I would lie about my blood sugars just
22:42
to go home early so it wouldn't come against me.
22:44
>> Speaker B: Right? Yeah.
22:45
>> Speaker A: Because I was so depressed and had so much. And
22:48
then me and Diana went through the times.
22:51
Mhm. Through some tough times because of that, because
22:54
I was so angry.
22:56
And actually, uh, there were
22:59
kids that started there and they were high school kids. And I used to
23:02
love it when high school kids
23:05
started because I'm going to be like, hey, this is what
23:07
you're going to expect out of the world. There's going to be a lot of tough
23:10
times about this. You're in the real world now. And I
23:13
loved it when. I mean, I didn't say that to them, but I kind of
23:16
hinted at that. But I told him, just,
23:19
if you're going through times, don't be afraid to ask. All
23:22
of us have been through what you're going through and all this.
23:25
I would just try to encourage them and do all that so
23:28
they knew what to expect. Well,
23:31
um, the last few months I was at Walmart, we hired
23:33
216 year olders who never
23:36
worked a job. Their mom had to put their. I
23:39
heard their backstory because they were kind of very open. Their
23:42
mom put their foot down and said, you guys need
23:45
to find a job and see what it is this summer. You guys
23:48
are working, you guys are getting jobs. And they were kind of upset
23:51
about it. Well, these kids. So in
23:54
my mind, I thought these kids were just
23:56
slacking off and looking for a reason to get out
23:59
of stuff to do. So they were sitting
24:02
in what is called aisle three, and that's where
24:05
we get our, um,
24:09
groceries, where we put our grocery carts to take out to the
24:11
floor. They were in aisle two, actually.
24:14
So they go into aisle two,
24:17
and they're standing there, and I go in there. I was like, what are you kids doing,
24:20
man? Can't just hide it. And I just snap at these
24:23
kids. We don't just sit here and
24:26
mess around and goof around like that, man.
24:29
We're here to work. And if you guys don't want to do that and just find something else,
24:32
because I'm not going to sit here and put up with it. Those kids stared at
24:35
me, and they were like, dude, uh, we were told to come to aisle
24:38
two to get groceries, and we were looking for the carts.
24:41
I stared at him, and I just, uh, big open mind. And the
24:44
one kid goes, hey, are you all right?
24:48
I was like, no, I'm not, man. I'm stressed out. And
24:51
they're like, yeah, we could tell, man. You just, uh, came on court.
24:54
I said, al three is over here, man. Let's figure out where you need
24:57
to go. And I kind of explained to him my situation. I said, guys,
25:00
I've just been under a lot of stress, man. I'm sorry. And he goes,
25:03
yeah. He just like, whoa, who is this guy?
25:06
>> Speaker B: Right?
25:07
>> Speaker A: Um. Uh, I did talk to him a little bit, and after getting to
25:10
know him, they understood. But
25:13
to this day, I still feel guilty about it.
25:15
>> Speaker B: Right?
25:17
>> Speaker A: It was hard. And that's where I was really thinking. That's actually what
25:19
really kicked me in the gear to find a new job. Yeah, that's
25:22
where my dad finally like, hey,
25:27
how about you try working for me? Because I was telling dad, and
25:30
mom and dad even noticed how bad I was getting, right?
25:33
They noticed how angry I was. I'd come home, go visit
25:36
them, and I wouldn't want to do anything. I would just sit there, and I would just
25:39
complain and argue and just be a bitter.
25:44
Their mom didn't like it. Mom was getting real upset. My
25:47
mom's an emotional lady anyway, and she was getting
25:50
really worried. So now I'm getting back to old
25:53
Nate with this new job. So it's kind of
25:57
know. It's.
25:57
>> Speaker B: It's. It's awful.
26:00
Uh, I'm certain that Walmart's not the
26:03
only place like that where you have these folks
26:05
who they've put in
26:08
years, and instead
26:11
of kind of honoring that, it kind of gets
26:14
tossed back on them.
26:16
Um, that experience is kind
26:19
of the reason that people almost take advantage.
26:22
It's awful. I know that I wasn't at McDonald's
26:25
long, but I could see that I never had that because I
26:28
wasn't there long, but I could see folks who had been there eight,
26:31
nine years, and that was them. And it's like, oh,
26:34
man, this is, um. Yeah,
26:36
yeah, it's. That sucks, dude. I'm glad
26:40
got away from that or moved on
26:43
to something that's better for you, though, because,
26:45
um. Um, that's
26:48
good stuff.
26:51
>> Speaker A: And that's the really good thing about this job, is
26:54
nobody am I? Because I'm the only
26:57
fiber splicer in gray falls.
26:59
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
26:59
>> Speaker A: Wow. Um,
27:02
my foreman, he comes in, he's the placement guy. He's not a
27:05
splicer at all. He knows a little bit about it.
27:09
So he comes up to me, he's like, hey,
27:11
uh, it says you're on the paperwork. This was only
27:14
supposed to be a three hour job. It looks like
27:16
you're 8 hours into it already. What's going on?
27:19
I was like, well, this, that, and this. This isn't working, so I have to do
27:22
this. I've been on the phone with the engineer, and he doesn't know what to do.
27:25
And, dude, it's just been a bad, um,
27:28
you know, I start getting anxiety because I start remembering how Walmart
27:31
managers treat me. So I start getting hyper with thing.
27:34
He's like, oh, all right, cool, man. Thanks for letting me know. I'll
27:37
just let you do awesome. Cool.
27:40
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
27:41
>> Speaker A: Ah, just keep me updated and keep in touch with
27:44
those engineers, because if you keep in touch with them and they know
27:47
what's going on, you're not going to get nothing. I was like, okay,
27:50
yeah, all right, catch. You just call me
27:52
when you're getting ahead, I guess.
27:56
>> Speaker B: Yeah, that's awesome, dude. That's super cool.
28:02
So no dark shower, anxiety inducing.
28:06
Perfect. Um, you ever eat anything in the
28:09
shower, by any chance?
28:11
>> Speaker A: I can't. No.
28:13
>> Speaker B: Same story.
28:14
>> Speaker A: Kind of like, yeah, not anxiety, but
28:17
musty food is not a Nate thing
28:20
to do.
28:22
>> Speaker B: Musty food is not a nate.
28:26
What about a cold drink in the shower? You ever pop
28:29
one of those open?
28:30
>> Speaker A: Oh, God.
28:33
Uh,
28:35
no. You know
28:38
what's funny is I've never even thought about it. It's not
28:41
even been a thought. That's the same with the bathroom. Uh,
28:45
no, it's just that
28:47
idea. I mean, I've never really thought about it. But now that I
28:50
am, because my idea is I want to get in
28:53
there and out.
28:54
>> Speaker B: Okay. Yeah.
29:00
Just post up for a bit, have a little
29:02
snack on the toilet, anything on
29:05
the, um.
29:10
Do you. Okay, I got to ask you.
29:13
So do you remember in my brain, it was
29:15
freshman pe? But I remember we
29:18
all walk down in the locker room, and it's
29:21
just James Curtis, Dave's older
29:24
brother, sitting butt naked,
29:26
sprawled on the toilet, eating a
29:29
cupcake. Do you have this?
29:34
And to this day, uh,
29:37
whenever I think of someone eating on the toilet, that's just the
29:40
picture. And I'm just like,
29:43
gosh, here we are.
29:45
Um,
29:48
have you ever gone poop while you're in the shower?
29:52
Like, waffle stomp it?
29:57
>> Speaker A: I don't even pee in the shower, bro.
29:59
>> Speaker B: What?
30:00
>> Speaker A: No.
30:01
>> Speaker B: Oh, dude. Hey. This might be, like, bad
30:04
confessions, but I do every single time I pee in the shower.
30:07
Every time.
30:08
>> Speaker A: Really?
30:08
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
30:11
>> Speaker A: You are a better man than I, Hunter. I
30:14
squimish at the thought. Really?
30:16
Because I'm afraid that one day my drain is going to back up when
30:19
I'm doing it, and it's going to get. I found out I'm
30:22
OCD.
30:23
>> Speaker B: Okay?
30:24
>> Speaker A: So that's where a lot of my problems are new. So.
30:27
Not diagnosed OCD, but I
30:29
have OCD. Um,
30:32
what do you call that, like, symptoms type thing? Right?
30:34
>> Speaker B: You got all the things that point to it.
30:37
>> Speaker A: Yeah.
30:40
>> Speaker B: So you're like, you wouldn't waffle.
30:42
>> Speaker A: Stop it. It would freak me out. And I heard
30:45
that I would rather suffer
30:49
with athletes foot than ever have to pee on my
30:52
feet.
30:52
>> Speaker B: Really?
30:53
>> Speaker A: And I heard that got disproved, which I'm hoping is still
30:56
true, that peeing on your feet gets rid of athletes
30:59
foot. And I'm hoping that's still a disproven
31:01
thing, because if that's, uh, the only
31:04
cure, on top of that, it's like, why would you pee on
31:07
your feet when you can just use athletes foot
31:10
powder?
31:11
>> Speaker B: Yeah. Uh, you're right. But
31:14
also, I do regularly try to hit
31:17
my feet just because it can't hurt, is my
31:19
thought.
31:20
>> Speaker A: Am I not a man? Because I swear,
31:25
this is all stuff like I've heard other people
31:27
do, but me,
31:31
I cringe at the thought.
31:33
>> Speaker B: I don't think it's a man. A. I, uh,
31:36
think it's your more, uh,
31:39
normal thinking. Because I'm
31:42
sitting here. Cause and I've told
31:45
Anna, and she's like, stop doing
31:48
bat. There's a toilet, right?
31:52
And I don't know. I get in the shower, and
31:55
then I'm like, oh, yeah, I forgot to pee. Time to go.
31:58
Uh, I don't know. It's just
32:02
my way.
32:02
>> Speaker A: The idea of other people doing doesn't freak me out. But I
32:05
couldn't do it to myself if people
32:08
told me, I'm like, oh, that's your business.
32:13
It's not, like, a disgusting. But for me, I couldn't
32:16
do it to myself.
32:17
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
32:19
>> Speaker A: Hm.
32:19
>> Speaker B: Fair enough.
32:22
Okay, so do you have any pet
32:25
peeves that happen in the bathroom?
32:28
Um, I assume that you
32:31
and Diana share a.
32:34
Guys, is there any pet peeves that are like.
32:37
Or maybe she has some that she's made aware of to you of,
32:40
like, hey, you got to quit.
32:43
>> Speaker A: That sounds familiar. I'm trying to think of,
32:47
well,
32:50
you know what's really bad, actually? Uh,
32:54
so I get bad sneezes and coughs. Yeah,
32:58
there's a lot of splash action going
33:00
around the thing. Um,
33:04
and sometimes I have
33:08
uncontrollable wiggle
33:12
or I'll twitch. Sometimes I have twitches.
33:18
And what's really stupid, and this is where it's really
33:21
bad, is, oh, I got to clean
33:23
up. After I'm done. I'll clean it up. I'll
33:26
be a responsible adult. In my brain, I'm telling me this, right?
33:29
And then all of a sudden, I go, hey, remember
33:32
that Pokemon episode you watched at
33:34
1997? Remember when that Pokemon
33:37
did this thing? And then I'm done. And then I
33:41
ADHD, and then I look at the
33:44
sink. Hey, you should wash your hands. But, oh, look at this wall
33:47
punk. My
33:50
brain does that. And then she comes at night.
33:53
Yeah. So that's my big problem. And
33:55
even getting water after I step out,
33:58
um, sometimes that bathroom thing will get moved
34:01
under the sink, the, uh, little stepping pad that
34:04
you're supposed to put your wet feet on. And she's like,
34:07
why don't you dry off before you get out of the shower? I
34:10
said, I want to look at myself
34:12
in the mirror when I'm drying myself off. Thank
34:15
you. And, I mean, I will not
34:18
do it. That towel goes on after. I have
34:21
to know. It's like a confirmation that I'm done.
34:24
I step out of the shower, then I towel
34:26
myself. I
34:29
have one, two, three steps. Uh,
34:32
yeah, that drives are crazy. But again, I'm like,
34:35
okay, I'll clean this puddle up.
34:38
Uh, and that's my biggest downfall with everything, even when I'm
34:41
working, is I have this plan of things
34:44
to do, and then I'll think about
34:48
last night's dinner that tasted so amazing, and I could still
34:51
kind of smell it. And I'm like, then m. I walk out
34:54
and see if there's any more in the fridge.
34:57
I lose track of everything.
35:00
>> Speaker B: Dang. Hey,
35:04
at least you can
35:06
trace how you got to that. You know what I
35:09
mean? Um. Man.
35:12
Yeah. Okay.
35:16
Something that I wanted to say. So
35:19
the splash zone.
35:21
When we were in high school,
35:24
when Joe had moved to Great Falls, he had moved to
35:27
that house in Great Falls. We were
35:30
over at his house one night, and I remember
35:33
you went down the hall to go to the bathroom.
35:37
I remember all of us were listening to here
35:40
and never heard you go to the bathroom. And you came out and were like,
35:43
dude, did you even go? And you're like, yeah, you got to aim
35:46
it so that way, it just hits right
35:49
inside the bowl, and there's no water
35:51
splash, nothing. And
35:54
that was the first time I had ever heard of anybody doing
35:57
that. Changed my life. Uh,
36:00
I still do that. Yeah.
36:03
>> Speaker A: Just not when I'm at home, like, with
36:05
Diana. That's where the splash zone comes into
36:08
my dysfunction. Because when I'm at home in my time,
36:11
whatever, I'll make all the noise in the world. But when
36:14
I'm at somebody's house to this day, I
36:17
think it's just a respectful. It's better than
36:20
sitting down in the toilet, because you can either sit.
36:24
>> Speaker B: Yeah, every now and then, I'll hit the sit
36:26
down.
36:28
>> Speaker A: Uh, hey, sure.
36:31
There's nothing to be embarrassed about on that.
36:35
>> Speaker B: Sometimes I'm just like, you know what?
36:38
I do it at work is where it happens, because so I work
36:41
at a high school, and I'm like, man, if
36:44
I goof this and I just
36:47
splatter my leg, or something bad happens,
36:50
which happens more than it should, I'm
36:52
like, I got to be in front of teens the rest
36:55
of the day. I can't pee on myself and be
36:58
around teens. It just cannot happen. And so I
37:01
will just sit down and be like, I'm going to make sure everything's going,
37:04
bam, straight in the bowl. Um,
37:08
yeah.
37:12
Um, but, yeah, your aim thing,
37:16
that changed my life.
37:19
It might be too much to say, but I'd never heard anybody do
37:22
that. And, um, kind of same story.
37:25
I don't use that at home. Like, Anna has described my peeing
37:28
as disruptive. Um, and so it's like,
37:31
okay, uh,
37:35
um, do you have
37:38
a restaurant establishment in mind that is, like,
37:41
if I eat here, it's going to be bad. Like, I'm going to be on the
37:43
pot.
37:44
>> Speaker A: A restaurant establishment that is
37:47
bad for the. That is a
37:50
quick tango.
37:52
>> Speaker B: Um.
37:55
>> Speaker A: There'S a restaurant. Hold on.
37:58
Give me a minute. Oh, now I'm just thinking of,
38:00
uh, the new peaking.
38:02
>> Speaker B: Oh, shoot. Uh,
38:07
chinese food.
38:09
>> Speaker A: Yep. New peaking. And, um,
38:13
Tracy's, they had got new owners.
38:16
>> Speaker B: Okay.
38:17
>> Speaker A: Central. And they
38:19
make a mean breakfast. It's called the protein
38:22
platter. It is eggs, meat
38:25
galore. They have sausage, ham, but they're
38:28
thick and big.
38:29
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
38:30
>> Speaker A: And the, uh, eggs are to die for, but
38:33
they just load your plate with protein.
38:35
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
38:36
>> Speaker A: And it's pretty pricey, but you
38:39
definitely get what you pay for type of thing.
38:41
>> Speaker B: Right.
38:42
>> Speaker A: But I
38:45
eat that. I buckle up and start heading
38:48
home because I know what's coming next.
38:51
I cannot protein
38:53
the protein platter for breakfast. Yes.
38:56
And they serve it all day. M
39:00
so I made the
39:02
mistake. I'm going to tell some
39:05
splicer stories.
39:07
>> Speaker B: Let's go.
39:12
>> Speaker A: I'm going to start off. So we can't really make any connections. But I
39:15
did, uh, the schools, all the
39:18
schools fibers in there. And we're working on the
39:21
hospital now. And we're working here. We're working
39:23
there. Well, luckily,
39:29
um, we were in the, uh, school.
39:32
Well, it's weird because,
39:34
um, they never really
39:38
built, uh, a proper basement
39:40
crawling under. I had to go under all the school or under all
39:43
the buildings, all these places.
39:46
And actually I won't give any
39:49
specific because it actually wasn't a school. I don't think this was in the
39:52
school, actually. I think this was another place. But anyway,
39:55
so what happened was my budy talked me
39:58
into going to Tracy's.
40:00
>> Speaker B: Mhm.
40:01
>> Speaker A: And I was like, oh, I'll order the platter, I'll order
40:04
that. Forgetting entirely what happens
40:07
to poor little old Nate in his not
40:09
very sturdy body,
40:15
we go there. Uh, but I figured,
40:18
oh, I'm going to be splicing. I know I'm going
40:21
to be splicing. So I'm going to be near a bathroom. Well,
40:24
the problem with that is when
40:27
we started pulling the fiber into the room, the
40:30
fiber got caught under the floor
40:32
so that we put it in
40:35
conduit. Um, something happened under,
40:38
so I had to crawl under, uh,
40:41
the thing. And it was a crawl space, probably
40:43
two and a half, 3ft of crawl space.
40:46
>> Speaker B: That's not a lot.
40:47
>> Speaker A: So I'm army crawling. And
40:50
luckily, um, I always
40:53
carry a shovel with me in case I have to dig out, if I have to use
40:56
my shoulder to put stuff up. So I carry this little compact
40:59
shovel that you can extend out and extend in. It's
41:01
pretty, um,
41:04
well, your boy Nate, it was in this
41:07
building and I can't remember. I keep thinking it was the schools, but it wasn't the
41:10
schools. It was in this other building. Well,
41:12
um, we get in, and we're pulling that fiber through,
41:15
and, well, what happened is that conduit nodded because it was that stuff
41:18
that's flammy and kind of
41:20
wherever. And, uh, while it bundled
41:23
up, so I crawled under there, and I kind of straightened it out, and I got it.
41:26
While I was crawling under,
41:34
uh, Nate's getting all dread and moany. So I
41:37
take my little shovel, and I start digging down,
41:39
because I'm lost underground. The building was
41:42
so big, I forgot where that exit point was,
41:45
um, to go back, and the guy was waiting for me, so I
41:48
dug a hole, and it was a good
41:51
size hole, actually. I kept going, and I was hurrying, so I had a lot
41:54
of hurry and momentum behind me,
41:57
but I couldn't squat, obviously. I had to
42:01
lay down like this.
42:04
I'm like this. And then making sure
42:06
my, uh, things are
42:09
so I'm sideways. Laying sideways because I
42:12
can't up and down. Oh, uh, my gosh.
42:16
So I dug this hole, and just hoping
42:19
that the droppings are going in the hole that I
42:22
dug, and I looked back, and I just buried
42:24
all in there.
42:25
>> Speaker B: Oh, my.
42:27
>> Speaker A: But luckily, it was a pretty
42:29
deep hole that I dug. But the whole time I was
42:32
digging that hole, I was struggling. Luckily, it was soft because it
42:35
was kind know, it was musty under there and moist,
42:38
so it wasn't like our dirt. It was soft. So that really
42:41
saved my day. And I dug a deep hole, and I buried it, and I
42:44
was. But the
42:47
problem is, what's the biggest problem there, hunter?
42:50
>> Speaker B: You ain't got nothing to wipe.
42:51
>> Speaker A: I ain't got a dang thing to wipe.
42:54
I'm just.
42:57
I get that thing up, and then, uh, I get up
43:00
there, and the guys are like, all right, man. We almost got this fiber, and you could start
43:03
slicing. I'm like, I got to go to the bathroom, but I
43:06
just needed a drop zone. And it was
43:09
the worst crawling out experience I ever had.
43:12
>> Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. I believe it.
43:17
>> Speaker A: It was just a
43:19
godsend that it was
43:22
softer. Yeah, I could dig a deep
43:24
hole.
43:26
>> Speaker B: Oh, man, poop sideways.
43:29
>> Speaker A: Yeah, I had to. I mean, I was kind of angled
43:32
so it was, like, not straight,
43:36
uh, sideways. I kind of angled it over the hole there.
43:38
But.
43:41
>> Speaker B: Did that feel weird to do?
43:43
>> Speaker A: It was the worst thing ever. The only comforting thing
43:46
is I was underground where not a dang person could
43:49
see me.
43:49
>> Speaker B: Right.
43:50
>> Speaker A: I knew the situation, but I was in that mode
43:53
where there was no other choice. It was either that
43:56
or crawl out a hole with my Jimmy John's
43:58
being, um,
44:01
stanky. So it was that bad. And
44:04
so I did my business and I buried it up.
44:07
And luckily, uh, there was some loose
44:09
tarp there that I kind of just packed on top of that
44:12
dirt, and I kind of did that and then buried that tarp, too.
44:15
So it was kind of double protected.
44:18
>> Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. That's awesome.
44:22
Just marked it. Oh,
44:25
man. Uh, I
44:28
couldn't imagine. I talked to
44:31
a guy, and we were saying how the urge to
44:34
go to the bathroom, it always hits at the
44:37
worst moment. But
44:40
I do not do tight spaces.
44:44
I could not imagine being underneath that building and being
44:47
like, oh, my gosh.
44:51
Oh, gosh. Yeah, that sounds terrible.
44:54
>> Speaker A: And another bad one is when I'm in my splice
44:57
trailer. There is no bathroom in my splice trailer.
45:00
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
45:00
>> Speaker A: So I'll be in a residential area where a bunch of homes,
45:03
but the nearest gas station is far away.
45:06
Well, those cords are connected underground.
45:09
Those fibers connected underground. Those cords are
45:12
coming into my splice trailer. And I can't just bury
45:15
that up. Uh, close my splice case in the
45:18
middle of a splice and put that
45:21
away and then go. Sometimes I could disconnect my
45:23
trailer, but in some of them areas, you don't want to
45:26
disconnect your trailer.
45:28
>> Speaker B: Right.
45:28
>> Speaker A: People are pretty nasty, and I was in a bad
45:31
area. So, uh, right on central, there
45:34
were the glory of great
45:36
falls. Right on central.
45:39
And I was, like, far away from a gas station
45:42
and everything. It's not like I had to poop
45:45
or anything. I had to pee.
45:50
Luckily, I have, like, a Gatorade bottle, so I pee in
45:53
Gatorade bottles. I always carry empty Gatorade bottles.
45:56
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
45:56
>> Speaker A: And that's, like, the thing. But when you have to go number two
45:59
in those situations, sometimes you just got
46:02
to lock everything up, keep your splice trailer
46:04
locked, and then just walk and keep walking until
46:07
you find a gas station and you're that far away.
46:10
Ah. So what I did is, um, I
46:13
bought a little rope to tie
46:16
around my walk. So when I disconnect from my
46:19
trailer, it's called my poop rope.
46:23
Um, the circular thing.
46:27
>> Speaker B: There you go.
46:27
>> Speaker A: My trailer. I call it my poop rope.
46:32
>> Speaker B: Somebody's going to be walking around great falls and see that and,
46:35
ah, I know what's happening.
46:38
>> Speaker A: Yeah, that's.
46:43
Well, you know what? I don't have my CDL
46:46
yet.
46:47
>> Speaker B: Okay.
46:47
>> Speaker A: Um, so it was kind of cool. I got into a
46:50
car wreck a couple of days ago,
46:53
there was a guy that was, uh.
46:56
I had a straightaway green light on. I don't know if you ever
46:59
remember Great falls much, but on 30 Eigth and Second
47:01
Avenue.
47:03
>> Speaker B: Oh, man, it's been a minute.
47:05
>> Speaker A: So you know where the airport is?
47:07
>> Speaker B: Yes.
47:08
>> Speaker A: Or not the airport. The air force base?
47:11
>> Speaker B: Yes.
47:12
>> Speaker A: Yeah. Where you're going down there's, uh, second
47:15
Avenue. Uh, that's the one that goes right. You
47:17
drive up there and it goes right into the base. And then there's the.
47:21
>> Speaker B: Yep.
47:21
>> Speaker A: So there's the schools there, and then there's that.
47:24
Busy where Schulte's gas station is?
47:27
Yeah, it was that street.
47:28
>> Speaker B: Okay.
47:28
>> Speaker A: So I had a green light and I was going while this guy was in the
47:31
other opposing lane, or, uh,
47:34
the westbound lane, I was heading east. While he didn't
47:37
jump into the turn lane and turn, he turned.
47:40
While the light was green, he turned from
47:43
there and slammed right into
47:46
my truck. My trailer was attached. Luckily, my trailer didn't get
47:49
damaged, but my front end was all smashed in.
47:52
Well, that was the only non dot
47:55
vehicle that they had. And I've been
47:57
having problems with my blood sugars and trying to get a guy
48:00
that. It's really hard to get your
48:03
CDL with diabetes.
48:05
>> Speaker B: It's crazy.
48:07
>> Speaker A: Impossible, almost. So I've been still trying
48:09
to fight it to get it right. But, um, after that, I
48:12
was like, crap, what am I going to do? There's no more dot vehicles.
48:15
That was an old boss truck. They updated their boss trucks, and I got an old
48:18
foreman truck. And so I'm like, well, crap. Now I don't
48:21
know what I'm going to do. Well, because they like what I do. And Kurt
48:24
calls. That's Brandon's, my foreman's boss.
48:28
Um, he
48:30
calls us and he
48:33
goes, hey, uh, I'm going to drop the
48:36
GVW on this truck so you can have another non dot
48:39
vehicle.
48:39
>> Speaker B: Nice.
48:40
>> Speaker A: So he just dropped a truck for me so I could have hooked you up.
48:43
>> Speaker B: Dang, that's awesome, dude. That's super
48:46
cool.
48:47
>> Speaker A: Yeah. Um.
48:49
>> Speaker B: Uh, this might be a weird. I don't know
48:51
if. Does diabetes
48:54
make anything different as far as bathrooming?
48:57
>> Speaker A: Let's talk about it.
48:59
>> Speaker B: Perfect. You're just
49:02
saying. I'm like, I wonder.
49:04
>> Speaker A: So, obviously going to the bathroom, and I don't
49:07
know if you remember this, but when my blood sugars got high, I was going to the
49:09
bathroom all the time. I don't know if you remember that about me.
49:11
>> Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
49:13
>> Speaker A: So high blood sugars has always
49:16
been, uh, go pee more frequently,
49:19
there's been a new symptom of mine. It's been
49:21
making me poop more now.
49:25
>> Speaker B: Interesting.
49:26
>> Speaker A: Yeah. And that's never really been a problem. But now it's like, when
49:29
my blood sugar is high,
49:31
I go, like, twice as much.
49:34
>> Speaker B: Huh. Interesting.
49:36
>> Speaker A: Yeah. I don't like it, but, yeah, I
49:39
still go pee a lot. But now the
49:41
poop is like, I got to join this ride now.
49:45
>> Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Wow, that's
49:48
interesting. When you get it
49:51
down, can you notice, like, yeah, I don't have to go to the bathroom
49:54
as often. Interesting.
49:58
>> Speaker A: Yeah.
49:59
>> Speaker B: Wow, that's fascinating.
50:03
Um, diabetes. I
50:06
mean, you're very well acquainted with it.
50:09
Besides you and my uncle and folks
50:12
that Shane, later on in Shane's
50:15
high school. Um.
50:18
Uh, like, it's. I.
50:21
Anna had the pregnancy,
50:23
um,
50:26
minute. The minute that our
50:29
son was like, it was
50:32
fine, and it was like, it's so weird.
50:36
And it's strange how much it affects.
50:39
>> Speaker A: Did the doctors ever explain it to you guys, why
50:42
it happens?
50:44
>> Speaker B: Um, for her, they just said that because
50:47
she is sharing so much of the
50:50
fluids, or bodily fluids
50:53
and insulin, or. I can't remember what it was, but essentially,
50:57
her pancreas is doing for both,
51:00
and it wasn't used to doing it for both. And
51:03
so it defaults to
51:06
protect the baby, and then
51:08
the adult, the mom experiences
51:11
what is diabetes for the time.
51:15
>> Speaker A: Right?
51:15
>> Speaker B: Yeah. I was like, what?
51:17
>> Speaker A: Heck, yeah. Because, uh, we did a research on it
51:19
because I was worried about Diana getting it. And that's
51:22
basically what it is, is if your body is more
51:25
immune, has a higher immunity, she might just have a higher
51:28
immunity. That's what causes it. It was same with my sister
51:31
kristen, and I've experienced different levels of
51:34
immunity through my diabetes.
51:36
>> Speaker B: Right. Interesting.
51:41
>> Speaker A: Uh, so
51:44
I'll have, like, three months where I'll take ten units
51:47
of insulin per meal. Well, that
51:50
next month, uh, that's way too much
51:53
insulin. And then the month after that, that's way too.
51:56
Less insulin. I have to take 15 units.
51:58
>> Speaker B: Beard.
51:59
>> Speaker A: My immunity level changes with.
52:02
>> Speaker B: Interesting.
52:03
>> Speaker A: But then I'll get used to the 15. Well, it's like, uh, now
52:05
this is too much. It'll start going low, and I'll be at a 68
52:08
to 70 level. Well, it's like, oh,
52:11
now I have to go back to ten. And then ten. Right now
52:14
I'm just taking ten, and it's working just fine.
52:18
>> Speaker B: I never knew that. That's interesting. Like, it
52:21
fluctuates.
52:22
>> Speaker A: Yeah. Your insulin immunity changes.
52:26
>> Speaker B: Weird. I did not know that. I thought it was just kind of
52:29
like, you need it and you need this
52:32
much and you take this
52:34
much.
52:35
>> Speaker A: And that's why I had to get off the pump is because my pump
52:38
was at a set range for how much it was giving me.
52:40
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
52:41
>> Speaker A: And it's not every diabetic, it's just those who have
52:44
a range of immunity.
52:46
>> Speaker B: Interesting. Huh? That's
52:48
crazy.
52:54
I've interacting with my uncle.
52:57
It's insane what they're charging
52:59
for insulin. It should be illegal.
53:03
Like how much they, uh.
53:05
>> Speaker A: Yeah. And that was the other really good thing
53:08
about this job is I used to spend
53:12
400 a month for all my supply. 400 a month for
53:15
all my supply. And that's why I
53:17
was. Now I'm making twice the
53:20
money. I'm making this and that,
53:23
and I don't even pay for my insurance.
53:25
>> Speaker B: Awesome.
53:26
>> Speaker A: It's all through our union. I'm union now.
53:29
But, um, I spend
53:32
$20 for each item, but I have
53:35
the patches for this, the patches for that.
53:38
Um, so total,
53:41
I'm spending $100, but
53:44
that's for a three month supply.
53:46
>> Speaker B: Wow. That's significantly better. Wow.
53:52
>> Speaker A: Uh, yeah.
53:53
>> Speaker B: That's crazy.
53:55
>> Speaker A: And that's for five items
53:57
because it's $20 for each item and I have to
54:00
order five items. That's a three month supply.
54:04
But there's like those insulin caps they
54:07
use for my pins because I'm on insulin pins now.
54:10
>> Speaker B: Mhm.
54:10
>> Speaker A: Those will last me six months. So there are times
54:13
where I don't have to order it for another.
54:16
So sometimes it'll only be like
54:18
$80 or 60, depending on what. I don't
54:21
need that next month.
54:23
>> Speaker B: Weird. Ah, that's interesting.
54:26
Huh. Um,
54:29
well, do you have any, uh,
54:32
my thing is honking at me again here and I should
54:35
probably wrap up so you can go enjoy the rest of your evening.
54:38
Um, do you have any last
54:41
minute thoughts of words of wisdom
54:44
for just bathroom wisdom for people?
54:47
Yeah.
54:47
>> Speaker A: If you're in the middle of doing any type of job, whether
54:50
aerial or underground, take a minute,
54:53
take a minute, squat in the pot, and then go about your
54:56
busy schedule, even if you're late.
54:58
>> Speaker B: So if you're above ground, like in
55:01
the sky or below the ground.
55:03
>> Speaker A: Yeah, because sometimes I do aerial in a bucket truck. And those
55:06
moments hit, too. I didn't think about that.
55:09
But that one. You can't dig a hole in the sky.
55:12
>> Speaker B: Yeah.
55:13
>> Speaker A: Squat down, hold the job up while you
55:16
go your business and you
55:19
poop.
55:20
>> Speaker B: Into something, like inside the bucket. Have you ever
55:22
gone over the edge of the bucket?
55:24
>> Speaker A: No. So when we're in the bucket
55:27
truck, and we're doing aerial. We can actually leave the job because a lot
55:30
of that stuff is supported to the pole, so you can just go
55:33
down and drive off to down wherever. And
55:36
that aerial stuff is when
55:39
we do aerial work, uh,
55:42
we have nothing else to do, right? Because it's quick and
55:45
easy work.
55:46
>> Speaker B: Oh, man,
55:49
that's a long way up. I'd get freaked out.
55:53
I would pass out.
55:54
>> Speaker A: It took me about a month and a half to get used to doing aerial
55:57
work and bucket drop, man,
56:00
I'd.
56:00
>> Speaker B: Be afraid of falling out of the dang thing.
56:02
>> Speaker A: M. Well, you're strapped up, obviously, but even when you're strapped up, it's
56:05
like, if I fall out of this, is this strap going to hold
56:08
right? Yep.
56:09
>> Speaker B: That's exactly like.
56:11
>> Speaker A: It doesn't matter.
56:12
>> Speaker B: No, man.
56:15
Well, Nathan, I appreciate you
56:18
taking, uh, the time and letting me ask you weird questions,
56:21
man. Yeah, well, hey,
56:24
the legend.
56:28
Nate. I'll let you get back to it. I appreciate you
56:31
recording, man.
56:32
>> Speaker A: Yeah, dude, I know. We've been trying to work on this
56:35
forever today.
56:36
>> Speaker B: Hey, it's all good. I'm glad it worked out. And,
56:39
um, I'll have to try to
56:42
hit you up and text you a little more often. That's something
56:45
that I've found is reconnecting, um,
56:48
and getting together. It's been good.
56:52
>> Speaker A: My problem. But my biggest problem is, like I said, I've been working
56:55
a lot of hours, so it's hard for me,
56:58
but I do try.
56:59
>> Speaker B: Yeah, no worries, dude.
57:01
>> Speaker A: All right.
57:02
>> Speaker B: Sweet, man. You have a good rest of your night, okay?
57:05
>> Speaker A: Yeah.
57:05
>> Speaker B: Later, dude. This has been another episode
57:08
of privy. Uh, you can
57:11
follow us at privycast, uh,
57:14
anywhere you get your social media, you can send us an email.
57:17
Privycast@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from
57:20
you. Um, thanks again to Nate for being
57:22
here. Uh, thank you, Kevin
57:25
and Pottington, for the use of your music.
57:28
Keep pooping in the free world. Wash your
57:31
butthole, own your stank
57:34
poop before going in the bucket. And now, as
57:37
always, don't forget to flash.