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Ep. 118 Runner’s Diarrhea and Resolutions · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: The people can't hear my beefer over
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the rage against the machine or Miley Cyrus or whatever else
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they're doing.
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Welcome back to privy. Privy is a
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podcast about bathrooms recorded
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in my home bathroom. I'm your host,
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hunter Hoover, and I love bathrooms. welcome
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back. Happy new year, everybody. I, hope that
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as you closed out 2023,
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your bathrooming and other such things
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were, a pleasant and enjoyable
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time. And I hope that as you
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ring in
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2024, which is already
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kind of weird to think that we're. I don't know. For
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me, I think 2024 is weird.
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we got elections, we got leap years, we've got
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the Olympics. We got all sorts of fun. So
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I got a new shower curtain. my wife has purchased
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and installed a new shower curtain. So that's
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fun. I feel like New Year's is a good time to put in a
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new shower curtain. I was kind of against it.
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I was informed that when the
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shower curtain gets a little mold in the bottom, it's time to
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swap her out now. And I cannot stress there's
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hardly any there, but, there was enough to where
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mawab, went for it. And now we have a new shower
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curtain. It is very nice. it's kind of like a yellow
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sunflower daisy looking thing. very much
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a bathroom used at some point by a woman
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and also me.
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but I wanted to. At the top of this episode, now that you've
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been welcomed, welcome. it's kind of like you're joining me here in the
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bathroom. If this is your first episode of
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Privy, my name is Hunter. As I said, I
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record a podcast about bathrooms, history, culture,
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etiquette, and sometimes stories from guests.
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and I record all of those episodes inside,
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usually my home bathroom. But sometimes we go on
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location to other people's home bathrooms
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or, recording studios away from my
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bathroom, bathrooms that are not here.
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Something I wanted to do is this year, in
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2024, I'm going to double down, and I want to
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start focusing in, on community
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at the top of the episode right now in whatever
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as a reminder, we started this last
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this year in 2024
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to encourage you is go ahead and share the show. There's a little bit of
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apprehension. It's like, oh, do I want everybody to know that I listen
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to this guy talk about bathrooms while he sits in his bathroom. It's
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a little weird, but I assure you it's not that weird. Like, I've got
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a computer and a polar seltzer yet to be cracked. Stay
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tuned. It's just a regular
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bathroom. There's nothing weird going on. yeah,
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it's just got a podcast that's made in it. It's fine.
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It's all good. And so those are some things that
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we're doing this new year. Go do those at the
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top of the show. I wanted to put that out there as a reminder
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that this year, we're
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going to try some new things. Happy new year.
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And I hope again that your 2024
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is going to be filled with the same Yule
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tide and sometimes bathroom cheer. that
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2023 was,
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as is noted, I kind of, sort of did
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this at the top of the show.
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But one of the things that people so often
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do this time year is they
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make resolutions.
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Sometimes the resolutions are to read more books
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or take up a project or being more assertive,
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for whatever reason. And it's probably just
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because it's that I have to flip
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over a new calendar. And so now is
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time to start something new.
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But people track the
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new year as a time to endeavor
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into and try new things. There
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is a bit of resolution
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rush, and
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these New Year's resolutions
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results in just kind of a sudden
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countless. And the way that
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I take this in is
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through the gym. there is like, countless new
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people at the gym that never once
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ever have been seen there before. Like, when you go to the
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gym, you always got your regulars. Like, you got the same
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people that you see there, especially if you
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are a habitual gym user as I
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am. If you go around the same time of day,
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you tend to see, the same people who also go
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around the same time of day. And so you
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get to not know because, most everyone just sticks their
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headphones in and goes for it. But
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you at least recognize people
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who are at the gym around the same time you
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are. And this time of year, there are these
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resolution rushers that are popping
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up. I cannot stress.
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I am not dogging on people trying
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to get fit or to be
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healthy or get in shape. I'm not dogging on that. Like,
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God knows that's part of why I'm going.
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And I'm not dogging on people trying to get off on the right foot.
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It's a noble endeavor, and it's good.
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the problem is, and statistically
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speaking, the problem is this.
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12% of all gym
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memberships are started in January.
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that's data. and almost 80% of
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those memberships that are started in January
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are canceled by May.
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Now, it should also be noted that
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only about 10% of the gym
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memberships that are new and starting in January
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are used regularly past the month
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of April and May. What this means is
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gyms are banking on that
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10% demographic who don't
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cancel their membership and don't continue to use their
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facilities and are just continuing to
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pay them and not show up. The gym
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loves them. It's kind of like Netflix. and not
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just Netflix. Let's pick on Max, because I'm
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still, like, half angry at max any day of the week. but
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it's kind of like these streaming services
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they offer you. Oh, we'll give you three months for
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299. What a good deal. And
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then you sign up for it, and then nobody can possibly
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remember three months ago. Like, it's not possible. I cannot
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tell you what I was doing three months ago.
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and then the three months go by, and then you look at your
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credit card, and you're like, dang it, they charged
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me 1599 for that. I forgot to cancel
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it. and then you watch them, you're like, ah, I don't need to cancel
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it. And then a few more months go by, and you fall
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out of habit of watching those services. And then you get your
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next bill, and you're like, oh, dang it, I did it again. I forgot to cancel
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it. And then they bank on you doing that.
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As we endeavor into the world of
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resolutions and fitness and those
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type things, I want to say a couple of things. Number one, privy is not
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a fitness podcast. If you have taken one look at
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me, you're going to be like, yeah, that's fair.
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number two, privy is not a motivational
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podcast. Now, I could motivate you to
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tell your bathroom stories, and I would love to do that. And
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if you have them, hit me up.
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Privycast@gmail.com. But it's
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not a motivation podcast. We're here to tell the truth about going to the
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bathroom. Dang it. And if the honest
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truth about bathrooming motivates you, then maybe this is a
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motivation podcast. But that's not why
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privy exists. We are, a podcast about
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bathrooms.
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And so today we need to talk about
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some unfortunate things that can
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happen to us when we are at the gym. Whether you're
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a longtime gym goer or a resolution
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rusher here at privy, we want to make you aware of
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things as you approach the gym that are going to
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be specific to the bathroom.
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M
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the first thing is something
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called Runner's trot. Now, I had
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never heard of this, also
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known as the layman's
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term runner's diarrhea. That one really paints a bigger
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picture. like, diarrhea is already running.
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So
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if you need either of the words runner or
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diarrhea explained to you,
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you need to just chill the heck out because
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you're, listening to the wrong show. But I want you
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to picture this. You're running. And if you're like
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me, even the pure thought of running is
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just, you hate it. Not because I'm fat. I am,
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but because
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my ankle cannot deal
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with running at this time. I'm recently enrolled
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in some physical therapy. It's whatever. It's at home stuff,
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and we'll see. But maybe you're running
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and it's outside and it's long distance, or maybe it's on a
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treadmill. The
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treadmill run. or maybe you're running from
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some thing or someone, or maybe to
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someone. I don't know. But you know what makes
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running worse? Running is already bad.
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You got your flapjack sweats. Your flapjacks are flapping in
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the wind. but you know what makes running worse?
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Every single time that you could ever do it is having
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diarrhea while you try to do that.
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Diarrhea is already not great. But
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runners diarrhea, apparently is fairly
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common. So common that they named it runners
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trot. You trot it out,
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depending on which study you cite, which there is plenty
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of them. You can link in the description
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ding dong. Thing below to our data. By the way, I don't know if
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you know this, but if you're ever like, where the flipping
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heck is hunter getting his facts?
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there's sources in the description. they're down there. Like, I
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cite my sources. I know what I'm doing. I know, you know,
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plagiarizing nothing. I'm, citing my sources.
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But yeah, there's, reported
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that anywhere between 65
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and 90% of
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people who regularly run
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mid to long distances
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report of having loose stool
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or diarrhea occurring
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during or shortly after they conclude they're running.
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Now, I have to make a note here.
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Diarrhea shortly after you conclude
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your workout. That's great. That's totally fine.
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Your body is in, cool down. It's time
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to void and you let spray.
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Diarrhea lake. That's the time for
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diarrhea. When is not
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the time for diarrhea or loose stool is
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mid activity. That's when we get into danger.
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No, no territory zone.
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It sounds like their legs ain't the only things running. You know, the crap's running
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down their legs. I missed a joke in there somewhere, but
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you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. And that
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begs the question, why?
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So this is common, this thing called
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runners trot. Runners diarrhea is common
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enough to where we've named it and they've done studies
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on it. Once you name it and do studies on it, you might as well call it
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a phenomenon. But why do runners get
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the trot? Like, why are we
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trotting one out so often?
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And there's a number of positive theories
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as to why people who run
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have diarrhea. I'm going to start asking people.
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If people tell me they're runners, I'm going to begin,
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or, oh, I went for a run. I went for a jog.
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I'm going to start asking them, hey, did you crap your pants? Did you
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get diarrhea? Do you have diarrhea? Currently,
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but there are a number of theories,
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as there are with most things that happen into and
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onto our bodies. it's usually a combination
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of things.
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One, the first theory on
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runners diarrhea or runners trot is
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that it is your body's
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response to slight
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amounts of internal inflammation in your
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gut and in your digestive system
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caused by the jostling.
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Think of it like this. Think of it like this.
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Your intestines. Have
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you ever washed a pair of slippers? Like
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you slide your loafers on your feet and you step outside and it's
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Oregon. It's flipping, raining all the time. I
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feel like it's never not raining. And you slip your loafer on
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your foot, and it's soft bottom loafer. Like, we ain't talking no hard
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bottom loafer here. And you step outside and you
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just right in the mud,
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you just sog your loafer.
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And now loafer fully sogged. You're like, well, I got
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to wash it. You toss it in the washing machine. You don't
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really need much soap for a loafer. It's
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fine, but you put just enough in, you got to get it
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going, you got to freshen up, and you
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hit the start. And the sound that the
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washing machine makes, it sounds like you're washing a freaking alligator.
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It's like
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it wakes everybody up in your house and the next house
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over. That
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loafer inside your washing
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machine is your intestines when
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you are running. At least that's this
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theory. as your body, like, jostles around,
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your flapjacks are swinging everywhere.
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this jostles the innards of your
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body, especially when
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you run for long distances. This can
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also cause gas, or as Larry the
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cable guy, runner, like the walking
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farts, in this case, the running farts.
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And in the worst cases of this jostling,
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again loafer in the washing
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machine, there can be blood in your stools.
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Now, I want everyone
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to be healthy. I'm
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not saying fit, because I ain't.
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But healthy, healthy is a good goal.
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Healthy is just fat kid code word for
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trying to not be. Enjoy
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fitness and feeling good after workout. Like, that's
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fine. But if you're
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running so long and so hard that you're crapping blood,
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you need to chill. Like, you need to take a pill and chill it
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out. There also
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seems to be some connection
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between the intensity of the workout and the
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degree to which you could potentially chaz yourself
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royal. the harder you work, the
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harder you squirt. That's what you need to know.
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And this brings us to a brief
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installment of, hunter's
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anecdotes to keep you
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afloat.
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This hunter's anecdotes to keep you afloats is
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called basketball. When I was in school,
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a lad, we lad, unsogged
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loafers. As of most. I did wear the
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moccasin loafer a lot in high school. Now that I'm thinking about it,
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it was a bold move.
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The orange vanilla polar seltzer has
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returned, and with it, I feel like I
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have returned home. I have made it back.
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But when I was in high school, in
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Montana, the frosty forbidden
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somewhat north, I had
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a number of homies. and many of these guys
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really truly became like brothers to me.
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and one of these guys,
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his name was Josh. And, shout
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out Josh if you're listening. Love you, dude. but when I was
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in high school, Josh
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played on the basketball team. Now,
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I was not on the basketball team
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because I
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was not in shape, and I was on the
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band and pep band. And the pep Band traveled
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to the sports games to help
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root on the team. Josh also played trumpet with me
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in the band. Band kids.
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But Josh was. And
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unless something has drastically changed, I don't, you know, hope
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not. was pretty big guy
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and he had an appetite. Like, for instance, one time
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we went to Denny's and he maxed out the
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all you can eat pancakes. And what I mean by that is
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my dude. And it wasn't like he
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was like we were there for a
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significant amount of time, but
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over the course of the hour or so that we were there,
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he had eaten so many pancakes that Denny said, yeah, we will
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not bring you anymore. And I'm sitting here going, is it really all
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you can eat at that point? And it wasn't like he had eaten an
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astronomical amount. I'm talking in the
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ballpark of ten to 15 pancakes was when they cut him
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off. And it's like, it's a lot of pancakes,
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but it's not
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unreasonable. on a good day, I could easily
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clean up eight pancakes now without any preparation, I
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guarantee you. but anyway, he
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had an appetite and
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Josh had an away game
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and had traveled but he had not packed snacks or
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maybe had gotten into, I don't know,
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or maybe the snacks were not sufficient.
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but in his bag were
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a bunch, of granola bars. Now, a typical
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granola bar probably has like, what, 100 and
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5200 calories. So to a growing man
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who's getting ready to play a full basketball game,
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it's within reason that Josh polished off
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between six and ten of these granola bars. No problem.
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Now at the game
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I'm sitting in the pet band and
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we've done the thing
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and I'm watching my friends in the other school
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play and I'm cheering on the team, and
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I see this worried look come across
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Josh's face and I'm like, oh, what's going on with him? And, all of a
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sudden, coach calls timeout and Josh runs off the court
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and he's gone. Like he split and he
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was gone for a bit. And to my remembrance, they
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had to send in a sub for him.
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but about ten to 15 minutes later, he came back
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out and play resumed, and he continued
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playing, thus building the
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mystery in all of our minds as to
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where he had gone. Now, this is a podcast about
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bathrooms, so there's no mystery as to
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where he went to the little. He went to the little
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adventurer's room, the little basketball player's
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room.
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But
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Josh had diarrhea.
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And this was somewhat,
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a combination of,
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yes, he was exercising and
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running and a lot of that, and I'm sure that played a big role.
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But come to find out, the
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granola bars that Josh had recently
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snoshed on shortly before his game
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were fiber one bars. Like, effectively,
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Josh had consumed an entire box
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of fiber one granola bars and then
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attempted to play high school basketball, the end result being
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exactly what you expect. Now, to my recollection, our
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away colors were black, which was fortunate, just in
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case. I'm proud to say he didn't shaz
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the shorts. but black away shorts
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probably would have been fine if he had Josh.
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Love you, dude. Thank you for the memories. This has been
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hunter's anecdotes to keep you
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afloat.
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Another
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phenomenon that often accompanies
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runners diarrhea is heartburn, caused by the
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acid from the stomach reaching the
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esophagus. I don't know if you've ever seen the word
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esophagus written, but it looks like esophagus.
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Like, it's just. It just looks like a stupid word. It kind of
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makes me mad the way it's spelled. probably latin for some
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nonsense. But in fitness, usually
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it's due to the relaxed muscles in this area
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during exercise. And this can be
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compounded by eating too close to
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a workout. Like, you eat too much, too close to a
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workout, and then, you got that
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going on. Another culprit
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as to the cause of runners diarrhea and
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other gastrointestinal symptoms is a
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change in blood flow. Now,
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when you are exercising, your blood's
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pumping, and it is your body's way of
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trying to get blood to the muscles being used.
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And sometimes the
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body will reduce blood
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flow to the intestines.
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And this can cause abdominal pain and diarrhea,
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especially after a severely strenuous
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workout. but the biggest
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culprit of all, really, probably in
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all of this, is dehydration.
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Now shout out. Here we go. I
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got that orange vanilla polar seltzer. Keeping me hydrated during
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this record.
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your polar orange vanilla seltzer is my absolute
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favorite. it's absolutely delightful. But if you're a gym
23:07
goer, or if you are new to
23:10
the gym endeavors, or
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if you are a human being alive on planet
23:15
Earth, I'm going to give you a privy. I
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don't need to be a doctor certified stamp
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of approval recommendation.
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You have got to drink more water. I was a
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janitor for years, actually,
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over ten years, and
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I wiped up and walked in
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on unflushed amounts of urine in my
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life so many times. And I
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promise you,
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rarely, rarely
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was that urine
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colored in a way that suggested to me,
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yeah, you know what? I think that person's doing pretty good
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in the hydration front.
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You got to stay hydrated. You got to water
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yourself. Think of yourself like a big plant
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that poops. you got to
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add water. You just got to do it.
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but a huge culprit in Runners
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diarrhea and crapping yourself at the gym is you get
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dehydrated. You can get
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tummy problems and diarrhea from working out. If you
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are dehydrated, stay hydrated, keep the liquid
24:25
in your system and out of your pants.
24:28
It's just good advice. I'll put the
24:31
liquid in my system. You know what I'm saying? Polar seltzer is putting it in me
24:34
right now.
24:35
Runners Diarrhea is
24:38
common enough, it would seem, to
24:41
warrant Business Insider writing
24:44
an article about it. This is
24:47
poo in the news.
24:53
This article, from Business
24:55
Insider, while not
24:58
solely about Runners trot,
25:01
does feature a number of tales of runners
25:04
trot, but it was published in November
25:06
2023, just two months
25:09
ago, and it covers a number of
25:12
stories about strange things
25:14
and strange instances people have had while
25:17
they are running or participating in marathons.
25:20
And not all of these have to do with
25:23
bathrooming and diarrhea and stuff, but the
25:26
first story covered in the article is about a
25:29
marathon runner named tamara, or
25:31
tamara, torlaxin.
25:33
Torlixin. And this runner crapped her
25:36
pants halfway through her marathon in California
25:39
in 2018. Now, she, halfway
25:42
through, voids. Voids the system
25:45
straight into her pants, and then
25:48
finishes the race. Now, that is an endeavor,
25:51
because poop has a way
25:54
of being, like, slightly acidic. And, golly,
25:57
could you imagine the chafing? Oh, sweet
25:59
Jesus. There's got to be crap
26:02
where you don't want it
26:05
when you're running. It doesn't stay.
26:08
So she liquid
26:10
shazzes herself and then finishes the
26:13
race. And then as her friends come up to
26:16
congratulate her, she's like, I poop my pants. And she goes and cleans
26:19
up in a porta pota potty. Shout out to porta potties,
26:22
doing the Lord's work, offering a space for people to clean
26:25
up their runners. Shaz. Thank you, porta potties.
26:27
As you do. Business Insiders
26:30
article also states that 62%
26:33
of athletes take a poo break during their marathon. That's a
26:36
lot. this
26:39
becomes so common, like,
26:42
going to the bathroom in a porta potty
26:44
during your race is so common,
26:47
that in 2014, a
26:50
philly racer stopped to poop
26:53
nine times in one race. Sprinting, he
26:56
said, from one porta potty to the next
26:58
until they crossed the finish line. Now, here is the
27:01
absolutely bananas foster upside down,
27:04
wild part of all this. So, my dude's running.
27:07
He's running a 26 miles race. That's
27:10
a long way. I'm pretty sure I've never
27:13
run cumulatively 26
27:16
miles in my adult life. I'm
27:18
pretty confident on that.
27:21
but he ran 26
27:24
miles and used the bathroom nine
27:27
times in 26 miles. That's once every 3
27:29
miles, if you do the math. and
27:32
he still ran that
27:34
26 miles race in 3 hours and
27:37
38 minutes. Now, I don't know if
27:40
that's a terribly great time, but
27:43
I'll tell you this for free. It's faster than I could have got it
27:46
done. This racer's name is
27:49
keen. Or kean or keen. that
27:52
same racer later,
27:55
almost ten years later, at the world's
27:58
marathon in 2022, shared that
28:01
there was food poisoning issues and that a whole bunch of
28:03
runners had that to
28:06
compound their runners, Shaz,
28:09
that they were already dealing with.
28:12
Wouldn't that just be the rice? You know what I'm saying?
28:16
You're trying to work out. You're trying to better yourself. You're
28:19
trying to run
28:22
Michael Scott's fun run race for the cure. You know what I'm saying?
28:25
And you're just trying to do that. And then
28:28
you also are faced with the trouble of, like, well,
28:31
if I begin to run, I might diarrhea
28:33
myself first class. And then also, they
28:36
give you food poisoning. Like, just
28:39
stop.
28:42
There was food poisoning issues. Had it coming from both
28:44
ends. and then the other
28:47
articles have nothing to do with the bathroom, but I
28:50
share this poo in the news with you
28:54
to just demonstrate that this is a thing.
28:57
People crap themselves during
29:00
exercise.
29:02
The article also cites a,
29:04
1992 study wherein much of the
29:07
data about runners Shaz has been derived
29:10
from. This has been poo
29:13
in the news.
29:18
Interestingly, although it can cause you to
29:21
shazz yourself, scientists have also found
29:24
that exercising can help your
29:27
gut health by helping you pass waste
29:30
almost twice as fast as if you remained
29:32
sedentary. It's because all that exercise gets the
29:35
heat, gets the blood flowing, gets the juices flowing, gets
29:38
everything
29:42
in the new year.
29:45
my hope for you is that you stick to your
29:48
gym routine
29:50
because one
29:53
reason is an increase in digestive enzymes and
29:56
hormones. It's going to stick to the gym,
29:59
if only for the knowledge that it's going to help you
30:01
poop. It's going to increase
30:04
your poop map data.
30:07
Poop map, download it, get it.
30:10
Follow, me on there. I'll get that thing out there.
30:14
And another reason that we release bowels
30:17
post workout is tied to
30:20
this idea of fight or flight
30:23
in humans. Now, normally,
30:26
when we are needing to run and needing to exert that
30:29
much energy, it is because there's some sort of stress. But when
30:32
we put ourselves through that for the purpose of
30:34
fitness, our bodies then have to go, well,
30:37
man, we have to release all this whatever,
30:40
and they do that as a response
30:43
to that fight or flight.
30:44
Now, there's another
30:47
factor in the gym that can cause
30:50
people a significant amount of
30:53
trouble.
30:58
To introduce this,
31:03
I need to introduce you to a demographic of
31:05
gym goer that I like to call muscle
31:08
Brian. Now, muscle Brian,
31:12
if you've never seen this person,
31:15
they're the dudes that walk, and their thumbs are
31:18
like, faced backwards towards themselves
31:21
because God forbid they
31:24
skip chest day, but, you know, they haven't done
31:27
legs in like six months. It looks like chicken
31:30
legs walking around because they've skipped leg day.
31:33
But these muscle Brians and
31:36
other, that's, a joke. If you're a muscle Brian, you're listening.
31:39
I offended you. Get over it. there's
31:41
too much crap going on in this world to be, offended
31:44
by stupid stuff. So get over it.
31:47
But prior to a workout, many people
31:50
can be found drank in something called
31:53
pre workout. Now, pre workout is
31:56
essentially like very special gatorade,
31:59
often containing a mix of vitamins, caffeine and other
32:02
minerals. Now, the problem
32:04
is many of these
32:07
minerals and supplements are
32:09
diuretics and can cause
32:12
bathrooming in their own right. Like, even if
32:15
you took them separate from exercise, like, if you just took
32:17
a vitamin and it just had it and you didn't exercise, it
32:20
could make you poop on their own.
32:23
These include caffeine, which is
32:26
in a normal serving of pre workout, it is
32:29
estimated that there is more than the same
32:32
amount of caffeine as a large cup of coffee. That's
32:34
insane. Vitamin, C. Vitamin B. Twelve.
32:37
Stimulates muscle contraction. That
32:40
includes your digestive system, muscles
32:43
magnesium, which draws water to the
32:45
digestive system, essentially making it a laxative.
32:48
We talked about that on our episodes about
32:51
laxatives and osmotics. Go check it out.
32:54
and yohimbine. I don't know if that's right.
32:58
That's like one of those weird white mom
33:01
essential oil things where sometimes it's like, have you ever
33:04
had turmeric? I didn't know
33:06
I needed turmeric. I thought
33:09
turmeric was something I put on chicken.
33:14
Also, I thought it was turmeric.
33:18
I don't know nothing about any of it.
33:22
But yohimbine is essentially
33:25
this compound that apparently is
33:28
supposed to help you burn fat. Now, I don't
33:30
know, but essentially
33:33
you have these dudes and some ladies.
33:36
There's ladies out there doing this,
33:39
mixing up a halfway laxative and then
33:42
just straining one out at the.
33:45
Just trying to grunt one out.
33:48
Ah. And there's no
33:51
worked muscle. Brian and Dave,
33:54
there's no wonder that they feel like they're going to have a
33:57
blowout midlift. Like,
34:00
what do you expect? Do you know what I'm saying?
34:04
It should also be noted, that
34:08
most people, when they approach pre workout, go
34:11
for a full scoop. But really, pre workout
34:14
is a thing where you need to discover how much you
34:17
need. If you go full scoop and you almost
34:20
poop your pants, you should probably go less next time.
34:24
If you're looking to get on some
34:27
antidiarrhea pre workout, you should pick
34:29
up some without all the stimulants in it.
34:32
Another thing that people like to mix up
34:35
before a workout that can cause some trouble is
34:38
protein. as you lift, your body breaks down
34:41
protein to build muscle. Yeah,
34:43
that's how it works. I'm not a scientist, and I don't
34:46
know, I know that chicken is
34:48
protein. so you push
34:51
bar, and then you eat chicken, and then you
34:54
get stronger. that's how it works.
34:57
But protein can also plug you
35:00
up like it can do you a foul in the back
35:03
door. and the biggest thing with protein is
35:06
you need to make sure that you get enough fiber.
35:09
You got to have your fiber buddies.
35:12
Fiber buddies. You're the
35:15
ones you make
35:18
taking a big dump fun.
35:22
Fiber buddies. I'm awfully
35:25
fond of you
35:28
because you help me poo.
35:31
Fiber buddies, you're the
35:35
best. You make me taking
35:38
us big shiz, best
35:41
fiber buddies. I'm voiding
35:43
my poo
35:47
just cause you.
35:50
Anyway, your fiber buddies, you got to
35:53
have them. It helps work the protein through.
35:56
That's what you need to know. You got to stay
35:59
hydrated. in this
36:02
new year, if your
36:05
resolutions or goals or whatever you
36:08
want to call them, aspirations, I don't care,
36:11
involve hitting the gym. Beware of the
36:14
bathroom toll it could take. And when you're pushing,
36:16
grunting one on the bar, running one out on the treadmill,
36:20
be mindful of your tummy. Like if you're
36:23
in a gym, you got a bathroom nearby. It's the long run
36:26
where you're not near a bathroom that could create
36:29
a problem.
36:37
You.
36:38
As I close the episode today, I want to
36:41
share a gym related theory with you.
36:48
it's a theory, but it's more of
36:51
something that I have begun to do at the gym and I
36:54
would welcome all to take on this
36:56
endeavor and that is I have just kind of
36:59
begun farting in the gym
37:02
and I've been doing this for month or so
37:05
now and I'm convinced that no
37:07
one is going to catch on. And here's what I mean by this.
37:11
Most people at the gym, the primary
37:14
way that a person's going to know that you have farted is they're going
37:17
to hear it. Now at the gym, I would say
37:20
90% of people have headphones or
37:23
head earphones. They have
37:26
some sort of music, something pumping into their
37:29
skull. The people can't
37:32
hear my beefer over the rage against the
37:35
machine or Miley Cyrus or whatever else they're doing.
37:38
And so you're out of the woods.
37:41
The second thing is that the second
37:44
main way that people are going
37:47
to come to the
37:50
suspicion that you have farted, and I
37:52
say secondary because noise, it's kind of hard to.
37:55
If you hear it, here we are.
37:58
But the smell is the second
38:01
way. Now, this is not a
38:04
problem for three reasons. Number one,
38:07
if you smelt it, you dealt it, brother.
38:09
Like, I can rip the fattest
38:12
Charles Nelson Riley, anybody has
38:14
heard. But if I play it
38:17
cool, it didn't happen, dude. It just
38:20
did not happen. Now, the
38:23
stink is also not a problem because,
38:26
as far as I can tell, kind of
38:29
three demographics of people at the
38:32
gym. Number one, there are those who I
38:35
like to call smell neutral.
38:38
They might have a little bit of funk, but unless you get right up on
38:41
them, you ain't going to smell it.
38:44
I think most people live in that space
38:48
and for those people, I think that's going to
38:51
be your biggest worry on the stink factor. But I don't think you have to
38:54
worry about it too much. I really don't. The second
38:56
factor is the people who wreak like the
38:59
armpit is rando, and you don't have to
39:02
worry about because their body
39:05
sitch is going to overpower your
39:08
butt juice. It's just going to overdo
39:11
it. And this is actually worse,
39:14
in my opinion. Not all the time, but many
39:17
times this one's actually worse. Are
39:19
the ones who are
39:22
usually women. I'm going to say usually women.
39:25
Now, it's always women when I have observed
39:28
this, but I'm willing to be wrong on that.
39:31
But it's women who wear way too
39:33
much perfume to the gym to cover
39:36
up the smell of their sweat and desperation.
39:39
Like, just smell a little bit.
39:42
It's fine. You're working out. Like when a woman,
39:45
God, when a lady comes into the
39:48
gym and they have enough perfume on
39:51
that it isn't noticeable just as they walk around.
39:55
All I think it is is you are hiding something.
39:57
Like, you are deceiving everybody.
40:00
And it is your rank that you
40:03
are hiding. Just like,
40:06
own your stank. Yes.
40:10
Just let it ride.
40:13
Enjoy the gym. Stay hydrated.
40:15
This year, folks,
40:25
this brings us to the end of another episode of
40:28
Privy in the new year. I would encourage you, share
40:31
the show right now. Hit that share button, send it
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40:37
Tell somebody in person. Say, hey, I listen to this thing.
40:40
Word of mouth builds things.
40:43
Hit the share, tell a friend, post it. I don't
40:45
care. I would love to see that. And I will
40:48
shout you out and
40:51
I'll even say some nonsense for I'll say some
40:54
goofies. Rate and review. Told you that at
40:57
the front of the show. I'll leave that here. Just a
40:59
reminder. we're supporting the wounded warrior
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Go check them out. you can email us, send us
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41:10
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41:13
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41:22
My name is Hunter Hoover. This has been another episode of
41:25
Privy. Thank you for listening. Own your
41:28
stank. Keep pooping in the free world. And now,
41:31
as always, don't forget to flush.