Latest / Privycast / Ep. 109 Piss Prophets and Fecal Fortune Tellers
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- 0:31>> Speaker A: Welcome back to privy.
- 0:34Privy is a podcast about
- 0:36bathrooms recorded
- 0:39from my home bathroom. I'm your host,
- 0:42hunter Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
- 0:45Thank you guys for being here. Um, every time
- 0:48we do this, it's kind of like, you join me in the bathroom.
- 0:51Welcome. I, uh,
- 0:54used the bathroom moments ago, and I must
- 0:56confess, I kind of chickened
- 0:59out. I did go use my kids bathroom,
- 1:02so that way I didn't have to sit in the stink
- 1:05during the record.
- 1:07Um, so, yeah,
- 1:09that's pretty cool. Um, I also
- 1:12want to say it's spooky season. Now, I want
- 1:15to note here on
- 1:18privy, it's
- 1:20spooky. There is a p.
- 1:23It's spooky season, but, like, with
- 1:26turds and stuff. And
- 1:28as, uh,
- 1:32the world, I think,
- 1:36is too eager to get to the next
- 1:39celebration, I feel like
- 1:42we were dragging out Halloween decorations.
- 1:45There are people in these neighborhoods with Halloween
- 1:47decorations up in September. It's
- 1:50absolutely baffling to me. Like,
- 1:54imagine. Imagine this. Imagine
- 1:57it's September 15, and I roll out. You
- 2:00hear the scary howl at the intro
- 2:02there. The wolf man's coming to get
- 2:05you. Ah. And you check your watch, and.
- 2:08No, that's right. It's September
- 2:1115. Nobody's in the
- 2:14spooky season in September 15.
- 2:17It's just not the way that things were meant to
- 2:20be. The order of operations are we
- 2:22celebrate american independence, America. And
- 2:25then we do August, which is nothing. We don't
- 2:28do anything in August. The whole point of August is
- 2:31that we stare down the end of summer, and then we go
- 2:34back to school. We go, hooray, it's
- 2:36fall. We forget that October fest is
- 2:39in September, which is, again, the stupidest thing I've ever
- 2:42heard in my life. And then
- 2:47after fall
- 2:49is Halloween. That's spooky
- 2:52season. Now, there's these
- 2:55people that want to move
- 2:58spooky season up to
- 3:00what directly follows
- 3:03the end of summer, and it's just not how it
- 3:06goes. It's light out too late.
- 3:09There's not enough clouds.
- 3:13We're still recovering from the summer candy and
- 3:16soda sprees. And I got to tell
- 3:19you, we had some pretty good
- 3:22offerings this year for summer sodas.
- 3:24Uh, I'll be sampling many of them.
- 3:27But it's spooky season here
- 3:30on privy. And
- 3:33something that happens around
- 3:36the hallowed en is
- 3:40there is an uptick in the
- 3:43fiction that surrounds magic
- 3:46and things of the occult. Speaking of the
- 3:49occult, um,
- 3:52I had another run in with a
- 3:54mason, and it was funny,
- 3:57because, as I'm describing, this interaction
- 4:00with a fellow coworker,
- 4:03right out of the gate, the first thing
- 4:06that he says in response to hearing that is, oh, like
- 4:09the illuminati. Now, I will note,
- 4:12it was not prompted. It was not what I was fishing
- 4:14for. It is just where his brain
- 4:17went. And I think that says
- 4:20something. Sometimes when
- 4:23you think of spooky season,
- 4:26you might think of those spooky, glowing
- 4:29balls, uh, that
- 4:32witches and cartoons peer into
- 4:35and the weird, misty
- 4:37crap that swirls around. It's
- 4:40just smoke.
- 4:44It is just smoke. At the end of the day, it's
- 4:47just smoke. And now
- 4:53I understand that in the year
- 4:562023 of our Lord,
- 5:00there are people who
- 5:04are very much, um,
- 5:06prone to believe heavily in horoscopes.
- 5:09Now, normally,
- 5:12I don't take stances.
- 5:14I have the mediums in which I take hard stances. And
- 5:17those people who know me, I'm a moderately opinionated
- 5:20guy. I've got opinions about a lot of
- 5:23stuff. I've primarily got opinions about
- 5:26stuff that many people never thought that a person
- 5:29should have an opinion about.
- 5:32One instance of this example is
- 5:35the Transylvania twist,
- 5:38hashtag justice for the twist. And there's
- 5:41many people who have reached out and said, hunter,
- 5:44this is stupid. And to that,
- 5:47I say,
- 5:49no, I'm not going to
- 5:52say that you're being dense,
- 5:55but
- 5:57there is fruitcake that
- 6:00is more spongy than you.
- 6:03Uh, but there's people
- 6:06that think that horoscopes, and
- 6:10every time I hear it, I think it's horror
- 6:13scopes. But it's horror. Is it
- 6:16horoscopes or horoscopes?
- 6:19I think it's horror scopes,
- 6:23but they think that horoscopes are real, and they
- 6:26think that they can cast
- 6:28a magic on me.
- 6:31Uh, and no,
- 6:35I think it's nonsense. But this
- 6:37week, we need to take a journey back
- 6:41to discuss the spooky world of
- 6:44divination as it relates to the bathroom.
- 6:52You, as with all good stories
- 6:55about studying things, do,
- 6:57especially when it comes to the bathroom, we need to go
- 7:00back to the
- 7:031970s.
- 7:07In 1971, General
- 7:09Mills debuted what would become a cult,
- 7:12classic cult, and a fan
- 7:15favorite in the seasonal cereal market.
- 7:18The monster cereals hit shelves
- 7:22with Count chocolate and Frankenberry
- 7:25at the same time. They were the only
- 7:27chocolate and strawberry cereals in m the
- 7:30market. Kids went bananas
- 7:33for this stuff, and ironically, there's no
- 7:36monster cereal with banana flavoring
- 7:38yet. And, boy, did
- 7:41kids eat it. And
- 7:44what's fascinating is, like, as I
- 7:46noted, uh, Count
- 7:49chocolate and Frankenberry, they were the only
- 7:52cereals on the shelf
- 7:55that were providing the chocolate
- 7:58and strawberry palates
- 8:01there was not cocoa puffs or cocoa
- 8:04krispies. And if there was,
- 8:06then I don't know why people are saying that this is the only one
- 8:09offering it. But these monster
- 8:12cereals hit shelves, and kids just gobbled it up. They
- 8:15loved it. And as
- 8:18they gobbled it up, there began
- 8:21to be reports that something
- 8:24unexpected had begun to happen.
- 8:28Kids were reporting to have
- 8:31bright pink poops or red colored
- 8:33stool. Now, while this was technically
- 8:36harmless, the fear, if you
- 8:39do not know that this is going to happen, is that the
- 8:42red in the stool was
- 8:44blood. Ironic that
- 8:47Frankenberry was the culprit for blood
- 8:49and not count chocula because he's a
- 8:52vampir. Frankenberry. Well, uh,
- 8:55technically both cereals, but I think Frankenberry had a higher
- 8:58concentrate of this. Both contained
- 9:01red dyes two and three, one of which was later
- 9:03found to be linked to cancer causing agents, and
- 9:06both of which were discontinued in use
- 9:09in cereals and other food products after these
- 9:12incidents. It happened so
- 9:15often, like this phenomenon
- 9:18where kids would come in reporting, uh,
- 9:21I've got mystery, like, neon red
- 9:23turd, that it began to be
- 9:26called Frankenberry stool, which is
- 9:28awesome. The next time
- 9:31that I snosh down too many beets and I get the
- 9:34red dookies, I'm calling it Frankenberry
- 9:37stool. It's
- 9:39Frankenberry poop. Like, it's Frankenberry
- 9:42turds. But to get to the bottom of it,
- 9:45bottom, they had to study the stool
- 9:48that is the turds, to figure out what
- 9:51it was made of, what was going on, and
- 9:54why is it pink or red?
- 9:58The act of, uh, studying
- 10:00poop is called
- 10:02scatology. Much like
- 10:05most medicine. Much of it used to be thought of
- 10:08as magic or was related to the
- 10:11occult. There has been a
- 10:14tradition of people who decided they
- 10:17could diagnose someone's illness or tell
- 10:19their fortune by reading or studying their
- 10:22poop. When you
- 10:25submit a fecals test, you go into the doctor. The
- 10:28doctor like, all right, I'm going to need you
- 10:31to poop in this container.
- 10:34Remember, centuries before they
- 10:37looked at it for science, they read your
- 10:40poop as if it was magic. It's a wild
- 10:42world.
- 10:45Some, um. In this time period, this
- 10:48is long ago, in a galaxy very
- 10:51close to where we live,
- 10:53um, there was a claim
- 10:56that you could tell someone's future
- 10:58and fortune by looking at their poop.
- 11:01This is featured prominently in the
- 11:04documentary called welcome to planet
- 11:06sanity. And the idea is that this
- 11:09deed, it is called
- 11:12spatalamancy, because of
- 11:15the greek word for excrement, where the word
- 11:17derives
- 11:21these poop.
- 11:23Divinators, diviners, if you
- 11:26will, and I will.
- 11:29They read a lot about the poop.
- 11:31Where did it happen? Where did Dave
- 11:34take a dump? The odor. How did
- 11:37Dave smell while taking his dump?
- 11:40The consistency. What does Dave's
- 11:43dump feel like? And the
- 11:45contents. It looks like Dave
- 11:48had corn again.
- 11:51And to
- 11:54divine anything from someone's poop,
- 11:57if you are doing more than
- 11:59visual and maybe
- 12:03olfactory checks on this
- 12:05turd, I would say you're becoming too
- 12:08involved. This idea
- 12:11of scatomancy or
- 12:13divining someone's future and fortune
- 12:16based on their fecal matter
- 12:19arrived early on in ancient Egypt through
- 12:22the study of the dung beetle, who would roll the dung,
- 12:25thus allowing witch doctors and other
- 12:28magicians to read the poop
- 12:31as the beetle rolls it around to take a closer
- 12:33look. I like to think that the magicians in
- 12:36Exodus, in the Bible, um, that
- 12:39Moses is often showing down, having the
- 12:41showdown against. I like to think
- 12:44that these are the blokes that are just, like,
- 12:47really getting a good look at m the pharaoh's
- 12:50turds. Like, really just reading that stink. You know what
- 12:53I'm saying? I would love,
- 12:56number one. I would love if you
- 12:58are a psychic,
- 13:01we're not going to get into it, but if you are a
- 13:04psychic and you read people's poop, please reach
- 13:07out to me. Privycast@gmail.com but
- 13:10I would love if someone
- 13:13went into a psychic's office today. Oh, I got to go get my
- 13:16reading. And
- 13:20they walk you in and they talk to you a
- 13:23little bit and they just hand you, like, a
- 13:25glad tupperware container and some toilet paper
- 13:28and say, feel free to leave your deposit and I'll read
- 13:31your fortune. I
- 13:34guarantee you that there are going to be
- 13:37far less people going in for
- 13:40a reading. The occult is
- 13:43wild, similar to the
- 13:46strange practice of reading someone's
- 13:48turd to divine their future and their
- 13:51fortune. The act of Euromancy
- 13:54is divining someone's
- 13:57future and fortune from their golden
- 14:00stream, much like
- 14:03scooping up a big pile of steaming Dave,
- 14:06rooting around in it, and then letting Dave know that he's going
- 14:09to meet the girl of his dreams next week,
- 14:12get Twitter paid, and fall madly in love.
- 14:15And also that he should cut back on those pumpkin
- 14:18spice frosties, for goodness sakes. Again, if you
- 14:21haven't had the pumpkin spice frosty, you need to run,
- 14:23not walk, to Wendy's. Like, I can't stress
- 14:26it, but
- 14:29euromancy is similar,
- 14:32except, as you might guess, because I
- 14:34said it, it is observing the
- 14:37urine, much like
- 14:40poop pee,
- 14:43has been used for thousands of years
- 14:46to try to determine what is going on with
- 14:48someone's body. And it makes
- 14:51sense. If you're sick and
- 14:54your understanding of the human body
- 14:57is less than it is now,
- 14:59you would probably go, you know what? I
- 15:02don't feel good inside my tum tum.
- 15:06And I just flopped the just
- 15:08gnarliest stack. I'm going to go
- 15:12see if there's something different about this one
- 15:14in case there's a clue to be found.
- 15:18The men, and I guess women
- 15:21who are looking at the urine were called
- 15:24piss prophets for their ability,
- 15:27or alleged ability, to tell the
- 15:30future and read one's fortune based on the
- 15:33golden stream they had blasted. Nowadays,
- 15:36piss profits are going to tell you whether you've smoked
- 15:39marijuana before going to go to
- 15:42work or if you are consuming
- 15:44sports enhancing drugs before you throw
- 15:47the football. Very good.
- 15:50But in ancient Rome,
- 15:53here we are, men, thinking about
- 15:55Rome again. Am I right? Ladies would observe the
- 15:58bubbles. Ain't no ladies. Listen. Ladies, don't listen to this. I
- 16:01don't think they do. If you're a lady and you listen to this, shout at me,
- 16:04privycast. Um, but these
- 16:07piss prophets in ancient Rome would observe the
- 16:10bubbles of the urine to determine the
- 16:12fortunes based off of the
- 16:15bubbles left in the chamber pot. Old
- 16:18Emperor Dipthasius or whatever
- 16:21blasts just a massive stream of
- 16:23gold into the pot. And then
- 16:26he just finishes the deed,
- 16:29and then he passes that pot
- 16:32over the chamber pot, over to his piss
- 16:35prophet to check out the bubbles. Higgity boogity.
- 16:38He's got the whole doctor strange
- 16:41thing going on with this, and he's just holding a
- 16:44thing of urine. It's fresh, steamy,
- 16:47wet, and
- 16:50he's checking out them bubbles. He's really getting a good look at these
- 16:53bubbles. Larger bubbles, it would seem,
- 16:56based on, I don't know,
- 16:58what seemed to have been
- 17:01better. So, like, the bigger the bubbles, the better
- 17:04the pea. Um, but smaller
- 17:06bubbles, they said, often pointed
- 17:09to more impending
- 17:12death or bad luck.
- 17:15Today on privy. Hi, kids. Welcome.
- 17:18There's no kids here either. Today on
- 17:21privy, you need to know you want
- 17:24big bubbles in your urine. Big bubbles
- 17:27equals big luck.
- 17:31The next time you go to buy a lottery ticket,
- 17:34I want you to get yourself a bowl. And before
- 17:37you buy that ticket, I want you
- 17:40to just. No, don't do that.
- 17:42Um, just don't do that.
- 17:46It should be noted early forms of pregnancy
- 17:49tests, which we've already spoken about in our pregnancy test
- 17:52episode, go check that out, were also
- 17:54technically viewed as euromancy, we talked about all
- 17:57that stuff. See, the references to Dave's wife
- 18:00peeing on barley, stuffing an onion up her zone to find
- 18:03out what her baby will be. But
- 18:06euromancy or uroscopy, if
- 18:09you want to sound less spooky in spooky
- 18:12season, uh,
- 18:16was very, very concerned
- 18:18with a person's pee. As was
- 18:21noted, much of ancient medicine was
- 18:24tied to the occult in magic.
- 18:27Greek physician Hippocrates
- 18:30believed that urine was a byproduct
- 18:33of the four humors, which is totally
- 18:35fake, that had been filtered
- 18:38out later. Uh,
- 18:40Galen believed that it was
- 18:43a filtration of only one of those humors, the
- 18:46blood. He's the one who.
- 18:49Galen is the one who gives us
- 18:51the phrase diarrhea of the urine.
- 18:55Diarrhea of the urine is when a person
- 18:57has to urine too much.
- 19:00And I want you next time you're on a road trip
- 19:04without fail. Uh, when I'm on a
- 19:07road trip, the people in my vehicle
- 19:10have to pee more than I think
- 19:13they should have to pee. And I know that is so self
- 19:16involved, but sometimes I just
- 19:19cannot fathom how much someone
- 19:22has to pee. And
- 19:25I want you to hit the people in your life
- 19:28that pee frequently
- 19:31with the idea that they have
- 19:33diarrhea of the urine. An author of
- 19:36greek medical works, I'm going to totally butcher this
- 19:39greek name, Theophilus
- 19:42Protoprotos
- 19:44Patherius. Theophilus
- 19:47Protospatharius
- 19:50wrote a book or a treatise
- 19:52called on urines. And he is
- 19:55often this Theophilus, he was like
- 19:58a doctor, um, was
- 20:01often depicted as holding what
- 20:04was called a blue
- 20:06euromancy flask. But I want to note
- 20:09that this flask appears to be clear because
- 20:12you can see through at the top, and it is filled with
- 20:15blue urine. What's going
- 20:18on in Greece, y'all? What do they got going on in
- 20:21there? Why do they have this weird Star wars
- 20:24milk colored urine? Not a fan. Also,
- 20:27milk should not be blue.
- 20:29Uh, Disney. Uh, here's the
- 20:32thing.
- 20:35You built your theme parks in two of the
- 20:38hottest states in these beloved United
- 20:40States, and then you're
- 20:43like, you know what people want on a
- 20:46fresh 95 degree Florida
- 20:48180% humidity day? Just
- 20:51a glass of milk. No, actually, you
- 20:54know what? They don't want a
- 20:57glass of milk. They want a
- 21:00glass of strange, freaking mega
- 21:02mind brain colored milk. No,
- 21:05stupid. Like, just. It's stupid.
- 21:09That's not what we want. It's a bad
- 21:12move. It
- 21:15makes me mad. Milk's not blue.
- 21:18That's, ah, facts. But
- 21:20Theophilus wrote and came up
- 21:23with the idea of heating
- 21:26urine. And that it would cause the
- 21:28proteins, he called it the bits and
- 21:31other agents in the urine. To indicate
- 21:34differences based on what was going on in the
- 21:36body. This then would allow you to tell
- 21:39someone's future in his on
- 21:42urines. In this,
- 21:46it became one of the first works to
- 21:49transition from Euromancy, that is,
- 21:52studying urine as an act of magic in the
- 21:54occult. To uroscopy, studying
- 21:57urine for medical purposes. And this is
- 22:00where the hoogity boogity of Dr. Strange.
- 22:03Becomes the hoogity boogity of Dr.
- 22:06Oz. Or fill in the blank
- 22:08doctor. I love it when doctors
- 22:12oh, my gosh. So people that go
- 22:15to school for however many years you have to do to get a
- 22:18doctorate. When
- 22:21they promote their
- 22:24doctorness. It's weird.
- 22:27It's not that. It's not an accomplishment.
- 22:30And there is an appropriate time
- 22:33to be called a doctor in
- 22:36your setting of expertise is pretty much the
- 22:38only time. But if you are in
- 22:42the lay world. And you tell
- 22:45people you're a doctor. They
- 22:48think you can prescribe medication.
- 22:52That's what they think in their brain.
- 22:56In my perspective, that is what they think.
- 23:00In the twelveth century, even after
- 23:02Theophilus's time. We had people running around
- 23:05classifying urine like they are Pokemon.
- 23:08In fact, a french scholar in the eleven
- 23:10hundreds. Decided that there were 20
- 23:13types of urine. There's fire
- 23:16type, water type. No. Um, but
- 23:19what's weird
- 23:22is this began
- 23:25as the creepy way they used to view our
- 23:27waste. As having mystical and magical properties. But in the
- 23:30case of french scholar and Dr. Guillas
- 23:33de Corbiel, it
- 23:36inspired him to write poetry.
- 23:39Somehow we have come full circle. And we
- 23:42have arrived at what seems almost romantic
- 23:44poetry. But in
- 23:47the Frenchman, wee wee Mansour. Get it? Wee wee.
- 23:50I had to. This is two weeks in a row hitting you with a wee wee
- 23:53monsour. But I can't hear
- 23:56the word Frenchman and not say wee wee
- 23:58monsour. I can't. I'm not mature
- 24:01enough. But Giz Gil,
- 24:03Gilles, whatever his head is, wrote,
- 24:06uh, a poem about urine called.
- 24:10Now, he really
- 24:12workshopped this title. But it's
- 24:15called poem on urine. And it
- 24:18was 352 verses
- 24:21long. My dude was mad about P.
- 24:24He was a fanatic
- 24:27of the yellow stuff.
- 24:30In his poem on urine, we are
- 24:32told that we must analyze the sediment of
- 24:35the pea. Which is not something I think of when I
- 24:38ever look at pea. This is better than the
- 24:41most serious instances. Where they would have had.
- 24:44Have had to handle. No,
- 24:47you don't handle P. I'm going
- 24:50to say it. I'm going to say it right now.
- 24:55Quote handling
- 24:58pee is worse than
- 25:00quote handling poop. There's times
- 25:03where I'm in my backyard and I spy
- 25:06just the most
- 25:09crusted, hard dog turd.
- 25:12And the quickest path forward is to just grab it and
- 25:15throw it over the fence. Not in my neighbor. I throw it into the field
- 25:17behind my house. And you just got to bare
- 25:20palm it. It's fine. Like you're outside working.
- 25:23It's fine. Everybody has bare
- 25:26handed a dog turd in their life. That's facts.
- 25:29Shout at me. Bare hand in the dog turd. You
- 25:32know you have.
- 25:36Yeah. People are bare handing dog turds. That's all there
- 25:39is to it. But
- 25:42in the serious instances, they were told to handle the
- 25:45pee. No big no. And in some
- 25:48cases, taste it even greater.
- 25:51No. Like the biggest of
- 25:53no's.
- 25:57If your doctor, you go to the doctor
- 26:00and they tell you to pee in this cup,
- 26:04and my dude snags that cup and slings
- 26:07it back like some sort of energy drink.
- 26:09Walk out, just leave.
- 26:12Um, he's a dangerous fellow.
- 26:16He's one of those type of doctors. You know what I'm saying?
- 26:19But the poem that Guillz or
- 26:22that guy wrote also included
- 26:24drawings. And one of these drawings is
- 26:27called the urine wheel, and it was
- 26:30used to help identify what type of
- 26:33urine they had. Check out pictures of this in the privy
- 26:35socials. This table
- 26:38included colors of urine from,
- 26:41quote, clear as well water, to,
- 26:43quote, as ruddy as gold,
- 26:46and, quote, black
- 26:49as a dark horn. Now,
- 26:52again, what in the
- 26:55world was going on in medieval times
- 26:58that people were peeing dark brown,
- 27:01black, green, and gray
- 27:04urine, which are colors that are all featured
- 27:06on Guillz's urine wheel. The
- 27:09piss prophet, urine wheel,
- 27:12King George the, I think, third, I don't know,
- 27:15was reported to have had purple urine.
- 27:18M no way. No way.
- 27:22Just no way. I'm not a
- 27:25doctor. I'm not a witch doctor,
- 27:28spooky season, or a magician
- 27:31or a piss prophet. I'm none of them,
- 27:35but I'm going to go ahead and say it. If you pee
- 27:38purple, you're sick, dude. If
- 27:41your pee is purple,
- 27:44go to the doctor.
- 27:47And what's even more interesting about
- 27:50this wheel of urine is when
- 27:53they developed it, they were not
- 27:55working with the 64 pack of crayola
- 27:58crayons with the crayola sharpener in the
- 28:01back. The coloring techniques that they
- 28:03use to get these intricate and very
- 28:06minute different colors are pretty
- 28:09interesting. These urine
- 28:12wheels were something else, but
- 28:15in divining the disease from the color
- 28:18only gets you so far. As was
- 28:21noted, sometimes
- 28:24they just had to taste it. And if
- 28:27you hear that and you
- 28:30think, you know, it's spooky season, this hasn't been terribly
- 28:33spooky. Like, I guess they're, like, doing weird magic with
- 28:36the urine and poop. That's kind of weird. Um, that's more
- 28:39weird than creepy. But if you think that the scariest thing
- 28:42that you've heard today, the spookiest thing, if
- 28:45you will, is that they were drinking pee in
- 28:48order to tell people's future,
- 28:51that's fair. But you might
- 28:54doubt that this happened. But also
- 28:57it might be tempting for you to doubt that this
- 29:00happened. In
- 29:031674, english
- 29:05physician Thomas Willis wrote
- 29:08that diabetics urine was,
- 29:11quote, wonderfully sweet,
- 29:14as if it had honey in it.
- 29:17Good God. He
- 29:19made, uh, up the term mellitus, an
- 29:22experience in diabetes. And for some time where,
- 29:25like, there is sweetness that
- 29:28comes from them. Uh, and for some time,
- 29:31this was called Willis disease.
- 29:34But these people were straight wild
- 29:37with these wheels. These wheels were
- 29:40used for four to 500
- 29:42years. We have circled all the
- 29:45way back to Euromancy and
- 29:48divining fortunes from p. This
- 29:51is the period that many of the notions of the
- 29:54pregnancy test came in. And while this was
- 29:56legitimate future predicting. Are
- 29:59you going to produce a baby? Let's
- 30:02tell your fortune. I would like to note that all
- 30:05pregnancy tests are fortune tellers.
- 30:10That's facts. There was
- 30:13also, at the time, a lot of quack job
- 30:15teachings. They taught
- 30:19and believed in the 16 and 17
- 30:22hundreds that
- 30:25the astrology. We're back to the horror
- 30:28scopes are captured and
- 30:30observed in your pee. I
- 30:33just want the people that are like the horoscope
- 30:36warriors to just be
- 30:39walking around with, like, little pea cups and it's like,
- 30:42well, I could tell you your. Let me, let me
- 30:45tell you. Are you a Pisces?
- 30:48Could you pee in here so I could find out?
- 30:51Stop.
- 30:54In other words, the smell, look and
- 30:57taste. For God's sake, quit tasting. The
- 30:59pea carried
- 31:02astrology about you. Stop
- 31:04it. And they thought
- 31:07essentially doing this connected you to
- 31:10nature, the cycles of the moon, the
- 31:13cycles of the stars, and
- 31:16we're back to magic related
- 31:19to your pee. It's fake and bad, but here we
- 31:22are. The next time you
- 31:24see a witch this spooky season, remember
- 31:28that that cauldron or pot at one point in our very
- 31:30good human history
- 31:33may have contained p heated to tell the
- 31:36future. Happy spooky season,
- 31:39everybody. This brings
- 31:42us to the end of another episode of Privy thank you
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- 31:57to keep pooping in the free world. But that free world was not
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- 32:49joining us. Own your
- 32:51stank fart proudly.
- 32:55And now, as always,
- 32:58don't forget to flush.