Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh, and
Speaker 1: there's Chuck and Ben's here too, sitting in for Jerry,
Speaker 1: who usually sits in for day. It's very confusing, so
Speaker 1: let's forget the whole thing and get started because this
Speaker 1: is short stuff.
Speaker 2: Hey, happy day after birthday friend.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that, friend. What'd
Speaker 1: you do? Oh geez, I can't really get into it here,
Speaker 1: but it was a good birthday.
Speaker 2: Okay, tell me in private.
Speaker 1: We had a good time. But no, I appreciate you
Speaker 1: getting those posts on social media up. That was very
Speaker 1: nice of you. It made me feel very loved.
Speaker 2: Hey, of course people love you, and they said so
Speaker 2: in the in the hundreds and thousands.
Speaker 1: I know, it's really nice. Thanks a lot. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: text me, You're like, you're getting a lot of love
Speaker 1: over on Instagram right now.
Speaker 2: Well, so I have to get you to open Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it works like a charm.
Speaker 2: It's no good my good deed goes unseen if you
Speaker 2: don't watch it.
Speaker 1: So but thank you for that. Of course we'll have
Speaker 1: to go back and edit all this out because this
Speaker 1: is short stuff.
Speaker 2: Uh no, that was only a minute. Ten eleven twelve.
Speaker 2: We're doing great, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, then we have to talk really fast for
Speaker 1: the rest of the episode.
Speaker 2: Well, we're talking about something near and dear to my
Speaker 2: heart that I've talked about on stage in front of
Speaker 2: thousands of people, and that is the fact that I
Speaker 2: not always, but I mostly try to sit down when
Speaker 2: I go peepy.
Speaker 1: H I do too, I'm a sitzpinkler.
Speaker 2: Oh do you just started doing that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think I confessed along with you on stage
Speaker 1: in Seattle too, if I remember correctly, But yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I totally now I own it. At the time, I
Speaker 1: was a little wary. Now I'm like, yeah, I sit
Speaker 1: down to pee. It works really well. The only time
Speaker 1: I don't is in public because I would rather cut
Speaker 1: off the lower half of my body than ever sit
Speaker 1: on a public toilet seat.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And if I remember correctly, my on stage joke
Speaker 2: was that I sit to p but I stand up
Speaker 2: when I poop.
Speaker 1: That's right, that was a classic. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've been doing that though for I feel like it's
Speaker 2: semi knew, like in the past, like six or seven years.
Speaker 2: I started seeing down to pe and the first uh,
Speaker 2: you know, adult male that I saw doing this was
Speaker 2: was my brother in law when your brother in law. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my brother in law when I lived with them, my
Speaker 2: sister's husband, Carston, who is German.
Speaker 1: Oh that makes sense because this is a very German thing.
Speaker 1: Like there's even know that I didn't either. I think.
Speaker 1: Actually you me found this one because we were talking
Speaker 1: about I don't remember what we were talking about. We
Speaker 1: looked it up and it turned out that this is
Speaker 1: a big thing in Germany and they have a word
Speaker 1: for it, sits pinkler. Can you say it was a
Speaker 1: German accent? Yeah, Hasselhoff, he does.
Speaker 2: Uh No, you said it right, basically since sitzpink.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's what I was looking for.
Speaker 2: You just got to add a little flare.
Speaker 1: It makes sense too that the Germans would have a
Speaker 1: word for it, because the Germans have a word for everything.
Speaker 1: But the reason why a little bell went off in
Speaker 1: my head when you said your brother in law is
Speaker 1: German is because it's a big deal in Germany. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, there was a yu Goov Pole
Speaker 1: of eight Western European countries plus the US, Canada, Mexico,
Speaker 1: Australia and Singapore, and the whole point of this pole
Speaker 1: was to find out where where men sit down to
Speaker 1: pee the most. It was groundbreaking scientific pole.
Speaker 2: And Germany went out. I didn't quite get this because
Speaker 2: it says sixty two percent of German Men sit every time.
Speaker 1: Nope, a combined sixty two every time or most times.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, every time being for most times. I got you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So I mean for the that
Speaker 1: means that for the most part, by far, most German
Speaker 1: Men are you'll find them sitting down when they're peeing
Speaker 1: most of the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And behind them was Sweden at fifty percent, Denmark
Speaker 2: forty four, Australia, which kind of surprised me at thirty nine.
Speaker 2: I thought they would be pretty low on the list. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but the US, Mexico, Britain, and Singapore rounded out between
Speaker 2: twenty and twenty four percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which all of that's a little surprising. I thought
Speaker 1: Singapore would be up there with you. I thought Australia
Speaker 1: would be down there because they're so rough and tumble.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's such a sexister misogynistic. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is exactly, but it's just a really kind of
Speaker 1: wrong thing to assume, like, oh, yeah, Australians are rough
Speaker 1: and tumble, they ride kangaroos around and drink like fifty
Speaker 1: five gallon drums of fosters, right and eat it out
Speaker 1: back every night. But if so, of course they don't
Speaker 1: sit down to peak. And that's kind of like this
Speaker 1: idea behind the six pinkler thing, like it's used in Germany,
Speaker 1: or it used to be used as an insult. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you're a sixth pinkler, you're kind of you're a feminine,
Speaker 1: you're kind of a woos You're just not a manly man.
Speaker 1: And somehow, some way, German society said, nine, we're taking
Speaker 1: that and we're going to own it, and we're going
Speaker 1: to turn it on its head, and we're going to
Speaker 1: start a campaign starting around two thousand and four to
Speaker 1: basically train German Men to sit down to pee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. They even have this, This is incredible,
Speaker 2: a device sort of like a what do you call
Speaker 2: the things a duvet, A duvet, a bidet, You want
Speaker 2: to make.
Speaker 1: Those up, Spread a duvet over your toilet and then
Speaker 1: just p all of.
Speaker 2: Nothing would splash, sort of like a bidet. You know,
Speaker 2: some bidets talk to you, I know in Japan and
Speaker 2: Germany has kind of gotten on that with their WC
Speaker 2: geist or toilet ghost or schbook sp uk, which is
Speaker 2: spook which is a person recording a person who has
Speaker 2: recorded a message that says things like excuse me, except
Speaker 2: in German there's a penalty for peeing while standing in
Speaker 2: this house. You better not risk any problems and sit down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you lift the toilet, it triggers that voice.
Speaker 2: I kind of like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes they'll be recorded in the voice of a
Speaker 1: famous German chancellor. Sometimes it's just like a lion's roar.
Speaker 1: But I mean, that's how invested in getting men to
Speaker 1: sit down to pee they are in Germany, Like they
Speaker 1: really take it seriously. And there's another country that takes
Speaker 1: it at least as seriously, and that's Japan. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: what I found very interesting is that Japan. I said
Speaker 1: that Germany like really started this drive to get men
Speaker 1: to sit down to pee, to turn men into sit
Speaker 1: spinklers in like two thousand and four. The same thing
Speaker 1: happened in Japan back in around two thousand. In fact,
Speaker 1: there was a survey in nineteen ninety nine only fifteen
Speaker 1: percent of Japanese men sat down to pe, but by
Speaker 1: twenty twenty it was up to sixty percent. So something
Speaker 1: really radical happened here on planet Earth in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands that just turned everything on its head, yeah,
Speaker 1: or put everything on its bottom, right.
Speaker 2: And I guess we'll come back and talk a little
Speaker 2: bit about some of the reasons why that might happened.
Speaker 1: Right for this indubitably.
Speaker 2: So one thing I thought was, you know, since it
Speaker 2: really increased a lot over the past like twenty years
Speaker 2: or so, I thought there may have been something I missed, like,
Speaker 2: you know, Captain America sat to pee in a Marvel
Speaker 2: movie or something like that, But I couldn't find anything.
Speaker 2: I think it's just literally people men realizing that it's
Speaker 2: a lot more hygienic to sit down and you risk
Speaker 2: a lot less almost down to zero basically if you're
Speaker 2: doing it right, that there's going to be pee elsewhere
Speaker 2: that's not in the toilet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think men finally started listening to women when
Speaker 1: they're like, this is so gross. Why do you do this?
Speaker 1: Get out of the house forever? Yeah, because it is
Speaker 1: so there's a I mean, when you sit down to pee,
Speaker 1: your chance of getting pee anywhere but in the toilet
Speaker 1: is almost zero. You're doing something really wrong if you're
Speaker 1: sitting down to pee and pea spraying everywhere. But there
Speaker 1: might be a duvet stuffed in the toilet right as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, you might want to check that. God,
Speaker 1: but if you stand up to pee, the chances are
Speaker 1: essentially one hundred percent that you're going to get pee
Speaker 1: splattered somewhere some way. Sometimes this is a terrible thing
Speaker 1: to say, but it's true. Some men just miss entirely
Speaker 1: and they'll pee like basically behind the toilet. They'll get
Speaker 1: it in front of the toilet on the sides. There's
Speaker 1: a whole thing that every man listening knows about where
Speaker 1: there's a lot of opportunity to get pete outside of
Speaker 1: the toilet bowl when you pee standing up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I was going to say not
Speaker 2: to get too gross, but I guess we're kind of
Speaker 2: there already. Yeah, you know, people get distracted, especially in
Speaker 2: the age. You know, I've seen plenty of grown men
Speaker 2: on their smartphone like at a urinal urinals by the way,
Speaker 2: or it's a whole different horror show that we want
Speaker 2: to even get into, because there's no way that p
Speaker 2: isn't going places even if you're properly peeing in a urinal.
Speaker 2: But I've seen guys on their phone, like you get
Speaker 2: distracted and all of a sudden, like you look down,
Speaker 2: you're like, that's not going where I thought it was going. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not for thirty seconds, but like you know, all it
Speaker 2: takes is as a second of a peepee stream and
Speaker 2: you've got a real mess on your hands.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think the thing that really is the
Speaker 1: judge of character is whether you correct your course once
Speaker 1: you realize if you just keep peeing off to the
Speaker 1: side of the urinal, no, you're a bad person.
Speaker 2: Well, bring Young University. They study fluid dynamics there in
Speaker 2: their physics department, and they actually did studies on urine
Speaker 2: back spray when you're standing up. And like I said,
Speaker 2: even if you're doing it perfectly right, there's probably going
Speaker 2: to be some kind of spray that's going somewhere outside
Speaker 2: the toilet, even if it's just on the rim of
Speaker 2: the toilet.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, because there's a lot of factors contributing to
Speaker 1: that that combined to basically say you peace standing up
Speaker 1: piece going somewhere outside of the toilet. One is that
Speaker 1: when the urine stream exits the penis towards the toilet powl.
Speaker 1: There's a whole period where it's not it's just flying
Speaker 1: through the air. Yeah, And for about the first six
Speaker 1: inches after exits said penis, it's held together in a stream.
Speaker 1: Everything's going really well. And then after about six inches
Speaker 1: past the exit, it enters what's called the plateau Rayleigh
Speaker 1: in stability. It's a fluid dynamic phenomenon where a stream
Speaker 1: of fluid eventually breaks up as gravity starts to pull
Speaker 1: it apart, and it breaks up into droplets, and each
Speaker 1: one of those droplets can hit that toilet bowl and
Speaker 1: spray everywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you nailed it. Porcelain is also a problem because
Speaker 2: if you have a porcelain toilet, which you know chances
Speaker 2: are you probably do, porcelain is hydrophilic, which means it
Speaker 2: really loves fluid, so it loves to splait it all
Speaker 2: over itself. Basically, it's a very splatty surface that you're
Speaker 2: peeing on. To be honest, I might be on something
Speaker 2: with the duvet thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you find. One of the other things
Speaker 1: that people who are like, yes, be a sitzpinkler are
Speaker 1: all about is emptying the bladder. It's a big deal
Speaker 1: to empty your bladder. It's not just for the forty
Speaker 1: plus crowd, even though it really is. But you really
Speaker 1: want to make sure you get all the p out
Speaker 1: of your bladder whenever you peet.
Speaker 2: Reason why everyone, though, does anyone key to eighty percent
Speaker 2: and be like that feels good enough?
Speaker 1: Well, no, there's just off you can you can run
Speaker 1: into situations where you're like, you can't like all you get.
Speaker 2: Out, yeah, or you're interrupted Yeah okay.
Speaker 1: Right, but I mean even if you're not like that
Speaker 1: could be all that Like you can't get one hundred
Speaker 1: percent out. So sometimes when you're like.
Speaker 2: No, that's I get you.
Speaker 1: I think it has to do with prostate. But so
Speaker 1: people like sit down to pee. But this is a
Speaker 1: very fraught debate because medical researchers tend to say if
Speaker 1: you're a man standing up to p or sitting down
Speaker 1: to pe, depending on your condition, depending on how healthy
Speaker 1: you are and how healthy your prostate is, it's not
Speaker 1: going to make any difference whatsoever. One way might help
Speaker 1: one guy, the other way might help another guy. So
Speaker 1: that's really not a very good argument for getting people
Speaker 1: to sit down to pee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I get all that now because I, in
Speaker 2: fact myself since we're being honest, since this is just
Speaker 2: you and me talking to no one else's listening. Sure
Speaker 2: have have reached that age where there's like some prostate
Speaker 2: things where peeing, you know, all of a sudden, you
Speaker 2: wake up one day in your fifties and you go
Speaker 2: to p and you're like, huh, nothing's happening, right, So
Speaker 2: it's just going leg. Yeah, So you call your doctor
Speaker 2: and they're like, oh, well, that's just what happens. You
Speaker 2: start to have some like little prostate issues and nothing
Speaker 2: like super serious usually but no.
Speaker 1: But that's such a double edged sword. Like on the
Speaker 1: one hand, you're like, oh, I'm so relieved this is
Speaker 1: in a terrible medical condition. On the other hand, what
Speaker 1: they're saying is like, get used to it, buddy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is just what your body's doing from now on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Women, on the other hand, it's a different story.
Speaker 2: They don't have the bladder, you know, when you stand
Speaker 2: up to pee, which you know, supposedly I don't think
Speaker 2: supposedly standing up to pe does help a man empty
Speaker 2: their bladder more fully, but the prostate is supporting us,
Speaker 2: is supporting that bladder. Women don't have the prostate. So
Speaker 2: if a woman is forced a piece on the side
Speaker 2: of the road behind the concert venue, at the campground,
Speaker 2: in the shower. They're all manner of reasons why a
Speaker 2: woman may have to go peepee standing up. They don't
Speaker 2: have that prostate supporting them, so it's much more difficult
Speaker 2: for them to empty their full contents.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. The thing is is so if they sit
Speaker 1: down to pee, they're much more prone to empty their bladder.
Speaker 1: Ipso facto, everybody should sit down to pee. The problem
Speaker 1: is when you again, when you get into public and
Speaker 1: you hover above the toilet seat to pee, that actually
Speaker 1: has a similar problem as when you're standing up to pee.
Speaker 1: But really, if that's your choice, I feel like in
Speaker 1: that situation, just go with the not getting one hundred
Speaker 1: percent of your pee out right then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the one last thing I want to say
Speaker 2: is I get that a lot of men probably don't
Speaker 2: sit down to pea still, the statistics tell me that
Speaker 2: at least, but in the middle of the night, if
Speaker 2: you have to get up and go, I just think
Speaker 2: it's the craziest thing I've ever heard of to try
Speaker 2: and stand there and still try and stay asleep and
Speaker 2: pee in that toilet. That's how that was The gateway
Speaker 2: for me was in the middle of the night because
Speaker 2: it just makes sense.
Speaker 1: Well, I remember the first time that happened to me.
Speaker 1: I accidentally fell onto the toilet while I was peeing
Speaker 1: into a sitting position, and I was like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is much nicer.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Well, Chuck says he loves it. I want to end
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