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Ep. 70 Pittsburg Potties · Privycast

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  >> Speaker A: Just build one wall that sections it.
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  >> Speaker B: Off, kind of like so that way.
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  >> Speaker A: If somebody stumbles down.
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  >> Speaker C: Oh, I'm going to go downstairs.
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  >> Speaker D: Bump.
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  >> Speaker C: Bump, um. Bump um bump.
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  >> Speaker A: Oh, hey, dad.
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  >> Speaker B: You're going to accidentally walk in on.
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  >> Speaker A: Dad or somebody taking a dookie.
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  Welcome back to privy. Privy is
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  a podcast about bathrooms
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  recorded.
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  >> Speaker D: From my home bathroom.
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  >> Speaker A: I'm your host, hunter Hoover, and
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  I love bathrooms. And, boy, I'll tell you
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  what, I.
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  >> Speaker D: Had a, uh, tray.
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  >> Speaker B: It's been a couple weeks since this.
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  >> Speaker D: Incident, but I wanted to share it.
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  >> Speaker B: Um, sometimes you
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  get a little overzealous. You order yourself a tray of
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  nachos.
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  >> Speaker A: And you look at the tray, and you go,
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  yeah, I probably shouldn't eat
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  that whole thing.
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  >> Speaker B: Um, but then you're also out and about with,
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  uh, the college group, and you're like,
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  but if I don't eat.
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  >> Speaker D: The whole thing, they're just going to have to go in the
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  trash because.
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  >> Speaker A: It'S too hot to sit in the.
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  >> Speaker D: Car and it's too delicious to throw away.
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  >> Speaker A: So you do eat
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  what is essentially like,
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  probably a pound to a pound
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  and three quarters of a pound of nachos.
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  >> Speaker D: Uh, everybody in the vicinity is
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  like.
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  >> Speaker B: Hey, man, that's
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  not going to be good later on.
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  >> Speaker C: Uh, and you even receive text the.
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  >> Speaker D: Next day saying, like, hey, how are you doing?
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  How are you doing?
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  >> Speaker A: And the answer is
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  good now, bad.
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  >> Speaker D: In the middle of the night.
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  >> Speaker A: Um, also, uh,
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  my buddy, he, uh,
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  posited this. It could be an invention. Who
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  knows?
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  >> Speaker B: But it's much like the idea. It's kind of
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  like if you've seen.
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  >> Speaker D: The movie up, Pixar's up.
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  >> Speaker A: Um, which, man, when I was in.
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  >> Speaker D: Middle school, when that movie or high.
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  >> Speaker C: School, I was somewhere in that area.
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  >> Speaker B: Of life when that movie came out.
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  And I had seen the movie in.
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  >> Speaker D: Theaters, but my buddy hadn't.
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  >> Speaker A: And so one night for youth group.
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  >> Speaker B: We had a movie night, and we.
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  >> Speaker A: Watched up, and we're all sitting there.
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  >> Speaker D: And jovially just, like, making
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  a mess.
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  >> Speaker B: With the popcorn, because we're teenagers and.
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  >> Speaker C: We ain't got a clue that when.
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  >> Speaker B: We miss our mouth with the popcorn, it goes all over the
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  floor. There's a responsible adult who is either going
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  to have to have us clean.
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  >> Speaker A: It up or clean it up themselves.
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  Carefree.
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  >> Speaker D: Couldn't care less.
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  >> Speaker B: The only important thing in our lives.
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  >> Speaker A: Is, like, eating the
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  popcorn.
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  >> Speaker D: We could care less if it's on the floor.
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  >> Speaker A: Um, but I remember distinctly
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  watching this movie and
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  my buddy, as it's showing.
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  >> Speaker B: The montage of Carl and his
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  wife, um.
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  >> Speaker D: Growing up together and aging together.
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  >> Speaker B: And my buddy leans over to a.
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  >> Speaker D: Couple of us and he goes, man, it'd be wild if she just
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  died. And I stare at my friend, I was
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  like, well.
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  >> Speaker A: You'Re getting ready to.
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  >> Speaker D: Feel real awkward about your situation.
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  >> Speaker A: Um, but yeah, so imagine if, you.
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  >> Speaker D: Know, Pixar's up, they up a house
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  with balloons. Classic helium
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  blunder.
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  >> Speaker B: But his posit was
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  when your dog.
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  >> Speaker D: Skeets their doggy
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  poop onto a person's yard
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  to have a little, like, you.
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  >> Speaker A: Got the little walking mom
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  dog poop bag dispenser
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  clip, but he's positing
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  that. Attach that much like a bike pump,
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  you fist into the bag, fist the.
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  >> Speaker B: Dog poop reverse bag, and you tie.
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  >> Speaker C: It off, but you leave an air pocket.
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  >> Speaker B: And with the little air bike pump.
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  >> Speaker A: It'S actually a helium pump. And you
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  helium pump into the doggy.
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  >> Speaker D: Poop bag and then float it off into space
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  to go chill with Jeffrey Bezos and his big
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  blue, you know.
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  >> Speaker B: I think it's one of those boy in the bubble, like,
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  perfect world ideas, but it would be kind of interesting.
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  >> Speaker D: To be able to just float my, uh,
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  yeah, also, I want to share my
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  wife a, uh, few weeks to a month back
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  now on the privy.
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  >> Speaker A: Instagram, she sent me an
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  image.
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  >> Speaker B: She knows me so well, to the.
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  >> Speaker D: Point where she's like, okay, one of.
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  >> Speaker B: The ways that I can just keep.
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  >> Speaker D: This dude.
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  >> Speaker B: Focused on the goal here, just
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  send him a picture of something.
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  >> Speaker D: Weird bathroom related every now and then.
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  >> Speaker C: That'll seem to do the trick.
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  >> Speaker B: But she sent me a picture, um, because we're repainting our
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  front room.
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  >> Speaker D: That's a totally different story.
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  >> Speaker A: We went from I will shop for.
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  >> Speaker B: Paint to a full repainting of the.
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  >> Speaker D: Front room and kitchen in a couple days.
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  >> Speaker B: But she sent me this picture of.
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  >> Speaker D: Some bathrooms, two different toilets for sale at Home
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  Depot.
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  >> Speaker B: And these both make some pretty impressive.
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  >> Speaker D: And in my opinion, pretty
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  astronomical claims about their ability.
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  >> Speaker B: One claims to be able to flush like seven
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  to nine billiard balls.
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  >> Speaker D: And I think I've talked about why
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  because I've interacted with turds that shape and
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  size. But a
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  billiard ball is hard.
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  >> Speaker B: It's not going to give and have.
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  >> Speaker D: Any wiggle room in the s bend.
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  >> Speaker A: Uh, these toilets, I love it
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  when.
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  >> Speaker B: You go into the toilet section at.
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  >> Speaker D: A hardware store or a home improvement.
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  >> Speaker A: Store because they always look so weird.
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  >> Speaker B: They're just like lined up in a row.
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  >> Speaker A: And it reminds me of a few months ago,
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  I stumbled into a showcase.
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  >> Speaker D: Bathroom in the Portland mall in Portland,
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  Oregon. Here in Oregon.
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  >> Speaker B: And Jacuzzi, uh, was showing
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  off their.
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  >> Speaker A: Wares, and they had these set up.
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  >> Speaker B: Bathrooms that you could walk up to and just kind of,
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  like,
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  know you.
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  >> Speaker A: Stand in the shower. In that same mall, I had a.
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  >> Speaker B: Dude that was so cooked on weed.
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  >> Speaker D: He offered to polish my shoes.
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  >> Speaker B: Um, but I was wearing probably the.
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  >> Speaker A: Most
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  grungy white
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  canvas shoes.
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  >> Speaker B: And I'm like, you're not going to polish this.
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  >> Speaker D: This is a wash job.
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  >> Speaker B: And I told him, no, thanks.
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  >> Speaker A: And then he seemed, like, kind of mad that I had turned
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  down his offer.
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  >> Speaker B: Uh, and then he's like, well, he asked me why, and I said, oh.
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  >> Speaker D: I like my shoes dirty.
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  >> Speaker A: To which he just could not fathom.
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  >> Speaker D: A person would opt for dirty shoes,
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  but whatever.
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  >> Speaker A: But, yeah, these toilets always look weird.
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  >> Speaker B: Lined up in a row.
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  >> Speaker A: But there's another situation, and this is a
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  phenomenon, and this is what we're.
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  >> Speaker D: Going to be talking about today on the show.
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  >> Speaker A: And it's another situation in which a toilet
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  looks weird. And this
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  is a very specific arrangement of a
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  toilet. Uh, that happens more than
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  you might think.
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  >> Speaker D: Imagine that you're at your buddy's house.
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  >> Speaker A: And they're giving you a tour of the home.
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  They show you the bedrooms. Here's my bedroom.
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  Here's my PlayStation two
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  shout out. Oh,
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  yeah, just put in new cupboards.
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  >> Speaker B: Got a new sofa. It's pretty great. Mom won't
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  let me, uh, wear my.
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  >> Speaker C: Shoes while I sit on it.
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  >> Speaker B: Um, but dad talked her out of.
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  >> Speaker D: The sofa covers, those plastic, pretty
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  much garbage sacks that fit over a whole
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  sofa.
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  >> Speaker A: Yeah. Here's the bedrooms.
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  You know what happens in here?
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  >> Speaker C: Sleeping.
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  >> Speaker A: And then, of course, here's the
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  bathroom.
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  >> Speaker B: Here's the guest bathroom.
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  >> Speaker A: And if you need anything, let us know.
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  >> Speaker B: Oh, I got to show you. I got an air hockey
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  table in the basement.
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  >> Speaker A: You go down in the basement,
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  and down there, just sitting all on
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  its lonesome, seemingly in
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  a corner, surrounded by a field of
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  cement, is alone
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  privy. And you're left to wonder,
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  why does your homie Deegan.
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  >> Speaker B: Deegan's parents were millennials who had to.
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  >> Speaker A: Give their kid a weird name.
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  >> Speaker C: But, uh, why does this dude
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  got.
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  >> Speaker A: Just a rando toilet chilling in the middle of his
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  basement, no walls surrounding it, no
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  door, just a loose toilet.
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  Well, wonder no further, because
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  today we're talking about this weird
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  toilet phenomenon
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  called Pittsburgh potties.
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  >> Speaker C: Now, lest we assume that a
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  Pittsburgh.
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  >> Speaker A: Potty is any toilet in the Pittsburgh,
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  Pennsylvania area, they are
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  that, but they're also a specific type
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  of toilet. As noted, if
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  you entered the basement.
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  >> Speaker C: Of a Pennsylvania, um, home in the.
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  >> Speaker A: Years surrounding and following World War
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  II. That is, houses built in
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  the.
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  >> Speaker B: Even sometimes up into the.
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  >> Speaker A: Depending on where you live, there's a good
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  chance that you have a lone standing
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  toilet in the basement with no.
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  >> Speaker D: Walls built around it.
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  >> Speaker A: Now, it's a weird thing
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  to see.
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  >> Speaker B: A toilet like loose leaf with
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  no.
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  >> Speaker A: Walls, because traditionally in our lives up
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  to that point, we have mostly just
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  interacted with toilets that are not loose.
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  >> Speaker D: Leaf and are surrounded by walls
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  which provide privacy. While
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  we do privacy.
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  >> Speaker B: First and first, middle of the show, I want to.
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  >> Speaker A: Say, if you have a Pittsburgh potty
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  in your home, or have seen one
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  or have access to one, take a picture.
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  Send that in. We want to see these.
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  Send us proof of these. Uh,
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  yeah, um, send those in.
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  But these toilets are in these homes of this
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  specific time period, and they have been kind of, like,
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  shrouded in mystery. Um, they're weird.
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  And it's assumed that for a long time, these toilets were placed
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  this way.
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  >> Speaker B: In the specific part of the world.
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  >> Speaker A: During this period, due to specific workers
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  that existed.
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  >> Speaker C: The Pittsburgh area was home
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  to an.
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  >> Speaker A: Astronomical amount of steel production in the
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  1940s. It is estimated
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  that the state of Pennsylvania produced
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  more steel products.
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  >> Speaker B: Uh, leading.
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  >> Speaker C: Up to 1945, than all of the.
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  >> Speaker B: Axis powers of World War II.
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  >> Speaker A: Almost 100
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  million tons of steel products.
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  The region is so well known for.
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  >> Speaker B: Its steel production that correct me if.
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  >> Speaker A: I'm wrong or don't, if you don't.
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  >> Speaker C: Care, but the Pittsburgh
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  Steelers are named.
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  >> Speaker A: For this region's production of
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  choice. And so it is assumed,
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  with all these high intensity labor jobs
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  in the area, home builders
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  began to put in plumbing in a
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  separate toilet in the.
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  >> Speaker D: Basement, with easy access for
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  the outsiders.
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  >> Speaker A: And workers to come into the home,
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  do their duties while they are still.
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  >> Speaker C: Dirty, and tidy up before joining the.
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  >> Speaker B: Rest of the modern family upstairs.
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  >> Speaker C: Now, this makes sense
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  on paper, and.
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  >> Speaker D: Maybe at first in your ear holes.
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  >> Speaker A: But just
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  second, because I want to note
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  these toilets in the basement, these
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  Pennsylvania potties.
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  >> Speaker D: Pittsburgh potties.
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  >> Speaker C: While this makes sense at first, it.
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  >> Speaker A: Should be noted there's not a shower
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  or sink that goes along
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  with these toilets.
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  >> Speaker B: They are really just loose leaf toilets
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  sitting in a basement by themselves.
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  >> Speaker A: No shower, no place to wash your
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  hands. And so, uh,
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  if these toilets were put in, in the middle
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  of the home's basement to
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  give these industry
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  and labor workers a place to tidy up.
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  >> Speaker B: And freshen up before they join the.
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  >> Speaker C: Rest of the family, wouldn't there be.
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  >> Speaker B: Like, a shower and a place to wash your hands?
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  >> Speaker A: Do you know what I'm saying, that would be
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  there, too.
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  >> Speaker C: And so it seems like they could have just
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  put.
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  >> Speaker A: Also, uh, just put a
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  privacy wall up.
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  >> Speaker B: Just build one wall that sections it off,
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  kind of, so that way, if.
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  >> Speaker C: Somebody stumbles down, oh, I'm going to.
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  >> Speaker A: Go downstairs, bump bum um, bum bum.
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  >> Speaker D: Um.
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  >> Speaker A: Oh, hey, dad.
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  >> Speaker B: You're going to accidentally walk in on.
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  >> Speaker A: Dad or somebody taking a dookie first
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  class on this toilet. And so
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  you're literally begging for someone.
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  >> Speaker D: To walk in, and you pinch in a loaf.
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  >> Speaker A: So what's the deal? Is there more
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  to the Pittsburgh potty.
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  >> Speaker B: Than just an easy spot for laborers.
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  >> Speaker D: To flirt their play doh?
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  >> Speaker A: Well, it turns out there might have.
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  >> Speaker B: Been much less going on with these toilets.
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  Now, you might hear that and go, my God.
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  There hasn't been much going on so.
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  >> Speaker D: Far in this episode. Like, you've told me about a
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  freestanding toilet.
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  >> Speaker A: Well, it would turn
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  out that in this case,
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  less is more, because
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  there's something interesting going on. So I want to take you
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  back to the
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  1940s.
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  We're fresh off a, uh, World
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  War or Two, huh?
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  With the threat of nuclear
• 14:24
  disaster on.
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  >> Speaker B: Everyone'S minds, people are viewing
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  the world a little differently.
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  >> Speaker A: Also, the advent of home television,
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  TV and the rise in movies and media.
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  >> Speaker C: It'S caused a change and a shift in things
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  that.
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  >> Speaker A: Your hair is wild, your
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  bell bottom.
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  >> Speaker B: Jeans are all the fad and the.
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  >> Speaker A: Rage when you walk into your home. What's
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  that? Wallpaper.
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  >> Speaker D: My goodness, what? Wallpaper and carpet.
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  >> Speaker A: The sofas are all patterned, floral,
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  usually, and often containing bright
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  colors. There's specific choices
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  being made to the.
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  >> Speaker C: Interior of houses,
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  but when you go.
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  >> Speaker A: Into the basement,
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  things are, like, pretty
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  much left unfinished.
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  And often the basements in these
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  homes are just concrete
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  floors with little to no
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  drywall or any sort of
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  amenities done. It's like a concrete.
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  So, like, what's going on here?
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  Because surely a part of the world, Pittsburgh,
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  Pennsylvania, known for the production of
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  building materials, could have figured out
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  how to finish a basement.
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  >> Speaker C: Do you know what I'm saying?
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  >> Speaker B: Like, nowadays, you walk into a basement, and sometimes these things
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  are, like, decked out.
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  >> Speaker A: This is where the man cave is at. This is where the game
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  zone is. But back then, it was a
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  concrete, just
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  slab with little to no
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  walls. Or if there was a supporting
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  wall, it had a little to no finish on it.
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  Well, this was normal
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  for a lot.
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  >> Speaker D: Of parts of the world back then.
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  >> Speaker A: And not just Pittsburgh. This is all over. And the
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  reason is this. Sewage
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  systems are not what they are
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  today.
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  >> Speaker C: They were not what they are today.
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  >> Speaker A: Because while we can still have problems today, and I
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  want to say real quick, uh, uh,
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  after the release of.
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  >> Speaker B: This episode, I'm going to be posting.
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  >> Speaker D: Some pictures from my former employer's bathroom.
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  >> Speaker A: Now, I told this story on the.
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  >> Speaker B: Show at one point where the septic system went
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  Reverso. Uh, but now I'm going to be sharing the
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  photos of what I walked into. Uh, and
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  so stay tuned for that.
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  >> Speaker A: But sometimes we can still have problems.
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  Stay. But generally, and one
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  goal of privy.
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  >> Speaker B: Is to help you have a sense.
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  >> Speaker A: Of thankfulness and
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  counting your blessing when it comes to the area of
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  what.
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  >> Speaker D: You have with bathrooms,
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  because we have relatively
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  few backups.
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  >> Speaker A: But back in the day, sewer lines would be
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  known not just to back up, but back
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  up from the city line.
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  So we talked in one of
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  the last episodes about how
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  with the great.
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  >> Speaker B: Stink, you would dump your
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  refuse into the river and it will wash down river
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  into somebody else's water. This
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  would be like that, but you're.
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  >> Speaker A: Doing what you're supposed to.
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  >> Speaker D: You're flushing the little guys, and they're.
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  >> Speaker A: Going reverso into somebody else's
• 17:43
  toilet in their home.
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  Now, when the backup
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  would occur, it would occur
• 17:51
  and back up into the lowest
• 17:55
  standing, lowest line
• 17:58
  in the home.
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  >> Speaker C: Um, and when you have
• 18:01
  spent so.
• 18:02
  >> Speaker A: Much time getting
• 18:04
  your wallpaper and your.
• 18:07
  >> Speaker C: Sweet carpet and your weird
• 18:10
  colored sofa.
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  >> Speaker B: Just right in the upstairs part of.
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  >> Speaker A: Your house, you don't want your sewer
• 18:17
  line going reverso into that area.
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  >> Speaker C: It's going to ruin the vibe.
• 18:23
  >> Speaker A: How are we going to be shaggedelic if I've
• 18:26
  got hoopie doopies
• 18:29
  all over my shagadelic rugs?
• 18:33
  That's not radical, dude.
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  And so they would install a
• 18:40
  sewer line into a
• 18:43
  basement. But what they found is you
• 18:46
  can't just have an open,
• 18:49
  freestanding sewer line because
• 18:53
  then you have stink.
• 18:56
  So they would sometimes cap
• 18:59
  this line, but then you don't want to
• 19:02
  cap it, because if it does
• 19:04
  decide to.
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  >> Speaker D: Go reverso, if it has a cap.
• 19:08
  >> Speaker A: On it and it can't push the cap
• 19:11
  off, then we're right back where we were. You got poo
• 19:14
  all over your duck printed wallpaper.
• 19:17
  So they would often install
• 19:20
  a toilet equipped
• 19:23
  with the s bend curve
• 19:26
  in.
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  >> Speaker D: The basement on top of this freestanding
• 19:30
  sewer line.
• 19:31
  >> Speaker A: They slap a household toilet on this pipe,
• 19:34
  wherever it sat in the basement.
• 19:35
  >> Speaker D: And call it a day, praying that.
• 19:37
  >> Speaker A: One day when the sewage backs up.
• 19:39
  >> Speaker C: Into the home, it would back up.
• 19:41
  >> Speaker D: Into that poor toilet, the Pittsburgh
• 19:44
  potty.
• 19:47
  >> Speaker A: They also put a toilet instead of a drain.
• 19:50
  Because a toilet and a sewer line is one of the
• 19:53
  biggest connections to.
• 19:54
  >> Speaker D: The sewer in the home.
• 19:55
  >> Speaker A: Makes sense. It's taking care of some of the biggest
• 19:58
  friggin poo balls, apparently, some of
• 20:01
  them the size of a billiard ball. The
• 20:04
  Pittsburgh potty. These have been
• 20:07
  found all over, not just in Pittsburgh,
• 20:09
  which is the reason.
• 20:11
  >> Speaker B: This is more than an answer to.
• 20:12
  >> Speaker D: Dirty working men coming home with their grubbies still
• 20:15
  on.
• 20:16
  >> Speaker A: Um, but it's a phenomenon,
• 20:19
  and it's a weird one.
• 20:21
  >> Speaker B: And I distinctly remember growing up, and.
• 20:23
  >> Speaker D: I've verified this with my own parents.
• 20:27
  >> Speaker A: That, uh, we had a
• 20:30
  Pittsburgh potty.
• 20:31
  >> Speaker B: In our basement, but it was just.
• 20:33
  >> Speaker A: The open sewer line, because when the.
• 20:35
  >> Speaker B: House was built, they used the basement.
• 20:37
  >> Speaker A: For dogs, never put the toilet in. And later, my dad
• 20:40
  installed a toilet.
• 20:41
  >> Speaker D: And actually, I believe he installed, like, there was a sink and a
• 20:44
  shower and stuff in there, too.
• 20:45
  >> Speaker B: But my basement, growing up, had
• 20:48
  a.
• 20:48
  >> Speaker A: Pittsburgh potty in Montana. I've talked to other people
• 20:51
  who were.
• 20:52
  >> Speaker C: Like, yeah, I had this weird toilet.
• 20:54
  >> Speaker D: In my basement, and it's like, yeah, it's called a
• 20:56
  Pittsburgh potty.
• 20:57
  >> Speaker A: And you could use it.
• 21:00
  >> Speaker B: I can't stress that enough.
• 21:01
  >> Speaker A: You could use this toilet,
• 21:03
  but that was not its main purpose.
• 21:07
  So if you come across a Pittsburgh potty,
• 21:10
  let us know. We want to see it.
• 21:12
  >> Speaker B: I'm pretty sure, like I said, that.
• 21:14
  >> Speaker A: These are more widespread.
• 21:16
  >> Speaker B: Um, and often, if you go into.
• 21:18
  >> Speaker A: An unfinished basement, an unfinished basement in a
• 21:20
  house built between
• 21:22
  the, um. This
• 21:25
  is probably what's going on.
• 21:27
  >> Speaker C: It's unfinished because concrete is
• 21:29
  easier to.
• 21:30
  >> Speaker A: Get poop off of than carpet and
• 21:33
  drywall.
• 21:35
  >> Speaker D: A lesson my former employer
• 21:38
  definitely figured out.
• 21:40
  >> Speaker A: In fact, though, I don't think it was a
• 21:43
  Pittsburgh potty. My public high school
• 21:46
  in Montana had a freestanding toilet
• 21:49
  in the boys locker room bathroom,
• 21:51
  which lent to one of the best
• 21:54
  moments in high school forever in my brain.
• 21:57
  >> Speaker B: It is seared into my brain.
• 21:59
  >> Speaker D: So specifically, um, on
• 22:02
  this segment
• 22:05
  of.
• 22:05
  >> Speaker A: Hunter'S anecdotes to keep
• 22:08
  you afloat.
• 22:13
  This hunter's anecdotes is called cupcake on the
• 22:16
  toilet.
• 22:17
  >> Speaker B: Imagine this. The bell rings.
• 22:19
  >> Speaker D: You're a freshman in high school.
• 22:21
  >> Speaker A: The world is your oyster. Or it's the
• 22:24
  place where you're going.
• 22:25
  >> Speaker D: To get harassed a little bit.
• 22:27
  >> Speaker B: You are kind of nervous,
• 22:30
  but also excited because you have freshman pe, and.
• 22:33
  >> Speaker A: I got a note. I went to a small high school.
• 22:36
  >> Speaker D: My graduating class had 20 people.
• 22:38
  >> Speaker A: So this isn't the, like, oh, I'm.
• 22:41
  >> Speaker B: Going to get lost in the sea of people.
• 22:42
  >> Speaker D: High school that we see today, this.
• 22:44
  >> Speaker A: Is not that, but
• 22:48
  you have freshman pe,
• 22:51
  and you're like, oh,
• 22:54
  man.
• 22:54
  >> Speaker B: And the bell rings and it's like, oh, that kind of
• 22:57
  weird moment that some people like. And some people are like, oh, I just want to get
• 23:00
  it over where.
• 23:01
  >> Speaker D: You go down in the locker room to dress out.
• 23:04
  >> Speaker A: We all go down in there, and
• 23:07
  waiting for us in the locker
• 23:09
  room.
• 23:10
  >> Speaker B: Is a person who has been introduced.
• 23:13
  >> Speaker A: To us as our pe aide. Now,
• 23:15
  uh, the pea aide is usually.
• 23:17
  >> Speaker B: An upper classman who has shown themselves.
• 23:19
  >> Speaker A: To be responsible enough to help aid the
• 23:22
  teacher.
• 23:23
  >> Speaker B: So often this is like a really
• 23:26
  rad and upstanding student who has got
• 23:29
  it going on.
• 23:30
  >> Speaker D: They're super mature and
• 23:33
  they're there to help you.
• 23:35
  >> Speaker A: And so we go down in the.
• 23:36
  >> Speaker B: Locker room, we start changing, and we
• 23:39
  hear a shout from the back, like, hey,
• 23:42
  everybody, hurry up, change out and.
• 23:44
  >> Speaker A: Get back out there so we can start stretches.
• 23:45
  >> Speaker D: And so we're changing out, and I.
• 23:48
  >> Speaker A: Go into the back section of the.
• 23:51
  >> Speaker D: Locker room to do a number one
• 23:54
  p before I go out to do
• 23:56
  pe.
• 23:58
  >> Speaker A: Uh, and when I walk in, there is
• 24:01
  my pe aide, one of my
• 24:03
  classmates'older brother,
• 24:05
  sitting sprawled goat to the
• 24:08
  sky on the toilet, dropping a shaz
• 24:12
  and just eating a pink sprinkled
• 24:14
  cupcake. No door,
• 24:17
  no clothes on, just naked.
• 24:19
  >> Speaker B: Sitting there eating a cupcake. Uh, that cupcake
• 24:22
  had more clothes on.
• 24:23
  >> Speaker D: Than he did with that paper wrapper, if you know what I'm saying.
• 24:26
  >> Speaker A: And I'm just like, what in the
• 24:28
  heck? Welcome to high school, kids.
• 24:31
  The time that my pe
• 24:34
  aide ate an open faced
• 24:37
  cupcake with his bare
• 24:40
  self and he could care
• 24:43
  less.
• 24:44
  >> Speaker B: I go out and I told my.
• 24:45
  >> Speaker D: Buddy David is his older brother, and I was like, dude,
• 24:48
  your brother's in there just sitting on, uh, the toilet, eating a cupcake.
• 24:50
  And they had a fun back and forth, but it was
• 24:53
  just like this.
• 24:54
  >> Speaker A: Shocking combination
• 24:57
  of open faced toilet meets.
• 24:59
  >> Speaker B: Somebody eating on the toilet meets weird.
• 25:02
  >> Speaker D: First experiences in high school.
• 25:05
  >> Speaker A: And that's a brief hunter's anecdote
• 25:08
  to keep you afloat.
• 25:16
  And that brings us to the end.
• 25:17
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• 25:19
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• 25:34
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• 26:46
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• 27:01
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• 27:15
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  >> Speaker A: And now, as always,
• 27:19
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