1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. And 4 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: it's actually a funny story. We were originally going to 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: come in here and do a podcast having to do 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: with knee eating and vegetarianism, and I actually done a 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: fair amount of research about it. And then last night 8 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: I went to a restaurant named Abatoire which specializes in meats, 9 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: and uh, it's is French for slaughter house. Yeah, and 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: so now I find myself at work actually podcasting about toilets. 11 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: So I think there's a natural progression. Yeah, absolutely, Um, yeah, 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about toilets, and why not because everybody 13 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: uses something right there, there are a couple of things 14 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: you cannot escape in life. Right You've got to eat, 15 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: you've got to sleep, and you have got to go 16 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: to the bathroom. Right yeah, pooping, peeing, these these basic actions. Uh, 17 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: it's it's a part of life. And it's it's so 18 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:09,680 Speaker 1: weird that it is an area of technology. Um, that 19 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: physics and physics and health that often is just overlooked 20 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: because we just don't want to think about it, or 21 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: a lot of us do. Some of us may think 22 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: about it too much. But but but it's it's there, 23 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: it's important, and we'll end up, like say, you know, 24 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: spending a whole decade or more, not innovating the toilet, 25 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: not making changes to it, and certainly not rethinking it 26 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: in any drastic way. Um. You know, in the same 27 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,479 Speaker 1: way that a person will choose to ignore, um some 28 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: you know, dire health concerns relating their toiletry encounters. Yeah, 29 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: and here's what I'm thinking though, I mean, technology has 30 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: has touched us on every level of our existence, and 31 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: certainly it is happening in the toilet sphere. We were 32 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: just maybe not as aware of it because you and 33 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: I are here. We we don't live in Japan, right, 34 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: And that's that's like where the toilet plosion is going on. 35 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: If I can coin a new term. Um, but you 36 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: know we've talked to is a new term. I think 37 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 1: it may have been used before, but not what we're 38 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,399 Speaker 1: talking about. Explosions of ideas and yeah, right right, rather 39 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: than that the more chatological explosions, yes, which are important too, 40 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: but um, but you know, we've talked about what life 41 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: might look like in fifty years, particularly if we end 42 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: up living in vertical cities. And we've talked about the 43 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: scarcity of land um, and we now know that um, 44 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: something like two thirds of the popular population in will 45 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: live in cities. Right. We know that we use a 46 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: land mass the size of South America right now to 47 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: fill our our food needs so UM, and we don't 48 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: have that available to us in the future, right, especially 49 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: when we have nine point five billion people living in 50 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: so we started to think, like, how does that affect 51 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: us waste wise? Yeah? Also water right now, especially in 52 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: the United States, we and enjoy clean water pretty much 53 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 1: as much as we want, whether we're drinking it or 54 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: washing the dog with it. And I found an estimate 55 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: that the average American uses somewhere in the neighborhood of 56 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: seven thousand, six hundred sixty five gallons of water each 57 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: year just to flush the toilet. Well, and that doesn't 58 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: even count agriculture, right, UM. I mean that there's an 59 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: immense amount of water used in agriculture UM, whether or 60 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: not you're talking about livestock or crops UM. And again, 61 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: you know you've you've got this um, this massive demand 62 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: for food, particularly now for for meat and livestock. Um. 63 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: But we just don't have the area. So we talked 64 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: about this in life on the five hundred floor a 65 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: little bit. We talked about vertical cities. Is possibility that 66 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: you have vertical farming and and the sort of runoff 67 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: that would happen there and you end up living in 68 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: Pooh Town right down wind of you know, these stacks, 69 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: these five floors of of livestock roaming around and all 70 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: the sort of excrement that they produce, which is quite 71 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: a lot, really much much more than humans. Yeah, you 72 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: cant used to the zoo? I did? I I worked 73 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: for a zoo and um, wow, elephants, that's all I'm 74 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: gonna say. Amazing creatures. Um. So right now we know 75 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: what happens to to our sewer waste. Right there's something 76 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 1: called sewer sludge UM and this is actually at its best, 77 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 1: it's actually the end product of our sewer treatment systems 78 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: UM and it would be like a nutrient rich fertilizer 79 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: that we could use on crops. And again, and it's 80 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: actually used in the U. S. And Canada as such, 81 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: but it's actually been banned in some countries because at 82 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: its worst, which is the more likely scenario. It's a 83 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 1: highly toxic waste composed of humans and industrialized waste. Um, 84 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: So we have this problem right now, like what happens 85 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: to our pooh pooh? Um? How was it used? I mean, 86 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 1: this is a good idea to try to use on crops, 87 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: but knowing all this sorts of nasty stuff that goes 88 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: into it, now it's not necessarily the type of stuff 89 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: that I want growing my tomatoes. We should probably talk 90 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 1: about the technology that we have right now. Yes, Uh, 91 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: like you mentioned the idea of your tomatoes and your 92 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: toilet instead of having a huge sewage infrastructure between your 93 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: toilet and your tomatoes. Uh, that we have this technology 94 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 1: for composting toilets, which is pretty basic technology and it's 95 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: more simpler form. So there are different models you can 96 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: get these really remarkable looking like it basically looks like 97 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:34,239 Speaker 1: a toilet, like a big square toilet that you just unpack, 98 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 1: stick in your bathroom and it and there's I think 99 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: you add like peat mix and a microbe mix and 100 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: uh it basically evaporation takes place because solid waste is 101 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: only like it's only like ten percent solid and the 102 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: rest is all water water, So tons of bacteria by 103 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 1: the way, right in tons of bacteria, so the water 104 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 1: evaporates and uh, and then you have that peat mix 105 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: and the micro mix and they are there's like a 106 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 1: little crank on the side of the toilet um you know, 107 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 1: kind of like how they would start and start the 108 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: old airplanes, and so you'd crank the toilet to to 109 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: rotate the drum. You know, you'll see people with a 110 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: composting been in their backyard that hasn't a rotation system. 111 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: It's the same concept in your toilet right right. And 112 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,919 Speaker 1: then eventually you're going to have a drawer at the bottom, 113 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: a finishing drawer that you open up in there is 114 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: compost in there. It's like basically dirt and you take 115 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: that out and you can dump that on your garden. 116 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: And then there there are models that are a little 117 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: more complicated that are electric or involve an external tank, 118 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 1: uh collection tank for this to take place in an 119 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: automated um drum that rolls. But but the the the 120 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: technology of it is pretty pretty cool. And yeah, it's 121 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: very cool. I actually um used one in a yurt once. Yeah, 122 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: and I shared this other editorial meeting, and there are 123 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: lots of titters by the way. Oh yeah, when was this, 124 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: um that I shared it? Yeah, it was this like 125 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: a year ago or yes, yes, that they weren't ready. 126 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 1: They weren't ready. But I'm telling you this is pretty 127 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: cool technology. But like you said, on an individual basis, 128 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense, right, if you're trying 129 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: to institute it system wide, it might be a little 130 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: bit more difficult as a as a solution for all 131 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: of us, right, And those guys that laugh, they're gonna 132 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: think they're gonna look back on their their laughter and 133 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: they're gonna feel really stupid. Once we get all the 134 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: toilets in this building change to composting, that's right, and 135 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: we all get your housing. Yeah. Yes, I'm pretty sure 136 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: I've used them as well, because you see them popping 137 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: up like at state parks. Yeah, yeah, they're they're really 138 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: Because the other cool thing is it is more or 139 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: less self contained. You don't have to be hooked into 140 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: a grid or a system to operate. You don't necessarily 141 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: have to have the electricity coming in, you don't have 142 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: to have the sewage system going out. Yeah, right, and 143 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: it makes total sense. It's uh, it's definitely sustainable. It's 144 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: a solution. Um One of the things that you wrote 145 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: about recently in a blog post was what I like 146 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: to call them, that Satan's toilet perhaps the oh yes, 147 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: the incinerating toilet and incineration toilets or fired toilets that 148 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: I like to think of them, Oh yes, these This 149 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: was something I did not know existed until until just, yeah, 150 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago, when I forget what 151 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: made me think of this, but I was suddenly an 152 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: into my mind, Hey, I wonder if there are any 153 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: toilets that burn everything up, because that you were thinking, like, 154 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: what's my worst nightmare? Sitting on a toilet with flame, 155 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: isn't it? Well, no, that's not my worst nightmare, but 156 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: but it just I kind of figured, we'll, surely someone 157 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: has thought of this, and lo and behold they have. 158 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: They've been around for decades. Uh And in fact, I 159 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: think there were some early designs that you know, showed 160 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: up like sort of the when the you know, in 161 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: the steam age, when everyone is getting excited about, uh, 162 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: you know, the technology changing our lives. And sure enough 163 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 1: there are some people that are like, we can we 164 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: can take these, uh our toilets and basically turn them 165 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: into a little furnaces that we pooped into, and and 166 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: that's kind of the idea of incineration toilet. Um. I 167 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: would if you do a Google search for poop into 168 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: the fire, uh, sort of a play on the horus 169 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: to the Duran Duran song. Yes, I thought that was 170 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: what you were doing for best blog title ever. By 171 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: the way, Yeah, if you do that search, you'll find 172 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: this blog post, and in it there's a video that 173 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: actually does a great job of showing how these things work, 174 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: even though it's the weirdest video you've ever seen promong 175 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,959 Speaker 1: a commercially available product, because it's like, there's for one thing, 176 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: the the incineration toilet in the promo video is padlock shut. Yeah, 177 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: because I mean basically, whatever you put in there, you 178 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: pull a trigger and it is incinerated, So you don't 179 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: you wouldn't want a child to play with this, and 180 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: if you were leaving one of these in a remote, 181 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: remote location, you wouldn't want just anybody coming in and 182 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,199 Speaker 1: burning stuff in your toilet. Well, it's it starts very ominously, 183 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: right because you see this woman and she's got like 184 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: this key chain of like a thousand janitors, just like 185 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,599 Speaker 1: a thousand keys on there and you know it's to 186 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: a different incineration toilet and this strange underground Commox's an 187 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 1: eastern block underground bunker. And she starts talking about the 188 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: toilet and um, as you point out, and actually UM 189 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: editor Alison Laddermilt pointed out to at some point her 190 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: shoes go missing during this video. I don't know how 191 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: that happened. Yeah, she starts, you see her on the toilet, 192 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: she's got shoes on, and then you know they cut 193 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 1: to like later on. It's a very graphic video, by 194 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: the way, not with her, but actually the contents of 195 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: the Yeah, I mean, yeah, there is flaming poo in 196 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: the video because it's i mean, the product itself flames pooh. 197 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: And there's no there's no there's there's no, there's no 198 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: faking that. I guess they couldn't just put in something 199 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 1: some facts similar of poo. It might have been effects 200 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: some way of poon and just a really good one. 201 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: I don't know, but at any rate, Um, Yeah, she 202 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: unlocks the toilet, uses it. Then they do this cool 203 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: animation where they show exactly how it works and all 204 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: and uh, and it incinerates at all, I mean all 205 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,119 Speaker 1: the water evaporates all all everything. It just turned to ash. 206 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 1: And then you'll have an ashtray at the bottom that 207 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: you remove and then dump. Right. And if you are 208 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,079 Speaker 1: in the military and you've ever been in a military 209 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: campath these you're familiar with them or they they were 210 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: found on trains as well. Um, and they are solution. 211 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 1: But the problem is is that you can't you still 212 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: have it's a waste product that you have to get 213 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: rid of. Now the volume has been greatly decreased, but 214 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 1: you still have this ash and you cannot. Um, Well, 215 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: they don't advise you to use in crops and you 216 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: have to throw it away. Yeah, and then there are 217 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: there are a few. I mean, obviously the advantages are 218 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: you don't again, you don't have to be hooked into 219 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: well you need to be hooked into slightly into the 220 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: grid on this one, because you need you need to 221 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,079 Speaker 1: either need to be electronically powered or gas powered, so 222 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,839 Speaker 1: you'll need that, but you don't need water. Um, you 223 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: don't have to worry about freezing temperatures. There's nothing in 224 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: here that's gonna freeze up. But incineration destroys nutrients in 225 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: the waste, making the ash inadequate. For replenishing soil. Um. 226 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: You know, there's the energy usage, but then there are 227 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: disadvantages as well. Um, the incineration destroys waste nutrients um 228 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: in in the waste, making the ash inadequate for soil replenishment. 229 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,599 Speaker 1: And and again generally it's just gonna require energy. You 230 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: gotta be hooked into gas or you have to be 231 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: poked into you know, some sort of electrical grid or 232 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: battery operated in order to power the flame. Yeah, and 233 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 1: some models can't be used while insideration cycle is in process. 234 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: So this is probably not going to work for a 235 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,679 Speaker 1: household with like ten people in it in one bathroom, right, 236 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: and the sites I was looking also really advise the 237 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,199 Speaker 1: child should never use one of these things. Yeah, fire 238 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: children poo really bad combo. We should probably really talk 239 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: very quickly about vacuum toilets. Oh, yes, these are the 240 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: Everyone who's ever flown on an airplane and has been 241 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,079 Speaker 1: brave enough to use the restroom has encountered these because 242 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 1: basically basically how it works. Again, as you use the 243 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,839 Speaker 1: restroom and then you awkwardly get up out of your 244 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: seat and struggle to position yourself around so you can 245 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: look down in the toilet, because we'll get to that 246 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: in a second. Because you if you're a male, no, well, yeah, 247 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: that's right. If you're if you're sitting well oh never mind, yeah, yes, 248 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: so you're trying to get yourself on the toilet. Yes, 249 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: you have to get on the toilet, use the toilet, 250 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: then get up, turn around, look down in the toilet, 251 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: and then you have to flush it. And then when 252 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 1: you flush it, you feel like all the air around 253 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: your head it's like sucked out. And there's this moment 254 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 1: where you can imagine yourself like pitching forward and just 255 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: being taken down through the tubes and ejected from the 256 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 1: outside of the air plant. Well, I was want to say, 257 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 1: and it really plays into the rational fear you've got 258 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: clowns and you've got the toilet that's going to suck 259 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: you out into the other. Yeah, we'll see. With me, 260 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: I was more, always, more afraid of things coming up 261 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: from the toilet. I guess it was because I remember 262 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: being a kid, not renting horror movies, but walking down 263 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: the aisle and seeing um like like VHS covers for 264 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: I think it was like Googley's was the was the series, 265 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: and the cover always had like some really cheap looking 266 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: like monster puppet coming out of a toilet, and uh 267 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,199 Speaker 1: and and I think I've subsequently seen like a cliff 268 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: and then it's just horrible, poorly made films. But but 269 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: at the time it's like, yeah, I don't want something 270 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: to come up out of the toilet at me. And 271 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: then a few years ago it happened something came up 272 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: with the out of the toilet when I was not 273 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: in there using it. It was suage, it was sewage 274 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: backing up, but it was horrifying. I thought you're gonna 275 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: say it was a rat or an alligator. No, but 276 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: I have heard of rats, and that's as an entirely 277 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: different podcast, I think, Um, because rats, I mean, they're 278 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,719 Speaker 1: they're gonna outlive us, right, Um, But I want to 279 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: talk really quickly about that. Why you would want to 280 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: use vacuum toilet outside of the airplane if you could, right, 281 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: you'd have to have the right conditions, you'd have to 282 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: have the section. But they use very little water, which 283 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: is very important, right, especially if we're talking about the 284 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: year and there's perhaps not a lot of water to 285 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: go around. Um, they can flush in any direction, including upward. 286 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: And because they don't have a lot of pipes that 287 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: they have to you know, draw down the waist. You 288 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: don't have to worry about the infrastructure um of placing 289 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: a toilet somewhere. I mean, you can't just place one anywhere. 290 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: You still have to have the right technology, but it's 291 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: a lot more mobile. Yeah, So all you would need 292 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: is some sort of vacuum device, air air pumps, etcetera 293 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: to make this right right. Um, so those are that's 294 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: what we have right now. But we've got some really 295 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: cool things that are in the works right now that 296 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: we could possibly have in the near future. Yes, and 297 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: we will get to be right after this breat This 298 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: presentation is brought to you by Intel, Sponsors of Tomorrow, 299 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: and we're back all right to the future. To the 300 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: future here we are. Okay, So the future holds some 301 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: really cool stuff. And one of the one of the 302 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: things I wanted to talk about is NASA, Right, Okay, NASA, 303 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: we we are benefits, whether or not beneficiaries of their technology. 304 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: It always trickles down to us. So I just want 305 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: to start with that point. I mean, invisible braces, memory, foam, 306 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: ear thermometers, cordless tools. These are all things that started 307 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: with NASA Research and Development, and Velko yes, eventually came 308 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: to the marketplace. So it stands to reason that some 309 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: of their solutions for getting rid of waste may come 310 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: to us very soon, and in fact, some of them 311 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: actually in use in various ways right now, right. And 312 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: they will spend a lot of money on the space 313 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 1: toilets because because again, everyone has to use the restroom, 314 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: especially astronauts. Yeah, International Space Station. That toilet nineteen million 315 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: dollars and oddly enough that is only the second uh 316 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: most expensive toilet in the world. Oh, because there's probably 317 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: one made out of gold somewhere. Yeah, you're exactly right. Yeah, yeah, jeopardy, 318 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: you just run um. So what they're really good though about, 319 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: is trying to figure out how to do uh do 320 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: more with less, right, and how to actually reuse materials 321 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: and recycle. So they have been converting waste into water, 322 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: and they've been doing this by desalinating urine biosmotic pressure 323 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: and then running it through a charcoal filter and then 324 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: sort of like voila, you've got your tab water. And 325 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: this is really magic for anyone like myself who grew 326 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: up reading the Dune books because in the of course, 327 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: in the Dune books. They are the the freemen have 328 00:16:56,160 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: these still suits that converts their their waste water back 329 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: into drinkable water, which they slip through a straw in 330 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: their in their suit. And so they're you know, lots 331 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: of sci fi geeks like myself have been just craving 332 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 1: to drink urine out of our own still suit for ages, 333 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: and and this is now we're just a little closer. Well, yeah, 334 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,880 Speaker 1: it's very possible right now. And in fact, in Orange County, California, 335 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 1: they are using this process, but they're doing it underground, 336 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 1: and they're having the water hang out a little bit 337 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: longer underground so that people don't psychologically they can sort 338 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: of cotton to the idea better that they're drinking they're 339 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,679 Speaker 1: clean urine. Well, I think we should all get used 340 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: to the idea that water we're drinking may have at 341 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: some point in urine, you know. Yeah, I mean it's 342 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: just a sort of a modern effective life. Yes, you know, 343 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 1: whether or not you know it, right, Um, so, right now, 344 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: that's this is a technology that they're using, and it's 345 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: very possible that this is going to be used in 346 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: toilets in the future, right, I mean, this is something 347 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: that could be easily retrofitted into toilet technology. The technology 348 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: is out there, it's it's it's it's gonna streamline in 349 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: the future, and we're going to need it as our 350 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: water demands increase, exactly. Yeah. So I mean in a way, 351 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 1: it's kind of like you have your water cooler in 352 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: your bathroom. I mean, this is this. You know, we 353 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: could even have very low tech versions of this, and 354 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: I'm sure that there's some d I wire out there 355 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: who has already done this, So email us because we 356 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: want to hear from you. Um, but there are so 357 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 1: many different toilets on the mark here right now. Is 358 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: we had talked about in the beginning of the podcast. 359 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 1: Japan is really running with this, right they They have 360 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 1: a number of models that are just amazing and then 361 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: also just kind of weird odd to us culturally, right 362 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: well yeah, but then also but they also sort of 363 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: tie into our general weirdness about toilets. You know that 364 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: there's certainly this idea that let's not think about toilets, 365 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: and by not thinking about it, we don't innovate it. 366 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: But then there's also this this reality where it's like 367 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: I want to think less about toilets. So let's make 368 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: toilets more amazing till eventually we just have robots that 369 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: we poop into in the future. It's very possible. And yeah, 370 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,719 Speaker 1: Japanese are pretty uh at what we would think is 371 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: is hypersensitive about hygiene, So it makes sense that they 372 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 1: put a lot of thought into this so that they 373 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: can have, so to speak, a better outcome on the 374 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: other end. Um. And one of these really cool innovations though, 375 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 1: is what I like to call a doctor in your toilet. 376 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: Oh yes, which, um, but before we we talk about 377 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 1: the advanced version of this, I'm reminded of uh my 378 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 1: wife was telling me about like once when she was 379 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: doing a study of broad Thing and Prague, she encountered 380 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: these her whole group and accounting these toilets that had 381 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 1: like this little shelf. Like there's this little shelf that 382 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: you do your business onto and then when you flush, 383 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: the water washes everything off the shelf in a way, 384 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: and so it's almost like a callander for your for 385 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: the solids. No, well, no, it's like a like a 386 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: little shelf like imagine that you it's like a little 387 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: platform it's sorting out I guess it's it's it's like 388 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,080 Speaker 1: the center stage, like you know at the met and 389 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,959 Speaker 1: uh and and the waist goes on to that stage 390 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: and then you know, everybody watches it. But then when 391 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,399 Speaker 1: the curtain closes, the water flushes everything away. And so 392 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: I looked into it, and they're they're called washout toilets, 393 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: and informally they're called German toilets because you still find 394 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: them sometimes in Germany and Austria. And uh, it's a 395 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: little sketchy on the reasoning for this, but it seems 396 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 1: it seems like the idea is that as humans, well, 397 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: we have this need to look at what we've done 398 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: in the toilet. But we think, well, this is a 399 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: whole Fortian idea, that we've created this thing right, and 400 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,360 Speaker 1: we're really proud of it. Well, but on a very 401 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: basic level, I mean, your stool tells you a lot 402 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 1: about what's happening inside your body. I mean, you know, 403 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: we've all I don't know if we all have, but 404 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: a lot of people who have have had different health 405 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: diagnognostics done where you've had to supply a stool sample. 406 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: And that's why they're not just you know, they're not 407 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: just weird. They need to analyze it. And on a 408 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: very on a very basic level, we can look at 409 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 1: our stool and say like, well, I'm not doing too hot, 410 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: because that is that is embarrassing, you know. Yeah. Well, 411 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: anybody who's familiar with Dr Oz knows that he is 412 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: a big proponent of examining your excrement and has even 413 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 1: talked about not just examining it, but why you're doing it, 414 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: assessing it. And in his his idea of the best 415 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: exprement that you could how do I say you could 416 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: give your toilet is one that would dive into the water, 417 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: like Greg lan lucanis that's him, not me. See this 418 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: makes me think of the Road to Welville, Yes, with 419 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: the Anthony Hopkins awesome portrayal of of of Yeah, where 420 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: he's talking about his diet is such that his stool 421 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 1: comes out like a like a hard biscuit with its 422 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: odorless and and and perfect. Yes, I mean this is 423 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: the there it turns out that there is an ideal poop. Yeah, 424 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,400 Speaker 1: and it would go into the water, like Greg lucanis 425 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 1: very little splash. So everybody wants to know, I'm sure, 426 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: but Dr Oz is really big about that, and he 427 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,679 Speaker 1: says like you can look your your experment and you 428 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: can assess your health just like you're talking about, right, 429 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: So it makes sense then to design a robot that 430 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 1: you poop into the analyzes the poop for you so 431 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: you don't have to look at it, which is essentially 432 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 1: we're talking about in the intelligent toilet. This is made 433 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: by a Japanese company called dioa House and actually Toto, 434 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: which is big in the toilet industry, helped with the technology. 435 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: But it provides urine analysis. It takes the user's blood 436 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: pressure and body temperature and measures their weight with an 437 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: in built floor skill. Yeah, so this is really cool because, um, 438 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: this is a great way to get or read out 439 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: of what's going on in your body at that time. Um. 440 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,639 Speaker 1: Toto's engineers actually developed a receptacle inside the basin and 441 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: that's what collects the urine for sugar content and temperature 442 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: checks and um there's also an arm band that monsitors 443 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: your blood pressure. So obviously that's how you're you're getting 444 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: your blood pressure, not from your waste. But you know, 445 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,919 Speaker 1: just the little ad on there, I could very well 446 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: see this technology, uh uh you know spreading through you know, uh, 447 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 1: medical clinics around the States, you know, instead of going 448 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: in and having this awkward thing where it's all right, 449 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: here are a few different cups, fill these up with 450 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,399 Speaker 1: your UM, your your leavings, and then stick them in 451 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 1: a bag for us. You could just have this smart 452 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: toilet that'll do you know, They'll just say, hey, come prepared, 453 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: use our toilet and we're good. Well, the current model, 454 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: actually your data is sent automatically to your personal computer 455 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,159 Speaker 1: and then you can email it to your doctor. But 456 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: the next generation model, and this is according to phiz 457 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: org dot com article Japan high toilet high tech toilet 458 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: makers flush with success, nice pun, the next generation model 459 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: will UM actually automatically send your results to family members 460 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 1: and two doctors via the Internet. And it's actually capable 461 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,160 Speaker 1: of storing the data of up to five people. Wow. 462 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: And you could probably get some sort of Twitter at 463 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: put on that as well. Well. There's there's actually a 464 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 1: website that was just tracks the number of tweets that 465 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: relate to UM Toiletry activity. Really, and I'm thinking of 466 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,160 Speaker 1: like a hashtag right now, like lucanis yeah UM success 467 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: or something like that. This podcast really is a mine 468 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: field of potential jokes. They keep passing me by, and 469 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 1: I just know that we don't have time. I know 470 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: we don't. It's not fair. We can't give them um 471 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 1: their due. But this toilet, in case you're interested in it, 472 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:23,120 Speaker 1: retails for about four to five thousand dollars. Yeah. Now 473 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,160 Speaker 1: a Toto is also involved in a few other really 474 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 1: um classy toilets that I mean, these are really should 475 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 1: be the toilets of the stars. If you're using something 476 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: that out of gold, you're just wasting your time. They 477 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: are the toilet stars. Who is it Ryan Seacrest who 478 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: got one for his birthday And it's a six thousand 479 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: dollar toilet that has all sorts of bells and whistles. Okay, 480 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: it's this the the wash washlet S four hundred by Toto. 481 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: I don't know which model it is, but it's pretty fancy, 482 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 1: all right. Well, yeah, this is the one that has 483 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: it has built in massage or seed heater. But day yeah, 484 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 1: well yeah, like I guess it's like if you need 485 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: your butt massage while you're on the toilet, warm air 486 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 1: drawing settings, air purifier, um self cleaning. The there's a 487 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: sensor that that sees that you're coming and it will 488 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: go ahead and open and close the lid. Yeah, I 489 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,159 Speaker 1: know a lot of the the the the wives and 490 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 1: significant others out there. Really, I was about to say, 491 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 1: if it returns it to the horizontal position, that really 492 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: I think would improve a lot of relationships out there. 493 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,399 Speaker 1: There's there's also Kohler's new me toilet is. It is 494 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: really impressive. It also has self opening, closing lid, self 495 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 1: cleaning bidat which biday. Of course, anyone that doesn't know 496 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 1: this is like a water hose that cleans you after, 497 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: not really one of those you're himing, yeah, um, And 498 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 1: actually if you go to Thailand, um you'll find that 499 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: and probably other places as well. The most toilets have 500 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,639 Speaker 1: a vegetable sprayer like from your kitchen. That's sort of 501 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,679 Speaker 1: part of the set up there. So it's kind of 502 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: form of a biday more of a manual bay um 503 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 1: showery sort of, which makes sense. It really makes the 504 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: you know, not having one seem kind of crude. But 505 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,199 Speaker 1: now this model also has uh uh adjustable biday with 506 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: controls for temperature and water pressure, heating elements, illuminated panel 507 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: for nighttime visits, a built in speaker system that connects 508 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: to a remote docking station. So I guess so you 509 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: can bring your your your iPhone or your iPod in 510 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: with you and just plug it in so you can 511 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: you can have your own music. Um, you never have 512 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: to leave your bathroom essentially, Yeah, deodorizing element that sucks 513 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 1: air from the bowl through a charcoal filter, and of 514 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 1: course everything's tied into a touch screen. So yeah. And 515 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 1: there's actually it's something called a function called otahimi, which 516 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: literally means princess of sound, and it produces a flushing 517 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: sound to cover bodiling noises. So again there's this preoccupation, 518 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: preoccupation with our our body and what it does in 519 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,679 Speaker 1: the Japanese culture. And how best to obstute ate that 520 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,719 Speaker 1: I went to high school with this uh grown name 521 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 1: Sarah who who may or may not be listening, uh 522 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: but uh Sarah went did some sort of a like 523 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: teach teach English as a second language deal in Japan, 524 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,959 Speaker 1: and she encountered one of these fancy toys. And this 525 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: was like, I guess seven years ago more I don't know, 526 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: but but you know, she didn't know what all the 527 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,959 Speaker 1: buttons were. Like a few were like clearly low flush 528 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: versus high flush, which is another nice innovation that we've 529 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: seen become more and more dominant even here in the States, 530 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 1: choosing how much how much water you need per um 531 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: you know, what needs to flush down. But then there 532 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: were other buttons. One of them produced the artificial flushing sound. 533 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: And the idea here is so instead of wasting the 534 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 1: water to create a flush sound to hide the sound 535 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 1: of your your excretion, then you know, you just push 536 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: this button and it will play the sound. But then 537 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 1: there was also a button that she pushed and the 538 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: police showed up while she was in the restaurant. I 539 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: think it was like, you know, an emergency button in 540 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: case there's some something wrong. Okay, so that that would 541 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 1: be the for me, okay, clowns um the second irrational 542 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: fear getting sucked out of the airplane through the toilet, 543 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 1: and third being arrested on the toilet. That's a problem there. Um. 544 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 1: So I mean, there you go. I mean, these are 545 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: some very interesting innovations. Yeah, I should add that I 546 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:07,679 Speaker 1: don't think she was caught on the toy I think 547 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,639 Speaker 1: she was leaving the toilet when the police came in. Okay, 548 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: that makes me feel so much better. Yeah, and this 549 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: is hardly much of an innovation. Um, I think it's 550 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: an innovation, But it isn't really it's not game changing, 551 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: even though it is a game. Sega has been installing 552 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: this toilet that's t o y l et game in 553 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:28,439 Speaker 1: Japanese journals, which is basically, um, I guess the idea 554 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: is like little boys especially will just pee everywhere unless 555 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: you make them focus, and one way to make them 556 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: focus is via a video game where the you know, 557 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: the way that you're you sort of pee into a 558 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: little video game controller and it I'm just thinking for 559 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: all the gamers out there, including yourself, it's got to 560 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 1: be probably actually a good solution for when you don't 561 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 1: want to get up and uh and pause the game, 562 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: like if you're in a moment, right, well, I think 563 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: that's called just winning a diaper Again. NASA, thank you 564 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: the the adult super absorbent typer. But this has been 565 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: around for a while because I think they've had like there. 566 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: Their readers will have to know, I mean listeners will 567 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: have to write in. But but I believe there have 568 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: been a number of cruder versions of urinal games where 569 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: you you pe on something and it makes a ball 570 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: go up in the urinals. Yeah, and of course our advertisements, 571 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: so that's that's the impetus there really for having that 572 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: technology is you can get whatever you're selling out there 573 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,479 Speaker 1: in front of um a captive audience, so to speak. Now, 574 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: we've been talking about innovations, um modern approaches to the toilet. 575 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: But but what's really interesting is that some of the 576 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: best ideas we might be able to employ regarding our 577 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: toilets are old ideas well. I mean, not actually thinking 578 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: about this. Okay, you've got these great things, especially with 579 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 1: the medical toilet that can tell you you know, what's 580 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: happening in your body, so on and so forth. You've 581 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: got all the different innovations, but it turns out that 582 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: we've been doing it all wrong regardless. And what I'm 583 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 1: talking about here is popping a squad, which is the 584 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: most natural thing in the world because we did not 585 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: evolve to set on little chairs with holes in them. 586 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: It's very victorian if you think about it, right, I'm 587 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: conscious sit here and pretend like I'm not going to 588 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: the bathroom. Um, but yeah, you're right. The popping a 589 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: squad is really what we are supposed to be and 590 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: what we're engineered to do. And there's a great article 591 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: on sleep dot com by Daniel Lamenti called don't just 592 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: sit there, and he actually goes into this the reasons 593 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: why it points out that the modern chair based flushing 594 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 1: toill and it really dates that dates back to the 595 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: late fifteen hundreds and and back before that. You just 596 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: have generations upon generations of people, as you say, popping 597 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: a squat. Uh and to this day, I mean most 598 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 1: you definitely have that. If anyone has ever traveled to 599 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: the into the East, if you've if you've got to 600 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 1: you know, Thailand, um, and throughout Europe. Throughout Europe, you'll 601 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: encounter these the squad toilets, which are well describe out 602 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: and describe one for us the hole in the ground, Yeah, 603 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: what's some porcelain added? Well, there's a tile work usually, 604 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean it's pretty amazing. I mean it 605 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: makes you realize that there are eight year olds that 606 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: are using all their muscles in their thighs to to 607 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: do this act and who are probably a lot more 608 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,959 Speaker 1: stronger than than some of us, um, some of us 609 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: thirtysome things in America here and there are a number 610 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 1: of arguments too that this is the again, we evolved 611 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: a squat and used the rest him. We didn't evolve 612 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: to set on a chair and do it. So so 613 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 1: there are all these arguments for for different different ways 614 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 1: that squatting is is a healthier option, right, Like hemorrhoids 615 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: is a really good example. This is a very modern thing, hemorrhoids, 616 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,959 Speaker 1: because if you're squatting, you're not straining as much. Straining 617 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: is one of the key uh causes of hemorrhoids. You'll see. Also, 618 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: people will get into whole arguments about the removal of impurities, 619 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 1: about you know, even tying it in with cancer, and 620 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: some of those claims are are are less explored. But 621 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: but there's and and then there's also the idea that 622 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 1: that when our thighs press against our our gut, that's 623 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 1: also aiding an excretion. And I believe they did some 624 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 1: some timing and this one uh one bit of research 625 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: that Lametti sites here, which which found that it's like 626 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 1: if you're if you're squatting, you can go in about 627 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: like fifty seconds, yeah and uh seconds something like that. 628 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: But if you're using a traditional Western toilet, then it's 629 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 1: going to be like twice that, right, And it makes 630 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 1: sense too. I mean, I was actually thinking about the 631 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 1: yoga pose Happy Baby, which stimulates your digestion and it's 632 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: the same thing, right, and you're just doing it on 633 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: your back. I always fall over on my side when 634 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: I do happy Baby, Yeah, and it makes my spine 635 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 1: feel weird. I don't know. It's an odd post. You're 636 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: happy babies, crazy baby, I think, but it points back 637 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: to this whole fact that the matter is is that 638 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: we do have against certain engineering that helps us with us. 639 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 1: Um So, I don't know, what do you do? Do 640 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 1: you retrofit your toilet? It's very possible. You can actually 641 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 1: put a platform on your toilet, but this is called 642 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: the East West toilet. Um. Well, no, this is the 643 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 1: There are a number of different devices out there. There's 644 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: one that basically looks like a little ladder that you 645 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 1: you kind of clamp on and it gives you like 646 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 1: kind of a squat plate on top of the traditional toilet. 647 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 1: But then there are are also more expensive models that 648 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: are kind of an s east meets West toilet, which 649 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 1: can be sat upon but can also be squatted upon. 650 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: So you're really you're yeah, but you're asking the person 651 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: who's squatting on it to like squat on an elevation. 652 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: So it looks kind of it still is kind of tricky. 653 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,600 Speaker 1: I'd feel a little um, you know, put out if 654 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 1: I was having to squat up there on top of 655 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 1: so I was going to say, it's not something i'd 656 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:46,959 Speaker 1: won after three beers. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's um and 657 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: it's it's also worth noting when we're looking back the 658 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,440 Speaker 1: history of toilets uh. People often look at the Roman toilets, 659 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 1: which we still see remains of, and they look like 660 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,800 Speaker 1: thrown style toilets uh. And it's apparently unclear whether or 661 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 1: not they sat on these. That's one of the traditional idea. 662 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,840 Speaker 1: It's possible they squatted on them, but but they were 663 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 1: basically elevated, they think, because you have like a latrine 664 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,239 Speaker 1: of raw suwage down there, and they just that makes 665 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 1: sense yea, and be elevated above that the chamber pot two. Right, 666 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: we said that that would evolve into something that became 667 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 1: something you sat on, the squatted over. So there you go. 668 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,360 Speaker 1: That's that's the scoop on the Pooh and the toilets 669 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 1: and innovations. It's a lot to think about. Yeah, there's um, 670 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,839 Speaker 1: if nothing else. Yeah, hopefully we've we've just stirred up 671 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 1: some conversation about this, about this this idea and U 672 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 1: and what is the toilet, how we've we've gotten to 673 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: the point that we've we've arrived at with it, and 674 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 1: where do we go within the future, How can we 675 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: improve on it? How can we fix the errors that 676 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 1: we've made, order the possible errors that we've made, and 677 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,800 Speaker 1: come out on the other side with something that's sustainable, healthy, etcetera. 678 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 1: That's right, Well, let's bring up mail on. Yeah, I 679 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,880 Speaker 1: have one quickiemel since we went a little long on 680 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 1: this um mostly because it was funny, I think, um. 681 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: But reader by the name of Richard writes in. Richard says, hey, guys, 682 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 1: just sending a message to say I love the podcast 683 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 1: and keep them coming. I also have one small correction 684 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,919 Speaker 1: for you. I can't remember exactly which podcasts. I think 685 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,320 Speaker 1: it may have been lying robots in the lives they tell. Anyway, 686 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 1: I believe Robert said that to Devon was a town 687 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 1: in the UK. Uh. It's not a town, it's a 688 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: It's a county, which is similar to your states, except 689 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,239 Speaker 1: not as big. I'm not sure if this has been 690 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: corrected or not, as I'm a bit behind in your 691 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 1: podcast and I'm trying to get up to speed to 692 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 1: keep up the good work. Richard P. S. I'm from 693 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,879 Speaker 1: Surrey in the UK, which is which is another county. Um, yes, 694 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: I believe I wrongfully um identified the spot. But basically 695 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,800 Speaker 1: I think what I've meant to say was it was Marlow, 696 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 1: because I look this up it's the town of Marlow. 697 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,319 Speaker 1: I don't know how I got Devin and Marlow confusedly. Yeah, 698 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 1: Marlow is a little town on the Thames that's really 699 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,840 Speaker 1: gorgeous and has this one or old church in the 700 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: cemetery right down there by the water. So so yes, Marlow, 701 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 1: not Devon. Cool there we go. So hey, if you 702 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: want to discuss anything with us, if you want to 703 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,799 Speaker 1: share links to cool toilet innovations that you've discovered, come 704 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 1: to our Facebook page and do just that. 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