1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with tex Stuff from Hey there, 2 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Jonathan Sickland and joining 3 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: me in the studio, a true celebrity man among men. 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: Josh Clark stuff, you should know. I want to apologize 5 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: in advance. I'm not feeling very charming today. It's okay, Josh, 6 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: It's all right. I mean because Josh at A three 7 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: is like normal human, like an eight point oh go on. 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: That was nice. I gave Josh, of course, the opportunity 9 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: to pick a topic for, you know, something that we 10 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 1: could cover here on tech Stuff, and we were just 11 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 1: kind of bandying about ideas and you actually keep up 12 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: with one of the most basic pieces of technology that 13 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: we're all familiar with, we've all used, but I have 14 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: somehow never covered it in the near seven hundred episodes 15 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: of Tech Stuff. I'll bet you've covered them before. Oh yeah, 16 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: just not on the show. Uh six episodes. This is 17 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: episode I feel very honored to be on this one. 18 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: So yeah, congratulations, thank you, thank you. Yeah. So we 19 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: are talking a mount toilets today. Yeah, it's gonna be uh, 20 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,199 Speaker 1: this episode is going to be flush with puns. Man, 21 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: I can't take this alright, and I know it's bad already, right, 22 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: so before I really get into that, you know, there 23 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: will obviously be some levity in this, but this is 24 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: actually a very serious topic. And to kind of illustrate that, 25 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: I wanted to mention something else. Now this is this 26 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: is half a year away from us, but November nineteen 27 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: is World Toilet Day, which at first sounds kind of comedic, right, 28 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: I think it's hilarious. It sounds funny. It's it's an 29 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: event hosted by the World Toilet Organization. Still sounds at 30 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: first when you think about it, because I mean, toilet 31 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: humor has become like a real it's a real industry 32 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: into itself. But this is not about humor. It's actually 33 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: the purpose of the day, and the purpose of the 34 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: organization is to help provide support for getting proper sanitation 35 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:19,519 Speaker 1: to the world's population. According to that organization, of the 36 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: world's population still practices open defecation. That's a billion people. 37 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: I mean, I knew a lot of people, did I 38 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: didn't realize it was that high a percentage. Now I 39 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: saw a figure back in I think two thousand nine 40 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: that was two point five billion people. So clearly we've 41 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: made some great strides in in raising sanitation levels, but 42 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: there's still so much work to be done. And I 43 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: mean this is obviously something that we have to be 44 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: concerned with because it can lead to you know, pandemics 45 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 1: or at least a really bad outbreak of disease, not 46 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,399 Speaker 1: to mention just unpleasant living condition. Well, you know what's 47 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: funny is um. I think part of it also is 48 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: not just that people practice open defecation, but that the 49 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: a lot of them don't have access to sanitary drinking 50 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,839 Speaker 1: water as a result of their of their waste disposal. UM. 51 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: But I have there are places, especially in um parts 52 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: of rural India, where open defecation is practiced where the 53 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: people are like you can put toilets in here all 54 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: day long, we're not going to use them because we 55 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 1: find open defecation as part of like wholesome country living 56 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: is the way that I've seen it put like it's 57 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: just part and parcel with being outside and you know, 58 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: watching a squirrel run past you while you're pooping, that 59 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: kind of thing, and like really taken in the whole scene. 60 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: It's a cultural thing at that point. Yeah, where it 61 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: goes beyond, it goes beyond, like it's it's not necessarily 62 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: just the lack of facilities. This has become a way 63 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: of life. I could understand that. I mean, I know 64 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: there was even some reluctance in Japan to go from 65 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: the UH the more trough like toilets that they used to. Yeah, 66 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: there's there's much smaller percentage of the toilets in Japan 67 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: are those, but they still do exist. But there was 68 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: a large UH hesitate to use the word, movement trend 69 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: to going toward more Western style toilets over the last 70 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: couple of years. I know, I'm sorry, it's gonna happen. 71 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: Chris Palette is only here in spirit, but he is here. 72 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: You're channeling him pretty hard. Yeah, so let's go with 73 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: a little history lesson before we get into how toilets 74 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: actually work. Now, if you're looking for the earliest evidence 75 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: of organized waste management systems, you look at Mesopotamia, which 76 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,919 Speaker 1: makes sense because that's where the original civilizations were. Yeah, 77 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: it's also a great Bifo song, But this would be 78 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: back at the c E around approximately around that era, 79 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: when you would see these organized systems for waste management. 80 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: One thing I thought was really interesting was I watched 81 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: a documentary about a Neolithic village that was on the 82 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: Orkney Islands, uh in Scotland. Um, we call it scare Bray. 83 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: That's the name we've given it. Because any actual records 84 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:19,039 Speaker 1: of this village haven't existed for more than a couple 85 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: of thousand years. This village was forgotten. No one knew 86 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: it was even there until there was a major storm 87 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: that washed away some of the land that had grown 88 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: up built up around on top of the village. Is amazing. 89 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: Right when it was discovered, you immediately had a and uh, 90 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: there was an expedition, let's say, to uncover the village, 91 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: but it was not led by anyone who's ever been 92 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: actually identified. In other words, it was treasure hunters. I 93 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: didn't probably didn't find anything really of value there. There 94 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 1: was certainly no you know, hordes of gold and diamonds 95 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: and jewels there. Uh. And it wouldn't be until the 96 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: nineteen thirties that a more or an eye archaeological dig 97 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: would take place. And after that there was another storm 98 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: and they had to actually shore up the area to 99 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: protect it as an archaeological site. And what they found 100 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: was that this tiny village, which dates to around three 101 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: thousand BC, in Scotland had these homes that were very sophisticated. 102 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: You would walk in there'd be a large bed on 103 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: the right hand side, a smaller bed on the left, 104 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: which mirrors regular practices of the time where the husband 105 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: and wife. The husband would have the larger of two beds. 106 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:38,239 Speaker 1: They had a fire pit hearth, but they also had 107 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: a essentially a toilet. They had a stone cabinet with 108 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: a hole cut so that you could sit down on it, 109 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: with channels that lead out to the ocean, and ocean 110 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: water with the tides would actually flush this. So these 111 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: were flushing toilets. They weren't manual flush title flush, so 112 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: you had to wait, hey it's still flushed. Yeah, that's 113 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: the important point in this took the waste away, right Yeah. Yeah, 114 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: so all the way back to three thousand BC. Uh, 115 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: the actual the whole area of scare breaks fascinating, So 116 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: definitely look into that a get a chance. I mean, 117 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: I've seen him before. I've seen just the settlement pictures 118 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: of the settlement. It is pretty advanced. You don't think 119 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: of the Orkney Islands and three thousand b C. Is 120 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: you know, the seed of civilization technology. But yeah, they 121 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: had something going on. It's pretty surprising, yeah, because I mean, 122 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: you know, when I think of of society civilization in 123 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: the British Islands, I'm thinking closer to the Roman times. 124 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: But it's pretty amazing how sophisticated was even back then. Uh. 125 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: Ancient Greeks also they used sewage systems to channel waste 126 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: away from living quarters. The Romans went even further. They 127 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: would have these, especially if you were a very wealthy 128 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: or powerful Roman, you might have a pretty styling you know, bathroom, 129 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: heated seats, heated marble seats, um. And it maybe private 130 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: from what I understood, but for the most part, public 131 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: bathrooms really took the public thing to the nth degree, 132 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: where it was just like basically a long bench with 133 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: different cutouts, you know, space not very far apart frankly, um, 134 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: and you'd have maybe eight or ten, maybe fifteen. I 135 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: saw there was a public restroom in Syria UM that 136 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: I think was contemporaneous to to Greece UM that sat 137 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: like eighty and there's no partitions, there's no nothing, And 138 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: it seemed to be um kind of a social endeavor 139 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: where like you just sit there and chat with somebody 140 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 1: while you're pooping. Yeah, it's kind of funny to think 141 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 1: about how it was this communal social activity, or at 142 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: least it wasn't separated from any of the communal and 143 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: social activities, whereas today we have all these unspoken rules 144 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: of of you know, no talking in the bathroom, you 145 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: keep your dirty behavior to yourself. Yeah, I don't know 146 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: if you've ever seen it. There's actually if I'm a 147 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: Shinama cartoon using them. I think it's the sims where 148 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: it's to illustrate the rules in the men's restroom, and 149 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: rule number one is if there's a line of urinals, 150 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: you take one on either end. It doesn't matter which end, 151 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 1: just it has to be on the end the next 152 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: person and has to take the one on the furthest end. 153 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: And then as long as there's at least one empty 154 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: one separating you and the next person, you can take one. 155 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: But if there isn't, you gotta leave. Like like there's 156 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: it was this crazy series of but it was a 157 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: series of rules where and then the comedy came from 158 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: the fact that you're like, this is kind of how 159 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: guys behave in the bathroom. For me, it's the cardinal 160 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: rule is if there's two two stalls, um and the 161 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:05,079 Speaker 1: doors shut on one then both are occupied by by default. 162 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: That must make it difficult here in this office because 163 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: the bathrooms go uh floor to ceiling with the doors 164 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: and they're shut all the time. So that's that's different 165 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: like that these bathrooms are prime real estate in my opinion. 166 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: But if you remember in the last place where House 167 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: the First was headquartered, it was you know, just a 168 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: partition and you can see feet and everything. And it's 169 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: that's just to me, like we we really have advanced 170 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 1: to the point where you know, it is a private 171 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: act and um, it's not to be shared. It's not public. 172 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,319 Speaker 1: We're not in ancient Greece any longer. Um. And so 173 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: if somebody's in install, you don't sit down next to him. 174 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:49,239 Speaker 1: I just I really feel strongly about that. I can understand. 175 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: And it's interesting because when we get into advanced toilets 176 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: like the Japanese toilets, they take that to the next 177 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: level to create another another uh level of privacy for that. Yeah, 178 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: it's pretty neat. Like you swipe your hand in front 179 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: of a sensor and it takes you to the seventh dimension, 180 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: completely out of reach of anybody. Here, it's you and 181 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 1: Buckeru Banza and that's it. Yeah, I think he is, 182 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: or the tenth. It's one of those. Yeah. So one 183 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: of the other things we can talk about before we 184 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: move into the earliest flush toilet is that when you're 185 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: looking at say Europe in the Middle Ages, all the 186 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: way up into the Renaissance. Uh, you're talking about especially like, 187 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: you know, think about castles frequently. I do, I really 188 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: do frequently think about castles. Um. Their facilities were pretty primitive. 189 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: It was essentially a hole cut into the you know, 190 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: like a like a stone seat sometimes with a wooden 191 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: panel on top of it. Uh. That then had a 192 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: channel that that slanted away from the wall, and you're 193 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: waste would drop down either into a cesspit, a moat, moat, 194 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 1: sometimes just the ground. On the invading armies, that is 195 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: also a possibility. And these were called garter robes. And 196 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: they were also closets. They weren't just bathrooms, they were closets. 197 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: He would hang your clothing. Why because the ammonia from 198 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: your urine would kill fleas. Oh wow, that is very 199 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 1: surprisingly clever. It's not scar a break clever, but it's 200 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: up there. So if you're wondering when the first flush 201 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: toilet comes along. It's actually a lot earlier than I 202 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: had anticipated. It's weird. I don't know how I never 203 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,719 Speaker 1: came across this fact before. And it's one that, by 204 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: the way, a lot of people in our office. No, 205 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:50,599 Speaker 1: it comes from fift nineties six John Harrington. Yes, he 206 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: was a cousin. I think of um Elizabeth the first Yeah, 207 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: he was her godson. Okay, that's what it was. And 208 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: he designed this flushing toilet or prototype of a flushing 209 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: toilet for her. Yeah, and she probably didn't use it 210 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,560 Speaker 1: very much. She didn't admit to it. She was a 211 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: queen and technically, when you're queen you can pretty much 212 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: poop wherever you like. Someone's going to take care of it. 213 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: But he called it the ajax. No, here's the thing. 214 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: John Harrington was a rake. Yeah, he was like, you know, 215 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: kind of like he was known for passing around lewd 216 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: poetry to the ladies of the court. He loved too. 217 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:35,319 Speaker 1: He was very clever and he loved being clever and 218 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: so lewd poetry. Flushing toilets, well, he called it the 219 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: ajax as a pun. It's a pun on the term 220 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: Jake's which is a euphemism for toilet. It's like the John. 221 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: It's Jake's, So a Jax is a pun on Jake's. 222 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: And it had a pan into which one would do 223 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: one's business and assist turn that you could pump water 224 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: up into, and then a handle and when you pulled 225 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: the handle, it opened up a valve that allowed the 226 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: water from the cistern to come down and wash away 227 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,319 Speaker 1: what was in the pan down through a channel that 228 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: would go out to assess pool onto an invading army 229 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: or onto an invading army, as the case may be. 230 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: As far as I know, he only built two. I 231 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: think he built one for the queen and one for himself. 232 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: Uh So it was an interesting idea, did not catch 233 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: on at the time. Uh it really just showed his 234 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: inventiveness to to look at the next approach to the 235 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: flushing toilet. You have to go ahead by almost two 236 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: years Alexander Cummings exactly, and he he invented something that 237 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: ended up being very important for the flushing toilet, the 238 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: s trap. Yeah, so much so that it's still basically 239 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: the design of toilets today. Yeah. Now, this is the 240 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: pipes that you see that lead out from your toilet, 241 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: and it's called an S trap because it's in that 242 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: S shape, right, yeah, or some people consider it an 243 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: upside down you or something like that. It all depends 244 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: on one how much of it you can see and 245 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: to exactly what implementation it is. But yeah, the U 246 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: trap is another way of looking at an upside on you. 247 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: Uh So the important thing about this was that it 248 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: would allow uh it would well trap water once it 249 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: had gone down the pipe from coming back up, and 250 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: it would also thus trap the smell, yes, which is 251 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: very important with sewers, because if you're taking a piece 252 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: of technology and connecting it to an open sewer, yeah, 253 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: the smell is gonna be something. Yeah, it's gonna be 254 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: how to take care of that? And he did with 255 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: the S trap, Yeah, And it was really a brilliant ideas, 256 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: so much so strickling that like three two years later, 257 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: two fifty years later, Um, we're still using this guy's designing. 258 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: It is not been improved upon in two d and 259 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: fifty years right there. There are a couple of other 260 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: variations on it, but it has the basic design is 261 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: still what we rely upon because it works, has no 262 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: moving parts for just that that pipe, so it can't 263 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: break down in that sense I could still get clogged. 264 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 1: Maybe we'll talk a bit about clogs later. Yeah, well, 265 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: you know you gotta talk about it. I didn't. I 266 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: did not know we were going to talk about clogs. Well, 267 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: I apologize. If you want, you can check out for 268 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: that part of the ill go to my happy place. 269 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, we'll just watch you kind of stare 270 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: space um. But it also he also invented a sliding 271 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: valve between the bowl and the trap, which allowed some 272 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: water to stay in the bowl after you flushed, so 273 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: that it could hold on to the waist for the 274 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: next time. And so you didn't just have just an 275 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: empty bowl of waste and then put water into it. 276 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: It was you know, it actually improved the warm It's 277 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: quite a bit. And you had a lot of other 278 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: inventors who followed, like Samuel Prosser, Joseph Brama, Thomas Twyford. 279 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 1: They all made improvements to the basic design of the toilet, 280 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 1: but not a Mr. Crapper. You know, I was gonna 281 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: save that. But yeah, let's talk about Thomas Crapper here 282 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: for a second. But before we get into that, let's 283 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: take a quick break to thank our sponsor. Okay, so 284 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: you may have heard the somewhat apocryphal tale that the 285 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: toilet was invented by a man named Thomas Crapper. Enough, yeah, 286 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: one of those ha ha, Isn't it ironic? Don't you 287 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 1: think Alanis morrisse at moments? You know it might be. 288 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: It's like it's like rain on your wedding day. It's 289 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: like Thomas Crapper making a toilet, and I'm pretty sure 290 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 1: that's the way it goes. Um. Thomas Crapper, as far 291 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: as we can tell, was actually a person. There are 292 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: records of a Thomas Crapper Whold who held patents in 293 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: the nineteenth century and their plumbing patents, and some of 294 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: them fact involved improvements to the water closet or toilet. 295 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: But he didn't invent it um, and he may not 296 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: have had that big of an impact overall on the 297 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: toilet evolution. It's just one of those facts that kind 298 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: of got passed around, as you know, or one of 299 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: those those tidbits agains passed around. The total truth. Plus 300 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: he pronounced his name, it's crepe Um. Yeah, it was. 301 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 1: It's one of those things where I actually looked into 302 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 1: it too, because I was like, well, I've always heard 303 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: that as well. And I'm curious where that came out. Well, 304 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: yeah it is. It's got it has traction because it's 305 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: just so delightful. Yeah yeah. Uh. Going back to mid 306 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: eighty eight in the UK, that's when they passed the 307 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: Public Health Act, which stated that all new houses in 308 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: the UK had to be built with a toilet. Very smart. Yeah, 309 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: it's a great way of preserving your your various towns 310 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,679 Speaker 1: and ease from becoming overrun with filth. Right. But and 311 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,479 Speaker 1: this is still um in play today. There's a certain 312 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: psychology around defecation, urination, expelling waste, right, and it can 313 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 1: swing wildly from era to era. But at that time, 314 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: in the mid nineteenth century, forcing the public to install 315 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: indoor plumbing wasn't like the public was saying, yes, thank 316 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: you government, we've been waiting to have to do this. 317 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: It was more like, um, wait, you want us to 318 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: put a toilet where next to the kitchen? What is 319 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 1: wrong with you? No, that's disgusting. We want to put 320 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: this over in the back garden where you know, chimberpot. 321 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: It's mobile that we can put wherever and get rid 322 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: of immediately, Like this is gross, Like you want us 323 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,239 Speaker 1: to hook it up to the sewer. What's wrong with you? 324 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: So there was like a certain um amount of resistance 325 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: to adopting this, whereas now, um, you know, it's yeah, 326 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 1: you want that, you want indoor plumbing, and it's based 327 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: on the cultural attitudes towards expelling waste that that vary 328 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: from time to time. Yeah, it's it's it's hard. I mean, 329 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: it's very easy for us to start looking at everything 330 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 1: from our current perspective, right, It's very difficult to take 331 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: ourselves out of that. But you do have to do 332 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: that when you start talking about subjects like this, because 333 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: it was a different world. I mean, people thought differently 334 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: and for for reasons that you can kind of understand 335 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 1: when you think about it. And you know, if you think, well, 336 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: now I've got a thing that dumps waste into a sewer, 337 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: but I don't want any of that smell or nastiness 338 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: or anything to get into my home. When before I 339 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: had a portable thing, I could actually take it outside 340 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 1: and dump it in a cess pool or whatever. It 341 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: wasn't there wasn't a big change. Plus plus, it's like 342 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: that's my poop. Yeah it's poop, but it's I know 343 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: where that poop came from. Whereas with the sewer, everybody 344 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,400 Speaker 1: else's poop has the opportunity come into your house. Yeah, 345 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: which you don't know, you didn't want. Another interesting point 346 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: is I've been talking exclusively about people inventors and engineers 347 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: in the UK. Now, when settlers came over to America, 348 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 1: they did not come over with plans for toilets, and 349 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: so the toilet actually had a parallel evolution in the 350 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: UK and in the United States in isolation basically a 351 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: little bit, yes, with with a little bit. I mean, 352 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: they obviously had some common history there, but it was 353 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: largely engineers in the US who created very similar style toilets. 354 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: In some cases, they were toilets that were lagging behind 355 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: the technology by about twenty years compared to the UK. 356 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: But you had folks like James T. Henry and William 357 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: Campbell who were awarded a U S patent for a 358 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: water closet toilet um. And that's where we really see 359 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 1: it moving forward from that point on and to the 360 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: point where the essentially merged like the the You know 361 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 1: that we saw the United States adopt things like the 362 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 1: s trap, making the toilets more useful. Do you know 363 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: when toilet paper was invented. Toilet paper was invented in 364 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: ninety eight. I predate ninety and I distinctly remember toilet paper. 365 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: You were off by almost a hundred years when toilet 366 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 1: paper was invented, didn't They used to use a series 367 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: robot catalog corn Cob. There's actually some poetry that I've 368 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 1: read where there's a discussion a giant. I forget what 369 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 1: poem it is, but there's a giant talking about all 370 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: the different things he has used to clean himself after 371 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: after evacuation, including I think he determined that the most 372 00:22:55,359 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: comfortable was the neck of a goose. Yeah, I can 373 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: tell you not not for the goose, but yeah, uh so. Yeah. 374 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 1: The toilet paper was in but not marketed heavily until 375 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: nineteen two, so for more than a decade. Yeah, it 376 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: just kind of I was like, well, I mean, why 377 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: we got the series robot catalog Cobs? How do you 378 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: look around your house and say, oh, yeah, corn Cobs, 379 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: that's that's a good idea idea. Yeah, sure it's got traction, 380 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 1: but pay a price for that track. Yeah, I I 381 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 1: hesitate to hazard a guess. To be honest, I go idea, 382 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: I'll try to have some geese at home. All right, okay, well, 383 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: i'd like to apologize on behalf of Josh's I'd like 384 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 1: to send to you my apologies for giving him the idea. 385 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,880 Speaker 1: Let's talk about how a toilet actually works. Okay, alright, 386 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: So you got your basic parts of the toilet. You've 387 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: got the tank, You've got the bowl in which you 388 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: do your business, and then you have the lifen the 389 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: s trap area that where the waist goes once you flush, 390 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: which is technically part of the bowl. Yeah. Yeah, it's 391 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: just it's easier to talk about it as separate parts. 392 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: But yes, you aren't correct. So inside the tank you 393 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: have the flush valve. This is the valve that allows 394 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 1: water to flow out of the tank and into the bowl. Yes. 395 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: So when you press down the handle, yeah, there's that 396 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: handle is connected by chain to that flush valve. That's 397 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: the thing that lifts up and lets the water from 398 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 1: the tank into the bowl. Yeah. And once the water 399 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 1: is flowing down, like for most toilets, you no longer 400 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 1: have to hold the handle down because just the water itself. 401 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 1: Once the valve is an open position, it will remain 402 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 1: open until the water level is low enough for it 403 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 1: to close. Again. Yeah, they make it so it's light 404 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 1: enough to float. Yeah, right, because it's overcome suction things 405 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 1: to the handle um and it's floating there, and then 406 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: as the water drains out, its ability to float stop, 407 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: so it falls back into place ideally ideally. Yeah. There 408 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: are times obviously, if you have issues where maybe there's 409 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: a hinge that's a little too tight, or there's something 410 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: off with the seila of on the the valve, that 411 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: you may have to have that replaced, because otherwise water 412 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: just continuously flows into the bowl and it never accumulates 413 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: in the tank. I found that most of the time 414 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: it's because there's a little bit of extra chain that's 415 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: keeping the flush valve from sitting in suction from from uh. 416 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: You you also have a second valve inside the tank, 417 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: the filler valve. The filler valve is what allows water 418 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: to go into the tank as well as into the 419 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 1: bowl after a flush, so uh, it needs to it 420 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: refills the tank after you flushed it. So you flushed 421 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: the tank, the water from the filler valve will start 422 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: to pour into the tank to refill it. Once that 423 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 1: that flush valve has shut uh, some of that water 424 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: also will go into the bowl. To bring the level 425 00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: back up to the proper height, and then you've got 426 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: a filler float. This is a pretty us. Yeah, this 427 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,159 Speaker 1: is a brilliant idea. The idea is that the filler 428 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: float will rise to a certain level within the tank, 429 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: and once it's at the proper level, it will activate 430 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 1: a switch then turns off the filler valve. So so 431 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: that way you no longer have water running in your tank. 432 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,400 Speaker 1: If you ever hear water continuously running in your tank, 433 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 1: it means that float is not activating the switch properly, 434 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: and you may need to take the lid off and 435 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: see what's going on with that float. Maybe it's stuck 436 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: on something, or it's you know, it's it's the switch 437 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: might be burnt out, in which case you would need 438 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,400 Speaker 1: to have that switch replaced. But that's what's causing that 439 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,439 Speaker 1: or this Again, the flush valve could be not seated 440 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 1: popular in waters just rushing out. So that's true. Filler 441 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,439 Speaker 1: valve balloon isn't getting to that level where it's supposed 442 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: to where it can trip the filler valve from turning 443 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,959 Speaker 1: off again, right exactly. Yeah, that could be another another 444 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,119 Speaker 1: cause for it. But you don't have to fear because 445 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 1: even if the water is running, You're toilet will very 446 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: likely not overflow because it's been designed so that as 447 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: the tank fills, even if it keeps filling and filling 448 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: and filling, it's going to the overflow um tube, I guess, 449 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 1: is going to direct that into the bowl. Right, So 450 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: any water that comes above the height of the overflow 451 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: tube will just flow down the tube. The tube leads 452 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 1: to the bowl, and water will flow into the bowl. 453 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 1: And then you think, wait, wait, wait that cause it 454 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: the flush. Yes, surely somewhere this thing's got to flood. 455 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: What's the deal? Why doesn't it all right? That's when 456 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: we get into the siphon where my head pops. Yeah, 457 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 1: this is the siphon gets a little for those who 458 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 1: those of us who are many years away from basic physics, 459 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,959 Speaker 1: the scipen gets confusing. So the siphon is designed so 460 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: this is that that sort of upside down you or 461 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: the s shaped pipe the top of that upside down 462 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: you the peak there that's at the same level as 463 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 1: what the toilet bowl, the level watering your toilet bowl 464 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 1: will be. Now, if you were to pour more water 465 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: into the toilet bowl, because there's there's just this open 466 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: area between the siphon and the bowl. You know, putting 467 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: more water in makes the water level rise on both sides, right, 468 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: But if you're only putting in a little bit of water, 469 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: that water will just rise up above the level of 470 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: the bend and flow down the other side of the bend. Yeah. 471 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: And and I should I want to point out that, um, 472 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,719 Speaker 1: this is your explanation is spot on, but would be 473 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: exponentially easier if somebody were looking at a cross section 474 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: of a toilet flushing s valve right exactly. Yeah, yeah, 475 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: it would really drive at home, Yeah, because it's it's 476 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 1: this is me trying to paint a picture of a 477 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: toilet flush in words, yea, with physics. Yeah, so you've 478 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: got you've got this this level here, and as long 479 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: as the water is just flowing gently so for in 480 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: other words, like a steady stream from the overflow too, 481 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: then it's just going to gradually rise up til it 482 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: hits above that you bend, and then flow down the 483 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: other side. And that's all that happens, because it's not 484 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: it's not creating the siphon effect yet. Yes, So the 485 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 1: water is in that in that s trap and in 486 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: your toilet bowl and on the other side of the 487 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: siphon in the tube that leads down to the sewer, 488 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: that that air is imbalanced with the air that's in 489 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: the toilet bowl. Right, So you basically have air pressure 490 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 1: balancing your water and keeping it in place. Yep, yep. 491 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: And it's only if you were to fill that siphon 492 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: that s trap with water completely that that then things 493 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: get out of balance. And here's where the siphon affect 494 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: comes into play. So how does a siphon work? Alright? 495 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: First of all, siphons a bent tube used to move 496 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: a liquid from a high evolution elevation rather over an 497 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: obstruction and to a lower elevation. Done and done right. 498 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: You could do this very easily by taking two cups, 499 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: filling one cup with water, putting a couple of books 500 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: down on a table. So you put the cupful of 501 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 1: water on top of one of the set of books. 502 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: Get a tube, like a flexible tube of some sort, 503 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 1: submerge it in the water so that the tube fills 504 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: with water. Put your thumb over one end of it, 505 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: move it over to the other cup, which is on 506 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: the surface of the table. Yeah, make sure that the 507 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: make sure that the end of the tube that you're 508 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: holding ends up being lower than the level of water 509 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: in the cup. Let go. Water will start to flow 510 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: from the cup that's above to the cup that's blow 511 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: even though the tube will arc so the water is 512 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: technically flowing uphill. Yeah, which is pretty neat. Yeah. As 513 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: long as the lower end of the tube going into 514 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: the lower elevation glass um, as long as that is 515 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: exposed to air, and as long as the end of 516 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: the tube that's in the higher glass is under water, 517 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: the air pressure in the tube is overcome and the 518 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: suction effect takes place right well kind of except the 519 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: other the tube in the lower elevation does not have 520 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: to be above water can be. It can actually be 521 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,959 Speaker 1: completely submerged as well. As long what will happen is 522 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: if the two water levels reach the same height, uh 523 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: and I mean same height relative to the table, then 524 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: pressure is equalized and everything will everything is an equilibrium 525 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: and water will stop to float. It's but as long 526 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: as the elevated cup has a higher water level, water 527 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: will continue to flow through that siphon. And the reason 528 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: there are two reasons really. One is that water inside 529 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: a chamber like that acts like a chain. It pulls 530 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: itself along The other reason is that you have I 531 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: think of the tube as an arc. Well, the tube 532 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: that leads down to the lower elevation is longer. That 533 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: side is longer than the side that's in the higher elevation, 534 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: So the water that's in that part is heavier, and 535 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: that weight is what's pulling water are along inside the 536 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 1: tube and it's until until you hit equilibrium. So for 537 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: a toilet to get it back to to the toilet example, 538 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: and why it's important when you flush that water from 539 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: the tank rushes into the bowl and it does so 540 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: fast enough to completely fill the pipe that s trap. 541 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 1: This activates the siphon effect, and the water pulls the 542 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: waist and also all the rest of the water along 543 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: with it through that s trap until it gets to 544 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: a point where it has exhausted the amount of water 545 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: that the tank has put into the bowl. And then 546 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 1: air is introduced. And once air is introduced, the siphon 547 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 1: effect stops right. So with a siphon, not only is 548 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 1: the water flowing out of the bowl because there's so 549 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 1: much water, what about two or so gallons introduced to 550 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 1: your toilet bowl in about three seconds that that siphon 551 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 1: effect is produced in the s trap. Right, Not only 552 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: is that water flowing, it produces a type of suction, 553 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: so the water in the bowl is sucked out and 554 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 1: down the siphon. And then, yes, like you said, once 555 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 1: the air is introduced, because the water and everything sucked 556 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: out of the toilet bowl, the suction effect is cut 557 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,800 Speaker 1: off and everything goes back to the way it was 558 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 1: before you flush the top. Right, That's when the filler 559 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: valve can start to refill the bowl because now that 560 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: there's no longer any more suction going on, the bowl 561 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,760 Speaker 1: water level can return back to what it was as well. 562 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 1: And keep in mind that part of the s trap 563 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: that you know you can't see because it's a solid pipe, 564 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: but that also ends up filling to that same height 565 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: as the water that's in the bowl. And then you're 566 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 1: ready to go again once the tank its bowl anyway, 567 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 1: once you eat some kimchi. We talked about that before 568 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: the podcast started. Um, but yeah, one other thing to 569 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: keep in mind. You might say, well, why do we 570 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 1: need a tank at all? Why not just have a 571 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: water pipe going directly into the toilet and then when 572 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 1: you flush, it just opens up a valve for a 573 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 1: certain amount of time and it closes. And the reason 574 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,440 Speaker 1: is because unless you have insane water pressure in your house, 575 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,960 Speaker 1: you're not putting enough water in fast enough to fill 576 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 1: that s trap completely to to activate the siphon effect. 577 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,840 Speaker 1: It's just going to trickle out like if your tank 578 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 1: was overflowing exactly. So there's some buildings that I mean 579 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,120 Speaker 1: a lot of buildings that don't have UH tanks on 580 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: their on their toilets. But that's because again, they are 581 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 1: directly connected to a very powerful water system, and thus 582 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 1: you don't need a tank because the water pressure that's 583 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: coming in is great enough to start that effect all 584 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:37,359 Speaker 1: by itself. Yeah, or sometimes it's even more terrifying noise 585 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,000 Speaker 1: than that. So that's your basic toilet, how your basic 586 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 1: toilet works. But so glad we're past the siphon effect. Yeah, 587 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: that's I feel like we just made it through the 588 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,800 Speaker 1: woods together. Now now we're going to go into the bright, 589 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 1: gorgeous future of weird toilets. This is great. So let's 590 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,399 Speaker 1: talk Japanese toilets for a second. And I'm not talking 591 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,760 Speaker 1: about the ones, the tra off ones, which we established. 592 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 1: There are still some in Japan, and trough is one 593 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: way to put it. More like UH olyptical hole in 594 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: the ground is another way you could describe it as well. 595 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: On the floor. Yeah yeah, so yeah, you straddle and 596 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:24,120 Speaker 1: then squat and then evacuate and then and then evacuate, 597 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: evacuate the area. Like I would just be like, I 598 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:28,839 Speaker 1: don't know if I did it right, and run went 599 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:33,200 Speaker 1: down the street. Um, like I can't read your language 600 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,520 Speaker 1: and I'm so sorry. Just just yeah, that's kind of 601 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: how I normally react. I mean, I am I'm being 602 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: honest here, but no, the Japanese toilets, the the more 603 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,960 Speaker 1: western style ones, have features. Many of them have features 604 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,560 Speaker 1: on them that put our western toilets to shame, like 605 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 1: just phenomenal. So let's talk about some of the features. 606 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: That's fine toilets. Sorry, do you want? Do you have 607 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,280 Speaker 1: a favorite out of all of them? The air dry 608 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 1: air dry, that's pretty amazing. I I'm big on the 609 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 1: sound masking. Yeah, they they they offer. Most Japanese toilets 610 00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: that have all the bells and whistles offer a sound 611 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,239 Speaker 1: masking feature. That's a flushing toilet. Yeah. Some of them 612 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 1: now have also classical music, but which makes some white noise. 613 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 1: I actually did a brain Stuff episode about what white 614 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,120 Speaker 1: noises and how it works. So you should check for superiods. 615 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's the that those are so two of 616 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 1: the very simple ones. But it also tends to have 617 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,920 Speaker 1: a couple of different options for washing your nether regions 618 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,640 Speaker 1: once you are finished. Yes, and depending on your gender, Um, 619 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 1: you should, I should say, depending on your sex, you 620 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 1: should be very careful what option you choose when you're 621 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:56,840 Speaker 1: in Japan. Yeah, but they would be aimed for you know, ladies, 622 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 1: for the men folks. And then you have ear washing, 623 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,520 Speaker 1: which is for you know, everyone, depending upon what activities 624 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 1: you got up to on that bathroom. Um, and uh, yeah, 625 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,839 Speaker 1: so there's usually there's a picture of like a icon 626 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,520 Speaker 1: that looks kind of like a butt with some sort 627 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 1: of stream of something directed at it. That would be 628 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,520 Speaker 1: for washing your rear. The day usually has a icon 629 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:26,480 Speaker 1: of a lady somewhere on it involved, yeah, something like 630 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,200 Speaker 1: that to indicate what that was for. And uh, if 631 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,920 Speaker 1: you're wondering, like, well, wait a minute, I'm this sounds 632 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,840 Speaker 1: like this could be really unhygienic. The Japanese are very 633 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:43,799 Speaker 1: concerned with cleanling, and so these are nozzles that are 634 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,880 Speaker 1: usually hidden away from the inside of the toilet bowlts 635 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,600 Speaker 1: only when you press the button that they get. There's 636 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,640 Speaker 1: like essentially a door that opens in the novel can 637 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:55,120 Speaker 1: come out, and they have nozzle sterilization technology to clean 638 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,160 Speaker 1: them between uses. And so uh yeah, they usually have 639 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,320 Speaker 1: buttons where you also have to like a stop button, 640 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,000 Speaker 1: so if you press one of these, it essentially goes 641 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,600 Speaker 1: until you tell it to stop. Yeah. And the person 642 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,799 Speaker 1: who wrote this um this how to use a Japanese 643 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,160 Speaker 1: toilet post points out that before you choose either of 644 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:19,240 Speaker 1: these options, you want to press the stream power down 645 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,840 Speaker 1: as as low as it will go to start, and 646 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 1: then you can adjust it upwards. Um. Here she says 647 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,440 Speaker 1: that at the normal setting is equivalent to about a 648 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:33,160 Speaker 1: water pick, which on your on your on your junk. 649 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:37,440 Speaker 1: That's not good, that's really, that's terrible. It might come 650 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,880 Speaker 1: as a big surprise for that to to hit certain 651 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 1: sins of variation. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, it's setting it 652 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,560 Speaker 1: low and does some of them also have controls for 653 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,720 Speaker 1: the temperature of the water, not to mention the temperature 654 00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: of the seat. Uh. Some also, like you mentioned, have 655 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 1: the air drying so that after you have had your 656 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 1: rear washed, air dry it, which I mean like yes, 657 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,359 Speaker 1: that's cool. There's like the days and rear washing all 658 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,880 Speaker 1: that stuff, but you're not gonna stand up right afterwards 659 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,240 Speaker 1: and just be wet. You have to have the air dryer. 660 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,840 Speaker 1: That's why. I mean, that's the best part. I agree, 661 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:11,799 Speaker 1: I agree. I mean, if if you're going to have 662 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,560 Speaker 1: these other features, you really knew do need the air 663 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,279 Speaker 1: dryer or else you're just like, well, I guess I'll 664 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 1: be sitting here for a couple more minutes before I 665 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:24,000 Speaker 1: dare move. Another interesting thing to me about the Japanese culture. Um, 666 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,120 Speaker 1: and it makes perfect sense, I totally understand it. But 667 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 1: you know, in Japan, shoes are really considered to be 668 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,280 Speaker 1: quite dirty. That's one of the dirtiest pieces of clothing 669 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,200 Speaker 1: that people have. So it's customary, of course to take 670 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,720 Speaker 1: your shoes off and slip into house slippers before moving 671 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,000 Speaker 1: going into a house. Absolutely, bathrooms have their own sets 672 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,800 Speaker 1: of slippers, and it is quite a faux pod to 673 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,000 Speaker 1: mix the two together. Oh yeah, if you were to 674 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,960 Speaker 1: step out of the bathroom wearing bathroom slippers, you would 675 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,000 Speaker 1: shock people, especially if you did like a little dance 676 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: like I'm American. Oh yeah, I don't do that. Come on, 677 00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,959 Speaker 1: and you can You can usually tell the bathroom slip 678 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,560 Speaker 1: first um from they they have almost like a bit 679 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,120 Speaker 1: of a waterproof look to them. Usually they're a little 680 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:10,200 Speaker 1: shinier they're made of they're not like um cloth. Usually 681 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:15,400 Speaker 1: there you could tell just using your your noodle. Compared 682 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,279 Speaker 1: to house slippers, you'd be like, these are probably the 683 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:24,120 Speaker 1: bathroom slipper toilet slippers. Or they might be brightly colored 684 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,560 Speaker 1: and you think no one would ever wear these anywhere else. 685 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,120 Speaker 1: Or maybe they have a poop emosey on them. It 686 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,799 Speaker 1: could be those are popular. Another feature you might find 687 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,680 Speaker 1: on the toilets as a deodo riser button. Yeah, also 688 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,000 Speaker 1: kind of interesting. So I found a toilet if I 689 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,239 Speaker 1: may give a plug, even though I should say I 690 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,719 Speaker 1: have no financial interest whatsoever in the Cohler company, but 691 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,800 Speaker 1: I have become a fan of their new me Uh toilet. 692 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,480 Speaker 1: I can't even begin to describe it. It's just so 693 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,600 Speaker 1: neat as far as the design goes. UM. Just go 694 00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,359 Speaker 1: to just look for the new me toilet and U 695 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,840 Speaker 1: M I UM. But one of the things they have 696 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:05,399 Speaker 1: is a deodorizer. It's like, um, basically a little vent 697 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:09,799 Speaker 1: where the the the odor is sucked in and run 698 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,840 Speaker 1: through the charcoal filter nice. Yeah, yeah, I mean I 699 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,840 Speaker 1: when I read about the Japanese toilets, obviously there's some 700 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,080 Speaker 1: some humor that comes in that just from the cultural 701 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,600 Speaker 1: differences things like that, which can seem very funny. But 702 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,800 Speaker 1: at the same time, I am incredibly envious. I would 703 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,799 Speaker 1: love to have a lot of these features built into 704 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:33,400 Speaker 1: American toilets. Uh. There there are some moves to improve 705 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,120 Speaker 1: toilet technology in various ways. Some of it is a 706 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,560 Speaker 1: conservation trying to find low flush toilets that'll still activate 707 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:45,040 Speaker 1: the siphoning uh technique, but not use as much water, 708 00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,719 Speaker 1: and a go very important. Did you see the no 709 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:52,239 Speaker 1: mixed toilet I did. Yeah, the the one that has 710 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,360 Speaker 1: meant it has kind of like a ledge and and 711 00:41:55,560 --> 00:42:02,280 Speaker 1: filter for urine and then behind that would be where Yeah, 712 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,600 Speaker 1: it's it's meant so that when you when you just 713 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,520 Speaker 1: have to urinate, you don't have to flush the toilet. Yeah, 714 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 1: it doesn't flush at all, and as a matter of fact, 715 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,120 Speaker 1: it collects the urine um. And one of the reasons 716 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,160 Speaker 1: why the company that originally started making no mixed toilet 717 00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,480 Speaker 1: stop making them is because well, number one, they didn't 718 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,920 Speaker 1: catch on very well. There's a lot of hesitancy UM. 719 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:28,200 Speaker 1: But the another reason is they they didn't quite have 720 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:33,160 Speaker 1: the infrastructure to collect the urine separately and send it off. 721 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,480 Speaker 1: Although environmentally speaking, it makes a lot of sense to 722 00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:42,840 Speaker 1: separate urine from feces, especially UH and not flush urine, 723 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,680 Speaker 1: because when you flush urine, you're introducing a lot of 724 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:49,080 Speaker 1: other stuff besides just the urine. Like if you are 725 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:53,560 Speaker 1: on UM pharmaceuticals, those a lot of that stuff is 726 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,680 Speaker 1: expelled and metabolized and expelled in your urine and it 727 00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:01,040 Speaker 1: gets introduced into wetland areas and things like that, and 728 00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,120 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you have frogs they're like have 729 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,000 Speaker 1: roid rage or something you know, or that like a 730 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:11,080 Speaker 1: rubbing themselves against walls because you took too much ecstasy 731 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,680 Speaker 1: the night before. That's fair, yeah, I mean, well, yeah, 732 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:17,040 Speaker 1: anything you're taking into yours, anything you're gonna excrete spen 733 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,560 Speaker 1: filtered through your kidneys, you're going to have some some 734 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:24,600 Speaker 1: other elements in there too consumed. But so the the 735 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,359 Speaker 1: no mixed toilet collects this urine and sends it off 736 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:31,120 Speaker 1: for separate recycling. And then if you're really hardcore, you 737 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:35,080 Speaker 1: know granola or your city is, then maybe it gets 738 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,759 Speaker 1: recycled into water, and you drink that and pee it 739 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,080 Speaker 1: out again and again. It becomes a closed loop. Yeah, 740 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,200 Speaker 1: and we've talked about that on Forward Thinking. We talked 741 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,920 Speaker 1: about that with systems aboard UM the International Space Station 742 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,600 Speaker 1: ways of water reclamation. So that I mean, obviously, if 743 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,480 Speaker 1: you are in an area where you get very little 744 00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,560 Speaker 1: water or it's very difficult to ship water to you, 745 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,560 Speaker 1: you have to make the best use of all the 746 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,799 Speaker 1: resources you have. Uh, there's some other things we can 747 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:06,880 Speaker 1: talk about as far as toilet advances, smart toilets. So 748 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,759 Speaker 1: sensor technology has gotten to the point now where it's 749 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:17,400 Speaker 1: it's very inexpensive, it's it's versatile, waterproof. It's entirely possible 750 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:23,640 Speaker 1: to design sensors that could uh measure your waste and 751 00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:29,000 Speaker 1: and come up with actual information that could be relevant 752 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,680 Speaker 1: to your health. So I saw some interesting examples like 753 00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,840 Speaker 1: the idea of a sensor that could be an early 754 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:40,279 Speaker 1: pregnancy detection by detecting changing hormone levels. UM, it might 755 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:44,360 Speaker 1: analyze your waste detective bacterial infection, so it might tell you. 756 00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,560 Speaker 1: It might even send you an indication saying you know, 757 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,120 Speaker 1: you need to take it easy for a little while, 758 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,920 Speaker 1: or maybe even you need to go see a doctor. 759 00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:55,040 Speaker 1: With the right kind of software, you and this is 760 00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,160 Speaker 1: not hard to do at all. You could even have 761 00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,319 Speaker 1: one that could send a notification to your doctor, or 762 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:05,399 Speaker 1: even go further, have one that's linked to your doctor's 763 00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:09,399 Speaker 1: calendar and your calendar and even create an appointment for you. 764 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,760 Speaker 1: So your toilet does all that for you. It's it's possible. 765 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,880 Speaker 1: It's not something that we're necessarily seeing everywhere, but it's possible. 766 00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,400 Speaker 1: I could see some problems with this though. Well yeah, 767 00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,400 Speaker 1: I mean, like, first of all, there's a real hesitancy 768 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:27,480 Speaker 1: by people too, especially put their medical records out there, 769 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:31,879 Speaker 1: their health data. UM. I feel like those as as 770 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:37,319 Speaker 1: the advantages or the benefits of allowing the Internet of 771 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,240 Speaker 1: things or that that level of tech into our lives, 772 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:44,480 Speaker 1: especially with health um, become obvious to more people. The 773 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,600 Speaker 1: more just relaxed everybody's going to become. I mean think 774 00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:53,080 Speaker 1: about it, five ten years ago, say five, putting your 775 00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,920 Speaker 1: credit card into a website to order something was still 776 00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,799 Speaker 1: like really sketch you to a lot of people, and 777 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,879 Speaker 1: out enough people have done it that it's just it's 778 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,520 Speaker 1: just whatever, that's the norm. Yeah, right, And I think health, 779 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,000 Speaker 1: our health information is going to go that same way. 780 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,799 Speaker 1: I can see that. The only thing I see as 781 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,880 Speaker 1: uh possible, well not the only thing, but one of 782 00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,080 Speaker 1: the things I see is an impediment to this is 783 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,520 Speaker 1: how do you identify the person who is using the 784 00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,640 Speaker 1: toilet at any given situations. So, for example, Josh, let's 785 00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,480 Speaker 1: say I have you over and you need to use 786 00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,680 Speaker 1: my restroom, and unbeknownst to me, you are carrying around 787 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:39,160 Speaker 1: a really awful bacterial infection that's poised to wreak havoc 788 00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,840 Speaker 1: in your system. And so as you use my restroom 789 00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,240 Speaker 1: and you flushed the toilet, it analyzes it and suddenly 790 00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,759 Speaker 1: thinks that Jonathan has gotten really sick. Next thing I know, 791 00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,040 Speaker 1: my doctor is calling me. Now I know about your 792 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,560 Speaker 1: health condition. Yeah, that's that's a very good point. Um. 793 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:59,400 Speaker 1: I would guess then, if if toilets are analyzing us 794 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,840 Speaker 1: our health personally, then a toilet itself will become a 795 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,600 Speaker 1: much more personal thing. So maybe I have a dumb 796 00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:12,520 Speaker 1: toilet as my guest toilet, and then my smart toilet 797 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,760 Speaker 1: is the only one that's in my master bathroom. Or 798 00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:20,280 Speaker 1: here's another thing, Stop me if I sound crazy, stop 799 00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:26,680 Speaker 1: You've got a biometric authentication system for your toilet where 800 00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,360 Speaker 1: you have to scan like a thumb print or a 801 00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:34,080 Speaker 1: retinal scan to identify you before using it. Thus you 802 00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:38,880 Speaker 1: can't possibly confuse too people and you cannot flush until 803 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,000 Speaker 1: you have identified yourself. That's a good one, then, know 804 00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,319 Speaker 1: that's a I mean, it makes sense. My my wife 805 00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:49,640 Speaker 1: and I have um an aria uh scale Oh yeah right, 806 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,840 Speaker 1: it's like fitbit um and it can easily tell us apart. 807 00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,080 Speaker 1: But because I mean it just determines like wait and 808 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,640 Speaker 1: all that stuff. Um, so it can it can easily 809 00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:02,560 Speaker 1: tell us are But you know, maybe the seat does 810 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,479 Speaker 1: detect by weight or there is some other detail about 811 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,200 Speaker 1: you that just by sitting on the toilet, uh, it 812 00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,600 Speaker 1: says this is Jonathan or this is not This is 813 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,320 Speaker 1: someone who's broken into Jonathan's house to use this toilet. 814 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:20,040 Speaker 1: Were using your bathroom? Should I lock the door? Yes? 815 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,560 Speaker 1: And turn on bathroom webcam? Right? Yeah, there you go. 816 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,600 Speaker 1: And also the you know deoduriz, let's just go ahead 817 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:32,040 Speaker 1: and be safe. So there are other potential dangers, and 818 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,160 Speaker 1: one of those is hacking. So there's already a story 819 00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,879 Speaker 1: about a smart toilet hacking uh situation, which happened back 820 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:42,360 Speaker 1: in two thousand thirteen, Ours Technica reported that, according to 821 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:47,879 Speaker 1: security firm trust Wave, the Enacts Status automatic toilet had 822 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,879 Speaker 1: a Bluetooth security vulnerability, and it was a doozy so 823 00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,480 Speaker 1: to speak. So the you know, when you pair to 824 00:48:55,760 --> 00:49:01,480 Speaker 1: bluetooth capable technologies together, you generally have some sort of 825 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,840 Speaker 1: code that you have to put in in order to 826 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:05,960 Speaker 1: pair them. Not always, but a lot of them do. 827 00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:11,000 Speaker 1: And the problem was they had hardwired the same master 828 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,560 Speaker 1: code in all of these toilets, and it was just 829 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:18,680 Speaker 1: zero zero zero zero. So any app for this toilet 830 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,839 Speaker 1: compare with any toilet just from being in the same area. Right, 831 00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:27,200 Speaker 1: So if you are within bluetooth distance, which is pretty decent, 832 00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:30,560 Speaker 1: I mean, you don't it's not that far, but it's 833 00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,080 Speaker 1: not you know, it's it's not like you could do 834 00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,919 Speaker 1: it from two fifty feet away necessarily, But if you're 835 00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,839 Speaker 1: close enough, like within the building or on the on 836 00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,120 Speaker 1: the side of it or whatever, you can totally pair 837 00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:46,600 Speaker 1: your phone with a toilet inside and essentially hijack someone's toilet, 838 00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,040 Speaker 1: which you know, you might think, well, why could you do? Well, 839 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,919 Speaker 1: this thing had the ability to open and close via 840 00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:54,759 Speaker 1: a command on your phone, so that way you didn't 841 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,600 Speaker 1: have to touch the toilet seat. It also allows you 842 00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,320 Speaker 1: to control things like the bidet or the rear washing 843 00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:04,640 Speaker 1: uh nozzles, so you could you could turn it on, 844 00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,680 Speaker 1: like you could turn on one of those nozzles when 845 00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,120 Speaker 1: no one's on the toilet and start flooding their bathroom. 846 00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:12,839 Speaker 1: Or you could do it when you realize someone's just 847 00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,520 Speaker 1: got into the bathroom and they haven't even really started yet. 848 00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,400 Speaker 1: You could do it then and just laugh at the 849 00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:22,200 Speaker 1: hilarious or close the toilet seat while they're mid you 850 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,880 Speaker 1: know activity. You know, you know it's ironic about using 851 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,759 Speaker 1: an app on your phone to open and close the 852 00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:31,640 Speaker 1: toilet seat. Would it be that the phone surfaces the 853 00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:36,279 Speaker 1: dirtiest surface to come in contact with toilet? Yeah, I 854 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,640 Speaker 1: thought that might be where you were going with that. Yeah, guys, 855 00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,719 Speaker 1: if you didn't know, if you have smartphones, got touchscreen, 856 00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,120 Speaker 1: hits filthy, it's about the dirtiest thing you probably come 857 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,399 Speaker 1: into contact within any day, including a toilet. Yeah. Yeah. 858 00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:53,560 Speaker 1: The one thing that might be uh you know, a 859 00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,719 Speaker 1: good competitor with that would be a keyboard. If you 860 00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:59,240 Speaker 1: use a keyboard on a daily basis, that's probably pretty 861 00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:03,200 Speaker 1: gross too. Uh Yeah. So what's in the future for 862 00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,680 Speaker 1: toilet's Probably we will see some more of these, uh, 863 00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,200 Speaker 1: these things that are common now in Japanese toilets kind 864 00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:13,400 Speaker 1: of filter their way through to other ones. I imagine 865 00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,480 Speaker 1: we'll stay see more moves to conserve water. It may 866 00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:18,640 Speaker 1: even mean that we end up moving away from the 867 00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:22,920 Speaker 1: siphon model and find a different model to deal with 868 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,520 Speaker 1: waste so that it does it's not reliant upon creating 869 00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,879 Speaker 1: enough water to create this section. We'll have to wait 870 00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:35,600 Speaker 1: and see. Um, but we have to thank the brilliant 871 00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,520 Speaker 1: men and women who came before us forging the path 872 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:44,840 Speaker 1: to make incredibly useful piece of technology, and also hope 873 00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,160 Speaker 1: that we can continue to strive to get it to 874 00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:51,840 Speaker 1: more people so that we can improve the quality of 875 00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:57,279 Speaker 1: life for folks who who otherwise are in pretty rough 876 00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:01,200 Speaker 1: you know, circumstances when the obviously when cultures are going 877 00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:05,840 Speaker 1: to adopt it. So, Josh, thank you so much for 878 00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:07,759 Speaker 1: joining me on the man, Thank you for having me. 879 00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,160 Speaker 1: This was a joy. It was fun. It was fun. 880 00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,000 Speaker 1: I'm glad we were able to talk about this in 881 00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,400 Speaker 1: a mature way, with only a few terrible jokes on 882 00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:20,200 Speaker 1: my end, relatively mature. We did pretty juvenile at times, 883 00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:25,400 Speaker 1: but mostly maure uh. Of course listeners. You can find 884 00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:29,279 Speaker 1: Josh at the Stuff You Should Know podcast, which is 885 00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:33,960 Speaker 1: the granddaddy of all the stuff podcasts. Fantastic. I mean 886 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:37,359 Speaker 1: it's it's the oldest podcast that's still running from How 887 00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:41,560 Speaker 1: Stuff Works and is uh fantastic. It's great. And you 888 00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:44,160 Speaker 1: can also find Josh and lots and lots of video series. 889 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,320 Speaker 1: One of my favorites that Don't Be Dumb series remains 890 00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,920 Speaker 1: way up there. I mean, it's like consistently informative and 891 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:56,000 Speaker 1: incredibly entertaining to me that it takes a lot of 892 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,839 Speaker 1: work to look that uncomfortable on camera. Well, it said 893 00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,800 Speaker 1: it is. It doesn't take much of it. I'm just myself. 894 00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,240 Speaker 1: I think that's just that's when I just stopped trying. 895 00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,520 Speaker 1: Everything else is difficult. They're nice. 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