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Ep. 41 Two Cities Pizza Company has America‘s Best Restroom of 2021 · Privycast

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Time is precious and so are our pets.
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So time with our pets is extra precious.
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That's why we started Dutch.
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Dutch provides 24-7 access to licensed vets with unlimited virtual visits and follow-ups for up to five pets.
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You can message a vet at any time and schedule a video visit the same day.
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Our vets can even prescribe medication for many ailments and shipping is always free.
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With Dutch, you'll get more time with your pets and year-round peace of mind when it comes to their vet care.
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It was pretty easy to sell, but that definitely happened.
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I had two wheeze.
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Welcome back to privy.
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Privy is a podcast about bathrooms recorded here from my home bathroom.
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I'm Hunter, your host from the seat where the disaster happens.
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Little bathroom check in at the top of the episode as usual.
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I noted to my wife and I don't know what to say in this area, but I'm finding that there's a stench change situation going on with
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the the bathrooming that that is happening.
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So I'm noticing that.
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So I think I've shared before, but at some point in my life, the smell of urine and popped popcorn, specifically movie theater popcorn, has gotten crossed in my brain to where if
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someone if someone pops popcorn, sometimes it does smell like pedemy.
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And there's that.
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But the new one that is happening recently is
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I've been drinking a little bit more uh Keurig Pods.
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ah I'm say I'm averaging about maybe three to four a week, where before in my life I was averaging more like three to four a year.
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And the coffee that is brewed from Keurig Pods, it's good, but it has a specific smell.
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I think it's the brand that I bought.
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One of the things that I'm noticing is that my toots, my toots and poots are smelling a lot more like that smell ah as time goes on.
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And so I think the Keurig pods are actually changing the smell chemistry of what's going on backside.
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So that's cool.
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The other thing that's interesting is for whatever reason, the smell of the
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spray cleaner that they use at the school I work at and the spray cleaner that they use at the gym that I go to, which I believe is probably the same brand of spray cleaner, for
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whatever reason that smell has also gotten crossed in my brain for the smell of Keurig pod coffee and also recently my own farts to where sometimes I'm at the gym and I spray down
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the machine and I go, oh man, did I make a situation back there?
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Like, did I just take it to the SS Brown?
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And that leads us to a uh very early occurring, we're gonna hit you right at the top of the show with a Hunter's Anecdotes to keep you afloats.
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This Hunter's Anecdotes is brought to you by Poor Diet and Farting at the Gym.
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So as I shared, I've been going to the gym a little bit less recently just because of life and everything going on.
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ah Tis the season and yeah, so I've been noticing this new like toot smell thing and one day I don't remember what I had.
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for lunch, but I had something that made me particularly, I think it was like three to four day, I'm pretty confident it was like three to four day old pizza.
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But I went to the gym that evening and you know, I'm doing my thing, I did my little elliptical run and I get the heart going and I go over to the corner and I grab my like
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little mat to do some sit ups on, because if you don't have the mat, it hurts your tailbone, it just does.
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It's not great.
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So I grab my little mat and I grab my little like ball to put my feet into so that way I can do sit-ups without a thing.
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And I'm over there and I'm kind of, you know, doing my sit-ups, doing my crunches, doing some push-up things.
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And I feel the gas bubble starts forming.
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I sneak a couple out like little quiet ones like, and we keep going and there's nobody in the area.
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And so,
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I lay down and I'm doing push-ups and when I'm doing push-ups I can see out into most the gym and there's nobody by me.
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It's as clear as can be.
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Do my push-ups and then I do this thing.
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Flip over and you're gonna do the core side of it and halfway through the core it just one just uh loud, very, very obnoxious sounding toot flies out.
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And I'm thinking I'm all good.
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And then I just see from like in the corner where I was at, like I see this motion, I look over and there's this lady and she is like staring at me as if I have just committed a
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hate crime of the century.
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And she's kind of got that like disgusted look on her face.
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so I mean, I'm not gonna make eye contact.
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I'm not gonna engage this situation.
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Like obviously,
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what I have done, which everybody does it, everybody farts.
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And people fart at the gym, don't tell me they don't.
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But apparently what I had done offended her so much that she grabbed her things and took off to a different area of the gym.
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Now here's the thing, she hadn't been there long.
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She had just set up shop in the corner with her ball and water bottle and all that crap.
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To the point where when she hears me fart, again, it's me, big Chungus in the corner, rips a
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rips a toot, she is like just disgusted and clears out.
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most people would hear this story and they would think, man, Hunter must have been so embarrassed.
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Hunter must feel so bad that he scared this person away.
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Here's the deal, this is the very best case scenario win for me.
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I got people out of my area and more importantly, like,
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I disgusted this lady at the gym, which when I'm at the gym is 90 % of what I'm doing to people anyway.
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just my whole situation is just like, oh gosh, he's here.
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So, win-win, got the corner to myself and I continued then to just kind of slowly a few out.
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You know how it goes.
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So, just be mindful.
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Sometimes people try to sneak up and you know what?
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If you sneak up on somebody, you might get caught by a fart.
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That's all I'm gonna say.
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This lady definitely did.
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ah And it was, yeah, it was a win.
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I couldn't be more happy about the outcome.
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This has been another Hunter's Anecdotes, to keep you afloat.
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I want to transition into what we're talking about this week.
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This week, we're going to talk about kind of, we're going to talk about a competition.
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And as we, as we gear up for the holidays, the idea of competition is kind of just like skating under the surface.
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Like there's competition over PS5s.
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I watch, I watch these ladies, all moms, I would say in their forties or so, and presumably with a teenage person, probably teenage son at home.
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Hauling PS5s out of target like they were contestants on the Amazing Race and the countdown timer is going.
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And then, like me, like, or like, yeah, they're taking off.
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It's like when I decided this week to get the nachos Belgrande and a beef burrito.
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um And then, like, I'm waiting to pass till passing period at my job to make my deposits, but I digress.
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They're splitting it.
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with these PS5s racing around, fighting over PS5s.
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It reminds me of back in the day.
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I remember when the Nintendo Wii came out and I wanted one so bad that somehow my parents had accidentally bought two in their scramble to get one.
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It was pretty easy to sell, but that definitely happened.
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I had two Wiis for like a month or so.
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One was never open.
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There's Black Friday competitions.
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I'm looking at you barges off the coast, There's the Pokemon Card Pandemonium.
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It's in full swing.
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There's reports that the Pokemon Company has caught up on production of Pokemon cards.
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I'll believe it when I see it.
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Stores are still limiting them.
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Now GameStop is even limiting them, so.
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There's a new Pokemon remake coming out this weekend.
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A little Pokemon check-in there.
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But I'm all over the place.
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I'm, I'm...
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I'm all over the place right out of the gate.
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got Hunter's Ant Dotes right out of the gate.
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I'm yakking about things right out of the gate here.
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There's family competitions as we stare down the Thanksgiving table.
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You know, it's like this stereotype that at the Thanksgiving table folks complain of getting into it with their families.
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But here's the thing, like that hasn't been my experience like at Thanksgiving.
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I find it if you just be cool and eat your food and enjoy your time, ah it's not too difficult.
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But that's next week.
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Thanksgiving is next week.
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A few months back, we talked about the Centus Corporation and that they run an annual competition wherein they name the greatest restroom in America.
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Well, the polls are in, the voting is done, the tallies are tabulated, and Centus has named the greatest restroom of 2021.
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To tell you the story, we must begin where all good stories begin.
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at the beginning.
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If there's something that two Midwest best friends turned college buddies with a business idea of, it's pizza.
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The friends founded what is called the Two Cities Pizza Company as college students wherein they wanted to blend the culinary art and culture of these two great cities in an
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attempt to settle a long-standing feud.
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Which pizza's best?
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New York style or Chicago deep dish?
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And while many believe in the thin crust culture of New York and the deep dish offerings of Chicago would be diametrically opposed to each other, others could find friendship
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under one roof.
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The roof of Two Cities Pizza Company in the greater Cincinnati area.
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These boys are helping people meet in the middle and under their roof and culinary expertise you can have your deep dish and eat it too along with a New York slice.
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They have said to have formed the tastiest peace treaty of all time.
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Now, Cincinnati or Mason, which is where the city, the pizza place actually is, is not like directly in between New York and Chicago.
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It does offer kind of neutral territory in between the two wherein a tasty pizza treaty can occur.
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But.
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Just bringing two styles of pizza together is not enough.
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Like if the pizza is bad, nobody's gonna care.
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But two cities pizza.
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has won Best Pizza in Cincinnati twice since they opened their restaurant in 2015.
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Its original location opened in a historic city hall building originally built in 1939.
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Mason, Ohio, the actual city of the pizzeria, is in what was voted the seventh best place to live for families of small towns by Money Magazine.
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Mason has been bumping and now it is home to America's best restroom in 2021.
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The Two Cities Pizza Company won the honor from Cintas.
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ah
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but they didn't win the honor for having good pizza.
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Like having good pizza is awesome.
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Everybody loves good pizza, especially like I've found, I have to admit, as I get older, I'm not able to put away as much pizza as I used to.
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I've found that I have like a two slice max now, where if I hit the three slice zone, I might be getting into danger territory later on.
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What's interesting is that usually hits me about 2 a.m.
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It's not like after you would expect.
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It's usually during the night.
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I am woken with a cheese bomb level tummy ache.
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But this isn't about me being an old fogey and not being able to eat pizza.
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This is about the two cities pizza company having a dope bathroom.
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So they didn't win the Cintas America's Best Restroom for having good pizza.
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Like if I'm gonna be honest, if I could snag up a slice of this pizza, I would love to.
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It sounds really good.
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The idea that I can get a New York style pizza and a Chicago deep dish at the same place, ah here's living.
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I love all pizza.
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Pizza's good.
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My wife gives me grief because for a time I was regularly eating 7-Eleven like gas station level pizza.
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And I still stand by this.
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The 7-Eleven pizzas are just fine.
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They're essentially frozen tombstone pizzas that they cook for you there.
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It's not that bad.
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All pizzas good pizza.
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That's not true.
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You can put things on top of a pizza to make it bad, but like base level, pretty much all pizza is good.
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They won the honor of the Cintas America's Best Restroom 2021 for having a very, very cool bath.
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When you approach the Mason, Ohio pizzeria bathroom, it looks like a New York subway station.
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There's travel calls, schedules being played over the loudspeaker outside the restroom.
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The doors to the restroom are subway train doors with actual subway handles and inside the restroom, the fixtures with
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It has like subway handles above the like sink fixtures and the countertops and there's also I assume to give it some some credibility and some you know real vibes.
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It's got graffiti all over the walls.
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In short, it's a bathroom that doesn't look like a bathroom and it doesn't sound like a bathroom.
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But my guess is it still smells like a New York subway.
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Before their winning, they received a Cintas Ultra Clean Restroom Cleaning Service, $2,500 in Cintas products and services, and a spot in America's best restroom hall of fame.
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An award that I will note, Two Cities Pizza already has listed on the bottom of their website, which brings me to the last point that I want to discuss regarding Two Cities
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Pizza Company.
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These dudes are awesome.
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The fact that they own this pizza company and they win America's Best Restroom 2021 and they slapped that award right down on the bottom of their website with all their other
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awards, I love it.
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It's so great.
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And to give you some perspective, at date of recording this, they won this award like three, four days ago.
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So they found out three or four days ago and have already updated their website to reflect their winnings.
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because they care about bathrooms.
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These dudes are awesome.
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This company is very cool.
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Just from poking around on their website and looking at some of their history, you can tell a lot about who they are.
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First, I want to note they're closed on Mondays, which it's hard to tell whether this is due to COVID or not, but they're open every other day.
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So it seems that they give their employees a day off to rest and recuperate.
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The founders believe
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Through their pizza company, they can provide a better work experience, a better work environment where everyone strives, and this is from their website, towards selflessness
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and unity.
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Where people push towards excellence because it is the right thing to do.
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They care about their employees.
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And it would seem that the Two Cities Pizza Company also cares about its customers.
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Much of what they and their vision is
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is built on community.
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They're built in an old city hall where people from the city would meet together to commune.
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Their vision is built on community.
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They note that pizza is like this standout quintessential communal food.
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Like a pizza is meant to be shared.
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They care about the community.
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Much of what they and their vision is built on is about bringing people together, whether it's warring cities or warring pizzas.
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In fact, they care so much about the community and showing uh respect and being good citizens of the community that they seek to give back to the community they live in.
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Tuesday nights at Two Cities Pizza Company are give back Tuesdays where the website says 10 % of every order placed on Tuesday night goes to local nonprofits.
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and they list those nonprofits on their website.
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These nonprofits include back-to-back ministries which exist to work with orphans to provide a change in their life and let them know that they are known and they are loved.
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They support Matthew 25 ministries which seeks to provide international humanitarian aid and disaster relief in the United States and around the world.
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Matthew 25 ministries seeks to provide food for the hungry, water for the thirsty, clothing to the naked, shelter for the homeless, medical care for the ill, and supplies
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for those in need.
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And the last listed on their website is the Shine Like Sable Foundation which seeks to assist kids in need.
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and helps fund child life specialists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
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Now, these are all awesome things.
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the reason that I, part of the reason that I moved the Hunter's Anecdotes to the top of the episode is because I felt like if I talk about this pizza company and these cool
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charities that they give to, and then I instantly just starting about ripping beef at the gym, it's really gonna take away from uh how cool I think this pizza company
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They give back.
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These guys seem like rad people, doing rad things, making rad pizza.
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And now...
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They have the raddest bathroom in the United States.
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It looks like a subway train station.
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The thing is very cool.
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um And I think a better company could not have won America's Best Restroom this year.
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So congratulations, Two Cities Pizza Company.
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And if I'm ever in Mason, Ohio, you know I'm gonna be eating some Two Cities Pizza.
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If you've had Two Cities Pizza, y'all need to shout at me.
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Like, let me know how good this stuff is.
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But yeah, they're doing good work both on their pizza and in their community.
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It's awesome.
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This has been another episode of Privy.
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Thank you so much for listening.
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And now, as always, don't forget to flush.
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Time is precious and so are our pets.
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So time with our pets is extra precious.
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That's why we started Dutch.
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Dutch provides 24-7 access to licensed vets with unlimited virtual visits and follow-ups for up to five pets.
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You can message a vet at any time and schedule a video visit the same day.
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Our vets can even prescribe medication for many ailments and shipping is always free.
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With Dutch, you'll get more time with your pets and year-round peace of mind when it comes to their vet care.