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[RERELEASE of Ep 17]: Urine for a History Lesson (Historical Uses of Urine) · Privycast

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life is good, and it's almost spring, which is
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great. This week on privy
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urine, for a history lesson.
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Urine, because we're going to
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talk about urine. And
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I will note that in today's times,
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we really have two uses for urine.
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We flush it and we take medical tests.
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And I've only had the astute pleasure
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of actually being tested, having a p
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test, like, once in my life. And you
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know what's interesting is I work with teenagers.
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That's my job. Um, and
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I was not p tested for working with teenagers. I was actually
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p tested to sell underwear at, ah,
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an underwear retail store. And
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so that was when I peed in a cup. Not
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working with teenagers, selling
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underwear. So, yeah, I'm
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certified. Makes sense to me. Urine
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nowadays is used to test
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a number of different things. You can check for,
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as the employer is trying to do drug abuse
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and drug use. Medical urinalysis,
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which is the science speak for
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testing pee, can find a number of
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things in urine. Uh, and it's kind of like a where's
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Waldo? But instead of a field of
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funnelly dressed people, it's your pea
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stream. And a number of those things that you can
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find include, uh, glucose,
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protein, bilirubin,
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which. No, don't know what that is. Red blood
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cells, white blood cells, uh,
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crystals, which I hope those
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are small, because if you've got crystals in your pea.
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You're going to have some issues
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with
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streaming that anyway.
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Uh, another bacteria.
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And the amount of those things
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in your pea often indicates
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your body's response to something
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that is then producing those
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things. Something, uh, is wrong
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with your kidneys or with your urinary tract.
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And so when they look at your pee, they can
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tell kind of what's going on with the other parts of your body.
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That's the idea here. So, after being tested,
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your urine is usually disposed
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of. Um, but that
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is nowadays. Sometimes it's used
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for research, but
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not usually. Maybe not as often as we would
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think. Um, but in days of
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old, when urine wasn't really being
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tested for medical or drug
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indicators, um, it was
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being used for other stuff. Now, another thing that you can do
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with urine nowadays that they did with urine back then, and
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it's actually going to play a role in some of these things that we're going to talk
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about. But you can make an electrical current
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using urine. Um, however,
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I would argue that this is probably not the most
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cost effective or sanitary
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effective method for creating a stream
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of electricity. I almost said stream of
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urine, but that's not right.
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So today
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on privy, we're looking at
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the historical uses
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of urine that sweet.
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Not sweet, that's weird. That
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golden stream that we all
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know and some of us maybe
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love, but probably not so much in
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history, urine had so many uses that
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it was actually considered valuable,
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and they would even use it in
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trade. It could be sold and had
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a high enough value that if you wanted
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to trade in it in ancient Rome,
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man, I promised we'd go back to ancient Rome, and here we are.
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If you sold it, if you
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wanted to collect, if old Dougie's going
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down to the potties with
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his jar or his
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clay pot to collect,
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Phil, um, and Dougie two's peepee,
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he had to pay a tax if he wanted to
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sell it. Like, there was enough money to be made and there
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was enough people doing this that they
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actually taxed the sale of
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urine, which is absolutely
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wild. Um, in olden
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times, sheep who got sick to the
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tum tum, that is, they got a tummy ache, were given
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stale human urine to drink.
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Now, that seems whack, but
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it's not as whack as having those
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sheep and other, I would assume other
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animals snort human urine
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up their nose to help treat lung problems.
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Now, that's cruel. And
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this bit comes from mental floss. They
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also note that bees were
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cured with human urine. But
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search me on how
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bees were cured. From human
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urine or from what? Like, what are
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bees got going on that human urine
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solves a problem for them? If you've figured that out,
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shout at me, let me know. Um, but, yeah,
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it's the idea that you
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would take a sheep and forcibly make
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it snort human urine in order to treat,
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like, respiratory problems is just
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a wild, wild thing to me.
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It was also believed, uh, by the people in
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Rome, as noted by Colomela,
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that stale urine would make
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specifically pomegranates
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juicier and tastier.
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And bonus, I think it's technically
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organic, so good for them. But this is fine. We use
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all sorts of heinous things as fertilizer today. So, like,
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using human urine as fertilizer, I think that kind of
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gets a pass. Like, I'm okay with that. That's not like, the most
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whack thing that's going to go down in history, and it's definitely not the
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most whack thing that you're going to hear on this podcast today,
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I'll guarantee you that. So,
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Pliny the Elder, now, anytime anybody
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ever introduces a sentence with, well, pliny
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the elder, just know that the things that are going
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to follow the name Pliny the
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Elder are probably one, the poorest
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medical advice that you could ever give anyone, ever,
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and two, some of the most whack garbage you've
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ever heard in your life. So, Pliny the elder,
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who is essentially noted again
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for his very whack home
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medical remedies, believed
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urine could treat sores,
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burns, butt problems,
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chap skin, and bug
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stings and bites. The dude was rubbing
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pee on, like, all sorts of
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stuff. So you're out in the
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garden, you get stung by old bumblebee
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McBumbleby, you run inside,
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and according to Pliny the elder, throw
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that cortisone cream in the trash because
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you have a bladder
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full of the stuff that is going to get the job
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done. Don't know how you're going to do it. I guess you pee on a
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rag and wipe it on there. But this is plenty of the
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elder's solution to getting stung by
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a bee, amongst
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other things. What a guy. So with all
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of these things in know have, they have all these uses
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and remedies and ways that
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they would use human urine, specifically,
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like somewhat stale human urine?
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Dave sets up shop at the public restrooms. He's got
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his jars and he's getting a collection of urine, and
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he's the weird, like, pea guy
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who's got the weird smelling jars. Like, that has
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to be who he is. And at some point, Davo
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has to get down below deck,
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if you will, to put the jugs and
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jars into, for lack of a
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better word, the splash zone. And if
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you're going down there to put the jars and whatnot down
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there, you know you're going to get into some
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filthy business on your own self. You're nasty
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dave. You are nasty Dave.
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But remember, there's money in pee.
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So much so that when Dave goes to
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leave and sell his collected
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wares, he is taxed. And
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it should be noted. I probably don't have to
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say this, but most,
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if not all of the medical
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benefits were shady at best and
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terrible for you at the most. The Romans
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are on record saying that urine
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makes good mouthwash.
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Of all the things that you could use
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as mouthwash, here's a better
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solution. Do nothing. Use
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none mouthwash. Because the
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idea that your mouth is nasty enough, that
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swashing with some human pee
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is a solution, that's not a solution.
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No. You're blasting a stream of
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yellow. That last thing you could
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ever, ever be thinking
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is, man, I bet that that
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stream of human
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byproduct would make a delightful,
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interestingly flavored mouthwash.
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No, absolutely not.
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Catolas is the genius who came up with
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this very, very bad idea. And the sad thing
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is that in the
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area of killing some bacteria,
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it likely worked well due to the
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levels of ammonia in urine.
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And in case this notion and this
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idea hasn't just, like, weeded
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itself out of our society
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today, I'm just going to go on record and
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tell you, don't do this.
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Uh, you can get a cheap bottle of, like, off brand
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listerine for probably a dollar or just a little
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more. If you really got to be doing mouthwash,
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this is not an option, so don't
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do it. There are so many other
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better options that smell and
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taste like mint or cinnamon or
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whatnot, and not, like, human musk. So
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don't do it. It's an incredibly bad idea.
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Katullus or cantullum was here today. I'd
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tell him that. I'd say, hey, you know what? Let me
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introduce you to my friend Listerine. Like, you don't need to be doing
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this, bud. It's no good. Absolutely
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foul. Like, how bad does
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your breath have to be? And how
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brown do your teeth have to be? And how
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abysmal does the dental scene
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in the world that you live in need to be
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to stop using urine as a mouthwash?
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You're stupid to that level. Thank God for how
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far we've come. The next time you're peeing, and the next
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time, especially, that you're peeing within vicinity of
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maybe the tooth care instruments that
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you have access to today, I just want you
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to be thankful, okay? Just be thankful that you're not
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doing this. Folks
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in history also found the ammonia
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in urine could clean and lift stains from more
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than just your teeth. Or
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it's probably likely that they found the others first and the teeth
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think followed. But whatever. And the
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Romans, it would be common
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to find pots to piss in
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where the owner of the pot would
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then take that pot to do their laundry. Now,
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okay, so you have, like, the communal
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weepot, and you stick it out and everybody
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wees and they do that. And then you take that
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home and you think, you know what I'm going to do now? I'm going to
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do some laundry with this human waste.
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Big scale launderers in Rome called
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philonica would dilute the pea with water,
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dump them over the clothes, and then a worker,
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and I'm assuming we can call them short straw
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Sharon, because, you know, the dude who pulled the long
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straw ain't doing this job, would have to
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stand in a vat of human wet
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and stomp on the laundry
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to help get it clean. It's like river stomping
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grapes for wine, except for you're river stomping laundry and
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the river is made of urine. What are
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you doing? Hey, ancient Rome,
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it's called detergent. And to
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think we got some dinguses running around eating tide pods.
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Like, y'all ain't smarter, so don't be doing
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that. If you hate doing laundry, just remember
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someone used to have the,
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again, short straw job of
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stamping urine soaked
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clothing. What a time
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it would have been to have been alive. And, like, you
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roll over to their house and it's just like, hey,
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what are you all doing? Oh, I'm doing laundry this
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afternoon, so I'm going to be busy with that. And then
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you walk out in their little place and they're like, yeah.
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And they're just like, stomping on
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just vat of pee with their clothes
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sitting in it. It's unfathomable.
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Unfathomable. I hate doing laundry,
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but that's wild. The use of urine
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didn't die in Rome.
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Early Europeans were still using pee
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to do their laundry. Early
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Europeans like this made it out of the roman empire. What a
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wild thing. They had soap, and they were
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still using pea, I assume,
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either to it being super effective or
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being literally free, as long as you stay
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hydrated. So it does make you wonder
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and it makes your brain wander.
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Was it more effective the less hydrated you were? Like,
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if you're blasting orange streams of
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wi, did you have super pee
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that was able to oxiclean that Joker
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faster? Or was it like, the
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more hydrated you are, the
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more closer to tide you are? I don't know. It's
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interesting. Even after folks
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made the shift to so, yeah, it's oxiclean of nature.
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Smells worse, can't work as well.
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It was used so much,
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pea being used as a
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cleaning agent. It was used so much that it
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became to be known as chamber lie.
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Now, soap existed and they would
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still use urine for stain removal. In
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my opinion, just
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let there be a stain. Like
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something can be clean and have
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a stain on it. Like,
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stains do not mean something
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is not clean. If
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I big city
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barbecue my white t shirt
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and everything is done to
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clean that shirt and remove that
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stain, like, even if it's washed and it still
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has a little bit of a spot on it,
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it's still clean. Like,
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peeing on it then is not the solution,
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I think, to making it more clean.
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And I know they washed it after soaking it or removing the
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urine stain. I understand that, but it's just a wild thought.
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Like, it's counterintuitive. So now,
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if you didn't think we were there already, we're going to get
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into what I would call spooky territory.
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Apparently there is a
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cleaning molecule or something called
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a morden. And this compound is a
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dye fixative and helps colors better
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adhere to and pop on
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fabrics. So if you want clothes
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that are, like bright and shiny and have super
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colors, you would use these molecules to help
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them better adhere. You get more washes.
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They don't wear down as often, that type thing. So
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urine is truly the oxiclean
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of nature in that it removes stains, but
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it can also make the colors of
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your clothes pop. What a
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world. Nowadays, they use something called
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directs to get colors to stick. But
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this isn't detergent day, this is urine day. So it should
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be noted they're just not peeing on their clothes to hold the color.
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The morna works best with stale urine.
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So you pee, and
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then you diligently
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take that pee that you have excreted and you
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store it and let it sit and let it get stagnant,
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and then you use it for cleaning
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and making your colors look beautiful in
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your
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chucky. Chucky B rolls out with his Led zeppelin t shirt,
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and he's like, uh. And
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he's just jamming and he's like, man, I got this shirt in
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the concert,
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and you're like, whoa, that thing looks like it's brand new. What's
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your secret, Chucky B? And he says, oh, yeah,
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you got to wash it in urine. Record scratch.
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You're going to be thinking about your friendship with Chucky
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B. Just saying.
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As the industry started to boom, this much
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cheaper alternative was used by
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16th century english textiles. Now, we
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are within 500 years of when this was
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used. That's crazy. English
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textiles would use this to get the
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color to stick, to store it.
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And this is where, okay, to
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store the amount of urine that they
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needed. Remember, these are big textile
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industries. They had
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511,000,000 urine
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in a tank that is
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135,000 gallon
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tank. 135,000
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gallons of stale human
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whiz used to help clothes have
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colors more effectively. And it's estimated to
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be, ah, as if 1000
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people peed into the
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tank every day for a
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year. It's too much urine. It's too
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much because can you imagine if, God
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forbid, they had a leak or God forbid,
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that tank burst, people could drown in that much
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pee. It's
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insane. There's got
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to be a better way. And there was. Can you imagine,
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like urine was. Wow, this
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is. What a world. Uh, I'm glad we're not there anymore. Here we
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go. Later. Urine was
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used to soak leather to make it softer and
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easier to work with. And it would also
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allow them to remove the hair and bits of
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excess skin that would be on, like
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hides of animals that they were going to turn into leather.
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The culprit? Ammonia in stale
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urine. Again, so what we're
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finding here, ammonia,
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good. Ammonia in
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stale urine, less good.
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Urine, not good. That's
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the lesson. Another use,
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uh, was to make gunpowder.
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And admittedly, this one is
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a long walk to the store, but worth the
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trip. To make gunpowder, you need something called
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saltpeter, which is the compound
21:28
potassium nitrate. Welcome to chemistry
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class. Bathroom chemistry.
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But never mind. This is made now, but
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before it was manufactured, you could use,
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drumroll, urine. So it
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took time, because Joseph Lacante,
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a geologist, wrote in 1862
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that you could make gunpowder with a,
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quote, good supply of
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thoroughly roted manure of the richest kind,
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which you would then mix with
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ash and leaves and straw. No urine yet,
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but you would need to keep the mixture moist.
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Enter our, uh, yellow, disgusting
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friend. This is done
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over the course of months. Moisten, stir,
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lets it repeat. Phone, keys, wallet,
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nevermind. Eventually, you stop adding pea,
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and a nitrous substance settles on the
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top of the pile as it ripens,
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it's white. And Lacante says that the way you
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can detect if you have the final product.
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So let's back up. Roll back the tape.
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Mr. Lacante says, find
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wack manure. Now add
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materials, ash leaves, whatever.
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Mix it up. You've made a slurry. Now you're going to
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pee on it. Now you're going to keep doing that and keep mixing and
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just keep doing that for about a month or so. And
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then in case you do
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all that process and you're not sure if you
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did it right, Lacante's got
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the, uh, final say. This is how you're going to
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double check. Like, in math, you check your work in
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Lacante's gunpowder. You check your work, and the way you do
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it, you taste that
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joker. You get down there and
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you just get your tongue out, and you're just like
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the dude from
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Rudolph who's just, like, licking his
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pickaxe on it. That's
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Lacante and this nasty pea slurry
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gunpowder mix. Why would
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you. Bro, you took
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feces, poop. You mixed
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it with crap you found lying around, kept
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it moist with your urine for months,
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and you decide that the only way
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to make sure that it's right is to taste it. That's a
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sick geologist, man. That's whack. You don't do
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that. There are records of people using
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stale urine to treat diaper rash. That
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can't work. That's counterintuitive. You
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get diaper rash from
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pea and other poo poo being
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in your pants and touching your skin.
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How is putting more pee on the skin going
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to help the diaper rash? It doesn't make
24:14
sense. So moving
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into France, french surgeon
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Ambrose Pere probably said that name wrong. I'm
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not a Frenchman. He notes, thank goodness
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that he notes this. If he didn't note it, we wouldn't know
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it. He notes that you can
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rub a person's stale
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urine on your
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eyelids to keep them from itching.
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Now, if you have, like,
24:40
psoriasis or something about itchy
24:43
eyelids, this is not a solution.
24:46
If I rolled in, I said, hey, I've got the idea. How bad
24:49
are your eyelids itching, my dude, like,
24:52
itching your eyelids cannot be a worse
24:54
solution than containing your
24:57
urine overnight and wiping your
25:00
face with it. The next day,
25:02
chemists and, um, doctors would tell
25:05
their patients to drink a swig of their own
25:07
pee, preferably still warm.
25:10
Why? Because health benefits, like,
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that's the same reason we take vitamins, because of health
25:16
benefits. It's mysterious. Health
25:18
benefits. Drink your pee. Don't do it.
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15 hundreds. Dr. Leonardo
25:23
Fiorovanti sure used his own
25:26
urine. Sick doctor. To sterilize
25:29
the nose of a patient whose nose had been cut
25:31
off, and he had to act quick. Dude rolls in with
25:34
no nose on his face, he's like, time to sterilize.
25:37
Whips out hog sprays. That's whack.
25:40
Nuh uh. Later, it was recommended that battle wounds be
25:43
peed on in the moment to help fight infection. It's
25:46
a sad thought to think how many folks
25:49
may have gained
25:51
infection just from that. I don't know. Maybe it wouldn't
25:54
have. Maybe it is sterile enough. Seems
25:57
unlikely. In the 16 hundreds, they believed
26:00
urine could ward off the plague. All right,
26:03
I guess you peed around your house and around your bed.
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And I think one thing we learn from many of these
26:09
medical and urine uses over time
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is it became an emergency measure. It
26:14
might work some, and when you're desperate,
26:17
you'll try anything.
26:20
Urine kept some soldiers alive in World War I,
26:23
as they would pee on a rag or a cloth and
26:25
use the urine soaked rag as a gas
26:28
mask to ward off against the gas
26:31
warfare.
26:33
Nowadays, it is used mostly
26:36
in urine tests. Urine tests go back to
26:39
ancient Babylonia and Sumeria,
26:42
where they looked at urine to try to determine possible
26:45
problems of the patient. So even this is
26:48
grounded in the history of urine.
26:50
Hippocrates, who is called the father of western
26:53
medicine, said that no other system
26:56
provides more information about the human
26:58
body and what's going on in it than the urinary tract
27:01
system. And though not all things can
27:04
be determined from urine today, in medieval medicine, they
27:07
believed you could get to the bottom of
27:10
most problems in people by observing their pee.
27:13
And with these things in mind, one wonders if studying urine to
27:16
find the problems led to so many thinking
27:19
that urine could be a treatment.
27:22
Unless we look at all this and think, man, m, how
27:25
could they think that? It's believed and, um, falsely
27:27
so that peeing on your feet can fight athletes
27:30
foot. I for sure did this. I
27:33
would be in gym or in wherever, and you're just,
27:36
like, showering, and you're just spraying
27:38
toe to make sure you don't get athletes foot. I know
27:41
I peed on my feet in high school, in the showers, because
27:44
I heard this rumor. It doesn't do anything.
27:48
Probably didn't hurt, though. Peeing on a jellyfish
27:51
sting doesn't help the situation.
27:53
So, no, don't do it. The
27:56
best thing to do is go get help, not pee on your friend.
27:59
I, uh, will note briefly here that one other
28:02
urine test we have is
28:05
the pregnancy test. But I think those need their own episode
28:08
for sure. As we talk about these different
28:11
ways pee has been
28:14
used, I'm concerned with all the organic and
28:16
simple living folks who flourish right now, especially out here
28:19
in the Pacific Northwest. I'm certain
28:23
there is someone running around using and
28:26
storing their urine for what I
28:28
would identify as alternative use
28:31
today. Most of these things
28:34
are not worth doing today, so just
28:37
don't. Don't do it.
28:40
Now it's time to return
28:43
to hunter's anecdotes
28:46
to keep you afloat.
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This anecdote comes from the what I remember to
29:03
be the winter of sometime between 2008
29:05
and 2010. We were out
29:08
on a, uh, youth trip, and we had
29:11
gone to some person's property, and we're having, like, a
29:14
winter fire pit. So, I mean, it's Montana. Things are
29:17
cold, but there's this big bonfire in the
29:20
middle, and so everybody's staying warm around the fire. And I
29:22
remember we were all walking around, and they had this
29:25
shed, and the shed was kind of, like, icy on the
29:28
side, and there's snow. And I remember we
29:31
go behind the shed, and somebody was like, hey, we should see
29:34
how high we can pee. And so somebody
29:37
goes behind the shed, and they pee, and then they come back, and another guy goes
29:40
around the shed. And I remember my homie, and, uh, I don't have
29:43
permission to use his name, but prospector
29:45
Chiggins, he goes back behind the shed,
29:49
and the dude comes out. And I remember us all
29:52
just being like, what in the heck?
29:55
Because we go back there, and the pea
29:57
stream was like, I mean, at the time, we're probably, what, like five foot
30:00
tall? This pea stream was well
30:03
over, like six foot. It was above all of our
30:05
heads. And we're all standing there like, dude, what
30:08
did you climb on? How did you rig this up
30:11
to pee this high? And then he kind of like,
30:14
yeah. And I remember him explaining to us, it's kind of like a
30:17
fire hose. Like, you pinch it, and then
30:20
when you feel the pressure build up, you just let it go, and it
30:22
just shoots way up there. And
30:26
first of all, here's what I'll say. Don't do that.
30:29
Uh, do it. It's your body or thing.
30:31
But it doesn't feel good. Like, when you pinch
30:34
the pee stream, it doesn't feel great.
30:37
It's probably bad for you, whatever.
30:40
But we were all just baffled and
30:42
impressed by the just pure height of this wi
30:45
stream. And it was glorious.
30:48
It was unmatched
30:51
by any pee stream I had ever seen in my entire life. Um,
30:54
also, I distinctly remember in high school we would walk down the
30:57
road, and I remember my homie was like, hey, dude, check us out.
31:00
I have to stop. I can just walk and pee. And he's like walking backwards and
31:03
he's like peeing. But it's like, dinghy is
31:06
like swinging around and it's like peeing in this
31:08
erratic pattern. And it's
31:11
like, dude, you're going to for sure slop whiz on your
31:14
leg. Just stop and go use the bush,
31:17
and then we'll keep walking. You know what I'm saying? But this is
31:20
Hunter's anecdotes to keep you
31:22
afloat.
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31:31
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don't forget to flush.