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Terrific Toilets: how humans solved the potty problem

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Terrific Toilets: how humans solved the potty problem

Wednesday, 29th May 2024
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0:00

This. Is Amy Poehler my new movie?

0:02

Disney and Pixar as Inside Out To

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is coming to theaters June fourteen and

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it's making me feel joy and sadness

0:08

and anger everly. Some discuss Rose I

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think a little fear. Really?

0:13

But I'm also feeling these new emotions

0:16

like anxiety, embarrassment, envy, and on we.

0:18

It's what to call the boredom. Okay,

0:20

that one was weird. It's going to

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be to feel everything. Movie of the

0:24

summer Disney and Pixar as inside Out

0:27

to only in theaters June Fourteen. Get

0:29

tickets Now! Step

0:33

Forward Young Caleb. Joy.

0:37

I have flat you the

0:39

hundreds mostly and the toilet

0:41

brush of true and you

0:43

request indeed you have young

0:45

mobile then I believe you

0:47

are finally ready Huge mean

0:49

is I double dog mean

0:52

it No take backs he

0:54

is now bended knee and

0:56

lower the line. Do.

0:59

You Sir Caleb solemnly swear

1:01

to always low the seat

1:03

when you're done. Double checked

1:05

to make sure everything flushes

1:07

and wash your hands for

1:09

at least twenty seconds. I

1:11

do place, dine and on

1:13

this book and repeat after

1:15

me. I'm joint. That's a

1:18

roll of toilet paper precisely.

1:20

Now repeat after me: Whether

1:22

number one or number two.

1:24

For a number one on

1:26

number Two, I will go

1:28

with pride. When I enter the

1:30

loop. I will go with

1:33

pride When I into the new

1:35

it is done. Welcome.

1:40

Sir Caleb, you are now a

1:42

member of The Bathroom Brigade. May.

1:45

All your bathroom breaks be

1:47

bountiful. Such. An honor.

1:50

So. Now do I get

1:52

access to the very special Clavicle bathroom?

1:54

Or you get access to an entire

1:56

wing of bathrooms? Get ready Caleb, You

1:59

are in! Party parties?

2:01

Ah me. if. This

2:09

is forever ago from A Pm

2:11

Studios. I'm Joy Dell Low and

2:14

this is Caleb from Grand Rapids,

2:16

Michigan. That's High. Caleb. Is. Today.

2:19

We're doing a whole episode about

2:21

toilets so naturally were headed to

2:23

the bathroom. Yes Joys gonna sell

2:25

me hooked. Lesson as it's still

2:27

a Coca Mods the I'm a

2:29

big fan of the toilet. It's

2:31

a marvelous events in it with

2:33

sway a waste water sessions with

2:35

a fuss Sues to would makes

2:37

p fleas It's no wonder a

2:39

forever ago friend code the was

2:41

interested in them to hi my

2:43

name is Toby I like to

2:45

know that the history toilet i

2:47

think it's incest thinks cause. It's sucking

2:49

always as a day. but don't know

2:52

about. Tale of how do you

2:54

feel about bathrooms? What's yours like at home.

2:56

And. I don't know.

2:58

It's. Just that toilet.

3:01

and sixty six. Nothing

3:04

special about the toilet in the thing cause

3:06

now they're just known while while caleb I'm

3:08

ready for you but my bathroom at home

3:10

I really like my about their it's like

3:13

the at least my favorite colors dark green

3:15

it's and so like as that dark green

3:17

walls and then i have like a silver

3:19

ceilings. And then my shower curtain is made

3:22

from what it's like. I'm like birch

3:24

would like a birds would shower.

3:26

Curtains. When you walk in it

3:28

looks like you're in a forest. Wow,

3:30

It's critical that there would have i'm

3:32

so interested in your bathroom. Yeah, you're

3:34

sounds. Lame Uncles and

3:36

Mussina up so up? What

3:38

is? The worst bathroom that you've

3:41

ever seen. Oh. Yeah,

3:43

there's this line at this. Made

3:47

place near eyes and.

3:50

A toilet. They're supposed to

3:52

be. To sit on

3:55

keeping it on the ground but

3:57

is only one so it it

3:59

almost. And it selma

4:01

by is. The As and

4:03

Clyde bullets really readily how hard would it

4:05

be? The Go. To bathroom with like with

4:08

my nail down. once it's like you have

4:10

no stability. Yeah, you have to

4:12

stay busy least as. An

4:14

adolescent for you if. You could design your dream

4:16

toilet. Any features you could have on

4:19

a toilet. What are some. Main features that

4:21

he would like. I'm. I

4:23

just like the time that s it as it's. I

4:26

think it's just need to be. I don't

4:28

think anything needs to be tensed. oh that's

4:30

nice. If I could do it I would

4:32

like have like it can make pop tarts

4:34

so like while you're sitting there you just

4:37

have a pop tart eaten lakes it would

4:39

like make it's own flavors so you don't

4:41

the like get. Only strawberry pop tarts. It's

4:43

like strawberries and and sometimes sentiment and and

4:45

sometimes the smart one the have like the

4:47

chocolate and the marshmallow. Anna that sounds kind

4:50

of disgust seen. I know that you

4:52

but I don't wanna be eating well

4:54

I'm using the last hour. Okay how

4:56

about this? This is another idea. I

4:58

have lot of ideas. what is your

5:00

toilet? Also Lakes played music that sounds

5:02

more ways than and father. Oh

5:05

good. Okay, So our on a

5:07

good track years. One more idea. So

5:09

what is like you open the toilet

5:11

back in your area and there is

5:14

like a like a system where you

5:16

get a warm towel seal instead of

5:18

using toilet paper you have like a

5:20

little warm towel that you can use

5:22

email Food that was like. Of

5:27

go back to the pop Third:

5:29

A D S S S S

5:31

effect will go okay. so would

5:33

you rather use a super luxurious

5:35

private bathrooms with a beautiful view

5:37

of the beach or use the

5:39

bathroom on the International Space Station?

5:42

Oh. Definitely no one with you

5:44

have to. The beats beats highs.

5:46

I've heard bad things about the

5:48

one on the International Space Station.

5:50

What have you heard? Is it

5:52

pop tarts? season? Know. It's

5:55

just not play cloudy and as know

5:57

wanna you have to be says. Oh,

6:00

I get proven p doesn't float

6:03

away. Oh, I don't want to go there either,

6:05

to be honest. It's assess

6:07

okay. Now advocates, I think of

6:09

them. To get down to business, let's

6:11

get to the business of doing our

6:13

business. Caleb? Which

6:16

sensory do you? Want to see?

6:18

first? Let's. Say, what do

6:20

you mean? which sensory toilet do

6:23

you want? See, I have them

6:25

all. Welcome to. Join

6:31

hall so. Every.

6:34

Door in this hall. Leads to a different

6:36

model of toilet from throughout history. You

6:38

wanna party? Like it's nineteen Ninety Nine.

6:45

Or maybe do do like they did they'd

6:47

in the dark ages. Style

6:55

pitstop complete with a lava lamp next

6:57

to the turn. I've

6:59

got your peace, love and forth. Live.

7:02

right? Wow.

7:05

This I. Still was sixty

7:07

three. But who's counting me? I'm

7:09

counting on us because I collect

7:11

historical toilets. After all, I'm a

7:13

member of the bathroom brigade and

7:15

the President. I started the whole

7:17

club you and sixteen when you said a

7:19

whole we. Have bathrooms seen.

7:22

Will think about. It's bathrooms are kind

7:25

of the bedrock a civilization. For

7:27

a long time humans lived in

7:29

small groups that traveled a lot,

7:31

stay to waste and then make

7:33

haste and leave it behind. Like

7:35

but as human started learning to

7:37

farm and Bay of Pigs same

7:40

sex. Know what

7:42

to do? A civilized became a problem.

7:45

Just. Imagine it is they didn't have

7:47

a plan. the piles of pool to

7:49

grow and grow. A big town without

7:51

some kind of toilet and sewer system

7:53

would become a stink trouble as real

7:56

quick if the waist and it up

7:58

and drinking water like a nearby lake

8:00

or river. People who gets super six

8:02

super quick. So solving the party problem

8:05

was a big deal. Some of the

8:07

only a snow and toilets with the

8:09

sewer system were made by the Indus

8:11

Valley Civilization. They lived over four thousand

8:14

years ago in an area now known

8:16

as Pakistan right? and they built large

8:18

cities with tens of thousands of people

8:20

to deal with. All that when they

8:23

made toilets said drain to central gutters

8:25

and those gutters carried the A D

8:27

stuff away from the city centres out

8:29

of sight. Out of snap

8:32

out of mind exactly?

8:34

Whoa! This Bentham does It

8:36

has fancy com o We

8:38

have to check this one

8:40

out. It's based on pointless

8:42

from about two thousand years

8:44

ago in the days of

8:46

the Roman Empire. Taylor. Welcome

8:49

to my Palm Bay party!

8:53

Whoa. A replica of the

8:56

whole city of Pompei? Yep.

8:58

I go for authenticity with my

9:01

bathrooms it. so we're. Going

9:04

into a room in other parts

9:06

of Europe, North Africa, and. They

9:10

also got some amazing things that are

9:12

still around today. They

9:15

even had aqueducts. What are these?

9:17

fancy giant stone water slides made

9:20

by skilled builders that helped bring

9:22

water from one. Place to another

9:24

and. People more told as I feel

9:26

like that's an important. Detail but wait

9:28

is this is the city of

9:31

Pompei. This month's pay me for

9:33

the volcano Mount Vesuvius. A lot

9:35

of dead. Pompei. Was buried under

9:38

volcanic ash during the eruption. It

9:40

was a massive tragedy, but it

9:42

also. Preserved much of the city just

9:44

as well as. Exactly so

9:46

when archaeologists dug it up later, they

9:48

should get a good sense of life

9:50

back then. That's how I know. This

9:53

pump a party is so accurate. Data

9:55

Dander. Nine

10:02

smaller polls seem very

10:04

private. N Seed: it's

10:06

so several people can relieve themselves

10:09

at the same time. My senses

10:11

business Correct. It's a. Very.

10:13

Public restroom Well said

10:15

their polices. These.

10:18

Guys doing here are. they came

10:20

with the bathroom. I told you

10:22

it's very authentic. These toilets may

10:24

look like simple holes in a

10:26

bench, but they connected to. Large

10:28

pipes underground. it was a very

10:31

early form of sewers. Read.

10:33

About looming see less of a

10:35

exact for the time. The.

10:37

West assembly and did it was carried

10:39

away to a nearby. River hour delay

10:41

exactly. It's not too far off

10:44

from our toilets and sewers today.

10:46

Private home sometimes had lose to

10:48

but those usually just dumped. Into

10:50

the polls in the ground and get. This,

10:53

these private prisons were often

10:55

in the kitchen. No. Just

10:58

no, Yes, yes, people probably

11:00

also use the toilet. The

11:02

throwaway food. Scraps and such, so I

11:04

guess. It seemed like a good idea back

11:06

them. Yeah, Where else would you put it

11:08

in some remote part of the home? That's

11:10

just weird. Now if you'll excuse

11:12

us, my good friend Christmas and I were

11:15

just about the lounge at the Loo and

11:17

discuss philosophy and whatnot. You're welcome to

11:19

join us. Ah no thanks, Were just

11:21

visiting. Know. Are you afraid because

11:23

of the octopus? Ah. Supplies Oh

11:25

what he means is that sometimes

11:28

things crawl up from the sewers.

11:30

Me: no bugs, wrath, octopuses, Okay,

11:33

That's just one story you see.

11:35

Oh man. Once claimed that an

11:37

octopus would climb into his own

11:39

through his toilet every night to

11:41

eat as fish. But. That's

11:43

not a real problem if you ask

11:45

me. No, no, it's far more likely

11:48

that a rat will climb up and

11:50

bites her numbers. But don't fret, it'll

11:52

be heard from several hours I'm in.

11:55

Small. Towns unpleasant. Ah yeah, I

11:57

forgot about the but biting rats

11:59

so. Modern toilets are built so

12:01

things can only go one way

12:03

down. Anyway, let's sit out another

12:05

historical bathroom. oh the right side.

12:07

The real danger. It's the flame.

12:10

Sometimes the gases from the waist

12:12

can create a fireball that shoots

12:14

right out from the party. Whole

12:16

it as a real sense of

12:18

adventure. Oh okay, sounds cool.

12:20

Maybe. Next time. Was

12:24

leery. Insists same. I

12:27

think I'd like to see something a

12:29

little less public. I've got just the

12:32

john for you, but it's kind of

12:34

far down Joyce Hall of Souls so

12:36

well we walk how that we play

12:39

a game. That's.

12:47

The game with put things in

12:49

the order they came in history

12:51

to these things are all toilet

12:53

a decent we got toilet paper

12:55

plunger's and but days nobody's our

12:57

devices used. To wash yourself with water as

13:00

do you do your business. So Caleb

13:02

would Season came first and

13:04

history with came second in

13:06

which is the newest toilet paper

13:08

plunger's and buddies. Him.

13:11

Laugh. I know that people.

13:14

Use to use magazines and

13:17

stuff before they used toilet

13:19

paper. And now

13:21

is Alice. I'd I

13:23

think back and dell

13:25

only nineteen hundreds. So.

13:28

I think this toilet paper

13:30

came flossed. Because. It's

13:32

sights now. May be

13:34

plan Just came first Moon Okay

13:37

now I think I'm gonna go

13:39

with toilet paper. And

13:42

then times has and in the back.

13:45

Again, the day out

13:47

against the time. I

13:50

feel like. Toilet. Paper

13:52

with poppy invented back when

13:54

they still mainly use outhouses.

13:57

Oh. Right? Us and.

14:00

Though you wouldn't need a plan, just

14:02

a high and. Then

14:04

the plunger and then like I

14:06

don't know when people started really

14:08

getting sinks. So like I saw

14:10

I could be like a similar

14:12

time except laid off so. I

14:15

think that's how I'll put a. That's. A

14:17

great order. Okay, so Toilet Paper Plunger's

14:19

the Days will hear the answers at

14:21

the end of the episode right after

14:24

the credits. Will. Be right

14:26

back. Were

14:29

working on an episode all about

14:31

the Colonel that feeds the bird

14:33

no porn and we want to

14:35

hear from you once you think

14:37

of is a smack of the

14:39

Future freeze. Dried Salad Moon

14:41

Taffy. Saki crew time let

14:43

us know. Caleb, what do

14:46

you think will be the snack

14:48

of the future? Okay so you

14:50

know like past he knows. Yeah

14:52

except imagine it didn't have any

14:55

of the powder on it. wasn't

14:57

save wedded are awesome and then

14:59

I'm in a box and then

15:01

you could also get maybe Sam

15:04

is the powder as a new

15:06

for dyke choose the slave of

15:08

That is such a cool idea.

15:10

What would your flavor be? I.

15:13

Don't know. I'd probably just put on t

15:16

slave us and says kind of way to

15:18

imagine cheetahs without the keys but they could

15:20

also be like we'd go on and them

15:23

zip up Gallic said i'm in said her.

15:25

Away and like a powdered don't know, like

15:27

whatever that hard ciders? yeah. Listeners record

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Loses remembering in nineteen Forty nine.

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Certain Potato head went into production

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home and minor movie Disney and

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coming to theaters soon. Fourteen minutes

17:05

made me feel joy and sadness

17:07

and anger heavily sinister I think

17:09

a little fear. Really?

17:13

Really nice new Mm since I

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anxiety embarrassing. Envy and on we

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Is a picture of. Beauty.

17:36

You. Listening to Forever. Ago I'm

17:39

joy. And Thailand. And today

17:41

we're exploring the history of toilets. Getting

17:43

rid of waste is a problem. All

17:45

civilizations need to deal with. For

17:48

thousands of years, humans has come up with

17:50

different ways to move that stuff away from

17:52

where they live. Like in the

17:54

ancient Indus Valley Civilization, they use.

17:56

Public daughters and water to carry

17:58

away wastes. In a. Rome

18:00

the had Sega underground seal

18:03

Exactly. Public restrooms? Ah, we're

18:05

here. This is one of

18:08

my favorite historical toilets. Oh

18:10

wow, this toilets expensive, trapped

18:13

in pauper salford and yours

18:15

Say say but it's it.

18:18

Beats it's literally sit for.

18:20

A queen. Caleb

18:23

I present to you Queen

18:25

Elizabeth the first Year old

18:27

England in the late fifteen

18:29

Hundred. Oh. You

18:32

may bow to the queen. Oh

18:34

so you may see. And

18:37

decay. I don't care what's up

18:39

and so I might. It's been

18:41

so long as are you my

18:43

girls. Did you get your nails

18:45

done? Love Hey Queenie I did

18:47

get them done. Thanks for noticing

18:49

a so what's up here to

18:51

gossip as you are hair? Oh

18:54

shit I guess he counts sexiness

18:56

England. It's a doubt this is

18:58

England in the sixteen hundreds. They

19:00

didn't have fast food let alone

19:02

take out. This is before electricity

19:04

and cars. it was all horses.

19:06

And candles and dresses with huge silly

19:09

net pieces. What Queenie means by take

19:11

out is to have her servants take

19:13

out all the food in the pantry

19:15

so sick and look at it and

19:17

decide what she wants to eat. Ah

19:19

gotcha! For. Brought this podcast

19:22

whole thing. You do

19:24

this so much you

19:27

do it sounds terrible.

19:29

low. Growth that allows.

19:31

Am I right? It's a

19:33

podcast. And I love doing it.

19:36

I'm doing it right now. Grassley Hear

19:38

a peep. Your petty, what? this

19:40

whole thing, Ck

19:42

it's new don't you just love

19:45

s way? Is that a wooden

19:47

box with a whole and. Blacks

19:50

know us U S is

19:52

a velvet covered close to

19:55

all those tools. Is this

19:57

a fancy name? For a wooden

19:59

box. With a hole in the top

20:01

when it's time. To go with I

20:03

just sit here and my boom boom

20:05

goes into the box Italy and in

20:08

a chamber pot than Eu leader me

20:10

seven come and take that she replied

20:12

oh the box and dump it out

20:14

of sight out of mine's M I

20:16

rite. Tinder parts were popular at

20:18

this time. They're basically. Pots you go

20:21

to the bathroom in, then you take it

20:23

out of your house and throw the waste

20:25

away, sometimes in a nearby Brooke Gore river.

20:27

Not. The cleanest of solutions. Some

20:29

homes had toilets that dumped into

20:32

deep holes in the ground but

20:34

don't oversell leading to of. The

20:37

basement. Situation. Tell. Me about

20:39

it or don't I hear about it all the

20:41

time? From the grim. Of the stool. My

20:44

sister's homes not the theses your

20:47

highness there was coming from the

20:49

basement. Again, your majesty's Obama is

20:51

the gloom of the stool. At

20:54

this time, it was common. For

20:56

kings and queens to have someone keep

20:58

them company when they use the restroom,

21:00

you know, because they didn't have phones

21:02

to scroll or magazines to read? Yeah,

21:05

it's. Fine to tits hapless someone

21:07

you know spill would die my

21:09

bathroom best he is named Kathryn

21:11

Ashley's pro title is cheap Central

21:13

London of the Privy Chamber us

21:15

oh Mcc is so fun of

21:17

the helped me with my grooming

21:20

and clothe some stats. Oh and

21:22

be tough but the latest. Tic

21:24

Tacs pay tax. You

21:27

get as close. Tic. Tacs or

21:29

what she calls clocks. Clocks were

21:31

a big deal at this time. Yes,

21:33

I think that one tic toc that

21:35

small enough to sit on my rest.

21:37

can you even on my wrist? And

21:40

increase or we've reached the peak of

21:42

technology. Am I right says Well, back

21:44

then they may have had wrists, clocks,

21:46

but they didn't have a real sewer

21:48

system. In fact, in London, England, things

21:51

that real bad because people were dumping

21:53

their waists in the river Thames. That's

21:55

the way that people in London get

21:57

the do a a lot of some.

22:01

Yeah, lots of people got

22:03

sick as the city grew

22:05

the way situation.worse and worse.

22:07

Finally in the mid eighteen

22:09

hundreds, city officials.a. Proper sewer

22:11

system. New York City got

22:13

serious about building soon as the

22:16

lamb the same time to and

22:18

pretty soon it became normal flow.

22:20

Big cities have a whole plan

22:22

for collecting waste and cleaning the

22:25

lotta fascinating. I'm Sarah Anyway, you

22:27

wanna go ride horses or pick

22:29

flowers? Oh no. one of those

22:31

who are rebels. I. Love

22:34

wrestling. It's I host one called

22:36

puts Hella that's. Cell. Phone

22:38

hotel calls it could tell us

22:40

because everyone gets their and horse

22:43

certain coaches. Make sense actually

22:45

to like. Ah, this type of

22:47

toilets got me. See, this could

22:50

really stand to make a pit

22:52

stop myself. You can't use my

22:54

royal throw in a sticker. On

22:57

that are have your servants get you

22:59

one encourage you to you just stay

23:01

away from my wooden box. I mean

23:03

my close to have. A clean

23:05

is very possessive of her p

23:07

pot but don't worry, I have

23:10

the perfect bathroom for you. Come

23:12

on. You know

23:14

it's kind of. Blows my mind how

23:16

different civilizations across the globe.

23:18

Some different times I'll sound

23:20

similar ways of getting rid

23:23

of west. Yeah. I love

23:25

thinking about toilets because it reminds

23:27

us that things don't to get

23:29

better and better. Sometimes societies figure

23:31

out something really cool, but over

23:33

time that idea is lost. Then

23:35

another society figures out a similar

23:37

idea. much later on. And. Pisses

23:39

me off Contain cause I

23:41

sincerely modern like England in

23:43

the Us were actually really

23:45

to develop the kind of

23:47

soon as we saw in

23:49

the Middle East and long

23:51

thousands of years ago. See,

23:53

there's amazing history and everything

23:55

even toilets. And speaking of

23:57

here, Caleb is the. The

24:00

toilet flush you. Have

24:05

your dream a private. Super

24:07

live. Serious bathroom with a

24:09

beach few. Wow, This

24:12

is amazing. It's exactly like

24:14

I said said it and

24:16

now it's he likes kills

24:18

me. A Home by oh

24:20

mean. Ah,

24:23

I did it. I found the

24:25

perfect the bathroom experience. That's what

24:27

collecting. Historical. Pilot is all about.

24:30

oh I see. Tell the President

24:32

the Bathroom brigade Club about this.

24:34

Wait, I'm the President and I'm

24:36

proud of myself. Could tell me.

24:43

Throughout history people have had to figure out

24:45

different ways to deal. With their do

24:47

do, some of the only toilets

24:50

with sewage systems are made by

24:52

the Indus Valley Civilization. Ancient Romans

24:54

had very public and social restrooms,

24:57

squeeze shared toilets with lots of

24:59

people all at once and in

25:01

sixteenth century England kings and queens

25:04

to salvage public. Finances Cloud

25:06

Coastal cities like London and

25:08

New York didn't start using

25:10

sewers and treating waste water

25:12

until the late eighteen hundreds.

25:14

Progress as our state line

25:16

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25:18

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a Mod, a Pet. Okay

26:13

Caleb it's time I you re

26:15

the hear the answers for first

26:17

things first. I think. I

26:21

would say that. Okay, so just as a

26:23

reminder for putting these three toilet related items

26:25

in order. Of. When they were invented.

26:27

And so you said, number one

26:29

was toilet paper. number. Two was

26:31

plunger's and number three was

26:33

per day. Were you

26:36

write Caleb? It's. Bumper to bumper to

26:38

bumper. The banana for them or for the book is. Only the

26:40

and suspicious I know I

26:42

thought oh what? you are

26:44

so close Caleb you are

26:46

low as sub number one

26:48

was toilet paper. You are

26:50

absolutely right about that as

26:52

having him around in the

26:54

six sensory. The earliest known toilet

26:57

paper comes from. Ancient China. The

26:59

Chinese famously invented paper

27:01

around. The year two hundred B C. And.

27:03

So a few hundred years later, there

27:06

are stories of people in China using

27:08

paper it toilet times. But this didn't

27:10

catch on in the Western world for quite

27:12

some time. Toilet paper wasn't patented

27:14

and the Us and tell the

27:16

eighteen Hundreds all I wasn't. I

27:19

wasn't thinking as. People. Using

27:21

and I'd be for toy. I was

27:23

seen as like the actual laws but

27:26

I guess they could have just you

27:28

said that by itself. Yeah yeah yeah

27:30

I got was adjusting. What you're saying

27:32

about the magazine smells like well of

27:35

course they just use paper. you know

27:37

any safer. Matter for toilets bus. But

27:39

that's cool. So totally was. First

27:41

and then second was the day

27:43

And that was crowded around the

27:45

late sixteen hundreds or early seventeen

27:47

hundreds. Wealth? These and I'll lay

27:49

only as an I was Thank

27:51

you. I'm So rights of Humans

27:53

of Use. Water to wash themselves after

27:56

bathroom break for a long time. And

27:58

maybe well, in a river or it away. Which

28:00

are that? make sense and yet but

28:02

the modern the day goes back to

28:04

France in the seventeen hundreds and today

28:07

buddies can sprayed different temperature water for

28:09

a. Post. Party clean feeling So

28:11

last the certainly not least

28:13

is Plunger's. And plunger's were

28:15

invented And eighteen seventy five. So still

28:18

pretty long ago. That was when I

28:20

was expecting toilet paper to and spins.

28:22

And and like, some time alone like

28:24

that. Damn love Oregon. Like

28:26

when of war that ah. So

28:29

the plunger was dreamed up by a

28:31

guy named John Holly's and patent in

28:33

eighteen seventy five. It uses sucks in

28:35

the pool on clogs and pipes and

28:38

hopefully get things moving again. The first

28:40

plunger designs with pretty much the same

28:42

as it does today. it's and you

28:44

know you just can't mess with perfection.

28:46

Pushing you do have appointed have been the

28:48

same for years and years and years. So.

28:50

What was the most surprising Saxon

28:53

there? For you? Well,

28:55

It was really surprising how

28:57

only everything came. I

28:59

don't think there was anything after. The.

29:02

Twentieth Sensei. Yes, another kind

29:04

of up to us to invent the newest one hundred.

29:07

And one know base I just tell that

29:09

isn't you. Optimize. Served.

29:16

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29:18

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