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Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from how

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Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. Hey there, and welcome to tex Stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer here

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Speaker 1: at how Stuff Works and I love all things tech

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Speaker 1: and it's time for a Friday Classic episode. Get ready

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Speaker 1: for this blast from the past from tech Stuff. So

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Speaker 1: we are talking about toilets today. Yeah, it's gonna be ah.

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Speaker 1: This episode is going to be flush with puns. Man,

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Speaker 1: I can't take this already, and I know it's bad already, right,

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Speaker 1: So before I really get into that, you know, there

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Speaker 1: will obviously be some levity in this, but this is

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Speaker 1: actually a very serious topic. And to kind of illustrate that,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to mention something else. Now this is this

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Speaker 1: is half a year away from us. But November nineteenth

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Speaker 1: is World Toilet Day, which at first sounds kind of comedic, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm think it's hilarious. It sounds funny. It's it's an

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Speaker 1: event hosted by the World Toilet Organization. Still sounds at

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Speaker 1: first when you think about it, because the mean toilet

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Speaker 1: humor has become like a real it's a real industry

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Speaker 1: into itself. But this is not about humor. It's actually

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Speaker 1: the purpose of the day and the purpose of the

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Speaker 1: organization is to help provide support for getting proper sanitation

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Speaker 1: to the world's population. According to that organization, of the

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Speaker 1: world's population still practices open defecation. That's a billion people.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I knew a lot of people, did I

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Speaker 1: didn't realize it was that high a percentage. Now I

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Speaker 1: that was two point five billion people. So clearly we've

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Speaker 1: made some great strides in in raising sanitation levels, but

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Speaker 1: there's still so much work to be done. And I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is obviously something that we have to be concerned

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Speaker 1: at least a really bad outbreak of disease, not to

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Speaker 1: mention just unpleasant living conditions. Well, you know what's funny

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Speaker 1: is UM. I think part of it also is not

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Speaker 1: just that people practice open defecation, but that a lot

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Speaker 1: a result of their of their waste disposal. UM. But

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Speaker 1: I have there are places, especially in um parts of

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Speaker 1: are like you can put toilets in here all day long,

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Speaker 1: We're not going to use them because we find open

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Speaker 1: defecation as part of like wholesome country living. Is the

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Speaker 1: way that I've seen it put like it's just part

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Speaker 1: and like really taken in the whole scene. It's a

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Speaker 1: cultural thing at that point. Yeah, where it goes beyond,

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Speaker 1: I could understand that. I mean, I know there was

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Speaker 1: there's there's much smaller percentage of the toilets in Japan

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Speaker 1: are those, but they still do exist. But there was

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Speaker 1: Chris Palette is only here in spirit, but he is here.

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Speaker 1: You're channeling him pretty hard. Yeah, So let's go with

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Speaker 1: actually work. Now, if you're looking for the earliest evidence

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Speaker 1: makes sense because that's where the original civilizations were. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to take the lid off, and see what's going on

426
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Speaker 1: with that float. Maybe it's stuck on something, or it's

427
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's the switch might be burnt out,

428
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: in which case you would need to have that switch replaced.

429
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: But that's what's causing that or this again, the flush

430
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: valve could be not seated, populion waters just rushing out,

431
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 1: says filler valve. Balloon isn't getting to that level where

432
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 1: it's supposed to. It can trip the filler valve from

433
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,959
Speaker 1: turning off again, right exactly. Yeah, that could be another

434
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: another cause for it. But you don't have to fear

435
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: because even if the water is running, your toilet will

436
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: very likely not overflow because it's been designed so that

437
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,199
Speaker 1: as the tank fills, even if it keeps filling and

438
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: filling and filling, it's going to the overflow um tube,

439
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: I guess, is going to direct that into the bowl. Right,

440
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: So any water that comes above the height of the

441
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 1: overflow tube will just flow down the tube. The tube

442
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: leads to the bowl and water will flow into the bowl.

443
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: And then you think, wait, wait, wait that cause it

444
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: to flush. Yes, surely somewhere this thing's got to flood.

445
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: What's the deal. Why doesn't it all Right, that's when

446
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: we get into the siphon where my head pops. Yeah,

447
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 1: this is the sciphon gets a little for those who

448
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,360
Speaker 1: those of us who are many years away from basic physics,

449
00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:01,479
Speaker 1: the scipen gets confusing. So the sciphon is designed so

450
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: this is that that sort of upside down you or

451
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: the s shaped pipe the top of that upside down

452
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: you the peak there that's at the same level as

453
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: what the toilet bowl, the level of water and your

454
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: toilet bowl will be. Now if you were to pour

455
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: more water into the toilet bowl, because there's there's just

456
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: this open area between the siphon and the bowl. You know,

457
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: putting more water in makes the water level rise on

458
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: both sides, right, But if you're only putting in a

459
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: little bit of water, that water will just rise up

460
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 1: above the level of the bend and flow down the

461
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: other side of the bend. Yeah, And and I should

462
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 1: I want to point out that, um, this is your

463
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: explanation is spot on, but would be exponentially easier if

464
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: somebody were looking at a cross section of a toilet

465
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: flushing s valve exactly. Yeah. Yeah, it would really drive

466
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: at home. Yeah, because it's it's this is me trying

467
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 1: to paint a picture of a toilet flush in words,

468
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: yeah with physics. Yeah, so you've got you've got this

469
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: this level here, and as long as the water is

470
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: just flowing gently so for in other words, like a

471
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: steady stream from the overflow too, then it's just going

472
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: to gradually rise up til it hits above that you

473
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: bend and then flow down the other side. And that's

474
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,439
Speaker 1: all that happens, because it's not it's not creating the

475
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: siphon effect yet. Yes, So the water is in that

476
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: in that s trap and in your toilet bowl, and

477
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: on the other side of the siphon, in the tube

478
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: that leads down to the sewer, that that air is

479
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: imbalanced with the air that's in the toilet bowl, right,

480
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: So you basically have air pressure balancing your water and

481
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: keeping it in place. Yep, yep. And it's only if

482
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: you were to fill that siphon, that s trap with

483
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: water completely that that then things get out of balance.

484
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: And here's where the siphon effect comes into play. So

485
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: how does a siphon work all? Right? First of all,

486
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: siphon's a bent tube you to move a liquid from

487
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: a high evolution elevation rather over an obstruction and to

488
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: a lower elevation. Done and done right. You could do

489
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: this very easily by taking two cups, filling one cup

490
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: with water, putting a couple of books down on a table.

491
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: So you put the cup full of water on top

492
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: of one of the set of books. Get a tube

493
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: like flexible tube of some sort, submerge it in the

494
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,479
Speaker 1: water so that the tube fills with water. Put your

495
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,239
Speaker 1: thumb over one end of it, move it over to

496
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: the other cup, which is on the source of the table. Yeah,

497
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: make sure that the make sure that the end of

498
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,479
Speaker 1: the tube that you're holding ends up being lower than

499
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: the level of water in the cup. Let go. Water

500
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: will start to flow from the cup that's above to

501
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: the cup that's blow even though the tube will arc

502
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: so the water is technically flowing uphill. Yeah. It's a

503
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: pretty neat Yeah. As long as the lower end of

504
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: the tube going into the lower elevation glass um, as

505
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: long as that is exposed to air, and as long

506
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: as the end of the tube that's in the higher

507
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: glass is under water, the air pressure in the tube

508
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: is overcome and the suction effect takes place right. Well,

509
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: kind of, except that the other. The tube in the

510
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: lower elevation does not have to be above water. It

511
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: can be. It can actually be completely submerged as well

512
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: as long. What will happen is if the two water

513
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: levels reach the same height uh and I mean same

514
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: height relative to the table, then pressure is equalized and

515
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: everything will everything is an equilibrium and water will stop

516
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: to float. It's but as long as the elevated cup

517
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: has a higher water level, water will continue to flow

518
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: through that siphon. And the reason there are two reasons really.

519
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: One is that water inside a chamber like that acts

520
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: like a chain. It pulls itself along. The other reason

521
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: is that you have I think of the the tube

522
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: as an arc. Well, the tube that leads down to

523
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: the lower elevation is longer. That side is longer than

524
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: the side that's in the higher elevation. So the water

525
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: that's in that part is heavier, and that weight is

526
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: what's pulling water along inside the tube. And it's until

527
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: until you hit equilibrium. So for a toilet to get

528
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: it back to to the toilet example, and why it's

529
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: important when you flush that water from the tank rushes

530
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: into the bowl and it does so fast enough to

531
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: completely fill the pipe that s trap. This activates the

532
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: siphon effect, and the water pulls the waist and also

533
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: all the rest of the water along with it through

534
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: that s trap until it gets to a point where

535
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: it has exhausted the amount of water that the tank

536
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: has put into the bowl. And then air is introduced.

537
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: And once air is introduced, the siphon effect stops. Right.

538
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: So with a siphon, not only is the water flowing

539
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: out of the bowl because there's so much water what

540
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: about two or so gallons introduced to your toilet bowl

541
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: in about three seconds that that siphon effect is produced

542
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: in the s trap, right, Yeah, not only is that

543
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: water flowing, it produces a type of suction, So the

544
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: water in the bowl is sucked out and down the siphon.

545
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: And then, yes, like you said, once the air is introduced,

546
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: because the water and everything sucked out of the toilet bowl,

547
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: the suction effect is cut off and everything goes back

548
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: to the way it was before you flush the top. Right,

549
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: that's when the filler valve can start to refill the

550
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: bowl because now that there's no longer any more suction

551
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: going on, the bowl water level can return back to

552
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: what it was as well, And keep in mind that

553
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: part of the s trap that you know you can't

554
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: see because it's a solid pipe, but that also ends

555
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: up filling to that same height as the water that's

556
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: in the bowl. And then you're ready to go again

557
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: once the tank its bowl anyway, Yeah, once you eat

558
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: some kimchi yea. We talked about that before the podcast started. Um,

559
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: but yeah, what other thing to keep in mind. You

560
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: might say, well, why do we need a tank at all?

561
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: Why not just have a water pipe going directly into

562
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: the toilet and then when you flush, it just opens

563
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: up a valve for a certain amount of time and

564
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: it closes. And the reason is because unless you have

565
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: insane water pressure in your house, you're not putting enough

566
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: water in fast enough to fill that s trap completely

567
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: to to activate the siphon effect. It's just going to

568
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: trickle out like if your tank was overflowing exactly. So

569
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: there's some buildings that I mean a lot of buildings

570
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: that don't have UH tanks on their on their toilets,

571
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: but that's because again they are directly connected to a

572
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: very powerful water system, and thus you don't need a

573
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: tank because the water pressure that's coming in is great

574
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: enough to start that effect all by itself. Yeah, or

575
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: sometimes it's even more terrifying noise than that. So that's

576
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: your basic toilet, how your basic toilet works. But so

577
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: glad we're past the siphon effect. Yeah, that's I feel

578
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: like we just made it through the woods together. Now

579
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: now we're going to go into the bright, gorgeous future

580
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: of weird toilets. This is great. So let's talk Japanese

581
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: toilets for a second. And I'm not talking about the ones,

582
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: the trough ones, which we established. There are still some

583
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: in Japan, and trough is one way to put it.

584
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: More like, uh olyptical hole in the ground is another

585
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 1: way you can describe it as well. On the floor.

586
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so yeah, you straddle and then squat and

587
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 1: then evacuate and then and then evacuate, evacuate the area.

588
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: Like I would just be like, I don't know if

589
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: I did it right, and run one down the street. Um,

590
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: like I can't read your language, and I'm so sorry.

591
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: Just yeah, that's kind of how I hobably react. I mean,

592
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: I am, I'm being honest here, But no, the Japanese toilets,

593
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: the the more western style ones have features many of

594
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: them have features on them that put our Western toilets

595
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: to shame. Hey, guys, hope you're enjoying this classic episode

596
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: of tech stuff. Before we get into the final section,

597
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: let's take another quick break to thank our sponsor. So

598
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the features toilets. Sorry, do

599
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: you want? Do you have a favorite out of all

600
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: of them? The air dry air dry, that's pretty amazing.

601
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 1: I'm big on the sound masking. Yeah, they they they offer.

602
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,720
Speaker 1: Most Japanese toilets that have all the bells and whistles

603
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: offer a sound masking feature that's a flushing toilet. Yeah.

604
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 1: Some of them now have also classical music, but which

605
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: makes some white noise. I actually did a brain Stuff

606
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: episode about what white noises and how it works. You

607
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: should for superious. But yeah, it's the that those are

608
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: so two of the very simple ones. But it also

609
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: tends to have a couple of different options for washing

610
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: your nether regions once you are finished. Yes, and depending

611
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: on your gender, um, you should, I should say, depending

612
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: on your sex, you should be very careful what option

613
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: you choose when you're in Japan. Yeah, the day would

614
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: be aimed for you know, ladies. And then you have

615
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: rear washing, which is for you know, everyone, depending upon

616
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: what activities you've got up to on that bathroom. Um,

617
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: and uh, yeah, so there's usually there's a picture of

618
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: like a icon that looks kind of like a butt

619
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: with some sort of stream of something directed at it

620
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,959
Speaker 1: that would be for washing your rear. The day usually

621
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: has a icon of a lady somewhere on it, like

622
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: there's a ponytail involved, Yeah, something like that to indicate

623
00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: what that was for. And uh, if you're wondering, like, well,

624
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: ait a minute, I'm this sounds like this could be

625
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: really unhygienic. The Japanese are very concerned with clean ling

626
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: and so these are nozzles that are usually hidden away

627
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: from the inside of the toilet bolts. Only when you

628
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: press the button that they get there's like essentially a

629
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 1: door that opens and the novel can come out. And

630
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 1: they have nozzle sterilization technology to clean them between uses.

631
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: And so yeah, they usually have buttons where you also

632
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 1: have to like a stop button, so if you press

633
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: one of these, it essentially goes until you tell it

634
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: to stop. Yeah. And the person who wrote this, um

635
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: this how to use a Japanese toilet post points out

636
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 1: that before you choose either of these options, you want

637
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: to press the stream power down as as low as

638
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: it will go to start, and then you can adjust

639
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 1: it upwards. Um. Here, she says that at the normal

640
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: setting is equivalent to about a water pick, which on

641
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: your you're done, you're junk. That's not good, that's really,

642
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: that's terrible. It might come as a big surprise for

643
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,479
Speaker 1: that to to hit certain sensitive varia. Yeah, so yeah,

644
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: it's setting it low and this. Some of them also

645
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: have controls for the temperature of the water, not to

646
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: mention the temperature of the seat. Uh. Some also, like

647
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: you mentioned, have the air drying so that after you

648
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: have had your rear washed, air dry it, which I mean, like, yes,

649
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: that's cool, there's like the days and rear washing all

650
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: that stuff, but you're not gonna stand up right afterwards.

651
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: Just be what you have to have the air dryer.

652
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: That's why, I mean, that's the best part. I agree,

653
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean, if if you're going to have

654
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: these other features, you really knew do need the air

655
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: dryer or else you're just like, well, I guess I'll

656
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: be sitting here for a couple more minutes before I

657
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: dare move. Another interesting thing to me about the Japanese

658
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: culture um and it makes perfect sense. I totally understand it.

659
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: But you know, in Japan, shoes are really considered to

660
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: be quite dirty. That's one of the dirtiest pieces of

661
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: clothing that people have. So it's customary, of course to

662
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: take your shoes off and slip into house slippers before

663
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: moving going into a house. Absolutely, bathrooms have their own

664
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: sets of slippers, and it is quite a faux pod

665
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: to mix the two together. Oh yeah, if you were

666
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: to step out of a bathroom wearing bathroom slippers, you

667
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,240
Speaker 1: would shock people, especially if you did like a little

668
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: dance like I'm American. Oh yeah, don't come on, and

669
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: you can. You can usually tell the bathroom slippers um

670
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: from they They have almost like a bit of a

671
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: waterproof look to them. Usually they're a little shinier. They're

672
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 1: made of they're not like um cloth. Usually they you

673
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 1: could tell just using your your noodle compared to house slippers.

674
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: You'd be like, these are probably the bathroom slipper toilet slippers.

675
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: Or they might be brightly colored and you think no

676
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: one would ever wear these anywhere else, or so maybe

677
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 1: they have a poop emogy on them. It could be

678
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: those are popular. Another feature you might find on the

679
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: toilets is a deodorizer button. Yeah, also kind of interesting.

680
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: So I found a toilet if I may give a plug,

681
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: Even though I should say I have no financial interest

682
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: whatsoever in the Cohler company, but I have become a

683
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: fan of their new me uh toilet. Oh yeah, I

684
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: can't even begin to describe it. It's just so neat

685
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: as far as the design goes. Um. Just go to

686
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: just look for the new me toilet and U M

687
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: I um. But one of the things they have is

688
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: a deodorizer. It's like, um, basically a little vent where

689
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: the the the odor is sucked in and run through

690
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 1: a charcoal filter. Nice. Yeah yeah, I mean I when

691
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: I read about the Japanese toilets, obviously there's some some

692
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: humor that comes in that just from the cultural differences

693
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: things like that, and which can seem very funny. But

694
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,399
Speaker 1: at the same time, I am incredibly envious. I would

695
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: love to have a lot of these features building two

696
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: American toilets. Uh. There are there are some moves to

697
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: improve toilet technology in various ways. Some of it is

698
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:08,760
Speaker 1: a conservation trying to find low flush toilets that'll still

699
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 1: activate the siphoning UH technique, but not use as much

700
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: water and a go very important. Did you see the

701
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: no mixed toilet I did? Yeah, the the one that

702
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: has met It has kind of like a ledge and

703
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 1: and filter for UH urine and then behind that would

704
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: be where Yeah, it's it's meant so that when you

705
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: when you just have to urinate, you don't have to

706
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: flush the toilet. Yeah, it doesn't flush at all, and

707
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, it collects the urine UM.

708
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons why the company that originally

709
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: started making no mixed toilet stop making them is because well,

710
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: number one, they didn't catch on very well, there's a

711
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: lot of hesitancy UM. But the another reason is they

712
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: they didn't quite have the infrastructure to collect the urine

713
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: separately and send it off. Although environmentally speaking, it makes

714
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: a lot of sense to separate urine from feces, especially

715
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: UH and not flush urine because when you flush urine,

716
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: you're introducing a lot of other stuff besides just the urine,

717
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: Like if you are on pharmaceuticals, those a lot of

718
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 1: that stuff is expelled and metabolized and expelled in your

719
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: urine and it gets introduced into wet land areas and

720
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: things like that, and all of a sudden you have

721
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: frogs that are like have roid rage or something, uh,

722
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: you know, or that like a rubbing themselves against walls

723
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: because you took too much ecstasy the night before. Yeah,

724
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: I mean, well, yeah, anything you're taking into yours, anything

725
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna excrete spin filtered through your kidneys, you're going

726
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: to have some some other elements in there too, consumed.

727
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: But so the nomaxed toilet collects this urine and sends

728
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: it off for separate recycling. And then if you're really hardcore,

729
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: you know Granola or your city is, then maybe it

730
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: gets recycled into water and you drink that and pee

731
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 1: it out again and again it becomes a closed loop. Yeah,

732
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 1: and we've talked about that on Forward Thinking. We talked

733
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: about that with systems aboard UM, the International Space Station

734
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: ways of water reclamation, so that I mean, obviously, if

735
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: you are in an area where you get very little

736
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: water or it's very difficult to ship water to you,

737
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: you have to make the best use of all the

738
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: resources you have. Uh. There's some other things we can

739
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: talk about as far as toilet advances, smart toilets, so

740
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 1: sensor technology has gotten to the point now where it's

741
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: it's very inexpensive, it's versatile, waterproof, It's entirely possible to

742
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: design sensors that could uh measure your waste and and

743
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: come up with actual information that could be relevant to

744
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 1: your health. So I've also interesting examples like the idea

745
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: of a sensor that could be an early pregnancy detection

746
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: by detecting changing hormone levels. Um, it might analyze your

747
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: wayte detect the bacterial infection, so it might tell you.

748
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: It might even send you an indication saying you know,

749
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: you need to take it easy for a little while,

750
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: or maybe even you need to go see a doctor.

751
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: With the right kind of software, you and this is

752
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: not hard to do at all. You could even have

753
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: one that could send a notification to your doctor, or

754
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: even go further, have one that's linked to your doctor's

755
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: calendar and your calendar and even create an appointment for you,

756
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: so your toilet has all that for you. It's it's possible.

757
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: It's not something that we're necessarily seeing everywhere, but it's possible.

758
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: I could see some problems with this though, well, yeah,

759
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: I mean, like, first of all, there's a real hesitancy

760
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: by people to especially put their medical records out there,

761
00:44:56,239 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: their health data. UM. I feel like those as as

762
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: the advantages are the benefits of allowing the Internet of

763
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: things or that that level of tech into our lives,

764
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: especially with health um become obvious to more people, the

765
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: more just relaxed everybody's going to become. I mean, think

766
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: about it, five ten years ago, say five, the putting

767
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: your credit card into a website to order something was

768
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 1: still like really sketch you to a lot of people,

769
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 1: And now enough people have done it that it's just

770
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: it's just whatever. That's the norm. Yeah, right, And I

771
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: think health our health information is going to go that

772
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: same way. I can see that. The only thing I

773
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: see as uh possible, well not the only thing, but

774
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: one of the things I see is an impediment to

775
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: this is how do you identify the person who is

776
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: using the toilet at any given situations? So, for example, Josh,

777
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 1: let's say I have you over and you need to

778
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: use my restroom, and unbeknownst to me, you are carrying

779
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: around a really awful bacterial infection that's poised to wreak

780
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: havoc in your system. And so as you use my

781
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: restroom and you flushed the toilet, it analyzes it and

782
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: suddenly thinks that Jonathan has gotten really sick. Next thing

783
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: I know, my doctor is calling me. Now I know

784
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: about your health condition. Yeah, that's that's a very good point. Um.

785
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: I would guess then if if toilets are analyzing us

786
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: our health personally, then a toilet itself will become a

787
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,280
Speaker 1: much more personal thing. So maybe I have a dumb

788
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: toilet as my guest toilet, and then my smart toilet

789
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: is the only one that's in my master bathroom. Or

790
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: here's another thing, Stop me if I sound crazy, stop

791
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 1: You've got a biometric authentication system for your toilet where

792
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: you have to scan like a thumb print or a

793
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: retinal scant identify you before using it. Thus you can't

794
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: possibly confuse to people, and you cannot flush until you

795
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: have identified yourself. That's a good one. No, that's a

796
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: I mean, it makes sense. My my wife and I

797
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:18,919
Speaker 1: have um an aria uh scale. Oh yeah right, it's

798
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: like fitbit um and it can easily tell us apart.

799
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: But because I mean, it just determines like wait and

800
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,280
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Um, so it can it can easily

801
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: tell us apart. But you know, maybe the seat does

802
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: detect by weight, or there is some other detail about

803
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: you that just by sitting on the toilet, uh, it

804
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 1: says this is Jonathan or this is not This is

805
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,879
Speaker 1: someone who's broken into Jonathan's house to use this toil. Right, well,

806
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: that would be another thing using your bathroom. Should I

807
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: lock the door? Yes, and turn on bathroom webcam? Right? Yeah,

808
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: there you go. And also the you know, deodorized, let's

809
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: just go ahead and be suffe. So there are other

810
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: potential old dangers, and one of those hacking. So there's

811
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: already a story about a smart toilet hacking uh situation

812
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 1: which happened back in two thousand thirteen. Ours Technica reported that,

813
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 1: according to security firm trust Wave, the Enacts Status automatic

814
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: toilet had a Bluetooth security vulnerability and it was a

815
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 1: doozy so to speak. So the you know, when you

816
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: pair to bluetooth capable technologies together, you generally have some

817
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: sort of code that jet to put in in order

818
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: to pair them. Not always, but a lot of them do.

819
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: And the problem was they had hardwired the same master

820
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: code in all of these toilets, and it was just

821
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 1: zero zero zero zero, right, So any app for this

822
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: toilet compare with any toilet just from being in the

823
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: same area. Right, So if you are within bluetooth distance,

824
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: which is pretty decent, I mean, you don't it's not

825
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: that far, but it's not know, it's it's not like

826
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: you could do it from two fifty feet away necessarily,

827
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: But if you're close enough, like within the building or

828
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: on the on the side of it or whatever, you

829
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 1: can totally pair your phone with the toilet inside and

830
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: essentially hijack someone's toilet, which you know you might think, well,

831
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: why could you do? Well, this thing had the ability

832
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: to open and close via a command on your phone,

833
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: so that way you didn't have to touch the toilet seat.

834
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: It also allows you to control things like the bidet

835
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: or the rear washing uh nozzles, so you could you

836
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,879
Speaker 1: could turn it on like you could turn on one

837
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: of those nozzles when no one's on the toilet and

838
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,399
Speaker 1: start flooding their bathroom, or you can do it when

839
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: you realize someone's just gone into the bathroom and they

840
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: haven't even really started yet. You could do it then

841
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: and just laugh at the hilarious or close the toilet

842
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: seat while they're mid you know activity, you know, you know,

843
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: it's ironic about using an app on your phone to

844
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: open and close the toilet seat. Would it be that

845
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: the phone surface, this is the dirtiest sertency come in

846
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: contact with. Yeah, I thought that might be where you

847
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: were going with that. Yeah, guys, if you didn't know,

848
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: if you have smartphones, got touchscreen, hits filthy. It's about

849
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 1: the dirtiest thing you probably come into contact within any day,

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Speaker 1: including the toilets. Yeah. Yeah. The one thing that might

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Speaker 1: be uh, you know, a good competitor with that would

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Speaker 1: daily basis, that's probably pretty gross too. Yeah. So what's

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Speaker 1: in the future for toilet's Probably we will see some

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Speaker 1: other ones. I imagine we'll see more moves to conserve water.

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Speaker 1: It may even mean that we end up moving away

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Speaker 1: from the siphon model and find a different model to

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Speaker 1: upon creating enough water to create this section, we'll have

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Speaker 1: to wait and see. Uh, but we have to thank

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Speaker 1: the brilliant men and women who came before us forging

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Speaker 1: the path to make incredibly useful piece of technology, and

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Speaker 1: pretty rough you know, circumstances when obviously when cultures are

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Speaker 1: going to adopt it. So, Josh, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining me on the sand. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: This was a joy. It was fun. It was fun.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we were able to talk about this in

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Speaker 1: a mature way with only a few terrible jokes on

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Speaker 1: my end, relatively mature. We did pretty juvenile at times,

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Speaker 1: but mostly maure uh. Of course, listeners, you can find

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Speaker 1: Josh at the Stuff You Should Know podcast, which is

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Speaker 1: the granddaddy of all the stuff podcast. Fantastic. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's it's the oldest podcast that's still running from How

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Speaker 1: Stuff Works and is uh fantastic. Guys, I gotta thank

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark one more time for joining me on that

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Speaker 1: classic episode. We talked a lot about all sorts of technologies,

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Speaker 1: you know, since we recorded that, I actually got to

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Speaker 1: a great trip, not crappy at all. Anyway, if you

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