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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh. There's Chuck. We've lost Jerry sometime ago, but

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Speaker 1: this remains as always Stuff you should Know because Jerry's

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Speaker 1: here in spirit. I can tell you that Jerry's a lie. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's very very ominous. It totally did know that you

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Speaker 1: mentioned it. We lost Jerry. She's here in spirit. Jerry's

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Speaker 1: may not, she may not have ever existed. Who knows.

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Speaker 1: It's all one big weird dream, right, Yeah, did you

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Speaker 1: see what I titled this episode? By the way, no,

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Speaker 1: I haven't looked yet. Bidats colon now more than ever.

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Speaker 1: That's great, good job, man, because that is true, like

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Speaker 1: having a Biddat right now can really keep you out

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Speaker 1: of the rat race to find toilet paper dude the first,

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Speaker 1: because you know, I used to have one of the

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Speaker 1: toilet attachments and it got lost in the in the

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Speaker 1: renovation and move and I kind of forgot about it.

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Speaker 1: And the very first thing I did when I heard

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Speaker 1: about this toilet paper surge was get online and buy

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Speaker 1: another one of those things. Yeah, yeah, we had had

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Speaker 1: just happened to get one um for other bathroom right

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Speaker 1: before all this happened, So we're all set on the

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Speaker 1: rear situation with the water application clean bottoms. Yeah, I'm so.

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Speaker 1: I was raised the toilet paper guy, of course, and

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Speaker 1: I know how you feel about that. Every once in

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Speaker 1: a while though, I'll remember in our toilet paper episode you,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna come out and say it wiping using

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Speaker 1: paper to wipe your bottom with and that's it is

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Speaker 1: just gross, gross gross, And like, like, seriously, I hear

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Speaker 1: that in my head a lot. It's hilarious. But um,

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Speaker 1: to me, that's that to me is like, okay, this

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Speaker 1: this makes sense, feels normal, and I've gotten used to

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Speaker 1: a bidday, but even still like I'm using a little

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Speaker 1: bit of toilet paper there too. Also, we should probably

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Speaker 1: say this episode is chuck full of t M I

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Speaker 1: so just buckle in for that. But yes, I if

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Speaker 1: I use a bid day, I still use a little

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Speaker 1: bit of toilet paper. Um. And the thing that I

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Speaker 1: think got me out of all of this chuck. I

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Speaker 1: just want to stay up front is the science is

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Speaker 1: still out on which one actually is more beneficial for

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Speaker 1: you health wise. There are people saying toilet paper is yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've seen it, and I think this is what I suspect,

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Speaker 1: because there's such a dearth of studies on this, and

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Speaker 1: some of the studies that have been done are showing

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Speaker 1: mixed results. That it basically depends on how your doctor

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Speaker 1: or whoever you're asking um feels about toilet paper or

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Speaker 1: bid days. That's that that that's what they're going to recommend,

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Speaker 1: doctor or whoever likes the bus driver. Min doctor drives

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Speaker 1: a bus too. Yes, but these are hard times, alright.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about bidets, which is if you don't

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Speaker 1: know what this is, uh, you have been living under

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Speaker 1: a rock. But for a lot of Americans, and we'll

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Speaker 1: get to why Americans haven't been hip to them a

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Speaker 1: bit later, but some Americans still might not be hip

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Speaker 1: to these. A bidet is a little and they can

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Speaker 1: be different things. But the kind of classic modern bidet

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Speaker 1: looks like another little toilet installed beside your toilet or

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Speaker 1: near your toilet. Not quite right though. There's something you

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Speaker 1: can't put your finger on. It ain't quite right about

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Speaker 1: that toilet. Yeah, Like if you walked into a room

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Speaker 1: be like, well, there's one for pooping and one for peeing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that definitely does cross your mind either that

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Speaker 1: where else you go? Oh gool. But there are different

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Speaker 1: ways that you can have these modern bidets. Some of

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Speaker 1: them have little water streams that scored up, some of

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Speaker 1: them have a little like a shower handle. Um. But

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Speaker 1: the long and short of it is it's another appliance

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Speaker 1: in your bathroom with water and a little basin that

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Speaker 1: That's the classic bidet, right, Yes, the classic bidet, not

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Speaker 1: the biday of olden days? No, no, Um, should we

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Speaker 1: olden days? Now, let's go back to the olden days

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Speaker 1: and we'll catch up again. All right, that's a little

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Speaker 1: tease everybody. We're gonna talk about other types of the

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Speaker 1: days eventually. Yeah. And I didn't see exactly. I saw

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Speaker 1: definitely European and the first bid days. Uh. The word

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Speaker 1: like these original days, it looked like a little kind

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Speaker 1: I guess. And it also had like four legs coming

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Speaker 1: this great elephant in the room's right, but these things

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Speaker 1: were in the bedroom in France in the early seventeen hundreds,

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Speaker 1: uh of pooping and peeing in your bedroom, it was

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Speaker 1: you don't have to leave your bedroom, right? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's really kind of sweet if you think about

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Speaker 1: It's like poop and pee in you your bedroom, especially

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Speaker 1: on a cold night. But eventually people were like, well,

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Speaker 1: eventually they did, and they called those bathrooms, yeah, or

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Speaker 1: the word lou means bathroom or toilet in the UK

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Speaker 1: at least, if not more. And they think so when

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Speaker 1: we were in Edinburgh doing those shows, remember you took

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Speaker 1: to wake you up. But regardless, on this tour, maybe

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Speaker 1: you'll remember this. The the the tour guide said that

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Speaker 1: they think the word lou came from the Scotch people,

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Speaker 1: the Scottish people saying guardiloo when they threw their waste

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Speaker 1: And they think that guardi lou came from guard de lee,

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Speaker 1: which means watch the water in French. And so they

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Speaker 1: I love that. That's that's one for your next dinner party.

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Speaker 1: I busted that out at so b days. Uh back

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Speaker 1: You didn't have to do any prepper takeaway or anything

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Speaker 1: like that. That's right. And they don't know for sure

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Speaker 1: I mean because prior to this, it was just again

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Speaker 1: it were, your hand, right with your hand, and eventually

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Speaker 1: tipping point is Malcolm Gladbo would put it, and now

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Speaker 1: an enormous advancement. And they came along pretty early. I

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Speaker 1: little spray spray thing came along. That's beautiful. And chuck

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Speaker 1: seventeen fifty as far as bidats were concerned, Yes, everything

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Speaker 1: was totally clean and totally safe by seventeen fifty. Nothing

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Speaker 1: could possibly go wrong. So these were big. Obviously in

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Speaker 1: Europe they spread. Italy and Portugal were really big on

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Speaker 1: the bidets still are. I saw Italy may have been

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Speaker 1: the actual inventors of them, and that the French possibly

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Speaker 1: just popularized it. I could see that. Yeah, French and

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Speaker 1: they steal everything they did. But at the same time

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Speaker 1: rest of the world. Not if you were England or America,

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Speaker 1: you probably went no, thank you frenchman. Yeah, Uh, South America, UM, Argentina, Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: course Asia and Japan very much leads the way in

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Speaker 1: not only bidet use but bidet technology these days. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's a classic example of what I've talked about before.

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Speaker 1: The Japanese say, oh, I really like this invention. We

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Speaker 1: let's do that, And that's exactly what they did. That's

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Speaker 1: a good Japanese accent. Thanks. I added a little vocal

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Speaker 1: that goes under your seat, and you have a little

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00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: control device on the side of your toilet seat that

428
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: you just turn on the spray and it shoots out. Um,

429
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: it's cold water and less do you have the means

430
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: to hook it up to warm water? Um, but ours

431
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: is cold water, so you know, so it's a little

432
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: bit of a h of a wake you up in

433
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: in the morning, you know, Yeah, is your warm I

434
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: guess yes, it is it's warm, the seats warm. It's

435
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,359
Speaker 1: just beautiful. I just want to poop at your house now.

436
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 1: It's you come over and use it anytime you want,

437
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 1: because I know you pee sitting down, so you're okay

438
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:45,440
Speaker 1: in my book. But these washlets, so get this man.

439
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 1: The washlet when it was introduced in and the washlet

440
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 1: is like, I don't know what you call it, but

441
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 1: they took let's wash and turned it into the washlet

442
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: when they released it. But as of two thousand seven

443
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:02,959
Speaker 1: total had sold seventeen million of these worldwide about nineteen

444
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: eighty it is amazing. As of two thousand nine, twelve

445
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: years after that, it was fifty million. They sold ten

446
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: million since two thousand and sixteen or so, I'm sorry.

447
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: Two thousand nineteen was fifty million, two sixteen was forty million.

448
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: So at some point along the way, a big portion

449
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 1: of the world said, I like that, We're going to

450
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: try it, and I'm gonna get one. Because the sales

451
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: have taken off even before this um coronavirus shut in

452
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 1: toilet paper run that we're experiencing in America. Yeah, I

453
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 1: wonder I was gonna say if they had like a

454
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 1: counter of that said like fifty million clean butt holes.

455
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 1: But there's more than that, is you have two butt

456
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 1: holes in your house, right exactly. So I mean that's well,

457
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that people point to is like, well,

458
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 1: you know, there's a cost savings if this thing lasts

459
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: long enough, you'll eventually pay for it, will eventually pay

460
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: for itself, and savings from having to buy toilet paper,

461
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: and well, and we'll get to the waist and toilet paper.

462
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: But that is a problem. Yeah, yeah, because even if

463
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: the cost thing doesn't quite work out, you are still

464
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: you know, it's coming close to breaking even it's not

465
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: like a complete like waste of money, but also money aside. Ecologically,

466
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 1: it's probably a much better thing than toilet paper by

467
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: any measure, any metric. All right, well, should we take

468
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,880
Speaker 1: another break? I think so, all right, let's take another break,

469
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: and we'll, believe it or not, we're gonna tell you

470
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: how to use these things right after this. Okay, Chuck,

471
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 1: so I teased it earlier. I think we should start

472
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: with this, uh, this this third act by talking about

473
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,880
Speaker 1: the different kinds of bidats. We've already talked about two. Right,

474
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,199
Speaker 1: there's the little cob horse bidet that looks like a

475
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: tiny bathtub next to your toilet. There's the um. The

476
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 1: washlet is a brand name, but it's almost become a

477
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:25,360
Speaker 1: proprietary eponym. It's so so um, so um widespread. Yes, um.

478
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: But that's also called the bidet seat that you replace

479
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: your toilet seat with. And then the third type is

480
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: a hose that looks like you know, the dishwashing hose

481
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: that you have, like as coming out of your your

482
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: kitchen sink, if you if it's like that, but next

483
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: to your toilet. That's the third kind of bidat. It's

484
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: called like a water wall, a wall mounted shower head bidet. Yeah.

485
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: I don't think these are nearly as common, are they.

486
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: I didn't get that impression either, But when I looked

487
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: it up, a lot of different images came up on Google.

488
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: I don't even want to do that. All right? So

489
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 1: are we can we talk about how we use these things? Yes,

490
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 1: But I just want to say one more time, I'm

491
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 1: thoroughly engrossed by the wall mounted showerhead bidet. You have

492
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: to see one of these. Sometimes I've seen pictures, I

493
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: just haven't seen them in person. Okay, I got it,

494
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: neither of I but I've just I spend a good

495
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: hour like staring at pictures, he thinks, and imagining. You know, sure,

496
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: all the possibilities, so go so go ahead. I think

497
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: this part I cobbled this together from a bunch of

498
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: sources from the Atlantic, from How Stuff Works, I think

499
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: New York Times, but me, I think was mental floss.

500
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,479
Speaker 1: And I think this came from How Stuff Works. This

501
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: step by step for how to use a bid day

502
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: and uh. The first step they say is locate the bidet.

503
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: That is a good first step. I can't believe they

504
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: put that in there. I thought that was very funny. Actually,

505
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: technically their first step, if you're going by bullet points,

506
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: was used the toilet toilet as you normally do both

507
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: for urination and for defication. That's step one as far

508
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: as the editors of How Stuff Works is concerned. Oh,

509
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: that is really funny. Um. Yes, And actually they do

510
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: point out in that step one that whether or not

511
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: you wipe a little with toilet paper first, I don't.

512
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that. I would uh. And how I

513
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: do it as I wet to my bum first with

514
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: a good spray, and then I used just a little

515
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: bit of toilet paper and that's the great thing is

516
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: is you're not using nearly as much. You can just

517
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: use a few squares to kind of just make sure

518
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: everything's cleaned up and dry. If you don't have a

519
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: fancy pants dryer like yours. Yeah, I've found that the

520
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: dryer takes so long that I don't have the patience

521
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: for it. Now, who does you know, crazy psychos? Maybe

522
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: unless you're you know, got a good book or something. Sure,

523
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: and Uncle John's bathroom reader that would do it. That

524
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: would keep me on the can long enough to air

525
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: dry with the blow dryer. Or a little book coming

526
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: this fall? Oh yes, shall we plug it? I think

527
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: it's a great time to plug our book. It's called

528
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: Stuff You Should Know, an incomplete compendium of mostly interesting

529
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: things that's right coming to bookstores this fall. You can

530
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: pre order now. And uh, I think all signs are

531
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: still full bore ahead. And though we're in the midst

532
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: of a global pandemic, in fact, hopefully they're thinking this

533
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,479
Speaker 1: is just what people need. Yeah, and hopefully it is.

534
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: And at the very least it is guaranteed to keep

535
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: you on the toilet until your legs going numb. That's right.

536
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: So that's an old George Carlin joke. Oh really, what

537
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: to sit on the toilet to your legs go? Num?

538
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: Now he did some like some. He was talking about

539
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 1: some game show and one of the contestants was introduced.

540
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: One of her hobbies was sitting on the toilet until

541
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: her legs went, which is not good for you, they say,

542
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: especially if you have hemorrhoids. It can make that a

543
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: lot worse. So you're supposed to do your business and

544
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: get off. I could totally see that. You're also not

545
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: supposed to, like watch TV in bed. Beds supposed to

546
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: be for sleeping, So if you ever have trouble getting

547
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: to sleep, um, they suggest that you like go read

548
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: out on the couch until you start to get drowsy,

549
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: and then go to bed and fall asleep, so that

550
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: you'll your body and your mind will start to associate

551
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: bed strictly with doing your sleeping business. I say, poop poo,

552
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: did that because I love watching TV in bed? Yeah, Hey,

553
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: I'm with you. It's a nice, nice little treat. It's great.

554
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: I get why people don't do it, but uh, you know,

555
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those people. Hey, to each his own,

556
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: we always say, right to reach their own teach their own. Yeah, alright,

557
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: so I guess we're at medical. Oh no, wait, we did.

558
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: We located the bidet right right, You've done your business. Uh.

559
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: To me, the downside of having the separate bidet is

560
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: you do your business and then you gotta get up

561
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: and like remount another device, so like you've got it

562
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: going on with your your fancy pants washl I think

563
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: I think that's why I was so surprised that you

564
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: wanted a regular biddat, because there's like a whole drippy

565
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:14,239
Speaker 1: um step moving from one to the other, you know.

566
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think when you get a washlet, you're

567
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: not going to want a regular bidet any longer. I

568
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: can't get a washlet, dude, I don't have the power.

569
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: You can hire an electrician to come run an outlet.

570
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: It's very easy. I know. Now I'm going to look

571
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: into that. You're right, Okay, you're gonna love it, Chuck, Okay, okay,

572
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: what does yours talk? I forgot No, it doesn't talk.

573
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: That would be amazing. I've never seen a talking one

574
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: except on the Simpsons. Well maybe that's where I got

575
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: there was Yeah, because there's that one that says I

576
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: am honored to accept your waist. I think that's where

577
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: I got it. Surely some of them talk, right uh.

578
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: Probably think Japan is famous for for talking appliances right sure,

579
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: and just having like weird random stuff written on their appliances. Yeah,

580
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: I mean I've talked about that rice maker. I think

581
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: you have the same one or one of the same versions.

582
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: That thing makes all kinds of fun sounds. Yeah the

583
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: uh um oh, hey, while we're talking about this stuff,

584
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 1: let me say, um, Mike's Mighty Good Ramen looked us up. Dude,

585
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: that was so nice. Well, like, I'm first of all,

586
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: thank you for mentioning it, because you got us hooked

587
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: up big time. I did not anticipate that much Ramen

588
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: coming no, like a box full of Mike's Mighty Good

589
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: ram and basically saying, hey, thanks for the shout out.

590
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: So um, I had never tried it before, and it

591
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: is really good stuff, and we have a bunch for free,

592
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: which is nice because it also stores really well too

593
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: during times like this. Yeah, and I had already also

594
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,959
Speaker 1: purchased about a hundred dollars worth and it all kind

595
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: of came at once, so I have literally a big

596
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: moving storage been full of Mike's mighty good and I

597
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: eat it for lunch every day. Today I had the

598
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: vegetable cooking up milk lemongrass and it is delicious. Yes,

599
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: it is amazing. I think the beef is my favorite

600
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: so far. I love that spicy beef. Have you augmented

601
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: yours yet? No, I'm I'm a novice still. I'm just

602
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: kind of taking it a little by little. But I

603
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: saw that on they have like a recipe card for

604
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: suggesting how to kind of dress it up a little bit. Yeah.

605
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: I mean I usually just because it's a good, good

606
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: quick meal to go and a pretty low calorie, very

607
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: low calorie. But the other day I did have some

608
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: beef brisket and I minced that up really small, and

609
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: I cooked, I did a boiled egg and cut that

610
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 1: thing in half and it was so good. Man, that

611
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: sounds good. Yeah. I mean, we don't buzz mark it much,

612
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 1: but it is delicious. And they hooked us up. So

613
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: thank you, Mike. Yeah, and thank you also. Um. The

614
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: thing that made me think of it was the Zoji

615
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: rushi rice makers. They liked us talking about them, and

616
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, you guys want some, You want a

617
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 1: thermis yeah, it was pretty Maybe I'll get a washlet. Yeah,

618
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,800
Speaker 1: Toto brand washlets are really great, Chuck, I can recommend

619
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: him highly. All Right, so let's talk about um medical uses. Uh,

620
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: they're like you said, there hasn't been a ton of research,

621
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: and there has been a little conflicting research, but a

622
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: lot of doctors GPS do say and specialists. If you

623
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: have colitis, if you have ib s, if you have crons,

624
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: if you have colon cancer, then a bidet seat might

625
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: be right up your alley to help you out back there.

626
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: It will be. But also, Chuck, I just realized we

627
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: never finished saying how to use the bidet. Well, now

628
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,879
Speaker 1: you know you scorch your butt, right, and it said

629
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: that you either can dry it padded dryer or have

630
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: a dryer. What else is there? So, oh, yeah, you

631
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: we did make it through that. Wow, it just went

632
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: so quickly. I think one of the things just I

633
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: want to point out really really really quickly is that,

634
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: like the whole point of it is that you're using

635
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 1: water to clean off your bottom in the exact same

636
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: way that you would use toilet paper to clean off

637
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: your bottom um or your other bits, depending on if

638
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: you have other bits. Down there. How do you how

639
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: do you put this? I don't know. Well, whatever's job,

640
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: thank you very much. But in some people prefer to

641
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 1: use toilet paper to dry off, like it sounds like

642
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: both of us do. Some people just air dry um,

643
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: or they use the blow blower attachment or whatever, but

644
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: like that's it, there's nothing more to it. I've read

645
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 1: that some people use soap, which is crazy to me,

646
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: but okay, and then some people chuck, I ran across this,

647
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 1: they don't even use a but at if they poop,

648
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: they take a shower after a word. Have you ever

649
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: heard of anything like that before in your life? No,

650
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: you know, I would say that's an extreme clean freak

651
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: germophob clean freak is probably not a nice way to

652
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: say it, but le phobia is about that stuff. But

653
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: from what I there's a significant number of people, at

654
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: least in the United States who like, you poop, you

655
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,280
Speaker 1: take a shower. That's just what you do after you poop. Interesting,

656
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: I would take seven showers a day if you have

657
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: water crisis, just from you know what a waste so well, yeah,

658
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: that is a huge waste um. And that's actually kind

659
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: of a criticism of bidats is like while you're using

660
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: water instead. But as we'll see in a little bit,

661
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: you're using a resource one way or another down there.

662
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: So there you go. But okay, so you were talking

663
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: about um medical issues. Sorry about that. No, that's right. Um,

664
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: I talked about all the uh the ones dealing with

665
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: your bottom. But um, apparently, and this is I don't

666
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: know how much research they've done on this, but apparently

667
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: they can help out with U T I s as

668
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: well if you get frequent U T E s. Yes,

669
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: And here's how they suggest that, Um, if you're a woman,

670
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: you use the bidet on your woman parts before and

671
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: after sex, and that that will help cut down on

672
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: fecal bacteria entering your vagina and becoming part of your

673
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: vaginal micro flora, which can lead to U T eyes. Interesting.

674
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty interesting as well. Um, and

675
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: don't take offense. Well, now you know you can get

676
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: a prostate infection from from not keeping very clean down there. No,

677
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: I just mean you know, if you if you make

678
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: love and then your girlfriend and wife jumps up and

679
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: runs in there and and cleans out real good. Yeah,

680
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: just be a man about it, right, You should probably

681
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: not take offense to that kind of thing should we

682
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: be talking about this? Yeah, yeah, we haven't crossed the linet.

683
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: I think I think you established a new line in

684
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: the student Loans episode, so I think we're well within there. Well,

685
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: my my reasoning there is if there are any like

686
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,959
Speaker 1: elementary school kids listening to student Loans, then their little

687
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: Alex P. Keaton's they can handle it. Alex peakey, Man,

688
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: what a great, great shout out there? What else here?

689
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: If you're elderly and if you have arthritis or something,

690
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: it's tough man, if you you might just physically have

691
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: a harder time wiping your bottom, have to use the bathroom.

692
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: And apparently as you age one of the single biggest

693
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: factors for staying independent. Like you can still cook, you

694
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: can still clean, you can still take care of yourself,

695
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: but you might have a hard time wiping your bottom.

696
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: You can still stay independent. Uh, if you can get

697
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: that bidet going. Yes, And again, if you're sitting there

698
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: like just like, wait, what are you guys talking about?

699
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: If you were raised on toilet paper from from what

700
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: there's a huge divide right now in the world. Apparently

701
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: a good three quarters two thirds the three quarters of

702
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: the world does does not use toilet paper, or they

703
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: use it much more sparingly and they use a bidet instead,

704
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: and they consider that clean. They consider using toilet paper unclean.

705
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: And this this is this, whether toilet paper or b

706
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: days are clean or unclean is so culturally ingrained that

707
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: it's almost un imaginable considering one cleaner than the other,

708
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: depending on what you've been raised on. But that is

709
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: the case. And they've done a lot of well they

710
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: haven't done a lot of studies, but some of the

711
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: studies they've done have shown like, yeah, this actually is cleaner,

712
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: or no, this isn't as clean as you think. Um.

713
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: But one thing that really kind of stuck out to me, Chuck,

714
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 1: was the idea that water alone can make you cleaner

715
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: than wiping your bottom, which makes total sense if you

716
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: step back and think about it, because all you're doing

717
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 1: is wiping paper on your bottom. But to me, it's

718
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: like you're you're getting stuff out of there and and

719
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: you're getting it away, which I guess you're doing with

720
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 1: water as well. Uh yeah, I mean that's that's kind

721
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: of it with I mean, like you said, they've done

722
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: some studies and they have shown that it can eat

723
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: some of these symptoms of anal fissures and hemorrhoids. There's

724
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: something called itchy anus that it can help up with.

725
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: That is a real thing. But there was also a

726
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: study about ten years ago in Japan that said if

727
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: you use a warm water bidat, uh, and if you're

728
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:15,439
Speaker 1: a woman, it can kind of jostle loose your microflora

729
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: in your vagina and you can just kind of knock

730
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 1: things out of whack down there, and it can lead

731
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 1: to more vaginal bacterial infections. Yeah. So in the study,

732
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: it was like two sixty eight women, um, and they

733
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: found that normal microL microflora was not present in forty

734
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: three percent of bidat users and only eight percent of

735
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: non users of bidats had normal microfloora not present. That's

736
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: pretty significant. And then of of the fifty out of

737
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 1: the tight who had fecal bacteria present in their vaginal microflora,

738
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 1: forty six of that fifty used bidats. So that was

739
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,439
Speaker 1: a really surprising thing to a lot of people because

740
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: they're like, no, no, no, this is this is clean. Um,

741
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: this is way cleaner than using toilet paper, And this

742
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: study suggests that that's not necessarily true. Now, was that

743
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: for only for warm water though from what I saw, yeah,

744
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,439
Speaker 1: it with warm water. Yeah, use that cold water. Sure,

745
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: it really gets you up in the morning, like you said. Uh.

746
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: And then I guess finally we're at the point where

747
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: we talked about just toilet paper. We covered toilet paper

748
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: in our episode on toilet paper, but as a reminder

749
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: about of toilet paper in the United States comes from

750
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: Canadian forests. Um, And that's not cool. Americans represent uh,

751
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: less than five percent of the world's population, but we

752
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:45,399
Speaker 1: used of the world's toilet paper and that's got to stop, Yes, dude.

753
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: So those Canadian forests, they're talking about old growth boreal forests,

754
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: and there's a term I saw, the tree to toilet pipeline.

755
00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: I saw twenties seven thousand trees a day go down

756
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: the toilet in the form of toilet paper. And again

757
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: this is mostly old growth trees. Um. And I guess

758
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: the toilet paper industry in the United States is like

759
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: a six six billion dollar industry from what I saw.

760
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a lot of I think each American

761
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: uses about forty rolls of toilet paper every year. The

762
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: average household uses a hundred and fifty. There's a lot

763
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 1: of room for improvement. And that's a big, big plus

764
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: for bidays that you even if you still use toilet

765
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: paper to dry off, you're using so much less than

766
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: you would without a bidat that it's it's um. You're

767
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 1: just saving tons of trees by using a bidet. That's right.

768
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: You are using water. But if you've ever used one

769
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: of these seat attachments or seats like you have, it's

770
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: not a ton of water. Um, it's not like a

771
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: bathtub or anything like that. You know, no, not at all.

772
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: It's um. And if you have, you know, the more

773
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: advanced your your bidat is. And it doesn't have to

774
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: be like the most high end bidet for this to happen.

775
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: But I mean, like pretty quickly as far as technological

776
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: development goes in the biday you get um, the amount

777
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: of water is going to be much more efficient than

778
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, just like say scorting a a dishwasher hose

779
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 1: up there. I'm just fascinated by that. It's pretty great.

780
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 1: Do you got anything else? I had nothing else? Well,

781
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: there you have. Everybody. There's bid days. We told you

782
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of t m I and

783
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: we delivered. And since I said t m I, everybody

784
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: it's time for listener mail. Uh. This is from Mary

785
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 1: Kerr in Buffalo, New York. Hey, guys, been listening to

786
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: stuff you should Know for years. It's been my companion

787
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: on many a morning run, road trip, and just tidying

788
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: up around the house. I listened to the shorty on

789
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: six six six and Chuck mentioned his license plate had

790
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,760
Speaker 1: six six six in there. I thought of the story

791
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: about my brother Matt. He recently moved to Wisconsin and

792
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: was at the d m V to change his license plates.

793
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: The d m V employee handed him his new license

794
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: plate and number, which was six six six mph like

795
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: six hundred sixty six miles per hour. I know, I'm

796
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: I love it, not bad. Uh. The employee looked at

797
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: the plates and said, uh, do you want a different number?

798
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: And he thought about it for a second, and he

799
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: thought a different number would be best so that he

800
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: didn't appear to be a speeding Satan lover. And so

801
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: the the d m V employee graciously changed out the plates.

802
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: Um And I'm not gonna read what plate they changed

803
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,800
Speaker 1: it out for, because it's just now occurring to me

804
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: that I don't want to out her brother's license plate

805
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: for some reason, Oh, that's that's true. It was, um,

806
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: asked man. She said, just a silly story. Couldn't help

807
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: a share. Thank you for your knowledge, levity and distraction

808
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: that you've provided over the years, especially in this time

809
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: of stress and uncertainty. And keep doing what you're doing.

810
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 1: And that is from Mary and Buffalo, New York. Nice.

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00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, very much appreciate it, Um. Although I

812
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 1: do have to say person only, I'm a little disappointed

813
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: in your brother. But that's okay because he probably doesn't

814
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: care if you want to get into this like Mary

815
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: did till so you can hear that we're disappointed in

816
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: your your your sibling. Well, you can send us an email,

817
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: then wrap it up, spank it out of the bottom,

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00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: and send it off to Stuff podcast at iHeart radio

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