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Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome to the show, fellow ridiculous historians. We'd like

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Speaker 1: to start today's episode with just a couple of statistics,

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Speaker 1: some of which may surprise you. You're gonna give us

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Speaker 1: the straight poop, Ben, I am, I am, And yeah

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Speaker 1: you're no, I'm Ben. That's our super producer, Casey Pegrum,

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Speaker 1: saving the show every time we are here in the

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Speaker 1: booth with you. So, first things first, the average American

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Speaker 1: uses twenty three point six rolls of toilet paper per

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Speaker 1: year per capita. Huh, which doesn't seem like that much, right,

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Speaker 1: It doesn't until you consider that they're over three million

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Speaker 1: people in the US with people, and that makes a

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Speaker 1: total of seven point four billion rolls the toilet paper

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Speaker 1: used in the US each year. You ever, just think

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Speaker 1: about just picture everyone in the world's but you know

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Speaker 1: what kind of blows the mind? A little bit, doesn't.

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Speaker 1: But some people will think it's particularly cheeky of us

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Speaker 1: to have back to back episodes related to butts, or

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Speaker 1: should we say cheek to cheek? Yeah, you know, like

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Speaker 1: the way you dance with the Lady in Red. You know,

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Speaker 1: thanks for classing that up, man. We seriously, I think

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Speaker 1: we need as much class as we can get in

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Speaker 1: this episode, the average American uses fifty more TP than

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Speaker 1: people in Western Europe and Japan. And there's a big

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Speaker 1: reason for that, which is the subject of our episode today, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, yes, let me tell you. We're excited

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Speaker 1: about this for a couple of reasons. Um. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you guys know what custom content as. That's

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Speaker 1: sort of the industry buzzword for when you make a

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Speaker 1: piece of content for a company, which is kind of

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Speaker 1: what we're doing today. But it's totally awesome because I

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Speaker 1: am just a huge fan of bidats, first of all,

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Speaker 1: and I'm a huge fan of this company that has

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Speaker 1: sponsored this episode, of company called Tushi, who actually sent

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Speaker 1: us these bid days. And I will tell you, my friend,

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Speaker 1: my but has never been cleaner, My disposition has never

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Speaker 1: been sunnier. I'm just loving life, and the Biday life

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Speaker 1: is the life for me, my friend. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: brand new biddet, did it? I see what you did?

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Speaker 1: There's that's gonna happens. We've been throwing that around. Although

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Speaker 1: apparently I saw an Englishman talking about it and he

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Speaker 1: pronounces it b day. Yeah, I saw I saw the

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Speaker 1: same video. Now, uh, let's continue peeking behind the curtain

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Speaker 1: here because I want to assure you friends and neighbors

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Speaker 1: that my co host enthusiasm is genuine and sincere. I

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Speaker 1: literally talk about it all the time. It's weird, it

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Speaker 1: gets weird sometimes, but but but this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: rich so in our in another show that we do

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Speaker 1: stuff they don't want you to know with our illustrious,

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Speaker 1: amazing co host Matt Frederick. We actually also did uh

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Speaker 1: the Day sponsorship. We did some ads for them, but

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Speaker 1: this episode came about because we reached out to them

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Speaker 1: and said, we're gonna do this anyway. Do you guys

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Speaker 1: when we reached out to them, Yeah, we did it, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because it just made sense and it's like podcast needs sponsors.

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Speaker 1: Why not there's a matchmate in but Heaven Because we're

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Speaker 1: also we're also fairly silly and juvenile for two grown men,

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Speaker 1: you know what, And then I'm never gonna let that boyish,

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Speaker 1: So we started investigating the history of this and just

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Speaker 1: this thing. If if you heard of this, it's called

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Speaker 1: the Bad Day's Revival. In this article, author Maria Teresa

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Speaker 1: Hart explores not just the somewhat murky origin of the biday,

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Speaker 1: real quick timeline. The first written reference to the bidet

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Speaker 1: sounds like a just an explosion of bidets going everywhere.

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Speaker 1: near you. And it's spread to other social classes in France,

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Speaker 1: How did they not straddle the bidet train? Then it's

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Speaker 1: point makes it sound like a pretty appealing train to ride, right,

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Speaker 1: We got there, and all we did. Man, we hope that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's fairly obvious to everyone that we we

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Speaker 1: enjoyed ourselves so much on this episode. I'm Casey, I

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Speaker 1: am sure that you have cut out several solid minutes

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Speaker 1: but we thank however, we hope you enjoyed this episode

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Speaker 1: it may feel to discuss these things, the truth of

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Speaker 1: the matter is that, for multiple reasons, uh, the role

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Speaker 1: I just walked into that one. Oh man, thank you. No,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have noticed that one. Uh. These these various

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Speaker 1: factors come into play in a tremendously important way, not

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Speaker 1: just environmentalism but also your own personal helit. I think

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Speaker 1: those US versus European toilet paper sales stats, speak volumes

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Speaker 1: m so let us know what your experiences are like.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of listeners from around the world.

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Speaker 1: I'd also be interested to hear from folks in Australia

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Speaker 1: because we didn't really explore Australia's sanitation in this episode. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and does the water really turn down the drain in

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Speaker 1: the other direction? Let us know. You can write to

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Speaker 1: us at Ridiculous at how Stuff Works dot com. You

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Speaker 1: can hit us up on our Facebook page, or better yeah,

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Speaker 1: join our Facebook group, the Ridiculous Historians, where we get

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Speaker 1: into all kinds of fun stuff. We'd like to thank

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Speaker 1: Casey Pegram for yet again saving the show. We'd like

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Speaker 1: to thank Alison Cooper and John Donovan over How Stuff Works,

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Speaker 1: and Lori l Dove while we're at it, she didn't

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Speaker 1: really write anything today, but just such a sound cue

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Speaker 1: I'm are. We also want to thank Alex Williams who

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Speaker 1: composed our track. And most importantly, as we as we

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Speaker 1: love to say every episode, we'd like to thank you,

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Speaker 1: specifically you. Why does she does? Oh? Subliminal? You like that? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're proselytizing right now. That's it for now, but stay

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Speaker 1: tuned for our next episode where we cover very strange

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Speaker 1: stories of voter fraud. Oh yeah, um, we're talking election

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Speaker 1: fraud in the eighteen hundreds that include stuff ranging from

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Speaker 1: all kinds of bad behavior, kidnapping, forced intoxication, and my

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Speaker 1: favorite one repeat, voting in disguise we were getting get

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Speaker 1: a trench coat. You can't make this stuff up, and

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Speaker 1: a fake mustache. Yes, we'll see then, ridiculous historians