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Hello and welcome.

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Oops. Your culture's showing.

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We're here today to talk about culture to

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you and hopefully to make it

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pretty interesting. My name is Tom Peterson, and

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I'm the host, and I'm sitting here with

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Dean Foster. Hi, Dean. Good morning, Tom.

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And, what are we doing with this culture

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stuff? I mean, it sound honestly, it sounds

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really dry. You know, here you and I,

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here we are. Just think about what you

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even did this morning, which is like the

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most What did I do this morning? I'm

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I'm being It's what you didn't do. I

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think I know. I'm personally attacking me here.

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I I noticed that you did not shave

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this morning. I did not shave this morning,

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and and I I did not and why

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why is that culture? I don't get that.

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It is. There's a cultural piece to that.

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Yeah. Culture

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is in everything. Everything we do, everything that

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people do to with to and with us

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Okay. Has a culture. Okay. Okay. Okay. So

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you sound sort of like you know what

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you're talking about?

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You done this before?

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About thirty years. Oh. About a hundred plus

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countries. Oh oh oh, okay. Really? Yeah. Oh,

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okay.

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Alright. Fortune 500 companies. Oh, yeah. Okay. A

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few books. So so you dabble?

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Yeah. I dabble. Yeah. Okay. Alright. I'm very

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lucky because I'm dabbling in something that's really,

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really fun. I've I've had the perfect job.

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Well, if you dabble in it, you clean

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it up. Alright?

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I hope hopefully, I don't make a mess.

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I think

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probably we've already made a mess, but that's

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not going to stop us. We're going to

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keep right on with it anyhow. So So

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I'm thinking you didn't shave in this a

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whole cultural discussion around that. Yeah.

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Well, let me put it this way. I'm

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not real concerned about being attractive to you,

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so,

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I'm not,

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I didn't I didn't worry about it a

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whole lot when I got up and looked

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in the mirror this morning and said, do

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I need to, you know, do I need

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to really go through the whole shaving routine

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for Dean? You you just brought me so

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far down.

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I'm so disappointed. I'm so disappointed. Well, you

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know, my my goal is not to bring

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you down, but but my goal is to

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be honest and straightforward. I would expect that

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if we're gonna get together and bring something

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here, I mean, you'd have a little respect.

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And Oh, well, then we got a real

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big problem if I have to have respect.

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Shave. You know, but I don't need to

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shave. I didn't need to shave. The truth

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is I didn't shave this morning. Well, see.

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There you go. There you go. Now listen.

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It it's so so That's not because I

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didn't wanna look good for you.

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And by the way, the the the laughter

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that you're hearing that isn't either one of

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us is our producer, Torin.

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Hello.

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Hello, Torin. Hello.

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He's brilliant. He's always there. He's he's he's

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always jumping in with with wonderful pieces of

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information. No. It's a matter of respect.

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Right? It it is? Yeah. And and if

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I really respected you, I would have shaved

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this morning. There

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you go. Now it's out. You see?

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Okay. Fair enough. However, there are there are

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places on the planet,

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groups of people on the planet who who

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shaving becomes some sort of ritual. Right? I

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mean, there or am I just making this

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stuff up? Oh, I think so. I mean,

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I think, you know, the facial hair,

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fashions of the day Yeah. Are kind of

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rituals. Right? Okay. Yeah.

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And and it's isn't it interesting, like, today

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I'll be the judge of that. But go

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ahead. Men can wear facial hair like it's

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required now on TV. You know? Every commentator's

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got some level of, like, hip facial hair.

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Right? Yeah. Like partial growth. Yeah. And and

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some groups of people, like, facial hair has

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incredible meaning and and significance,

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even religious significance. Right? So Sure.

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Name three. Right? I mean, orthodox Jews. Okay.

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The men. I'm talking about the men. Okay.

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And and also many Muslim sects. By the

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way, you're walking by yourself through Williamsburg the

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next time. Okay? The men are wearing long

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beards, and it has religious significance. Right? So

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facial hair

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is it tells a lot. You know what

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else? No. I don't. Head coverings.

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the coverings of the hair on the top

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of the head?

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What oh, you mean not like a hat,

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but like but but like hair?

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Hair you can have hair covering hair. I'm

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guessing that hair on many parts of the

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body means something throughout the world. I think

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yeah. And whether you shave it or not

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Yeah. It has a social and cultural significance.

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So so we're starting off with our our

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our our lead in subject here for today

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is is hair on the body.

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What does that mean? Or not. Or not.

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Or not. Absolutely.

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So okay. I mean, there could be practical

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purposes. Like, I understand bikers, and I'm not

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a real biker, but I understand bikers. Men

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Are we talking vroom vroom biker? Are we

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talking

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biker? Yeah. No. The the the physical pedaling

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bikers. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. They

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the men the the competitive bikers, they shave

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the hair from their legs because it's supposed

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to speed them up.

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Swimmers do that too. Alright. See? There you

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go. Yeah. So is that a culture?

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Oh, no. Okay. It's not a culture thing

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at all. But you hear that term. It's

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a practical term. You hear that term, though.

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I mean, you hear, like, the culture of

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you know, in the swimming culture and the

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in the biking culture. So is that inappropriate,

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or is that just kind of a loose

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use of the, terminology? I do think it's

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appropriate. Okay. We've gone over to terminology now,

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which actually makes it even more boring. I

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I think we've actually managed to get to

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that level. Well, you used the word. I

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didn't. Well, I'll climb out of dust. I'm

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trying hard here. We'll we'll try. Let's go

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look at people's bodies and and see what

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that's doing.

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Bodies around the world, a hair or a

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no? I think it's fascinating that in some

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cultures, you actually have

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hair

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replacing hair.

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Okay. I have no idea what you're talking

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about. And I don't quite understand the background,

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so I I say this respectfully, but the

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but Orthodox Jewish women

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shave their hair when they get married. Okay.

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But but to go out in public, they

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wear a wig,

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which is a very interesting phenomenon. Yes. Right?

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Yes. And I understand the reason for it

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because out in public, you I guess you

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want to look like the rest of the

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people on the street. Uh-huh.

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And if you have You don't wanna draw

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attention to yourself. That you shade your hair.

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Sure. Okay. So you're putting hair on top

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of hair that isn't there that would be

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there. There's a so there's a cultural slash

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aspect to the shaving of it. There's a

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religious piece to the cultural behavior. Yes. Sure.

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Okay. Alright. Well, okay. Yeah. That's kind of

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interesting.

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Now, shaving hair off the body is not

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like it's not new

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and and it's done in many different parts

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of the world. And in fact In many

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different parts of the body too. In many

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different parts of the body, which is I'm

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kind of going to actually.

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go ahead. If you choose to have your

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imagination run wild, please feel free. Speaking of

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running wild, some of the hair that is,

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is I mean, like, hair is removed. In

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the in The United States, the at least

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the younger culture

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doesn't look at

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the hairy bodies as being a positive thing.

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Well, you know, it's

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interesting to see these trends. Right? Yeah.

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facial hair on men was like something you

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didn't have. Like, in the 1950s.

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was you couldn't have facial hair. They didn't

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shave it. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yep. And then

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it became fashionable. Now it's very fashionable. Well,

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also in the sixties in the counterculture,

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it was almost a mandatory thing. If you

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could grow hair on your face at all,

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you were growing hair on your face. Well,

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hence the name of the show, you know,

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the Broadway show. Yes. Also long hair off

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of the show. It was a celebration of

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long hair on on men. It wasn't a

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feminine look at all. No. But women also

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had long hair at that time. So they

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were and and

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and I and other things, but we will

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just kinda slide right on by that.

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And but they also in the like, in

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that time period now I realize that we're

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talking fifty years ago, but at that in

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that time period in The United States, that

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there was no big deal. In fact, there

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was actually a masculinity

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to the to the idea of body hair

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on men. And that, you know, the peacock

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phenomenon. Right? That is Yeah. That in the

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natural world,

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the the male of the species is usually

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the one that's Typically, the gaudy and dressed

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up Bigger plumage. Right.

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Right. My, yeah, my plumage is bigger than

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your plumage. So that's the idea. Yeah. It

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is.

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It's like, well, the the female, you know,

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peacock is looking around and she's saying,

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he he's got bigger plumage than the other

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guy. That's that's what I want. Now it

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but you take other cultures, other parts of

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the world, we're actually I'm sorry. I said

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female peacock, that's like an oxymoron. What do

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they call? Pehens? Pehens. Pehens. Pehens. Right. Yes.

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Yes. Because that's our expertise, both of us.

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We're The swaviar.

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Biological naturalists, right, of course. And in other

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parts of the world, the

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body hair, facial hair, it's just not as

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prevalent because of who they are. I mean,

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the the genetic background

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that but it it in some ways, it's

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there, but you don't get the the big

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Paul Bunyan type of growth on the face

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in men

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in other parts of the world.

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biological

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aspects of of ethnicity.

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Right. So but but my question then is

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so so is a culture going to say

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this is preferred because that's the biological

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reason behind it and therefore it becomes preferred,

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or is it just being preferred because it's

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preferred?

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Or or do I have no idea what

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I'm saying? So when you shave,

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do you shave in front of a mirror

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in the bathroom?

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Yes. Okay.

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By the way, I'm not answering your question

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because I noticed that. Yes.

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So I remember one time I was thinking

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in that, those moments in your life where

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you think, like, it doesn't really matter what

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I do, right, because nobody's noticing me anyway.

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Right. Right. So I'm gonna shave, like, just

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half my face Yeah. On one side And

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leave it. And leave it. And then I'm

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gonna shave where my mustache should be, just

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the other side. Right. And then I'm gonna

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shave one eyebrow. Okay. Right? And then I'm

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gonna leave the other eyebrow. Okay. And

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then you have a choice. And this this

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is probably why I I never did this.

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I was Although I've thought about it, and

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those moments in my life looking back where

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I felt like it didn't matter what I

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did. Stepping out of the house, nobody's gonna

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notice anyway. So

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but here's the dilemma I had.

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Not that way. Wait. There's a dilemma that

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goes on top of this? I remember this.

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I can recall this. Okay. The dilemma was,

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do I shave all one side so that

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it's

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symmetrical

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so that my

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eyebrow and my half mustache and my half

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beard is all on one side and the

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other side isn't? So you have symmetry in

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the asymmetry? Are. Okay. Oh oh,

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there's more. Do I go from side to

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side?

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Like, leave the right eyebrow,

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but then take off the right mustache,

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leaves the left Alternating sides. Alternating sides. Right?

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Yeah. And because I had that decision, guess

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what I did? Nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because

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that would have been weird. I it's that

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I'm taking that as the only culture that

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actually exists in is Johnny Depp in the

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Pirates of the Caribbean, movies. Does he do

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that? Well, he does freakish stuff. So

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it's a very small culture,

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that

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It's a, like, it's a petri dish culture,

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I believe.

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Anyway, okay.

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Well, that's interesting. Now here's a cultural thing.

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Thank you for sharing the time in your

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life when you were heavy into drugs.

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I don't recall what the motivation was. Uh-huh.

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I'm not gonna say that that's what the

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motivation was. Okay. Well, fair enough. You don't

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have to to say anything about it. You've

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already thrown you under the bus on that,

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I think. So I would say this sounds

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like a good time for a break.

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We'll be right back.

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And our handle on Twitter is oops culture

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So talk to us.

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We're in the bathroom. We're shaving. We're in

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front of a mirror.

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Bathrooms around the world are different. Let's talk

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about it because

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there's a real cultural piece in there.

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Okay. Are there bathrooms around the world that

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do not traditionally

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have mirrors in them? Now the whole thing

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about a mirror is interesting. Oh, God. He's

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not gonna answer. He's just gonna go asunder.

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I I don't

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I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say

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Yeah. You don't have mirrors Yeah. In the

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bathroom because I think that's where you need

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a mirror. Right? Well, that's kinda where I'm

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going. No matter what you're doing. Right? Yeah.

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You you

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I think I mean, if you're gonna be

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doing these kind of things, if I'm taking

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a very sharp instrument

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and I'm bringing it up to my face

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and neck Or elsewhere.

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Or especially elsewhere.

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I am

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I am Why is this just called elsewhere?

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Okay. Now well, that to be

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well, some people it's elsewhere, and some people

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it may not be elsewhere.

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Some people it's nowhere. If you understand that,

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you're

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more in need of help than I am.

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But let's look at the mirror thing. Oh,

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okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. Do your mirror

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thing. Now mirrors were can reflect,

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in Chinese culture, for example. Uh-huh.

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You wanna place mirrors carefully because they can

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reflect

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bad forces

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away,

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and they can attract good forces in. For

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example

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Yeah. You know if you're going into a

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Cantonese restaurant as opposed to, let's say, a

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Zichuan restaurant or a Mandarin

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restaurant. You have different cuisines of China. If

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you if you walk down the street in

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a Chinese neighborhood Uh-huh. You'll know if you

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can expect Cantonese food if you see a

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mirror

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on the back wall of the Chinese restaurant.

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Okay.

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Associated with that often is a a tank

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of water or live fish in a tank

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of water up at the front of the

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entrance of the restaurant. And and okay. And

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the reason for this is because

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in Southern China, Canton

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region,

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where Cantonese food is. Right? Yeah. Yeah. There's

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a traditional belief that there are good forces

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and bad forces. That's that's pretty ubiquitous throughout

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all of Chinese culture. Yeah. But that the

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good forces can be attracted into the restaurant

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by water, and the bad forces

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can be deflected out

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by a mirror. Okay. So you put the

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mirror at the back of the restaurant, so

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it pushes all the bad forces out. And

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you put the tank of water in the

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front to attract all the good forces in.

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Good luck. Good fortune. I've seen this. I've

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seen it. That's right. So if you walk

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past a restaurant and you see that kind

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of architectural

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arrangement Uh-huh. Chances are it's going to be

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a Cantonese menu. Is is this feng shui?

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This is related to feng shui. Okay. Yes.

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Yes. And and we should, you know, mention

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to the listeners that feng shui is is

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this ancient Chinese belief that there are forces,

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good and evil, out there and that the

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placement of objects,

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not just mirrors, but the placement of objects.

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Plants and and the the fish tank that

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you were talking about, water Right. Things like

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that. Right? Will either attract or deflect. Right.

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So where you place something is very important.

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We always tell, for example, Western business people

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when they go to China, if you're invited

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into somebody's office and you see a lovely

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jade object on the desk Yeah.

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You don't pick it up and admire it

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and then put it back down. Right. Because

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you may have put it back down in

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such a way where it's it's different from

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the way it was placed. And and the

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way it was originally placed was

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very thoughtful Uh-huh. And and it was done

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according to Feng Shui practices.

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Oh. So you may have just deflected all

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that person's good fortune out the

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out the proverbial window. If you so if

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you in other words, if you're trying

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if you're trying to do business with this

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person in some form that you're it's probably

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not a good thing. Not a good thing

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to Or even just personal relationship with the

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person, they're probably not happy about that. No.

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No. No. No. Okay. Then well, that would

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be a pretty good reason to know that,

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I would say. Yeah. Or at the very

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least, you know what kind of menu to

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expect when you walk into the highest restaurant.

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Absolutely.

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A large one.

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Okay.

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That's good. Now if the if the mirror

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is on the back wall of an Italian

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restaurant, what does that tell us?

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They're sit they're serving Cantonese food. I don't

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think it's an issue. You know, I don't

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think there's a cultural piece to that. They

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may have just enjoyed the fact that they

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wanted a mirror up there. Okay. There you

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go. It doesn't have the cultural significance that

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it has in in China. Somehow, we got

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out of the bathroom and into the Italian

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restaurant. How we did. But if they they

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probably have a bathroom, so let's go back

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in.

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It's Well, you know, and if you do

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that in the in the in the in

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the bathroom at the Chinese restaurant, it doesn't

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matter how you do it. Right? It it's

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kind of a it's a western.

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And if you're western, you're you're you're familiar

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with it. But just look at the difference.

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For example, if you went into a Japanese

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bathroom Yeah. It would be a whole other

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Now you're talking about one in in a

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residence or you're talking about one in a

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at a business?

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In a residence. In a residence. I think

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in a residence. Okay. Probably you'd see this

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more frequently. It's not that you wouldn't see

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it elsewhere as well. Okay. So the Japanese

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because I have a certain familiarity with the

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Japanese toilet, and and it's different. You do?

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I do. Do you have one at home?

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Well, it was a long night. There was

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a lot of sake.

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There was in The United States, we think

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of the Japanese as very Western

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in their and and I mean, I and

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I know we're really wrong with that, but

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what we think of them in in a

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Western way, so our first not being That's

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oops your culture show. Oops your culture show.

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Absolutely.

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It's if you

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are if you're going there and you go

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in to use a toilet,

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you you may encounter

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what would be something far beyond what we

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would have here in The United States. You

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have to know how to manage

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this nuclear device. Yes. Yes. With all these

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big buttons and noise making machines.

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I believe I believe it's actually equipped to

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defend you in court if you need it

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to. You just press the attorney button. That's

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right. Right. And

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and which one?

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It's but it heats. It heats itself. It

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heats your bottom. Yeah. It makes noises to

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cover up the noises that are causing be

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making. Uh-huh. Associated with bathroom use. Yes.

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It has deodorizers

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of different

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aromas that you can press the buttons for.

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What else does it do? It shoots up

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water. It's like it's like it's like the

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Bellagio Waterworks

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in in in Vegas.

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I think it actually has a slot machine

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involved also. It's got

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synchronized

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synchronized

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fountains

527
00:19:06,950 --> 00:19:09,289
coming up at different times in different directions.

528
00:19:10,069 --> 00:19:12,950
I think. And and I'm already feeling very

529
00:19:12,950 --> 00:19:14,710
good about that. It's Oh, you're having a

530
00:19:14,710 --> 00:19:15,529
great time.

531
00:19:16,755 --> 00:19:18,515
It's it's it's why people just don't ever

532
00:19:18,515 --> 00:19:20,195
come out. You want to stay in there

533
00:19:20,195 --> 00:19:22,914
if you really Right. After after the fountain

534
00:19:22,914 --> 00:19:24,615
show, you're expecting, you know,

535
00:19:25,555 --> 00:19:27,734
the the media. Come out. And it's warm.

536
00:19:27,875 --> 00:19:29,734
It's it's like, this is great.

537
00:19:31,519 --> 00:19:33,279
And yet, it it the interesting thing to

538
00:19:33,279 --> 00:19:35,380
me too is that it it's so culturally

539
00:19:35,519 --> 00:19:36,980
specific to Japan.

540
00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,640
Overall, it it hasn't spread. Well, I was

541
00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,799
I saw one. I actually actually used one

542
00:19:42,799 --> 00:19:45,285
where you choose the music that you wanted.

543
00:19:45,365 --> 00:19:47,125
Yeah. Okay. To cover the sound. Oh, I've

544
00:19:47,125 --> 00:19:49,285
heard that too. Yeah. And it wide range.

545
00:19:49,285 --> 00:19:50,965
Well, then you had a whole choice. Yeah.

546
00:19:50,965 --> 00:19:52,884
I mean, there was It's like iTunes. It

547
00:19:52,884 --> 00:19:53,625
was classical.

548
00:19:54,805 --> 00:19:57,224
It was there was it was

549
00:19:57,605 --> 00:19:58,984
it was Asian pop.

550
00:20:00,549 --> 00:20:03,190
What are you doing? So what what am

551
00:20:03,190 --> 00:20:05,190
I about to do is you're going to

552
00:20:05,190 --> 00:20:05,690
choose,

553
00:20:06,049 --> 00:20:07,910
based on that? So the first Is that

554
00:20:07,910 --> 00:20:08,730
you did the

555
00:20:09,109 --> 00:20:09,690
first criteria that

556
00:20:10,230 --> 00:20:12,470
I had was how long am I going

557
00:20:12,470 --> 00:20:13,529
to be in here?

558
00:20:16,205 --> 00:20:18,144
Well, depends. Did you stop

559
00:20:18,525 --> 00:20:21,085
for the Cantonese food Well, it before you

560
00:20:21,085 --> 00:20:21,985
came there.

561
00:20:23,884 --> 00:20:27,325
It immediately reduced my choices because Beethoven's fifth

562
00:20:27,325 --> 00:20:29,005
was out. You know, I'm not

563
00:20:30,779 --> 00:20:33,340
I think the eighteen twelve overture would be

564
00:20:33,340 --> 00:20:34,240
a good one,

565
00:20:34,539 --> 00:20:36,859
mainly with the cannons on. If I if

566
00:20:36,859 --> 00:20:37,359
I

567
00:20:41,660 --> 00:20:42,960
if I'd had the

568
00:20:43,420 --> 00:20:44,080
the choice.

569
00:20:45,194 --> 00:20:46,654
You do have a choice.

570
00:20:47,355 --> 00:20:49,194
I would've I would've gone straight to the

571
00:20:49,194 --> 00:20:51,194
end of the eighteen twelve. Right at the

572
00:20:51,194 --> 00:20:53,515
end. You just go straight to the end

573
00:20:53,515 --> 00:20:55,595
with the cannons and be out of there.

574
00:20:55,595 --> 00:20:57,595
They just or the bells. The bells might

575
00:20:57,595 --> 00:20:58,335
help too.

576
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,160
Do you know that when Tchaikovsky wrote that,

577
00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,720
he actually wrote in his score. Toilet at

578
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,119
the time. Maybe he was or standing in

579
00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:09,740
the middle of the river in Moscow.

580
00:21:10,759 --> 00:21:12,859
Yeah. I think in the score, he actually

581
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,525
says that there should be bells being rung

582
00:21:15,525 --> 00:21:18,085
by cherubs from the heavens. Is that right?

583
00:21:18,085 --> 00:21:20,005
Yeah. So you couldn't pay them anybody in

584
00:21:20,005 --> 00:21:22,085
the musicians union. No. But Yeah. But you

585
00:21:22,085 --> 00:21:23,845
had to pay the cherubs. How can you

586
00:21:23,845 --> 00:21:25,845
get cherubs in the there's no cherubs in

587
00:21:25,845 --> 00:21:27,785
the union. Not the last time I looked.

588
00:21:30,049 --> 00:21:30,549
It

589
00:21:31,650 --> 00:21:33,730
well, somebody has to get cherubs to work.

590
00:21:33,730 --> 00:21:35,250
You know? I mean, come on. They it's

591
00:21:35,250 --> 00:21:37,650
been slow. Skipped the 1812, and I think

592
00:21:37,650 --> 00:21:39,809
I I think I chose, given the fact

593
00:21:39,809 --> 00:21:41,250
that I wasn't planning to be in there

594
00:21:41,250 --> 00:21:42,585
for a very long time I see. Yes.

595
00:21:42,585 --> 00:21:44,365
I think I chose some interesting,

596
00:21:45,784 --> 00:21:48,184
Asian pop. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I figured I

597
00:21:48,184 --> 00:21:49,904
was in Japan learning. We kind of get

598
00:21:50,024 --> 00:21:51,944
that that that name for it goes along

599
00:21:51,944 --> 00:21:54,585
with the entire experience, I would say. Asian

600
00:21:54,585 --> 00:21:55,565
pop. Yep.

601
00:21:56,024 --> 00:21:56,345
When,

602
00:21:57,950 --> 00:22:00,589
I was, would be hoping Inigada DaVita was

603
00:22:00,589 --> 00:22:02,369
in there, actually. That well,

604
00:22:02,990 --> 00:22:03,490
again,

605
00:22:03,789 --> 00:22:05,230
how long you did it? Well, there you

606
00:22:05,230 --> 00:22:07,549
go. That's Wasn't that the longest popular song

607
00:22:07,549 --> 00:22:08,049
ever

608
00:22:08,430 --> 00:22:10,109
written there? There may be longer now, but

609
00:22:10,109 --> 00:22:11,490
it's but it's for a long

610
00:22:11,869 --> 00:22:13,424
something like twenty two minutes. Yeah.

611
00:22:13,904 --> 00:22:16,164
Yeah. What what how long was it, Torin?

612
00:22:16,625 --> 00:22:18,384
You how long was In A Gada de

613
00:22:18,384 --> 00:22:19,904
Vita? I will take a look. Not the

614
00:22:19,904 --> 00:22:21,985
Simpsons version. Or how long have you been

615
00:22:21,985 --> 00:22:23,285
in the A Gada de Gada.

616
00:22:25,424 --> 00:22:27,904
Vita's Gaden. They I think they just pulled

617
00:22:27,904 --> 00:22:29,589
the plug on those guys anyhow. They were

618
00:22:29,589 --> 00:22:31,990
pretty stoned when they recorded that. So there

619
00:22:31,990 --> 00:22:33,909
you go. So, anyhow, I'm still in the

620
00:22:33,909 --> 00:22:36,629
bathroom in Japan. Alright. Alright. Okay. I'm seeing

621
00:22:36,629 --> 00:22:38,950
seventeen minutes. Seven. A little over seventeen minutes.

622
00:22:38,950 --> 00:22:41,190
Seventeen minutes. Okay. I thought it was longer

623
00:22:41,190 --> 00:22:44,125
than that, but alright. Well, depending on the

624
00:22:44,125 --> 00:22:45,804
Cantonese food you had the night before, you

625
00:22:45,804 --> 00:22:47,484
might have to run it up again. Yeah.

626
00:22:47,484 --> 00:22:48,845
You might have to go on a second

627
00:22:48,845 --> 00:22:50,224
version of that. Again.

628
00:22:51,724 --> 00:22:52,304
Right? Loop

629
00:22:52,765 --> 00:22:54,365
looping in a got at the Vita is

630
00:22:54,365 --> 00:22:56,065
not pretty. Not at all.

631
00:22:57,190 --> 00:22:59,029
Okay. But now everybody wants to buy a

632
00:22:59,029 --> 00:23:00,970
jacket and toilet, by the way.

633
00:23:01,509 --> 00:23:02,970
Let's take a break.

634
00:23:09,509 --> 00:23:11,529
While listening to this, you may think,

635
00:23:11,910 --> 00:23:14,105
hey, You know, I wonder well, if you

636
00:23:14,105 --> 00:23:15,944
have a question like that you wanna ask

637
00:23:15,944 --> 00:23:17,785
us, there's a couple ways you can do

638
00:23:17,785 --> 00:23:20,684
it. One would be through email, which is

639
00:23:20,744 --> 00:23:22,984
oopscultureshow@gmail.com.

640
00:23:22,984 --> 00:23:27,289
That's 00pscultureshow@gmail.com.

641
00:23:27,289 --> 00:23:29,630
And then there's also our handle on Twitter,

642
00:23:29,769 --> 00:23:31,950
which is oops culture show.

643
00:23:32,490 --> 00:23:32,990
That's

644
00:23:33,769 --> 00:23:36,190
o o p s culture show.

645
00:23:36,650 --> 00:23:39,309
I know. I know. It's not original, but

646
00:23:39,369 --> 00:23:41,005
but it works. Okay?

647
00:23:43,144 --> 00:23:45,224
Everyone wants to buy a Japanese toilet now.

648
00:23:45,224 --> 00:23:46,904
Well, I would I mean, that's the thing.

649
00:23:46,904 --> 00:23:49,865
That's the thing. I can't imagine because we're

650
00:23:49,865 --> 00:23:51,085
just we're just beginning

651
00:23:51,544 --> 00:23:52,845
with Japanese bathrooms.

652
00:23:53,419 --> 00:23:55,259
The the the toilet aspect of it is

653
00:23:55,259 --> 00:23:57,179
just the beginning. We were renovating one of

654
00:23:57,179 --> 00:23:59,259
our bathrooms a few years ago, and I

655
00:23:59,259 --> 00:24:00,799
toyed with the idea of just

656
00:24:01,099 --> 00:24:02,000
Of going Japanese

657
00:24:02,539 --> 00:24:05,039
culture No. I didn't want a Japanese culture

658
00:24:05,434 --> 00:24:07,994
bathroom. I just wanted a Japanese toilet because

659
00:24:07,994 --> 00:24:09,434
it was fun. Picking a fight here or

660
00:24:09,434 --> 00:24:09,934
what?

661
00:24:10,394 --> 00:24:12,954
So I went online Okay. To see. And

662
00:24:12,954 --> 00:24:13,535
you could,

663
00:24:14,315 --> 00:24:16,234
you know, you can get them no matter

664
00:24:16,234 --> 00:24:17,595
where. You don't have to be in Japan.

665
00:24:17,595 --> 00:24:18,095
Right.

666
00:24:18,889 --> 00:24:21,609
Relative to a western toilet, they they're very

667
00:24:21,609 --> 00:24:23,849
expensive. But fair enough, they have all these

668
00:24:23,849 --> 00:24:25,929
bells and whistles that are just so much

669
00:24:25,929 --> 00:24:27,929
fun. I just would think on on anything

670
00:24:27,929 --> 00:24:30,190
from, like, middle top end

671
00:24:30,490 --> 00:24:30,990
up,

672
00:24:31,365 --> 00:24:33,125
you would start seeing so many more of

673
00:24:33,125 --> 00:24:34,724
them, and I don't know that that's happening

674
00:24:34,724 --> 00:24:36,644
in this country in The United States. I

675
00:24:36,644 --> 00:24:38,005
think it may be in other parts of

676
00:24:38,005 --> 00:24:39,125
the world it is, but I don't I

677
00:24:39,125 --> 00:24:40,884
don't see it happening in The United States.

678
00:24:40,964 --> 00:24:42,724
Think it it should because it you think

679
00:24:42,724 --> 00:24:45,269
it would because it's just great. Yeah. Right?

680
00:24:45,349 --> 00:24:46,950
Yeah. Yeah. Here's another thing. And there there

681
00:24:46,950 --> 00:24:49,430
are probably so many aspects of Japanese culture

682
00:24:49,430 --> 00:24:51,430
that I wonder, you know, you would have

683
00:24:51,430 --> 00:24:53,269
you would have expected them to have caught

684
00:24:53,269 --> 00:24:53,769
on

685
00:24:54,150 --> 00:24:56,809
elsewhere. Yeah. But but they didn't, you know,

686
00:24:56,950 --> 00:24:59,509
like the the hot towel that you get

687
00:24:59,509 --> 00:25:01,404
at the beginning of the meal, of a

688
00:25:01,404 --> 00:25:03,265
Japanese meal. Oh, right. For sure.

689
00:25:03,565 --> 00:25:06,924
It is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Right? Yeah.

690
00:25:06,924 --> 00:25:09,404
It it soothes you. You get this hot

691
00:25:09,404 --> 00:25:10,384
towel. You can

692
00:25:10,684 --> 00:25:12,444
pat your you know, wash off your hands.

693
00:25:12,444 --> 00:25:13,585
It's it's clean.

694
00:25:13,950 --> 00:25:16,269
You can't guarantee that everybody who walks into

695
00:25:16,269 --> 00:25:18,029
your restaurant is gonna use the bathroom to

696
00:25:18,029 --> 00:25:20,349
clean their hands. Right. Many people don't. I

697
00:25:20,349 --> 00:25:22,750
mean, I go into I do. If I'm

698
00:25:22,750 --> 00:25:24,509
taking this I live in New York City.

699
00:25:24,509 --> 00:25:26,269
If I take the subway somewhere, the first

700
00:25:26,269 --> 00:25:27,549
thing I do after I get out of

701
00:25:27,549 --> 00:25:29,825
the subway is use a hand sanitizer or

702
00:25:29,825 --> 00:25:32,545
wash my hands, but maybe not everybody does.

703
00:25:32,545 --> 00:25:33,045
Right?

704
00:25:33,505 --> 00:25:35,984
So the hot towel comes, and it's it's

705
00:25:35,984 --> 00:25:36,484
wonderful.

706
00:25:36,785 --> 00:25:38,865
It it just soothes you. It cleans you.

707
00:25:38,865 --> 00:25:41,125
It's why didn't that catch on

708
00:25:41,585 --> 00:25:42,644
everywhere else?

709
00:25:43,319 --> 00:25:45,159
Wouldn't you love that if you walked into

710
00:25:45,159 --> 00:25:46,220
a French restaurant

711
00:25:46,599 --> 00:25:47,960
to sit down and just I would think

712
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,240
that would be great for something. Get a

713
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,659
nice hot towel. Yeah. I would absolutely.

714
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,419
I think And a shave.

715
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,380
And a shave and a body shave, perhaps.

716
00:25:56,919 --> 00:25:57,419
Yeah.

717
00:25:57,894 --> 00:25:59,575
Well, in the right French restaurant, I think

718
00:25:59,575 --> 00:26:00,634
that would work well.

719
00:26:01,734 --> 00:26:04,214
Or an Italian restaurant. Or an Italian

720
00:26:05,174 --> 00:26:06,954
yeah. We probably shouldn't do that.

721
00:26:08,134 --> 00:26:09,654
So we started to talk about this, but

722
00:26:09,654 --> 00:26:11,654
what I don't understand is I don't I

723
00:26:11,654 --> 00:26:13,355
don't see how the

724
00:26:14,099 --> 00:26:17,140
especially the Western world, which would seem meaning

725
00:26:17,140 --> 00:26:19,720
The United States, but Canada and and Australia

726
00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:24,019
through Western Europe. Western Europe. I I don't

727
00:26:24,019 --> 00:26:25,880
know why they haven't leaped

728
00:26:26,424 --> 00:26:28,984
to the Japanese bathroom style. It seems to

729
00:26:28,984 --> 00:26:31,704
me to be I mean, and maybe in

730
00:26:31,704 --> 00:26:32,204
some

731
00:26:32,744 --> 00:26:35,384
little ways they have in some few little

732
00:26:35,384 --> 00:26:37,704
pockets. It is available, and I'm sure people

733
00:26:37,704 --> 00:26:39,545
buy it. But but why hasn't it been

734
00:26:39,545 --> 00:26:42,049
like this is great. Where Why hasn't it

735
00:26:42,049 --> 00:26:43,190
replaced the current

736
00:26:43,570 --> 00:26:45,570
toilet? Like, why can't I go to Home

737
00:26:45,570 --> 00:26:46,070
Depot

738
00:26:46,849 --> 00:26:47,250
and,

739
00:26:47,809 --> 00:26:51,329
and just order my my Japanese style toilet

740
00:26:51,329 --> 00:26:52,769
with all the bells and whistles? I know

741
00:26:52,769 --> 00:26:55,250
you can get one that has certain things

742
00:26:55,250 --> 00:26:57,625
that will that will work with it. But

743
00:26:57,625 --> 00:27:00,204
mainly, they're all special orders, and

744
00:27:00,825 --> 00:27:02,505
I just don't think it's happening. And to

745
00:27:02,505 --> 00:27:03,865
me, it would sound like it should be

746
00:27:03,865 --> 00:27:04,365
ubiquitous.

747
00:27:05,545 --> 00:27:07,484
Why wouldn't you want to do this?

748
00:27:07,785 --> 00:27:09,910
Yeah. You know, I I think there's lots

749
00:27:09,910 --> 00:27:11,750
of reasons. Right? Okay. But I also think

750
00:27:11,750 --> 00:27:14,470
there's a cultural reason. Yeah. Economics, it costs

751
00:27:14,470 --> 00:27:16,549
a whole lot more. These contraptions are just

752
00:27:16,549 --> 00:27:18,630
more expensive. Sure. Right? So it's only going

753
00:27:18,630 --> 00:27:20,070
to appeal to a certain group who can

754
00:27:20,070 --> 00:27:21,670
actually afford it. Yeah. But that is the

755
00:27:21,670 --> 00:27:23,190
the supply and demand thing. So the more

756
00:27:23,190 --> 00:27:24,654
the people want it, the the it would

757
00:27:24,654 --> 00:27:26,494
go down. But, yeah, there's still gonna be

758
00:27:26,494 --> 00:27:27,934
a certain part of that. Right? But I

759
00:27:27,934 --> 00:27:30,654
think the cultural piece to this Yep. Is

760
00:27:30,654 --> 00:27:31,154
that

761
00:27:31,535 --> 00:27:33,234
we don't wanna hang out in the bathroom.

762
00:27:34,095 --> 00:27:35,714
I think it's a Puritan thing.

763
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:36,980
I I think,

764
00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:39,460
you know, we just wanna get in there,

765
00:27:39,599 --> 00:27:41,859
do our business, and get out. All Puritan

766
00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:43,839
influenced. I mean, I know the country as

767
00:27:43,839 --> 00:27:46,000
a whole is. I get that. Yeah. But,

768
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:46,579
I mean,

769
00:27:47,039 --> 00:27:48,480
because we've got the, you know, the parts

770
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,234
of the country that we are much much

771
00:27:50,234 --> 00:27:52,714
warmer and and come from So I I

772
00:27:52,714 --> 00:27:55,035
think bathroom manufacturers struggle with this problem all

773
00:27:55,035 --> 00:27:56,795
the time because they really wanna make a

774
00:27:56,795 --> 00:27:59,035
bathroom so that, you know, you wanna hang

775
00:27:59,035 --> 00:28:01,295
out in there. Right. Right? Right. And so

776
00:28:01,355 --> 00:28:02,095
there's always

777
00:28:02,690 --> 00:28:04,250
new features that Is it because, like, we're

778
00:28:04,369 --> 00:28:04,869
we

779
00:28:05,569 --> 00:28:07,170
but this doesn't seem to fit. We don't

780
00:28:07,170 --> 00:28:08,769
find our pleasure in the bathroom. We do

781
00:28:08,769 --> 00:28:11,089
it. We find our pleasure. Sure we don't.

782
00:28:11,089 --> 00:28:12,630
Sure we don't. Well,

783
00:28:13,650 --> 00:28:15,509
then there's a whole lot of other contraptions

784
00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:16,789
that we need to create.

785
00:28:18,505 --> 00:28:19,085
I've got

786
00:28:19,384 --> 00:28:21,865
a feeling the Japanese understand this too. Maybe

787
00:28:21,865 --> 00:28:23,785
they've come up with a new version. I'm

788
00:28:23,785 --> 00:28:25,644
gonna think that's possible. Yeah.

789
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,920
The thing the first thing that struck me

790
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,599
was, well, okay, but what do we do?

791
00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:36,680
We we wanna we run into a bathroom.

792
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:37,819
Usually, we're late

793
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,859
wherever we're going, whether it's out recreationally

794
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,394
or business or work. We're we're probably running

795
00:28:44,394 --> 00:28:46,075
a little bit late. We wanna get in

796
00:28:46,075 --> 00:28:47,595
there. We wanna get whatever we have to

797
00:28:47,595 --> 00:28:49,634
do done, get out of there, and move

798
00:28:49,634 --> 00:28:51,455
on. Right. But that

799
00:28:51,994 --> 00:28:53,755
that would only work if we if it

800
00:28:53,755 --> 00:28:55,674
wasn't coming from a if it was coming

801
00:28:55,674 --> 00:28:57,049
from an agriculturally

802
00:28:57,429 --> 00:28:59,589
driven country. See, I don't think that's totally

803
00:28:59,589 --> 00:29:01,669
it either because the Japanese, you know, you

804
00:29:01,669 --> 00:29:03,829
live in Tokyo, you're living a modern rushed

805
00:29:03,829 --> 00:29:06,470
life too. It's a very rushed life. So

806
00:29:06,470 --> 00:29:08,649
that doesn't work. No. So

807
00:29:08,950 --> 00:29:10,009
we're still going,

808
00:29:11,035 --> 00:29:13,195
I mean, I get the puritanical side. Sure.

809
00:29:13,195 --> 00:29:15,275
You can use it. We we will look.

810
00:29:15,275 --> 00:29:16,494
We'll ditch puritanical

811
00:29:16,795 --> 00:29:19,035
for this is really cool in a heartbeat.

812
00:29:19,035 --> 00:29:21,214
I mean, that's what's made Silicon Valley.

813
00:29:21,674 --> 00:29:22,174
And

814
00:29:22,555 --> 00:29:24,154
and and there's a lot of stock and

815
00:29:24,154 --> 00:29:25,835
money to be made in in in that

816
00:29:25,835 --> 00:29:26,430
whole industry.

817
00:29:30,430 --> 00:29:32,850
Continuing progress of of technology,

818
00:29:33,470 --> 00:29:35,230
obviously, the Japanese are on the cutting edge

819
00:29:35,230 --> 00:29:37,710
of that also. Maybe we're complete can only

820
00:29:37,710 --> 00:29:39,570
get better. Maybe we're complete

821
00:29:39,974 --> 00:29:41,974
completely wrong. Maybe you and I have been

822
00:29:41,974 --> 00:29:42,795
so isolated

823
00:29:43,575 --> 00:29:45,734
that we've we haven't noticed for yourself here

824
00:29:45,734 --> 00:29:47,515
for a second. That we haven't noticed that

825
00:29:48,214 --> 00:29:49,914
everybody Oh, it's happening? It's happening.

826
00:29:50,454 --> 00:29:52,694
It's happening. Well, I don't know. Is it

827
00:29:52,694 --> 00:29:54,839
happening? Well, I don't know. What do you

828
00:29:54,839 --> 00:29:55,960
and I know? Well, I don't know. You're

829
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,099
the cultural expert.

830
00:29:58,039 --> 00:29:59,500
I don't think it's happening.

831
00:30:02,519 --> 00:30:04,200
Well, I don't think it's happening either there.

832
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,660
It's not happening then.

833
00:30:10,445 --> 00:30:12,445
I think I think we're pretty safe. I

834
00:30:12,445 --> 00:30:13,825
think we're pretty safe

835
00:30:14,285 --> 00:30:17,164
to say that it is not happening on

836
00:30:17,164 --> 00:30:17,664
any

837
00:30:18,365 --> 00:30:21,644
large or medium scale. Okay? Well, you know,

838
00:30:21,644 --> 00:30:21,805
the

839
00:30:22,525 --> 00:30:24,359
ask the same question, like, how come

840
00:30:24,839 --> 00:30:25,900
saunas haven't,

841
00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:28,380
you know, become ubiquitous

842
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,319
as the way they are, let's say, in

843
00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:34,119
Finland or or in the Baltics? Or you

844
00:30:34,119 --> 00:30:36,679
you get into the Scandinavian countries and things

845
00:30:36,679 --> 00:30:38,039
like that. I mean, people love

846
00:30:38,679 --> 00:30:41,085
one we've we've adopted the,

847
00:30:41,724 --> 00:30:43,744
the the like, a whirlpool bath

848
00:30:44,285 --> 00:30:46,445
that Very much so. Cell tub. Everybody has

849
00:30:46,445 --> 00:30:48,204
it, but but I've got one. The hot

850
00:30:48,204 --> 00:30:50,464
tub is in a hot tub. Right? Uh-huh.

851
00:30:50,525 --> 00:30:52,204
Though it so that part of our society,

852
00:30:52,204 --> 00:30:54,549
we're like, okay. And so we like, we're

853
00:30:54,549 --> 00:30:55,049
immediately

854
00:30:55,349 --> 00:30:57,669
saying, because see, what does that do? I've

855
00:30:57,669 --> 00:30:58,490
got a Whirlpool

856
00:30:58,869 --> 00:30:59,369
tub

857
00:30:59,909 --> 00:31:02,470
in one of my bathrooms. Nobody wants to

858
00:31:02,470 --> 00:31:03,289
play music.

859
00:31:03,589 --> 00:31:05,909
And well, but they do. They bring their

860
00:31:05,909 --> 00:31:07,049
I their I

861
00:31:07,509 --> 00:31:10,365
their iPhone in, and they play music, and

862
00:31:10,365 --> 00:31:12,625
they listen to guess what? Podcasts.

863
00:31:13,085 --> 00:31:15,325
Here's the difference. So Here's the difference. And

864
00:31:15,325 --> 00:31:18,205
I'm guessing that somebody right now could be

865
00:31:18,205 --> 00:31:21,424
sitting in a Whirlpool tub in their bathroom

866
00:31:21,884 --> 00:31:24,799
listening to this podcast right now. Right. And

867
00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:26,900
so why isn't it just structured

868
00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:28,799
for them to be able to go in

869
00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:30,160
and in a world where what are they

870
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,140
pushing at us? Artificial intelligence. So the Japanese

871
00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:33,779
culture

872
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,700
is very as many Asian cultures are,

873
00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:40,575
very concerned about the group,

874
00:31:40,955 --> 00:31:43,855
about others Right. About my individual

875
00:31:44,315 --> 00:31:44,815
activities

876
00:31:45,195 --> 00:31:46,654
impact on others.

877
00:31:47,595 --> 00:31:48,095
So

878
00:31:48,634 --> 00:31:50,494
in a public bathroom

879
00:31:51,515 --> 00:31:52,015
where

880
00:31:52,339 --> 00:31:53,799
there are lots of others

881
00:31:54,180 --> 00:31:56,359
Yeah. What I do on the toilet

882
00:31:56,660 --> 00:31:57,559
has to be

883
00:31:57,940 --> 00:32:00,339
has to be carefully controlled so that it

884
00:32:00,339 --> 00:32:01,320
doesn't impact

885
00:32:01,940 --> 00:32:04,339
the others. Okay. So we have music. We

886
00:32:04,339 --> 00:32:06,339
have aromas. We have all sorts of things.

887
00:32:06,339 --> 00:32:06,839
Right?

888
00:32:07,565 --> 00:32:10,144
But what we do privately in our house

889
00:32:10,765 --> 00:32:12,704
Yeah. We're not concerned about others.

890
00:32:13,404 --> 00:32:15,984
Well, but And I think that's the reason

891
00:32:16,125 --> 00:32:18,384
it hasn't caught on the way other,

892
00:32:20,204 --> 00:32:22,464
other bathroom pleasure devices like

893
00:32:23,710 --> 00:32:25,649
like warm pools. But but

894
00:32:26,109 --> 00:32:27,069
but they'll sell

895
00:32:27,470 --> 00:32:29,649
who knows how many cans of

896
00:32:29,950 --> 00:32:32,289
air freshener that sit in people's bathrooms.

897
00:32:33,069 --> 00:32:35,789
So clearly, we There's some concern. We are

898
00:32:35,789 --> 00:32:37,955
concerned about what we're going to leave beyond.

899
00:32:38,234 --> 00:32:39,674
To the degree that we're gonna play the

900
00:32:39,674 --> 00:32:40,974
eighty twelve overture.

901
00:32:41,355 --> 00:32:42,095
But I think

902
00:32:42,394 --> 00:32:43,134
I think

903
00:32:43,595 --> 00:32:45,674
but if I do but I do think

904
00:32:45,674 --> 00:32:48,654
people are concerned about that. Sitting next to

905
00:32:48,795 --> 00:32:51,119
a bathroom stall where I suddenly I heard

906
00:32:51,119 --> 00:32:53,039
the cannons and the bells when the heat's

907
00:32:53,039 --> 00:32:55,680
going over. So you know you know what's

908
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,519
going on. I'd be more freaked out. I'd

909
00:32:57,519 --> 00:32:58,580
be less comfortable.

910
00:32:59,119 --> 00:33:00,740
I wouldn't be more comfortable.

911
00:33:01,279 --> 00:33:02,960
I try to get out of there so

912
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:03,460
fast.

913
00:33:05,794 --> 00:33:06,694
Well, what are you

914
00:33:07,194 --> 00:33:07,694
doing

915
00:33:08,194 --> 00:33:08,694
in

916
00:33:09,194 --> 00:33:09,694
there?

917
00:33:10,194 --> 00:33:12,595
I'd be afraid my music would clash with

918
00:33:12,595 --> 00:33:13,414
someone else's.

919
00:33:13,794 --> 00:33:14,034
That

920
00:33:15,234 --> 00:33:17,575
well, look. There's the courtesy flush.

921
00:33:18,369 --> 00:33:20,690
Right? I mean, that's something that that some

922
00:33:20,690 --> 00:33:23,970
people are nice enough to use, which which

923
00:33:23,970 --> 00:33:25,970
which does a couple of things. I mean,

924
00:33:25,970 --> 00:33:27,669
it it can it can cover

925
00:33:28,210 --> 00:33:29,109
other sounds

926
00:33:29,809 --> 00:33:32,210
and and at the same time, move the

927
00:33:32,210 --> 00:33:34,534
progress of the whole process

928
00:33:35,075 --> 00:33:35,575
along

929
00:33:36,115 --> 00:33:37,815
at a more rapid pace

930
00:33:38,115 --> 00:33:39,255
so that the

931
00:33:39,954 --> 00:33:41,734
the results of the process

932
00:33:42,194 --> 00:33:44,694
won't impact other people too much. Concern,

933
00:33:45,154 --> 00:33:45,815
you know,

934
00:33:46,140 --> 00:33:48,539
about of the for the other, sure. But

935
00:33:48,539 --> 00:33:50,299
not to the degree in the West that

936
00:33:50,299 --> 00:33:52,140
it is in Asia. I just think in

937
00:33:52,140 --> 00:33:54,140
the And I just think fundamentally from a

938
00:33:54,140 --> 00:33:57,180
cultural perspective, that's the reason why this hasn't

939
00:33:57,180 --> 00:33:58,779
caught on the way it has caught on.

940
00:33:58,779 --> 00:34:00,595
Well, I mean, you know,

941
00:34:01,055 --> 00:34:02,734
let's let's put it this way. As we

942
00:34:02,734 --> 00:34:04,755
know from the highest levels of this country,

943
00:34:05,295 --> 00:34:07,455
people do a lot of things on their

944
00:34:07,455 --> 00:34:09,635
phone while they're sitting in the bathroom,

945
00:34:10,414 --> 00:34:12,815
in the morning or wherever. Amazed the first

946
00:34:12,815 --> 00:34:15,090
time you walked into a public restroom and,

947
00:34:15,090 --> 00:34:17,329
you know, from a guy's perspective, standing at

948
00:34:17,329 --> 00:34:19,329
the URL and there's another guy next to

949
00:34:19,329 --> 00:34:21,250
you Yes. And he's on the phone talking

950
00:34:21,250 --> 00:34:21,910
to somebody?

951
00:34:22,210 --> 00:34:23,510
Yes. Like, what?

952
00:34:23,809 --> 00:34:26,050
Right. What? I was I was more concerned

953
00:34:26,050 --> 00:34:27,030
when they were FaceTiming.

954
00:34:35,984 --> 00:34:38,005
No. Actually, that would make more sense.

955
00:34:39,025 --> 00:34:41,344
Wait wait a minute. What bathrooms are you

956
00:34:41,344 --> 00:34:44,480
going into? Hold on here. With

957
00:34:44,860 --> 00:34:46,539
like, not that it bothered me because I

958
00:34:46,539 --> 00:34:47,760
was perfectly fine.

959
00:34:48,059 --> 00:34:50,480
I was perfectly fine. But it was,

960
00:34:54,539 --> 00:34:57,974
yeah. Yeah. That is that is strange. Yep.

961
00:34:58,375 --> 00:35:01,434
So strange that it's probably time to take

962
00:35:01,655 --> 00:35:02,635
one last break.

963
00:35:04,215 --> 00:35:06,614
Okay. Listen. The way to get hold of

964
00:35:06,614 --> 00:35:09,974
us is oopscultureshow@gmail.com,

965
00:35:09,974 --> 00:35:13,109
and our Twitter handle is oops culture show.

966
00:35:13,109 --> 00:35:15,269
Whether this is the first episode or the

967
00:35:15,269 --> 00:35:18,230
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968
00:35:18,230 --> 00:35:20,309
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969
00:35:20,309 --> 00:35:21,989
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970
00:35:21,989 --> 00:35:23,769
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971
00:35:24,150 --> 00:35:26,309
Because if you subscribe, these things will just

972
00:35:26,309 --> 00:35:27,734
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973
00:35:27,734 --> 00:35:29,414
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974
00:35:29,414 --> 00:35:31,734
best way to go, really, honestly. I know

975
00:35:31,734 --> 00:35:34,634
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976
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977
00:35:35,815 --> 00:35:38,934
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978
00:35:38,934 --> 00:35:41,199
But do it today. Okay? Subscribe. Thank

979
00:35:44,380 --> 00:35:46,219
you. What I'm what I'm getting to also

980
00:35:46,219 --> 00:35:48,319
with the iPhone or the or whatever,

981
00:35:49,420 --> 00:35:50,960
cellular phone you're using,

982
00:35:51,260 --> 00:35:53,500
when when people are dragging them into the

983
00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:56,635
bathroom, they're providing music, they're people are checking

984
00:35:56,635 --> 00:35:59,614
email, they are they are tweeting, they are

985
00:35:59,674 --> 00:36:02,394
Instagram facilities. We need all sorts of things.

986
00:36:02,394 --> 00:36:03,755
And if so, how come that hasn't

987
00:36:04,635 --> 00:36:06,154
It would seem to be It's too much.

988
00:36:06,154 --> 00:36:07,514
I think it's over the top. I just

989
00:36:07,514 --> 00:36:08,875
think though that that we would

990
00:36:09,469 --> 00:36:11,389
how could you not want if you're living

991
00:36:11,389 --> 00:36:13,549
in an area, like, we're in the Northeast

992
00:36:13,549 --> 00:36:15,309
Of The United Northeastern United States. I think

993
00:36:15,309 --> 00:36:16,909
if you could if there was a if

994
00:36:16,909 --> 00:36:18,989
if you could plug your phone into the

995
00:36:19,469 --> 00:36:22,750
maybe there are new versions of Japanese toilets.

996
00:36:22,829 --> 00:36:24,369
In, you they could be wireless.

997
00:36:24,684 --> 00:36:26,605
Or maybe there are new versions of Japanese

998
00:36:26,605 --> 00:36:28,304
toilets now that accommodate technology.

999
00:36:29,164 --> 00:36:30,444
Well, you know, we do have the things

1000
00:36:30,444 --> 00:36:32,204
coming along that and it it all seems

1001
00:36:32,204 --> 00:36:33,644
to be going this way because there's the

1002
00:36:33,644 --> 00:36:34,784
things happening with

1003
00:36:35,164 --> 00:36:36,304
with the home

1004
00:36:36,605 --> 00:36:39,344
that you can you can access from anywhere.

1005
00:36:39,579 --> 00:36:42,219
We have a Siri. We can call Siri

1006
00:36:42,219 --> 00:36:44,619
on our Japanese toilet. We we can talk

1007
00:36:44,619 --> 00:36:47,179
to the toilet. Siri. It'd be the whole

1008
00:36:47,179 --> 00:36:48,799
new twist on doctor Doolittle.

1009
00:36:50,859 --> 00:36:53,605
It'd be doctor do a lot more, actually.

1010
00:36:53,664 --> 00:36:56,484
Do not do not do little. Do more.

1011
00:36:59,824 --> 00:37:00,304
But would

1012
00:37:01,025 --> 00:37:04,065
seriously, it's a cold winter's day, and I

1013
00:37:04,065 --> 00:37:06,103
go into the bathroom and because I have

1014
00:37:06,103 --> 00:37:07,329
that all of these things you can do.

1015
00:37:07,329 --> 00:37:08,769
And I can not only that, but I

1016
00:37:08,769 --> 00:37:11,030
could at the very least, I have a

1017
00:37:11,409 --> 00:37:11,909
preset

1018
00:37:12,210 --> 00:37:12,710
temperature

1019
00:37:13,650 --> 00:37:14,949
on the toilet seat

1020
00:37:15,250 --> 00:37:17,250
that I can sit down and it can

1021
00:37:17,250 --> 00:37:19,889
make me feel wonderful. You're gonna you're gonna

1022
00:37:19,889 --> 00:37:21,855
wanna stay. It's it could be the warmest

1023
00:37:21,855 --> 00:37:23,614
part of the house. It might be. It

1024
00:37:23,614 --> 00:37:26,335
absolutely might be. And and then as you

1025
00:37:26,335 --> 00:37:28,894
talked about before, we have the, you know,

1026
00:37:28,894 --> 00:37:30,675
the fountain out in front of the Bellagio,

1027
00:37:31,695 --> 00:37:34,055
to to provide us with lights and amazing

1028
00:37:34,255 --> 00:37:35,635
and lights and and

1029
00:37:36,309 --> 00:37:37,210
and who knows,

1030
00:37:37,589 --> 00:37:39,369
maybe maybe Goldfish.

1031
00:37:39,989 --> 00:37:43,369
And and we have we have that also

1032
00:37:43,429 --> 00:37:45,829
just going now. Don't you feel better? And

1033
00:37:45,829 --> 00:37:47,829
and I think you have a business there.

1034
00:37:47,829 --> 00:37:48,889
I think you should.

1035
00:37:49,315 --> 00:37:50,914
That's the that's the amazing thing. I mean,

1036
00:37:50,914 --> 00:37:52,594
really, when you think about it, is this

1037
00:37:52,594 --> 00:37:54,515
just a cultural resistant? Is there some sort

1038
00:37:54,515 --> 00:37:56,114
of economic aspect to it? Yeah. I think

1039
00:37:56,114 --> 00:37:57,954
it's a combination. Out of the cultural realm.

1040
00:37:57,954 --> 00:37:59,315
But but Yeah. You have to add all

1041
00:37:59,315 --> 00:38:01,235
these factors in and that's the and there's

1042
00:38:01,235 --> 00:38:03,329
your answer. You know? Not to say and

1043
00:38:03,329 --> 00:38:05,570
and and again, you're the cultural expert here.

1044
00:38:05,570 --> 00:38:07,750
I'm just the, pretty face.

1045
00:38:08,130 --> 00:38:08,369
And,

1046
00:38:11,010 --> 00:38:13,190
so so why is that funny? Hold on.

1047
00:38:14,130 --> 00:38:16,550
Look in the mirror. Oh, it's deflecting

1048
00:38:16,849 --> 00:38:18,344
the negative. Mirror is it placed?

1049
00:38:19,144 --> 00:38:20,744
I always thought that was the goldfish I

1050
00:38:20,744 --> 00:38:22,445
was looking at. It turns out it's me.

1051
00:38:24,505 --> 00:38:26,284
The Koi boy. Never eat anything. The

1052
00:38:26,664 --> 00:38:27,484
Koi boy.

1053
00:38:29,545 --> 00:38:31,304
Not the boy koi. No. That's a whole

1054
00:38:31,465 --> 00:38:32,824
No. That's a that's a boy group, I

1055
00:38:32,824 --> 00:38:34,809
think. No. That's not c o y k

1056
00:38:34,809 --> 00:38:36,730
o y. Club, I think it was. I

1057
00:38:36,730 --> 00:38:38,010
think. Stay with me here. Not

1058
00:38:39,289 --> 00:38:40,429
Do I have to?

1059
00:38:41,929 --> 00:38:43,769
Coy boy is very different from coy boy.

1060
00:38:43,769 --> 00:38:44,269
Alright.

1061
00:38:44,650 --> 00:38:47,150
Coy boy George, I think, is is a

1062
00:38:47,289 --> 00:38:48,510
totally different things.

1063
00:38:53,355 --> 00:38:55,214
Or there's Toy Boy Toy also.

1064
00:38:55,514 --> 00:38:56,014
Right.

1065
00:38:58,315 --> 00:38:59,614
That's another podcast

1066
00:38:59,914 --> 00:39:02,170
right there. Yep. Yep. We'll get to it

1067
00:39:02,170 --> 00:39:03,690
though. I think it's I think it's a

1068
00:39:03,690 --> 00:39:05,449
new addition. It's a new feature on the

1069
00:39:05,449 --> 00:39:06,989
latest Japanese toilet.

1070
00:39:17,465 --> 00:39:19,785
Oh, I'm thinking one way or another, the

1071
00:39:19,785 --> 00:39:21,864
coy boy toy has already come to American

1072
00:39:21,864 --> 00:39:22,364
bathrooms.

1073
00:39:25,224 --> 00:39:25,724
Oh,

1074
00:39:26,105 --> 00:39:27,244
wow. Okay.

1075
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,920
Anyway, where the hell are we?

1076
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,880
Okay. Well, I I don't think we've solved

1077
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:35,639
the problem of Did we have a problem?

1078
00:39:35,639 --> 00:39:37,000
I didn't know we had a problem. Not

1079
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,940
a not a problem. It's a curiosity.

1080
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,085
I mean, it you know, it's it's a

1081
00:39:42,085 --> 00:39:44,425
curiosity. How come this thing that sounds

1082
00:39:44,724 --> 00:39:46,005
I mean, Toron, are you on board with

1083
00:39:46,005 --> 00:39:48,805
this? This sounds like a really cool thing.

1084
00:39:48,805 --> 00:39:50,085
It sounds like it sounds like the toilet

1085
00:39:50,085 --> 00:39:52,244
in Japan. I very much want one. You

1086
00:39:52,485 --> 00:39:54,325
I'm sure. I'm sure. I want two. I'm

1087
00:39:54,325 --> 00:39:55,860
not getting you one for Christmas, by the

1088
00:39:55,860 --> 00:39:56,360
way.

1089
00:39:56,820 --> 00:39:59,140
But it's it's a that would be an

1090
00:39:59,140 --> 00:40:01,400
interesting thing to buy someone for Christmas, wouldn't

1091
00:40:01,460 --> 00:40:03,780
it? Here, it's a Japanese toilet. Well, you

1092
00:40:03,780 --> 00:40:05,460
know, maybe there's somebody who's working on this,

1093
00:40:05,460 --> 00:40:07,140
and what they're doing is they're having to

1094
00:40:07,140 --> 00:40:10,519
think about how we adapt it culturally to

1095
00:40:10,740 --> 00:40:11,240
to

1096
00:40:11,744 --> 00:40:14,724
American culture, US American culture, or or to

1097
00:40:15,025 --> 00:40:17,984
Western European culture. And and maybe and it'd

1098
00:40:17,984 --> 00:40:20,384
be it's it's an interesting exercise. What would

1099
00:40:20,384 --> 00:40:22,545
I have to do to a traditional Japanese

1100
00:40:22,545 --> 00:40:23,045
toilet

1101
00:40:23,344 --> 00:40:24,244
to retain

1102
00:40:24,545 --> 00:40:26,005
the attractive features,

1103
00:40:26,750 --> 00:40:28,750
but to make it more appropriate to the

1104
00:40:28,750 --> 00:40:30,670
culture in The US if I wanna sell

1105
00:40:30,670 --> 00:40:32,030
it there. Right. What do you think they

1106
00:40:32,030 --> 00:40:33,630
would have to do? Well, I don't know

1107
00:40:33,630 --> 00:40:35,730
because my reaction is the same as Torrance.

1108
00:40:36,030 --> 00:40:37,549
My reaction is You want everything the way

1109
00:40:37,549 --> 00:40:39,650
it is? Too. Yes. And and and yours.

1110
00:40:39,875 --> 00:40:42,355
Is is this sounds this sounds terrific. And

1111
00:40:42,355 --> 00:40:44,514
in a world where, I mean, people are

1112
00:40:44,514 --> 00:40:46,934
lining up for the newest telephone

1113
00:40:47,554 --> 00:40:48,694
when it comes out,

1114
00:40:49,394 --> 00:40:51,155
and and and they're lining up to get

1115
00:40:51,155 --> 00:40:52,755
it like it's gonna go bad on them

1116
00:40:52,755 --> 00:40:54,355
if they don't get the the first ones

1117
00:40:54,355 --> 00:40:55,174
that are manufactured.

1118
00:40:56,010 --> 00:40:57,769
And and they can't get enough of these

1119
00:40:57,769 --> 00:40:59,530
things, and all we can talk about is

1120
00:40:59,530 --> 00:41:01,469
artificial intelligence and robots.

1121
00:41:02,570 --> 00:41:04,250
So what do I think could do it?

1122
00:41:04,250 --> 00:41:06,489
I think when the Japanese make the thing

1123
00:41:06,489 --> 00:41:08,329
come the toilet come out of the room

1124
00:41:08,809 --> 00:41:11,130
Make it affordable. Bring you back into the

1125
00:41:11,130 --> 00:41:12,865
bathroom. So that no matter so you can

1126
00:41:12,865 --> 00:41:14,865
keep walking around. You could just You can

1127
00:41:14,865 --> 00:41:17,184
clean the house. Yes. It'll come and just

1128
00:41:17,184 --> 00:41:19,025
leap onto you. You can get into your

1129
00:41:19,025 --> 00:41:21,025
car with it. Right? Just take it anywhere

1130
00:41:21,025 --> 00:41:23,265
you wanna go. It's go on the go.

1131
00:41:23,265 --> 00:41:24,325
Go on the go.

1132
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:29,119
Well

1133
00:41:30,079 --> 00:41:32,559
You you could drive through McDonald's with Perfect.

1134
00:41:32,559 --> 00:41:35,199
It's so American. Exactly. You're right. You just

1135
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:36,579
You can drive through McDonald's.

1136
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,960
That's sort of the complete loop right there.

1137
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:40,655
Right. Yep. If if Attach it to your

1138
00:41:40,655 --> 00:41:42,414
seat. They're gonna have little clip ons like

1139
00:41:42,414 --> 00:41:44,655
like baby seats in cars. Yeah. They're gonna

1140
00:41:44,655 --> 00:41:47,375
clip the Japanese toilet clip on in the

1141
00:41:47,375 --> 00:41:49,155
car. You when you're driving

1142
00:41:50,014 --> 00:41:50,835
as well.

1143
00:41:52,610 --> 00:41:53,989
It comes with an airbag.

1144
00:41:54,449 --> 00:41:55,190
No more.

1145
00:41:57,170 --> 00:41:59,030
As long as it's in the right spot.

1146
00:41:59,650 --> 00:42:01,909
No more no more rest stops.

1147
00:42:02,769 --> 00:42:05,304
You're in a permanent rest stop. Anything. You're

1148
00:42:05,304 --> 00:42:07,385
never getting out of your car. You're in

1149
00:42:07,385 --> 00:42:09,324
a mobile rest stop. So American.

1150
00:42:10,744 --> 00:42:12,664
We finally made America great again, I believe.

1151
00:42:12,664 --> 00:42:14,744
We did. I think we did. Greater than

1152
00:42:14,744 --> 00:42:16,445
ever. Ever and ever.

1153
00:42:19,260 --> 00:42:21,019
And and and how much can you tell

1154
00:42:21,019 --> 00:42:22,699
about a Japanese culture by looking in their

1155
00:42:22,699 --> 00:42:24,559
toilet? I mean, it's just incredible.

1156
00:42:24,940 --> 00:42:26,619
Look, there's another aspect to it that is

1157
00:42:26,699 --> 00:42:28,780
that that really does reflect with us. I

1158
00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:32,000
mean, the the you've got a a country

1159
00:42:32,219 --> 00:42:33,760
that is is,

1160
00:42:34,324 --> 00:42:36,085
you said before, the Asian,

1161
00:42:36,484 --> 00:42:36,984
countries

1162
00:42:37,364 --> 00:42:38,005
have been,

1163
00:42:38,324 --> 00:42:40,324
developed in culture with the idea that the

1164
00:42:40,324 --> 00:42:40,824
group

1165
00:42:41,125 --> 00:42:43,125
is at least as important as the individual

1166
00:42:43,125 --> 00:42:44,964
in a many cases. More so. More so.

1167
00:42:44,964 --> 00:42:47,605
So it's it's it's vital. So you've got

1168
00:42:47,605 --> 00:42:50,349
a a group of people and especially in

1169
00:42:50,349 --> 00:42:52,289
Japan, which is a series of islands

1170
00:42:52,750 --> 00:42:53,550
and and,

1171
00:42:54,109 --> 00:42:56,769
isolated, and for many, many years was literally

1172
00:42:56,829 --> 00:42:59,150
isolated from the rest of the world. And

1173
00:42:59,150 --> 00:43:01,949
and they will go along and do things

1174
00:43:01,949 --> 00:43:04,349
and adjust and adapt to something even though

1175
00:43:04,349 --> 00:43:05,405
they're that

1176
00:43:05,785 --> 00:43:06,364
that that

1177
00:43:06,824 --> 00:43:07,644
much faster

1178
00:43:08,184 --> 00:43:10,204
than they'll adapt much faster

1179
00:43:10,505 --> 00:43:13,625
than than The United States will because we're

1180
00:43:13,625 --> 00:43:16,605
always you know, we're independent and individual, so

1181
00:43:16,949 --> 00:43:19,909
our our overall attitude towards things is prove

1182
00:43:19,909 --> 00:43:22,230
it to me, show me, something like that

1183
00:43:22,230 --> 00:43:24,150
until we do, and then we line up

1184
00:43:24,150 --> 00:43:24,789
for the next,

1185
00:43:25,349 --> 00:43:27,510
next iPhone that they're gonna overcharge me for.

1186
00:43:27,510 --> 00:43:29,534
Mhmm. Well Not that I'm bitter.

1187
00:43:31,454 --> 00:43:34,355
Therefore, strap on your your Japanese

1188
00:43:34,734 --> 00:43:36,815
toy. Go on the go. Clip it into

1189
00:43:36,815 --> 00:43:38,355
your car seat. Put it on.

1190
00:43:38,775 --> 00:43:39,275
And

1191
00:43:39,694 --> 00:43:41,394
and if they could make it fly

1192
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,920
if they could make it fly, it would

1193
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:45,840
be the greatest invention of all time. Wow.

1194
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,320
Yeah. The Didn't Da Vinci design one of

1195
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:48,820
those,

1196
00:43:49,119 --> 00:43:50,179
a flying toilet

1197
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,639
like that? I'm sure he did. I'm sure

1198
00:43:52,639 --> 00:43:54,320
he did. He's those sketches that he made.

1199
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,500
He's so far ahead of his own. Amazing.

1200
00:43:56,614 --> 00:43:58,295
I think yeah. Yeah. I mean, he was

1201
00:43:58,375 --> 00:44:00,434
Yeah. He was a computerized somewhere in there.

1202
00:44:00,434 --> 00:44:02,074
Somewhere in there. Sketch.

1203
00:44:02,934 --> 00:44:05,414
Flying toilet with an airbag. I'm pretty sure

1204
00:44:05,414 --> 00:44:07,815
that he designed. Yes. Yeah. He he had

1205
00:44:07,815 --> 00:44:08,315
Michelangelo

1206
00:44:08,614 --> 00:44:10,534
also. And I think if you look up

1207
00:44:10,534 --> 00:44:12,970
at the Sistine Chapel Yes. You'll see in

1208
00:44:12,970 --> 00:44:14,510
the little corner there somewhere,

1209
00:44:14,970 --> 00:44:18,110
there's a cherub with a Japanese toilet attached.

1210
00:44:18,329 --> 00:44:20,890
Right? There's the cherubs. Michelangelo's greatest work. Got

1211
00:44:20,890 --> 00:44:22,489
the cherubs back because they're,

1212
00:44:23,050 --> 00:44:25,514
they haven't been doing anything since then. We've

1213
00:44:25,514 --> 00:44:27,694
got Yes. You're right. It was mostly Michelangelo.

1214
00:44:27,835 --> 00:44:29,914
We've got we've got cherubs That's right. Twice

1215
00:44:29,914 --> 00:44:30,815
in one podcast.

1216
00:44:31,275 --> 00:44:33,114
How many times can you use a cherub?

1217
00:44:33,114 --> 00:44:35,114
It's not easy. It's not easy. So well

1218
00:44:35,114 --> 00:44:35,614
done.

1219
00:44:38,260 --> 00:44:39,940
I think the last time I heard cherubs,

1220
00:44:40,260 --> 00:44:41,160
noted was,

1221
00:44:42,660 --> 00:44:44,820
that was kind of a seedy movie theater

1222
00:44:44,820 --> 00:44:46,340
in a bad section of town. But we

1223
00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:47,000
anyway,

1224
00:44:47,619 --> 00:44:49,140
this Well, you could sit in the cherub

1225
00:44:49,140 --> 00:44:51,559
section. It was the yes. The cherub section

1226
00:44:51,855 --> 00:44:52,355
when

1227
00:44:52,894 --> 00:44:54,914
and there were no airbags. Believe me.

1228
00:44:55,775 --> 00:44:56,255
There was

1229
00:44:57,215 --> 00:44:58,914
I don't even know what that means.

1230
00:45:01,614 --> 00:45:03,474
Oh my goodness. Well,

1231
00:45:04,335 --> 00:45:05,074
you know what?

1232
00:45:05,614 --> 00:45:07,260
You know you know what time it is?

1233
00:45:08,539 --> 00:45:10,219
Look on your toilet. I'm sure it has

1234
00:45:10,219 --> 00:45:12,380
a glass somewhere. So would you like a

1235
00:45:12,380 --> 00:45:14,300
a digital or a Yeah. Well, we can

1236
00:45:14,300 --> 00:45:15,659
do it. Yeah. You can You can look

1237
00:45:15,659 --> 00:45:17,420
at the digital part. You can look at

1238
00:45:17,420 --> 00:45:19,659
the Yeah. Yeah. A countdown would be interesting.

1239
00:45:19,857 --> 00:45:22,054
Again. We're so digital we forget the term

1240
00:45:22,054 --> 00:45:23,974
for non digital. What's the when you're sitting

1241
00:45:23,974 --> 00:45:25,974
on the toilet, the term digital could mean

1242
00:45:25,974 --> 00:45:26,795
a whole lot.

1243
00:45:29,335 --> 00:45:31,574
What's the what is Torin, what's look it

1244
00:45:31,574 --> 00:45:34,295
up for us, please. What you know, you

1245
00:45:34,295 --> 00:45:36,269
have an you have a digital clock and

1246
00:45:36,269 --> 00:45:36,910
you have a

1247
00:45:37,789 --> 00:45:39,950
Analog. Oh, well, well We're so digital, I

1248
00:45:39,950 --> 00:45:41,550
can't think of the term. Thank you. Oh,

1249
00:45:41,550 --> 00:45:44,510
oh, oh, yes. Analog. Yes. Analog. Right. Thank

1250
00:45:44,510 --> 00:45:45,730
you. Right. Which is

1251
00:45:46,030 --> 00:45:47,469
being able to read the hands on a

1252
00:45:47,469 --> 00:45:49,489
clock is a of this lost art

1253
00:45:50,085 --> 00:45:52,324
that's that's unfortunately a lost art. I guess,

1254
00:45:52,324 --> 00:45:53,525
do we need it for now? Like the

1255
00:45:53,525 --> 00:45:54,264
like the

1256
00:45:55,284 --> 00:45:57,545
the disappearing art of of handwriting.

1257
00:45:58,005 --> 00:46:00,905
Of of cursive writing. Yes. Absolutely.

1258
00:46:01,204 --> 00:46:01,704
Yeah.

1259
00:46:02,380 --> 00:46:04,300
Torren, you didn't you didn't learn cursive writing,

1260
00:46:04,300 --> 00:46:06,400
did you, in school? I did, but

1261
00:46:06,780 --> 00:46:07,280
briefly.

1262
00:46:07,980 --> 00:46:10,460
I think briefly in fifth grade. Torrens of

1263
00:46:10,460 --> 00:46:12,239
a younger generation. Yeah.

1264
00:46:13,099 --> 00:46:15,739
Yeah. It it's it's a it's not yes.

1265
00:46:15,739 --> 00:46:16,239
Torrens

1266
00:46:17,614 --> 00:46:19,954
much younger than the than us. We are

1267
00:46:20,014 --> 00:46:21,494
at at least a 83.

1268
00:46:21,494 --> 00:46:22,815
I have eight years old. I think.

1269
00:46:23,295 --> 00:46:24,514
But and

1270
00:46:24,815 --> 00:46:26,034
and Torrance eight,

1271
00:46:26,335 --> 00:46:28,175
which we wanna talk to you about the

1272
00:46:28,175 --> 00:46:31,135
puberty thing, Tor. That's strange that Coming up.

1273
00:46:31,375 --> 00:46:32,639
Going through it. Yes.

1274
00:46:33,519 --> 00:46:36,099
It's about the voice. It's a little weird.

1275
00:46:39,679 --> 00:46:42,339
Anyway, yeah. You're so you're you're minimally

1276
00:46:42,639 --> 00:46:43,139
cursed

1277
00:46:43,599 --> 00:46:45,199
Yes. If I can make that into a

1278
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,905
Exactly. Past tense for You're cursive deficient. I

1279
00:46:47,905 --> 00:46:50,305
don't wanna make it negative, but But it

1280
00:46:50,305 --> 00:46:53,285
but it is. Most most kids today. Yeah.

1281
00:46:53,505 --> 00:46:55,744
Yeah. And and and and so handwriting is

1282
00:46:55,744 --> 00:46:57,605
is actually deteriorated immensely.

1283
00:46:58,144 --> 00:47:00,305
It's But because we don't need it right.

1284
00:47:00,465 --> 00:47:02,789
The question. So what? So what? That's the

1285
00:47:02,789 --> 00:47:04,950
reason. Is it important? We've we've given up

1286
00:47:04,950 --> 00:47:07,510
the Quill pen because so what? So you

1287
00:47:07,510 --> 00:47:10,070
don't need an analog toilet. Yeah. And I'm

1288
00:47:10,070 --> 00:47:12,489
saying no. Heat mine up, baby.

1289
00:47:18,304 --> 00:47:18,804
Alrighty.

1290
00:47:19,105 --> 00:47:20,005
On that note,

1291
00:47:20,625 --> 00:47:22,224
I'm Tom Peterson, and,

1292
00:47:22,864 --> 00:47:26,385
I'm sitting here trying to educate you with

1293
00:47:26,385 --> 00:47:27,684
Dean Foster, who's,

1294
00:47:28,460 --> 00:47:29,599
in theory anyway,

1295
00:47:30,539 --> 00:47:32,779
one of the great experts in culture around

1296
00:47:32,779 --> 00:47:34,319
the world. Is that accurate?

1297
00:47:35,179 --> 00:47:37,579
Sure. Okay. We'll go with it. And if

1298
00:47:37,579 --> 00:47:39,759
you buy that, there's this bridge we've got.

1299
00:47:40,699 --> 00:47:41,199
Anyway,

1300
00:47:41,900 --> 00:47:43,179
thanks for listening, and,

1301
00:47:44,224 --> 00:47:44,724
smell

1302
00:47:53,985 --> 00:47:57,284
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1303
00:47:57,344 --> 00:48:00,359
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1304
00:48:00,359 --> 00:48:02,139
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1305
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,599
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1307
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1309
00:48:08,519 --> 00:48:10,359
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1310
00:48:10,359 --> 00:48:12,679
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or your computer or however you listen to

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So from all of us here at Oops,

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Your Culture's Showing,

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